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I am yet to see a Node.js in the enterprise world that does not fall apart after the prototype phase and the real world workload starts.

Node.js future lays at most in Rails and PHP shops.
The big thing this article glosses over is ie8. It's counted as No Video, but over the next year the direction they go will tell the story as it is the browser with largest share but no builtin video support
> I wonder how the Google fanboys will reconcile
> this with "Don't Be Evil"

Nope. This isn't likely to start a flame war/pointless Internet argument at all...
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Read it in context. People are allowed to conspire to avoid buying some product, for whatever reason they choose. He said that's different because you don't have a right to compel anyone to buy your product - implying that you have a right to compel someone to buy your labor.
> Over the years, I have read hundreds of license agreements, looking for little gotchas and clear descriptions of rights. But I have never, ever seen a legal document like the one Apple has attached to its new iBooks Author program.

Then I seriously, seriously doubt the veracity of the first part. Ownership over content produced by a tool is not unprecedented or new, and anyone with even a passing familiarity with EULAs and license agreements in general would have seen a similar clause in the past. It's such a blatant bending of the truth that I can't trust the rest of the article. Not that I should expect anything less from ZDNet, home of linkbait.
But you have to provide your own e-mail service and e-mail hosting. They aren't hosting your e-mail[0]. How do they justify a recurring annual subscription?

0: "Your email is never stored on our servers, and is left on your current email servers."
It would be more interesting to point out who rejected them.
4. Controlling print media for unlimited marketing. There is a reason why News Corp has so many newspapers and magazines.
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This completely fits with what we know about Jobs, he felt laws didn't apply to him. I hesitate to say this is an "Apple" policy when it was Jobs calling another CEO and proposing a gentleman's agreement.
I myself am one of the statistics mentioned in the article. I studied comp sci for two years then switched to a BFA. Still, it's so much easier to find work as a programmer so that's what I do.

Yes, engineering is hard. It is much easier to slack through a liberal arts degree, yes. However, for me I felt that my education in computer science was too narrow. To study it I had to drop jazz band, I had to drop American lit, I had to drop film, I had to drop art, all things I was passionate about in high school (in addition to writing code).

I didn't work any less hard in my easier major. In fact I probably worked harder. A lot of my friends who also defected felt a similar sense of narrow scope in studying engineering.

While I do think a lot people drop engineering because it's hard, I think that a lot of people who are able and intelligent leave STEM fields because the fields themselves do nothing to try and encourage its students to develop outside interests. And those outside interests are important, they can be life changing.

Similarly, the liberal arts majors do NOT do enough to encourage its students to explore STEM subjects, which is just as horrible, in my opinion.
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That is really interesting to me considering reddits reaction to a service I created a while ago that allowed you to retrieve deleted or edited comments.

http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/etd52/lets_have_...

Apparently digital reddit comments are exempt from this notion.
> A lot of opinion on that kind of thing is pretty much axiomatic and not changeable by reasoned debate.

So? Why shouldn't they have the ability to postpone things? "Postpone" doesn't mean block. In this context, it just means "takes more time".

I find it interesting that "not changeable by reasoned debate" applies mostly to positions that the speaker don't hold.
I have been listening to Planet Money since it first started, several years ago. While the quality and freshness has dropped off somewhat in the last year or so, it remains a great source of insight and reporting into economics.

I don't think that the reporters on this piece were trying to give us any sort of message, other than that China realized that communism -- that is, government ownership and regulation of production, and equal pay no matter how hard you work -- was a failure, and that they had to somehow escape from that system and move toward a more capitalistic one. How that happened is an interesting story, and an important one.

If you think that Planet Money is against communism and in favor of capitalism, then that's probably a safe assumption.

But if you think that they're all rah-rah-USA! in their opinions, then you need to listen to the podcast more regularly. They've done some excellent shows on Denmark (and particularly, now Danes are generally OK with taxes that are beyond the pale for all but the most extreme Americans) and education (and how the US isn't attacking that problem, particularly at the preschool level, an intelligent way). Oh, and their reporting on the American banking system, and the ways in which the US housing crisis occurred, were very well done.

It's something of a cliche to say that reporters tend to be left-of-center, but I definitely get the feeling that this is where the Planet Money is located on the political-economic spectrum. But they're also generally trying to explore topics in greater depth than you'll get elsewhere, and from angles that I definitely don't hear in other places. For that, and for their clear explanations (and willingness to be silly and funny), I give them a huge amount of credit.
The MPAA is not the intended audience. We know they don't care, they only care about their wallets.
Nothing about latency in there or on their website as far as I could find. Having used satellite for a while before switching to a microwave relay system, I can say it's not the bandwidth that's the issue, it's the latency. 800 ms ping times make for an exceptionally poor browsing experience, and SSH and rdesktop are nearly impossible. It's possible their approach is using LEO sats instead of geosync orbits, but in that case they'd need a lot more birds to get consistent coverage, and doesn't match up with their only supporting the US coasts currently.
"Eventually, we will lose."

That's such a pessimistic statement. With that attitude, some SOPA-like Bill will pass. As an example, if MLK had that attitude, the whole Civil Rights movement would've failed.
> Is this the monetization strategy for Quora?

Or a promotional device? There are links to related questions on Quora below the article.
original Quora link: http://www.quora.com/What-is-it-like-to-have-an-understandin...
There is a notion that "at some scale, significant quantitative differences are qualitative differences". This drives a lot of legislation around misdemeanors vs felonies and regulations that only apply to businesses/operations of a certain size.

Personal sharing vs mass piracy is a major example. Usually the boundary is drawn at money changing hands, but other boundary lines could be debated.
You're right that a lot of outcome comes from past experience. I don't think a resourceful person riding a bike for the first day can be nearly as good as a non-resourceful person who's been riding for decades. So outcome isn't purely a function of past experience.

But let's take a group of people who have the same experience in a domain. Then I would define resourcefulness as the component of outcome that depends on the person, specifically how much self-drive the person has, and how much the person can leverage the tools in his or her situation.

Resourcefulness, as define this way, I think is some part skill. You have to be intelligent enough to put the match and sandpaper together to start a fire. Part of it is tolerance for being burned -- it's much harder to cold call a VC if to you it's personally painful to be told to shove off. And as pg mentioned in previous essays, the last part is determination. Resourcefulness is inherently related to schlepp and you won't schlepp unless you really, really, care about the problem.

Basically, I think you're right in that some situations really benefit those who've seen it before. But at the same time, to dismiss the effort and self-ambition of the person isn't quite right either.
I'd be interested to know what "anti-poaching" actually means. It could mean several things, which I'm listing from most reasonable to least reasonable:

* Don't try to sabotage the other company's projects by explicitly recruiting key people at crucial times for the project; but it's fine to hire for your own company's productivity.

* Don't use the competing company as just a pool of candidates (e.g. stand outside their door asking people to apply to your company); but if you happen to find them through other means (e.g. they come to you, you find them at a conference, etc.), then hire them.

* Don't ever hire directly from the other company.

* Don't hire someone from a competitor even if they already left.

* Don't hire someone that ever worked for a competitor.

So, how far do the actual agreements go? Did I miss a potential level of "anti-poaching"?
You make the assumption that corporations and people are on equal footing, so that your comparison is valid in the first place. Consumers do not form cartels.
They are still providing a service. Creating and maintaining an application takes time and time is money.

I think my point still stands as a general principle though, its applicability (or the lack thereof) to this particular service notwithstanding.
While the author makes good points, I believe it is very premature to call it stopped. "Stopped" would be passing positive law staking control over the area SOPA/PIPA wanted to control. What we continue to have is empty space that no one controls. I think that is better classified as a standoff or draw.

I think the author is correct that we have the democracy that we fight for.
What's especially interesting to me is that Forbes is the monetizing on this user's content (I got a full-page ad on the first load). This is surely allowed by Quora's ToS but it still makes me uncomfortable.

In fact, a vague worry about this kind of thing -- that the site taps into my "help out in this community" instinct when in fact it's doing so to extract value from me -- is what caused me to quit Quora in the first place.
They imply the only campaign at risk of losing funding is Obama's. I seriously doubt these people put all their eggs in the same basket, specially when there are so many other baskets for sale. And while they mention Fox supported SOPA, they fail to mention Fox is also a member of the MPAA and that Chris Dodd also represents their own interests.
I agree with the first 3, as part of the "policy", not sure about the last 2. I don't think the last 2 could be considered poaching.
I'm not sure how you can say this with a straight face, given the incredible diversity of opinion in the American media. Sure, the US government engages in propaganda. But if you're only listening to the what the government says, or to one take on it, then you're purposely restricting the depth and breadth of opinions that exist.
I was responding to you, sorry.

I was questioning the validity of your (albeit informal) research, that people don't find deprivation to be a key aspects of the meaning of theft.
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You don't have to "kill" Hollywood as a whole. All you need is to heavily disrupt the distribution channel. Control distribution and you control the game.
Yes, and as a result I'm afraid I find the whole joke rather uninteresting.

Historical irony is only fun if it's historical. Otherwise it's just fiction. It's easy to imagine a bunch of philistines who unfairly reject a piece of brilliant work. Indeed, plenty of academics imagine that every day. It's a cliché.
A few days ago on a HN thread, Werner Vogels responded to my comment about this saying that it is on their features list.

I agree with you: one thing that AppEngine did very well: smooth local and deployed work flow.
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So, I have this idea I wanna create a prototype for that I think would do just this. It could either work with the music industry and help make their process cheaper, or it could even replace it if it ever became popular enough to be used by main stream artists. This idea is the reason I started teaching myself some web dev stuff about a year ago. About 6 months ago I got a job at a somewhat small but completely awesome start up. My thought is that within about a year I'll understand the full stack enough to make a prototype for me and my friends, but for this idea (which has been tried before, but failed) to work I think it has to be slow growing.

If some of you guys come up with some baller distribution software in the meantime, that would be awesome, but if you want to kill the music industry you've gotta go way deeper than music distribution. This article is interesting, but I think it's only thinking about the problem in a superficial way, folding already existing technologies into the strategy. This is the internet guys. It's brand new. There are so many great possibilities that haven't been realized yet that it's almost insane to do something that someone else has done before. Sound Cloud allows people to share their own music, that's a good start and as far as I can tell they're doing well with it. I kinda feel like people here are arguing for a slightly different version of that. In my mind, that's wasting time. I have my idea, but I'll bet some of you can develop a different or maybe even similar but better one if you push yourselves so I don't wanna taint the idea pool with my specific plan.

If your idea is to take an existing structure and make it more social or something, that's an ok idea but it's not very innovative. You should think about what is not being done with music and artists at all right now. Then go with that. New is good, and exciting and on the internet it's easy to convince people to spend a few minutes checking it out. Then it's just gotta be cool enough to convince them to stay and signup.

Another good strategy is to take something that exists right now in the real world, that people are familiar with, and make an online version. There are so many possibilities to do this right now that it seems silly to me that companies like google try to create their own social network. Although I get the appeal of owning all of that freely given demographic information.

Anyway, just some ramblings. I'm obviously new to this stuff so maybe I'm retarded. But I thought I'd try to stimulate some fresh ideas if I could.
Lobbyists for SOPA and PIPA have had to retreat in wounded ignorance. Their apologists complain that an attack on Hollywood is an attack on the elderly-- elderly intellectual monopolists (cf. Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstnew.htm). And don't forget the outrageous scattershot lawsuits by the MPAA and RIAA. These organizations weren't satisfied with the extortionate judgments they were getting away with (cf. http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com). They want to impose an enormous negative externality on the kind of businesses that YCombinator invests in. Venture capitalists threatened to stop investing in Internet companies if SOPA and PIPA became law. It's too late to complain that these are basically good people.
The problem with this is that even the best communities have types of arguments that get plenty of upvotes. That would make it easy for someone who knows how to win upvotes to get all the downvote points they need, while making it hard on people who play fairly.
This is a good argument. +1, but I still have reservations.

There is a bit of a difference, though. When you supported Obama, I assume it was to elect someone that you believed would do a good job as Chief Executive, overall. It wasn't in order to pass one piece of self-serving legislation. The fact that you weren't acting purely in your own interest, and that the interest was broader than one single issue, makes it somewhat different. But different enough to overcome your objection? I'm not sure.
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I think that the market is also huge for small developers who don't want to pay for admin and infrastructure, want to be able to go on vacation and be fairly certain their data store will be available, etc. The question is how this large pie will be divided up.
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The title is highly misleading. H.264 is the most widespread codec by far thanks to Flash. In order to show WebM has having greater "share" the article's methodology excludes enablement via Flash. So IE8 and Firefox are considered "not H.264 enabled", even though the vast majority of video viewed by them is undoubtedly H.264.

Now if you retitle it to only refer to native support for the HTML5 <video> tag that would be fair. But this still would have little impact on video codec choice. You want a codec that is widely supported and hardware accelerated, ideally. H.264 fits that bill through a combination of native HTML5 and fill-in Flash support, and that's exactly the best practice for video on the web today.
This sounds promising. I've seen the answers on stackexchange and quora about web security, but until my site is tested by a hacker it is difficult to know if I've done everything properly. So I like the idea of some kind of audit to help in this process. Maybe hiring some white hats to pound on my site would be a good idea.
Same here. Campaign finance reform is a great idea but is not going to happen overnight. As long as it is not abolished the existing system has to be used to one's advantage. And as long Hollywood lobbyists outnumber Tech lobbyists it is going to be an uphill battle. I hope this recent conflict motivated big tech companies to increase their involvement in the policy process.
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I regularly donate to the ACLU. I'm not sure if/how they were involved with SOPA/PIPA, but, besides doing good work on many important fronts, they originated the suit in which part of the Communications Decency Act was ruled unconstitutional.
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I still don't understand why anyone would want to kill Hollywood. The American politicians allowed themselves to be bought. When Hollywood is dead someone else will take their place. If anything should die is Washington's corrupt political system. Hollywood (or anyone else with deep pockets) goes as far as Washington lets it.

Nowadays, the golden rule is, "He who has the gold makes the rules." Kill that instead.
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I don't think it's any more odd than the cool gadget-themed kickstarter projects, or music, video, etc. Basically you're paying in advance for a product/service, is how they're usually framed. What's wrong with that? It seems like a great way to start a company.
It's a question of tradeoffs. Google, Intel, and Amazon are really several independent company's that feed off each other. Google the search engine vs Google the advertizing company. Intel the Chip manufacturer vs Intel the king of the x86. By splitting them you free the most productive parts of the company to thrive without the temptation to feed all the fluff.

More importantly, you reduce the temptation for bribery etc.
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How can Cut The Rope be a "Russian Rip-off" of Angry Birds? They're completely different, unless we're counting the fact that they feel like solid and professionally developed games.
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Internet radio has really taken over this space. Mostly because you can access it from so many devices.

Remember the XM radio portable devices? They have since stopped making them. It makes sense. I can listen to XM on my phone or laptop and I don't have to worry about signal issues.
I agree with your call for transparency. In California statewide self funded candidates, millionaires like Whitman or Huffington, tend to fail. The same is true of blatant corporate initiatives.
Biglion screenshot is photoshopped. Anyone can confirm that by visiting http://biglion.ru/ and comparing it with the image in the article. It IS a groupon clone, but why lie?
This was such a stupid comparison and Angry Birds is from Finland too.
More power to them, they are filling a need that is generally unserviced by an English speaking hegemony. Yeah, there are some rip offs, but imitation of popular brands is nothing new.
The basic idea is a simple one: The diplomat should not be at the mercy of the host state nor should there be the possibility to arrest the diplomat or his family on trumped up charges. Diplomatic immunity allows the diplomat to live and do as he could and would in his home country. It also allows for the diplomat to be in the host country even during times of strained relationships or even war. It allows western diplomats to commit crimes such as serving and drinking alcohol in states where alcohol is considered a forbidden drug. It also allows diplomats to misbehave badly and go fishing without permit :)
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