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I 100% agree, however, also get the audio CD or mp3 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671579592/ref=dp_proddesc_... (not an affiliate link)

Listen to the book all the way through at least once a month for at least a year. I go for a hike or bike ride on Saturday mornings and often I listen to this book.

The book is like an onion, you have to read it (or listen to it) multiple times, pulling back the layers, more and more, to really get the most out of it.

If you read it after not looking at it in a long time, you will probably slap yourself on the forehead a few times for all the negative social interactions you have been participating in or causing.
You forgot "custom blogging engine".
Your comment reeks of appeal to authority. You should at least demonstrate why "bullish" pundits are wrong.

It doesn't matter if an economist is on the fringe of economics, especially a field that is notorious for not being able to predict much of anything.

It matters if they are right, or wrong, how much, or it is just plain storytelling(and wrong!) in addition to lucky predictions.
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thank you for explaining in more detail.

As for the last bit, sorry if I wasn't clear, I'm fully aware of that. I was just confused as logic seemed to imply you were in fact stating that the woman would want to be wanted, and I didn't believe it.

I am also generally a little confused because my reaction would be "I'm sorry! We didn't mean it that way. It won't happen again." Is that also wrong?
This solution is called a "Laplacian correction", and I agree with your recommendation.
what are the best options for securing a mac? Anti virus/firewall software?
Ironic that none of your criticisms of the book are backed up with references.
Schiff is part of the same anti-regulation crusade that got discredited two years ago.

And you expect me to believe this when the federal reserve exists?
To be fair, he did say he was referring to the party's actions since 2000, if you read his post.
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Choosing such a username is always risky.
One of the main points is that code behind Theora has been made public for years, and in fact Xiph has been actively asking people to tell them if there is a patent violation. The significance of this comes into play in a potential lawsuit, because patent enforcement is simultaneously a burden on the patent-holder: if they are aware of a violation, it is their legal duty to enforce the patent, and if they fail in that duty then eventually they lose the right to claim damages from infringement (big oversimplification here).

The point being, even if MPEG-LA does have infringing patents, the patent holders can reasonably be expected to have known about it for years, and so if they decided to sue they would have to explain why they didn't enforce their patent in the years that Xiph has been asking them to enforce the patent.

Conclusion: all this talk about Theora potentially being in patent-jeopardy is FUD and BS.
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If you want to use Shopify I can give you half off the sticker price for a fellow HNer.
I wish they still had the Nintendo Seal of Quality -- there is a flood of crappy games available for the Wii (and similarly the Gamecube before it). Those seriously hurt Nintendo's brand.

The worst part of Apple's approval process is that it does very little to improve the quality of the apps. The crap still gets approved if it satisfies Apple's limited criteria. It's pretty clear the benefit for the approval is for Apple and not the consumer.
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>You've repeatedly claimed that making young people pay now means that there will be money for them (collectively) when they are old.

Nope, I didn't say the "collectively" part. I keep explaining this.

>Are tomorrow's older folks going to be able to do the same?

Sure, if the young keep paying. But as I explained, there is no fact of the matter about which young people are subsidizing which old people. One way of looking at it is that young people are subsidizing their older selves, while the current generation of older people are being subsidized by their earlier payments when they were young. There's money going in and money going out, but when it comes to the question of "who's subsidizing whom", it largely depends on how you look at it. It's not as if John Smith's dollar bills are marked so you can see exactly who he's subsidizing.
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Its not really the same...this is just a useful tool for backing up your locally stored database to S3. Its not a replacement database.
I agree. I think it's a great problem to motivate a startup on.
Still no 'dislike' button.
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We added themes because many of our users asked for them. They want to differentiate, which is understandable.

The theme I linked to is not our main theme, the main them is this one: http://shapado.com

People are free to make the SO theme look more like SO if they want to.
Where I come from it means to vomit before passing out due to excessive drug taking.

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It's trademark owners that have an affirmative duty to enforce their marks. The situation for patentholders is far murkier. It is far from true that a patentholder that knew about Theora for years would be simply unable to enforce their patent against Theora users.
TBH no, I don't. For any patent lawsuit you'd have to prove that the technology was invented entirely in-house or in some other way that gives them the right to sue. It doesn't matter whether it's been published before, or not. Didn't stop them from suing TomTom because of FAT, right? It's not Linux that's patented - it's just a number of technologies which are included in Linux. Userland (like .NET libraries) or kernel (like FAT) doesn't make a big difference here.

Not having any reason to sue doesn't stop people either - see SCO fiasco. I do believe that MS can sue the majority of companies without a reason - and win.
Do people familiar with the state of the art in codecs seriously think that MPEG LA doesn't have patents they could reasonably claim are infringed by Theora? That isn't the impression I had.
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I recommend Scott Chacon's Pro Git instead. It's available for free online: http://progit.org. Having just read the Git Community Book and Pro Git last week, I can say the latter is far better.
"Don't live your life in comfort and then forget that this thing you demand called freedom of speech also has always meant people dying in the streets."

[citation needed]

Free speech doesn't kill people. Government propped up by unfree speech kill people.

Your attempt to casually link free speech to being poor boggles my mind. The country with the strongest free speech protections in the world (historically, anyhow) is also the richest. In an increasingly information-driven economy, free speech is going to be an inextricable part of being a wealthy country.

Blocking free speech is the path to serfdom, not wealth.

Radio stations broadcasting exhortations to kill are a terrible example. I'd bet $10 that was government speech. I'd bet another $10 that the government would not permit anybody from the class they want to kill to rebut, either. Free speech is not a government-mandated message; free speech is a robust debate. Come reply to me and tell me that you heard a robust debate and I'll admit I was wrong, but if all you heard was one side, that's a classic example of unfree speech.

And you are being sold a line which others will happily use to hang you, if you are so willing to sacrifice liberty for security.
I have some friends who should be doing failure mode and effect analysis on their lives.
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The real problem with git.
Sorry I have no blog. The commands make no sense and are hard to remember. It would be so quick and so easy to remember:
- git stage add file
- git stage remove file
- git stage list.

Sorry, I can't give you the real commands, I never remember them.

Oh, and also, why can't it save empty directories? Is there a clause somewhere saying that empty directory isn't important?

Oh, and last thing: We all know that branches are great and cool, but I'm still tired of rebuilding everything to make the history "cute".

My 5 cents, happy karma downing
Because they don't want to sue google first. (There are much easier things to sue google/youtube over right now.) They want to sue a smallish company who will "license" rather than fight because they can't afford to. After a few of those build up some precedence, then they go after the really big fish.

For the submarine to work on this type of thing, you have to wait until a great many players of all sizes adopt a technology and commit to it.

I'm not saying we shouldn't use theora. We should keep our options open and use everything. I'm just saying that whatever becomes the dominant standard, be prepared for "I'm a pc and windows 7 was my idea", only with lawyers and stuff.
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Oh, and gitk is so damn ugly.
set and lists and dicts and raw values are pretty damn easy. Especially if you're programming functionally etc.

(Different strokes for different folks.)
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"Less than 100,000 songs in the entire history of radio broadcast have ever been played"

I'm not sure I understand that line -- are they saying that in all of radio history, less than 100,000 unique songs have been played? (not counting 'unicast' pandora radio).
Did anyone ever think that maybe the problem is the FILES?

Let me ask that one more time. Would people be ranting like this if there were NO FILES?

I still believe the "future of programming" is where your code objects are not arbitrarily mapped onto files in the file system, you just manipulate them directly!

A few Smalltalks and Lisps out there do this using image-based development. This is where it's at. If you can't use a image-based Smalltalk or Lisp to get your work done, then use a JetBrains/Eclipse IDE. They're generally modeled off of the Smalltalk IDE and are the next best thing if you're forced to use a broken file-based language.

If you just take "files" for granted and think that the UNIX design philosophy is the best thing ever, then accept your fate and stop bitching.
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right. The idea is to work, rather than not work because you are stuck in analysis paralysis.
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Sorry if you read it that way. I imagined that most people would read my quotes as a paraphrase, as describing the gist of what Icaza said.
There seems to be some confusion around the term "submarine patent".

One use of the term, which came around during the 1995 GATT/WTO debate and which is described in the Wikipedia article, refers to patent holders manipulating the PTO in order to keep them from issuing a patent until later when they are ready to sue. This practice was struck down by the courts and made impracticable by the 1995 law.

The other use of the term is to refer to unknown patent infringement. This comes about because software patents are such a joke that nobody knows who exactly owns the patent to what. Even the inventor might not know that something infringes on their patent until lawyers start rummaging through their patent war chest looking for something to sue with.

This second use of the term seems to be what Apple and MPEG LA are referring to.
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Thanks Xal. I will get in touch for sure. I wonder how many sales i lost out on today because of the ssl issue. Probably a lot. #fail
It is far from true that a patentholder that knew about Theora for years would be simply unable to enforce their patent against Theora users.

It's not necessarily false either. The doctrine of laches (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laches_%28equity%29) says that you can't deliberately delay legal action in order to run up the alleged damages or prevent them from taking alternate paths. By publicly making potential patent holders aware of what they're doing, Xiph should be in a good position to claim that defense.

(In case it's not blatantly obvious, IANAL).
Not exactly no files, but I think the bubble concept could solve this too.

http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1181742
i would also recommend the pro git book - it was a more unified effort and is being maintained actively.
"During Pandora’s first year, the 90210 zip code was the area listening to Pandora the most"

This was because, to make sure that listeners were in the US, they required a zip code rather than geocoding IP.

(I was at his get together in Tucson - AMA, I guess. :)
the IP blocking feature looks to be GREAT. i had this problem on my site less than a week ago and it was quite a headache.

actually we ended up going over to the dude's dorm (we had a contact who worked for the university) and offering him a beer to stop DoSing us. he was terrified to see the people he was attacking show up at his doorstep with his name and personal information. win.
I've learned quite a bit on Aaron's SEOBook forums about SEO. (Disclosure: after spending entirely too much time there apparently saying useful stuff he made me a moderator, but I'm not compensated for recommending it to you.)

Ironically, I've learned more about generic marketing topics. Probably the most consequential single piece of advice was Aaron rewriting two lines of copy on my purchasing page to emphasize what people were getting as opposed to what I was selling.

I've harped on "benefits not features" for years, but what was I talking about next to the freaking buy button? The fact that they'd be "purchasing a single copy", which tells the customer absolutely nothing of value (99.9% of my customers purchase a single copy, literally). Aaron swapped in "Buy now and get instant access via download" (this is something to highlight to customers who are often busy preparing a lesson for tomorrow). My conversion rate went up by about 10%, and two years later that single tweak has been worth thousands.

The copy tweak is what always sticks out in my mind, but I've gotten some very valuable SEO advice, too. My mini-site strategy, for example, was heavily informed by advice from Aaron and the guys, and it has worked out very well for me.

I wish startups were more appreciative about SEO as a channel. I think many, many of the folks here could use it to great effect.
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Apparently it holds the same eligibility requirements as GSoC, so you probably wouldn't be able to participate. (Me neither! :()
Request: A way to mark/remove read articles?
I absolutely love Hacker News, but I find that the more I read it, the more I have to switch to the "new" section because I've clicked most of the links on each page. Then I read those and am forced to return to the mix, diluting my procrastination.

I've googled for a solution but can't find one.

For privacy, it might be best if the page could use javascript somehow and put any read links in a separate section under the unread ones (or better yet, hide them altogether so that every time we click "more", we get 30 unseen links).

If we are logged in, it would be good to have a button to quickly toggle the viewing mode. I realize this is a nontrivial request, so I only propose it in accordance with the talent here.

Thanx!
That's pretty lame. I can get around that restriction because I'm taking a differential equations class at the University of Delaware, so I'm "a college student" :) But if I have to be 18 (as with GSoC), I'm out of luck, sadly.
Just a note. You are already using gmail so why not sign up for google apps so you can have an email that isn't gmail. It looks a lot more professional and it won't cost you anything as long as you don't have more than I think 3 users on it.
" If you can't use a image-based Smalltalk or Lisp to get your work done, then use a JetBrains/Eclipse IDE. They're generally modeled off of the Smalltalk IDE and are the next best thing if you're forced to use a broken file-based language."

I've worked in smalltalk, and yes it is an interesting way to work but images had almost as many problems as hey solved. primarily version controlling and syncing code were terrible (yes there were some tools, and yes they all broke on weird edge cases).

If forced to choose these days, I'd rather use files + git + (+ emacs + grep + ... ) than images, Images are nice as an additional dev time artifact, but I believe files are more natural than images for source code.

"If you just take "files" for granted and think that the UNIX design philosophy is the best thing ever, then accept your fate and stop bitching."

This is provocative nonsense. smalltalk, while hugely influential and innovative is hardly the ultimate superior dev env that some old geezers make it out to be. I think it is mostly "the lost cause" style romanticism.
Wish I could downvote this garbage. Mods?
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flag it. enough flags and it gets killed.
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Thanks, that helps!
Applying for that now, thanks for the idea. Looks fantastic.
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Noone, either familiar with the state of the art in codec or not, has come up with a reasonable set of patents that Theora's ancestor codec from 2001, VP3, could have possibly been infringing. Individuals are free to believe whatever they like, but there hasn't been any evidence of infringement beyond the MPEG LA's CEO making vague assertions.

The MPEG LA has a financial interest in keeping the patent situation around Theora murky, which they've clearly done well.

Just so it's clear (and some of the quotes by the MPEG LA's CEO make more sense from this page http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=11746):

* Theora is a patented codec (ie: there are active patents today on the concepts used within VP3)

* One of the MPEG LA's patent holders, On2/Google does hold those patents

* On2 has, however, licensed those patents globally, indefinitely and royalty-free, making the above two points true but entirely a non-issue
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Last version I nabbed (no version number, a couple months ago) it was woefully incomplete, had a few minor errors (functionality, not just spelling), and was downright opaque and hard to read. And the one I just downloaded looks identical. It's hard to tell though, as they inexplicably don't have any version information anywhere in the file.

I have high(er) hopes for it, but thus far it's failed miserably IMO.
As the article states, and Miguel grudgingly admits, the threat of litigation has had a chilling effect on the growth of .NET. So perhaps it doesn't worry you, but obviously plenty of other smart people have weighed their chances and chosen to invest their money and energy instead in technologies like LAMP and Java, just as a lot of us predicted at the outset.
Does Apple's approval process actually have that effect, though? The feedback I'm hearing from game devs is the exact opposite of that with Nintendo: Apple lets basically anything through, so long as it doesn't run afoul of a few specific criteria (no porn, no embedded scripting, etc.), regardless of quality. That makes the marketplace as a whole sort of a sludge of junk where it's hard to differentiate yourself--- in contrast to Nintendo's WiiWare, which only releases games that Nintendo considers good enough.
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I've been voicing this side of the App Store argument for a while. Nobody is as closed as game console companies have been, and they've had an absolute stranglehold on a small but complete monopoly of the game systems. And as chadaustin points out, their earlier attempts at openness screwed them over until they locked it down.

Not to say I like the App Store policies, as I plan to develop some things for it & Android, and would love to have an open-market portal somewhere. But it does make sense that it exists, and the hostility about it is fairly unbalanced in light of other similar systems.
It does and I'm not above making that move with certain positions. If you don't have a problem with bullish pundits then I wonder where you were in the late 90s. Regardless, predicting the future is a bit of a silly exercise and not many people come away from in being right.

Appeal to authority is the way to stay sane against crazy ideological camps: Ron Paulites, 911 truthers, creationists, etc. I am not going to take the time to rebut all the nonsense they manufacture. It is important to point out where these people are coming from.
Just bought one. Going to attach it to my draftsman table I picked up at a thrift shop - should make quite a useful work surface...
Yeah, because he's writing a comment on a message board. Read some Chomsky. He's a brilliant linguist, but his political screeds are ridiculous, he takes a set of somewhat reasonable assumptions and then builds layer upon layer on top of them as if they were bedrock or something, then winds up with a ludicrous, self-serving conclusion. (and this is coming from someone on the left side of the aisle)
I have another candidate: Licensing the hard software part from another mature company.

Mint is really just a Web 2.0 face on Yodlee (which provides all the bank interfacing parts). And there's nothing wrong with that, but it got them to maturity a lot faster than starting from scratch would have.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/09/18/mint-is-yodlees-youtube/
These actually seem mainly like bad examples of infographics to me. I would concede that many are quite attractive ways of presenting the data, but I could only see liking them as an aesthetically pretty way of showcasing data I already know about. For those where I didn't have any idea what the data was, trying to actually read these infographics---you know, getting the info out of them, supposedly their purpose---is a real pain in the ass, much worse than traditional, simpler visualizations.

This one, for example, might be fine as art, something to put on a poster for Bob Dylan fans to buy, but it sure is infuriating to try to derive information from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sergio28/2482933134/