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It's been a long-running story. Florian is a stopped clock who proclaims that the sky is falling for free software about every patent and copyright issue. One of the best examples is a recent controversy over Android's use of its Bionic replacement for glibc. Here's a post that tries to sum up the issue and includes Linus' own opinion:

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Linus-on-Android-head...

This is just one example of a long-running pattern with Florian's claims.
My main feature request is the ability to select which circles are included in my main stream, or alternatively being able to create multi-circle streams. My problem is that the high output public twitter-type stream overwhelms my friends and family, so I'd like to exclude the Scobble-types unless I want to specifically look at their feeds.

The circles concept is really setup for set arithmetic, I guess they're trying to figure out a good UI for it.
I'm not seeing the Google Maps integration yet on my Android device (Droid X), however I do see the check-in capabilities now on the Google+ Android App. Some locations show up but other's don't.

Very very promising though.
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I agree with your view of procrastination. I think there's a good portion of it that is due to the points you make.

However, there's something else to be added to the discussion about procrastination that has to do with people's temperament and unhealthy ideas they have of work (and themselves).

For example, one problem people might have is they tie their self-worth to the outcome of their goals. You can see why that could cause a lot of anxiety and stress. Using your examples, if you needed to win every time you played video games, and it was a source of great confidence and self-esteem for you - the moment you're in a situation where you know there's a chance you might loose, it will become a lot harder to get the energy to practice/play. It has nothing to do with enjoying video games in and of itself - it has to do with connecting your worth to the outcome. Even hanging out with friends can become a hassle if people think they need to control the outcome somehow.

This happens in school (in college,where for the first time people may not be getting the top grades and in highschool grades were the source of great pride and acceptance and popularity), and at work (if you screw something up you think you'll be considered an idiot and possibly be fired). A lot of people, somehow and at some point, develop some sort of inner drill sergeant who tells them they are no good until they get X done - and this works well enough when you're young and use to being forced to do things by other people anyway and are looking for approval from adults and peers. But as people grow independent they realize they really don't like the way they talk to themselves or at the least, they start not to care about what the drill-sergeant in them wants.

To people who do not have these cognitive traps, these problems are invisible. They are likely to think procrastinators are inherently lazy/undisciplined because that is what they can visually conclude (and it also reinforces the idea they are not lazy and are disciplined).

Another trap is not viewing work in the correct context. People feel they are being 'forced' to do something. That reinforces the idea that the work isn't very pleasant, and they would be doing something else if they could. Well, thats the wrong way to frame the problem. It focuses on your feelings, transient and often miscalculated. A healthier way to frame work is to consider cost vs reward. We tend to highlight the cost of work and compare it to the rewards of procrastination.

Also, people who procrastinate may also not take breaks when working, or set aside time to enjoy their life - they are stuck in a perpetual grind where they feel like crap/imposters if they take their attention off work. That very pressure is what renders them unproductive.

Anyway, if this stuff seems interesting to anyone, I recommend checking out "The Now Habit" by Neil Fiore. I found it to be one of the few books that frames procrastination as a symptom rather than a cause. It has a lot of interesting insights if you don't feel the you lack discipline or are lazy, but may not be framing things (or talking to yourself) in the healthiest way.
They don't seem to mention it anywhere on the U.S. site. It appears in Europe that they have a 5-plays-per-track limit for free accounts, but not paid accounts.
how does this compare with selenium ?
a) Exchange 'murder' with 'jaywalking' if you like, either way your argument that there can be no bad news because they can appeal is just silly. It doesn't even have to be the verdict -- not getting the juror you wanted, not getting that evidence/testimony/witness in, not getting a continuance, these are all bad news decisions. The fact that you can appeal any of them doesn't change them being bad news.

b) that is your opinion about the overall patent industry but today's specific news is not about general patent industry. It's about this finding by the ITC. It is most certainly good news for Apple and bad news for HTC and Android. Do you think HTC was happy when they heard this? I think they were disappointed to hear this. That is bad news by definition.

c) I think your view is clouded by your Patent Derangement Syndrome. No Apple is not immune to anything, they could benefit or pay horribly like anyone else. When they infringe on people's (valid) patents I believe Apple should pay the appropriate penalty. Conversely when other companies infringe on Apple's (valid) patents I believe they should pay the appropriate penalty. Thirdly patents that should not have been issued (i.e. many of them) should be deemed invalid. What happened today was a preliminary finding that Android maker HTC infringes on several of Apple's patents. There could be worse news but this is unquestionably bad news for HTC and Android.
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i tried avoiding this, thanks for the heads up! really appreciate your advice.
Yeah, the name is pretty generic and U believe that it will have a high resell value if things don't work out. However, that also depends on finding the right buyer...
If you invent something, and then before you get your patent application filed someone else invents the same thing and puts their version on sale or describes it in a publication, theirs does not count as prior art against yours if their sale or publication was within one year of your application.

So, we can divide potential prior art into two groups:

1. Publications or products from 2009-12-20. Definitely prior art, even if Kootol actually was the inventor of the technology and invented it before the prior art. Too bad for them--they shouldn't have waited so long to file.

2. Publications or products from 2009-21-21 through the filing date. Not prior art. (That doesn't mean others using the technology in this period might not be useful against Kootol--it could be useful for showing that they were not the first to invent the relevant technology).
When sorting by Popularity you're #9 at the moment...
Isn't the difference between the AAA held by Berkshire Hathaway and the AAA assigned to a CDO tranche that very simple erroneous assumptions can lead you to assign low risks to large numbers of credit events that are subtly but decisively correlated? Finding uncorrelated investments in large groups of standardized assets is actually as much a tricky social science project as it is a green-eyeshades math problem, right?

When you AAA a product built out of supposedly uncorrelated risks that turns out to be correlated, you're fucked.

So, to extend your analogy: suppose you designed instruments backed by $5 debts from college students. And suppose as time goes on, Ivy League students used it less and less, while at UMich-Flint the program spread like wildfire. At some point, without even changing the explicit structure of your instrument, basic market forces might up converging on highly correlated (and very risky) buckets of risk, mispriced at AAA (or whatever).

And all the while, every incentive is set up to get people to throw away unfavorable results and cherry pick the most lucrative interpretations.

My point (you are by this point I am sure exasperated with me) is that ratings agencies and product designers are trying to build models to assign risks to quickly moving targets, by taking a spot measurement of the current correlation coefficients and extrapolating them.

Whereas on the other hand the credit history and business model backing BRK is (relatively) straightforward.
If you're referring to the Gmail People Widget [1], we don't think it replicates us: we provide a lot more information on your contacts, and we allow you to interact with your contacts on social networks. It certainly does complement us (and compliment us!), so we integrated with it. [2]

As for "founding a company on a missing feature": we think it's a pretty important missing feature, but more to the point, what we do now is the free leg of a freemium business model. We have premium features launching soon that we're really excited about, and which Google isn't going to build.

[1] http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/introducing-people-wid...

[2] http://blog.rapportive.com/rapportive-integrates-gmail-peopl...
I think I saw an old style Python class in there.
Why not cut to the chase and just offer a substantial block of positive Tech Crunch coverage for a fixed % of the startup?
Thanks! I'll definitely look into those.
Is it a revenue generator for Red Bull when they run a flugtag day or sponsor extreme sports? Or for Nike or Adidas to sponsor basketball players? Not directly, but it builds the right image and draws the right audience to the brand. 37signals has enough resources to do this in a different space but on a relatively similar scale.
After two days with a free account, on a Mac, I noticed this:

- If you mute your speakers via OS X while an advertisement is playing, it pauses the ad until you unmute your speakers.

- If you turn down your speaker volume via OS X too much while an advertisement is playing, the same behavior occurs until you turn the volume back up. This appears to be relative to the volume you were just listening to music at.

Quick fix around this; use headphones. Just take them off to ignore an ad. Or if you have a separate sound system, mute that. Annoying if you have a laptop though. This behavior doesn't occur when music is playing.
The killer feature in Spotify for me is that it aggregates the music on my HDD and their stuff. I have a library of 14000 songs, so it's nice to have all of this music side by side.

The higher quality MP3s in the premium version is a nice touch too.
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>British Empire has contributed more net good to humanity than any other nation in history.

Thats complete bullshit

1)In 1650 the Indian per capita GDP was more than 80 per cent of the British level, by 1871 it had fallen to less than 15 per cent.They did this by completely destryoing the indian cottage industries by westernized machinery.
http://www.cepr.org/pubs/new-dps/dplist.asp?dpno=8007

2)So they were not just content with taking all the money....they also wanted to starve people to death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_India

3)The british rule was very racist too.Indians were not allowed to travel or dine in the same places as the British.They called us "dirty kaffirs".

4)Even when these motherfuckers were leaving coz they got fucked in WW2 and did not have any more money to rule India(by then the british had sucked all the money from India anyways) they seperated the country into India and Pakistan based on religion."Estimates of the number of deaths range around roughly 500,000, with low estimates at 200,000 and high estimates at 1,000,000"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India#Perspectives
Does this happen on a PC?
Thank you for the resource! I'll check it out.

One thing I'd like to reemphasize is that, although I only have $6,000 in the bank, the friends and family round is a lock for a minimum of $50,000. Does that change your answer?
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Let's say court ruled Person X stole ThingA from Person Y.

Let's also say court ruled that Person Y also stole from Person X, they stole ThingB -> You are stopping here - uh oh bad news for Person Y.

We don't know what ThingA values vs. ThingB - You are still saying it's net bad news for Person Y without seeing the full picture - it might not be bad for anyone if it all cancels out for the most part.

So yes patent infringement is bad for the party doing it - only if the party claiming the infringement does not also infringe on their patents. In this case Apple infringes S3 patents.
Have you tried to do a fingerprint of files?

Also, what's waveform analysis?
There are a lot of messes that need to be resolved, but notice that mortgages barely figure in the chart, the housing foreclosure mess is 'merely' shit rolling downhill in this picture
After testing out Turntable.fm for the past few weeks, I have to almost disagree. And this is coming from someone who worked on Grooveshark Radio for a year, which is almost all algorithmic.
Pretty simply: I prefer the Windows environment to Linux. I don't like GNOME or KDE. I also don't really like the OS X environment, either. (My day job requires a Unix machine because our codebase is fragile, and it's a source of some annoyance.)

For my own projects, I would rather work in Windows, with a mild annoyance when testing, than consistently be annoyed by working in either. (I do use a VM for testing before pushing to production, but for quick "is this right" testing, bouncing Django on Windows and eyeballing it is generally good enough to keep pushing forward.)
Thanks a lot! Will do!
Excellent work but a bit risky using Vimeo? They seem to be quite boot-happy for even vaguely commercially-related usage: http://boagworld.com/reviews/vimeo/
"It pisses me off when people don't concede that they were wrong"

In this case, we have saturn exemplifying a pure animalistic instinct of rage. You being pissed off is not an argument that helps the conversation.

Humans are not pets of society because humans are a part of society. You're trying to personalize society, in a similar way that religious freaks try to personalize the universe.

In reality, society is better understood as an emergence of many tribes working together in an economic model. Let me dumb it down:

There is a tribe of programmers. They have their own rituals, their own ceremonies, even their own drugs that they like to take (yay Mountain Dew). They are very good at controlling computers.

Then there is a tribe of people who make pizza. They are good at making pizza, really good. Well, better than most programmers anyway. They eat pizza a lot, and their life revolves around making pizza, eating pizza, talking about how different pizzas are awesome or how they suck.

Now first tribe is all like "hey, we need pizza" so they go to the second tribe and ask that tribe to make them some pizza in return for herding pizzamen's freaky computers that just get out of control all the time.
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What competition?
Here in US AT&T has also started capping their DSL at 150GB for regular DSL and 250GB for their U-Verse.

Competition only helps if there is lots of it, unfortunately we're in a duopoly market where even though theoretically there is competition, to get around anti-trust laws, they just follow each other so consumers are just screwed.
The law already deals with vague definitions. It really wouldn't be too hard to write something that erred on the side of making it somewhat hard to prove that you were practicing.
You gotta love how this is one of the most active posts here right now, but it somehow has been relegated to the third page. Fuck Google fanbois and fuck this bullshit that constantly goes on at Hacker News.
He should have negotiated a positive-to-neutral fact-based reference (good reviews, verification of salary, departure by his volition-- a revision-of-fact but one that companies will usually support) in the severance process. Chances are, he would have gotten it. This would have mitigated the career damage and gotten him a good job much sooner.

Remember that a severance offer is a starting point. If the only thing you want to add in negotiation is something that doesn't cost the company money-- good reference and a revision of the record to say you left voluntarily-- they'll usually give it, unless you did something illegal and they're afraid to give you a good referral for liability reasons.

Getting fired is something that happens to a lot of good people... for all kinds of bizarre and stupid reasons. I wouldn't mention it, as a general policy, but I really doubt that he couldn't find a job because he was fired. He probably became insecure and that did him in. He probably was also too loose-lipped about his feelings toward the previous employer, which is even more damaging because even if a past employer is terrible, one shouldn't let it on in an interview.

"Persona non grata" in the tech community after a job goes bad... that's just bizarre. In my experience, people familiar with startups are the most forgiving of jobs that went bad or ended suddenly, for the obvious reason that a lot of startups fail.
Imagine if Flickr blew most of their seed money on Flicker.com and then failed because they couldn't execute their idea?

My advice: Why not just hire a good copyrighter to generate a list of 100 domain names? That can't cost too much money (under a $1000) and you can then rank the list and see what's available.
scripting xcode UI to build a project? ouch, you're doing it wrong. Check out xcodebuild.

http://blog.jayway.com/2010/01/31/continuos-integration-for-...
hey Roel,

thanks for the detailed critic :-) It's true I'm a software developer and design is difficult for me. I've noted your points and will try to address them with my designer.

BTW, are you dutch (your name)? I'm French but am based in Amsterdam :-)
Build a prototype first under a dev name, ours was 'Festy' until we unveiled the name. If it's a Premium Domain for $3,000+ on GoDaddy, it won't likely sell anytime soon. But, even if it did, it isn't the end of the world.

Wait until you have the 50k in the bank. And even then, think twice about that investment.

In short, prototype first.
He may have spent too much time, but it wasn't setting up the repository - two steps on Github and a copy-paste some shell commands - nor the hosting - creating a GAE project takes five minutes or so.
I'm seeing it on Google Maps 5.7.0, though it only seems to actually work reliably if you're also signed into Google Latitude. For what it's worth, I see a "Check In" option right next to "Rate and Review" when I go to My Location -> What's Nearby -> [Place].
Babies grow far to quickly for parents to subscribe to a single plan and the stockpile would be far too much to maintain... on a startup budget.

Why not try an exchange network, user to user?
If they wanted to be especially clever, when you muted/turned down the volume while a song was playing they would continue to advance the progress bar while not actually streaming the song, which might save them some royalty costs.
I've worked full time jobs in four countries so far (I'm 29) and basically just take the approach that you should send both a customised resume and a customised cover letter in response to every opportunity.

Just remember: when you don't have a job and you want one, finding a job is a full time job. Do 9-5. You'll be surprised how quickly you get results.
the point is if you develop and depend on a particular platform you are at the mercy of the platform owner. You either make changes and figure out how to get around it, like how about less reliance on google's search and go out and do some other marketing.
Well I do, but my business is not reliant on being in the top google search results. I have nothing to brag about, or complain about, as like I've stated, everything he's said has been addressed prior.
I agree the flat cap isn't going to be the end of this. It just happens to be the easiest solution right now and the heavy users are low hanging fruit.

As for the 50Mbit on a 150Mbit bonding group -- that's he magic of oversubscription. It's amazing how little bandwidth people actually use. The number of heavy users who are doing 50Mbit/sec non-stop are really the fringe cases. It's actually quite hard to figure out how to max out a 50 or 100mbit/sec for long periods of time. The traffic patterns are extremely bursty. For example a single uncapped modem's traffic. (in MB/sec)

http://i.imgur.com/KL1YD.png

(120Mbit/sec is the bottleneck of my router)
If I'm talking to someone I don't know I say I "sell software" or "run a software business". If it's a close friend and I want to communicate how successful the business has become I'll say "back in _ it made sense for me to start working on it full time." For anyone who cares to listen I'll usually talk about a couple products I'm proud of and their position vs the market or similar products.
I think he meant that developers should provide a paid, ad-free version and/or a free, ad-supported version. An ad-supported version that also costs money (even if it's less money) kinda sucks.
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Could you go into more detail about how to ask for these sorts of things and what extras you might throw in so you have something you can cut when negotiating?

This strikes me as the sort of thing I should have prepared in advance, just in case. Should I ever be fired for cause I expect I'll be too upset to think about what to ask for and how to say it so I better work out the basics now.
>Very soon they will pay for all this!!

Are you a Bond villain?
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It isn’t too surprising that the time when we really start thinking about retirement and planning for it is middle age. Perhaps it is when we have our lifestyles pretty well defined, perhaps the career is where you want it to be and the kids are here and growing up that you start looking down the road to the future. Perhaps it is looking toward the future in terms of insurance, planning for college and other issues such as this also gets your mind moving on how you will be ready when retirement gets here.
Yes, which is another bit of evidence that this is a fake - Facebook employees use @fb.com as their e-mails.
Can anyone explain to me this part: "do not mention that we fired you for 7 years"? Why would anyone have you sign something like this? What's the importance of this?
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