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yeah exactly iam bit worried as i am relying on friendfeed platform .As they are acquired by Facebook i donot for how much time will they support their API.

For scoring/shares i used the following simple algorithm like

1)Number of people shared this link

2)Blog popularity (i.e)
If the blog is popular more shares has to happen for it to
appear on appropriate topic popular page.

Any other ideas on improving the algorithm?
Just a .02$ story about renting from about two years ago. I never really rented before this but was making enough money finally to say 'eh what the hell.'

I rented three games in a row from the local hollywood video for my 360 that were unplayable in some way. One was 'ringed' by another user, another was scratched just enough to lock up after the entry video and the third didn't boot at all. After the third trip back down the block to tell them 'hey this doesn't play either' I just downloaded the game and played it on my PC.

Needless to say, I haven't tried renting a game again.
> There would be no Wordpress equivalent if putting text on the web was taxed.

Ironically, there is VideoPress.
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Perhaps not hacker-worthy, but this brings to mind an incident from my youth that amuses me.

In 1965 I was an eighth-grader in Mrs. Ray's English class, where we were studying The Taming of the Shrew. The school had distributed paperback copies of the text to each of us, and many of us were intrigued that our copies had been censored - a big black magic marker had obscured a single line in the play.

It was Mrs. Ray's custom to assign us parts and we'd read them aloud in class. So it came to pass that Jerry Gaines had the part of Petruchio when we came to the forbidden passage. Somehow, his copy of the text was uncensored, and he read aloud "What - with my tongue in your tail?" And the entire class erupted in astonishment and delight. Jerry looked around sheepishly, and Mrs. Ray smiled and shook her head.

To this day I don't know if Jerry bought his own copy of the book, or if Mrs. Ray planted an uncensored copy and called on Jerry specifically to be Petruchio on that day. For sure, every other book in that classroom had been dutifully censored except for his.

Maybe it was an accident... but I'd rather think that it was a beautifully executed example of plausible deniability. Score one for the Good Guys.
Chrome does actually "just use ffmpeg".
I think what's saddening about this is that when a public figure makes these common-sense statements, they are a newsworthy exception, rather than the norm.

The recording industry is a corrupt nest of shit. I don't even want them to adapt anymore, I just want them to finally die, go away, leave the field empty for some newcomers to come in and design a system that actually works.

I know it's a somewhat extreme view, but I believe that every dollar spent on a CD or MP3 download in this day and age is a dollar donated to an evil cause. Think of the recording industry as an anti-charity. Would you donate money to a charity dedicated to spreading AIDS in exchange for a little music?
theft is market correction
...
if we take the market as orthogonal to morality
Basicly you should have done this from the start.

Since you know that you will not have a profit , why didnt you add the app free and add commercials to it.

That way yours will be free and there will be no need for anyone to copy it and at the same time have some profit from ads.
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My guess is that the percentage of single founder applicants is enormous, while the percentage of single founder accepted companies is minuscule. I just wonder how big the gap is.
If your turnover exceeds or is expected to exceed £68,000 you'll need to be VAT registered. This means you'll need to charge VAT on all sales to customers in the EU and deal with loads more paperwork.

This makes taking payments in the EU even more complicated.
There are DNS failover providers that will host your DNS records and provide monitoring and automatic failover between IPs. This takes propagation time out of the equation.
Don't waste your time on legal action on this iphone app. Yes, notify Apple and publicize it. But, your energy is better spent innovating and hacking. While screen-scraping is hard work it doesn't bring success and other good programmers can re-implement your work without stealing it. Hell, this might be a good opportunity to open source your screen scraper. Publicize it so that others will collaborate on improving it. Then you can focus on more interesting work. Data gathering is hard work, more people doing it make it easier.

What can you do with your app that isn't so easily stolen (and reproduced) and turned into a carbon copy? As you've already seen, public transit apps are a dime a dozen. How about a bigger/better itinerary application that includes trains, planes, and automobile times so that one can put an itinerary together of vacation travel across all of Ireland? Add hotel info, confirmation info, etc, etc, etc...

I don't have the links handy put there have been other articles on HN about lessons from stolen work. Big lesson: it rarely matters because the people stealing ideas and work don't have the skillset to do it themselves. In the long term they can't compete with the new features and directions that you'll go.

What I'm trying to say is, use that energy from your anger to create something fcking awesome that that stupid muppet won't be able to compete with.

* I'm from the US. Yesterday, I learned about the use of the word muppet over on that side of the pond. BRILLIANT!
Nice try, Mr. Renraku :-) (http://daeken.com/renraku-future-os)
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It seems to me that the author is ignoring the relationship between experience and expertise in a language. Programmers call themselves [language/framework] developers because they've invested a lot of time becoming proficient in that language/framework. Of course there's some skills transference when you pick up another language, but they're not commodities and they're certainly not entirely fungible.
Does webkit have better support for other codecs?
The whole Google Account vs. Gmail account thing is confusing for people who never started off with Gmail. I did, and so things sort of "fell into place" for a lot of this very quickly on as Google started rolling out more features.

I suspect that the Google team expects/prefers that all Google Account holders are using a Gmail address as their primary email. I feel like that is the idea of the consolidated "persona" that the author mentions at the end of the post.

On a side note: the capitalized section headers of that blog are offensively large.
This is a big problem.

You come here for intelligent discussions, and would like to hear intelligent people's take on why a rant is bullshit. What will happen is that over time the intelligent people will leave. The reason there is such an intelligent discussion here is that the submissions are worth discussing - if they degenerate the people that make the intelligent conversation will leave, and you will have Reddit. I read through the article, expecting to find a subtle point, an intelligent analysis or a valid viewpoint. Something to make the article worth my time. When there was none I felt a bit cheated. If this happens enough I will leave.
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Here's a screenshot: http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/2976/asynclife.png

The end state of golly and this seem to match up but I only eyeballed it (it seems highly unlikely that the end state would be this similar but not exactly the same).
For the specific Docs problem mentioned, you can also just truncate the URL to not include the email address the doc was shared with, and presto, Docs will let you in. Only the shared secret matters.
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In future versions you might include made-up data for a nonexistent bus line, in the same way that cartography companies include nonexistent streets on maps.
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It's a little head-in-the-sand to suggest that restauranteurs and club owners and whoever else are going to be doing these sorts of things "a few times". These people are chefs and bartenders. They aren't Danny Meyer or something. They get one - maybe two - bites at the apple before they're done.
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So his history is GIF and MP3, two of the most successful and widely used formats on the internet. Two formats that users don't care/know about the IP issues and would freak out about if their apps didn't continue to work with. Ask Apple how bummed they are for boosting MP3.

Mozilla makes a decent browser, I don't need them to fight my moral battles for me. If they stick with this tactic I look forward to using the fork and waiting for Google's subsidy of Mozilla to end.
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Thanks, I appreciate that.

I'm not sure that it's as clear cut as doing something that can't be easily copied — any iPhone app that stores data locally is vulnerable to this. (In fact, I'd advise other iPhone developers reading this to have a close look at any suspicious competitors). I'm cool with someone 'stealing the idea', just not when they go selling my implementation of it.
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lisp doesn't make you a better C-programmer, It make you a better programmer becouse It make you think in a more high level abstractions (I am removing the "C"). learning Assembler may make you a better (efficient) C-programmer.
Google has a real problem with account management right now. That somebody has to grok all this to use Google's services is bizarre.

What's worse is that this doesn't even mention the third and entirely separate class of accounts - Google Apps Accounts. We use Google Apps Premier Edition and it boggles my mind that to this day, Google does not allow Apps users to log into the majority of Google's products with their Apps account. sigh
Good blog post. Linux developers are being paid and deserve to be paid. It is not purism that matters, it is survival for people doing great work.
Hacker News sounds like a pause from work. Games are the best pause.
>Even a perfectively free market is not perfectly competitive. Perfectly competitive is a theoretical position used by economics, but it is theoretical.

Exactly. I wish more free market advocates understood this.
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The title of this post reminds me of the Office paperclip. "Are you trying to procrastinate? Would you like to play a game?" Shameless advertisement though.
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Even though the story's interesting, I think it should have been flagged - there's plenty of places to discuss it online, and there's no way not to Redditize this kind of conversation. Already there's a comment here claiming the Baha'i (??) may be behind this..
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You don't think that's a learning experience either?

People in the tech, and geek community, are stubborn mother fuckers. You have to have a badass debate skill to get even the most obvious ideas into people's heads. Simply being right doesn't mean a damn thing.

Programming Arguments are one of the best places to get these sort of skills. Not only are you trying to convince the unconvincable, you're trying to appeal to the crowd.
The reverse engineered codec library may be supported in all the usual software players that handle everything, but I've never seen hardware support from anything other than iPods, iPhones or Airport Expresses (all of which I own) and this is apparently because of Apple's refusal to licence it. FLAC is of course widely implemented:

http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html#hardware

I find it surprising that the independently developed FLAC codec would suffer from the same problems as the Ogg container, unless you're talking about the slightly nonstandard FLAC in Ogg approach.

But if Apple really re-implemented a lookalike lossless format because they couldn't figure out any other way to put it in a .mov container then I think we're agreed that their engineering priorities around this issue are all messed up.
I don't know how extreme your view is. I think it's been clear for some time now that the recording industry is damaging to both the artists and the customers. It's hard to imagine anyone wanting them to survive unless they work for them.
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And as far as I'm concerned, keeping up with tech is part of my job, so Hacker News is work.
Your understanding is incorrect. In the US (which doesn't apply for this case!) the original case showing that the collection of data is NOT copyrightable was, in fact, a case about copying a phone book. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications_v._Rural_Tel...
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You will at least be able to recognize the symptoms of Greenspun's Tenth (http://lispers.org/) in your C code and know when to cut your losses in those cases when C is not the best possible fit to the problem domain at hand.
IANAL, but it is my understanding that you own the copyright on the modifications you make when creating a derivative work, regardless of whether or not the derivative work is itself a copyright violation.
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That whole prediction reads like $1,000 satire. I love it.
Their time tables are facts and you can't copyright a fact. Please don't express an opinion as a fact.
From your link, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_bear comes up as the second result for me, right after teddybears.com.
"you can't record food on a CD"

At least not yet ;-)
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one can do hte exact same thing with hg queues.
> I think last time, 'openness' was really 'pricing'.

You must have missed that whole 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar' phase of the internet. Were you an adult during this phase or did you just not agree with (or notice) the whole idea? The whole move towards more open technologies is widely recognised as being a continuing trend. On the scale of things a closed product such as the iPhone is a fairly minor aberration.

Anyway to direct address your conclusion - pricing is always relative to quality/performance. Delivering clearly superior hardware at the same cost is also 'pricing'. Out of all the the android phones being released some will certainly achieve this, if you don't believe they have already.
Others have already taken your challenge on directly, and that is a part of the truth. However, I want to point out that if you want, you can sit and nitpick each one, pointing out how C is just fine on that front, and talk yourself into a position where it's not that big a deal, by focusing on one thing at a time and appearing to knock out each thing one by one. For this reason, "enlightenment experiences" tend to resist concretization; focus on just the words and you can talk yourself right out of them without much effort.

But the point is not the laundry list of bullet-point features, the point is the whole totality of the experience. There isn't a thing that Lisp can do that C can't be beaten into doing; for one thing, writing your own Lisplet isn't that hard (and a good exercise, too!), and there you have it, "all of Lisp" right there. But it makes those things so hard that you won't really want to do them. You can intellectually learn the value of some of the things that Lisp provides, but until you live for a while in an environment where they are easy you will never fully grok them.

Even though Lisp teaches nothing that could not be theoretically learned in C, in practice you won't learn them in C. The bar is too high, and if you're really trying to do it from scratch you'll make too many mistakes on things that were worked out 40 or 50 years ago. Learn something like Lisp.

(Haskell is another choice on that front; Lisp will teach you better metaprogramming, but Haskell has some advantages in forcing you to completely follow through with an alternate paradigm. Arguably Lisp is more practical for permitting such things, but less educational.)
This is stupid, sorry for the strong word, if H.264 succeeds it will be the free market that will lose and not mozilla, any startup that works with videos (say a new video editing on the cloud) will have to pay licensing fees just to serve its users, well, I do not know about people in the USA, but where I live founders generally don't have piles of money to spend in patents, the majority use dedicated servers at rackspace with linux and other open source software because it's cheaper than running your own server with Windows or Mac OS X server. Are you people not considering this as an "outcome"?
Single Page: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24patterson-t.htm...
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Perhaps part of it is that you will no longer feel the need for methodologies?

When programming lisp, the syntax is so regular that the patterns in your code become very obvious. When I see patterns I pull them out into macros or high-order functions, and name them. (Then sometimes I see patterns in the macros/hofs, and I pull those out and name /them/).

I personally /boggle at the guys who love 'design patterns' and the like. I mean, I understand the utility of using patterns in software, I do it all day.

The problem is that only having maybe 23 (?) different patterns seems very limiting to me.
Very interesting that he didn't become a full-time author until 20 years after his book was published. I'm always interested in how successful people became that way.

Mr. Patterson was born in 1947, published his first book at 29 years old (1976) and didn't become a full time writer until 49 years old (1996). He's been writing an average of 2 novels per year since then (!) and is getting more prolific with age. Considering that some people never get around to "finishing their novel", I find these data points amazing.

What are you doing today that will be news worthy 20 years from now?
Semi-related: about a week after I had moved to Dublin from the US I made an offhand remark in a shop about being in the UK and was very quickly corrected. I quickly learned my lesson and have moved on to other cultural mistakes. :-)
I intended to write something like this myself, good thing I searched for it first.
I find the concept of "Pareto optimal" a useful one here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency

This opens up a second front: In addition to "is it the best choice for this task", it allows you to discuss whether the language is actually Pareto optimal for this task. Even "the best language for the task" may be able to use some improvement.
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As a US expat in Ireland, I too love the use of muppet. It's deadly!
Why would anyone think that "non-commercial" would only prevent earning money on the licensed material? if the material plays any role in a commercial endeavour obviously you cannot use it if it is CC "non-commercial". That is why the license reads: "You may not use this work for commercial purposes." not "You may not earn money of this work."
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It has always seemed to me that a traditional CMS was a better path for creative archiving than a version control system, but that may just be me. A CMS can do things like allow you to manage a PS document while publishing it's flatter JPEG to your web site or a print image in a Quark layout. I guess if you just want to back up different version than a version control system would do just fine and is simple but a CMS can save so much time and there are plenty of good ones that are free.
Artistic works have a "natural" copyright. (in the united states anyway). You could potentially argue that the schema of your database was a geeky but artistic work. (Layout of data structure, naming of tables etc.) or maybe some other feature of your app.

Anyone with some legal background agree, disagree??
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"winningest attorney"?! Seriously?

But it's still interesting issue. While I agree that Freedom of expression is more important than preventing parties interested in the outcome of an election from creating publicity pieces that masquerade as documentaries, maybe we should also consider scrutinizing such expressions closely as to whether or not they should qualify as campaign donations or slander. Such scrutiny should come fast, because the damage done cannot be easily reversed.

OTOH, group A interested in electing candidate B could create a "docuslander" campaign against B in order to get candidate C punished.

It's a delicate and interesting issue.
Hopefully Ed's told Jonny that moving away from the CD is a good thing. When In Rainbows came out, I was really put off by the band's attitude toward digital distribution.

"How would you respond to complaints about the sound quality - that 160 isn’t a high enough bitrate?

I don’t know, we talked about it and we just wanted to make it a bit better than iTunes, which it is, so that’s kind of good enough, really. It’s never going to be CD quality, because that’s what CD does."

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/10/10/r...
No; we've funded a couple groups that didn't have any programmers.
Good copywriting advice:

“I have a saying,” Patterson told me. “If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for a few friends, get a blog. But if you want to write for a lot of people, think about them a little bit. What do they like? What are their needs? A lot of people in this country go through their days numb. They need to be entertained. They need to feel something.”
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> You can use alternate email addresses to sign in to your Google Account, recover your password, and more.

Since a lot of us rely on Google apps, I strongly recommend if you use one - that your alternate email address cannot be compromised by weak password reset rules (e.g. a web email provider like HoTMaiL that has guessable secret questions). Ideally, you would use a more-secure email (company email that requires VPN and/or two-factor authentication).