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I'll preface this by saying I'm a 15 year old programmer. Unless you desperately need the money, I wouldn't recommend doing menial freelance jobs like that. Instead, you should focus on learning to program. Sure, doing freelance work would get you a little money now, but you could make exponentially more in the future if you know how to program. Also, once you learn how to program, you could do freelance programming if you wanted. At least you would be learning by doing freelance programming. You won't be learning much by removing viruses.
I also own both Android and iOS phones.

and I've also never purchased an app on Android.

So either we're both under the bridge, or you've mis-labeled the troll. (Look in the mirror.)
Yeah it seems a bit of a stretch to call someone with 3 degrees a dropout...
I find this argument unconvincing: Second, writing software is an individual, expressive activity at least as much as it is an engineering discipline.

The implicit argument is that creating software is inherently more creative than, say, creating a mechanical device. Yes, I take enjoyment in crafting my code so that its model is no more complex than it has to be, and in refactoring the code so that it is as clear as aesthetically pleasing as possible. But I imagine that people who design physical items feel the same way about their work.

Please note that I am not disagreeing with conclusions - I have said nothing about his conclusions. But I think the overall argument is stronger without this one. With it, it feels like he started with a conclusion, and used whatever arguments lead to that conclusion.
I have no interest in "arguing" with you in this manner. I wasn't rude, or certainly not intentionally or as much as you are. Besides, you've brought nothing new to discuss and the "label" of the untruth (but not lie) of his statement is irrelevant.

And you should know, it's not possible to downvote child comments, nor would I have anyway.
A previous General Counsel of ours divided the community of IP lawyers into two categories - those who work hard to build companies, protect created intellectual property, and the other category - the attorneys who do the opposite - destroy companies and leech off wealth. He referred to those attorneys who do work for Patent Trolls at an all hands meeting as "bottom feeding lowlifes".

I sometimes wonder how miserable Patent Attorneys who end up working for patent trolls must feel about themselves, or whether they've kidded themselves into believing they aren't part of the problem. Or whether they are just paid so much money they don't care.
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3678 packets / 2.5 hours = One packet every 2.44 seconds * 1500 byte MTU = 3.5KB/s Yup, a 4800 baud modem.
HN should strip www when checking for duplicates.
I sympathize with you. What needs to be done is help these women be more confident and know they have every right to be where they are.

You think women are minority. Try being Black, from Africa, with an accent, and without a college degree. So believe when I say I feel you.

There are dicks everywhere. However I learned very early that 99% of what's holding people is within themselves and not the rest of the world. That goes for you, me, and every other minority.
I would argue that patent term should be roughly proportional to the time it takes to build something useful with it. Now, I know this is a giant black hole defined by "useful" but consider this: it takes much less resources (time and money) to go from patent to product in software than in chemistry or airplane engine.

Having a software patent term of 5 years is enough to have a leading product in competition even with software giants like IBM(start-ups are a good evidence of that). While the normal 20 year term for non-software patent, which certainly requires more time and money to have an upper hand vs big companies in already similar markets, should be left as it is.

Perhaps there are other industries where, for the grater good of human kind, they can apply some limit function on patent term, say Pharmaceutics.
Allowed by the commenting community.

There's a difference between simple and simplistic. Simplistic is pretending the only incentive force at work in a national scale institution is the profit incentive.

Simple is acknowledging that a small institution with the mission statement to advocate for profit incentive as the singular organizing principle of our economy probably believes in its mission statement and operates for the purpose of the private profit of its owners.

I've seen a few _interesting_ notes from CATO, but nothing I would call subtle or anything but free market fundamentalism. They tend to pick up every single news story and view it through a free market, shrink govt, give an individual the profit lens. Which is why they can only write a short, generic paragraph of comment on an interesting story about Khan Academy. OP should have been a link to Wired.
That's pretty much what happens!
Ya know, I can't help feeling that this quote is apropos:

"Everything is amazing, and nobody is happy." --Louis C.K.

It used to be the case that you couldn't get ANYTHING approaching 5mbps download speed in your home. Now we regularly get 15, 25, and even 50mbps download speeds.

You also couldn't get decent wireless data. Remember EDGE? 1xRTT? Try streaming Netflix back then.

I remember Airphone and using a MODEM to get 9600bps data so I could send an urgent IM and followup email via the Airphone on a flight to a co-worker. Now I can get GoGo inflight internet pretty regularly. I'm looking forward to my next transatlantic on Lufthansa when I can have access to the Internet for almost the entire flight.

Need high-speed internet out in the middle of NOWHERE? You can get two-way high-speed Internet via satellite for a very reasonable sum.

It's all amazing and nobody is happy.

I've spent the past 20 years working in the Internet industry for almost EVERY major ISP out there. It's quite disheartening to see your router capacities double every two years when you're locked into a 7-year depreciation cycle for network hardware. Ditto for long-haul transmission.

This wireless is different? Maybe you weren't there for the tower space leasing negotiations I witnessed. You think broadband is expensive? Try sticking 3 antennas along with hardline 150' up a pole and tell me that your broadband is expensive when you see the monthly bill for tower leasing for a SINGLE site.

WOW.

The long term trend for high-speed internet pricing is DOWN. We get more and more downstream and upstream capacity per dollar with each passing year. Wired AND wireless. What was once IMPOSSIBLY expensive is only going to get less so in the future.

I used to pay $12.80 PER HOUR for 1200bps access.

BTW, You're Welcome.

Too expensive? Don't pay it. I think you can still get a 56kb modem on Ebay. Dialup ISP service is something like $7.95/mo now.

And that's in 2011 dollars.
Tim Cook has made several pointed references lately to the pre-paid market.
How did they fit enough transmit elements into a cell phone to do that? I thought cell phone antennae were omnidirectional.
I actually like my Logitech Revue a lot! I use it for Netflix streaming and to show family and friends my Picasa web albums.

It seemed to get more reliable several months ago after it updated itself.

All that said, I got one for free from Google last December and I would be less happy if I had paid $299 for it. At the "get rid of inventory" sale price of $99 it seems like a pretty good deal. I expect something even better to be released in the next year or so.

BTW, does anyone know if Apple TV supports Netflix and other data streams? If not, will they?
Checks and balances, not sharing of responsibility. The Supreme Court exists to protect Americans from unjust laws, not to write laws that congress should be writing.
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Getting certification and offering a $44K incentive are different things. I can understand the former being required of software companies - but the medical providers aren't the one who have to seek certification, they have to purchase the software and are being given an incentive to do so, because there isn't otherwise an obvious cost benefit for them to switch over.
I feel the software company should provide the cost benefit for the medical provider to switch over. Free market competition, without incentives thrown in, would eventually allow that.
they had that, it is called silverlight. People didn't want it all that much.
I have serious problems with the policies that CATO advocates. I expect them to explain and justify their policies, not appeal to a committee of Norwegians for authority. I expect the same of you.
The Supreme Court does not evaluate the intention of a law. Remember, the very process of judicial review was introduced after the Constitution was written, so the parts of the Constitution where it explains why it is written the way it is are rather clearly not policies.

That said, Title 35 of the United States Code states:

>Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title.

It is difficult to see how software patents could really fall under this. I don't know of any software patent describing a "process" which is not simply a mathematical algorithm (unpatentable), and they certainly don't describe a machine, manufacture, or composition of matter.

The patent described in Diamond v. Diehr is really not at all what we would today consider a software patent; it's not really similar to the patents on, say, wavelet compression in any sense beyond "there's silicon involved". It was a process of molding synthetic rubber, not pushing bits around.
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Java does no such thing as "encourages 20,000 line behemoths filled with dross". Bad programmers do.

If you're creating several methods that only differ a little bit, you're doing something stupid. In any language.

Bad programmers create bad code. The language is totally irrelevant.
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For the mobile phone use case, it seems like the transmitter would have to be emitting constantly in order to keep the base station appraised of its current position, for the purposes of computing the channel characterization. Otherwise, how would the base station know what transformations to perform on the outgoing signals to reach the mobile device in the event that a call is received? It's not like you could broadcast that information to everyone, because that would end up corrupting the spectrum for everyone else, which defeats the entire point of this system.

The whole scheme seems really dependent on knowing the position of all transmitters/receivers at all times.
To an extent you have a point, but consider the difference in amount of potential damage. I sit in at, say, a bank branch, it takes the police 24 hours (for some weird reason) to remove me. I DDoS that bank's servers, their online operations are offline for 24 hours. It's hard to argue against the idea that the digital version has, at the very least, the potential to be a lot more serious, and therefore more worthy of punishment.
Copyright protects translations and adaptations too.
At least Apple's failure to deliver on their promises on Open FaceTime leaves an opening for other folks to deliver (e.g. http://jointheseen.com/sdk)
Exactly, they have traded .nil? for .present? and added complexity.
>Just because Congress is incompetent doesn't mean we should put it on SCOTUS to fix our problems for us.

Congress never passed a law allowing software patents, though. It was the courts (but only the lower courts, never the Supreme Court) which historically interpreted the old patent laws (written before the age of computers) to apply to software -- I don't know of any parts of Title 35 which cover software specifically. Congress could modify the law to explicitly allow software patents, but they haven't.
We don't have a single protocol for everyone to standardize on, and we don't even have enough access to the various protocols to build a Trillian-like client that supports everything.

I thought both XMPP and SIP were supposed to solve that problem. What happened?
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you could throw a 64GB SSD in there and still be below the price of the 16GB Isostick
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Didn't Apple do something similar when they forked KHTML? I think it took them a few years to make it completely open source after they said they would.
s/unjust/unconstitutional/g

The Courts serve justice, but it is a legal justice, not a philosophical ideal.
You would think that at least a few of these Laureates would entertain the possibility that under the right conditions a community of technocratic professionals freely debating the merits of various policies could have a better answer than any single individual picked by a committee of Norwegians. It's almost like this is a free market of ideas, and you being downvoted is an invisible hand telling you to have better ideas if you want to make it.
No, Grub can boot from an ISO file (no "burning" or partitioning required). You can drag and drop it on a jump drive that has Grub installed and boot to it.

You could even patch Grub to scan the first partition for filenames ending in ISO and present them in the boot menu automatically.

This would be a starting point: http://www.panticz.de/MultiBootUSB I might hack around and see if this can be automated and made to be user friendly.
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How could a physical object be pure math? Even if you could completely mathematically specify the process of creating the object, that only means you couldn't patent the specification itself - the object would still be patentable.
Is that accurate in this case? My understanding is that the majority of the time, SCOTUS interprets the constitutionality of laws.
I sense a bit of disrespect for the community in which you opt-in in order to participate here. In general, HN is the most logical and reasonable internet community I have ever come across outside of NNTP (certainly on the web). Please don't make this community "snark-central".

EDIT to add: Curious what the counter arguments to mine look like.
It's not that surprising, Google doesn't have to optimize for 'search' because they're synonymous for it.
Actually, based on things that she has written, she should probably have the title "Data Scientist" or "Chief Data Scientist." If you are into machine learning read some of her stuff.
I'm a 33 year old self-taught software developer, that originally skipped college, who is starting at a local community college this fall with plans to transfer to Illinois for Computer Engineering.

I can't express how much your team and Mr Khan have helped me. In June I spent one to two hours a day watching videos and completing exercises to prepare for my schools placement exam. Starting from the beginning, not only did I refresh my memory but also learned essential concepts that my high school education did not cover. Thanks to your site I placed at the highest level my school will place an incoming freshmen for mathematics.

I'm looking forward to finishing off the last 4 exercises and hope to see more soon. I would be very nervous about both working and going to school full time, during my first year, without Khan Academy helping me get a head start before the semester starts. The high quality lectures and exercises you provide are fantastic for someone like me who may not have the ability to attend office hours and tutoring as much as a conventional student.

Thank you for all that you're doing. It's revolutionary.
Yup. And the only thing that twitter and social networks are good for is inconsequntial chatter and trading funny cat pictures. For that matter, the same applies to blogs too. And smart phones, and tablets. Hell, maybe even personal computers too. What can you do with them anyway, keep track of recipes? This whole internet thing is probably just a fad since I can set up a straw man caricature of it and knock it down easily without digging in to the fundamentals with any degree of depth whatsoever.

Let me be serious a moment. Most new technologies start out limited. Look at the automobile or the airplane or the personal computer. In the PC's case it wasn't anything more than a toy, a hobby device for years. But it's the fundamentals that matter. Whether or not extensive air travel is feasible is not dependent on the quirks of the Wright flyer but rather on the fundamentals, and on the characteristics of later generation vehicles like the DC-3 or 747. The same goes for mobile payments. In 50 years, maybe sooner, keys and wallets will be obsolete because mobile computing devices will be used for payment, identity, and access.
You make an important observation. I recall an email exchange[1] between a reporter and Jobs about "freedom." He does not define words the way we tend to define words. He defines them as a CEO in the corporate world whose company uses marketing to its benefit.

[1] http://gawker.com/5539717/steve-jobs-offers-world-freedom-fr...
Interesting analysis. We've bred chickens, cows, and pigs to all produce more meat for a given diet, but I guess we've done this better with the chickens. Maybe we need to focus on breeding the cows into creatures that have no legs, fit within tightly packed rectangular cages, and don't need as much internal organ space dedicated to processing food, so that the space can be devoted to tender juicy muscle instead.
To be fair, Dropbox never said (to my knowledge) that Filesanywhere should be forced to stop using the term. Filesanywhere instead is demanding that Dropbox stop using the term, and that for some bizarre reason Filesanwhere should own the domain.

I think the term is fairly generic, but so are a lot of trademarks up until the point they become trademarks. I'm not sure how the courts and PTO will settle this one.
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Since "Google" has become its own verb, it makes sense that few people link to google.com with the word "Search".
The closest equivalent to a voluntary, publicized DDoS is a sit-in. While those do lead to arrests, they don't lead to wholesale confiscation of (expensive!) property

And DDoSes don't result in you being dragged across the floor by your arms.

Why? Because that's the point where they're non-analogous. If you participate in a DDoS, you'll wind up getting your computers confiscated while the FBI crime labs scour them for evidence. If you sit on the floor of Kentucky Fried Panda, you'll get dragged out by your arms.

the participants and organizers are going to be dealt with an order of magnitude more harshly than if they'd done the same thing minus a computer

because it's not "the same thing", it's a slightly different thing, somewhat more pernicious and dangerous, because the cost to a protestor of carrying out a sit-in is large, whereas the cost of carrying out a DDoS is large.

I find it's always useful, when determining the legitimacy of a given political tactic, to assume that it's being used by someone we hate rather than someone we like. So let's suppose the Westboro Baptist Church gets up one morning and decides to target businesses owned by gays. If they do this via sit-in, then they can probably only target one business at a time, and they have to sit around all day getting jeered at. But if they do it via DDoS, they can take down businesses at their leisure.

These are both illegal and illegitimate forms of political protest, but the DDoS is potentially much worse than the sit-in.
Not only that, but if you're already on Google searching for 'search', Google is clearly not what you're looking for...
That's just foolish. I write Java daily for a very large web company, and I downvoted him. Because his claim is nonsensical. I downvoted you too, because your claim is trollish and wrong.

I have been writing Java since I was 13. I am 23 now. I have been paid for code written in C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP, F#, and Python. My personal projects are written in Scala, C#, C++, and JavaScript. I emphatically do not use Ruby for personal or professional projects (unless forced, with regards to the latter). From this reasonably broad body of experience, I am quite certain that I would be vastly more productive if the language wasn't consistently getting in my way. As it is, I have an unhealthy number of vim macros to deal with all the boilerplate that Java foists upon a developer. It is insufficiently expressive without them, and once those macros are applied the resultant boilerplate code (method objects, for example) greatly decrease readability and increase potential failures, due to more difficulty in conceptualizing and reviewing the code.

His posts also belie a lack of perspective. He doesn't "write with anyone else," yet I would venture to guess that the primary use case of Java, today, is in environments with more than one developer. He doesn't "use 3rd party libs", which suggests a lack of familiarity with his own ecosystem of tools, let alone those that provide these features that others (including myself) have indicated are part of what makes Java unpleasant to use. (Seriously--if you're not using Apache Commons at the very least, there is a credible argument that you're probably reinventing wheels and Doing It Wrong.) And he has a critical lack of perspective about what are generally considered basic programming constructs: if you think closures and first-class functions exist to "make some developers happy," you are ignorant of why they exist in the first place. Do you think that now-very-standard tools like map, fold, etc. would be generally adopted if the only way to use them was Java-boilerplate code-vomit?

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pivo said it nicely upthread: "I'm tired of visually parsing 20 lines of a Java method and filtering out all the boilerplate iteration junk just to find the one or two lines that actually do something. Often this kind of thing can be reduced to a few simple, relevant lines when you have closures, for example." And he is right. Because this is what Java makes you do. In 2011, it has been surpassed in terms of flexibility, expressiveness, and utility by other JVM languages that allow you to pull in Java objects and work with them, but write your code in a way that is much more pleasant.

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But no--clearly we're all kids, writing Ruby and JavaScript. Except that this kid almost certainly writes more, better Java than you do, and still finds it a regular source of frustration simply because it isn't good enough.

Perhaps you should be less upset when people demonstrate that you are lacking in perspective about your favorite toys.