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That's why Privacy Guard from CyanogenMod is so useful.

(Actually it's called AppOps and it's from Google but it's an hidden feature on stock Android)


Looks like not many people knew it. If it's available on Android, FB should ask user's permission instead of force them to accept. If it's for the sake of a feature, when user declines, only need to disable that feature.


To support the fact it's mainly one guy: https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/graphs/contributors

His name is Andreas Rumpf and he is really impressive.


Very impressive, but not sure if one should depend on tools with a Bus factor of one.


Yea, that's one of the most impressive 25-year-olds (?) I've ever seen... :)


This is hilarious:

"If you have Java enabled for your hosting account, it will conflict with Rails."

"Currently, Rails version 1.1.6 is supported in the default directory, while Rails 2.2.2 is considered an alternate "development" environment"

etc...


Yeah, I mean, that's not really "supporting" Rails in any meaningful sense to start with, so its hardly significant that they are ending "support".


Do you have some stats? I'm interested in the "TLS Compression" part (e.g. can I remove the breach-mitigation-rails gem from my project)


The compression-related issue in the TLS protocol is known as CRIME. BREACH actually applies to HTTP response body compression. So, chances are that you should continue to use the breach-mitigation-rails gem, even if your server does not support compression at the TLS level. (Disclaimer: I am not familiar with this gem; just inferring its purpose from the name.)


It says €399.00, but then €414.00 for tax and shipping in Europe.

I changed from "Ah, same as a Nexus 5" to "Wow, that's two Nexus 4!".


€399 including tax + €15 shipping = €414 final price


I never saw it but I think that would be a really good idea, I would love to "archive", "mute" and my facebook wall, twitter, etc... If that could work as GMail that would be perfect.

I'm the kind of reading every post on Twitter and Facebook and unfollowing/muting people that post too much useless things so that would be perfect for me.


array_sum_of_1_2_3_4_5();

(Added in PHP 6)


the funny thing is, with proper abuse of __call you can almost get that to work: https://gist.github.com/kennethrapp/328b6bd1bda8a8f94092


That's not funny. Horrifying, maybe, but not funny.

Edit: Strike 'maybe'. I looked at it again and it's definitely horrifying. I saved it anyway, though; Halloween's only a few weeks off, and I think I shall print it out and stick it on the wall of my cube next to the PHP hammer and the "periodic" table of Perl 6 operators.


kudos. almost as cool as the cpp template hack to compute area based on part of the source code 'ascii art' size. (which I can't find anymore. googlefu--)


Made me laugh :)


Here is the text, but the main part is the image:

Are you a Developer or Designer curious about your potential salary in different countries? You’ve come to the right place.

Below are some averages of yearly salaries per country. As it seems, the best paying countries for Web Developers are Australia (87K $), Japan (86K $), the US (76K $) and Canada (60K $), while the lowest paying countries are India (12K $), Malaysia (8K $) and Philippines (7K $). Graphic Designers seem to be most appreciated in Switzerland (96K $), followed by Australia (64K $). The numbers jump quite higher when talking about Senior positions, as well as for Software Developers in comparison with Web Developers.

Salaries of web developers in India, the Philippines, USA and around the world

If you are considering the startup life and you are attracted by popular startup hubs, the numbers look a bit different. Sillicon Valley’s Developers have an average salary of 119K $ per year, while London’s Developers make 79K $ per year and Berlin’s Senior Developers reach on average 80K $ per year.

And of course, you might consider working for one of the most appealing tech companies at the moment. Seems like the best paying ones are Google with 128K $ for Software Engineers base salary per year, followed by Facebook (124K $) and Apple (114K $).

So where are you going to head to? splinter.me is here to help you make the leap by keeping you in the companies radar for work opportunities that fit your skills and interests. So don’t forget to create your profile :)

Join splinter.me, it's 100% free


What would be more interesting is to see a comparison on take-home pay, that you can actually spend. The numbers don't seem very accurate at all on the site. Furthermore it's sort of beside the point : you're not working for money, you're working for value.

Eu generally has 50%+ tax rates, and a ~20% VAT on anything you want to spend, combining (roughly) to between 60% and 70% of your income disappearing in govt. coffers.

California seems to have slightly under 50% taxation, combined with 4.7% VAT. Which combines to 53-55% taxation.

So US is not just well-paid, but you actually get to keep a bigger part of that. From a $76k pay you could have ~$30k disposable income after rent (outside of SF proper), while the $50k in the EU, you'd be lucky to get $15k disposable income after rent out of that (and that's ignoring that tech stuff is more expensive to start with before the tax even comes into the picture).


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