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I'm going with SwellJoe because he seems to have some patterns in common.
This popularity is also in India. Although I'm not German, I live in Germany, and when in India I often answered the ubiquitous question "where are you from?" with "Germany".

Then most times came the "Hitler was good" response.

My theory is that what endears Hitler to Indians (and perhaps Pakistanis) is nationalism. Nationalism is rife in India. And Hitler's political party was ardently nationalistic.
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(Disclaimer: I'm German.) It is only a tiny extremist minority who is even somewhat supportive of Hitler. Even if the media was completely controlled by a vocal minority - not entirely possible in a free democracy like today's Germany - you would at least see these Nazi-leanings in election results. Not the case.
Right - you don't maximize shareholder returns by being generous with handing out stock. IMHO, being generous handing out stock is just stupid.
I read this and don't understand, but I want to. Can anyone explain?
Last time i checked there a lot of video services out there with subscription/premium service.

Vimeo doesn't charge to watch videos, so far as I know, and that's what triggers the licensing exemption.

But think about it, what will happen then? MS will support wmv by default, Apple will support Quicktime by default, Mozilla theora.

If HTML5 were to mandate Theora support, that part of the spec would simply be ignored by browser vendors who don't want to support Theora. Thus the mandate or lack of mandate in the spec produces no practical difference whatsoever in the end result: Apple's browsers would do H.264, Mozilla's browsers would do Theora, etc., etc.

But on a phone?

Again, it seems unlikely that anyone other than Mozilla will bother with Theora on mobile devices. Apple and Nokia have already taken pretty clear stances against supporting Theora, for example, so what good would it do to put a mandate in the spec? It'll just be ignored.

As i told you, this is not technical, it's political.

You seem to have a misunderstanding of how web standards actually work; without buy-in from the companies which will implement them, the standards might as well not exist at all. That's why HTML5 currently doesn't mandate a video codec; originally it required Theora support, but several major players basically said "if you leave that in there we're just going to ignore it".

Since this is a recurring problem with what you seem to be saying, what's your solution? Any approach to video codecs must take into account the fact that browser vendors can't be forced to ship an implementation of any particular codec, and will make their own decisions independently of what you might like them to do. As far as I can see right now, delegating to the operating system's media framework is the only way to get the sort of broad support that's needed, since those frameworks have to ship with a wide range of codecs already.

(and, honestly, the manual codec install really only turns out to be an issue with Theora; Windows and OS X both ship pretty much everything else out of the box)
Supporting Theora is not free. There may be no licensing costs, but every feature costs developer time, testing time, increases the surface area for bugs and so on. In a hobby project there may be no financial cost - but in commercial software there certainly is.
I think that's being overly generous to modern Neo-Nazis. They, and white supremacist groups in general, seem to be from the bottom of the barrel intellectually. I doubt they'd have the wherewithal to execute such a plan.
Ugh. Please, read the other side of the "argument", I was going to say "research", but seriously, the information is 5 seconds of google-fu away: http://shaver.off.net/diary/2010/01/23/html5-video-and-codec...
It appears more like a subtle joke than propaganda: a right-wing conspiracy story told in the style of left-wing sociobabble.
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As far as india is concerned...

(1) like plinkplonk said "Mein Kampf" is just another book to read, except its author killed 6 million jews.

(2) The conclusion that the article draws regarding 1.2 billion indians based on an art exhibit and a restaurant owner is akin to saying everyone in the United States is old after seeing two elderly people from the country.
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Hacker News is about more than just hacking code and computers. Social skills need to be learnt too, and learning other ways to do things, especially from those who've more experience, is surely a good thing.

You might laugh at the idea of learning to be social from articles on the internet, but it's little different than learning from the internet about raising capital or good coding practices.

And no, we didn't just hit puberty. However, it is spring, and the mating season has started for the animals, including humans.
Or you just delegate to the OS, which either already ships a licensed copy of the codec (Windows and OS X) or has users who ignore patents and install unlicensed codecs (Linux). By doing this you incur a whopping license fee of... zero dollars, because licensing becomes someone else's problem.
Indian subcontinent is after all the birthplace of the original "Aryan race".
The photo in the context of the article's title is a little misleading. It makes it seem like these children are lighting candles in honor of Hitler.
I'm going to go round to the homes of everyone who assumes that shipping a hard-wired copy of a codec in a browser is the only way to support video, and smack them all upside the head with a printout of the source to gstreamer.

It won't cause them any sort of enlightenment, but it will make me feel a bit better.
In essence, you say that the Nazi cult that some Pakistanis (supposedly) entertain is no big deal, because they are not responsible for the Holocaust. As a German, who as a matter of fact doesn't feel particularly guilty about things his great-grandfathers did half a century before he was born, I'd like to know how you come to such a peculiar opinion. Evil is less evil if you can blame someone else? It's okay to revere mass murderers as long as you're not the one who let them come into power?

Your point about children's names is almost the textbook definition of a straw man, and I think you know it. Many German children are named Joseph, but that name has a long cultural and religious history, and no one in their right mind would associate that with Stalin. I guess the story with the name Osama in Muslim cultures is similar. However, if Pakistani parents name their children Adolf, a name that has no cultural associations in Pakistan whatsoever except being linked to a brutal mass murderer, then that's at least a little bit cringe worthy.

(I wonder if Godwin's Law applies to a discussion that's already about Hitler in the first place, and if a factual discussion about such a topic is even possible...)
What I find surprising is how unpolished it is.

UI Redraw is slow, small feature set, UI is very crude.

The triangle of: scope, quality, time to release - it seems like this app went with: none of them.
Thank you so much, that was hilarious :)

(no offense intended to those of you who are German of course!)
Yes, you're right. I forgot about that. I tend to assume other people are on a level playing field with me, mentally, though that doesn't always turn out so well.
"you say that the Nazi cult that some Pakistanis (supposedly) entertain is no big deal,"

There is no "Nazi cult" in Pakistan. Talk about exaggeration.

Yes, for some people Hitler had some virtues (as they do Genghis Khan, Mao Tse Tung, Stalin, Che, Lenin, George W Bush) which they think are worthy of being admired.

" I guess the story with the name Osama in Muslim cultures is similar."

You are wrong.

There is a rise in babies being named Osama after 9/11. I thought that was obvious from the context. Sorry if I was not clear enough. Arab and Pakistani teenagers wear T shirts with Osama's picture on them. There are large numbers of people who think Osama Bin Laden is a heroic figure. You (and I) think he is a homicidal maniac. Other people don't.

You can always find some people somewhere who admire the mass murderers of history (including Osama, Mao , Stalin and the British who created concentration camps in the first place), as compared to those whose ancestors were massacred. It doesn't mean much.

Germans expecting all Pakistanis to hate and abhor Hitler as much as they do is like some Pakistanis expecting them to love Osama Bin Laden.

So yes the world doesn't always have prejudices in lockstep with your own, and sometimes admire people you abhor and vice versa. Sorry about that.
every intelligent person knows that swastika is a good luck sign in central asian cultures, especially in today's Germany
Hitler was not fighting against an oppressor - he was upon something greater: conquer Europe, enslave people to get them working for the Germans and kill everyone that he was thinking of as unworthy. Hitler was a racist, he was the oppressor, tried to conquer a bunch of countries and caused the murdering of millions of people.

The 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend' thing might explain that some people like him (there are other reasons, too). But if we look at Hitler himself and rate him on what HE did, then it is easy to see that he is in no way somebody that can be seen in positive light.

Also, when Hitler thought of 'Arier' he was thinking about a white, germanic 'race'. The word 'Arier' was a political tool and redefined as necessary.
why would one need a new refrigerator??? Having hunger solved in the western world is vastly different from having it solved globally and even more different from not needing food at all. Not having plenty of food. Not needing food at all.
I am disappointed by what seem very shortsighted, almost knee-jerk remarks which illustrate the poster did not think much about the problem. As if the logical next step after realizing you do not need to eat is to go and work some more in that saved time to have more money. Depressing :)
"Hitler was not fighting against an oppressor -"

You could argue that the post World War 1 "reparations" policy on Germany was indeed oppression.

But I wasn't talking about that. I meant that for Indians (and Pakistanis) of the time, Hitler was fighting the British, who was their oppressor/colonizer. The struggle for Indian Independence was in full swing when WW 2 broke out.

"if we look at Hitler himself and rate him on what HE did, then it is easy to see that he is in no way somebody that can be seen in positive light."

And yet many Germans did see him in a positive light. And if he had won the war would he still be considered universally evil? Stalin and Mao killed more people than he did yet there are significant numbers of Russians and Chinese who admire them today.

I agree with you that Hitler was evil. I completely agree that Hitler's "Aryan race" meant something completely diufferent from what people in India/Pakistan who admire Hitler think he meant.

I guess just don't see things completely in black and white and/or expect other people to believe exactly as I do, especialy about judging historical figures, and find them "cringe worthy" if they differ in opinion from me.

When I was living in the USA I met many people who thought the Confederates were fighting for a noble cause for e.g. and I didn't "cringe", though I didn't believe that myself. I understand that History is rarely uni dimensional and that other people have different views of History and historical figures than I do.

Europeans don't universally condemn Mao or Stalin. And there are a least a few who admire them.

Why should Pakistanis universally condemn Hitler? And why can't there be some Pakistanis who admire him?
But the US isn't top of the per capita lists either.
It sounds like you know a lot more about the Boer concentration camps than I do, maybe you can clear something up for me. From a quick perusal of Wikipedia it seems as if the concentration camps in the Boer war were intended to be more like prisons, i.e. restricting the movements of those persons held there. Due to incompetence, negligence, lack of facilities/medicine a large proportion of the inmates died. I would not wish to lessen this tragedy, but it does sound like a different situation to what we understand a concentration camp to be in common parlance, i.e. a camp set up with the intention of working to death/explicitly killing those sent there. I think there is a distinction between those two types of camps, and while both are highly unpleasant I don't think they're actually the same thing.
That's just paranoia.

We do have Nazi activists in our country, although they call themselves extreme right activists, and while being a group that spreads racist and antisemitic ideas, it's mostly harmless.

Although a large percent of the population is Christian and goes to church regularly (which are also hubs for spreading racist/antisemitic propaganda), such activism has had little impact on the general population.

That's because people are tired of propaganda and of empty promises and of big changes that don't bring that significant improvement in life quality that's being promised.

Germany wouldn't have ended up with Hitler if they wouldn't have taken a big hit in WW1. With Germans dying out of starvation because of the British blockade, or because of the economic meltdown post-WW1, it's easier to believe the fallacies in Mein Kampf, to believe in Hitler's vision and shut your eyes and ears in the wake of a genocide. But that's only because Germany's economy and quality of life had nowhere to go but up, and it did just that (for a while anyway).

But in a country where things are mostly working (i.e. there aren't many people dying from hunger) it's hard for such ideas to gain popularity, even if those ideas are spread by a champion as articulate and smart as Hitler was.
That's because with a higher quality of life comes a higher moral ground, and people are mostly conservatives anyway.
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I think the "height" of the Empire was definitely before WW1 - by 1950 Britain was in a pretty bad way.
There is the Kindle for iPhone, I have read few books on it already. Should work on iPad too, I assume.
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I think you make a very important point there - there may not be that much correlation between the standard of living of the average person and the "power" of the country in global economic and military terms.
According to the author and in the context of your comment, what the investors are doing is engineering. Engineers apply known principles to new situations, and in fact the engineering analogy is very appropriate for people looking to invest in and build a company.
" it seems as if the concentration camps in the Boer war were intended to be more like prisons, i.e. restricting the movements of those persons held there. Due to incompetence, negligence, lack of facilities/medicine a large proportion of the inmates died."

Sounds like what the Germans would say today if Hitler had won the war and founded a strong and dominant Germany? yeah there were mistakes but they weren't intentional. Sure.

The point is that an argument could be (and was) made that such starvation and ill treatment was intentional, as a method of forcing the Boer commandos to surrender. The British were essentially stalemated and could see no way of ending the war. By the accepted norms of war of the time, starving non combatants to death was a crime. But the British won and were a World Power (much as the USA is today), so no one convened the equivalent of Nuremberg. If the Boers had won, (unlikely, but just as a thought experiment) you bet your ass some Britsh politician would have been "criminals".

Let us read Wikipedia though.

"Hobhouse published a report in June 1901 which contradicted Brodrick's claim, and Lloyd George then openly accused the government of "a policy of extermination" directed against the Boer population.

In June 1901, Liberal opposition party leader Campbell-Bannerman took up the assault and answered the rhetorical "When is a war not a war?" with "When it is carried on by methods of barbarism in South Africa," referring to those same camps and the policies that created them."

All that said, do read up on the Khaki Elections and the Boer War. Don't just read Wikipedia. Read your history in some depth and then talk.

" i.e. a camp set up with the intention of working to death/explicitly killing those sent there."

This is exactly what some people, especially the Boers and their allies the Germans thought the British were doing (see above). The British Leader of the Opposition even claimed as much!

Political maneovres aside, What matters is that people died in the tens of thousands. ( A report after the war concluded that 27,927 Boers (of whom 24,074 [50% of the Boer child population] were children under 16) had died of starvation, disease and exposure in the concentration camps. In all, about one in four (25%) of the Boer inmates, mostly children, died.

It is thought that about 12% of black African inmates died (about 14,154) but the precise number of deaths of black Africans in concentration camps is unknown as little attempt was made to keep any records of the 107,000 black Africans who were interned. It is, however, worth noting that Emily Hobhouse and the Fawcett Commission only ever concerned themselves with the camps that held white Boer refugees. No one paid much attention to what was going on in the camps that held native refugees". - Wikipedia)

Is it a lesser number than Jews in the Holocaust? Sure. Was starving non combatants to death (and denying that such things were happening) a "war crime"? You tell me. Victors are never war criminals are they?
Yes, it's entirely pragmatic for Apple and Microsoft to choose an option that can't be implemented in Free Software or even free software produced by small companies. Anti-competitive actions are always pragmatic if you're not going to get punished for them.

I don't really blame them though. The US government allows software patents and has a terrible patent system that massively favours entrenched interests and blessed the MPEG patent pool which created the current mess. (Bear in mind that the US government spent most of the 20th century breaking up patent pools because they were anti-competitive).

People say "there's too many patents around video codecs" but no one stops to ask why. The answer is because anyone who gets a patent into MPEG gets an equal cut of the profits, doesn't matter how small, useless or even counter-productive your idea is. It all adds to the patent thicket that prevents competition.

How can anyone say with a straight face that they are choosing a bureaucratic monopoly because quality is so important to them?
There is already a "Great Halving" underway, where people find personal satisfaction and prestige by working less than 40 hours a week. As an ex-pat, I meet a lot of people running 4HWW type lifestyle jobs (which usually turn out to about 20-30 hours a week, not 4). Corporate culture just hasn't caught up yet, and may not without drastic social changes.
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> you have to understand design to be a good hacker

If PG means graphical design, I don't think this is true. Looking at the list of hackers in Coders At Work (as a random sample of respected programmers), it is not clear if any of them understands graphical design and they typically have ugly homepages.

(Jamie Zawinski, Brad Fitzpatrick, Douglas Crockford, Brendan Eich, Joshua Bloch, Joe Armstrong, Simon Peyton Jones, Peter Norvig, Guy Steele, Dan Ingalls, L Peter Deutsch, Ken Thompson, Fran Allen, Bernie Cosell, Donald Knuth)
I'm guessing your not in Eastern Europe?

I'm guessing you are in the US since their denizens are famous for assuming the world stops outside their borders.

Opera + Chrome + Mozilla (i.e. Theora supporting) market share varies by region but is probably over 50% in every european country bar the UK and that will probably topple with the browser ballot.
The "Sociopath Next Door" (excellent book) makes a very good point - it is not clear that being a sociopath is a disorder or an illness in that it doesn't appear to have negative effects on the person with this behavior. Indeed it makes the point that there are many environments where having sociopathic behavior is a decided advantage.

What I found truly frightening in that book was the section pointing out the downfalls of the results of the Milgram experiment (most of us will do what we are told by an authority figure, even to the point of torturing/killing) with sociopathic behavior by a minority.
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I doubt he means graphic design.
It's not someone else's problem if your stated mission is to be "dedicated to promoting and preserving an open, shared and innovative web."

It's like a shareholder owned corporation deciding that making money is someone else's problem.
... sometime over the next 1.5 million years.

Probably.
You're calling clicking twice a pain?

If the project maintainer has moved to Github and doesn't post this prominently, it's hardly Google Code's fault, isn't it?
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It is an ideological issue; look at my other comments and you'll see me saying that.

My problem with comments like the one I was replying to is that they refuse to see this; there is an easy solution to the financial issue of codec licensing, but it keeps getting thrown out as a red herring, when the focus should be on whether Mozilla's ideological stance is a good thing.
Design in an abstract sense that encompasses both visual and systems design probably includes designing programs (coding) as well. So it doesn't say much.
It's a valid solution for a client. For a web developer, chances are that your visitor isn't using the fork and hasn't installed the plugin. This means that web sites won't be able to rely on HTML5 to deliver video, and so will use something else (such as Flash).
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This article reminds me of the submission, "Are You Capable of Being Ruthless to Get Ahead?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1184953 It seems that the "ruthless" character may have been a psychopath.
It keeps hitting me as a contradiction these two suggestions, namely: a) that you have to understand design to be a good hacker; and b) that planning is overrated.

How can you get to a good design without some plan? Could someone shed some light?