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I've heard those types of figures, too, but never read anything that backed it up with specific examples. I also understand that shares are vested over a certain period of time; i.e. 0.25% each quarter

Though it's different for each startup, anyone have any specific examples of fair compensation?
This is the actual Chilling Effects page:

http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=17460

It actually has very little information...
I'll expand my statement to you must be on the west coast.
I'm guessing it was the word 'youtube' combined with 'educate'. (Youtube doesn't have much, uh, 'patina' for some of us.)
Don't miss the article on shitting dick nipples.
A better option might be to use Twisted Matrix for Python, iolib for Lisp, or whatever high-performance networking library you can find for your dynamic HLL.

Learning Go means learning a whole new language, learning the (still primitive) tool chain, and scrambling for examples, documentation and support.

High performance network programming is a solved problem. You can do it in any high level language that interfaces with C efficiently. Half a page of Unix system call, some discipline, and you're on your way.
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A buddy of mine is giving out free copies of his software at the moment to anyone who gives money to Haiti. He is doing it on the honor system. I think that is likely to be sufficient, depending on who your customer is.

Failing that, see the Paypal documentation about Return URLs. The one set up with the button has priority over the global one specified per Paypal account. Thus, if you know the email address associated with e.g. the Red Cross' Paypal account, you can craft Paypal URLs which cause people to go to Paypal, send money directly to the Red Cross, and then come back to a page under your control. This is only minimally secure but, again, what are you worried about security for here anyhow.
Sorry for the delayed response here, but I feel it is important to reply to this question.

Previously, as shield laws were determined on a state-by-state basis, the answer varied. However, congress is currently working to adopt a federal shield law, which apparently will define a journalist as such:

(iii) obtains the information sought while working as a salaried employee of, or independent contractor for, an entity—
(I) that disseminates information by print, broadcast, cable, satellite, mechanical, photographic, electronic, or other means; and
(II) that—
(aa) publishes a newspaper, book, magazine, or other periodical;
(bb) operates a radio or television broadcast station, network, cable system, or satellite carrier, or a channel or programming service for any such station, network, system, or carrier;
(cc) operates a programming service; or
(dd) operates a news agency or wire service;

So by this law, amateur journalists do not count, which is truly unfortunate. Of course, that doesn't exclude amatuer journalists from observing and reporting, it merely excludes them from lawfully being able to not reveal their sources in a court of law.

Read more on this topic here:
http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/09/shield-law-definition-of-jo...
You might be interested in opting out of this Comcast DNS redirection nonsense:

https://dns-opt-out.comcast.net/

Best set of hoops I ever jumped through (well, with regards to Comcast, at least).
I see your point, but I don't entirely agree with the analogy; the types of people who think like the admissions officer you quote are influenced a lot by the prestige that comes from saying "I went to Harvard." Saying "I live in Silicon Valley" isn't nearly as impressive to most folks. :-)
At that time, we were not allowed to travel outside Iraq, we did not have Internet or other means of communication with the outside world. Actually, even having a printer or sending a fax (especially in English) required certain process and security clearance. So the answer is no, we were isolated. The game was sitting on my floppy drive and then on all the hard drives of all the computers I owned. Actually, even the graphics artist did not have a copy and did not have the chance to play the game. We were doing all the development on one Amiga 500 machine (500kb, no HD and connected to a TV) at my house. To add do that, it was even difficult to communicate with game publishers and send them a demo of the game. Even when we were successful in sending the demo, the feedback we receive was often negative because they can not deal with Iraq due to the economic sanctions.
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Agreed. I'd have appreciated physics more if it had been taught with a more historical approach. When I asked the profs why, the general answer was 'takes too much time'.

(I 'spect part of it is that history is a 'humanity' ... but also that it's because they didn't get the history either, and didn't have time to learn it well enough to teach it.)

The physics department (major US university) actually hired a history of science scholar, and I heard grumbling that he should be paid for by another department.
hunch: this is how the textbook market should be in general (obviously not 1,000 per app). i have a feeling the tablet will be the platform for content like this/textbooks.
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This isn't true. You can download the file, but the copyright license only extends to licensed users of specific versions of Visual Studio.
Why are there so many withdrawn? Do people withdraw and resubmit to be on the frontpage?
Thanks.
The team reunited from three countries for the iPhone game: Canada, US and Australia.
Nope. Blew up my KDE4 session.
So please explain how China's censorship is fundamentally different. Does not a sovereign nation have the right to control things that may be fundamentally destabilizing to the country as a whole? I know I'm playing devil's advocate here, but it is an interesting question.

EDIT: Note, I am 100% against censorship.
The legal basis, though, are racial vilification laws. Welcome to the censorship/freedom of speech grey area.
I would gladly give out the rewards on the honor system, but the volume of incoming requests would be too much to process manually; it has to be an automated process.

Interesting point about the Paypal return URL. I'm concerned that this is a less-than-optimal solution, but something I could look into if I can't find something more solid.
Out of pure curiosity, as I'm sure all the startup folks are .. would you mind shedding some light into why you would be ok with your email on Google Docs but not a wiki?

We're interested in learning.
Ask yourself why the employer is willing to pay for the WSJ though. That's the thing. There are only two financial newspapers and most employers, especially in business, will be willing to pay for that because they see an informational benefit in it. Same goes for The Economist, which is known for stellar reporting in their Business/Finance section.

To contrast, the NYT does not offer the same kinds of benefits. Their reporting on global issues faces stiff competition not only from the WSJ, FT, and The Economist, but also TV/Radio journalism and other newspapers.
I like 118 but 120 would be my second choice
The answer is b). I suspect they fully know how stupid their policies are (Stephen Conroy has pretty much admitted it on live TV). What they are attempting is classic 'wedge politics': pick an issue on which your opposition is passionately divided 50 / 50 and take an extreme position on one side or the other. The internal damage it causes in the other side far outweighs any damage it causes to your own.
hello,

I do agree with you mostly, and in general I think that censorship is hardly ever good. In this particular case censorship was a force for good.

As an aside, Google was running 'used aborigines' adverts from ebay for quite a while. Do you think these adverts should also be allowed to run?

Australian society mostly takes a very dim view of racism, and especially racism towards the aborigines. Our elected representatives and the people of australia put in place laws such that this type of thing does not happen.

However the government and politicians did not make this particular case of censorship happen - the courts of law made it happen. I think most of society agree that it is a shit thing that google was doing in this instance.

Google has in place limits to stop things like pornography showing up, with it's safe search feature. This is already a form of censorship based on the values of countries like the USA.

Where do we draw the line? Obviously sociopaths shouldn't be able to say whatever they like to millions of people if their words will cause harm. How about spammers bent on selling their products? Google already blocks some of the spammers. As do they block malware serving sites, and sites that don't play by googles rules of what constitutes a good web page. Make a website more google friendly, and google will reward you with higher rankings. Put more google messages (adverts) on your pages, and get more people to see them, and google will pay you more money. How about companies abusing trademarks or abusing copyright? Are those censorship too?

Do we take the values of a multi national corporations(ie google)? Isn't that a form of cultural imperialism? What is to stop the courts abusing their power? There are many processes in place to try and let all sides of society have their input into what the courts do. What is to stop google from abusing their power and imposing their views on people who do not want them? ... glibly, I guess the answer to that is adblock.

I don't think you can have a 'censorship is always wrong' approach, or a 'totally abusing censorship in terrible ways' approach either. Reasoned arguments by courts of law are an answer - to find out where censorship is appropriate and where it is not.

The people who made that site should get a dog up em.
Tabs vs. spaces is soon going to join the following: GPL vs. BSD; VIM vs. Emacs; Centralized vs. Decentralized; et cetera.

As long as people are consistent, either way is fine.
"Skills reflected ... port scanning other systems ... unlock APIs ... maliciously install on other systems ..."

They should have named it CrackWars...

Hacking is not about breaking into computer systems, unless you're ignorant about the true meaning of the word.
Yeah I agree, this website's design is abhorrent. Any website worth its salt should:

a) look like an iPhone

b) have boobs all over it even though boobs have nothing to do with the site

c) look like an iPhone running an app involving boobs

I should know, I work for a major web design firm.
Well, for one, me. Racism even on a joke site is still racist. As far as I'm concerned, and I know I'm not alone, racism is not acceptable in any form.
If you liked that story, you'll probably find this one interesting:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/warajevo/Story.html

It's a story about the development of ZX Spectrum emulator during the siege of Sarajevo in the early 1990s (very poor conditions, similar to those Iraqi guys experienced).
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it has to be an automated process.

You and I would get along very well. :)

I just donated money to (+):
Red Cross [ ]
Catholic Charities [ ]
UNICEF [ ]
Other [ ]

[Get Your Free Dragon Egg]

+ We trust you.
I didn't even notice my terminal font until it being pointed out. So am I the only one perfectly happy with just Monospace?
In response to point 2, Google could still require that links to search pages still go to google.com/search?q=whatever. google.com/whatever would show a differently formatted page that shows a big error message at the top, with the search results as an extra, not the point of the page. This would mean that Google introducing new sections of the site would not conflict with links to search pages.
When I click the "More" link and the page is expired, I'd rather have it go to the latest next page than have to backup and refresh the page. Could be a pref.
Using Google as an example of why being located in the SV is a necessity is rather silly. Let's face it: Google is a fortunate anomaly.

If you want to make a point, you should think of the average company that succeeded, and then see where that company did succeed. For every Google, Intel and Microsoft, there are thousands of startups that did attain success, but did not become giants (not because they failed to become giants, but because few companies are destined to become giants).
Nevermind a lack of libraries.

How about erlang, haskell or clojure? If you must stick with a C-like language, I second Twisted and Python, or maybe just use C.
I found that indented languages were a giant PITA.

Oh yeah, and I'd rather GOTO label than BREAK.
I see what you're saying, but I think that if you scale this to a large number of users (especially if the free "thing" is publicly visible), then you're going to have a lot of people abusing it and/or making a mockery of it. After all, this is the internet, and nearly every community has a subsection of immature/abusive people.

To really make it special and encourage people to give, there has to be an element of rarity (or real value).

I'm certain that the above approach is valid and would raise money, but I don't think it's going to maximize the amount of money collected for the organization. I'd estimate that a complete solution could bring in at least two times as many donations, and maximizing donations is the goal here (otherwise I could just do something simple like putting a banner on the front page).

Regarding the honor system and scalability: I don't think that there would be much abuse if people had to contact me personally to say that they donated money, but people would be less honest in clicking a button (I imagine lots of people would click it because they planned to give in the future and then forget to do so, for example).

Or maybe I'm just entirely lacking faith in the kindness of others and should be more trusting :)
My concern with 120 and the rest of Snipp's submissions are that the horizontal bars are curved. You'll notice on the Preceden screenshots that the timeline is made up almost entirely of rectangular shapes. To me, the distorted bars don't fit in with the rest of the site. As someone else pointed out, Snipp's are playful, but the rest of the site isn't. Time, by its nature, is a precise thing, and I think the logo should convey that.

On the same note, I asked early on that people use sans serif fonts because, like the curved bars, serif fonts don't fit well with the rest of the site.

As far as the casing, lowercase "preceden" has a lot of circular letters, which, again, stands in contrast to the timeline. However, uppercase "PRECEDEN" is more angular, like the timeline itself.

For these reasons, my favorite is 28. It's simple, angular, and the staggered bars make you think of the site's timelines, all of which I think would make it a great logo for the site. Thoughts?
When you give feedback, most people revise their designs and submit new ones. You don't have to withdraw old ones, but a lot of people do since the new submission will almost always be better than the original, assuming you took the feedback.
I'll bet they've already agreed to sell subscriptions via iTunes for the Apple Tablet.
> does Australia have constitutional or otherwise legally protected free speech

No. Australians have no direct freedoms at all. What rights they have are "implied" indirectly from other things such as that the federal government shall not restrict trade between the states (it's hard to trade if you can't talk ...). People talk from time to time about strengthening individual rights, but most Aussies couldn't care less and due to mandatory voting those that don't care will vote down just about any constitutional amendment making it extremely difficult for such reform to ever happen.
Yet another article on superior machines that then rattle on and on about chess programs. Not news for chess, and no change for the rest of us.
Boston's great for windsurfing! Pleasure Bay is convenient. And Kalmus beach in Hyannis is statistically the windiest place on the east coast.
i still use the default xterm "fixed" font.
For those unaware, the Amiga was an extremely innovative platform, released in 1985 by Commodore, that saw rather limited success outside of Europe.

The Amiga was a big deal in Canada. I doubt this statement is true.
Preceden, similar to the word Precedent (which has to do with time), is nice to say and is nice to look at, I think. The .com, .net, .org, GMail, Twitter, and Facebook names were also available, which is a nice bonus.
I wish them luck but given the majority of people read newspapers for entertainment/distraction I have no idea how they'll compete with the avalanche of free content online.

Personally I'd pay good money for a paper that did lots of investigative reporting (and only investigative reporting) but I suspect I'm in the minority.
I think, being a fictional role-playing game, Hack Wars is about hacking in more the "Hack The Gibson" sort of way, than the "learn about how things work" sort of way. The Blog post itself, however, is discussing this game in terms of the learning experience involved (for better or for worse) in cobbling the game together.
Arctic ice seems to be trending downward, and fluctuation more rapidly.

http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/9972_large_daily.gsia.jpg

But that's rather immaterial since it's land based ice, as in greenland and antarctica, that will influence sea levels. Greater fluctuations will cause more permanent loss of land based ice than sea based ice.

But that's rather immaterial too, since much of the expected and currently visible sea level rise comes from thermal expansion of the oceans. This is a pretty clear temperature link.

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Perhaps the most relevant limits of which I speak are regarding the extent to which we are willing to change our world. This is a separate question from the action of CO2 -- for example we already fix more nitrogen as all other life on this planet, and three quarters of the land based biomes on this planet have been dramatically influenced by our actions. We have changed this planet. Are we to become conscious of this or are we to continue claiming innocence and practicing ignorance as we accelerate our ecological impact?

A return to the atmospheric conditions of the Triassic might well be the best thing for the world, but as long as people continued to be confused, lazy and stupid about what kind of future we want, we will continue to argue about tiny details having little to nothing to do with the global atmospheric, ecological, biological climatic change that is taking place, and we will continue to be at odds as our actions annihilate biomes that we scarcely know about.

I put the question back to you. What change in the world would be acceptable to you? If we have reconcilable goals for our shared planet, then at least the debate becomes on of science, of planning, of what must be done. If, however, like many seem to think, you too believe that the changes we are making to the world are ultimately inconsequential, the loss of biodiversity acceptable, and our gambling with the ecosystem immaterial, then we are at odds that this conversation will not mend.
"HackWars" is probably a better name for the purposes of marketing. "CrackWars" sounds like a game about drug enforcement.
I'm a hypocrite for saying this since I'm the OP and I just paid $200 + $30 (submission cost) for this service, but a much better way to spend your money is on a few design and Photoshop books. That way you can stop depending on others for your basic design work. My Photoshop skills don't extend far beyond making gradients and some simple buttons, but even that has helped me tremendously in all the projects I've worked on.

PS: One of the benefits of working alone is that you're forced to learn a lot of different skills because you have to do everything yourself. A bit frustrating at times, but I'm more capable because of it.
What about "is not"?
Because laws are different from country to country. Of course, I share the view that it is a retarded law in this case, but it is a law nonetheless, and one that Google must obey if they want to play in Australia. I believe the legal term is 'intermediary liability.'

This issue has been popping up in different countries all over the world in the last few months. Most notably in China, of course, but also in India, France and Italy, where Google executives are in fact facing the possibility of jail time. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/... and http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h-40ArK-e....

The role of Internet middlemen in enforcing copyright was a key legal issue in the last decade. It appears that censorship will be the analogous issue for the next decade. We seem to have reached a relatively happy middle ground with copyright—middlemen have some responsibility, but a strong form of copyright protection has proved unenforceable, forcing many industries to innovate or die. We can hope that a similar thing will happen with censorship, with oppressive governments either collapsing or being forced to allow free speech.
Thanks for the feedback. I like the name for several reasons, though I agree it usually seems a little awkward at first. But hey, what domain name these days doesn't?

Can you elaborate on conceptualizing the branding instead of visualizing the rather meaningless (by power of ambiguity) word? I don't follow.
Well, take the case of the DMCA. Yes, it's a terrible law and should be repealed, but the approach to handling it is fundamentally different from China's censorship. If this were Chinese style, any site which argued that the DMCA is flawed or should be repealed/reformed would get a blanket disappearing imposed by the government.

But since it's not Chinese-style you can talk about the DMCA all you want -- the only things that disappear from search results are specific URLs which are claimed to violate the law itself, removed not after a wide-ranging government demand but after a narrowly-targeted civil-law complaint (and there's a counter-filing system which allows maintainers of those URLs to respond and have due process -- I doubt very much that China allows such challenges to its censorship).
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89 is probably my second choice, after 28. I'm pretty sure the designer of 89 saw my high score on 28 and just modified it a bit because he knew I'd like it. Not a bad strategy.

What do you think of the bars on the left (89) vs on the right (28)?
Almost every joke relies on a some social preconception or stereotype... nationality and race are only some of the characteristics you can choose from. What can you find on that site that is worse than what you can see on South Park or any popular movies? It seems like a double standard that a page (which you have to look for) which contains obviously only bad jokes is somehow worse than half-serious stuff on TV (directly advertised and explicitly approved by a local company).
Me either! Parts of it seemed quite funny, but inconsistently so.
Well, I'm afraid I have to be the one to inform you that you are both pathetic and an idiot.
Are there any plans to release this game for other smartphone platforms, such as Android?
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Classic market waiting to be disrupted. Every lawyer I know did BarBri.
We launched a similar app over the weekend (loved the idea of a cofounder meeting site), it's at http://findmycofounder.com/. We based the design on the comment thread (well, most of it). We added searching by geography, skills, primary focus, etc. It's an evolving thing, so suggestions are more than welcome.
That's what they're doing, though only if the domain matches /^www\..+/ which (along with their allowing you to opt-out) makes it a few degrees less evil than Verisign's infamous "Site Finder".
It's satire. If you can't cope with that, please off yourself for the good of the rest of us.