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Sigh. This thread was all about punishment. A trial is required for the government to punish someone for committing a crime.
Personally, I see Wordpress as a library for implementing Wordpress themes

By that tortured logic, the Linux kernel is a library for implementing programs and thus every closed source driver and every closed source program that run on Linux must be GPL'ed. It's pretty clear that the authors really want themes to be GPL'ed but their intent is not the deciding factor here.
I hate when people say that "voters vote against their own interest" they is a blatant lie. If it was then 51% would enslave 49% so that they'd never have to work again, anything else would be voting against your own interests. Often times, what looks like a negative in the short term will actually be a positive in the longterm and often people have values or understand that slavery is immoral and thus don't vote to enslave others.

As for someone being against national healthcare there are a myriad of objects, the must fundamental being that the federal government is not allowed to be involved unless the constitution is amended.

Also, I agree "joe the plumber" is a tool.
As a former professional poker player and sports bettor (who now works on the 'other side'), I looked at the headline in a different way.

There is an appropriate level of failure in all endeavors which involve risk. If you are winning 100% of your hands which make it to showdown, you are either on a real lucky streak.. or you're not going to showdown often enough. That is to say, you're leaving money on the table in terms of potential profit from hands which are not guaranteed winners.

So, I read the headline as a more polite way of saying that he is cherry-picking only the very best opportunities available to him. I'm not in a position to say one way or another whether that is appropriate to his investment goals.
Yes, I think this unfortunate tribal protection trait is built into human nature. In the past it may have helped, but we end up forming (and violently 'defending') tribes around random things. It seems religion, sports, politics, etc. play on this instinct.
If so, how do you prevent them from using the encrypted password in the same way?
Yet another reason why I am so glad that the Ruby/Rails community standardized on the MIT license: it means that I don't have to care what DHH or Matz thinks about my business model. Just as importantly, it doesn't mean I have to care today what DHH or Matz will think of my business model five years from now.
This article is ludicrously short on technical details -- anyone have more?
Not to be off-topic, but is it just me, or is the name a little, well, funny?
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There is specific wording in the GPL covering that case.

I am not trying to use "tortured logic" to make a point; I really think this is how Wordpress themes work. Without a theme, Wordpress does absolutely nothing. The theme makes calls into Wordpress to add data and display data. Each theme is its own piece of blogging software that uses Wordpress to abstract away common problems. That's a library.

Another "application" that is actually a library is xmonad. It's a library for writing a window manager that works in a certain way, and it's your "config file" that actually uses the library in such a way as to make a window manager. This is not "tortured logic", it is just good software design. (Although in the case of Wordpress, it's not the right design. Themes should not be applications, they should be data.)
The article seems to ignore completely steady couples that have chosen not to get married for some reason, but still have babies.
>IMHO one of the greatest, and most misguided straw men we have as a society is the boogeyman that is the lazy, stupid citizen.

It's a leftover from puritan/calvinist times. Success was a sign that you have God's approval. You might even be one of God's Elect (ie you basically have a contract assuring salvation).
You're right in some sense. It is problematic if we start subsidising people to stay in wealthy/expensive areas, but the alternative also have snags.

I think your Texas exampls is a bit of a red herring. As a general principle employment, housing costs & affluence come together.

Also, there is a big difference between moving in a planned way to take advantage of lower costs or better employment prospects and being driven there in desperation with nothing in your pocket. The latter can lead to longer term unemployment.
Surely we can judge or criticize - the idea is not to pretend that these don't exist, the idea is that it's dangerous to subscribe to it in broad strokes. The poor and homeless have complex situation that really should be dealt case-by-case.

Note also that the notion that we shouldn't give a shit about these people, and just let 'em rot, is also unproductive - in this case the children would never get to school, would never have the opportunity to get educated, succeed, and exit poverty.

I'm really not experienced enough in this field to say what would be the right solution to poverty - I doubt many people are. Whatever it is though, simply pulling the plug on irresponsible people is not helpful.
Reliable female birth control started in the 60s so the green graph should be normalize for that fact and you might get a better correlation.
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I think it's just the size of the audience drawn in by a social news site. HN was an uncommonly polite place when it was first launched and largely populated by people with links to YC. I'd guess the vast majority were programmers or tech startup business types at that point.

As HN grew, it regressed toward the mean. It still has a more respectful and intelligent community than reddit, for example, but there's a more reddit-like tendency to attack than there was in the early days.

My theory is that there's a non-linear relationship between community size and disrespect. Small online communities can maintain a respectful tone, but once disrespect creeps in it tends to provoke a similar response, and a vicious circle is created. The larger the community, the harder it is to suppress those kernels of disrespect.
Maybe it's relative to what other audiences you also encounter, but I haven't found things too bad in the programming blogosphere. Sure, there are jerks, but there are jerks everywhere. My day-job is in academia, and there are a lot of jerks at academic conferences. You're more likely to get someone furious that you're intruding on their area, or critical that you aren't using their preferred methodology or citing their papers, than you are to get someone genuinely interested in understanding what you're doing and why. I actually sometimes find the tech-blog reception friendlier, on the occasions I've ventured some of my academic work online.

Admittedly, it might be worse if I were a celebrity blogger with tons of readers; when only relatively few people read you, generally it's only people who have some reason to like your work that would bother commenting.
Except that a whole lot of other ubiquitous technologies are built upon that implementation triviality, which makes it no longer trivial.
Or the game is rigged, e.g. the billionaire's kid who "magically" manages to succeed in whatever business he tries.

Not saying that this is the case at all, simply pointing out the other logical possibility given your metaphor.
Mark Ramm (maintainer) works for SF. It's not like it's a bad framework.
You forgot Incanter :)
So tempting to say that I disagree just to prove you right...
If history is anything to go by, such a foundation for government can only end in tears.
No, I think you are reading too much into what I wrote about Whole Foods, mainly because I myself am being very critical of Mackey and his firm here.

"holding profit making as important and excluding everything else" is definitely not what should be done. "When Milton Friedman says a company should stay "within the rules of the game" and operate "without deception or fraud," ... he does not mean that a company should put every last nickel on the bottom line every quarter, regardless of the long-term consequences."

I'm merely arguing that it's the profit that results in businesses generating the goodness to the community, not advocating that everyone should drop everything and pursue profit only. Once you're profitable you can choose a way of contributing back to society. But Friedman suggests that corporate philanthropy isn't the only way. "what reason is there to suppose that the stream of profit distributed in this way would do more good for society than investing that stream of profit in the enterprise itself or paying it out as dividends and letting the stockholders dispose of it?"
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I've never seen this Flippa site before, does anyone have experience with it? A few of the sites look really bad, but I can see potential in fixing them up.
Precisely.

For a real filibuster, the ones holding it must be willing to sacrifice their own agenda in order to do so. While the filibuster is going on, no other business can transpire.

I'd like to see sometime the other side call their bluff, and say "Fine, let's have that filibuster. Stand there and start talking. We'll see how far you get before your fat butts are too tired, or you've got some other action on the agenda that you want to work on."
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That sounds fantastic. I had a slight ear-infection the other day and couldn't be bothered going to the doctors for a antibiotics prescription. Even if it is free/cheap (Australia). Being able to skip the doctor part would be great.

Also - We've used the "Nurse on Call" call-centre a couple of times. It's been a good experience. Reassurance if it's not a big deal, and a referral to a doctor (or an auto dial to an ambulance) if it is.
Scriptor, you were misunderstood, I can clearly see that. But something else is interresting here. You seemed to attack someone who is respected in the programming community, as a result the 'defender' gets many upvotes. I would like to now, why people feel compelled to 'defend' the respected guys. Is this cultish?
Capital is one of the things that should have been democratized by computers and the internet but was not. Online stock brokers democratized the other side of it - investing, but nothing happened on the fund-raising part yet. This seems to be about to change.
The system uses natural gas to generate electricity locally. They say it's up to 85% efficient if you also use the heat it generates to heat your home. Modern large scale natural gas-powered plants seems to be about 60% efficient according to my quick Google searches.

If this thing is cheap enough it could be worthwhile, but only in cold climates where you can use the generated heat.
Of course it will make them wiser -- in the exact same way bailing out the banks has put an end to CDOs.
It's interesting that the structure of Wordpress affects whether the themes are derivative works. Maybe it's the PHP-soup style of HTML interspersed with PHP function calls that creates the situation you describe. The same system written so that the themes are stored as lists of colors and dimensions to be interpreted by the blog software would keep the themes as non-derivative works.
There are isolated cases where clinical decision support can work well. The best example of this are the ones that analyze prescriptions for dangerous combinations or mistaken quantities (too much for age, weight, etc...).

The reason they haven't caught on in the general case is because medicine is full of unique edge cases, and like much of AI, teaching a machine about all of them becomes exceptionally difficult.
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I don't know the details, I just googled "Russia alcoholism deaths" to get that figure.
The unemployment rate in the US peaked out at about 2.5x what it is now in the Great Depression. Even now the US is the US isn't really in that bad of shape for a developed nation; it's about 2% higher than most EU countries.

The US has just had very low unemployment for the last 15 years or so, so it feels more dramatic. It was actually higher than now at one point in the early 80s.
That is a bit of an oversimplification. There are many living embodiments of people who failed not for lack of God's grace, but rather self destructive behaviors, poor life decisions, and lack of motivation. Others see this and make judgments accordingly.
His claim that IDG execs knew the whole time is pretty explosive. That makes the issue a LOT more about their own integrity as an organization (but I have no reason to believe that claim).
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It's not a matter of time, there already are drone soldiers. They aren't fully autonomous yet but that's just a matter of further systems integration and software development.
The wall wart hardware is the SheevaPlug from Globalscale Technologies
http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-2-globalscale-techn.... TonidoPlug adds software to the SheevaPlug hardware.

FWIIW, Globalscale has a new wall wart version coming in April, the GuruPlug
http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-4-guruplugs.aspx
As someone who generally likes the GPL, it's frightening that the line is so blurry. I have written and distributed libraries under the GPL because I think it's reasonable for me to insist that people who find bugs or make improvements give them back to me. But I don't think it's reasonable for me to insist that any user of the library release the rest of their application to me. In my mind at least, an application doesn't seem like a derivative work of a library.
Is it just me or is the writing style oddly insubstantial? I can't put my finger on it.
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lambda and map will be there. reduce will be moved to functools and filter will be removed.
It might be as easy as modularizing your projects after the initial conceptualizing the project before beginning the programming, That second step makes starting, stopping and debugging the programming a lot easier. Break the project in small separate parts, then schedule to program each part without thinking about the larger final project. Before you know it, projects done.
I live in San Antonio and it isn't a red herring. You can rent in a nice area of San Antonio for $399-$500/month which would leave her plenty of money to get a used car even with poor credit. (Example property: http://bit.ly/c5pJQb )

As of December 2009 numbers San Antonio is 3rd in the nation with only a 6.8% unemployment rate. ( http://www.bls.gov/web/laulrgma.htm ) After living here for a year if she still can't find work as a Texas resident community college is almost free.

People get to a point where they're afraid to do anything. It isn't that they don't want to improve their life but the stress of the situation shuts them down and they can't act. This isn't something easy to fix.
Comments are disproportionately critical and/or argumentative, but that's because it's a waste of bandwidth to post a comment saying, "I agree!" That's what the up-arrow is for.
A few weeks ago, Antirez added 2 awesome features that made Redis an excellent candidate...

You guys are incredibly brave for deploying and leveraging any feature to your infrastructure which is a few weeks old.
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I don't blog about programming for different reasons...

I find that any really interesting programming problem is too complex to be reduced to prose in a form digestible in someone's 10-minute blog break. Yeah, I could post about the umpteenth-zillion Sudoku solver, or about this tricky Haskell problem I solved - but if it's general enough to be broadly interesting, it's too shallow to be enlightening, and if it's deep enough to be useful, it's probably too specific to have a widely interested readership. Worse, I feel that by participating in the blogosphere, I'm deluding myself into thinking that these information soundbites are worth anything, and taking up my attention with little factoids that distract me from getting actually interesting work done.

I find that the value of writing about programming is in the "Why?" and the "Roads not taken" of software systems. So I keep a development journal of my personal projects. At the very least, it keeps me from revisiting design decisions I've already decided. But this doesn't need to be public to serve its purpose, and I've found that making it public anyway is too distracting to maintain forward momentum on the projects. Instead, I open things up after the project has succeeded or failed, like I did with Diary of a Failed Startup and like I'll hopefully do with this programming language I'm developing. No, it's not the ego boost that constant, instantaneous feedback gives you - but that ego boost becomes a drug that keeps you from functioning when people (as the article points out) turn on you, as they inevitably do.
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They're not that complicated. Look around; read how others have summarized things; do the same as other companies that haven't been sued.

If you're in an industry around intellectual property there's no excuse for not acquiring the base level of competence and understanding that allows you, the developer, to tell whether or not a certain open-source license allows you to do what you want to do or not.
Well maybe I live in another world but I think more or less the opposite. You can write about programming and people will love it, and in our industry there are a great deal of people that are at the same time not gross and with good arguments. But...

there are many ways to write about programming: one is to actually write about programming, that is, posts containing some experience to share about some technology, or a pattern one writer noticed about programming languages that is interesting, or how to implement such algorithm in a better way, or just this-is-how-I-made-this-stuff and so forth. People tend to love this stuff, if you search the HN / progreddit / slashdot archives.

Then there is another way to write about programming: the speculation. A few well known blogs really master this art, as they are able to run successful programming blogs for years without actually ever really writing about programmings. In this blogs you'll find a mix about obvious things narrated in an inspirational way, a few rants about why people should do A instead of B, and so forth.

My impression is that the latter kind of blogs, not really designed to share what you think, but more to think about what you could share to be interesting and cool, are the ones more often subject to criticisms.
It's rather ironic that the submitter went and changed the title, isn't it?
IMO, it reads almost like a fictional news interview for a TV show. :/
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Blogs don't usually have up arrows.
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Goldman Sachs and other big banks aren't just pocketing the trillions we gave them to rescue the economy - they're re-creating the conditions for another crash
Yeah I started out feeling this way, but sometimes you have to break stuff to get a good final result. Once he hits 1.0 hopefully weavejester will be less prone to such massive breakage ;-)
I'm not sure what you mean "there," I am in Melbourne.

Melbourne is actually not that bad, for Australia. Student isn't the worst situation to be in either. Student usually pay rent and many Universities will guarantee it (BTW, you can ask your Uni to guarantee your rent to make you application look better).

Some parts of Australia have homelessness of people that just can't get a rental. They have a bad rental history or seem dodgy for whatever reason (receiving welfare). They literally cannot get
That's even less necessary than having a lawyer review every 'terms of service' you agree to when installing software or registering for a website.

The licenses are a few pages. Most is boilerplate. Only a few concepts (mainly copyleft and some of the newer patent-related clauses) are tricky -- but you're still going to be safe if you follow the example of the many, many other reusers of open-source software.

Really, this question indicates more idle worry than is justified. What small companies have been screwed because they misunderstood the finer points of an open source license?

The companies that have gotten in trouble are those that have tried to stretch the licenses in new ways, or had negligent developers who didn't even notice (or actively hid) that they'd lifted open source code.

Seriously, if you're literate, smart enough to write software, and confident enough to start a business, this stuff is easy to figure out.
I didn't mean that it was untrue, just that it's not indicative of a wider reality.
I understand your argument, the basic gist of which seems to be that we shouldn’t feel sorry for, or help people who have fallen on hard times due to their own irresponsible behavior. They should have to live with the consequences, and especially if they still have it better than others who do act responsibly as you feel is the case with the Eisens.

You know, there are people out there who feel that we shouldn’t help those of have contracted AIDS through subsidizing drugs or health care when the person got the virus due to risky behavior. I’ve heard people say that although they feel sorry for someone who contracted HIV through a blood transfusion, there is no way they are going to feel sorry for “some fag who got it from romps in a bathhouse”. Hopefully that sounds abhorrent to you, but it really is not far off the logic you are using in the case of the Eisens.

Or think of the Katrina victims, which hit the impoverished the hardest. City officials knew there were problems with the levies, and some of the victims behaved in a pretty reprehensible manner (shooting a police/rescue workers, looting, etc.) But you know, despite the clear path of blame, I don’t think the right thing for the rest of the country to do would have been to stand there with arms folded saying “It’s your own damn fault, you fix it! Don’t look to me for a handout!”

I know there are people out there who are suffering due to their own irresponsibility, and yes, it is hard to feel sorry for them at times. But what do we do? Let them die?

I am not proud to say it, but I once felt the same way as you do about people like the Eisens. But then someone helped me understand that poverty and disease, no matter who is at fault, ultimately effects all of us (e.g. when my neighborhood starts to crumple, my own house starts to lose value.) And at the end of the day, we all make mistakes, and what helps us progress is education and a helping hand, not an “I told you so” lecture.
Exactly, are people like Krugman going to accept more than half their audience disappearing?
How is Texas a red herring?

http://www.forbes.com/2008/10/10/cities-buck-economy-forbesl...

Summary: Texas cities are among those with the best employment outlooks, and are among those where median incomes support a higher standard of living.

EDIT: I read your other reply now. There is a spectrum of income to cost of living ratios across the country. We should encourage people who can't afford their current location to move to places with better ratios.
Are you saying people will "like sex less and less as time goes on" because they're less likely to have an unintentional pregnancy?

Yes. It's the Red Queen effect here; your mind works with incentives that one must not be able to permanently conquer. If happiness is too easily attained with fake thrills, you end up with contented humans who don't reproduce as much as the ones who find it harder to be happy and therefore work harder to make more babies.

I agree the free love thing is great, and it will remain vestigially for a long time, but it isn't going to be driving reproduction like it was before the twentieth century.

I agree the logic is a little tortured, but that's evolutionary biology for you.