I don't use Facebook as much, but I follow a similar strategy for other things, like GMail. Instead of a different browser, I set up a 'site-specific-browser', like Fluid[1], for each such website.
Aside from the benefit of not staying logged in to your email/FB/Twitter when browsing random websites[2], this also lets you treat constantly open web-sites as legitimate apps in your switcher, frees up those permanent tabs on your browser, and provides for features like an unread count badge on the application icon when you switch apps.
Does anyone know if the "Message from Earth"[1] sent towards Gliese 581c can conceivably be received at this new planet?
If there is intelligent life in that system capable of detecting and transmitting signals of that form (NOT assuming that by any stretch), a response is due in ~2049.
While we're on that topic, wouldn't such a hypothetical civilization already have discovered other electromagnetic radiation from our system by now? Or does it have to be a focused high-power signal as this one?
Note that this specific fix doesn't need you to open/monkey-patch ActiveRecord::Base, you can just do ActiveRecord::Base.send(:attr_accessible, nil) in an initializer.
Thanks for the web-app security pointers in the post: the RoR security guide[1] and the OWASP Top 10[2]. These should be required reading for anyone making a public web application.
Here's something that illustrates the sort of thing you can do in this game: a 12x5 LED display built in-game[1]. Reminded me of the Dwarf Fortress Computer[2].
I agree with everyone else: try to get your old job back. Throw away the 'it will look ridiculous' idea - none of this will matter in a couple of months.
If they were disappointed to see you go, they will welcome your return.
As another person who has had a similar experience before, and whose immigration status is tied to employment, I can imagine how distressing this must be[1]. I hope the general outpouring of support on HN eases your mind a bit! Think it through clearly and move on.
1: In fact, I'm pretty much in the same situation as you were: accepted an offer with a bay area company and undergoing the visa process, and this post does give me pause. I'll respect your decision to not name names though.
You move your finger over the stock chart, and it reads out the X and Y values to you. Eg: "May 28 10, 256.17" (i.e, on May 28 2010, the stock was trading at $256.17). You can scan the chart with your finger to get the whole thing described.
That's quite a touching account. On a whim, I enabled VoiceOver on my iPhone (I'm sighted), and I must say I'm quite blown away.
I recommend you try it if you aren't aware of this feature. It's easily enabled in the system Settings app (look for Accessibility). Just remember that when VoiceOver is active icons/buttons will require double taps instead of single taps, and you need to use triple-touch to scroll in menus or between home screens.
I'm sure that as a sighted person with no context I'm completely missing any nuance in the way this feature is implemented, but even handicapped so, it is quite impressive.
"In reality, for a vaccine to be effective, the portion of the population that needs to receive that vaccination is significantly less than 100%."
I'm curious to know if there have been results that show what sort of percentages of vaccination are needed to be safe from specific diseases. I presume this will vary between diseases as well as demographics.
Part of me wants to say 'Cut them some slack, they just put their work-in-progress code on Github like they promised!'[1], but I understand that most of the criticism stems from caring enough about the project to want it to succeed. At this point, they should be thankful for the attention and the guidance more experienced people are providing for free.
The question is, do the problems in the code establish beyond doubt that this team is not capable of delivering a final product that will see some level of acceptance? I really hope not.
1: I'm assuming that - I would hope they didn't think this was release-ready material.
Regarding decompiling Flash-to-iPhone apps, CS5's iPhone app packaging feature produces binary executables[1], not embedded SWFs - so they should not be vulnerable to decompiling.
"Is the Flash Player runtime bundled along with the application?
No. iPhone applications built with Flash Platform tools are compiled into standard, native iPhone executable packages and there is no runtime interpreter that could be used to run Flash byte-code within the application."
Though this library isn't really Rails-specific, it has a bunch of self-contained ruby files, good to learn about the style of doing things elsewhere in rails.
Examples: Array#uniq_by, String#pluralize, Numeric#hours, etc.
Aside from the benefit of not staying logged in to your email/FB/Twitter when browsing random websites[2], this also lets you treat constantly open web-sites as legitimate apps in your switcher, frees up those permanent tabs on your browser, and provides for features like an unread count badge on the application icon when you switch apps.
[1] http://fluidapp.com/
[2] Obviously, this means that features that rely on you being constantly logged in to FB/Twitter (those Like and Tweet buttons) won't work.