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lylejohnson··on What Happens to Older Developers?
He may have been referring to "libertarians" and not "liberals", but I'm not sure it really affects the GP post's point.
lylejohnson··on Atom
No, she's probably not going to be able to recover her lost work. What OP and others are trying to point out is that OS X has support for saving revisions to documents if application developers (like Microsoft) would just take advantage of it.
lylejohnson··on Ask HN: Help. I need to go away from here
> One of the problems is that you will find many of the 'enterprise' jobs that you feel will trap you are commonplace in a lots of countries - certainly here in the UK and I'm sure in America also. There are more jobs in startups in the USA but not so many as you might be hoping (even if you could get a VISA). My point is the grass is not always greener on the other side.

Reading sites like Hacker News on a regular basis can give you the impression that everyone in the U.S. lives in a big city and works for a startup. That's definitely not the case! --- although it may be easier to seek out those sorts of jobs here than it is in the EU; I wouldn't know.

lylejohnson··on Ask HN: Help. I need to go away from here
He said that he was in his third and final year (of University), and (I believe) lamenting the fact that most of the interesting things he's learned during that time were learned on side projects and not in his coursework.
lylejohnson··on Apparently It’s OK For iOS Apps To Ask For Your Apple ID And Password
Unless I'm misunderstanding your point, you seem to be ignoring the numerous third-party calendar iOS apps that access and manipulate your calendar. I'm using one called Fantastical, but there are many others.
lylejohnson··on Mother
Also the name of a song by The Police, also with decidedly negative sentiments.
lylejohnson··on Hack of Cupid Media dating website exposes 42 million plaintext passwords
I've used 1Password (a popular password manager for the Mac) for several years now. How could you "quite easily" hack those passwords, assuming that's what you're implying?
lylejohnson··on Why I Will Never Go Back to the United States
When I clicked through the link to this article, a window popped up asking me to sign a petition to reinstate Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. Given her recent vote in favor of the Patriot Act, that was an interesting warm-up act for the main article.
lylejohnson··on Denial-of-service tool targeting Healthcare.gov site discovered
Quoting from the Wikipedia article [1] on the same:

President Obama endorsed the nickname, saying, "I have no problem with people saying Obama cares. I do care."[2] Because of the number of "Obamacare" search engine queries, the Department of Health and Human Services purchased Google advertisements, triggered by the term, to direct people to the official HHS site.[3] In March 2012, the Obama reelection campaign embraced the term "Obamacare", urging Obama's supporters to post Twitter messages that begin, "I like #Obamacare because...".[4]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordab...

[2] http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20092578-503544.html

[3] http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1210/HHS_buys_ObamaCa...

[4] http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/217893-obam...

lylejohnson··on MacKenzie Bezos Writes Amazon Review for Jeff Bezos Biography
I don't believe any elementary school-aged kid could write an extensive book review like that. Not even Jeff Bezos' kid.
lylejohnson··on TuProlog: Making Prolog Ubiquitous
tuProlog does not offer an interface directly to C code. It's implemented in Java and does provide a decent interface to Java code. I suppose you could develop a JNI interface to your C library code, and then interface tuProlog with that, but that's admittedly a complicated approach.
lylejohnson··on TuProlog: Making Prolog Ubiquitous
We used tuProlog for rule-based intelligent agents in several applications and it worked pretty well, but its poor performance eventually led us to look for alternative implementations. That was about five years ago, though, and perhaps it has improved.
lylejohnson··on Ask HN: I found documents on the backseat of a taxi. Can I legally use them?
It depends on what information the document(s) contain and how OP uses that information, but yes, the person who lost them could certainly lose "something". When that Apple employee misplaced an iPhone prototype a few years ago, it wasn't the monetary value of the prototype itself that Apple was worried about; it was the market advantage they'd lose if their competitors discovered what they'd been working on.
lylejohnson··on Impress.js
A link to the Git repo:

https://github.com/bartaz/impress.js

lylejohnson··on NY Attorney General hits AirBnB with subpoena for user data
Because some addresses or locations in a city are more desirable than others?
lylejohnson··on Beyond passwords: New tools to identify humans
See also: DARPA's Active Authentication program (http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/I2O/Programs/Active_Authentica...).
lylejohnson··on Super Mario Kart Clone made with HTML5
Clickable link: http://mazeware.com/games/html5/m7/supercanvaskart.html
lylejohnson··on Ruby 1.8.7 retired
I was about to ask the same thing about Red Hat Enterprise Linux (or CentOS).
lylejohnson··on Warrant Canary
I always thought that the doomsday machine in "Dr. Strangelove" was an invention of Kubrick's. I had no idea that this was a real thing.
lylejohnson··on I Sold The Magazine, Too
Maybe he's just finding that after polishing his yachts and helicopters he doesn't have time to work on all these projects.
lylejohnson··on Announcing Online MS in Computer Science in Collaboration with Georgia Tech
I think the GMAT is only required for MBA programs. When I was admitted to Georgia Tech as an Aerospace Engineering graduate student in 1992, I didn't need the GMAT, just the GRE.
lylejohnson··on Bug 698544 – Background configuration is missing in terminal profile editor
I assume that one of the motivations for this guideline is to prevent submitters from editorializing their submissions by altering the original titles (e.g. "Idiotic developers close perfectly reasonable bug report").
lylejohnson··on How can we get Google Support?
As of this writing, there's still no explanation as to why this Google Group was shut down. Google may shut it down again later today. I hope OP moves quickly to archive the list's contents and get that mailing list hosted elsewhere!
lylejohnson··on Two Letters from Steve Jobs
This was my thought. Could he not have spared another second or two to express his condolences?
lylejohnson··on "How do I raise a boy not to be a rapist?"
The original title of the op-ed was "How do I raise a boy not to be a rapist?" but I see that they've since changed it to "How do you talk to your son about rape?"
lylejohnson··on Google Keep, a New Service for Taking Notes
To be clear (for those of us who don't always click through and actually read the articles), this isn't any sort of announcement from Google --- it's just the results of some sleuthing that hint at a future note-taking service.
lylejohnson··on My Amazon bestseller made me nothing
> Traditional publishers take something like 90%

The Pragmatic Programmers offer their authors 50% of the net. I was lucky enough to publish one book with them, and despite that book's anemic sales I made out pretty well. Cant recommend them enough to prospective authors.

lylejohnson··on Google Reader shutting down
Per the @reederapp Twitter feed, "Dont worry, Reeder wont die with Google Reader."

http://twitter.com/reederapp/status/311995748482945025

lylejohnson··on Poll: If you're in the US, What State Do You Live In?
I grew up there, but I guess that doesn't count.
lylejohnson··on A Most Peculiar Test Drive
See also his snarky reference to "electric-car acolytes" in the same paragraph. He seems to be a bit too careless in revealing his biases.
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