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> This would no doubt drive higher warranty costs for Apple and cause consumer dissatisfaction.

I'm skeptical that a proactive warning would be more dissatisfying than just finding it out years later, when other copies are harder to locate. In particular, I'd be surprised if a hypothetical feature like this wouldn't be integrated with their other services: “A local failure was detected and replaced with a pristine copy from iCloud”

The other really interesting question would be whether they'd ever consider something like the ZFS copies feature to directly trade maximum disk capacity for redundancy. That'd be much easier to implement for Apple since they control so much of the platform and the largest files which most people have tend to be things which are provably known to be local copies of something which can be re-downloaded, so the total cost of doubling storage for unique local files might be worth the peace of mind for many users.
Neither does collectd, it just gathers and transmits the data to an endpoint you specify. It's also quite lightweight (once you address the memory leaks, at least).
Years later, still advocating theft from employees. Stay classy, David.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3955917
I always found it curious that for $800 (price of a new top end non-contract iphone) I get 5GB in iCloud. If I then go pay another $800 for a top end iPad I get zero in iCloud. I don't get 10gig for owning 2 devices.
What interview question to ask when hiring a QA Automation Engineer
> their revealed preference is they'd rather save $5 on a $300 ticket and suffer the indignities.

It's hard to believe this is true. I'd gladly pay $20 extra for a trans-Atlantic seat with more legroom and my experience shows that I'm not alone--all those "improved economy" seats are usually sold out well in advance (and they cost a lot more than $20 on a 1k extra).
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They were lucky to get big takeup on one of the properties that they then leveraged into the clones. "Behind every great fortune is a crime," and Pyngus' crimes in user-exploitation and idea-theft are well-documented.
Only if the only event type you care about is stream I/O. If you also need to handle GUI events or wait on mutex handles or whatnot, you get to use MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx, which is as ugly as it sounds.
Why don't more online sites offer this? I have always hated ads with a vengeance and have wanted this kind of option for any website I visit. There are many websites I use every day that I would gladly pay a small monthly fee to visit without ads, so why is such an option so uncommon that places like Hulu ask for money and continue WITH ads?
I had exactly the same frustration with Bootstrap and others. You need to spend a lot of time to learn them and in the end you end up with a lot of changes to their styles anyway. So, what's the point in having them in the first place? :) Anyway, I'd love to see your contribution, if interested.
AT&T Call Centers Sold Mobile Customer Information to Criminals
As far as help goes, we actually don't need technical help. (I won't expand on this, of course.) It is mostly a matter of getting permission. As far as an administrative system for asking, there isn't such a system. My understanding is that permission comes most reliably through personal contacts with company insiders. Asking legal departments is usually counterproductive -- after all, if you worked in a legal department, what motivation would there be for you to say anything but "no?" Saying "yes" has all the possible downsides and no apparent upside.
Isn't this more of a DEA issue than an FDA issue?

Selling a controlled substance in large quantities is a felony. Even if you pretend it's not. You can't get away with calling your product a "natural extract of the coca plant", for instance.

Selling an analog of a drug isn't legal:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Analog_Act
I figure there's probably a reason Microsoft uses net for this on their help page.
I like the clean, simple interface.

I assume the listings are aggregated automatically - does it scrape each company's job listings? Or did they manage to get these companies to send them data? Will they add more companies in the future?
Construct is lovely. I've used it on everything from MS debug symbols [1] to talking with USB devices [2].

[1] https://github.com/moyix/pdbparse

[2] https://github.com/moyix/fbtools
You said that this was in the context of async I/O.
It is still bad. Most users don't understand the difference. And the "in for a penny, in for a pound" mentality is more common than one would hope.
It bothers me that the very "hacking" that made video games even possible (modifying the console or computer system to do what it wasn't intended to do) is now being called illegal by the ESA. I maintain that there wouldn't be any video games to hack, morally or immorally, without old school hacking from the late 1940s through at least the 1980s.

The ESA are the ones trying to redefine the language to suit their pocket books. They are the ones trying to claim that "hacking" can only mean circumvention of copyright protection, when the word has a place in many different contexts and applications, and can be good/moral/legal or bad/immoral/illegal, or any combination. Even said circumvention can be for good or fair use reasons, as the EFF is arguing.
Since I'm interested in the allocation of resources and how its maintained. Lets take an example of a gold mine in an ideal communist society.

People like gold because its shiny (demand) and Miners own their mining equipment (the means of production).

There is no money, state or class to determine who gets what, when and how much is to be produced.

Under economic democracy, how would the mined gold be distributed? Also, how are the miners incentivised to produce more and how do they decide how much more they should produce? Since It takes effort and time to mine gold.
Oh please, your analogy doesn't fit at all. Apple and Intel aren't friends, they're competitors in the labour market, both hoping to attract the top talent. If they had legitimate concerns about their employees leaving then they should've focused on convincing their employees to stay by increasing their compensation and improving their work environment.

Perhaps "corporations are people, my friend" but they're not buddies out on a camping trip with a girl. There's no Corporation-A-broke-their-word-to-Corporation-B - there's business and competition is a huge part of that.
Why do you think HFS+ can't guarantee that it wrote data to a storage device? From what I know (F_FULLFSYNC, etc) it does have that capability.
Like Michael Griffith in Howard Beach:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Beach_racial_incident
If you have servers that need to run Windows, even if they can't run on Nano, you can have fat Windows Server boxes and Nano boxes and configure them using the same tools, rather than having a mixed Windows/Linux shop?
> This would no doubt drive higher warranty costs for Apple and cause consumer dissatisfaction.

I suspect the decision not to use ZFS was (assuming it wasn't simply spite at Sun pre-empting Jobs' announcement) that it would cause dissatisfaction, but from a different direction: ZFS was designed for Sun's customers: companies employing dedicated sysadmins. ZFS was incredibly unfriendly back when Apple would have been evaluating it. User experiences like "you filled up your filesystem? Oh well, you'll have to reformat and restore from backup." may be acceptable in an enterprisey setting, but aren't going to cut it with the iMac crowd.
This line should have been the tl;dr

It obliterated the little anecdotical nuggets remotely interesting in the writing.
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I haven't tried being a full time developer.

As a consultant it's rare I had engagements lasting more than a couple of months. At a company there's more of a "narrative". It's like reading short stories vs reading a novel, both are good at various times.
>The fact is that the idea that you can "do anything you like with any electronic devices or digital bits you acquire legally" has no current basis in US law.

Is there basis in law for the opposite? If so, could you cite that? To a laymen I'm forced to compare this to what I know - namely that there are very few, if any, purchases I could make of _physical goods_ with legal restrictions on me taking them apart, physically.
UI events are I/O...
I must disagree strongly. For one, there was no need to indicate that any more nuanced arguments had been given at any point, since the argument of "hacking is illegal" is already completely and inarguably inacceptable. This is for the following reasons:

The word hacking was carefully chosen as means of emotional manipulation (see: https://www.google.de/search?q=hacker&tbm=isch ) and is used profusely in the document, mirroring the manner by which the advertisement industry burns brands into the collective memory. The excuse of it standing in for an activity defined as "modify the video
game’s access controls" is only given in a footnote, instead as a glaring bold definition, which is intended to hide the fact that the word was redefined. Further, the redefinition itself is laughable since there already exists a solid term for that act: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_cracking

There may be further arguments in the document, but it is fairly obvious that they are not the primary payload and are only present to fulfill legal requirements and provide a hull on which the primary payload is carried.

Edit: In short: If you read this document only as a legal document instead of the piece of advertisement aimed at manipulating human emotions it is, you miss the true nuance. And that is what the EFF was crudely pointing out.
Apple's competitive relative to something like Blurb (which is the on-demand printing provider built into Lightroom)... maybe even a little cheaper for a similar product.

They're more expensive than (for example) Walgreens, but, without ordering books from both, I'm not sure if they're similar quality-wise.
I feel like sales commission plans can take a surprising amount of time to really damage a company. Yes, you want to weed out the weak performers. But in SaaS, it's too easy to reward sales when they're actually disrupting product strategies and making everyone else's work harder.

I don't entirely recommend this book, because I feel that its arguments are not as well supported as they should be, but it is at least an interesting scan: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/541132.Punished_by_Reward...
I don't think this particular case is a new-ish usage; "filthy" has long been popular in baseball to describe a very crafty pitch or pitcher, or "sick" in music for an amazing solo or musician.
I think the point is -> why is Zynga singled out?
While I agree it is likely to be deprecated (or already is), I think being able to signal that side data which was transmitted later should be processed earlier has value in situations where processing delay is more significant than transmission delay. You could do this with a single stream, but the receiver would have to read ahead and check for flags etc. Had early implementations got this consistently usable, it might see more use.
How can I have two photo streams both feed into the same Photos account? My wife and I take tons of pictures of our kids. How should we configure things so that we can see all the pictures we've both taken?
I just stumbled upon Ruby Monk two days ago and loved it. I've done some Ruby in the past and needed a refresher. CodeSchool seemed very disjointed, even for someone who isn't a beginner. Ruby Monk takes you through the basics without dragging it out and logically progresses so that you're never at a point and wondering how you got there or what it has to do with what you learned before.

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I'd have to disagree based on reading the ESA's position statement. Essentially they point out that in order to circumvent the restrictions on a particular video game, one must circumvent the restrictions on the video game console, which is covered by a different section of the law.

Creating and distributing kits for the circumvention of the console restrictions has a drastically broader application than merely playing abandoned games.

Given that such an exception would essentially gut the law, the ESA most certainly has a dog in the hunt.
I don't think that analogy works. The boyfriend/girlfriend relationship is completely different from the employer/employee relationship, and the whole point of this controversy is that companies aren't supposed to be friends.

Here's what I think would be a better analogy: let's say you run a restaurant in a small town. The restaurant business is booming, and you and your competitors are all expanding, to the point where it's getting hard to find qualified cooks and servers.

The cooks and servers start working to get a piece of the pie. They move between restaurants as higher pay is offered. You desperately need more staff and since you can't find new people, you resort to soliciting the staff at competing restaurants and offering them more money. They do the same to your employees. Average pay rises.

You and the other owners don't like this at all. Cooking and serving was a minimum-wage job not too long ago! This steadily increasing pay is eating into your profits. So you all get together and agree to put a stop to it: you won't try to hire away their staff, and they won't try to hire away yours. Pay stagnates, and you and the other owners get to keep more of your profits.

This is what happened with Apple and these other companies over time, only with computer people instead of cooks and servers. Is it immoral for businesses to collude to artificially hold down wages? I think most people would say yes. Probably more importantly, it's illegal.
Oh, neat, I was looking for a way to get amphetamines without a prescription.

JFK took a buttload* of amphetamines, but you wouldn't know it from his speech patterns.

* pretty sure that is the technical term.
Easier to read: http://www.itworld.com/article/2907675/atandt-call-centers-s...
Be aware that you can't family share in-app purchases (even persistant upgrade type purchases).
ß-methylphenylethylamine isn't actually a controlled substance, though, or at least it occupies the same grey area as many other so-called "research chemicals." It's an open question whether a substance like this falls under the Analog Act or not (which bans chemicals which are "substantially similar" to scheduled illicit drugs, but the language is loose enough that chemists can substitute a molecule or two and argue that it doesn't qualify). I find the whole issue fascinating - it's almost like a new era of alchemy.
Wow. That sounds like an incredibly toxic workplace environment.
Anybody remember this gem? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinNuke
Is this a "submarine PR" piece for those supplements?
This. Someone close to me worked there for 7 years. The level of secrecy is crazy. Like, dysfunctional-hard-to-do-your-work and stay-up-all-night-working-before-a-launch-because-you-are-only-finding-out-about-it-then crazy. Talking in public about your job would not end well.
As a former Apple Technical Support Rep of about 5 years ago iPhoto has always had a reliability issue. Back then once you approached 2GB it would begin going slow and corruption had a higher chance. It's slowly gotten better over the years but reading all of the internal support articles at Apple it was alarming just how many issues it had at the time.

Perhaps it's far better today, I'm not really sure but it completely turned me off to using it at all.
I thought that SSH used it to pass ^C up faster than the rest of the stream so that you can quickly kill programs that flood the terminal. I've never verified this though.
Woah, really impressive that he was able to guess the company. That seems super crazy to me. I guess I'd better check out SmugMug if it's that above and beyond!
You are not talking about UI events in the blog post. You are saying that there isn't a unified Windows API similar to kqueue or epoll that can be used for async file/stream I/O with which I disagree. AFAIK you can't use epoll to do UI events either.
AST is cool, but you have to comply with Python's syntax.

the coding way you can invent any wild syntax.
I agree that this sucks, but you need to keep in mind that the recruiter works for his corporate clients, not for you. If helping you would cause him to lose his contract with his biggest customer, he'll make the obvious choice.
Sure, but if it's a license then the disc is only of marginal value and they should replace it for cheap/free since the LICENSE is what constituted most of the cost, not the PHYSICAL MEDIA.
When you say "detrimental to the entire industry's profitability," I see "wages would rise to match the value contributed by employees, which would reduce the surplus that businesses can extract."

If you don't want your prized employee leaving, there's a really easy solution: pay him enough to stay. If he's that valuable, then it's worth paying.

Since the solution is so easy, but Jobs et al didn't want to apply that solution, I can only conclude that suppressing salaries was precisely the idea. If it wasn't about suppressing salaries then they could have just increased the salaries for these key employees such that leaving for another job was no longer an attractive prospect.
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Good, I hope the man goes down with his ship and loses every dollar he's made off of the company. These in-app-purchase types of games are bad, but Zynga is one of the worst.

These games don't strive to solve any problem, and in fact don't strive to make anyone's lives better. They essentially run an extortion game: "pay us to scratch the itch we give you."

And god forbid they get access to the gambling markets, because suddenly they will descend like vultures onto a group of people who lack the self control to spend their money.

They don't strive to make people happy; explicitly they make the most money when people are nervous that they might lose the hours/days/weeks of "work" they put into whatever this app is. They strip-mine people's souls for cash. I hope Zynga, King, et al. nothing but the worst. I don't like them, I don't like their leadership, I don't like their investors and I don't like the employees that work knowingly taking advantage of people (psychology majors who actively exploit people's base instincts for the explicit purpose of extracting money with no positive side effects).

Their games are the online equivalent of an emotionally abusive boyfriend or a drug dealer. They draw you in under the auspices of fun & cheeriness, but it quickly devolves into a quagmire of dependency.

As a quick disclaimer, I've never worked for a game company, never mind any of the one's I've mentioned. I think Pincus is a scumbag businessman for many reasons, some of which I listed here and some of the reasons that others have listed (i.e. stock take back, spyware bundling, game stealing, pump & dump (I know it's not the textbook term for it)).
Looks like it's an issue with the sendgrid account they're using.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/31wjt7/coinbase_sc...
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"EDIT": Nevermind. I installed it, and it still apparently doesn't do lens correction. Dear Apple: some people like to do more than take phone selfies.
It is, and spelled correctly since he was in the US at the time. Had he been anywhere else, it would have been a "butteload" or a "buttloade" (I can't remember which, this is a friend's joke).
I've actually been working on tying a couple existing OWASP testing solutions into our CI system ... this looks way better!
I think as an engineer the type of things one might get to work on at Apple could be more interesting than the type of things one would get to work on at a bunch of the companies you just listed. At Apple there's everything from OS to compiler to drivers to UI to hardware, etc.

I don't want to work there, as I know people who have and it sucked, but, I can see the appeal for some. Also one person I know who did a stint there got some rather obscenely large amounts of cash.
Ah. Well, the product I mentioned can usually identify packing schemes and unpack them. Commercial close-source, though.
Comparing this project to real open source projects with VC backed parent companies is negative, yes. The implication is that investment in those companies is as frivolous as this project at least appears to be.
In all honesty, inheritance, classes, the 'static' keyword, and virtual functions are all harder than anything in Haskell. They're all weird ad-hoc concepts without simple underlying mathematical concepts. That's rather unlike Haskell, where the underlying math is usually very simple, if more abstract than most people are used to.
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What do you mean by app centric being a new feature?

The pebble watch had a whole store that would work either with android or iOS (some limitations here).
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Actually, the size of the population as a whole is nearly irrelevant when considering the significance of a particular sample size. 100 people has just about the same significance for a population of 1000 as it does for a population of 1 billion.

That said, since the people he met certainly weren't randomly selected, it'll be a heavily biased sample.
X events are delivered via a socket. You can absolutely epoll that, and people in fact do so, and this is considered an essential feature.
I have the same problem. is your app in the app store? i have a lot of photos i'd like to geotag...
Beer used to be sold in butts. The butt of beer was equal to half a tun, two hogsheads, three barrels or 108 imperial gallons (491.0 l).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_brewery_cask_units