Cherry picking based on which engineers are around is much more about our daily releases. Everything checked into trunk on Sunday will go out on Tuesday. But if I've requested a diff be merged for the Wednesday release, it won't happen unless I've told request_bot that I'm around to support my changes. This also means that if there are merge conflicts, the engineers who wrote the patches will be there to help resolve them.
The type of token isn't what at's issue here, it's the method of obtaining one. OAuth 2.0 doesn't make a distinction between bearer and HMAC tokens during the authori[s]ation phase, which is what this article and discussion is about.
By the by, bearer tokens over SSL are not a great option given the lax enforcement of SSL policy by many actors in the domain. HMAC tokens provide a much higher level of security (and, contrary to your implication, are specified alongside bearer tokens with the OAuth 2.0 specification).
You can buy the reference design, or get an Arduino+USB host shield. You can get an Arduino anywhere, I'm not sure if their firmware will fit on a smaller AVR like the 328p. You can get the USB shield from Oleg's site directly (circuitsathome.com).
Sparkfun sells a cheaper version of Oleg's shield, although it seems to be out of stock right now: http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9947. Note that this shield doesn't work out of the box with the mega 1280/2560 boards because its SPI pins are located elsewhere compared to the smaller 168/328p Arduino boards like the Deicimila. You can do a hardware hack if you really want, but long story short, just get Oleg's shield.
edit: I've had a look at the code, and I can confirm this will work fine with either Oleg's shield or the Sparkfun shield, on a standard Arduino. So price-wise I'd say about $45 plus shipping from SF when they get their shields back in stock.
The site it links to, however, is less than useful for English speakers. (I think the site might be down under the load? I've been getting intermittent errors.)
Dead giveaway: the huge row of generators on the south side of the building. I'm having trouble identifying the other stuff because the photo is so overexposed.
Think it depends on the cost. Got mine for $99 which it is certainly worth! The 15% Uber discount makes up for that by itself. Would be harder to justify at $500.
Wow, $99 sure seems worth it. Is that price no longer in effect? From what I've read, the cheapest one could get a membership now is $200 with a referral.
Because that's how Tom dresses. He's not a "corporate guy" but manages the team who runs our data centers and was directly involved in building this one.
Amir Michael who worked on the hardware team said, "The utility provides us with AC voltage which we then convert to DC very close to the motherboard in the power supply. Our goal was to bring the high voltage as close as possible to the load to minimize IR losses. We could do an efficient AC –DC conversion in the rack and then distribute DC to the individual servers but that would mean several feet of low voltage conductors which would be made from large copper bars and a would have higher IR losses."
Am I mean for just not caring what's currently trending on Twitter? Feels like a similar problem to showing ads on blogs. I'm there for the content and the ad has to be exceptionally good in order to get any of my attention.
Because I am an engineer and I battle distractions all day, I have always thought of hashtags as Twitter's dumbest feature. Back when Twitter was new it took me weeks to understand just why people were complaining about spammers. How could you be spammed on Twitter? I asked myself. Shouldn't you just unfollow the spammer and get on with your life?
But since then I have had the occasion to witness marketers using Twitter. And I have learned that, to a marketer, hashtags are pure heroin. You get to eavesdrop on strangers discussing products. You can count references to your product, and to your competitors' products. So what if this activity bears the same relationship to actually getting out of the building that playing Rock Band does to a real blues jam? It's a rush, and it comes in optimal tiny doses like Snackwell cookies, and it almost feels like productive work. From what I can tell a majority of the marketers in the world have Tweetdeck open all the time and wince reflexively every time anybody on Twitter says anything bad about their pet trademarks. To ask them to do otherwise is like asking a novelist to stop compulsively reloading their Amazon sales rank over and over.
Yeah, folks at my company follow discussions about our products on Twitter and it doesn't matter whether the person uses a hashtag or not. What you need is a distinct product name though, to only discover relevant tweets.
Hashtags make it easier, sometimes people don't provide enough context or use the same words you would for a product or service, if people start using a common hashtag it makes it a lot easier.
An example of this that I used a bit in my thesis (admittedly not product based) was the #ausvotes hashtag for the Australian elections. There were plenty of Tweets that would have been very hard to identify as related to the election without that hashtag because they were mostly thoughts or opinions without context.
For a while now I've thought it would make sense to create 'relevant trends' for users - take the people you follow and the people they follow, and generate 10 trending topics From those people's tweets. Trending topics would become so much more useful.
I find the trends offensive; as they seem to suggest that it'd be better if I talked about a certain topic, which is often terribly banal and uninteresting. Mostly because I believe the last thing the world needs is yet another mechanism to shove popular culture into people's faces: if it was so good, it wouldn't have to be hyped as much.
