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This came up in a meeting the other day where I asked someone to define technical debt. I instantly remembered the first company I worked for calling it 'being hit by the baby bus'. They were combining the concept of the 'bus factor' with the fact that 2 of the senior people on the project (out of 6 of us total) had babies within months of one another.

This is awesome and I love the auto-prompting in the latest version of LastPass for Android. Great work guys!

Now this is a good April Fools joke (albeit a little late)

That was the idea behind SociaLocale https://github.com/csmatt/socialocale

At my first job, 6 of us (all programmers) sat around a large conference table. If I had a question about the code, I peaked over my laptop's screen, someone else noticed and asked "What's up?" It was great for that quick collaboration, but it also exposed us to every annoyance possible. There was a guy who burped a lot and liked to sing show tunes. The guy next to me bought me earbud-style headphones because the cheap ones I was using leaked out a lot of sound. We also needed an always-be-working atmosphere to prevent a conversation unrelated to work from taking more than 5 minutes.

I've had my own office for the last 3 years and enjoy the privacy, but occasionally miss the instant answers and social aspects of that open plan.

This is beautiful. I feel like it describes past, present, and future me and gives me hope and some nice guidelines.

Is it? I'd rather they split this into 2 plans and let me have just the fast shipping for $79 (or less) and people who want streaming can pay $99.

Netflix still has the better offering IMO. Not only content, but the video interface is better too. Initially Amazon's video player worked on Linux out of the box, but now it's just as hacky to get running as Netflix.

Due to this price increase, I'm going to reevaluate how important fast shipping is to me.

Does it protect against this http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2006/12/can_you_hear_m... ?

For MIPS (recommended for starting out), check out my post. It walks you through creating the initial program in C all the way through finding its vulnerability and exploiting it. The buffer overflow building is done in Python through Bowcaster. http://csmatt.com/notes/?p=96 (also check out the links at the end). Good luck!

I'm 27 and killed my LinkedIn account because 1) I just don't find them to be a company that is concerned with user privacy and 2) I have not once seen a benefit to being on it.

I think it probably depends on your industry. I'm a programmer, so maybe if you're a finance major it's more useful.

I think the android project is starting to move toward optimizing for lower performing devices in an effort to get the OS in more hands. If that's the case, it may make a usable $38 tablet more feasible.

Maybe Apple will have one for their maps soon? Google isn't crapping on anyone. This is brand new and they're not going to be able to support everyone, especially those in an ecosystem they don't control, right off the bat.

I would love that for Android. I miss the Cyanogenmod ROMs for Gingerbread where you could toggle which requested permissions YOU allowed an app to have.

Also, I've been saying it for a long time, but icons colored according to their security risk would be better than just names with descriptions. We have to make security more convenient.

Both my parents were on virgin mobile and my mom couldn't stand it. Dropped calls, text messages that were never received, and there were a lot of dead zones. I switched my plan on t-mobile to a family plan and brought them on. They've been really happy with it so far.

Does there exist a tool that will translate mathematical symbols or an entire equation of them into plain English?

Is delivery to the stores and restaurants after the TSA related and our enforced?

I hope so because this is just silly.

Living in the U.S. and having gone through the effort of attempting to create a startup, programs, money, mentorships, etc. are out there, but you have to have a real drive and be able to brush off rejection. I don't think the process should be free of negative consequence and adversity. Both help weed out the people who won't be able to handle the more important challenges.

As someone who really enjoys the history of computing, this is awesome! I don't think I've ever had a chance to play with Win 1 and probably wouldn't have gone through the trouble of getting it running myself. This and others like it would be neat for the Computer History Museum to have on its site.

LinkedIn just seems overwhelmingly sleezy to me. How do they keep getting away with this stuff?

I'm not judging one way or another, but is privacy not something the Swedish people are interested in?

Back in 2008 my friend and I were going to enter an instructables.com contest with a 3D printer made from an all-in-one. It was going to be the Z-corp (powder) style. Total feasible, but we ran out of time and was a lot more focused on his senior design project.

A few weeks later, we did come across this http://web.archive.org/web/20120121054050/http://homemade3dp...

Obligatory Smokey Yunick mention. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Yunick

The guy was a hacker in many senses of the word!

I was going to disagree due to the Tmobile-MetroPCS merger, but it looks like Tmobile was just looking to pick up the spectrum and are phasing out CDMA within it. http://bgr.com/2013/06/17/t-mobile-metropcs-merger-cdma-migr...

A failure of Blackberry to have a respectable market share does not mean the company isn't innovative. I think any company with its back against the wall is probably attempting to be innovative at every turn.

At $550 out of contract, the 5c is not a serious downmarket move. It may be the illusion of one, though. I paid roughly that for my Nexus One in 2010 and paid $350 for my Nexus 4 almost a year ago.

I'm pretty diehard Android fan, but I don't believe for a second that they've sured up the market for good. I think all companies involved will have to continue competing vigorously and I like that just fine.

Not at all similar to that. Ignoring the fact that the characteristics of residences and a very high traffic website with an enormous user-base are vastly different, your argument relies on the discoverer of the vulnerability choosing one of two paths: get paid by the company or get paid by nefarious people.

A third option is to choose neither because the discoverer doesn't think it warrants his or her time to report it. Reporting a security vulnerability requires more than just sending an email. Meanwhile, others who have discovered the same vulnerability may be selling access to it and a company like Yahoo has no idea until severe damage has been done.

hahaha. Thanks for making me smile this morning :)

I'm not super familiar with this case or the ATT vs weev one, but I thought I read that the prosecution in the weev trial made the argument that accessing information in the open, like that of server logs is hacking? If that precedent was set, wouldn't that have an effect on when a warrant is required or no? Just curious

Just yesterday I was looking at this http://m.fbi.gov/#http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/april... as a fun, different challenge to work on and wanted to be able to translate the dot-notation characters into something more easily distinguishable. The pattern matching in python would have helped a lot, I think.

As far as the cross-domain use of these algorithms. I realized recently how much overlap there is between what we perceive as 'different' domains. Both audio and image processing tend to deal with detecting and quantifying patterns. It was a Eureka moment for me, but I'm just a simpleton, so I haven't done much with the new insight :/