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Speaking of living in the past:

The article from David Byrne a few days ago made the point that the music industry is a very recent invention in the history of music as a part of human culture, and that things have changed drastically over the last 100 years. The recording industry of the 20th century will be nothing but a (influential) blip on the radar in the history of music.

The music industry seems to think that they have some fundamental right to exist. I can't blame them for not wanting to admit that things are changing again and they are on the way out.
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Do you think that legal issues can be too big to be dealt with? Maybe once a good lawyer has prepared a template then all could use it, as with NDAs, Privacy Policy and so on.
As for practical issues, they are proportional to the amount paid to join. There are certainly ideas and start ups here I would be more than willing to invest 1000 U$ in.
Yes, it's a risk, but investing in start ups is risky, right?
Maybe those who couldn't get investors should not give up and give it try, there's always a way if you really believe in it.
I just wanted to point out a possible alternative which worked for me.
And I wouldn't want to see a "fund my startup" craze neither!
I have several clients using Magento and it's definitely the best e-commerce solution available right now. In the beginning there were a lot of performance issues, but most of those problems have been addressed now. I'm wondering what's going to happen with the free version of Magento. They don't mention anything about it.
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You can also learn the foreign language in question.
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generally people who say this haven't actually tried sid or "other distributions"
My only criticism of your analysis is that HTML5 and JS already are a .NET presentation layer.

I agree, this is sensationalist, factless and pointless reporting.

What's next? Is CSS4 going to replace the JVM?!?
They're machine might be a network, or similar small device without a cd/dvd drive.
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Help! Don't even know where to begin. I am a business person with a great idea and business plan. I know I need tech people but don't even know what questions to ask! I don't know what language(s) the project should be written in. In other words, I don't know enough to ask a prospect what they know! Where do I start? I don't even know anyone who writes code! I need a tech cofounder but don't even know where to begin.Some new matching sites seem great but I can't even properly define the skills I need. How can I learn what I need to get this venture started? Thanks so much!
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Well I thought it was a decent article with a sensational headline. I don't know any real .NET developers who are "enraged" nor does the article say this.
Hmm it is kind of interesting. You could probably infer a lot about current structures assuming they heavily reuse old ones, which is likely, come on its Sony, the last month or two has defined their track record there.
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This is so true. Doesn't mean the idea is not important, just that, like everything, there are compromises.
More generally, I find that an uncharacteristic proportion of blog entries are written from the perspective of "change the world" efforts. Not everything is like that. I agree with you njharman, most of the time, there are certain things, like the team, that you can't do a whole lot about. The real skill is getting the most out of those situations. If it is a true "change the world" effort then sure, before you join the project demand that everyone else be let go and you hire the team from scratch. <tongue in cheek>
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Wait, seriously? We're getting to the point of submitting decade-old programming languages (that i'd bet 99% of programmers on here are aware of) as news, without even some kind of news related to them!? Cmon, at least write up a short blog post or a tweet or something.
An important side lesson here is not to take common industry practices at face value. (In this case, it was the conventional wisdom that 'All coffee shops are expected to have baked goods, and they sell baked goods at a loss').

In any business, big or small, tech or otherwise, there are hundreds of strategic and tactical levers we can pull on a daily basis. Many of these levers we don't even realize exist, because we're so used to thinking of them as fixed in place.
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I have been waiting for something like this! I belong to so many different Basecamp accounts, I was losing track.
Isn't a secret...to some. If Groupon knew all potential investors would come to these same conclusions, why inflate the CSOI figures in the first place? They may believe that their marketing costs may not stay high once they've locked users into their e-mail list, but there is a growing influx of companies diluting the concentration of their daily deals such as LivingSocial, GiltCity, BuyWithMe, and countless other clones. Even Google Offers and Facebook Deals are entering the market with a huge network at their disposal. With this growing competition, Groupon is going to need to continue spending more on marketing well into the future in order to replace lost sales and a deteriorating retention rate. Their marketing costs are going to continue to be significant and, until they prove otherwise, they should report them as such.
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This was already presented yesterday:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2621844

The previously discussed article is the source for this one.

Neither article adds much information to the title. This one adds that the site was taken offline after being defaced for 12 hours, and that it's still offline 36 hours later.

Edit: Today's Sony breach is "Lulzsec Leaks Source Code of Sony Computer Entertainment Developer Network" here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2624760
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This happens in Europe aswell. I firmly believe that piracy is good for the Customer. It provides an alternative that the market can choose if it beats the Official Version. Just look at the second Matrix film. It was released at the same day and time globally, they would have lost lots of sales had there waited a few months. Piracy is giving customers the power to do something about idiotic anti-customer practices from the Content Industry.
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Would using parentheses (NOT(NOT IN...)) make a difference?
The idea that the development of software was less important (and less masculine), than the development of hardware persisted for many years and women continued to work as computer programmers.

This truly turns the swaggering myth of the Real Programmer on its head. The real programmer... is a girl?
If you are in the 10+ server league, you already are in that 1% where code efficiency and performance become more important than iteration speed or ease of development. In fact, it would be interesting to map where this transition occurs ;-)

And computers are cheap, regardless of how many you have. You say a datacenter with 50K servers is expensive, but imagine how bad would it be to maintain a building with 50K programmers...
Which, of course, is the whole point: property is an illusion with utility. For physical things like chairs, the concept 'makes sense.' What OP meant by invoking the universe was really to say that _people_ don't respect intellectual property.

And if you look closely, people don't respect physical property to an exact degree. We share, we borrow, we lend, we lease, we sometimes treat human work as property, we're generally just lazy with our accounting of ownership. Which, you know, is kinda cool.

Anyway, you use the word arbitrary as if the arbitrary nature of the line makes the line meaningless.
So to "warm the cache" you're basically going to have a list of files that need to be prefetched. Also, in case the network is offline, you need fallbacks for certain unavailable resources.

So why not have a standard mechanism for this that doesn't clutter the HTTP protocol?

There is a difference between Cache-Control and this offline-cache ... Cache-Control specifies an expiry date (that has to make sense even if you're permanently online, as in you can't put an expiry of 1 month if articles may be updated in far less than that), while the offline cache gets invalidated only when you update the manifest and thus provides an easier to deal with mechanism for the distribution of new versions.

I agree with the above comment that you can't really abstract offline away. Offline is offline. People may stay offline from a couple of hours to a whole month and your app has to still function in that period of time - think of Google Reader - personally I like having favorite articles copied locally when I'm going on vacation, but roaming costs are too much for my data plan and I'm definitely turning the net off. So the app has to cache these articles for an indefinite period, but it has to update as soon as I get online (preferably only things that got updated).
> the problem is that complex Indic languages are NOT a priority for either Gnome or KDE

I think you have the wrong attitude with regards to this matter. In an open source project, the priorities are what the developers (or the people paying them) are interested in. If Indians want things to be changed wrt localization support in FLOSS, then they must take the initiative to do it themselves.

Do you think it was easy for the Chinese to get ~50,000 characters into Unicode? It made the font tables absolutely enormous, and so UTF-8 is much more verbose than ASCII. But they knew they wanted Chinese language support, and they did the work to get it.

So if there is sufficient interest from sufficiently influential people, things can be done very easily in open source.
Okay, I'm kind of interested in finding out how bad the code really is now, but...
Not with as distributed as Sony is. Remember, Sony is not a single company. It is like a gazillion companies, divided by country and business type. Have you ever tried communicating across business units in a large, multi-national company? It is a nightmare.

I'm not excusing Sony: they screwed up big time. I'm simply saying that we can't infer that their security team (if it even exists) is incompetent.
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I agree 100%. I think it's rather silly that people are coming to that conclusion based on a couple of demos of tech that hasn't come out yet. Especially considering Microsoft has spent a decade driving .net adoption.
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I developed my answer there:

Are Perceptual Hashes an instance of Compressive Sensing ?
http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/2011/06/are-perceptual-hash...
Asking for permission and having updated browsers are mutually exclusive ideas. I'll gladly take the latter at the sacrifice of the former.
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Your piece nailed it. I'm not sympathetic to mmeadows' caveats. They ignore the fact that Agile (aka XP, Scrum) has sold itself as a Magic Bullet (per Brooks) for a long time. Big-A Agile proponents need to chose between big claims and plausible excuses -- they can't have both.
> To fix the conversion rates, John moved the "cash only" sign inside, and on top of that started accepting checks, foreign currency, and even the I.O.U's.

In my mind, this is the highlight of the article. If you carry out your business in a friendly and unique way you can win customers and do things that are very difficult to pull off otherwise.
I rarely see a movie more than once. If it's on iTunes or Amazon Video I can rent it for $3-4 (just like a video store, would you imagine that) and see it.

Buying it has two problems:

- I don't want to spend $15-20 on something I'll see only once.

- I want to see it now. A lot of my movie viewing is spontaneous (e.g., "I'm tired and don't want to do anything tonight... what good movies haven't I seen?"), and I'm not a hardcore enough movie buff to maintain a physical backlog of movies I need to see.

- Reselling is a pain. How? Craigslist? For one thing, I'm not sure what the demand is for random obscure DVDs on it, and secondly, that's more time I burn meeting up with a buyer just to get $5 on a DVD.

I will buy physical copies of things that I truly love and intend to see over and over again (e.g., the Band of Brothers box set, or the Firefly box set...)
Why are you using the same password across the web in the first place. Worst case at least have a tiered system.

High - These are high security risk, such as email accounts, and anything that can gain access to or control something that relates to it (domain names, server access, stuff like that).
Medium - Passwords that give you access to very specific systems that if someone gained access would ruin your day but won't allow them to do anything really bad (personal home file server, the password to your FTP, web forums where you have a trust based relationship with people)
Low - If it gets hacked, who cares. Won't make a bit of difference (throwaway accounts on forums, news sites, stuff like that).
Are we sure these are lessons we want to take? Forcing a user to pay with currency (let alone foreign) makes accounting harder, and renders their shop useless to compete with other shops that do have card readers for a very large percentage of people. Then he moved the cash only sign inside instead of realizing that customers want to pay with their cards and adapting to his customers' needs. Lastly, he decided on taking the easy, low-quality route with his baked goods. Is that really future proof? I don't think he's acquiring any new customers by reselling boxed donuts - and his margins are very low. Why is he getting into the competitive baked goods market in the first place? Why not partner with a local bakery that produces high quality food stuffs as a barter?
Maybe in terms of vulnerability, but certainly not in terms of importance.
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This.

It's horrible.
He called the "bubble" popping in 9-12 months. I have a very limited view of funding trends and wanted to see what you all have to say. The fact the he is calling a time window personally makes me have even less confidence in what he is saying.
Does HTML5 have an element that is similar to an scrollable editable grid, with column headers that don't scroll? I know a lot of people hate that UI idiom, but it's very common and as long as people like to use Excel, this idiom isn't going anywhere.

Doing grids are a breeze w/ .NET. I don't think "use jqgrid" is an acceptable solution here... I'm asking about native HTML, the stuff that everyone is bragging about.
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"agile vs. Agile" you mix the cases in this :-)
I wasn't "there" in 2001, but it seems to me that Agile (the proper noun) is nothing more or less than :

We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

Where do sprints and iterations fit into this?

I think way too much has been made from the Agile ideal. Many things try to codify Agile into practice, Iterations are great, but why timebox them? Is timeboxing an Agile pattern? Then does a process like Scrumban fail out of being Agile? Does this differentiation help us as practitioners?

IMHO: an Agile organization is one where all the members agree to the Agile Manifesto and use it to help guide their methodology and process selection and optimization.
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Missing certs in the chain are fixed, BTW. Thanks for pointing it out.

We tracked down a bug in config autogeneration, and are going to add paranoia to monitor for it in the future.
DVDs and music cds are still being sold for >0, and it's more than 10 years since Napster. These facts are inconsistent with your theory, so like a good scientist, your theory (that piracy will makes prices = 0) has been disproved
Remember that HN is a blatant ripoff of Reddit and was created because the founders of Reddit wouldn't give pg his own installation (this was before it was OSS). Even Reddit was a "rip off" of Slashdot. Just because it's a social news aggregater does not make it a rip off of hacker news.
Seeing as how Anon has moved up to hacktivism against third world dictatorships and other government agencies, I wonder if LulzSec is a splinter group.
Just to clarify, apple doesn't allow anyone to video stream the event live.
How could it be any more illegal than reading wikileaks?
It's mostly just "TODO: FIX ME" every 10 or so lines.
Yes, right about when Debian will finally update to Firefox 3.6.

I've never quite understood people who are running Debian on desktop...
In my opinion, we developers are trying too hard to come up with rules on project management, and it just doesn't work.

The reason agile works is because capable developers are given freedom to make good decisions based on the situation; and it fails when decisions are made by someone else -- be it incapable developers, sales person, management or even another capable developer who is not quite involved in the project.

Making up rules just gives a false sense of confidence to those "someone else".
Thank you for this - I had never heard it before. What struck me was how every successive new distribution method was first called piracy. What comes after the Internet?
Good point, clarified the title.
The cost of owning physical media is always underestimated (speaking as a person who ended up with a few thousand records, tapes, CDs, DVDs, etc): storage, maintenance and moving them if you should relocate to name a few. Re: selling them when you are done - it's not always so easy and if your purchase strategy includes "sell it when i am done with it" by default, you will end up losing quite a bit of money and time if you are more than a moderate consumer.
They both have brackets and colons. How much more similar can you get!

Joke aside, the first time that I coded in JavaScript I treated it as if it were a dynamically typed Java. Pain and suffering and confusion ensued.
I think I'm on record pretty well for not being anti-MS, but let me play devil's advocate and tell you what really is happening ;-)

I'm going to phrase everything as fact, although purely speculation (an old parlor game, if you will). I have no insider knowledge.

* On the server it will stay .NET. I'll grant you that.

* On the client MS only supports HTML for the tile UI. Launching any other apps opens it in the explorer shell.

* Why? Windows doesn't believe in .NET.

* Why did MS push .NET on the client as recently as a couple of week ago? Because MS is not a monolith. Windows wants IE to be the rendering engine for Windows, while the dev tools group is pushing SL.

* Sinofsky is winning the internal battle. He owns Windows and what Windows ships. VS/CLR can ship new versions of the CLR, but they can't control what Sinofsky/Windows does.

* Ballmer doesn't have the internal power to face off against Sinofsky, but he can throttle STB.

* Everyone thought Muglia got ousted because of Cloud. That was just a part of it. It was because he didn't get inline with the HTML message. He tried to cause a ruckus by getting the message out there, but was shutdown. Everyone in STB now knows to keep their mouth shut.

* Guthrie was told that he's a shining star, but stars won't shine coming from SL. Get over to Azure, and you're still on track for President.

* WP7 uses SL because IE wasn't ready. The SL team took this as their chance to make a big impact and show that SL was indispensible and desired. Good effort, but at the end didn't matter. It will still be replaced.

* MS has no problem killing presentation layers. They killed probably the most popular desktop layer of all time, VB6. They killed WinForms. They let MFC rot slowly with no replacement. WPF was never given much chance to live.

* MS is thinking that iOS took off with Objective-C. A more difficult langauge to learn and with no real dev base prior to 2008. Windows feels that HTML is easier to learn and already has millions of devs. If MS builds a great platform with lots of eyeballs, the devs will show up.
.Net developer here, and im not enraged but feel satisfied with these events . i allready use javascript/JSON extensively because it has better integration with windows/.net/browser than Silverlight. There is advantage for silverlight in performance I believe but that is slowly changing now. because of browser competition.

Silverlight could have bought me if it was integrated in browser by default like Javascript/HTML. That seemed like logical step but they didn't do it for some reason (if im not mistakeing)
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Another way would be to create a lot of captivating content, capturing their email addresses, and turn all those readers into the audience. So give them something they want to read first, then make them communicate w/ each other. Or make sure the social network you want to create has value even if there's NOONE else in it.

You can also troll around in related forums and just start personal relationships with people. Start your own curated newsletter.

I also would recommend scraping fake posts from forums rather than coming up with your own. Put fake usernames, etc. Otherwise it ain't gonna be scalable. I rather invest my time in marketing than creating fake discussions.
I know the high risk actors are there, my post was fueled by my continuing fascination of how low the barrier to entry to the low-risk category is, and how high the potential they have is.
This. Pyramid schemes are necessarily unsustainable, because everyone who gets involved is solely relying on a windfall for getting still more people involved, and while the world is overbreeding, it's not at the rate they need. As soon as you find end users who will see some kind of net value even after growth stops, you have something that can sustain itself indefinitely. At worst it could be a bubble of investment in training capacity, if they overshot the market size.
When are tech leaders going to clean up after themselves?
Interesting, but just like Jason's criticism of the startup genome project, I'd say optimize for what is most likely to lead to success. Do you need a co-founder? Yes, if you find a great one who adds value.

It's all about creating value.
you mean... "I doubt that Microsoft will Eclipse the future of .NET" (Erich Gamma lead on Eclipse dev team)
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Can you please give a non-scribd direct link to the embedded pdf?

Edit: Never mind, found it from an earlier post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2574323 [thanks to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2623292]
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Indeed, isn't that great! We read all these popular books on how to make startups better, while sometimes all we need to do is open our eyes and watch others.
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It's a patent application, not a patent. The difference is important.