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Copyright gives an economic incentive to produce art. You can't exactly create blockbuster films or high quality TV series in your spare time. The issue is that the government has extended the reach of copyright beyond what was originally intended. Should you be allowed to make copies of someone else's movie and hand them out to all your friends? Probably not. Should you be allowed to put a little clip of it on YouTube as a joke? I think so.
How did this happen?

@PaulDacus99 is in the same hacking community I am. I have never met the guy IRL. I watched his hilarious tweets scroll across my screen for two solid days. You could tell he felt like he had been put through the wringer.

After I got done laughing, I realized that a lot of what was said resonated with me. There was value underneath the hilarity. And it made me wish I had a book of small sagely pieces of advice, that I could call upon when making tough choices.

So when @PaulDacus99 meme appeared, that really started to take on the look of what I was after. Internally, I started to compile his thoughts into a "How to: Not Get F*cked [Startup Edition]" type of book. And I really like that idea. Better yet, I wished I owned the book 10 years ago.

What can offer?

If you have anecdotes of value, whether a coder, business dev, or VC, feel free to share. Please obfuscate and anonymize them. Names really aren't important, just the lessons learned. Ideally these are rooted in the view point of how you personally failed or failed to know, this adds weight to the lesson.

If you have mentor's or blogs that you read or talk to that help in your education of making sound career and business decisions, feel free to also voice those. I'll try to build a list from which people can start learning from.

If they are concise enough, tweet them to @PaulDacus99, it looks like his meme is taking requests.

Hopefully this all makes sense, thanks for reading.
I think the counter to your counter is that piracy represents the establishment of a market. It's up to industry to take advantage of that market.
Last time I went back to the USA from Germany, I was exposed to fifteen minutes of questioning, accused of having an invalid passport, and other such indignities. This despite being a native born American with part of my genealogy going back to the Mayflower.

On the trip back to Germany, where I am only an immigrant on a short-term visa, I was given a stamp and waved through after about ten seconds.

When you're treated worse by your own country as a native citizen than as an immigrant in a foreign country, you know your country has problems.
Roundcube is by far the most clean, intuitive and beautiful opensource webmail client out there.

> it's also written in PHP... which doesn't necessarily have to count against it, but makes me a little wary

why that?
Not sure if this is interesting to others here, but I've been studying Japanese as a hobby for years and have visited a couple of times. Having the chance to launch a product there is really a bit of a dream come true. :)

This was possible with the help of a friend who agreed to translate the site and help market it there in exchange for a commission on the sales there.
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Thanks for the feedback! We are just updating the page with a link where we explain. Here it is:

http://www.6wunderkinder.com/blog/2011/10/20/the-wunderkit-s...
Dovecot supports it, but are there any good, stable IMAP clients that work with it?
The RIAA and MPAA represent their own interests, not the interests of the people who actually make things. As long as the middlemen are running the show, both the creators and the consumers will be unhappy.
This is the rule. It's five years for non-spouses I believe. I assume he was living in the US as a permanent resident during this time.
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> An interesting factoid. There is no legal way for anyone to just come to US and make it their home country.

I am pretty sure this is exactly the same for every country. Not anyone can move to any other country, it has not been that way for a long time.
That is exactly what the "oid" in "factoid" means, by the way.

fact : factoid :: human : humanoid
I was going to reply with what you said but then I thought, since they're the in that "most calories per dollar" bucket, maybe poor people eat there out of necessity and not choice...
There is one sense in which the US has noticably regressed. Back In The Day we wrote on the Statue of Liberty "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Then in the had a big panic about foreign terrorists in the early 1920s[1], which ended up with the US cutting back on immigration by more than an order of magnitude. The recent panic about foreign terrorism certainly isn't helping, either.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Red_Scare
So is this correct?

ARMv7 Cortex A15 > ARMv7 Cortex A7 > ARMv7 Cortex A9 > ARMv7 Cortex A8 > ARMv6 ARM11xx > ARMv3 ARM7xx
Without taking anything away from the article, it's worth noting that running a software business absolutely can provide one with a great lifestyle. More so than pretty much any other profession I can think of.

The lifestyle I wanted: pretty much as close to zero required work as possible, the ability to do said negligible work from anywhere I feel like parking myself (preferably with good rock climbing), enough money to live comfortably there.

Absolutely achievable, with a couple years of effort (and achieved, by the way.) Try doing that in any other high-paid, high-prestige profession (Doctor, Lawyer, Banker, whatever). Can't do it. Too much doctoring, lawyering, etc. taking up all your time. Sure, you can set up your own practice, staff up, and eventually get the thing running on autopilot. But certainly not in your spare time after work, and definitely not for a few hundred dollars, all in.

So yeah, set your goals right and you'll find you've chosen the one industry where you really can own that coffeeshop.
It's fairly common for children of illegal immigrants to be in such "gray areas" where they don't have any nationality.

One of my half-sisters was in such case, she was born in Austria but neither of her parents were Austrian, so she was ruled not to have the right for Austrian citizenship, fortunately Uruguay is not so strict and recognizes foreign-born children of Uruguayans as Uruguayan and finally gave her the nationality.
Berkshire Hathaway has outperformed that vast majority of stocks over that time period. Saying he could have used leverage and some good stocks to turn 140 million to 140 billion is also true, but when you don't know how companies are going to preform your not given the choice of a safe 19+% ROI for 20 years.
Philips stated that DRM-saddled CDs could not display the "Compact Disc Digital Audio" logo because the DRM violates the Audio CD Standard (the Red Book). These CDs also ran into problems when being read by CD-ROM drives or CD players that used CD-ROM technology.
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"Sony rootkit" should be more than sufficient to satisfy you.
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Congratulations on a finely executed end to your 'argument'. It is edifying to see someone's true colors where personal attacks take precedence over actually staking a hard, factual claim to what you believe in.
Interestingly, I remember in 2006 Roundcube was already being touted as a gmail lookalike. Back when being able to move your emails from one folder to another using drag-n-drop in the browser made you feel /slick/ :)
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The Gettysburg address as something like 3 minutes of a 22 hour ceremony. It proves Brin's point exactly.

Steve Yegge's blog is called "Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants" and not "Stevey's Key Points of Great Ideas" for a reason.
How much architecture is enough?
I've worked in restaurants and coffee shops where the owner spent about half time hanging out and "curating the bookshop". The author's point is correct though, there's a huge amount of unseen thankless work (and cashflow) needed to make that happen.
I agree, actually. Piracy represents the voice of the consumer in the market right now. But it's a voice that cries, "I will cut off my nose to spite my face."

Here's why: most of us like the product Hollywood puts out. But we hate the way it's distributed to us. (For instance, this article's rant about loving "Gladiator" but hating the way it was exhibited in one case). By pirating the material, we end up hurting the creators just as much as we hurt the distributors. So everyone loses.

Piracy will always be around, because it's really easy, and the genie is out of the bottle. At the same time, I believe that people will gladly pay for better distribution strategies. Witness the rise of Netflix and iTunes.
Battelle asked about the highly critical memo from a Google engineer that was mistakenly made public. Gundotra's talking point on this: "Larry and Sergey have fostered a culture that allows open debate. The outside world got a peek into what it's like to work at Google. That's why we didn't fire him."

Brin was less diplomatic about the memo. "I stopped reading it after the first 1,000 pages or so," he said. "If you want to get a point across, limit it to a paragraph or so."

Are we ever going to have a social network run by people with sufficient diplomatic skill to host a simple birthday party?

Having said that: Rather than analyzing these clunker quotes any further I'd note that they are a journalist's paraphrase of what may well have been a gotcha question asked by the very same journalist. That's a notoriously treacherous process. So I'd like to avoid piling on. Let's just say that, if the journalist was the one who pulled and slanted these quotes to make them read like a barely-veiled public threat and a not-at-all-veiled peremptory brush-off, that journalist did a fine job.

If I were a Google recruiter I'd be prepping a better response right now. A pity that the company blew the chance to deliver a kind human response from the podium, but you can't fix history.
Not sure but there is a correlation because this trend has escalated ever since he has planned for a re-contest.
Kurzweil makes some good points here. He doesn't address each and every criticism with his view of AI progress, but he does a good job calling out Paul Allen on not doing the homework.
E-junkie is a PayPal wrapper.
In general 4xx errors are problems with the request, and 5xx errors are operational issues with the server/network
Because it's PHP. Duh.

</sarcasm>
"Behind each of these names lies a story worth telling, and ... there are 100's more like it that you'd have never heard of"

So true. We all stand on the shoulders of giants but it's not often that we look down to see who they really are (probably different for each of us).
Rewriting a large and complex enterprise-class application is tough enough, and a task that can variously (and expensively) fail.

Rewriting the whole of the World Wide Web?

Your replacement had better have a solid compatibility and migration path with "legacy" HTTP, and provide a substantial improvement over what HTTP and the existing tools provides, and clients and a migration path for a majority of the platforms and tools and browsers and embedded browsers and embedded web servers in use, and the budget and the time to make the replacement push.
I've always tried to pursue legal avenues for media content. As an UK expat I understand the woes described quite acutely.

I recently subscribed to the BBC iPlayer global. Bitterly disappointed. You are restricted to watching the content on the iPad (no Airplay to APTV). Not sure then why I own a fucking widescreen tv. Idiots.

Not to mention that you can't download the iPlayer Global from the UK Apple store where the vast majority of UK expats have their iTunes account. You have to use the local store. Great when it is in German and won't accept your UK credit card.

Really, how hard are you trying to stop me giving you money? Here's money, take it. Um, you need to jump through 15 million effing hoops first and then you can give us your money. Astonishing...
I suppose the expectation is that unless you are escaping imminent danger (refugee status) or joining a loved one (marriage), your decision to change your home is a calculated move - and the gov't gives a similarly calculated go-ahead. In other words, you are describing a niche of "I am OK now, and would like to join you", and the government responds with "we are OK now, so what will you bring along?".

Not making a judgment about the ethical conclusions of that, though.
They should consider Blekko, too. I've found some very relevant results on it, like if I was looking for a review of a laptop or something like that.
Cnet's article calls the memo "highly critical" but it seems pretty clear that he wasn't trying to rant so much as issue what he sees as a clarion call to action at a company he loves... and he took care to begin by praising Google for doing "everything right" and end by apologizing for any ruffled feathers or misrepresentations he might have made.

He might not be too comfortable at work right now, but his post did have the intended effect: people are still talking about it, and his company management is getting asked about it. And Sergey Brin is cracking jokes about it. And here we are talking about it.

If anyone is entitled to get their feathers ruffled by all this, it is Amazon. He really pulled no punches with them. My favorites were the description of his former employer as a "dirt-smeared cube farm" and the characterization of his former CEO as "Dread Pirate Bezos" who "makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies". That is some good material there.
Smart phones are on rails, they're not truly open ended. They don't use screen space well, and remote desktop is not possible to get larger-scale work done. I think they need to go back to using trackballs and styluses, because precision can't be achieved using fingers or by using the focus method in apps... The best use case i can think of for my phone these days is Angry Birds. Also, what ever happened to solar power? we're powering small cars off of solar cells, why in 2011 can't we power cell phones off of solar energy? The phones being ultra-thin, and thus having tiny batteries that only last for 30 minutes of work, does not make the phones smart, it limits them greatly. I'd rather have a thicker phone with a bigger battery.
Most of the alternatives are equally awful.
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Take this with a grain of salt, since this is conjecture, but don't underestimate the weight and inertia of gigantic bureaucracies.

ICE was set up during the later years of the Bush administration, and now they've hit their stride after ramping up. The Obama Administration could expend political capital to do something about the issue, but that's probably not a winning political stance.
Thanks for the correction! I didn't remember the exact definition.
You can easily set per-thing notifications. What didn't work?
Too continue. It's "you're sending ttoo many requests" not "server is overloaded/getting too many requests". Hence it's a client error 4xx, and not server 5xx.
I have a feeling that people who invent entire sectors of he economy and accumulate billions of dollars don't do it by taking "bait".
Cortex A7 is more proof that Intel can't "enter" the smartphone/tablet markets. I like that ARM isn't going to pursue ever more performance just to disrupt Intel in the low-end of their market (and higher later) while maintaining their low power consumption at the same level (Cortex A9, Cortex A15, etc), but they also keep making chips that use even less power (Cortex A7) for people that want as much battery life as possible, rather than try to approach PC level performance with their smartphone.
Nice -- this is actually the first book that I'm buying for my Kindle and it's worth it.

Up until now I've been reading prose from project Gutenberg, online articles with the help of Instapaper and technical books available for free.

Btw, on my Kindle I've also began reading Thinking in C++; Bruce Eckel has a very wordy style, but it's pretty cool if you have the patience and I think it's one of those technical books that can be read on a Kindle. I've been formatting it for Kindle, posted here in case anyone is interested: https://github.com/alexandru/ThinkInCPP4Kindle
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I wrote a static code analysis tool with Cecil (you can write linq statements against your assemblies). And it is free. www.nitriq.com
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The concept of copyright is not absurd at all. The notion that one has rights to their own ideas is a marvelous development of liberal productive societies; it is a hallmark. It has allowed value to accrue to things that were actually valuable while also being intangible.

The mere existence of art and innovation is not enough to make up for the destruction of rights to one's own work or ideas. Putting the progress of art and innovation solely in the hands of hobbyists is like saying the start-up world will work fine if no one gets funding anymore because people can always code stuff themselves at home on the weekend.

I am not saying at all that the status quo form of those rights is the only viable form. But to dismiss rights out-of-hand is throwing the baby out with the bathwater and choosing a very weird solution [turning back the clock] to a very modern problem.
Pine (or Alpine) ;)

I love nearly everything about Pine, but I wish that Dovecot's IMAP searching was faster.
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Yes. And he also said how people made lots of mistakes with money earlier. Lots of people had leveraged position in real estate.
I like my smartphone. It really makes some things in my life much easier. I can't get lost anymore! That is an amazing thing to me. It's so much nicer to use than a desktop computer. The display resolution is so high that it looks more like a shiny piece of paper than a screen. And it's a really nice physical artifact.
Google's recalcitrance appears to stem from two issues: one is that Honeycomb is specifically designed for large-screen devices and Google is concerned that, if released, it would find its way onto unsuitable form factors; the other, hinted at by Google employees in the past, is that much of the code is a kludge unsuitable for publication.

I'm not sure why Google caught so much slack for keeping 3.0 closed source. I found these to be great reasons and instead of dealing with a bunch of HoneyComb/Android SUCKS reviews when someone put honeycomb on a small screen device google just weathered it out and released something with some quality.
I am no fan of the RIAA or MPAA. But if both of those organizations were magically dissolved tomorrow, people would still be pirating content. Probably to the same extent they are right now.

My point is that piracy was an act of convenient theft long before it became an act of supposedly high-minded moral rebellion. And if the impetus for the moral rebellion were removed, the theft would continue. Let's not pretend otherwise.
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Congratulations.

Unfortunately, this translation is too direct. There is no culture in the text and it feels weird.

Do you have a Japanese person manning your telephones? You list a 1-866 number on the site, but be prepared to answer the phones in Japanese.

Japanese people are very tolerant of the outside world and English -- you would be better off working on PR in Japan and keeping your site in English than translating into mediocre Japanese.

If you make the jump to support the Japanese, they expect that you support them in every means possible or else they will not even attempt to contact you. If you show yourselves in English, they will be more kind and understanding.

If I were you I would immediately take this site down and work on PR in Japan. Come over here and meet with folks.

Japanese people love foreign technology and would be happy to accommodate you. Be careful to not offend Japanese people by using their language and culture incorrectly.
I don't think jammers are the right way to deal with the "loud talkers" problem - they also block emergency calls. What if someone who lives above the restaurant needs an ambulance? What if someone in the restaurant gets an emergency call from their spouse?
He needs a source of material for his literature.
I think bootstrap is perfect for an MVP. I plan on using it because I'm not the best at design and quite frankly as I'm writing my MVP, I don't want to be bothered with the design. I need to get my idea out quickly and have it validated or fail. If I get to the point where I can release more features, I'll eventually have a designer on board to get things rolling.

Bootstrap is very noticeable, but honestly if you web app's audience are non-technical/non-hacker I doubt they'd notice.
> hinted at by Google employees in the past, is that much of the code is a kludge unsuitable for publication.

Sounds like their were embarassed about the quality of their code.
Google is trying: http://www.chromium.org/spdy
I beg to differ: I grew up in a trailer park, with an alcoholic carpenter for a dad. We certainly didn't have the money to send me to prep classes or private school. I did have one thing going for me: a love of books. I read more books than an whole classroom of kids at my school. As a result, my SAT scores were in the top 1%. I make well above the average now, and my family enjoys the type of lifestyle that I could only dream about as a child.
Nice, I have his journal in HTML on my reader but never got around making them nicely readable.
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Well, sort of. The ordering depends on the frequency each of the cores is run at and that depends on the process node as well as the architecture. The A7 is only expected to get 1.9 DMIPS/MHz while the A8 gets 2.0, but the A7 is designed for much faster clock speeds so it ought to perform better than even most A9s.

EDIT: I just submitted an Anandtech article that explains all this much better.

EDIT2: Oops, someone else had already submitted it and now its off the top of the "new" page. How this article beat it out is beyond me. Anyways, you can find it here:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4991/arms-cortex-a7-bringing-c...
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"V for Vendetta is a story about one person against the system"

Some may not like this analogy, but I do. For we need a story.
Some of their food is very tasty; all of it is pretty bad for you physically. I particularly enjoy the large sweet tea for $1.06.

However I have to agree that others do it better. Hardees has the best fast-food burger around. Also the best ads :)
It looks great but I would come up with another name if you can.. Theme Force doesn't tell me anything about what you do and it's so generic I don't think I'd remember it to tell people about later on..
I live in Michigan. I use my iPhone outside all the time. Where the hell do you live that has worse weather than Michigan?
Check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD/DVD_copy_protection