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> it seems they aren't going to continue sidestepping the carriers

And that tells a lot about how much consumers really control their relationship with their suppliers.

It's a lot like Microsoft. They don't sell Windows to Joe Sixpack. They sell it to Dell, HP, Lenovo and Acer.
I can't afford a whiteboard so I use the glass coffee table for visualization instead.

Nonetheless it does have the tortured genius cliché attached to it. As shallow as this sounds it actually makes it cooler. I like messing with people by writing poetry (Keats, Byron, Frost...) on it. I would recommend it to anyone who is sick of pretentious people who judge others.
Massively over-cliched, yes. But I feel I must point out: glass cleans better than those always-cheap dry/wet erase boards. i.e., perfectly, instead of leaving shadows / requiring alcohol.
Are you serious? Do you really think there is no IP protecting makeup and production of every single kind of rubber, plastic, metal, and glass used in the iPhone? That IP doesn't come out of nowhere: they either develops it in-house, license it, or acquire it.
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We're all (almost) using some subset of functional programming. (Even working in something like PHP.) We're also almost all not using Lisp, Haskell or even Scala. Lisp had brilliant ideas that became mainstream and widespread; that is not contestable.
In response to the Sweeney quote, I would call this a call program:

http://www.gemstone.com/pdf/OOCL_SuccessStory.pdf

I know many people who work on 'real programs' written in lisp and smalltalk. Just because usage of the language isn't common doesn't mean you can't write real programs in it.

I've heard plenty of horror stories about how you can write real programs in php yet, people do ( witness facebook ). IMO, you can write real programs in any language- it is just that each make different things easier to do than others.
Also like cologne, the same "stuff" smells different on different people due to body chemistry.
A handful of reddits (/r/programming, /r/agile, /r/semanticweb, /r/machinelearning, /r/artificial, etc.), twitter (yes, believe it or not, IF you follow the right people), a few general purpose tech news blogs like TechCrunch, Mashable, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, etc.

Outside of that, subscriptions to the mailing lists for the open source projects that I care about, and a few hundred feeds loaded into my RSSOwl reader.
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so what's the problem?
Bad reasoning: Remember the hits, forget the misses.
For me and many others to take interest we need more than "can write", we need a "better" in there, in a way that translates to "more money".
"If you go this route, one day you'll realize you evolved the ultimate hacker language, and it became a godawful mess for writing real programs."

A Stradivarius (a kind of ultimate hacker tool) in the hand of a master can change people lives. A Stradivarius in the hand of a lesser musician will probably still sound pretty good. A master with a second hand violin can still move us. A busted up violin can't be made to sound good.

There's a lot of coders out there with second-hand violins. I wonder what they could do if they all had the Stradivarius. In real life there is physical scarcity, in the world of code the scarcity is a product only of our lack of curiosity and drive.
I would read that. It would be really interesting to see a news source that focused on startups that are still, you know, starting up. Maybe you could have a rule where you only report on companies until they either fold or start bringing in serious money.

The problem would be finding enough to write about. I think a lot of the rumor articles aren't there only because the authors like rumors - it's because the authors have explicit or implicit blogging quotas.

But maybe there are enough out there. If you focused only on the small companies, and put the word out, they'd probably come to you to announce their announcements, so you wouldn't be short of material.

Come up with clear criteria for what you'll cover - it'll be easier to position yourself and for people to see why they should keep coming back.

The money would probably not be huge, but you could make some from advertising. I'm sure some of the companies you write about would be willing to buy some ads or sponsored 'spotlight' posts. Post several times a day, with one spotlight a week for, I don't know, $X00. There's some not-insubstantial money right there.
Just like Microsoft preferred that it's customers used internet explorer over Netscape's offering
If I had an iPhone4, I'd get something like this: http://www.zagg.com/invisibleshield/apple-iphone-4-cases-scr...

I don't know if it'd help the antenna issue, but they work great for protecting your devices from scratching without covering up their good looks. I've got a similar skin for my Nexus One and have been very pleased so far.
Doesn't wget still use HTTP/1.0?
What if it's an early field test of a YGBM weapon?
Reports show that it is no faster, unfortunately.
If you haven't seen it, here's a parody of the original iPhone commercial showing a 3G on iOS4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdk2cJpSXLg
Steve is clearly bright and interesting. So it perplexes me that his blog is adorned with a huge pledge of allegiance to a politician.

*I'd react equally negatively if his blog had a huge Nader or W2004 button on it. I guess I just don't understand the desire people have to idealize authority figures.
I would have been very interested if this had gone to court to test the GPL purely in the context of themes/plugins, because to me that's the grey area. As it is, I wish (for the sake of both parties) that the matter could be settled without legal intervention. Now that it's been demonstrated that Thesis outright copies and incorporates portions of WP source code, it seems unlikely that a court decision would directly answer the question of plugins, because it wouldn't need to. (I don't think anybody argues that such copying isn't a GPL violation.)
It would be interesting to see a comparison graph of other users. For example, I would be interested to see how many other people write like Vladimir Nabokov, and maybe even what the top 10 writers are.

Congratulations on your success!

P.S. You said you're in Montenegro but don't speak the language -- just remember "pivo" (beer) and "poshto?" (how much) and you'll be fine ;)
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I don't quite understand the "blueprint:building :: X:code" idea. It helped when I saw (in a comment at the bottom) that the author doesn't consider regular expressions, SQL, or other DSLs to be code.

Is this article really just a call for the splitting of Turing-complete languages into software "materials", a group of DSLs that provide constraints? Programming in universal languages would become like materials science or industrial R+D.
Though I'm not familiar with Wordpress and it's theming system, this argument has indeed puzzled me. This article is spot on: why would a theme be beholden to the software's license?

That said, maybe Wordpress themes are much different than normal themes, and are much more tightly coupled? That WP would pursue this if not puzzles me.
To summarize:

Thesis integrates with Wordpress, it is not derivative from it. Same way Linux modules integrate with the Linux kernel (and many of them are closed source).

If someone is using a public/open API, and not distributing any part of the software, it means they are not based on the other.
Because I could then take the PHP portion of his theme (nobody is claiming te HTML and CSS are GPL) and resell it or give it away for free.
I upgraded my 3g to iOS4 and its barely functioning, constant hangups - do not recommend upgrade. Very highly recommend the iPhone 4 though.
Alternative to the french press that's easier to carry around: a good metal tea filter. Not one that looks like this[1], with holes all over, but one like this[2] with a super-fine mesh. Just knock the coffee out when you're done, and rinse. Also makes excellent tea. You'll get a bit of dusting in the bottom of your mug, but you can either stir it up as you drink (significantly-weaker turkish coffee, I guess) or just leave it.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/swissgold®-TF-300-Tea-Filter/dp/B000G7... [2]: http://www.amazon.com/Finum-Brewing-Medium-Basket-Black/dp/B...
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Hrmm... my anti-virus / anti-malware scanner claims to have detected malware on that site. Something definitely popped up asking to load an encrypted PDF or some jazz. Open at your own risk...
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Andy Samberg might have been a more hilarious choice, but Jesse Eisenberg is already damned funny.
The is is whether themes are derivative works in the first place.
This is great reading. A good cup of coffee is better than five bad ones.
yes, he is in fact Sir Paul McCartney's evil programming twin.
I would admire Chris for that reason if any of his arguments had been even slightly cogent.

Maybe there's a reason people have accepted it up to now.
Probably about the same impact Pirates of Silicon Valley had on Bill Gates. Pretty much nil.

Economics overrides everything else.
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Clojure is great if you happen to be tied to the JVM. It is fantastic to have something usable on such an environment. However, outside that environment there is little advantage compared to Common Lisp, since Clojure drags this huge piece of crap that is the JVM. I would much prefer to have libraries in the Python style -- that is, being able to connect to real, native object code in several architectures.
It would be interesting to see how may of the M&A's were planning an IPO prior to being acquired.

A recent study shows that a better price can be extracted from the acquiring company if the sellers adopt this dual-track strategy. See http://news.byu.edu/archive10-jun-dualtracksellouts.aspx
They're not irrelevant, but we're seeing a margin much bigger than they could account for. If there were companies that today could exit with 1990s-style $500m IPOs, I don't think they would walk away from them because of SOX. They're not having those IPOs because there are very few companies today that could convince investors to pay $500m for their stock.

Those who do have a business model, outlook, and revenues that makes them attractive, like Google, can and do still IPO successfully, but there aren't many of them.
It sounds kind of ridiculous when stated explicitly, doesn't it?

Only if we assume your initial premise. How about this one? The average consumer is never going to try to hack their phone unless someone more knowledgable than them provides the instructions and resources necessary to do it. In other words, average consumer using the phone will never, ever, ever have a bricked phone because of some sort of anti-tampering device.

Motorola wishes to sell a device with a certain set of supported functionality. They do not wish to invest effort in dealing with hacked versions of their devices, and in fact they seem to have contracts with carriers that require them to protect the devices.

Motorola sells you a device that does exactly what they say it does. If you don't like the feature-set of this device, then don't buy it -- Motorola is not required to sell you an open platform and you't not required to buy their closed one.
I think wordpress has an interest to have it all as free software, Matt's business are not built around selling themes their built around services anti spam, backup, etc
It's cute but it's probably not going to result in a job.
Does it really work for coffee too?
Does anyone know what his basic theory is for the structure of the hierarchy of concepts?
Aren't these called non-competes?
That's after pmarca let the cat out of the bag on Charlie Rose.
I say Haskell, the way you can build abstract syntax tree's as data types and do pattern matching on them is a very natural way to write a compiler, it is almost a one-to-one match with a language definition.
It looks like quite a bit of GPL code is used in Thesis http://drewblas.com/2010/07/15/an-analysis-of-gpled-code-in-...
A lot of JS on the web does still break all the time, to be fair. It's not like he predicted it would never improve.
Rumor has it Scala works quite well on Android, but no dynamic language does yet.
I agree there are really simple calls that just seem to use normal naming conventions, and is this the only section that has this potential issue?
There's also an emerging BlueTooth issue with the iPhone 4 - suprised this hasn't been picked up more.

I know from my own personal experience (I've owned every iPhone, this is the only one wiht issues) and the growing complaints:

http://www.google.com/search?q=iphone+4+bluetooth+issue&...
> An inexpensive ($15) blade grinder (“whirly-bird”) is sufficient for making drip coffee

While this much may be true, using a french press with a blade grinder is a recipe for nasty sludge at the bottom of your cup. There's just too much variation in the grind size.
Wait, so the French government ruled against Google, in favor of a company whose mission is to help evade the government. This is too rich.
The \\Foo\ example I gave was poorly chosen, because they put in a kluge fix so that anything that resembles a Windows file path will pass through unparsed. You cannot use \\ in any other circumstance, which is why \\Foo failed.
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Cold-brewed coffee is another option. It brings out different flavors from the coffee than brewing it with hot water - there's much less acidity. While I usually drink french-pressed coffee or tea, I like cold-brewed coffee with chicory (e.g. Cafe du Monde) in the summer.

To make it, I put about 3/4 cup coarse-ground coffee in a 1 qt. jar, fill it with water, and let it steep in the fridge for a day. After that, just strain it - two or three passes through a strainer, then a coffee filter seems to work best. The result is a kind of coffee concentrate - mixing it 50-50 with water seems about right. Refrigerated, it will keep for at least a week or two.

You can make larger batches, of course.
I've been using it for years (the same filter, actually), it's excellent, and lets you brew by-the-cup easily. French press pots are a PITA to clean. The mesh is way finer than even the finest grind, though a blade-based grinder will make more dust than a burr-grinder.

Make sure you get a decent filter, though. Many of them aren't super-fine. I personally got mine from SpecialTeas for less than I see in stores, and they've got good tea too: http://www.specialteas.com/Tea-Preparation/Permanent-Tea-Fil...
Don't. That place is mostly inane kids on pills.
You know when you take a stance, and you say "What would it take for me to change my opinion on this?" Yeah, this is one of those situations for me. Have you got a cite?
As an alternative, try cold-brewed (aka 'Toddy') coffee. Cold-brewing circumvents the freshness problem by brewing large batches of concentrate that can be stored in the fridge. Then simply mix the concentrate with boiling water for standard coffee, or with cold water to make true iced coffee. The results are notably less bitter than conventional coffee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toddy_coffee
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Nope, though I can try guessing. Although the material used can have a noticeable effect on the tea (both in temperature and flavor) I would think this is just for convenience. Glass is a neutral material good for any kind of tea and is easy to clean. A jar wouldn't spill easily and would be good for travelling. When most people drink tea they just want caffeine and convenience comes before taste.
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It's not a huge deal in practice in my experience. You could always buy a press that uses filters, such as the aeropress.
3GS will have no more problems than previously (== no problems), 3G will be no better: iOS4 is apparently significantly more memory hungry than iPhoneOS 3, which leaves the RAM-constrained 3G in a bad position. Many applications (including built-in) have come to be quite slow and laggy, and RAM-intensive applications (e.g. big games) have generally taken a turn for the worse.

4.0.1 doesn't look like it has much improved on the situation (apart from the psychological trick of "new release = faster", and the fact that freshly booted phones are less memory-constrained since Mail and Saf's background processes aren't running yet) so far.

Unless you need iOS4 features (or iOS4-only apps), i would recommend staying on 3.1
I always thought Pirates was much more of an indictment of Steve Jobs... among folks that I know who actually saw the movie, they certainly walked away with a lower opinion of the man.
Scratch your own itch for purely selfish and pragmatical reasons... the rest will come by itself.

A quick story:

A long while ago I liked to dabble on video editing using Linux (That was installed on the only box I had with the horsepower required). The choices where not many, the one I decided on was (and still is) overly complicated, with very little info on how to use it. I started learning the hard way, It was hard, foreign to non video people and had plenty of bugs but no show stoppers..

Then for my own selfish needs, I started writing a manual for the thing, the catch was that I had the good idea of putting it on a wiki, so others would also contribute.. Because it was something actually useful, pretty soon people started dropping by, saying thx and a few even contributing articles..
Few months later, someone asked to translate it to slovenian, then someone else to italian, then rusian,spanish and so on.. After a while we had quite a nice manual that in turn help to make the program popular, which in turn got more developers involved, who then fixed the bugs that I initially encountered and could not fix because I suck at C programming.

I never meant to do anything of this.. I just had personal needs and did something about it. the catch is to share your work with others not expecting to be paid in any way what-so-ever.. (other than to enjoy other contributors work)
Or get a Nespresso and grab some Arpeggio capsules.
Great news for Layerboom (and Joyent). Nice to hear Bootup startup score an acquisition. And oh please, please let this be the beginning of a technology renaissance in Vancouver.

It has the following:

Two Great Universities, and a solid technical
college (UBC, SFU, BCIT)

Reasonable winters, beautiful summers, (okay, rainy
fall weather)

Gorgeous scenery. I never tire of watching the
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Awesome City Life - I fly back three-four times a year
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vehicle to live/work/play in Vancouver.

Fingers crossed.
Those footnotes have a mix of prescience and just plain wrong. For instance, there's one about how a good open source browser can fundamentally change the industry; and Firefox has in that time gained much ground and helped spur innovation in IE and across the web (as have WebKit and Chrome). However, Firefox was already underway by the time he wrote this, so that prediction isn't necessarily so forward looking.

His opposition to client-side software, though, is less prescient. He says that JavaScript may not be available when you can browse the web on your phone; but JavaScript support is now one of the distinguishing features of new smartphones. He says that writing client-side apps is a bad idea, but the popularity of client-side JavaScript is proving that wrong. Mostly, Java applets themselves were a bad technology, but client side code that integrates with the Web is a popular idea, in the form of Flash and JavaScript.

So yeah, there's one prescient quote in there, but some more that are wrong. And many people were hoping for an Apple iPod/phone for quite a while; see, for example, http://technologizer.com/2009/12/28/iphone-rumors/ (the first list of collected iPhone rumors I found in a google search).
One of the old 68k Apple Workgroup Servers 95s would be awesome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Workgroup_Server
Whether or not this means the ENTIRE Thesis codebase must be GPL’ed I can’t say

I can answer that. The quoted sentence is one of the biggest misunderstandings that developers make about the GPL. There is no obligation to make Thesis GPLed.

What's really happening rather, is that the author of Thesis is violating Wordpress's copyright. In order to fix the situation, they need to either stop using the copyrighted code, or reach some kind of agreement with the author of the code to obtain proper authorization. One way to obtain such authorization is by releasing their own code under GPL, but they could as well just negotiate a separate agreement.

GPL is not a virus that will force your code open without your consent.
If that API is under the GPL then isn't use of it a derivative work? If the API is a GPL implementation of a standard API, e.g. the JDBC API, then it wouldn't be a derivative work, not sure if Themes call a wordpress specific API or not though.
The narrative is based on the book "Accidental Billionaires" so the major conflicts will be with the Winklevoss twins and Eduardo Saverin.

I think the book fills in a lot of gaps with fiction and the movie will probably do the same. The author, Ben Mezrich, tends to incorporate a lot of fiction into his "non-fiction" books and embellishes quite a bit in order to create a more compelling story.
Yes, it would be much better if the software on addons.mozilla.org was reviewed. As it is, they tell you that it may be unsafe - and considering you see that for every single add on, even ones known to be safe like Firebug, it's as good as no message at all. I've read that there is a nefarious market now for old, forgotten add ons - it's possible to take over development of an add-on, and make an update that is malware. Firefox will then automatically update the software for everyone who has it installed.

I haven't used the Android Market, but I did notice similar treatment for add ons in the Google Desktop Sidebar. I never download the apps they offer there, as again, the warning essentially says anything available could be a dangerous trojan, and nobody from Google has taken the time to check any of them.

When a trusted name offers software, they should at least provide the assurance that it is not malware. Of course, this leads to systems like the App Store and considering how expensive and time consuming the review process could be, I understand why they don't. So, that's great to hear Mozilla is trying to improve this!
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I ended up taking three months off (after thinking it might only need a couple of weeks!) and even then it was hard work getting a good schedule back due to everything that needed doing. Having a baby is hard work, especially when you take on an equal share of the work (or more in the first six weeks for me - the wife had to have a C section and all housework/transport/carrying baby about was my pleasure).

As a work-at-home type, it was only after about four months that things clicked into place. I work till about 7am dealing with the baby's feeds/changes overnight (only one of these now at 9 months, but it used to be 2 - 3 times) then sleep till early afternoon.
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I think the products are too expensive. This guy made his own standing desk for $0.00 (reusing stuff lying around the house) and then added sit/stand capability by adding a drafting chair from Staples for about $120...

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