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by teyc 14y ago
I wonder what changes we might see if we insisted on teaching programming in the large upfront. For instance, instead of teaching 'public static void main,' we taught people about component oriented programming. This way, people are equipp
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by teyc 14y ago
I've lived long enough to see unemployed engineers, ex NASA rocket scientists, programmers after the .com bust,. The more specialised the profession, the harder it is for the person to find work when the economy drastically changes. The sma
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by teyc 14y ago
It is also useful for casual meetings. As a side thought, while convergence is great - we no longer carry a separate music player, video player, phone and now mobile projectors, I've increasingly run into more people carrying spare batterie
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by teyc 14y ago
Come to Australia. My plumber charges $90 per hour.
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by teyc 15y ago
on the contrary, musicians spend an aweful lot of money.
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by teyc 15y ago
I'd love to learn how you grew so quickly. Affiliate income on tabs, sheet music, musical equipment, recording equipment. Subscriptions - just like DeviantArt or Flickr. Use Earbits's business model - pay money to promote bands. People who
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by teyc 15y ago
Over on NPR Planet Money, there was an episode that suggested that looking at how much money airlines have lost, cheap flights are a function of shareholder largess. it is one commodity that hasn't made their investors much money. Timeshare
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by teyc 15y ago
Group on started off using an affiliate business model. However, running one deal per day means there isn't much recurring revenue to be had especially when cost of customer acquisition can be high. However, if Group on can prove their valu
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by teyc 15y ago
I like LOVE. The only problem is the library names can get a bit x-rated for teaching my young children.
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by teyc 15y ago
Yes, it would be infuriating wouldn't it? That's interesting, because once a phone runs out of juice, is it because we tend to see it as "dead", and no longer fret over it. However - if it still runs, but with some disability, we'd be const
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by teyc 15y ago
Perhaps smartphones need to degrade gracefully to a dumb phone when battery hits 20%.
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by teyc 15y ago
Regarding the point about storm trooper imagery, these images have to be licensed by LucasArts etc. This is why even if I drew Donald Duck and put it in the public domain, you are unable to use it in your product without licensing the neces
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by teyc 15y ago
Leaving the US equally difficult. I went to a conference in Orlando and was planning to fly through LA to SYD. However, the DHS told me I had to report to the LA office before I leave during office hours, so I had to change my flights to on
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by teyc 15y ago
I've been revising my attitudes towards TV lately. There's good content on the TV, while content on iPad is not necessarily getting any better - mostly addictive games that bide the player to come back again and again. BBC produces a lot of
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by teyc 15y ago
Have you figured out how could a website determine if your app is installed? It'd be cute to have a reddit style notification when people reply to your comments in a forum etc.
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by teyc 15y ago
Yup, someone didn't use DateTime.AddYears http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.datetime.addy...
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by teyc 15y ago
They are impossible to fire. If no one slips a bomb past them, they've done their job; If someone slips a bomb past them, they'll only grow bigger and more menacing.
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by teyc 15y ago
It is 2012, we should no longer have to debate about the acceptability of unvalidated inputs in a web application. Even PHP ditched register globals long ago.
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by teyc 15y ago
True.
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by teyc 15y ago
These issues need to be nipped very early on before they get too big to handle. Microsoft was stuck in this situation for many years because they had decided to favour compatibility over security. Rails now has a wide footprint on the web,
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by teyc 15y ago
this stunt will cost Github five to six figure It will cost its customers a lot more to reaudit all their commits from the date they migrated to GitHub. How can any one be certain at this stage that there hasn't been a 0-day inser
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by teyc 15y ago
This little exercise reminds us that the dysfunction seen inside corporations are just as easily present in open source communities. In the end, management holds the keys to what gets checked in and what doesn't. The curious twist in this w
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by teyc 15y ago
Until proven otherwise, all code hosted on GitHub must be assumed tainted, where potential 0-day has been inserted. You should consider revealing a history of all public key changes for each project (assuming you still retained apache logs)
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by teyc 15y ago
Can somebody explain why this is a Rails bug? Insecure by default. Microsoft used to be the laughing stock because the default install was vulnerable to exploits. While one might argue that Github devs should have known better, th
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by teyc 15y ago
I'm not sure why the rails core team was so against this in the first place. Lack of humility.
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by teyc 15y ago
I love the delicious irony when all sorts of rails dev argue for status quo only to find their master hacked because the source control system has the same vulnerability.
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by teyc 15y ago
$215,000 is bigger than the size of an average bank robbery ($5,000) source: http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_02/html/web/specialreport/05-SR... This reminds me of a tangentially related incident where government servers were physically stole
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by teyc 15y ago
Here's a full list of RH's products https://www.redhat.com/wapps/store/catalog.html Includes RHEL, virtualization, and JBOSS
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by teyc 15y ago
+1 And these companies have big hockey stick curves and the right amount of funding It is a high risk trajectory.
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by teyc 15y ago
Pics here http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/27/2827158/nokia-808-pureview... It is quite bulky.

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