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The server communication will probably be encrypted. But yea, it will be cracked and the cracked version will offer a better user experience than paying customers get.
To be honest I'll never be a console gamer like I used to be a PC gamer. As it was I was an FPS gamer all the way and a controller can never match keyboard and mouse combo for any of those games. Another thing that consoles can't beat is playing age of empires 2 or starcraft on LAN with a bunch of friends

Though I did buy a PS3 for mgs4, street fighter 4, and hopefully God of War 3 and FF13 and mainly used for Blu Ray
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How can the iPhone SDK be NDA'd?
It's certainly a good idea, but they're not the first to come up with it. Plasticjungle.com seems to have been around since 2006 and looks very similar. A quick Google search for "sell gift cards" reveals several other similar sites as well.
Eeeagh, silverlight. Is there no other option?
There was probably nothing like 9/11 1000 years ago. Technology is a lever, improving it increases the power of small groups.
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Performance is heavily dependent on use cases. PyPy is not compatible with libraries written in C while this is a core design decision for Unladen Swallow.

To use a car analogy, PyPy is a race car that is not street legal, while Unladen Swallow is an European sports coupé that is slightly faster than the mild-mannered CPython sedan we all know and love while using somewhat more fuel.

As far as car analogies go, this one looks pretty good.
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I found the same to be true. BioShock 2 was the first PC game I have bought in quite a while. I did not even know about Windows Live games until last week, and was really surprised my ageing video card held up well :)

The experience will probably have me go back to consoles for good. Too bad: the controls for shooters are so much better on the PC.
> I just write the document and the computer does what computers are good at doing.

Which is: Interpret your instructions very literally, so you still need to go over your document carefully to fix problems like urls running off the edge of the page?

Smart-arse joke aside, I agree with you that LaTeX is generally great, but it's not perfect, and sometimes it is difficult to make it do what you want.
But then you're consenting to a relationship with each of those friends. They're gonna think you really want it. Plus, this app only allows one match at a time.
It will be on a separate branch until they have achieved some of the speed and memory goals - so far, most of the work was in the plumbing. I am optimistic.

Maybe, just maybe, Plone 6 will run on top of Zope 3 and Python 3.

One can dream...
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This seems like it will break down badly:

- I'm poor, I need to take a student loan and get educated if I ever hope to get out of my poverty and jump into the middle class. I sign away X% of all future income.

- I've graduated and luckily have a decent job. I pay X% of my income monthly to the government (isn't that just a tax?), and thus my family's quality of life suffers, in particular compared to rich families who never had to take the loan to begin with. In fact, by the time I die I would've paid this loan back several times over.

- I cannot afford to bankroll my children's educations, because I am X% poorer than someone else who has this job but never had the loan. My children will end up signing away X% of their income also for life.

This smells like a recipe for increasing the wealth gap by drastic amounts.
These were around for years before Facebook. Most of them just used email. I bet this site is just someone reliving their teen years, because in my teen years these sites were a dime a dozen.
Well, in TechCrunch's case they just finished having a much longer than 110-minute outage because somebody hacked the hell out of them. Wordpress would have to do this a few more times before it was a worse job than they were managing on their own.
Don't you think the FBI is going to be looking through his website? I wouldn't be surprised if they poked around in other servers while they were at it.
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"As long as there is no indication that there were sexual motives, than no accusations of sexual motives should be made."

I think the argument is that secretly videotaping children within their own homes is inherently sexual. And even if it isn't, this seems like a clear violation of Roe v Wade.
The annual payment on my Swedish student loans is calculated from my income (it's 4 or 5%) and when I hit 65, the debt is forgiven. They still accumulate interest though, so it's not until last year, 12 years later (but on grad student/postdoc salary) that I've started paying off even the interest.

Apparently the government realized they will be stuck with a huge hit around 2035, because they have since changed the terms of student financing to constitute a larger fraction straight grants, but if you do take out loans, the terms are much more strict.
Or, you could have just phoned the place and asked whoever picked up the receiver.

While I agree that restaurants could do well to have iPhone accessible store hours, I don't think it's totally unrealistic to phone in and politely ask the maître d’.
To be fair, the whole post is about how she is not a web designer. She implicitly acknowledges her shortcomings in that regard.
You're asking how it can be confidential? It's confidential because you signed a contract agreeing that it's confidential.

Sure, if you got everyone who bought your book to sign a contract agreeing not to write bad reviews, then you could potentially sue them if they violate that contract. Indeed I'm aware of several hardware and software products that at least claim that by using them you agree not to post bad reviews or benchmarks.
You should write that on the creator's failin.gs.
I know but it's a lot harder to have solid security on Windows than on Linux, right?
Seems like crowds trample folks at Walmart during Christmas season pretty often.
And those people might default. But factoring that risk in is a bank's job.
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It's possible to tail recursion on the JVM, especially with a statically typed language (see Scala for a classical approach, see Clojure's loop/recur for a slightly different approach). Not tail call elimination and mutual recursion, however. That is, however, if you want the compiler to output code that's fully backwards compatible with Java (which is what Scala and Clojure do).
Creators'. And noted ;)
Finally! I've been waiting for more decisions like this ever since I bought my iPrude Don't Touch!
And why on Earth would someone think he has the One True Way of storing configuration in a file?

I see nothing wrong in each program storing configuration data in the most convenient way for them.

For Gnome applications there could be standard APIs. And, as a bonus, they should store the configuration data in plain text files according to whatever format Gnome finds convenient, but not making us use specific tools to edit it, much like the Founding Fathers of Unix didn't tie config files to ed.

Which is how GConf will look in 10 years.
> The real question is probably: why not just feed it to pigs or goats, the traditional solution?

The fish are hungry, that's why not. Aquaponics takes care of the fish waste and plant food, but there is still the question of fish food. Nom nom.
Did Apple just ban sexual content from the AppStore?
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People often repeatedly ask you for things which are bad ideas for you to offer, though. Web design is, ahem, being quickly commoditized at all but the highest levels. If you command a good wage as a print designer, and fill as many hours as you care to sell, why would you start at the ground floor in something you're not good at competing with more skilled, more experienced, more technical folks willing to work for $15 an hour?

Similarly, I will probably never implement my #1 feature request ("How can I make cards with pictures?") If anyone here thinks they can bang that out in the proverbial weekend a) if you do I will send you customers and b please tell me if the support burden ends up being as hellacious as I expect it will be.
You can't change reality by signing a contract. If you signed a contract saying it was directions to build a time machine, would that make it so?
If I take melatonin I find I wake up still feeling quite groggy the next morning...or if I take less than a pill (i.e. half) I feel like nothing is different.

Furthermore, it would make sense to have the body behaving naturally. Suppose, because I'm 6'3" 215 lb I need a different amount of melatonin than a 5'5" 115 lb girl. It would be hard to work out exactly what I needed versus the girl, and a better idea would be to let the body do it itself.
I don't know if I agree that web design is more complex than print design. It's just completely different.
You know, if this is so common, it would seem to me to be an opportunity to setup a common keyword search system for major sites. If everybody is typing in "Facebook login" with the intended semantics meaning "taking me to the facebook login page" then it might make sense to use this information. Tailor the systems to the user's semantics instead of making the users learn new semantics.

> The idea of navigating by URL is so fundamental to how the Web works that it’s hard to imagine abstracting it away.

I have to disagree. For a very long time people got around quite nicely on AOL with nothing more than instructions to type "go facebook" and they'd be taken to the appropriate content. There's no reason that browsers couldn't be configured to point to a similar service by default. Typing the name of a popular site is unambiguous and it should redirect the user to that site.

Kinda like a meta-DNS.
You make an excellent point there, and I have to admit that I don't have a good answer. Your username is apt, and I wish I could double up-vote you for reminding me of the outliers on the downside.

The cold-hearted realist in me says "Well, some people are going to struggle and fail in life, ulimately dying in debt and this is just a different mechanism that manifests in that sliver of folks with stupendously bad luck."

The compassionate human in me says "There ought to be a way to let people not have to suffer the rest of their life for stupendously bad luck when they were young."

The realist then worries about how to make that almost as gaming-proof as the current system where you have to die or at least fake your own death and create a new identity (either of which would "game" any system).

I would go so far as to donate to a charity setup to payoff the loans in those exceptional cases you describe (ideally at a negotiated discount, reflecting that those loans were unlikely to be paid anyway). Perhaps requiring that the person declare "normal" bankruptcy as well, and then that "qualifies" them to apply for a hearing of some sort before this new charity's board where they can state their case and answer questions. The forcing of "normal" bankruptcy as a qualifier is intended not to punish the individual but rather to ensure that it's not undertaken lightly and that the charity is hearing few frivolous cases.

You ahve shaken my belief system enough (in a good way), that you may have literally given me a direction to focus my future charitable endeavors. Thank you...
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You are assuming that the employer doesn't care about improved workflows, and also that the employer has already evaluated git thoroughly.

Ever considered that you might be wrong on both counts?
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I disagree with his methods, but I kind of sympathize with the guy. He is disgruntled that 1. The rules are different for different entities. (big companies get bailed out but individuals don't) 2. The law isn't consistently applied. (i.e It is arbitrary) and 3. When he got audited he felt like being mummified by red tape. He feels that a confusing bureaucracy is similar to a corrupt one.
But, as someone said his text is a like a 'shell' people can fit into. In that case it might be just me, then.
Of course a conservative policy center will tell me that poor people are wasteful and/or lazy. However, the same Americans that are mostly living paycheck-to-paycheck are also the same Americans that work more hours than a lot of countries with much better situations. It's also not just about what you have... it's about where you can go and how far you are from outright financial ruin. In the US you are probably not mobile and probably just a serious illness or injury away from bankruptcy.

It's not like the amount of the cable bill would go very far to pay for things that other civilized nations take for granted, like medical care and education.
None of the contracts mentioned in the post you're replying to purport to change reality. They just restrict what the signer is allowed to do.
So they mentioned artists and philosophers as foreigners, what about entrepreneurs? I wonder...

As someone who has just completed a contract with the Peace Corps in East Africa, its points ring strongly. How did I miss the article? Thanks for sharing.
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Personally I don't see anything morally wrong with buying the game then playing the pirated version.
Yeah, I just received the same email for my Featured Pinups application.

The sad part is that this application didn't really had anything obscene, it was just a simple application to showcase the featured pictures of the day of PinupLifestyle.com who hired me to build the application.

Meh.
So what do people respond well to? I'm not seeing any changes even though the guy's sentiments are shared by many.
I would really like to see a free market in Olympics coverage, rather than the monopoly we are stuck with. I don't understand why we don't have as many channels with live coverage as there are simultaneous events. I would think that the Olympics group could make more money auctioning off each event's coverage rights freely, rather than negotiating for a huge payoff (per region) from a single huge network.

It would certainly increase viewership and the customer experience. Having to watch a very limited set of events on tape delay, subject to some editorially milquetoast attempt at appeal to the lowest common denominator, is a disturbingly negligent delivery of quality goods.

Improving the experience should pay off in spades in the long run, even if I'm too optimistic in my analysis so far. Produce something valuable for your customers. The current Olympics TV experience is a joke: Despite my love for winter sports, I am not engaged. I watched SNL's Best of Chris Farley last night on Netflix.
Mark Guzdial responds in the comments, and it's worth reading. He says that his comments were related to the demographics of open-source development, and in that context I don't really disagree--although I'm by no means convinced that the problem is open-source. I think it's more a symptom than anything.

(Also, I'm a student at Wesleyan University and I've been very involved with the Humanitarian FOSS Project since the summer and will be at the HFOSS Symposium in March. If anyone has any related questions, I'm happy to answer them.)
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So, I've posted on here about looking for open source projects to work with before, and I've worked with Mozilla in the past and Chromium currently. I've almost always been embraced with open arms.

Open Source projects are normally just pumped to get the help. Even Chromium, where the vast majority of developers are Google employees, was really helpful in getting us online and moving. They love outside engagement.

And I've learned more about writing real software in my brief efforts with bother Chromium and Mozilla than I ever did at my Cisco internship. I think it comes down to this: when they're paying you to be there, there's no burden on them to somehow educate you. You're there to work. On the flip side, open source projects see helping you as an investment in their future.
Why would TC want to spend the money on a datacenter, staffing, bandwidth, etc for their blog when there are services out there that will do all of that stuff for them at a fraction of the cost? Private datacenters have outages as well, they wouldn't have been immune from outages if they were hosted internally. If anything, they are somewhat shielded from liability because everyone knew Wordpress was down.

It makes sense for Facebook and Google to build and own their own data centers because they deal with volume on an hourly basis that is magnitudes larger than TC probably sees in a week (or possibly even a month). Techcrunch is a blog. That's it. That doesn't require owning your own datacenter. It requires a hosting company that can keep the lights on. Wordpress is about as good as you're going to get in that situation.
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"Entire gnome desktop"? WTF is that? Everybody is using a mix of Qt/GTK apps, and thanks to "just-for-gnome" turds like gconf nothing gets along and you have to google and dance around several incompatible configuration GUIs.

Pardon me, but "instant apply" feature is not enough to excuse for this mess: yeah, I change something in Gconf and maybe 20% of apps pick up my change instantly. A whopping 20%, but INSTANTLY, was that the goal?

They should have ALL kept using standard /etc + ~/.xxrc files or came to an agreement to use something truly global, so I could enjoy the same font rendering or a freaking window colors in Skype and Pidgin. I can live without instant config changes but at least I could have grepped "color" and "window" appearing on the same line somewhere in /etc and in ~/.gtk or ~/.kde.

Tools like GConf are destroying one of the greatest UNIX strengths: scriptability. I keep versions of config files for selected software under git and simply push it to /etc when I need to quickly set up a new machine. Nobody needs freaking "pluggable back-ends" because everybody needs to be able to instantly backup/restore selected applications configuration in a standard way

And is it really worth it to run a freaking daemon so you can see your config changes instantly take effect?

Also, your comment has "XML" in it. Are you sure? Seriously? Why not PDF? It's about as good as XML for storing key=value pairs, there are lots of tools developed for it too! And just as useles for sed/awk/grep.

This disease of bloating up simple things into monstrosities based on "pluggable architectures" must be contagious: some infected gnome devs must have sat at the same table with GRUB-2 folks, so now we've lost a great bootloader.
I wouldn't be surprised if this was the last Olympics without web broadcasts, but as far as auctioning off each event individually, I think that would be a 'usability' nightmare for fans. Now, it is pretty simple. I want to see Olympics, go to NBC.
In Canada we have about 5 channels that have the Olympics this year (maybe it's just in BC), and it is actually a bit annoying to have to figure out what channel is covering which events. In the past it has always been CBC I believe that had the Olympics. Now we've got CBC, CTV, SportsNet, APTN, a chinese version, OLN, I'm sure there are more.

Is it bad form of me to mention that we have 5+ networks showing live Olympics while Americans are complaining about not being able to get one? :)
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Not a problem, given that HN does not try very hard to block resubmissions (by design, since the FAQ explicitly says that it is allowed), it is up to us to point out when a resubmission occurs.
> I think that would be a 'usability' nightmare for fans. Now, it is pretty simple. I want to see Olympics, go to NBC.

Respectfully, I must disagree. Sure, you can go to NBC to see "the Olympics". That won't change in any case. However, instead of being stuck at Ice Dancing or Biathalon (or whatever), you could switch the channel to a live event that you want to watch. I envy your five channels. Here in Brooklyn, we have two: NBC and CNBC (Time Warner Cable).
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.

I can't sign a contract that says that if I don't crack a joke that makes you smile, you get to kill me. I could sign that contract, and you could kill me, but you'll still go to jail for it.
The app in the article doesn't have content at all, but is advertised and named provocatively. I'm sure Apple doesn't care about having apps like this, but just shutting people off instead of warning them and giving them clear guidelines and time to make changes would be much better.
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Well, unlike the book, the Developer Program is an ongoing service. They're not saying it's illegal, they're saying if you break the NDA you will be barred from using their services in the future. Which, if you're a developer, is quite a threat.
In Australia the repayment is 4-7% of income (going up as income increases). Interest is charged at CPI.

I think it's honestly a pretty good system.
If apple weren't an American company, would anything like this happen?
I assume you can still have as much violence as possible and it will still be approved?
What is Apple thinking with moves like this? What are they trying to prevent?
In terms of death toll, I'd probably disagree. It seems that 20 men from the upper classes (on horseback, armed and trained to use weapons) could destroy an 11th-century town of 1000-3000 inhabitants (although suffering heavy losses on their end) if they were so inclined. A powerful nobleman could assemble the knights.

In terms of impact, you're probably right. I think it's likely that 9/11 is the first news story to have reached half the world's population in a few hours. However, there are pre-modern events that rival it in terms of potential impact. I can't think of any from the 11th century, but the Defenestration of Prague comes to mind, as would the Gunpowder Plot had it succeeded.
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Did you read the article and report?

The man for years has been building up the open source smalltalk (Squeak) that lots of things are being built on these days.

He's saying when you look at who's participating, company based software development is empirically including more people in more "lead in" activities to software development than open source is.

That's all.

And the fact you expect a tenured professor to not belong to the ACM is laughable. MG is the director of undergraduate studies at GT, and the ACM does plenty of work with and for the school.
> How did I miss the article? Thanks for sharing.

Ditto. Thanks for posting!