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The one attorney I have spoken to says, for reasons I still don't entirely understand, that I have a better shot at trying to sue them for using my intellectual property without permission

If I had to guess from your wording and this response, the "company" wasn't incorporated while you were involved with it? If it were, you'd have some sort of share certificate and the sale of the company may have been fraudulent. If you're a shareholder, someone else can't easily just "assume [your] ownership".

I'm guessing you never got an official 20% share of the corporation that was eventually sold, so your attorney may be thinking your beef is with the guy who "stole" your share and that could be a more complicated/less lucrative case.
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My point is, if these people are magically special, why are they not able to create more jobs now? How come they stopped creating jobs? How come 50 million americans are without jobs?

Is it not, perhaps, the case that the situation was such that these jobs would have been created anyway? My complaint is this.

There are 400 rich people. There are jobs. You attribute a causal relationship.

I say, you could have killed every one of these 400 at birth, and we would still have the jobs (and to be clear I am not advocating doing that at all, I'm just making a hypothetical argument)

Now you might say that it is not these 400 individuals that matter, but that in any system with jobs, there would be 400 people at the top, and these people would have more wealth.

However, it is the "how much more wealth" that is the complaint. Not that there are 400 of them. The complaint is not that these specific 400 people are the problem. Nor that any such 400 would be the problem. The complaint is that a system that allows for the top 400 people to have such a disparate amount of wealth compared to the other 300 million is a fucked system.

To argue that without these 400 people, or any such 400 people, there would be higher unemployment is rubbish. That "we are better off because they existed".

Fuck you, frankly.

Indeed, its more likely that the richest 400 actively act to prevent individuals from gaining wealth and power that can threaten their own. As the feudal system collapsed, small businesses flourished. In order to maintain control, the ruling classes established laws requiring tradesmen to join guilds and pay fees. In the UK for example, guilds had to be recognized by the monarch.

In modern times, these guilds have been replaced by rules and regulations that have the same effect, but their justification is the same: "its in the public interest". Just as you couldn't buy cloth from a non-guild weaver in the 15th century - because it might not be good quality - so now you can't buy a car from Tesla unless Tesla pays millions of dollars for crash testing, or buys a design from an incumbent.

Similarly, patent lawyers. Accountants. That new iPhone app that records your heart rate? Want FDA approval for that? Want to be hit with a lawsuit for a covered medical device that you released without FDA approval? (because they are covered).

I'm not saying that a capitalist world run by a species that is happy to bomb its own offspring could be any different. I'm just saying don't fucking pretend that we owe them any praise. They get away with as much as they can just short of us rising up and killing them.
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Well, there were several corporate machinations. Initially, the company was an LLC, and I was given a 20% interest in it in writing. At some point after I left, during one of the financing rounds, it became a corporation. The corporation was sold.
Don't forget however that you still have to have a roof over your head. Assuming you have close to $0 net worth when you graduate, you still have to lose money, be it over a mortgage or over renting.

So, the question is, which is cheaper? Your mortgage, or your landlord?
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that's absurdly rational.

but also impossible to prove.
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I don't like that this web site is called "Mobile UI Patterns." As others have pointed out, this is more specifically iOS design patterns. While some things can be similar, Android and iOS have different design patterns, and I think that should be respected when developing an application. Personally, I dislike when an Android app is made to look like an iOS app.

For those, who want Android design patterns, there is this web site: http://www.androiduipatterns.com/
Talk to as many attorneys as you can until you find a good one who is willing to help.

Or treat this as an investment: invest $100K for a $10M return.

My personal recommendation: talk to great lawyers, they are more expensive on a per-hour basis, but when they tell opposing counsel what they think of the case, the other side usually listens. Been there, done that :-(
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Replace "due to" with "despite" and you're closer to the mark.
A few grammar issues:

- Got too much should be "Got too many"

- Store it online should be "Store them online"

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The page looks nice, gets to the point, easy to understand.
First of, Phi is the limit ratio of many sequences, not just the Fibonacci sequence.

Now I don't quite follow your rectangle example, but this is the process of how and why Phi occurs in nature:

http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/page-410

This is the mechanism for pinecones, sunflower seeds and tree branches. As far as I'm aware, this mechanism is the only place in nature where Phi, or rather the angular ratio 137.5 : 222.5 degrees, occurs.

If you know of a significantly different mechanism in nature where Phi occurs, I'd love to hear about it.

Please note that the Fibonacci sequence (as well as other less apparent sequences) are a side effect of this angular ratio, if the specimen develops flawlessly. Yet even if the specimen has flaws (due to external factors), it will still grow and tend to return towards the 137.5:222.5 angular ratio, even though it will never return to following the Fibonacci sequence numbers.
That's different though. The first example was someone who thought they'd bought a valid license but had been duped. This one seems to be about people who want Windows but don't want to pay for it.

Those people need to do a total cost of ownership assessment and work out whether they go with something FOSS or something closed. While FOSS is great in cash out the door terms if you value your time it may not be as good a choice.

But again both are scenarios around free as in beer, not free as in speech.

* Incidentally, I should note I'm not against FOSS. I'm typing this into Chrome and I work for a company who build their products using Java and JBoss and who run an extensive Linux infrastructure. For us those have been great decisions but for my family who are not IT literate, I think the FOSS assessment looks very different.
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Lazy load it.

It's not the thing that users will be doing when they first load you page anyways.
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Can someone brief me on what Occupy Wall Street is trying to do? I can't quite figure it out.

I think Jerry Pournelle said it best "They don’t really know what they want, but they really don’t want more of what they’re getting."

http://jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/?p=2487
Yeah, I found that line hideous - ridiculously unintuitive and hard to read compared to the equivalent in say, ruby.

Maybe the whole essay would have been better framed something like: "Objective C: not quite as bad as Java!"
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I think the lack of understand about borrowing to fund an asset, versus borrowing to fund lifestyle. If it is going to return higher than the interest rate you are borrowing at, then cool. If, in the case of a house, it is cheaper than renting (without a high risk of capital value falling putting you into liquidity diffulties), then also cool.

Borrowing for consumption is where people make the mistake.
Well, many of the jobs that have been lost are of the legacy type: jobs in which the creations of Gates, Jobs, et al. have made obsolete. At a previous company I worked for, each executive had his/her own scheduling and appointment secretary. While that may have been necessary back in the day before easy-to-use, syncable-with-your-mobile-device calendars were developed, the jobs that managed such tasks were the first on the chopping block. In fact, those jobs only continued to exist because it was more of a (emotional/sentimental) cost to cut them than to just keep them.

After the company trimmed heavily during recession and bosses got used to doing their own calendars there was no justifying hiring for these secretarial positions again. Sure, talented young out-of-college kids may have found new types of work, but not these former secretaries.
HN is a place I had in mind when I wrote this. Most people here are doing something on the web, and it's easy to be led into blowing tons of cash on stuff that's not needed.
That paper uses a 2001 data set, and things have certainly changed since the housing crisis, but it was interesting all the same.

The paper argued that certain things - like the cost of housing (due to rising prices) and health care - were the cause of middle-class debt loads, and that consumption on frivolous items was actually down from the 1970s.

This is a plausible argument. The cost of housing, health care, and education has certainly skyrocketed. What Warren doesn't mention, though, is that all of these areas are heavily regulated and subsidized by the federal government - unlike all the areas where middle-class consumption has declined.

You might be able to persuade me that people are in fact spending responsibly, but you'll have a harder time persuading me that the solution to their problems is more regulations, or that the appropriate target of these protestors is anywhere outside Washington DC.
Not on mobile devices :-)

(That's no justification for using horizontal scrolling on a website that also targets the desktop, though.)
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Nice rant, but, what if there's a perceptible difference between tube and solid state technologies?

Just because it cannot be objectively measured doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
I see what you're saying, and I agree. Those bubbles were not the systemic issue I'm specifically fired up about, though. Those are more like branches of the tree rather than the root.

The root, to me, is corporate money and influence in Washington to such a degree that it effectively shuts out democracy. I lay fault for that systemic problem at the door of "the 1%" and the politicians they influence.
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Very "tea party" centric pie chart. Who the hell sends over 60% of their income to taxes?! Talk about scare tactic. It should be closer to 0-25%, especially given how many people celebrate the annual April jackpot (aka. refund checks)
Except that if you look at what processes in nature really arrive at Phi, they are not that disparate at all.

Which is why it's important to point out that Phi does not occur in the spiral of a nautilus shell or a galaxy or in fact any spiral.

But it does occur in a very specific type of growth mechanism, in the form of an angular ratio of 137.5:222.5 degrees.

And only there.

Which makes Phi just about as equally amazing as the exponential function, squares of integers, triangular numbers, limited growth sigmoid function, the Feigenbaum constant, spheres, circles, symmetry, lines or just about anything else where something in Mathematics explains a tiny part of nature ;-)
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The video is very interesting, but I want to know more. Is there any difference between this and a superconductor levitating in a magnetic field? Is there any (easy) theoretical explanation / blog post?
Because everyone has ideas.

Your ideas aren't worth anything. Execution is worth something. Game designers are doing the execution themselves, so you're not worth listening to.
When I tried to access the site at work (we use Postini for our web filtering), I got the message below. What I found most interesting was the category the site was blocked under.

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I practice business litigation in Texas and California. It sounds like you have a great case. See if you can find an attorney who will take this on a contingency basis.

What state are you in? I can forward this to a California attorney I know who does business litigation on a contingency basis if you are in California, since I am living in Texas at the moment.
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Step 3: Talk to the best attorney(s) you can find. Talk fast, listen well.

Step 4: Let them do what they do.

If your case is solid, most attorneys will take it on contingency, but at 12.8 mil this isn't a small town matter. You're looking at semi-pro minimum. Consider it an investment.
Just curious, for comparison: what would the equivalent be in Ruby?
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The majority of this attention is from women who would like to be like me, not men who would like to get with me. Total strangers stop me in the grocery store and ask how I lost so much weight and things like that. I'm not comfortable divulging my diagnosis under such circumstances and there typically isn't time to get into my story, which is long and convoluted.

Also, for the last four years, most of the time my hair is so short that I joke I look like a new recruit/jarhead. The result has been at least one woman has cut her hair shorter, inspired by me. At least one other woman has talked about considering cutting her hair shorter because she likes my hair so much. Granted, I am a tad overdue for a haircut at the moment, so my curls are showing. This has very likely made my problems worse in recent weeks (in terms of turning heads/ garnering attention). Nor will I be dying it red as hair dye causes me to break out in hives. Frankly, I'm not sure it would help.

Thanks.
Fine:

> When a maximized window is behind an active non-maximized window, the panel serves as its title bar. But it actually spells out the name of the active window. Very confusing.

This just doesn't happen in OS X that I've ever observed. It's in fundamental conflict with the OS X window management paradigm.

> Additionally, in the same situation, all of they standard mouse gestures on the panel (e.g: double-click to unmaximize) do not work. Maximized windows don't get the right-click-title gesture to work at all.

Again, this is just inapplicable to OS X.

> No window list at a glance (useful for remembering your context/state with the UI)

This is true for OS X, as far as it goes, but OS X UI practices seem to make it less of an issue than it would be on Windows or a typical Linux desktop environment.

> Hides important buttons such as close window, as well as the menus, where non-power-users will not know to look.

I'm not even sure what this one is about. It seems inapplicable to both Unity and OS X.

> Panel unhide takes a relatively long time -- slowing down almost every interaction with the UI.

Hiding off by default in OS X, quite fast to unhide.

> Workspace switcher does not support window drag, unlike the gnome panel workspace applets.

OS X supports this fully.

> Workspace switcher requires multiple selections to switch to a window.

Not true of OS X.

> Alt-tab switches applications, not windows

True of OS X.

8 properties total, 1 I can't make sense of, 2 that are more or less shared. If my post was hyperbole, the one I responded to claiming "many" of these were shared with OS X was, too.
I think Objective C is awesome, but I suspect many people have a hard time separating the language from the library. Apple has a pretty unique way of developing frameworks and SDKs. Comparing Android and iOS development, the Android SDK makes sense out of the box because it follows typical Java/C#/C++ style framework design.
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We don't appear to have mastered resource management for our current population and life-span, yet. Perhaps we could pander to the (IMHO) emotionally immature "I want to live forever" crowd once we're able to support the problem we've got, let alone that which we're looking to create?
I have to admit, I just emphasized on what is strange or downright wrong about selling guitar-related gear. There certainly are a lot of great companies out there and if you swear you hear the difference or just like their products and can afford it, then by all means, more power to you! I myself am prone to spending big bucks on gear myself...

I just find it funny when you take a cynic look at it from the view of a hacker and not a musician/artist. Guitar players and selling gear to them is somehow a whole different ball game compared to, say, bass players who are generally much more open to new stuff.
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Very true, all of this would improve the language a lot. I have often thought about writing a language that does these kind of things and compiles to Obj-C.

Also, I would love to be able to do some kind of metaprogramming without resorting to strings.
Same feeling here, and actually I felt frustrated with the AI class.
After looking at the others the lack of a larger standalone "exercise" section was disappointing.
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That being said, that's pretty neat actually.
I suspect you are overestimating what you are entitled to.

20% of the founding equity rarely turns into 20% of the final sale price of the company. Normal, healthy subsequent investment could easily dilute the founding shares 2:1 or 3:1. If the company goes through especially bad times -- a near bankruptcy followed by a last-minute bailout by investors, not unheard of in the last few years -- the founding shares could easily be diluted 10:1.

Add in a modest management carve-out from the sale, and your 20% amounts to 2-5% of 90% of $64 million, or $1.2-$2.9 million.
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At what point does this end up touching anti-trust?
The article only mentions the library in passing as a potential session. It's not taking a shot at Alice.js, it's taking a shot at RIM's failures with the PlayBook and current mobile devices.
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So what are the alternatives?

I won't back down too easily..If they are not changing they have to ultimately pay the price for it in future..
Wow. Way to keep it civil. Thanks for cursing me out.

I had written up a long response trying to explain how much the large companies these people have founded have helped the American economy compete and people prosper. Then I got to your section implying that crash testing was primarily a way for incumbents to keep startups down rather than being for the public good and I realized that you were either trolling me or are so unreasonable right now that it's pointless trying to argue with you.
I am in Nevada, but any litigation would likely take place in California. The company was initially based in Nevada, but was moved to San Diego (the Southern District of California for a federal matter). After the acquisition I believe their headquarters moved to Virginia, but I know they still have an office in San Diego.