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Well, before their patent expired, it seemed that they were less focused on getting exclusive trademark rights for movie-franchise-branded brick sets.
You know the worst part? You can't even prevent it if you are raising your kids otherwise.

My 5 year old has never seen a Disney movie, yet she told me today that for her 6th birthday she wants a Cinderella shirt and an Elsa costume - both characters she has never actually seen on screen. Her friends at school all talk about it though and recount fantastic stories.

I hear from people saying that we will raise a kid who is out of the loop, so she won't be able to relate and will be an outcast if we don't keep her up to date with all the trends like her peers.

At a certain point as a parent, it's kind of like, it doesn't really matter what we do.
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>I'm not sure that Inside Out was meant to be an accurate depiction of our emotions any more than Finding Nemo is meant as an accurate portrayal of marine ecosystems, or Ratatouille of French cuisine.

And yet the first thing to come to many children's minds when shown a clown fish or French cuisine is Nemo and Ratatouille.

> I don't think that children watching the movie will really grow up believing they have all these little people in their heads.

I've met people who think the movie helped them "understand themselves better" whether or not that is actually true.

>But if we couldn't reduce that complexity into modular, independent pieces then how would we ever communicate?

Not everyone wants to speak the same language, (or even be forced to hear you).
It's why I hope they're broken up under antitrust law at some point.
I have a profitable side project. It was never a non-profitable side project. I built it for paying customers.
But it seems to me that ReST does dictate, specifically, that there must be no need for shared state. The system must work without the client having knowledge of the server and vice versa. But a cookie, as used to hold a session token which references information on the server, is very much shared state. So should be forbidden.
It's because you were (presumably) a kid back then - and everything was much more magical then because it was your whole world and imagination. Just like old people now state how much better the 50s were, because that's when they were children.

I pretty much discount anytime someone says "It was better when I was a kid."
"A year ago, a former friend and advisor who sought to partner with our business sued us. The charges alleged in the suit are serious, including fraud and unjust enrichment. For the past year, Alma has been hit hard with legal fees required to manage and defend the business against this suit." https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/save-alma-restaurant#/
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> nortel networks. no bugs in the last few years.

No known bugs.
Not going to read it due to the spoilers, but I give Disney a lot of credit. They've done pretty well by Pixar, and exceedingly well by Marvel.

Disney is certainly a corporate behemoth out to make a buck, but I really believe that it's accompany that understands these properties, and wants people to love them.

Disney knows fans will not continue to flock to prequel-quality Star Wars films. Even the die-hard fans have a limit. These movies need to be excellent if they're going to continue to draw audiences. George Lucas himself doesn't understand what makes the original trilogy so special to fans, which is why Disney is putting fans like JJ Abrams and Rian Johnson at the helm of these new movies. It seems like they're off to a great start. I have faith they'll continue to be great.

Edit: First sentence: I, not u. Yikes, what a typo.
Ah, but Left-To-Right script is equally inefficient, just in a different direction.

Unless, of course, you have some neurology studies to share indicating an innate "handedness" to human symbol-recognition?
The difference seems pretty clear: Profit. Uber/Lyft drivers aren't splitting the cost of gas with riders; they're making money from it, as evidenced by the fact that rates change hour by hour with market demand. They can claim they're not taxis, but their compensation structure says otherwise.

I am not a lawyer, but if Flytenow is truly doing what they say and are facilitating riders and pilots to share cost, then it is hard to argue that it's a commercial endeavor because the pilot still loses money; just like I am not a taxi if I drive you down to LA and we split gas-- how we found each other and whether we are strangers seems irrelevant.
It has elaborate sytnax
I wish they would remove the huge diagonal watermark across every page as well. It makes the text quite hard to read.
That's a different argument. I'm saying that I am not concerned with Disney monopolizing the rights to my favorite stories, b/c my kids will enjoy different stories that appeal to them b/c of the context they are growing up in.
What about public radio and TV? There are some sponsors and government funding, but I think they are largely based on private donations.
EDIT: Just saw that this recent Omnibus budget bill stripped out his restriction at the last minute. NIST can still pay NSA to lie to them.
I've gotten many code review comments to the effect of "can you break this out into an interface?" so I 100% understand what you're saying.

Many of the instances were things that we were only likely to make one example of either. I could see that argument being valid if there was a clear second implementation in mind, but an interface with only one implementing class is often just wasted time.
First of all, it depends on who you are applying with. State agencies, state federal contractors, and large enterprise organisations take the requirements list very literally (and may be limited by legal requirements). Having participated in the other end of the process, we literally had to remove applications from consideration by well qualified candidates in our own organisation because they answered "no" to one of the required job items while other candidates that seemed to be lacking even basic written English skills were still left in the initial pool for consideration because they made sure to answer "yes" to all the required items.

Other employers have much more flexibility but may be looking for candidates that have demonstrated experience in professional development as they don't want to waste time bringing them up to speed on "what is a version control system" kind of questions. It can take 3-6 months to bring even an experienced programmer up to speed on how other developers run things in a company. On the plus side, you're unlikely to have learned any bad habits from your previous employer that you would then have to "unlearn".

As most people suggested, you're probably better off spending 6 months to a year at a junior job. And it really has nothing to do with skill levels, but with learning how to work in a dev team, which you can't really pick up on your own. After you've gotten up to speed the first time, you'll probably start to be bored. This is a good sign as it means you're ready to "level up" and find a different job (even if it is in the same company).
This sounds more like market saturation - nobody is literally throwing their iOS devices out and going back to flip phones.

Apple's subtle shift towards leasing phones instead of carrier-subsidized purchases hints to me that they already know what's up in the marketplace.
[homebrew + profiles]
Anyone know of a [homebrew + profiles] program that lets you type one command to download all of your "profiles" programs?

Do share :-)
I think the complaint is that the law should have exempted situations where there is explicit and informed consent on what is happening.

Why should only those with rich friends/family be able to a flight from A to B via private plane/pilot?

If a plane is safe enough for me to fly my whole family in, why is it too unsafe to fly someone else?
Yap, there is no other place to see this better than going to Disney World. That place is super-optimized for maximum throughtput of people, maximum magic to capture children's imagination, good service, friendly atmosphere, and maximum extraction of your money. Even in supposedly a recession, the place was packed with people.

With my kid, most characters and shows they like, are owned by Disney. We were going through the list recently and there was a handful only that were not Disney owned. Disney owns the childhood, that not a joke.
Thanks. I don't know if I have a good attitude about it all the time. I do still get upset by it and I do still end up making my own dismissive comments sometimes. It's a daily struggle. I just hope I can learn more lessons than I miss, and not let egotism get in the way of "success". Do what is important, not what you want. Telling the difference between the two can be hard.
> ignoring the fact that this backdoor survived for 3 YEARS of code reviews

While I don't disagree with the rest of your comment it's possible that this portion of the code was only reviewed once (if at all) during the entire 3 years whereas your comment makes it sound like it was constantly reviewed over the period of 3 years.
Very subtle.
I'm pretty sure there are no spoilers in that first paragraph. In fact, I'm pretty sure most of what's referenced was available in pre-release materials (trailers, press events, and such). I just saw the movie and just read this article, it's less spoilery (in my opinion, not spoilery at all) than listening to coworkers in the lead up to it who were making conjectures based on their knowledge of other Star Wars media and the pre-release materials.
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Basically nothing about Disney's strategy would be wrong, or even harmful, provided copyright terms were something reasonable rather than infinite as a practical matter. By now anyone should have been allowed to make "The Force Awakens" and without paying $4.1 billion for the privilege, either.
True, it could've been easier to use fake credentials from the start
There are routers/switches based on Linux, here is one based on Debian. Unfortunately they still contain proprietary bits thanks to Broadcom.

http://cumulusnetworks.com/
Git does not give strong guarantees for authorship unless you are signing every single commit with GPG (which is only a recently available as of 1.7 or 1.8).
That's not correct. See 14 CFR 61.113 (c) A private pilot may not pay less than the pro rata share of the operating expenses of a flight with passengers, provided the expenses involve only fuel, oil, airport expenditures, or rental fees.

edit: the exceptions of the CFR are (b) through (h) but (c) is the most typical
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It's more than just the name; the first part of the sentence is far more spoiler-y than the name at the end.
> And yet the first thing to come to many children's minds when shown a clown fish or French cuisine is Nemo and Ratatouille.

Is that a bad thing?
They only did well by Pixar once Eisner left (or moreso, forced to leave).
Edit: just realized that most of what I wrote is already mentioned in article.
Unlikely in my opinion. You don't reuse the same backdoor across any products if you don't want to be noticed. Reusing means someone could run some sort of statistical analysis and find a commonality.

Ideally every product you get a backdoor into is one done in a different way so that even if one is found the others won't be found easily.
Thanks, I wish I had a better term than HAL, as that does sound like an OS term. I'm doing more of a middleware layer, focused on the hobbyist market first.

I say Hardware Abstraction because technically, that is what it is doing, abstracting away the hardware level.

My project is at https://github.com/favor/it if you are interested in learning more.
They can't afford Netflix, at least not any time soon. Netflix's market cap is almost a third of Disney's right now.
Lego sells both general bricks and licensed IP characters. Guess which 90% of their consumers prefer?
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If you're worried about the spoiler that some people seem to think is in the article, skip the first paragraph. It merely starts the narrative, it doesn't contain any content pertinent to the discussion of the article beyond that it may or may not contain a spoiler.
Running a restaurant on a small budget is an 'upper-middle class job'?

I agree with you about the current problematic trope of losing a job = destitute for life, but at the same time we seem to have converted every small-businessperson into a '[startup] founder'.
When they stop memory holeing content due to robots.txt, maybe. That's all I use them for, old and/or inaccessible webpages.
The problem with 'enterprisey' corporate applications has more to do with the culture of the developers who build those applications.

Instead of breaking applications apart into distinct services they devs of corporate apps prefer to use OOP to create complex inter-dependent monolithic architectures. APIs for such apps are usually exposed by using a library, so a lot of emphasis is placed on access privileges at the language level (ie private/internal/public) instead of at the interface level (ie pipes/REST).

The problem isn't that the capability doesn't exist, it's that corporations are either unaware or unwilling to experiment with alternative approaches.

For example, one employee could spend half their time collecting data in Excel files from multiple members of a team, organizing it in a presentation-ready format, and emailing it up the chain.

Alternatively, the team members could each have a Google Spreadsheet where they input the data and a timed trigger fires off a bot that processes the data, saves it to a new file, and emails the link up the chain.

Both accomplish the same result. The second is a lot less prone to error/bias, and is also a lot more cost effective. But, to get an organization to adopt the latter approach requires convincing the organization to give up Excel as their canonical tool for organizing data.

I have fought that battle and it's a lost cause. Even when adequate proof of cost/time savings are presented in a business-friendly format, inertia trumps reason.

A company could theoretically hire a developer to deploy a digital assistant to streamline/automate the mundane and repetitive business processes. Except, devs are expensive, in short supply, and it's a really hard sell business leaders on the idea of adopting processes/tools that they don't fully understand.
If the impression you got was "anger is bad and abstract thought is risky," then I'm not sure what movie you watched, but it definitely wasn't Inside Out.

You're mistaken about "anger" being purely a cultural/linguistic construction, and about the authenticity of Inside Out's psychological model in general: the film was inspired by (and admittedly somewhat simplifies) solid psychological research, particularly the work of Paul Ekman and Dacher Keltner, whom Pixar brought on as consultants.
I know what you mean, but sometimes it isn't pure nostalgia. I like hand-drawn non-CG animation a lot, but there aren't a lot of animated movies coming out now that have it. And cultures can change dramatically too. I liked it better when people weren't so distracted by their cellphones. (This is a fairly small change.)
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Sometimes I think making things super "cool" actually inhibits usability. Example: The "Advanced toggle switch" shown here. To me it's completely ambiguous; I have literally no clue whether I am switching the option "On" or "Off". I've encountered exactly this problem in the wild and it may be cool but it's also incompetent.
The books and TV shows and video games and their consumers disagree with you
Pre-release materials are the worst, and often contain awful spoilers. I intentionally avoided them for Star Wars. During the previews when I saw Star Wars, one of the people I went with did his best to ignore the Captain America trailer, because he didn't want it spoiled at all. You watch enough ads/pre-release materials to decide you want to see it, then once you decide to see it, you ignore everything you can.
> I've met people who think the movie helped them "understand themselves better" whether or not that is actually true.

What makes you better qualified than them to understand what's happening in their heads?
I, too, would love to know the answer to that question. I've been seeing them all over in NY, where I understand they're illegal, and have no idea how they're not cop magnets.
I don't like feedly either, but as a backend for apps it works fine, and is free.
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I assure you it will and that's been known since Myer's landmark paper on Subversion a long time ago. Interestingly, I predicted your move in a post earlier (last para):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10767504

Even university students come up with this approach. Status quo seems hopeless against nation states unless companies learn from the past and start doing high assurance at least where it counts. ;)
There is some sort of scam with gift cards. It started out on Craigslist with Walmart Gift Cards. Someone would buy the Gift Card and then before they could use it someone else entered the PIN at walmart.com to buy something using the Gift card. When someone returns an item without a receipt they get a gift card from Walmart. So some people shoplift items, and then return them to Walmart for gift cards and then sell the gift card on Craigslist or eBay for cash.

I imagine there is some sort of Verizon deal in trading in phones for gift cards. But instead of using gift cards to buy newer phones they get older phones for free and then sell the gift card on eBay. They most likely sell the phone as well.

My son and I once bought an iPhone 5S from eBay only to learn the number was blacklisted because the owner didn't pay their Sprint bill. We bought from Gazelle who claimed the phone was legit and unlocked. So people sell their phones when they can't afford to pay their bills, or they trade their phones in for gift cards that they sell.

Being more than face value, well it is a buy it now price, and not an auction. They can sell it for any price they want at buy it now. I doubt anyone would pay for more than the card is worth.

But there is some sort of scam going on with gift cards due to the Christmas season and people buying gift cards and giving them out, or people stealing them from each other, or doing the phone trade-in deals to get gift cards.

Some of the gift cards might even be already used. Buyer beware.
> Why did they store the plaintext instead of a hash?

Since we haven't seen the source it's difficult to speculate but I would venture to guess that the less function calls around your backdoor the better. It may look weird putting the code in another place where hash comparisons may be needed but in the place they put it where it's plaintext must have been harder to notice.
I don't and I probably wouldn't. I would just pirate the content.
Spoiler alert: franchise soft reboots do the same thing as the original franchise because that's what puts ("record" number, in this case) butts in seats.

I just ruined A LOT of movies from here forward.
It's also easy to get copyrighted ebooks for no money. You can even go through the exercise of borrowing them from libraries if your moral principles would be compromised.
Which is why the US original law put a 14-28 year limit on it
GTD principles are universally applicable. The system itself caters to those on the manager schedule. Those on the maker schedule need to create their own system using the principles because nobody else's is going to work, not even other makers'.
http://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances

Individuals are the largest single source of funding, but they don't make up the majority of it, at least for NPR. Corporate sponsorship is the next biggest piece, and while it's not very intrusive, AFAIC the sponsorship messages on NPR are basically ads (very tolerable ads, but still ads).
Not really clever. Format strings have a fairly restricted format; that one can't have all that many bits of entropy. Once the obfuscation method occurred to an attacker, it wouldn't take long to brute force it even if they didn't have a file to search for suggestions. (And now that the idea is out there, I bet any number of hackers, wearing assorted coloured hats, are trying this out on other systems Even As We Speak.)
> Marvel turned the story of a second-tier character, Iron Man, into a blockbuster.

Iron Man was popular enough to have a 90s cartoon made for him. I'm not sure how he is second-tier...
Then I got to the final footnote. That kind of Kafka-esque bullshit is what
keeps me working in startups.

While I agree that big companies can have weird Kafka-esque bureaucracy, they're still generally a lot better at record-keeping than startups. I've never had a big company ask me if I could go without pay for a couple of weeks while they waited to "sort out my payroll paperwork". I did eventually get the back pay, but it was pretty tense for a couple of weeks, as I waited and wondered if I'd made a terrible mistake in quitting my work for a large corporation to go work for this startup.
Heck, use a cryptocurrency for extra plausible deniability on payments.
Disney having a monopoly on children's psychological and cultural associations is a bad thing, yes.
IMO, outside of thrillers or movies that pretty much rely on a major twist, "spoilers" is nonsense. I'm not going to go around telling the plot of a movie to people (that's a dick move), but if a movie cannot stand on its own even if you've been told the last 5 minutes verbatim (or seen them) before seeing the rest, then the movie is probably not worth watching. And there are very few trailers that are that bad.

Again, I'll except trailers for thrillers and the like, those story structures necessarily depend on twists or slow reveals for their ride to be fun or interesting, and a spoiler can absolutely ruin them. But action movies?
Not sure what you'd count as "largely," but this shows about a third of the funding for US public radio coming from individuals: http://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances

And unfortunately, the messages they run to acknowledge corporate and foundation sponsors get more and more ad-like with each passing year.
The Nemo movie created a holocaust of clownfish pets.
I'm not, but neither is Disney, what makes Paul Ekman "the best lie detector in the world" if he can't also provide a universal theory of truth?
There was a previous deal a few months ago where verizon gave $100 for every smartphone traded in in the form of a vzw gift card. (Specifically wireless, not fios/etc applicable). It was ludicrously abused and people were purchasing bulk 1000+ android 2.x, 4.0 prepaids to ship in. If people offer you a large amount in denominations or multiples of 100, 18, or 38 it's probably from that.

IIRC there was a subreddit dedicated to scamming the promotion and "maximising value"
When they say "presumably chosen" who (not the person, but what level of development was taking place) inserted this code? What was the purpose in inserting this password? The use of "chosen" means it was not an oversight?
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'The Unix way' would be an example of too little abstraction.

Sure it's great to have lots of little single purpose applications that can be mixed/matched in a variety of different ways.

But...

If everything in a system is built based on that premise, eventually the OS just becomes a lousy abstraction for a global namespace.

I think it's important to strike a middle ground. Build tools that work well for solving a 'class' of problems, then include public interfaces so they can be re-used for the higher level composition of systems.
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