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Mike Masnick is turning into the Matt Taibbi of copyright. I'm not a supporter of this legislation, but nor am I a supporter of this uninformative tabloid journalism. If Mike Masnick wanted you to be fully informed then he'd explain what the procedural future of this bill is if the judiciary committee does give it the nod (which would not exactly be surprising, because the House judiciary committee is headed by Lamar Smith and is thus going to give the nod to any bill of which he's a sponsor). He could point out how it's then got to survive debate and a floor vote in the House, how it would then have to be reviewed by a Senate committee and debated and voted on there, and how the reconciliation process would come into play if the committees don't agree.

But there's none of this, just another 'from the snarky-joke-about-bureaucracy department' subheadline, and another article suggesting certain and imminent doom to follow immediately after the committee hearing. It's pure gutter journalism, and the only redeeming feature is that most of us happen to agree with the author's stated position. I don't even know if this is Masnick's actual position or not; he comes across very much as a journalist who has mastered the art of identifying a market and telling the people in it what they want to hear. He always appeals to the emotion, and never provides context.

This is called 'point of view' journalism. Here's an explanation by a well-established practitioner called Matt Labash on a journalism industry website; he was discussing it in the context of conservative/liberal politics, but the fact is that this is a style employed across the political spectrum:

[on why point-of-view articles sell so well] Because they feed the rage. We bring the pain to the liberal media. I say that mockingly, but it's true somewhat. We come with a strong point of view and people like point of view journalism. While all these hand-wringing Freedom Forum types talk about objectivity, the conservative media likes to rap the liberal media on the knuckles for not being objective. We've created this cottage industry in which it pays to be un-objective. It pays to be subjective as much as possible. It's a great way to have your cake and eat it too. Criticize other people for not being objective. Be as subjective as you want. It's a great little racket. I'm glad we found it actually.

Please don't interpret this as a critique of conservatism in particular; it's populism that I hold in low regard. Nthing Tom's suggestion below that you look to the EFF for informed and informative argument against this legislation. Call me a an elitist snob if you like, but I am sick to the back teeth of this linkbaity rubbish passing itself off as journalism. Shallow uninformed coverage like this makes it easier to marginalize the interests of consumers and open-internet advocates, because the average Joe does not have the patience to listen to someone running around with hair on fire.
One of the key things in dealing with failure really is not to worry too much about what the world thinks about you or your failure. Not to succumb to peer pressure. The society is ruthless in criticism towards people who take risks and fail. They are sort of used up as examples for other people.

I have relatives, two of whom died out of extreme stress and tension(Heart attack and Cancer) because they took loans beyond their means, were unable to repay it back and put a huge burden on their dependents. This is one example of taking risks which people really can't sustain. None of which is needed.

Although you must not worry about the world, at the same time you must not take unnecessary financial risks beyond your means. Because we are people and we go through emotions, and sometimes for things beyond our control we are responsible not just for our lives but for many other people around us. And when we take huge risks, we put both ourselves and people around us under that risk. Now when we can't deal with that risk and we fail, things go worse very quickly and we commit suicide or die out of a disease(fallout of stress).

Nothing is more important than health, and being happy. Take calculated risks. And if you fail, forget about it and start over.

Don't do things which put you in these situations at the first place. And if you are in that situation, seek help and deal with it with it patiently.
This is a difficult question to answer, since you have not explained why the company is switching from .NET, and what it gains from switching to another language.

If your developers only have .NET experience, then switching is a Bad Idea. If they also know Ruby on Rails, you might survive, but I would suggest that you (or your CTO) read http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html .
Which would be true if everyone was clambering to run Android on their PCs.
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Most solid projects with good cosebase that I have seen so far comprises individuals with deep knowledge of the technology stack. I am talking about those programmers who have been using tech X for at least 5 years or more.

Doug Lea, Josh Bloch, Linus Torvalds, kernel hackers, John Resig, etc.

So I would say that decent developers can adapt, but quality won't be high up there yet.
Thanks Alex. I gave up after trying to find someone magical for 2 months and I now have a demo site with a fake back-end. Slogging through Ruby on Rails and I realized this is really fun and not very different from solving puzzles.

Great deck. You are being generous with the one green stick dude.
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I hope that provides more value to the story.

I take this all as an indication that the industry, especially with the hire of someone like Abrams, is seriously pushing the issue and plans to make it an issue in the next election if they don't get what they want before then.
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That's really terrible, and I can't defend that.

However, in the interest of trying to be helpful, my guess is that you have a bug in your app that plays poorly with a bug in Win32. A quick search for BufferedGraphicsContext.CreateCompatibleDIB yielded this question on SO (link to top answer) which indicates a resource leak may be at fault:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1209769/system-componentm...
You don't have to draw a line anywhere in cases like this. The technology is there that makes it perfectly possible to have at least basic text display on any client. The "major" mobile browsers with webkit represent only 20-30% of the global market.

Anyway, it's just a couple of extra lines of code, get over it :)
This is exactly right. People don't choose their passions; their passions choose them. Specialization is a Good Thing.
I really enjoyed that, mostly because of the casualness.

Jeremy Ashkenas made a lot of good points, and I hope to sometime have time to experiment with the NYT APIs and data they are releasing - reminds me of Reuter's generosity 12 years ago in releasing a lot of their tagged-up data.

+1 also on the importance of Lisp.
Probably depends on how many people or customers you have lined up for your private beta. If it's of sufficient size, a private beta can work just as well as a public launch.
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> pleasure == utility

Well, not sure I follow you on this terrain... Let's find something that we would agree is useless, and enjoyable. Maybe fishing alone and putting fish back in the river?

Or you would say that this is also useful. But then anything is useful and the word itself has no meaning (and become useless, hehe).

I may be too much influenced by Eastern streams of thoughts, where we have zen, taoism, etc., all saying that nothingness, emptiness, uselessness are things we should value more, because they are the ground on which everything grows. (Simple example: without silence on which a composer is building, no music is possible)

So, to go back to pg's essay, which is more of a short blog post, I found it was lacking an open door toward these possibilities that "lost time" is not always lost.
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Glad you found it useful! Credit to David Tisch for making a room full of Penn entrepreneurs raise their hands. Made the point better than I ever could.
I suppose they could have backdated google groups, but here is JBQ's announcement of the 3.2 GPL's parts being released in July. http://groups.google.com/group/android-building/msg/6410b447...

And here's a thread discussing building the 3.1 GPL'd code in May. http://groups.google.com/group/android-building/browse_threa...
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Frankly, this is a sort of hack job @pud would be happy about it. Had an idea, busting it out in a few days and seeing what happens.
IT installs the corporate MITM certificate on all of their computers so the browsers accept them as valid.
I never had any problems, and I have to say it is easily the best server browser I've ever used. Valve's pre-TF2 updates one (still toggleable back on) is probably the only other one I've actually liked before. It's a huge improvement over DICE's browsers in the past, which have always been merely bad at best (the BF2 menu had to load when you pressed escape).

A lot of users complained that there was no feature to allow you to wait in a queue for a full server. So... they added it. Pushed a server update. No patch, no new binaries to download. A new checkbox simply appeared.

Now, there's no reason that this has to be in browser. EA and Valve both clearly have WebKit or IE implementations (I think I heard the "clicking" noise in the Origin browser) that play nice in fullscreen games. They could certainly be integrated as part of the game interface, but Battlelog makes it clear to me that HTML and CSS are the way to go with video game server browsers in the future.
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I'm not sure what you mean about "US employment law is nuts". If you are an hourly employee, you get paid so many dollars/hours, for the number of hours you work, and after you work so many hours a day, you get paid overtime.

If you are exempt (Salaried) - you basically work when your manager tells you to. I've been at (several) companies where we had 3-4 month death marches with _everyone_ working late and on weekends in the office to push the ball over the line.
Edit: You were probably asking about EC2 exit nodes. It's a little better than having it in my house, but at the end of the day, I would still be worried about landing in court over the traffic the node handles.
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Have these burst deal sites (Gilt, Fab, etc.) even proven to be profitable? With people worrying, and almost constantly bashing, daily deal sites such as Groupon and LivingSocial, one can only wonder if these are next.
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I agree that it is wrong for a company to claim that they are offering compensation that they aren't, and it is easily possible that that occurred here and Zynga is wrong. I am certainly not going to try to claim that Zynga is a great company that everyone should try to be more like.

But I think the core issue here is that this is what stock options and RSUs are. This isn't Zynga exploiting a loophole that only they wrote into their contract and only they do, this is the definition of stock options. I understand that Zynga is awful, I am more trying to make everyone aware that this isn't some insane situation that could never happen to them because they work at a nicer startup. If you are working for RSUs there is a much much higher chance that you are going to get fired a month before your stock vests than a month after, and it seems like everyone on here has been tricked just like the Zynga employees were tricked into thinking that stock options in startup X are just as good as stock.
Fair enough, Steve Jobs serves as a prime example for this. Wozniak was a far better engineer than Jobs. I guess I should have elaborated, you don't need to be a coding ninja to run a startup but I do honestly feel that a solid understanding of coding and computer systems is essential for any tech entrepreneur.
Short answer is: It depends. Why would you want to release as a private beta?

You probably want users to be able to freely refer your product to friends. You probably want people to be able to discover, sign up, and try your product in one sitting. You probably don't want potential users to lose enthusiasm while they wait for a beta invite. You probably won't have crushing server traffic. If you do, you probably won't regret letting so many people use your product at once.
I was actually interested in reading Taibbi's book on the financial crisis, would you actually recommend against that?
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Phone makers were afraid of copyleft for various reasons, mostly irrational. Also, copyleft probably wouldn't help Google's goal of getting as many Android devices in the market as possible.
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It's possible to do transparent proxying using iptables on Linux. Also, as ahlatimer mentioned, pointing the phone at your local DNS server and adding records for all the relevant domains would work, too.
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"Work of beauty" is relative. The field that we're talking about here is video game server browser design, which isn't exactly known for being cutting edge. In general, game designers have almost always produced interfaces that are passable at best, because no one really cared. The only one I've used that was moderately decent was Valve's[1], the rest are a tacky mess with scrolling that barely works and filters restrictions that make it hard to find the game you actually want.

Battlelog is really good. It responds almost instantly. You can middle click open server info pages, then middle click open the stats for every player on that server. Updates don't require a patch to the client, just change the HTML and JS that Battlelog is sending out (this was already done to add queues when servers are full).

It could certainly have been done in game with embedded WebKit/IE or something though, prepackaging the plugin alongside. I don't really mind either approach, since Battlefield 3, for once, is a game on Windows that has absolutely no problem with the use of alt+tab.

[1] http://www.blogcdn.com/news.bigdownload.com/media/2008/11/le...
Thanks for the input. Agreed. I come from a design background so releasing something hacked together is a challenge for me. Furthermore, it really is a MVP-- there are definitely UX issues and functionality I would like to address/add, but resources are limited.
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Well, QR codes was just an enabler there. Can be NFC or something else.
This new time-lapse video from Michael König shot aboard the International Space Station gives you a view of Earth that was only available to a select handful of astronauts until now.

I'm pretty sure the astronauts themselves don't see the neon-green glowing and other details that way do they? It was shot with a low-light camera.
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Actually its not that simple in real life regarding legacy systems. To rewrite even small parts of critical real time systems (I'm thinking bank's end of day accounting reconciliation software) in a new language could be a hugely complex undertaking, and they must maintain and update legacy apps in the meantime, even while new development is ongoing.
The arrow keys are tiny. Half-height makes the rest of the keyboard look nicely symmetrical but it makes people suspicious.

FWIW, I use Thinkpads as my personal laptops and I find the half-height arrow keys on my Apple wireless keyboard fine, but mileage may vary.
Google Closure Tools is not the same thing as Clojure.

A little confusing I am sure since Closure Templates is a templating system that dynamically generates HTML in Java and JavaScript... And Clojure is a language that targets the JVM.

I have no experience with Closure Tools but Clojure is awesome definitely.
That crazy cost is part of why I've been thinking we should have some equiviliant of a public defender for civil matters. The idea is the plaintiff would have to pay for the defendant's lawyer up to the cost he is paying for his lawyer, but only if the defendant chooses to use the presumably less good public defender. This wouldn't change anything when a large company or rich person is the defendant, as they won't want to user the public defender, unless the lawsuit was so frivolous the company would rather not spend any money on it. The biggest down sides would be when two ordinary people sue each other, I don't think this is a big deal because poor people tend not to sue other poor people outside of small claims court, and if they do they better be planing to get much more than twice their lawyer cost.
I thought everyone knew the solution to this? Buy Thinkpads.
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I would have to disagree. If he is doing what he love, he is not spending any time at work.
I like it when the arrow keys are about as big as all of the other buttons. I find it very uncomfortable to use the extra-thin keys, particularly when playing games (which, thanks to Emacs, is where I use arrow keys most of all).
Yeah, definitely my favorite reader for iPhone after trying a boatload of them. Presents information in an attractive and economical manner and every time you think "I wish I could do that", there's a way to do it.
Awesome slides. I think this is one of the hardest parts to launching something. It's hard to find someone that is aligned with you as well as someone who you can trust enough to start a company with.
On the other hand they don't ask for passport copies from non-famous people (I presume and hope, but then again this is a slippery slope)
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Well if you are a travel company targeting students, I have a few pieces of advice for you. Students travel for two reasons, either going to sports or going home. So if you can reach them in one of those situations, you're filling a need.

As you may be aware, the college football season is winding down and it is almost time for the bowl season (college football playoffs). What that means is that you will have a lot of schools travelling all over the country to play their bowl game and a lot of students trying to figure out how to get there. If you put together some sort of special for students who are travelling to those games, you could reach a pretty sizable market. I would recommend picking some of the larger bowl games (Sugar bowl, fiesta bowl, rose bowl, orange bowl) and as soon as they announce who will be going to which bowls, doing promotions at the schools that will be travelling to those bowls.
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HP laptops now provide a barebones restore feature. That is, if you don't mind restoring your system on day one, you can boot to the recovery partition and forego installing all of the extra software after restoring the operating system. I forget their term for this exactly, but it's a nice feature that appeared only recently in their line of laptops.
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Too true. Once two perfectly sound legal arguments are made without breaking any semantic rules of the legal system, but point to opposite conclusions, the law becomes a political process. Good lawyers complete the first phase and hope, truly excellent ones are adept politicos as well.

It takes years of legal training to stop thinking about the reality of the situation or what laymen would say "actually happened".
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Thanks for this tip. It's pretty clever.

When you reach out like this do you reach out with specific feedback in mind?

Again, thank you.
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That's right, Hacker News is about compromising security and cracking software.... How did I miss that all this time?

My initial post (which has been down voted out of existence) is a valid point.

I don't actually care whether Apple get hacked or not. I was curious what people thought of publishing a 'hack/crack' like this.

Lots of rationalising going on, but to me it still seems wrong. I'd hate people to leverage my work (even for 'personal use') without my permission. Interesting how 'hackers' are happy to hack other peoples stuff, but cry out when it's their own stuff getting hacked.
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