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>"prior art."

#$%^@#*&$%&@#^$ I hate that term when referring to code. Code is not art. Code is science. In a given language, there might only be one way that makes sense to do something. Software patents are awful.
I love this. LOVE it!
Some patent must die, but I am not sure defining it as software is going to help. I get the feeling the goal should be all "business process" patents. Not mechanical or chemical, but the the patenting of procedures. I think that would take care of this stupidity. I worry that saying software will allow another open avenue.
> Unfortunately, the real evil is rooted in a system that measures excellence based on publishing records and not scientific impact

Can you clarify this a bit? How do you get to have impact without first publishing it somewhere (at least mildly reputable) and having other people actually read it/review it/run with it?
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>Whoever, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation

I don't think this qualifies.
There's also the fact that tech geeks compulsively analyze systems.

If your insufficient, stagnant incentive/communication/empowerment systems are all out of whack it's going to be extremely demoralizing to the people who see them for what they are.
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... Which he'd not bothered to read. Now ask, would you want to work for a manager who prefers preconceived notions to actually seeing what people produce?
While the lawsuits are stupid, that is not a reason to avoid development.

Do not let the bad guys win.
Even though I agree with most of this list, I still can't help but feel a little put-off by all the geek-this and geek-that speak.
There seemed to be a basic point that "geeks" usually have a low tolerance for the stereotypical business world and speak. Cheap awards, cheap prizes, pointless meetings, the word "synergy"? No thanks.
I'm not suggesting how you feel comfortable writing code. Like I said, if you just prefer it because it's less verbose, that's fine. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But that doesn't mean you can't accomplish the same thing with Java or that verbosity has a long tail impact on productivity. At some inflection point in just about every project, you stop mashing the keyboard and focus on the non-typing aspects of the codebase.
That's a much better takeaway. I got stuck on the amounts of money for which AOL bought and sold Bebo.
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GDP per capita should be quite easy to relate to for most people.
> Elegant code is written by good programmers—not the language.

But some languages make writing elegant code easier than others (compare C to Python, for example).
Likewise curious. Seems like that should be addressed in the README.
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been used in many-a-obfuscate-a-bug-contests for what happens when x == y.
>"I think they must be getting value for money."

That, or they're just locked into an Oracle product that Oracle can change the price on whenever it wants. Ever try migrating Oracle Database <-> anything else? They have most customers over a barrel.
Or any type of currency.
To be fair, it's completely non-obvious, and innovative.

Mostly because nobody in their right mind would consider that many steps to be a good thing, but still...
Police confirms that there are several dead.

http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23osloexpl
As the last Space Shuttle flight flew, I remembered this essay as well. I never saw a launch live, unfortunately. But 14 years later, this writing has stuck with me. Others have also written about the experience, but none (that I've seen) is quite as vivid. Unsolicited but related trivia: in Jay Barbree's "Live from Cape Canaveral", he mentions that the SS blast offs were more impressive than the Saturn V, which I found surprising, since the Saturn V could lift more.
Yeah... A lot of Java apps are really just runtimes for the actual app, which is written in a one-off language wrapped in XML tags.
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Ideally, a consortium of Apple+Microsoft+Nokia+Google+HTC+Samsung would buy out Lodsys to silence it.

The price would be in the 9 figures though.

However, if only Apple bought out Lodsys, would it go after Google with its new weapons?
The carriers are a bunch of bitches and they won't let a manufacturer simply sell a phone without jumping through a thousand hoops.

Rigorous network testing is a good thing, but they won't stop until the phone has a silly name (Spring Within!) a silly new plastic skin and a load of crapware on the phone.
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And British English used to use different conventions from American English, too.
Unreal. An entire block has exploded Huge explosion rocks Oslo, Norway
> Observer, the Adapter, or the Visitor

It depends on the programming language one uses, really. You won't find many references to these patterns on Python's mailing list (or at least I didn't when I was new to the language and used to spend a lot of time there, ~6-7 years ago). Also, when I've tried to learn Lisp or Erlang I didn't find any mentions to such particular patterns (or maybe only in passing), the focus was on something else. And I'm sure there are a lot of other languages outhere who don't bother with patterns.
We don't know right now. Someone is cheating.
I didn't mean "right" as in "this person is more correct than others", I meant "compatible".
We seem to have a rather short institutional memory. It wasn't that long ago (Java's only as old as Ruby) that Java was new and hailed as a savior from C++ and C. Java was widely seen as a great language, or at least a language that presented a great improvement over the existing mainstream languages. It gave GC to the masses for the first time. It delivered standard-sized primitives, an (almost) everything's-an-object design, a cross-platform runtime, JIT compilation, and a host of other improvements to mainstream programmers for the first time. Java has a lot of issues, but in the grand scheme of things, it's a pretty good language.

Stroustrup was dead on: "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." The more popular a language is, the more people will complain about it. (And the more people will build crappy software around it.)
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Based on the behavior of my carrier, it has just been to clear out the inventory of the earlier model in the United States before launching the new model.
Even worse in my mind is that this supposed incentive to creativity is destroying our culture. A parent at my daughter's school wanted to video a school performance and then distribute copies for the cost of duplicating them. He is a lawyer so he looked into what he would need to do to be above board with regard to copyrights of the songs. To make a long story short - it is not possible - he would need to negotiate a deal with each copyright holder. This problem is blocking other people also:
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/wkrp-and-stupid-copyright-l...
No, everything is passed by value, it just happens that objects live in a reference model.
Pythonbrew installs multiple versions of python and manages your path so you can switch which ones are active. I have only played around with it a bit, but the combination of Pythonbrew and Virtualenv should be approximately the same as rvm for ruby.
I would have liked to see some mention of configuration management software, e.g puppet, but it seems reasonable.
As is pointed out in other comments, Rovio is subject to the laws of the markets in which it is selling products. So, if they don't want to deal with this lawsuit, they can simply remove their products from the US market (doesn't sound like a good idea to me).
23 pics:

http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/norge/1.7722919
But he had an employee's permission.
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... except that if it scuppers a life-saving innovation, it will thereby cost lives.
Norway. They have a net debt of around -150% of GDP, i.e. they _owe_ money.
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>It doesn’t really require much more explaining than this

Ugh...actually it does: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/25593
Alternate title: "How long it took Google+ to reach 1.3% of the number of Facebook users"
Explosion in central Oslo
Pictures:
https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23oslo/grid/photos
Volvo has similarly come out with a pedestrian detection/braking system (http://www.boston.com/cars/newsandreviews/overdrive/2010/07/...) and Volkswagen has been showing off a self-driving car (http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1062073_volkswagen-shows-...) in addition to the Google Car. Cars are going toward driving themselves. The Google car is impressive, but it will likely be a while before people become comfortable with the concept and for the cost to come down. Mainstream auto manufacturers are inching their way toward these features (mostly on their more expensive models), but I keep hearing people say, "well, what if it stops me when I can go forward."

I think manufacturers are trying to get consumers used to the idea that technology might be the way to go for a lot of driving systems. People need to get the idea that self-driving technologies enhance safety. I think that's why they're starting with braking. As people become comfortable with and grateful for their car taking control in emergency-ish situations like that, they'll similarly become comfortable with the car taking control during normal driving. At least that's the thought.
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FWIW Los Angeles' startup scene is quite vibrant right now. If you're in the area feel free to swing by LA Hacker News this weekend http://www.meetup.com/Los-Angeles-Hacker-News/events/1894228...
I did it just now. The divs that contain the choices can only be scrolled with two fingers, a trick most users don't know about. The native select can be scrolled with only one finger.
According to NRK there's two more undetonated bombs: http://m.nrk.no/m/artikkel.jsp?art_id=17722919
Every language has design patterns. The patterns are different depending on the language, though. You don't use the observer pattern much when you've got proper delegates (or closures), for example. Design patterns are just the things you end up doing over and over in a language. MVC is a design pattern. Even something like Rails itself could be said to be a codifying and standardization of a set of design patterns.
I've had like 4 cyclists ride into my Prius. It's like a magnet for the unaware.
Volvo has this feature -- dubbed City Safety -- already on the road.

It may seem snobbish to some, but I'd never let myself, my wife, and my future children drive anything but a Mercedes or Volvo.

Between the two of them, they've been behind nearly every safety system developed in the last 40 years.

I feel good about knowing that our hard work has let us put my wife in a car, for her 30 minute commute, that has 12 airbags, that monitors her blindspot and will prevent her from changing lanes when it's occupied, that monitors her alertness and sounds alarms if she begins to fall asleep at the wheel, that vibrates the steering wheel if she accidentally begins to drift out of her lane, that watches for stopped traffic or obstacles in her path and will apply full force braking in microseconds in a way that her human reflexes just cannot, that has seats designed to prevent whiplash, and seatbelt pretensioners, and an extra firewall in the engine compartment to prevent intrusion.

Not to mention, compared to the often under-engineered competition, it has handling and performance capabilities that can plausibly prevent accidents where any of those things would be necessary in the first place.

Neither of us has ever yet, to our knowledge, counted on these things to save our lives. But knowing they're there, makes me feel much more comfortable when she leaves home.
The first sentence on the linked page has a typo: "javsacript"
Since no one has yet brought up Metcalfe's Law:

"Metcalfe's law states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n^2)"

"The law has often been illustrated using the example of fax machines: a single fax machine is useless, but the value of every fax machine increases with the total number of fax machines in the network, because the total number of people with whom each user may send and receive documents increases. Goods characterize the first component or intrinsic network effect. Services fall under the second component of network effects known as complementary.[6] A social networking site works the same way as the fax machine described above. The greater number of users with the service, the more valuable the service becomes to the community. Deriving from Metcalfe's Law, every new "friend" accepted or added on these social networking sites makes the user's profile ever more valuable in terms of the law. Positive and negative outcomes take place with all network effects involving a service of this sort. New jobs, relationships, and opportunities arise with more people coming together, however, if not used correctly, services of this type can lead to distant relationships."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfes_law

(If you read the Wikipedia entry, also read about "Reverse Effects")
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The question is whether this is arm-wrestling.

A way to describe what is happens is that the EU says "we know some people are worried about the money Greece owns them. For them, we offer insurance. We have several pricing schemes for that assurance:..."

Phrasing it that way would IMO put some spin on it, but it would not be a bland lie, either.

I think they stroke a good balance here. It is not arm-wrestling, but they likely will reach the intended goals (decrease immediate pressure on Greece, and show the world that the EU will help countries in trouble)
This is what was missing from virtualenv (in comparison to RVM). I can't wait to see how it progresses and if somehow this and virtualenv merge at some point.
You're fooling yourself if you still think they are just weekend warrior kids.
Absolutely. We got a long great otherwise, but that one thing ended the interview on a sour note for me.
If you sell products in the US, the courts will enjoy sales or award damages here if you violate patents/copyrights. Apple would be forced, for instance, to pay the judgement then rovio the extra, etc.
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Two weeks is how long it took for me to get as many spammy adds on Circles as I have gotten on Facebook in 6 years.

These stats are a complete joke. Almost any major google launch gets this type of initial surge. That google is happy to celebrate and even cite this type of stats tells me they are looking at the wrong metrics.

How about: how many people have given up fb for google plus?
this webpage is mostly pushing for right-wing/free market view

I'm digressing badly, but it's a character flaw of mine that I can't let this statement go.

The right-wing treatment of the market (i.e., the set of policies pursued by GWB and his ilk) is anything but "free market". The predominant Conservative policies are better described as "corporatist" in that they explicitly support corporate interests.

In some ways, a free market resembles this, because they both demand that consumer interests practice "caveat emptor", because there are fewer regulations that constrain what businesses can do.

But contrast to this, a free market system would also refuse to tilt the playing field in favor of the corporations, against the consumer or broader public interests [1]. So rent-seeking policies that institutionalize certain business interests would be avoided, for example. The "too-big-to-fail" idea would certainly gain no traction in a free market.

[1] While the Conservatives are usually the ones stereotyped as being corporatist, the Liberals are every bit as guilty. Consider such "left-wing" policies as ethanol subsidies, or the recent bailout, fostered by Democrats, of GM and Chrysler.
My guess is this is just a proof of concept.
For this kind of thing, [Snort](http://www.snort.org/) with it's huge corpus of intrusion detection patterns.
But the website is for the magazine, which is independently controlled by the NGS. The page does include a section for the tv channel, so I can see the logic, it just struck me as an anomoly.
I so wish we'd get Euro-style loser pays (it's really Judge assigns fees, and one party doesn't pay everything, nor do they let expensive lawyer fees be billed if they're unwarranted, etc).

Then companies could be more "Bring it on" when things are totally out there.
A (somewhat controversial) question that came up the last time I was discussing this with someone was whether all JSTOR material should be available on the net. This does mean that American taxpayer funded research is now available to practically everyone in the world.

What follows is third hand information and not even directly related to JSTOR. So it could be totally wrong. But I am told that at the moment not all of the journals/articles in all areas are available to universities outside the US. Apparently it is hard to get hold of research related to subjects that the US thinks are not "exportable" because of potential impact on national security. Things like nuclear medicine, areas of chemical engineering etc. The journal publishers act as a point of enforcement in this story.
Yikes. I like safety features like airbags and strong cages that won't collapse on the driver in a crash. I don't want my car making driving decisions for me. It may be done in the name of safety but until they invent a car that can't break, I don't trust it not to cause more problems than it helps.
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Those things sneak up on you! It's surprising how much cyclists and pedestrians rely on engine noise.
Customers angry, staff defiant at China's fake Apple Store
No such thing follows from icebraining's logic.[1]

If you think otherwise, lay out explicitly how you think the two cases are similar.

[1]Err, unless you are Lady Gaga.
They can only really effect the American sales. MOst apps sell a very sizable percentage overseas (I've seen about 45%, I've seen other devs with more like 60-80% overseas).

Don't let these assclowns stop you.
The could lose the other patents as part of a counter suit if they step out of line.
You did not hear about observer, but you probably heard about publisher/subscriber (most gui frameworks use this, even wxPython with pubsub).

Adapter is a generic name. Compatibility modules that enable python code to run with python 2 and python 3 are adapters. For example: https://github.com/bartdag/py4j/blob/master/py4j-python/src/...

As for the visitor pattern: http://docs.python.org/library/compiler.html#module-compiler...
What if I'm being carjacked and my car won't let me get away?
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It was a great event..kudos for Sylvinus for organizing the meetup and for the Pizza and Beer!
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I'd much rather use Amazon's 1 click instead.

One click and the item is at my house the next day.
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This is a bit off-topic, but what struck me in this article was the fact that AOL overpaid for Bebo by $550 million. Why isn't there an eBay for companies?

The bidding for Bebo was mediated by Allen & Co. “They just ran circles around us. It was media guys trying to grab an internet company and they didn’t know better.” The final purchase price was $850 million dollars. “I later learned that the only other serious bidder, Sony, stopped at $300 million. They basically had us bidding against ourselves.”
Why do people post bit.ly links in places where there is no char limit? Are people that conditioned by twitter?
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Living in Florida, I've been fortunate enough to see a few shuttle launches, as well as various rockets. The sound is really an incredible thing. I watched the last one from the bridge stretching from Titusville to the Kennedy Space Center, about the closest one can get without needing a pass. At that distance, the sound takes around 30 seconds to reach the viewers and it's not even that loud, but you can feel the power behind it.

Even more impressive, I watched STS-131 from my hometown one morning. Even from the West Coast of Florida, I could hear the unique sound and power from the shuttle.

I drove around 400 miles round trip to see the last Shuttle Launch, but it was completely worth it to see, in person, humans going into space. If every member of Congress could experience that at least once, NASA would likely not have any more funding problems.
Limelight creates a beautiful site for your apps in seconds.
If you were clever with virtualization software, you could let the VM guest get taken over, and use heuristics on the host to detect where they were coming from.
Saying the entity "EU" is a single economy but the entity "US and China" isn't seems rather arbitrary to me. At the very least, euro is already a currency disconnected from a single economy, being currently connected to at least two: the relatively sane part of eurozone, and PI(B)IGS.
Me too. Looking forward to the next event!
Thanks for the clarification. In that case I agree with you. Moving from "owned by News" to "partners with News in a related venture" is a huge scope creep for the extension.
You are exactly right and Congress "fixed" that. Currently no copyrights will expire until at least 2019. Anyone want to bet Congress passes another copyright law before then that extends copyright terms?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/23/world/europe/23oslo.html?h...
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employees as interchangeable

That's baked into alot of management thinking/training, e.g. referring to people as "X resources" where X is some particular language or technology. "We need 5 database resources for this project!" etc etc.
I do understand why there was a need for all these abstractions, but I just think it got way out of hand. "Programming" java became more about gluing frameworks together using XML than about writing code. The culture of enterprise java programmers directed people to bring in all these abstractions, "just in case" they might need them in the future. The language may be neutered, but the over-architects took the last bit of fun out of it.

I've really only been viewing this from the deployment side for quite a while, but when I'm trying to help you troubleshoot your relatively simple webapp, and I have thousands of lines of stacktraces that bubbled up through a half dozen frameworks, it's hard to blame just the language.
I only develop on Android at the moment, and sell in the Android Market, and if I limited sales strictly to overseas, I'd be dead in the water. ~80% of all my sales are in the U.S.
Those booster rockets on the shuttle were ridiculous. The Saturns were before my time, but I've seen some Delta launches, and an Ares launch, and the shuttle put them TO SHAME.

One thing I will remember most about going to college near KSC will be watching shuttle launches. I don't think there is anything on this world that is more impressive than putting our people into space on a pillar of fire.
I think the real test will be September: how many students have moved across to running their Social Networking through Plus, as opposed to Facebook or something else.

Once terms begins I suspect people will form around one network or another as their primary tool, so if Plus hasn't managed to get full social groups across and active by then, they may well default to Facebook as their primary social network for organising and sharing. Alternatively, I could see Hangouts managing to grow as a chat/skype substitute even if social groups were generally staying on Facebook as their Events and Sharing site.
No No No. Who checks out in 9 clicks?!?!