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Dropbox would really not be a good fit for Apple anyways. I can't see Apple allowing them to continue offering their current product, considering that (a) Apple likes to brand things as Apple, (b) they are very focused on cross-platform capability, which includes Apple's primary competitors of Windows, Linux, Android, and BlackBerry, and (c) Apple's vision for iCloud is quite different than what Dropbox offers (though it may not be too different than what Dropbox dreams of).

More likely, if Apple had acquired Dropbox it would be to funnel Dropbox's talent off to the iCloud team and let Dropbox itself wither away, in which case it was very wise of Dropbox to refuse.
I'm somewhat disappointed, personally. One really impressive thing about Apple has been their restraint in purchasing companies. It just seems like so many of their competitors acquire for the oddest reasons. Dropbox, while a solid product, does not strike me as something Apple couldn't pull off on its own.
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Google [Courney Love RIAA], first result:

http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/2000/06/14/love/prin...
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Like it or not, this is just the way capitalism works. It pays very handsomly to be corrupt, or to be a cartel member in a self-regulated industry. And it will not get better until we move to a new economic paradigm.
Look towards the end. They claim Dropbox has received $4 billion in a recent round of funding.

Don't think they have a clue what's going on.
Maybe. Was just pointing that fact out though. I've been on reddit for 4 years now. After the community has grown it just seems a bit naive to refer to it as a little exclusive club of intellectualism, or from an outsider's perspective, a meme graveyard. Just an observation.
I think there may be less intentionally deceptive, but they make up for it in cluelessness and incompetence.

Founders may not give their employees good deals because they just make stuff up and don't do any analysis.
"After having gained around $4 billion in a round of funding" haha a _little_ typo there. I'm waiting for a real news outlet to announce this rumour.
Agreed. Phrases like "Dropbox has many client softwares..." and "A very handsome revenue..." don't exactly fill me with confidence about the author of this piece.
The worst part about this is that the guy who posted on Pastebin has offered no evidence that he's the one who actually pulled off these hax.

Is the media willing to believe any claim they read on Pastebin in this post-LulzSec world we live in?
Your Amazon thing is awesome and something I plan to copy.
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I should have guessed that it would be RIAA that would point me to the article :P
Fair enough. I guess the overall impression we both share of the offline process can be summed up by the word "unintuitive".

Also funnily enough, I've just come back after lunch to find something has killed SQL Server, which has affected TFS, forcing me to experience all the joy that is offline mode. I'll no doubt be swearing and cursing MS in a few minutes.
I disagree that it is the opposite. In fact I think it is more like LucasFilm is saying Just Sue Me. From the article Seth (I am assuming he is a reliable source as I know nothing about the film industry) seems to think that if LucasFilms was sued that they would lose (or settle), but luckily people, specifically Darth, are either to lazy or the amount they would win wouldn't cover the legal expenses of suing. So in effect LucasFilms is pretending like the risk of litigation isn't there and it is working out OK for them so far. Just like the experiences of PUD.
Hmm, you have a good point about blog updates, it's just that we use Twitter for minor announcements. I'll have to change that, though.

Export already includes all the data except the actual page text, so by downloading that file once in a while you can reconstruct your bookmarks almost perfectly (or just import it into your browser).

There haven't been any DoS attacks yet, but varnish is a champ, so that would be pretty easy to mitigate, depending on the scale...
I bet Amazon has also tried to acquire Dropbox on more than one occasion. And that would seem to be a more reasonable acquisition. Clearly dropbox has a vision for its own success though.
Dropbox has received a total of $7.2 million according to CrunchBase.

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/dropbox

Perhaps you meant to reference their valuation when they last took money?

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/30/index-leads-4-billion-valua...
So, essentially the Apple board of directors thinks the privelege of being Apple employees is worth about $3.2 Billion.
"IMHO, its too bad, since I would of really loved to have seen Dropbox more tightly integrated into iOS. "

As a user of Windows, Linux and Android all I can say is "thank fucking god". It would have destroyed a perfectly good cross-platform product.
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Turns out I was wrong. It doesn't clear the read only flag. Just makes you overwrite the file. The scary thought is that TFS only recognises changes if the file is writable. Hopefully it does when our SQL machine comes back up. I shouldn't have to hope though.
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iCloud currently doesn’t offer anything that Dropbox offers. Dropbox currently doesn’t offer anything that iCloud offers. iCloud and Dropbox are different products with very little overlap.

There certainly is a Dropbox shaped hole in iCloud. (I will not dare and claim that there is an iCloud shaped hole in Dropbox. iCloud didn’t even have a chance to be successful yet and Dropbox is very successful without anything iCloud offers.)

Now, I have been thinking that Apple’s long term plan is to get rid of the file system (as something the user has to deal with). iCloud and even more so iOS are steps in that direction. Even Apple, however, has to acknowledge that there will at least be a transitional period between now and that future. That’s where the Dropbox shaped hole comes in. Dropbox is (currently) all about the filesystem: There is this folder and you can stick anything at all in it to get it synced across your devices and to be able to access it from the web.

Dropbox has that implemented perfectly. I don’t know whether Apple could copy that. I personally never used it but people have been telling me that iDisk (which was conceptually pretty similar to Dropbox) sucked.

Still, it would be weird for Apple to go off in a direction like that. Not sure whether they are willing to, well, more or less backtrack with iCloud (back to the filesystem).
Geez, Lucas. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

I mean, really. I can see being a greedy fuck for a couple decades, while you're still unsure if you are, in fact, going to become and remain wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice. But once you have the fuck-you money put away for you, your entire family and everyone you've ever met who was halfway interesting, can't you toss Lord Vader some coin for his trouble?

Shameful.
I'd like to know how much psychopathy is caused by traumatic experiences during formative years, genetic factors, exposure to toxic substances, and/or physical brain damage. I'd also like to know how much crime is motivated by psychopathy vs. discontent, retaliation, lack of education, and cultural differences. Knowing these things would significantly inform my opinions on Anonymous, terrorism, criminal justice, etc.
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Or at least revenue forecasts.
I wouldn't pick this nit if my link wasn't so awesome [1].

Nuclear-powered aircraft are workable if you don't care about shielding. Who in their right mind would design a flying, unshielded nuclear reactor? A Cold War weapons designer who wanted to build:

... a locomotive-size missile that would travel at near-treetop level at three times the speed of sound, tossing out hydrogen bombs as it roared overhead.

The article at the other end of the link is the most tooth-curling engineer porn I've ever read. It's horrible. But also strangely awesome:

Pluto's designers calculated that its shock wave alone might kill people on the ground. Then there was the problem of fallout. In addition to gamma and neutron radiation from the unshielded reactor, Pluto's nuclear ramjet would spew fission fragments out in its exhaust as it flew by. (One enterprising weaponeer had a plan to turn an obvious peace-time liability into a wartime asset: he suggested flying the radioactive rocket back and forth over the Soviet Union after it had dropped its bombs.)

[1] http://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.html
Maybe the author should just, you know, not use CoffeeScript. I have a problem with preferential statements framed as empirical statements as well.

"CoffeScript make you more productive!"

Not if I'm wildly proficient in Javascript and hate Ruby.

Horses for courses, Andrew. Some mechanics prefer Mac tools, while others prefer Snap-On. The only one that is wrong is the one who claims they built a better motor because of the brand of tools they used.
Yea there's a lot more to it, I'm looking at this as the fundamentals. If I can't make the fundamentals enjoyable nobody will use the rest of it.

Includes are kinda rough in javascript because they require a separate http request, and would get out of hand if they're used as frequently as they are in server side templating. I need to implement some type of front-end caching, but need a way to distinguish which templates are in memory and which require a request. Thoughts are appreciated.
There's a lot of privacy implications to that as opening up truly raw data could, depending on the form, allow people to track other's movements through the system.
No, the $800M offer was at some point in the past, presumably when Dropbox was much smaller than it is now.
One of my intellectual property law professors, with fifty years experience in just about every kind of I.P. licensing scenario possible, all over the world, recommended it's almost always best in an I.P. license to ask for a flat fee first, and a small percentage of gross revenue with a short, hard reckoning date second. The more bargaining power you have, the higher you should bump up your position for upfront flat fee first and percentage of gross revenue second. Agreeing to a percentage of "net profits" is almost always a commitment to sue the other party down the road or get nothing. Whatever I've learned since then has left his recommendation intact.
The comments on the "how much did you earn as an early employee from an exit?" thread seem to indicate otherwise. Very few people ever saw their stock options amount to anything.
The original source of this rumor was BusinessInsider

http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-gossip-on-apples-80...

ChipHazard crappily didn't link to the origin of the rumor.
Even if that's the case, there's still the question of why those people become vandals in the first place, and whether there's some tiny deficency in society that, if addressed, would prevent vandalism years before it occurs.
This is true but like most things has to do with AI has limitations.

In some fields (eg, finance) one can conceive a computer based process that would do a better job than most investigative journalists. It can't deal with missing data, but it can discover inaccuracies, unusual events and suspicious patterns and in some limited fields this is enough.

For example, an AI based process might have been just as good at finding the problems at Enron as conventional journalists were (since it the problems there were mostly uncovered by forensic accounting on their public balance sheets):

But hard information was scarce. "It's almost as if you have to use forensic accountants when you're doing a company story because many companies are using very aggressive accounting techniques that are perfectly legal," Shepard says.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64769-2002Jan...
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On the other hand, Dropbox has been stagnating despite its success. For example: how long will it take for Dropbox to allow read-only sharing on Dropbox volumes? Not to mention their facepalm-worthy security blunders this year.
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Surprised they're doing the food thing. Pretty sure Motorola employees aren't going to be getting that.
> So, if the dollar value of some provision in the contract is not worth the cost of a lawsuit, in a way, it is kinda immaterial to the agreement because it would cost more to collect.

It reminds me a little of something Ferriss wrote about in 4HW - just telling some of his minions that if it would cost <$100 to make a problem go away, they had his standing permission to spend that <$100.
Don't think I've got anything quite to the level of 50+ files, but I've done some smaller scale javascript only applications where the only thing done backend was a restful database wrapper.

I agree that it can help a bit, but I've tried it, and I didn't notice enough of a productivity increase to bother adding a compiler step.

I'm the type who would use and occasionally has used assembly (this was embedded stuff mind you), so I might not be representative.
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Hmm, seems like the Apple haters don't like to hear the truth.
Wouldn't it be nice if Lodsys got out of the patent troll game, and into using it's lawyers to fight for net-profit-residuals for people who worked on films that earned huge profits over time?

Wouldn't it be nice.
That's really too bad, Apple could've forced Dropbox to shape up privacy and security wise and actually made it into something pretty cool.
I agree with the oh-my-zsh, but why specifically the fish theme?

From what I can gather it only alters the look (https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/blob/master/themes...)
The Atlas Obscura article that has a bit more information: http://atlasobscura.com/place/root-bridges-cherrapungee
> After having gained around $4 billion in a round of funding

Uh?
It's not just about the product, but rather all the users that come with it.
>when you click it, it goes to our FB fanpage

Have you put a big warning on your FB fanpage about the imposter?
it's a link from an article which was here yesterday http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2981442 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/6-things-the-film-...
Myself I pretty much don't do jack shit in any given hour of the year, so I guess companies that would hire me at those rates are getting ripped off since they aren't getting anything for their money.

On the other hand, over the period of a year, I am amazingly productive and product thousands of times more value than the typical engineer.

Interestingly, the less down time during that year, the fewer incredibly valuable things I make.
If I took thousands of people who self-identified as wearing white sneakers, and thousands who self-identified as wearing black sneakers and I looked at the occurrence of gout in those populations: what would I see?

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Similarly for cultural factors like diet. But then again, why not cut straight to the dietary data?

Cost. It's very easy for a doctor to ask about race and diet. Genetic markers require moderately expensive lab tests and repeat doctor visits.

Similarly, if you can use simple mechanical prodding to diagnose an injury with a reasonable degree of certainty, it might be worthwhile to skip the expensive MRI.

Further, the dietary or genetic marker associated with a particular diagnosis may be unknown and racial information may be the best available predictor.
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Whenever reading that site: Remember the founder and head honcho was banned from the securities industry.

For extra amusement, read his POS memo and remember the widows and orphans that live more poorly as a consequence of his guidance.
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Hey, author of this here. Cool that it showed up! This was actually was my first shot at using CoffeeScript, so if anyone wants to check out the github and throw some pointers out for better CoffeeScript style code, that'd be awesome!

Apparently this is a resource hog and runs pretty slow in Firefox and IE9 at the moment. I'll see what profiling shows up.

I hope to implement some other generation algorithms so people can compare them side-by-side. Suggestions welcome!
I believe this is referring to their valuation during the most recent round of funding.
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There is an amazing (short) book called "Self Discipline in 10 Days" helped me get over a few of those inevitable slumps/burnout periods and prevented them for the most part since then.

Here are a few ZenHabits articles that help too:
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"Get lucky"... Then walk away with survivor bias.
Isn't "insanely great" a Steve Jobs phrase?

I like Apple's hardware (modulo the fans running all the time on my latest dual-core i7 MBP), and some of its software (but WTF happened to Mail.app on Lion?).

Still, "insanely great" didn't make Apple-only web tech ubiquitous. That took hard, open-standards spec-work in the CSS WG. And that, to the extent it happened with help from Apple, is the opposite of the Dart plan in the leaked memo.

Stop worshipping i.g. It's never that great. Native apps on iOS use Objective-C, for crying out loud. Everyone's sh*t stinks.

I.g. is no excuse for monopoly behavior. The greatness goes away, leaving only insanity.
Dropbox is said to be receiving a $4 billion valuation in its latest round of funding--not a $4 billion investment.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2942472
The article makes for an interesting read, however, I am not entirely convinced that "polyphasic sleep" is necessarily effective or healthy. The article states that, "There’s no clearly defined biological reason for it, and it is intuitively an evolutionary disadvantage." This type of reasoning makes me believe that longer sleep periods are healthy and required, otherwise we would have evolved beyond that disadvantage. Dolphins have somewhat evolved beyond the "disadvantage" of sleep by remaining conscious in one half of their brain while they sleep. Granted... that is due to having to surface to breath, which is a circumstance humans do not have to cope with. Another point I noticed regarding this article that seemed a bit strange, is that the more "standard/normal" sleep cycles require only four REM cycles, while the "everyman-4 nap" or "uberman" require five and six REM cycles. If REM is the only relevant sleep cycle, shouldn't only four cycles be necessary across all sleep patterns?
This isn't limited to Acquia's enterprise partners. Every freelancer I know with Drupal in their portfolio is turning down gigs left and right because they're out of capacity.

Most shops I've worked with have given up on finding out of the box talent and have started hiring developers and training them on Drupal.

All of the recruiters I've talked to in the last eight months that where trying to fill a Drupal-related position where tearing their hair out trying to find loose talent.

In short, there is HUGE demand for Drupal talent right now.
I like that the GNU/Linux client is not an after-thought. Had Dropbox been acquired by Apple, I don't think the long-term prospects of the Dropbox client on non-Apple platform would be as good as they are now. Uniform features and simulatneous release? Integration of Dropbox with iCloud on all platforms?
Remember watching a vid (1) where Pud explicitly mentioned his mom being said lawyer and his dad (as mentioned in the article) being the entrepreneur. Wonder why he left that out this time. I certainly enjoyed the dichotomy know who his folks were and what role each played.
(1) http://vimeo.com/25489184
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Hmm, does it? I installed it right away and it's pretty much exactly like fish (history traversal with arrows, case-insensitive matching, etc). I might be mistaken and it might just be omz.
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That's a really good point, but I'd prefer a poorly supported but secure version to a great GNU/Linux client with owners that lie about their ability to view your files.
Varnish is nice for load spikes, but how do you cope with, say, a SYN flood? (Honest question, I'm curious.)
Less than 5% of movies actually show a net income (or net profit as the article calls it). It's called Hollywood Accounting:

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

Summary:

-Studios create a subsidiary corporation for each movie and they almost never show a profit.

-The studios charge the subsidiary service fees for services performed like distribution, which lowers net income to zero or less.

-They do this to avoid taxation and paying royalties to actors.

Quote from wikipedia: "Because of this, net points are sometimes referred to as "monkey points," a term attributed to Eddie Murphy, who is said to have also stated that only a fool would accept net points in his or her contract."

There are many more cases like this involving high profile people including Peter Jackson:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting#Examples
Comments like his "douchebag" comment are Part Of The Problem and that's why he was banned. Your description of his comment as merely "impolitic" is only slightly more ridiculous than you referring to him as the "friendliest" guy you know. I probably shouldn't have pointed it out, but I did.

Regardless, I don't have any vendetta against him or care strongly about him being on the site or not. I realize he's a smart guy who just has a bit of an Uncov streak in him. No big deal.
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Ars is correct on this one (and also resdirector, the topvoted comment right now)- the issue is not money inflation, it's the simple fact that compounding growth will be exponential, always. So if your point is to show that growth rates increased in recent centuries, then you need to show growth rates, or show this but using a log scale.
A. "Not a Samsung product": in a technical sense yes but in a practical sense no. It was made by the CEO's cousin and had Samsung's stamp of approval. Samsung only yanked approval after it was pointed out how blatant of a copy it was.

B. The Samsung clone and the Apple original both have "Smart" in the name, both have ridged covers, and both come in pastel colors. The advertising is even the same - each color case is fanned out in the picture. The evidence is blatantly clear here that Samsung is trying to copy Apple's design.