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Oh, absolutely. But remember - a lot of landlords aren't very good at it. God knows I wasn't. If they don't have a property manager, your boiler being out is just one more thing they have to remember, and can't, because they're just trying to make a little extra cash on a house they maybe can't sell - or somebody told them rental management is easy, when it's not. They may be working a regular job and simply can't get the focus for your issues. It sucks, but it happens a lot.

In situations like that, I usually send them a letter or call them, explaining that I know exactly what they're going through, and I'd be happy to arrange maintenance for them as long as they reimburse me. I've never failed to get a response of, "Oh God, could you please?"

Depends on the landlord, too. If you live in a low-rent building, they have a really high stress level for not a lot of return - it doesn't take much to set yourself apart from the jerks they normally deal with, though. Get on a friendly basis with them and it'll go a long way.

Once you've had a couple of the really bad tenants, I think it's very, very difficult to learn to see the good in people again as opposed to the enormous risk exposure.
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I wonder whether the recommendation at the very end, about starving patent trolls of lawyer resources, is more or less viable now than it was five years ago. Although there are certainly plenty of megafirms, I'm not sure that the legal world is coherent enough for that to be a great strategy. Plus you need maybe two full-time lawyers and twice that many paralegals to operate on the Lodsys level of suing smaller developers and working your way up.

Patent trolls, like terrorists, take advantage of asymmetric resource usage. So trying to attack their supply of lawyer resources might not work.
Sickening? ITS MARKETING. The promise that something will make your life better is rarely true, but we deceive ourselves into thinking so because it helps fulfill the prophecy being told.
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What an asshole. I've never had anything like that in my stints in the tenant role. But honestly, that just sounds like he wanted to look for reasons to keep the security deposit and nothing you had done would have changed that.

Good on you for winning.
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"Most non-libertarian economic systems are based on the assumption ..."

Huh? So you're saying there is only libertarianism or bureaucratly controlled economies? That's wrong on it's face.

Here's my idea of a good economy, markets for most things with good government regulation of health, safety, etc. And, a few public industries like water, power, and healthcare. This system doesn't fit your model at all.
No, a computer does that. You can patent a computer, you just can't patent the software it runs. Just as you can patent a CD player but you can't patent the music it plays.
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The problem with "must have product in the market" is the same as with the idea of fixing the domain name system by adding a requirement of "use it or lose it".

Who gets to decide what "having a product in the market" means?

It's impossible to generalize this to an objective set of rules. Thus we'd soon be back on square 1 (read: in the court room).
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The Swedes have universal school choice (public or private). And I believe the Netherlands.
>Only if this fact becomes common knowledge, in the way that everyone knows doctors hate malpractice lawsuits, will we have any hope of the Supreme Court—and specifically Justice Scalia—doing the right thing.

Yet we still seems to have malpractice lawsuits all the time.
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Wouldn't it be better to configure the switch options in an xml configuration file?
It was under patent law that they happened to file this suit, but similar copyright suits have been filed (this is why movie studios don't accept spec scripts and a prominent game developer deleted his Twitter account). And it's still pretty rare.
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I view it more as a broken promise than a lie. I do, however, think that both are, morally speaking, on a similar level. Lying is worse but a broken promise isn’t all that much better.
wrote this a while ago. might be relevant for the debate - http://www.funkykaraoke.com/2010/10/on-facetime.html
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Here, I'll predict the vote: 5-4 not in favor.
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I must be missing something. You're a professional SEO, you believe that at some point in the future Google will in some way factor +1 button activity into the search results, and yet you think it's not worth worrying about? How... odd.
I don't think anyone would disagree with you; we definitely went through a stagnation of Java between 6 and 7 where it seemed Sun was trying to find it's footing with Java, trying to not sink the company, trying to be bought up, trying to figure out where Netbeans fit in the scheme of everything, etc. etc.

It is like the Java world hit the 'pause' button on really ambitious stuff for a few years and the only things that got into releases were the laser-sharp-focused features that the teams needed no variation on. They knew exactly what the feature was, where to take it and when to ship it.

I think it was for the better, because now there is all this pent up energy getting reinjected into the platform and we'll see 8 next year with the rest of all these goodies and hopefully 9/10 2 years after that.

Pretty good recovery IMO. At least it didn't languish and die a horrible death or something.
He's not in political office. He's not beholden to your or me. Unfortunately they didn't open it. It would be great if they had. But it's just a dead feature. Steve Jobs actual legally binding responsibility is to the share holders that he will make Apple money. Why not reverse engineer FaceTime and release a OpenSource version?

Anyway,if you REALLY want someone to dilly dally with the term "Open", you should get an Android phone.
I'm genuinely curious why it even matters whether it's open or not. I get that he said it would be open and now it's not. But beyond that why does it even matter? I can use Tango, Qik, Skype, etc. I think there's an iOS app out there that does Google Talk video. They are even easier because I don't have to explain to my parents how to connect the phone to wifi.

Maybe with the proliferation of all these other video chat apps opening up Facetime became a lower priority?
If you don't version, you can only add to an API. You cannot change anything meaningful (or as simple as renaming a field). You wind up with APIs with multiple ways of getting the same or similar data in order to avoid breaking backwards compatibility, which leads to bloated, confusing APIs.
I thought they were already turning a profit.
Definitely very interesting technique but it sounds like the big challenge will be scaling up to large numbers of base stations and mobile (vs. semi-stationary) clients. Inverting the matrices mentioned in the patent and continually updating the parameters to create the interference bubble around the roving antenna is going to take a lot of processing horsepower. As mentioned in another comment, getting reasonable battery life out of a mobile device using this technology is going to be tricky.

I didn't read the whole patent, is changing environment (e.g. cars passing by) taken into account? I imagine that multi-path reflections off of neighboring objects would be too dynamic to update in real time.
Follow that with an assertion that individuals who are not themselves spiritual, most of which freely admit having little or no education on or experience with spiritual matters are qualified in any way to speak on spiritual matters.

I'd advise you to read The Courtier's Reply. Not that it covers everything you mentioned, but it is somewhat relevant.

People are much more likely to criticize what they see constantly around them. In a good portion of the world, Christianity is far more visible than Buddhism or Taoism. Ergo, Christianity gets criticized.
What are your thoughts on this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facetime#Standards

It would appear that FaceTime is built on top of open standards, is Steve more explicit than that in the original presentation (for example, does he say that access to Apple's FaceTime servers will be available openly, etc.)?
Read my comment. I specifically didn't focus on money. The point is throwing money and bodies at the problems of education has a proven track record of NOT working.

Those results that you refer to apply to a suburban school in high-income area with few challenges. Those students have an edge because they have parents (note the plural) who can fill in the blanks left at school or have the resources to hire someone to do that. That's why the stoner white kids from the suburbs graduate from high school and the middle of the pack urban students get swept out the door.

I live in a small city with low costs (standard of living index is 1.1) where the per-pupil costs are in excess of $23,000/child, the average teacher salary is $85k, median income in the city is $50k, the graduation rate is 42%, and in many elementary schools less than 15% of the 4th graders are in the upper half of state testing results for math.

That NYC multi-modal experiment offers the promise of bridging the gap between urban students without access to supplemental instruction and the suburban kids who have lots of resources available. Kids spend time in large/small classroom settings, Khan-academy type computer applications and "virtual" tutoring. Results are measured and kids get rotated through various modes of learning based on their results.

What does that mean? It means that we can improve education and reduce the inequity in our society without throwing $100k+ teachers into the breach like infantrymen. Being born in a city shouldn't condemn you to a marginal education and future prospects.

It's not a matter of being "against" teachers or whatever -- it's applying their talents strategically in a way that benefits the students. Would you solve an IT or difficult programming problem by throwing more IT guys at it? Or would you break the problem down and figure out the best way to address it?
I think the 2 year software patent might be the way to go. That's a pretty compelling argument to say that things move much faster in software so the timespans should just be shortened significantly. You might even be able to convince lawmakers with that.
Check the study below, and think about the implications.

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You underestimate how strong such an argument has to be to succeed.

I wish I could upvote this wise advice ten times. even if patents made it to the top of the Supreme Court docket today and they justices interrupted their summer holidays tomorrow to consider the issue, a badly-thought-out case could just as easily end up extending patent terms to the 95 years that copyrights enjoy.

Unfortunately, a great deal of legal and political debate in the US currently looks like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo3uxqwTxk0
Can those private high schools deny problem kids? Are they a non random selection of students? Think about it.

Edit: You are also being selective in your examples. Why not compare Berkley to the University of Phoenix? You have to consider the entire range of private schools, and the overall output. But I'm not as concerned with higher education, I think that is a different system with a different goal.

Primary schools need to educate everyone, as a minimal level of what our society needs to move in a positive direction. Private schools would be incentivized to abandon problem kids that hurt their bottom line by screwing up their average scores and what not. This is even happening in public schools with some of the stupid testing schemes we've implemented, but it would be far worse imo with private schools.
A few of us in the ruby world use rip, https://github.com/defunkt/rip, which also isn't needed at runtime. Unfortunately, the ruby community never took much interest.
I think many older physicians would disagree with you that EHRs make their life easier.
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Good idea. =)
I might care more if I'd ever actually observed someone using FaceTime. I have 3 MacBooks, an iPad, an iPhone 4, my coworkers and girlfriend and friends have FaceTime compatible devices too, but I've never seen anyone use it. Maybe they don't open it because it is a dead product.
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Fairly simple and straight to the point.
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That still doesn't make something clever enough to merit a patent.
I think Facetime is already open. You can use it on your Mac, on your iPhone, on your iPad. Looks like this is open to Steve Jobs, open to all your iOS devices. Why would you need to have another kind of device anyway?
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They can't get out of the way of their own egos (imo).
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I showed this to a friend who has created software for the medical industry and has close ties with/knowledge of the industry. He allowed me to copy his thoughts here, with some very minor edits for privacy:

Regarding Drchrono app:

> a) [...] compared to PAPER it's pretty good! but its not built with speed in mind, iits built to tackle other things like billing, and assumes a more traditional practice. it aint gonna make you more $$ in an office as it does nothing to speed up the workflow and allow a doc to cut staff, which is THE overhead in a practice.

> b) that 44k comes with a lot of strings. main one is that you have to have 30% medicaid patients. that alone can bankrupt a practice, as medicaid pays a fraction of what insurance/medicare pays for visits. an efficient practice, for example, would look at the 44k and say 'f that'.

> other strings is what [some doctors] refers to as the 'thought police ' - you have to regularly submit reports on your patient stats to the gov't. not nec.a bad thing, but few doctors want some beauracrat to be eyeballing their stats without knowing anything about the actual patients. i'm not sure how the data will be used... i generally dont think "outcome based" compensation is a great way to pay either bc its hard to quantify health and management of chronic stuff etc.

And opinion on medicine more generally:

> medicine has been, and ought to be, a relationship business - which defies a lot of efforts to quantify it. a lean practice [with] deep personal relationships with patients (as opposed to a clinic style 35 patients/day practice, which is mayhem and prone to problems) ought to be what ppl strive towards. thats not the trend... trend is towards big groups bc individual docs are dumb and cant run their practices well.

> anyway, its' a long discussion... :-) not clear what the next 10 years will bring. hunch is we'll be big losers when primary care is mostly atrophied and big groups with salaried docs are common. remember how much innovation comes from large entities. [a certain private practice he knows of] is 10 years ahead of anyones bc [it is] lean and innovative.
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Get the parents involved, get them to help teach their children, or even just point their children to Khan Academy.
You might be onto something. Whenever I go through the available plans on Comcast's website, I'm sure it's only showing residential plans. I've never looked into business plans. My guess is they would be very expensive, and offer unneeded features like a static IP.
"When a company starts fighting over IP, it's a sign they've lost the real battle, for users."

What does this say about Apple's lawsuits?
Really appreciate you going through the trouble to do that and post the results so we don't need any hand-waving.

This looks the same as the original proposal -- using the hashCode and final verification via equals.

So in a typical case scenario you have the 1-time calculation of the String's hashCode (which is then cached by java.lang.String) and the two method calls.

.equals() is the only thing that could get away from you performance wise, because unless string1 == string2 or are different lengths, you fall into a char-by-char comparison loop.

That could be a shitty surprise if you have a bunch of constants like "SAVE, RMVE, DELT, INST, UPDT" and don't realize what you are causing to happen under the covers.

I'd be curious (now) what actually happens with using Enums in switch statements to see what kind of hidden code is actually getting executed.

## ASIDE: An interesting alternative to switch statements with Enums: http://francisoud.blogspot.com/2008/02/better-way-to-use-jav...

Seems really a-typical though.

## UPDATE: It looks like using Enums ends up getting translated to:

switch(enum.ordinal())

calls followed up goto statements to the case labels. So enums should be practically just as performant as constant numeric values except for the method call.

If the JVM is smart enough to replace the calls to 'ordinal' with the constant return value, then it should be right on par with using numerical constants which would be sweet and make using the strategy outlined in that link possibly a nice performant alternative to normal Enum use.
There is a difference between saying "FaceTime is awesome!" and "We’re going to the standards bodies, starting tomorrow, and we’re going to make FaceTime an open industry standard."
Almost makes me want to go to school again.
That's exactly what WSGI does. Well, except for one brilliant improvement: It doesn't pass around raw HTTP, it passes around pre-parsed HTTP data structures. There are three structures: a response code ("200 Ok"), a list of headers, and an iterable that yields the body of the response (or older frameworks write to a filelike object that you can reimplement if necessary). Dealing in pre-parsed (or rather, not-yet-serialized) HTTP makes it much easier to write middleware.

If you really want to plug stuff together with HTTP, there exist HTTP servers that serve wsgi apps, and I'm sure there is a wsgi app somewhere that is an HTTP client. So you plug your framework's wsgi-app (which you didn't write and don't have to worry about) into an HTTP server. Then you point a WsgiHttpProxy at your HTTP server. Plug that WsgiHttpProxy app to your middleware and plug your middleware into another instance of your HTTP server. Rinse and repeat for as many middleware layers as you want. Now everything is HTTP, like you want.

Or, you know, just plug all your middleware together, avoiding parsing, serialization, IPC, context switching and all that crap.
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"The rule of thumb is that if someone says that's their name, that's what you call them."

Yes! Insofar as it can be made simple, that's how simple it is. I can't fucking believe how hard it is for some people (and databases) to accept that part.
I'd rather go with a diesel engine for small craft, and turboprop or turbofans for bigger/faster stuff. Jet a is widely available and cheap.

Isn't 100LL twice that in Europe?
However, that's not their job. The supreme Court's job is to make a decision based on the laws set on the books. They can't say, "Well, this version of the law would be better, so we'll go with that, but rather "Thus is what he law says".

We need to educate Congress. Better yet, we need educated people in Congress.
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Ask HN: Do startups tend to cross-promote each other? If not, why not?
I think this is a pretty straight-forward question, but in case I'm wrong: Lots of startups have ways of contacting users. And we are always looking for more. Cross-promoting seems easy, if not obvious, yet I don't see it very often. Am I wrong, and if not, why doesn't this happen?
Pretty much the same thing. Notice how they're going after the most successful Android manufacturers?
And if they reneg, are you going to be able to get enough pitchforks to make a difference?
Yes, because the comment you made that I responded to on the first place struck me as bafflingly insensitive to the point that was being made: that this intimidation is an obstacle in and of itself. If such a situation sounds like an entirely foreign experience to you, I am inclined to believe that you have never found yourself or can imagine yourself in a similar situation, thereby belying a high measure of privilege.
I wonder if this would really work:

http://jeremy.tregunna.ca/articles/2011-07-28/fight_software...
While I don't argue with the title of the article - bandwidth caps really are just a way to deal with infrastructure costs by passing it on to some consumers - the use of IP transit as a reference for an ISPs cost of service is inaccurate.

IP transit costs are what a carrier or ISP would pay to get traffic from their main datacenter/CO in a given metro area to the Internet. This is an operating expense and is a drop in the bucket compared to CapEx they spend on the last mile.

The cable operators and mobile carriers are freaking out because they are constantly pouring money into nodes splits and QAM carriers(cable) or radios, backhaul, and spectrum(mobile). These are the real money pits of their businesses and their motivation to enforce data transfer caps, throttling, etc.
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At first thought I imagined it'd just be useless pandering to developers like "You can now do closures or first class functions" or something equally useless.

Congratulations, you've found your Blub. (Mine is Python; I'm still not clear on what monads would do for me in practice).