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This is a way of expressing what Kant said about lying and morality. A liar presumes the existence and practice of a moral rule against lying, but makes an exception of themself -- that is the only way their action makes sense and is profitable.

IP is a priori immoral because it fails moral universalisation. If we all shared what we produced freely, we would all gain (a thousandfold, a millionfold ...), and at no cost to each other. If we all had to be equally bound by restrictions and payments and legal action, we would all lose.

The only way IP, as a principle rather than pragmatically, can make sense is as an immoral intention.

(This is the funny thing about 'natural rights' arguments for IP: they all fail universalisation, trivially and obviously. It is odd they get much respect at all.)

And the actual practice does seem to follow the morality. Just as the article describes, where groups have power to choose, they tend to waive the rules for themselves, and just enforce them for everyone else.
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Hi Udo,

You've got some great points. I love Dropbox (for better or worse my life lives inside it).

We excel in an environment where an organisation needs to push content out to their employees in a managed environment.
For example pushing sales content out to staff.

Our security model allows you to push content out to staff, but manage how that content is used.
For example you might have some sales content that an employee can view and open with a potential client, and you may allow that content to be shared with the client via email.
You might have other content that is for internal use only, such as training content, this content can be watermarked 'confidential' and sharing is disabled.

We also force the iOS app to check in every 5 days to ensure that polices are maintained on the device.

In short, Dropbox is a fantastic personal consumer product. We're aiming at the corporate market, it's almost like a CMS for iPad.

BTW, you're right on the money with the "one month free" versus "free plan", we'll fix that right up!

Thanks for your feedback, I really appreciated it.

Cheers,

Marcus (@Schappi)
Perhaps you should provide equal time and write about good recruiters and the value they bring to candidates and companies alike. Maybe "All that's right with the recruitment industry"

I fail to see how speaking negatively about an industry helps promote it's value.
Recruiters for the tech field in the US are no better. My recent experience is that a large number of them have absolutely no clue about the industry they are recruiting for. I am a Web Designer/Client-Side Developer. I work in HTML, CSS, Javascript and pretty images. But I kept getting recruiters insisting on submitting me for jobs involving .Net development, SQL and other various server-side technologies. I kept having to tell them I didn't want to have interviews for jobs I had no business applying for, heaven forbid I actually got the job. So far I only had a good experience with one recruiter out of many in my area.

Of course, some of the employers weren't much better. No one can decide on a job title nor job description so you get a bunch of different postings and you have no idea if you qualify. I can't tell you how many job postings I saw that required three people (designer, client-side developer, server-side developer) in the one position that paid below the going rate for just one of the skill sets. It's as if they hope to find that rare individual that can do EVERYTHING and is willing to do it for just a cup of coffee a day. Often times I would discover that the employer thought they wanted Skill Set A when they really wanted the non-related Skill Set B of which I did not qualify.

Sometimes it seems as if an employer finding a good employee is by pure luck.
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I really hope it doesn't have the wedge shape, they're so hard to get open. What I'd really like to see is for them to ditch the optical drive, make it ~40% thinner or so (but with the same thickness throughout) and to fill the rest of the space with a bigger battery.
I wonder how Google would have looked at this idea 10 years ago, or even now: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-4-big-problems-with-googl....
I've been hoping for a .app TLD for years. I'm not sure how I feel about this proposal though, and whether I would prefer it to a traditional registrar.

On one hand, the idea of having a claim and needing to maintain it like a trademark is pretty cool. However, unlike REAL trademarks, the .app domain proposal isn't governed by established case law but seemingly by an arbitrary council of nerds. It may be a massive dramabomb waiting to happen.

Edit: As possibly hinted at by their interesting choices for reserved domains ( http://dotappapp.com/SpecialDomains.aspx )

It could turn out to be great, but I almost feel like I would rather take my chances with a land rush.
HI Swatthatfly,

Great point! We should really add that as an option. FYI we have found that for most clients the number of users has been the limiting factor, not the amount of storage.

I appreciate the feedback!

Cheers,

Marcus (@Schappi)
Is it illegal to mention his name because you can't prove what he said?

A lot of Britain's laws seem awfully strict to me, but I'm fully aware that that's a result of cultural conditioning by living in the United States for 17 years. (I wonder what most UK citizens think of America's laws regarding speech, libel and slander.)
Perhaps you should provide equal time and write about good recruiters...

No is the short answer. The purpose of the blog is to expose the flaws in the industry and motivate people to start making changes. The mere existence of the industry is testament to the fact that it's a necessary service and it wouldn't succeed if some people weren't doing a good job. A multi-billion pound industry doesn't need any more champions.
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For consistency. If there was a request object, there would need to be some sort of standard implementation that there was always access to so that the object could be properly instantiated, instance tested, etc. By using a plain old dict, you ensure compatibility at the cost of attribute access.

Also because WSGI is designed to be low-level, and if you want a request object you should really be using a library or framework.
I notice Peroni covers the ground between the recruiter and the employer (and for that, thank you); but is very quiet about what's going on between the recruiter and the target. I'm disappointed by this, because it affects actual developers in a very negative way. The constant unsolicited intrusions despite requests not to are annoying.

And there seems to be no way out other than delete everything on the web that makes any sort of statement that I am a developer with skills in {KEYWORD1}.

I currently have no desk-phone in my current role. This is deliberate. I do not want to be cold-called by recruiters. And yet, that doesn't work. They continue to wheedle their way through our receptionist ("being discreet") trying to get hold of me. Including one fishing for more information by pretending to have a package addressed to me that needs to be delivered at a specific unspecified time.

This continual harrassment is the same as spam. Unsolicited commercial approach that only benefits the sender. And so in my eyes, these recruiters are no better than spammers. Just more annoying because they don't limit themselves to email.

They are on par with the plethora of dodgy mobile phone renewal operators.
It is ironic that they mention "don't have to reinvent the wheel" in that page.
That's really fascinating. I'm not sure anyone will be surprised if Apple drops the optical drive from their laptop lineup. Ford dropping it from vehicles is a surprisingly progressive move. Ford really seems to be the "one to beat" in the auto-maker scene these days, and I mean that globally.
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I find it difficult to believe he did not suspect these images triggered the ban. In that regard, I find it disingenuous when he said he had no idea why his account was terminated.
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this is a classic hacker's critique. Let's look at your comments from a user's point of view:

> Why is the iPhone 3 times larger than an iPad?

Irrelevant. Users won't care.

> "Signup Now". English isn't my native language ...

Irrelevant. Users won't care.

> "Zigzag Cloud has powered built-in analytics". Powered by what? Or is it "powerful"?

Irrelevant. Users won't care.

> Love the logo and the colour scheme of the site!!

Relevant. Users will care :)
Thanks for the info Marcus!

I've been looking hard for a service to replace Dropbox with and yours is the first I've found that provides encryption of the files on the server as well as an iOS interface.

Will you be providing an API for third-party applications? This is another area where Dropbox seems to dominate and is important especially for iOS users who can't use files stored this way unless they are accessible via an API of some sort.
Hey Nhoss2,

Yeah dropbox is consumer, we're aiming at business.
I love dropbox, but it isn't great when I need to push sensitive content out to a sales force or a board and know that I can yank access / enforce current versions etc when I need to.

Re: Pricing...

You're right, it's not cheap, but we hope it's good value for a select type of clients.

As an individual I wouldn't use Zigzag Cloud, but if I had a business I wouldn't use Dropbox.

Cheers,

Marcus (@Schappi)
As I said in the other thread, I like that it doesn't because there are actually better options than Apple is willing to sell. I like the OWC Mercury Pro (blu-ray, dvd, cd). It is a nicer option and can sit on the edge of the desk. On the new display, hooking it up to to the firewire 800 is a good option.

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/optical-drives/
Welcome to HN. I hope you'll like it here.

By the way, you don't need to sign your posts. Your username appears above it anyway.
This is "Hacker News", not "User News".
> thought leaders

Bingo!
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Suggested new title: "How much of the brain is really necessary?"
>Coming to an expensive first world country with $600 for 2 weeks is pretty clearly sketchy.

Bingo.

Entering the US with $5000 in Bitcoin would be equivalent to crossing the border with $5000 in Somaliland Shillings. They are both currencies that are bought and sold every day, but you can't take either to your neighborhood bank and convert them to USD. They have a very limited -- hell, even zero -- utility outside of circles that deal directly with them.

As such, CBP was rightly suspicious.
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What? Bosons, such as a photon, definitely exist in the sense that they are part of the Standard Model of particle physics. They are as 'real' as electrons or quarks or, in some sense, a table.
It would only make sense to devote equal time to the good recruiters if they were 50% of the general population of recruiters.
While the comic raises some nice points (mainly cheap shots), the final line: "I would happily pay for news that doesn't treat me like an imbecile" (or words to that effect) sounds like hogwash to me.

The NYTimes, Economist, and New Yorker (for example) all provide excellent news through all kinds of channels, and in many cases with most, if not all, of the points addressed. All the crap the cartoonist complains about is purely driven by the need of newspapers to replace lost revenue, and there's no evidence that most readers are willing to pay.
I think this answers the questions we all have about politicians.
> This is one those places where laws make sense to me; the average person needs to be protected from unknowingly gambling with their family's future.

What kind of laws do you suggest?
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...but is very quiet about what's going on between the recruiter and the target.

When you say target, I assume you mean the candidate or potential employee? If so, I do reference how I think people such as yourself can help reduce the impact recruiters have on your day to day activity. Take a look at some of my previous posts.

And so in my eyes, these recruiters are no better than spammers. Just more annoying because they don't limit themselves to email.

That's an excellent comparison as that is exactly how we are generally viewed and rightly so. I've known recruiters to literally wait all day outside a companies building with a picture from linkedin in hand, waiting for a specific developer to walk out and approach them out of the blue on the street.
If I remember correctly, the Chinese have a product that uses this. It's built into floor tiles.
Hi Synnik,

Thanks for your comment. In a sentence: We provide encryption end to end, a granular permissions structure.

Cheers,

Marcus
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Well I don't think that Google has anything similar to human genome project, so I think he quit Google. But yes, it is a but unclear.
So user perspectives aren't welcome?
You mean C:\Dos ? ;)
I think his point is not that Republican policies are irrational, but that Obama is assuming the Republicans are ultimately willing to compromise to avoid default, and actually they're not.
'...purpose of the blog is to expose the flaws in the industry...'

Judging from the activity there's plenty of recognition of the industries flaws. Unfortunately, negative press is more interesting to read.

'...expose the flaws in the industry and motivate people to start making changes.'

Sooo you propose 'dark' without 'light'....'up' without 'down'?
Nowadays it'd have to be C:\/Dos... damn web-based OSes...
I don't understand why these companies are providing USB/iPod ports. Hats off to the ones that provide 1/8" audio jacks, but I don't get why they don't just provide a 1/8" audio cable that comes out of somewhere.

Every audio device since the dawn of time has a 1/8" audio jack in it. Why not interface with the technology that's already omnipresent?
It seems like the "back" button isn't working. At least not in my Chrome in Ubuntu.

Looks like a backbonejs "router" could help with the issue. ;)
Good to hear! Next one will probably be in Sept instead of August due to holidays :)
The regime in East Germany was truly worse than in West Germany. And they knew that, even though official propaganda said something different.

(The contrast between South Korea and North Korea is, of course, even more striking. But I did not grow up in Korea.)
…and a flying pony.

You want a 40% space reduction and room for more batteries in exchange for losing an optical drive that accounts for 10% of the original volume.[1]

[1] The MacBook Pro has a volume of 2175cc. An internal optical drive is about 200cc.
Of course the web applications themselves wouldn't implement these features, but they would act as test cases for the APIs that get added to the browser (e.g. Firefox). As you build these test case apps, you'd see what features are missing and implement them in the browser API, standardizing things along the way. If your point is to improve the web APIs available and find out what is needed, then build the features in the browser and build great applications on top of these new APIs that work on all platforms rather than just being tied to the Mozilla OS (at least for a while). If you truly want to make these features into standards you'll be adding them to Firefox later anyway, right?
You might also consider taking a look into this: "Don't punish everyone for one person's mistake"[1]

[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPOezLL398U&feature=share
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Hi Flixic,

We really appreciate your feedback! Yup, limiting the free plan sound like a good idea. We're still exploring how to best appeal to small business. I think when you're at the 2-person stage Dropbox is still a great solution.

Cheers,

Marcus (@Schappi)
Doubtful, the segmentation and price anchoring effects of multiple lines are too important to ignore.
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It's more than that. It's a usability upgrade, EASY to implement. The same for the "Page up" and "Page down" keys.

How hard is it to bind those keys to the "next page" event that is fired by the little arrow? (haven't checked the code, but I assume something like that going on).
If only the bad recruiters are calling you what do you think that says about you?
I'm just saying that criticizing someones feedback because it characterizes the audience of the site is illogical.
Err, you do understand how warrants work, right? You don't get one by proving someone is guilty, but by showing there is probable cause.

>The standard for a search warrant is lower than the quantum of proof required for a later conviction. The rationale is that the evidence that can be collected without a search warrant may not be sufficient to convict, but may be sufficient to suggest that enough evidence to convict could be found using the warrant.

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He said he's "quitting that job", which doesn't sound ambiguous to me. It's not the way I'd let someone know I was getting off a project.
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> I have never met a female programmer that was self-taught.

Hi, how you doin' :)
That is a power issue. I'd be surprised if Apple doesn't include the over powered USB ports in the display since they use that for charging iPads and iPhones as well.
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I also believe it is much worth to live with a strong faith in the good nature of people.

However I believe one should not indulge in it.

This faith is very precious and this is exactly why it is a sin to rely upon it in the wrong circumstances.
I live in Japan, that has a very low crime rate, but I found it very interesting when they told me "Don't leave anything valuable at the office. There is very little chance that something might happen, but can you imagine how you will feel and act towards your colleagues if something happens..."
What you value you must protect. Although it sounds controversial, this means that it is your obligation to protect your faith to the goodness of people from the ones that could destroy it.
It seems that what you ended up doing is, in fact, reimplementing things that were implemented zillions of times before. Am I wrong or the Pump middleware doesn't work for any WSGI app? If it had followed the WSGI middleware basic concept, you'd be closer to achieve the goal of reusable components across frameworks.

"Pump aims to replace WSGI entirely." <- this is very ambitious. :)
Sounds like she might want an iPad...
Also, what sort of pricing do you have in mind for the "private server" option?

Thanks!
Hi Jason,

Server side encryption is a tick box we've had to do for our health clients.

We've been actively building an iOS SDK that is very similar to Dropbox's own SDK (the idea being that we'll be able to provide a low barrier to entry for other devs that have already implemented Dropbox's SDK).

We have a RESTful private API that as each day goes by is getting more and more locked down. We're looking forward to making it public as soon as possible.

Cheers,

Marcus (@Schappi)
Has anyone stopped to ask, 'Why do I only get calls from bad recruiters'? "Why am I not on the radar of good recruiters'?
I think one of the main problems you might have here (and I'm only speaking from my point of view on seeing this) is that you're solving a problem people don't know they have yet.

I looked at the site, the descriptions, etc. and I still don't have a clear idea of what impact the product will have on my life.

If the terminology "Mobile File Management", "Content Management" and "Content Distribution" have specific meaning amongst your target audience then what I'm saying doesn't count but to me they're sort of meaningless.

Try telling me a story. The questions I'm asking are: Where were these files created? Who created them? Why do I want to share them? Who do I want to share them with? What other ways of sharing them exist and why are those problematic?

A video wouldn't go astray[1] and you should also check out this video (which I've linked to about a billion times since I first watched it) where Simon Sinek tells us that "People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it"[2].

Oh ... and Reprazent the Sydney startup scene bwooooy! Ping me (email in profile) we should catch up for a coffee sometime :) Us Aussies have to stick together.

[1]http://www.decalcms.com/page/What_I%27ve_learned_about_makin...

[2]http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspi...
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Stevey gives up the being part of the chase for the superfluous (in money), and calls for us to do something about the necessary

No one needs a million dollars. No one. Why are we chasing it and dying of heart disease -- heart disease we can cure if we start chasing that instead?

Our priorities are absolutely messed up and it's time we start realigning them. This isn't a speech; this isn't a funny resignation. This is a clarion call to join in. We can do so much better. We can achieve something valuable, if we start to realize where true value lies.

Steve's in. I'm in. Who else around here is in?
This is one of those things that made me weary about the home rental business (not necessarily just AirBnB). While I do feel the idea is great, I'm not sure I'd be as composed as this person; especially coming back to a destroyed and violated home. I guess there's no way around it, but this should definitely add an extra layer of thought before posting your home on AirBnB or any other service. Scary stuff.
RE: Behind the firewall pricing. We've been doing this on a case by case basis, and input on this would be much appreciated!

Cheers,

Marcus