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If you are feeling the way that James does, that the magic is gone... I encourage you to try creating things in a new domain.

Try making music, creating videos, making interactive LED art, building robots, or fabricating toys.

The tools we have today suddenly make it far easier and more fun to experiment with a new craft. What was once daunting is now approachable.

Start by using an AI-powered tool—without shame—to make something superficially 'cool'. Yes, we all know you used a 'cheat code' but that's okay! Now you get to dive in and deconstruct what you created. Tear it apart and learn how and why it works. Go as deep as your motivation carries you. Experiment, hack, and modify.

Just as in software, there will be many many layers of abstraction that you can work through and learn about. Many of them are overflowing with magic and sources of inspiration, I promise.

The gears of capitalism will likely continue to aggressively maximize efficiency wherever possible, and this comes with both benefits and very real costs (some of which are described James's post).. but outside the professional sphere, it appears to me that we are entering a new hobbyist / hacker / creative renaissance. If you can find a way to release enough anxiety and let the curious and creative energy back in, opportunities start showing up everywhere.

Cranking out open source tools one day, endurance racing in IMSA LMP2 the next — I love it. Condolences about the DNF, but truly an impressive run nonetheless (especially the first-lap recovery). Kudos to you and your team.

What is the wholesale source for the gift cards and CD keys?

This is a common argument for open source software, but in practice it isn't particularly true, and it isn't true for LLMs either. Openness is a value of its own, but the linkage to safety is tenuous at best (and false at worst). Many significant security breaches have been due to flaws in open source packages and software.

I'm all in favor of more openness (in LLMs and otherwise), but pushing a verifiably false narrative isn't a great way to get what you want in the long run.

You're not alone in this. It might be a good idea to delete or edit this post; As currently written, it provides instructions and encouragement to make these connections. :)

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The smoothness is a huge improvement, but touch-latency and scrolling physics are still huge problem areas, even in Jelly Bean on Nexus 7 hardware.

In testing, I've enjoyed the Nexus 7 form-factor, but the iPad's responsiveness and scroll behavior are such a relief when I switch back. It was immediately noticeable, even when beta-testing an app on my old iPad 1 today.

Fair enough, and that's why I attempted to tone down the message with my statement of respect. I've followed Cody's work with interest for years.

I do stand by my general point, though. I think it's worth thinking about how we represent ourselves to the general public. The word "Hacker" has an unfortunate negative reputation, and I don't think messages like this help. It really jumped out at me when I opened the article (otherwise I would have kept this nit to myself).

Was it necessary to wear a t-shirt that reads "It's fun to use learning for evil!" in the photo shoot for a Forbes spread? This doesn't help the negative perception of the word "hacker". :-/

All due respect to the work you're doing – I'm a former member of the security industry myself (worked on the IPS engine at TippingPoint).

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Not a typo. Ronny Conway is Ron Conway's son.

Good point; I may have replied too hastily.

It's relatively straightforward to use CFUUIDCreate as a building block for an application-specific UUID, but you're correct in stating that the API itself simply returns a new, pseudorandom UUID.

Such a thing has existed since iOS 2.0 (CFUUIDCreate [1]), and Apple's updated docs on UDID specifically recommend using CFUUIDCreate. The problem is that an application-specific UUID doesn't address all current use cases for UDID. Specifically, ad networks that support Cost-Per Install (CPI) need to use an identifier that crosses the application boundary.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/CoreF...

Push notifications use a device token that is separate from the UDID. An app can only get access to the device token if the user enables push notifications for that app.

EDIT: This is in reply to a deleted question about the impact of an inevitable commercial spacecraft failure.

Great question. In my mind, I compare this to the stigmatization of nuclear power. The combination of the public's lack of trust in science, along with the media's ceaseless quest for sensational (and often fear-based) stories has led to an overly-cautious approach to spaceflight (IMO). This has severely impacted our progress in space exploration; 43 years after the moon landing, we have no active human exploration programs outside the ISS. Embarrassing.

I'm all for improving flight safety and avoiding needless loss of life, but I also believe in taking risks to achieve important goals. Space exploration is worth the risk.

For commercial satellite launches, I see relatively little impact. Existing launch vehicles do not have a 100% success track record, and customers will cover the loss with insurance.

The biggest concern is with manned flights. I'm not really qualified to predict the outcome, but I really hope that pragmatism will prevail. As engineers, we do the best we can, but failures are inevitable. We simply do our best to learn from the failure and take those learnings back to the lab on the next iteration.

As a former engineer on the Atlas V launch vehicle program, I'm so excited to see the commercialization of spaceflight come to fruition. The latest projections I've seen have the Dragon and Falcon 9 coming in at 20% of the price of an equivalent Atlas V / Delta IV (EELV) launch. Comparative Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) costs are even lower than that. (I'd love if any SpaceX employees can comment further on any of this with more detail.)

As I've seen firsthand, the waste in typical defense contractor programs is obscene – it's so great to see someone doing something about it. Hopefully with much lower cost to orbit, we'll see a revitalization of the commercial launch market as well.

ASLR is enabled, yes.

ASLR actually makes ret2libc much more difficult to pull off (esp. on 64-bit platforms), because the location of libc.so itself is randomized.

Return-to-libc (a.k.a. ret2libc) is usually used to bypass NX-bit / DEP, but NX was disabled for level04 - the solution does not require return-to-libc.

Nice.. looking forward to the meetup.

In the meantime, if anyone wants tips/tricks or just to chat about it, feel free to contact me (email in my profile). I captured the flag late last last week.

FWIW, Stripe has a campfire room setup for this as well - http://stripe.com/campfire.

Start working really closely with someone who is a user.

I believe the genesis of this line of quotes is Walt Disney.

http://startupquote.com/post/859040744

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I presume you're saying this firmly tongue-in-cheek? ..or are you commenting that Altair Basic truly is a feature-not-a-product and that MS did well to move into the OS realm?

Optimize for your personal learning style.

I learn best by immersion and example, so I just picked a project and started building. I looked at prominent open source iOS apps and constantly referred to Apple iOS SDK docs, Apple example code, and several prominent books on iOS development (Hillegass, et al).

If you're more of a methodical or visual learner, use the iTunes U course videos.

How do you accomodate merging changes to XIB files within your VCS? It's already pain enough to deal with the Xcode project file. I ended up tearing out all use of IB in my large project after spending too many hours manually merging XIBs.

If I'm "doing it wrong" and there's a way to materially speed up my dev flow, please enlighten me. I can't wait. :)

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To me, the biggest news here is the 1QFY12 guidance of $37 billion. Guidance of 30% above their best recorded quarter ever. Wow.

I haven't had a chance to verify this myself, but according to Marco, this does not actually avoid the iCloud sync:

https://twitter.com/#!/marcoarment/status/124587437799374848

See Marco's post. Apple has made it clear that anything outside of Library/Caches/, tmp/, or the app bundle will be backed up to iCloud. I have personally witnessed this with Documents/ (as expected) and even Library/Application Support/ (which I hoped would be safe, but is not).

There is no current safe place to save local data that should not be backed up to iCloud.