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And? Lots of people hunt big game, it is not illegal. I understand lots of people are against hunting but there is nothing immoral about doing what he did.

I would love to be able to afford a true African safari and try to get 3 of the big 5: elephant, cape buffalo, and black rhino. Not really into hunting cats though so Lion and Leopard would be out for me.
I only took a quick glance through the source, but what's with the MongoDB dependency? Is there a chance that what you're using it for could be replaced with Redis? I already use Redis, but I'm hesitant to introduce yet another database into my stack unless it's absolutely necessary.
I've met VERY FEW people who bought BB's. Almost everyone I've ever seen that had one had it given to them by their corporate overlords. Me included. I liked mine, but I had no other choices then. I do now, and I'm not choosing RIM (though I'd be intrigued with something running QNX...)
The problem is the internet has a very short attention span. I would be very surprised if a solid boycott against another SOPA supporting company happened.
They are further along. Very much so. I wouldn't dare think of competing at this point. I needed to finish something and get it out into the world though and this was it. I contribute to other projects from time to time but this was just something I needed to do. Why did I need to? Because I've never done it before. I expect one half-baked project to lead to more fully-baked, more useful ones in the future. Part of that is getting feedback like this. I appreciate it.
Possible option for avoiding GoDaddy's 60day lock
I don't remember the specific date, but I bought it specifically for doing iOS development. In any case, the fact remains that it is iOS hardware that won't get an update. Will the iPhone 3g be upgradeable forever?
https://github.com/nicolaerusan/RottenNetflix

Hey, I just uploaded the source - not very well commented, but hopefully illustrates the ideas (combine it along with the explanation above.) Feel free to extend it - I think it would be worthwhile to add the IMDB scores too (although I don't find them all that reliable personally :) ).
A lot of high school kids in the UK have Blackberries for some reason. Maybe they're the best for hyperactive texting.
Are they not getting any? That seems to be an entirely different issue.
Presumably they have employees working from other timezones, they can't all be in US zones... can they?
> people who want a premium phone get an iPhone and everybody else gets an android.

12-15 months ago I'd agree, but the latest crop of Android phones compete quite handily in "premiumness".
Importance. Microsoft (rightly) considers smartphones to be a serious, if not existential, threat to them, breaking their near hegemony on personal computers. Given the importance, Microsoft should be willing to throw vast quantities of resources at WP7, to save themselves.

In fact, the same arguement as been made regarding G+: Google sees Facebook as an existential threat, so they'll throw money, time and engineers at it until it works (or falls so flat that there is no chance whatsoever).
What was your motivation to use fixed pixel widths for grid sections instead of percentages?

"Do we really need yet another boilerplate? Yes."

Not entirely convincing :P
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Okay, you've convinced me. It was the lack of privacy that gave me pause. And the well executed Nook.
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That is a great idea. And I understand the need to keep the prediction secret till later. I just wrote this up and sent it to you as an email. We will see how things work out over the long term.
The fact that Mighty Ducks has a 12% rating tells me that Rotten Tomatoes is fucking terrible.
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I'm unsure what the standard procedures for requesting expanded access to port 43 for Go Daddy are but it would appear that Namecheap did reach out prior to publishing their blog about the transfer difficulties according to the community manager at Namecheap.

Whatever the details are, it would appear that a PR blunder can get pretty messy. Customers walk for a reason.
Do your first one and do a good job. Try and find "hacker" groups. There always seems to be one or two people looking to get an iPhone app made.
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PG, I know you aren't inviting them to your demo day, but I hope you can commit to not not doing business with the law firms on this list and also not sharing law firms with these old-media dinosaurs like ESPN and the NFL.

If ESPN hires a law firm to write this bad law which will likely hurt your business in the future, doesn't it make sense to advise your clients to not hire that same law firm? As someone who has worked with both, it's clear that the Entrenched Big Law model & the Disruptive Startup Model are obviously incompatible and the more we can do to move away from these conflicted monoliths the better we can actually affect real reform.

This will require some work and likely even severing an old business relationship or two, but these small changes from someone like you and a peer or 2 can have immeasurable effect. 1 Paul Graham taking business away from 1 Big Law Firm will do more than thousands of us can.
What it brings to the table is largely irrelevant; consumers don't make their phone purchasing decisions based on these one-liner cliches that the grandparent lays out. The important question is: what does Windows Phone bring to the carriers (the people who sell the phones).
This quote:

"Hundreds of thousands of pictures of the moon will be examined for telltale signs that aliens once visited our cosmic neighbourhood if plans put forward by scientists go ahead. Passing extraterrestrials might have left messages, scientific instruments, heaps of rubbish or evidence of mining on the dusty lunar surface that could be spotted by human telescopes and orbiting spacecraft."

Reminds me of this image:

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^^ This is why I call it a lynch mob.
Please read the second part of my above comment. The premiumness of the phone is irrelevant as long as the salespeople in the stores are still selling android as "the phone that isn't an iPhone"
GoDaddy accused of interfering with anti-SOPA exodus
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I've just looked around and it seems that this was never released in English and is nowhere to be found.
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any potential bioinformatics use from this?
Haha I know. Just take my word for it! Yes. Period! I'm kidding. I used fixed pixels because it was easy if you want the honest truth. I'm aware that the future is all about mobile-first but this started out as a teaching tool for myself and fixed widths is what I chose back then. I know fixed widths aren't cool but its a work in progress. I was compelled to finally share something instead of always using things others had made. Eventually it'll come with a variety of grids to choose from.
We used Concepts of Programming Languages (http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Concepts-of-...) in my undergraduate Comparative Languages course which was very good and seems to cover much of the same material as the course.

I sadly lost the book when I moved but I remember loving both the book and the course and learning a ton thanks to seeing a number of different language types side by side. I have fond memories of trying to wrap my mind around Prolog the first time I saw it.
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Is Rotten Tomatoes based in Iceland? That would explain part of it...
Wait, I don't know what OWS is because I say it's incoherent and uncoordinated, and you say it's chaotic and anarchic? Sounds like we agree what OWS is; you just think anarchy and chaos are good things.

I never voted for Bush or Obama, or for any congressman or senator who voted for any of the military actions this government has taken since I was eligible to vote. Where possible, I have voted for candidates promising to immediately end any and all such operations. I'm no more a murderer by proxy than any other taxpayer, including you--well, unless you're another one of those Occupy bums who doesn't work, doesn't pay taxes, and is a net drain on the economy. And I'm not so arrogant as to pass moral judgment on people I don't even know.
It's ironic that Go Daddy started off their super bowl ad campaign a few years ago by thumbing their nose at mock “censorship hearings”

http://www.visit4ads.com/advert/Go-Daddycom-Hearings-Godaddy...
AFAIK, Python folks are experiencing something different: they have two incompatible languages which can't talk to each other, that's why they have to port code from Python 2 to 3. OTOH, no matter how bad I think about Perl, it seems Perl folks are doing fine instead, regarding backward compatibility of version 6 toward 5 (version 6 will have a compatibility mode). Ehi! If I'm not mistaken, ISE Eiffel will happily compile and link both Eiffel and C++ code.

I agree that old code is sacred and I agree that handling backward compatibility is not an easy task, but carrying decades old baggage isn't a solution either, if you ask me. I remember how one day while I was coding in C++ and I realized how much baggage I was carrying in my mind at each step while writing code.

Of course programmers will not switch to the new standard if it does not provide enough advantages, but then history shows that people are willing to even switch languages if their current one becomes an unmanageable mess.

As PG said in an essay of his, different versions of a language are different languages. Then just treat them as such.
The analysis of the players in the mobile market and their motivations is spot on, but the rest of the article rests on shaky grounds.

First off, Windows Phone is not superior to Android. It may be ahead in some respects, but it certainly lags Android in others. And that is the current situation. Till the last update Windows Phone clearly lagged Android in features. It may be comparable now, but it is yet too early to expect this to make a big difference. The real question is if achieving feature parity with Android is enough to let it succeed?

When Android arrived on the scene it didn't have to contend with another Android. Windows Phone does. The carriers and device manufacturers that may invest in Windows Phone are the same ones that are already invested in Android (except Nokia). I can't see that Windows Phone provides them with something that Android does not. Sure, they will hedge their bets and make Windows Phone devices, but the success or failure of Windows Phone devices does not (yet) have the same impact on their balance sheet as that of Android devices on which they currently depend. When they adopted Android the mobile ecosystem was very different and it was their lifeline against a seemingly unstoppable Apple-dominated world, and they had every motivation to make these devices a success.

A final point - fragmentation - I don't see how Windows Phone can avoid fragmentation. The more successful it gets, the more fragmented it will get. Thanks to Android, users expect to be able to get hold of the exact big/small/cheap/expensive/with-without-keyboard smartphone variant they want. Windows Phone can only avoid this fragmentation at the expense of market share.

"will end-user dissatisfaction with Android’s inconsistencies and fragmentation be strong enough to allow the better product to succeed."

Most end users don't care about fragmentation. Developers do, and people who invest in their mobiles do, but a significant fraction of users - the ones who "don't know what they hate" - do not typically know or care about ICS, or know what additional features it provides, or if their phones will get upgraded to ICS.
Oopsiedaisy, the mongoid-reference in the Gemfile is obsolete. I'll remove it right away. Thanks for the tip :)
it really depends on the state where you get caught. In Berlin you can do blow of a mailbox in front of a police station and you will most likely only suffer only minor consequences [except if there is reason to believe you were or were planning on getting into a car]. Do that in Munich and you will get fined for a massive amount of money (5-10k)
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I wonder if we need text logs at all anymore. It seems silly to expect people to be able to read millions of log entries from tens, hundreds or even thousands of servers. Maybe binary logs using protocol buffers or thrift are the way of the future.
This is pretty much my line of thinking. Being 3rd in anything is difficult. I think it's easy for us humans to conceptualize 2 choices and see their differences; it's much harder when you throw a 3rd into the mix. You like Coke or you like Pepsi. Coke is a tradition, a staple; Pepsi is young and hip. These are cliches, but they affect consumers on a subconscious level. Being an alternative can sometimes still be profitable though, but you have to find your niche. Maybe Microsoft hasn't conceded WP7 to its niche yet.
These are not as cool as nicoslepicos' extension but I created a Chrome and Firefox extension a while back that lets you retrieve the Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB ratings for any movie highlighted (or if it's a link no highlighting is necessary).

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pfmcppclannbbilgig...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/movie-ratings...
it really doesn't matter which language you chose

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Maybe.

Protobuffers or Thrift can definitely be smaller in byte size, which does matter somewhat, but JSON right now is just more easily accessible.

I think in a few years, assuming JSON logging really takes off, you'll see people using these other RPC formats in order to optimize and reduce the size of their messages.

I view 'better' RPC formats as a performance optimization of the same basic idea though: Easily add new fields, and use a format designed for computers to consume.
* how about cheap:android €60 on prepay v €380 for wp7, €460 for iphone. this is ireland so your country may vary.

* how about writing code on the device itself:symbian and android can do this. wp7? friendliness to gpl for me counts here to.

* how about battery life:this would be symbian where you can last days of heavy use. iphone and android barely last a day for me. wp7?

* how about the ability to run your own version of the os:cyanogen mod for android. this way i can remove all those preinstalled apps that i will never use.

i've used symbian since 2004 (loved), ios since iphone 3g (liked) and am now on android (meh). i've played with every version of wince/pocket pc/win mobile and all without fail have been woeful. microsoft has fouled their own nest before launching wp7. why would any one who tried any of those previous versions give the new one a chance?

i'm not the average consumer but many average consumers ask me for advice. these days i recommend fluffy v flexible. if they want a fluffy easy to use phone then get an iphone and if they want flexible then get android as there are so many choices they can find one that does precisely what they want.
Thanks for the insight. The reason the dinosaur is a bit cutesy is that we wanted to appeal to both genders. A dinosaur devouring jedi might get boys interested but would probably turn off girls. Unfortunately it seems difficult to appeal to both girls and boys at that age.
Any demo server running somewhere?
NameCheap's folks have stated pretty unequivocally that they did contact GoDaddy ahead of time. I tend to believe them over GoDaddy.

http://community.namecheap.com/blog/2011/12/26/godaddy-trans...
I wonder if they have teams working elsewhere. How else can they sensibly approve apps that are available (only) in non-English languages?
It's made for large screens. 1140+. Is it fair? No. But that's what it is. Hit Control+- until it fits the screen haha.
Thanks, I do agree that it needs more goals to be built in, especially if we want it to become stickier and more addictive. The incredible machine sounds cool, I will chcek it out. Our idea with the first product was to see how far people could get with just the plain platform before building in more complex mechanics.

From our user testing I think 7 is probably a little young for the app. 9-11 seems to be more of the sweet spot where they want to play games but can go off on their own without much structure.

Thanks for the feedback!
There are relatively few other companies on the list the average internet (power) user can boycott effectively. How am I supposed to boycott Nike or Reebok? I buy shoes like once every two years. Should I write an angry blogpost a year or two from now when I pointedly buy a non-Nike shoe?

(As an aside, why the hell are Nike or the Ford Motor Company supporting SOPA? Is it one of their subsidiaries, or just corporate solidarity?)

An effective boycott needs to be noticeable, and that means either terminating a subscription or stopping an extremely regular (daily or weekly, perhaps monthly if it's substantial enough) purchase. The only other company on the list which seems vulnerable to that sort of boycott -- unless there are far more people picking up something weekly from Tiffany's than there should be -- is Time Warner. Terminating your cable service is a very immediate, noticeable act. If as many people terminated their TWC service as transfered domains away from GoDaddy, I think it would make some headlines.

Of course, internet service is pretty screwed up in most markets. Many people don't have a choice of (high-speed) internet service provider at all, so protesting TWC probably requires turning off your internet entirely, which is pretty hard to manage. So really, GoDaddy is probably the only company on the list which can be effectively boycotted.
Apache Flume also xfers things in json.
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This is old news. The issue when the news first broke was that the hunting was camouflaged as an act of "saving a horrified village from a bad, bad elephant." That was not really the case.
Playing the Devil’s Advocate: An Argument for SOPA
There’s much ado online these past few weeks promoting the demise of the SOPA act. Many smart people are arguing it will destroy the internet as we know it. That may be true but that may also be exactly what we need.
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Nike products are presumably counterfeited, the prevention of which being one of SOPA's stated aims.
The reason GoDaddy is being punished is because it requires no real sacrifice, and makes people feel like activists from the comfort of their chair. Transferring a domain requires no real effort, and downtime to the business is almost nil (not to mention the cost is non-existent if your domain is already expiring).

Let's look at some of the SOPA supporters: Timer Warner, Pfizer, Viacom, The Walt-Disney Company, and Wal-Mart.

Are people ready to boycott these companies and their subsidiaries? I don't think so.

I applaud companies that decided to move away from GoDaddy, but I wonder if they would've done the same thing had there been a financial loss as a result.

Real change will come when people decide to stop supporting companies that introduce these idiotic laws.
So, here is the list of the things that I'm most passionate about (all with equal weight):

* Application Security

* Black and White fine art photography with an emphasis on people

* western furniture from 1910-1965

* The women's fashion industry between 1990-2000

* 20th Century Russian literature

* Syncopation in drumming

My girlfriend has absolutely zero interest in any of those. Sometimes she'll patronize me when I start going off on a tangent about one of them, but more often than not, she'll stop me and say "elevator" which is her code to let me know to just give her the highlight of what I'm talking about.

If I were compiling a list of qualities for an ideal relationship partner, I might include any or all of those as things I'd like them to share an interest in. It would seem to be beneficial to be with someone with similar interests.

I've known people who share similar interests. I don't quite think there's another person who shares all of my passions, but with the exception of application security (for what it's worth, I've yet to have a relationship with someone else who likes busting applications), I've been with people who are also passionate about those things. There's been no appreciable difference in how those relationships have turned out.

The one thing which I do think is of the utmost importance, is for your relationship partner to understand "passion", regardless of what your passion is in.

My girlfriend is a writer. She understands that when I'm sitting at my computer for long periods of time swearing about session id's and verbose error messages I'm in a similar state to how she gets when she's sitting in front of her computer writing.

She loves how excited I get when I storm out of my office into the kitchen and tell her "They're totally fucked, I can take money from other people's accounts." If I start to regale her with the method I've used to perform such an activity; she gives me the look, and I stop. But she gets why I'm excited.

So I'm not going to go so far as to say that it'd be a bad thing to be in a relationship with someone who shares the same passions as you, but I will say I think the key is finding someone with passion about anything. Someone who will give you support when you're spinning your wheels, or can't quite figure out how to do what you want to do. Those people are keepers.
I think that might be easier to do if there was one single Windows Phone, or even better a range of maybe three phones (one with keyboard, one 4.3", one lower-end 3.7", say). Synchronise the launch of new versions of these devices once a year, like Apple does. The software is only half the story for Apple- the big hardware launch each year is huge.

Basically, the MS-Nokia deal needed to have happened before any other third parties got involved. A totally tied-in Nokia range (complete with their mapping expertise, etc) would have been huge, I think. Right now there's just a mess of devices with almost identical specs.
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These logs are for machines, and should be compact -- why use JSON at all?
This struck me as a fallacy as well. Those subsidies won't be around forever, and last I heard, the PV cells aren't cost effective without them.
GoDaddy general counsel blogs about SOPA
I remember the FBI raid. That was when I first got truly hooked on HN. That was a really interesting read. I liked how you not only told the story of what's up as it related to the customers but also from a sys admin point of view, detailing what you had to do to get the servers and service running again. I'm glad you posted this. It's a good idea and I'm going to steal the idea if you don't mind too much.