Every Debate On Pausing AI

    SUPPORTER: America needs to start talking to China to come up with a bilateral agreement to pause AI. The agreement would need to be transparent, mutually enforceable, and…

    OPPONENT: We can’t unilaterally pause AI! China would destroy us!

    SUPPORTER: As I said, we need to start negotiating a bilateral agreement so that both sides will…

“I don’t like firing people!” – interview with Ian Ippolito, the CEO of RentACoder

I’d like to indroduce the interview with Mr. Ian Ippolito, founder and CEO of the largest online job board and outsource project systems registrar – RentACoder. Mr. Ippolito kindly agreed to answer some questions about RentACoder, competitors and business in common, Web 2.0, site upgrages and enhancements, ongoing plans and future innovations. So here it is.

Hi, my name is Pavel, and I used to work at RentACoder as a coder (my coder screen name is uncleedik). Nowadays I’ve stepped away from outsource coding, but RentACoder remains one of my favorite outsource project system. So I’ve read all the info about RentACoder and yourself at the site, but I’d like to ask some additional questions. Well, I’d like to start with this one: was the idea of creation of RentACoder a new business decision or the promising idea that transformed into business?

It was a new business decision. I ran Planet-source-code.com in 2001 and was receiving many paid requests for me (as the webmaster) to help people…more than I can handle. I realized that this could be a whole new business and that was the inspiration for the site.

Games Workshop

On my first day in Berlin I found a store. I saw a lot of stores, but that one was special, because of its show-windows. The scene of a big fight between two armies was shown there:

Confirmed by ASUS: Eee PC RAM will be Replaceable

There’s been a lot of talk on the forums about whether or not the RAM in the Eee PC will or won’t be replaceable. We even reported recently that the RAM wouldn’t be replaceable. We were wrong!

I now can confirm, thanks to ASUS, that the RAM is indeed replaceable. There will be one slot, and it can be fitted to 1gb maximum memory. Great news for many of the readers out there who were sincerely worried about not being able to upgrade.

[Tutorial] "Unlock" your iPhone with SuperSim

Warning! Proceed at your own risk! Your provider can block your subscription!

If your carrier SIM card is not V1 this method will NOT work, because U CAN'T get Ki number from chip! Bassicly V1 SIM cards are at least 7 years "old" SIMs. U CAN'T know for sure if your SIM is V1 ,V2 or V3 before u try to extract Ki with WORONSCAN software(download below). If Woronscan can't extract Ki number, your SIM IS NOT V1, and U CAN NOT proceed!

SuperSim DON'T work on iPhones with 04.13.03_G and 04.04.05_G basebands

Thanks to Vladimir_CDI,ozbimmer

For start U will need:

oDesk = eSlavery 2.0?

I first learned about oDesk when listening to Michael Arrington at the Future of Web Apps summit in September. I decided to take a more in-depth look a this web application. What I saw scared me. In fact, I wonder if oDesk is eSlavery 2.0?

TextSize (font-size): EM vs %

Don’t use em for font-size. Use %.

Usually 1em=100%.

Create a model:

Flash 8 Version of the Modal Pop-up Desaturation Technique by Alistar McLeod — Source Available

I saw the sweet Flex2/Flash 9 version of the "Fade to Gray Modal Window Flex Effect" by Alistar McLeod on the Adobe Consulting blog and really enjoyed it. I thought I would give it a whirl in Flash 8 using a desaturation formula I dug up on chattyfig. I used the same sort of interface as Alistar for some continuity - nice effect Alistar. Thanks for the idea.

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You can get the source here.