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How does this not constitute libel? I'm not a lawyer, so the question is in earnest.

I'm very open to correction, but won't the increased time complexity of bcrypt also mitigate this kind of attack?

This seems specious. Correctly assigning blame won't matter to readers; most people couldn't care less. Sticking a different brand name on the failure is side-stepping the issue: nothing stays up 100% of the time. Create a custom page that treats the situation with a little bit of levity.

If legitimate downtime happens often enough that someone would actually internalize the difference between your failures and Heroku's, you have bigger problems than your error page.

Other co-founder here-

The logos weren't shown on mobile devices up until a few moments ago. Now they're visible everywhere.

> Then they conspired (shown in leaked emails) to only follow DMCA requests coming from large US entities (while ignoring requests coming from Mexico, for example).

Color me ignorant, but this doesn't sit right with me. Does the DCMA have international scope? Does the FBI enforce Mexican law?

> Also, shouldn't these simple bugs be quickly and fully discovered by automated tests?

Do you actually believe this?

Tests are a nice first pass, but they'll never fully discover every bug -- especially with a huge change like this.

IANAL, but this is only partially true.

* Marital status is a protected class. You can't consider it when hiring. * Age is a protected class. You can't consider it when hiring. * Pregnancy is a proxy for sex, a protected class. You can't consider it when hiring [1]. * Parental status is a protected class, but apparently is not applicable to Employment cases [2]. So you could get away with avoiding parents in some places. But man, what a great way to violate the No Asshole rule. Frankly, I'd rather not work for a startup that would want to go down this path.

[1] http://users.aristotle.net/~hantley/hiedlegl/statutes/title7... [2] http://www.seattle.gov/civilrights/discrimination.htm

I'm 27, with a wife and three kids. I've been working full-time on my own startup for the past 9 months. Without salary.

See, there are plenty of us who can kick ass and raise a family at the same time. Not to mention plan and budget responsibly. In fact, you might really want to hire people who are good at that sort of thing, rather than the Red Bull-chugging, couch-sleeping, college codemonkey stereotype. But I suppose stereotyping is what got us here in the first place, and that's not fair to Red Bull aficionados.

I guess I'd just rather you let me and other prospective employees assess the risks for ourselves. That means frank discussion about clear, accurate information. But don't curtail things because of personal bias.

Even on iOS 4, the iPhone 3G doesn't support multitasking.

Personally, I find myself disagreeing with both sides too much for this to be effective at all.

I'm not going to say one should or shouldn't vote Democrat. But, there are too many considerations on which I'm unwilling to compromise to just vote for the enemy of my enemy. Neither party is your friend.

I assume you overlooked O(n). You've probably used Bayes' theorem and the binomial coefficient, if only indirectly.

But I tend to agree with you: many of these are skewed by the author's perspective on what should be considered foundational. Someone doing webdev will not ever calculate eigenvectors. Someone doing machine learning will not be able to avoid them.

If time and attention really are the determining factors, maybe we parents should just chuck our smartphones and tablets for the first 5 years.

I'm only partly joking. I ditched my iPhone after my 2-year-old started saying, "Dadda, put your phone down! Come play!". It's relegated to my office now.

Can you elaborate? I don't follow how that might come about.

These definitely sound like attitudes you'd want to watch out for and combat, but I'd be really hesitant to treat them as grounds for dismissal.

For some reason, these slides are only available in a flash widget that's synchronized with the video. Here's a little script to grab the flash and build a PDF for yourself.

ImageMagick and swftools required.

  #!/bin/bash
  for s in {1..39}; do wget http://www.infoq.com/resource/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/en/slides/$s.swf; done
  for swf in *.swf; do swfrender $swf -o $swf.png && rm $swf; done
  convert `ls *.png -x1 | sort -n | xargs echo` slides.pdf
  rm -f *.swf.png

Spawn More Overlords!

It's interesting that rewriting in Clojure was "less work and more timely" than migrating to Akka or waiting for Scala 2.10. Any insight as to why? Having written no Scala, I'm not sure what the Akka changes would entail.

High level:

Capistrano is a tool for deploying your applications. You use it to push out new versions of your own codebase.

Chef and Puppet are tools for provisioning/configuring servers. You use it to install the right third-party libraries, programs, config files, etc.

1-3 remind me of a great "I Can Has Cheezburger?" anecdote about being a successful CTO: http://www.scottporad.com/2010/11/12/what-it-really-means-to...

Nope. I can still flag.

As one of the employees brought on in the iLike acquisition, the price makes me laugh. And think, "Called it!" I could not get out of there fast enough.

I wonder if it's feasible (legally and technically) to encrypt the stream between their servers and the plugin, but have the plugin send a local, unencrypted version to the built-in HTML5 plumbing.

I bet that in cases of copyright infringement a logical delete isn't legally sufficient. Sure, you can leave the database pointers in place... but you're going to need to actually remove the infringing content. In that case, at least, a true delete tool would be needed. Like any Internet discussion about copyrights or other people's backend scripts, this is all purely speculative.

The compile-time version will hang a Clojure REPL, too:

user=> (def d 2.2250738585072012e-308)

In "The unbound Prometheus" David Landes writes about the historical causes for the industrial revolution in Europe, specifically analyzing the manufacture of cotton in England.

After noting that many inventors "spent more time enforcing their patent rights than earning them", he writes an apropos footnote about the incentives laid by patents:

"A number of writers have laid stress on the incentive effects of patent legislation. I am inclined to doubt its significance. This kind of protection was not new; the basis of the system was laid by the Statute of Monopolies in 1624. [...] At the same time, there was good reason to doubt the efficacy of patents against determined competitors, as numerous inventors learned to their sorrow, and many an entrepreneur placed his reliance on secrecy, rather than law."

http://books.google.com/books?id=axrD2M9dBE8C&lpg=PP1...

What happens if you renice the process so everything else takes priority?

Clojure code is Clojure data. So, these SQL statements are really just nested lists.

Instead of writing an ad-hoc SQL parser and doing string manipulation, you can write relatively simple Clojure functions to manipulate these lists and generate valid SQL.

The ultimate sidejacking opportunity, other unencrypted data notwithstanding. Sites with a proper SSL implementation seem more attractive each day.

Via coffee. Scratch that; via well-planned caffeine consumption: http://arvindn.livejournal.com/57651.html

Yes, it's your job to know these things. But when you make a simple mistake like this one, duck typing can hide it and make its effects much more serious.