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To some extent that's true, but even with those solutions I think it's most convenient to manage your windows across multiple monitors. Perhaps I'm biased because I've never much cared for virtual desktops. I just tend to get confused/distracted trying to remember where I put everything, and then the annoyance of needing to see two things that are on different desktops simultaneously...I want to spend less time managing my windows, not more!
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And bsd unix, first release around 1977.
Asking around at the bar and calling Apple isn't a reasonable and just attempt to return the property to its owner? Let's not forget that the guy who found the iPhone was in a bar, and, most likely, had impaired though processes. I'm pretty sure most people would agree he went above and beyond the call of duty attempting to return the product to its owner.
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Okay, he said it, but is it true ? A large part of Apple's image is giving the impression that they're not like other computer manufacturers, that they're in a league of their own.
He should definitely not have a kid. He seems of the opinion that life is painful, and he has wished he had never been born (well, he has wished he had "killed himself when [he] was born", but there's little difference).

To "have a kid" is to create another person who might well wish to never have been born, another person who will have to decide whether or not it is justified to bring kids into this painful world.

I am glad that RMS is so honest about it. Most people cover up their unhappiness.
Thanks for your comment. Working with someone who's spent time in an engineering team is valuable and means we don't need to train on that part of the job.

Otherwise I think your points are very valid and I will work to flesh out this job description to describe some of the more interesting things we're working on.
Not if you know where the owner's address is. You can just drop it off at their headquarters. Or at any apple store. OR you can mail it to them. So no, obviously not.
Thank you for the explanation.

In the example, the add-contact URI was dynamically generated so the deletion from following a url and and bookmark breaking did not seem especially pertinent.

But your explanation made a lot of points clear. One maintains the integrity of the call by placing parameters in the body. Avoiding proxy and caching issues inherit in using GET, as well as avoiding xss, makes immediate sense.
I have to generally agree with the overall gist of this (not legal advice!). Interestingly I noticed gawker ran a very fawning article about Steve Jobs today, so they are obviously scared and trying to backpedal and suck up to Jobs.
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The request was for releases between the founding of the FSF and the release of the Linux kernel. So 1977 was too early to count.
In my experience, most "Get rich quick with affiliate marketing" e-books are total BS, but actual affiliate programs are legit.
I was in Iraq when this happened. It is a fairly representative incident -- the only remarkable thing is that Reuters people were involved. There have been plenty of within-rules shootings which led to the deaths of civilians, but there were also plenty of situations where the rules hindered successful operations or even self-defense. It's a balancing act, and it's war, so it's choosing among least-bad options, with imperfect information.

It's fair to criticize the Rules of Engagement as being overly hostile to civilians, and counter to the goal of winning and leaving. In Afghanistan, GEN McChrystal actually stopped a lot of effective tactics (night raids, airstikes, etc.) because they were counter to the strategy of winning the war by winning the populace. In Iraq, there were periods of intense kinetic violence (such as going into Baquba, Sadr city, Fallujah) combined with periods of reconstruction and trying to win the populace.

I actually knew Julian Assange from running a remailer long before wikileaks, and he seemed like a pretty decent guy. I'm not sure what happened. I'm betting he/they felt marginalized and were trying to use this to raise their own profile. I support the general idea of transparency through third parties publishing information, but I can't support wikileaks.
http://verbapp.com/ is my app. It's a task management application for freelancers and small distributed teams.

I'm about to launch a new version with a greater focus on communication within projects (as well as a bunch of other things). I think the new version will be much more what you're looking for, but the current for should be quite usable. If you do use it I would love any feedback you have.
That is the premise of the article.
My point is more to illustrate odds go up significantly the more you play
Why is it so hard for these news sources to add a link to the Google Street View location in question? Neither cnet nor The Sun has the link. Is it some link-juice thing?

Here's the link
http://maps.google.com/maps?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&#...
The old BSD wasn't freely licensed, though. Some versions included source code, but with no license permitting distribution of derived works.

The first even partial release of a free-software BSD was in 1989, when UC Berkeley first wrote the 4-clause BSD license (with the now-dropped "advertising clause"), and released a non-functioning OS core consisting of TCP/IP stack and libraries, called "Net/1", but couldn't release a functioning OS because they couldn't get permission to release the code that AT&T owned. They rewrote a bunch of the AT&T code as free software and released the first-ever free BSD, Net/2, in 1991, which then led to the 386BSD port, and thence to FreeBSD.
Aside from the larger issue being debated here, I think you're guilty of operating under an outdated assumption. The US forces in Iraq have not been 'foreign occupiers' for quite some time. They are there at the will of the democratically elected Iraqi government in a deployment sanctioned by the UN Security Council. It should be possible to acknowledge this fact even while disagreeing with the presence of US forces in Iraq.

Nor do I believe the US military had an obligation to release the video, although they did have an obligation to conduct a serious and thorough investigation and make the results and key aspects of it public. I think it's clear this didn't happen, but it did not justify Wikileaks's heavily edited and flawed version of the video.
The hiring process in America is broken. I agree completely. I'd like to see startups address the broken-tech aspects, and hiring managers address the cultural factors.

Even the "best" offerings like Taleo are highly lacking IMHO.

Then you have custom sites that have horrid designs, like USAJOBS.gov - used by thousands and thousands of people.

Why in this era of LinkedIn should anyone ever have to retype a resume into individual form fields? Insane.
Wow...totally agree here. To me their mission is a lot less compelling as an activist organization. I liked them a lot better when they were just publishing information.
Microsoft is right.

I've reinstalled two laptops in the last six months (for friends) - and was able to use the correct serial number because it was on the bottom of the laptop.

Without that they'd have been stuck with a machine that didn't get updates and warned them about being unverified all the time.
They did...but in between they posted a ton of information about Apple's device, which they were not entitled to do, with the specific end of making a profit.

this is illegal for two reasons: one is that you're not supposed to exploit someone else's ill fortune in this manner, and two is that you're not supposed to damage that someone else's interests.

Besides benefiting Apple's competitors, there are already news stories saying things like 'don't buy an iPhone until June' and so forth.
Being respected.

(for example: I respect his ideals but have a generally low opinion of the man himself. I think that can be important)
I don't think anyone is condoning this behavior (certainly not the soldier in the interview). However, I should mention that police abusing power is a little different, since they aren't in a WAR ZONE, having been shot at minutes before. Whether or not the soldiers erred (and they did) is not the question here. The question is, why did WikiLeaks present it in the way they did?

People are attacking WikiLeaks because they feel betrayed by the organization. I know I do. What was supposed to be an impartial mediator of classified data turned out to be a sensationalist mediator of classified data presented with a spin that would make Fox News proud.

In closing: Wikileaks exposed us to civilian murder. This would normally by fine. However, they also distorted the facts and the context of the event to support a sensationalist publicity routine. That is the problem here.
err.. feeling dumb. Not sure how I missed that.
> But I'd doubt google bought it for the same reason as apple bought semi-pa. Google seems pretty adament on working qith existing handset providers.

Apple made their first Phone with Motorola.[1] It is not easy to enter a hardware industry; more so if you have no prior experience with consumer hardware market (unlike Apple). I think its more likely that Google was testing the water with Nexus One to see how people will react to it and how the process of manufacturing phones work. If I remember correctly they worked closely with HTC and had quite a bit influence on how the final product will look like. Remember, they are also working on a slate device and a net-book device, which will debut sometime this year. While this acquisition might not have any direct relation to the Google hardware devices coming out this year. I think it is highly likely that they might start building their own devices with custom processors soon.

1. http://www.engadget.com/2005/09/07/the-motorola-rokr-e1-appl...
Lets see. He checked with a couple of people sitting next to him, put the phone in his pocket, mucked around with it, found the owner's facebook page, and then sold it for $5K. No, I don't think he made a reasonable effort to return it at all.

It's out and out theft.
Wow, this is pretty lame. The various stuff I've become a "fan" of (apparently now renamed "like") was under the understanding, explicitly stated by Facebook, that it wasn't part of the public information. Seems they changed that without warning or opt-out? Is there at least an easy way to quickly remove all the hundreds of things I've become a fan of before Google starts indexing them, if I'd prefer them not to be indexed?

What I'm getting from this is that you should assume that all your Facebook information is publicly available, and act accordingly, because they could make it so at any time. At this rate of trustworthiness, I wouldn't be that surprised if in 2 years status updates were made retroactively public with no opt-out (and maybe without even telling you).

Edit: Is this even legal? Consider the following scenario: Someone signed up for a Facebook account 3 years ago, and entered some of this information, at a time when their privacy policy explicitly promised that the information would not be shared. They have not logged in since, so cannot be said to have even implicitly agreed to a change in the privacy policy (and Facebook has not mailed out any notice of the change). Now their information is made public, in violation of the privacy policy. Not sure how easy it'd be to enforce, but at the very least it seems sleazy.
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It fakes the PUT to help out browsers. If you pass in a _method paramater it overrides the actual HTTP verb, but this is actually done in middleware above Rails, the controller sees it as PUT.
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What kind of configuration do you need to do to 'enable' PUT and DELETE? In my experience with 1.3, 2.0 and 2.2 it was always proxied correctly. I am using primarily nginx these days which also proxies the HTTP method without any special configuration.
Here's the thing...I don't trust Facebook to have this much power on my web. They simply haven't consistently shown themselves to be trustworthy when protecting their users conflicts with making money. It would only take one such incident to make me hesitant; and there has been more than one such incident.
I think that is what apotheon means! Hacker culture is far from dead; it is alive and well, just different.

It's just him being stuck in the "glorious past" (nothing really wrong with that) and assuming that hackers should be working with computers on that sort of level.

Things move on; if we still had to do all that computing wouldn't have moved on very fast :P

I heartily disagree that the culture is materially different - it's just spread out a bit more (instead of being on the university campus' etc.)
Those are all at the top, so this shouldn't be a problem ;)
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Interesting to see Facebook has reached that stage in every big tech company's lifecycle where they waste a lot of resources on Things That Obviously Won't Work.
They don't have to, but they are, most of the time. Knowing that, "newline as delimiter" yields the lightest syntax.
Yeah - look at how well that's turned out in banking where the FDIC, OTS, OCC, and Fed are competing to run things.

</sarcasm>
How about posting on the guy's facebook page "Hey I got ur phone."
I've looked into it. The idea behind "Affiliate Marketing" has nothing to do with scams. At it's core, the idea is simply to pay people a sales commission to sell your product online.

The scammyness varies directly with the scammyness of the product that you are selling times the scammyness of the website doing the selling. Or scam(project) = scam(product*execution)
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Mmmmm, Hopworks Urban Brewery...

Their brew master is my neighbour, super nice guy.
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Along the same lines, Donald Norman (usability guru, started the usability field almost single-handedly with the book "The Design of Everyday Things") recently said:

"I've come to a disconcerting conclusion: design research is great when it comes to improving existing product categories but essentially useless when it comes to new, innovative breakthroughs."
http://jnd.org/dn.mss/technology_first_needs_last.html

You can't ignore customers completely. Apple discovered this with the Lisa computer in the 1980s, which apparently was amazing for its time, but at $10,000 found no market. Perhaps Lisa was the computer Jobs wanted for himself, but it turned out that few others were willing to shell out that kind of money.

On the other hand, it is clearly pointless to ask consumers how to design attractive or revolutionary hardware or software - you're the expert, you figure it out.

But this doesn't necessarily mean that you ignore target markets altogether - the iPad is innovative, but still clearly focused on a particular set of use cases with a price to make it competitive with netbooks.
I think it came across quite clearly in the video that the guys on the ground were a lot more attached to the situation. You could here it in their voices. An important part of this story that sadly won't get much attention is how badly the soldiers are treated. The sergeant could potentially have saved this guy a lot of trouble by letting him see a "mental health person".
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What would be an example of 'actual affiliate programs'?

Is 5days2freedom.com legit? I am tempted to buy the eBook for '$5' trial. Should I even bother?

I am afraid that I will have to do some crap like call then in less than 5 days to cancel or they will charge me for the remaining $45.

Has anyone bought that book and got good results?
Affiliate Marketing can deliver excellent value to both the affiliate and the merchant in some cases. A merchant only has to pay when they make a sale and are being sent more business than they otherwise would and the affiliate is making money from their marketing and web application skills without having a large initial outlay and all the other areas you need to deal with being a merchant.

Of course the stuff you hear the most about is usually the scams people are trying to pull to make a quick buck.
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Yes affiliate marketing is legit. Nearly every major online merchant has an affiliate program (Amazon, eBay, Zappos, Overtstock, Apple, Best Buy, etc). There are numerous companies that utilize affiliate marketing to monetize their content--FatWallet, Woot (on deals.woot.com), theFind, Like.com, and so on.

Affiliate marketing gets a bad wrap because of PPC arbitrage (sometimes provides a value-add), lead gen/offers for low quality products, thin landing pages, cookie-stuffing, and so on. I think Forrester projected affiliate marketing will be something like a $4.7B industry by 2013 (my best recollection), so it is clearly a huge part of any ecommerce company's marketing strategy. IMO, if you have a product oriented site, it is one of your better monetization options.
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Factory farming generally means pigs, cows and chickens crammed into small spaces. I think you're confusing that with Industrial Agriculture, aka. "The Green Revolution".

It's quite possible to have non-factory farming and not starve to death.
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Here are some videos of the game in question. It looks like an incredibly interesting concept: https://www.achrongame.com/site/gameplay-videos.php
> Is 5days2freedom.com legit? I am tempted to buy the eBook for '$5' trial. Should I even bother?

That's not an affiliate program.... (it looks a lot like a scam..)

By actual affiliate program I am sure he meant Amazon affiliates etc.
> "The English, you see, haven't completely warmed to Google photographing their neighborhoods. They have, on occasion, chosen to block their streets"

Funny that the people would get up in arms over this but yet be pliant to the CCTVs that are so common over there.
Hmm, if it's opt-in that's much less problematic. EFF's description of "removed its users' ability to control who can see their own interests and personal information" certainly doesn't sound opt-in! Are they talking about different things, or just mistaken?

I don't seem to see any dialogs on my own page...
...and calling Apple isn't a reasonable and just attempt to return the property to its owner...

Calling AppleCare - Apple's customer support - apparently? No, it is not reasonable. Going above and beyond the call of duty would have been stuff like - leaving contact information at the bar, so if someone comes looking for it they can get in touch with you; calling Apple corporate (you can find the number on apple.com/contact ) and demanding to speak with someone in charge; having access to the guy's Facebook information, you can try contacting him directly; and so on and so forth.

The "finder's" actions are a lousy cop out, after which they started shopping the phone around to tech blogs.
Let's also not forget the lost state of Franklin, and the Indian Stream Republic. US history is littered with similar examples.
I deleted my response to this by mistake.

Here's what I'd posted, in essence:

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=382978412130

Users can edit which connections they want to add to their profile. They can also hide some connections on their profile, and remove others if they so choose.

Disclosure: I work for Facebook. My opinions are my own.
I don't think it's fully rolled out yet.
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This is appalling. It sounds like Wikileaks has been "positively blackmailed"[1] into accepting the video.

"We'll give you this tasty goodie to publish on your site, but you have to use it to further our political agenda".

Sounds like they couldn't resist the temptation. This is not what we want from a whistleblower protection site.

[1] is there an official word for that?
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So, here we learn that clojure is "loosly typed" and that the similarity between Scala and Clojure is that they are more alike than different, and that Scala is more C style but with functions. Why do I still read such blog posts? (And BTW I comment on them in order to remind myself not to read such posts in the future.)
Selling it to Gawker for $5,000 is the opposite of returning it to its owner. There's no way around this really.
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Good point, and one I debated without a good resolution. For the launch, I stuck with what I had just to get something in the hands of users and get feedback.

Any ideas for different names? A fresh perspective would be appreciated.
It's not a war for search. It's a war for user attention.

Per Alexa, the average FB user spends 30+ mins on FB each day; the average GOOG user spends <10 mins on GOOG. And FB has far more extensive info about each user.

I think the risks to GOOG are generally underestimated.
It's going to be a great stock to short within the next 3 years.
"As Facebook's privacy policy promised, 'No personal information that you submit to Facebook will be available to any user of the Web Site who does not belong to at least one of the groups specified by you in your privacy settings'."

This is STILL true, and it's publicly known how to maintain privacy. You can keep all your information private to everyone who isn't a friend, and you get to control exactly who your friends are.

If you become a "Fan" of something or post on someone's comment/Wall, you're sharing some of your information with that page. No shit it's public. Why is a misunderstanding/lack of education about Facebooks policies equivalent to that site being sneaky and/or evil?
Were you born in America? Because America did this. They went to Iraq and did this.

all I can think to do is to simply grieve for this situation

No, you can ask that America leaves Iraq. If it was your daughter, you wouldn't just say, "I guess all I can do is grieve". Right? Look at her. I have a daughter too. You can do a fuck lot more than that.

Let's get the US out of Iraq and back home. NOW.
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From a quick look the facebook app comes off as intrusive which is a bit different for a YC company, you can't even look at it without giving them access to your email address, then while clicking through products it will pop-up with refer a friend and post to wall.

There are quiet a few of these sites around now that give you a small list of deals and presumably buy these items in bulk. Unless all the products are in a niche it would be pretty rare that much that I wanted would crop up, other people could be different I suppose.