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Many people and businesses have no choice but to use Windows. It's nearly impossible to buy a computer without Windows, especially if you're picky about configurations. Even if the choice exists (Apple), switching involves considerable costs: buying all new hardware, moving to different application software, retraining personel, dealing will legacy and proprietary file formats.

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The current DMCA exceptions granted by the Copyright Office[1] do allow you to circumvent CSS, but only for very specific educational or such use. Making a personal backup copy does not fit the criteria and thus is illegal, even though that is is normally allowed under just copyright.

[1] http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2010/
My post is hardly pedantic fact checking. The intro talks about how many consider Assange a "megalomaniac" and he seems bewildered by the suggestion. My point clearly suggests that thinking 2/3rds of the time people talk about rape they're talking about you suggests an over-inflated sense of self-importance. (Also, for what it's worth: roughly 90% of what he says can't be fact checked. One thing that is close to verifiable is demonstrably false, though twelvechairs offers an explanation that's closer to his made-up numbers. That's pretty central to the topic of Assange, though I leave that as an implication for the reader.)
> saying we're pro-piracy. That doesn't go over well outside this community.

Just a side-note: that's not necessarily true, and a perception that is partially based on scare mongering. Vast numbers of people engage in "piracy", and it isn't seen as harmful by the general public. Hollywood and music industry aren't exactly as popular as their products either, and it's the biggest fans of those products that "pirate" the most.

Piracy and illegality isn't necessarily something that scares the general public either. I'm thinking for example of the illegal pirate radio stations in Europe in the past. Hugely popular, and eventually the reason for their existence was accommodated by the law.

On the other side of the coin: the mainstream US public hasn't been particularly concerned about throwing due process out of the window since 9/11... Fuck, it's public knowledge that the US is detaining and torturing people outside the law, the people are cool with that.

Since when has "due process" suddenly become a convincing argument for the masses? Maybe you should actually be waving the pirate flag instead...
Pretty epic. Nothing more.

I think I'm crying.
JSON's popularity is largely due to it's ability to easily convert to native data structures regardless of what language you happen to be using. In fact, it's less of a data encapsulation format (like XML) and more of a serialization format.

If you need to markup your data, use a markup language like XML or S-Expressions. If you need to serialize data, JSON is an excellent choice.
More on the plus side: Jon Stewart and his team of researchers and writers can go from knowing nothing about a topic, to absolutely nailing some of the central absurdities, in less than a week.

Either comedy is easier than it looks or these guys are really good at their jobs.
For me, there is a big difference between what I considered a garbage site like Mega Upload, and a site like The Pirate Bay. The first paragraph of this article is appalling. While I won't be surprised that TPB owners make a lot of money, the description of the cars, the aliases, looks like mafia guys coming from movies. TPB stands for civil liberties, right of sharing stuff like Wikileaks files in addition to Hollywood movies... I don't know, I may be wrong, but I won't miss Megaupload.
I am happy to be called a geek, nerd or expert. Thank you for the complement. :-)
Either comedy is easier than it looks or these guys are really good at their jobs.

I vote for B.
The Metro aesthetic is primarily textual. (Whether you like it or not is up for debate, but at least it's consistent.)
Oh wait, I just found ANOTHER error. Or at least another expression of the same big error.

"In addition, from the very beginning, copyright was an individual author right that accrued to people, not companies."

Assuming that you mean "from the beginning of printing" this is the EXACT opposite of reality. In England, where the Statue of Anne was passed, the privilege to copy accrued to guilds, not individuals.

Admittedly, I'm stretching definitions a bit since the guilds didn't have a 'right' either - it really was a privilege, and one granted by Royal Charter. Moreover, they weren't companies in the sense that we use that word today. But they were certainly incorporated entities seen as separate and distinct from any persons in particular. And they dominated the publishing trade for the better part of two centuries. The notion that lawful control of the ability to copy has "always" accrued to the individual is just so spectacularly wrong.

I'm sorry to go on like this, but I really can't remember a time when I came across another human who managed to pack so many layers of historical ignorance into such a small space. To cap if off by referring to others as "uninformed" just ices the cake. If you want to avoid looking like a complete idiot, avoid the use of history to ground your ideas about copyright. Seriously, it's like watching Kim Kardashian trying to play Scrabble in French and not understanding why "nobody lets me win".
That was a lot of whining, followed by a vague, "we should do something sort of in the middle!" Ugh.

Anyway, "Guru Meditation Error" - Commodore, 1985. Cute has been around forever. Software has grown insanely more complex now than ten or twenty years ago. Providing a meaningful error in a concise manner is effectively impossible. Providing an overload of information does not help the end user deal with their frustration. The people at these companies are smart, I'm sure they've found user frustration and support costs are lower with a simple, cute error message.
That explains why they are not identical, that does not explain why they are not comparable. In both cases a single bought copy is shared with an indefinite number of non-paying readers.
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It doesn't; just makes for better journalism I guess.
I'm not really answering your question.. but Khan Academy is not a serious contender in education. So maybe some teachers use it, but Khan Academy is not going to disrupt anything in K12 a serious way. They might do something to consumer educational products, but that's a tiny market.

The public servants who buy educational products must justify their purchase in terms of educational efficacy and cost. A minimal viable product is low cost (in dollars), low cost in terms of implementation, and it's designed around well-validated instructional strategies. Ideally, you have some educational experts on your side (not some grad student in education, but well regarded and seasoned educators... who cost a lot).

Although Khan Academy is free in dollars, the educational quality of their content is all over the map. Educational quality turns out not to matter to much (e.g. Compass Learning) when it comes to buying decisions. But...

Is Khan Academy teaching things in a way that can be integrated easily into ordinary classroom instruction? Can Khan Academy point to research that supports their pedagogical approach? Can they even state their approach? (aside from, "we're charismatic and free!").

If not, then in the mind of a large purchaser, Khan Academy is not a viable large-scale alternative. It's an accountability thing.

Education requires deep pockets. Content production is costly enough, but you also have to pay experts to endorse or help build your product.

The truly disruptive technology will lower those costs.
That's very true. Not exactly politically correct, now are they?
I can see two likely scenarios why this got passed:

1. The reviewer has never used vim. As someone unfamiliar with vim, it never occurred to them to type :q, and thus they never saw that behavior.

2. The reviewer has used vim before, and knows how it works. With that familiarity, the reviewer understood that :q quitting the app was the behavior that users would expect.
US Internet piracy case brings New Zealand arrests
it points to a big shift in society and the economy.

software is now a cornerstone of the world economy. modern life runs through the internet. even if you personally avoid the internet, you depend on it.

but the baby boomer generation, represented by these politicians has not understood it. they know engineers as the guys building houses, bridges, aeroplanes, rockets. but software? it is an invisible world to them. child's play. how hard can it be to build the internet vs. the hoover dam.

i don't think this will change soon nor can it be actively changed. we need to wait till this generation simply dies out and gets replaced by the ones who grew up with computers. for a larger part of society in the western hemisphere, that means birthdates in the 1970s. yes, gates, jobs were born earlier, but the majority of their users were born later. they were visionaries, outliers.

and the circle will begin again, facebook generation vs. privacy defenders. and who knows whats after that...genetics?
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Lawrence Lessig has argued that fair use is not serving its intended purpose: "In theory, fair use means you need no permission... But in practice, fair use functions very differently. The fuzzy lines of the law, tied to the extraordinary liability if lines are crossed, means that the effective fair use for many types of creators is slight."

So yes, it's available to people/organizations with deep pockets (like The Daily Show), but the majority of people take on considerable risk when they try to leverage it.
To Joel's credit, that was over 5 years ago - which is, like, 35 dog-years ago (which are even shorter than tech-years).
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You are describing it right. Note that being flexible and open-minded helps to overcome fear of making a mistake.
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Megaupload has been shut down by FBI
Megaupload has been shut down by FBI. The big file sharing sites are quite popular, has been ordered to close by the FBI and U.S. Justice Department. Charge is none other than piracy.
I think its a little from both columns. The US government makes Jons job alot easier than it has any right to.. and that scares me...
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It is an extradition proceeding, not charges under New Zealand law (according to http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/6288082/NZ-...).

For the request to go ahead, the alleged offence need to be an extradition offence (http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1999/0055/latest/D...) - which means that the alleged conduct of the defendants would be a crime in New Zealand if it was done here, and would be a crime punishable by 12 or more months imprisonment in the US.

New Zealand has a bar to Internet provider copyright liability (http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1994/0143/latest/D...), defined as follows:
"
Internet service provider means a person who does either or both of the following things:
(a) offers the transmission, routing, or providing of connections for digital online communications, between or among points specified by a user, of material of the user’s choosing:
(b) hosts material on websites or other electronic retrieval systems that can be accessed by a user
"
However, ISPs have to forward notices from rights holders to the user, and after the third notice, to the copyright tribunal, allowing proceedings to be filed.

If MegaUpload did nothing more than offer a file upload service, and complied with the applicable procedures for responding to rights owner requests, it seems unlikely that that particular allegation would amount to a crime in New Zealand. However, the article lists a number of charges, and the extradition law doesn't allow them to challenge the alleged facts, only whether they amount to a crime in New Zealand and the country they are being extradited to.
But isn't extradition only applicable after you have been found guilty?
Two other nice economist articles from this week's paper edition, published before Kodak filed.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/01/how-fujifi...
http://www.economist.com/node/21542796

Nice analysis there, and a nice contrast with Fujifilm. Makes a nice narrative as a bonus.
"Packed structs, the fat-free alternative to S-Expressions".

JSON's a nearly-perfect balance between human-readability, ease of generation/parsing, and data size. I'm not going to say that it can't get better, but I feel pretty okay saying that I don't feel a burning need to replace it.
YouTube is probably not the best example, because they built their userbase on allowing copyright-infringement until they were big enough to negotiate directly with the content owners. If Megaupload had sold out to Google or some other legit business with deep pockets, they would not have been busted.
Oftentimes the best way is just to ask somebody.

One of the best feelings when handing a task to someone is when you know that once you've handed it off, it will either get done quickly, or it will spawn a rich bramble of e-mail conversations that only ends when someone in the network has figured out what needs to be done, and then the person will do it. And if nobody knows, they'll be on the phone with you telling it straight the moment they realize that fact.

That's a very difficult quality to discern in the context of interviews, unfortunately. One thing that's useful is to try to push all of your candidates beyond what they can reasonably handle, and see how they react - people that are quick to look for help when it's needed tend to deal with these situations honestly and quickly, admitting the limits of their knowledge. The worst will just wubble about endlessly, never realizing that something is beyond their reach.

Once I realized how attractive that "quick to admit ignorance" quality was in job candidates, I stopped feeling so nervous about being interviewed, and started just being rigorously honest about what I can't do and don't know. It's better for everyone that way, and most interviewers I've met with seem to appreciate it. The only downside is that I've lost some work that I genuinely wasn't qualified to do, which is not such a great loss anyways...
Interesting.

What does the wildcard match "foo.*bar" expand to?
How do you handle those pathological cases like "f.*r"?

Edit: HN can't displaying the wildcard char. Reformat it.
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MegaUpload Deserved to be Shut Down
And here I thought JSON was the fat-free alternative to.. anything except binary formats :-)
Thumbs up for figuring out how to eat healthy on a budget, but thumbs down for cooking all the food at the same time and eating frozen leftovers for 2 weeks.
In this case, however, they're laughing at you, not with you.
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I always see this argument about "I want to see everything that a developer did during the development process."

In reality, 'rewriting history' comes down to things like:

* Creating a commit, then amending the commit message.

* Rebasing all of your current changes on top of a new version of master (basically re-applying all of your commits/patches on top of master).

* Fixing a typo creating a commit, and then squashing that into the original commit.

(Note: That these operations all happen on topic branches prior to being merged into master. Once you merge into master, or just publish for public consumption, then you should not be rewriting history at all.)

From my perspective, the view that git is useless because the ability to rewrite history means that valuable information is being lost is an extreme overreaction by people without much (or any) git experience.

If you want to hold this view, you should have rational examples of workflows where people will lose valuable information just as a matter of course.
Personally, I prefer 'nerd' to 'geek', but that's just because the former has a more appealing sound. In terms of actual meaning, it seems like difference without distinction.

But I agree about the way that either can be used as positive expression of self-regard, while still coming across as derogatory when used by people who are not in the club and unsympathetic towards those who are.

In this regard, both words differ from 'dork', which never seems to be a good tag.
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Colbert actually discussed it all the way back on Dec 1

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/40346...
The labour-saving is huge (just think how much washing up this process saves alone), and there is nothing wrong with eating frozen food.
In a few years I bet JavaScript developers will discover the simplicity of tab-separated-varables.
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Here's a link to the hilariously primitive looking 1.3 MP F3 based DCS100.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_DCS_100

The box next to it is the unit that holds images, and a 5 MB SCSI disk. (About equivalent to a 1st gen iPod I guess)
I have this debate quite a bit with my friends with regards to how apps crash in Android vs. iOS. In iOS when an app crashes it takes you back to the home screen. In Android I believe the highest exception is shown to the user.

I like the way Android does it because when I have a recurring problem with an app I can eventually find the solution to the app crashing through a Google search. I think for most people the iOS way is probably better. That puts the onus on the app provider to do research and read the reviews to try to fix the problem.

Windows Phone is a mix of the two in my experiences. Sometimes it shows a stack trace and sometimes it just kicks you back to the Start screen. I believe Microsoft made certain rules like if an action takes longer than 10 seconds to perform than it will automatically boot you back to the Start screen.
I'm saying some people pay more for exclusivity. You're saying they shouldn't.
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What's clear is that, under current laws, you can generate 150M+ before current laws can stop you. Again, not saying SOPA is the answer, but let's not ignore that these guys operated for years like this. If they're proven innocent, it says one thing. If not, it proves that the burden of proof and the procees takes far too long to be effective.
Is Apple claiming this restriction applies to the content of the book, or just the output of their app? Can I transcribe my book into another program and then sell it independently? What if the book is already written and published and I'm transcribing it into an iBook?

And of course, if transcribing bypasses the restriction, then simply converting the file to a different format must do the same, right?
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Not necessarily. There are long term trends, cyclical trends, write-offs, etc. I don't see how one can look at a single indicator, profits, and then have insight into detail. It's a rather tenuous assertion.
Digital photography is one of those things where terms like "disruptive" grossly understates the reality. (More like "destroyer".) 35MM film cost $5 a roll and prints were $10 to $50 a roll (including the bad ones). Meanwhile, digital photography was free to shoot, and a couple bucks to print per (if you cared). I can't think of any scenario where a company would give up on that magnitude of revenue for some small percentage of IP licensing on the "next big thing".

It's easy to attack Kodak in the abstract sense, but I have yet to see an analysis that shows a clear path out of this conundrum. If anything, I'm sympathetic to the arguments that Kodak did not support professional film markets longer than they did.
How funny. I came here to post about the Guru Meditation error. Those were the days!
I think the main issue is that it's locked down to the iPad.

Hardly any school districts have iPads and there are a slew of "educational tablets" in the pipeline from manufacturers like Intel.

I'd only build something with Apple's platform with the intention of reaching a limited consumer market.

(Also, isn't pay-per-device cheaper for a school district than pay-per-student? Normally, multiple students share one device, or it's one to one.)
I agree, I think the author is being dramatic.

Also, as a programmer, I fuck up. I genuinely feel bad about it, and using cheesy smiley faces/etc is a kind of punishment for me. It might seem cute, but I hate them, so I'm going to try to not show them to my users as much as possible.
This looks like believable disinformation
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