danielrmay

I find this very difficult to read. Just me?

This title is a little misleading. Microsoft Open Technologies has over 160 repos on GitHub: https://github.com/msopentech

Frustratingly there is very little technical information to be found on the website.

They're essentially saying "hey, here are some words we made up, now trust us, it works!" without delving into any real detail with examples.

How can we help these guys?

Can replicate for any of the endpoint links, not just /matches.

Chrome Windows Version 35.0.1916.153

It looks like it's just a hard save of the problems page.

When your lawyer tells you it is a strategic move.

Same thing here.

I then hit F5 and it told me I was in Germany.

What should we be looking for here? All I can see is a website selling coffee (albeit rather slickly).

Do you think this was a wise decision?

Is malware crapware?

Good effort, but you should go for sanitizing the user input before you go ahead and use it.

For example, if you enter "'/> Hellooooo!" into your textarea, you can see the result shows the text "Helloooo!'/>" being shown next to the QR code for "'/>".

This is hugely important when writing web applications - you can read a bit more from this stack overflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2794137/sanitizing-user-i...

You may also want to read up about XSS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting

EDIT: I realise this was just a small, simple, learning project, but it's important to learn and be mindful of these considerations.

Why can't you be a kid whilst still enjoying technology?

You make out as if the gifts outlined here (e.g. Arduino, Lego Technic, etc) are going to strip him of his childhood. I'd argue they'd improve creativity and give a sense of accomplishment ("hey, I made that!!").

"(Though you shouldn't really buy an iPhone 5c, IMO)"

Why?

This was not the salary for the internship - this is the salary of the position that this guy was about to be offered -- after his internship

The bank referenced in the article is Bank Of America Merrill Lynch.

London is different in this manner - an entry level software developer position (at a consultancy, bank, hedge-fund, etc) can go from 35k-45k.

Outside of London (as I'm sure you're aware), this could be offered as a senior developer salary.

And don't forget, if your regulations are too difficult to conform to, these banks and hedge funds will simply move operations to somewhere less stringent.

I work in that industry, and that's not quite the case any more. Bonuses for junior analysts can reach up to around 50% (which nearly every other profession could never expect), but they would never exceed base salary.

Anybody saying otherwise has been reading too many tabloids.

You can find out more details about salaries in this area by using a site like glassdoor.com. This 100%+ bonus culture is simply not true (now).

The intern was set to make £45,000 / pa (not including bonuses) as an Analyst, but I suppose it opens doors.

Unfortunately the majority of us don't get to be so picky when choosing a job - especially when we've just been laid off so suddenly.

I feel this would be the best way forward.

404'd.

This article outlines (one of) the biggest problems with schooling here in the UK - the source material for a Computing GCSE exists, but no schools are willing to pick it up, run with it and offer it to their students.

This isn't because there aren't enough kids interested, it's because very few schools offer the course.

So why aren't schools offering a Computing GCSE? My speculation is that it's still pretty new and the prospect of re-training teachers into being able to teach this stuff outweighs the number of kids that would pick the subject.

Right now, by not offering this in more of our schools, we are actively discouraging any kids who do have a genuine interest in development and design because we're locking them into learning how to make elements on powerpoint slides animate successfully, instead of the creative development encouragement they need, and, well, deserve.

I agree that the concept of displaying "he" or "she" would indeed be an improvement, but I feel as though the only way to get over the awkwardness of the form questions you defined would be to go through some kind of "profile builder".

This obviously takes the app to a new place - now talking about some sort of profile system - this would obviously be a huge feature to add with a load of other implications.

Great idea, novel execution.

However - you might want to stick some validation or a moderation step in: the first in the list is currently "necenzurat is looking for help with getting laid. In return, they can offer their help with massage.".

Unless, of course, that is the real underlying intention of the app...

EDIT: After a short think, I think it would be nice to use a similar auto-complete "tag" entry system a la Stack Overflow. This would make entering any number of skills a great deal easier than just a text field.

I think we can all agree that it's both a very difficult and a very large task to maintain an application with 500 million active users, let alone continue innovation and expansion.

Testing can only ever go so far - bugs and vulnerabilities exist everywhere, even in Facebook.

Did you read the auction description? It appears the owner is taking the auction down anyway due to resale being against the google glass ToS.