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Copyright is supposed to cover the actual code written and not the inspiration, if the original code base and images where not used and no trademarked assets where used then there should be no infringement. It is the reason that I can go out and write a spreadsheet application even though there are other spreadsheet applications. I can even draw my feature inspirations from other offerings. So long as I do not use their code and write it myself, I have not violated copyright. Now I am sure Atari has a trademark on Battlezone, but I think the tanks themselves would be too liberal of an icon to actually constitute a trademark, they probably have a trademark on the font lettering and the name Battlezone as applied to games. They would have a hard time wining this case in court, on either copyright or trademark grounds, which should be the bar that Apple is applying. If I where Apple, I would make all parties agree to arbitration and then comply with the outcome of that arbitration, even if Apple has to pay for such arbitration, it is a known cost, they are a third party with legal liability and I am surprised that they are comfortable in that position with such a loose process.
Not sure how we'd print YouTube, a flipbook maybe? :)
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Well, the issue probably isn't as clear-cut as the title implies. Very little is clear-cut when it comes to copyright. This iOS game might or might not infringe, but nobody knows, not Atari, not the game writer, until a court gives a verdict, and the appeals settle. There aren't any real rules, just court judgements. This might qualify as fair use, or maybe even just "not infringing". The latter might be the case under a very strict "idea vs implementation" dichotomy.

This vagueness makes copyright claims into the ideal weapon for "rightsholders" like Atari. Copyright claims are also a bonanza for specialist lawyers, as they get paid either way the judgement turns out.
For big business the feed back loop should not be just sales.
And, unlike a five year-old, they have the aptitude to pick specific targets and continue to do so. Tactics of a hack are secondary. Intrusion is intrusion, and whether or not they sneak in like a spy in a James Bond movie or just walk in the back door is far, far down their list of their goals.

Can we get past relating them to children now? Many of them are professionals, and if we're lucky, will soon enough be ones who are running next Stratfor. Afterall, folks like these guys founded the infosec industry.
This is a lie. The "acts carried out by the Israeli army in Gaza" involved telephoning people ahead of airstrikes and using dummy munitions to get civilians out of an area before attacking enemy army facilities. This is the opposite of intentionally killing civilians, with the result being that the Israeli operation had a low rate of civilian casualties comparable to NATO's "clean war" against Serbia. That is even more impressive when one considers that the Gaza war was fought in an urban area with civilians present in every crossfire while the war against Serbia primarily targeted military assets separate from urban areas. Israeli policy forbids intentionally harming civilians, and soldiers are punished when they do. Hezbollah does kill civilians as a matter of strategy and they cheer about it. Ask Rafik Hariri, the former Prime Minister of Lebanon and a popular politician. Oh, you can't. They killed him. Look at the reception Hezbollah gave Samir Kuntar, who they considered a hero for landing on the Israeli beach and bashing in the head of a four-year-old girl. In the face of this hatred, Israel continues to teach peace, tolerance, and coexistence. Whoever promoted that comment comparing Israel to the murderous genocidal fanatics that it fights against should be banned from HN.

All of this is beside the point that US law forbids trading with the enemy. US law considers Hezbollah to be the enemy, and Twitter was caught providing services to Hezbollah. A guy in New York was convicted for broadcasting Hezbollah's TV channel. The legal structures here should be no different. If this law did not exist, a charge of treason could be made under the Constitutional definition, although it would be difficult to prosecute due to the lack of precedent.
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I think it is worth to mention:

Structured programming with go to statements (1974) by Donald E. Knuth (http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.103.6...)
No, it's still too early for that.

That said, there's two of us in the company I work for: http://www.edument.se/english/ . I got hired mostly on my merits as a Perl 6 core contributor. We're eager to hire more Perl 6 programmers.
I think that a government's legitimacy as an arbiter of anything depends on its overall credibility, which varies greatly between governments and within the institutions within governments.
General purpose PC's will only disappear if the market for them disappears.

Ultimately it is

1. the nerds who educate (or fail to educate) the consumer market about what is possible using a general purpose PC and

2. the consumers who buy electronics, including general purpose PC's,

who are in control of the future production and general availability of them.

Common sense says that factories will only produce what can be sold. They respond to demand.

Touchscreen, keyboardless tablets and "smartphones" that cannot be connected and controlled with a more flexible general purpose computer are limiting not enabling.

This is however not the message being sent to consumers.
He did mention the dragon book which is actually titled Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools but is better known by the dragon title. It is a seminal work and still regarded today even though it is older. But it is by no means a light read, it will definitely give you a deep understanding of computing, but it's a little heavy if you just want to develop web apps.
You can still put the title & description of the video in plus the thumbnails (youtube generates 4. 3 intervals + a partner/primary one) and a QR code to link to watch the video :)
I currently run a setup where I interact with CouchDB and have ElasticSearch use the couchdb river plugin [0] to pretty much replicate an exact copy of the data for ad-hoc queries.

There have been times when I thought about just interacting with ES directly rather than going through the CouchDB layer. I'm still not 100% sure if I should or not.

I don't need any consistency guarantees for most of my data and I'm ok with a few records going missing in case of a crash. I like CouchDB, but I have to use the CouchBase single server dev preview to get snappy compression and the copy on write approach to data storage makes the on-disk files grow pretty large over time. Compaction currently takes several hours :-/

[0] https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-river-couchdb...
True, but not everyone who will be affected by SOPA is a hacker. After (and if) SOPA is passed, releasing this sort of program will be illegal. The point was to illustrate to congress that SOPA is ineffective, and hopefully turn the conversation to something more workable.
Websites like Turntable.fm are great for discovering music. They let other people be the DJ and you don't have to deal with the terrible FM radio commercials.
I learned from reading Introduction to the Theory of Computation for a class... It's expensive though.
I think you were voted down for providing facts and logic to support your disagreement with a fanatic.
The retailer that tried to recruit me was led by a former startup CTO that was doing much of what you described to try to change things. Aside from separating IT, the other big change was to create a new campus/location with a better dress code, no Web Sense, and a separate network domain.

This post reminds, I should check in with him and see how things are going.
Also very interesting, Introduction to Category Theory by Graham Hutton:

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/cat.html
Do they all come in at once, or one at a time? The former seems a lot harder to coordinate.
Which they would absolutely never do.

Right now Hollywood is desperate to break in to videogames. They know that games are an important part of the future, and want very badly to start making good movie based games. But so far they haven't had much luck.

As it stands, if the game industry couldn't continue making weak movie tie-ins, it wouldn't be that big of a deal. They are a handy cash cow, but as often as not they are abysmal games, no thanks to the movie industry itself.
Absolutely, was mostly joking about the flipbook. Mostly.

We definitely want to add the services that people are using. YouTube wasn't high on our list but you make a good point about vloggers, it might have to get bumped up the priorities a bit.
Thanks for your response.

I do have some programming knowledge, but I would not want to learn from a book of reference. I would prefer to have a book that explains the programming concepts well and teaches you on how to write good code.

I have looked over several other books but like you said its easy to get lost in tutorials, because of the new Xcode 4.2 and its new features (like ARC).
I absolutely hate dealing with cashiers. I'll wait in a longer self checkout just to avoid them.

It seems like they always try to make small talk with me or they're just slow at their job. I just want to get in and out as fast as possible.
I'm not sure easy to learn needs to be your first criteria. My list goes something like this...

1. Best tool for the job. This is heavily weighted towards what I already know if my familiar tools are good enough but not otherwise my first choice.

2. This could be a subset of #1, but library availability could be a deciding factor.

3. Availability of documentation. A lot of comfort comes from finding those gold mines of great documentation. I would argue that Ruby (and community projects built in Ruby) has been the weakest among the top web programming languages for documentation, but this is just a "shoot from the hip" feeling.

Perhaps your real battle is finding better learning materials than that of what your friend has found? Also, even if a language is difficult to learn, with good documentation and daily practice, then level of difficulty shouldn't be an issue. The bottom line is that your friend will have to put in X number of hours to get experience no matter what path he chooses. For example, given a year of sustained effort, your friend might have been further with Ruby than he would have been with Java, but not by much. He would have a good amount of knowledge either way.

Javascript might be another interesting option. If you are doing web development, then you have to learn it eventually. You can do front end and back end. However, Node for the back end probably isn't the best way to go for beginners because of point #3.

Another consideration might be the path to landing a job. I started out with freelancing and PHP has been good because the market for it is huge. However, much of that market is CMS related (Wordpress, Drupal, etc) rather than building apps from scratch.
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Actually, they want people to use automatic payment, not one-time online or phone payments.
The point is that if they really didn't support the bill, the would either pressure the ESA into removing themselves or leave the group in protest.
There just aren't the 'creative intellectual' jobs, though. Universities can churn out scientists, journalists, artists, designers, programmers and so on. But if we're all creating, who is consuming?

We already have a surplus of people with creative industries degrees (especially media-related, TV, film and so on) who work in call centres, checkouts and other unrelated jobs because the demand isn't there for their skills. We don't need thousands of new radio producers every year, but we have them coming off the end of the university conveyor belt.

I don't know what the answer is, but I see a quite scary future if these jobs which have provided a low, but livable, income for millions are eliminated. We can't all be at the top of the tree.
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gvb is correct. Local cache is the way to go. Some have known this for a long time. SOPA could be a blessing in disguise if the meme spreads. Cache poisoning becomes irrelevent.

If SOPA neuters search engines, maybe users will resort to their own scans of port 80 (or whatever we designate to the "public" port) to find websites. The legality of scanning, and what is and is not public, may become a hot issue. We may get some legal clarity.

There's a decent comment to the blog post. This is not rocket science to understand. This could (unforseeably) spell the end for ICANN and the vast domain squatting business.

A user can attach any name he wants to an IP number.
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It may be "common" (debatable and highly dependent on frame of reference) but I was mostly referring to novelty in relation to how Solr is marketed/billed/normally used.
Community radio stations like ALL FM (allfm.org), Sheffield Live! (sheffieldlive.org), and Resonance FM (resonancefm.com) to name just a few I'm familiar with are great for discovering music, let local people passionate about music showcase their skills and their passion, and don't have commercials.
Thanks for your reply.

I have just recently borrowed this book. I've been skim reading through the first couple of chapters because I understand most of the stuff from my experience with Python.
Better than "how to XXX your start-up" and "business blah blah".
so i don't understand why people are talking about regexps

The author of the post made mention of the knowledge applying to web development and then said the following towards the end of the post:

the difference would be in a higher focus on practical application

Regular Expressions is kind of the tl;dr on the topic. They are practical to web development but require a deeper understanding of a particular area of computing.

I took his post to say, I want to go deep, I want it to be applicable to real world web development, and I want it to be targeted topics. I think regular expressions fit that bill. Sure there are others, and maybe some overlap but I personally mentioned regular expressions because it has a high degree of misunderstanding, but also a high degree of usefulness in web development.
The question I am raising is not whether "x not in y" is more natural looking than "not x in y", I completely 100% accept that it is. My question is that why is it that people consider it to be so sufficiently natural looking that it demands it's own semantics when "unless x:" is considered to be abominable.

You completely did not respond to what I wrote; I say "until and unless are just as much more natural compared to the way you currently implement them, as (x not in y) is compared (not x in y)" and you say "(x not in y) is natural!". That doesn't show my claim isn't true, to be an argument against my claim you have to also claim that people don't say "until you are done, do next thing". Or that people don't say "do the next thing until you are done", or "bake cookies until done"; python has no do-while construct much less do-until.

So again; why is that "not in" is sufficiently important to be a language feature but do-until is hideous and unnatural?
Yeah, this is a great option. In fact, run the full gauntlet. Zed mentioned in the blog that you could start out with Python, hit the SQL and Regex books and then move to C. By this time he might have the objective C book done and you could hit that one also. At this point you pretty much know what you need to know for building both web and mobile apps.
Not a book, but fantastic video lectures from Stanford iTunesU:

http://itunes.apple.com/ca/itunes-u/ipad-iphone-application-...
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Awesome, thanks :) I run a community of daily vloggers on youtube so perhaps if it turns out well others will be interested too. Hope you can get it added soon. Would love to check it out. Feel free to contact me.
Interesting that this is mostly about lowering costs by exploiting, and encouraging, the increase in liquidity of many goods and services, facilitated by tech infrastructure.
The tablet/phone/PC dynamic is artificial. A computer is a computer. We already see the prototypes of the computer of the future, which is a smartphone you can plug into a dock with keyboard/mouse/screen and use as a PC.
The point though is to look at why the customer service is needed in the first place. The ultimate user experience is one that never requires the user to seek any support or assistance of any kind. Having human-driven help is of course important while seeking that goal, but as we get closer to it, the need for humans becomes less and less.
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It's easier to write off RMS's eccentricities when you already agree with his message. It is also easier to write off his message because of his eccentricities if you don't. Yes, it is ad hominem, but it happens.

That said, RMS has been able to get attention. Whether we would be in a better place with an "normal" RMS is impossible to say. Maybe having both Doctorow and RMS is critical to the fight.
>> It doesn't work that way at all. Most of the really cool things that happen with teams can't be predicted ahead of time.

Teams are people, people make really cool things happen regardless where their butt is planted. If cool things aren't happening whether they are in the same room or not might be an indication that you're building the wrong product or service. If you trust them, ask them what they think about what they are supposed to be working on.

>> You just put some really smart people together in a room, throw a tough problem at them, get out of the way, and watch the magic happen.

For how long? Do you come back in 3 hours like Dilbert's boss wondering if the product is built yet?
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I can't recommend it because I have not used or even looked at it but the Sam's book is updated for xCode 4.2 http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Yourself-Application-Development... . A lot of times the Sam's books are good for people like you and I that have development experience, they a fast moving, but they give you the basic's to get you going. I have used other ones to teach with before, but I can't give you a recommendation on this particular one. The user reviews on the second edition are 4 stars on Amazon, so it does have pretty good ratings, I would assume the 3rd edition is just update for the changes to xCode and maybe some tutorials added for the new features in IOS 5.
Your question might need to be constructed more carefully in order to cleanly disentangle spatial visualization from math ability. I have noticed that I seem to be best at math that I can somehow analogize to geometry or to tangible physics. Introspectively this feels rather like using what the article calls "spatial intuition" to solve math problems. I don't know how much to trust my introspection, but if it's correct, then given the way you constructed your question, the two kinds of abilities end up mixed. Perhaps you could somehow narrow "mathematical intelligence" to something specific to fields of math (such as number theory, graph theory, combinatorics, and abstract algebra, in my experience) where geometrical and physical analogies are seldom helpful.
This sounds like great advice, and your post would make for a good blog entry.
One thing that helps me in this sort of situation is that I've decided a lot of the time I don't need to make the "best" decision, I just need to make a "good" decision. The increase in "value" of picking the best option over another good option is less than the effort of figuring out which option is best.

One of the things that got me to that conclusion were managers at work who kept changing their mind about what needed doing.

We'd get half-way through one project, and then they'd decide that a second project was more important/valuable so we'd drop the first and start work on the second. Ditto with a third. The result being that although these successive projects were theoretically increasingly valuable to the company, the fact that none of them got completed meant almost no value was actually created! Not to mention morale was pretty terrible.

Pick one thing and do it. Even if you later find out it's not the best thing you could be doing, providing it's still a good thing to be doing, finish the job anyway. If the thing you're doing is useless (or worse), sure, fuhgeddaboutit. Until then, stick with a good decision, even if it's not the best.
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Incidentally I am based in Cairo, Egypt. Our team here is mainly working remotely from home since it just saves a lot of time in travelling. Cairo is a mega city with a bad traffic jam - letting people to work from home saves 1 to 2 hours of pain and misery every day. This fact alone makes people happier.
>I would say cashiers will continue to exist for a long time but the number of cashier jobs will decrease dramatically especially as near field communication becomes cheaper and cheaper.

Yes, in the same way bank tellers still exist. I occasionally go into my local bank, which was built in the 1970s. There are ten or twelve teller windows, and at the busiest times the bank has three tellers working.
This made me think of Ender's Game (finished re-reading it last night).
Hmmm... A lot of time I have really appreciated the human contact with a cashier. Even now, despite being practically physically wired to computers at all time, I still avoid the self-checkout where possible. (It might help that the local supermarket is staffed by hot Polish girls)
Someone else mentioned the Atari and Munchkin case. The facts were similar. North American developed K.C.Munchkin and originally wanted to obtain a PAC-MAN license. When they were unable to do so, they came up with the K.C.Munchkin name and changed a number of features.

The appeals court ruled in favor of Atari and granted an injunction against North American:

http://www.patentarcade.com/2005/04/case-atari-v-north-ameri...

Actual ruling:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1643313902072203...

I think your arbitration idea has merit, though the DMCA's claim/counterclaim process was designed to handle this type of situation.
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Except it's not succeeding in the "do it well" part. For example, accessibility? It's just two empty divs. No text-equivalent, so it's failing at the most basic level of accessibility. It's an updating widget, where's the ARIA roles to enable constant updates to assistive devices?

What's the rationale for CSS only? Considering progress is about waiting for things to happen, what is the timing based on? What triggers updates or changes?

Seems like an odd thing to have a progress bar, but no JavaScript events or methods to update it. Missing an important abstraction/interface. I'm not seeing the use cases where JavaScript won't be used to update the progress. A meta-refresh?
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