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Am I the only person who thinks this is a great way to teach your son about civil disobedience? It's clear this law, while well intended, isn't meant to cover this specific situation. I would argue this type of civil disobedience is the first step in getting the law changed (in this case, to something more reasonable, or requiring that parental consent be available and expedient).

It's important for children to understand that laws aren't written in stone and that if they dislike a law they can work to change it. Feeling helpless and acting helpless isn't in the best interest of anyone's child or our children's generation as a whole.
You don't have to be 13 to search Google as an anonymous visitor.. you'll notice that their TOS is at http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS under "accounts", if you don't make an account it's irrelevant - hence anyone can visit the Google homepage and search for something without being told that, by doing that, they are agreeing to anything.
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MS don’t deserve .NET developers who want to get better, because MS aims at developers who don’t want to get better. just developers who want to stay where they are and have a job until they die.

Coming from the Ruby community, this is a little surprising. I know everyone rags on Microsoft for being the man, but certainly they aim for more than the status quo, no?
Er, do you mean "thread" ??
When I read the first half of your post I first had to laugh because I thought it was ridiculously insulting and simplifying. However, reading the part about the waiter, I quickly realized that I made the exact same experiences on my Corfu vacation years ago. The best thing was this: Our hotel had free coffe till 4pm. We ordered coffee at 3:59 or something like that. The waitress starts making coffee, but stops all the sudden. Sais "it's 4pm, no more coffee" and pures the coffee powder back into the container. We were just speechless.
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The law isn't about using the internet, it's about creating accounts and profiles. The Khan Academy has had some trouble with this. Kids can watch the videos and do the exercises, but if they want to record their progress, they start walking a very fine line.
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This seems like it would cause more problems than it solves.

"It's 10:00 here in London. I need to call someone in New York, what time is it there?" "10:00, same as it is everywhere in the world." "So... is now a good time to call them?" "I have no idea."
Here's a direct link to the contest page: http://codebrawl.com/contests/rspec-formatters :)
We have 'european taxes' or 'federal taxes' here in EU

That should obviously be "We have no 'european taxes'..."
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I honestly can't right now but that doesn't mean there isn't anything beyond stories. Someone mentioned comics--and I think that would be a good idea, but I think the comic industry is past that. Motion comics basically do the exact same thing but in a much more fluid/better way.

Here's an example of a Motion comic (from 2009 too) from Marvel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAUAC0RzMis
Cool. You could also include jobs from the Hacker News-like site UseTheSource: http://jobs.usethesource.com/
Is Internet censorship out of control?
Cool - you're welcome.
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This isn’t really a book but rather lecture notes. That’s what students see as the lectures are being written on a tablet. Usually, what’s said is just as important as what’s written, so it’s not surprising that it may be hard to read if you go too fast.

I saw him do this a couple of years ago and it inspired me to try it myself. My handwriting isn’t nearly as good as his so I have to transcribe the lectures into TeX. Here’s Calc1 http://inperc.com/wiki/index.php?title=Calculus_1:_course, unfinished.
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Wave isn't dead, period. If you watch traffic sources while accessing Google+, you can see wave.google.com being called. The underlying tech has been incorporated, if only at an API level, in Google+.
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Interesting idea but to me it's definitely not the biggest missing feature.

What Google+ needs is reddit or HN-style commenting, maybe not with downvotes (for whatever reason they don't already have them, even though they're on YouTube comments) but at least parent-child style commenting. It's been shown all over the web that it's impossible to follow threads of comments when they're all treated the same, Facebook-style, and Google employees should definitely know better as many of them use these sites. I suggested it in the "Send Feedback" area and really hope it gets implemented as it would be a game-changer.
Just a suggestion, pretty sure it won't work, but has the author tried downloading the messages using IMAP or POP?

Other than that, it really does suck but it's not a quick or easy fix.
It's something you tell developers so they can go to sleep at night, but a lot of us don't actually have the economic freedom to do that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory
Of course it doesn't. It makes you a middle-class respectable person; being "good" is entirely up to you.

In some ways, my mentioning that stereotype is almost a strawman. But I included that line of thought because plenty of people believe actually are convinced that medicine is always more altruistic/people-centered than technology.
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Well, it definitely has better performance. Once you've saved your pdf at 300 dpi as a PNG and passed it through the Java app.

If I may say so :-)
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What's the use of paying taxes to a corrupt government that wastes your money and doesn't represent your interests? Tax evasion is symptom of deeper problems in this case, not a root cause.
answer this question? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tClHDEoje6Y&feature=playe... [ted talk]
Agreed, not much to look at here. I would also be interested in hearing why they decided to roll their own platform instead of using a PaaS, given the small team size.
Twitter Shifting More Code to JVM, Citing Performance and Encapsulation
What's great about it? I tried it and found that it didn't give me much in the way of organizing.
Nice work Jordi. Would be great to be able to filter by multiple keywords, e.g. ruby AND London.
SMS API - A simple PHP class
If you need to send SMS and you are deploying with PHP, this documentation will show you how you can integrate with Nexmo SMS API very easily.
Thanks for the advice. I am planning on integrating youtube/itunes for the songs,movies,comedians as relevant.

Can you explain what you mean by the #how breaking at twitter\n username? Do you mean when you enter a newline in the username bar?
Yeah it seems a little distanced from reality but in a way if that is motivating her to be better than I guess it's not a bad way to go about it. I mean as long as it doesn't make her action discriminatory why not act like the world is against you and you need to kick back.

I see a similar feeling in how most people here view their competitors.
> Whilst I appreciate the effort that people put into these things, I really don't like this sudden obsession of adding another layer of abstraction over everything.

This is one of the reasons I found Google's Go so refreshing, it actually removed layers of abstraction bypassing even libc while providing a clean and portable interface to write my programs. Instead of making the stack of abstractions even higher as for example Java does, they cut it to the root.
I think it's a horrible way to teach about civil disobedience.

The point of civil disobedience is to get the law changed. By quietly lying about your age, you're doing the opposite, you're making it harder to get the law changed. Civil disobedience is about adding friction to the system as an incentive to change the law. By doing something nobody can notice you're adding grease.

It's not civil disobedience if nobody notices what you're doing. It's not civil disobedience if you aren't inconveniencing people in power.

By lying about your age, you're breaking the law purely for selfish benefit, which is not the lesson a parent wants to teach a child.

Sacrificing himself by following the law, and spreading the story widely as the author and his son have done will do much more to get the law changed.
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To you, perhaps. Not to all. Which makes it not unambiguous.
That may be the idea, but in practice young children are just officially banned from everything because dealing with the law is too expensive and/or risky.
It is plain racist when you say "Modern greeks are ..." meaning "all", instead of "Many modern greeks are ...".

but i wont follow the conventional politically correct wisdom and say that your comment is rubbish because of that.
But isn't Google subject to American laws, being an American based company? I'm just asking, I don't have experience in these type of legal matters, but it seems to me that they are supposed to do that.
Thanks. Yea I guess it makes sense to leave the form in so one can easily get recommendations for the next thing. I'll incorporate this in.
Spain's public debt is not high by European standards. It is still less than the public debt levels of Britain, France and Germany.
I dealt with this recently. Emailed info@company.com and got a response from sales@company.com. Some time later, I emailed the same company at sales@company.com and got a response from sale2@company.com.

WTF?
It is not something unique to Greece - however it does seem to be a Balkan thing and it will take us all generations to get this train going. Like you said there are young willing educated people all over the place. However - the leeches also got their offspring, who are already being primed to take over and start the cycle anew.

Edit: When I said "people in the know" I meant Greek officials of all degrees, European officials, bankers and officials of economic institutions. The little man, deceived by demagouges could very well be oblivious to the situation.
I was expecting a rant, but it's an interesting perspective (though still a bit of a rant at the end).

I'm still pretty much stuck in .NET, though whenever I do have to get outside my comfort zone (which is often), I gain a new appreciation for the IDE, but I have to agree that the Ruby community does sound interesting, and has a lot of nice tools.

I'm still not convinced that I could do my job better on Ruby (enterprise software, non-web based), but I'll definitely give it a try for web development (as soon as I finish my MBA - I decided to follow the dark path of more money)
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Orwell would have called this situation getting "ungoogled".
That hasn't stopped taxes on CDs, DVDs and even external hardisks in many countries which supposedly then get redistributed to "creators" (ie., the record/film industry cartels).

So yea, it is pretty horrible, like most of the "intellectual property" system (just look at patents..).
Not exactly an innovation, but I would be happy if they let me merge my Buzz contacts. Just create a "Buzz" circle, move everybody there and kill Buzz.
I'm a .NET dev now looking at Ruby etc and honestly no I don't think MS do try to move beyond the status quo, or more correctly I guess Roy hit the nail on the head in that the advancement is often of the "new sharepoint 2013" variety rather than advancing practices or really useful functionality.

Some will argue things are more advanced now (ALT.NET, OSS, packagement in NuGet/OpenWrap) but I think Roy hits the nail on the head in terms of the speed of change in say Ruby/node.js communities as compared to .NET.
So I see you're from Poland, but Poland is not on Google's approved countries list for Google Checkout merchant accounts, according to this list: http://www.google.com/support/androidmarket/developer/bin/an...

How do you get paid? I see you're using ads in your apps, what network are you using?
This is a strawman, nobody is arguing that people should not be allowed to demand compensation for their work, authors and musicians were able to demand compensation no differently from anyone else before IP came around, the problem is the demand that they should be granted a monopoly and control over the physical property of others, that is what IP is.
Both.

Have you had a chance to try Isolator++ for unit testing (Windows and Linux) - http://www.typemock.com/isolatorpp-product-page
Continuing that line of logic -

Should < 13 year olds not be allowed to use 'general purpose' means of communication such as telephones or, god forbid, snail mail?
We're in Canada, have looked at Braintree and couldn't get a merchant account going either with them or their only partner for Canada. Turned around and looked at Beanstream for Merchant Account + Gateway, so far excellent service and product. Gateway not as neat as Braintree's Transparent Redirect but better than almost anything we've looked at.
I like Firefox's bookmark organizing, it's the only thing keeping me from switching to Chrome.

1. You can set up the browsers on all your machines to sync via Mozilla's servers. You bookmarks are local in your browser, but they're copy/synced across machines.

2. Firefox has unlimited tags per bookmark. It doesn't matter which bookmark folder you place a bookmark in, or move a bookmark to, the tags persist. I usually tag with one or two tags, sometimes three.

And then one addon makes it especially nice (for me), Add Bookmark Here(2) : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-bookmark-...

I like my bookmarks to default to the Unsorted folder, and FF doesn't seem to have a way to set that default. The ABH addon defaults to "the last folder that you saved a bookmark to," which is usually Unsorted in my case.
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I have been writing about it many times. I can not sell apps and all my income is from ads in free applications.
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What specifically was offensive? Is there a way someone could have been more polite?
If you deprive reasonably successful people of their jobs (and therefore self-respect, identity and lifestyle) - surely they would be bitter and revisionistic. The fact that you-ve tossed them a bone and they aren't starving won't help much.

Disgruntling teachers and workers would not get you much popularity. People would vote for anyone who is not responsible for that. You insisting that anyone who suffered was a putrid Stasi agent would certainly make matters worse.

If two Koreas one day would unite, this would be their second severe problem after economy.
Being fit is a worthy goal for everyone. However, I regret to report that the guys are not keeping their end of the bargain (myself included).

I think you will have more luck with the ladies if you don't expect them to be sexy robots, and likewise, they should not expect you to be the medical hologram, or Data.
Nice work. Could this also include openings from other websites?
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I think they should be marketing for "Go everywhere laptop".

Would you take your MBA to the beach? Hiking? Partying?

I don't. Too concerned about my $1000-device getting sandy, dropped, stolen or having drinks spilled over it.

$200-device? No-brainer. Could buy a new one every year and still be cheaper than the expected lifetime of a MBA.
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"why shouldn't they invest into new energy tech"

Because amount of attention that top management have is limited.

Google would be better off if they focus on their core products.

For example, Search.
And by the way I don't understand why you assume I support the invasion of sovereign country that is Libya and installing some puppet government there. Of course I don't.
While I understand your point, I find that a surprising number of people have issues with 12am vs. 12pm, often confusing the two. These same people tend to think midnight occurs at the end of the day.
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OK, hope my list helped. We are technology-neutral, and regularly hire (for example) C# or Python developers and teach them Java, so don't let unfamiliarity with any particular language stop you considering us.
That's pretty awesome, I wonder if it's rate limited at all?

I think they may have thought people might try this. Very cool though.
And not just for repeating events. I worked on an app that dealt with scheduling travel, and you needed to record the zone of both locales so that if a trip crossed time zones the trip length(which was derived) would remain accurate.

You also had to take into account what the DST would be for both locales at the scheduled time. Hint: Use Oracle, SQLServer doesn't have a way to stay updated with the constantly changing DST offsets worldwide..
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using object.format is perfectly ok regarding the rest. using headers might be more pure, but its not the biggest issue.

the biggest issue with the rest-wanna-be interfaces is their use of object ids instead of object uris. so that I have to construct my own urls to access stuff.

in a proper restful api you are NEVER supposed to construct your own url. you are supposed to get all the relevant ones from the service.

and this kind of api is actually much more user friendly and allows for much better discovery. you just get the single top api url which has references for all the available collections objects and operations right there in the result.
Yes, intellectual property is completely contrary to free markets and personal liberty, in its essence is a system of government-granted and government-enforced monopolies, and how anyone can think that is compatible with liberty economic or personal boggles the mind.
Why would you actually go with Rails compared to a smaller framework? If all they are serving is JSON wouldn't something like Sinatra be better? Less fancy stuff they probably don't use anyway?
Try imap for email from everywhere with http://roundcube.net/ for self-hosted webmail.
Your idea sounds a bit like Milton Friedman's negative income tax.
Good points you make and from this perspective it makes our approach a little short sighted and ill advised.

Having a contact form as well an email address may be a more reasonable default - I could have been pushing my own preference onto users and this is obviously no good.
Has anyone taken a look at Piazzza, the new blackboard type collaborative tool for college classes? I have a strong hunch they're using google wave.
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The iPod also fits in your pocket, exists in a much richer ecosystem and its specs come dangerously close to being the same. $30 for that level of miniaturization is a steal.
1. Chrome has that too.
2. Tags would just increase the amount of work I need to do in order to save a bookmark. In addition it's unlikely that I'll think of the same exact tag I specified originally. And if I do think of it, the tag was probably too generic and I could just aswell use overcrowded folders.

Chrome also has that Firefox addon functionality natively.
A scary thing is, if I signed up for Google+ and accidentally chose 2000 as my birth year, my Google account would have been locked. That includes Gmail, Google Apps, Google Code and probably Android. I guess making phone calls would still work, but who knows in a future when we all use IP telephony.
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It's really in case Facebook "screws them" -- in that scenario, nobody is tied to the Facebook login and can still access the site. Allowing them to Facebook Connect now lets them at least take advantage of viral "things" -- e.g. a wall post is posted when you sign up.
Great advice, but when you're a world-class player, incremental improvements is really all you can make. If you've been playing professional tennis for several years, and have consistently ranked in the top ten, you're not going to have huge breakthroughs or major tweaks to your game.

I don't think this particular lesson translates well to those who have yet to even reach their potential in whatever it is they do.
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There is no "I don't know what to do with my life"
So the government is not a legitimate democratic representative of its people? I didn't realize the colonels were still around. Give my regards to Papadopoulos.

On a more serious note, Greece is a wealthy (by world standards), educated, well-informed society. It is open to the world. It has open press, the internet, freedom of assembly. It has elections, and has replaced several governments when it wanted. It has a sophisticated intellectual class, which is perfectly capable of articulating ideas about social structure to the people. Can you tell me what more, exactly, does Greece need to become responsible for whatever is done on its behalf?

What you wrote in another message - "why pay taxes to a government that you feel doesn't represent you" - is the biggest thing that's wrong. You have to pay taxes because it's the law, and the government is the government, until you vote the next one in. If everyone evades taxes until the government does exactly as he wants, nobody will ever pay taxes.

Oh, and the Greeks are not "oppressed", economically or otherwise. You'd think they were being forced to toil in salt mines and fed gruel.
Open Sourcing my Clojure RPG project
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"just adding it to your stack" is the best conclusion that i have seen so far. Great article!
Google recently ran the "Dear Sophie" commercial. The core theme of the commercial is against Google's ToS.

TechCrunch article on the same along with Google's BS response: http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/09/attention-dear-sophie-inspi...
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Considering this rpc key parameter, I really wonder how long this is going to work and I'd say this is a bug on googles side that it even worked.

I checked their embed page (http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/) and I don't see that it requires any API key what so ever, so I assume this rpc_key thing is something private to the API and fetched as the button-JS communicates with the server.

These keys are probably issued with limited time validity, so possibly the script of the OP has already stopped working (I haven't tried yet).

We DO need a real API for this though - if we webmasters do Google a favor and add the plus one buttons, the least they could do is give us a means of finding out how many time the button has actually been used.

Otherwise, this is a bit one sided: We lend Google space, we do the work of adding the button, but we get nothing in return.
The world will never run out of oil because once we realize that we are running out of oil, we'll try to stop using oil.
>> it is signed rpg@lucid.com at the bottom...

And just under the title it reads "By Richard Gabriel".

But the post that the grandparent post links to is a different article by Gabriel. (It seems to be a summary with lots of links to things he's written on the theme.)