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what is the message of the allegory supposed to be?

It sounded to me like the message was supposed to be "it doesn't sound so awesome when you see it from the other side of the looking glass, now does it". (It felt like it was targeted at people who can identify with developing mobile apps)
Michael Moritz (Google, Yahoo, Apple, among others) of Sequoia was a reporter.
Every time I see that guy's name, I think of the guy who unnecessarily destroyed an iPad for attention: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfypkhII1KY
Git history is indelible too. I mean, you can't mess with an existing tree without it being obvious.

But in any VCS you can of course start over. Set the system clock back and check the existing code from another repo into a new one in different chunks making it appear to have been made differently in the first place. There's no way around that other than signing your commits which would work in git as well...
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Do you think all your customers are the same?
Or do you realize that the customers who will download your app for free are fundamentally different from those who are willing to pay?

I remember a post from a while back (it may have been from the author of SizeUp for Mac) that concluded that customers who paid little or nothing for an app were customer support nightmares. I believe it was attributed to a sense of entitlement on the customer's part.

The author of the following post seems to think they are. At least, they neglect the possibility that many who downloaded their app for free would not have paid for it. https://shiftyjelly.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/amazon-app-store-rotten-to-the-core/

Don't ignore the selection effect. Get your counterfactuals straight. Did the author lose money by giving away to customers that might have paid? Probably. Should he count every download as a loss? Surely not.

Sometimes, people just want a free turkey sandwich. http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/10/03/goodbye-turkey-sandwich/
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Where? Down for maintenance on my end.
Usually a protest is an organized group of people opposing something for the purpose of a resolution.

These people have not outlined nor have a resolution. They are just against capitalism (?). Though as noted in a comment above, they all pack into their local McDonalds for free wifi and pay to eat there, yet in doing so they are further fueling what they oppose. Seems odd to me!

Can anyone here make sense of this movement?
I am crossing my fingers that a more affordable "non-luxury" option presents itself in the near future.
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ah, the "let them eat cake" argument.

throughout history, there have been far less purposeful protests whose outcome has been far less "silly".
Does the irony invalidate the estimate of 5.000 protesters?
there are plenty of people "working inside the system". that has proven ineffective.
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I am wondering if others are thinking on these lines.. an equivalent of https://www.donotcall.gov for the likes of Facebook, Google+ and other ad-words based folks
It's only their third week. The Vietnam War protests went on for how long? Give them some time and maybe they'll get the message figured out. The solutions to economic depression and socioeconomic disparity are a bit more complicated than "pull out of the war." You don't fix a mediocre Gini coefficient overnight.

They seem to be at the "I'm pissed, are you pissed too?" stage. I expect they'll either fizzle out eventually, or they'll refine their message and pivot.
Point taken, but Adobe was just an example.
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Google doesn't really do customer service. Then again, it's still less walled than Apple's garden.

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Whether or not that's true, and I doubt that it is, we all know who is hands down the wittiest.

I'm stuck on 1.3.21. What the hell is "the 1,2,1 pattern or the -1,2,-1 pattern"? Does he mean a pattern in the columns? I see 1,2,1 but not -1,2,-1. Is this like one of those duck-rabbit optical illusions?

Edit: there is, however, a -1,2,-1 pattern in 1.3.24, and the system there is very similar to the one in 1.3.21.
I can so relate to that...

But then I think of other actual jobs that exist nowadays, and I conclude being a software dev might be the least worse.

Software is eating the world, after all.
How is this justified, to stay free?

True, it preps users for other Atlassian products; and marginal cost of storage is near-zero these days.
1. Way back up there I used it in the context of,

> See how blanket statements are easy?

and,

2. How are you seriously trying to pretend that these policies were the bastions of "progressives and their allies"?
You wouldn't replace it with anything. You'd need a cultural change where people recognized that stealing is always wrong, even if they call it taxes and declare it legal. Police and courts would be businesses like any other and not funded by force.

As for examples, America was founded in liberty. Unfortunately the nightmare scenario is playing out in real time as the US evolves from the tiny government of two centuries ago into the police state of tomorrow (today?). All libertarian societies I'm aware of eventually give way to the nightmare of the state. So, nope, I can't give you any examples of a libertarian society that lasted indefinitely. But brief liberty is better than none.

The only way I can see liberty playing out in a sustainable way is if the entire planet becomes libertarian so that there are no giant concentrations of force capable of taking it over and turning it back into a state. And I think this will eventually happen since it would continue the slow but steady moral advance of humanity.
Maybe AOL didn't make them sign any agreements, but the way they've bailed on Techcrunch, caused a shitstorm, and started up this fund and competing tech blog all feels really slimey. I can't imagine why any startup would want to accept money or work with them.
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It's a way to get attention all right. When I saw it drop-down I closed the site.

I can cut and paste a URL, thanks. This 'Like' spam is something I dislike.
That pic may be ridiculous but so is the claim that there are only 100 protesters. The police have arrested eight times that alone.

And since when is some guy's blog "The Media"?
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I feel the same way. I don't understand the point of this allegory other than to insight discussion and get ranked highly on HN.

Maybe I'm used to reading "easy" articles that provide a problem and possible solution to it. I haven't read the allegory of the cave since college so I'm not used to thinking this hard... (laziness on my part I guess)
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>I forgot to mention "They’re doing the best they can, they say. Most of all, they’re complying with the law, they say." - I can't imagine many people who download pirated music do so without realising that it's illegal and/or immoral. Legitimate looking services like streaming sites are harder to judge - they might have a license for the content, or they might not.

The reference there is to the filesharing sites, not to pirates.
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He's getting downvoted because his comment doesn't add materially to the conversation.
if "a couple" > 2, then hardly. Perl is only 22 years old.
One thing he doesn't mention is that living in Japan without visa "sponsorship" is a chore. There's this weird requirement that you need someone to sponsor you, either a Japanese national or your company (you can be self-employed but it's much harder). You wouldn't think it walking about Roppongi or China Town but it is.

This comes into play when renting too. The real estate agent usually requires someone Japanese to sponsor you. I know lots of guys that got their girlfriend to do this. Only applies to the initial contract.

The city version:

Living quarters suck. The closer to Tokyo, the less space, the more rent.

Anything involving services will seem overpriced. I think it has to do with high median salaries overall, inefficient distribution (lots of middlemen), and low labor productivity.

However, one thing people underestimate is the number of ways you can save by shopping smart, especially things like groceries and electronics. Or for example gyms, lots of local governments run fitness centers open to anyone on a walk in basis as long as they live or work in the area for $3 while a brand name gym will cost you $120 for full membership.
I think audiophiles who can't stand mp3s are a pretty minuscule part of the pirating population and not much to hang your argument on. The vast majority of people who are pirating music and movies just don't want to pay for it.
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What I do is go look at the other products which sucked, which originally motivated me to make a better mousetrap.

Then I get back to doing it.
I am unsure that lack of iPhone is Sprint's sole big problem. For some time now they have messed up with 4G and their 3G speeds aren't anything to write about either. And last time I drove through the US across 4 states my wife's Epic 4G had the least coverage.

And iPhone is more available today - you can buy it unlocked, you can buy it on AT&T or Verizon. So the only people that are really going to buy iPhone on Sprint are the smaller number that have only Sprint coverage (theoretical - not sure if that is valid) and only want an iPhone. The second smaller group will be the people within Sprint's 4G coverage areas that like Sprint's data plan better - as the speeds aren't all that great on WiMax compared to competition.
The Health 2.0 event last week had this set up. They actually had two separate podiums at opposite sides of the stage. It worked quite well and more than once they were able to flip to a backup and recover gracefully.
Doing unit testing to reduce testing effort before releases sounds fishy to me. Unit tests should be fast and you should run them often. I even have them tied to the main target build, so that the compiler immediately tells me when I break something.

You can do paper UI prototypes with good results, they will make you think more about the corner cases, which in turn will do good to the code quality.

When we were making games I used to prototype some of the algorithms in Perl to benefit from the faster development cycle and expressivity (being able to quicky hack whatever conditions needed).

And of course prototyping is a perfect way to try the high-risk parts of the system first, so that you don't spend too much effort only to hit a blocker later in the project. But that's off the topic of quality.
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The alternative used to be: report a bug. Put it in bugzilla.

I've reported thousands of bugs. Maybe 30-50% of them used to be fixed. Nowadays I'd be pushing it to say 5%.
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Historically id has never been known for deep characters or good stories. To me their games were just advertisements for their engines.

I would have been surprised if Rage was able to match worlds from companies like Bethesda, Bioware (before the EA buyout), or Obsidian.
At the least, the people out there trying to #occupywallstreet are doing something to try to limit the power of the unelected, unaccountable, unchecked financial elites whose wealth puts them above the law and whose infinite appetite ensures they will never be satisfied until they have sold the last bit of land, eaten the last wild animal and hold the rest of humanity on a short leash of material necessity.

To make things, products and services that people want and choose to buy of their own free will is an honorable path. The people out there on the street are not against those who choose that path; they are against those who want to set up one set of laws for the rich and powerful and another far harsher one for the rest of us.

Whether this picture is a product of regrettable enthusiasm, or is a deliberate fraud aimed to discredit is beside the point. The fact that the space has been opened to have a conversation about the nature of power in our society at this time is the important fact worthy of note.
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It's still theft however you slice it.
I pirated some music today[0]. I went to my usual shops to try to buy it, and for some reason the label had explicitly decided not to offer downloads of any sort. Just vinyl and CD. I wanted it now, and I couldn't really be arsed with those choices, so I stole it.

What would an honest Android-app allegory for this be? Perhaps a consumer is faced with these options:

1. An official shop, which accepts money (yay!), gives only some (boo!) of it to the artist, and offers:

a. The source code to build the app (i.e. a plastic disc that you have to rip yourself)

b. maybe, sometimes, a version of the app compiled for a 320x480 screen (acceptable lossy compressed files)

c. maybe, even fewer times, a version of the app compiled to use any screen size (lossless files, or high-quality lossy or whatever you like)

2. A dodgy (boo!) pirate site, which doesn't accept money (boo!), and offers all of the compiled versions.

Of course this is not even close to reality. No Android apps are compiled by normal end users. All paid Android apps offer 1c. Music piracy does not exist because of religious "information must be free" nuts like this article is talking about -- it exists because people's moral feeling about getting some money to the artist is not strong enough to overcome the inconvenience of 1a (or even 1b). Maybe we should conclude that the analogy has broken down.

Society does not "accept" this sort of piracy like it's a binary switch. The "morals" curve slides down, the "inconvenience" curve slides up, and at some point they pass each other. I see no reason why they can't trade places again -- if we actually try to do something about it instead of spinning clever allegories.

I suspect we need to look elsewhere to understand the motivations of app pirates (yes, I know this was not the point, but if you're going to be facetious...). The real thing is right there, for a few dollars. I've already given Google Checkout my credit card information. I cannot fathom what would make someone deal with sketchy sites (sketchy sites whose entire purpose is to install executable code on your device) to get the same thing they can just pay for. Maybe they are in fact just religious nuts.

[0] Honestly, I can't even be bothered to pirate most things these days. I'm culturally behind because filling in the gaps in what I can actually buy in FLAC would be a part-time job. If a record shop so much as rejects spaces in my credit card number I get bored and go listen to something I've already bought. This is a problem that could use some, as they say, disruptive innovation.
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What did the reviewer expect from an iD game?

Glad to know they've still got it though. Maybe I'll end up making my first video game purchase in years...
The whole idea of moral offsetting is nonsense. That's like saying that I'm going to steal Oreos from the grocery store but make up for it by buying milk.
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I could also see it as retaliation for dropping all non-unlimited texting plans after iMessage was announced, or for changing iPads from unlimited data to 2 GB/month shortly after release.

I know a few people still on the 3GS, out of contract, and looking for an upgrade. If the iPhone 5 came out on another carrier (especially with an unlimited plan), they'd be happy to jump ship.
> Ultimately, piracy breaks down to "people want your stuff, but you've priced it too highly".

I'd say it's rather:

> Ultimately, piracy breaks down to "people want your stuff, but you've priced it".
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My advice is to sit down and ask what he wants. Does he want out of the project? More money? Does he feel disrespected?

I'm a developer. I miss deadlines because either I underestimated the time required or something else beyond my control came up. If the code is turning out harder than required then figure out what piece of it is the problem.

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