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I believe the entity that would have to bring any suit against Google would be the Free Software Foundation or their representatives.

However, I don't believe the FSF would have an interest in having an interface be declared copyrightable - just the opposite.

Most GPL suits are extremely forgiving. They give the party the option of removing the code or making it available.

The absolute worst case scenario I could imagine given this is that Google would be forced to make a "cleaner clean-room" implementation of the interface.

The last thing I could imagine the Free Software Foundation wanting is a demonstration that it is impossible to construct proprietary software that runs on Linux.

All this just has the feel of anti-Google FUD...

Edit: yes, gpl-violations.org seems to have done the last Linux I found of but I don't think any Free Software Entity wants to be Oracle's stalking horse against Google.
"average" compared to what? your own team? that'd mean you've got people even below the person you fired. 'average' compared to the team leader's experiences? That's a bit... dangerous.

Frankly, an 'average skills' developer in a strong, supportive team can still be a great asset. They can do the work, but perhaps don't always know the best way to do something. However, they may be fine with being given direction. Many people I've worked with aren't good at taking directions from others - I'm not great at it myself in many situations. So the 'average skill' developer can be a blessing in many circumstances. But perhaps not on your team, which may say as much about your team dynamics as that developer.
Wow, what am I doing with my life?
Thanks rabidonrails. I intentionally made the fonts overrides itself. As for the grammar and typos I'll definitely look at them again. "a venue for people who needs photo retouching and for freelance photo editor" is this the what you meant?
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Microsoft took a mezzanine round a few months before the IPO. The reason usually given is so that they'd have connections to investment bankers to manage the actual IPO, as well as people with a stake in making sure that the IPO price was as high as possible.
No one knows for sure either way yet. So wouldn't most people's opinion on the subject be inherently lacking in the 'reliable source of information' department? He usually provides links to the other side of any given argument. Isn't it really up to the reader to decide what they believe? I tend to agree with him on this one because web apps on 4.2 weren't exactly impossibly slow and unusable. The performance increases in 4.3 are nice but it doesn't really make any huge difference to someone's ability to write good web apps today. Apple could have just removed the ability to launch web apps from the home-screen entirely if they wanted to. Why would they be so sloppy at executing a grand anti-competitive conspiracy?
In my opinion, anything more than instant now feels like waiting for ages. Sure, my netbook comes out of sleep mode within 2 seconds, but it's sure more sluggish for the first several seconds after that. Even Macs aren't fully instant on, unless you perhaps have an SSD. Sorry, I'm running fairly modern PC hardware with Windows 7 and Ubuntu, but there's just no way it's going to feel as fast to grab and check email as my iPad.
"It's Complicated" == "I don't want to bother explaining/thinking about it"
Actually, for many Americans, I'm afraid the microwave has replaced their oven, and average food quality has suffered as a result. In an odd twist, my family usually cooks fully homemade food since it's healthier, but the microwave oven is still useful.
I am not arguing with you, I was only trying to distinguish between saying "Gruber could possibly be right, but I think he is wrong" and saying "Gruber can't possibly be right, and he ought to know better."

The situation is complicated by the fact that he is reporting what Apple is doing and what he has been told is the motivation for doing so. So he could be right that Apple is doing this, but you assert that Apple is wrong. Or that Apple is doing this, but not for the reasons they give.

You assert that there is no vulnerability in home screen apps wrapping UIWebView that isn't in Mobile Safari, and thus there is no downside to granting writeable code page permission to home screen apps. Ok, I think I understand what you are saying, why you are saying it, and what you would do in Apple's shoes.
I'm pretty sure it's to work around a difference in SVG and VML. In SVG, a one-pixel line rendered at an integral coordinate (like x=1) will render half-half on either side of that value, resulting in a blurry two-pixel-wide line. VML renders a one-pixel line in this case, automatically colouring the pixel(s) between x=1 and x=2.

Raphaël adds 0.5 to the values in SVG in order to make one-pixel-wide lines render as a single pixel instead of two.
Maybe a simple:

- tests [5 stars]
- documentation [5 stars]
- code quality [5 stars]
- usefulness [5 stars]

And, rating could simply get enabled/disabled if you don't think it has value for a quicky hacky project.

But I get your point, I've got the real bad habit of not wanting to upload not finished stuff.. and since code is rarely finished, I tend to upload way less project than I should. A rating system might only get the matter worst.
TryRuby.org (http://tryruby.org) was what I started with.

When you're more comfortable with Ruby and want to get started with Rails, get a Heroku (http://heroku.com) account to play around with and check out Rails for Zombies (http://railsforzombies.org/).

I think you'll enjoy Ruby (and RoR). Ruby's a fun language to code in and I found it very beginner-friendly.
Nitpick: FSF doesn't own copyright to Linux kernel, Linux developers do.

But your main message is right on: Linux kernel developers have no reason to sue Google for what at best is very minor issue.
Wow this makes me miss college. College is one of the best times to hack on things and meet people. Take full advantage of that!
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Please can someone tell me how a Canadian company can sue a Chinese company in podunksville(1) East Texas?!

The whole process has become some sort of absurd Dr. Seuss-ian caricature of what ostensibly started as reasonable law.

(1) I used to live in exactly this part of Texas. If you've never been, you're missing half of the funny in this giant joke that's landed the nexus of the United States Patent system here.
Fred: "I'm just not sure how big it's going to be"

- had he seen couchsurfing at the time?

http://www.couchsurfing.org (launched as beta in 2003)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CouchSurfing

Are Airbnb copycats?
Nothing excludes people who start lifestyle businesses from starting a huge multi-billion dollar infrastructure play after they have created their first business.

However they will be much better at "business" by the time they do it.
VMware. Diane Greene funded it with the proceeds from her (much smaller) startup VXtreme, sold to Microsoft. The first outside capital we took, IIRC, was in 2002 or so, when VMware was already hundreds of employees, profitable, with several products, etc., and it was from Dell and IBM rather than typical VC firms.
To get the "opportunity" to get VC funding usually requires 1+ years very hard work with no money of any kind.
I remember APL from my college years. APL is the archetypal write-only programming language.

Even with 20-to-1 comment-to-code ratio, it was easy to get confused with code written the previous morning. By you.

From what I see, the most important development is using plain ASCII. Too bad it's still unpronounceable. Dictating APL code to another student was endless fun. We even invented our own names for some of the symbols...

Having said that, APL was exquisitely powerful and concise. Yet, I have to wonder if there is space for an exquisitely concise write-only computer language today.
It actually reminded me of another turbine-like engine I had seen a while back. They had tested it on chainsaws where the reduced vibration was desirable. I guess hybrid applications are mentioned because its trendy. I'm sure there are tons of other potential applications, just can't chase everything.

Google helped me find it again, the pictures and animations are at the bottom
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Cgo seems to me like one of the best (i.e. seamless) implementations of C integration (certainly better than e.g. generating wrappers with SWIG).

Can you elaborate what is so "dreadful" about it and which language does it better?

I'll give props to C# as one of the languages that does it very well, but most others don't (Java's jni is worse, Python before ctypes was worse, lua is worse - I could go on).
Be fair. It's probably more efficient than Wankel engines too.
The way they're used now, I think QR codes are really just a gimmick. They're probably useful in some rare situations, but for me, I could easily live without them.
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Congrats JV. I've been listening to you on TechZing. You've hit this one out of the ballpark.
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It's been working for a long time to suddenly just break now ... when Apple just happens to be exercising some particularly anti-competitive practices against other players who might conceivably use it as a workaround.

Like I said - if they jump on it and fix it I'll say fair enough - anything can get broken in the rush to put out a new release (especially with a high profile new device involved - one can hardly expect they would be delaying release of iPad2 because of something like this). So we will see what happens. However until I see it fixed or some kind of indication that it will be I remain highly skeptical.
DELETE /playlist/{playlist id}/{song id}/{index} isn't very RESTful (imo)

Your opinion is a fact, imo. Songs can't be deleted from playlists using REST, full stop. Songs-in-playlists are values, not identities, so they can't be resources. I see it as analogue to words in a text file. A REST client would have to construct the updated playlist value and PUT the whole thing to the playlist resource. So "delete song from playlist" is a function that could only exist in the client.

Search on the other hand is just search. I don't think REST vs RPC has much to say about it. The only issue would be location: URL vs method.
The few times I've scanned one it has seemed like too big of a hassle for a pretty minor ROI.
Well compared to the ssh banner, it is in a secured data center. All the people in there (hopefully) have been assigned some baseline level of trust.

I really hope the story behind that rope is more like:

"What the fuck did you do? Every salesman on the East Coast is locked out of the VPN!"

"You told me to reboot ALL the servers!"

Than some crazy RSA security requirement.
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http://myne-us.blogspot.com/2010/08/from-0x90-to-0x4c454554-...

This is a guide I found on /r/reverseengineering on reddit (which actually has a decent community, considering the fact that its on reddit)
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Why not just set up a fake facebook profile?
If it's a security concern then it's a very strange one. Apps are certainly sandboxed, but they've always been able to access their own files before. And this offline cache has been working for a long time. It's a very strange thing if they suddenly claim this is a security problem now.
This was an extremely clever study/press-release from Blaze.

The number of "news" outlets picking it up is staggering:

http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=du8BOOH4hczn4YMB-i7ZmzI...

Congrats to them and thanks for the testing service.
The test culture of Ruby helps a bit...

Uh, right. Ruby folks have no idea how little of a test culture they have. Doesn't stop them from complimenting themselves though. What, you say, why do I say this about Ruby? Consider the following facts.

- Ruby itself has fairly bad unit tests.

- By default you don't run tests on gems when you install them.

- Many gems that have tests, have tests that only make sense on the developer's machine and can't easily be run elsewhere.

- There is no automated process for identifying which gems are doing a standard list of good things (have documentation, tests, clear license terms, properly identified dependencies...) and which are not.

- There is no easy way for someone with a spare box and an interesting environment to contribute their machine to tracking down which gems fail their tests in your environment.

If you're a Ruby developer, you may be saying, "This sounds like a nice wish list, but look at everything we do..." Stop right there. Everything on this list, the Perl community has been doing for years. And Perl folks are doing all of the other good things that you were going to talk about.

In fact the state of the art of Ruby's "test culture" does not even match the test culture among good Perl developers during the last millenium. You don't believe me? The standard CPAN client has defaulted to actually running unit tests since Perl 5 was released in the mid-90s. And the core Perl test suite back then was much more comprehensive than Ruby's is now.

But there is good news. It is easier to copy someone else's working thing than it is to write your own in the first place. Perl got this working several years ago, and has had time to iron out the kinks. If you are interested, feel free to copy.
For maximum metareferentiality, read the comments - patio11's joke that Japanese has no word for over-preparation is cited as a similar linguistic confusion (I defended Patrick's honor, of course).
I have wondered for a long time why there hasn't been a mobile version of Nintendogs / Tamagotchi. Seems like it would be the perfect way to carry one of those around, along with the ease of local social stuff on top.

And:
a) touch interaction would feel way more immediate
b) constant updates to these apps would allow the dev to constantly change / add to pet behavior
Everytime I see one! I think they are fantastic and misunderstood and under utilized. Social network information storage is one of the best use cases.
I listen to my favorite music (Mozart for me) and play some sandboxy games like Minecraft and GTA. I just try to forget about my startup for the evening and then get a full night's sleep. That always makes me feel refreshed.
or go further and implement the MLM model, his hookup could grow another Amway!
I'd say Digg became popular due to promoting it on television, Kevin mentioned Digg on TechTV and invited people to try it.

He had a captive audience on TechTV (or what was left of it after G4 gutted it) which helped a lot to get the word out and to give it some geek credit.

Then there was a shift from Slashdot (my post never gets shown!) to Digg (my post never gets shown) to Reddit (too many people posting!) now ...Hacker News?
Nintendo has been continuously iterating the Pokemon franchise based around the situation on the ground in Japan, not North America, and as a result there's probably a lot of room for folks to create a Pokemonlike that is more designed for the North American play style. For example, Pokemon Black/White, the most recent version, has a huge amount of innovative local play features, but in NA, commuting to work, you're very unlikely to randomly happen across any folks that will have the game and so these features are for many quite useless.
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Feeding the baby yogurt too early is a bad thing, too.
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So I started playing and it offers to increase my speed stat for the price of 8 Facebook credits. That just doesn't seem right.
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A broken analog clock is only right twice a day.
Jordan mentioned every slight that was done to him, perceived or otherwise, and told the audience about how he found motivation from those slights

Think about this for a second. Jordan has played almost two decades, won 6 (?) championships, and is heralded as the best player ever. At an event meant to celebrate his career, he instead talks for several minutes about being slighted in high school.

Can you imagine being a grown, old man that's bitter enough about high school to mention it at an event celebrating his career? It doesn't sound fun.
I don't get it. It seems like it's just a pointless shorthand.
Makes me wonder if the same could happen with the health care / medical field.
Except that instead of a big business doing those things, there could be a network of small businesses.

Each business does a small part of the whole, buying and selling what they need from other businesses.

The reason these networks don't come into existence is the problem of how an interdependent network gets bootstrapped. For example, suppose that gadgets are currently made by a large corporation, Acme, because making a gadget requires designing and making a widget, a vidget, and an xidget, a design for how to put the bits together, and the final assembly, and that is too much for a lifestyle business, and Acme doesn't buy or sell the parts as the whole process is vertically integrated. If there were widgets, vidgets, and xidgets on the market, and designs for building gadgets from them on the market, then there could be lifestyle business building gadgets - and likewise for any other part of the supply chain being removed. However, without any lifestyle gadget makers, there will be no demand for widgets (unless they are useful in another industry).

Maybe there is a business model for helping to bring a network of interdependent companies into existence simultaneously.
Great idea. I've been looking for something like this for a while. I wish there was a way to create private rooms though, I might want to watch something with just a friend.
Yes that's exactly what's going on. He's attempting to externalize his guilt/shame to create a socially acceptable situation for criticism-- to validate his internal negativity and hate.
Generally in agreement - albeit a GNU/Linux, Android, iOS and Google user as I still think those a superior to your respective examples.

The one product I'd point out your wrong about is Bing - its been proven very clearly that they literally steal their search result rankings from Google by crawling Google instead of running their own algorithms.
I would be afraid of being the uncool person in this equation :-)
It doesn't matter at all whether a language has a word for describing something. Any human language can describe all concepts that other human languages can describe.
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A few things I noticed:

The interface is very confusing. I was only able to navigate it since I was familiar with Pokemon.

It's dumbed down. There is no walking around towns, just battles.
I worked there 10 years ago and if I remember correctly, the system that generated seed files wasn't on the network. They wanted an "air gap" just for this reason.

And yes - the method for SecurID was long ago known - just read the patent.
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> that makes me doubtful about longevity of the engine if the shock wave touches the metal.

Sure. But what about the common reciprocating engine style. There's a lot of mechanical strain with the pistons being yanked back-and-forth 1000s of times/second not to mention the energy lost in counteracting momentum.
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Gas turbines actually have varying efficiencies against reciprocating engines, depending on the designs being compared. In the overlap area of small turbines and large pistons, pistons win out significantly in HP per fuel rate. Turbines do have higher power/weight as you say though. This Wave engine's pretty different as it features centrifugal versus axial flow (ironically, the first turbines developed by the US/UK attempted centrifugal designs - the germans gave us our modern axial flow jet engines).

A shock contacting the metal isn't a big deal. A typical jetliner will have a standing shock on the upper surface of its wing during cruise flight, visible if the lighting is just right. With this I doubt there will be significant stresses caused by the pressure gradient because the thing is pretty much a compact and flat disk (short moment arms).
Good points.

Something I noticed after I read your comment: The funny thing about both Starbucks and McDonalds is that, in both cases, it took an outsider who became an employee, _not a founder_, to grow the company. Two companies don't a pattern make, but it does make you wonder...
> Your opinion is a fact, imo

This doesn't parse very well to me.

As far as your main point, I disagree. The /playlist/:playlist_id/:song_id/:index thing doesn't seem very good, no. But, if you kept an id that mapped songs to playlists, you could easily do DELETE /playlists/:playlist_id/:song_playlist_id and be done with it.

REST doesn't say you have to update the entire resource just because a member of that resource needs to be deleted.
I'm confused, why would JSON vs. Atom make a difference in this case? What does Atom get you that you can't also do with JSON?
This is the famed "Sold 10% of Apple INC for $800" founder. Frankly, I gave this guys story to everyone I knew under the heading "don't be this guy" and I presume I'm not the only one who did so. I think it's cute that he has a twitter, but I'm not surprised at all no one cares what he has to say.
Isn't Jason Fried on the board of Groupon?
I have a naive notion of business, but does your startup idea necessarily have to be a for-profit venture?