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I would argue that there's a big difference between "demystify how the text of your program changes the coloured lights on your screen" and "demystify why the text of your program changes the coloured lights on your screen".

I agree, there is a big difference between implementation and semantics, but I would normally expect a compilers class to focus on implementation (and I wouldn't expect a typical languages or compilers class to spend half a semester teaching how lambda calculus works as a computation model).
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"If anything, the music culture may be even more vital in the absence of extrinsic motivation."

It's interesting how everyone seems to want to make choices for artists..without even asking them.

Without a way to make money, we will see less music. Why? Because artists will be forced to get day jobs. As it is, there is a small chance you will make a full living as an artist.

If anything, it will kill the indy scene because the only companies that will be able to even come close to a profit are the the ones with deep pockets (IE: the huge record labels or something like it).

Like software piracy, Adobe and Microsoft can handle it. Small companies go out of business if piracy us unchecked. I've seen it happen.
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Too bad the kickstarter project didn't offer a reward at a donation of $bleem.
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This is part of a trend to abandon due process. In some cases it's the government itself, with ICE seizing domains without having to go to trial and prove their case. In this case it's government abdicating their role in due process, telling corporations to do what they will.

This is leading to vigilantism, by the government and by corporations.
No, I really don't think that is what I did.
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So ... why not integrate a micropayment solution into the adblocker extensions. Bootstrapping problem solved!
iTunes doesn't work for me for discovery. The killer feature for me in Spotify is that I can give anything a listen with no effort and no marginal cost. I subscribe to various third party play lists, so I get suggestions pushed to me. If I like something, then there's a tangent for me to go off and explore. Also, although a much smaller concern, is multi-device asset management. Having to copy stuff around is annoying, which means I don't do it, which means the collections on my work and private computers and my mobile are constantly out of sync.

But where I think you're mistaken is in that the business model conceptually doesn't work for makers of music. If I'm anything to go by (and anecdotally I am), Spotify facilitates a lot of new revenue to enter the system. The concrete distribution of that revenue currently doesn't favour indies, but there's nothing inherent about the business model that says that couldn't change.

Perhaps tier the payment per stream: Random access gets low (radio-like) payment, repeated access get higher and higher payment until $1 (iTunes price) is hit, then little to nothing after that. My listening patterns would certainly make such a model sustainable.
I use colemak now, but this holds true in qwerty as well (most of the time). I don't use search for EVERYTHING, just most of the time it's faster.
"For one, I already made the distinction between aging and immigration"

I have already addressed this, and you refuse to acknowledge that.

It is clear that you are beyond hope, you will continue to be a xenophobe even when your excuses for being so are addressed. Your comical attempts to profile me really just highlight the quality of your mental processes.
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That finding relies heavily on reports by teachers, not actual tests of creative ability. As such, the methodology tends to filter out any non-disruptive creatives, leaving people who have both creativity and anti-social behavior sets.
IIRC, it's not Apple who forbids GPL-licensed apps, but GPL that forbids distributing apps under Apple's rules.

edit: Apparently, I was less than clear. The GPL has always forbidden distributing GPL'ed apps under Apple's (and not only Apple's) rules, since well before their app store existed.
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I had just assumed that Google+ would essentially encompass everything in Google that requires a google account to use. Google search, google shopping, and similar services that don't require an account would remain plus-less.
It's not that teachers don't like Creative Students -- my wife is a K-12 Special Ed teacher working on her Ph.D -- but that the educational system doesn't know what to do with students who do not fit into their state-provided lesson plan. In Kentucky, the state dept of Education provides:

- The lesson plans
- The Powerpoint slides
- The quizes
- The lecture outline

The lazy teachers use the state provided materials and don't change it.

The good teachers modify the plans to suit their students learning behavior and work accordingly.

The great teachers identify a different instructional design model and make it work for all of the students in their class.
Only bleem is not the secret integer between 3 an 4 but the smallest real number greater than zero. Yes, I know real analysis and all about supremum and coverings and epsilons and all the other ways to hide its existence. John Conway gets close in "On Numbers and Games" (there is some of the secret in non-standard analysis) but the conspiracy pushed him off into knot theory when he got too close... Still if you drop the real number line from (0,1) something has to hit the ground first. Bleem.
I have no idea why publishers present that sort of crap, or the scrolling twitter feeds either.

It truly proves conclusively these sites are far more about the clicks than they are about presenting information

I would like to see an adblock/ghostery/disconnect/... utility that specifically removed any auto scrolling elements.
CERN apparently said the following in a press release, which puts some substantial limits on what's actually going to be announced:

"A seminar will be held at CERN on 13 December at which the ATLAS and CMS experiments will present the status of their searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson. These results will be based on the analysis of considerably more data than those presented at the summer conferences, sufficient to make significant progress in the search for the Higgs boson, but not enough to make any conclusive statement on the existence or non-existence of the Higgs."

I got that from Matt Strassler's blog entry below (which is worth reading):

http://profmattstrassler.com/2011/12/07/about-those-rumors-t...
> people have realized that voting on this issue in the current system will basically forever be impossible and have formed pirate parties focused solely on getting rid of the filesharing prohibition.

"Solely" would be an exaggeration. The filesharing issue is merely one issue -- albeit a very prominent one -- where governments have acted in the interests of big business not the electorate.

Pirates also care about:

- abuse of idea/infomation monopolies such as patents on drugs and software

- other areas where governments are infringing people's digital rights, e.g. spying on people's communications using the excuse of terrorism and pedophilia

- Pirates appreciate that a root cause is that governments do what big business wants, therefore want to get money out of politics and strengthen democracy
Right. I'm curious where he got the images. Certainly you just have to google image search "van gogh starry night" to see the huge array of color balance "interpretations" you'll find on the net.

That said, I did think it was interesting how for instance in the sunflowers, there are a few highly-saturated parts (the centers of the flowers) that pop in the originals, but blend into maybe a more coherent image in the version with the color deficiency simulation.
I subscribe to various third party play lists, so I get suggestions pushed to me.

I strongly suspect that you are not the typical user. last.fm has been around for years, but still barely anyone uses it. It seems the majority of people use iTunes and Spotify in the same way- to look up and listen to their favourite artists.
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> I forget what the property is called, but a hash is supposed to change a lot for a small change in the input.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche_effect
People always say that, but what magic promotion sauce do labels provide that couldn't be provided much more cheaply by a less arrogant and power-grabbing entity?

Why wouldn't artists benefit from a promotion-only "label" that took a much smaller cut of their earnings?
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Having, like the NYT journalist, read the decision and various information about the case, I take almost the opposite tack. It's not the ruling on whether she is a journalist that is irrelevant, that's actually the key point. The person probably did engage in defamation.

The problem is the judge used this case to make a wide ranging and unnecessary determination that bloggers are not journalists because they don't work for big traditional organizations like the NYT. Now the NYT, the employer of the author of this article, is, like many traditional media organizations, financially threatened by independent bloggers who have been gaining massive traction and readership over the last decade that draws away from traditional large media. The publisher and supporters of giant consolidated media are threatened by loss of consolidated points of media control which special interests can leverage. Completely independent journalists, including many bloggers, have been threatening the status quo for some time. Overreaching court rulings that only those working for corporate agencies are "legitimate" certainly serve the interests of those in power.

Whether the independent journalist/blogger in question was guilty of defamation didn't require such a finding about their status as a journalist so the decision is certainly overreaching.

On the issue of the Oregon Shield Law, the judge certainly misrepresented it since by stating (exact quote from ORS 44.510) "'Medium of communication' has its ordinary meaning and includes, but is not limited to, any newspaper, magazine or other periodical, book, pamphlet, news service, wire service, news or feature syndicate, broadcast station or network, or cable television system.", it says INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, in its definition of "Mediums of Communication". The definition of "medium of communication" is critical because in ORS 44.520 the law reads "No person connected with, employed by or engaged in any medium of communication to the public shall be required by a legislative, executive or judicial officer or body, or any other authority having power to compel testimony or the production of evidence, to disclose, by subpoena or otherwise..." Not just employed by, but connected with or engaged in any medium of communication to the public. Any reasonable reading of this law will include independent journalists and bloggers.

Full text of Oregon Shield law: http://www.orenews.com/web/legal/shieldslaw.php
Do people still use RSS?
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I suppose I should better state my premise: Trade liberalization is very much in Australia's interests because its geographic isolation has provided a degree of natural protection for domestic industries (not so now since shipping has improved) while liberalization also provides the market access that Australia needs anyway since it is a large exporter of raw materials.

The growth is absolutely a product of liberalization, accidents of geography and timing have made it so.
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I didn't post up my answer on the site because someone else had already covered it. In short, yes people still use them and given how easy they are to implement I see no reason not to put them onto your site.
What do ppl think about the idea of hiring someone in their freshman/soph year in college, and grooming them, sort of like a "farm system" or minor leagues in baseball. The thinking is that the juniors/seniors probably have competitive internship offers already, and you're better off targeting people earlier. Sure they might be unreliable early on, but gradually they'll become loyal and great employees after 3-4 years.

Another option, though definitely not cheap is to find people that want to move to the USA, and give them a visa.
"Probably not new" also seems to be Language Log's conclusion: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3626
You are right, however if you love a website, you should tolerate monetization attempts, because websites like Reddit have costs to operate and can't survive otherwise (and if advertisement on a website is very obnoxious, then by definition you cannot love it).

Which is why I don't understand the "anti-corporate" attitude of redditors. I've seen few commercial ads on Reddit because they do a lot of self-promotion. They only have a single box in which ads happen. Those ads are also tasteful and relevant to the subreddits involved. Sometimes they are useful.

I understand being annoyed of ads, but blocking Reddit is a political statement. It's as if you're saying that you want all ads to be completely gone from the net. But seriously, the only general-purpose alternative that would work as a replacement are paywalls. I doubt many redditors have thought this through.

Which is why this move by the AdBlock+ developers surprises me - suddenoutburstofcommonsense (as Slashdot would put it).
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Also, Spotify is available anywhere, not just to those living in big cities with many radio stations and big record shops. Oh, and then there's the 21% of plays for the other 65% of the catalogue.

I think you overestimate the reach of broadband internet. There is certainly a lot more rural radio access than there is high speed internet.
> my wife is a K-12 Special Ed teacher

The only things they're creating are funny noises ...
Sadly, I don't think it extends to universities, although there's also work being done there in some European countries.

I think it's mostly government services. Although, as archives and museums are included to an extent, I could be wrong about this.
Thanks!

My friend Alex Graveley also has a totally different way of doing this, and a lot more, that uses the standard but not often implemented 'yield' keyword to create an Erlang-style process model, hence "Er.js":

http://beatniksoftware.com/erjs/

But you might want both TameJS and Er.js for different applications.
Generally speaking I consider the Many World hypothesis unprovable, but proving the vacuum is unstable is one proof I'd accept. For a sufficiently unstable vacuum, that would imply that the vast majority of our futures end in vacuum-instability death, and that our continued existence is actually a universe-scale Quantum Suicide result; we can never observe a wave front of total death coming at us at light speed. If Many Worlds is true, it wouldn't matter how what percentage of our futures are wiped out in total light-speed annihilation as long as the survival percentage chance is non-zero.
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If they are going to lock it down anyway, yes I would rather rent it than buy it. That might actually be a good solution.

I don't want to be told not to "tamper" with my PC on the grounds that it would then be possible to use it for piracy.

But "don't tamper with your electricity meter" is perfectly reasonable - You do not own that and you would not expect to own it or be allowed to modify it.
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* No longer are people sucked into the radio aggregate of the 90's when all you could discover were boy bands.*

Don't be so sure about that. Labels still offer what they always excelled in- marketing. Bands that self-promote often have no idea what they're doing, and even when they do they are up against thousands of other bands making their best efforts at self-promotion.

Accessible music production + the internet != your music reaching it's audience. It's still a massive uphill climb. And most people are still listening to the radio and discovering boy bands.
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> People always say that, but what magic promotion sauce do labels provide that couldn't be provided much more cheaply by a less arrogant and power-grabbing entity?

I share this sentiment. I certainly listen to plenty of music, but I've never been subjected to overt promotion from the labels. I don't listen to music on the radio and I don't watch much TV. Everything I learn about new bands comes from social networking sites and individual band blogs, Twitter accounts, Facebook pages, etc.

It's a bit of a pain right now to do that, and so the majority of people still depend on a label's endorsement to determine whether they're going to listen to a new band. But if someone were to consolidate those various functions into one service, they might stand a chance of unseating the labels, or at least grabbing a significant share of the market.
Mint's choice to give a broken Google custom search engine in Firefox and Chrome is my main issue with the operating system (which means I like their other choices in design).

The forums in effect say "tough, that's how we make money".

In Firefox, it cannot be replaced in a straightforward manner with default Google. Yes, there are ways around it. But they're technical, and fidgety. It's a nuisance.
Why wouldn't artists benefit from a promotion-only "label" that took a much smaller cut of their earnings?

They would. But they don't exist. The labels of today have a ton of existing contacts and influence with radio stations, magazines, blogs, etc.

A new promotion-only label just starting out would have none of that. In fact, there are already tons of "traditional" labels out there that are struggling to survive.
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You imply the current way is more efficient, but how so?

The basic structure of copyright-based business is this: the creator expends effort up front, then hopes buyers will pay later. The information flow, or rather lack of it, introduces a large risk of producing what is not wanted. Also the copy restrictions necessarily raise prices far above the real marginal costs of near zero. That means there is a large potential value the public is prevented from getting.

Such a structure consumes a scarce resource -- creative effort -- wastefully, and restricts an abundant resource -- copyability of information -- needlessly.

That seems very much the opposite of economically efficient.
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And that branding is supposed to come from... MySpace? A lot of performers don't want anything to do with that site. It's like there's a stigma attached to having an active MySpace page.

Distributing across a number of services means they get everything they need, for free. And yeah, while some bands like the idea of having an "image" or branding associated with them, a lot don't.

Don't forget that for a lot of young people these days, this is how the world works. They don't expect a "proper" website for their favourite bands - they're already on Facebook, so they need a Facebook presence. They use Twitter all the time, so it makes sense they'd be there too. And Soundcloud is a great community for sharing homegrown music legally.

I'm kind of going off-topic here, but following the urban music scene has really brought into focus how irrelevant the modern commercial music industry is to a lot of its target market.

All of the above varies from genre to genre and location to location, obviously.
Yes, I think you're right that the default expectation is the modified paragraph - which is why it's necessary to create organizations like Ladies Learning Code that explicitly contradict that.
I don't listen to music on the radio and I don't watch much TV. Everything I learn about new bands comes from social networking sites and individual band blogs, Twitter accounts, Facebook pages, etc.
It's a bit of a pain right now to do that, and so the majority of people still depend on a label

No, no, no, no.

If you don't watch TV and don't listen to the radio you are not the majority of people. Most of us are here discussing this topic because we are passionate about music. We are not the majority of people.

There is plenty of space for a niche site that lets bands promote themselves. But don't think that the majority of the population is just itching to get their hands on it, because they aren't.
Homeschool. Then you don't have to deal with group dynamics like that. If you care about your children's education and don't trust teachers then do it yourself.
This was made painfully clear to me when I took an English literature class in college. The class focused on short stories and involved a lot of "deep analysis". My method of analysis was to approach stories from a rational standpoint, which doesn't sound creative at first, but the problem with fiction is that the stories exist in a realm without rules (or incomplete rules, in the best case scenario). Approaching this type of work from a rational standpoint usually leads to a nearly endless number of possibilities, each of which cannot be proven more likely than the next.

Analyzing fiction is a guessing game at best, and a completely naive, amateur attempt to perform psychoanalysis on dead authors at worst. Anyone who points this out will not fare well in such a class... take it from someone who learned firsthand. Professors who have taught the same interpretations for twenty years don't like it when someone has a new idea of what their favorite stories might mean.
Absolutely, especially if your readers are tech-savvy. Personally, having a feed drastically lowers the "compellingness barrier" a site must exceed to gain my sustained attention. There are very few sites that are interesting enough to make me visit them manually every day, but lots of sites interesting enough that I'll add them to my feed reader.
That is bullshit an you know it.

There is no happy medium anymore than a few rapes now and then are acceptable because you can't always be sure about what the other party wants.

The only solution is to the claimant (human, not script) throughtly research it beforehand and then bill the infringer for the time it took when they go to court.
When a domain doesn't exist I get redirected to Google search and can find something relevant there. Thanks to Sedo I get a page full of spam (or until the Adblock change, an emtpy page) instead. I'd call that intrusive.