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Well we're not talking simple methods that are breaking. It's generally UI stuff that is under specified or places where the Oracle JVM uses native code, etc.
That's rough dude.

The best I can say is at least you have relatively secure and decent-paying employment at the end of the road, but I know that isn't much consolation.
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The first meeting is on February 7th in Santa Monica:

http://www.meetup.com/codeyear/Los-Angeles-CA/
> That said, I don't think that you are fully understanding the amount of time and money that corporate interests put into politics.

Why would you think that? Based off my few comments, that didn't' touch on this? It's an absurd assumption to make, if I might be so bold. I'm not blind to the amount of pressure people at corporations put into politics. However, I'm not blinded by the fact that they are, in fact, people, and not some faceless corporation.

> No problem, I'm used to dealing with your type. Sometimes I can even be that way given circumstances.

My type? Hopeful? Polite? Intelligent? Not blinded?

Why thank you. May you continue to strive to be like me, as you seem to want.
Same here. It'd be great to put up some HTML5 Geolocation as a choice for users to select (obviously, not requested by default, since that'd be an obtrusive behavior for a widget.)
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They have people whose entire job is solely to understand the significance of announcements like this, if developers understood better then they would just hire developers. Either that is true, and they hired developers whose entire job is to evaluate the impact of things like this, or else developers aren't as good at predicting the effect of announcements like this. It would be extremely foolish to assume that people wielding literally billions of dollars are too stupid to ask the right people before deciding how to value something.
I think you underestimate the degree of technological infrastructure needed to support modern living. Our food, homes, water, sanitation, etc. are all produced through a world spanning industrial supply chain. Without that support structure civilization would collapse to a tiny fraction of the current population, especially in cities. The industrial infrastructure to support a Mars colony is cetainly different and in some aspects more modern than that necessary to support New York City, but that difference is much less extreme than the difference between what it takes to support NYC today and what it took to support human civilization a few centuries ago.

Once off Earth colonization takes off that distinction will seem less and less significant over time.
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Your statement about the law is for the most part not true. There's a much more in-depth discussion of this at this older HN posting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3227980

I agree with you that yahoo should have sold to microsoft, by the way. But the legal duty to maximize value bit is just not accurate.
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Tough to argue that turning down $33 for the current $15.50 was best for shareholders.

Well it's not always that simple. Hindsight is of course 20/20, but at that time he may have thought that Yahoo was worth more than $33 and/or had a plan to get them there. Oddly enough, the MS offer could be used to help prove his point. Here is an outside company offering to buy Yahoo for much more than the current price so there is definitely value here that they were not leveraging.

With Yahoo up 3% on the news it'll be interesting to see what the future holds.
Etherpad with a bit of sexiness. Would love to see this contributed back to the open source community from where it came.
It's great to see such projects being created even while so few have access to the beta boards. I'm very interested to see what the community produces once the first batch are sold and in the hands of users.
You know they can turn that right back around on the tech industry, right?
i'd like to do 22K in a month. If I did that much, I think i'd travel a year off more often. :-)
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I suggest creating a list of special interest groups (strong pro- or anti-) paired with websites supporting their view that is a potential SOPA target. This list could be used by activists to inform each of these organizations of the risk that SOPA could effectively make it possible for their opposers to censor these websites with a false takedown request.

This would essentially reframe the issue from a piracy/copyright violation issue to a censorship issue. It would then be a censorship bill, not a jobs bill.
See the response just below
I'm really disappointed there wasn't more information on what he was running, this is something I'd love to set up on my own, with or without the Rasperry Pi.
Isn't it kinda odd one has to run rails to run it locally though as opposed to like.. Noir or some such?
This is on our to-do list for tonight. Thanks for the feedback. =)
> Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

I can see why Occam's Razor should be accepted at face value, but Hanlon's appears to be just a just-so idea without any logical foundation other than appealing to certain human prejudices.

In any event, "Google detractors" can say whatever they want, but to claim that people running Google are "stupid" or that the company is governed by a mindset characterized by "stupidity" is really hard to swallow.
I checked out Confluence earlier this year and wasn't too impressed at all. So agreed, it would be great for something better to come along!
I don't think that's exactly it (though I don't understand the down votes you're getting). The bigger issue is proving the lies. The problem we have is that people allow their leaders to be vague and imprecise. Whether or not something is truthful becomes largely based on interpretation and perspective. The art of bullshit elevated to a career.
Why is PIPA referred to as "SOPA"'s little sister? Does that reflect the changes proposed by the managers' amendments? Both bills need to pass their chambers for any part of SOPA to become law.
"It's possible someone somewhere will die"

That's a bit extreme isn't it? But if Wikipedia (or any other site) is that important of a resource, imagine what would happen if it disappeared as a result of being blacklisted by SOPA/PIPA or an equivalent piece of legislation.

They're perfectly in their right to advocate against a misguided effort that could threaten and impair their ability to function/exist.
You don't expect JavaScript to be available but make it a nice-to-have rather than a dependency

This one needs to be let go of, it is no longer a best practice and it is the norm among many of the most advanced web apps available to not only require JavaScript, but make it the core architectural underpinning of the solution. The days of web apps working without JavaScript have passed.

As of late, the market has refined itself into Web Sites and Web Apps. For web sites a CMS solution should be utilized, but for web apps, more and more it is refining it's own client side toolkits with HTML, CSS and JavaScript becoming the tools of choice.
Jimmy Wales: The best argument you can make against SOPA
"...stunts that punish their users or turn them into their corporate pawns"

But totally cool to pay for government pawns.
I wonder how many people said these same words to Larry Page and Sergey Brin back in 1997.

And that was when Yahoo's brand meant something!
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Yep. Clojure, Lua & Retro. The last is crap and I can't wait to get a real useful FORTH on my Android.
That is a good point, and I agree with your argument that this boycott is a significant turning point for Wikipedia and other websites. If we think about the reason that the boycott exists, however, which is the danger that this legislation will allow Wikipedia to be taken offline without adequate recourse, then suggesting that "it is possible that someone somewhere" will die because of the blackout could similarly lead to an argument like, "if SOPA is passed, it is possible that someone somewhere will die" due to the Wikipedia (or some other website) being taken offline.
What I love about that quote is it could clearly be used to condem the PSAs they've been playing in theaters and tacking on DVDs quite some time now. For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE9-W9JNjio
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As the person who chose that wording:

It's not supposed to be a serious remark. People have been been referring to PIPA as the little sister, merely because SOPA is the more commonly known piece of legislation. (I chose to keep SOPA the focus, even though it's been temporarily shelved, just because it's the signature phrase in this whole ordeal.)

Also, I think it's kind of funny to call PIPA the evil little sister, and I hope a little levity makes this grave ordeal easier for everyone.
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I don't think "fixing" Yahoo ought to be as difficult as people make it seem. It's still a well regarded brand, and many millions rely on it for email and as a homepage. It's finance section remains extremely popular. They purchased Sportacular, the app I use to keep track of games.
Theyve just been very poorly managed. They acquired companies like delicious and Flickr, one they let wilted and the other they never really integrated into their platform- Flickr just feels like a freestanding entity.
They should cut out the garbage that doesnt get many users and should focus on their prized assets. They should push ahead in developing unique content for their viewers. It may be too late to get into the mobile OS game, but TV is still pretty wide open and Yahoo can really do something here, using their existing assets and by further developing or partnering with content providers.
I'm hopeful.
I don't think agile methods necessarily rule out planning. It's possible to combine Waterfall and Agile within the same project, so long as you are clear about what you are trying to achieve.

When I embark on a new project, it's routine for me to spend a couple of weeks with the customer sounding out their requirements and helping them form an initial vision of what they want the software to do. (Big companies call this "business analysis".)

Once I'm reasonably certain what sort of thing the customer wants, I start work on the first "sprint". This first sprint is often quite a bit longer than subsequent sprints, and incorporates the holistic design phase you mention. It's not uncommon for me to spend a month designing and working on this first iteration.

The goal of this first iteration is to capture the essence of the vision without implementing the details. Only once the customer has viewed the results do I reduce the time for each sprint to a week. (I believe two weeks is more common, but this period suits me and seems to fit with what my customers want too.)

A dozen or so iterations/sprints later, and I tend to be done. At least for a while, anyway... inevitably a customer will decide they want another big feature and I start over with the business analysis and the long first iteration followed by shorter incremental steps.
Why is Darrell Issa, who has been so vocal against SOPA, backing this bill?
You're presenting a 'false dilemma':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma (link may be broken due to political protest)

The only people currently taking Wikipedia offline are Wikipedians themselves. Anything else is hypothetical and unlikely.
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But this is just the illustration of a high level management issue on a simpler level. As soon as there are some ultimate measurement tools in place the context is neglected an people focus on gaming up the numbers.
I resisted submitting this story because of its baiting headline, although I won't be surprised if it gets a lot of attention.

Setting aside the fact that the headline is demonstrably false (Wikipedia is certainly a 'big site'), it is curious to me how the language of the headline actually validates the 'internet blackout' even as it appears to disparage it. I don't believe that you typically see reports in major newswires when a petition 'fails' to succeed, as Reuters appears to be defining it here, and yet here we are.
I just moved here, so I'm getting to know the neighbours. One of them had a wi-fi problem. It turns out his TP-Link admin interface relies on JavaScript to function. He uses the No-Script Firefox extension. He's a retired chairman of a PVC company, who moved to the Canary Islands for his sabbatical. Judging by the house, he's part of the addressable market.

I think it makes sense that high-value employees with access to sensitive information get basic cybersecurity education. Therefore, some of them block JavaScript.
My understanding is that responsive layouts is a big part of the 2.0 of Twitter Bootstrap. Did you evaluate it or the 1.0 version?
Looks like a great service.

Q - I couldn't find any docs on site to get started with an iOS app. All I could find is Chrome & Android tutorials.
This is my issue with HTML5 bridges as well. My PhoneGap project ground to a halt due to intermittent WebKit crashes. I'm trying to chase down JS memory leaks by hand, but put simply, the UIWebView debugging options suck.
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We use the same approach on Feedity - http://feedity.com and offer users 'signup & save' option at the end of the flow.
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I really like the execution of this. It's like the Quick Notes web extension, however my beef with Quick Notes app is that I've lost some notes because I didn't realize that there might be a maximum character limit (not sure if there is or if my notes got wiped some other way).
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mijlebbfndhelmdpml...

Could you make this into a Chrome web app, please?
Here's an 1883 US Supreme Court case on licensing a patent: http://scholar.google.ca/scholar_case?case=85702692636686956...

Licensing law has really only taken off in the 20th century I believe, but there's older stuff that's very related.

Courts have long been troubled by licensing/assignment issues. IP is a "chose in action", and it's something that's more general. The older issue is about assigning debts. Here's an old Ontario law based on a UK statute I believe that allows for a certain kind of assignment after 1897: http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/statutes/english/elaws_stat....
In case anyone missed the reason the MPAA has no solid numbers to back up their case:

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

(Not available on the 18th though... :-)
It was great to see the progression of this game over the course of the weekend. Nice work, guys!
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If you really want to stay travelling for a long time and you want to stay for extended periods in places which don't have amazing internet you should consider getting some other skills. Going from national capital to major population centre is all well and good but you will only see amount of the planet that way. Consider welding, electrical or diesel engine repair as skills you can get employed with pretty much anywhere. Sure, you may not make a consultants salary but those sorts of skills generally pay more than enough to live on comfortably practically everywhere in the world.

Food for thought if you want to spend a lifetime on the road instead of just a year.
Just to be clear, I don't support SOPA/PIPA, and I'm all in favor of the blackouts. I don't think it's an abuse of power. As a display of power, it's a little bit unsettling. Ask yourself, if Wikipedia went dark over something you didn't agree with, would you be OK with that? Along the same lines, are you OK with them not going dark about other things you may care about?
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Well, Incanter (http://incanter.org/) uses Parallel Colt (https://sites.google.com/site/piotrwendykier/software/parall...) which, in turn and if I'm not mistaken, uses BLAS, LAPACK etc.
I'm planning on adding more providers. I've been focused on coding and should be getting back to collecting provider data shortly.
I'd be happy to see the RIAA and MPAA blackout forever.
Summary as of 20:14 EST, Jan 17, 2012:

Sorted by number of votes, then alphabetically:

Python - 14
Ruby - 7
C# - 6
C++ - 5
Haskell - 5
Java - 5
PHP - 5
C - 3
Scheme - 3
ActionScript - 2
Common Lisp - 2
JavaScript - 2
Perl - 2
ABAP - 1
Assembly - 1
BlitzMax - 1
CL (OS/400) - 1
F# - 1
Go - 1
Groovy - 1
Io - 1
Korn shell - 1
Logo - 1
Oberon - 1
Objective C - 1
Self - 1
Smalltalk - 1
Tcl - 1

Alphabetical Order

ABAP - 1
ActionScript - 2
Assembly - 1
BlitzMax - 1
C - 3
C# - 6
C++ - 5
CL (OS/400) - 1
Common Lisp - 2
F# - 1
Go - 1
Groovy - 1
Haskell - 5
Io - 1
Java - 5
JavaScript - 2
Korn shell - 1
Logo - 1
Oberon - 1
Objective C - 1
Perl - 2
PHP - 5
Python - 14
Ruby - 7
Scheme - 3
Self - 1
Smalltalk - 1
Tcl - 1

All the rest of the languages received 0 votes.

Also mentioned below were Arc, Clojure, Morpho, and O'Caml, though it wasn't clear whether they were mentioned for the sake of completeness or because they were someone's favorite language. So I'm not listing them as receiving any votes.
Thank you for making this. I really like it.

A long time ago in a startup far far away a friend and I built something like this. Ours was nowhere near as elegant. We would look for CamelCaseWords to kick off the autocomplete but your use of @ is much better.

Delightful moments: pasting an image url embeds the image. Consider letting me backspace the image to get back to the url.

The multi-user edit seemed very smooth. Better than collabedit to this user.

The task list is nice. I'd love to have a title to the task list and be able to query for and surface all task lists across pages.

Please consider supporting #hashtags if only so you can show a tag cloud. The built-in search is great.

I couldn't figure out how to link to a person.

Finally, for users who login with their own email address, please consider letting them in right away. At most have the confirmation step be something they can complete later. Eliminate friction at every turn.

All in all a really nice product.
Having lived in Silicon Valley, Seattle and Austin, my estimation is that the amount of money required for a family to live the same lifestyle (owning similar level home, access to good schools, reasonable commute, etc.) in Austin as in Silicon Valley / SF is at least 2x. I'd estimate the differential to be significantly less for someone single or DINK.
I know there is RIAA-less music and people have made RIAA-less music discovery services. Is there a MPAA-less movie industry?
This is the danger of relying on a single financial measure to determine the health of a company. That's like only using a person's weight to determine if they're fat or skinny, when it also depends on how tall they are, their gender, the amount of muscle they have, etc.

Their net income may have increased, but they did it by selling businesses (Hotjobs and Zimbra) and cutting costs (sales and marketing and product development) dramatically. Their revenues have dropped considerably, and they have had a humungous brain drain. The 2011 estimates for annual revenues are $4.4 billion, down from $6.3 billion in 2010 and from $7.2B in 2008. That's a plunge of 30% YoY.

This is what a death spiral is. They achieved profitability by hacking and slashing. At some point, which was likely already passed, you cut to the bone, and you no longer can sustain a viable company, and the pace of decline gets quicker.
Pretty much any offer to acquire a significant public company is going to be made at a significant premium to the share price at the time of the offer. Saying MS offered to acquire at a significant premium reduces to saying merely that MS made an offer to acquire.
So Wikipedia and Reddit aren't big?
Came across Dropbox integration but couldn't see it doing anything.
Of course. I certainly wouldn't take anything away from Dr. King's ability to improvise, based on previously existing phrases. I could even believe that he changed some words, etc, in the strenuous editing process described.

The principle that the ghostwriter does not exist is certainly a well-known principle. It may even be a legal principle. The Supreme Court may endorse it unanimously - the Pope, himself, declare it infallibly correct.

This doesn't necessarily make it a true, valid, good or appropriate principle, however. For instance, there is no real trace of this species of professional ventriloquist in any century but the 20th - and very little before the middle 20th. The first US president to use ghostwriters routinely was FDR, and his listeners were by no means regularly reminded of the practice.

In previous eras, the idea that any public figure, other than an actual actor, would be reciting someone else's words, would have been thought ridiculous and pathetic. Pitt the Younger didn't employ a speechwriter. Nor did Gladstone, Cromwell, Lincoln, Elizabeth I, etc, etc.
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I totally agree, and it makes me sad.

Just because some snake-oil salesmen are selling it, doesn't mean it's snake-oil, it just means that opportunists smell an opportunity. The altruists who are trying to improve the state of the art are still out there, if you know where to look.
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"A boy testifying in court after murdering his parents, begging mercy on the grounds of being an orphan."

Canonical example of chutzpah.
This is great. Docs, for me, are so much better with examples. I'm not the biggest PHP fan but their community powered docs never left me wondering how to use, and alternative uses for, a function.
Yes. I would. Whether it's something I agree with or not, they're an independent entity. It might change whether I'm willing to do business with them, but I'm not going to wail and rant and piss and moan. They're under no obligation to provide service to me NOR are they a necessity.