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The thing is, this isn't a case of a customer getting bent out of shape over some imagined flaw in the product they received, or because the product doesn't do something it never claimed to do ("this floor wax you sold me makes a terrible dessert topping! ONE STAR!"), or because the customer heard some rumor that the vendor is doing something incompatible with the customer's ideology ("Now that you serve panda meat in your cafeteria, my iPad is the worst product ever. Derp.").

You know, the usual internet complaints.

Instead, the customer made his order, was charged for the product, and then received nothing. The customer at this point is rightfully wondering if the vendor is legit, or if it's a criminal scam.

The marketer's responses are more characteristic of a criminal scam than a legit vendor, so it's not surprising that the customer gets bent out of shape. That kind of attitude is what I'd expect from a guy selling bootleg DVDs on the sidewalk, when a customer gets upset when their new DVD's case turns out to be devoid of any DVD.
Calling out idiotic behavior is not childish. It’s perfectly appropriate.
"Honesty" of this sort is nothing but an ego trip. You walk around like the cock of the walk, blurting out whatever little thought crosses your mind. As if you think it, it must be golden.

Well, here's some honesty for you: Nobody gives a shit.

Your opinions aren't interesting, and nobody cares. And if you want to have friends, you'll have to learn to act like an adult. An adult knows that compassion, sympathy, empathy, love, and tact are far more valuable than "honesty." These traits, which are proven (research!) to be the basis of strong, long-lasting and warm relationships, are all about the OTHER person, and rightfully so.

Make it all about you, on the other hand, and your precious little opinions, and your "honesty," will simply show the world that you're an arrested child in an adult body, crying out for attention.

When you're an adult and you actually need to deliver an uncomfortable truth to someone you love -- for their benefit, not because you want to -- then you have to do it with compassion, sympathy, empathy, love, and tact.

That means that before you even open your mouth, or think of how to say it, you ask yourself hard & long, "Will this actually help them? Will this actually help them change? Will this be motivational? Will this DO anything for them?" -- then if the answer is anything but "Yes, absolutely," you keep your damn mouth shut.

Nobody in the history of the world was helped by some egotistical, overgrown child saying "I think you're fat."
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They are just describing the practice of a minority of registrars to put their own contact info in the WHOIS registrant info instead of your contact info. Gandi isn't a big exception here, that's not standard practice.

Beyond that, there's not much to discuss. The semantics aren't that important, whether you 'own' or 'lease' the name doesn't change the fact that you get the name for a limited time only, attached to a contract that restricts what you can do with it and allows the registry to take the name back under various circumstances.
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It's probably not a jackpot in terms of this project, but imagine how much this kid will learn in the process. It's a jackpot for his growth as an entrepreneur, if he sticks with it.
I dont see G+ as a product, but rather as a service, that Google runs and you can use it for free. And all free social networks tilt inevitably toward user exploitation, because you're not their customer, YOU are their product.
I'm going to take the contrarian stance: Google+ belongs to Google. They can censor it however they want. You don't like it? Build your own web site. I'm serious: do it.

The Internet was built to be free an non-centralized. Your profile on a social network is a rented space, provided under whatever terms the owner wants. You don't have a right to post things on their site any more than they have a right to hang posters in your living room. They provide a service because they want to, and you consume it under the conditions they specify.

Don't like their rules? Get your own space. Build a web site. That's what the Internet is about. If you like social networks, build a decentralized one. But stop deluding yourself. If it isn't your site, you don't make the rules.
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Sad that someone would mod you down for having religious convictions.

Thank you for giving a portion of your inheritance to the world.
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Please.. save the outrage for something that matters, like SOPA or protect IP. There is IMO no "issue" here. I dont see any problem with googles approach. I agree that you can probably find alot more offensive profile pictures and its borderline, but presumably they were reacting to a complaint and made a judgement call.
I see what you did there. Your assuming people who use G+ are trying to share their lifes with you. They are not. If I want to "share my life" with people. I will call them and drive to their house and spend time with them. That is sharing of life. Posting social gossip on a website is not.
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Considering anything on G+ or Facebook as "yours" is a mistake, and putting there content that is not anywhere else (as suggested in the article) is plain stupid. These are free services run by private corporations, whose ultimate goal is to make more money. They dont care much about you, you are not their customer. I recommend you run your own blog on your own domain and G+/Facebook/Twitter treat only as "embassies" of your online presence.
> You have the right to offend people but you suffer the appropriate consequences, if any, if they decide to get offended.

Yes. He had the right to upload the image, and Google had the right to get offended, and the consequences were that they took the image down.

It's not like they put him in prison, or gave him a fine, or stopped him getting a job, or shut down his Google account. They just took down the image, with a polite explanation the second time he put it up.

tl:dr their website, their rules.
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Nitpick: being the son of a banker and a lawyer hardly qualifies you as "upper class", even if that was relevant.
I linked to it from that piece. Here it is again, to save you the trouble of going back to the post.

http://scripting.com/images/2011/10/26/goDaddyConfirmation.g...
I find the comments given as examples of the "blowback" against the post very typical of programmers and fairly revealing.

Note that a couple commenters also pointed out that the class is now sold out.

What this reveals is that only a tiny tiny tiny subset of programmers is bitchy about prices, but that the vast majority recognize a good deal when they see one.

Many of the students in my make-and-sell-your-first-product class come into my class with the misapprehension that "developers don't buy." Because of crap like this. But devs absolutely buy. Many, many, many companies make a great living off selling to developers (including my husband & me).

It's just that the loud minority is very, very loud, and the buying majority is dependable… and quiet.

My personal theory as to why the angry minority is so angry: they are so afraid of being manipulated or "ripped off" (because that would pierce their self-image of super intelligent, uber-rationality), that they react like rabid dogs to anything with a price tag.

This loudly, vehemently expressed attitude also has a chilling effect on buyers who might spread the word in public, because if they say "Oh I bought xyz and it was great, you might want to try it," the angry minority will attack. So the lack of discussion may lead to people assuming, again, that developers don't buy, because most of the posts are anti-buying.

But, like I said, lots and lots of companies make a great living off selling to devs. Devs absolutely do buy. They can be great customers, too.

So I hope nobody will read this and be put off starting a real business aimed at devs.

FTR, $2800 for a 6-week course sounds like a great deal to me. When my husband & I teach our JS workshop, it's $500 for a day.
It's easy to justify with three words: "development for iOS".
Except that a lot of patterns tend to be language specific. So while it does teach you patterns, sort of - the patterns here are unlikely to be of any use, since they won't be usable if you're writing Python, and if you're writing Java or C++ you'll need to translate them anyway.

For instance, go and have a look at the example code for his command pattern: http://dpip.testingperspective.com/?p=22 That's not idiomatic anything - in normal Python you'd probably expose a couple of methods on the Light (on/off) and construct a switch to call those. Two classes, duck typed and no need for Command abstract classes and all the extra boilerplate.
Speech is free in the sense of absence of legal restrictions on it, not in the sense of the presence of third parties obliged to unconditional bear the costs of broadcasting it. Why should Google be obliged to host and display MG Siegler's silly picture if they don't want to? Should misapplication of the First Amendment also oblige Google, at their own expense, to also deliver all spam to and from Gmail accounts, host every copyright-cleared hardcore porn video uploaded to YouTube and allow people to turn their Google Circle into the next Stormfront if it's their wish to do so?

Legislation implying that permitting some forms of user- generated content on your internet property cedes all owners' rights of control of what is broadcast would have the counter-intuitive effect of killing free-speech on the internet stone dead; better to shutter the comment field than be sued by spammers for filtering them.
That is an image of Hitler, wearing a swastika armband. Just for those in countries where that imagery is illegal and could result in criminal prosecution and fines or imprisonment.
I am completely agree with billybob here. After all that's why Hacker News community is so different to Reddit, because the rules of each community right?
That was incredibly eye opening, I never realized that where you placed something could actually be important.

Thanks for the link, have some karma! :)
Google+ is free in name only. In truth we pay by being there, filling it with our personal information. Google isn't a non-profit, they see a way to make money off all the users. Do you think google+ would still be around if it only had one million users, no, they would shut it down. They need us to use their toys just as much as we want to use them. And if they want us to use their toys then they better let us use them any way we like.
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Are you suggesting that Jean-Yves Girard didn't understand the book either?

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I find it funny that people on HN knock Google+ because of the lack of people on it. While at the same time using HN instead of digg or reddit. Why are you drawn to Hacker News over the "big" link sites. Wouldn't by your own logic you use those sites since they have so many more people. Could there be something enticing about a smaller product with higher quality that you find enjoyable. Not to say we should promote group think here as there is place for intelligent dissent, but its very ironic to use one smaller higher quality alternative while vocally rejecting another.
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Here's a working link to the pdf:

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No seeders for torrent though, so direct download is the only option.
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jvm, I think a big reason this happens to women is because they make their femaleness a thing: they talk about it, write about it, etc.

They may not INTEND to sound as if "furthering women is job #1" -- but they give out a message that it's important to them, perhaps inadvertently.

This won't-intro-me-to-men thing has never happened to me. However, I don't make a big deal out of the fact that I'm a woman. I also don't tend to do things like go to "girl geek dinners" or whatever, because I find them sexist & obnoxious.

What does happen to me is that women "in technology" will presume that I am interested in them, agree with them, support their agenda, value the things they value, etc., simply because I have breasts and a vagina. Which irritates the daylights out of me. (Their presumption, that is, not my equipment.)

The OP author makes a great point -- try to meet the people who are the best people for you to meet, regardless of in-born traits. I definitely agree with it. I simply also believe women have more of a hand in causing these situations for themselves than they want to admit.
Bullet point summary of what M-Edge states happened between 2009-2011 here:

http://www.geek.com/articles/news/kindle-case-maker-m-edge-s...
A big part of it is that it is just too much work to clean up what you see to a point where I don't have to wade through massive amounts of pure junk to see anything that's interesting.

No, I don't care what you had for dinner

Meanwhile Google+ makes it exceedingly easy to group people in ways that makes filtering easy, and now with the slider to let you "mix" how much from each circle appears in your full feed, I can pretty close to mute anyone that becomes obnoxious while still just being one click away from still finding out what they had for dinner.

Google+ is already more usable for me than Facebook, and they already have far better tools available to deal with an information overload that doesn't really exist there yet. I'm far more confident that as more people I know starters using Google+, I won't drown in updates I don't care about.

"Updates I don't care about" neatly summarizes why I don't like Facebook much. Maybe 1% of what I see when I log in to Facebook interests me.

I also much prefer the asymmetric relationships of Google+ - it matches the real world far better than Facebook "friends".
Its difficult to judge; OpenSUSE by its very nature is untrackable, because there are no "subscribers" to count. SLEx is probably trending down, as Ubuntu is a more popular "commercial" package these days and Redhat has most of the remainder.

Linux is mostly seen in "back door" installations; Increasingly, appliances seem to be Linux or BSD based, and most datacenters have a few linux boxes beating away on repurposed hardware, with no real record (as there was no CapEx requirement) where senior management would see it. Often they can be found by what is *not* purchased - such as buying a instance of Oracle, and hardware to run it on, but no operating system to stand between it and the hardware.

Larger adoption (ignoring the most popular distro, just in general) would be a good thing though. There is a certain catch-22 in that big hardware vendors and software vendors happily jump though M$'s hoops to get their products approved for that platform, but Linux often gets at best a late and non-optimized driver/version, and at worst threats of lawsuits against anyone brave enough to attempt to reverse-engineer the closed source driver to write a Linux workalike. Vendors uniformly blame this on the lack of adoption of the platform, and correspondingly, those who don't adopt the platform blame the lack of vendor support.
"D'Aloisio is by no means a typical teenager - he is polite, highly motivated and enthusiastic."

Wow, wonder how many other groups they'd be able to get away with stereotyping like that.

"D'Aloisio is by no means a typical (woman|Mexican|black person|obese person) - he is polite, highly motivated and enthusiastic."

Ouch.

Makes the BBC sound out of touch, considering that most teenagers are under a historically unprecedented amount of pressure to succeed (eg: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6221872).
I understand the writer needs an introduction to the article, but F everything about starting with this:

"Most teenagers will find any reason under the sun not to do their homework."

No most won't and stop repeating it.
The Google logo in that censored picture is offensive to me.
That's kinda my point--if you don't like the service, then you should leave. That seems to get the attention of tech companies these days.
I'm surprised I'm not seeing more 1Q84 here.
Well really, what's the point in calling it a factory? In Ruby or Python everything is an object, every method or function call returns an object, hence everything is a factory, and the term loses its meaning.

In this particularly case Image isn't a class, and Image.open isn't a method: https://bitbucket.org/effbot/pil-117/src/162542cc8aca/PIL/Im...

I don't know that there's any equivalent for this in Java, so I think the grandparent's question still stands.
App aside, this kid has a fantastic camera presence, although some of his words made no sense ("quickly and instantaneously") I would guess a large part of his success is down to his ability to talk so well.
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Apologies, I did not mean to misrepresent him.
I like MG Siegler, but seriously... he is making a personal grievance into something much bigger with words like 'slippery slope'. There is no way that would have been the 'only' copy of that photo and even if it was, Google would have it in some backup somewhere and be able to recover it. MG is griping about moderation policies. Moderation/curation is Google protecting their community, the same way Apple doesn't allow porn on the App Store.

It is a shame to see MG making such a big deal about something he should understand.

I did see MG flipping the bird on his twitter profile a few days and considered unfollowing him. BUT I enjoy reading his thoughts to put up with it.
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I think the point is to build up a large list of accounts to cycle through that have existed for a while and seen sporadic legitimate looking use, rather than having to use a new account when suddenly starting to churn out spam.

A new account that immediately starts posting a lot is a big red flag. An old, active account that slowly ramps up posting volume is likely a lot harder to distinguish from a "real" user that is getting more active as the service gets bigger.

So you slowly build up a big portfolio of accounts and keep them "warm", and then spread your spamming over a larger volume of accounts instead of trying to create new ones and pump out lots of spam faster than they can block you.
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I don't think your stance is contrarian at all--that is, I don't think anyone is arguing that Google shouldn't be able to do what Google wants.

The point of the article is to say "Google+ is a jerk" and to mock their attempts at censorship (and vague criteria such as 'offensive gestures' which, as the author noted, are culture-dependent). Whether this sparks enough community-rage for Google to change because they want to preserve their consumers, we'll see. (Probably not.)
Always have to be on the lookout for trick questions (i.e. Tesla Motor's question on water displacement). My rule of thumb: when presented with two discrete options, assume a third one also exists.
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This is the UK, where the upper class is more hereditary than job based unlike in the US. Banking and law are fairly common professions for the upper class, so he may well be upper class.
Ratings reset every release, and this new release is only 10 days old, so I wouldn't read too much into that.

Also, I read the first few pages of reviews, and if those are your users, good luck to you app developer!
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Howard Berman. This isn't the first time he's gotten in the way of freedom on the net.

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Any insight into the tech this is using?
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"It makes me so sad to see the increase in 'nanny' behavior."

Do you dislike it enough to join or start a competing service? That's really the only response that matters.

Google doesn't have to justify how they run their site. They offer a particular service with particular rules, and people either use it or don't use it.