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You were thinking clearly and rationally; it was the candidate who had chosen to embrace an irrational restriction. shrug
Pretty much.

Crazy. Normal people just care about stuff that works well and is easy to use.
> Because nobody planned to reinvent RSS.

Indeed, there is not a lot of planning going on when developing brave new platforms. Lack of awareness or understanding of RSS leads people to devise strategies like Twitter lists and custom Twitter clients to keep track of periodically updated hypertext content they are interested in.

About the only thing Twitter-as-RSS does better than plain RSS is consolidation of multiple feeds into one easy-to-poll source which enables easier push-like functionality - essentially a Google Reader.
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I think that attitude grew out of the extreme frustration with not being able to fix basic printer bugs in the printer drivers inspite of having the expertise to do it and waiting on the manufacturer who may or may not care enough to release fixes/enhancements. We take for granted the ability to being able to fix(or get fixed by 3rd parties) various physical things around us(you paid for the car, so it's yours to fix or break), so why not software?

How would you feel if the car manufacturer attached locks to the hood of your car? Apple went one step ahead and did the equivalent of requiring to approve all accessories and anything to enhance your car.

I may not agree with his conclusions, but I can understand his reasoning and that there is a method behind his (alleged) madness.
Please illuminate me on this, as I'm honestly curious. From what I've read the App Store places this restriction on what type of distribution is allowed for software sold on the App Store. However, what's stopping the developers from using a dual license for the same app, and using one for the App Store and another that they distribute from their website.

I could easily envision an app I purchase through the App Store giving me access to the source code from the developer's chosen distribution channel under the GPL. It seems to me that main gripe is that they want to use the App Store infrastructure to spread this.

Or am I missing something? I'll readily admit I'm not an expert on these GPL issues, but I'm interested in this topic.
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I read a loooong discussion between then community manager Dallas Verdugo and random people about 2 years ago about this and it boils down to "if you didn't make it, it doesn't belong on vimeo". People argued that they were the ones playing the game, but the argument back was that it wasn't interesting for Vimeo and its community.

I do understand their take on it. Vimeo has always aimed for quality user generated content, and it is easy to make an argument that game videos don't necessarily fit that vision.
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http://gigaom.com/2011/03/12/why-twitter-should-think-twice-...
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Thanks for the quick response! I've got one more if you don't mind. This is a question that should definitely be asked on a school by school basis, but I'd be curious to know if it is a common occurrence as well (from your experience as a professor). I have a fair more amount of experience as a software engineer in industry than as a student; is it common for prospective students to ask schools the permission to substitute a letter of recommendation from a professor for a letter from a manager or boss?
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There is no default client for television transmissions. You have to buy a receiver and they're not trivially cheap. You even have to decide which one you want, picking from a dizzying variety of brands, models and sizes.
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Evaluating the benefits of legislation should take into account the cognitive burden it places on everyone in the country, could have been your point.

(This since I notice you are taking the tack that the problem was the unlawfulness of what you were doing: if you believe that your behavior was actually intrinsically immoral, you don't mention it.)
With all the bad moves HP has made recently, this is a good one.

Although my testimony is likely not worth much, I feel it's important to convey why I think HP's PC division is worth keeping around.

My boss' HP desktop died, he brought it to me to see if I could fix it quickly, and I went through the steps on HP's website to "troubleshoot" it. I was pretty sure the power supply was dead, and I sent an email to support explaining all the steps I went through to determine that. There was an option on the page to list experience level, and I put it at the max.

The first response I got was that they would send a shipping box for it and that they would replace the PSU.

They 1) trusted their customer and 2) didn't back and forth, wasting their time and mine.

I got the box within a few days and returned the system to HP. It was back within 3 days (this is a week total from initial contact to returned system), and the hard drive wasn't even reformatted.

This is the kind of service that I am used to from Apple (fix it and forget it), and it renewed my hope in HP, but this was a little over a year ago, so who knows what's going on now.
Then be glad that you're in the top n% on a global scale. People in the third world may be able to cobble together a linux box out of our scrap machines, but Apple's philosophy doesn't include that kind of outreach. In fact, if the world was ruled by their choices, the third world would be perpetually reaching up for elegant devices beyond their grasp.
Hi Innoblown,

Happy to discuss any pertinent issues you have; wumi@psu.edu

Sincerely,

David
I signed up at the bottom of that page, but I don't know how you're distinguishing students from teachers from developers in that signup form. I'm a developer that would like to checkout the API, assuming you have some data in it already.
Sorry, I'm confused. Are you disagreeing with me anywhere?
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It is much easier for most companies to pay $600 annually via an invoice than $50 monthly via a credit card.

Failure to support traditional accounts payable is a blunder that half the cloud makes.
How do they expect to have images appear outside the 2d dimensions of the device?
This is simply not true. My vimeo account is 'white-listed' because I am a game developer which allows me to upload game development footage and trailers. A vimeo support tech offered this to me early on in response to my complaints about my videos being erroneously flagged.

The behavior discussed in the original post is new (ish).
That's it! You figured it out. Give that man a cigar! :)
This isn't about 'you didn't make it', though. These are game developers posting videos of stuff they created, to share it with people. Vimeo doesn't seem to want that anymore either.
Why wouldn't it be like unix where each user has their stuff in their home directory. OSX already has this concept with user switching. This just allows you to login as multiple users on an OSX machine at the same time.
Agreed; the first point is sometimes called the "Don't Scare White People" principle and as far as I can tell the bulk of US gun control has been racist. See elsewhere in this discussion for a good starting essay on the subject.

Although I'd say that concealed carry is still pretty controversial, e.g. watch the progress of the national reciprocity bill (I believe based on the "full faith and credit" section of Article IV of the Constitution) that just exited the House Judiciary Committee on a party line vote.
Another crappy and useless feature from G+.
Daniel in the post say all: "Its in the TOS and they want paid for a service theyre providing. No point complaining - pay up or shut up."
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Domain administrators can completely disable access to these services.

I am a Google Apps users and I had to enable Google+ explicitly.
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This has resurfaced because indie game developers have sometimes used Vimeo to host trailers or development videos. Vimeo has enforced the policy(which is against _playthroughs_) haphazardly on these corner cases, which has caused takedowns at critical moments for the game's promotion. One of these takedowns happened again a few days ago.

Vimeo should probably change their policy to "no videos primarily consisting of video game content" if they want to make themselves clear. Enforcement of the existing language is obviously beyond their abilities.
Agreed (as a former Pre user).

I think they should rip out whatever kernel they're using and replace it with BeOS, which has wonderful real-time and multitasking behavior.
Did you ever play an online game and identify as a woman? It's usually a bad idea, believe me.
I launched mine in about 6 weeks. I think an MVP consists of:

1) using as many frameworks/themes/pre-made stuff as possible to eliminate subjective decision making on your end
2) reducing options for your end users as much as possible. Stuff like items per page or random other minute extras just don't matter. Just make the decisions for your users.
3) The most simple version of your idea that is still unique and useful
Why, you could just use http://news.ycombinator.com/rss !
I never touched a line of Firefox's code, yet I and millions of others benefit immensely from the source being available. Thousands benefit from CyanogenMod despite not having the faintest idea of how it was created.

On a different level, non-tech companies and organizations have hired small software companies to develop solutions based on OSS projects that would otherwise have been prohibitively expensive.

The belief that only IT people benefit from access to the source is completely incorrect; one may disagree with them, but calling RMS' views obsolete is nonsensical.
It's true that the commercial and gaming guidelines are clear -- but the gaming guidelines have until now been interpreted (and applied by Vimeo) as relating to fan-made playthroughs of games, not videos uploaded by independent game makers of what they're working on. Applying those rules to the game creators is the recent decision.

[Edit:] Since this wasn't made clear by the linked article, Alec Holowka (Infinite Ammo, from the takedown screenshot) is an award-winning independent game developer, which is why people are upset.
From the headline, I thought this might be an option to create a private network for your domain, like Google's internal version of Google+. This is nice, but that would be much more interesting.
The disk IO problem he mentions might start to go away once SSD drives go into wider use by cloud providers. As far as I can tell, that is his main beef. It's certainly a reasonable complaint.

However the point about pricing is less valid. Cloud hosting providers must invest in lots of extra infrastructure to allow for the flexible provisioning they offer, so any comparison that assumes no need for that flexibility is flawed.

Amazon offers spot instances and various other pricing innovations to help align the customer with Amazon's internal provisioning risk.

I could see Amazon offering lower prices if the user commits to longer term provisioning. This is a simple pricing update that would likely negate any cost advantages of non-cloud services.

The bleeding edge hardware aspect of his argument is valid for some businesses but not likely applicable to most.
I really don't think it's asking to much. Maybe they could charge a smaller amount for command line/shell only access.
The premium you're paying here seems like it's just to stream the OSX GUI over the RDP protocol.
I've been holding off from joining Google+ precisely because I didn't want to revert to my GMail account.

This was the sane approach to take and especially people in the HN community really can't say they haven't seen this coming.
This is pretty off-topic, but is there some secret google setting that makes scrolling on a touchpad scroll instead of zooming? I'm sort of resigned to it in maps, but this thing has it too.
How is being able to restore a security feature? How is something for Apple techs only (or even tech users) a security feature?
It's interesting–I would (and did) choose Rackspace for dedicated hardware over SoftLayer any day.

RS is more expensive but the extra management and support you get is well worth it IMO.
Yes, bandwidth is dirt cheap on a dedicated box.

I run a service that constantly pushes over 90mbps over the wire (about 30TB a month) and I pay just over $100 a month for two servers. The same bandwidth usage on EC2 (or any other 'cloud' provider for that matter) would cost me thousands.
No, your logic actually implies that we shouldn't paint people who say "I will come to your country and blow up your buildings" with the same brush as people who come to our country and blow up our buildings. I don't think I'm out of line to say that threats like that ought to be taken pretty seriously.
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Oh I see. Apologies, didn't notice the different context. Yup, the discussion 2 years ago was indeed about playthroughs. Its a shame that they're changing to anything videogame related. A lot of indie devs I follow do use Vimeo for their content.
Understood, and a service that did this for a _lot_ of different platforms (hardware and software) would be considerably more compelling.

The absence of a "heterogenous" cloud (I know, this is a contradiction in terms) is part of why our business has to drag a server room around...
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I'm sure you could find dozens of articles from 1996-1998 saying similar things about Apple, but imagine how different the world would be if Jobs listened to them and just declared Apple "dead" and didn't return to the company. WebOS is a great platform and it's not too late to save, but it needs a better company than HP to breathe new life into it.

In my opinion, it's much better than iOS for tablets and larger devices (the perfect TV?) but the clock is ticking. Every day HP wastes with decisions like "should we kill one of our largest sources of revenue?" Apple is right next door developing amazing products for tomorrow like Siri.
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I don't that we can fix the burgeoning sprawl of dodgy CAs - that horse has already bolted. Moxie Marlinspike's Convergence framework might be a solution but it needs critical mass.

We can also create a second validation of every certificate via DNSSEC, which means a counterfeit cert becomes detectable by failing a positive check. This is better and easier than the negative OCSP revocation checking that we currently do, or at least it will be when everyone's recursive resolver supports DNSSEC. Again, this needs critical mass.

Unfortunately the IETF has two groups (DANE and PKIX) both working on this in parallel and there is not yet clarity over which DNS record to use or how (TLSA or CAA). However, the DANE group has just published their scope RFC (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6394.txt). So there is progress.
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Mine got activated instantly, although I already had Picasa and Google Chat activated.

Make sure you actually saved the settings.
I'm really happy for this news, thanks Google.

I was begging to feel a little left out.
In what kind of bizarro business model are price increases and innovation interchangeable?
Yeah, it's pretty hard to have a dialogue about this stuff without it devolving into a bitter quarrel. I agree that we need practical solutions and a plan of action to give to people.

The first thing we need is to open up lines of dialogue. What is sexist and what isn't? How can guys act or what can they do to improve working conditions? Are there ways we can work with employers to get them to make changes that foster more cooperation and less divisiveness? You could get a kind of town hall discussion going to get more ideas.

I do think you have to work with the sexists to help them change. It's not going to be a night and day thing... I imagine most people who are sexist find nothing wrong with the way they behave. So part of it may be not demanding they follow a strict moral code, but just tone it down at first. Work with the most extreme cases and get more widespread community support to show that kind of stuff (like putting tits in a presentation) is unacceptable. Probably getting a lot more men to speak out will help.

Then you can work it the way you would any other PR job. Make some kind of bumper sticker that (in a way that isn't too pretentious or annoying) says you agree all people should be treated fairly and equally, including specifically women. Some kind of logo that represents treating people nice and not making negative jokes, or considering all possible options instead of only helping your friends. Maybe some slogans. I was never good with advertising and my marketing skills are weak, so i'll leave all that up to the professionals. But the idea is, get the companies to put this stuff up around the office and lead by example so it's much less acceptable within a group to act out.

You could even get different events to officially endorse some effort to end unfair treatment of all people in the tech industry. This is more important to me as it would mean getting people to look past things like nationality/race (don't just give the indians the cheap jobs), gender (the transsexual person is just as good at being a manager as anybody), etc. I think everybody can get behind this and it can specifically underscore the unfair treatment of women.

Going back to the sexist thing, i'd like to see some public humiliations by the community at large of anyone who does something really stupid against women. You get the whole community to speak out against specific cases of sexism and I think it'll hit home more for the other sexists as a kind of warning to keep those thoughts and feelings to themselves. It may not solve anonymous hate e-mails but it should definitely help tone down sexism in the workplace.

I'm sure there's lots of other aspects i'm not thinking of. I hope people reply and add more ideas.
I don't understand why HP was so public about this decision-making process.

Perhaps it wasn't intended, and the original story was leaked? Seems like a good study: see if PSG should be spun off, but I can see no reason to make it public.
"How would you feel if the car manufacturer attached locks to the hood of your car?"

I don't think this analogy fits because there are open devices and people don't buy them. You don't buy them.
This is one of the things we're working on at Start.Me (http://thestart.me) . We're trying to speed up your online browsing routine and figure out how to add both RSS and non-RSS sites to feeds without users necessarily having to know what RSS means; just what sites they want to keep up with. Would love anyone's feedback after we release something next week.
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Unfortunately OpenStreetMap doesn't really cut it.

I'm using the GMaps API for geocoding addresses and in that regard it's the best one available, especially since it has a pretty high tolerance for spellings and non-standard address formats.
"Our banks might not be convienient"

I don't think that at all. I was responding to negative claims about technical innovations, and those are present in Canadian banks in one form or another.

The bank you are speaking of is probably PC? You can use any CIBC ATM for PC banking, and its banking reps are in Loblaws stores, so while it has no branches per se it's not as bad as you make it sound.

There are credit unions here as well. There are options, but I'll admit the big 5 have quite a lot of the attention. I have heard that many small banks in the US are lacking in several service features, I don't imagine it's a rosy awesome world in the US.

I don't pay monthly fees, and I pay maybe $5 in bank fees a year total.
Interesting Rackspace leaving post:

"Rackspace Cloud has had pretty atrocious uptime over the year there has been two major outages where half the internet broke. Everyone has their problems but the main issue is we see really bad node degradation all the time. We’ve had months where a node in our system went down every single week. Fortunately, we’ve always built in the proper redundancy to handle this. We know this will happen Amazon too from time to time but we feel more confident about Amazon’s ability to manage this since they also rely on AWS."

There was some statements from Amazon employees that Amazon isn't hosted on AWS.
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"we are way behind in creating complex systems such as living organisms"

Well, yes, but the genome has a ~4,000,000,000 year head start.
The main problem is that my company (an executive agency of the UK government, effectively) can't enter into this kind of financial agreement easily, precisely because we have such a huge budget (numbered in the billions).

Any contract we sign needs to be for a fixed price, rather than a variable amount. And amounts above a certain limit need to go out to competitive tender, which takes a long time. (I'm not sure Google or the other players in this space would even bother to tender anyway.)

So the only option remaining is to rebuild the mapping solution using another technology to ensure continuity of service.
Bizzaro valuations: Amazon (P/E = 100) vs. Apple (14)
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Some European countries impose traffic fines relative to the offender's income.

http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-01-11/news/17823924_1_mph-li...
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Fun fact: Google Reader will understand http://twitter.com/username as an RSS feed. The trick is to remove the hashbang that Twitter automatically adds to the URL (i.e. http://twitter.com/#!/username) before attempting to add it as a feed.
Not everyone agrees on that. In fact, it's easily arguable that the vast majority disagree.
That's a good point. I just added it to the form but if you want us to add that to your application email us at api@oneschool.com
In case you missed it, the original report is largely better informed and prosed than the bite size, watered-down, borderline misleading, linked article:

http://kotaku.com/5853665/vimeo-vs-indie-game-developers
US bank losses due to subprime is about $1 TRillion, vs $2 Billion in Canada among the big 5. That's a factor of 500. That, and Canadian bank stocks bounced right back to their pre-crisis levels afterwards. I think Canadian banks managed to dodge the crisis quite well.

I don't pay monthly fees, and I pay maybe $5 in bank fees a year total.

http://thebankwatch.com/2007/11/17/canadian-banks-write-of-2...
I've always thought the "Drive to the datacentre" argument was BS. If you're writing your app for the cloud, you have to deal with spurious instances going away, degrading, etc. It is no different in the datacenter. If you're driving to the datacenter in the middle of the night to replace a disk or a fan, you're doing it just as wrong as if getting evicted from an EC2 instance causes you to have to scramble oncall resources.

In my experience, the highest operational cost with running services is managing the application itself - deployment, scaling, and troubleshooting. None of that goes away with the cloud.
This service provider has great pricing compared to softlayer

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/rootserver-pr...

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Impossible to complete on a touch based mobile device, let alone iOS devices without flash.
That's the goal of RackConnect by Rackspace: http://www.rackspace.com/hosting_solutions/hybrid_hosting/