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by jarrett 15y ago
No, the state employee said that the sheet of paper was probably quite literally detached from the rest of my return. My (former) employer is an extremely reputable organization that has been around for over a century and probably will be f
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by jarrett 15y ago
Here's a fun example of why the government should maintain its own databases and use them to pre-fill your taxes. This year, the state sent me a letter claiming I had paid zero taxes in 2010. They said I had to pay 100% of my tax liability
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by jarrett 15y ago
The government doesn't have the "virtually unlimited" prosecution budget you're claiming. Many prosecutors are overworked and given almost zero time to prep a case. High-profile cases get more time and money, of course, but these are statis
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by jarrett 15y ago
This is not legal advice. Please don't try to build one of these devices. I haven't researched this answer. But off the top of my head: My guess is it's legal to have a phone that can be programmed to perform activities at specified times.
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by jarrett 15y ago
My pet reason: Your framework doesn't solve any of the genuinely hard problems that annoy us when we're trying to test stuff. Lots of people have written variations on assertions and mocks. But where's the full-stack test harness for a Rail
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by jarrett 15y ago
I agree with you that the default should be changed. And note that any application developer can in fact require attr_accessible globally, across all models, with one line of configuration. The point of my post was not to give Rails a pas
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by jarrett 15y ago
I think you're right that this is a problem, and I would support changing the default, although I can understand why they don't. You make a good point that showing a hugely popular app with mistake X suggests that mistake X should be preven
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by jarrett 15y ago
Actually, I do use update_attributes for public-facing interfaces. But only with attr_accessible. (I never use attr_protected, since blacklists are a disaster waiting to happen.)
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by jarrett 15y ago
While I mostly agree that the Rails default should probably be changed, I think in fairness it's also worth pointing out that the Rails team does give fair warning about this issue. Specifically, anyone who reads the official Rails Securi
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by jarrett 15y ago
Homakov kind of gave the impression he had discovered a previously unknown vulnerability in Rails. This is not the case. Rather, he discovered an instance in which one very prominent Rails app (Github) failed to implement a standard Rails s
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by jarrett 15y ago
Like the students the OP describes, I too started programming hoping to build a game with as little effort as possible. (I wanted to build a massively multiplayer first person game. I know, I know. Hey, it was high school.) As soon as I hit
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by jarrett 15y ago
"If I post the link of my prototype, wouldn't that beat the purpose of going stealth? I am not ready to reveal it to the whole wide world as it's still not a clean prototype. Unless the project has a team that is committed to it, at this po
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by jarrett 15y ago
Airlines getting into banking? I understand that they've been facing cash-flow problems for years. But this seems like way too much diversification. Why would an airline expect to do well in the banking market, when banks are already strugg
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by jarrett 15y ago
Agreed. I would add that a potential bizdev cofounder needs to be able to prove they're good at all that stuff, not just say they can do a great job at it. Lots of people who have never done bizdev before tell themselves "I can write bl
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by jarrett 15y ago
I'm very much looking forward to (and hoping to help build) thick-client frameworks with the same level of polish and maturity as Rails 3. Obviously there's a long way to go, but I think it will happen. I'm not a Node expert, but I'd be wil
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by jarrett 15y ago
I'm not looking to join a new team, but if I were, I would absolutely need to know what the business is. And since you say you have a prototype, I would need a link to it. I'm guessing you plan on revealing that stuff when people email you.
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by jarrett 15y ago
The computers I use now are far more capable than the ones I used in 2005, in terms of CPU, RAM, disk space, GPU, and anything else that should affect an app's boot time. Today, Photoshop takes just as long to boot as it did in 2005. Yet th
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by jarrett 15y ago
Very true. This is why I'm sticking with a server-heavy design (i.e. Rails) for my main projects. I agree with all of your arguments about the difficulties of testing. And I'd add that there's a distinct lack of tools for testing client-sid
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by jarrett 15y ago
In general, it would depend on the type of notice. The bar is high for process servers because of the extraordinary importance of the news they're delivering. However, many contracts and statutes merely require "written notice." In these si
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by jarrett 15y ago
It matters. Smart people get that feedback is necessary when you're making great stuff, and that feedback is useless if it's never negative. But smart people also get what a speaker's tone means. Communicating arbitrary message X politely s
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by jarrett 15y ago
It's not so meaningful to compare the relative intelligence of people within the upper echelons of intelligence--which is where you appear to be, along with those award-winners you mention. Which is not to disagree with any of your points.
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by jarrett 15y ago
If the article has it right, the car dealers and manufacturers are complaining that making the market more transparent and open will kill the industry. These companies seem to believe the basic laws of economics don't apply to them. If you
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by jarrett 15y ago
"But there's certainly great value in the book"--I don't think there is. Here's why I don't think Kiyosaki offers anything useful in the categories of knowledge you've identified: - "business vs 'rat race'": As others have pointed out, busi
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by jarrett 15y ago
My experience with AdWords has been that it's hard to get enough traffic to give you meaningful data about interest or conversion rates. That being said, if your particular keywords can bring you a lot more clicks per day than I've gotten,
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by jarrett 15y ago
As a general rule, money paid pursuant to a settlement agreement is gone for good. The bar for duress is pretty high--specifically, it usually (always?) requires a threat of bodily harm. And, even if you could somehow prove a settlement agr
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by jarrett 15y ago
Hypothetically, if I ever ran a business that accidentally infringed a copyright, I'd be happy to settle for £1500 (roughly $2350 as of today). Suppose my attorneys cost a meager $250/hour. In less than ten billable attorney hours, I've bur
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by jarrett 15y ago
So in other words, mouse + keyboard + iOS/Android will become the dominant system for everyday office use, such as word processing and writings emails? I can believe that. As you said, the fundamental difference at that point between mobile
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by jarrett 15y ago
This is probably true for companies targeting casual users. Facebook and YouTube are great examples. But I can't see people switching to mobile for the bulk of their serious, work-oriented computing unless the hardware experience drasticall
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by jarrett 15y ago
Given the numbers you've presented, then yes, it seems like a bad deal for an early employee. But here's how I think the market may correct for that: 1. If I'm a startup founder, I want to recruit smart employees. Smart employees will do th
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by jarrett 15y ago
I always use the competition to the extent that it's available. My main point is that sometimes, there simply are no good non-Windows substitutes. Secondly, I'm pointing out that a lot of people have spent money on licenses for Windows so

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