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Submission + - Are you smart enough to work at a start-up? (news.com.au) 1

johnsnails writes: EVER fancied yourself the next Mark Zuckerberg or David Karp?

Well, here's your chance to shine.

Sydney-based tech company Bigcommerce is recruiting engineers to work in their inner-city warehouse offices, fitted out with ping pong tables, Xboxes and nerf guns in true start-up vibe.

The only thing standing in your way is solving the ridiculously difficult riddle pictured above.

Once cracked, the code will generate a phone number that leads to a "batphone" in their Sydney offices.

Submission + - Kevin Rudd quits as leader as Tony Abbott storms to victory.

johnsnails writes: KEVIN Rudd has conceded defeat to Tony Abbott in the election and said he will not recontest the Labor leadership. Mr Rudd called on the nation to unite behind Mr Abbott as prime minister. “As Prime Minister of Australia I wish him well now in the high office of Australian prime minister.” “Tonight is the time to unite as the great Australian nation. Because whatever our politics may be we are all first and foremost Australian.

Submission + - Girl, 11, has higher IQ than Einstein (news.com.au)

johnsnails writes: THE smartest person in Britain isn't an Oxbridge professor or BBC boffin, it's an 11-year-old girl with huge aspirations.
Cerys Cooksammy-Parnell scored the maximum of 162 on a Mensa IQ test in July, ranking her smarter than Einstein and Stephen Hawking, the Wall St Journal reports.

Submission + - The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of PHP (php.net) 2

johnsnails writes: The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.5.0. This release includes a large number of new features and bug fixes. The key features of PHP 5.5.0 include:
  • Added generators and coroutines.
  • Added "finally" keyword.
  • Added simplified password hashing API.
  • Added support for constant array/string dereferencing.
  • Added Class Name Resolution As Scalar Via "class" Keyword
  • Added support for using empty() on the result of function calls and other expressions
  • Added support for non-scalar Iterator keys in foreach
  • Added support for list in foreach
  • Added Zend Opcache extension and enable building it by default.
  • The GD library has been upgraded to version 2.1 adding new functions and improve existing functionality.
  • A lot more improvements and fixes

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/what-to-expect-from-php-5-5/

Submission + - Researchers hack Google Australia headquarters building (news.com.au)

johnsnails writes: RESEARCHERS have managed to easily hack the building management system of Google's Sydney headquarters.

The researchers from security firm Cylance were able to obtain the password for the control system for the waterfront Pyrmont office, where it could access the system that controls alarms and other building services.

Submission + - Yii 2 is now available for public preview at GitHub (yiiframework.com)

johnsnails writes: We are very pleased to announce that Yii 2 is now available for public preview at GitHub. This is a major milestone during the Yii 2 development which was started more than two years ago and has since undergone complete rewrite.

Note that Yii 2 is still under heavy development. We may introduce significant changes without prior notices. So please do not use it for production.

http://www.yiiframework.com/news/71/yii-2-public-preview-available/

http://www.yiiframework.com/forum/index.php/topic/42967-yii-2-public-preview-available/

We sincerely invite you to review and play around the code, and give us feedback. We also welcome you to participate in developing Yii 2.

Bug

Submission + - Facebook tries to takeover the world with a redirection bug (news.com.au)

johnsnails writes: Some of the biggest news sites in the world disappeared today when Facebook took over the internet with a redirection bug.

Visitors to sites such as The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, the Gawker network, NBC News and News.com.au were immediately transferred to a Facebook error page upon loading their intended site.

Submission + - Dozens suspended in Harvard University cheat scandal (news.com.au)

johnsnails writes: AROUND 60 students at Harvard University have been suspended and others disciplined in a mass cheating scandal at the elite college, the campus newspaper reports.

The Harvard Crimson quoted an email from Faculty of Arts and Sciences dean Michael Smith that said more than half of the cases heard by administrators in the scandal, which erupted last year, had resulted in suspension orders.

Programming

Submission + - What do you think of this poem my computer nerd friend wrote for his girlfriend 2

johnsnails writes: My friend wrote this poem for his new girlfriend. The whole poem is full of programming and computer references. I wanted to ask the /. community what they thought of the references and any mistakes he has made (or kudos where due). He will be reading your replies!

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My love for you is dynamic and compiled on the run. Never will a
compile time bug stop us even trying. Just in time is the way we
compile.

Our interface is love, polymorphic in every way, always constrained by
Ilove (I love, the interface name for love by convection adding an "I"
turns it into "I love" lol)

I'll catch your exceptions and never let them bubble away. Will you be
the code the completes my abstract heart?

Like garbage collection I will take out the trash for you. I'll manage
our memories and create more than enough, never losing even one. Never
will there be a pointer to a memory of ours that can't be found.

I walked our stack and couldn't find a trace of any leak, my love for
you is on the heap, it's not going away anytime soon.

I tried redefining our love but it has already been declared, I love you

They said I was object orientated, your more than an object, your my
script to happiness

I tired reading ur past but got an out of bounds, I incremented the
pointer and saw your future, I'll always be here with you

Love was undefined so I just set it to you and I

We break and point to look at the locals, and see what's in our
hearts, their the same reference destined to be linked together
forever.

I did and extern on the entry to my heart so you can always find it

My manifest has you all over it, there's no denying your in my heart
through and through

I overrode our destructor and will never release our memories, our
love will never be lost

When we were constructed I started an infinite loop, no one else has
control, our love will never end

I'm asynchronous, i'll call you back all the time

When that event hit us from a different thread, we just synchronised
our hearts and kept on loving

Tell me my bugs and I'll comment them out for you

The message loop is full of one thing, you

Ajax called to say json had a message. It was I love you

I love you like jquery loves the dom.
I love you like knockout loves binding
I love you like and an event loves a handler
I love you like html loves css
I love you like JavaScript loves chrome
I love you more than I love html5
Your the one for me

I'll listen to your heart beat so our connection will never dropout.
I'll love you with nbn speeds

My password is our first kiss, I'll never change it, and no one can
ever steal it.

I went to ping you but had to stop at every hop, it was worth it to
know you were there all along

I looked up your name and found it was non-authorative, that's
something I can fix but I'll have to change a part of your name and
move you to my place

We don't need a controller to tell us our view is full of model love

I did a dig and found your name, then i did an arp and found your
address, the next protocol is all physical.

You have a static arp entry in my heart, you can change ur number, you
can change you name, I'll always find you and never loose you

You can pull the plug I've auto saved our love

I hope you don't mind, I self signed our love, other people may not
trust it, but we both know who we are

If you were optimised nothing would be removed

Like a stack overflow to an infinite recursion I couldn't escape
thinking about u
The Internet

Submission + - Kogan wages war on Internet Explorer: Users taxed Read more: http://www.news.co (news.com.au)

johnsnails writes: ONLINE electronics retailer Kogan.com has announced it will be charging customers a 6.8 per cent penalty if they use the "antique" browser Internet Explorer 7 to buy their products.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/kogan-wages-war-on-internet-explorer-users-taxed/story-e6frfro0-1226395298505#ixzz1xjoCUwse

Submission + - Shouryya Ray solves 300-year-old mathematical riddle posed by Isaac Newton (news.com.au) 1

johnsnails writes: "A GERMAN 16-year-old has become the first person to solve a mathematical problem posed by Sir Isaac Newton more than 300 years ago.
Shouryya Ray worked out how to calculate exactly the path of a projectile under gravity and subject to air resistance, The (London) Sunday Times reported.
The Indian-born teen said he solved the problem that had stumped mathematicians for centuries while working on a school project.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/technology/german-teen-shouryya-ray-solves-300-year-old-mathematical-riddle-posed-by-sir-isaac-newton/story-e6frfro0-1226368490157#ixzz1w3LI5N1w"

Australia

Submission + - Computer glitch hits CBA customers as police give (news.com.au)

johnsnails writes: THE SOFTWARE glitch bugging Commonwealth Bank customers has caused at least one ATM to spill out "thousands of dollars" prompting the police to send several officers to guard at least one machine until it could be fixed.
The ATM at Plumpton Marketplace, in Sydney's West, had at least two or three policeman guarding it, Plumpton Fast Photo retail assistant Jancy said.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/money/banking/computer-glitch-hits-cba-customers/story-e6frfmcr-1226014261756#ixzz1FKPrBxO1

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