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> He's definitely a shill

Do you have evidence of Apple secretly paying Gruber for apparent opinions? Because that's what that word means; it's a form of marketing fraud.

> You'll also notice that he carefully doesn't compare it to all the other smart watches in the growing segment.

The market right now can be divided into two sections; things like the Pebble, and watches-with-apps (Apple Watch, Android Wear). For the latter category, which way you go entirely depends on what sort of phone you have, so a comparison arguably isn't particularly worthwhile.
$20 helmets hmm, I guess it's better than nothing.
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Appropriately enough, it uses Bluetooth...

The idea isn't new though, this just seems to be aimed at a younger demographic.

http://www.oralb.co.uk/en-GB/electric-toothbrush-with-blueto...

However, there's something about holding a toothbrush in one hand and a smartphone in the other that... just doesn't feel right to me.

Edit: gamification of toothbrushes for the young ones has been done before too:

http://www.usvigilant.com/rainbow/
http://asiancorrespondent.com/125980/thai-immigration-offici...
Uh, yes they are. I've read the majority of those reviews and those quotes are the worst from them. If you disagree I'd love to see what you thought was worse.
"Wildcards are explicitly banned by browsers and CAs when making the EV requirements: otherwise you get *.company.com being used for bankofamerica.com.company.com like what happened with DV certificates."

That doesn't make sense because the whole point of the green badge is that it shows the identity of who controls the website you're on.

So, even if someone were to do: bankofamerica.com.foobar.com; the green badge wouldn't say "Bank of America Corporation" so the user would know they're not on BoA...
This article feels like a follow up on "On Ruby"[1] and related to "It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty"[2]. The common theme I find in all three is the quality and health of a dependency. I agree with OP that stars and latest commit are not clear indicators of quality.

I think more useful indicators are tests, documentations and pull requests.

* Tests. These are things you can actually run to see if the library actually works. In most cases, you can read them and understand how it is supposed to be used. On some platforms even if the tests passed in the past, they may not pass now, for example using different version of the language or platform. The coverage of the tests would be nice, but it is hard to measure at first sight, therefore using the ratio of tests LOC to library LOC might be an indicator.

* Documentation. The documentation itself does not change how the library behaves but it is a clear indicator whether the author expected someone else to be able to use it or not, and shows a sort of responsibility. Most of weekend hacks would not have one.

* Pull Requests. If there are old and open pull requests, that seem useful, it is a bad sign for the maintainer of the project.

[1] http://hawkins.io/2015/03/on-ruby/

[2] http://www.drmaciver.com/2015/04/its-ok-for-your-open-source...
Good luck being productive and forming important/lasting relationships (i.e. networking) while doing this.

I've been working remotely from different countries over the past couple of years, and while it's a great life experience, it's just not practical for work. The wife and I are now looking for a home base.
Whilst there appears to have been a great deal of thought put into the legal analysis by FastMail to exclude themselves from these new laws, I'm sure that should the Australian government see a requirement for FastMail to retain emails, then a court case and government lawyers will make an alternative case.

Interesting that FastMail recently went out to say that they don't fall under US laws either and don't have to comply with a US NSL: http://blog.fastmail.com/2013/10/07/fastmails-servers-are-in...

I'm starting to wonder which laws FastMail do fall under. Denial is a wonderful thing until it slaps you across the face like a wet fish.

I'd like to add, that I like FastMail as a company and I deeply dislike the concept of bulk data retention. However, rather than FastMail state which laws they don't fall under, I'd like to know which ones (from which countries) that DO apply.
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I'm also a fan of Lynda.com's tutorials. One thing to mention to anyone out there is to see if your workplace offers access to Lynda to employees. The university I work at does, and it's nice to have that as a resource.
Man there are a lot of half-baked ideas in this thread regarding drug prohibition, the prison industry and crime rates.
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You are missing the wood for the trees.

The real skill is collecting 2.5 billion in fees, for essentially no value added.
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I enjoyed your write-up a lot, and contrary to GP I think your idea and market analysis were really good. There is still a huge gap in this space and I've wondered many times why it hasn't been filled. I certainly don't look forward to the day I have to choose some forum software. Disqus is probably the best I've seen so far, and it is far less ambitious than you were.
Totally agree. I simply cannot see Lynda.com's current (amazing) setup blending well with LinkedIn. Lynda.com is going the way of the History Channel.
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They should bring apprenticeship back for specialist employment as software development, system administration etc. I have friends in the Melbourne area that went through the apprenticeship program for motor mechanic, plumber and carpentry who have done pretty well for themselves.

Although the skills learned are very different, but conceptually it should work in a similar manner.
Congratulations Lynda.com!

Story time. When I was in high school, I worked in a little computer lab in my small hometown of Ojai, California, that taught classes in Photoshop, Fireworks, web design and development, Flash, and more. That little technology education company was just called "Lynda," and classes were taught directly by Lynda Weinman, Bruce Heavin, and others. There were maybe ten or twelve employees. I learned a lot from them over two summers about the intersection of development and design, about teaching and working with people, and so much more. It launched my interest in user experience design and development. Not to mention the epic LAN parties we used to have in that computer lab with all the top-of-the-line graphics workstations... good times.

I have a lot to be thankful for, and I'm so genuinely happy to see their success. They were the nicest people to work with, and I'm sure that remained true as they grew. Congrats to these guys, and I hope they find a good place with LinkedIn.
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'He drops the not-so-subtle-jab at Google line "They might have actually found a good use for QR codes."' - Huh? What do QR codes have to do with Google? It did go through a brief period of being somewhat keen on them before quietly forgetting about them, but it's not like they invented it or anything.
No, you can't force.
But you can put a team close together, they don't have to work more than 8hrs/day. But if they meet on weekends, on trips, bbq's, there wil be shoptalk. That is good for the project. In most cases.
I used to work for an 'offshore pipeline desig company' hard work, drinks on friday evening, family BBQ on Saturday.
Lots of fun, and everybody was ALWAYS talking about kids, dogs and work.
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They're not selling a service. They're selling their bodies. With a service, someone is performing something, not having something done to them. With a service, the more experienced practitioners are more valuable. With prostitution the opposite is true: the least experienced people are the most valuable, and there is no training required nor even desired.

It's not a job when the most desirable "employees" are the least experienced ones.
I currently have the the Pebble Steel and I have to deal with some of the issues that the Apple watch is going to have. I rarely just look at my watch without having to do a little wrist flick to turn on the backlight so having to do that is no big deal to me (It's a habit at this point). I'm a little disappointed in how slow the Apple Watch appears to be but I'm sure I can get past that. I'm really interested to try the Apple watch after using the Pebble for over a year and seeing how the experiences compare.
This. The free Lynda membership I get through my University has been incredibly helpful in understanding things I'm studying as well as diving into new topics. I really, really don't want to see it changed/ruined by LinkedIn :(
Thank you for taking the time to comment. You gave me some really good ideas.

I thought maybe the agenda was kinda bloated too especially since this is just the Front End Development. If you add Back end development you would probably be looking at 2 years to complete. Luckily my bootcamp is free and you can take all the time you need and only move on to the next topic when you feel comfortable with the current topic.

Vim - Here is what I have for vim and surprisingly enough is just enough to be proficient in vim.

3. Learn vim
a. Do vimtutor
b. Read Learning the vi and Vim Editors, Seventh Edition
c. Up and Running with vi
d. Venture Into Vim
e. OReilly - Mastering Vim
f. Vim for Advanced Users
g. Learning vim plugins

Git - I use two video tutorials that will make anyone an intermediate person within 2 weeks.

HTML - We do about 12 websites
CSS - We learn almost everything about CSS. It does take about a month just to do the videos and books.
Javascript - We learn it in depth with three of the top books and several videos. This is where most of the time is spent. We do not move on to JQuery until we are proficient in javascript so we do not use JQuery as a crutch.

Bonus - We have the students sign up for HN, Reddit, and StackOverflow to teach them how to troubleshoot problems.

Im running out of room here but thank you so much for your input.
> It was very recently (last year or so) that Lynda started doing more business courses

That's provably untrue even according to your own source [0] (when sorted by oldest first). They have videos from 2010 in their business skills section like "Pitching Projects and Products to Executives." And many added in 2011.

Heck I myself watched several business courses on Lynda over three years ago...

[0] http://www.lynda.com/Business-Skills-training-tutorials/484-...
It is indeed, but according to the article, the Taipei pilot had five thousand hours of flight experience. If five thousand hours of experience is not sufficient answer, it's time to reevaluate the question.
The nomenklatura would invent the most ridiculous arguments ("Condemned as a capitalist tool") to avoid any criticism, to suit their planned programs, corruption, and unjustified spendings.
Much has been made of online education's mini bubble, with an emphasis on MOOcs like Coursera, Udacity, and edX. Having taken several of these classes, it all seemed kind of silly to me. They're great for curiosity and continuing education, but nowhere near replacing a college degree.

Seeing the kind of money that's going into these ventures, there are obviously people still betting big. I think they face a real challenge marketing these classes and certifications as valuable to the students and employers. Coursera used to award a free statement of accomplishment (a PDF, basically). The classes that I've taken recently only recognize students who pay for a verified certificate. The fee is really small, but it's not really worth anything to me.

I've very much enjoyed having free access to so many different classes. I don't know whether it's sustainable as is, but I fear that an acquisition like this may step up the pressure to monetize, show a profit, etc.
Oh my gosh. I don't know if this was supposed to be a joke, but it is not funny at all.
Weren't they already a viable business competing with free online courses?
How can their technology possibly be worth $1.5B?
Considering Lynda has been competing with them for two decades, I'm sure they'll do OK.
Manjaro had a rather… iffy relationship with developing a security mindset in the past: http://allanmcrae.com/2013/10/comparison-of-security-issue-h...

It appears they're not learning.
If you wanted to get creative, posting reviews on Amazon counter to their Terms of Service could run afoul of the CFAA.
> I don't have a fundamental objection to Windows

I do. I have a fundamental objection to MicroSoft too. I do not know why people forget that MS actually tried very hard to make internet just a special button in MS Word. How they fought against anything looking like an open communication protocol. This is a sin, the kind of sin that shall not be forgiven. I respect Mr Gates being a generous guy in his old age, but he led a company that did and still do a lot of harm to almost all industries over the world.

Be reminded that Windows is still the dominant OS by very very far. Almost everyone on earth working on a desk uses MS Windows, Word, IE and Excel. This is not a sane distribution of powers.

What would we say if 98% of the oil and the gaz stations on earth were operated by the same company? We are living in this Orwellian world, where one company drives 98% of the computers and their major softwares in the world.

Why are we so fast to forget that?
I have in the past. Although, the properties I have I'm kind of pleased with.
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In chrome, if I click "advanced", it tells me that it's expired, and how long ago.
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Dont forget ATF (Fast and Furious).
This one works great with my daughter. The light flashes for a minute

http://www.amazon.com/Toothbrush-Star-Flash-Light-color/dp/B...
The key point is that amphetamines are a subset of of PEAs, and that BMPEA does not belong in that subset because it is a positional isomer of amphetamine- the methyl group is in the wrong place (yes, positions do matter in chemistry).
A grid system without classes would be an incredible feat as I view it as near impossible. Sure, you could do it via targeting elements with descending and sibling selectors but you would have to stick to a rigorous markup pattern and could never, ever change it. Plus there's the risk of eventually affecting elements not intended to be targeted.

I imagine the same problem would exist for flexbox as well, unless the browsers start having proper flex elements.

This isn't really a framework so to speak, it's a css reset. Much like Normalize and Skeleton. There's nothing wrong with it, as more options along those lines are always welcome.
I've always been super-impressed with Chick-Fil-A's service even though their food is sometimes sub-par. That's why I continue to return. I know I'm going to get a decent, if not great, meal, and the service will be fantastic.

The yardstick for measuring the potency of a corporate culture is consistency over time.
>If the computer piloting the plane was designed by the same criteria -- economics -- as the plane was, it'd have pretty much the same crash rate per passenger * mile.

This is pure absurdity. How can you insist that economics of software development equate to the economics of human labor?

Economics drives everything but one of the main points of software development is the economic advantage it brings in terms of skill and cost.

All things considered, software is cheaper to be skilled, and economically speaking, will always outperform equivalent modern-cost human labor at these tasks. Dollar for dollar at scale, at least.

Software isn't perfect but if it wasn't economically superior to human labor none of us would have a job right now.
Thanks! No, it's definitely not ARM, that was my point.

It seems to consist of "8-bit CPU, a 52x40-bit DMEM, a
64x10-bit IMEM, a 64x10-bit IROM". Those are some seriously small memory sizes, a total of 64 instructions (the IROM holds the code) really isn't a lot to play with.
To address this case you would have to be able to design a system that could reliably detect a bad engine. This system would have to not cause false positives.

Note that bad engines do not always stop. Often times they are just on fire, or are vibrating, or losing pieces ...
Many of us have families and on this particular trip to Thailand those people stayed back home in Europe.

However for the trip we did just recently to the Austrian Alps pretty much everyone joined. But that was also a lot shorter and the focus was more on skiing/snowboarding than on doing work.
Seems like there is room for some integration (not sure about $1.5B worth of integration, but hey).
You just made me wonder what happens if you have a cert but let the name expire. Can you MITM your old domain until the cert expires?
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Generally it should be part of a recognosed training prog.

http://www.fairwork.gov.au/pay/unpaid-work/work-experience-a...
It's hard to imagine how safe US passenger airlines have become. From the start of 2002 to now, there have been only 115 airliner fatalities in the US. That's 8.7 deaths per year. That's one death per 68,965,517,241 airline passenger miles flown.

It's an incredible human achievement.

I make a hobby of reading through NTSB avaition an maritime accident reports. It's a fascinating look at how to create almost failure free systems out of mechanical things that break and humans that do stupid things.
Non mobile version : http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/nyregion/wall-street-fees-...
I'd love to see a demoscene version of "Hacker's Delight" [0]

[0] http://www.hackersdelight.org/
Can you give some specific restrictions? like sequential page programming in blocks or 'LSB MSB' things?
There's more to experience than just time. Variety counts for a lot as well. Sully, for example, had glider experience, which was certainly helpful when his Airbus suddenly became a glider.

There's a saying in aviation that one pilot may have a thousand hours of experience, while another pilot may merely have a hundred hours of experience repeated ten times.
Sorry I didn't make it clear. I wrote "more" as in "more business courses" to indicate an uptick in frequency. I wasn't claiming they had zero business courses before 2014.

EDIT ADD: Lynda.com also see themselves as strategically expanding into more business, marketing, professional development, and executive management courses. See their 2014 presentation at 47 seconds: https://youtu.be/qlYKbfjru5I?t=47s
What about a methbutt?
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With all due respect, how is that worse than HTTP? Plain HTTP can be MITMed just as well, only that on HTTP - except that no one would do that because for HTTP, plain old packet sniffing is enough to eavesdrop on a connection. Which doesn't work for self-signed HTTPS connections. And there are in fact a lot of common scenarios where it is easy for an attacker to sniff packets but harder to establish an MITM.
I don't quite understand, could you explain?
I guess the risk is higher in London because the funding pool is smaller, so if it goes to pot there's less places to turn, tho well done for getting all those commitments. What is your relationship with the funders now? Is there anyway to expedite the legals? When Ron Conway speaks about "getting your round over quickly" are the legals conducted differently in SF? Ultimately I think xkcd could draw a nice graph showing how the delay between commitment and consummation is directly (exponentially?) proportional to the probability of the deal falling over. It's never closed Til the money's in the bank is one thing I've learned.
This could be interesting if you of it think from the ideal, that college traditional education is becoming an outdated format and project based learning is leading the way to gain real world experience.
Now job seekers are creating a blank linked-in profile, taking and finishing some online course to show there skills, while automatically generating their resumes and profiles for employers to see.
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I think in some realms MCSE does pull some weight, such as large financial institutions and non-tech companies. There are newer certificates such as those from Coursera and Udacity that are starting to pull more and more weight from the industry, mainly tech though.

The main fields that benefit from this are business and technology. Human resources and recruiters tend not to be technical: they have no idea if you actually know Java or not. They simply know you have it on your resume. This gives them at least some peace of mind that you know at least some Java. Conversely, Business people can be evaluated on whether they know how to do basic things like rate of return or efficiency metrics.

This does help in that realm, but it helps in giving some people confidence as well. Some people have imposters syndrome so a certificate saying they know it alleviates that feeling.
Techies might be 5% of linkedin's user base, but they're a much larger % of the recruiter fee base. Those recruiters are the people who pay linkedin.
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I don't believe there's such a thing as an "unstyled" website. At least if you're looking at it through a browser. Even if the page has no css at all, the browser is still using css defaults that it has hard coded. That hard coded css can differ from browser to browser. If one were to dig into it, you can often change much of these defaults to your preferences.

That's why there are css resets and projects like this or Normalize. They make base html look the same across browsers before you start creating design-based css.
Remove obstacles for your team (don't be the obstacle)
Let your team know you have their back - defend them from ridiculous requests and protect them from burn-out.

A good manager can step away from their team for a few days without things falling apart.

The hardest thing to learn is to address problems early - nip it in the bud. Learn to delegate and plan for / foresee future problems before they impact your team.
When building reliable systems, you expose them to simulations of as many failures as is economical. It's not clear how many failures the pilot dealt with in those 5000 hours. Proper simulation teases out faults in handling failures with a high success rate in many situations. Maybe it will become clear that the training regime could be improved for this airline.
It looks like something snapchat could implement.

But keep going. Thumbs up.

The world is only what you turn it into. And this world looks great.
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> Let's hope it will be for everyone's best.

Anything making MS better cannot be for everyone's best: they have a de facto monopoly, and of the most dangerous kind.

That's why despite all the bad that can be said against Google and Android, at the very least they had enough weigth (and talent, and luck) to push MS out of mobile. Which was the greatest news for our industry since Internet.

Also, I do not agree with Paul Graham (http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html): sadly, MS is not dead yet. It cannot be dead for real with 9x% of install on PCs.
This would require a review API, which seems to be missing, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4811259/is-there-an-amazo...

Edit: see also https://www.npmjs.com/package/amazon-reviews
Nit picking: Sully was flying an A320, not a widebody.
That Knuth quote by itself is interesting.

Perhaps he is not suggesting that popular ideas likely to be are wrong.

Instead maybe he is saying that to think and develop ideas like Knuth's one needs a certain amount of irreverance for what is popular.

(Undue?) reverance is rampant in the software industry, in my opinion. Would Knuth agree?
Oh, never knew about Cybersyn, awesome discovery sir!
They are just now learning how to avoid something as obvious as cows? How long is it going to take to learn to drive when the roads are all covered in snow then?