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I went to a music camp years ago and had the chance to get a drive home from one of the instructors. He was really old and classically trained and I liked him b/c he taught an awesome class on odd time signatures.

Anyway, on the drive he asked what kind of music I liked and I said that I didn't like most contemporary music because so much of it was based on rip-offs of stuff that had already been done.

"Do you think classical composers are any different?"

That really annoyed me at the time but I totally understand and appreciate it now. As more things change, etc.
You have to think about it. If Apple were a type of government, what type would they be?

Wait, Ill let you guess.

Socialist Dictatorship. Think about how closed they are as a system... Would you really want a Socialist Dictatorship running your country?
Do you by any chance live in New England? I recently traveled there and in several hours of driving over two weeks, could not locate more than one or two radio stations (per area) that did not play classic rock. I completely share your frustrations.
I disagree and would argue that all societies continue to evolve as a consequence of ongoing tribalistic thinking.

edit/ and just to clarify, i don't think it's the only reason, but it is one of a few primary catalysts
Yes, for instance, a lot of haskellers are on #haskell on freenode.
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I am the exact opposite of you. I can put up entire projects myself (design, code etc...) but when it comes to heavy lifting I try and out source it because even though I can do it, it would take as much time as putting up a whole mobile web app.

I am currently working on 3 apps (2 will go live in the next few weeks). If you are interested in working on some stuff together send me an email.
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In these Internet days, dropshipping companies are so much popular and very well established. It provides many thousands of people with both side and full time incomes every week.
More infuriating is when the driver is so oblivious that he/she doesn't notice the 8-10 cars behind him/her trying to pass.
Ancedotes != evidence.

From my experience the quality of a Ford beats that of a Japanese car in the show room. Maitenance is probably a wash. I have 0 experience with GM so I don't know, but I've owned a Ford for the last 10 years with >150k miles on it and have had very few issues. I also own a Subaru and it has had more issues and the quality is noticeably lower. My finance owns a Corolla from the same year as my Subaru with the same miles and it has had fewer issues, but still more than the Ford and the Ford is way older. I have some issues with it right now actually. Plus the Toyota totally sucks. 0 fun, crappy interior, tiny, horrific in the snow. We're never buying a Toyota ever again.
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Depends on who is in charge. Not sure if it fits your description, but Singapore is analogous for Apple, and I'd live there.
I knew a person who was rather honest about their laziness. One day at lunch he just said "Yeah, I'm ready to be a millionaire." I said "Well, you better get busy!" With all sincerity he said, "Oh, no! I didn't want to work for it!"
On Freenode: #django, #startups, #python, etc.
False. He did not let his distribution certificate expire - his "distribution provisioning profile" expired.

Read this carefully:
http://www.roomsapp.mobi/blog/2010/07/roomspulled-from-store...
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Anything animated on a text-centric webpage. And it's not just ads: animated twitter feeds, scrolling lists of related posts, little twinkling Super-Best Awesome Blog Award .gifs, etc.

Cut it out. I am trying to READ your WRITING, and you are actively distracting me from doing so!
This was recently demoed at TED [1], and I was impressed how much this field is being commercialized. $US500 for a headset and SDK, shipped worldwide. I admit ever since I was a little geek, I dreamed one day I would have neural access to a computer, and now it looks like it's coming along far enough to play with. I was wondering what the community might think.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVhggGSjXVg
One thing that surprises me in the images was that one of them is exactly "Where to?" by tap tap tap:

http://taptaptap.com/#whereto
I'm not saying that either way - I was just pointing out the alternative. Until Apple state their intentions we won't know either way will we?
I agree so much that I'm building a startup around this and related ideas. Hoping to have the MVP in the next couple of months.
It doesn't have the gasoline engine. First off, gasoline engines are not as cheap as you think they are in automobile configuration. There is a big difference between what you buy for a lawn mower and what they put in the Volt. Plus you have a lot more arrangement issues related to stuffing more crap into the same sized box. It takes a lot of man hours to design and build something like that.
I was pretty active in the suse project with bug testing and whatnot for a while, so that got me on freenode. I lurk about 15 channels there.

I'm on two private networks with about 5 channels between them and I lurk on Undernet out of nostalgia. I'll hit up Efnet if I'm looking for security related topics.
Idle thought: after taking on that much debt to get a degree, doesn't a "sure bet" way of paying it off look more attractive than striking out on your own and hoping for the best?
Alternatively they could allow freedom for developers on their own platform whilst aggressively pushing for licencing fees from rival platform providers. Bearing in mind their lawsuits against HTC for the alleged violation of broad and trivial patents I can't see why anyone would expect them to use it purely defensively
A fantastic long term recruiting move. It's like Apple getting their systems into schools, or Microsoft giving away it's development environments to colleges to base their course work around (and Sun/Java). Google is presenting course work that is tailored to their needs for graduates coming out of school. It'll be a natural progression of smart talented students leaving school and walking into Google, who has always had a long history of hiring people with advanced degree's.
Better find a not-so-cool chick that you really love and that really loves you, or a cool one that doesn't care about status.

My experience: for the nerdy guy, the beta-male adherent to an intellectual or aesthetic passion, the biggest payoff is to be found through "contrarian investing." My last girlfriend is very, very odd and an extreme wallflower. She also turned out to be one of the most perceptive, moral, and sensible people I know. As a bonus, underneath her very tasteful and modest wardrobe she's also quite the dreamy waif. When we met, she was 25 and I was her first boyfriend.

Another anecdote: my sister living in New York met some guy and dated him for a couple of years. Not only did he turn out to be one of the nicest, level-headed guys I know, but he would be a good casting choice for Clark Kent. He had never had a girlfriend before. My sister met him when he was 27.

Another anecdote: my girlfriend's friend. She's a complete head-turner with excellent taste in clothes, but had never dated anyone until her mid 20's either.

Just as in tech, there are many whose decision-mechanism is to follow the herd. Their discernment is clouded by fear of being wrong and disconnected from true discernment. Be the one who hacks social reality for the unnoticed treasure.

(P.S. In response to the inevitable skepticism: there are lots of things in social reality that distort perceptions. Racism is still a pretty powerful one here in the states.)
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Tribalism in politics leads to identity politics rather than governance politics. I grew up in Lebanon where there is no single religious majority. Political discourse has mostly been about how different factions (sunni, shia, maronite christian, orthodox christians, etc.) should be represented within the ruling coalition. Deadlocks are common and appropriation of ministries is mostly based on sectarian identity rather than competence. Discourse is rarely about fiscal, educational, or health policy. I think a similar unhealthy situation can exist within open source projects or professional organizations.
Do I really need to keep count? Look at any discussion involving the GPL.

I have not detect any anti-business bias in the discussion where I was involved. I didn't hear free supporters hating the profit motives in the time I been around.

A side effect? I just don't believe it. Stallman and many people from the community are very focal about being anti-corporation and anti-profit.
If you can't see this, then I don't know what to tell you.

The FSF sold software packages in the past. Stallman keep saying that he isn't opposed to software developers not being able to make a living.

Ever consider that your views of the world might be colored about what you think you see in Stallman and the others?

Now, it seem that you and I hold the same views about business and the profit motives. The only difference is that I don't see free software as antagonist to the profit motives and the ability to make a living, partly because I actually try to make money off free software and free content.
Yes.

#rubymn (Minnesota ftw)

#railsbridge (if you're interested in ruby on rails; the http://railsbridge.com community)
What if Apple skips sueing the guys on their own platform but does sue the guys making apps like this for Android? Thats more worrisome to me than the prospect of Apple using them against iPhone developers, which is probably something they would never do.
Proprietary Licenses Are Even Worse Than They Look
They want centralized marketing, distribution, security and payment handling which the HTML option doesn't have. They could build a website selling these apps if they wanted, but that would be work outside of developing, which they don't want to do.

Actually, no, I don't think I've ever heard anyone complain about lack of a central marketing and distribution channel.
Having one is nice but many developers would do away with it if it also means doing away with Apple's draconian control policies.

In any case, the argument is bogus because there's no reason why you can't have both except that it doesn't directly serve Apple's interests.
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An informant's wife, cousin, neighbor, any one who is hurt to get back at the informant besides the informant is an innocent.
Disconnection between articles of the same topic. There are plenty of material about particular subject, each of them describes it from a slightly different angle, it would be great to have them all come together in a single place, but without all the junk associated with every one of them (like ads) - true syndication
Think of it this way, the printer itself probably has some firmware in it. That firmware source code isn't as important as the printer driver, which is what allows you to use the printer from a general purpose computing device. Without the driver, the printer is useless.
"Clearly in the wrong business" - well, he can code too...
I telecommute, and most of my day-to-day conversations go over IRC. My IRC client has ~50 open windows at the moment, but less than half of them are actual Open Source channels, many of them are direct queries with the user. And thanks to screen, I never log off and don't miss discussions, someone trying to get in touch, commit and release messages to -dev channels, and so on.

If it suits one's style, it's an easy and nice way to stay linked to one or more communities.
Mosquito bites.
This is awesome! I really like this idea. I have a too general understanding from reading HN to really be of use. But, I've add this to ever note and once I get python/django/jquery down a little better and a project out of the way, I'll hit you up.
Freenode baby Freenode
Two thoughts -

First, I agree with the author on tribalism in general and technology specifically, but he falls into another common unwritten trap - all his examples are of discrimination against women or minorities. That's subtly saying - "White males, don't be tribalistic" - maybe the particular author doesn't feel that way, but certainly a lot of people tell Caucasians and men to stop hating/oppressing/discriminating, but ignore very real instances of discrimination and hate against men or Caucasians. No one bats an eye at anti-male/anti-Caucasian rhetoric, which is certainly tribalism. I haven't seen any equality movements to make everyone register equally for the military draft in the United States, for instance, or make traditionally women's work environments more open to men working there, nor are there any advocacy groups for a white person is wronged on account of their race.

Second, mildly contrarian point - if you've never lived somewhere where nationalism/tribalism is rampant, you haven't really experienced it. Yeah, it sucks and produces all kinds of idiocy. But there's actually a few good things about it that never makes it into the literature - if you've never been somewhere like South Korea, you don't really know what it looks like. Frustrating as it was for me as an outsider, I did admire a few points about it. There's an attitude of, "I am KOREAN and STRONG" built into most Koreans - this can be insufferable if you're not allowed to eat at a restaurant, but I also find Koreans to be a bit more confident and proud than people in surrounding areas, and I've some time in all of those places and admire all those cultures. I guess it's unfashionable to say this, but my eyes say there are a few limited upsides to tribalism.
Does cryonics work?

When one with a cryonics membership dies, is his life insurance benefit still paid out? Assuming he can be revived via the cryonics process. Cryonics and life insurance seem incompatible.
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No offense, but that's not a very nuanced or useful way to think about the situation. It's the same line of thinking that makes 16-year-old kids declare that they'll never work for The Man. Idealistic and perhaps admirable, but not very practical.

Opposing any individual player in a game for acting in their own rational best interest is dumb. If a big company with good products didn't act defensively in these situations, they'd be eaten alive by patent trolls who have no such qualms. Until the laws are changed, these kinds of patents are a necessary evil.
Its very possibly that if the App also had network code for loading ads, say through iAds or AdMob, that an API scanner wouldn't notice anything unusual for a reviewer to feel concerned about.

That's precisely the point. They can't catch underhanded code in the app unless they do a full source code audit - and honestly, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Apple changed the SDK license to require developers to upload their .xcodeproj files which get built and released from Apple's servers directly.
Links to good/cheap cryo? I will sign up today.
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imho great deal of IRC's greatness comes from irssi, an awesome client for it. It has a learning curve though, especially if you are not familiar with screen (or tmux). While you can run it locally, it really shines when you run it in a server inside a screen session, connected via ssh.

Each phone I have had in the past 5 years has had a ssh client available, so I could just attach to my session and have the exactly same client available wherever I go.

I use irc mainly to keep in touch with old friends. I'm also running a small non-profit, and we use irc extensively in internal communications. And occasionally I go to a projects channel on freenode if I happen to have a question or something, the people tend to be quite useful (as long as you ask smart questions and be polite). Lurked some time at ##c++, from which I feel that I learned a lot from.
You might want to share some contact info...
The total is indeed nearly normally distributed, but the rate of convergence (particularly in the tails) is not fast enough to avoid having those very sensitive tests give wrong results.

Were it otherwise there would have been no need to develop the chi-square test. It would have been entirely redundant. (It actually is redundant because we have the g-test. But evaluating the chi-square test just involves taking squares, while the g-test involves taking natural logarithms. This made the less accurate chi-square test much easier to do when people didn't have computers to calculate it on. Today we should use the g-test, but few people have heard of it.)
> Seeing a traffic jam where every car has exactly one person in it.

Welcome to Atlanta. Or maybe many other cities. I've often thought that there must be some remote working solutions out there that just need to overcome inertia to be accepted. The benefits would be huge.

> As a candidate, I've just sent you a bunch of links to open repositories where you can review my code...

You're hired - just for having code out there. I'm not sure many hiring managers fully understand what open source is. That's part of the problem.
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He proposes that the length of a patent be inversely proportional to the amount of innovation in a field (measured by rate of patenting). No software patents is better, but I could live with 1 or 2 year patents.
Apart for those who are special and need their own network. Like Gnome or Mozilla.
Ah the left lane squatters who squat but won't shit.

More infuriating are people who change into the left lane and slow down.
It's old hat to note how carpenters don't get tribal about their preferred brands of hammers and whatnot.

As much as I like GNU, free software, and open source, I can't help thinking that carpenters also don't construct fervent ideology about hammers, either.
Depends on the type of app.

There are many types of utility apps (say a unit converter or tip calculator) that would be perfect as a web app.

With support for localstorage and cache manifests, the app can be available offline as well and can even have a nice optimized icon to put on the home screen and a splash screen to show.

The only drawback I currently see is that every time you load the web app it first checks with the server (for changes) before letting you interact with it.
Most schools do a terrible job at teaching entrepreneurs and future small business owners. MBA programs are meant to prepare students for mid-level positions in big companies that already have a set plan.

If you want to run a startup, you definitely need to unlearn your MBA.
http://www.snaptic.com is also in this line of thinking even though one could think they are trying to emulate evernote
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We'll be saved by Robert Rodriguez' Machete, perhaps the greatest C-movie ever made.
http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/html5-iphone-app/
From my experience, what occurs during a talent acquisition depends on what your product is and how you will be integrated to the larger company. No integration means a good payout, plus a legacy-free transition into the new company. Then you just have the usual things of culture change, having a boss again, etc. If you were passionate about your product this may be hard (see Dodgeball).

If there's any sort of technical part of the acquisition, depending on the type of technology it can be pretty rough. I was part of a team that was acquired for talent and technology, and as such we needed to integrate our search engine from Trovix to Monster.com. It was interesting, but not fun.
I have run my own irc server and been connected for over 10 years essentially in one way or another.

Most of my online friends gather there and idle / jump into chat when it's going on.

It's been one of the most pleasant constants in my digital life. An unmatched technology for keeping in touch with geographically challenged friends.
irc.mozilla.org, it's a mainstay for most discussions and coordination for all our projects (IT, webdev, firefox, etc).

#webdev, #firefox, #amo (addons.mozilla.org), #labs

Over half our employees and all our volunteers are remote, so IRC is how we stay in touch for the most part.
Talking about a meeting with YouTube in public may impact your prospect.

My best advice: get a lawyer after initial meeting when you know more about what they want.
"You" in my parent post wasn't referring to you, Rimantas, specifically. You Rimantas (and I) are a lucky, tiny minority. You give away no freedom because you pay very close attention to not being locked in.

Most people aren't as cautious.

The company I work in currently have to buy and use MS Word 2003 because the government agencies it deals with want .doc, period. The sysadmins are forced to use windows because that's what most people use, and they just won't switch. (And we're a tech company, so imagine the others.)

Inertia is enormous. People tend to stick with whatever they started with (Blender vs 3DsMax is a good example). Proprietary formats and non standard APIs make it worse.
> The only way these patents are going to matter to you is if you hit it big enough to be worth taking to court -- it's a millionaire problem.

Not really. Big companies can use patents to send a cease-and-desist letter to any small company. You don't need to be big company to be afraid of software patents.
This is a pretty flame-y comment. There's not much use in this comparison. It only serves to ignite the Apple fans and detracts from what could be an otherwise great conversation about this particular event.
This might be a programmer's quirk, I remember when I wrote my thesis, most of the corrections of my advisor were of this nature. Whenever I presented something I would start by enumerating the bugs and limitations, before finally saying what it actually could do.
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These features would be most necessary for JVM languages other than Java: Scala, Clojure, etc.
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laundry. i think it's absurd that we can put a man on the moon and send a message around the world instantly (from a touch screen computer in my pocket no less!) and i'm still stuck moving laundry from one machine to another machine 2 feet away.
I tried at the conference to get people to agree that hotswap (i.e. reloading classes in a running system) was something that the JVM needed to add, so that the 99.9% of JVM users programming in Java can have a more dynamic programming experience. It really matters when it's there (especially for people that develop server software, which is a large part of the Java community), and there's a real, ingenious solution already implemented as part of the MLVM project that works well enough for me to use in development all-day every day.

When I brought it up during this discussion, I got nowhere, and people basically looked at me like I was an idiot. It was pretty disappointing to see that a room full of language guys just didn't care about anything that would improve Java itself; the discussion pretty much entirely focused around small-scale stuff that would make it easier to efficiently implement dynamic languages on the JVM.
The philosophy with patents these days is that whatever you do (as a part of a big company) that hasn't been done exactly that way before, you submit an invention disclosure on it. In this sense, patents these days are used more like copyrights!