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it seems like cheating when you can simply buy creative ideas to engage in

This just underlines the futility of the patent system. Anyone who's patenting real things because they're creative and innovative is playing the old game. The new game is patent anything you can think of, do it a lot, and bet on the shotgun approach when the shit hits the fan.

When it comes to patents, when there's much hassle then most companies drop their charges/defenses and just settle. When there's too much hassle then many won't even sue.

The final outcome of this degeneration of patents is that companies just buy enough patents, any patents, in numbers to establish a premeditated interlock on mutual interests. It's primarily controlled by the amount of money available to be spent on defences.

In this sort of scheme patents would just become mere papers. The actual validity would remain at least far-fetched as today. If markets work as usual there might be actual patent manufacturing companies too, because it's obviously cheaper to buy mass-produced patents than invest both in patenting and actual R&D.

So you buy patents much like everybody buys insurance these days.

Eventually all decent companies will be too scared to point to each others' patent pools that it becomes a cold-war situation, with maybe some little legal battles between smaller companies.
So long as there are businesses willing to invest in the latest Microsoft blessed framework there will be a community of people willing to learn them and sell their skills to those companies.

For me, the real question is, why are business still willing to make investments in the latest Microsoft blessed framework?

Actually, I think since Longhorn there are signs that businesses are a bit more sceptical about these bold technology announcements from Microsoft. They used be able to pretty much control the weather but these days they have a hard time getting people to use things like Silverlight, WPF or XNA.

Their dominance is still strong in the enterprise though. SharePoint does not deserve the market share it has. But business are hooked on using the Microsoft tool for whatever it is they want to do. Need an intranet? Well Gartner says we need an enterprise CMS... so we'll hire our preferred Microsoft Gold Partner and give them a budget of 200k to build us a clustered SQL Server environment on which we can run some load balanced SharePoint app servers, all for a two step content approval workflow and a few thousand hits per day. Everyone in that process is too busy making a living to question the "we'll just buy whatever Microsoft has for X" assumption.
Just a note: per-stream encryption keys may make sense[1], but there's no need to encrypt the stream to different per-person keys - you can just encrypt the per-stream key with the per-person key and send it to the authorized users.

Your comment was not clear on this, but this obviously reduces the encryption overhead.

[1] It's not much harder for a pirate to build a script to extract the per-stream key from the player than it is to extract the key in the first place, so using a per-stream key instead of one key doesn't really help against piracy. It does help keep streams private against eavesdroppers, though.
The spacing of the Arduino pins (between 7 and 8) is a strange decision. But a big advantage of the Arduino is it's popularity. There are a lot of Arduino shields on the market.

The grblShield for example (https://www.synthetos.com/webstore/index.php/assembled-elect...). You just put it on top of your Arduino and you have a nice CNC setup.

But I'll keep an eye on the Teensy. Never heard of it, but it is looking nice!
neilk --

I am a Linux guy. I love Python, Emacs and open-source and I hate working within the Microsoft developer ecosystem.

With that said, the .NET VM is light-years ahead of anything that anyone else is doing. And they're investing in dynamic languages and tooling for those languages. And they build stuff like F#, which is awesome.

Even C# rescues ex-Java people by giving them lambda expressions and local type inference. This is something that should be celebrated, like Java's garbage collection of yesteryear.

So yeah, they have a lot of political issues and their mainstream development community sucks, but make no mistake: Microsoft has some phenomenal technology.
http://agilezen.com/ is very close, and actually has a bunch of other useful features too. Although I've got to say that trello is a lot slicker than agilezen.
I don't think it is that bad, sure frameworks come and go, but the fundamentals are still the same. I've been using C# for ~8 years and XAML for ~4. Will still be using them in Win8 for years to come.

And the title says Silverlight has been abandoned, but the same skills have been built right into Win8. You should be able to port any SL apps across WinRT reasonably quickly. What has been killed is any notion of XAML being cross platform, but lets face it how many Mac owners wanted/needed to install SL?
I've just realised this has already been post here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2999247

(prefer going straight to the docs, but maybe best to keep the discussion there)
I agree. Simple errs towards 5 year olds, not people whos native language is not English, as they have their own wikipedias.
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Once I saw an episode of the UK version of 'Dragons Den'. A couple of guys pitched some adventure sports equipment they had built and one of the investors, Peter Jones, told them off for not wearing suits to do the pitch and refused to invest in them.

After watching that, I developed the following opinion:

Any time somebody is evaluating you (for investment, for a job etc) they are going to have an idea in their head of what they want. They will put you through a filtering process and decide whether or not to let you through.

What most people don't consider is that the filter is not just there to help the decison maker, it's there to help them too. You get to present yourself however you want so you can choose the inputs to the filter.

If you don't want to have an investor who would think your choice of clothing is important, don't wear a suit. If you don't want to work somewhere that chooses to interview people based on the amount of bullshit in their CV, don't put bullshit in yours, and so on.

edit: I forgot to address the question with regards to customers. In that case the answer seems to be "whatever the customer expects" since you presumably don't want to put a barrier in the way of them buying your stuff.
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Two thoughts:

- pirates will circumvent it; it sounds like the player is not-especially-well-obfuscated software running on standard PCs.

- people will probably still pay extra for it; it sounds good, and it does deter piracy at least a little.

That said, watermarking and banning anyone whose videos are found on TPB probably works better.
Just don't forget -- it's even easier to install desktop-recording software.
Yes, layers of abstraction can be useful. I don't see how the iOS restrictions are a layer of abstraction, though.

And selling pre-built computers doesn't mean you have to glue the box shut. You just have to make sure people don't have to mess or even think about the internals unless they really want to.
User experience aside, plug-free really means developer experience sucks. Now everyone has to wait for some sucky organization called w3c to invent ideas, and company called Microsoft or Apple or Google to implement them.

You know how new technology should emerge? Thirdparty push them, not providers allow them.
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Microsoft has some phenomenal technology.

It sure does, but Microsoft doesn't build technology to sell that technology/tools/programming ecosystem.

They build it so that users can buy their OS on which those apps can run. The more people build using their tools more OS licenses they can sell.In other words the technology is a bait through which users can be fished to buy their OS. This is a totally different thing when compared to Python/Perl other open source tools which have dedicated teams whose primary job is to build and share them to serve mutual interests.

When you find companies dropping a particular technology for something else, its just that they figure out a better bait to catch more fish.
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can't wait to share this
If Microsoft is all-in on JavaScript on the web and desktop, I guess that Google will have a very hard time convincing them to switch to Dart instead.
I suggest emphasizing that problems that can be solved easily can be checked easily. It's a simple idea, but it wouldn't necessarily occur to the casual reader and is quite important.
So much for Google's grand "identity collector" dream.
im sure there are som great opportunities for collaborating to set up donations? any ideas?
Honest question: doesn't that lose a lot of quality? (YouTube has shown that low-quality video can still be popular, but at least it would give pirates some reason to pay you.)
ARC can be enabled on a per-file basis, which means you should be able to use third party code without modification in your project.
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Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, though I'm focusing specifically on short-term work. It's also a set it and forget it scenario for the talent -- they just get stuff delivered. At the end of the day, it's an experiment and something interesting to work on that could benefit my day job, Forrst, pretty substantially.
I don't know about that. How many people have "signed up" and are essentially transmitting their identity to google every time they search?

Even if you never use Google+ anymore, they've still got the browsing habits of the internet cognoscenti until people stop using their gmail and clear their cookies.
I think you should've put some more information in the link title. I wouldn't use this because I'm one of those paranoid people.
The numbers are interesting, but interpreting it is hard. I noticed several non-tech people getting an G+ account, using it for some days, and leaving, because hardly anything was happening. That might be bad.

But the graphs mostly documents power users (g+-Twitter syncing), that might start to share some of there (less article-like) posts just with their circles, as the personal networks grow stronger and become more useful. That might be very good for G+.

After all, G+ cannot survive as a blogging platform.
This post is slightly misinformed. The reasoning behind asking BBM to have its server is not to have "access to encrypted communication", but to bring BBM (and similar communication platforms) operations under Indian laws, make them accountable to Indian government and possibly ensuring access to their servers and data to intelligence agencies for audit.
We can't really release the kind of quick, experimental MVP projects that I'm such a fan of on Forrst since we've got 40k people who will notice a lack of polish and so forth. I wanted to vet this idea quickly without the overhead of expectations from the community. That's not to say this won't be rolled back in somehow. That's a good idea about Acorns, I'll put some thought into it :) And no worries -- totally appreciate the question's directness.
Google+ is better than Facebook for lots of reasons except for one important thing - nobody's on it and they're still using Facebook.

I would much prefer to use Google+, I prefer the interface, I like the Circles idea - everything sort of feels cleaner. But I can't convince any of my non-geek friends to join. They just don't see the point.
Didn't that already happen with any other Google service, like GMail or Google Docs? Log in, Google can track you.
The post is mine. Didn't know it was posted here by my friend. Thanks to him, real hackers who care about the trade are already mailing me about the engineering part of that post. Both men and women. The following part of the comment is for the sensitive rest.

Hey guys,

(I hope, in modern urban culture, 'guys' is a sexually neutral term; Else, I will have to address the some of the sensitive readers as Dear Mr/Mrs/Ms ...; Let me know)

Sincere apologies are in order:

* To all men and some women whom my post offended because I didn't mention their favourite starlet

* To all women and some men whom my post offended because I didn't mention Brad Pitt and David Hasselhoff

* And to all others who are not Scott Adams' readers

Some of the best computer science engineers I have worked with are women. And I don't hire based on the brand of their nail polish.

You are welcome. The pleasure is mine.
Thanks very much. That was indeed the goal.

As to whether this works the way I'm anticipating, only time will tell! I'm predicting, though, that this works as a nice adjunct to directly contacting designers (or anyone else) -- you never know who you're missing, after all. If I've learned one thing from Forrst, it's that for every well-known designer (or developer) out there, there are scores of undiscovered, awesome designers waiting to knock it out of the park on your project.
Honestly, I think fuck you that you couldn't be bothered to pop down to target and show you can compromise. Your work now has to be 15% better than your competitor who showed up in a suit.
That used to be true, but it's not any more. If the division that makes VS, .Net, et al were spunoff into its own company it would a: have billion dollar revenues and b: be profitable in its own right.
Yeah. I found this: http://www.joyentcloud.com/products/pricing-comparison/smart...
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I agree, you can't apply this as a rule, but in my experience (unfortunately) it's often the case.

From what I've seen, a typical 'assault team' consists of: 'account manager' (usually clueless), 'sales manager' (same) and a 'technical person' (varies). There's hardly anything interesting coming out of the former two.

The 'techie' guy competence seems to be a function of a company size. The smaller the company, the better his/her pitch would be and more useful information you'd get out of him. If the company is large, they tend to send 'technical sales' chap, who usually knows a bit or two, but largely delivers 'I'll have to check this with our technical team and come back to you on this'.

Bear in mind, this is my largely technical POV. YMMV.
Thanks for the feedback! I actually had the first item written down, and the more I mull it over the more it makes sense.
Thanks. We'll see how it works out, but yes, that was the intention. I get 6 days to moderate and queue up projects for the next email. Plus, I like the idea of a low/no-effort set up for the talent side -- they get an email they can skim at their leisure, no browsing around and trawling for job listings on a site.
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In what way is the word 'size' wrong?
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I am ok with the idea that on a given app market, website, content provider, the proprietors can and should curate the content the way they decide.

What I am not ok with is that the makers of a machine I buy keep a too strict control on what I can do with this machine I bought. We are grownups, we should be allowed to use the things we buy in the way we please. As far as I know, if I do something illegal with a Porsche or an iPad, their respective makers are not responsible of that misbehavior, and therefore should not be entitled to forbid me from doing it.
Daniel, how diverse does this team look? http://www.altheasystems.com/about.html

We have not tested/interviewed you. So, the question of your working for us is hypothetical, at best.
This article is not about the browser company, but instead about Opera Solutions LLC.

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JavaScript is more or less a (potentially standard) language runtime, just like JVM or CLR--just more compatible and more widely and natively supported. I don't see the need for a strictly binary or bytecode runtime either since parsing and interpreting/compiling JavaScript further inside a browser or other native environment is "fast enough" for many definitions of fast. Certainly faster than booting JVM :)
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You and I have different ideas of what "static" means. Yes, if you rent a place then it's different than it likely has more material benefits than it did 40 years ago. My point is that the cost of renting or buying that place hasn't gotten cheaper. For example, the first relevant graph I found was http://www.jparsons.net/housingbubble/ , which shows that after adjusting for inflation the median house is still 15% more expensive now than the 1970s.

Checking with http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income/data/historical/househ... I also see that the median income in inflation adjusted dollars went up about 9%. (Table H-1, "All Races")

I am very aware that these compare median incomes. I don't know what poor people would have paid for housing in 1970, nor now for that matter. My point is that just because the places are better doesn't mean that it's easier to afford, and it's the latter which is more relevant. Suppose you would rather pay less for a place without a full kitchen, but there are none on the market - what choice do you have?

The details of poverty has changed. It's now cheaper to get a pay-as-you-go mobile phone than it was in 1970 to get a land line when cell phones were a James Bond item. The fact that there are poor in the US, and that the word "poverty" has a real meaning in today's life, has not.

What "objective, static measures" would you say make someone not poor?
agreed that the example is not the best, a better example would be a picture puzzle that can be verified in just a glance but to build it you need to test all pieces against each other to see if they match.
AnalyticsRock is my side-project, so if you have any questions/comments/suggestions/etc I'd love to hear them.

I originally built it for personal use because I was fed up with having to use Excel to do the kind of traffic analysis that I needed for my own startup. But I figured other people might find it useful as well, so here it is!

If you want to get an idea of what it does:

* Shows user behaviour (visits,bounces,pages viewed) by time of day, day of week, number of visits and interval between visits

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I'm not associated, but it's just fixed line-height. Lines in the paper are every 18px, body line-height is 18px and title line-height is 36px (double). So they align.
Maybe in the past but not now. You seriously think that adopting cross-platform tech will make more people buy their OS? No way. It does benefit them though -- if they can optimize their OS experience for HTML5 apps, it's easier to build it, and gives them a wide range of applications premade.
And what is your opinion on the technical part of the post?
I think this is a pointless blog post annd all the comments here are worthless.
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So the prices are pretty much identical to Amazon EC2. Why would anybody choose an unknown player versus somebody very experienced like Amazon?
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Thanks! I was wondering if it was just me all alone, amongst a crowd of inappropriately politically correct.

You are single handedly pulling up the average HQ of this thread :^) I owe you a pizza.
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maybe the example needs to be more clear - it's hard for the computer to check all possible answers, but maybe it's easy for the computer to find the answer another way.
Performance claims and DTrace support aside, the costs are similar for instance-hours for low to medium-sized instances.

But completely different if you are doing more than 15GB of outgoing bandwidth: "No Charge For Data Transfer Up To 20TB Per Month Per Account"

http://www.joyentcloud.com/products/pricing-comparison/smart...
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All projects are approved by a human, and on the talent side fake emails that bounce are automatically removed.
"Why are business still willing to make investments in the latest Microsoft blessed framework?"

For me, the real question is why are they willing to make bad investments in technology. SharePoint is designed to make it easy to set up a cluster. One of our clients has thousands of users on a single SharePoint front end, because there's "something wrong" with their load balancer. So they don't even do round-robin DNS. Surprise - it's slow!

In other words, they don't even have the ability to run SharePoint well, and you want them to put something together themselves? The SharePoint admin is already outsourced, so it seems like they don't even have the ability to identify quality outsourcing. How are they supposed to figure out a better solution?
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