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One practice I've found that works really well is to cancel your internet subscription. I am then forced to go to public hotspots to check/answer emails, browse the web, go on hacker news, Facebook, twitter, etc. Most of the time I can just download API docs for the projects/libraries I am working on and don't need a persistence connection. You'll be surprised how much you don't miss out on by simply checking your emails 1-2 times a day.

This has greatly increased my coding efficiency as I am not distracted with being constantly connected to the world. I code "ruthlessly" during the time and when it is time for a break, I head over to my local coffee shop for some free wi-fi and a refreshing macchiato. For emergencies I always have my iPhone connection over 3G. Not only am I less distracted and more efficient, but I'm saving money (cost of coffee < cost of internet) and I find my life to be more balanced.
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$18 Mil and blurry images - http://cdn.fourseasons.com/content/dam/fourseasons/images/we...
I think the quote from Alex was in the context of a hypothetical business model in a pre-traction startup - it was a tangible way to make the point about the problem with convoluted models at that stage.
Time magazine called the speech "demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi,"

Yikes. He really was a progressive leader. Makes you wonder in perspective how we are going to someday see people for supporting Gitmo or giving gays "some rights" but not all rights.
Kinda off-topic, from the article: "The 2012 Four Seasons Luxury Trends Report from Four Seasons reveals that 71% of its customers bring a smartphone with them on their travels and 61% bring a tablet device."

That's a lot. And even so, my only two experiences at luxury hotels meant no wifi available in the room. And daily paid ethernet. I understand being there meant me or my company have money but I'd like to stop being ripped off after paying so much to stay there.
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You need a common language to interoperate. Currently, C is that common language: everybody understands C.

Some languages have built specific language interop (e.g. Erlang with Java), it's usually broken and often not even as good as C.

> It would be better if interop was a solved problem.

It is: go through C.
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It's also on Netflix but not Instant Watch

http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Martin-Luther-King-Jr-I-Have...
We found that Debian-packaged uWSGI is missing one param in uwsgi_params so you should use this instead:

location / {
uwsgi_pass <xxx>;
include uwsgi_params;
uwsgi_param UWSGI_SCHEME $scheme;
}

Without the UWSGI_SCHEME part, Django's Request.get_absolute_uri will return URIs starting with 'http' even if your site is served over HTTPS.
On the other hand, as far as I can see XML support still does not allow for indexing or querying of the document itself, at least in core, even though it's been a postgres datatype for a long time.
Full agree. That's what I should've said.
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A reasonable argument. But 2038? What about taking the artists original intentions and desires in mind?

Would MLK want people to pay $20 to watch his speech?
Try deactivating JavaScript and look at the page. For $18M i would expect something else.
The article talks a lot about the new site being an effort to increase their online bookings. I can see that for a luxury brand hotel, online bookings might be lower than for say holiday inn express. Part of what you're paying for is personal attention, so the people who stay there might want that to extend to the booking experience.

How do you overcome that in an online booking? I don't think they did, but how would you approach it?
MLK said those words to move governments and their people, to everyone and anyone that would listen.

Some things are too important to lock down and copyright, at least not until 2038.
toothpaste and toothbrush are definitely medical then, as a dentist definitely is in the field of medicine, and if you don't use them your teeth rot and fall out. oral-B is definitely a medical brand. "warding off disease" simply and clearly covers this, then. Thanks for the informative link.
Well that trumps this website http://www.bankwest.com.au/ which cost $5 million to make.
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Torrents.

Supply a unique key with each book. Only allow one peer with that key in the swarm at the same time. Done.
I tweeted this earlier: https://twitter.com/#!/anticdent/status/159221189393383424

'Saying "If blacking out your website, return status code 503 to avoid an SEO hit" == "Bring the caviar when you come to the protest camp"'

If you're not willing to demonstrate damage to your situation in your protest, then it doesn't really count as a protest much, does it?
I really like your train of thought. I only disagree with "Most technical books don't really need editors". I've never written a book myself, but I'd imagine a good editor can greatly improve your writing.
Laws are protected by copyright and documents incorporated by reference into the law may be placed online.

The model building codes which are both incorporated by reference into many laws and are protected by copyright as model building codes, provided the test case.

Veeck v SBCCI

http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/293_F3d_791.htm
You must be paying quite a large monthly fee for your Internet. I have thought of this route, but there is a desktop PC to keep updated (linux likes its downloads, but then if I used that system just for production...)
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"just some basic OO principles"

I can't imagine this would be productive. What's the point of learning OO stuff if you aren't actually going to be writing programs big enough to warrant it right away? Get started with the smallest part of of the joy of programming: write some code and see it do something, even "10 print hi goto 10" is going to be a lot more exciting than OO, I would think.
Guys, why the downvote? Upvoted to counter. It was a fair argument.
Try W3C validation! How dare they cash $18M and not even produce valid HTML..

Seriously now, what is it, 1999?
Same with "Marlett" font which is basically user interface icons that are used in the menus and windows to scale the user interface.
Not really, according to the article:

"But the copyright dilemma began in December 1963, when King sued Mister Maestro, Inc., and Twentieth Century Fox Records Company to stop the unauthorized sale of records of the 17-minute oration."
"=" as a comparator is valid BASIC.
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That's because you're probably looking at things purely from a technical/operational perspective (i.e. can they register my domain easily), whereas the parent commenter is taking into account more general reports about the way GoDaddy does business.

Just because a company is technically competent doesn't mean people want to do business with them.
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Mainstream media picked up on Wikipedia/Reddit SOPA-protest
"Intentions" don't mean much if they're not in writing. MLK could have put the speech under a freer license if he wanted to.
I usually don't rewrite, unless the client specifically agrees to that work. Often it's not much extra work, but it's still over and above what they've asked for.

Instead, I'll usually write some documentation explaining what I've learned about how the system works. If it takes me a few hours to reverse engineer a particular set of code, documenting that up often only takes a few minutes, and will save me and future people a lot of time. But... I've not had to change how the system's working.

In almost all these cases there's 0 tests - in some cases the code isn't really even testable in the first place. If I think I'm going to have a long term relationship with the project/client, I may push for refactoring or rewriting, but if this is a short 'add a feature', I just document what I can that will be useful, and do the work.
I think Microsoft's legal department would freak out about having a (even if "slightly") copyleft licensed software in the Windows core.
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IANAL, etc. but I believe this isn't exactly as cut and dried as you make it out to be, or at least wasn't as cut and dried when the King estate took it to court. The legal analysis section on Wikipedia^ describes the difference between "general" and "limited" publication, and that if it was a general publication the estate would not have a copyright claim.

Can anyone with more knowledge of copyright law explain this? Are televised speeches usually public domain?

^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_of_Martin_Luther_King,_J...
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Accoding to the article:

The lawsuit was filed in 1963 when Dr. King was very much alive.
The lawsuit granting copyright protection was filed in 1963 when Dr. King was very much alive.
I can't say WHO, but I've been leading the UX on a large newspaper site. There's huge feedback loops, tens of people to sign off per page and a ton of usability testing.

They have their own in-house development team. I can bet you we've not come anywhere close to that and the site is absolutely HUGE.

I suspect somewhere someone was given this as a budget and they had to spend it, or lose it.
I'm not sure about the accuracy of the recommandations. After a few clicks I was advised with a "deux étoiles" (2 stars) restaurant which is a top-notch place for gastronomy, not the kind of place you would hang out and drink beers.
To me, the database could need some refining.
which you can use via FUSE in linux

There's also a native port: http://zfsonlinux.org/
So here's how you do it.

You write a spec sheet, bid low. You want to win the bid. Say 6 mil, maybe even 5. Then half way through the project, say you need another 3 mil to finish, and without that you can't finish it. Sunk costs? don't worry, the flip rate on staff means the sunk costs were the last guys problem.

Continue asking for more until you can't squeeze any more juice out of the orange that is your client. Congratulations, you just won at corporate politics. Ship whatever you've done and say it's the best you could do. Done.
For a startup's site, avoiding a search engine ranking drop is more like "Bring a sleeping bag" than "Bring the caviar", it seems to me.
Most technical books don't really need editors.

Um, no? Knowledgable editors make any sort of writing easier to read and use -- especially crucial if you're talking about textbook-style material, which is specifically about someone with subject matter knowledge communicating with people who don't (yet) have that knowledge. They also serve as a useful backstop of fact-checking and just plain "does this make sense?" checking.
...right...because currently textbook publishers pass all of their revenue back on the authors, right? I don't really get your point here.
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There are people who deactivate JS, for personal/corporate/whatever reasons. Shouldn't one serve these customers as well? Or does this feature cost another $1.5M ?
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I generated a report specifically to show YC startups that were using GoDaddy: https://raw.github.com/jpf/domain-profiler/master/ycombinato...

The exodus away from GoDaddy stopped as soon as they reversed their support of SOPA.
Thanks! I wanted to see v2.0 demo but could not find any link before.
The concept is less foreign that you think: When you do a Google search, do you get a replicable, provably correct result? Or do you get a result that 99% of the time is good enough?
Very interesting -- Im surprised of the large use of GoDaddy SSL and Domain products.
The article mostly covers the relevant law and how the copyright ownership has evolved.

I kept thinking about what we could do now. I doubt the copyright owner thinks about copyright laws like we do -- freedom, culture evolving, etc. Other posts on this thread say "Martin Luther King's descendants ... are disgracing the man's heritage," they probably don't know our perspective. They haven't read The Right to Read -- http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html. They probably intend to keep others from messing it up.

Instead of insulting them, we might try to educate them on our perspective and see if they might be persuaded to release it under the GPL or something similar. If Sony has it, they may be unwilling to change, but maybe the family?

If an inflexible conglomerate already has it, what can we learn from them about getting the owners of rights to culturally important copyrighted works first? There are more of us. Why did they get there first? How can we do better next time?

I want copyright law changed, but in the meantime, this work and many like it could be GPL'ed. Why don't we make that happen?
I've used them both. A major advantage Foundation has was a responsive grid system, thought I've read that responsive grid for Bootstrap is in the works.

Zurb has several other fantastic tools as well.
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Map reduce type calculations are less likely to be on kniwn or fixed numbers of pricesses, as they are designed for failing hardware and more flexible setups, unlike most MPI jobs. But most if the calculations are probabky less sensitive to errors too.
This topic comes up every time I run this report.

The reasons why people don't like GoDaddy are covered in both of the previous discussions on this report. Well worth reading!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2080469
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=746386
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Their approach looks a lot like BtrFS: everything in a BTree, append-only, with checksums.
I find foundation great for rapid prototyping, I can build a mockup in foundation in a few minutes and then iteratively improve on the design until it becomes a real product, as the name implies it's really a foundation to build on, it doesn't give you everything but it gives you 90% of what you need in a way that isn't restrictive.

Bootstrap gives you a lot more than foundation does, but I find it very restrictive, it's hard to make a bootstrap site not look like bootstrap (if anyone can point me to some counter examples I'd be interested). This is unsurprising since bootstrap was designed by twitter for a consistent look across their internal tools.

So my verdict is, for internal tools / quick hacks, use bootstrap. For mockups and real products, use foundation.
I do this as well. But I've stopped thinking of things I play with as projects, but rather patterns.

> I think I need to work on actually finishing my projects

I've wondered before - why do I get ashamed of sandboxing? I decided it was because projects were accumulating in my 'project' directory, creating noise about things that would never be complete.

But it doesn't have to be like this! When you stop thinking of them as projects, no need for guilt.

I've built a tool to make it easier to manage your data and encourage sandboxing rather than projects. It's stupidly simple but changed the way I work:

http://trogrd.tumblr.com/post/15130555126/saga

If the post doesn't explain it, you could try this: get it; create $HOME/saga. Then running something like "saga my test directory" a couple of times, and have a look at what it's creating in $HOME/saga until it's self-explanatory.
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You forgot various change request, often contradictory by different departments, countless changes to things already signed, specified, implemented, tested and deployed, at least three starts from scratch because of different "visions" ...
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I have recently learned Python using the book Learn Python The Hard Way, by Zed Shaw. I found the book to be very enjoyable, as well as informative. I would love to have a book similar to Learn Python The Hard Way, but for C. If you know of any, please let me know.
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only the REST api is open source.

I see the book as a way to sell their API for a service for which everything (algorithm and methods) are obfuscated (server side).

I expected much insights for helping me on a project, I had less informations and more noise than what I already knew.
Seriously. I'm all for being compliant for most users, but accommodating for users who actively gimp their browser is a little ridiculous when they probably represent less than 5% of their users. You have to expect that some sites just aren't going to work.
Creative Commons didn't exist in the 1960s
GPU vendors circumvent this limitation by not documenting actual ISA and only documenting virtual ISA (PTX for NVidia, CAL for AMD).

GPU drivers dynamically recompile "Virtual ISA" into actual ISA when running kernel or shader first time.
On a related note to the off-topic point, visiting the website from a mobile device yields a surprisingly good mobile interface.
Happy that you mentioned this. I recently got downvoted 3 times cause I wanted to express public support verbally as well.
You're correct, currently the "Web Host" is determined solely by what shows up in the A records for the domain.

I've been working on updating the profile to determine the host based on where the HTML is ultimately served from, along with some pretty substantial changes in host detection heuristics. These are non-trivial changes. I was hoping to have them done in time for this report, but tradition dictated that I produce this report now.
I do agree that text books containing quality material are worth their price, however, the quality of some books isn't there yet they still move plenty off the shelves.

In the software industry the best software for a specific function is generaly the most widely used(microsoft office for example). Who doesn't want the best performance and best features? From my college experience, this is not the case for the world of texbooks. I took 4 calculus classes and had to purchase 3 different calculus books, all of which contained the same material. Entry level calculus hasn't changed, so why does a book need to be updated every year? If someone wrote a book that provided excellent explanations there would be no need to update it yearly and it would be so widely there would be no need to
make "revisions" just to sell more copies.

That's why we don't need revisions every couple years for the majority of books. Cutting edge technology books are one thing, but unless history is changing there's no need to write new editions of a 16th century European history book every year.
Exactly..and the use of sex to sell.
There is a difference in going to court to protect it from being misused and sold without his consent to trying to lock it away so it can be a profit making item.
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I looked into a few books but in the end, I always went to the good old Kerninghan & Ritchie book. So my personal favoir is still "Programming in C" by K&R.
Someone posted MySpace passwords to Full-Disclosure, which therefore made it into several list archives. MySpace complained, and GoDaddy suspended the domain name of an extremely well-known archive, apparently without any investigation or contact: http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2007/0. This was eventually cleared up, but WTF?
Those people are in the extreme minority. They are not worth the time and effort.
Agreed. I'm working on updating domain-profiler to better detect PaaS providers like Heroku, GAE, and Azure.

In the meantime, you can see who's using Heroku by looking for domains that have an SSL certificate with a certificate type of "*.heroku.com"
That's stupid. It's not about taking damage, it's about raising awareness.
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I was wondering if it takes the "No, this place is ..." clicks into account at some point? That would be a way to refine the database without much effort.
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Media today always talk about King's work on civil rights and equality work and show "I Have A Dream" footage and talk about his assassination.

They don't show the five years between, despite his greater experience, awareness, and maturity. In those years he took on greater issues of a system that created so much poverty and created war.

I think they don't cover those years because those issues remain and would force them to take on current issues they don't want to. Since his earlier work is better publicized, I find learning about his later work teach me more about him, his work, those issues, and leadership. The Riverside Church speech against the war in Vietnam was an incredibly courageous speech I consider right on, displaying mastery of the issues, his audience, oratory, ... basically every element of leadership.
Seems easy enough for the NIH to counter by changing their funding policy to exclude all "private sector research works", leaving academics and universities to decide whether they'd rather carry out research nominally under the auspices of some public sector organisation that handles distribution or not take the funds. If they really wanted to they could even introduce their own peer review process for final publications too...

It's remarkably short-sighted and pointless legislation, unless the real objective is to start suing authors for forwarding PDF copies of their work and related documents to interested parties without journal access.
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Counter-point: http://scienceinthesands.blogspot.com/2011/12/in-defense-of-...
I don't think that includes consultants that helped the design, user experience, and architecture. Since they went with a pretty well known interactive agency, it probably cost them more than three million.
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...and lost at contract law.
I suspect in many cases it's a "Plan B" rather than a first-shot strategy. It is, of course, hard to know for sure, but as a counter-example, look how they de-fanged the FDA for regulating nutritional supplements (this goes back to the '90s). The first thing the industry did was to get every sympathetic (or buyable) politician and talking head to start talking about how Americans were hurt by the stupid FDA, using the usual hyperbole and emotion-stirring anecdotes, so that people had the FDA, out of the blue, on the tip of their tongues and "knowing" it was bad. Newt Gingrich was a point-man for this effort. (Once it was passed people started dying from ephedra-based nutritional supplements.)

Then when the legislation was produced a support-base had already been formed. They expected a very public fight and prepared for it.

In this case they were very quiet. The first thing I heard at all in the normal media was on the radio driving to work this morning. The news guy on the Boston station mentioned Wikipedia's blackout tomorrow and mentioned SOPA as the reason. The who bit was about 3 sentences. As I said, I'm not privy to insider strategy, but it was definitely a different tack.