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I didn't notice one, care to specify?
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Keep at it & get down under. We like music too & we can't find it ;)
Interesting, but honestly - not that useful. Also very very hard to read. He writes very concise, and if you don't follow very carefully you'll get totally lost.

A hint: The functionality that he wants does not exist, so he's adding code to make it work.

What he's not doing is explaining some nuance of script tags.
I currently use Foobar to play my music library; the last.fm client to play custome radio streams from my friends, or based on my past listening habits, etc - and Songbird for mp3 blogs (I love the way it lists all mp3's on a page on the standard music library format, with easy download links), and to check the Songkick plugin. If songbird was lighter and snappier, it could take on all of the above functions for me. Hopefully as it nears 1.0, a lot of work'll go into optimisation and streamlining
Caring about equity is one of the defining qualities of the hacker.
Apparently we need some magic from here: http://daringfireball.net/2008/05/title_case

Specifically: The script assumes that words with capitalized letters other than the first character are already correctly capitalized. This means it will leave a word like “iTunes” alone, rather than mangling it into “ITunes” or, worse, “Itunes”.
Source wouldn't help that much. You'd need to implement it yourself for whatever image library you have anyway.

It's not that hard:

a: find the corner colors

b: find 2 of the most saturated common colors in the logo

c: calculate luminance of your chosen color, to pick black or white text

Defining 'common' in b is probably the hardest part.
I usually don't like to engage in the "this doesn't belong on HN" game, but the fact is that most of us who enjoy XKCD already read it, thanks to the magic of RSS or knowing what day of the week it is. So basically, if you like XKCD, this is old news, and if you don't, this is boring news. Summation: this doesn't belong on HN.
Look at it as a way to learn about what you're about to buy. Informed buyers are likely to get a better product for less money.
Developer Timesink: Name Paralysis
that US troop levels around the world have been significantly increasing

But that's simply not true; in 1969 the US had 2.4M service personnel, now it's 1.4M. 750,000 in East Asia then, how many now? The US has permanently withdrawn ground troops from Taiwan, for example.

What the figures show is that the military has been getting smaller and also that troop deployments have been getting smaller too (compare number of personnel in Vietnam then to number in Iraq today).
Yeah I know! I read this ages ago actually... I remember my jaw dropping at how cool this is. :D

I've been thinking of hacking up some code to figure out a "good" set of colours given an image. I'll let you know if I figure it out. :)
Well said.

Jack Sheridan's talk at startup school (http://omnisio.com/startupschool08/jack-sheridan, a good talk that's not a sales pitch) was an eye-opener for me -- I've become much more disciplined about simply documenting agreements.
Thanks for sorting out any ideological issues anyone might have in three sentences.
Or, of course, you could try to, you know, read a book about free markets, and then one on international financial regulations (I guarantee you the latter will be much longer and harder to read), and then try to put Paypal and libertarianism into the same box again.
Mousers vs. Keyboardists
Read "Godel Escher Bach - an Eternal Golden Braid"?
Wonderful book by a remarkably clever computer scientist attempting a (very tricky) definition of consciousness (or 'a system getting meaning when composed of meaningless parts', like your singular identity from a jumbled mass of 'selfish' neurones), with a view to explaining his thoughts on how to achieve strong AI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
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Very true...I recently took a hacker position at an early stage startup. We're working out of a converted warehouse in Cambridge Ma....Can't tell you how much of a difference an open, natural environment makes.
It's pretty good! I liked it :-)

Keep'em coming.
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Proxy issues with querystrings in path names
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Packets, schmackets. What about the apps?
The problem with SaaS is that the GPL offers me no rights in that instance because they aren't distributing and the GPL only comes into effect when a copy is distributed. Whether or not you believe in free software, you can see how the effectiveness of the GPL to fend off close-sourcing is diminished by SaaS. Anyone can take GPL-licensed software, modify it and offer it as SaaS without opening up that changed code.
Selling to large enterprises costs big dollars no matter how frictionless your sale is
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you get to ask to see the financials each quarter. you are minimising back-end pain by getting information 'installments'. if they don't give you the first quarter's results, you know somethings fishy and wcs you only blow 3-6 months of your life. knowing when to quit/walk is also a valuable skill.
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Except that by posting it we get to discuss Godel and Russell's paradox.
We had a recent discussion about this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150077
And I thought educating users would be easy when the users are ASTRONAUTS. Even with Windows, avoiding virii is as simple as using FF, not opening drive-by downloads/attachements, not downloading cracks etc. More than a technical solution, it's user education that could solve this.
why? do you think there's something wrong with me?
Black and white statements such as this are almost always wrong. While I would never trust a non-lawyer's legal advice over a lawyer's legal advice, there could certainly exist a person in the world whom I trust more than any given lawyer, that also has an experience pertinent to my situation. You'd be foolish to bypass that person's opinion. Just take it with the knowledge that that person isn't a lawyer.
Whilst I agree with Matt's advice, I disagree that the law is not logical. It is fundamentally logical and shares many of the ideas found in logic: evidence, probability, relevance, reasonableness, precedent, presumption, proof, explanation, plausability, etc. That legal outcomes are not always considered reasonable may be due more to the fallibility of a judge, jury, expert or process. Further, drafting a legal document and programming are not that disimilar.
This article seems like a big bubble of hype without much substance. Skip.
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If you were going to ask shady questions and worried about looking suspicious, a lawyer would at least be professionally bound to keep your inquiries confidential, your friend isn't.
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Problem: can lawyers be trusted? They can easily tell me that I need to spend infinite amount of money on them. I might spend all my money on lawyers without ever getting any product off the ground.

I see how much money is wasted on IT consultants, why should it be different with lawyers? Except with IT consultants I can tell when shit is happening, with lawyers I can't.
Russel
::patiently waits for "hole in the Internet" to become a 4chan meme::
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> Black and white statements such as this are almost always wrong.

Good thing you included the word "almost"... :~)
Which are the "every Linux application known to man" that could be offered as SaaS and get someone to pay for it? I can think of none.
I can't seem to get this thing to figure out where I'm actually looking. Isn't that the point of "eye-tracking"? It is pretty good at figuring out where my eyes are located on my face, but that isn't very valuable information.

Has anyone else had any success?
Congratulations, you've just understood Google's business model.
youtube founders managed to exploit a law for their growth and they werent lawyers.

almost certainly they must have asked for professional opinion, but equally certainly if they weren't sufficiently aware of the legal knowledge required they probably wouldn't have exploit it.
I can, without hesitation, proclaim that eating children is categorically wrong.
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Like anyone else, when I read the title of this post, I guessed what the rule was before I reached it.

My guess for the one inviolable rule was, "Have enough cash to pay your bills each month or die."

Could there possibly be two inviolable rules?
Ubiquity: linguistic command-line , Trusting Functionality
I wish he would have taken a picture of all the In N Out Burger food we brought.
Why are people so silly to code and do most of the work on an application in exchange for a small equity chunk?

When starting out the business or marketing types don't bring much value unless they actually have $ to pump into the start up.
Ubiquity:  Trusting Functionality vs. chrome privileges
in our culture. in others not..
Probably. Just look at the "futuristic" building materials of the 40's and 50's (before which everything was basically brick and wood). They look hideous now but people raved for them because of the novelty. But brick/timber is likely to remain scarce and popular because it's uneconomical to build now so there won't be a glut again.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/shmance/2251201415/
Software Engineering 101 - assume all your users are idiots.
Your original statement would apply to itself if it didn't have the word "almost".
Thanks, Hank, for bringing up a very important topic that we don't talk about enough.

Interestingly, of all the things that retard adoption of new technologies, I think that the mouse is still the biggest one.

I have customers with call centers and power users still on green screens and command lines. The switch to GUI has always been too expensive. When you have 4000 users, the cost of average call times going from 2 to 4 minutes adds up quickly.

Make no mistake about it, for repetitve tasks, the keyboard is always faster than the mouse. "Alt" and "Ctrl" commands are cool and geeky, but like Hank says, who can remember them all?

We need web apps with intuitive keyboard interfaces. Fkeys (they're on every keyboard) and single letter commands are easily adoptable. (Oh, you mean "C" brings up the Customer record, cool.)

The ability to do this is as old as javascript. Once we developers take the GUI pain away from the power users, the big migrations can continue.
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There is no more relevant Hacker News than material relating to sexual fetishes. PG, you might want to rename the site "Sexual Fetish News" just to make that clear.

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I found this comment pretty odd. We HAVE to bootstrap/do consulting just to GET STARTED already! Doing consulting gigs requires us to stay current and in the loop and helps us learn to deal with customers. Staying in the corporate world didn't grant the flexibility we needed. But, yes, client work can be very distracting and takes up a lot of time. But hey, we have to SURVIVE.
and our species... I eat (potential) baby chickens for breakfast almost every day.
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If this gets to be a problem I imagine people will just go with the affero gpl. GPLv3 and AGPLv3 are mutually compatible.

I remember reading some Eben Moglen & i think he mentioned that they didn't hardcode this into GPLv3 because the rights of someone using an ATM are (should be?) different from those of someone owning the machine with the code.
Huh? There are tons of operational security measures in place to protect BGP peering sessions. ISPs filter TCP to their routers. BGP itself has been aggressively filtered at the AS/prefix level since the mid 90's. If there's no new vulnerability here, how are they choosing arbitrary prefixes to redirect?

If all they're saying is that Verizon can inject arbitrary prefixes into BGP, what's the news there? That's how routing works today. The NSA isn't capturing everyone's traffic in a room in San Francisco --- AT&T is. The NSA is just a customer. Didn't we already assume telcos could do this? Presumably, it's the rule of law that protects us from this attack, not a new PKI.
The same thing happened at McDonald's many years ago. You had 2 kinds of people in the building: 1 manager and 38 teenagers. We had to figure out how to get things done with or without the manager. The more knowledgeable (senior) employees gradually became de-facto supervisors. Eventually, the company gave them the title "swing manager" and a little raise for the job they were already doing.

I suspect Joel's new middle managers were already well positioned for their new jobs, probably doing them already. The recognition and extra $ are always a nice touch.

(Any resemblence between the way McDonald's is run today and when I was a teenager is purely coincidental.)
When I see arguments like this, I can't help but think that the thought process is akin to: "I don't get into car accidents, so I shouldn't have to wear a seat belt."
Think hard about that one. Do people really want it? What's the percentage of ipods with engraving vs the percentage without? How much of a priority is this? If it's not there, will people miss it?
Fine, construct some hypothetical edge case "There *could exist..." and then try to apply some reduction ad absurdum to conclude that Matt's advice is wrong.

Only, Matt's advice is correct. You should not ask for legal advice on HN, even if it is possible that in one of the many parallel universes there exists an entity you trust more than a lawyer.
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You know the expression "security theatre"? My cynical experience is that the part of the legal system that concerns evidence, probability, relevance, reasonableness, precedent, presumption, proof, explanation, plausability, etc is reason theatre.

Although the decision may not always go to the side with the deepest pockets and the most theatrically convincing lawyers, that's the way to bet.
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Summarizing many of the comments and the linked post, it seems the only good legal question to ask on HN is "how can I find a lawyer I can trust?"
> I can, without hesitation, proclaim that eating children is categorically wrong.

You are captain of a cruise liner full of children. The ship is boarded by pirates. These pirates are utterly evil and utterly truthful. They demand that either you eat one child, who happens to be about to die of a congenital heart defect, or they will blow up the ship and kill hundreds of children.

What do you do?
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Keyboards aren't just about memory, they are a lot slower then the mouse if you don't have almost instinctive muscle memory. If you have to think what the key combo is, use the mouse.

Every so often I'll start thinking that maybe a keyboard + mouse combo is the fastest most efficient way to go... on Windows.

And then I see a windows developer for whom the keyboard has become an extension of his hands and he never touches the mouse. It's crushing to see that kind of speed and power.

The speed and efficiency of the keyboard isn't just a lot faster, it is so much faster that it changes the way you work.

But it's hard to get there, you have to find the commands, practice them, practice, practice, and all the while it would be easier to just reach for the mouse.

And yet I've made it a goal of mine to always get better at using the keyboard. A little bit a time, I figure I'll have no need for a mouse when I'm 80 or so.
Ah, once again a couple of sentences with actual numbers tells the story far better than a fancy visualisation.

And yes, the fact that a half-million-man army deployed to South Vietnam looks, on the map, less significant than twenty embassy guards deployed to China is a problem.
Smart of you to notice. Time travel.
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my point was exactly the opposite. That although you may be aware of the law and aid your thinking is good to take professional legal advice..
It's really experience that matters here.

Lawyers go through a lot of schooling to learn how to examine your situation and come up with the right answer

I guess that's relative. As far as graduate programs go, the law degree isn't really that long. They have probably haven't had many specialized courses; their expertise will come from experience.

Often, the work that's done in their office is done by someone without much training at all. You learn about business entities and how to form them in a sophomore undergraduate class.

But while the law can be hacked, it is rather complicated. Whether or not the person you asked had an understanding of precedents in your particular area would be a key factor in getting a quality response.
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There are some absolutes in the world which cannot be bypassed by cultural mores.

Eating a child is wrong regardless of how one would justify it.
Dude, you have a wild imagination.
Hmmm, I agree with felixc, but you Mr. ars make a good point. Perhaps when submitting the comic it should come with a title in no way obviously related to web comics?

Something that would not interest the digg crowd. Then we get to discuss Godel and Russell, and people like me and felixc feel less need to complain.
I concede that HN is not the place to solicit legal advice. The level of trust that I was referring to most likely does not exist between users of this site.

Nonetheless, I believe it is incorrect to state that one would be putting one's self in harms way by discussing legal matters with a non-lawyer, as the article implies.

Here's an example: My neighbor has a large tree bordering my yard, from which a branch is hanging over the fence and interfering with my shit. Is it legal for me to chop the branch? Maybe in some jurisdictions, but who knows? Should I call a lawyer right away? Let me see what my wife thinks.

Me: "Hey honey, what should I do about this branch? Should I call a lawyer?"

Honey: "A lawyer?!?!? For God's sake why would you do that? That's just Ethel's tree. Just cut the damn thing down."

-- or --

"Umm, Johnny Cochrane, Jr. lives there. Call five lawyers."
The audience does not ask legal questions related to marriage or asset management or mortgage. Their questions are startup related and they know a few entrepreneurs have already been through a similar situation and it makes sense to ask, but one should always consult a lawyer before making their final decision.

If you go to parenting site they ask questions about the best schools and those who answer are not teachers. Visit teenagers sites and you will see a lot of questions from young girls who are very confused with their bodies and want medical advices, those who answer are not doctors.
Probably he just wanted to get it done in 12 hours.
The real problem with keyboarding is the TERRIBLE lack of consistency. Apart from a very few commands, most applications seem to just randomly select keyboard letters to map to tasks based on the first letter of the english word. When I switch to a german keyboard, the key stroke commands change again! I use my apple, and things are different again.

It does not work. A UI has to be consistent, and keyboard commands are extremely inconsistent. Look at the vim style commands and compare them to the windows style commands.

And another problem with keyboard commands is that there is no hint. How many people have gotten stuck in vim because the interface is not acting as expected?

Using a gui to shut down an App, I look for an X and press it. Using a keyboard, it could be ctrl+q, ctrl+c, ESC, :q!, Alt+F4, Alt+B (German Systems), Alt+Q (English Systems) or exit().

It's TERRIBLE user interface design to have so many different ways of performing the same action on the same operating system.

F1 works because it's always Help. The arrow keys work because they always mean the same thing. That's how keystroke commands should work: One combination, one meaning - all the time and everywhere! So when you learn that stuff, you know it.

I don't want to invest my time in learning app specific shortcuts for applications that I don't use that often. And that are liable to change anytime.

The state of keyboard control of software is broken, and has been broken for a long time.

My suggestion for the fix - an OLED keyboard that switches to "command mode" when a button is pressed. So the commands are always in the same position with all apps, all layouts, all languages and stay consistent.
Poor weebly. But being used for spam means you are recognized. So congratz ;)
Ha. Thanks for pointing that out. Perhaps I instinctively avoid blanket generalizations so as to avoid the criticism that I am currently unleashing on this article.