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MrEnigma··on Mockup-designer: Local-storage based mockup tool
I thought this as well, except this is an actual mock up. So good it fooled you.
MrEnigma··on PHP: Single Quotes versus Double Quotes
For double quotes you can use curly braces instead of concatenation. $foo = "I like {$hacker['news']}"; depending on how you want it evaluated you can drop the dollar sign on the outside of the curly brackets as well.
MrEnigma··on Samsung Claims Jury Foreman Misconduct Tainted Apple Case
The judge asked for events in the last 10 years. The Seagate event happened in 1993.

His irate interviews made him sound questionable, but the interviews refuting samsungs data here are very much on point and concise.

MrEnigma··on “iCloud Backup”
There are a couple of things that cause a lot of pain.

One of those is the backup not being from the same iOS version. It will let you restore it to a new device, but then it doesn't complete (ie apps and such).

Just went through this going from an iOS 5 iPod Touch and an iOS 6 iPhone 5. The downside is that it makes old devices like the iPad 1 (which can't run iOS 6) going to say iPhone 5 (which can't run iOS 5), impossible to restore.

MrEnigma··on 9to5
The RSS feed doesn't show the domain next to the headlines, so if I don't click through to the comments, the cryptic headline is even worse.
MrEnigma··on Why Good People Leave Good Jobs
I think it depends on who you ask.

I think it's assumed that 2+ years is a normal stepping away point. Personally I've done a nearly 7 year stint, then a 2.5 year stint, and currently nearly a year into my current position. My thoughts are that I wish I would have changed jobs more often for my first job when I was learning, to open up my mind to what was out there. Although I still think it's important to move around. 5 years seems like you're stagnating (unless you're in a position where you are driving the direction).

MrEnigma··on PhpStorm & WebStorm 5.0 Early Access Program started
Isn't PHPStorm 4.0 still in beta? Or just come off beta recently? Last time I used it, it was quite buggy, and that was only a few months ago.

Now there is 5.0, Firefox has messed up our release versioning.

MrEnigma··on Dropbox: Security update & new features
When are email addresses going to be considered something that should be protected as well. Obviously you can't one-way hash these, but you can secure them, and definitely not leave them in project documents.
MrEnigma··on Jonah Lehrer Resigns From The New Yorker After Making Up Quotes
Well, we know the ones it turns out badly for. Who knows how many out there got away with it.
MrEnigma··on Jason Alexander on gun control
I think the hardest part about this, is like Jason here a lot of people think it's ok for people to own guns, but not get crazy about it.

Unfortunately there isn't great qualifications for defining what an assault rifle is. You can do specific models, which then require lots of updated and political maneuvering to keep updated. Length, speed, etc all end up catch too many other guns.

We could do federally what california has done, and prevent magazines over 10 rounds, or do like Illinois and require a permit to buy ammunition, unfortunately incidents still happen, and legitimate owners get upset over what they perceive as draconian rule.

Ultimately I think banning something like semi-automatic weapons would be the best in theory. But with 300+ million guns out there, with many of those being semi-automatic, it might be kind of an issue. If you grandfather them in, then you just drive the price up for these weapons. If you make it illegal 'overnight' you may make felons out a lot of people unknowingly.

One of things that has been going around, mostly because of Ebert bringing it up. Is the idea that gun rights advocates say that these incidents can be prevented by concealed carry, but Ebert points out none of the people in the cinema shot back. Unfortunately the argument, and for the situation, that specific theater specifically does not allow concealed weapons. Unfairly, and I believe incorrectly gun rights advocates say that it happened there because he knew everyone would be unarmed.

It's a very tricky situation. I think ultimately we need a better algorithm to detect and flag situations like this. Which would also require massive databases and registrations which people seem very against.

If these guns were illegal to obtain, it would also mean that he would have had to actively be doing something illegal, unfortunately as it stands, if he would have been stopped on the way to the theater, he would have been found suspicious, but ultimately legal (assuming his guns were cased and such).

MrEnigma··on Things to Check in PHP
Title makes it sound like security issues. But really it's just a list of 'improvements' you can make. Fun.
MrEnigma··on Why does parseInt(1/0, 19) return 18?
If this was in PHP people would be crying out what a bad and horrible language it is.

Javascript it's seen as an amusing conundrum.

MrEnigma··on Is Kanban the New Scrum?
I don't enjoy it either, to me even though some principles are quite different, it seems like a series of mini waterfalls.

The other thing is that it seemed to remove any creativity of control from the developers. In some cases this is a good thing because developers get stuck in ruts and heads way in the sand. But small tweaks improvements that only show themselves to be available when you get into the code, can't' be done. They'll be put in the backlog, and generally never lifted to the top. And if you put them in, then it 'adds risk to the sprint'.

Ultimately it feels like it removes a lot of fun from the role of developing. Granted a lot of the above stem from the company and not necessarily the process.

MrEnigma··on How spammers can create multiple fake accounts with one Gmail address
When I saw this title, I thought "Oh no someone has figured out what plus addressing is"

There are already enough people not allowing + in address fields, by pure neglect. Now if we add FUD to that...us geeks who love and know these things will be the ones suffering.

MrEnigma··on FunnyJunk lawyer's wife wades into fray, calls critics "nazi scumbags"
Always great when people think they know how the world works stumble into something they clearly don't understand. And instead of trying to understand it, or admitting they don't get it, they flail around using their old tricks.
MrEnigma··on Facebook doing MITM attack on your email.
I'm not arguing what is best for the customer. Just best for Facebook. It's their service an they get to do what they want. It sucks, and I wish it wouldn't happen but it does.

I know amazon does this for seller accounts, and I've run across it a few more places as well (craigslist, etc). Although Craigslist gives you the option to not obscure it.

I kind of saw the writing on the wall when the messaging platform was announced. They are trying to replace email for most people.

MrEnigma··on Facebook doing MITM attack on your email.
Probably for the better, especially if your email/profile are public.

It makes sense for Facebook to do this because they want all Communication to go through them. If you want people to connect to you directly, don't use facebook. Or put your email in your abou section.

MrEnigma··on Quadcopter drone group held in London airport on suspicion of terrorism
It looks like they were only held for a couple of hours and released. Not that I think this is right, but they are flying with lots of wires/electronics/batteries.
MrEnigma··on Local Marketplace App Yardsale (YC S11) Launches Nationwide
When you frame it against a consignment store it makes sense. When you frame it against craigslist, it doesn't.

Sure buyers flake, but ultimately I haven't had much issue with that selling lots of items on craigslist. The beauty is that good deals are to be had because there is no middle man. I know that doesn't work well when trying to run a business there.

MrEnigma··on Local Marketplace App Yardsale (YC S11) Launches Nationwide
Got excited about this, grabbed it for iPhone.

Launched it, got error that it can't connect to server. Will probably be deleted now. You got the one chance to get my attention, and it got blown.

Edit: I tried reconnecting 4-5 times, still failed.

Edit2: Reading the TechCrunch article, they want to take 10% from the seller at some point in the future? For a craigslist style thing? How does this make sense?

MrEnigma··on Retailer uses 3D QR codes and the Sun to time limit discounts
The box on the delivery made has some questionable spelling on it. There is a Team America joke in here somewhere.

http://i.imgur.com/BG7mxl.jpg

MrEnigma··on Without major changes, Thunderbolt for PCs is dead in the water
I read recently that TB on windows couldn't hot swap yet. Meaning you have to turn off the computer to get something to detect, that's pretty bad. But apparently will be fixed in future software updates.

TB is pretty great, the biggest downside I've seen are the cost and availability of cables ($50 from apple is the cheapest), and that devices are higher priced. However up until recently you couldn't even get the TB interface chips from Intel. Now that more are released and entering mainstream production, we should see a lot more devices, and maybe cheaper ones as well.

MrEnigma··on This Guy Got 4 Magnets Implanted In His Wrist To Hold His iPod Nano [video]
Warning, the video shows him putting them in at the beginning. Not just showing how cool it hooks on. Shows a decent amount of blood and incision.
MrEnigma··on Americans should hire remote sysadmins.
I work with a team that's distributed across the world. Most of us are in the US (split across the time zones), but a few in europe, and a few elsewhere as well.

I've found it's not all that big of a deal, much less than I thought it would be. However if there are issues/questions that arise you have to handle them fast, as your overlap in a day is just a few hours if that.

If the company has a hard time getting requirements out there, or the employee has an issue with getting 'stuck/blocked' all the time, then it's going to be a much bigger deal.

MrEnigma··on Light Table license now only $15. No excuses now.
This is great, signed up now. $15 is a no brainer, $50 gives me pause.

Does this mean their funding will drop drastically at first as everyone switches from $50 to $15?

MrEnigma··on Open Source Campfire plugin for iChat
Doesn't appear to be a binary available, only the source. I tried running it from Xcode, but looks like I'm missing some dependencies. I could track them down probably, but will probably just pass on it for now as it looks pretty beta.
MrEnigma··on Show HN: JSMin fork (allows Bootstrap's idiom)
Well that discussion is pretty crazy and very polarized.

JSMin guy thinks fixing it is stupid, and the bootstrap guy says that since it works in browsers it should work in JSMin.

So they've reached an impasse. Unfortunately emotions and strong words were used right away which polarizes the conversation.

Being completely pragmatic about it, it seems that bootstrap should probably change, instead of JSMin. But I don't think either will so both sides lose, and potentially make their tools available to a smaller audience.

MrEnigma··on The number of Ruby developers just increased by 20
I'd love something like this for someone who has already worked in web development. Super intense course to learn the ins and outs and pitfalls/strengths of a new language. That means you may be able to shorten it up as well.

I did a week long intensive course on Oracle DB optimization, and it's helped me more than probably anything else I've done. Transfer to general related db theory, and helps you understand how it all works at the core. Would love something like this for languages to switch/broad horizons.

MrEnigma··on Flutter (YC W12): The Startup That Wants To Put The World’s Webcams To Good Use
Skype/iChat video automatically mute my music.

The big thing for me will be trying to get past the webcam light being on all the time, and could something be recording?

They should really come up with filters that obfuscate people to some extent, but still pick up motion, then this would feel better...

MrEnigma··on Mike Daisey: Some Thoughts After The Storm
From his last post I didn't think he'd ever change his tune. It seemed like he had the backing of those in his profession, and he tried to spin it into an us vs. them situation.

Unfortunately the facts weren't on his side, and nor were others in his profession.

Ultimately this is the best response he could have given. Come clean. Although the couple of weeks of denial kind of eroded a lot of trust. However now it seems it was just an internal issue, and he's come to terms.

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