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Err - Maybe we just resent having to spend so much time on the mechanics of the tool/s rather than our main activity which is writing code.
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This is one of the most powerful tools I've ever seen.
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I see two points to this:

1) It's a battle about what 'Climategate' meant.

2) The muddiness of the whole debate is a demonstration of the difficulty of applying science to public policy. As such it runs along the same lines as the problems with the idea of 'evidence-based policy'. Science is a pretty humble tool when it comes to saying how things are - compared to both its power of discovery, and to how science is used as a badge to exercise power. This is so not least because understanding what science says is a very unequally distributed privilege.
Yes, a noncompete. It will likely be something they leverage in order to do his earnout.
What do I have to do to never hear of this man again? EVER.
Seriously, these guys have tremendous service. I remember begging them on Olark for a REST API a few months ago. They told me it was on its way. Lo and behold, the REST API is here, and works great. It's really cool to talk to the founders/devs and watch the product grow right in front of you.
What's wrong with RPC model (SOAP, DCOM, REST, CORBA, etc).
no; they aren't moving to github at least right now
Reminds me of the Theseus Paradox: if all component parts (Arrington + writers) of Techcrunch are replaced will it be Techcrunch?

And conversely, if all component parts setup shop at a new blog, is that Techcrunch (a map/territory debate perhaps?)

Oh how I would kill to be the lawyers perusing employment agreements, anti-poaching clauses, etc right now. And very much looking forward to Disrupt this week.
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The only government entity. Every private sector entity needs to fully fund their pension obligations.

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It seems the 'burglar sues for hurting themselves' theme is a popular one. I've heard it a few times from various friends and sources. As far as I can tell it tends to be miss-represented, or non-existent.

One of the common ones is the 'fell through a skylight' version, which is apparently sort-of true according to this:
http://overlawyered.com/2006/09/the-burglar-and-the-skylight...

In this case it was vs a school, and the case was settled before it was decided, which is as much a side-effect of the structure of our legal system as anything.

While I'm sure some questionable verdicts have caused unfair rewards in cases such as this, I have to imagine that it is very rare, or that the cases are actually much more complex than they appear on the surface.

It reminds me of people who laugh at the 'stupidity' of McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit ("well duh coffee is hot!"), where the more detailed information shows the reasonableness of the case (McDonald's coffee was dangerously, excessively hot, the plaintiff was in the hospital for eight days for third degree burns etc).

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Liebeck_v._Mc...

I feel this is an interesting flavor of urban myth.
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Non-competes are flimsy in California, but a bit more on the "maybe" in Washington. It all depends on which employment law his agreement (and the employment agreements of the other writers, if they have them) are under.

Anti-poaching is typically a term of the severance and is enforceable typically.

EDIT: Corrected below, thanks! Non-competes do apply in acquisitions.
With a probable non-compete?
Head explodey. I've been writing C since 1994 and doing security since 1995 (and, to boot, I try to follow Tavis) and I did not know this. I love this industry.
This whole things sounds like one big publicity stunt.
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They're both easy.

Python is more broadly useful, while Ruby has Rails. What do you want to do with it?
> No project has proven more firmly that our modern endless extensions to copyright is hopelessly wrong headed.

This. Wikipedia is a fantastic free cultural work, but it can never replace the historical and cultural significance of free primary sources themselves.
I think there is some inductive logic in here; assuming the future will look like the past simply because previous futures have looked like previous pasts is not entirely reliable.

It's safe to assume that things will generally regress to their mean, but they often don't - stock market movements are way more volatile than they should be, for example.

It's possible that technology will advance far enough to perform all of the mundane but necessary work, leaving us to do something else with our time.

I'm not sure when that will happen or how it will be received, but it would be cool to not have to do things you didn't love just to stay alive.
Non-competes tied to acquisition earnouts are an entirely different beast than employment non-competes. They very much apply in California.
On a personal level I find that its the IDE's that make the gains as opposed to the language. But its the statically type nature where the boons really kick in.

When working with foreign code statically typed interrogation is amazing. For me it means I don't have to hold someone else's entire bird nest model in my mind to fix something minor.

I can just interrogate the flow, easily check for dependancies, and go. Maybe whack out a few unit tests, to wrap the flow so I make I have it correct, then boom job done.

I'm sure people will be horrified at my approach. But I get lots of kudos for my speed and reliability, returning customers... so it works for me at least, and people are validating me so I'll keep doing it. I don't really use units tests not he first run. I slowly add them as I adjust the solution. I do this for speed mainly... as I find I refactor to much early on. For myself most testing regimes feel as useful as some one cutting my achilles heel if the code hasn't stabled.
Non-competes for acquisitions in California are enforceable. It's one of the few exceptions where it can actually be enforced, but they usually expire after a year.
I don't see why this is an issue. The only reason to keep something at one city is if the 'missions' are all supposed to be physical errands. But that's not the case, and it should be allowed to develop into however people find it most useful.

Limiting it to one city or region would be a mistake, in my opinion. This isn't a local story, any more than Mechanical Turks or oDesk is.
IANAL but my understanding is that an acquisition (eg AOL buying TC) is one scenario where a non-compete holds up, even in CA.
The web has some usability quirks, but it's not that bad if webmasters would only learn to keep their hands off and stop screwing with my interaction affordances.
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The problem the USPS is having is not about prefunding pensions and pension plans. Their problem is that they are required to fund future employee health care benefits. No other company in America - public or private - is required to do this.

This is a side note, but... By the way, I am actually a frequent reader of your blog, and I really miss your posts on economics. Link for the curious:

http://crazybear.posterous.com/

Good stuff!
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I'd love to see a pros-and-cons of this approach from a team organizational standpoint.
I'm glad I'm not the only skeptic. Something about this whole thing feels a little too contrived and over the top to me.
I think you're vastly underestimating the market for this software.

If it's even almost as good as Campfire or Hipchat, people will buy it because most companies don't want their employees communicating via third party services where shit is archived.

I've been looking for something like this for a while now. I won't use Campfire or Hipchat due to the reasons outlined above (and I don't trust 37s or Hipchat to know how to secure their customer data), and I don't want to use Hipchat's shitty AIR apps.

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don't have an ipad but I found it pretty trivial to write a script to suck down all the epub files (for all issues) since they have a pretty simple naming scheme.

Then cp *.epub to the plugged in storage device (kobo ebook reader)
What's worse, not being able to easily migrate your GAE specific code to another provider or suddenly having to pay through your nose?

No one is trying undermine the fact that Google has to turn a profit, but they should've have either been frank about the pricing from the very beginning so that people would have made an informed choice, or retooled the platform so that it didn't require all that custom plumbing and would not have done all that optimization to use the least resources thats now useless if you want to migrate elsewhere.

This can be called a classic bait and switch if it was done intentionally. At the very least Google should offer grandfathered pricing for people who already depend on GAE.
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> Why pay 3/4 of the population to work 40 hours a week when we could pay all of them to work 30 (then 20, then 10)?

Because corporations want to pay 60% of the population to work 50 hours a week on salary. This is why everyone should be hourly. That's the first step. Then, yeah sure, hourly with overtime pay for anyone working more than 30 hours a week.
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I can't help but think their pricing policies will ultimately undermine the platform. People that haven't already started developing on GAE are surely watching this, and probably glad they didn't start. Nobody likes bait and switch.

How will Google encourage a new developers to start working with GAE when platform-neutral providers (AWS, linode) are getting cheaper and better all the time?
Glad to see they're moving forward a bit. They launched with much hoopla, and since then the most that I've seen from them is a shorter url (tt.fm).

That said, this is a really great service, of which I am a constant user. Hopefully this means they will release ancillary services more often.
I use it to fetch my starred links in twitter over to instapaper. On my walk to the subway, I plow through a bunch of twitter, star what I like, and read the links underground.
I don't know about cynical but it is unusual for sure - Google is showing huge amount of trust in selling what seem to be important 9 patents - HTC could in theory dump Android tomorrow for WP7 and go suing Samsung using those same patents for example. Or may be Google has some crafty term of sale that prohibits HTC from suing anyone using Android.

The other oddity is that those same patents are now off the table for any other Android OEM to use to sue Apple or Microsoft. Was HTC the weakest one and so Google felt giving them those patents was a balancing act and other vendors are having their own credible patents to not need these 9. We will never know I think.
I guess it depends on how you interpret this graph: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/engadget.com/?metric=uv

(given their contentious relationship it is ironic that AOL killed both Jason Calacanis and Mike Arrington's greatest accomplishments in the exact same way)
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So I wonder if this definition of suing (transferring a patent to a third party who uses it defensively) is evil to you, how evil is Apple, Oracle, Microsoft, etc?
Even outside tech--- there was a Greek restaurant in Santa Cruz whose owner sold it, and then waited exactly N years (I forget what N equals) before opening a new restaurant, due to the noncompete.
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Oh, I agree. But if the net result is something that works better, the fact that it needs some internal tinkering shouldn't scare programmers away.
I don't really see the value of running 486 instead of equivalent ARM CPU. Looking at something like RaspberryPi[1], you'd get a lot more everything with the same price, and the performance characteristics are actually relevant to modern day low power systems.

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Me too. I knew this was undefined in theory because C treats any kind of signed overflow as undefined behavior, but I'd never run into this specific issue. Trapping it is a denial-of-service risk but at least it won't subtly break downstream invariants like most 2's complement signed overflow bugs. Some architectures have signed add/sub instructions that will optionally trap on overflow. If you're going to trap, it seems like you should do it across the board, rather than reserve it for one arithmetic instruction as with IDIV. The x86 IDIV/IMUL and DIV/MUL instructions have a nice left-inverse pairing (the multiplies take two n-bit operands to a 2n-bit result, the divides take a 2n-bit operand and an n-bit operand to an n-bit result) but that symmetry breaks down when you work with fixed-size operands and results as is usually the case.
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I guess the secret's out; I'm the iOS guy mentioned :)
I'm not sure if he's not allowed to write for TC anymore. I think he's just not the editor-in-chief.
You can create a(n encrypted) sparse bundle which is a set of files that represents a disk image. Then on top of that image you can create a TrueCrypt volume that is quick-formatted. That might do what you want.
It does, HTTP at least. That could be enough to DDoS even a large site.
I have to disagree here. Yes there are schools of thought, but questions like "how does a market work?", "what causes deflation?" are pretty well studied and agreed upon. This is one of those very basic settled questions with a very clear accessible explanation.
This really could be the end of TechCrunch as we know it. It's too bad. HN and TC are the two sites I frequent the most often. Arrington leaving will probably lead to Siegler and maybe Kincaid leaving, and then TC is as boring as any other site out there.
I'm guessing that most thieves, like most people, don't even know what 'formatting the hard drive' means, or even how to do it if they knew it meant erase the hard drive completely. Many people think the hard drive is the actual desktop box in many cases. It probably sounds like repairing the distributor cap on a car.
He's totally overlooked one aspect of bitcoin, it doesn't matter if it's deflationary if all I'm using it for is selling drugs and converting bitcoins into cash straight away or using it as an intermediary step in sending large amounts currency around the world anonymously. Who cares if it doesn't work great as a currency (if you believe deflation is a bad thing), it still has a lot of utility.
To clarify, I agree with the traditional sense of MVP. The problem is people think a 50% built MVP with tons of bugs is MVP and that becomes the issue.
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Getting fired on purpose is a perfect way for him to go out. He gets his money and gets to go work on something else, or simply not work. Meanwhile, AOL gets stuck holding the bag and looking like the bad guy. I had an old boss who did something similar.
Let's just say that TechCrunch Disrupt next week will be fun to attend :-)
That's true - there definitely would be some room for disruption in the domain registration market.

The thing with GoDaddy, which is bigger than it's 8 nearest competitors combined, is that they've been successful on the back of mass marketing, and earning more dollars off of every single customer they have.

All those add ons, that we geeks so easily ignore, are just mindlessly added on by a large majority of other customers who really have no idea what they need. So instead of earning $2 or $3 for the domain registration service, like other registrars do, GoDaddy ends up earning $200 or $300 from those customers (which gives them more money to use towards marketing again).

I think a major hosting company with a good reputation might be able to make inroads into the domain registration industry (Amazon or Rackspace perhaps), but I don't think most people would trust their domains with a startup.
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Well I have come across really good UX folks that encompass both traits. I think it is less a question about job, but the role they play and skillset. A product needs a sherpa, no matter who plays the part.
I think somebody is building a WebGL version. That could generate a ton of money on a large website.
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We're a start-up with a limited ad budget, but I found Facebook to be a good launching pad for our first several hundred registered users.

With Reddit we really get a good combination on by networking directly with artists (I'm a co-founder of this site: http://www.feed-forward.net the focus of which is to help improve communication between artists) by posting our own works on specific communities on Reddit (I'm a musician, and the other co-founder is a photographer), and when others posting their work from our site to Reddit in conjunction with our paid ads.

With Reddit, my feeling is that you really do have to keep it fresh for people not to tune it out.

PlentyofFish? Interesting.
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does the end of the drama mean that i can stop paying attention to TC again soon? they never seemed to have too much of a presence on HN or reddit, but since all the Arrington drama has come up there seems to be a lot more of their articles being shared, and i don't mean just the drama-related stuff. people seem to be using TC as a source for all sorts of stuff that i would normally see linked to on founder's blogs instead.
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Site will likely coast at current levels for awhile.
This is abhorrently unimportant drama. TC has been a trash rag from the start, and their flaming dramatic burnout is just as trash as everything else they've ever published. Go away already. This is publicity coup 101 shit. DIAF.
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Which noncompetes have been repeatedly held unenforceable (acquisition NC's not included, but they usually have a short lifespan) in California?
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As an engineer at Aol, articles like this drive me crazy. I'm not 100% sold on the company's viability as it stands (MapQuest, AIM, and Moviefone don't really belong together), but I do want it to succeed. Bizzarre politicking played out publicly and the steady stream of internal emails stating "so-and-so got promoted and other-so-and-so is gone effective immediately" are getting disheartening.

I know the siren song of "it doesn't have to be like this" that startups sing (and, until relatively recently, all I worked at were startups). But (surprise!) Aol has a lot of great engineers. Once you get an excuse to work cross-property and can see that on a bigger scale, it begins to feel like "Hey, if we had the opportunity, we could build some (more) amazing stuff."

But we're constantly reminded that this is a HuffPo world now and business drama is par for the course. Sigh.
This is a particularly big disappointment for me: Not only was I scheduled to speak at the London event, but there were to be talks on CoffeeScript in all four locations. While CoffeeScript talks have become de rigeur at Ruby/Rails events, Dev Days presented an opportunity to bring the language to a wider developer community. Plus, the talks were going to deal with more advanced topics than the usual "Here's why you should learn CoffeeScript." My talk was cheekily entitled "CoffeeScript: The Only Language You'll Ever Need"; I was planning to talk about tricks and tools for using CoffeeScript in all walks of life.

Of course, my sympathies go out to the Dev Days planners; this must have been a very hard decision for them, and an understandable one. Consider me RSVP'd for Dev Days 2012.
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I am questioning these "discoveries" about prey - from their FAQ

My computer/phone was stolen but Prey wasn’t installed on it.
Is there something I can do?

Not much, since you must install Prey before the actual theft takes place.
If Prey isn’t installed (or if it wasn’t correctly set up)
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Hmm. I'm not sure how you could view this as an offensive move?
Is this offensive patent warfare since HTC is merely countersuing? (serious question, I'd like to know the answer)
I agree on the specific numbers and on smaller sites. But on sites as large as engadget I think they can show fairly accurate trending
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aol is not a software company.

it is not a tech company either, and hasn't been for a long time.

it was an ad-sales company until 2008 and now it is a media company.
After googling this, you appear to be correct. However, the problem is not that the USPS is required to do this - the problem is that everyone else is not.

There is absolutely no reason to treat pension and non-pension obligations differently, and the fact that we treat the USPS differently than everyone else is not an argument to let the USPS off the hook. Instead, we should force both the public and private sector to properly fun their post employment obligations.

As for the blog, I'm building a startup, and haven't had time to post. I'm planning a post on color measurement soon, however.