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I think Jeremy has a good answer regarding the different scopes of backbone and sproutcore http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/#FAQ-rias

One aim of brunch is to provide more structure and good documentation about useful practices and patterns of backbone apps. I think while the stack is much simpler compared to something like sproutcore and cappuccino there are many (even rather complex) apps that can be built with ease.

It basically boils down to your preferences. I personally love html & css and prefer to have tight control over the look and feel of my application. I prefer easy to use bottom-up tools like flask and backbone over 'more sophisticated' frameworks like rails, django, symphony, sproutcore et al.
Everyone who can should download IE9. Those on XP who can't should download Chrome or Firefox 4. If IE9 gets enough buzz, maybe it will attract the attention of people who just live with whatever browser came with their machine, and they'll feel compelled to get a "modern" browser.
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That fails the identical twin test: is one half of a pair of identical twins who share the same DNA able to be tried for any crime that the other commits? The answer is obviously no.
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There is no clean-cut loophole here. People have tried similar services before (e.g., VHS, in a smaller area, such as a single video store or hotel building) and the Courts found a violation of the public performance right. See Redd Horne (749 F.2d 154, http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/749_F2d_154.htm).

More precisely, the question is this: are they transmitting a performance of the DVD to the public? This gets a little convoluted thanks to the circular definition of "public" in § 101. There is an argument that the transmission is only to private homes, if Zediva puts restrictions on how/where their service can be used.

Sometimes people forget that reproduction isn't the only way to infringe. Depending on how their technology works, there may also be infringing reproduction in the buffer.
I'm holding out for your autobiography. Please expand the part where you had trouble with calculus but were able to do ok in the end to at least 50 pages! Also the part where you decided to get into shape, I really cared about that.

I'm personally inspired by how you didn't let the kids on your dorm stop you with their mildly disinterested comments. If you didn't let that stop you, there's no way you're going to be stopped by an under-inflated bike tire, or even as many as 3 broken spokes (not all on the same wheel of course). Where do I invest?
You could entertain the possibility that the reason they are dedicated to eliminating all nuclear power is because they have seen information like that. You can't know a posteriori, of course, but there are actually people who try to make a judgement upon facts. That doesn't mean there aren't arbitrary judgement calls made as part of that decision, of course. Ultimately you have to judge whether you think more expensive power is a worse outcome than the small risk of making a large area somewhere around a nuclear plant uninhabitable, for example. Those are based on values and can't really be decided by facts.

So, another analogy would be: Imagine a journalist who is known for speaking out against nuclear power. Asking him for his reasons, he responds: "I've covered the nuclear industry for my entire life, and I've seen the coverups. Those that calculate the risks of nuclear power don't really know how close we've been to disaster many times, and I've come to the conclusion that we can't trust for-profit companies with managing the small risk of real disaster." Would your opinion of him be strengthened, or would you assume that he made up his mind beforehand and only went looking for facts that supported his belief?
Related: http://fragile.org.uk/2011/01/how-i-manage-technical-debt/
The choice of username has once again made me laugh :D
Both MySQL and Postgres support some GIS features, I would definitely recommend taking a look. I bookmarked this book about postGIS but I haven't read it: http://www.postgis.us/ .

If the databases can handle your queries efficiently then it could save you a lot of work and you won't have to do anything nasty.

From a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation, you should have under 20GB of data, so if you need to perform an inefficient computation with low latency storing it all in RAM isn't out of the question.
Viewer gullibility?
Larry Page's brother Carl Page had experience with venture capitalists, having sold eGroups to Yahoo for $432 million.

I did not know that.

I did know Bill Gates' mom was on the United Way executive committee with IBM's CEO.

I think these details are often omitted because we like to promote the idea that all you need is hard work and talent and perhaps a bit of luck to succeed.

We tend to not like stories about success as a function of familiar ties. This may have something to do with our distaste for monarchies and aristocracies.

It's also a bit depressing when you're working on a startup but no one in your family is well off, and no one is on a board with the CEO of a huge and potential partner, and your brother did not sell his startup for hundreds of millions.
Tell HN: I made my first open source contribution.
Yeah, I know, it's really a kind of "so what" Tell HN. But I feel great, and after a long stretch feeling like I was contributing to nothing at my day job, taking some time to improve an open source project has actually made me feel really great.

Of all the communities I'm involved with, this is probably the only one that would recognize this as being even remotely interesting.

For those who want to know, I found an annoying engine limit in cocos2d-iphone that was causing me grief, so I examined the problem and found a fairly simple solution, which I implemented and then made a pull request on github. Link here: https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-iphone/pull/41

It hasn't been accepted yet, but when it does, I'm pretty sure I'm going to feel like a million bucks.
Yeah. Marco just tweeted via @instapaper:

To the best of my knowledge, Instapaper will continue
to work perfectly well after the NYTimes' paywall
goes up, if you pay for it.

and

You will need to save NYTimes paywalled links from
the bookmarklet or in-app browser. Links from
Twitter/RSS apps probably won't work yet.
But that article could be about virtually anything. Articles about things that are untrue, where methodology is wrong, can be substituted for anything and prove those things are true too (like how you can prove anything mathematically if you start with one incorrect premise).

I do agree that we should study how poor science is done. But there's a difference between studying poor science, and actually spending time trying to figure out how one might actually be the next Airbender.
Of the ad hominems listed, which do you think are actually groups?
Besides the fact a lot of people have much less money than you, I think you also use ATMs much differently. If you're not traveling the world, the primary use of ATMs is getting cash when you need it, not getting out a large bulk sum a few times a year which is then hidden and dolled out incrementally for times you think you might need cash ahead of time. That can easily be done at the bank when cashing those huge checks everyone apparently starts getting after college.
Very true. It can be really disheartening to work for praise or acknowledgement from others, because it's an unrealistic expectation that can't be met.

That's why I love the "scratch your own itch" philosophy for judging good ideas, helps keep you motivated. And if you personally have a need for what you're building, someone else surely will too. The hardest part is often finding them and conveying it to them, but at least you can be reasonably certain they're out there :)

Another thing to consider is how much acknowledgement you can expect prior to having a tangible product. In my current project I make little updates on Facebook, but since my friends don't have the thing in front of them how excited can they really be about it? But the ones who've tried it, and the ones I'm working with testing it out love it, so there you go!

I guess it comes down to managing your personal expectations to help keep yourself motivated along the way. And who cares about age and life experience, just go for it! That's how you get life experience.
That's almost the exact experience I had in my first term of university. Everyone was making connect 4 and sudoku and they told me I couldn't write a Doom-style raycasting engine. That was the reason I had to do it!

It didn't even count towards course credit, but by the time I submitted I'd built everything, with an in-game level editor and reflective surfaces (all software-rendered). It was way beyond what I had ever achieved, and completing that project totally changed my view of what was possible.
ahem try short-selling private equity..its a market that does not exist..cannot do it until stock sold to public
Which plays into the author's main point which is you deny young children the opportunity to hear how stupid these theories are when you don't discuss the matter. Because you can't really silence a school of thought. All you can do is drive it underground.

So by abolishing discussion you actually create what can be seen as proof of the false theory. Parents who believe this stuff tell their kids "it's a Jew cover-up" and use the censorship as proof. And since society has stopped giving the other side of the story those kids are left to believe the lie. Meaning the end result is we've made a ridiculous theory stronger by handing a whole new generation over to it.

Next thing you know there's some poor University Professor in a class full of kids who believe this ridiculousness because they've never heard the other side of the story.
I agree they're have different relationships to content creation. But I don't think most people see much of a distinction between news and entertainment (which is problematic in it's own right). Nor do many people care who is an actual creator vs. who is merely a distributor. At the end of the day, we write the check to Netflix, not to MGM studios.

What people do care about is the value that the content provides them, and is that content worth the price. I think the NYTimes does a great job, but I don't know they provide so much more value than their competitor who gives their stuff away for free.
Another relevant question is whether those that assess the risks of nuclear power include the risks of mismanagement, or if they carry some assumption, kind of like the "efficient market" hypothesis, that people will maintain the numerous redundancies and not feel like it's not that important because after all, there are numerous redundancies.
The limitations are documented as foot/side notes.

Analogy: It's like seeing "ACID compliance!" on a feature list, then finding buried in the documentation that is only the case for single-document transactions in unordered collections on a single machine only.

The new feature might be useful to some but including it on a feature list without disclaimer is misleading.
They're pulling 3 or 4 levers on this one alone. This package reminds me of Microsoft's strategy of Windows Home, Windows Basic, Windows Premium, Windows Ultimate, etc. etc.
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They need to get into other businesses. For example, why is NYT not the definitive place to get New York City real estate information?
only problem the SCO case proved them not copyright-able..

whoops..
I'm looking forward to version 11, so I can ask a question like "can you run X11R6 on X6R11?".
This prompted me to sign-up for Groupon for the first time today.

I laughed because it appears to be like Bits Du Jour (http://www.bitsdujour.com/) for everything - not just shareware deals. Bits Du Jour has been around for a LONG time - wonder why they never decided to do this for everything, not just software.
I think your version is the better way to explain things to non technical personnel, like any kind of management without any programming experience.
That is an impressive accomplishment. I've never been a "fast" coder like that. I've never met a problem I couldn't solve or code I couldn't figure out, but, as my iOS app can attest, I'l can't crank the code like that.

There may be one important lesson in that experience, though (not that I believe the prof was trying to teach it): complete, rock-solid software with few features beats glitzy, bug-filled software with many features. Users will never know what they are missing.
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I disagree with this bit of hyperbole. You only live one time. Living the life of a pauper because of some ideals if just not practical. Most people will never hear of your sacrifice and those who do will write you off as a nutter. Chomsky is doing what he can by delivering his message to the youth, the future. He wouldn't be in a position to deliver that message if he were off trying to start a one-man revolution.
Has anyone tried the new version yet?http://www.skillendar.com/hackernews/noajax.aspx

I have added a 2 minutes cache to speed up the browsing as well
On being startled by a programming language
Suggest solution to help japan with it's nuclear disaster
No, no, no. That's wrong. It's the "viral" misinterpretation of the GPL at work. Angry Birds code belongs to Angry Birds' developers, period. They get to decide its license, period. There are no circumstances under which "Angry Birds has to be GPL'd". None.

The issue at hand is whether or not the Angry Birds Android port constitutes a derived work of the kernel (a pretty strained case, IMHO, given that it's a straightforward port of a game from another non-linux platform). If it is, then it can only be distributed under the GPL -- that is, it'd have to be pulled from the market. At no point does it get removed from its owner's control.
Somehow, Google's upgrades do not tend to end up on the phones, or only with substantial delay. So I don't think claiming that "Google got it right" is accurate if you talk about smartphone software.
We need more discord in the Web browser business.
I hate when people think that life is some kind of philosophy debate over "what should i do?", just fucking live and do whatever your heart tells you to.

I doubt your stupid steve jobs after getting fired from apple and having a spare billion(or even more?) and being 30 did it because of the money, or for approval... or anything. He did it because what he felt about his creations was bigger and stronger than himself.

Maybe you shouldn't start a startup but be a teacher in CS, maybe marry a beautiful woman or even be a serial killer... I don't know? But follow your heart and you won't need to write a wall of text to prove yourself to HN.
Yeah, the issue was that tech VCs (even non-technical ones) pride themselves on being able to find and recognize technical talent. You're really cutting to the core of their perceived value by telling them they're actually terrible at it.

More likely than not, they are going to doubt your ability to recognize talent instead of their own.
Heh. Was hoping for someone who could state an actual level of radioactivity.
How would people respond if the article were changed to this:

'Dear Writer, You Aren't That Special'

"In essence, writing is not a chaotic expression, it’s a measured approach to creation. We cannot create a good writing solution by shuffling elements randomly around a blog until something happens to work."

Think about it that way, and the author disproves his own point. Yes, his post is grammatical, and contains thoughts that are communicated, but not very well. The best one can say is that it is passable, and worth the price paid. This is true for design as well; most companies claim to want great design, but are secretly willing to accept the passable, as long as the price is right.

It's in vogue to desire developers who have a 'design sensibility,' as if this is the answer, but would it make as much sense to ask for a developer with 'copyrighting sensibility?' After all, design and writing have much more in common than developing and designing.

Meanwhile, here is a much more cogent post on the original topic, that counters this argument much more clearly and eloquently...because it was written by a professional writer, not just somebody who has a blog.

How Wannabe Designers Burden the Profession
http://sixrevisions.com/project-management/wannabe-designers...
I didn't downvote you, but I didn't upvote you either.

Maybe it is the reaction to doing something cool and having someone post a link to criticism that is peripheral to the project. Maybe some Tclers are a little tired of people continuing to post this particular piece of criticism. Maybe a random few don't care about RMS's opinion. It is like people posting the Tanenbaum / Torvalds thread in every Minix article. It just seems a little mean-spiritted after a while.
If you had made yours before mine, I'd certainly be using your version. I only make something because nobody else has.
I'm not sure how you know the difference between a session cookie and "other" cookie from a technical level.

You could do a per-cookie approval, but that gets tedious quickly.
No, it's my excuse for not getting stitched up by people making unrealistic promises on my behalf (e.g. a month's work in a day).
I wasn't familiar with the site but found this post interesting. After digging around for a while there is a lot of good content.
> This "No Donuts" mentality is wrong. Google got it right.

The name "No Donuts" has nothing to do with Google, but with someone who didn't bring donuts to a meeting. (One source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/03/09/windows-phone-7... )
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lol enough with this shiet -_-
The best thing about that site is that if you visit it using IE6 you get a script error.
Patents don't stop innovation. You just have to deal with the patent holder, OR change your invention so that it doesn't violate the patent.

It's actually sad that the author seemingly did "the impossible" technically only to be stopped by some paperwork in the end.
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The motto? Seriously, the motto? Man, if only Bill Gates had known this he could have avoided the monopoly trials just by creating a stupid motto. He probably didn't bother because he probably never imagined anyone would be naive enough to buy it...
I'm interested to know why they decided not to move forward anyway. Every entrepreneur I know personally (admittedly, mostly software people) is steadfastly avoiding looking at patents, figuring you don't have to worry about the patent problem until you are big enough that you might have some ammo to fight back, and they don't want the triple penalty for knowingly infringing. Maybe physical devices are thought of differently.
You just don't get it, man. This the new world of social media, the rules are different! Groupon will do to coupons what Webvan did to groceries!
I find it hard to believe that it's impossible to make a glibc competitor that is LGPL and uses kernel headers. Could you point me to some opinions that you're basing this on?
They're sort of damned if they do, damned if they don't.

They need to let people know what the long term plans are to keep the interested in what the platform will become (especially with the Nokia deal), but at the same time it feel frustrating how far away these new features seem (talking about the "Mango" update with multi-tasking, IE9 etc coming "later" this year).

Personally I agree with you, I'd like smaller, more frequent updates, but at the same time I definitely want to know the long term roap-map.

I disagree about there being too many phones, it's a fraction of the number of Android variants out there, and the phones are much more similar to each other due to the minimum hardware specs. With that in mind, there was no excuse that the first update a few weeks ago wasn't flawless; they should have easily picked up any issue on all available models during testing.
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The first rule of the nuclear power industry is that you always protect the nuclear power industry.

It stems from a culture ultimately rooted in nuclear weapons and the cold war. From the very beginning, civilian atomic power has always had a dual role - in addition to producing electricity, it has always been about either producing weapons-grade material directly or (as in the case of Japan) providing a break-out capacity to go nuclear. Government and the military have a far deeper commitment to nuclear than any comparable power generation technology.

On the other hand, you have the public fear of contamination. Any accidents further undermine support for nuclear, so far better simply to shoot-and-shovel rather than owning up to problems and potentially improving safety in the future.

I have supported nuclear myself in the past, but the polyannish and deeply irresponsible response of nuclear supporters during this crisis has me reconsidering. I'm becoming skeptical that real, fallible human beings are capable of safely managing a technology with so much political baggage and black-swan potential.
Isn't the point that "unlikely" is a vague (with negative innuendo)?

...and that a more rational approach is to say, "The value of a possible success" is high enough that it's worth the expenditure of energy to bet the "losing" side of a p = .01 (or whatever)".

[of course it's going to depend on who is expending the energy - and who get what portions of the possible success benefits]
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Not to mention the fact that even if, against all odds, Larry and Serge truly are completely benevolent they aren't going to live forever. At some point they'll get bored and leave or get old and die. Then the next guy will step into a company that owns most of the web...
Yes, in Germany, open Holocaust denial is only one form of Volksverhetzung (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksverhetzung)

The reason that this is punished is not stupidity. Publicly spoken words are never just an personal opininion, but have the potential to influence other people, and can lead to violent actions. In that case, the german constitution holds that the safety and dignity of the targetted people (e.g. an ethnical group) outweigh the personal freedom of an individual.

This trade-off has to be made somehow, and I would agree with the german constitution: personal freedom ends where other people get physically hurt or degraded.
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BBC is paid for by the British taxpayer. Al-Jazeera is funded by the Qatari royal family. Reuters news is a loss-leader for their financial services business.

News is expensive! Don't be fooled that because commentary on news that others have gathered (e.g. HuffPo) is essentially free that it doesn't cost real money to send a reporter to some faraway place for 6 months to do some investigative journalism, then fact-check it and write it up...
Yup, I know what you mean. In fact, when people explicitly tell me something is impossible I just take it as a challenge. And I often succeed.

Of course it usually takes me more than a couple days to do the impossible, but maybe you're faster than I am. ;)

Seriously, though, if there is a trade-off in feature value, the "agile" approach would be to point that out, and let them know what features they might be losing by having you work on one with only a lesser value.

Or in the words of a good friend of mine, if they're asking you to do it anyway, you're not charging enough for it. :)
My first computer! This brings back those good old memories of programming in Basic with only 64K of memory.