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Ahh, so you are arguing what would happen if the free software movement were able to change copyright law to what they wish. I thought you were talking about the world as it is now, and not the way the FSF would like it to be.

With that in mind I think you can see how I interpreted your comment to mean that the legal expression of free software ideology embedded in the GPL, which depends on current strong copyright law, is at odds with capitalism. If that were the case then strong copyright is at odds with capitalism.

I personally can consider a set of laws in which distributed software must be distributed as free software. I agree that such would be a limitation of the sorts of economics decisions you can make. As such, I can agree that it would be against "certain capitalistic ideas."

However, since we (as a general culture) agree that Mr. Factory Owner may not employ child labor, may not have slaves, may not dump toxic wastes in the water system, must have a safe working environment, and so on, we are already at a point where we (as a culture) agree that "certain capitalistic ideas" are either morally toxic or at least subject to trajedy of the commons oversight.

Since we (as a culture) don't have, and don't want to have, a "purely capitalistic point of view", arguments grounded in that premise are at heart faulty.
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Ouch that's terrible. I guess there are always ways around things... I had always assumed you were protected.

I guess that, no matter how protected you think you in the eyes of the law, being a wage-earner is more of a risk it seems to be.
Legal contracts normally state "days" or "business days", and often then later specifically define these terms, e.g.

"Business Day means a day on which trading banks are open for business in London, United Kingdom excluding a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday."

This therefore leaves no room for doubt. A skipped day would not count as a day or business day.
The built-in UPS (battery) is nice.
Does your security software qualifies AV Test?
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Two from the last couple years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_%28robot%29

http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/eureqa

The Singularity Institute is working on making such a thing safe: http://singinst.org
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As a developer i don't see any particular reason for using exclusively macs for personal computing, a linux box/laptop should be good enough (never owned a mac).
But if someone really care about mobility, buying a mac (air?) could be a good idea (personally, i'm waiting for the next generation air, hoping for faster processors).
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Ever since its arrival, I ’ve been happily using Microsoft Security Essentials — and while one poor showing in a comparative test isn ’t going to drive me away, I ’ll admit I’m a little concerned. AV-Test GmbH has posted results from its first
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Here is a little more information:

https://estore.ti.com/MSP-WDS430BT2000D-Bluetooth-Wearable-W...
To be fair I pitched in batches over the 3 days. Started on Friday night. However, i must note that I don't think all the signups are because of the blogs. They did give some initial visits, but I also did invite alot of my own friends, and as you see, the site needs you to invite ppl to interact with. It's got virality built in it anyway.
> Technically, BitCoin is hardly scalable. As every participant needs to be aware of every transaction, that gives O(N^2) computational/storage cost, assuming N is participants and transactions~participants.

That's not true. The Bitcoin protocol defines a "simplified payment verification" method that does not require clients to store the full block chain.

The Bitcoin network does need a sufficient number of full clients to ensure that an attacker cannot get access to over 50% of the processing power in the network, but the number of full clients could be much lower than the number of simple clients.

If Bitcoin ever becomes a major economy, the full clients will be sitting in data centers with lots of bandwidth, and most people will use simple clients.
>The fact that it's stock has been in a holding pattern for a few years does not mean that it's future is bleak.

Their stock doesn't move because there's way too much of it out there. I've heard talk of considering it AAA.

>It may be true that they've come close to saturating their market but they still do what they do better than anyone else.

The leverage their market position better than most but I've worked there and I found the quality of the management there pretty appalling. In fact, usually when a manager from Walmart went somewhere else they did poorly. As if they only know how to win when they already have a massively dominant position in the market. The only one who knew how to actually get that position was Sam Walton.
Sorry I should have linked in my original comment, that's the page I was looking at to get the launch date and the extra SDK information. It's still very scarce, though.
hopefully your new company will be ok with using opensource components - so for sure read The Cathedral and the Bazaar by ESR
It's a nice quote, but is it necessarily true?
It would depend on which politician you have in your payroll or influence network. If don't have any, get ready for a slow, agonizing, unintelligible maze-like process through twisted Portuguese law, local authorities, government authorities, back to local authorities, different local authorities, back to central government, eventually a little showdown on the court, more laws, and finishing realizing you could have saved a lot of time (and money) and accomplish exactly the same by just ignoring any kind of regulation, and being prepared to pay the fines for doing it.

This is an exaggeration of course, but you're bound to experience this someway, one way or another. Everybody does, no matter what they're trying to do. As for what you specifically asked, I don't know. But I'd like to as much as you...
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Is capitalism the same as the free market?
I am very illiterate in C, but I am put off by singling out C as an unproductive language. C might not be the best language high-level tasks, but I know more than one person that is as least as productive in C as I am in several scripting languages. C is a cool and productive language to begin with if you are interested in the stuff C is good for.

I would very much prefer if that paragraph encouraged learning multiple languages early and comparing them. I had my first CS professor at the university do that with me: I learned ML, C and Java in the first 2 month of studies. I only understood half of it, but it already showed me one thing: languages are tools as everything else in the CS world. Different tasks, different tools.
I'll send you an email, I paid for an ad on Facebook then my account was blocked for making fraudulent activity, not sure what I did wrong because I used my Paypal account to pay for the ad.
This is the third time this post has popped up today - but interestingly I see that the previous two posts are no longer listed. So where are they going? Both (I am pretty sure) passed the 10 vote point that supposedly makes them secure from people improperly using the "flag" facility. I will watch with interest.

<edit> Turns out the first post of this link today scored 55 up-votes before being disappeared and the second 19 votes before meeting it's fate </edit>
Our current quasi-free markets already do have "assassination" contracts - your supermarket pays a slaughterhouse to assassinate cows. We also have slavery - horses are forced to labor for whatever amount of money their owners give them.

I'm not making a "meat is murder" argument. I'm just pointing out that pretty much any conceivable capitalist system defines cows and horses to be property, not people. One can envision a capitalist system which does the same for slaves and assassination victims.

I.e., by tweaking the definition of "person" or "market participant", you can get all sorts of odd results.

(That said, capitalist advocates have never made such arguments, as far as I'm aware. Most early supply&demand types were abolitionists, and the phrase "the dismal science" was coined by a pro-slavery advocate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dismal_science
)
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I don't think that's true at all. The original post was a cogent, if brief, explanation that about currency and the challenges for bitcoin. The last quote is most certainly meant to be sarcastic. He most certainly is trying to tweak people who are all worked up into a lather about bitcoin as a serious replacement for currencies. Just because he's provocative, doesn't make him a troll.

It appears a lot of HN readers like you took his comment too literally and killed the post. It's a shame because he makes some good points worthy of discussion. I'm not certain I agree with all of them, but there's certainly plenty of substance there. In contrast, this "rebuttal" adds little.
My 27" iMac has a DisplayPort input to use it as a "passive" screen.

Maybe something on the software side like AirDisplay (http://avatron.com/apps/air-display/) could be of some use to extend an old iMac lifetime as a screen.
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I think in practice it would work pretty similar to how it does now. Companies would set their own time guidelines (ie. "Most of us arrive between 2200 and 2300, but just make sure you're here by 2315 every day")

For scheduling meetings with people globally, you'd have to figure out the day/night cycle but I doubt it would be all that much different than it is now.

But! There would be no goofy daylight savings time differences and there would be no ambiguity ("Oops, I thought the meeting was at 1pm my time, not yours...").

Plus, all us programmers could sleep peacefully at night knowing that our time-based code would just work, instead of waking in a cold sweat wondering what will happen when a government across the globe decides to erase the existence of a day.
Yea seems like that would be the way to go.
If I want to ring a company in another country I would rather be able to make an educated guess that has a 99% chance of success, such as "they will be at work at 2pm in their timezone" than have to look up that company's guidelines..
Please don't make HN another reddit.
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Not really. I lived in the US for nearly three decades and I've been to most states and I can say you'd be hard pressed to find a city that didn't have dilapidated looking parts. I think it's the nature of it. When a business moves out they just leave the place as it is and it's up to the next renter to make their business look nice. In every place I've been in Europe that is reversed: putting the place back how you found it is the responsibility of the renter. That alone accounts for a big "ghost town" look when towns are going through hard times.
Generally the tiktok reviews have been: cool idea but you need to touch the watch to activate the screen which cripples it.

Metawatch promises always on with it's OLEDs so you can... know what the temperature is at the airport. Pretty sad 1/3 of their breakthrough products display is a waste of cycles weather widget.
Yes, I do plan to do that in a few weeks.
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Just the fact that we're so extremely closed now. It just has to swing back at some point.
It is difficult for me to fathom an environment where bitcoin is more attractive than gold or silver. At least outside of the alternate universe of PR that bitcoin proponents seem to live in.

Bitcoin claims to share the attributes of metals that make it different (ie. immutability, scarcity), but does so in a way that is impenetrable to the average person with the added flair of having do go through anonymous and shady middlemen to exchange bitcoin for an alternate currency in a highly volatile market.

So other than making the early bitcoin users who likely hold most bitcoin rich, what is the advantage of using it over other physical commodities whose use has been established for millennia?
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When Joel Sposky tweet this message - Don't get it. If you're a "Senior .NET Professional" why can't you figure out how to format plain text email? http://i.imgur.com/kAG5h.png - what does he mean?
"if you are aspiring to be a web developer, you’ll need atleast basic knowledge of linux."

No, you won't. There are thousands of enterprise level web development jobs that don't use Linux. And I say that knowing how to deploy web apps on Linux myself.

If you want to be a top level web developer, you'd better understand how to build apps in multiple languages, not just the one you learned when you were a teenager and it was free.
Not treating people as property is a distortion of the free market. If people aren't property, what incentive do companies have to invest in their education? Rich people would be much more likely to pay for the education of their slaves if they were assured of strong property rights over them. How can you properly price human capital if there isn't a free market in it?

Etc., etc. Free markets are amoral machines that discover price levels appropriate to supply and demand through transactions. They are not intrinsically good or bad; it is in the transactions that make them up that moral judgement comes in. But if the market is truly free, then there will be no limit on the kinds of transactions.
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Great news!!
I hope this will help investors trust spanish startups!!
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Harvard costs less. Ivy League tuition is not much different in price from state universities online offerings.
Slightly opinionated, but good post. My only objection is to the statement:
> Initially, screw the algorithms and data structures

If this is not the worst advice to a beginner, then I do not know what is.

What's so complicated about data structures like stacks, queues, linked lists, basic trees. What's so difficult about learning basic sorting, searching and traversal algorithms. I mean, if those are difficult for someone, probably they should not be programming. I know I would not hire such people.

If you learn the data structure and algorithms, it is possible when you need them you will know where to look and what to look for, even if you do not know the exact data structure or the algorithm you need. But if you do not have any idea of data structures or algorithms how will you know that you need them.

There is a reason they are called "The Basics"

Edit: Fixed a spelling.
There's a lot of disagreement over that word "voluntary", though. People who emphasize the "capitalism" part, as in anarcho-capitalists, tend to take a very loose view of what constitutes voluntary agreement, which is basically anything short of initiating actual physical violence, or perhaps direct threats like putting a gun to someone's head. Others, from the more left-leaning parts of voluntaryist circles, require a stronger definition of voluntary.

The standards of traditional western contract law for what counts as a voluntary agreement (i.e. not one entered into under coercion or duress) are somewhere in between.
I'm another one who uses such services for PRINTability. And one of my big sadness is that the author_line / date_line url_lines are often missing: a real nuisance on a piece of paper that gets discovered months (years?) later.

Note: readability only of late thought to start displaying URL at end of articles.

EDITs:

1) Meant to say I'm pleased to see you working on more flexible/powerful version than Readability (don't much like their latest approach of redirecting during reformatting).

2) You might want to try this sort of test-case - for which Readable only presents the first paragraph: http://boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/05/08/seni...
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Does anyone actually use Outlook's RSS features? I don't, but it seemed like that at least had potential to break into the mainstream.
Agree. It is good(and almost non-negotiable these days) to have knowledge of Linux but not a prerequisite for learning programming.

PS: Learn Linux. It's an important skill.
LinkedIn is worth 94,498,627 * $32 = $3B and the co-founder still owns 21%.

It had Q1 revenue $94M, Q1 net income $2M.
I upvoted you. This is an excellent story.
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Test automation is not the icing on the cake
I'll be there. Great timing! I'm leaving CPH next Thursday.
Here's what what said about the gold standard to differentiate from Bitcoin: "There was no choice in how one could pay, payments were made in a vacuum. All transactions had to be made in a currency backed by gold. That meant that any abuse of the Standard could affect the economy negatively and runs on banks were almost inevitable."

So what? People were and are always free to transact business in any way that they would like, but the coin of the realm that you are required to accept and pay taxes with is/was gold. That doesn't mean that I can't exchange a few bushels of wheat for a goat. Or some coupons for car washes for a sandwich. Or some bitcoin for a webhosting, or whatever you buy with bitcoin.

Bitcoin is only against capitalism in the sense that nobody is going to make a significant amount of money from it.
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You have line breaks and weird spacing all throughout the email - at least judging by the .png that you posted. It looks like you have copy-pasted the text from somewhere. Also, your grammar sucks - if your English isn't that good, at least have somebody proofread your email - you are applying for a job where English is the language that is to be used, and advertising that you don't speak English very well is hardly going to help you land a job...
True, but that's a problem of semantics which is not specific to the definition of capitalism. Whatever system you advocate, you'll have to define the terms you employ: "person", "market participant", "proletariat", "equality", etc.
Why do people feel the need to compete for karma?
It's not a competition.. if you find/have something of interest, share it, if not, go find something better to do..
I'm also quite interested to know on the analogue one if the hands are controllable from the microcontroller, and if so, how much - eg. can they just be made to tick forward one tick, or can they be spun wildly backwards and forwards to indicate interesting analogue quantities that are not the current time?
Destroying BitCoin provides you lots of value if you have a vested interest in some thing that BitCoin threatens the value of.
It is scary, and they will fire you. That scared me a lot. My first job was with the US Federal Government (I was a scientist at NIH) who had nicer terms, plus a reputation of not being able to fire egregiously bad employees.

But then I switched to the private sector and I have since seen that company fire lots of people quickly. To be fair, none of those fired quickly were H1B holders, and the US citizens who were fired were given very generous severance payments (this is a management consultancy that knows former employees are future customers).

My advice is to accept it, and then feel liberated by it. The same contract allowed me to leave my employer without feeling guilty, which is exactly what I did when I wanted to start my own company.

For me, the turning point was when I wanted to have a family. I just found the idea of being forced to leave the country when your employer does not want to sponsor you anymore too awful, especially as I had experienced it as a child when my father had a UK university do the same thing to him. We had 1 month to pack everything and leave the country.
Shared Nothing, finally java catches up with PHP ;)

As a serious note: our team is using Play! as well and liking it. We're hiring, btw, http://blog.getgush.com
Might be daring, but this isn't Fossil's first attempt at a watch with some kind of net connectivity. Remember Microsoft SPOT?

http://reviews.cnet.com/watches-and-wrist-devices/fossil-wri...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Personal_Objects_Technolo...
The email is badly formatted. There are many unnecessary paragraphs / line breaks in the middle of sentences. It looks unprofessional, and does not reflect well on the sender's technical abilities.

There are a number of other problems with the email, such as the ALL CAPS SUBJECT (which people hate) the fact that the sender has started an email with "Dear Sir/Madam" when they know the recipient's name (sir/madam is used when you don't know their name), and the coupling of Dear Sir/Madam with the signoff "Thanks", which is also incorrect. Also, why is the word "very" capitalised? And other such bizarre mistakes.

It just looks extremely unprofessional.
Cool, wish I could be there...
- Have weekly task lists.

- Work mostly during my "productive" hours (7am to 2pm)

- Always think: what needs to be done urgently and what are the babysteps to do that?
Except it isn't and we have more than one piece of toilet paper. China innovating doesn't hurt you. In fact it could help just like collaborating with the Russians helped our space program in the past.
Or worth about $30 per user, if you want to look at it like that.
Kevin Turner was the CEO of Sam's Club. CIO before that.
It gives less security, yes, but it also makes hiring much easier.
haha, and they'll all be based on frontend UI accessing RSS.