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Fears are a strange bunch. I have only recently really become aware of my own fears, and now that I see them for what they are (most of the time). Even being aware of your fears seems to be quite rare. Let alone be commited to facing them instead of making up alibis and creating their own state of limbo.

Recently, I have starting 'fighting' my fears by noticing them in the first place ("Why dont I call X/do Y/commit to Z"), then by asking myself: "Why am I fearing X?". Most of the times it is some irrational thought about rejection, failure, lack of money, even success ("If I do it, I'm commited and dont have time for all the other things I'm afraid to do"). It's all bullcrap. 9 out of 10 times, when you do the thing you fear, it does not pan out the way you imagined, and the other time it teaches you something invaluable. I'm starting to think that by framing every thought you have in the most positive way and by closing your mind from negative influences from others AND YOURSELF, you can conquer any fear. I think this is closely related to the authors point: your self-worth should have nothing to do with what other people think of you and/or how your enterprises turn out. You and you alone control your mind/thoughts, and therefor your happiness. If you fearlessly and with 'passion' do the things that you think are right, make and learn from mistakes, truly believe in and commit to your goal, then congratulate yourself. You're already doing more than almost all of the people I know.
You can pretty easily get a list of SOPA supporters (eg, from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_that_supp...). Good luck boycotting them all!

However, I didn't say the boycott wasn't OK, either. It sure is, and it's well deserved.

I just said I'm not participating in it. If others do, that's their choice, and I don't see anything wrong with doing so, either. I just said I'm not going to, because (among other things) I consider it wrong to select one from the many, and punish only that, when there are others who are guilty of the same thing (and some even guilty of more).
A solid lisp implementation could be easily ported everywhere. I think this would’ve been my choice had I not found Lua.

While I'm a total Common Lisp fanboy a solid Lisp implementation is not easily ported everywhere. It's perhaps easier than most other languages but unless we have differing opinions of what solid[1] means it is by no means as easy as he makes it sound.

[1] So not my-first-Lisp-interpreter that everyone writes but actually something like Common Lisp or a Scheme implementation with lots of extensions.
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I thought the exact same thing. blah
Does this postmortem say too much? Too little?
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"None of my clients ever redistributed their software, most likely because they considered it a competitive advantage."

This kind of thing can get really ugly in M&A situations.

I love FOSS, but it can lead to some unexpected and unpleasant outcomes, even for seasoned veterans of software development and business. As soon as you're faced with "redistributing" key software to potential bidders so they can do their homework on your company's technical, operational and financial merits, you're in copyleft land, like it or not.

Don't get me wrong – I'm not an agent of FUD when it comes to FOSS. I just doubt that most consultant developers are thinking about advisors, accountants, lawyers, private equity, investors, executive and board candidates, etc. when they decide to incorporate GPL'd code.

Personally, I think the GPL is a rather poorly-drafted license, and the concept of "distribution" is right at the heart of the issue. Fortunately, its relevance is waning from my point of view – fewer clients showing interest, and I certainly haven't needed anything that wasn't under MIT/BSD in a few years.
This was meant to be an "Ask HN" post, but it seems the "Ask HN" prefix gets stripped off bare URLs... Oh well. :-)
Some of the 'independent photographers'/arts types use indexhibit (a php script) to manage simple web sites of images, text, sound, and the slicker commerical photographers have their flash sites that look fantastic on an iMac. I rather like indexhibit, sort of democratic in a way.

Strange the way technologies differentiate practices. Its years since I raised a Nikon in anger mind you.
I think the main factor here is that GoDaddy is probably the one SOPA supporter that many of us have used or are using. It's also very simple to switch away from them, and there are similar services with better interfaces.
I wonder how it looks in a more realistic environment (i.e. when the background isn't pitch black). Even after quite a bit of Googling I can't turn up any other photos of it

It's a shame it costs $1300.
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If I had a dollar for every time someone wanted to "hire" me just to be able to qualify for a given government contract, I'd be a millionaire.

No, not really, but I'd have a meal at one of the ludicrously expensive restaurants down the street from my office.

Many times, when I said that I didn't have the time for a freelance job, they even told me I wouldn't have to actually work. All they needed was to present my name so they would qualify. I wouldn't even be required to be present at client meetings.

Of course I refused.

OTOH, had I accepted, I could possibly be a millionaire. Either that or be in jail. ;-)
I've always hoped one day it'll become "standard" to have a disclaimer at the top with an "enable" and "disable" button for affiliate links, which is just simple javascript that switches out the affiliate links if the user opts to disable.
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I am genuinely curious what you gleamed from your reading that made you atheist. I made the transition from atheist -> Muslim a few years back, though this was not solely from reading the Quran it certainly played a large role in it.
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There's also a big difference between "apologize for any inconvenience caused" and "for the inconvenience.."
More correctly, "you cannot sell just the software by itself" because as soon as you transfer the software, the receiver also gets the right to demand of you the source code.
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I'm confused, what is wrong with talking about a first world problem? and what do you mean by "Are we biased against Marco.org"?
I have only ever seen the 'diss' spelling, perhaps your dictionary needs revising.
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I have found that being afraid of failure or rejection can both be only a symptom of something else - fear of success.

Striving for any type of accomplishment may carry the dread of not getting there or being laughed at for getting there. It also, however, carries the dread of not being up to the challenges that follow said success. We are comfortable doing things that we are prepared for and accustomed to, but not so much being out in the open and certainly not investing a lot of energy into being out in the open.

Put differently, I think that we often are afraid of failing our challenges; But actual anxiety, the one that sits below the surface and sabotages you against your will, often stems from the dread of failing future challenges. A known and anticipated failure now is less painful than an unknown, but certainly bigger failure in the future.
My thoughts exactly. It feels like upvotes for the author, not the content.
I work with some brands on trying to measure this and in many cases I'm not sure it does work.

The typical process works like this:

1. Brand creates facebook page

2. People who really, really love the brand connect with the page.

3. The brand observes that people who have connected with them on social media are excellent customers.

4. The brand tries to increase the number of connected users by offering promotions and similar.

5. The new connections do not have the same value as the originals because they are attracted only by the offers and promotions. Which the brand then needs to keep offering otherwise "engagement" and other similar metrics drop off.

6. The original connections, the brands best and most enthusiastic customers, are now trained to only purchase when a discount is offered. Margins suffer all round.

It can appear that social media offers an easy way to create revenue. The long term effects are much harder to measure (because there is a huge lag between action and measurement) but they are often negative.
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Shabble was talking about Sveasoft: a company that made their own firmware based on Linksys', but got stroppy when other people starting to distribute their 'fork'.
Just because I am using a service does not mean I agree with whatever choices the provider makes. As long as those decisions don't affect me, I honestly don't care, because doing otherwise leads to a path of constant anger and depression. Don't need that, thank you.

So you found solace in the notion that apathy is the exemplary path to happiness? I'm not religious, but I'll borrow a saying

Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

I find it unfortunate that more and more people are not granted that proverbial wisdom.
Honestly, this just seems like nitpicking. Your main complaint about their email is that their apology isn't phrased in the vernacular? Don't we have better things to do with our time than complain about things like this?

I'm sure many people would think that the New York Times speaking to them in a conversational tone is inappropriate and unprofessional.
> As soon as you're faced with "redistributing" key software to potential bidders

Yes. You have to be very careful with distributing binaries. Have a lawyer at hand, always.
Maybe it's much cheaper to create your own 3D model of a nuke and let it print in 3D (or print it yourself if you happen to own a 3D printer).

Or print your own brain as lamp: http://www.lervik.se/index.asp?func=show&cat=Collection&...
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That. Protect privacy for everyone or have no privacy for anyone. I'd be happy to have all my emails exposed if I could read Lehman Brother's inboxes.
kind of ironic to say hackers are above branding, when here we are arguing Apple vs Google vs Facebook!
Oops... Sorry. Now I'm curious. I didn't follow the story. How did it end?
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I didn't even get past the "Pure. Concentrated. Awesome." header, the douchey picture, and "You Should Follow Me" when I closed the tab and decided that I have absolutely no interest in this person or what he has to say.
So you're proposing that affiliate links should be reserved to shaddy, useless articles wereas actually well written, useful articles should avoid it ? I understand the conflict of interest of course...
Not really. Android's "openness" doesn't include the ability to actually modify the software running on your device, which means that on its own it's useless to everyone except hardware manufacturers. It's only on the rare occasions when those manufacturers actually choose to do more than is required on them and open up their hardware to modifications that "openness" is of any value at all.
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> I can see how it can be hard to prove an object is unreachable.

The difficulty with concurrent GC is not to prove an object is unreachable but to prove is likely to be reachable. For instance Yusa-type (or snapshot-at-the-beginning) concurrent collectors have a tendency keep dead objects alive. This 'floating garbage' is a small price to pay for a fairly simple correctness proof of never dropping a reachable object.

It's no harm for a GC to keep some dead objects alive but dropping something reachable is completely unacceptable.

> Of course, this won't work trivially concurrently. Only if you stop the world [..] can collect the original space.

Yes, moving objects concurrently requires some serious thinking to get right. Sun's G1 collector does this by recording the location of pointer updates that point into regions which are to be compacted. This pushes the pause times down to the length of time to move objects and update references to them.

If you're real serious about moving objects concurrently, see "A Study of Concurrent Real-Time Garbage Collectors", Pizlo et al, 2008.
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A big difference to whom? I don't think the author intended to imply something different by using that particular language.

I doubt the author consciously thought: "i'm going to make this apology less effective," so who cares if the language didn't exactly resonate with you or the OP? I don't think it was malicious or disingenuous; if anything, the NYT needs to hire better copywriters, so their emails don't get dissected as frequently.
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This would be useful for other countries, any chance of open sourcing ... UK trains are abysmal.
I agree totally. As a sole proprietor the GPL certainly protects my interests and my customers are comfortable knowing they can always hire someone else to enhance or maintain the source. I'm surprised that as it becomes easier than ever to start companies that more programmers don't see this advantage. I believe it's primarily because the VC world is still attracted to the idea that "secret sauce" has monetary value, when the reality of course is that the secret sauce walks out the door every night in the head of some hacker.
I use wellsfargo. Meh, it's okay. I don't use their merchant account. I keep getting hit with little fees here and there (there are hoops you can jump through to avoid most of those, but who has time to optimize a bank account? jesus christ. It's only like $20 a month. I go and fix it maybe twice a year, and the checking is free for a while until something changes again.)

They have a pretty okay automatic bill pay thing; but mostly I'm still there because wellsfargo was nearby, it is still nearby; when I have a problem I can walk in and it gets solved fairly quickly, and twenty dollars here and there isn't worth the pain of dealing with moving banks to another bank that is probably just as bad.

Really, I don't mind paying a couple bucks a month for a banking service; most of my equity is in servers; I don't keep a whole lot in cash, and heck, interest rates right now are super low, so yeah, I'm okay paying a few bucks for the service. I'm kinda irritated by how they advertise the service as free, then make you put effort into going through hoops to keep it free. It seems deceptive.
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Surprisingly, its semantics and "features" are often bizarre and sweat-inducing when compared to other languages. (Surprising for such a widely-used language).

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I agree that the Apache patent clause is important. In fact if I recall it motivated some of the changes in GPL3 in order to make it compatible with the Apache license
You might want to go with CC BY-NC-SA instead of the plain All Rights Reserved on your pictures if you are looking for (non-commercial) exposure.
> It's the fault of the FSF for producing licenses with outstanding flaws.

Please, tell that to Linux users. Now, compare the vibrant ecosystem around Linux with the vibrant ecosystem around FreeBSD and try to think why it happens and what's the difference between them.
What would be the best way to get around the limitation of having access keys displayed openly in the javascript code? In order to actually use this for early versions of production apps.

The only solution I can think of is to make the queries through a thin proxy server that adds the access keys to the requests.

Is there a solution that Parse could implement to make pure js apps reality?
quite happy with name.com also , also using enom.com and dynadot.com

i have also used godaddy before , but did not like it too much
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Watching the video presentation it seems to be a Google+ like social network. But I'm still wondering what makes it targeted at student, apart that it says so.
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The whole point of Anonymous is that the decision is correct by virtue of its happenstance.
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There aren't many single syllable verbs that end with an 'is' sound that doesn't end with a 'ss'. In fact, I think there are none. Outside of verbs, it's almost only names (and 'this'), so 'dis' would be a pretty rare way to spell a word in common use. I also think this is because it would appear natural to use the other new words derived from it, dissing and dissed, with the 'ss'. You don't need to use these forms with nouns etc. I think it's only normal for people to end up spelling it 'diss', especially as the original word it was derived from becomes less known.

That said, I am a second language English speaker and haven't even completed English as a second language in high school.
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The only disappointing part of this is that he did, without mentioning it as clearly as I would like, chuck away the 15% of people using IE before version 9.

On the other hand, non-canvas browsers have got down to 15%? I'm chucking my (painfully and buggy) DOM engine for my game this afternoon and ging just canvas. I should have paid more careful attention.
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I find the controls hardest.

I am writing a simple puzzle game, and am doing a totally different UI level for even mouse and touch. For example when dragging, with touch it is nice to offset the piece so it is easier to see, whereas with mouse you probably want it dead-center.
What is the deal with these new cloud/Saa services? Convenience over installing your own server and managing your own data? Outsource it to parse.com?

How can you be certain your data wont be compromised, read or misused by parse.com or whoever is behind it?

For serious apps, I wouldnt let a third-party peek at anything I store, when and how. This is more like a toy.
good job, it's a nice app!
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In today's heavily SEOd world, sometimes the AdWords ads are actually more helpful than the first 10 results. It's always a sad moment when that happens, but in certain verticals it's becoming almost inevitable despite everyone's best efforts.

An example (there are probably many better): I was looking for spas in London the other day, and a lot of the results seemed pretty dodgy - tantric therapy? no thanks! - but the ads for Groupon and competing services reminded me that I might be able to get a good daily deal and led me to explore quite a few options that weren't in the search results.

Disclaimer: I work for Google, but not on any advertising-related products (unless you want to take the stand that every Google product is advertising-related; thought I'd head off that reply in advance).
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Interested to see how it is but I get "Internal error, Ticket issued: unknown".
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How about just sticking to using the week number and the day of the week.
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Javascript is not really the issue here, some things just shouldn't be done on the client side.
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