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I also run a small software services firm.

You are in an unpleasant situation. It's like removing a bandaid. Be prepared for the pain and do it anyway.

1. There is no pleasant way to have the discussion. Don't let this stop you from telling them that you don't think you can do the work in good conscience. You don't have to get into deep details about why you think the work is unethical unless you want to. Other than that, say as little as possible.

2. You have no obligation to build more things for this client or any other client. Turning down the work is unpleasant, but it sounds like you need to do it.

3. You can't always spot the scammers. Also, a perfectly good client may become an unethical client over time as conditions change. Be prepared to walk away.

4. I would be careful about trying to undo the damage. There is always the danger of making matters worse for your organization. You should seek legal counsel. Your lawyer will likely tell you not to do anything. You may decide you should do something anyway. If you do, define a process and stick to it and have your lawyer tell you what the implications will be.

Use this as a lesson to always have a service agreement in place. The agreement should have a clause which allows either party to end the agreement with sufficient notice. Because you have no agreement in place, I would recommend you seek legal counsel immediately.

Feel free to contact me (see profile) if you would like to talk about it.
My problem with 3D is simply that I find I can't disappear into the movie. I'm steadily aware of myself sitting and watching the 3D effects, which ruins the experience.
> And for anyone interested, the best TERM for Terminal.app is dtterm.

I'm interested because the home and end key don't work for me, but when I use this, I get

Error opening terminal: dtterm.

when running a curses app after logging into a Fedora 14 box.
I was in college working part-time doing websites, etc. Should've dropped out and went full-time with several of the offers being given. But at the time I sort of wanted to finish the college thing.
Except that Clarke was referring to technology problems. I agree that with enough time, will, research, money etc many technical problems can be solved that were thought impossible.

But constraints of human beings don't change much. If our brains are not wired to really get the current 3D format, then I think that is a pretty good indictment of the technology. The post isn't saying 3D movies won't exist someday, it is saying the current 3D can't work well because of a limitation in the human mind.
There was no exaggeration at all. If anything, I left a lot out (the trip to CMGI's conference is worth an article all by itself). Plus I left out that RIMM invested and several other well-known funds.
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Many of the cues you're referring to are already present in 3d and 2d movies. They're things like focus, texture, "what's covering what", how quickly something moves relative to the viewer, etc.
Many people still get motion sick in cars, on boats, and on airplanes. We just don't hear about it as much anymore. That doesn't mean the problem has gone away.
I agree that my post was more about making it the habit than morning is better than evening. It was just that I struggled to manage private life and work life when hacking in the evening. I might amend the post to make it clearer.
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To be fair, they of course were right. There are unique aesthetic values in silent film, and adding dialogue does do away with them (otherwise they wouldn't be unique values). They simply discovered that people consider it a worthwhile tradeoff.
I don't anything about that industry but I would assume that the trucking industry already has pretty advanced fleet tracking & management, do they not?

If I'm a Walmart or a Best Buy I'd make it a priority to know exactly where all my trucks are at all times.
Till Lindemann can pull this off. You can't. Just leave it at that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU1wLryjuEw
I don't drink on a regular basis. If I drink on an evening event, then my limit is 3 pints, after that, I know I'm going to struggle the next morning ;)
I, and a bunch of my friends get headaches with 3D movies. Avatar included. The difference with the Model T is that people were willing to bear out neasea for the massive convenience a car brought. Blue aliens are less compelling.
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Comments could backfire on you. What if you have paying subscribers who start recommending your competitors or free/cheaper alternatives to other paying customers. How do you deal with that. Deleting the comments risks alienating customers. Removing the comments feature would annoy all the customers who now enjoy it. Doing nothing will mean you're effectively giving free advertising to competitors.
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what kind of products are these guys trying to sell people?

is it just a premium profile on the job site or what?
now worth over a hundred trillion dollars.

Unless there were companies I was unaware of that were worth more than 200 times today's most valuable companies (for example the #1 publicly traded company, Exxon Mobil, which is worth ~$370b or 270 times less that your "hundred trillion dollars", then that was definitively exaggeration.

Yes, that wasn't a key fact in the story, but it does mean you can't claim that "there was no exaggeration at all."
First of all, forgive me for my english.
I'm studying a lot for improve it.

I don't know Mark Bao personally, I live in Europe, but I really know a lot about he.
He is not Lucky.
He is so young, and have already created a some tech-company.
3words.me is only one of those, and was selled in few months.
And nobody cares about how simple is an idea.
The idea are worthless, the execution and the sociological effect are all, in a simple idea like this.
Perfect execution, incredible effect on a lot of people.
So, he is a good entrepreneur, and he will improve day by day.
Ask HN: Ideas on how to improve upon TweetAStranger.com 
Hey guys, I recently launched my first app, http://tweetastranger.com, which lets you tweet strangers that are also using the site.

I wanted to get your feedback on what additions could be made to the app, to make itself more viral. Or any other suggestions on what to improve upon. I think the potential is there, being that's it's very easy to use and interesting, but I'm not sure where to go from here.

Thanks a ton.
Crikey, where to start... I've had several stabs at this response exploring abstraction and data hiding, message passing, keeping computation close to the data... In the end OO just seems like a philosophy with some related principles rather than something with a concrete definition.
Great post. I have been working with JavaScript heavily the last months and I really felt in love with it. I'm interested to start such kind of products, but I don't find any viable idea. I'm thinking of another Data Grid using jQuery. (I already bought jquerygrid.com, anyone has a suggestion if it's a good idea?).

@Author: I would like that you talk to us more about the development and marketing process.
Ah, but if the assumption that people act rationally held, there'd be no religion. I think 3D goes when religion does! Ouch.
This "new experiment" is on the pipeline for the end off the year :D
Absolutely -- and the same applies to color photography. There are still good reasons for shooting in black & white. Color film may be more easily engaging as the images are more familiar, but it is not inherently better aesthetically.
Most Google, Skype, etc employees made way more than that.
It's more for tax purposes. You actually don't own the stock yet so you're not paying taxes on it.
How does your fiancee feel about you going to bed 9-10 most evenings, I'm guessing that's a fair while before she does? Tempted to give this a shot but I'm not sure how that part of it would go down.
In general-audience journalism, $2M or $2m is a lot more common, I believe, though $2mm / $2MM is also used, but less frequently. In finance-industry news it seems to be the opposite.

Compare: http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&... vs. http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&...
Adding sound isn't anywhere near the same as adding crappy pseudo-3d effects.
And then you can charge more for front row seats, just like live shows.
My understanding is that he's working from home? I dont really see how this could work out if you are not working from home and your partner works as well. A simple example would be that you wake up at five, go to work at 8 and then come back at six or seven. Your partner wakes up at 8, goes to work and comes back at six or seven. You are dead tired by eight and want to go to bed at nine.
I personally cant go to bed before 12 or 1 as I work long days and I feel that I have 'wasted' the day if I dont spend some time for things I enjoy (be it hacking or gaming or something else).
The master quote is this: a good story will give you more dimensionality than you can ever cope with.

Don't bother with technology. What "piracy" proves is that people are more than willing to trade quality for convenience. People will put up with crappy image and garbled sound if it means they can watch what they want faster.

The movie industry loves technology because technology scales (sort of); but what sells tickets are story and talent.
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How about responding to the specific points in the article, rather than trying to portray the writer as a luddite clown?
I recommend clojure. I'm teaching a friend of mine to program with clojure for the following reasons:

1) clojure is functional - Someone with math background will have no difficulty to think of computation as combinations of functions. And with map/filter/reduce there is a lot of fun stuff you can do. Also, there is no need to burden a learning programmer with pointers, and clojure doesn't bother you with that, it's all "by-value".

2) clojure has great data types - After all, it's all about data. Clojure shines with elegant notation and powerful processing of data structures, which IMHO is very easy and straightforward to grasp.

3) clojure has a REPL - Learning by doing helps a great deal to get a feeling for programming, because of the direct feedback.

4) http://try-clojure.org/ - No need to install anything - get started instantly, do the further steps later. And there's a tutorial as well (never tried it).
Darn, now I look like quite the fool :)

I'm going to go ahead and pretend that wasn't there when I was trying it.
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Loose cannons, on the other hand, I do fear, which these guys clearly are. Even if they're in the right, this time.

You don't even know the guy. They could be an incredible developer and you wouldn't work with them because they'll screw you over if you screw them over first?

Sound logic.
So had I. I enjoyed it. So don't feel too bad.
Well, that was a joke. I would say "exaggeration" would be if I said, "we raised $50mm" when we only raised "30mm" in that first round.
She used to get up around 6.30am so this wasn't an issue as she is not a night person. But now, she is an early bird as well, working on some study, and wake up at 5am, so it's definitively not an issue ;)
Headaches happen mostly to people with poorer eyesight in one eye, a similar effect to wearing the wrong kind of correction eyeglasses.

P.S. Tron 2 was much better in 2D than 3D. The darker screen was annoying and the 3D was far from immersive.
But now you can go ahead and use it so it's all good.
The fact that it was written for humour not to mislead doesn't change the fact that it was exaggeration, and for sure I don't think anyone reading it thought you were genuinely trying to mislead people into thinking that companies were actually worth that much. But... it still invalidates the idea of there being no exaggeration ;)
I always thought OO was a design philosophy rather than a set of tick boxes that a programming language/notation must provide. Design in OO, code in whatever you like, but note that some programming languages make it easier than others.

Obviously my interpretation is no more authoritative than anyone else's :(
Nintendo, along with their imminent release of the 3ds, has issued warning to not let kids use their product too often because it could interfere with the development of their brains. So yes, you probably can get used to this sort of imagery, but do you want to? I doubt it.
I am working from home, but when I started the 5am thing, I was freelancing for a company in the city center. So I was going to their office every day (for about 6 months). And it was still great. My gf finishes her work at 5 and is at home around 5.30pm or 6pm, so yes our schedules works quite well with this lifestyle.
> But it sounds like ISPs were just sniffing HTTP packets for usernames and passwords

Nope, Facebook's login page, if requested over http, was manipulated on the fly to inject a javascript code that is triggered when the login button is clicked. It retrieves the login/password values from the form and sends them to another url, besides Facebook's login url.
To be honest, I still don't like it. But now I'm limited to my aversion to depending on Facebook for making sign up possible.
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Did you even read the article? He's not speculating, he's talking about how human vision works, and how the current 3D technology is more difficult for us humans to process, and he's talking about how the current 3D technology places limitations on the cinematography that 2D movies don't suffer from. Those are big obstacles that make current 3D movies a worse experience. Whether the 3D itself makes up for it is subjective though.
Our bodies and brains have a remarkable ability to adapt to particular contexts. This effect is so strong, heroin users can accidentally overdose because their bodies' tolerance can be stronger in a particular location.

I think people will be able to adapt to 3D. Whether they will want to has to do with artistry and not a new technology as a gimmick.
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Even of the login form was submitted to a HTTPS url (which is the case), the fact that the login page was served over HTTP allows the government to inject the JS code, which will execute locally and retrieve the login and password inputs and send them via Ajax to another URL.
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I like the concept, but I do not want to have to sign up again to tweet another one. More fluid transition between tweeting. Tweet, See a Tweet, Tweet Again. All this seamlessly.

Keep up the good work!! :)
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Great. Now we can argue over what a "design philosophy" is, and whether OO is one.
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A tunisian citizen here. I wanted to add that this kind of attacks was not limited to Facebook. GMail, Yahoo mail and Live mail were also affected. I've checked the source code of their login pages if served over HTTP and they contained a similar JS snippet.
You’ve explained what I was going to say clearly. Mark has worked on more than just threewords.me for the past couple of years. He’s not some guy that just got lucky with a simple idea and cashed in.
Awesome. It's your idea, so you can go first :)
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Do it because at some point you'll apply for a job that has 100 candidates applying. And the person behind the recruitment process won't be able to read the cover letter and CV of 100 applicants, and so to cope with the deluge they will click the radio button on their application that says "Has Degree"... now they only have to look at 50 applicants and you'll be one of them.

Do it because the people you're working with will be your first and perhaps most permanent network. One of them will help you get a job later or set you on the way with a promotion when they recall you're a solid programmer or something.

Do it because if you learn on your own, even if you succeed, you'll always doubt whether you are as good as someone else who got a degree. You'll always wonder if they know something you don't and how to learn it (my answer from that: they probably don't, but it's still very good to have a rigorous grounding in compsci theory for completeness rather than just having discovered most of it along the way... which is much slower than being taught it).

Don't do it because you believe it will suddenly make you employable or teach you everything... it won't. You remain the person in control or your learning and your chances of getting a job, doing a degree didn't absolve you of this responsibility to yourself.
His example of C vs C++ doesn't take advantage of virtual functions/polymorphism at all, which is a much more significant part of the "syntactic sugar" that C++ adds over C, and is what I would say makes it OO.

So what if it's "just" syntactic sugar anyway? Calling functions in C is just syntactic sugar on top of messing with the stack. You could make the claim that any feature of any programming language is just syntactic sugar on top of something lower-level, eventually getting down to the circuitry. But that's not a terribly useful criticism.

The definition of OO to me is a certain kind of polymorphism, which is fit by class hierarchies in Java, Ruby, etc., multimethods in CLOS, and typeclasses in Haskell (although Haskell in general isn't OO), although of course, that's not an authoritative definition either.
I wonder how this impacts very intelligent / early of age children, that might be flagged as adults by it...
This could be useful when trying to whip up some quick & dirty visualisations. Anyone tried it yet?
Talk to a laywer, make sure that you're not by chance accessory to something illegal (likely you're not, but knowing a-e you might be, after all you knew these things before undertaking the work), politely decline future work and forget about taking revenge, it leads nowhere.

Interfering with their ability to operate their business might give them grounds enough to sue you, and weird as it may sound, they may have a warranty claim on you for some time past the delivery of the last piece of software (since you have no contract and this has not been explicitly outlined there may be an implicit component there).

If you're in some position of responsibility with regards to the execution of the scam (it doesn't look like it from what you've described) then you have other fish to fry first to extricate yourself from that.

If it turns out that the company is doing something illegal (and from what you write it definitely sounds like that, already based on the first bunch of items!) you have of course no obligation to continue, and you may have an obligation to contact law enforcement.

I really strongly recommend you talk to a lawyer that is well versed in employment law for your jurisdiction, you may be in more trouble than you think.
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For the sake of adding more hours for work on personal projects, I can add two things that works for me:

1) It might not be necessary to sleep exactly 7 hours. I found out that if I sometimes sleep less, nothing tragic happens.

2) What also works is that I don't need to spend every evening with my wife. I don't mean it in a negative sense, we have a very good relationships, but in a lot of evenings, I just do my things on the computer, and she does her things, and it's totally ok.
Another thing thing he completely misses is gaming. If he'd ever played an FPS in 2d then in 3d he'd be amazed at the immersive difference.

Hasn't the video game industry grossed more per year since the early 2000s? Why would anyone declare 3d dead based on a smaller industry like Movies?
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Thanks for the opinion about Tron. I missed seeing it early, and now the only places showing it near me are in 3D. I was wondering if it'd be worth it. Now I'll just wait for the DVD.
It's not just the viewers mind, it's the film editor's as well. Murch says, "Consequently, the editing of 3D films cannot be as rapid as for 2D films, because of this shifting of convergence." OK, so 3d films have to be edited differently - since when have constraints been an issue in art?

But more importantly, the 600 million years of evolution argument doesn't hold the water he is putting in it. 600 million years of evolution did not prepare humans for traveling at 60 mph (much less controlling two tons of steel and insuring the safety of their children, while doing so), nor did it prepare humans for sitting in front of a bright light pecking at keyboards for hours and hours on end.

Focusing on one point while converging on another may require practice, but so does operating an RC car. But the fact that a broad swath of the population can readily do it the very first time, speaks against it.

Essentially, the case against 3d movies is an appeal to authority, and the article is really a rejection of the art form (3d is the rap music which is replacing their beloved rock and roll). That's not to say that there isn't a lot of schlock 3d - who really expected Green Hornet to be great cinema? - only that there is nothing inherently wrong with the medium.
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It would be nice to introduce a way to pull a user's data from Facebook and display content that's relevant to that user. I know there's the Facebook user activity widget, but I'm talking full displayed content.

Obviously this would be ideal to do on the fly.
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Doesn't this assume you don't know the focal plane? If you know what the viewer is focusing on, you can compensate. This means that without any holographic projection techniques, you could fully solve this problem by presenting each viewer with images customized to his detected focus. That might require an expensive headset today, which radically changes the economics of 3D movies, but it doesn't require a breakthrough in science.

In fact, it'd probably be safe to just assume that the user is focused on the primary element in the scene. Unfortunately, in a theater, you probably can't compensate for focus in a way that works for all of the audience, so this doesn't solve much.