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I disagree--I have to either leave my house or wait a few days for Netflix/Amazon to rent/purchase a DVD, but I can fire up BitTorrent 24/7 and have access to almost as many movies within minutes.
"Typing the name of a popular site is unambiguous and it should redirect the user to that site."

Firefox has done this for a very long time. It uses Google. Most other modern web browsers behave similarly.
I think you will be genuinely surprised how little customers care about price relative to other things, even in a market where one suspects that price would be the only differentiator. (I mean, come on, if you're shopping around for an N% discount at Best Buy "clearly" you want the best N, right? Three years ago I thought that teachers were "clearly" universally as stingy as their reputation suggested.)

Trying to differentiate yourself primarily on price will give you ulcers because you'll always be one basis point away from losing to the next guy with more stupid money to burn (e.g. a funded competitor who can afford to have their spread go negative to gain market share, because their objective isn't to run profitably but rather to goose metrics then flip), and you'll attract disproportionately pathological customers who will be loyal to you only as long as no one else offers a better deal. Pathological customers will find every possible way to botch the transaction and blame you for it. (I tried using your Apple B's card to buy an iPod and it didn't work!! YOU THIEF!!!)
Alex, I'm sorry if I came across as a supporter of such trickery, rather the opposite.

Apologies, that was definitely not my intention.

But just like Castro was propped up by the former USSR at the time of his ascendency, so was Tito, and Saddam was actually a puppet of the US.
Since you can use gconftool shell command to get & set key values, it seems consistent with the unix philosophy. It is actually easier to use in a script than to parse a text file.
For tree level operations, one can use the standard directory commmands like mv, cp inside the ~/.gconf directory. gconf-edit is a tool you use only if you want to. One could actually write a simple emacs mode for doing the same thing.
Fair enough, I should have been more precise with my language.

Section 1983 says that a violation of a constitutional right gives rise to a civil remedy for damages. A violation of the Fourth Amendment right is such a violation of a constitutional right. If the school officials, being officers of the state, did not comply with the rule in Kyllo, then they would be in violation of the Fourth Amendment, so they could be liable for damages under section 1983.

The officials could defend on the grounds of qualified immunity. However, to win on this defense, the officers must show that the law was not "clearly established." The argument I would make is that Kyllo is clearly established, so qualified immunity would not apply.

The Wikipedia article on section 1983 provides some examples of its uses:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_1983
In the book "Superfreakenomics", IV is shown to be actively developing insanely simple/improbable solutions for hurricanes (by cycling warmer ocean water with cooler water using tires and concrete), global warming (by pumping sulphur into the statosphere), and malaria (with female mosquito detecting lasers). The book protrayed them as developing prototypes for those "inventions", so patents seem fitting.
Whatever it is in a culture that leads desperate people to decide to kill strangers before commiting suicide has far more to do with the culture than with human DNA.
I agree with you, he definitely is. And that basically makes him the next Saddam.
Agreed, hard to read text like that.
Looks like it should belong on a kindle.
He's not saying "Open source doesn't like the help". He's saying "more people end up working in lead in activities to software development in commercial settings than in open source settings".

Here is the article that the linked article is responding to http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/72144-the-impact-of-open...

He's not saying "OSS is bad". He's saying "OSS for whatever reason is 99% white and asian males, so if that becomes a large place for introducing people to programming, then we've got troubling diversity issues upcoming"

One of Dr. Guzdial's big pushes has always been computing "inclusiveness", that being, getting everyone interested in computing. Here is a comment buried on one of the blogs in question by Guzdial:

>Kirby, I'm not claiming that open source doesn't desire LPP. It simply isn't happening for people not White or Asian or male. Whatever is happening to draw in a more diverse crowd, to get a more diverse group involved in the periphery -- it isn't working. There are lots of incentives for women and minorities to get involved in commercial software development, but that 24% number is pretty paltry. That's why efforts like BPC and NCWIT exist, to try to figure out how to go beyond those incentives to get the diverse workforce that will lead to better and more innovative designs.
Article: "CardPool makes money off the spread between buying and selling cards."

Forgive me for my ignorance, but how does end up making you money? The way I see it, you can't sell more cards than you buy, and if you pay more to get the cards (90%) than you sell them for (70%) then aren't you facing a net loss overall?
I think seldo's comment above captures it. What you said is true, but you also can't force Apple to give you a development environment for their device and let you sell apps in their private store. They have offered to do so anyway, so long as you keep it to yourself. I would bet that many SDKs for closed devices (e.g. game consoles) are under similar restrictions. Can anyone comment on that?
As I said to him in an email, the code for papers being released along with the papers is a big one for me.

Interviews with more programmers than just the notable ones in Coders at Work, and also particular domain sections.

If I did something particularly cool with robots, I could publish a paper in an academic journal and have it be all hoidy-toidy and mathy and shit, and then publish the code and all the "yeah there was the math but I really just tweaked the config files" stories in GQ.

It could be the same with all the interesting implementation research, like graphics.
I've always been paranoid that the people I work for would turn on the video camera on my laptop and just observe me work...
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Except she seems to argue that's because she's not good at the Web specific technicalities. She also says she could respond positively to "I just need you to do the .psd file designs" requests, but believes the whole process should be handled by one person/team.

A good print designer should realize that tiny gray serif text on white wouldn't be particularly reader friendly, as much as a Web-only designer should know that Comic Sans will suck just as much on a billboard.
A tidbit of advice I got from a startup lawyer is that you want to provide value throughout the company's life. Apparently a lot of angels get screwed down the road (post VC) because they are no longer playing a big role. The founders, however, are often still playing an important role and get additional grants (especially if the founders are already fully vested after 3 or 4 years).
If you still have a balance left of the loan when you die, then by the time value of money you have actually never paid it back. Plus with inflation it seems very unlikely that you will ever have to pay back the real value of the loan if you spread the payments over your lifetime.
My school started shortly before 9, but I'll never understand high schools that started classes at 8am or earlier. That's just too early.

When I was older I attended a commuter college and our 8am classes meant I had to be up before 6 to get there on time, but what they actually meant was that I usually didn't show up, and when I did show up I was too tired to really pay attention.
Except that without any editorial text accompanying the two quotes, two readings are possible: "here's the motto of a good system and a bad system," OR: "everyone's heard of the moronic motto of this system, but the current system is just terrible in its own different way." Reading the whole thing my impression was that the second interpretation was what he was getting at.
I believe it's because you basically handed a remotely activated camera to a teenager in the implicit knowledge that said remotely activated camera will be taken into the teenagers room where they're going to at some point be naked.

Placing a camera in someone's room is akin to placing it in a bathroom, because at some point someone's getting naked and how a group of adults didn't comprehend this speaks worlds about the quality of education provided by the school in question.

There's also the very concerning matter that 50% of the students are likely male, and ~90% of males access porn through the internet. This means that 45% of students likely used this computer to look at porn, which likely means at some point 45% of the students had their penis' out in front of the laptop in question, which has a remotely activated camera on it. This isn't even discussing the 1/3 of women who access porn via the internet. This isn't even discussing the fact that a percentage of these students likely used the cameras for video-sex with their partners (personal experience on that one).

I'm sorry this is either gross ignorance that should be as severely punished as possible or it's exactly as bad as this thread of comments has taken it, and it should be as severely punished as possible. Regardless the potential was there to use the system for child pornography, and if there are no records that any compromising pictures were taken, then the school and its board members got exceptionally lucky.
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This guy took an unnecessarily long paragraph to express his central point, but it breaks down pretty simply.

College student-loan debt has revived the spirit of indenture for a sizable proportion of contemporary Americans. ... Because of its unprecedented and escalating amounts, it is a major constraint ... binding individuals for a significant part of their future work lives. Although it has more varied application, less direct effects, and less severe conditions than colonial indenture did...and it does not bind one to a particular job, student debt permeates everyday experience with concern over the monthly chit and encumbers job and life choices. ... [Lenders subsist] off the desire of those less privileged to gain better opportunities and enforc[e] a control on their future labor. ...the planners of the modern U.S. university system...promoted equal opportunity in order to build America through its best talent. The rising tide of student debt...counteracts the meritocracy. ...the current system of college debt ... leads those less privileged to bind their futures.

I think you can meaningfully divide student borrowers into two groups. One group consists of those who reasonably estimate a positive ROI on their student loans. For these people, it may be somewhat troubling that you can't discharge the debt, but it seems at least somewhat fair since you can't divest yourself of the education, either. These students have no rational reason to complain: they made a financial investment and rationally expect to profit. In their case, the meritocracy is not only intact, but even helped by their ability to raise an investment.

The other group consists of those who can't rationally estimate a positive ROI on their student loans. If you're really serious about wanting that education, it's your call whether to blow tens of thousands of dollars on it and realize you will never repay your investment. You have to know you're impoverishing yourself for the sundry benefits of spending years of your life getting a college degree. Maybe it's still worth it. Maybe it's not. But if it isn't, it's not the lenders who are at fault, it's the cultural expectation to get a college degree, even in a field that doesn't increase your earning power. The lenders may benefit, but so do the universities, which get a glut of Ph.D.'s to string along for cheap adjunct positions and millions in tuition. (http://chronicle.com/article/The-Big-Lie-About-the-Life-of/6...) (This very glut also means that, as an example, the humanities have at least the potential for greater meritocracy, in practice.)

Student loans--and for that matter, colonial indentures--are probably a great opportunity for those with the capability to make something either out of an education or out of a trip across the ocean. And they're probably worthwhile for someone who seriously believes their life would be improved by a stint in college or a change of continent, even if it doesn't directly pay off. So I'm reluctant to criticize the system just because it has certain dangers.
Well not only could every board member potentially face criminal charges, similar for every teacher who was in on this, but the entire school (or multiple if it's owned by a group) is financially liable, likely to the tune of tens to hundreds of thousands per person. This shit could easily shut this school down, and if that's the least that happens it's a grand achievement.
You could try watching SVT (Swedish) at http://svtplay.se/t/126795/os-sandningar ('okommenterad' means 'without commentary')
It's not the SDK that you pay for, it's the beta SDK that you pay for (along with cert signing and app distribution). The 3.2 SDK is currently only available for paid developers. Everyone else gets 3.1 and the docs are available without a login. I understand it's a moot point when people are violating the NDA left and right, but it's supposed to be that the information in the 3.2 SDK about the iPad is all confidential info.

It's confidential in theory, it's just nearly unenforceable in practice. It reeks of evil because it's only enforceable via fear.
> The law doesn't say government agents who engage in child pornography should be punished more severely than regular citizens.

We know. We think that the law is wrong.

Note that DAs tend to give their fellow govt employees, especially police, a pass, so in practice the law is easier on govt employees. It's a trifecta of tribal, lobbying by govt employees, and "one hand washes the other".

> It has nothing to do with the government employee being more 'important' than the common man; that's just an unintended side effect.

Actually, it's quite intended. Look into the history of how those laws came about. They were lobbied for by govt employees.

And then there's the fact that DAs tend to go hard whenever a fellow govt employee is a victim. It's the same trifecta.
What are they trying to prevent?

They are trying to prevent becoming known as the phone which has fart sounds and jiggling mammaries available at the click of a button.
just another smug navel-gazing twenty-something who is engaging the age-old conceit of false humility

since she's already got a full schedule of clients, she's decided to offer up this pithy little bon mot of narcissism veiled as honest advice

let me summarize the next ten thousand blog posts that will emerge from the tumblrverse and their brethren:

"pffffft" (make eye rolling gesture)
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> I think that the point that was attempting to come across in that post was that just because something is in a contract doesn't mean that it's enforceable.

That may be the point, but it isn't relevant to this situation because NDAs on SDKs are legally enforceable. You don't have a legal right to an SDK.
You say that like it's not something they should be proud of.
We looked at some of Jessica Hische's lettering work in a typography class I took at a local art college. I believe it was some Tiffany & Co displays she did. Her designs are obviously of unusually high quality and beauty.

That type of work really is much different than web design. It's more like illustration. Her own personal style shows through most pieces. It must take a huge amount of time to produce one of these.

It would really be a waste of her artistic ability to do traditional online work, though I can see it for particular branding and logo design applications. You can see Tiffany did exactly that on pieces 8-10 which are web samples.
I have to commend that turn of phrase, "stupid phone". It reminds me of "land line phone", not a term that even existed until there was enough of a viable alternative to distinguish itself from.
Most of TC's ads are sold on a monthly basis, not CPM, anyway.
yeah. I'm actually fine with them getting rid of most of those trash apps, but if they want to do selection, then they should put some thoughts behind like "is this sex playing on the sexuality of its content or it's just for real artistic reasons?"
How old are you? There's been plenty of political discourse all through time. That's how this country was founded and nearly split up. Just look at the 70's. I'm not that old and even I know how much protest was going on at that time. It's just that the fire is being fanned by mainstream media and the growth of the Internet, and that gives it more visibility than before. The Teabaggers are a perfect example of this.
Yea.. I'm rather surprised by this stupid move. I was expecting them to relax their guidelines over time, not tighten them. Now, though I was actually excited about the iPad, I'm going to invest time into Android. I'll start by porting my "Hot Weather Girls" app, which just got knocked out by Apple.
You can promise to keep a secret. People do it all the time, sometimes informally, sometimes in writing. That's all 'confidential' means.
> If raging population and economic growth don’t cause important resources to be depleted

Someone else talked about substitutes so I'll point out that "raging population and economic growth" doesn't imply that you're anywhere near depletion. It merely says that you're headed that way.

Consider atmospheric O2. We've got billions more people today than we had 200 years ago, but we're still not anywhere near depletion.

All the numbers and units matter, not just derivatives, and especially not derivatives without units.
if the "smart, disgruntled" were so smart, they would figure out how to get what they want so as to be no longer disgruntled.
getting frustrated with life and throwing your hands up isn't smart.
I personally don't think it is, but my opinion is irrelevant. More relevant is that Apple's brand image is that "We're elegant technology for discerning rich people like you. You deserve us because you're better than people who don't use Apple products."

Low-brow stuff doesn't have a place in this brand image.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramophone_record#Stereo_sound

While the stylus moves horizontally when reproducing a monophonic disk recording, on stereo records the stylus moves vertically as well as horizontally. In fact, prior to the full development of the 45/45 system, the first stereo cutting heads were made by bolting together one lateral cut head and one vertical cut head sharing a common stylus holder. Feeding the driving coils with suitably phased material achieved the 45/45 groove.
An example of one such vendor was posted here a few days ago: http://www.bannedbygaussian.org/

More at:
http://www.eff.org/wp/dangerous-terms-users-guide-eulas
I think that the law would still hold detonating a bomb in an unoccupied building as 'dangerous to human life' if you didn't follow all of the safety precautions that a real building demolition would have to follow. If you put a bomb in an abandoned building at set to detonate in 2 hours and then flee the scene, there's not guarantee that someone won't enter the building in the interim.
Yes, I read the article a few times since it was released.

A knowledgeable reader like you or I realizes the travesty of an organization of rich people sitting around dreaming up ideas so they can assign a team to document for patent. But you have to interpret the article to see that angle, because the extent of Malcolm Gladwell's interpretations are the problems of eponymous attribution and the message that "you can do it too", which comes off disingenuously:

"The unavoidable first response to Myhrvold and his crew is to think of them as a kind of dream team, but, of course, the fact that they invent as prodigiously and effortlessly as they do is evidence that they are not a dream team at all. You could put together an Intellectual Ventures in Los Angeles, if you wanted to, and Chicago, and New York and Baltimore, and anywhere you could find enough imagination, a fresh set of eyes, and a room full of Varleys and Pfaffs."

Yes, he's right, we can setup a patent mill too! (I know, that's not fair, he means that we could setup an invention workshop too, but that's not what we typically see I.V. as.)

On the other hand, there's Dean Kamen. Now that's an invention workshop! Bravo!
See Also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1136101
So which organization was behind the Oklahoma City bombing?
But that's not the system proposed - what you're describing is already what we have - i.e., pay it off over however long period and then you're done.

What I was responding to was the notion that instead of signing up to owe a particular sum, you sign up to owe a portion of all future income - and thus remove the risk of being bankrupted by your student loan (e.g., if you're out of work, you owe nothing, because you make nothing).

The trick here is that by removing your risk from that end, you are committing to essentially an unlimited mountain of debt. No lender will give you an easy out from a loan without a steep downside on the other end - like a big, nasty private income tax for the rest of your life.
Open source seems to do this, doesn't it? Once upon a time there were dozens of Unices, and now there's just Linux. (Which isn't even a proper Unix.) There's Mac OS X, but that seems to serve a different market than the traditional Unix (now Linux) market.
AKA how to incentivise your users to spam for you. Mildly clever.
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> Or perhaps: the users don't raise their voices to have something better?

I think that probably most people don't realize there is something better, and can't even really tell the difference between typical word processor output and nice TeX-style optimal line breaks. It seems to me most people don't care that much about typography.
I've been a fan of Jessica's work for a while.

This article is great and wish more people would read this–especially ones who think graphic designer == web designer.

Of course, Jessica is great at what she does (possibly the best). She doesn't need other work. Those who are mediocre at one at it have to take on other jobs (and are usually mediocre at that too).
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There are lots of ways to do it.

For example, the company could be set up so 10% of the company is owned by folks who have type A stock and 90% by owners of type B. The company can issue additional type B stock without issuing more of type A stock. That dilutes the value of each type B share without affecting the value of type A shares.
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I think that the point is that the government selectively applies the 'terrorism' label when it benefits them (i.e. using the 'terrorism' label to get records to bolster a case against criminals that are certainly not terrorists).
Really? No equipment-related hobbies?

My list has at least 15 items that are basically dedicated to hiking. (And I could probably do with a couple more on there)
Bah. A real hacker would have used a .me domain, eliminating the .com
Sorry, I totally missed that. Thank you for pointing it out.