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It seems to me that you might be missing the close-tab button on your browser, which is the perfect way to vote against a project you would rather not support.

I could easily see the contract price for a game like this going well above $18k for artwork, music composition, development and so on.
I don't know what the hell that site is doing, but even when fully loaded, my Android phone can't pan around it because its CPU is having a heart attack
A modern update on the concept of Monopoly - try the card game variant "Monopoly Deal":

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

All the childhood nostalgia of traditional monopoly (sans the dice & little pewter tokens) but with multiple genuine strategic options and an average game length of 10 minutes. Portable too!

If that isn't enough to hook you in, it is also available as TRANSFORMERS Monopoly deal.

http://www.toysrus.com.ph/Zones/FamilyFunandGames/tabid/132/...
I think a better solution is a mandatory licensing process. The threat of absolute exclusion is too damaging to the industry.

AND, the patent office needs to start DOING THEIR JOB and stop granting patents for obvious inventions.
I have a few ideas but im still waiting to find the right person to start it up with. Also its gonna be hard with school starting soon.
To me, undiscerning resentment of buzz words is a sign of one level "Cargo Cult" mentality looking down upon another level of "Cargo Cult" mentality.
That's way more CPU & RAM than you're going to need. 850W is A LOT for an idle machine. Fortunately, you won't draw anywhere near that without a graphics card.

Let's do some math.

Say your machine draws 250 Watts (~2 Amps). That's 6 KilowattHours(kwh) per day.

The US. national average for electricity is $0.112/kwh (as high as $0.31 in Hawaii) http://www.eia.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_6_a.html

Electricity for your machine will cost 6 * $0.112 = $0.67/day (on average)

That's $245.28/yr

These days you can get integrated Atom boards with up to 8 SATA ports.

Less power, less heat, less space. http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=2
I think what I was thinking of was "Dynamic Queries: database searching by direct manipulation" which is linked off here: http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/pubs/video92.shtml. That may not be as applicable as I thought it was.
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If you had your business in Peru, and only accepted payment for your services with Peruvian Nuevo Sol (their currency), I don't think that you could be deemed a business operating in the US if someone from the US signed up, but was charged in Nuevo Sol, with their bank doing the currency exchange. I could be wrong though, so don't take my word.

If you accepted US dollars (and then exchanged them locally in Peru, or kept them), say through PayPal or a US based Credit Card Merchant, then I could almost guarantee that is enough to deem your business as operating in the US.
> So they're going to arrest a kid for sending an average on one packet every two seconds, over the period of two-and-a-half hours?

As a general principle, if it is illegal for one person to perpetrate an act against a victim, I don't see how it should not be illegal for a large group of people to perpetrate the same act, even though the individual contribution of each member of the large group might be small enough that if he were alone it would not rise to the level of a crime.

To do it any other way would open up a hell of a big loophole, it seems to me.
Wish there was a foursquare for news papers?

I was a long time free subscriber of nytimes.com but now after the pay wall I switched to wsj.com because it clearly states the articles that are locked (removes guessing).
What I did: go to Stack Overflow, pick the most popular question of the month and search on Google. Lots of 'mirrors' will appear (probably not on the first page) and you can use your judgement.
What other sources of tech news do HN'ers frequent besides HN?
This is really a poorly written article, I try to not be negative about articles but man this one misses a lot of key trends. I agree with the summation of the article companies are divesting themselves of full-time staffed IT personnel and that is not entirely a bad thing many of these people end up becoming consultants and find that they can actually earn more and control their destiny with finer detail. The article seems to wrap everything but developers into consultants which is really not a correct representation.

It would better be reflected as 3rd party vendor provided services. Take for example ops they are still needed they have just been shuffled around. Either a company retains a company to do ops or they purchase a managed service that virtualizes and supports everything on 3rd party systems.

The work still exists, it has not disappeared rather it has just been shuffled around. One can make an argument about the efficiencies of markets and that a company dedicated to server support can do it more efficiently and with higher quality but the reality remains that that work exist and either through a consultant or an employee it is going to get done. In the end there is still ops work for a dedicated ops person.

My second gripe is wrapping project management up into a tech job at all. It is an administrative job plain and simple, it would be nice if project managers had some form of technical background but unfortunately the reality is that most don't. Most that I have met are lost and lean on developers to drag them through the process. To me it is a stretch to even call project managment a technical job. Most technical people don't want the job and most people that take it are not technical.

Finally, wrapping everything that gets built under developer is just as broad as wrapping everything else under consultant. There are so many developers with so many specialties and some of them are consultants as well. That the category is almost meaningless, just go ahead and throw developer up under consultant and call it a day. There is really no need for a distinction with both categories being so broad.
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Facebook did the same thing to me when I tried to advertise my social networking service on Facebook. This is anti-competitive - on both counts. But it's illegal if you are deemed to have monopoly power.
That's just stupid, read on. You don't give them this info, you give it to Yodlee, the same people behind Mint.
I remember hearing that Google is making well over 50% of all Internet Advertising revenue in the US.
The best version of Monopoly I've played is the Mega version. A third dice speeds up the game start and finish by forcing players to move to the next unowned property, or to the next property where they must pay rent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly:_The_Mega_Edition

+1 for those who recommended Settlers. Ticket to Ride is also fun, and Diplomacy does not have to destroy friendships. (Anyone willing to devote 5-7 hours to a game is a friend forever, no matter how long I remember that time they switched sides without warning and wiped me out.)
After reading the article and most of the affidavit, it sounds like you completely made up both of these claims.
Hey, I run CompassionPit.com and have built up a sizable, stable community.... (40,000-200,000 unique visitors/month). I would be very happy to collaborate with a like-minded individual. The app is on the node.js stack and I've funded development and hosting entirely. I've released the source for free.

https://github.com/zackster/CompassionPit--Node-/
> "I'm wondering what type of system all the naysayers would have in place that would properly balance the requirements of google, the law, the community, and the individual users - and how they would scale that to ten million+ users."

This exists - it's called paying for something you use every single day, and is a core part of your existence (both online and off).

Why more people aren't self-hosting or purchasing email hosting services (and yes, that includes SLAs and proper customer support) is beyond me.
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The subject of article is more or less how IV's reasoning is flawed. Picking a quote from the beginning and saying "that is flawed" is just echoing the bulk of the article. I would guess your downmodders think you're not adding to the discussion.
Comparing the average software engineer to a cardiologist is just silly. If you're going to select a small, highly skilled portion of the medical field to analyze, you should compare it to a skilled portion of the software engineering field.

Let's draw a more valid comparison: that between cardiologists and graduates of good engineering programs. Graduates from top CS programs are making significantly more than 58K fresh out of college. The standard offer from Microsoft for a good UIUC CS student is 80K + starting bonus. Conservatively assuming an average salary of 100K over 15 years for the programmer, he is 1.5 million ahead once the cardiologist is finally debt free (12 years of school + 3 years to pay back debt). The cardiologist will then take 7.5 years to catch up, by which time the cardiologist will be in his 50s. I don't know about you, but I'd rather be debt free and making 100K in my 20s, 30s, and 40s, then being the guy on top when I'm 50.
That was what I was thinking too. But then they are saying electromagnetic field actually follows this "aether" like model where it interacts with photons. Now they are trying to prove that the same should be true for Higg's fields too which gives particle mass. Check the second article.

Interesting.
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...but you can show how bad things end up when we start recommending eugenics.

This is a perfect example of why it's bad to reject an idea simply because it has unpleasant proponents. If we rejected eugenics based on unpleasant associations, thousands of Ashkenazi Jewish children would have died a horrible death.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay%E2%80%93Sachs_disease#Scree...
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While this is generally right, it is also fairly common for patent trolls to go after some small fish they claim are violating a patent first to set a precedent of wins (or settlements) against opponents with weak legal war-chests.

A string of these small victories makes it much easier for them to shake down the big targets later... So while you PROBABLY won't be the target of a lawsuit unless you're very successful, there's a bit of a lottery that happens pretty often with these cases where some small percent of small targets do get run over by the patent holders on the road to the bigger guys. And if you happen to draw the short straw on that, it sucks to be you.
I'd say it's true in almost every field. Usually the person with previous programming experience because they were interested to self guide themselves through it will be the better programmer and may stay that way all throughout college. They may get higher marks but it certainly isn't hard enough that those just coming in can't pass also.
It is absolutely true that Google has their support issues, and they should be criticized for them, but...

Do you seriously think there is any other US provider (i.e. subject to US child pornography laws) that would have behaved any better? Given the allegation, it probably was legally risky for Google to keep his data at all. There are laws that criminalize even the "innocent possession" of child pornography. Had things gone another way, I presume Google would have argued they were preserving evidence, but they have to be very, very careful regardless. I'm absolutely certain there are many providers who would have behaved worse (account closed, no comment, no investigation, no appeal, data given to the police then deleted).

In the alternative scenario, many of the things you want Google to do could easily be illegal. After an allegation, any warning, contact or access to data could easily have been construed as aiding and abetting a crime in progress and/or obstruction of justice (particularly by an ambitious, headline-seeking prosecutor). What you don't seem to understand is that, once the allegation was made Google couldn't do squat for @thomasmonopoly without risking criminal charges until they determined the allegation was false. And that determination was going to take time no matter how you slice it.

Personally, I find it hard to think of what Google could do better in this sort of situation. My two suggestions (and I'm not sure they're practical):

1. Commit to manually reviewing every automatic suspension for these kinds of potential criminal allegations.

2. Be clear about when an account is being suspended and investigated versus suspended with a final determination made.
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I am most concerned about why they made copies of his iPhone and iPad. I'm not going to sit here and pick apart whether they had a "right" to do that -- it has long been abundantly clear that customs Gestapo can arbitrarily assign whatever rights they want to themselves, with full legislative and judicial blessing, in the name of security theater. But why? What did he do that earned this treatment?
I think more than anything you point out that the sample size is to small to really take anything meaningful from it.
Do I need to enumerate the many problems with node.js's runtime that make it unsuitable as a replacement for Erlang which has been done many times before?
No, the audio version mentions that the patent office used to operate on the principle that software could be copyrighted but not patented, but sometime in the 80s the judiciary indicated in several instances that was not the case and the patent office complied.
Syntax is potentially the most shallow thing to complain about, particularly when it actually makes sense in the structure of the language in question (like Erlang) and doesn't hurt readability for anyone (unlike some perceptions of Lisp).
It's an interesting question, though. If 1000 people tell one person that they don't like them, and the person commits suicide, then it's reasonable to claim that the group drove them to do it. However, do you prosecute an individual who merely tells someone, "I don't like you?" On an individual basis, it's a weak case. I'm not sure how the law deals with this, or even if there exists any legal principles dealing with how to prosecute actions that are, by themselves, harmless and not illegal (running LOIC may signal an intent to block access, but in the same way that gunning a Pinto on the highway may signal an intent to speed, you're unlikely to be able to break the law).
> The entire philosophy is crash only processes which are supervised by Forever.

> we usually get let things crash and restart.

>This isn't idea for guaranteeing delivery of messages

That is not Erlang.
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Did you see the chart? That's what the empirical data shows. Tax avoidance behavior increases as tax rates increase, you have moving targets.
Google's numbers presumably only come from tablets running Honeycomb accessing the Market. Which means non-Honeycomb tablets (which have been out a lot longer, have greater penetration in non-US lands, etc etc) aren't counted.

I can't find any recent stats, but as of March 2011, the Nook Color sold 3 million units. Way ahead of the 0.9mil quoted in the article, and it's only for one device.
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I'm more bothered by the idea that the architecture of the Internet would be turned into a "get out of jail free" card. Unless your attacker is completely incompetent, the only evidence you'll have is an IP address; if you can't use that then you have nothing.
Don't look now but...

http://www.plotpatents.com/

They've actually been trying for some time now.
Minor quibble. The latest versions of chrome(12 onwards) let you de-obfuscate JS code, and set breakpoints in the cleaned up code. Just right click in the source tab pane, and the code get prettified.
> Nearly every PSU operates most efficiently somewhere in the middle of it's power range, operating a high power PSU at 20% capacity will use notably more power than a correctly sized one.

One note from a physics major who's first job out of college was a the electrical officer on a frigate: this applies to all electrical devices. This sort of "over-supply solves all problems" attitude is quaint when it's a home server. It really sucks when under-loaded 1MW diesel generators shit the bed almost weekly on deployment in the summer. Any idea how much hot-dark-and-quiet sucks when you're bobbing like a cork in the middle of the ocean in the summer? Now imagine you're the person that 250 hot, cranky people expect to fix it. Why? because some "contracting expert" in the Pentagon decided to "over-spec" the generators 25 years ago.
I question that Google took the appropriate action. The default action for an apparently legitimate account[0] that violates the ToS in such a manner should be to block access to the content in question - perhaps even related content until a human can review it. It should never be to entirely disable the account without warning.

[0]I'd be shocked if Google doesn't use data mining and heuristics to discriminate between legitimate accounts and spammers, pornographers, etc....
Now you've made me curious. Claim 1 of the one-click patent:

A method of placing an order for an item comprising:

under control of a client system,
displaying information identifying the item; and
in response to only a single action being
performed, sending a request to order the item
along with an identifier of a purchaser of the
item to a server system;

under control of a single-action ordering component
of the server system,
receiving the request;
retrieving additional information previously
stored for the purchaser identified by the
identifier in the received request; and

generating an order to purchase the requested
item for the purchaser identified by the
identifier in the received request using the
retrieved additional information; and

fulfilling the generated order to complete purchase
of the item

whereby the item is ordered without using a shopping
cart ordering model.

IANA Patent Lawyer, but one obvious way to provide "one-click" functionality while evading this patent would be to have all the information required to generate an order POSTed in response to the mouse-click instead of storing customer data on the server.

I suspect that sending a login session cookie instead of a user-id cookie would also be ruled to be non-infringing -- after all, the patent specifies "an identifier of a purchaser", not "an identifier which can in combination with previously stored information be used to identify a purchaser".

If I wanted to think about this for more than five minutes I could come up with other solutions, but I'm not a patent lawyer and don't want to spend too much time twisting my brain around patent law.
Shallow? I can't roll my eyes at those whom complain about noisy/unpleasant syntax. It's quite important that it's agreeable to you if you have to stare at it all day long. Sure, there are many other important considerations when evaluating a language, but being concerned with syntax is hardly shallow IMHO.
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It's interesting to see more mainstream media outlets (npr and This American Life (public radio?)) talk more about patent trolling lately. As of a few weeks ago lay people I talked to had no idea programmers generally disliked patents.
Have you spent more than a tutorial with Erlang?
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Boppreh said he or she configured Opera to use those keys, are you suggesting that a browser ignore user configuration to better "get out of their way?".

If so, I strongly disagree with you. But I would agree that a browser's default configuration should be as unobtrusive as possible --but when configured it should meekly obey and not let websites act against your expressed will.
I guess it depends on what you mean by "recently" - in this case, it means 12-16 years before any current firefighter trainee was even born. (Assuming cadets are age 18-22.)

I agree with you that we should allow women to take the test, but we shouldn't lower standards to allow them to pass.
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"there is a physical pre-programmed revulsion to everything that Higher math, Physics and Programming have to offer."

This is not consistent with my understanding of myself or all the other women I've known, and it does not seem to make sense based on the women that you've known either - maybe the female programmers you've met weren't awesome at what they did, but why would they have chosen this profession if they felt a deep revulsion every day when they were learning how to program?

I am sorry that you imagine that all the many women who enjoy making contributions to these fields are fighting against some inherent evolved dislike for them, instead of reaching deep into their personal enthusiasm for these fields and fighting against the sexist attitudes and cultures they often run into.
I wonder if there will be a "Finlandization" of software development (concept courtesy of Chris Crawford's classic "Balance of Power" game) where small devs and dev shops align with larger, protective entities that provide defensive protection in exchange for association with the aura of small, indy developers.

Think (evilly): Myrhvold's IV Labs or Apple or Microsoft or IBM offers a "Friends of IV/Apple/MSFT/IBM" program where for $495 annually (like a Apple Developer Connection subscription) you're guaranteed protection, get a t-shirt, give up some PR, etc.

Eh...
Is that the point? Am I criticising Erlang myself? No, I'm just merely pointing out that being concerned with language aesthetics is not the "most shallow" thing imaginable.
Okay, at least in the ballpark then. But I think you missed the point— you're paying today for storage you won't use until God knows when. How do you justify that with HDD prices per GB dropping dramatically every few months?

I understand not wanting the hassle of buying a new drive at some point in the future, but I've a hunch that this is the sort of "future proofing" that makes your system seem charmingly quaint a year from now.
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Remind me of a statistics I did months ago. http://codingai.appspot.com/demo/usesthis
I know where you're coming from, and you are right. Its context. I find buzz words tend to upcoming marketing terms, perhaps we are discussing slightly different things.. not sure. Older buzz terms aren't a problem as they have either been stabilized or rejected.

But where you see "savvy" I generally see naive.

I find people that get hooked up on buzzwords are younger people trying to make a mark and people trying to cash in. Been that demographic myself, been burned, and I watch others burn to this day.

I'm seen so many millions go down the drain to buzz terms and over sold open source initiatives. But then again thats why I put a disclaimer saying I was bitter and jaded LOL
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Considering one of the authors of CouchDB has already chimed in saying he think's this is a neat idea, yes I think you should enumerate those reasons or provide similar credentials.
Yes. And ruin his life.

How to launch a worse attack than these people did:

1) Browse to website.
2) Place heavy object on F5 key.

Seriously.