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I want to call my representatives but I feel they will give me a hard time and use that politician improve skill to make it seem like I don't know what I am talking about.
Give me good ideas on what to say when I don't support SOPA and PIPA that they can't fight back.
Ideas why I don't like it while playing devil's advocate

+policing my web site to a point I can't manage it.
-well your website can't be controlled and needs to be shut down

+Small time businesses use user created content to advertise cheaply and won't
be able to when these sites shut down or big business shuts you down with the excuse
of violating their IP
-Sites and small businesses will only be taken down when they are obviously
designed to infringe on others IP

+The security of the internet will crumble with DNS blocking from other countries
-How?

I want wording to the point where they say, "Well, damn! I guess you're right."
And with a glance at the call stack you'll know which method supplied that so called pig in the first place.

For me seeing something like:

doSomething(Pig pig)
previousThing(Mammal mammal)
firstThing()
Main()

It's pretty obvious where the pig came from. Even if the names were less helpful than Pig and Mammal a quick scan through the methods would take you there quick, my IDE at least has a tool to jump to variable declarations.

Getting to the bottom of where that bug originated is trivial.
I'm guessing they feel it validates Pinterest's growth, which they seem to talk about a lot.

We recently added Pin It buttons too, not because we felt Pinterest was an amazing way to help curate and sell product. But because people were adding our products to Pinterest quite a bit anyways and they weren't correctly tagged, attributed, or priced. So we made the decision to add the Pin It button to assist with that.

Might as well if they are doing it already. I imagine Etsy saw something similar and did the same.

Since doing that, nothing has really changed as far as conversions or traffic, but at least most of the images are pinned with proper data now.
have you tried bidding on a CPM basis? Compare the CPC CTR to the CTR of the CPM campaign?
Why don't Outlook and other calendars allow for random reminders?
Outlook and Google Calendar should offer the ability to set random reminders that would, within certain parameters, remind you to call, text or email someone. Think needy client, your mom or the chick you hook-up with but should call every now and then when it isn't for booty.

Every calendar has a reminder feature, you can even set it to pop up every day or at some other interval. But they are all on a specific time schedule.

Someone should build an app (of just integrate the feature into popularly used calendars) that would allow me to:

1) Choose a contact

2) Choose a method or multiple methods of contact (call, email, text)

3) Choose parameters such as only on Sunday afternoons OR between 8am and 9pm weekdays OR between 10pm and 2am on weekends

4) Allow for multi-method/time reminders for the same contact

Likely users would be 1) business people who want to ‘touch’ their clients or prospects randomly within the normal business times but want the contact to seem natural, 2) people who want to/know its right to be in contact with family or friends but again, want it to seem natural and not rote, and 3) the one that I expect I suspect would get the most use- the ‘hook-up’ that you’re not dating, but clearly hook-up with sometimes, you need to keep the relationship going so when you call for the hook-up, the relationship hasn’t gone cold,
Why Google look at your location rather than the browsers preferred language to chose language with is just beyond me. Oh, and then I go to Google Maps and it always shows me the US no matter where I am.
I do this as a rule. Chances are the companies I'd work best at won't be the type to value a resume.

I'm going to be looking for a job very soon, so I built:

https://github.com/plusjade/jekyll-bootstrap

and

https://github.com/plusjade/narly

I always get "it depends on the company" from naysayers - but I guess that's the point. I believe in Open Source so I'd need to work for a company that has the same values.
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The ill-typed value could come from anywhere in the program.
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UPS uses this in the direction software their delivery vans use. minimization of left turns means the vans get everywhere faster and more packages are delivered in a given day.
Interestingly enough, we don't present it as a true dropbox alternative. It's a different use case: share, not sync. The dropbox comparison seems to be pure editorializing.

It's been enlightening to see the difference between what I work on, and what the articles say. Like a game of telephone.
Agreed. In my experience, people linking to you is 90% of the work. Everything else (canonical URLs, etc.) doesn't really matter. Case in point: I now rank close to #1 for the terms "startup conference". Why? Because since I launched the new name for the conference, enough people linked to it. 6 months ago, I barely made it to the first page of Google results.

And by the way, there is one repeatable way to get high-ranked sites to link to you: produce quality content. So karma and SEO are not that far off.
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They're not supposed to. If the examiner has reason to believe that the patent's specification doesn't provide enough detail to allow a person of ordinary skill to make and use the invention, he should issue an "enablement" rejection under 35 U.S.C. 112.

Note that I haven't read the specification of this patent, and have no opinion on its enablement or lack thereof.
The only non-obvious idea there is "a gather component..."
and it's pretty abstract.

Everything else is straightforward.
Paragraphs are not "structure" and words are not "detail".
Every one of those is an abstract component. Making up an abstract system. There are no algorithms, no methods, no inventions. It's a collection of abstract ideas.

The purpose of patents is to give incentive for the inventors to publish their inventions publicly. So that after the patents expire the public can benefit from the knowledge contained in the patents. This patent circumvents that by only stating a collection of abstract ideas. Then they can actually invent something and have the best of both worlds. They get a legal monopoly on the concept as well as obscurity from the public of the actual invention.
Yes, money for libraries at UCSD has been significantly cut:

Since 2008, the Libraries have absorbed cuts of more than $5.5 million (or approximately 16% of our operations and collections budget). In addition to these cuts, the Libraries were assessed approximately $1 million for employee furloughs last year. For 2011-12, the Libraries received a budget cut of $2 million.

http://libraries.ucsd.edu/budgetcutsFAQ/index.html

(full disclosure: I'm a UCSD grad student) The closing of CLICS (the site of the break-in) was particularly surprising since it was often busy, even during non-finals time. Of course, during finals weeks, available libraries are extremely crowded.
Shouldn't creative people support SOPA?

Is SOPA really a war between creative people and analytical people?
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> "and from what I recall as a kid, the pool isn't exactly clean."

Sad but true, but any pool that isn't horrifyingly exclusive is going to be the same way. I spent years swimming competitively and have had the plantar warts (and the treatments) to show for it.

> "It probably doesn't help that I tend to sink like a rock so I have to work harder"

This is the wrong way about it. If you have trouble staying afloat, or moving forward, swimming harder will just tire you out and make you sink more - you need to swim smarter and with better technique. Swimming is really quite effortless if you've got decent technique. Flailing about in the water will tire you out quickly, and from an exercise perspective isn't as effective as simply going a couple of miles with good form.

I suppose a good analogy would be an untrained runner deciding to simply sprint his heart out - he's going to run out of juice pretty quickly, feel horrible, and not get as much exercise as if he'd paced himself.
I've given tiling WMs a shot from time to time.

I keep returning to WindowMaker. Steve Jobs screwed up aqua, but this on (WM is based on NeXTstep) is pretty close to perfection.
I saw tons of "3-5 years iPhone experience" ads back in 2009-2010. They must be up to 7-10 years by now.

Perhaps the recruiters are speaking from their own frame of reference and expect people to be experimenting with iOS at near-light speeds. Asking that question would probably be another way to get them to expertly disengage the conversation.
This is common supermarket practice in the UK, they buy product in and put it on sale at a high price and then after 30 days they're allowed to slap sale signs around them. It's most obvious with wine (the amount of £5 reduced from £10 bottles which are clearly not worth £10 is astonishing).
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I wonder how effective it could have been with testing the ad copy. It certainly didn't catch my eye when reading this article. But getting a bunch of likes immediately after starting ads -- that's a great way to get things rolling!
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I am watching the Durham startup scene these days. There might be a sustainable startup movement cranking up there.

The RTP area(Research Triangle Park, where Triangle=Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill for folks who don't already know) is full of smart people and if the culture continues to shift from a "join the big corporates" (IBM, SAS, even Microsoft has a presence) to a "build your own business" mindset, I think hackers here will have great opportunities.

However, I'm not sure (and I would welcome correction) that Red Hat alone makes us much of an open-source leader.
Interesting points, particularly about clients only caring about the deliverable. Some agency-type companies I've worked for have seemingly added documentation-generating steps, just because it added on hours that could billed.

If you need a UX person to do wire frames before a designer does the visual design, you get a whole bunch of extra billable hours on a project. The funny part was that clients rarely got what they were looking at it when presented with wireframes. They constantly thought they were visual design mockups, so the feedback they gave on them was never particularly helpful.
Why? It's not like ripping creative people off through piracy/whatever isn't already illegal...
When I first saw the Al Gore headline I immediately thought of South Park and ManBearPig, but that made me think something like southpark (i.e a comedy that's not afraid to get a bit political) might be an excellent way to raise awareness of exactly this issue.

Shame the law will probably have passed by the time they make a new season.
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"From a statistical perspective, ghettos are typically high crime areas relative to other parts of the city." [1]

[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto)
Yes, thats what I see in this. While getting this information is fairly trivial, having a service to actually derive meaning from those metrics is valuable. One of the most interesting future for mobile computing is the prospect of contextual computing. I don't see why it couldn't apply to both desktops or laptops.
I think my experiences with whiteboard effectiveness are limited to

1. Writing down pseudo code for solutions.
2. Diagrams for architectures.
3. Flow charts for possible actions during problem solving.

But if you ask me to write down a real program in whiteboard, I find myself starting to got interrupted by thoughts about erase lines, moving blocks around and worrying about my writing is too big and board is too small for my code.

I think shared whiteboard is definitely a very good tool for discussions. But for me, even a rudimentary editor like notepad, vi helps me more in handling all rewriting/visualizing/pondering process. Probably I am not those programmers who can write down code without worrying about rewriting them. For me, write a program is like oil painting involving constant changes.
The respectable "modern" variant

the "gourmet ghetto" in North Berkeley, for example.

I also spent 4 years calling <5 floor dorm buildings "BuildingName Tower". It even caught on with other people, but that didn't change the definition of a tower.

It seems like you're referring to the slang usage of the term

I certainly think so too, seeing as how it is nothing but a slang term.

which is mainly used by upper middle class youth

How rich, the guy who uses North Berkeley as a counter example is calling people out for a limited world view.
So the premise is that people around the same age were born around the same time?
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Speaking of coffee, a lot of his early deals were based on him going around to Merrill Lynch and buying people there coffee, then coming back later saying "I'm Michael Bloomberg. I bought you a coffee. Can we talk?"
This is silly, this is a HUGE opportunity for Apple and developers. I don't understand why Apple would shy away from it - probably fear of abuse?
I think most people believe that their intentions of stopping the real rogue sites (like those russian sites that sell mp3s for 10 cents each and stopping sites that peddle counterfeit, and sometimes dangerous goods) are good.

Personally, I'm not sure what to believe; I think some probably have good intentions but I don't trust the MPAA/RIAA at all and there's enough money moving around to be very skeptical of the rest. I think the parts of the bill that target the "counterfeit goods" sites are probably necessary, but as `dissident` points out, its possible that the consequences to DNS and CDNs outweigh the benefits (but Im not convinced yet :)

Regarding your second point, that is what I was getting at earlier in this thread: that as long as we rely on DNS, there will always be an opportunity for censorship. The tech-savvy need to start looking into `namecoin` and other DNS alternatives if we want to guarantee freedom.
Honestly? Probably not much in terms of getting new traffic, but people seem to like being able to click 'like' or '+1'

If nothing else, I guess they are a vague and inconsistent metric about how popular a piece of content is.
On point 1 - if you do have your blog already stuck on a subdomain (blog.site.com) this a neat solution to serve it through site.com/blog that might work for you: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-is-a-reverse-proxy-and-how-c...
Instead of using the flash as a "tier" of storage, like a normal hard drive accessed via standard OS primitives, it looks like they now provide an API to make the storage available to programs. The new API has much lower overhead and latency.
I would probably correct the title to "Things I hate about enterprise Object-Oriented Programming", as that seems to be the gist of this.
I don't know where to start.

This is a funny parody but what's the purpose? To get people to submit sensitive legal information to a random website?
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But copyright enforcement needs to get stronger to give creative people a better chance of making a living from their creative work.
The same thoughts here :) and I am really happy that he is fighting for something real. I hope this time it will work!
Apple was nice enough to call me on the telephone to discuss my rejection. They wouldn't say why auto-renewable subscriptions can't be used by non-publishers.

My suspicion is that they want to prevent app authors from using a SaaS-like monthly billing model. Whether this is due to customer confusion or their own distaste for monthly billing I can't figure.
Like I said above, feel free to ping me and I'll help connect you with the right people.
SOPA is severely limiting creative people. I mean how many of those started out editing some other youtube-video, performing a well-known song and putting it on the internet, just googling some images and throwing them together in a new way, etc...
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It's a simplified POV for generic people's cognitive toolkits. If they can internalize this idea, then you can move on to trying them on the caveats and details and levels of falseness and etc etc etc. But way too often, the existence of caveats and details is used as an excuse to simply discard the undesirable theory, or to claim that theory A has caveats (example: "Newtonian physics isn't quite right") and theory B has caveats (example: epicycles), so why not just go with theory B?

You're not wrong, but the more sophisticated approach you're suggesting is also more dangerous in its own way.
I like VMWare's (free) ESXi. It is lacking some of the higher end features, but I find it great for running dev machines.

http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/overview.h...
I love the images and it's a great story. But I'm cautious because of the "Russian Motorcycling girl sneaks into Chernobyl and takes photos" thing, which was part fake / hoax.
User-controlled content density
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Sopa isn't copyright enforcement, its so much more, it's all the weapons the content holders could ever wish for.

Plus there's a certain amount of inevitable piracy. But mostly it's the bought-out politicians who are just trying/lying too hard.
That's sort of my point. I mean, getting links to your site isn't exactly a secret, this has been key since Google first came on the scene. Sure, it's hard work to have a reputable site and to promote it correctly, but it's not rocket science. In fact, it's pretty typical common sense.

I get the point about duplicate content, that's something I had heard but not really delved into because, well, decent architecture usually means not having that sort of stuff around.

The more I hear SEO "experts" go on about things, the more I think it's a bit of a scam. Scam is probably the wrong word, as I'm sure many SEO people are well meaning, but the more I look the more it all seems like snake oil.
I have a strong feeling that just by having Woz around, the software got faster spontaneously ;-)
What a great video. It gives me a lot more respect for the guy. After watching it I'm surprised that he's made it this long without learning how to code.
$150-$300, depends on client, complexity
SOPA and the people who wrote it don't give a shit about creative people making more money out of it. This is all a move organized by the agencies, corporations, etc. who used to be essential for every creative to market himself and reach his target audience. The internet made them more or less obsolete and now they're fighting against it.

There are numerous examples of "creative people" making good money out of their work on the internet, without worrying about piracy too much.
Yeah, for large cases the long will overflow (also it will do a lot of realloc()). Your two main options for this are:

1. use double to get approximately-correct answers
2. use an abitrary-precision library like GMP
All depends where you are measuring from doesn't it! Where do you think I was measuring from when I said 2x? A site with 0 traffic? That would be quite easy to x6 sure.

Also your post smells exactly like the sort of sales pitch people seeking SEO should try to avoid. Big grandiose speculative statements.
Is there any evidence that Woz did anything here?
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> Tax law

Oh come on. Tax law where? Are we all on the West Coast?

UK tax law, at least, allows it if you don't fall under IR35.
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I just ran into it for the first time. I bought an MHL cable from Monoprice, and it was DOA. I requested an RMA; they asked one question to make sure it wasn't pilot error, then said they'd send a new cable, and I didn't need to send the old one back. I was pleased; my gold standard has been Amazon, where they pay the shipping, but I'm still out the time it takes to go to the post office.
Useful foreign sites? BBC accepts user comments in some areas, someone posts copyrigh material to one of them and a court order is issued before a BBC mod takes it down? If a DNS block is made then, how long will it last, and how many people would it reach anyway?
UPS considers it highly proprietary, so I'm not surprised that you haven't come across their implementation.
OS bypass hasn't really been done for storage, so that's new in some sense.
Wow this guy hates a lot of stuff. I'm almost trying to figure out what is left for him to like.
We have not tried that, but that may be next. This is our first Facebook ad campaign, and we assumed that it would be similar to Google AdWords, but so far we're seeing very different behavior.
I'd be pretty mad if my friends and neighbors were taking five-gallon buckets of my water, bringing it to an Aquafina factory, and then an Aquafina sales rep was ringing my doorbell trying to sell me $3 bottles of water.
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And now I want to start a conspiracy. It just looks so cool!
Better than "This site have been remove by a single user"
This looks familiar because it looks like a lot of video game levels.
It's amazing that they knew what they were doing 25 years ago!
Where did they have their knowledge from? They were pioneers!

I always thought "it just worked" and they analysed it afterwards, silly me :)