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I realize this is an explanation for the argument against same-sex couple adoption, but in the same vein I'd like to point out that where this argument falls apart is in the legality of single parent adoption.

In the US, it is legal in every state for single parents to adopt. However, in some states it is illegal for same-sex couples to adopt children.

For the real kicker, in Florida (where I am from), homosexual people cannot adopt. So while a single straight woman can adopt a child, a single lesbian woman cannot.
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“So a guy finds a $5000 phone in a bar, sells it to the media, has the media look at it, and then returns it to its owner.”

That’s not the story Gizmodo told.
The solution is to track mouse-movement/page-scrolling to check whether the user is interacting with the site.

Also, is it possible for javascript to check whether the site's tab and browser window is viewable and in the foreground?
He admits that he is conflicted about the whole gay marriage and adoption rights which to me says he probably wouldn't be acting against it but he also won't be acting for it.

There are many reasons why someone can feel conflicted about something such as gay marriage and adopting but probably is linked most with upbringing and whether or not religion plays a factor. I'm guessing that he is personally conflicted rather than logically.

But from what I have heard adoption is a hard enough process without being gay.
"Apparently they did"

Nope. He had Gray Powell's information but didn't contact him. He took it from the bar and then didn't check back, despite that being the obvious first place it would be looked for. He didn't take it to the police, despite that being both common sense and the law.

Instead, he claims he tried calling a public apple number or two and then sold it.
Since most users use 6bit dithered LCD displays, the quality loss usually isn't noticeable--for images that have more than 256 colors, it can be a big win.

edit: also those that require alpha transparency; adding alpha values uses up a lot of palette entries, and most tools don't support it (Fireworks?)
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Without a doubt, Wilderness Survival was my favorite merit badge of all time. I don't think it was Eagle required, but boy was it fun and I learned a ton.

But you're right, having to do my Eagle project taught me the most. Organizing some 150 volunteers on New Years Eve was no small feat, but I felt a great deal of accomplishment when it was done.
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No matter how natural and necessary this might be, it doesn't happen very often that someone fights for a group he/she doesn't belong to. Hats off once more to JGC for that.
Calacanis' Side of the Resignation Story
An excerpt from his email newsletter.

An email with the subject line every CEO loathes: Resignation.

Ugh.

Another promising Gen Y-er leaves after one year and a couple of days,
shockingly right on time to vest their first cliff of stock options
(25%). Via email? At nearly midnight? To go to a 15-year-old
competitor that we're trying to crush?

No "hey boss..." discussion? No "I know it's unprofessional to leave
after 12 months, but I feel this is an important career move. Can I
explain my thinking?"

CEOs and founders understand that folks leave, but that discussion is
customary. A late-night resignation email isn't appropriate. The most
frustrating part is not losing a great person--which happens--but
rather watching someone with promise set their career back five years
in order to have their salary jump ahead by three years.

Trading massive advancement to pop your salary, is a career move I
could never understand. Back in the day when I was employable I would
never have made that trade off--instead I cultivated my network.
Nothing puts me on tilt like talented young people trading long-term
rewards and career development for short-term greed and negative
expectations.

"Congratulations on being employee 4,235 at a dying company" was the
most I could muster as an e-mail response while parked at a light,
getting on the 10 freeway. Oh yeah, today was your last day. And since
you're going to a competitor, please don't show up at the office.

Right after I hit send I had that familiar moment: "did I really just
say that?"

It's not easy being me. I've got a version of tourette's where instead
of yelling obscenities at inappropriate times, I say something
brutally honest without regard to my reputation or the other person's
feelings. There's no reason to make the kid feel bad on the way out
when I could have just said "Good luck, we will miss you greatly!"

What's the benefit of telling people how you really feel when the
result of doing so only results in unpleasantness?

C'est la vie. No one is perfect. We all have flaws and the best we can
hope for is that our virtues outweigh them right?

Oh, it turns out my response is now on your blog, Hacker News and TechCrunch.

Great.
True. I was referring to the specific context of pay as an inducement to break confidentiality agreements, as opposed to paying to interview a famous actor or something like People magazine.
I do wonder why so many people want to have class-based, traditional inheritance in JavaScript. Why not just embrace the prototype based style? I use Crockford's object.beget rather than normal JS constructors, and that works quite fine.

On the other hand, the mechanism of classical inheritance is well understood, and I do miss conveniences like __init__ and subclassing.
Wow, the ignorance here is amazing. Why is my comment being down voted? Only around 20 division I schools have their sports teams making money. All of the rest are subsidized by the general academic fund. Ignorance is bliss.
I was being excessively charitable in my framing of the argument. It makes zero sense for it to be illegal for gay people to adopt. It could make sense to prefer straight couples over gays and singles, which would effectively exclude them if the demand for adoption outstrips supply as much as I presume.
I think the reservations are built on a couple things:

• It's not hard to argue that it's good for a child to have a mom and a dad. I'm not going to get into such, but whether or not you agree, let's just accept that it's not a wild notion.

• Adoption is one of the few places where there's any chance for society to evaluate the fitness of parents before they can have children. Usually it just happens.

• A male-male couple (edit: or single male, or infertile female(s)) is the only combination that's forced into adoption, thus with the prior two points in mind, it's the only one where they are ipso facto subjected to societal evaluation, for a coupling that some consider less than perfect for children.

Now the reality is that most sets of parents are far from ideal. No doubt two loving gay parents is healthier than quarrelsome straight parents. But if quarrelsome parents are knocked up biology, not society sets the conditions.
Don't hit C-s when you're using vim in a terminal though. (But if you do, hit C-q)
This is completely wrong. There is not a shred of evidence to support your statement here. Sports programs do not pay for themselves and almost never give money back to the general academic fund.
You have not the slightest idea of what you are talking about. Research sports spending at colleges and you will find that except for a few schools football programs do not support themselves. Few sports program anywhere or any type pays for itself.
Windows programs, it's often kill MDI child window (or these days, tab).
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I've found that geeks tend to be either very religious, or very atheist, but rarely in between (or at least much more rarely than in real life). Perhaps it is the same with other moral issues.

(Alternatively, perhaps JGC is very religious, and his religion guides his views on gay adoption and marriage.)
How did this comment end up on The Economist?
It seems like Gizmodo could have avoided a lot of trouble if they had acted in a somewhat professional manner. They could have easily examined the device, taken it apart and re-assembled it, and returned it to Apple, and then published the story without revealing that they had paid $5k for it and without revealing the identity of the guy who lost it (the justification of which still mystifies me, at least in the manner in which they did it).

At any rate, I wonder if the shield law coming into play now is more related to weather or not they feel they can legally extract information from the equipment rather than weather or not it was legal for Gizmodo to purchase the device, or for the "finder" to sell it. IANAL, of course.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.
The happy hacking keyboard has both the esc and ctrl keys in these (proper) positions. Highly recommended for vimming.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/26/happy-hacking-keyboard-li...
I can tell Vim isn't user friendly because :Q isn't an alias for :q by default. :/
The problem comes when you don't know what the topic you're looking for is called in vim. I've only had that problem once or twice over the years, but it can be frustrating (esp. w/ no Internet connection).
This is just odd to me. It never even occurred to me that the sexuality of a person running a campaign like that would matter. I mean, its Turing -- a name most known for inventing the freaking computer. Sure there is the whole "gay angle" and it being the reason for the treatment -- but I figured the campaign was more about, lets clear this extremely important historical person's name, and for Britain to admit the world had been done an injustice.

I guess I'm sadder that in the world I live in such a thing matters so much, than I was that bad things were done to Turing.

So jgrahamc: FWIW I just figured you were some guy who was more annoyed than me over the Turing thing, and better positioned to make a fuss over it, and for that: good on you. Were I asked, I would have assumed your sexuality is straight, but thats just playing the odds, as I don't know or care who you screw.
Hmmm... as a single 29-year old here in Uruguay... I'd say that the advantage starts to show only when you're older than, say, 25 - the older girls realize their looks aren't going to last forever, or want to have a baby and start to worry about having a husband able to provide. It's a bit cynical but I believe it's mostly true.

That said, I think there's hope for love too :) - only not always the kind you see in the movies.
In theory, yes, in practice, no. That sort of problem exists without Facebook.
I kind of agree. The trade secrets would be, (maybe) the design (which was leaked by Engadget a day earlier), and the added features (a front facing camera??).

Maybe the California DA didn't know the next iPhone had a front-facing camera, but anyone who would have read the Gizmodo story probably did.

Plus, Gruber told us: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/29/wsj
One of my co-workers has aliases for typos of common unix commands. (e.g. 'alias mroe=more' and 'alias moer=more' etc)
On the other hand, having greater variation might provide a net benefit to the population as a whole.
If you're just remapping modifier keys, the Keyboard prefs pane works well (not sure if it's part of Leopard, though).

If you want to map something to ESC, try PCKeyboardHack:
http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/extra.html
Ironically, even as a homosexual, I suspect that your former predicate is actually more unlikely than the latter. Though the latter is pretty damn ridiculous as well, at least by the metric of the literature I'm exposed to so I could be unaware of something supporting that idea.
if i could go back in time and cherrypick what to invest in, no shit i'd be rich!
How about just not discriminating?
I believe that if I have a briefcase full of confidential documents, it would be logical that I can leave my workplace with them without them suddenly not being trade-secrets anymore. I can bring them to the airport. I can put it on a chair next to me while I eat and if I forget them, they are not suddenly considered open.

To me, the point of this law is that the finder's-keepers attitude is encouraging theft. I think "I found it" is a common alibi for theft. If you get rid of that alibi (which doesn't harm people who would return the items) then you discourage actual theft by making it harder to buy and sell.

The only people who are inconvenienced are those who truly did find an item and keep it. There's an exemption for items of small value so as not to burden those people too much. That's just my view of it.
I don't agree. Many people who use the labels on themselves and their friends have conflicting definitions. Further, I see the distinction as a false one. It boils down to "people within my subgroup that I like" and "people within my subgroup that I don't like."
Comcast's customer service isn't as bad as DirecWay (satellite internet provider) in my experience. When I had DirecWay my wait for service was typically over 30 minutes on the phone. So I had to find a big block of time before calling. My internet went out for the 4th or 5th time and I called them the next day to try to figure it out. The service guy on the phone berated me for waiting so long and said "if you had your arm chopped off would you wait a day before going to the hospital??".
This is right up my alley. I'll be going to med school in a few months, and so I'm looking for study materials and methods (I plan on trying Anki). I think it's great that they're trying to make the study of medicine a bit more enjoyable than just rote memorization. Also, as someone who hopes to venture into entrepreneurship as a physician, it's really encouraging to read about such ventures.
"I will get rid of someone if their behavior leads the rest of the team to slack off or miss targets."

If I understand you correctly, you're saying that you allow the team to use an individual as a scapegoat and not take responsibility for their own actions.

Could you elaborate on this? Why do you think this is the best course of action rather than dealing with the people that are not being responsible for their own work? If you let people get away with not taking responsibility once, won't they continue to do it in the future?
i map capslock to ctrl using autohotkey
From what I understand, most studies show that the most important thing is for kids to have two parents -- kids raised in single parent households didn't do as well (but I'm not sure how many associated variables were controlled for.)

The gender of the two parents didn't seem to have much of an impact.
The warrant wasn't issued to determine the source of a trade secrets leak.

Actually...

Appendix B, paragraph 4: 'Printed documents, images, and/or notation pertaining to the sale and/or purchase of the stolen iPhone prototype and/or the sale and/or transfer of trade secret information pertaining to the iPhone prototype.'
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Yeah, but re-mapping is easy. Personally, I'm fond of the (gasp!) Microsoft 4000 Natural Keyboard, with several remappings.
is there plans for malaho to be anything other than a low quality google spam long tail site?

as much derided as yahoo is, it is still one of the biggest sites on the internet which is putting out some great tech, when you get a chance to go to somewhere with people like douglas crockford and steve souders as peers its pretty hard to count as a step backwards from anywhere.
Honestly, I'm more impressed with someone campaigning for what is logically right (even tho they have emotional hangups) than I am with someone who follows their emotions for the "right thing" but can't explain why it is right. The latter is just a result of luck.

I have had my own stupid emotional discomforts. None of them were logical, but all of them were easier to deal with when I was open about it. Get off your high horse.

Edit: strike that "get off your high horse" bit, its too reactionary of me -- sorry about that.
And if anything, that argument might suggest the upper 10% should almost have the lower 90 enthralled. Society is a fundamentally mental event. To claim you're more skilled than 90% of it and still fail to succeed is to not really be telling the whole s story.

Which is fine. Maybe you don't care about other people enough to invest. Maybe you've decided to spend time elsewhere. Just stop trying to be so holy that you can't overcome the challenge of learning about and appreciating others.
It's not hard to argue that it's good for a child to have a mom and a dad.

The APA's official stance (one borne out by my personal experience with gay families) is that there is no difference in the well-being of children raised by two same-sex parents or two opposite-sex parents.

"...the results of existing research comparing lesbian and gay parents to heterosexual parents and children of lesbian and gay parents to children of heterosexual parents are quite clear: Common stereotypes are not supported by the data."

http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/parenting.aspx
You can send commands to other 'windows' inside of a screen session. So you can whip up vim plugins to spawn a new screen window (for example) with your test suite running in it. This allows for some of the things that you can do with 'buffers' in Emacs that you can't really do with them in Vim (i.e. you can't launch a test suite in Vim with the output sent to a Vim buffer and still be able to edit with Vim while the suite is running).

That said, I much prefer hex-editing with Emacs to using a combination of xxd and vim.
"Sony sold a jaw-dropping 12 million floppies in Japan during 2009"

Who is still buying floppies in 2009? Maybe legacy systems where the only way to get data on or off of the device is via a floppy. I've see oscilloscopes like this ( i.e. http://www.atecorp.com/equipment/tek/TDS794D.asp )
This iPhone raid is a reminder that only the government has the legal monopoly on trespassing, breaking-and-entering, and theft -- which are functionally equivalent to this raid & confiscate operation. These monopolies are in addition to those on kidnapping (arrest, imprisonment) and murder (executions, military actions).

But... do not be alarmed.
If you don't know Grellas you should. He's one of the most giving and knowledgeable contributors HN has on a subject where a lot of junk normally gets tossed around

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=grellas
Even if I take your bait and leap to the conclusion that everybody spends their life pruning their Facebook friend lists, have your friends never said anything embarassing about you? As a prank, in a fight, etc.?

Thanks to Facebook, it can be in a thousand people's news feeds in a minute, and with the permanence of computers and the internet, saved forever on a hundred hard drives, some of which belong to people who are definitely not among your friends (that includes Facebook the company itself).
I felt exactly the same way.

It seems as if this author had been living in Turing's time period his post would have read:

"I don't have clear thoughts about whether chemical castration or forced celibacy is better; I'm conflicted about whether gay couples should be allowed to be free."
You can remap the modifier keys (Caps Lock, Alt, Cmd) from the preferences pannel, in Keyboard. There's a button at the bottom, called "Modifier Keys..."
I agree. Fortunately however, :he has tab completion, which certainly reduces such. Also :he index is nice. And for those times with internet, #vim on freenode usually knows the correct :he keyword in seconds.
I think you're still missing the OP's point: if you, as a manager, think in this way, you'll end up with what he calls "crappy" programmers.

I didn't find him to be complaining about anything per se, nor mentioning "fulltime job":

Never mind that a good programmer can produce more valuable work in a 30-hour workweek from home than a crappy programmer can toiling 60 hours in the office.

Rather, he's pointing out a contrast between two extreme, but plausible, situations.

This guy is offloading that problem to his manager

What's the manager's job if not, as you put it, to manage the communication and signaling problems that creates in the workplace? Still, I come back to the impression that you're thinking about this out of context:

doesn't seem to understand the problems he might be creating.

Again, I allege that's not the programmer's job. The programmer's job is to create, and the manager's job is to maximize the creativity while minimizing problems.

It's that I don't think his sarcasm offers any practical advice.

I agree that the practical advice may be masked by the tone or form.

This is the advice as I interpret it:

If you want to maximize the productivity of your programmers and ensure the most talented and most producive ones stay, avoid the listed behaviors, even if there are some negative consequences. If your business is software, I have a hard time believing that "general productivity" among the others in the office would improve enough to offset getting rid of someone working on the core competency.

On the other hand, I could easily imagine a situation, however, where this is not the desired outcome, such as in a company where software is only a minor component. In that case, your firmer hand on scheduling seems far more beneficial.
Very true... but most HN posters at least have some sort of identity that they like to protect. And karma helps too... With wikipedia you can never be sure that someone doesn't have an axe to grind. At least it's usually obvious here. :)
> Incidentally, Christians killed people, like John Lennon.

And white people killed John Lennon. And Hawaiians killed John Lennon. And men killed John Lennon. And people wearing pants killed John Lennon. And obsessed stalkers killed John Lennon.

And no one gives any of those groups the sort of pass that Islam gets.
I never was convinced single parent adoption was a good idea.
Well, sure, but he practiced as a corp/finance lawyer, not a criminal or IP attorney (which seem to be the relevant facets here). And in the OP he says, specifically, "I’m not going to go into the legal issues around this because I’m just not qualified."
Why Gizmodo is guilty of grand theft
64 bit integers should be enough for anybody :)

I don't know, why people keep asking for more resources? Maybe he wants to store every pixel, its lightning and physics from a 32 multiplayer game to offer time-machine features (like the TimeShift game). Maybe he wanted to make a scientific game, something like EVE online, but analysing Hubble data. Maybe he just thinks it would be nice to be the first to break the current limits to sell future-proof game engines.

I don't know. But asking why would people ever want more in their computing power than what's been offered has always came back to bite the questioner :)
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That's not the distinction at all. The distinction is between antisocial people who like sci-fi and fantasy and smart, somewhat obsessive people who like technology. The groups are not disjoint, but they're by no means the same group.
If I understand you correctly, you're saying that you allow the team to use an individual as a scapegoat and not take responsibility for their own actions.

Despite disagreeing in principle with the OC, I don't think this is at all what he was suggesting.

Rather, he was presenting a "view from the top," where if he were to perceive a negative influence (whether or not the influenced parties were, themselves, aware), he would eliminate it.