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I'm having a hard time understanding why TC should give up on litigation because they're unlikely to receive compensation. If someone/a company wrongs you in a big way, should they not be punished for it? I understand that FG's reputation is already pretty much shot to hell, and you might say it's punishment enough. But if I were TC, I wouldn't be happy with that outcome by itself at all.

Who knows what could end up happening to the joojoo. Maybe the IP even ends up getting bought up by some OEM vendor and sold as a new product. Or maybe they even somehow turn around and become profitable. Sure, these all sound absurd. But if TC can afford to take this to trial and make sure FG gets punished for it, why wouldn't they?
You just have to love those kinds of comparisons: apparently no browser on earth has anything IE9 doesn't have.

Or wait, they wouldn't leave anything out on purpose, would they?

Support for the most widely used OS in the world perhaps?
Your opinion would be wrong. The page doesn't speak for itself. I looked at it and have no idea what you're talking about. Now maybe there are some specific items in that page which you're referencing, but you certainly don't make that clear.

Then again, your submission got upvoted. So clearly the brains at Hacker News agree with you.
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Interesting, but ultimately too long, too wordy and too general.

>I will avoid conflicts of interest and biases whenever possible. When my advice is sought, if I have a conflict
of interest or bias, I will declare it if appropriate, and recuse myself if necessary.

I count 6 excuses you could mentally use, just from the paragraph I quoted.

In addition, you need something that is more tangible than just a piece of paper to hang on the wall. Preferably it should be something that would always be visible, and be a constant reminder of your duties and the trust that had been placed in your by the other people.
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You've not been following your TED.

http://blog.ted.com/2010/09/15/how-to-sleep-jessa-gamble-on-...

Lots of folk live happily on way less that eight hours. Whether the folk who mandate that they must have their eight hours are deluding themselves is unproven. I know it's a very touchy subject for those that believe they do.
Indeed. I've never seen a TDD debate that has focused specifically on whether tests upfront are sufficient for designing good APIs, etc., though (ironically, the most important part of TDD!). Usually, one side is aghast that the other side doesn't believe in testing (when they usually do, just not to an eXtreme), and the other isn't convinced that letting tests do all the design work makes sense. They're usually talking (or firing cannonballs!) past each other, mistaking disagreement for mutually extremist positions. (And then the "us vs. them" feelings kick in...)

I'm in very strong agreement that automated testing (unit, regression, integration, etc.) pays for itself in most sufficiently large projects, but skeptical of TDD specifically - testing during exploratory programming often gives good feedback, but it's just one of many tools.
I don't have an answer for you, but I do have a question: What types of features are you implementing that can't be done with AppEngine?

Thanks!
If you're going to accuse someone of blatantly lying, you really should specify what you are accusing them of lying about.
What is shortsighted about this is anybody who believes this has anything to do with sex. Thats about as ridiculous as to think the war on terror has anything to do with terror or that any politician really cares about the mosque in Manhattan.

You are being played.
I know of one non-geek who spotted a strange URL and actually looked deeper. My mom, who's rapidly improving her computer skills - she noticed a login redirected to a massively different URL. Missed that it was still the same domain, but now she understands the parts of a URL better.

This, from years of being the geek-as-tech-support for quite a few people. Non-geeks (ie, those who do not understand URLs to a minimum-safe degree) who even look at the URL while they browse are, in my experience, exceedingly rare. None I've even seen notice the "revoked certificate" flag, and many people browsing at school have clicked right through the phishing / scam / malware warnings to get to their game.

People. Do. Not. Understand. URLs. There's no mapping to the real world, certainly no obvious mapping, and understanding how they work and what's important requires far more tech knowledge than the average person has.
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Here's what a firefox dev said about it:

* "Combined search and address bar" type "firefox is awesome" in your url bar

* "Reopen accidentally closed tabs" ctrl-shift-t anyone? History, recently closed tabs/windows

* let's fix this: "Full hardware acceleration for text, graphics, and video provided by default" in beta5

* "Domain name highlighting in the address bar to alert you to deceptive websites" go to https://paypal.com, and see

* "Developer tools built into the browser" You're right, but, well, I think Firebug is not that hard to install

* "Compatibility mode to view websites designed for older browsers" IE Tab anyone?

* "H.264-encoded HTML5 video support" what about OGG/Theora and WebM?

* "Most protection against socially engineered malware" Wait, what?

* "Protection from malicious cross-site scripting attacks" What is that one?

source: http://twitter.com/paulrouget

Also chrome has had reopen tabs for a while (so that's a lie, among others) and chrome 7 does have hardware acceleration, it would be more fair to compare a beta version of IE with a beta version of Chrome don't you think? This table is a mixed of lies and disingenuous statements, shame on them.
"But, no, when you ask someone whether they're really going to be able to take care of their kids and handle the demands of the job you're interviewing them for, you're clearly not being an equal-opportunity douchebag."

Funny enough, I'm at home right now taking care of the kids/wife because of the latter's massive migraine. This is putting two projects at work behind. So here's an example of a male that could arguably be said to not be "handl[ing] the demands of the job", for a narrow definition. I'm glad to be able to do this, though I know it does have consequences, and it may be seen by people with less family responsibilities as unfair.

Althought it's still way more common for handling "the kids stuff" to be heaped on the wife's shoulders, more and more the men are stepping up.

(notes: 1. assumption of household with married man and woman. I know there are other arrangements. 2. Don't mean to take tptacek's quote out of context--clearly he was disparaging interview questions that are sexist/illegal.)
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Without commenting on the effectiveness of the method outlined in the OP, I think something should be said about ethics. Science and technology is advancing rapidly every day, and we now know much more about the heuristics our brain uses to make decisions, enough to abuse the corner cases and trick the brain into making the wrong one. Creating artificial scarcity in the manner described in the article is basically lying. Consumers end up assigning a higher value to the product than it deserves, and the market is made overall less efficient as a result.
Very much agree, especially as it imposes stateless behaviors in websites, and as so many sites have poor navigation (even as bad as different on every page).
> If you drop a heavy object and a light object of the same size from a high place, the heavy one will absolutely hit the ground first. (Try it!)

I just gave it a try, using two household items:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKmbE1U016Y

;)
+1 for Blaupunkt. I've always liked that word/brand.
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The argument boils down to "we should let them break the law because then all the criminals are in one place". Which is absurd. Craigslist was profiting from prostitution, which is both illegal and morally repugnant.
While we're talking about unusual epistemic tools, emotion has a really bad reputation, but what people are criticizing is not emotion as a properly used tool, but its improper use.

The improper, oft-criticized use of emotion is saying, "I feel X is true" or "I want X to be true", hence "I believe X." This is clearly unreliable.

But consider the role emotion does properly play. "This is surprising," "Huh, that's funny," "I wonder why..." and "That can't be right." These positive and negative reactions to data are feelings. Curiosity, fascination, frustration at the impossible, the pain of unresolved paradox. Judging knowledge to be either trivia essentially interesting--final value judgements. These are emotions that push us to apply other epistemic tools to the right questions in the right ways.

I once suffered a mental illness that made it difficult for me to feel certain emotions. One of the most fascinating results of the experience was the degree to which my ability to reason degraded. Unable to distinguish the interesting from the uninteresting, the fascinating from the trivial, unmotivated to pursue and resolve impossibilities, I was unable to undertake even simple logical tasks such as debugging.

There is a popular notion that a disinterested party will provide the most accurate account of a phenomenon, the object being to avoid bias. I think this is only part of the story. True, an interested party fall pray to phenomena like confirmation bias. But a disinterested party will fall prey to analytical apathy, happy with slapdash, second-rate models and explanations. I believe the best work comes from a dialogue between people with diverse yet healthy emotional attachments to a problem and a commitment to intellectual honesty.
I think it just depends on the person, I'm sure there are people who do just fine with 6 or 7 hours a sleep on average per night but If I don't get 8 or close to it I do suffer (there probably are people who need 10 hours a night as well). The suffering however isn't instant it may even take a day or two to catch up but it is noticeable.
As a commenter pointed out, it seems that TRIM is not needed, in practice, on OS X. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/apple/2010/07/01/mac-ssd-pe....
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It's just not smart to replace a system that only works well in IE 6 because it might mess up your employees' ability to waste their time on some guy's random startup.

There are perfectly legitimate reasons why a corporation would continue to use IE6, despite its countless flaws.
You are never done learning. (But that is probably true for life in general as well...)
A year ago I would have down-voted a thought like this, but every time something develops with this story, it sounds more and more like a movie plot and less like a real story.
He wouldn’t use the word “today” three times in his first three sentences. Now, “amazing,” on the other hand… ;-)
I just wanted to throw in "test automation, yes!" without starting any controversy.

Although I've been operating with a slightly different (and hopefully less controversial) TDD definition. Instead of getting all hung up on sequence and test-first, I ask "are you using automated tests as the primary way of executing your code as you're working on it". If the answer is yes, then at least that part of the code is test-driven. If the answer is no, then at least that part of the code is not test-driven.

You can write the tests first all you want, but if you're not running them, often, and doing all of the "does this work" through the UI or the debugger, how test-driven are you really?
It sounds like you haven't decided if you'll be offering a free trial version once your beta is over.

I'd recommend simplifying things a bit. Determine what you _think_ your go-forward pricing model will be. Offer a free trial or don't. During your beta period, offer X% off (20%? 50%?) discount.

You could decide if you want to maintain that longstanding discount for those customers, or cut it off after some period of time. Personally, I'd recommend a very long discount period, possibly infinite on a given level of subscription/licenses, in order not to piss off what may be your most valuable customers.
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Here's a list of things that may be related to features were going to do thatbwe can't do in app engine. Whate features we actually do will depend on customer response, but were increasingly needing to do stuff that app engine doesn't support. But also, I'm uncomfortable with app engines lockin and odd performance limitations that require a fair bit of optimization. Couchdb makes seems like I will write things efficiently the first time.

Anyway it is impossible ornery hard to:
-- support new domains for app engine apps. Only way to do it is to manually add them to your google apps account which takes from 48 hours to 48 weeks, and requires control over the domain, which is hard when it is a customers domain.
-- apple puch notification sevice, or any kind of long standing process
-- big data processing is difficult you can do map, but not reduce on app engine, but you can't unzip a 25gb file and then process the results.

Much ok,f the influence here and the focus on easy deployment are inspired by app engine, though.
Well, there is a reason he is a pundit and not a practicing lawyer. He obviously was not very good at his job. Not having a contract with a foreign company for a project like this is gross incompetence, and if he were representing another client, would be malpractice.

He also comes off as a drama queen, and quite likely, was a customer from hell. So I for one am enjoying the spectacle.
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I (male) will sometimes subtly bring it up. It's a bit of a gamble. If the company has a huge problem with the fact I need to occasionally take kids to appointments, etc., then I'd rather not get hired and save the trouble.

Most of the time it's not really a big deal, and sometimes they think it's a big deal when it isn't.

I don't see why putting kids ahead of a career is particularly sexist. My kids certainly are more important than my career. It's of course not generally a black and white issue, though. My kids are not hopelessly abandoned I'd I have a career. My career is not hopelessly stunted if I have kids. Nobody's ever goin ro hold a gun to my head and force me to choose. There's going to be tradeoffs, though--sure.

I get what you're maybe implying about staying home with the kids though. That is closer to a binary decision, an closer to killing the career, and usually done by the wife. In fact, mine did. I would probably be warier about disclosing family status if I were female.
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I always wonder how often emails like the first one are really written. They're almost too good to be true. The "high" one gets from writing such inflammatory emails must be amazing because he/she MUST also know that, since it's sent electronically, it almost certainly can come back to bite him/her in the ass.
What you just said is 100% true for the diamond industry. Their slogan "A Diamond is Forever" is created because there is very little resale value in a diamond, so they want/need their customers to keep them.

DeBeers has giant warehouses full of diamonds and trickle releases them over time.
I use the Birthday Paradox when I'm searching for matching socks in the morning -- rather than pick a sock and look for one that matches it, I accumulate socks and choose the first pair that match.
No, what's easy is to sit here from our current vantage point and call what he did easy. So what if he had an upper-middle-class family willing to put him through college. He walked away from that when he dropped out of Harvard and lit out for the middle of nowhere with no significant funds or support system to bootstrap a "software company" before such a thing even existed. He wasn't given his fortune, he built it himself, painstakingly, with decades of hard work and sacrifice. And because he didn't always play nice with competitors you and the other holier-and-smarter-than-thou HN commenters want to call his incredible accomplishments "easy." Whatever. He has achieved more, not just as a philanthropist, but as a hacker-entrepreneur, than anyone on this thread ever will.
The author confuses science and observation. Science is the practice of deriving knowledge from observation.
Thanks Kleinman. I don't have any relationship with Patron (except on some Saturday nights ;-), but I wanted to share my thoughts on their initiatives.

They put on a damn good event, and they're generating buzz about it -- which results in more people signing up on their site.
Such a formula has so many caveats that it is not terribly useful in revenue estimation, except perhaps to provide a range within an order of magnitude. For example, Starbucks has $60,000 in revenue per employee, while DirecTV has $1.6mm. Surely no formula that would make predictions for household brands that would make errors anywhere from +66% to -94% is useful.

The main reasons for the variance is (1) how much value add the company generates for its customers, and (2) what portion of that value add is labor.

Some companies' products are very labor intensive, but they outsource most of that labor, so the company's product has high revenues per employee because there are "invisible" employees not on the payroll due to outsourcing arrangements. This is where the company is providing low value-add. For example, consider a trucking broker, who provides transportation services to its customers, but outsources the actual trucking to owner-operators who are not employees.

Other companies have high value-add, but very little of it is labor. For example, a television cable company has high costs for licensing media content, which is a big part of the value it provides for consumers, but that licensing content requires low levels of labor (unless they vertically integrate).

Companies that have high value-add, mostly in labor, tend to have moderate levels of revenue per employee. A consulting company is an example of this. It requires a lot of labor, but almost the entirety of the value add is that labor.
I am not against Gates giving nearly all of his money away to charity. I am only against considering this very atypical episode represents what Gates is.
But if I were TC, I wouldn't be happy with that outcome by itself at all.

Saying that one "wouldn't be happy" implies that an emotional decision is being made rather than a rational decision.

But if TC can afford to take this to trial and make sure FG gets punished for it, why wouldn't they?

The bottom line on the P&L statement. Just because an expense can be afforded doesn't mean the expense should be incurred.
As others have mentioned, the actual "damages" in terms of JooJoo sales is basically zero, so TC will likely recover little in terms of that. However, the proceedings make for really awesome entertainment and TC could likely see a modest profit for publicly keeping the topic fresh, bringing in traffic, etc.

(On another note, I'm going to assume that FG knows this information exists and can be found/subpoena'd. They should already be preparing to defend themselves against the information in this release.)
That's an idea that I explicitly learned from computing, coming from a mathematical background where that pattern doesn't really have an analogue. I really never thought that way until I conceived of it as an adult and immediately connected it to some code I had written recently. The closest pattern of thinking I had prior to that was the idea of the scientific method, which isn't exactly the same and isn't nearly as applicable to problems in daily life.
It would be helpful to know what the widget is to better come up with useful ideas. But its perfectly understandable that you don't want to share that.
Could you add a link on the bottom of the widget to get people to click through to your ad-driven site?
Thats why I said "practically unlimited".

You get /dev/sd[b-p][1-15] as mountable EBS volumes. Thats (15 * 15) * 1TB, or about 225TB. You may even be able to go higher than "p", but I haven't tried. I'm also not sure, you may even be able to attach somewhere other than /dev/sd* .

Either way, after that, your EBS bill is $22,500/mo, just for storage, so you might be able to figure something else out for that cost.

But you CAN attach that to a $14/mo EC2 instance, which was my original point.

Edited to add:

Note that the default limit is 20 EBS volumes per EC2 account. You can request an increase from Amazon if you need more. http://groups.google.com/group/ec2ubuntu/web/raid-0-on-ec2-e...

Still, 20TB is "practically unlimited", for most applications.
the standard litany of complaints

That phrase is sufficient to earn an upmod all on its own. Reading your reply, I immediately thought of people huddled in a church listening to the Vicar preach against Microsoft's evil. But it isn't a passionate speech full of fire and brimstone, it's a standard reading that he has given so many times, his voice is now a monotone and the parishioners know every word by heart.
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