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His post doesn't address this - Google bidding alongside MSFT and winning on these patents would have taken these patents off the table as far as any future litigation goes, basically making these one less set of patents for either Google or MSFT to worry about.

Does he expect MSFT to somehow help Google build a defensive portfolio against it?
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Monaco is quite nice, if you're willing to live in a flat. If you want a nice garden, maybe a few trees and a pool, you can pretty much forget it.
If Jamie Oliver critiqued El Bulli, it doesn't mean he is advocating for Burger King. Miranda != Java.
No that's not the same. The paperclip was something separate, on another part of the screen, that tried to "help" for absolutely everything, constantly, and again and again.

I'm suggesting something similar to what gmail does: when a new feature is launched you get a popup box near the new feature with an arrow pointing to the feature explaining two things:

1. What it does and why it would be useful

2. How to get rid of the popup box, but also how to get the info from the popup box again later if you need it.
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The self-dealing by the banks since 2008 has been almost wholly underwritten by the Fed and the Treasury. Beyond TARP there are myriad guarantees, lending programs, and regulatory exemptions, all designed to provide the banks with greater profit and allowing them to offload risk, usually to the Fed or the taxpayer. Indeed, if you look closely, much of the "profit" in the banking system today is coming from banks borrowing at Fed subsidized rates and lending that money back to the U.S. government.
Even the average programmer must keep up with the changes in whatever systems and languages they use, long after completing formal education. Therefore they must read beyond what their formal education prescribed.
A good point: today only the Sparks in Google+ bring some light to what can be possible: for me the key enabling social network development through topic related information exchange.
And another: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2844990

And another: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2845212
> I believe reaching to Google from MS was a planned move.

Of course it was a planned move, it's not like a guy wakes up in the morning and calls a significant competitor to offer a joint bid on a billion+ patent trove while buttering his toasts.

> And it worked.

The only way for it not to work would be if Google had won their bids. As long as MSFT's joint bid got the prize they got out happy. Google tried to play a hard game, and they blew it.
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I wholeheartedly agree. The schooling system was set up more than 60 years ago. Any social system instituted by man is time limited. With time, people (because we're intelligent) try to maximize the benefits while minimizing the effort, and this compromises the system.

Sixty years ago, finishing high-school was a major accomplishment, opening lots of opportunities. One went to college because he/she wanted to learn stuff which will be useful on his/her voyage to the frontiers of human knowledge. Intellectual curiosity is the main motivating factor for this kind of people.

College education today assumes the same role that high-school education had 60 years ago, and it's NOT because there's more stuff that has to be learned. (I think 12 years of education is more than enough to keep the world spinning. We're just doing it wrong, but that's another story. Paul Lockheart's Mathematician's Lament is a great read on this subject, feel lucky on Google).
The question is, what will provide today what colleges provided 60 years ago?

I don't mean to sound catastrophic. Top-class research is being done today as well. It's just that we're making things unnecessarily hard for everybody.
Unusual scoping rules that are easily worked around do not make Python's closures not closures. And I'm not sure why you're bringing up lambda -- I don't know anyone who uses it much, and I consider it an obfuscation mechanism rather than a useful tool.

As for your personal attacks on me... I dispute statements you made that I consider to be utterly wrong, and you say I'm "getting offended" and "trolling"? Now I'm offended.

I look up and down the comments on here and I see all sorts of people making blanket statements about how great Scheme is, yet when I argue a couple specific points you brought up about Python, I'm being the partisan troll? WTF?
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...like the idea and they way how it is implemented.

This could open up even one more door which today stops discussions about cloud computing usage in enterprises. (of course in these companies, which today rely heavily on existing & own IT infrastructures)
This is an excellent video that explains it very well - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10
Ask HN: Biggest problem in link sharing today?
What's the biggest problem with link sharing today? Oversharing? Information overload? Categorization of feed items by topics, types, keywords and interests? Something else?

Do you something feel you'd like to share many more interesting items, but you're afraid to flood your friends feed on Twitter/Facebook/Google+ and get unfollowed/hidden?

What problem would you like to see solved in link sharing?
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A computer is an imperative device. It is a deterministic state machine. Teaching introductory programming with a functional language is teaching students wrong, i.e. it does them a disservice.

One could as easily argue that a computer is a tool, and if it helps us making better (according to some criteria) programs, why not abstract away the underlying architecture?
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I'm much happier since I abandoned both Gnome and KDE, and went with StumpWM instead.
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This site has the weirdest anti-copy system I've ever see.

I noticed because I usualy browse with javascript disabled. Have a look at the source:

<style type="text/css">
@media print
{
.u972bf{position:absolute;text-indent:-10000px;display:none}.y34{position:absolute;text-indent:-10000px;display:none}.r834db{position:absolute;text-indent:-10000px;display:none}
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<div style="position:absolute;top:0px;left:0px;background-color:#f0f0f0;z-index:100"></div>
<noscript>
.u972bf{position:relative;text-indent:-10000px;}.y34{position:relative;text-indent:-10000px;}.r834db{position:relative;text-indent:-10000px;}<style type="text/css">#noscriptmessage{display:block !important } .width_646.column_left{display:none}</style>
</noscript>

And that's the mess behind the text:

<p><i class="r834db">to </i>If <i class="y34">&copy;afr.com </i>I <span class="y34">&copy;afr.com </span><span class="u972bf">Based </span>had <span class="y34">&copy;afr.com </span><span class="r834db"> </span><i class="r834db">accustomed </i><b class="u972bf">and </b><span class="e218f">$1</span>

Should this be an example of "how to improve a website"?
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I read it as "what they're worth if you're using them ethically".
It was recently argued that the initial assessment of the severity of the downturn was wildly off (by 4% of GDP), and that led to poor strategy formulation by Washington.
I think often I just want to let people know that I stumbled upon something; I don't really care if they actually check it out or not.

So, I don't quite like the FB way of listing all my links as posts. If it would say something like "<Person's Name> has stumbled upon 5 links today, click [here] to expand", I think that might be better.

I don't have a stumbled upon account (and I'm not entirely sure how that site works).
Haha, yeah maybe BRW should read their own articles :-P
The total number for 2009 was 743, though, which is pretty small peanuts by the scale of the U.S. economy. It's not even large as a proportion of very-rich people.
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Hi,

Assuming you are a developer for both the iPhone and the iPad, what's the profit ratio between both platforms?

I'd also be interested in the sales ratio if you went with a different price for one of them.

Thanks!
I think he was thinking more of the attitude than actual products.
The 'Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory' is a hypothesis at best. One that has been refuted by empirical evidence of pro-social behavior under anonymity many times.

For all practical purposes, it's not even a well-formulated hypothesis, and most people (even journalists) never bother to look at any of the findings, it's just a popular meme.
I was in the same situation as you. I had been using mac and then bought a desktop PC and ran Linux. I tried awesome, xmonad, gnome, kde, etc but none of them were to my liking.

So now I run Windows 7, which is more option-full than you might think and develop on a virtual arch box via ssh/vim... It's the perfect setup in my opinion!
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The site is REALLY slow right now.

Have you tried viewing the html - there's some neat ASCII art at the top.
It's a good thing patents are only available for consumer products, or who knows what a mess we'd be in!
For Firefox there's RequestPolicy: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy...

RequestPolicy is an extension that improves the privacy and security of your browsing by giving you control over when cross-site requests are allowed by webpages you visit.
While we're at it, distros should upgrade KDE4 back to KDE3. I switched from KDE4 to Gnome 2 because KDE4 was so bad.
s/Linux interface designers/GNOME interface designers/

I don't think that KDE4 or Xfce, much less other alternatives, are moving towards a tablet-inspired interface.
> However, you should always feel comfortable asking your regulatory agencies what should and should not be done

Presumably the key point is to ask before you do them.
I think most of the reason you can't trust the government is because these people are pulling the strings of the government. When you have a political structure where money means everything, money buys power. These people don't pay taxes because they have built the system so they don't have to. It's not that they don't trust the .gov, they essentially are the .gov.
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Fun exercise: If something grows at 3.5% per year, how long does it take to double in size?

Answer: About 20 years. The exact answer is ((log 2)/(log 1.035)).
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These behind the scenes emails raise a question in my mind. On what other issues these companies are covertly colluding with each other which we don't know. One obvious thing could be some kind of silent agreement on not competing with each other on employee salaries etc. to keep them in check. There could be more like trying not to increase valuations of startups they are trying to acquire.
What? When I bought a new laptop (few months ago) which came with W7 too, it took it about an hour (on the first run) to install some vendor (HP) crapware, randomly popping up old-fashioned term windows running a lot of text, before I could use it, anyhow; it ended up with some… something. I didn't even know how to connect to my wifi, there were two very different (both in appearance and behavior) widgets for that, fighting each other. The interface was, on the first sight, very polished and rather nice, but after first few minutes, I started to spot things that looked like leftovers from Windows 98, most likely, they were. To actually do something, I had to download some 3rd parties software packages, none of them really fitted into the W7 environment. Three completely different fileselectors on the screen at one time? W7 problem too, obviously.

Well, I'm not making definite conclusions from what I saw, it was just something like 4 hours and I bought the laptop to use with Linux anyway, so I didn't really want to use Windows even if I liked them more than I actually did. But I really tried to approach it without prejudices and bias. And I really think that it's stuck in 1990's. 20 years before OS X and now even Gnome 3. Hey, it was even worse than Android!
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Ask HN: A company that doesn't repect the "don't email me" flag ...
Very briefly, I'm in the UK and I've purchased some items from a company. I told them not to contact me promotional emails. They send me a promotional email. I told them to stop. They've sent me another.

What can I do?
20 years gone...must require quite the will!
> I do hope however that great professors will still strongly suggest [SICP] to students who want to go one step deeper.

Surely anyone studying comp sci at MIT should want to go one step deeper? If not, WTF are they doing there?
But when will they support micro instances inside of a VPC? This is the one feature I need before I can use VPC.

In fact, the main appeal of VPC is that it makes it a lot easier to manage hordes of micro instances.
I think the take home message of all of this, more than ever, is that software patents are damaging to innovation and an overall detriment to the industry.

These companies should be competing on performance and features, not with lawyers over whether a linked list is an innovation (example taken out of context, but some of these patents are no better than the multiply linked list patent covered a year ago).
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Some radiation goes through walls. That said, I don't know what kind of radiation his experiments would have produced, so your statement may still be correct in the specific case.
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It's probably cheaper to hire an army of lawyers and patent any old stupid idea. If buying these is more expensive, I could see their point. Who knows what the reality is.

Either way, patents are horrible and Google should have seen this coming and done something about it. Jointly grabbing patents and attacking the patent system politically seems like a good move. The best out come of all of this is serious reform.
You don't understand software patents.
Only problem with that is that others remember the substance of the emails as well.. MS wanted to set it up so that prior Nortel terms to any patent in the bid was upheld in any royalty agreement irregardless of bankruptcy..Google wanted something else.
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A handy rule of thumb for doubling is 70/(rate of growth).
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Yes, but networking and marketing is not even close to as taxing as coding or solving mathematical problems. This is so much the case, that I generally discount business dinners as not work.
I've done this at http://blog.frogmorecs.com/post/7190338563/print-distributor... to try and get ahead of the coupon spam. In the long term I am going to switch to coupon links and drop the field
Why is this being downvoted? I assume that this is a question that many might have, if they're not familiar with the complete details. It's certainly discussion-worthy and thus shouldn't be downvoted.
Shocking perhaps but it shouldn't be terribly surprising. Cargo cult behavior (imitation devoid of knowledge or critical thinking) tends to be the norm rather than the exception. In security as in elsewhere.
>Linus isn't the target audience for Gnome 3.

But who is the target audience for Gnome 3?
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I'm not sure why, but the page is in Korean.
Here is an English blog post: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/3250656#blog
The problem with links is quality and structure. If you are just wasting some time on fb you don't need it, but if you are doing a research this is rather useful. Yet, nobody does it.

I have been learning web development in python the last months and what I am missing is a good way to keep truck of my sources and to share also. What if somebody just learnt the same thing and has a handful collection of links? No way he can share.
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Hit the Report Spam button.

There are escalation options above this, but they're irrational.
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No search facility? Really?

Yes, I know you can URL-hack, but a search-engine with stemming would make the site a lot more usable/useful.
Google UK also pays most of it taxes to Ireland, despite the revenue being from the UK. Wonder if that has anything to do with Ireland having lower taxes?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...

They call it "transfer pricing" but really it's tax avoidance, and should be illegal.
You're confusing the Nortel and Novell bids. MSFT invited Google to join the group bidding on the Novell patents. The email I saw was an invitation to talk about joining, which Google refused, not a proposal of any specific terms.

Generally, it would be silly to expect Google to join a group and pay part of the bid, and not get a right to the patents, or have them encumbered. And at the same time, joining a group like this would by definition be cheaper than bidding against the group.

So, the only reason for Google to refuse to talk about joining the group to bid on the Novell patents would be if google was planning to use them against the group, if it won them.
In my past life I've worked on the Google Maps identity story when Google Hotpot launched (allowing you to set a maps nickname, while still having friends on Google Maps). I feel that identity on the web is a harder problem than most people realize.

My personal opinion is that you have to strike the right balance between

+ establishing trust in the production of content (you want other people to trust what you post, build an identity). Producing anonymous/pseudonymous content is fine, but how can I, as a consumer of that content (reader of reviews) can make sure I can trust it?

+ offerring users the protection they want from entities bothered by the content you produce. This can range from the extreme cases of freedom of speech, minorities, sensitive issues (medical, sexual orientation) to the more trivial examples of bad reviews for restaurants where the owners might track you down.

+ incentivizing the production of high quality content and discussions (see the quality of YouTube comments for a case of user generated content gone wrong :-) ).

+ making it easy for users to deal with this identity complexity. Understanding that even though you are logged in with your GMail account you are posting as a Nickname, understanding what others can or cannot infer about you.

It's a complicated problem full of tradeoffs any way you want to go.
+ Go with real-name all the time and you upset the people that are not comfortable exposing their real name.
+ Go with pseudonymity and you lose the benefits brought by having an identity on the web.
+ Go with a compromise and you have to deal with complicated user experience problems.
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The email makes it pretty clear:
http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/08/03/microsoft.says...
Both terminal and iTerm require a right click to spawn a new terminal for me. I'd love it if I could left click the dock icon and get a new terminal with my hom directory as the working directory.
You hit the nail on the head with your last part.

There's tons of little loopholes all over the place. For example, the Isles of Scilly have a slightly strange legal status, and if they're not explicitly mentioned in a law, it doesn't apply to them (I was told this by someone at the council in St. Mary's but didn't ask for the specific statute).

To be honest, if a law is contentious enough for the scots to vote against it, then the devolved parliaments are just as likely push for their national reps to vote against it on the principle that it overrules them.
Oh, it's a way of doing discriminatory pricing: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
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I have never seen this sort of definition in scheme. Can you provide a pointer or three to show that this is 'idiomatic'?
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Many people ask me if it's good that the page has the "www" or not having the "www", but only the http://laweb.extension

The truth is: It does not matter.

What is really important is that your page does not open in both options. That is, if you write your web page with the www and opens and then try without the www and also opens up ... you have a serious problem of duplicate content.

It is important that you decide if you want to use the www or not and then redirects the other option. For example, if you decide that your page is http://www.tupaginaweb.latextension, when you or anyone else http://tupaginaweb.laextension type (without the www) should be redirected to http://www.tupaginaweb . latextension.

You can do this with either a 301 redirect in PHP or via htaccess. Anyway, do not let your page has both versions.

Some people think that the duplicate content penalty is applied to place the same content as other pages on your website. When in fact, really serious duplicate content is that which exists in your own website.
And SICP quits at this point? What if "previously-computed-result" is false, because f computes boolean values? This is just an 80% solution, which works for "fib".
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What he's saying is that new dollars don't have to enter the economy. If you remove one penny and inject 100 penny pennies, you've only split up the penny, nothing else. With electronic banking this doesn't even have to be anything, as you can just work with fractional dollars (yes I know current software doesn't work like that, but it could).
Worth here is most likely return on investment. If it costs $4.5bn to purchase the patents but they are only license-able for total of $1bn, or there's a chance someone could get them invalidated, or your violation targets figures out a way around them, you could have ended up spending $4.5bn for a lemon. Spending $4.5bn on an investment that doesn't at least break even doesn't look good to shareholders.

Something is only worth what someone is willing to pay if there is a market. There's a only a market when a buyer and seller meet. If someone is acquiring the patents not to (re)sell them, but to use them in an offensive or defensive mode, there is no market to consider what people will pay for them.