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Link to the code, because the article doesn't have it in a proper link: http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/cpp/threads/4409...

Eh. Didn't get an interview.

Whatever. I'll apply for the next cycle.

I disagree. For most people, it's fine and all to just go with the flow. Not me. I have an affliction that, statistically, I commit suicide if I try to go with the flow.

I got damn close, too. It would've been really easy to go through with it. I didn't go through with it, and I got help. I'm now actively making my life better each day. I am pursuing the direction I want to go in life, and I am happier than I've ever been. Have I had setbacks? Of course, I can't predict everything. Doesn't mean I'm going to abandon this. I know that this is the right direction for me, but it's not the default direction.

What? There's not going to BE a portal 3...

However, this may be the Portal 2 Episode 1 game mechanic.

Accepted, going to be flying in from melbourne, Fl.

iOS is a free operating system. You are only paying for the device.

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I'd love to read this, but there does not appear to be a way to read the full article on an iPad.

posting to hn probably accounts for much of their advertising revenue.

Selection.

I tried to buy some Def Leppard the other day. Couldn't find any.

Basically, instead of implementing a carrot for not pirating music, the RIAA wants a bigger stick.

It would be far easier for them to just implement a carrot. Make it fucking easy for me to pay for music that I can enjoy whenever I want to, on whatever device I like.

Heroku, but close enough.

That's actually the first thing I checked once I saw the press release. It mentions that they're putting EPEAT Gold certification on their eligible products, and I'm curious if ineligible products means some of the accessories they sell, and that all their computers meet EPEAT gold.

The retina macbook is rated EPEAT gold.

http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/

because snow leopard did things better than lion (much lighter footprint, for one thing).

sudo make me a sandwich

returns what you'd expect.

view source shows that he has an html document embedded in the jpeg.

Apparently, the jpeg format allows this.

> Honestly, all malware "isn't really that bad" by the metrics you're using. Maybe it sends spam. Maybe it hogs your CPU. A few will crash your machine or break it in some obvious way. This one happened to steal your personal data (and attempt to steal that of your contacts').

I was thinking more of "this will not steal my credit card" (unless you keep that info in your address book) type of malware. But, yes. I get your point.

As far as malware goes, this isn't really that bad. (EDIT: it doesn't e.g. steal your credit card info [unless you keep that info in your contacts list])

It's simply an app that uploads your address book to a remote server. Up until recently, it was considered industry standard to do that.

The only thing this app does different is that the server then sends SMS messages to the numbers it uploads from your address book.

All this really is showing is that Apple should've made iOS from the beginning ask the user for permission before allowing an app to access the address book. After iOS 6, this app won't do anything.

> The main reason no new nuclear power plants have been built in the United States in 30 years is that they have proven to be poor investments

Uh... no. The main reason no new nuclear power plants have been built in the US is because 3 mile island and chernobyl scared the shit out of people.

Both of those incidents were caused by people going outside the safety protocols. Nuclear power, just like anything else, is VERY dangerous if you ignore safety.

It is legal to control model aircraft with ham radio if you have a ham license.

Forget which part of the law says that, but it's one of the things you learn about when studying for that test.

As I understand it, even if you don't change the actual binary, changing the meta info still requires another review.

(video)

Was expecting a (written) post from the blip.tv folks on how to do hammock-driven development. Oh well.

There's a TF2 mod that is kinda like that.

You start the game, and have 2 minutes to create defenses. After that, it's a normal game of CTF.

I forget what it's called though.

How much longer until he gets a cease and desist from apple? (Or is emulation legal?)

No.

Even if you deserve to be 'held back', you get what's called a 'social promotion'.

In 8th grade, there was this big project we (each student) had to do in order to 'pass' 8th grade. The teachers all told us that if we didn't do it, we'd fail 8th grade, but still go on to high school as a 'social promotion'.

I actually had several friends who decided to not do that project, because nothing bad would happen to them if they didn't do it.

I'm making a clone of the game ataxx [1] for iOS. (It's my excuse to learn core graphics, and some AI design)

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

looked through your comment history long enough to determine that you aren't a troll.

Not everything on HN has to be about startups. (This isn't "Startup news"). HN just is about things that are interesting to hackers.

Seeing that technology is helping to bring a stolen device back to someone is interesting to hackers.

s/beer/soda/

(for those of us who are under the legal drinking age and dislike coffee)

This isn't searching without pagerank. (As far as I know, blekko uses pagerank)

It's just telling the search engine to ignore the first X results, which still relies on the pagerank algorithm.

Searching without pagerank would be similar to using a search engine pre-google.

Not that impressive.

Several people here have already linked to midas.

Personally, I've done part of this to my dorm, and it's cool, but still not impressive considering all that and more was done some 7 years ago with midas.