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...And then there are others who care about the history of how Free and Open Source Software came about. (Do note that I'm from Germany, so for me "Frei", the literal translation of "Free", is closer to Freedom than it is to Free Beer.)

Also note that proponents do not claim ownership of "free" in any sort, but of "Free". Sorry to be nitpicking on this, but it is the name. Likewise, there is no claim that the GPL is "more free" - if you talk to somebody who has a good understanding of this, they will agree that the GPL is less "free" than MIT. However, I and others would argue that the slight reduction in "freedom" is actually worthwhile because it mitigates certain social risks by strengthening the Share And Share Alike aspect.
> Now I know it is a copyright issue and each stolen copy is potentially a lost sale [...]

This has been debunken countless times. I think there isn't anyone but the RIAA to still pretend this.
Some of us try to concisely communicate. It can look like a meme or whatever. Its helpful when it provides context or perspective. Its useless when it repeats cliches.

That post inparticular passes the test - its from their own experience and surely puts business and life in drastic perspective.

Objecting to top billing on the page, I find it more useful to post a cogent response of my own.

I understand that feeling trapped can make anyone behave oddly. I'm glad that here, folks can then work it out rationally. It was brave to step up and admit the act amid criticism.
I participate in open source mainly as a way of making my hobby projects available to others who might have similar interests, and also as a means of keeping my skills and knowledge up to date. I could spend my time making commercial closed source applications, but for me intellectual curiosity and sharing information (a status/gift economy) trumps the desire to make money.
JavaScript and screenreaders
That must also be why directly below the first question, it says "If No Please Stop".
To "massage data" sounds a bit like what some scientists do whenever they don't get the results they expect.

Kinda funny concept anyway...
18 strange and unusual flash drives
I'd recommend putting a link in your post. Obviously, we can search, but it's always nice to have it easily available :-)

Edit:
Here's a link to the tripadvisor jobs page http://www.tripadvisor.com/careers/jobs_engineering

But I can't seem to find any intern positions. Possibly just have to apply for the Software Dev position, and mention you're looking for an internship. Do you mind clarifying, sanj?
Same story from npr: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2274175
You are not the only person; I buy when I can. But the emphases on can here; in Europe where I live, you get, via the web, news about every new tv show, movie, game and book immediately after it comes out. And then you have to wait for ages (depending on the popularity) before you can watch / buy it here. Digital products like ebooks, games, movies and tv shows should not have a geo limiting factor to them; they are digital. As long as they do, I don't see how copying can be prevented.

Take apps like Pandora; very easy to use, very nice to use. Doesn't work in the EU. Lame.

If 90% of the cool content you can buy online wouldn't be US only for such a long time after release and if everything was easier to use, I believe copying would be less common. Why would you risk (viruses, the law) it or go to the trouble of acquiring illegal materials if you can easily get it at the same time US citizens get it?

(I'm using the US as an example here mainly because most content I like from other countries I can immediately buy, but that might differ depending on your taste.)
Yes, there is sexism. It exists everywhere, not confined to any particular profession. The company where she suffered that probably had women in totally different areas that also suffered from that. That is despicable, dishonest and repulsive. But it doesn't have much to do with the culture of software engineering itself, which on a technical level is very egalitarian in terms of really not caring whether you're male, female or a super intelligent shade of the color blue.

Regarding the part about being lucky at working in companies with a large % of women in It, there are a surprising number of women in engineering departments in large companies, especially when the companies are not actual software companies, they do business in other areas and have large IT departments to support the business internally. Because the culture in these is not really a startup culture, you really don't hear about most people in there. For the most part they aren't posting in HN or doing technical blogs or participating much in the "geek" community - and so this community doesn't actually realize they exist, and when people talk about the lack of women in IT, they're really talking about the lack of women in the open source and startup cultures.

In the end, it sounds like she had a really hard time, but she got out in time and in one piece, and she's more productive than ever, which is great. And good to hear that the COO got kicked out, it's good to know insanity doesn't go unnoticed forever. Thanks for sharing! Best of luck with the new startup!
I think you may have read it wrong. The article says she just turned 6 a few months ago...
I desperately hope that Apple make the home screen (along with better notifications) the primary focus of iOS 5. I first saw this very concept a while back now, and still think it looks amazing.

I was under the impression you could get it via a jailbreak, but as I've never jailbroken my iPhone I've not looked into it.
That's funny because, imho, patents and copyrights are "the government sticking its nose into the production of books, movies, music and software to a degree that is not entirely to my liking". They also have a number of practical issues e.g. investment in minor, yet patentable, variations on drugs rather than more fundamental research on non-patentable innovations or lobbying to extend copyright terms funded by those receiving the money from copyrights. I'm not convinced it's as good as a "real" market.
This is what free gets you!
I might, but then I remember http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01452/pirate-bay...
Education tends to be funded per head, but with strong network effects - a larger school can have a wider range of facilities because they can defray the cost per student over a larger base to cover the lower-interest offerings.

Also, a school running heavily under capacity is _very_ expensive and likely to spiral down, rather quickly, for simple financial reasons.

We're seeing an introduction of a new 'free schools' policy in the UK at present. I'm not in the least saying every last school should have tight government control, but the side-effect of this policy as currently implemented is the impoverishment of existing facilities, to the detriment of their pupils.

Infinite choice is clearly not possible. Neither is the capacity for all students to get their first choice, for physical infrastructure reasons if nothing else. Hence total choice isn't deliverable, and any degree of choice is almost guaranteed to leave some schools over-occupied and needing quick (expensive) hiring and building to cover the gap, while others have too many facilities and resources for their per-head income and now have a financial black hole which, combined with the social stigma of not being the 'preferred school', tends to drag them further down.

Note I'm talking here from the perspective of how school choice works in England, as that's what I know. I'm not entirely anti the princple at all, but as I hope I've shown it does have some significant undesirable side-effects that can both increase cost and at best drive up the gap between best and worst by pushing at both ends of the spectrum - it doesn't just improve the top.
Depends. How many people drive over the speed limit? How many people think speed limits to increase to match the speeds most people drive?
Or copyright violation?

Or Intellectual property theft?

Or felony?
You make me curious. What does "the best possible combinations of items" mean this case?
Man and women both have dominance politics. Men do things like shake hands too firmly, stare at each other's eyes, stand while the other person is sitting, play basketball aggressively after work, wear elevator shoes, etc. Women do it in different ways: drama. It's really the same thing.
There is no slippery slope
I was doing startups 10 years ago. You didn't need Oracle (first of all, MySQL was already available) and you didn't need tens of thousands of dollars of servers. Yes, you probably paid $400 a month for colocation but that's a relatively small amount compared to labor.

The market was smaller (fewer people online, less commerce) but it was also a lot less competitive. All things being equal I prefer the current situation.
I think personal integrity matters. Lying to a doctor to get an insurance company to pay for drugs that make you appear to be smarter is an issue in my book. If I did it, I don't think I would sleep well at night.

I also want to agree with you that an adult should be able to just go buy some amphetamine... it's an argument that makes sense to me at a high level. The problem is, the devil is in the details. Do you want to be a passenger on a bus or a plane when the operator has been working for 14 hours hopped up on speed?
I disagree. A person would have a much easier time transitioning from C# to VB.NET than C# to Java. This is simply because the libraries in C# and VB.NET are the exact same since they both run on the CLR. The syntax learning curve may be steeper, but I believe that it's more difficult to learn the libraries.

Edit: Ooops... it looks like I agree. Can I blame my misunderstanding on a case of the Tuesday's?
I can understand that, but I can also see the other side. Editors, proofreaders, marketing, binding, printing, sales, distribution etc etc. The author doesn't pay for those. With ebooks you can drop the binding & printing but the rest still applies.

I'll concede there will be cases where the mark up is over the top, but you aren't just paying for the actual words.
Right, I think it just underscores how small the number of differences are between the two languages.

I've worked on many projects in both languages and I guess I can see why VB programmers transitioned to VB.NET but I don't understand why anyone without a VB background would use it (it's certainly not easier; I've been bit so many times by VB.NET's strange idiosyncrasies).
If you need that big of a crutch then you shouldn't be attending university in the first place.
Yes. Same for murder laws. If they were reasonable, if they allowed, say, to kill your unfaithful spouse or cheating business partner, people would not find it acceptable to break them.
It's not being abandoned. This is FUD that a small vocal minority like's to espouse. Silverlight is for most practical purposes, a subset of WPF.
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More than app vs business it is idea vs execution. I say that because you might have an idea and build an app for it. The business prospects of it depend on the execution.
On it's own no app or business is nonsense or brilliant, it is the execution that makes a difference.
You can have the most tried and tested idea and execute it well by building the app and one day realise you have a business staring right in front of you.
Especially in Consumer internet, the chances of someone setting off to build a business are lesser. What most people do is scratch an itch and sometimes that solution just works for everybody else.
That is when you have a business. Not when you have mastered the art of selling to users. If that was the case every great business would have been made by the best of sales people. But as far as I know, Mark Z, Drew H, Sean P, Evan W are from from people who are good at selling. They are just great at executing.
Well said.

However another argument: If 99% of the people thought that every 18 year old female must be raped repeatedly until shes 19, will that make it right? A lesser example. If every man believed that a woman must be whipped in public for not wearing the appropriate clothing, is it right? If every man believed that a woman cheating on her husband is grounds for execution, while a husband cheating on his wife is completely acceptable. Is all that moral or right? Consensus does not mean morality.

I feel that InclinedPlane's points raise the correct questions: What part of "piracy" is what people feel is sharing/socially acceptable behaviors taken from the physical to the digital world, and what part is really theft. Intent is important. And how do we separate the theft intent from the sharing intent.

Also another point: Perceived value. If by now people perceive music as worthless commodities, to them downloading it illegally is moral BECAUSE they feel that buying it is a rip off. They are buying something of no value. This could be a side-effect of theft they committed in the past. The content industry must change from "steal and we'll fucking sue" to "steal and you will miss out on big values of the product"
Why not, though?

I've had to work in both and can personally work in either interchangeably. When I switch between projects and move languages I spend a short while forgetfully mixing the syntaxes, but otherwise no biggie - and I do that when jumping in and out of SQL anyway.

Given that, when I was getting a project in a new domain started a while ago, it felt sensible to do it in C# even though I'd done more VB.Net at the time. We all use code samples that illustrate how different tasks are done, then adapt them for our purposes; it didn't take long to see that the samples were predominantly in C# and conversion was something of a hassle and not quite as simple as things made out. Most code worked straight away, but....

If it doesn't matter which you use for your own reasons, I don't see any advantage to not going with the herd of public samples.
Django Dynamic Fixture
But this guy calls that an enthusiasm. That was his point, that passion requires out-of-control emotion.
Yeah, I've seen it. It's a good list, but it's mostly concerned with security, reverse engineering and similar topics. I'm not saying that this is not important but surely there are other things that a developer should know about. For example, how to write maintainable code, how to come up with elegant solutions to certain problems, and so on.
if you read your parent, you'll find that you actually agree.
I hate to be that guy but PLEASE spell it right! It's not an IPhone it's an iPhone.

This is not unimportant cause Apple wont let your into the App Store before you spell it right (at least in the App).
Selling used books is not comparable with putting an ebook on PirateBay. Lending books and returning them when you're done reading is also not comparable to putting an ebook on PirateBay. You also can't display the same painting in 2 museums unless one of them is just a cheap copy and people don't appreciate copies in museums.

All cases of "sharing" the "older media" you describe are subject to the laws of scarcity. Even xeroxing a book is subject to it, as the cost of that can be even higher than just buying the book; and is mostly done for technical references for which you can't find the original.

"people sharing" is a romantic notion; in a perfect world there would be no problem with it, but writing a book / creating a game / composing a song / creating a movie - takes time, lots of effort and monetary cost that can be quite substantial.

Would people create movies such as Avatar (in the interest of sharing) if the movie industry would go bankrupted? I doubt it. Would people donate money if movies were released for free? Sharing is all fine for people, as long as it doesn't cost them too much. But few people give away their work for free and even fewer do it for altruistic reasons (it's like "spending other people's money" - how can you not be fine with that?)

the onus is on producers to figure that out

And they have, with DRM and all that. Only problem with it is that it's a PITA for honest customers, but technology evolves and people always find ways to build better mouse-traps.

So the onus really is on all of us - if you don't like the current legal frameworks, think of something to reward the original authors; otherwise the situation is only going to get worse.
Three big caveats that the linked article doesn't sufficiently mention:

1. The study was restricted to Denmark. It was part of a larger study looking at Danish attitudes towards economic lawbreaking: tax evasion, benefits fraud, copyright infringement, taking home company property, etc.

2. The study asked people to rate how acceptable copyright infringement was on a scale from 1 (completely unacceptable) to 10 (completely ok). The 70% figure is everyone who answered anything except 1. But clearly a 2 out of 10 is still not very positive, especially since in context it could simply have meant that someone found it bad, but less bad than e.g. benefits fraud. Only 20% gave an answer >= 7.

3. The study specifically asked about copyright infringement for personal, home use.

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From the report (rough translation):

Seven out of ten Danes accept to some extent the copying of music and movies without paying for them. So long, mind you, as it is limited to copying for one's own use.

Thus finds the Rockwool Foundation's study of Danish ethical attitudes in 2010.

In the study, a representative sample of people were asked to respond on a scale of 1 to 10, whether it is ok to pirate music from the internet for personal use. Those who believe that this act is acceptable under no circumstances, corresponding to a 1, total 30%.

The rest, i.e. 70%, accept pirate-copying to some degree. 50% give a rating between 2 and 6. They're probably skeptical in relation to piracy, but they seem not to think that it is totally unacceptable. The rest, around 15-20%, rate 7 or higher. This group mostly or fully accepts piracy.

The views are different however for making money on illegal music downloading. The population has a somewhat stricter view on that. In fact, three out of four respond that it is absolutely unacceptable to retrieve pirated music online and resell it to friends.

The difference between the two forms of lawbreaking is also clear in the average for all responses. Piracy for personal use has an average of 3.8 on the scale, while the score for selling to friends is as low as 1.7.
The Redis Manifesto
Libraries are different in that they don't remove scarcity, giving a value proposition for both purchasing the book and the library option, if the books are borrowed out further people are unable to read the book at the same time.

A digital example where there is a balance would be iOS, you don't see big antipiracy efforts from developers because there is plenty of market happy to pay for goods.

The real issue is when a content producer can't make anything at all on their time/ money investment, libraries on the whole have never caused this the way digital downloads may.
I hope it won't discourage people to become sailors…
> I disagree.

It looks like you are both saying the exact same thing.
>> You can actually learn a lot more about life and relationships by putting yourself in difficult, unfamiliar situations rather than cushy curated ones.

I could not agree more.

Last summer, at the age of 20, I picked a random country of Europe, in which I hadn't been before, booked a cheap flight and went there on my own just with a backpack. I didn't have any plans, I didn't know any people or places there, and I even didn't understand the local language.

I wanted to challenge myself, so I chose to have a flight back from the other airport, which was 600 km away from the place I had landed - that's to make sure that I will not spend all the time in one city - I must travel in order to get out of the country. Also, I decided, that in 2 weeks I must never pay for a bed - meet strangers, go to the places where noone goes, or sleep wherever and whenever I can - but prove to myself that it's possible.

Those 14 days, I spent traveling through the entire Portugal, was the most amazing time in my life so far. Every day I was meeting someone new and every day it was different experience. I was surprisingly lucky to be hosted by 10 strangers in 10 cities I visited, even though I often didn't know where I will be after a day - everywhere I went people were just saying to me: "You must see <that> place, it's really worth and it's so close!".

I still remember the conversions I had - every evening they were totally different, depending on the people I was drinking local beer on wine with: from a photographer of Porto sports magazine, and 40 years old famous Portuguese actor, who lived in the heart of Lisbon, was singing in French and preparing for the performance after a few days in Paris, to 60 years old Portuguese woman coffee shop owner, and exchange students from Turkey and Russia with their own culture and traditions.

However, I spent three nights sleeping on wild Atlantic beaches alone, which I had never done before. I also had a few days without seeing any people at all.

When I was back, I felt like I had learned more about life than in my whole academic year at university. I learned how to deal with myself during the permanent moments of uncertainty. I realised how often the problems are really not such huge as we tend to imagine. When you throw yourself into the world, in which you don't know anyone and noone knows you, you become responsible for every decision you make, - you always have to think forward, you can't be nervous or scared. Now I am no longer afraid of being with myself for a few days in the nature without any communication devices (including a computer - not so easy for a programmer) and without other people. Also, I started to love meeting strangers and learning about things I never imagined existing before.

That's a kind of experience, which nobody will teach you at university. There are no classes on that. It's something, what you have to take from the life by yourself.
The idea that launched a thousand cheesy pickup lines.
Instead of Ken Robinson, they should get Kahn University.
The loudest always wins, not the best.
Startups in themselves have not become cheaper or more expensive. It just happens Moore's law has been almost equally nullified by the rate of growth of complexity of problems.

In a similar fashion just like computing was very costly back in the 80s but so were the problems that we could think of to solve using them.
I'm a relatively poor startup founder and I can't say the $5 different is yet to sway me on ebooks, quiet happy to pay $10, although I'm not the fastest reader around. Above $10 though pushes it and $20 feels over the mark to me unless it's something directed at a niche audience.
When I joined, I knew nothing about fashion. Now I know a teensy bit. Shoot me a message if you're interested!
It's one thing to take advantage of a large corpus of examples and using those to understand concepts and tailor them to your needs. That's fine. But I think it's important to distinguish that from blindly copying and pasting code throughout your codebase, complete with sections you don't even understand, are probably unnecessary, and are probably duplicated throughout the codebase. There's nothing okay about that.

And there are online businesses worth hundreds of millions built on copy/paste as the method of code reuse.

Source?
This area must be on the list of improvements for Apple with the next software shipment. There is huge opportunity to use this space as a communication hub, something all iPhone users would benefit from.
Different to what? You've just described humanity.