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Seeking confidential legal advice can be protected and the act of describing legal solutions doesn't constitute a proof of misbehaving by itself.(cf. Hydraflow Inc. versus Endine Inc.)

Concerning the source: http://lwn.net/Articles/437672/
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To me, the most important part of HTML5 is the parsing algorithm. Of the eleventy-billion web-pages on the Internet, approximately zero percent of them are properly-validating, standards-compliant HTML. It takes person-years of labour, bug-reports and fixes to create a system that can reliably parse a web-page as the original author expected, and that barrier-to-entry was a pretty significant part of the original IE/Netscape duopoly.

Now, there's a plainly-described parsing algorithm in the HTML5 spec that handles conformant documents correctly, and non-conformant documents sensibly, and third-party implementations like html5lib[1]. Opening up a corpus the size of the Internet to interested individuals and researches has to be a pretty important achievement, I'd think.

[1]: http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/
The unemployed should be spending every minute trying to learn programming.

I'm surprised we haven't seen any sort of public awareness campaign geared towards learning computer science. Only recently is it starting to be "cool" and equivalent to lawyers/doctors.
Can forensics investigators tell whether I came up with an idea in the shower vs hearing about an existing product?
I settled with Moto Atrix after going through Nexus One and Epic 4g . I am quite happy with it after the 2.3.4 update. GTalk video/audio chat works , I happen to use and like the various mods Moto makes to Android, it is extremely snappy and stable. Here is the kicker - battery life is awesome as in 2 days of moderate and 1 day of heavy usage.
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> Oh also, I really hope WP7 doesn't take off. The new wave of smart phones run webkit almost exclusively right now and I'd like it to stay that way.

Why would you want there to be a single web browser engine in the mobile space?

I'm no fan of WP7 myself, but having a single web browser engine isn't a good thing. We need some diversity.
really? not everyone becomes a VC because they are afraid that it's very hard?

what i see, people don't even know that it's hard so you have to enlighten them. i see people think there are some other barriers, like connections, friends of parents, university, money, etc
This could be really dangerous if you aren't careful who you sell to.
Sure, for current Windows software.

But all signs are pointing to Microsoft cooking up a new 'native' software framework for Windows 8 that is much closer to what WP7 is today.

The specifics won't be revealed until BUILD next month, but that certainly looks like the direction they're going.
Love in the office! Think of the consequences... could mean love-making or worse!

Here's my not-trolling theory: When mistakes happen in projects, or there's conflicts, smooth resolution is statistically more likely when the group is all male or all female. Maybe there's studies done on this, I haven't bothered to look, so could be wrong.

It could also be true that mixed gender groups statistically do better with maintaining an already smooth operation. So as long as things don't go off the rails, the mixed gender group might be the way to go.

Some - hopefully few - female employees have it engrained that despite it being 2011, they are at an unfair disadvantage to begin with. This may influence, subtly or otherwise, their thinking and judgement at times of conflict with male colleagues, and possibly in their general approach to work life. It happens, it's real, but hopefully not a big issue that prevents us making heaps of love, er.. I mean awesome. Heaps of awesome.
> its[Netflix] raison d'etre itself - the DVD

Ha! Anyone who believes DVD is what Netflix is still about is either so far out of touch they should be banned from spreading their ignorance publicly or are on the payroll of the the dead but don't believe it yet media industry who still hopes "the Internet" will just go away.
you realize this was posted in 2006, right (which is the point)?
Those numbers are a bit off, I believe. The 2-4m is probably devices shipped to carriers, not necessarily devices sold to consumers. Also, considering the number of device activations on Android, this is a drop in the bucket.
I had two android phones (HTC dream and HTC hero) before I got sick of the UI and made the switch to WP7 on my HTC HD7 which I love.

The whole app thing doesn't actually bother me much as i use my phone 90% of the time for text/phone/email/twitter which is fast and smooth. The other 10% is spent playing games :)
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I prefer iOS, but I have android phones (G1 and Aria). The difference between 1.6 and 2.2 is huge. Bigger difference than iOS has seen (though iOS 5 is close)
Have you ever met an elite programmer who was not an alpha male or alpha female. I would simply test for signs of dominance.

Edit: downvoted. Two possibilities spring to mind:

1) Downvoted by a feeble mind not capable of constructing an intelligent retort.

2) Downvoted by a relatively strong, yet ultimately scarce mind that wants to prevent access to the truth.
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I could never understand all the Vista FUD. I can understand that debacle with the underpowered laptops and the vista sticker or driver problems in the beginning but going past that it was fine. Before I got my current Mac I was running Vista on a Pentium D with 4GB of ram and it never felt slow. (i was trying to save money by not replacing it until it died but I eventually said to hell with it and bought a new computer)
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It sounds less defensible to pay young able-bodied men to kill foreigners than to pay the same to study or plant trees here.

Plus, how much of the money that we funnel to Iraq actually goes back to the US economy, compared to if we spent it in the US directly?
...except for this maybe: "Other DEF CON veterans said they purchase junk computers they can throw away after the convention because they figure they're going to get infected."
I'm not sure something as useful and integrated would rise anytime soon, though. It might be more akin to the Roman empire falling and feudalism reigning for years until something else comes along. Google's been able to make so many high quality services for free because they dominated a cashcow (search) for years. Those kinds of situations are somewhat rare.
Galaxy Tablet + Eclipse and official JDK is what I use. Pretty streamlined. On Unix and Mac you don't even have to install the USB driver.

I really have no complaints; there is no live REPL, but you have the second best, code getting statically checked & compiled with every key stroke. Android docs are abundant, but after 2-3 months you get a feel for it.

I have written close to 12 apps by now. I believe we will one of the biggest Galaxy tablet roll outs in Australia, with 40-50 units distributed to our companies by year's end.

My experience might be skewed since we're not going through the official Marketplace channel, and also because we control all the devices (in fact, they're useless outside our VPN.) OTOH, we're using the API extensively. I found bugs in the Samsung hardware and there are things I can't get help for, do to the extreme rarity (and bleeding-edgeness) of what we're attempting.
Github is more important than git so I guess that leaves figuring out how important linus or git was to the origin of github. Is here something about git specifically that made it more suitable for github than say mercurial or bazaar? Or was it timing or happenstance?
Thanks, but I'm not interested in "pushing" anything, really (I call that spam).

I'm just trying to position Twitter where it belongs amongst the "link sharing" websites (yes, you're right, I should also take StumbleUpon into consideration): how big is it really, how over-hyped, how over-valued etc.
Well, there have been "cross platform" frameworks before, for some definition of "cross platform". But the key here is that it is a _new_ platform.

Why would a developer prefer to use one new platform (Win8 / WP8) over another (MeeGo, WebOS, Bada, iOS)?

The appeal of Windows for developers, for the last 15 years, had been "installed user base" (which is strongly related to backwards compatibility). If you take away backwards compatibility (hence no instant installed user base), why is W8 relevant?
That assumes that infringement and innovation happens in a vacuum for Google. I think we both know it doesn't.

For example, a mouse and a GUI dekstop with file folders seems extremely obvious to me. But it's because I've been exposed to it. A phone with a capacitive screen, appstore, multitouch, and an actual web browser seems like an obvious way to design a mobile phone now. Using a mobile OS on a tablet seems obvious now. Calculus, the periodic table, and DNA all seem obvious to me now too.

Google has already been exposed to innovation. If Google came out of a rain forest in South America and just happened to have produced an iPhone with no human exposure in 2008 -- then sure I'd say maybe it was obvious. But given they fundamentaly changed their design to largely copy it, after seeing the success of the iPhone, leads me to believe it wasn't independent invention. But it was likely blind infringement (meaning they take no care to know if the IP is protected or not -- they copy everything with no sense of due diligence and just wait for the lawsuits).
I think he's going after the inverse point and in a sarcastic manner: that Google didn't bundle Android along with any of their popular products. Microsoft did by including IE with Windows which was then shipped with every computer, thus using their dominant marketshare of the OS space in order to take over the browser space.
Certainly. And that is only one of the many dumb egregious things he's done. Here's another: his company claimed, multiple times in emails, that his attorney mailed me some documents which I've never received. He claims to have no tracking no. He refuses to give me his attorney's info despite weeks of prodding. He hasn't sent papers to an attorney I was in talks with to rep me.

I'll let you draw your own conclusions.
Well I, for one, am glad that Google recklessly does business in ways that they should have every right to, rather than quietly submitting to shakedowns and bullying. If they are willing to get nailed to a cross to spread awareness of these problems, kudos to them.
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I look at Android as I do any other open source project. I believe in the right to give something away for free, for whatever motive. Telling Google they can't give Android away for free is like telling me I can't give away whatever I've uploaded to GitHub for free. It's just a different, but accepted, way of releasing software. RedHat makes money by selling support and proprietary utilities for use with its Linux distribution. Google makes money on Android in much the same way.

Many of these same arguments came up when Microsoft was complaining about Linux being Free. My reasoning is the same now as it was then.
Haha: " After selling itself to Rupert Murdoch's Fox for $580 million last year, MySpace is now the Web's second most popular website. Facebook is growing too - but given that MySpace has quickly grown into the industry's 80-million-user gorilla, it's hard to imagine who would pay billions for an also-ran."
They're the company being sued in both cases.

Of course. Because they're the ones who generally break the law. Google is like the guy who says that in a free society, everything belongs to the people. And then breaks in my house to steal my stuff. Of course I have him arrested and press charges. Your the guy who subscribes to this "free society" and argues in Google's support by saying that Google never has anyone arrested, people only arrest them. Indeed -- no one breaks into their house to steal things, but they're always stealing from others.

As a supporter of this "free society" you take the fact that they always steal and get arrested for it as a sign of their purity. I see it for less than that. Especially since they haven't come right out and denounced the patent system. At the very least they should buy PageRank from Stanford and make it open -- at least a symbolic gesture. The next step would be to open their search algorithms and make use of them free. Not likely to happen though. Even for Google, they believe in IP protection -- just not yours.
So did Linus have anything o do with it winning the popularity contest?

A here something about git that made it the foundation for github vs oth dvcs?

It seems like you are making the point unintentionally.
Cognitive Dissonance explains most irrational support. Many (most in tech field) have staked their careers / life's work on MS. They aren't letting go of that easily.
Windows is not known for making good browser engines.
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It is no worse than the existing system. If you are not aware, filing a patent costs a few thousand dollars, and after receiving a patent, you have to file "maintenance fees" which easily total tens of thousands through the lifetime of a patent.

Same incentive exists today to grant patents (government makes much less money from rejected patent than from granted patent), and to prevent them from expiring (collect more maintenance fees).

Hell, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (affectionately known as "The Mickey Mouse Protection Act") which extended copyright retroactively from 70 to 95 years showed that congress is all too willing to do that to help their friends in the media industry, without even requesting payments; it is definitely NOT the lack of "intellectual property tax" that stops congress from increasing the term of patents (or copyrights).
Can you still review an app you "purchased" with a promo code?

Seems like a flaw to allow people who didn't pay for the app to rate it. This would also allow giving away codes in exchange for a certain amount of stars.
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>> Reality-- most scientists don't support that theory.

Citation needed.

Anecdotally I think the statement about software
developers in general being anti-software patent is true,
but especially OSS developers - you really think this is
incorrect?

Note to powerje: it looks like your account is dead, apparently because your first post was strongly downvoted.
Wow, that's impressively well-written. And it's about computer security. And it's about hackers, who are hacking. That's like a perfect storm of news-writer fail, and they did a pretty good job through it all.

I love that they included this quote, it sums up security very very very well:

>It's not about breaking the lock, he said, it's about learning the lock can be broken.

I've found ways to open most combination locks in a second or two, without even looking suspicious. It's easier than entering the combination, usually. Those $20k-insured round-keyed laptop locks? Takes about 30 seconds on average, 5 or less if you're lucky. My dad lost a $20 bet with me on that, with the one his employer supplied (and expected him to use) - it took me 5 minutes on the first attempt, and less than a minute each time after that.

Security isn't about stopping people from breaking in. It's about not being the low-hanging fruit.
Ha notice the name of the company, too...
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I'm sorry, but this is completely absurd and startlingly naive as a solution to the unemployment problem.

The limiting factor on the number of people with programming jobs is the number of people capable of filling those roles. There simply are not competent developers who are having trouble finding work right now.

If you want to talk about creating high-paying jobs that will allow the US to be more competitive and prosperous in the future, that's fine, but then you still have to address the greater problem of creating a qualified work force.
But Hastings-led Netflix DID launch streaming so I'm not sure what your point is. They would have needed to predict that for some bizarre reason Netflix would not do the obvious thing and get into streaming.
Awsome post! You have intrigued me to dig into your story. He is one brave SOB (or one stupid SOB). Either way, holding a martial arts stance in the middle of a highly radioactive area makes me say mind over matter! I hope you got his contact info, would be nice to do a follow up in a few years to see if he is still around!
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> More so when you consider that it's rare for a company to matter, so picking 10 big CEOs that don't matter should be highly biased toward correct predictions.

You've got it backwards. His pool for picks isn't the set of all CEOs, it's the set of all CEOs who are well known, have mattered recently, and are still working. That's a very different pool, with a very different bias.
Great. But what does that mean to Postgres users?

Does it affect the performance? Would it be easier to uncover more bugs moving on?
Sorry.

Timely enough someone has started this : http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/06/ive-abandoned-my-boy/

and hacker news commentary:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2855559

Heres a quick search result: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-newman/a-window-into-go...

I guess I don't have to justify the nature of fan boys. People that have made there opinions up and will never change there minds no matter what.

Anecdotally I've been dealing with the business side of Google for a while now, and in 2007 I decided that they where the most evil corporation on the planet.

Firstly it started with sub-standard industry/customer tainting products. Destroying my friends companies but releasing inferior products for free.

Then some extremely negative things to say from my time dealing with them over the OOXML ISO process, and more recently working in the news media. I lost all respect for open source community after that process (but thats another story).

More recently dealing with a large news organistion I can say they are controlling manipulative, two faced, liars. I guess most people don't do business with them.

My personal opinion is they are devaluing everything, restricting income streams to small and new companies, dictating business models, and most importantly the creation of the attention economy is destroying the arts.
It worked brilliantly in this case since they did their business in the US, overseas from where it was stolen.
In the contents there is no mention of macros. Macros aren't post 1984 are they? Or were they in the text of the tutorial?
>Anyone complaining about getting downvoted gets a nearly automatic downvote from me at this point; it's extremely highly correlated with bad comments.

I think you mean "comments which are unpopular here", not bad comments. Also, by saying "extremely highly" you are implying that GP's commment is a bad one? Care to say how?
Not correct. If you threaten to expose a crime unless you are paid money, you have committed blackmail. It is blackmail even if you have a legal right to demand the money.

Note that each act separately is fine: you can demand money; you can threaten to report a crime. You just can't make the report conditional on receiving money.
Experts and pundits are actually worse in their predictions than others. In fact, ironically there is an inverse relationship between how popular an expert is and their prediction accuracy. This article explains why - http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/02/13/why-pundits...
I like the article, but why is it in the FT? This is more something that suits sister-pulication The Economist.
I've found upvote/downvote quality almost completely uncorrelated with comment quality. There's a little correlation with completely off the wall comments being downvoted. But if you look at comments where there is actual thought and some interesting statements, they are just as likely to be downvoted if their position is unpopular as a relative shoddy and cliche comment that supports a popular position is to be upvoted.

For this reason I generally don't care about comments at all, except for when comments are negative, as it inhibits the ability to read the comments. I'd actually like to see that practice eliminated, since I find that often comment "gems" have negative karma, but simply take on an unpopular position.
Doesn't sound too bad. I've recently written a couple of trivial apps for my old Droid and so far it's been a lot easier than iOS. Too bad the emulator is so bad. I'm a little hesitant to sink $500 on an actual tablet just to explore.
Ok. To me, there are no "social networks". There is the open web, where Google (not search.twitter.com) is the tool we use to find stuff, and then there's the closed web, Facebook.

I am puzzled - to say the least - about Twitter. I'm trying to understand how big - and important, more than big, really - it really is
vs. how over-hyped, how over-valued etc.

Hope this can help you help me. Thanks :)
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Is the 27" 2560x1440 worth it when doing dev work, especially with the $700 premium compared to 1080p for ~175% more screen space? At my work people mostly use 2 1080p screens at once + laptop. I mostly do iphone dev work with a MacBook Pro + an extra 1080p screen and another 1080p screen with a linux box.
Slip of tongue ? Whose operating system generates its own browser engine ?

Also : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG30mtlDKOs&feature=relat...
The term "functor" is widely used -- including such places as SGI's STL documentation (http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/functors.html) and numerous other reference sites.

According to Bruce Eckel's Thinking in C++ Vol 2 (in the section describing the Command Pattern), the term dates to 1992:

> In Advanced C++: Programming Styles And Idioms (Addison Wesley, 1992), Jim Coplien coins the term functor which is an object whose sole purpose is to encapsulate a function (since “functor” has a meaning in mathematics, we shall use the more explicit term function object). The point is to decouple the choice of function to be called from the site where that function is called.

Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of Advanced C++: Programming Styles and Idioms, so I can't verify this myself. But, if it's accurate, that means the term predates the standard by at least six years since ISO/IEC 14882 was released in 1998... :)

Personally, I do prefer "function object" though, since it seems like a clearer term.
well, but according to compete.com digg is still twice as large as reddit, which it clearly is not.
Android and iPhone pretty much dominated so far..
>It's been the representation of freedom of speech to the childlike ranting medium of Charlie Sheen.

I'm sorry, but I think I don't understand. Could you please explain the above sentence to me? Thanks.
Could be. I read it as being a serious point but I can see how it could also be sarcastic.
Your e-mail is probably destined for the bitbucket. If you really want to affect change, I'd suggest spreading a link to this to everyone you can. Generally, with problems like this, they only go away after reaching a sufficient level of media exposure.

On the other hand, if you're really lucky, someone from Apple is reading this right now and taking care of it :)
This is the first time I've heard anyone say that the number of apps is a strong point for WP7. Surely if this is an important criterion then Android or iPhone is 10x a better choice.
> If you threaten to expose a crime unless you are paid money, you have committed blackmail.

That might make sense if the crime in question weren't the non-payment of that money. Saying, "If you don't pay what you owe, I'll report you" doesn't sound like it could possibly be blackmail.

There are a lot of IANALs here, I'd love to hear an actual lawyer comment on this.