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"It's not fair to compare a NES game to one which has been designed with gambling psychology at it's core - one that surpasses even the slot machines available to adults."

"Vegas dream" had black jack and poker and all the rest of the games you would find at a casino. How is it any different?

"Nor did you have the option to spend real dollars"

How is a 12 year old going to spend real dollars? Where are the parents?

"Would you rather your son or daughter be coked up in order to learn about the perils of drug use or is that different and something that makes sense to teach through observation?"

It's different. Cocaine is physically addictive and can have real health effects. Something I don't ever want my kids touching.

Gambling is all about being able to manage risk..something you do almost every day. You can't ever be successful without some form of gambling. If you teach kids early, they will be able to recognize it and it will beneficial to their future.

Would you just put your kid in front of an iPhone and not watch them? We don't have enough responsible parents in this world. Too many parents use the iPhone (or computer or gaming system) as a baby sitting device or are too busy to actually parent them.
In East Germany, toddlers and grade schoolers were required to go to the bathroom together, with no partitions between the toilets. Privacy was irrelevant because individualism was irrelevant. Even extending into bathroom habits the communist goal was to make people cogs. I'm sure this seemed like "scientific management" to them, and I bet many of them have no idea why it failed.

At my last job, all the programmers worked at a central table. I was criticized for working in my office (which I shared with one person) with my headphones on. This was called "siloing". They wanted people to work on code together.

I don't know about other programmers, but for me, when solving problems I find I often have many things in my head at once, many requirements to be met for the solution and sometimes a variety of variables whose meanings I have to keep straight.

I literally can't think when I'm constantly being interrupted. I can't think when I'm having to explain each symbol in a line of code to a co-worker.

Its impossible, until telepathy is perfected, for a co-worker to have the exact same understanding of what I'm doing and why. Sure simple obvious things are easy, but when you're constructing something original, you can't communicate it to someone completely because there are always too many details, even things you haven't resolved yet yourself.

At this groupthink place, every other programmer was in their 20s. They were all junior programmers (except for the founder of the company, who worked alone in his office.) They were not very productive. They adopted a whole lot of bad process, but they thought that by sitting around all at the same table they were more productive.

Maybe they were more productive than they would have been. But there was a huge gulf between the kinds of problems I was capable of solving (architecting major components of the product) and the kinds of problems they were solving (each unit test written was a task, everything was broken into tiny little independant, simple tasks.)

After I left, I decided I was done working for other people. I knew it was time to do a startup, because I'd reached my limit.

That company culture represents the view that people are cogs. Just like the east germans attempted to instill into their kids the culture of being cogs.

I think wozniak is right. Great programmers are artists, they live in their head. I wouldn't call myself a great programmer-- I'm competent, and I'm great at knowing my limitations.

But I make a really terrible cog.

That startup failed within a year after I left it. Somehow I doubt any of them think it was due to their process.
Is "technical co-founder" a code word for first employee? Co-founder to me means getting an equal stake in the company (IE: 50%)
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What does the US constitution have to do with fundamental rights?
Honestly I asked this question all the time. Until a couple months ago a startup I know got a million dollar grant (no equity). Dude spent more than a year just continuously shooting for the stars with these applications and finally hit.
More about this video here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments_in_the_Revival_of_O...

And for state of the art research on these matters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspended_animation
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There, fixed that for you.
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Check this out. http://python-courses.eu/ Not many people are aware of this. But its good.
CNET supports SOPA in the sense their owner does [0].

CNET <- CBS Interactive [1].
CBS Interactive <- CBS [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_that_sup...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNET

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_Interactive
I have been thinking about solving this since https://www.xkcd.com/949/ and one thing which I think most file services get wrong is that they practically require you to write down (or email to yourself) the link to the file. I don't want http://gethopper.com/$hexadecimalgibberish. I want http://gethopper.com/meaningfulfilename If I am trying to send the file to myself because I will be on a different computer, how does this do me any good? Allowing me to make it http://gethopper.com/reallyimportantfile then I will remember the URL and I can just put it into the URL bar instead of going to gethopper.com first.
What's a fundamental right, who protects it, and is there any document that enumerates said rights so that parties don't disagree?
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What's worst is that some senators believes they have a right to regulate foreign countries with USA laws.

Probably because they recently got an UK court to allow USA to extradite a webmaster for linking to infringing content.
No, I am not a lawyer. The idea that only lawyers can be qualified to comment on the law is myth promulgated by lawyers. There is a reason that the first three words of the Constitution are "We the People" and not "We the Lawyers."
Of course not. But that's what's happened. And as a result, the barrier to entry in knowing the true meaning is now quite high.

I'm not placing a vote of approval of this reality; just stating that it exists. It aggravates me too.
I once spent about nine months creating a largish program, and then moved on to another job. I spent about a day educating the fellow who would be carrying on the maintenance. I barely knew him.

About a year later, we met again. I still didn't know him, but he sure felt that he knew me. I remember he greeted me with, "I love your sense of humor", and "If you really want to know someone, you should work on their code for a year." No doubt he knew me as a programmer much better than I know myself.

Talk to someone who's maintained your code. :)
As others have pointed out, neither of your contentions is supported by anything linked or in your comment.

I see nothing that recommends libertarianism here. In a libertarian world IBM does not license DOS out of antitrust fears and Bill Gates and Paul Allen do not win the associated $100 billion lottery.

The idea that Gates is the shining light that's allowed the world to have progress is even more laughable. The man was in the right place at the right time and milked his monopoly very successfully. That's been great for him and MS but in all likelihood has been to the detriment of the rest of the society.

He's giving back a lot now and that's commendable but let's not get carried away.
If find yourself wanting for a piece of paper to enumerate your rights for you (I know I certainly do not), you can do a hell of a lot better than the US constitution. That document is primarily just a set of rules for a government, not a declaration of rights.

For starters, check out the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is an easy read and meant for all people, not just those who happen to reside in a specific geographic area.

My rule of thumb though? If you think a piece of paper is something that grants you a right, then it's clearly not a fundamental right.
ah, it was "We the [non-native][male][land-owning][non-enslaved] people [between specific longitude and latitudinal points][that aren't corporations, at least, for another hundred years][unless you are a slave owner, in which case multiply your the number of slaves you own by 0.6 and then add it to you (aka, +1)]".

We have been actively struggling and expanding just that alone for generations now.
It can do a lot more than that, but yeah that's definitely the first/primary job of a PCR machine.
I think when you provide people with absolutely no context like this, you're bound to get stupid answers. I feel like if you instead gave a list of things the government should do and asked people to allocate money to each, you would at least get answers that are sane, if not accurate.

And honestly, knowing this kind of stuff is kind of irrelevant anyway. The whole reason we have a representative democracy is so that ordinary citizens can delegate the specifics of government to experts.
This is how I've been paying my bills while I'm working on my startup (it's much better than consulting/freelancing). It's not as easy as it sounds. It took me almost a year to figure out the whole process (it's more than just software development), but I now just need to maintain my site and process orders. It takes about 2 hours of work a day.

You also need some sort of cash flow (or credit cards) to do any sort of arbitrage and you have to learn to not worry about the unknowns.

As an example, if you are arbitraging services and your service provider does a bad job, you are responsible for cleaning up. This may mean returning the customer's money (and getting your money back). But, after doing it for awhile, you can find good people to work with and reduce your risks.
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>I agree that someone has the right to do as they wish with their money, but that doesn't mean that be exercisingthat right they are doing the right thing.

When you make money legally and honorably as Jobs did, the "right thing" to do with your money is whatever you want to do with it. I think it's outrageous other people presume to tell the wealthy, especially the self-made wealthy, what they ought to do with their own assets.
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Most could be narrated with "Oh, now he's gone and done it, he's committed a patch that totally breaks the regression tests and introduces a major incompatibility bug. Yeah, this is going to be trouble down the road if he bundles up this and releases it as a...oh no. Are you seeing that? It's up, it's being downloaded already, and it's only a matter of time until the issues start coming in. Ted? What's your take?"
We already do, especially for rabies.
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Gates didn't give away $28 billion. That's the foundation's endowment, from which they "give away" the annual returns (~5% iirc).
Which might explain why Jefferson left only debts.
Sure, here's the source: https://gist.github.com/1609919
Also requires jQuery.

I access it like this: http://domain.com/notepad?key=yoursecret

The JS checks to see if the contents of the textbox has changed, and if it has, it makes a POST request via AJAX to the server that saves it to a text file.
The point of contention is the decapitated dog. The actual neck of the dog is never shown. At points it lifts its head. The "explanation" is that it's a sedated dog with its body covered up.
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I don't mean time-cards are scary, but that companies that employ them tend to be exceedingly bureaucratic. First it's time-cards. Then it's catching crap for spending 65 minutes on a 60 minute lunch break. Next you'll be getting reports on missing your start clock by a few minutes here and there.
Where are you located? My cynical side tells me that a large 5 digit wouldn't last 24 month in the silicon valley for just the living costs. This might apply to most startup hubs, such as NYC/London.
I've got a 90m^2 flat next to the beach, a car, a girlfriend who has no income since November, a cute dog :-) and money in the bank. All paid with my less than 40k€/year income. Of course this is not The Valley, this is Barcelona.

I didn't know that living there was so expensive, I'm sorry for you :-(
No problem, Hopper might not be for you. However, I've gotten a lot of requests re: emailing updates, so I will consider it!

Let me say, though, that I absolutely respect your privacy and have no intention of looking at your data. It's as private as you want it to be. I'm also happy to put this in the TOS.

Exporting is another story as its easier said than done. Emailing you the pastes periodically (optionally), however, may alleviate that problem.
Spend 20 years traveling when you are young, then work until 65 and then die. Boom, aging is no longer a problem.
On top of that there has been heavy use of Python for longer than Ruby.
Bill Gates kept $60 billion in stock and wrote a $30 billion check in public. Lives in a $150 million mansion.

Steve Jobs kept $7 billion in stock, wrote no public check anyone is aware of. Lived in an upscale but normal house and left the back door unlocked.

I guess the hero is the guy who wants his picture taken handing out turkeys on thanksgiving? I mean clearly Steve Jobs could have demanded $50 more billion from Apple and then given half of that away to be a great philanthopist but because he didn't he's a bad guy? I call shenanigans.
The DMCA wasn't bad because of safe harbor. It is bad because of its onerous anti-circumvention provisions. I actually think DMCA safe harbor is reasonably well-balanced, and is the reason why SOPA is entirely unnecessary. DMCA safe harbor is adequate. SOPA is a petulant fit by the media industry, not good law.
> They got equally high marks because they were good at passing exams.

I don't understand how this makes sense, unless being "good at passing exams" means "cheating". Can anybody explain? I hear this said so often, and I usually chalk it up to the speaker rationalizing his own poor scores.

My CS exams were always hard, and the only way to "get good" at passing them was to learn the material.
Since this article talks about the constitution, I wanted to quote the preamble to the bill of rights. Since this set of amendments was enacted, as part of the deal to get the constitution passed, it is illustrative of the perspective of right at the time of adoption of the constitution.

"THE Conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution"

In other words, the Bill of Rights was enacted "in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers". This is referring to the limited powers granted to the government in the constitution. Notice, the preamble doesn't say "in order to grant rights...". The bill of rights contains "further declaratory and restrictive clauses".

Thus, these clauses are not designed to create or grant rights, but are of a "declaratory and restrictive" nature.

The constitution does not create any rights. There is no such thing, in the american form of government, as "constitutional rights". People often use this phrase when referring to the Bill of Rights, but it is imprecise, because the Bill of Rights doesn't grant rights. IT doesn't say "the people shall have the right of free speech", instead it says "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;"

The right of free speech, as recognized by the First Amendment, precedes and predates the constitution.

The constitution is a document constructed under a theory of natural rights, by a group of men, many of whom had just fought off a government they considered oppressive because it didn't recognize their natural rights.

Every right, IP, or not, precedes the constitution, they are not granted by the constitution.

Thus, where the constitution says:
"The Congress shall have Power ... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

The use of the word "securing" is deliberate.

I'm not going to debate whether intellectual property is a natural right or not. (But I wonder, if you come up with an invention but don't tell anybody, isn't that a natural property right? I mean, to say that you don't' have a right to it, would be to say that others have the right to forcibly take it from you, wouldn't it?)

My point is simply that the constitution doesn't grant any rights, rights precede it. The constitution gives the federal government limited and enumerated powers. And the federal government does not have the power to pass SOPA, both because there is no enumerated power to do what it does, and because the first amendment forbids it.

The question of whether IP is a natural right is a separate one, and opposition to soap on constitutional grounds does not imply conceding it, or not.
Well, hard to say seeing as how the jury's still out on exactly what happened.

If it was a rogue team in Google, there are a few things that come to mind:

- Google needs to refund all customers they acquired via this process and alert them that they were duped.

- Google needs to call every single business that the rogue team called and inform of what happened, and that Google is not affiliated with Mocality in any way whatsoever. Any fraudulent or deceptive claims that Google allegedly made against Mocality also needs to be addressed and recanted - to every single business that Google scraped and called.

A blanket apology and correction, on a site that the vast majority of these businesses will never read, is simply a cop out and wholly insufficient.
He said he was looking for a co-founder...I'm sure he was offering a great package with a valuable equity stake (10%) vesting over 5 years with a 1 year cliff </sarcasm>
see federalist papers number 51 and 10 to see the thoughts on the constitution and human rights. Items covered include civil rights, religious freedoms, minority rights, the tyranny of the majority, balancing the power of conflicting classifications of rights, etc ...
From a technical perspective, littering your URLs with implementation debris is not a good idea. What if you want to revamp the site, put it in a shiny CMS, and now it's in PHP or JSP or does it even matter? You have all these references to `index.html` you have to maintain or you'll be wrecking your linkage.

Bury those. If you're doing a plain HTML site, use MultiViews to hide the extensions. They're not important to the content.

When I see `index.html` in a URL, it's never a good sign. It's done by a sloppy "web designer" that knows how to use DreamWeaver and FTP things to the server. They make a tremendous mess for the next team that has to come along and somehow upgrade the site without breaking everything.

It's not 1998 any more. You can afford to script your pages, have clean URLs, and still get great performance.
I'm impressed (though not particularly surprised) at how well the Viaweb home page has aged. It's a good example of an observation from pg's "Taste for Makers" (http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html):

Good design is timeless.

Indeed. Well done.

N.B. The press release for tlb's graduation propagates one of the John Harvard Statue's famous Three Lies: Harvard was founded in 1636 and not, as reported on the statue and in the release, in 1638. Minor error, or sly joke? We may never know for sure.
I see no use case for this. You must be masters of both languages after this project.
It's about hiding implementation. If you access an object only through methods then the implementation can change without the client code having to know or care (aka be recompiled)
Not an economist here, so can anyone explain why this happened, what exactly does this change now, and how does this affect the future?
Most large multinationals, almost definitely.
> Let me say, though, that I absolutely respect your privacy and have no intention of looking at your data. It's as private as you want it to be. I'm also happy to put this in the TOS.

OP's issue wasn't so much privacy as it was permanency, as I read it. So using Gmail, I can rest assured that in five year's time my documents will still be around, just as they are today. Whereas with a new service, who's to say what lies in store for it? What if you pivot? What if you're acquired? Unfortunately a service like Gmail wins in this context.
I agree, the ideal offIce has a mix of both. It's great to have an area where everyone can chat and come up with ideas, but after that I want a deep, dark cave with impenetrable force fields and intra-office IM and email forbidden by nazi firewalls. I've taken to coming in on Saturdays just so I can get a solid 5-hour chunk of work done without interruption.
Isn't similar technology used to great extent during difficult surgeries? Where the patient is basically dead and all the life functions such as breathing and blood circulation are performed by machines.
>My rule of thumb though? If you think a piece of paper is something that grants you a right, then it's clearly not a fundamental right.

All rights, natural or legal only exist so long as they are protected. The Bill of Rights is a promise by the US Government to protect those rights stated.

The fact that a particular right is promised to be upheld in a document has no bearing on whether it is a 'natural' or 'legal right'.
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