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I'll save judgement for when I could try it, but why on earth do you need full access to my git hub account? I don't want to give you access to my private repo's unless I'm coding on them.

You can still avoid it if you really want to. My account is now a google account but my flatmates youtube account is still separate. They keep bugging him but he keeps dodging it, wont agree to the new terms.

I'm proud to be a new yorker today. Not that I'm not other days, but I can be finally proud of my senate.

The problem with tiered passwords is that if someone leaks a tier one password they get your tier one. It doesn't matter how important it is to you, if they mess up and lead your information its out there, nothing you can do about it.

This thread just encouraged me to enable 2 factor auth everywhere I could (aws, google, google apps, openid) etc.

OSX clipboard integration? Can you elaborate?

LEDs also don't change brightness with voltage, they do with amperage and usually have an optimal amperage for the LED's design. Brightness can be controlled many ways, the most common way is to use Pulse Width Modulation. It's also a common power saving technique.

http://www.reuk.co.uk/LED-Dimmer-Circuit.htm

My girlfriend got one and she wouldn't dream of putting osx or windows on it. She wont even let me throw the jail break switch and get a proper shell. She uses it mostly when she travels because it's light and has 3g, but its never far from the couch. She had a few issues with it and reported them all as bugs, and while there was zero feedback on the bugs most of them were fixed silently soon after. The only major drawback is a lack of MS office. For anything work related she has to go back to her laptop.

I wanted to share a story about it being used as intended.

I like Nginx a lot but apache isn't insecure by comparison. Nginx is possibly more secure out of the box with minimal configs but that's not a given either. You can do dumb things with either product.

    AllowOverride None

That will disable htaccess files. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/htaccess.html

Except you'll probably loose support sometime in the next few years and as soon as they consider it a burden or a threat they'll pull the plug on it. For hobby use it would be really cool for any business I'd stay far away from it.

Can you explain in a bit more depth?

I had computer science and electrical engineering in my high school, they taught the CS majors c++ and the EE majors do networking (what was then the ccna) and both of us got digital logic. I was an EE who loved both, I'm very very happy I had this available to me. So were most of my friends. It was the first kind of classes where we could be good at it and see a purpose.

Looks like this is a direct port of pg's version. I have to admit, I haven't seen callcc before and the concept while similar to closures scares me a bit. Storing a complete environment in a variable is a new concept to wrap my head around.

  This is an all-ruby implementation of choose/fail nondeterministic 
  programming with branch cut, as described in Chapter 22 of Paul Graham’s 
  On Lisp[1], or Section 4.3 of SICP[2].

  Due to Ruby containing a true call/cc, this is a much straighter port 
  of Paul Graham’s scheme version of this code than his Common Lisp or 
  my C versions are. :-)

The major cost of the data is gathering it not distributing it. But I agree this is something that needs to be archived.

I'd put my money on paypal sticking around, but I'd also expect the volume on the Bitcoin/USD markets to increase as the value climbs (presumably from rate of new bitcoins from mining declining). I think we could see services using fractional bitcoins behind the scenes and USD (or euros) end to end.

I bet you could make some money facilitating lower fee transactions backed by bitcoins.

If they lie about anything on their resume my company walks away. The last guy I interviewed we talked for my alloted time and it was clear he wasn't quite up to par but I wanted to know how much he knew. The next guy after me sent him home within minutes because there were flat out lies on his resume.

One may not imply the other (lies !== bad employee) but it's a red flag.

I don't think they're trying to present this as an innovation in name tags. It's just a showcase of an elegant novel design.

I've been interviewing technology interns at a finance company and every single one has said "I'm very quantitative and want to learn more about high frequency trading." I haven't been able to figure out what they mean by that. I think they just heard that's where the money is.

Someone already fixed it and has a pull request on the github repo. https://github.com/chrismatthieu/CHATS.iO

It's a pleasure to see my writing on Hacker News. I freelanced for 5 years and highly recommend it to anyone trying to break into any industry. It gave me the freedom to learn though working then any one job would have. I would go back in a heart beat, except currently working with a great team at a finance company. I've got some great projects ahead of me that I want to do before I'd consider moving on. I'm also learning more then I've ever had to before and it's exhilarating.

This post was written mainly for my brother and a few friends who are currently freelancing (web designers, graphics designers, and computer technicians) here in New York City.

These guys constantly prove they know how to manage the kinds of problems Turk and other sources bring to the table.

syntax error, this should work;

    javascript:(function(){$('img').each(function(i,img){var $i = $(img), w = $i.width(), h = $i.height(); if ( w && h ){img.src = 'http://placekitten.com/'+w+'/'+h;}});})()

Versioned storage isn't a backup, but it is quite helpful. Additionally Amazon S3 does redundant storage ( http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#protecting ) but in the end you're relying on a single service with a single account.

Take a look at liftweb. http://liftweb.net/ Its Scala which I don't know, but I've got some very intelligent friends trying to get me to back it at our company. (Scala is a lisp that runs in the JVM. - Someone's going to hang me for confusing what lisp is.) Its a framework that can leverage websockets/comet/longpoll to extend your classes to work client side.

Think message passing between client objects (in js) and server objects (in scala). You can do jqueryish things server side to the client side pages. (That blew me away when I saw it in action.) Your submit even can pass params to the server object. It's really simple and strait forward. I'm looking for lift for NodeJS.

Check out the ubiquitous "chat server" example in the simply lift book. http://simply.liftweb.net/

I love the idea of being able to do a git merge html5-bilerplate html5bp-test-upgrade into one my projects and pickup the latest best practices to review. In practice I've never done that and I hand pick the parts I want.

Paul Irish's projects (and his cohorts) do a really good job of exposing the current state of web technologies. The Modernizr docs for example talks about how many JS and html5 apis are supported differently and what you can do about it.

http://www.modernizr.com/docs/

Himself and the yayQuery team are a large part of why I love Javascript.

Its not just the recent versions, it's done this for windows since it's first public release.

Just posted to the support page.

"Sorry guys, there was a Javascript error displaying an error when there was none. We've deployed a fix for this and everything should be good to go."

Even if they were direct competitors with the exact same market and product (Which they don't appear to be), that could mean that he's got a much better idea of how his competitors may be doing spammy things then we do. Since these are algorithmic changes not site specific changes any resulting fix would get applied to his own site as well.

The motives here don't offend me.

Yes it has become negligible. Google themselves have a nice talk about it. The major overhead is in the initial handshake. Google themselves have published how the major issues were in browser behavior (caching mostly) and not connection speed or cpu cost.

I noticed the same thing on my girlfriends CR-48, twitter wont scroll properly (studders) and everything else hangs a bit. She filed a bug report with google chrome os support, but I suspect twitter is doing a lot of heavy stuff in the background.

I love python and Django but this highlights one of the main things I don't like about Django development, the thousand of packages you end up using.