No job jar file set. User classes may not be found. See JobConf(Class) or JobConf#setJar(String)

 No job jar file set.  User classes may not be found. See JobConf(Class) or JobConf#setJar(String)

This happened when the class was set (which was the popular fix suggested).

In my case extracting the external jars into the jar when exporting the jar helped.

Data not activated on new iPhone 5

I had to turn off the phone for a minute and bring it back up for AT&T to recognize the phone after going through the on phone setup.

iSuit

Apple Vs. Samsung law suit

Live notes from San Jose courtroom by Forbes:

The beginning (not really, there was a pre-trial)
Jul 31 2012 

Who says the trial has to be inside the court only... This one is out of court law

Aug 03 2012 

Aug 06 2012

Aug 07 2012 

Aug 10 2012 

Aug 13 2012  Apple is done with its presentation, Samsung to follow with it's witnesses.

Aug 14 2012

Aug 16 2012

Aug 17 2012

Aug 21 2012 Closing arguments

Aug 24 2012 Verdict

One upped by Forbes :)

Read URL into a string in scala

def read(url:String):String = io.Source.fromURL(url).mkString

var response = read("http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=never%20buy&rpp=5&include_entities=true&result_type=mixed")

httpservlet cannot be resolved to a type

include servlet-api.jar from the tomcat lib directory.

Is Google blocking the verification email sent by Apple's iCloud system?

I have tried resending the verification email 6 times with clean up of spam mail and then going through the spam to see if the mail went to spam. I found the iCloud terms and conditions mail in the spam!

Is the verification mail being blocked at mail servers?

Anyone else with same experience?

It looks like the problem is on Apple's end.

From this link on apple support: http://support.apple.com/kb/HE40 I clicked on Manage my ID and logged in with my apple id. It showed a link to verify. The link did not work from both IE and Chrome.

Looks like a problem on their end.

Finally solved it. I had two accounts at apple one with my email adders and another with a simple string. They both had the same email address registered. Apple was not sending verification email until I changed the simple string one to use a different email address.

Symptom of the problem: iCloud verification email did not arrive in my inbox.

Zynga model for democracy!

Zynga analyses their games on a daily or intra day basis and makes changes to keep users happy. What if we model a democracy with such analytics where it is applicable. Zynga itself says analytics are not applicable in all scenarios but where they are applicable they work well.

If we could implement an analytics based wing of a democracy, we don't have to vote once in 5 years but our behavior feeds into the government and changes the society we live in.

The Anna Hazzare work in India is analytics feedback to government by show of numbers on the street. Sort of like analytics by passing 5year cycles!

Taxes could be dynamic. Fed rates could be changed on a daily basis. What if ...

For my non-bay-area friends the Zynga model is ..

Zynga is an online social (read Facebook based) game company. Farmville is from Zynga. They make many games very quickly and see what clicks. They monitor the games very closely on a daily or sometimes multiple times a day for user activity. If players are leaving or not paying enough for the game, they make adjustments. This level of monitoring needs extensive data processing for which considerable investment and skill is required. This field is the analytics I was referring to. Analytics is being used increasingly by companies, soon it will be commonly available, just like governments now have websites.