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Thanks you so much. I did negotiate the initial offer and they improved it a bit. But the point is that I learnt today the lesson that all offers are negotiable. A great lesson for life. Your experiences read here have been helpful for me.
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Except this isn't true either and I would suggest it's nothing but pandering.

People pirate because they're cheap, the amount of people that pirate because of DRM is tiny and anyone who takes part in these online communities (gaming.reddit for example) will be part of the small small group that pirates for "moral" reasons.

2DBoy, creators of World of Goo, a game that had 0 DRM and was available, as Gabe says, to EVERYONE without any conceivable inconvenience (beyond the need to purchase) reported over 90% piracy rate: http://2dboy.com/2008/11/13/90/

Steam have very high purchase rates because it's a convenience, most definitely, Steam is a fantastic convenience and encourages me to purchase some games much like it encourages others, what it does not do is encourage pirates to purchase instead. It seems most people that share Gabes view are just hoping if they say it's true enough then bad DRM will go away...

Minecraft for example has huge piracy rates, yet it's available to anyone (same purchase requirements as Steam) and there's no real DRM, there's no conceivable justification for pirating Minecraft beyond "I don't want to pay" yet people do it...
What should I do with my iPhone with an Android sticker logo on it? Come on man... Jeez.
anybody see any resemblance to the US Democratic and Republican parties? Even US Congress?
Would anyone be interested in something like this for Scala?
I was going to say the same things. Ableton's Live is an amazing software, it is the only reason my main sound workstation doesn't boot to linux by default.
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> The internet as a concept may be, but your site isn't. It's located in a physical server somewhere, in a country with laws that regard the internet.

And if anyone can figure out what server corresponds to what site, we haven't done enough work to protect anonymity on the Internet.

> I like his suggestion, and he is right. Nobody would dispute who gets to set the rules for .us or .ca, but the rules for .com and any TLD regarded as international are much muddier. Only having country TLDs would remove that ambiguity. Doesn't matter where the servers are hosted, you are under the jurisdiction of the TLD you choose to use.

"Regarded as international" or not, .com .net and .org get administered by US entities. TLDs "regarded as international" has about as much meaning as Internet sites "regarded as independent from country-specific regulation": namely, none unless we take steps to make it that way.
I wouldn't say Microsoft is pretty good at updates. I once installed a patch for a security flaw in DNS in our Windows DNS server and got reamed by my boss for bringing our site down. I have found the policy of installing all updates when first setting up a Windows server and then never touching it again to work quite well. We also keep all non-HTTP access to a VPN.

Alternatively, don't use Windows. App Engine is my preferred platform for new projects and the security on that is most likely top notch and constantly upgraded.
Piracy rate is a bit of an odd number, because of how easy it is to pirate literally thousands of games and play them each for a small amount of time, when there is zero chance those people would've/could've bought all the games they pirated.

The Wolfire team suggests (http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/05/Another-view-of-game-piracy) that a better metric would be proportion of the gaming audience that pirates. For example, if 5% of the gaming audience pirates, but pirates download 50x as many games on average as legitimate users purchase, then it'll look like >70% of users pirate games, when the real number is 5%.
Using pressure tactics on a new grad doesn't sound too ethical to me. The only person gaining if the new grad accepts is the recruiter. The company will gain a disgruntled employee and the employee will have lost a better offer.
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It looks like Google Front page developers simply don't care about HTML compliance.

There is no reason to allow most of these errors other than coding sloppiness.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co...
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It looks like it's GB18030, HZ or GBK. At least those are the ones that render with no unknown characters. I don't read/speak any Chinese dialects so I've got no idea which two encodings are likely gibberish.
Fishing harpoons are dated from as early as 80k years ago from what is now in Zaire:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semliki_harpoon

"With two boats, a strong net and a good knowledge of your local winds, it would probably be rather easy to net a tuna and use a land-bound wind to haul a good sized tuna to shallow waters where it could be hauled ashore by manpower."

That seems unlikely. More likely they speared the sorts of fish they could carry in whatever sized craft they had (if any). From what I gather the bones are from smaller tuna.
Of course it's right and an absolutely normal thing to do.
PG: welcome to the woes of being an alexa top 1000 site with over 1 million pages of dynamic content.

HN has roughly 1.3 million pages indexed by google.

1.3M pages at 43k per page is 53 gigs to cache static versions of all pages on the site. Quadruple that for a worst case scenario and it'll still easily fit on a single drive.

When your site gets this popular you tend to have to re-architect your application to solve perf issues. You could serve googlebot UA's 1 week old cached pages for example.

I'd encourage you to start thinking of yourself as a utility providing a valuable and necessary resource to the Net and take the time and energy to solve this properly.
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Personally, I'm a big fan of Edward DeBono. Two of my favorite books are:
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2) Six Thinking Hats: http://tinyurl.com/7t2w27y . There is a video course available on youtube as well: http://tinyurl.com/6q4rz2t

I learned about them through Alan Kaye's reading list: http://tinyurl.com/83bqlbx He has a section on learning and creativity that has some other good alternatives.
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Local TLDs just kick the can down the road, as now you're beholden to the whims of some other government. The only one I trust at this point is .is.
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Why would other websites link with yours?
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My favorite part of HN's headers: the lines are separated by naked LFs instead of CRLF, in violation of the HTTP spec
"I have found the policy of installing all updates when first setting up a Windows server and then never touching it again to work quite well."

I think you need to reevaluate your policies immediately. Not applying security patching isn't a good policy.
Really, there are two kinds of pirates: those who pirate because they're cheap, and those who pirate for these other reasons. I agree that the former category well outweighs the latter, but they're also completely ignorable when it comes to figuring out how to sell your software. The "cheap" contingent will never pay for your software.

Those who pirate for other reasons, while they may be a small proportion of pirates overall, can be a large proportion of potential customers. These are the people who don't buy your game because the pirated version actually works better. If you can provide a better experience through legitimate channels then you can get their money.

In short: piracy really is two separate and mostly unrelated phenomena when it comes to this question. People who pirate purely to avoid paying don't care about this stuff, but neither should software publishers care about them.
Exactly, people are forever finding excuses for their behaviour AND most people want something for [near] nothing which is a flawed and lazy idea (GET RICH NOW! GET FIT NOW!) or they want to do something without having to deal with the consequences/results/effects.

The cry of this age is 'me, me ,me.'
What is the function of the delta brain wave?
> What if the app doing the replacement uses one font with a certain font size, and the app itself uses another font with a certain font size

There's no reason the platform can't allow passing of styling parameters to the second process.

Restricting information flow is a means to an end (safety), not the end itself, and doesn't have to be an absolute.
Some ideas:

1. By being "stupid", git doesn't treat the user as stupid.

2. git allows repositories to be uploaded or transferred anywhere for others to use with a single, simple command.

3. git is efficient and fast. No one likes waiting for their computer to do a seemingly easy task -- especially software developers/hackers who know something should be O(1) complexity and could be written in X lines of code.

4. Merging/branching is easy.
>> they could have probably just made a dugout boat from one of the many plentiful tropical forests.

For me, that fits the definition of a boat. :)
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Even assuming that such technology exists and is viable (which I really doubt considering the major telcos would easily be using the technology if it was the miracle cure that you are suggesting) the fact that a cell phone that doesn't work in different states much less cities is hardly a cell phone at all. If you can't even use the same phone at your workplace and your home then it isn't even a cell phone, it's a cordless phone attached to a landline.
It's also difficult to replicate because Apple acquired the technology and patented it, making it very difficult for other companies to compete for a while.
> You are missing the point nupark. What they said they would do is "I will work for you, and I will give you two weeks notice if I choose not to."

No, they accepted an offer of employment, with a start date. The employer has every reason to believe they've done so in good faith.

If, in fact, they were insincere in their acceptance, that's both unethical and unprofessional.
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what challenges are in their way for making good products within their own market? What challenges exist to work as outsourced development teams? After reading this I would think twice about hiring someone from turkey.
Gabe Newell makes good points. Piracy is about price, but it's not just price. Piracy for me has been about cost / value decisions:

Useful software for < $50 on the App store? Buy.
Useful iPhone app for < $10? buy
Useful software I use rarely for $800 (Adobe CS5.5)? Pirate
Drm free music album for $10? buy
Movie rental I can't find on iTunes for < $5? Pirate
TV Show season on-demand without commercials? Netflix, or Pirate

Any time it's easier and relatively inexpensive to buy, I'll do that. Any time it's a pain to buy, obscenely expensive or a worse experience, I'll pirate.

I don't justify that behavior, but I've noticed I buy when it's easier, and I pirate when it's easier.
> the amount of people that pirate because of DRM is tiny

This depends on the DRM and the software. Software which has high international demand but is region-locked to specific countries will be pirated because of the DRM at rates that sometimes dwarf "freeloading" pirates.

I agree that Gabe is pretty much just pandering, but in the end, DRM doesn't really help piracy rates. Maybe for an immediate period after release, which is desirable in some circumstances as a matter of convenience, but that's it.

The real question is whether the piracy rate is indicative of the loss of sales due to piracy, which is clearly contested in some situations. Would Mojang profit more if Minecraft piracy was -- hypothetically speaking -- impossible? Probably a little bit, but a lot of users will look for something else to pirate, not roll their eyes and say "ugh well I guess I have to buy it now".
This quote from the comments summarizes my thoughts on this:

"Robert says:

30 August 2011 11:55 PM

It isn't whether Guile is good, bad, usable, or not usable. It is whether people will and do USE it. I have not seen that as the case for Guile or Scheme in general."

I don't know anybody anywhere who has even tried to use Guile. I don't even know if anybody I know have ever looked at it. I don't know how many people even know it exists.

I personally love Scheme as a language, but I honestly can't see myself ever investing enough time into Guile to be able to write program extensions in it. I don't see my friends (some of whom I believe would write extensions to popular open source software if they could do so in a language that is sufficiently similar to one they already know - I certainly would be a lot more likely to do so and I'm not even Lisp averse) doing so either.

"First of all, what does it mean to have a GNU system based on a non-GNU technology? What would be left of GNU?"

So pick a non-GNU language and create a GNU implementation.

Personally, I think the best choice would be Lua. Its mature, a lot of people already use it as an extension language and its very similar to a lot of popular languages, so resistance for people to learn it is low (it is reasonably similar to Javascript and to a lesser extent, Ruby and Python; also, as has been proven by the game industry, it is easy to learn for C, C++ and Java programmers. Finally, while not GNU, it has some exceptionally good implementations).
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Any idea why Apple hasn't open sourced anything beyond CFLite? Without multiplatform, objc's ecosystem doesn't get a real chance to flourish, so efforts like this one are great; but I don't get why Apple is making this so hard. Their open-source approach to webkit has proven so successful, yet they show no interest in applying the same pragmatism to objc.
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This is especially for me because I have 3 computers which don't have an optical drive, things that are becoming increasingly irrelevant thanks to the internet. I share a single USB DVD drive amongst the three computers; it's a pain in the ass to move the drive and find the disc.

Even worse is when the DRM software tells me to uninstall my virtual disc drive which isn't related to the game at all. I use it to make a copy and store it on my HDD so I can use the image rather than the physical thing.
Actually that is something different and a little more evil: They hacked the mit page to check (server side) if the referer is a google search results page for the word "viagra"; if it is then goes to the viagra page, if it is not goes to the real MIT website.
Peugeot currently has a site (Peugeot car promo) that does this: http://www.rczview.com/

Any other sites?
You seem to be confusing "ethics" with "legal obligation". They are very different. Just because I can take an action that is legal does not make it ethical (see Wall St. for example). Conversely, there are cases where the "right" or ethical action may not be legal (e.g, peaceful protest).
I think this is the result of a lack of cultural understanding. In East Asian countries, it is very common for women to decorate their cellphones (and tablets now as well, I suppose) with adhesive gems. There is an enormous market for such things, on the same scale as cell phone cases in the West.
I didn't , I wish I could get at least one.
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The linked article is directly contradicted by the very same email thread it quotes from. In fact, John Lenton's reply to similar CouchDB bashing in that same thread pretty much says it all:

That's not a fair thing to say. We (the Ubuntu One team, working with the people from CouchIO/CouchBase/MemBase) couldn't get CouchDB to scale the way we wanted it to work; millions of users, many oauth tokens and several databases for each. It's not reasonable to say that it doesn't scale at all, and that's not the case; there are plenty of people using CouchDB to store billions of documents, and we don't want people saying that Couch is "fundamentally flawed", because it isn't; it just wasn't right for the Ubuntu One use-case. Please don't denigrate people and projects unjustifiably; that helps no-one.
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Yes, but it's much easier for me to click the buy button than to go to the store to get it or to torrent it, so I just click it.
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Can't playing video games be creative? I haven't played very many, but it always seemed to me that videogames were designed as highly engaging technical challenges, and you could certainly employ some degree of creativity in solving (winning) them. It's arguably not the most productive use of creative juice...
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Seems like it would be more descriptive to say "our N+M round" where N was funding to date and M was the delta that round would give. Obviously many times you don't want to be descriptive. But if you did.
Never thought of that. Of course, it explains why even super integrated, cost-engineered laptops like the MBP and even the iMac have a little PCIe card running the WiFi.

One benefit of this, is that there is a thriving marker for these things, to the point that you can get a pulled card off ebay for $12, a suitable PCI carrier card, and build a great little WiFi n card for cheap.
Piracy is and always will be about convenience.
Well of course. What I'm saying is that it was a nice gesture for them to actually send something back rather than completely ignore.
That is not "personalized" but going with the crowd. Here in China they all do that, the cheaper the device the more glitter is glued onto it.

Tastes are different, so whatever.
You have a choice between:

The chance of someone bothering to hack you multiplied by the chance that the new patch doesn't include several new security bugs

Or the chance of a new untested patch bringing down your business.
Of course writing to your representatives will do no good.

This whole world is completely insane. "Your" representatives couldn't fix it even if they wanted to. Revolution is the only way out of this mess.
> If you break your word and cost the company money, you're costing those people (and the investors) money.

There is nothing even remotely immoral about costing a company (and their investors) money. If there were it would immoral to launch a competing company.
Monads are not simply a tool for managing side-effects. Why would you consider parser combinator/List Monads useless in a language with unrestricted side effects? Writing monads without sugar becomes clumsy very quickly and monads have been demonstrated to be useful innumerable times, why wouldn't you support some syntactic sugar for it?
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Did those security experts suggest that the new patches would have any less holes than the current ones?

Meanwhile all the other experts suggest not touching a high performance, high throughput system by immediately installing every new patch that arrives.
This is common violation that everyone accepts. It's definitely done by 'bad' clients - not sure how often servers send bare LF.

(I used to telnet to port 80 for testing, and type GET / HTTP/1.0 <enter> <enter>, and that should be LF on Linux & Mac)
re: "rising star" demonstrated with google trends search of "python django, ruby rails, node.js"

I don't think is quite right; I never hear people say "python django" whereas I do hear "ruby on rails" at least as often as "rails". Note also rails is a general term and django is either the web framework or the jazz artist it is named after.

Not that I think this google trends data really mean that much, I think the following queries give context to help interpret the meaning of the parent's link.

"python, ruby, javascript" http://www.google.de/trends?q=python%2C+ruby%2C+javascript&#...

"django, ruby rails, node.js" http://www.google.de/trends?q=django%2C+ruby+rails%2C+node.j...

"django, Django Reinhardt" http://www.google.de/trends?q=django%2C+Django+Reinhardt+...

[edit, corrected link]

[edit: someone else make the same point several hours ago, and this argument was not persuasive http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3277694 I just can't see making a serious decisions based on google search trends unless your job is SEO or something like that]
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I have a question, why did git grow so popular?

1. Celebrity nerd Torvalds creates a vcs. It is not terrible.

2. Linux development moves to git.

3. Rails development moves to git.

4. Github.
With Minecraft in particular, I'd hypothesis that much of the piracy is done by under 18s who don't want to try and justify the use of a parent's credit card or paypal.
I guess the canonical example is using a compiler to compile its next version. Ken Thompson famously used this bootstrapping property to insert a trojan horse into the C compiler [1]. It propagated itself into future binary versions of the compiler, without actually appearing in their source code.

[1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html