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Mainly because variable declarations are "backwards" in C. People try to read code left to right, but C declarations should be read right to left. Pile one things like the dual use of the static keyword, typedefs, and having multiple consts in a declaration figuring out the type of a variable can be a real chore. Dan Saks has a great article that hits on just the issues with const. http://dansaks.com/articles/1998-06%20Placing%20const%20in%2...
Huh? The difference between a crazy person and a sane person isn't necessarily what they say -- it's what the world is like.

>> The “Why would two auditors be working in the middle of the night? Of course it’s my account.” echos the things that they would say.

The difference between Hemingway and your friends is that Hemingway turned out to be right. The chance that someone paranoid would /randomly/ guess the truth about the world is /very, very/ low. That means his brain was probably working well.

Now, as for the question of how you should feel when you are tailed by the FBI for several years -- I think "paranoia" (read: taking steps to maintain personal privacy) isn't an absurd response
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>if you accept the premise that the author of a work is entitled to be remunerated for the production of said work

Then please elaborate why we should accept said premise. You just state it like it's an universal law of the universe. It isn't. No artisan (or actually, no one at all) is entitled to a successful business modell.

And by the way, the "problem" aren't the people who are unwilling to pay for anything (which I am sure you or someone else will cite sooner or later). It's the people expecting to make money with art. It's cool if you can. If you can't, then you're not entitled to laws or monopolies that protect your failed business modell.

>Are you prepared to argue that Ace did Tolkien no harm?

Why should it have? More people were able to read his beautiful works. Are you prepared to argue how that constitutes as harm in the first place?
That's because of the (visually) 'wrong' use of * (wrong in the sense that it's unintuitive). The key is that * is part of the type of the declaration, not of the variable; an int* is not an int. So

int *j = &i;

is more correctly expressed and easier to understand when written like

int* j = &i;

The only reason to put the * in front of the variable name is when declaring several pointers in one line. So the solution is to only use it that context, or not doing it at all.
hah, I thought of that episode also. Such a great show.
Unfortunately, because the hardware is new enough not to have any custom ROMs available, anyone who owns one of these phones is stuck on Android 2.3.3, and that rev of the OS happens to have a few kernel bugs that cause significant battery drain. Still no ETA on a 2.3.4 update for the phone, despite the fact that other phones have had it for weeks.

This and other examples of bad customer support from Samsung kind of dampen the appeal of the hardware. At this point, I'm not sure I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a new phone. It's particularly embarrassing that they shipped these devices even though the power drain issues should have been detected during QA.
> if you accept the premise that the author of a work is entitled to be remunerated for the production of said work

That is not the premise, that is the matter in question.

If it is simply assumed as the answer, nothing has been said.

As to the idea of harm here, it is not in the actions or materials themselves. It depends on assuming the particular law is the baseline, and then saying without that the person would be worse-off. That is effectively saying: people can make a living in a particular way because of the rule, and we have the rule because people can make a living in a particular way from it. This is a circular fallacy. It cannot be justified by itself.

Why is IP justified? -- as a rational argument, in terms more basic than the question itself . . . (having looked around a bit, there seems to be only one half-decent/plausible one: the standard economic one -- which is not really an ethical argument (and conspicuously lacks actual evidence anyway))
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It is still a ridiculously quick and awesome phone though!

I went from a Nokia 5800 XM to a SGS2 and the battery life isn't that bad.

I've had the phone last like 24h with decent usage (meaning it was one of the first days I had it).

Do you really expect to get more with a smart phone these days? I don't know how long the iphone 4 lasts but my friend that has one seems to be charging his every day.

Hardware-wise it's a great phone and in the future the updates will come :-)

I personally have no problems recommending this phone to anyone because regardless of it's issues it's still a very good phone.
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It should be slower than C program, although I haven't done formal benchmarks.
Thanks for posting that, it looks really interesting.
>And, if my reading of history is not mistaken

It is. Copyright is and always was designed for distributors, not authors. It's nothing more than a myth - or rather, industry propaganda - that copyright was invented by authors. Here's a nice round-up of the entire history of copyright:

http://questioncopyright.org/promise
> None of these are ethical problems if you accept the premise that the author of a work is entitled to be remunerated for the production of said work

How do you figure? The problems still exist; you've just decided to de-prioritize them compared to the remuneration entitlement you posit.

Consider this alternative: the author of a work is entitled to be remunerated for anything for which he or she arranges an agreement with someone to remunerate him or her. Period. This would mean it is up to the author to make arrangements for someone to pay him or her when he or she produces something and turns it over to the employer, and that it is then the employer's responsibility to figure out how to make a profit from it by similarly arranging an agreement with someone else (when speaking of a standard employment relationship for authors).

> Are you prepared to argue that Ace did Tolkien no harm?

You're missing the distinction between direct harm on one hand, and unexpected competition for a monopolized market on the other. From a certain perspective, the harm in the second case is not harm caused by the unexpected competitor, but rather harm caused by the monopolist's failure to account for competition in its business model.
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Not that it matters (it is, however, interesting), but the iPhone sold about eleven million times in 55 days during the last quarter. (They sold 18.65 million units in Q2 2011. That number also includes quite a lot of iPhone 3GS so it’s not really a fair comparison. Let’s say six million iPhone 4?)

Just to repeat myself: This is not in any way surprising or special. Android is on many different devices and there is no one definite Android device. Should there ever be one device that over a longer time outsells the iPhone Apple will be in deep, deep trouble if they want to retain their market share.
As a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, none of what this guy says rings true for me.

I'm here because I think California's climate for business is great. What I need is smart, well-educated, creative workers. I need reliable infrastructure. I need great universities. I need a broad-minded culture, so creative oddballs feel comfortable, and talent from overseas feels like they could make a life here.

Personally, I'm happy to pay taxes to support education, infrastructure, and a fair bit of regulation, because it directly benefits me and my business. As far as I'm concerned, This guy's whole anti-tax-means-patriotism stuff is just another way of saying "I Got Mine, Fuck You". And since affiliate marketing funds an awful lot of web spam, I am not going to shed too many tears about the end of his affiliate program.
This happened without even being launched in USA. I imagine it could've easily doubled up if it did.
The phone may be flagship now, but won't be in 12 months when I will still want it to work well given how expensive it is.

With a history of poor support and lack of updates across all vendors, I'm not buying any Android device until Cyanogen runs on it.

Samsung has apparently sent a Cyanogen developer a phone, but they are struggling: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=15000396&...
This is a great example of a common pattern with Jefferson:

He articulates a strong position of principle, offering arguments that none have successfully countered and that, frankly, I'm not sure anyone can reasonably counter. Next, he says ". . . but a couple of people I know disagree with this, so I'll just give in." It's maddening. It is as if MLK had finished his "I have a dream!" speech with the words ". . . but I guess if society regards black people as inferior, I'm probably wrong."
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See here for a list of wireframing/prototyping tool: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GuiPrototypingTools

plug: Try App Sketcher (http://www.appsketcher.com) if you need to show interactions in your prototype. App Sketcher creates prototypes in HTML/CSS/JS (no coding needed) that can run in any browser.
Yes however I can imagine it wasn't the solution they went to in the beginning. They continued to work with mysql and then implementing caching layers before getting to the point of needing another datastore.
heh, thanks. but I think I won't have time to work on that project in the near future :(
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I think it's an entirely different idea, with the same name.
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The artifacts produced from intellectual labor can often not be taken from an individual, but through copying potential income can. 'Intellectual property' is a concept invented by people to protect themselves against such loss of income.

Currently, most people who care cling to two extremes: one group sees intellectual property as physical property, and think 'theft' should be punished as physical property theft. The other group thinks that 'intellectual property' is imaginary, because the cost of copying is near-zero and copying does not take away information from the original owner.

Obviously, the first extreme is completely unacceptable. Suppose (for the sake of the argument) that someone invented a copier tomorrow that could copy any physical object. That would be a tremendous win for humanity. However, the 'intellectual property'-crowd would come in and insist that people pay nearly the same price for the copy as the original (as happens today with books, movies, and music). On the other hand, there should be some financial incentive to produce intellectual artifacts.
Thus video just gave me something to research for the next few days.
Interesting you chose the word 'deprived' instead of the more typical 'stole'. I think it's hard to justify stealing when only a copy was copied. So then 'deprived of income' in the sense of withheld income. Who is doing the withholding, and why do you think you're entitled to what they're withholding? And how much? (While the third party didn't have to write your work, they nevertheless would have to do a lot of work themselves to make a profit from it.)

Here's an economic quote but I don't remember the source: "Profit is not determined by how much value you create, it is determined by how much of that value you can capture." Edit: Ah, looks like it's an Eliezer quote not from an economics text.
In a way, it's not that surprising because we kind of expected it since it's such a great phone. But what is surprising though is that even with so many other Android alternatives out there, this Android phone alone manages to get pretty close to the numbers of a newly launched iPhone.

Many people don't realize that one of the reasons why the iPhone sells so much more than any single Android phone in general, is exactly because there is only one such phone every year. Imagine if Apple sold 10-20 different iPhone models every year. You could see why even though the total market share would probably rise a bit, any single iPhone model would sell a lot less than the current one-per-year models.

So yes the iPhone is great and Apple is a great company, too, but that's not the only reason the iPhone usually outsells any single Android device out there by a large margin. It's also because people can choose from a tens of different Android devices, too.
This cutted version feels like none of these persons said anything that is in the video, because the statements (or even words) are "out of context". I just can assume the author of the video has good intentions and did not change the context.
You could re-word the second sentence to:

"There’s something about open forums that encourages socially-inept jerks to deride people."

I'm into photography, I see the same behaviour on photography forums and mailing lists that you see on the open source lists and forums.

The three bullet points in the article can apply to just about any hobby, group activity etc.

1. Go to the right meetups.
2. Follow the right people.
3. Don’t let anyone cramp your style.

To these I would add, spend your time enjoying what you do.

Go take photos, go code some software, go build your app, instead of "listening" to the ranters :-) Be happy.
You're right, my terms are sloppy. Are there rigorous definitions, or does it vary between languages?.

I think of "lambda" as a language construct that creates closures. "anonymous functions" are of course just a simpler subset of closures.
Maybe it's just me, but email just feels way more formal and personal. I would have no qualms writing quick one-offs like "That was fun last night, we should do it again soon" on facebook, but I would never send an email like that.
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The author seems too optimistic in many occasions. Case in point: "You don’t need Quora, if you can ask detailed questions in G+ and share them with specific Circles, etc." doesn't really resonate with me. Many of these platforms(stackoverflow, metaoptimize, quora) rely on the expertise of strangers.
For those interested, Scheme is now Racket and there may be other changes brought on by time. The list is quite responsive with a very satisfactory STN ratio so use it as a resource as this looks like an interesting project. See: http://racket-lang.org/
Look up Jacob Appelbaum aka ioerror.
I really liked this. I doubt I would have had tie to watch the original, but yeah... it does rely heavily on the integrity of the editor.
I've seen many people say that if RIAA and MPAA keep trying to introduce new censorship laws like that, eventually the "camel's back will break", and people will demand a total overhaul of the copyright system, or perhaps completely eliminate it.

I tend to agree. The more they will push this, the more people will rise up and speak against it, and many people will start questioning if copyright should even exist in the first place. Through their aggressiveness on this issue, they will put the spotlight on it, and I don't think it will end up being in their favor.

I believe the people will eventually win this one, even if in the mean time they manage to introduce one or two more Internet censorship laws.

I like this TED video on this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q25-S7jzgs
Nanopond's instruction set is based on Brainfuck, and it's "evolvable" because it's very easy for self-replicating programs to be generated at random. Quines are a sizable percentage of the total program space.

The nanopond world is a 640x480 grid (edges wrap) where each cell has an energy, a genome, an ID, and a parent ID (a dead cell has an ID of zero). Each tick, a random cell's genome is executed. At various intervals, a random cell is selected and given a random genome and some energy.

The first four bits of a cell's genome is called the logo, and is skipped over during execution.

The virtual machine has an instruction pointer, a 4-bit register, an output buffer, a pointer, and a facing direction, which selects which adjacent cell it interacts with.

These are the 16 instructions, with associated pseudocode:

0 ZERO: register = pointer = facing = 0
> FWD: pointer++
< BACK: pointer--
+ INC: register++
- DEC: register--
g READG: register = genome[pointer]
G WRITEG: genome[pointer] = register
b READB: register = buffer[pointer]
B WRITEB: buffer[pointer] = register
[ LOOP: if register is nonzero jump forward to matching REP
] REP: if register is zero jump back to matching
t TURN: facing = register & 3
x XCHG: register = genome[instruction_pointer++]
k KILL: kill adjacent cell (set ID to 0)
s SHARE: equalize energy with adjacent cell
. STOP: end execution

Every instruction executed costs 1 energy. When a cell has zero energy, it is dead, though a SHARE command can revive it.

At the end of execution, the output buffer is written into the adjacent (facing) cell. This SHARE and KILL require permissions, which are basically whether the cell is dead or a random chance depending on how close the current register is close enough to logo. A failed SHARE or KILL costs extra energy.

Here's the most common genome in my simulation after 3 billion iterations:

#gtsg-[G>gB]kx0. (where # is the logo and can be any value)

Decomposed:
#gtsg-[G : turn in the direction given by the logo, share energy with the adjacent cell, decrement, and write that as the logo for the output genome. This has the effect of rotating the cell's direction by 90 degrees every execution.

[G>gB] : copy the genome into the output buffer. G[>gB] would be more efficient, but that's evolution is blind!

kx0. : Try to kill the cell the output is going into, to increase chances of successful replication. I'm unsure if x0 (loads a zero into the register) improves fitness.

After running for a bit, the core replication loop tends to be very stable-- much like how parts of ribosomes have been unchanged for 2 billion years. There are many ways to achieve low-level replication, but it's almost impossible to transition between them by gradual changes.
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The quote by John Perry Barlow:

"Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales."

leaves a lot to be desired. OK, so how do writers make their living? By giving live readings? I think not.
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It doesn't really get close to the launch numbers of the iPhone. (Pre-iPhone 4 launch numbers, sure, but the market as a whole is growing so quickly that those comparisons don't make sense at all.)
"In 1967, Ken [Thompson] applied for a patent ..."

Wow, he pioneered that, too...
The battery issues are, oddly enough, specifically regarding idle use - the phone fails to disable wifi when going to sleep and sometimes interrupt handlers that run while the phone is asleep cause it to wake up and peg a core at 100% utilization, killing the battery.

The phone's battery usage while not asleep is actually quite good! And if you disable WiFi, it's less likely you'll hit the bug. But it still happens to me a few times a day, so I have to charge it daily even if I'm not using it - and that's frustrating.
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Jacob Appelbaum (of the Tor project) has been detained multiple times at the US border already, and at least one time has had his electronic equipment taken away.

The wikipedia article about him has a section about it that should lead to some more sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum#Investigation_a...

Granted, he's not a "regular traveler", but then again, it shouldn't matter if you're famous or not.
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"They're too entrenched with no viable competitor, and who's going to try to 'take on' google? Where would you start?"

I disagree. All their products have serious competitors people can switch to anytime: Search - Bing; Mail - Yahoo; Docs - Office; Blogger - Wordpress; Android - WP7; Chrome - FF; the list goes on and on. Google is facing heavy competition on all fronts, and only time will tell if they can step up to their game. (See http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/03/google-six-front-war/ for further information). But I like Google's attitude of creating lots and lots of new products, without being concerned about who they compete with, as they really seem to shake up the industry for the better wherever they enter.

Lastly, your last paragraph about "How would we know if they did something we disagreed with?" sounds pretty paranoid to me. If Google screws up we're going to find out very quickly). Google doesn't control the internet. Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, traditional news etc. will make sure we'll find out about it, even if Google starts censoring their search results (which, admirably, they've completely refused to do in the past).
I'm not stating that the premise (that the author of a work is entitled to be remunerated for the production) is a universal law of the universe. In fact, I'm not even stating that I agree with the premise. I'm just pointing out that it is an unstated assumption in much of the discussion surrounding IP.

In other words, the account given of the "ethical problems of intellectual property" above is dependent upon one rejecting that premise, and that contrarily, those that accept the premise will find the "ethical objections" to be unpersuasive.

If one is prepared to argue (as you apparently are), that Tolkien had no moral right to the proceeds of the sale of his books, then indeed no harm has been done. If, on the other hand, you accept the premise I elaborated (and which Tolkien explicitly appealed to, in a famous statement), the harm is evident.