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You're confusing incorporating with operating. Corporations are incorporated out of places like Bermuda, but they operate on the "mainlands" (US, Europe, Asia, India, etc.) Their physical presence in the country they incorporate in is usually limited to somewhere between a mailbox and a couple of hundred square feet of unoccupied office space. Their operating costs are the same as if they were incorporated in the country they actually operate in. The only thing they are avoiding is the taxes that would otherwise go to pay for the infrastructures they are operating on. The geography is of no concern to them and the risk of the large native citizen population doing anything to them is nearly indistinguishable from nil. The risk lies almost entirely in the political vicissitudes of the country they operate in that allows an essentially foreign company to operate within it's borders. A seastead does nothing to mitigate that risk. It just adds a whole bunch of extra operating costs to build and maintain a mailbox on the seastead.
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Nokia tried to push this line for ages. Yes, it's potentially a very good idea, but in practice you need the content to appeal to actual users. Low-end users like low-end content (ringtones etc), which is what sells on those platform. Apps are substantially crippled by platform limitations in that space, so they are not enticing enough for a clientèle who privileges flashy stuff.
Why is that hard to beleive?

Society in general treats boys and girls differently from the day they are born. Why should it be expected that this divergence in nurture ought to produce similar results?

I think that in contemporary society, men and women are different---not due to simple biology but due to upbringing---and while this difference isn't what's reflected in so-called 'common sense' psychology, it is a valid difference worth exploring through science.
i'm sorry, i don't understand who is competing or how this hurts Path.

all i've seen are people being inspired by Path, saying as much, then cleverly recreating the effect for themselves. these same people turn around and share their own code with the rest of the world via blog post or GitHub.

if anything this has helped spread the word about Path. this was how i first heard of them. throw in a bunch of people sharing and learning code techniques and it's a win for everyone.
More paradigms:

Maude. Pure. OBJ3 - term rewriting

Inform 7 - object-relational

Kaleidoscope. - constraint imperative

Bloom. Dedalus. - Temporal Logic; monotonic data.

Excel. Spreadsheets. - reactive dataflow.

Conway's Game of Life - Cellular automata.

Oz/Mozart - distributed unification.

I would suggest Dedalus (datalog + time) as a cleaner example than Prolog of how to lift logic programming into general purpose computation.
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Oh thank god you're here to police what I (am able to buy and then) put in my own body. Your sarcasm is self righteous and doesn't flatter you.
Do you have an user community like this?
> Accusing Chrome of becoming bloated seems harsh

The word 'bloated' can be overused, but let's ignore the choice of word the GP used. The fact is, Chrome downloads have been getting bigger and bigger (there was an article here on HN a while back with some numbers), which isn't surprising because a lot more is being included. For example,

* Flash

* PDF viewer

* Developer tools suite

* Chrome-specific technologies like NaCl

* Chrome Store support

* Proposed web standards like Web Audio API and WebSQL (which are significantly more complex and large in comparison to alternative proposed standards to them) and SPDY

Now, the significant increase in size might be justified in some people's opinion, it's debatable of course.
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I think the key for Seasteading to be successful is to try to separate the engineering challenges, organizational challenges, economic/business model challenges, and political challenges.

Oil platforms and cruise ships do a great job of solving engineering, in a benign environment otherwise. As the article points out, large corporations are the best at this kind of megaproject.

I predict the first successful consumer seastead will be set up by a cruise line as a 2-3 week timeshare vacation/diving/excursion in a remote area, possibly with a jet airstrip. Somewhere too far from ports for cruises to comfortably visit, but with local interest.

Before that, we'll see natural gas fields in the middle of nowhere with either LNG facilities or downstream chemical production on a seastead nearby, and large labor force (relative to an extraction platform); thousands of people, possibly. Increasing resource/energy costs will support this.

We'll possibly also see temporary structures for disaster recovery, supply staging, etc. for military or relief work. The huge hospital ships (e.g. USNS Comfort) serve a role like this, as do aircraft carriers and LPDs; scaling up wouldn't be hard.
If you're into manual monitoring like this, check out
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Its only dependency (beyond enabling sar) is gnuplot.
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As much as I'd like to side with the guy getting picked on (Freshdesk), Zendesk is completely right. Ignoring the interface and naming similarities, you can't complain about ZenDesk on Twitter without multiple Freshdesk spammers bombarding you. Sure there's nothing illegal about it, but they're obnoxious with the "a customer of a rival is complaining, I MUST CONVERT THEM!" concept.

(I called them a rip-off of Zendesk back in late October - http://mobile.twitter.com/ecaron/status/123594375560302592 - and it took several days for @vshankar90 and @mrgirish to stop harassing me on Twitter...)
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Seems all the 'drama' came from Zendesk's paid blogger. If you don't want the other team to score with the ball, don't hand them the ball.
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The amount of time spent in this specific instance is irrelevant. The fact that they were interested enough to put any effort into such a trivial argument and the way they responded is the issue.

This kind of response is a double-edged sword. The majority of comments in this thread seem to support the idea as a marketing ploy and that is fine. However, the other side of damaging the company's reputation & culture needs to be considered.

I do not want to deal with companies who make it a common practice to respond to slight arguments with long posts and websites instead of dealing with more important support issues, features, and bug fixes.

Time is a tradeoff. It's a finite resource that needs to be used wisely. It reflects poorly on your company (especially an early stage startup) when you publicly spend it doing things like this.

If either of these companies are serious about their products they would not be spending time responding to trivialities like this and would let the customers and product speak for themselves.
The help desk field is crowded. A quick search reveals that at least half a dozen of the large number of companies in that space have "desk" in their name. Any analyst that thinks that putting "desk" in the name of a help desk product is a "blatant attempt to piggyback" off of another help desk product with "desk" in the name is an idiot or is being paid to make that observation. (In this case, it was the latter, although that doesn't preclude the former).
I would say that the mature programmer has learned that there is only one priority, UX, and that code must be built in the way that helps the user most. Depending on the use case, it can be pretty or ugly, fun or boring, oo or procedural. Sometimes the best choice is even to refuse to write a piece of code at all. Sometimes the best solution doesn't involve a computer.
Here's a UX critique, I don't always want to be on my phone. Especially since the "Blah wants to be your friend" opens in the Android browser rather than the Path app. I'm not logged in in my mobile browser, and I don't want to because my password is a huge random set of characters. I'd login from my desktop since I have LastPass, and I can't accept the friend request from the Path app natively. Thus, I have friend requests piling up and I've yet to return to the app.
Actually, that is a great idea... why not just make a site that links everything to github? The plugin pages could just be github pages and downloads. Issue tracking? github. Pull requests. github. Makes perfect sense to me.
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If negative marketing didn't work, we wouldn't have negative campaigning. The point of it isn't to boost your brand so much as it is to suppress your opponent's.

However, it alienates the undecided. Mudslinging works best when targeted to base voter blocs. We rarely see it in product advertising, though, because of this fear of alienation. It takes a very well-put-together campaign to attack your competition without giving them too much exposure. The last effective one in recent memory is probably Mac vs. PC, and that focused on targeting the frustrations of current PC users. Often you see it set up in that David vs. Goliath light, which is what I think Freshdesk is trying to do here.

This however, isn't marketing. Or, at least, didn't start that way. It started with what you said: pointless personal bickering. There's no reason for it and Zendesk should probably have never have brought up Freshdesk in the first place, negative comments or not. Freshdesk took it as an opportunity to do a compare/contrast while people were paying attention. I'm guessing it has zero effect on sales in the long run, though.

(Personally, I'm now even more glad with our choice of using Assistly.)
Leaders vs. Managers - great article!
The ideology that you subscribe to is capitalism which says that markets and profits rule. Your ideology is in line with law enforcements. My objections are of course ideologically because I'm opposed to the ideology of capitalism.

You cannot even help them gather information and profile suspected drug dealers because that technology and that infrastructure will be abused and will be turned on everyone else. It already has been.

I disagree with drug prohibition but I'm more in disagreement with the future potential abuses of the products created for this purpose.
A one-sided side-by-side comparison does get them there. Only points where the Freshdesk side is tied or wins (or is "coming soon") are displayed in the table.

I'm sure Zendesk does something better than Freshdesk.
Again, she worked with the manager, we did not. She was in that situation, we were not. All that we have to go on is words on a screen -- which are affected by our own biases, states of mind, and interpretation.

I would expect that her opinion of the situation should carry more weight than ours.

If she had written a post psychoanalyzing someone else's blog post, I might agree with you. But, that's not what happened, so I do not think she opened this particular door for us.
I have the version before the Touch -- the one where they added wifi. I'd love to hack it just enough to get fixed width code examples to (mostly) fit the display width. Or, better yet, to get it to support a landscape display of ePub books (for the same reason).

I don't suppose someone's already done something along these lines? (Just asking in case happenstance brings a knowledgeable reader past this comment.)
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Here's my question: HOW THE FUCK DOES THAT MATTER.

They are a business, they want to make money. Consumers will choose whichever product they prefer. Everybody wins. End of story.
it is clear that author's emotions are out of control in both cases - during the described incident and when she writes the post. She fails by refusing to recognize that.

High-tech jobs are very stressful (after all, each of us is immensely smart and is surrounded by morons :) and managing and controlling the stress is a part of the job. Failure to do so is a professional failure, especially when it is support/operations type of the job. Instead of recognizing her problem and trying to deal with it, the author pulls the sexism card. Next time her boss and others may be not that fortunate, and it may cost them job, reputation and/or lawsuit.
No, it is not exactly that.

A car that doesn't move is not a car, it's a sculpture. A square tablet is a tablet.

Samsung's tablet looks nearly identical to Apple's tablet. Apple has provided a subset of things Samsung might consider in order to eliminate the near identical nature of their tablet. One alternative they propose to a non-rectangular tablet is to remove the rounded corners - i.e. ok, make it a rectangle but don't round the corners. Apple is not stating that Samsung must do all the suggestions they provide, only that they must create a tablet that is substantially dissimilar to Apple's tablet.

Is the near identical look of Apple's tablet the only possible look of a tablet? Of course not, and it's as simple as that.
Wow .. I didn't think you could delete a post either. Figured they were just adding that. I'll update the post.
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This article is more than a year old. A follow up would be interesting.
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1) Great design, especially with the latest iteration.

2) Friend limit. This changes the game quite a bit. You have to be conscious about choosing whom to add, which will most likely lead to adding people you only wish to share with.

3) Taking this into account, you will be more inclined to share things with people that would care to interact with it. On Facebook it would be stupid to say you are awake, or asleep, but on Path it makes more sense, because you are sharing with the people you care to share with.

P.S. Anyone have an HTC Wildfire? I've tried installing it, but it doesn't work although the minimum is specified as 2.1 on the market?
Hm, I don't remember that ever happening to me in the last ~2 years with two devices that I've used most: nexus one and motorola defy. But ok, I grant you that it can happen. So what? I've also seen an iPhone freeze completely.

That's funny. I use a Nexus S on a daily basis, and compared to my primary phones I've used over the last 3 years (iPhone 3GS, 4, and now 4S), the touch screen is awful.

The incontrovertible truth is that every mainstream Android device on the market, including the newest SGS2's, have this annoying 500ms/20 pixel touchscreen 'slop'. And it's annoying as hell. It makes the touchscreen and all the widgets feel slippery. It ruins the built-in android keyboard (I can type at 40+ words per minute on the ios5 touchscreen keyboard, and I need swiftkey if I want to type that fast on android).

Ignore this all you like. Those of us who want something better know where to get it.
I was not being sarcastic or facetious.
By the arguments you've applied to wiretapping, we don't need oversight into freedom of speech abuses.

That's correct: it's the same as with oversight. There is no need to monitor government about freedom of speech abuses, because such abuses are obvious. If some government agency limits my freedom of speech - I complain and then it's time to act. There is not much to do before anyone complains.

A 1% false positive is not an acceptable rate for wiretap-driven arrests

That's why surveillance might be helpful - it helps to lower ratio of false positive accusations.

But it is already protected well enough and not a major concern at this moment.

I agree that freedom of speech in the US protected well enough to prevent the US from turning into totalitarian state.

So there is no major problem here.

Still the speech is somewhat limited and such restrictions needlessly decrease the efficiency of our society. Couple of examples:

- "Obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment" court rulings. That limits availability of quality publications on the topic.

- Persecution of Wikileaks. That keeps government opaque and hides terrible inefficiencies (such as waste of lives and resources in Iraq and Afghanistan).
Something about the whole freshdesk attitude really rubs me the wrong way. Not saying zendesk is in the right either. I just feel like I read the whole ripoffornot page and cringe. Definitely doesn't seem like the type of company I would want to give my time or money.

A couple people complained about their product on twitter and they built a whole page responding to it? In it, they respond to the criticism by making personal attacks against those who complained about them? Really weird.

Stop starting flame wars, start making a decent product.
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jQuery is modular. You can minify the plugins. For the sake of maintenance, clarity and speed of your documents, I think it's best to use plugins only as needed.
If these are the same trucks used at entry control points by the DoD, they don't randomly drive around and scan vehicles; they're set up at gates, and you park a line of trucks, then drive the scanner down the line to view all the stuff inside. The radiation levels are high enough that all the drivers are removed to a safe waiting area nearby during the scanning process.
It's not about the money. As patrick said you can get free certs from StartSSL, and companies like namecheap offer 1-year free certs if you buy a domain. It's about 1) lack of knowledge, 2) lack of support by shared hosting companies and 3) laziness.
I really resonate with this comment. The drivers that exist today are so much better than the ones we had before. They aren't as good as the ones on Windows or MacOS but they actually do 3D acceleration and handing multiple monitors, which they did poorly or not at all before.

So in that regard things are much better. But the grass is not only greener on the Windows side of the fence they have better shader support to make it wave :-) One of the things I had hoped various FOSS organizations might create would be the equivalent to a University 'chair', a position paid for by an endowment to the organization, to encourage some expert in the chair's area of interest in working full time on that.

NetApp supported a group at UMich for a long time who were making the NFS drivers in Linux better and Trond Myklebust who was the kernel gatekeeper. Sort of a public/private partnership. That effort was working because everything needed to succeed was pretty much available (docs, sources, examples, etc).

I had a marketing VP at S3 (back when they were making graphics chips and not an IP holding company) tell me that they didn't release documentation because they didn't know if they were violating someones patent and this way even if they were the patent holder didn't know either, it was better for everyone.

Now later events have born out the notion that patents are the center of the dispute here, between the SGI patents, the Microsoft patents, the 3dfx and nVidia patents, and various other players, clearly that has had a tremendous chilling effect on open communication.

Of course Voodoo graphics were introduced in 1996, so in 2016 3D video card patents start expiring and by 2020 most of the DirectX 9 pipeline's concepts will be public domain. Sadly we have to wait until 2025 for shader technology to unlock sufficiently.
> boring job

and

> who are we to say they are less happy

Well, it's fairly uncontroversial and trivial to my mind that a less boring workday makes for the happier employee, and happier employees make for happier people -- ergo, it can be safely said that to the same extent someone works a boring job, they are that much less happy than the person who works a non-boring job. It's not a matter of unjustified judgment at all -- who the hell doesn't want a job that instills a sense of self-fulfillment?
I think weather can be more of a perceived problem than an actual one, sometimes.

I ride a bike here in northern England. For two short rides of about 15-20 minutes each way, the chances of being rained on are pretty small; maybe ten times in a year? If you had a folding bike, then ten taxi rides on wet days might be a worthwhile yearly penalty.
The piece says that the water samples were provided by the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, not BP. Why would a "normal reporter" not include factual information about the costs to the responsible party?

Do you have any proof of your claim, or is this speculation?
Don't worry, the emails are ridiculous anyways:

http://imageshar.es/4ed7bbc343641e6c1e000dc1

Why even include a link in the email if it brings me to a page that just lets me know I can't do anything from there?
Come on. Citation please. That's a pretty wild assertion.
I agree with this. Perhaps there was a technical or security reason for taking the current one down, but barring that, don't take away the old thing until there's a new thing to take its place.
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In an alternate universe it would look like they are complaining about personal attacks on them.
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Trying to convince home users of this used to be easy. Microsoft has a long history of making inferior and insecure products that are dangerous to use. I can't say the same thing of Safari on iOS or the Android browser. I'm a power user and wouldnot recommend ordinary users bother switching to Firefox purely because of philosophical reasons.
It is probably best to bundle all of your application code and plugins into one big JavaScript file, while loading jQuery itself from one of the CDNs (and excluding it from the bundle). I think it's only when this bundle file gets massive or initial page load time is critical that it makes sense to load individual modules on-demand. When your application gets so big that it uses a dozen plugins and a dozen of its own files, the HTTP requests caused my loading them individually will start to hurt.
> I would expect that her opinion of the situation should carry more weight than ours.

It probably would to the other people involved in her company, but to us---3rd party obvservers, we have to suspect bias from the self-proclaimed "whistle blower".

We at least know what our own biases are, and can try to avoid them, but regarding her bias which might be baked into her statements and recollection all we can do is speculate.

Now we can disregard that notion if her actions suggest that she is both unbiased, and correct but no one should naively take someone else's word on a topic simply because they have a first hand account.

Final rejoinder: she psycho-analyzed the manger in claiming that saying X implied hidden sexism or a sexist culture even though on its own X is not sexist (i.e. saying someone is "too hard" on another is motivated by the thought that women are "too emotional").

If reading hidden motives isn't an open door to psycho-analysis, then I don't know what is. Apologies, if I misunderstood her writing.
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This is my first project using Python and Google App Engine. I was looking for a problem to work on and at the mean time I had to choose a health insurance plan for next year. I realized that comparing health insurance plan is a tricky problem. So I built this tool.

It allows you to specify your plan details and adjust your estimated health-care needs. With these information, it estimates your annual health-care cost for different plans.

I would love to get feedback on this from fellow hackers.
In other words, Blackwater got there first. Maybe they'll leave some scraps we can salvage after the mercenaries bleed them dry.
Being first is worthless in and off itself. Execution and customer service are what counts. If you are:

a) an entrepreneur; and

b) think that "rip-offs" like this one are in some way unethical...

... you need to get your head out of your ass, ASAP!

Taking other peoples' great ideas and applying them to make your own product even better is not called "ripping somebody off". That process is called "business".