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A guy who lives about 10 houses up from my dad has Time Warner broadband.

Similar situation here - Comcast provides service to the entire area with a few exceptions, such as my neighbor and I. The cable service stops 150 feet up the road at the next closest neighbor, and for five years they have declined to extend the line. According to my neighbor, last time he called Comcast they offered to run the line if he covered the $9K or so cost.
No kidding. It started out okay but descended into "it was them not us", followed by "we need to keep the studios happy". Some serious talking out of both sides of your mouth.
I find it interesting, if a tad unrelated, that when you see the summary of the article on the front page of Techcrunch, this line reads, "Apparently, the post was not fawning enough for Summit..." whereas when you click through to the article it reads, "Apparently, the post was not enough of a blowjob for Summit."
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Yeah, that's a pretty awful defence. Passing it along and especially asking for a response is, if not tacit endorsement of the message ("Let me know if you're able to take another look at it and make any edits."), certainly implied pressure on the reviewer.

The ethical thing to do would be to say, with slightly nicer words, "sorry, we don't interfere with TechCrunch, we didn't publish the review, go tell them yourselves."
I liked the rendered one. This is sort of ugly, even though it is consistent with the general new look for Google apps.
I'm sorry, my logic module must be acting faulty. How does this prove that they have taken a bribe?
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love category 6 nuclear disasters. This is typical MIT hubris. Nobody knew om march 12 what was happening, even the operators, and even now nobody knows how bad thing are or how bad things will get.
Meanwhile, 2 days after this article was published on March 13:
"A small crew of technicians, braving radiation and fire, became the only people remaining at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on Tuesday — and perhaps Japan’s last chance of preventing a broader nuclear catastrophe."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/asia/16workers.html?...
That's a pretty cool little toy!

I think the trailer should be flipped upside down: start with playing it, then explaining how it works. It's cool that there are few controls, but starting off by talking about the battery compartment isn't nearly as impactful as the demo.
It is if the parent company told you to alter your story. That's not what happened here. What happened was some low level employee whose job it was to be an advocate for the studio asked them to alter the story. They had every right to say no. But it doesn't mean it shows great integrity to say no to a polite request from a low level employee.
All those things still have to be paid for by someone when you hire contractors. Which is probably why I always hear about contractors getting seemingly-absurd high hourly rates, if it didn't all come out about even, either we'd all be contractors or nobody would choose to be a contractor.

The transaction costs here are things like all the negotiation that has to go in to getting anything done with contractors every time you want something done.
Not that I would have done this either, but you could have just picked up their trash for them. Then the dad would have had to explain to his kid why you were cleaning up their mess. Not too confrontational, but it still gets the point across.
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I think composition turns into extensibility when you start working on larger programs. For example, you cannot pipe the output of Vim or Emacs into another program, but you can write 100 lines of Python/Lisp/Lua/Perl/etc. that will let one application talk to the other.

Other applications see themselves as a walled garden, and may allow extension within the program, but make it difficult for communication to occur between programs, often by not exposing enough state, not documenting the interface, or not providing any scripting at all.
To be clear: the NASB estimates that 93,000 deaths so far (as opposed to "eventual" deaths), the ICRIN estimates 500,000 deaths so far, and the RAS estimates 60,000 deaths so far and in Russia alone, were caused by Chernobyl. These are the deaths the article outrightly dismisses in favor of the IAEA/WHO's figure of 9.

The latter figure may be the correct one, but the article is still wrong in using this death toll to decide that "rooftop solar is several times more dangerous than nuclear power" if Chernobyl is the example of nuclear power against which we are comparing rooftop solar: this is a callous and casual dismissal of the horrific disfigurements we see in children at Novinki, the hundreds of thousands of displaced families, the rescue workers who lost body parts to the cancer they subsequently suffered, and to the many other horrors and humiliations Chernobyl's victims have suffered.
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- Paul Graham (@paulg)

http://startupquote.com/post/3890222281
In my opinion, it's not an argument against democracy.

It's an argument against lying in the first place.
I've known some sites to scrub naughty language from the front page, supposedly to avoid being blocked by parental-control type software. Anything goes on the rest of the site, though.

Dunno if it actually works.
What a classic strawman response. TechCrunch says Moviefone "asked us to change our post". Movefone responds "We never told TechCrunch to change the post in any way". But Moviefone very obviously did "ask", which was the original accusation.
First of all, this is not an all-time low. A few years back when Arrington took a personal vendetta against Blaine Cook of Twitter was an all time low. This is peanuts compared to that.

Second of all, there are different sides to professionalism. In my opinion, exposing an attempt at perverting editorial integrity is highly professional, and using vulgar language while doing so is very minor peanuts. You have your priorities very skewed.
So I gotta ask: Every start-up this session got not just YC funding but also SV Angel funding. With that much seed money, what do you do with it all?
It can break down, but it's a damn good place start, especially if you don't have a good philosophy to replace it.

Does it need stating how useful and powerful text based output can be?
Are blowjobs really that offensive, to make you comment about it? I mean, on the scale of offensive horrors, blowjobs can't be too far up there, can they? I'm honestly asking because someone else made the same remark in the comments on the post, and I simply cannot comprehend how this is a big deal; am I too open-minded or young to see how the imagery was offensive?

My wife's very Mormon family has joked with me about far worse subjects, so I don't really have any perspective here. I know people get offended, but I've never really dug into why.
I've heard conflicting stories about this, that the teams share code and that they're fiercely independent. I imagine there are examples of both.
Seems like a lot of them are hiring.
Why would they call security for you being naked in your own room?
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Why did they post this? This just looks really unprofessional in my opinion. The appropriate response would be to just say 'no' and if Moviefone/AOL/whoever wouldn't accept a no, then sure go public with it.

The company behind the film obviously got in touch with Moviefone and whinged about the interview. Moviefone were the people who made the connection in the first place so they then relayed the feedback to TechCrunch. Moviefone never played the AOL card, they were acting as the middleman because they were the guys who set up the connection. They just wanted to get 'some sort of information' from TechCrunch, so they could get back to Summit (the film company) and say "TechCrunch said x".

Uncalled for but also unsurprising given its TechCrunch.
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"We never told..." "We would never force..." Much stronger language than Tsotsis used, most of whose post didn't even talk about Moviefone. Protesting too much.

Also, I'd love to know how the presence on staff of someone whose job it is to relay concerns from PR agents to journalists from a separate publication "is just one means we have of ensuring editorial integrity on Moviefone".
This is important: We never told TechCrunch to change the post in any way.

Then to quote the letter:
I think their issue is just with some of the text. Let me know if you're able to take another look at it and make any edits.

That's a very PC way of saying change the post. They sounded like they expected compliance. They're expectations were wrong.
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I dunno. I read the tech crunch piece, and felt like Moviefone/AOL were in the wrong. Now that I've read Moviefone's response, the whole thing seems overblown.

They didn't threaten them with respect to future access. They didn't demand anything. They weren't rude or antagonizing. They just asked for a change. To me, it now seems like they did exactly what they ought to given how they probably felt.
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Uhhmmm... am I the only one that noticed that the sole example in the article of "programs gain overlapping features over time" is of Microsoft software ... which, like, has nothing to do with Unix? My unix/linux box doesn't have overlapping software. Every piece of software is a specialist and does what it does well. It is easily replaceable and does not interfere with other software installed on the box. The unix/linux philosophy works extremely well. That's why it's popular.
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I'm from Johnson originally but now living in Essex Jct.

Maybe it's time for a VT HN meetup :)
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Please explain. Does TC have a policy of not using language like that? It didn't surprise me to see it, although it would keep me from sending it to some people.

In my opinion, professional writing is crafting a good house stylebook and sticking to it. It's not necessary to write like a newspaper on the Internet, although I like that too.
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I am not 100% sure if that extension is totally blocking the Flash files. Last time I checked it, it was only applying a "display: none" with CSS, and some files slipped past it, making it ineffective against 0-day exploits.
string.indexOf() is O(n), whereas the object-property-lookup is O(1). I guess indexOf is fast enough anyway given the size of the dictionary.
I have found these books to be very influential in my thinking on web startups and building things in general:

1) Hackers & Painters - PG

2) Smart & Get Things Done - Joel Spolsky

3) Rework - Jason Fried

4) Getting Real - Jason Fried

5) Founders at Work - Jessica Livingston

6) Joel on Software - Joel Spolsky

These are by far some of my favorites.
You don't ask journalists to change their articles to make the subject look good. That's just NOT ok, even without the explicit threat.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Nobody has to lock their bikes?

I've had three bikes stolen since I first came here in 1998---one of them twice! The cops found one of my bikes a year and a half after it was stolen. Within six months it was stolen again!
Perhaps the US could put these felons in Guantanamo?
I'd be lying if I said I could explain the pattern, but I could offer my opinion as a Stumbler. When I Stumble, I'm often feeling a little ADD and won't even let your page fully load unless it catches my eye quickly. I'll stumble through 300 or 400 links in a day and maybe even ever see 50 of them. Note that 50/400 = 1/8 and that, if we assume 1 in 5 who actually see it sign up, we get 1/40. And 5/200 = 1/40.

Whether I'm typical enough for this to explain anything is unknown (though, unlikely (I assume most stumblers don't do 300-400 pages in a day, but if they similarly don't even bother with a page unless it captures their attention the same 1/8 ratio may apply)), but I imagine it at least partially explains the issue.
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50-minute talk on simplicity (simple meaning not compound) as a place to start (and a little bit on Clojure): http://clojure.blip.tv/file/4824610/
External libraries and function calls that encapsulate functionality are the equivalent concept in GUI land.

For example, it would totally suck to have to write the entire GUI for file selection, and nobody does it if they're smart - they just call a function, and get back a file handle or path.

The problem is programs that try to reinvent the wheel. How many file selectors have you seen that are "custom" in some way and thus break convention?
I think this is a coincidence. It would be quite an unethical service to let users search for possible domains and then steal them before we have a chance to register them because they identified it as being valuable.

That's not to say they don't register and own their own, but using your entries as a gauge to see if they want to register something is pretty unethical for a registrar I'd think, even for godaddy :).
It's about writing modules/extensions for an existing system.

Traditional Unix programs make your shell environment work better.

Adblock Plus, Perspectives, Tree Style Tab, etc, make my Iceweasel work better.

mod_rewrite, mod_php, etc, make Apache work better.

The "text streams" part is specific to Unix, because files and pipes are the defining feature of that environment. The other parts are probably universal across any extensible system.
It's not only people that are poor, but people that have a poor culture that loot. I can bet there were lots of poor people in Japan that didn't loot or steal from their neighbors.
It sounds like you are referring to Project Lambda, which has been pushed back to at least Java 8.

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/
I did feel a little sorry for the ants, but it's not as if they're endangered, or have any higher-level brain functions.
Yeah, but Denmark has a population of 5.5 million people and ample land for them and windmills.
If TechCrunch had altered their published opinion because they were pressured by their parent company or their subject, then yes, you could take that information and infer they compromised their journalistic integrity.

But that doesn't imply that you can take an instance of them not altering their opinion in the face of pressure and infer that they have integrity, because it's possible that they could do the exact same thing out of pure self-interest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent
You're taking an interesting position, advocating for less transparency. Is there a pressing reason why you think I shouldn't know about this?
You're describing a type system.
I'll play devil's advocate here (though I don't think this is actually what happened):

• TechCrunch knows that they're going to have to throw their readers and anti-AOL bone at some point. There had to be a post like this eventually; they hyped it and everyone expected it. If so this would be a really easy sacrifice to make on that alter. It's so removed from the core AOL that there's very little damage to be done. In fact, a few of these could cover up more serious editorial jiggering, which would probably be done through more discreet channels.

• The Streisand effect is working as a marketing tool. They just created dialog about several of their properties that I'd never heard of (The Source Code, Moviephone). There's nothing sufficiently damning here that I'd not use those services on that basis, thus, I suspect, this is a win-win scenario.
One more thing: Challenging/important tasks.

Some of this gets filed under "Growth Prospects", and some of it gets filed under "Autonomy". If your employees have challenging and/or meaningful things to work on, and an environment where they feel they'll be successful, that makes it quite a bit easier to stick around.

Not to say that grunt work is bad, but your employees who need a larger motivation than "It's my job" or "It's how I earn money" need to see how the work they do contributes to something larger than the stack of paperwork on their desk.
I will second railsforzombies.org, I really liked that one.

I would also recommend tryruby.org for a quick, interactive primer on the syntax.

In addition, #RubyOnRails is very active on freenode, so you can always come and ask questions.
Of course you're not going to rewrite Word by piping data around, for opening and saving and doing spell check.

Scripting languages are the next extension of unix - you take all those little programs that do something well, put them together with some control structure and you can do big things, often in an automated manner, which is difficult to do on a GUI.

That said, showing the GUI interface to someone and having them make selections is much more suited to other programming methods (MVC,etc.), often which can just run scripts on the back end.

The point of unix isn't having a bunch of programs that do different things - it's combining them like legos to do complex tasks via scripting.
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There is a direct link to mitnse.com from the MIT NSE main web page here:
http://web.mit.edu/nse/
I think it registers as creepy because the narrator is anthropomorphizing while we watch.

Although I agree that in the abstract I'm not bothered by it. I mean, we also kill mice in large numbers for science...
Read this before you watch the video: https://www.readability.com/articles/gsgv3e8z

It makes what you see a hundred times better.
Parsing ought to be easier
There's an experiment in Squeak to let plain Unix pipes intermingle with piping between Smalltalk/Squeak objects: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1914. Not sure if it could be generalized, or how usable it ends up being.

To quote from a random mailing list post (http://www.mail-archive.com/pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria...):

The syntax is a mashup of Smalltalk and unix shell conventions. The pipes are OS pipes where necessary to interact with external programs, or an object that minics OS pipe behavior if the "commands" being connected are Smalltalk expressions or command objects.
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One word : 'Individualism'

The article mentions UK floods, Chile and Haiti earthquakes, and Katrina. The UK, Chile, Haiti and US are all 'Individual at the Center' societies. By contrast, Japan is not so 'Individualist' a society.

You may have less looting in a place like Japan after a natural disaster of this scale. However, if there is ever say ... oh ... a recession, you will have 100,000,000 people standing around waiting for the authorities to 'fix it'. You will observe far fewer people launching startups for instance, than you would in similar recessionary environment in say ... Chile.

Just wanted to make sure everyone realized that 'it cuts both ways' as it were. All societies have strengths and weaknesses. In fact, as in this case, the strength of any society usually is its weakness.
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And there's no hope of doing anything against it because apparently the constitution doesn't apply in and around airports...
Dropbox is version control without commit messages or merging. That was fine before people started using it to collaborate, but if its going to be a collaborative platform its going to have to grow those features. Which would be wonderful.
I agree 100%. It's better to be silent and thought a fool, then to speak and remove all doubt.
"There are efficiencies you can gain by having a monoculture. Nobody has to lock their bikes, subways can have nice cloth seats and you can walk around in any neighborhood and be safe."

Bangladesh is 98% ethnic Bengali; you can read about their crime here http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1011.html#c... ("U.S. citizens should avoid walking alone after dark, carrying large sums of money, or wearing expensive jewelry").

Lesotho is 99.7 percent Basotho, with an intentional homicide rate seven times higher than the U.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...

Meanwhile, Singapore, split between large numbers of Chinese, Malays and Indians is one of the safest places in the world (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Singapore). Also safe is Switzerland, which is so ethnically diverse there are three official languages, each widely spoken within the country. (http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1034.html#c...) .
Bullshit. The MIT NSE department has a link to mitnse.com on their main webpage.
http://web.mit.edu/nse/
Funny easter egg: If you do db.unicorns.remove({}) after it asks you to list the collections, typing "db.unicorns.count()" will redirect you here: http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/wacky-edibles/e5a7/

(At least I think it's an easter egg, I didn't get all the way through. Maybe murdering unicorns is a normal part of the tutorial)
>This is typical MIT hubris.

I am getting tired of asking this, but which facts are wrong in the revised article?
Definitely true. I found that after a few weeks, I was waking up, stumbling out of bed, sitting in my chair, and taking a look at what was going on. After a few months, I realized that I felt awful every day, because I'd gone from bed to work without any break in between, and it was getting close to 4 PM before I was showering and having breakfast.

Enforcing an actual schedule on yourself makes a significant difference, and it's the only reason I managed to keep myself sane as long as I did.
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On the one hand, you're right (and I appreciate the response rather than the downvote!).

On the other hand...

I'm an amateur writer (I admit, this is far from a journalist). Sometimes I'm just wrong, or I write something that ends up coming across differently than I expected. I always welcome feedback, even if I disagree with it, or I think it might be driven by some bias. It doesn't mean that I'm going to change it. But without such feedback, I'm not sure I'd ever get better. I guess I'm worried that in your world, journalist would be living in an ivory tower.

This constantly happens. People submit editorials with their opinion about what others wrote. People write-in to journalist all the time - to agree or disagree.

A movie review isn't an objective piece of pure journalism. It's much more of a subjective editorial, and as such, should be open to far more feedback.
If you follow the "more information" link on Japan, you'll find that the high suicide rate is a recent thing that's happened since the Bubble burst.
I totally agree. A simple reply with the word "no" would have sufficed. If they push it, sure go public, but to make such a big issue of it at this point is just dis-respecting your employer (or owner, or whatever).
Agreed on your second point too... not surprising coming from TechCrunch.
I just read the article, and the one main point s/he makes that struck me is that in Japan, as opposed to Katrina, the citizens KNOW that they'll be looked after.

Comparing the situation to here in Australia where we had floods and hurricanes, it's the same: we know that the government will look after us.

So I agree with him/her. It's got nothing to do with culture/etc. Because if you take away all the efforts the government and international community are making, then I bet the situation in Japan would be totally different.
Am I the only guy who doesn't get it? What's the value add here? What problem is being solved?
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