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Actually, China did get rid of timezones and daylight savings: officially, everywhere is on "Beijing time" (GMT+8).

This understandably causes problems in the far western provinces such as Xinjiang, so everyone just observes an unofficial GMT+6 time instead. This wreaks utter havoc on conversationd about time: bus schedules, shop opening hours, etc. Aside from the ambiguity, since it's not an official time zone, people overseas just assume they can call you to discuss business at 9am, even though you've barely woken up.

Time zones are complex because, well, the world is a big and complicated place. But theanswer is certainky not to just get rid of them!
The parent didn't state that about Manning. He wrote "if".
Just wondering, why are we valuing this blog post that talks about a first world problem and brings no solution or anything critic or productive? Are we biased against Marco.org?
This is beyond most people's capabilities...

Hitting the 'print screen' should work.

I guess it wouldn't be so easy if the photo is bigger than the screen. But if they are so worried about people copying their photos, they're probably using a scaled-down version.
That's true. But still, Arment posted this today. Yesterday, daringfireball.net linked to a baseless Siegler snarkophany in the same vein. Etc etc etc.

(Edit: No idea why your factual comment's getting downvoted, though. It'll hopefully get rectified as more people roll through this thread.)
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"A really long time"?

Seriously--I know it's been a busy year--but the nine months (from February 2011 to November 2011) during which Android was being used in certain tablets without being open sourced hardly qualifies as "a really long time", especially in comparison to operating systems which have never been open.
Can you, or maybe someone else please explain why it becomes 10^4 + 10^3. My math skills are a little rusty.
> I never said anyone joined OWS out of incoherent rage; I said incoherent rage was the end result.

No. You didn't:

> "The 'Occupy' movement is a sinking ship run by anarchists. It's literally an expression of incoherent rage."

You said the movement is literally an incoherent expression of rage.

And not only did you claim OWS was run by someone, which is wrong, you said it was anarchists, which is a contradiction.

> If anything you're the one guilty of baseless slander, as if every member of the military was a racist war criminal.

Not at all. That's accurate. Well, they may not all be racists - some may merely be okay supporting racists. But they're all war criminals, except maybe Bradley Manning.

Soldiers aren't just allowed to protest and refuse to follow illegal orders, they're required to do so. The war against Afghanistan was clearly under false pretenses as there wasn't a good reason to believe Osama was doing anything other than passing through Afghanistan if he was there at all, and the war against Iraq was under false pretenses as there obviously (even in the beginning) were no WMDs and the USA had been forgiving of Saddam's murderous purges in the past. Now suddenly Bush's poll numbers were in the toilet and they want to attack someone.

Anyone who knew anything, which is a moral prerequisite for picking up a gun and killing someone, knew the wars were a sham. All good soldiers deserted, refused to fight, leaked documents, or otherwise sabotaged the war effort. Everyone else involved, from cook to gunner, is guilty of aiding and abetting wholesale murder.

It's the standard we applied to the Nazis and we were right to do so.

> If anything, you're only demonstrating my point about OWS not being the kind of people to make a political coalition with.

Absolutely. An non-organization like OWS can't be bribed into supporting anything odious. They'd never support a coalition because nobody could guarantee they wouldn't attack their "partner" if that organization acted contrary to any given OWS-member's interests.

You'd want a more "politically savvy" group, and a strict organization which would kick out misbehaving members so that they'd toe the party line, to partner with.
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Removing time zones would break any kind of cultural joke and reference to time. "omg, i woke up at 4am today!"... Especially in todays internet connected world.

Swatch tried to intruduce timezone-free time many many years ago called "swatch internet time", Ericsson even had it as default on some of their cell phones to promote it. Needless to say it didn't work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
> Facebook: "Our users want to interact with brands."

As distasteful as the hacker crowd may find it, this is probably a true statement.

A significant number of people (in the developed world) really do construct a large part of their personal identity by buying branded products from companies in order to signal something about themselves.

There's a section on this on the Wikipedia page for "Brand":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand#Attitude_branding_and_ico...
>real possibility of change

Maybe, but I doubt it. The problem is that Latin American societies, and to a lesser extent Southern European countries, are fundamentally lower trust societies than northern European ones, and especially the Anglo-sphere. While there is possibility of change, it will be a slow, hard process. (For a historical example of the difference, compare the development of Japan, a high trust society, with that of China, which is lower trust.)
I remember when I lived in Mexico some 12 years ago and the government introduced DST there. Some schools would actually start an hour later to sync their starting time with before-DST-time, people where complaing about being totally confused, etc. Don't know if there is still DST now or if they abandoned it because of the many (often totally irrational) protests. Its not easy to change people's habits.
Personally, I don't do anything like that. I don't even offer soundtracks as an option. I remove as many widgets/options as possible. It all goes back to my objectives in presenting my photographs.

My main point was, right now Flash gives me more control over achieving clean full screen presentation, control over image scaling that doesn't destroy sharpness, and smooth and stutter-free fade in/out transitions.

I can't get that in all browsers and have it be consistent yet. When I can I'll drop Flash. In the meantime for those users that don't have Flash I'll offer a fallback view, albeit with not as nice or consistent presentation as I would like.
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If you read the originally linked post and paper (linked above), this is a really large scale WPS vulnerability:
http://sviehb.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/wi-fi-protected-setup...
As an addendum, feel free to copy my photos for non commercial use. http://www.flickr.com/photos/geuis/sets/

I'm not the best photographer in the world, but I'm better than some. Sharing my photos doesn't hurt me, but it does help me.
Because DRM doesn't work in practice.
This is precisely why I agree with C++'s choice of a balanced binary tree as the default map implementation for its standard library. There's no denying that in the vast majority of cases hashing is faster, but that's an optimization, unnecessary except in a few specific instances, and while balanced binary trees provide many other advantages in compensation for their slight performance penalty: predictable performance (via non-amortized worst-case bounds), minimized reallocation, insertion/deletion without invalidating iterators, ordered iteration, range queries, and so on.
> The only real problem is coming up with a name for a new 13th month and where to insert it.

The strange month is called 'Gidouille' and goes from june 15th to july 13th. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendrier_pataphysique
Turns out Herb's a C++ guy, but has forwarded my email to one of the C folk for comment. I'm particularly hoping to learn how much money they're trying to recoup & whether they'd be amenable to crowd-funding the amount.
Oh yeah, and he (Herb) says that he believes the standard will soon be available from ANSI for ~ $30.
Deeply agree on that list.

But there are some o at least one company that I'd actually trust more than others, and support, and that's Mozilla. Because there's no share holders. Because it's owned by non-profit. And because their track record is perfect so far. Everything's open. All the development is in the open, not just the code.

Everything's made for our best interest actually.
It was being downvoted because it simply wasn't factual. Android was not closed "from 2.x to 4". Honeycomb (3.x) was first released on devices in February 2011 and its source was opened in November 2011. 9 months is not a "really long time".
A great product will bring confidence. I will not spend much on marketing with a bad product. Especially if it looks shitty then I'll be really afraid because customers will always judge the book by its cover.
It's called tall poppy syndrome.
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Now that is Bullshit.

Yes, Google makes money from their advertising.

But Google does things that directly limit their ability to make money from advertising, when those decisons are in the interest of consumers.

Take the whole design and UX of Chrome. There are many, many ways Google could have changed the design to make more money from it, and yet they haven't because they aren't in the interests of the users.

Additionally many (both at Google and elsewhere) believe (and can show evidence) that advertising can improve the user experience when it is done properly.

Companies (especially those with a share structure like Google's) can exist to care about more than just making money.
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Very interesting. BTW, why there is horizontal scrolling?
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Sort of off topic but the authors response is a bit insane.

>"The origin of the confusion is that in one source file in cphack (note that cphack is just one of the four main items in the cp4break package), there's a comment saying "Released under the GPL". There is also a similar statement in the onscreen "About" box."

But previously: "The suggestion that it might have been GPL surprised Eddy and I just as much as it did anyone else"

Really? They think that the suggestion that a piece of software which says "Released under the GPL" in the source code and similar things in the about box is in fact released under the GPL is surprising?

Then it goes on: "I think that doesn't mean much because saying "the GPL" doesn't really identify "the GNU General Public License version 2" as specifically as a copyright notice should."

A very strange argument. Are they really claiming that the author purposely wrote that it was released under "the GPL", but was referring to a different GPL (and never mentioned it)? Or is he trying to say that by keeping the language ambiguous, he can retroactively change the intention?

I'm not sure whether to interpret all this as ineptitude, stubbornness or deception.

Look, it is quite clear that they did not release it under the GPL, I'm not contesting that. But what they're claiming is quite ridiculous, and I feel like there must be more going than what they're writing.
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TL;DR: Would presenting your SaaS on the world web stage as created by a UK business (ltd), instead of by a continental European individual with a non-English sounding name, make a difference in terms of gaining traction?

Context

I'm soon going to launch a Twitter marketing related SaaS (pro.hashtagify.me). I'll use FastSpring for payments, so I don't need to incorporate to receive payments from businesses and to deal with VAT.

If I'll get traction I'm going to incorporate for sure, but I'm wondering if incorporating (in the UK) before launch anyway would be worth the hassle, just to present myself as "Hashtagify Ltd" instead of "Daniele Mazzini". I'm thinking about the trust you would give an unknown entity just for that difference. What do you think (or, even better, know by experience)?
I know from experience that presenting as a UK ltd (or US llc) company would make a real difference for getting the first customers, even if payments get through a serious reseller
I know from experience that presenting as a UK ltd (or US llc) company would NOT make a real difference for getting the first customers
Personally, I wouldn't care to know if the service is from a ltd company or from an individual
Personally, I would care to know if the service is from a ltd company or from an individual, but it wouldn't make a big difference
Personally, I would trust a UK ltd company more than a strangely-sounding-named individual
>It's just a part of the game.

The problem is that for nerds, the game is making stuff. The "doing business" part is what we have to go through in order to keep making stuff. And, as long as it is harder in Chile and other parts of Latin America, they will never come close to catching up to Europe, much less the US.
I don't think it would be that hard. You're one MX record change away from changing your mailhost without anyone ever knowing. You can continue using your gmail.com address without ever seeing ads by connecting with IMAP. You can get maps from anywhere, including Open Street Map. You can move your photos from Picassa to your own machine and to Flickr, if you desire. Google Chat is XMPP, so you can get a new "chat provider" and still talk to all your old contacts.

People use Google's services because they're excellent, not because they are locked in. Google makes it very easy to leave and take your data with you. Google contributes as much of their internal software to the Free Software community as they can. They do need to make money, but they're trying to do it the old fashioned way: make products people they like. And that's refreshing in a world where Microsoft makes their own email protocol and Apple sells computers that you can't hack.

This is not "downright scary". It's downright refreshing.

(Yes, advertising is an annoying business model, but I don't think it will last much longer for Google. People hate advertising and the feeling of being "told what to think". The good news is that Google's products will still work even if you have to pay a few bucks a month for them. Right now, that's not in Google's interests, because advertising money is the easiest money to make. But in a few years, I think we'll see less advertising and more customer focus, as advertisers realize that nobody wants their overpriced shit anymore.)
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I don't understand the distinction.

In CouchDB, if you want to change your schema you just save the new data.

Your code will have to handle the old and the new form, but that is always true. In CouchDB the data is just a JSON document, so handling the changed model is about as easy as it gets.

What am I missing?
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On one hand, it has "dual personality" scrolling, when you use the wheel of the mouse, it acts as "desktop" scroll, when dragging and pushing up and down, it acts as touch screen scroll.

On the other, smartphone and tablets are so common these days, shouldn't people be able to switch quickly?
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a link to the iScroll project:

http://cubiq.org/iscroll-4
The problem with Google is you get tracked even if you don't use any of their services. Almost every single web page has one of Google Adsense, Analytics, Maps, ... all of which can build up a profile about you. To a degree this same effect is happening with FB as more and more sites add like buttons, though they remain less common than Google's array of libraries.
I can think of this as well.

an "IT security company" :
1 - We secure your network
2 - Our site is down for maintenance
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The thing is in a weakly typed language you can implement functions that do coercion, while a strongly typed language will not let you as generally there is a fixed type (or type class) to each parameter. That does not mean the standard built in or library functions have to do javascript levels of coercion though, I think there are better balances.
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Silicon Valley Bank will probably get the majority of SFBA startups. We use them.

I actually had ok luck with BoA too, but only due to the local branch manager.
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I know this guy is one of the HN celebrity set, but can we please modify that title to something more meaningful?

Something like:

"Bullshit - what companies really mean?"
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It might be far-fetched in this context, but I find that meditation helps with this kind of tricks of the mind. Spend some time a day trying not to be lost in idle considerations about yourself, success and failure, and you end up having a feel of the difference between reality and your mind's works.

Humor and detachment also help, as they make much easier to have actual friends. And, after all, if you are around forty and not hungry you are a huge success by the standards of the specie.
Timezones are not an ugly hack.

When you travel to a different timezones you just have to adjust your clock and, without asking, you know that shops open at 8~10am until 4~8pm with or without a midday stop for lunch (12~3). You have dinner at 18~22, and breakfast at 8~10. All the divergences depend on the country you are in but you can get good aproximations that work for 90% of them (breakfast 9, open shops 10, lunch 13, close 17, dinner 20).

But, if you go for an universal timezone, you've got to learn the different times for the different activities again and again and again. You change a one step correction (change time on your watch) to a constant struggle.

With universal timezone: You wake up when travelling, it's 17:30 and you don't remember the country unless you do the mental effort to wake up, it's time to get up or not? You start to calculate and... too late to decide, you are already woken and could not get back to sleep even if you wanted.

With different timezones: You wake up when travelling, it's 2:30 and you don't remember the country unless you do the mental effort to wake up, it's time to get up or not? No, time to sleep some more.
Does Apple actually claim that their app review process is in _everyone's_ best interests, or just their customers (which is frequently at 180-degree odds with sketchy devs)?
Does Google have a look at Google Analytics? I thought it was only for the webmasters who set it up and that Google did not touch it.

It is nearly their only service that I haven't blocked (with the libraries available on their CDN).
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Actually "old age" is never a reason to die, but heart stroke and cancer are most common natural life terminators in our species and they are already likely in your 50's. So yep... they are starting to basically die of old age.
It can go rather hideously wrong, with the open source version being neglected, downgraded, or simply made non-functional to push people onto the paid version. This was happening for a while with SugarCRM - I don't know if anything's changed there since I last looked, but it feels just like a bait-and-switch.

Where I know of it working well, it's where there are separate legal entities to manage the open source code and the premium version.
What about Opera?

Their software is unfortunately proprietary, but I trust them. As far as I know, they never sold any data they got though their proxies with Opera Mini. And they got a lot.
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Perhaps if you conflate "users want to associate themselves, from time to time, with brands" and "users want to interact with brands".
I fully understand the author's concerns, but isn't it possible to just make the classes more rigorous for those(at Stanford and online) with a better CS/math background? I mean it was clear that prof. Ng was giving only part of the story, presenting the intuition and skipping the math details/proofs. What is wrong with adding the more rigorous material as optional content for the online learners, and non-optional for the students at Stanford?
I am unfortunatelly only able to take these exciting classes online, but would like to see more rigour too. I am willing to pay a modest fee for the privilege.
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