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When you reach a certain size, no amount of due diligence on your part can ensure that your changes aren't going to break something in some other part of the code base without automated tests. Do you think Google or Amazon gets by without unit tests?
I believe it is done to keep people from promoting links in the Ask HN. From the Guidelines:

"Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary to links. The text field is for starting discussions. If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead. "
Really? Okay, well is it okay to paraphrase someone else's thesis paper and submit it as your own? You've changed every word but did none of the research. That's kind of how Zynga operates. When you plagiarized the thesis you typed every word into your text editor, obtained the original work, transcribed it as your own, printed it and handed it in but really, you didn't do the work. Zynga codes the games and changes the graphics ever so slightly then publishes the games but they don't do the real work. They're like every other scum developer that blatantly leeches off the success of another, barely making an effort to make it their own.
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Things aren't as cut and dry with legal traditions. I'm sure there are tons of scraps of legal language that remain in use only because it's traditional and few people know any better. Like some kind of legal shibboleth.

Like coderdude said above[1], whenever you see "All Rights Reserved"[2] you're seeing it in action.

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3541501
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_rights_reserved
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We do not have this right now - you have to call the external server directly, and then that external server can call Parse. We do want to make something like this work once we figure out how to do it right.
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They were 50 meters away last year. January 2012 they were 29. Looks like they still have another year or two to go.
We're thinking about it. Some components would be easier than others to decouple from our scaling systems, so it's a tricky technical question.
I'm not saying they're not useful, pinterest is hardly a giant in my opinion, they do one thing and clearly do it well. I'm sure their position on unit tests will change, hopefully before they are burned.
Taskwarrior is pretty cool... it has a fully command line based interface.
IIRC they have an app-list at the bottom of each of their games, that they can use to introduce users to any new creation. I assume they probably have ads up as well. Copying enables them to make a game that has already been proved and simply leverage their existing user base to get views. Other companies do their research for them. I think their ability to leverage their user base explains them getting 'greater success'.

What could go wrong?

They could make a bad copy, but they already should have enough in-house skill to make the suckiest game pretty polished. They have tons of reusable code. Tons of cash.

They could copy a game but miss out on some secret sauce that makes the original work better. I think they can control this by releasing to smaller groups and fixing mistakes early, or just dump a game if there's no traction.

So...what else could go wrong when copying a game?
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If normal comments can have linkified texts, why not the Ask HN? I strongly believe that linkification will really help everyone.
It doesn't matter in the real world.

I'm pretty sure no one even bothers checking if javascript is disabled. I know you can't access Facebook without it (or at least with Lynx); doesn't that exclude basically every web app?
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Haha those were the ones I understood! I was explaining for anyone else.
It's (as I understand it) legally meaningless, but it's not "meaningless": it's a socially acceptable way to express the sentiment of "this is not open source or in any way something I am sharing with the public". Avoiding confusion is a good thing. It's like the opposite of a GPL COPYING file.
I almost upvoted because it's a very interesting/funny quote in many ways... but it doesn't actually have any bearing here, does it? Would love if you'd explain further why it does, if at all.
Compulsory licensing. Shorter copyright terms. These are the reasonable responses.

In politics, you've got to define the playing field if you want to win. If you let the big copyright holders do all the defining, we get more of what we've gotten. We need a different viewpoint to balance things out.
Yeah, going to clean up the code and put it up.
so true ....
But doing what you described with the paper, certainly would be considered cheating by a university. But, what is morally wrong about that? What makes the university rules, the correct rules to act by? Certainly, if you choose to go to a University you are agreeing to follow their rules, but outside of breaking your agreement with the university, what is wrong about that?

Why can't we use other people work to create our own. If someone took my thesis and turned it in and got an A, I would be psyched for them and happy they used my work. It doesn't hurt me at all.
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Ads on other websites is definitely lucrative business, but if you want to make a parallel to Google, adsense only makes up 28% of total revenue [1]. This makes me kind of skeptical that a similar system for Facebook would double or triple their revenue. It's definitely possible that the parallel is wrong though.

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Pretty cool. I agree with all the other suggestions given so far. Also, what tools were/are you using to learn javascript?
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If I could make two recommendations,

One would be to have a mens section of the site, or a filter for mens items.

Additionally, I would recommend a little more emphasis on the ui design. At the moment, I would place it at good enough.

Customers coming to the site are looking for fashionable clothes, so your web design has to match that.
Ben, this sounds very useful. Do you have any screenshots of it in action?
Many schools do it. Michigan is the only one who's point system was made public. But you are right, there are some who don't do this.
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damn, and here i thought i was "safe".

but apparently someone said its a repeat, and a fake, and yet offers no explanation why. Do you know why?
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A diagram demonstrating a series of functional/spatial relationships is the most distant thing from design in architecture. Although the relationships are important and may need to be maintained for the project, they rarely map literally into the projects actual physical embodiment.

Architecture is an utterly holistic process that unifies physical structure, conceptual structure, aesthetics, finishes, functional programming (space planning), user experience into a physical entity that can be deciphered by its users. Designing a house "like a web application" addresses only one tiny part of this process. Maybe the author intended this as a critique of the process of designing a web app (I'm not sure, his conclusion was very brief) being too limited in its scope.
Given that Google has made a ton of huge bets but doesn't make a dime outside of advertising, it is hard to think Facebook will move the needle with an alternative revenue stream. Even if they hit a Groupon sized home run with an alternative revenue stream, it only moves the valuation by 10-20%.

I think on balance mobile is not really an opportunity. They are losing the game revenue to the mobile/tablet platforms and in-app mobile monetization is a minimal opportunity for a task based application.

I don't use facebook, but can you explain what it means to be working on payments? I thought that was just their taking a 30% cut on game payments on their platform. That kind of margin doesn't exist for more general "payments".

Even with all my negativity, I am still cautiously bullish on Facebook. They are only making 50 cents/month per active user. I see no reason they can't double that.
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If you want to understand you have to start by doing one thing: stop taking copyright for granted, and imagine it as not a fixture of reality, not like a basic law of physics -- because it isn't.

Copyright is a law we have made, and those who reject it see it as bad and unjustified.

Who said it isn't "a law we have made"?

I surely did not. I would also drop the patronizing "If you want to understand" start.

I know fully well that copyright is not a physical law.

Access to free copies of things someone else created and sells is not a physical law either. It's something some people want.

I (and the law) happen to find the rights of the creators regarding the distribution and sale of their creation, to be more fundamental than the rights of people merely wanting to have those creations.

And, what I set up to do above is not prove that the copyright law is just or correct as it is, but that some arguments against it (those I examine) don't hold much water.

From a principled position it is basically immoral, and from a pragmatic position it is unproven by evidence

It's a law. It cannot be "unproved by evidence", because it does not make an observation to prove or disprove, but declares how some things are to work.
Even a totally arbitrary law, like: "Every person wearing red should be jailed" cannot be "unproved by evidence".

As for the "basically immoral" you make it sound like a statement of fact. It is not. Lots of people, including legislators, don't see it as immoral.

If a law is not justified and well-founded we really ought not to have it. Is that not important?

Of course. But it must be proved that it's not justified. I don't see many arguments in your comment. You write, for example:

From the anti position, all the notions of 'stealing', 'losses', 'will of the creator' no longer exist -- they are entirely dependent on accepting the copyright concept. If there is no copyright, there is no stealing, losses, or primacy of creator's will.

The same holds true for everything, even for murder. All the notions of murder being bad and illegal depend on the acceptance of the "life is a right" concept. Which is a societal concept, no much concern in raw nature about killing and eating other animals or even your own species.
They will be able to exert any control they want on the Windows Phone through Microsoft. Also, what prevents them from showing ads in mobile apps? They did a great work locking everyone out of functionality that would enable direct FB access, app developers can only access FB as an FB app, so no ad-less competition there.
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Have you tried viper mode, etc?
You can only submit a link once to HN. Ask HN is not for promotion and having linkified text will promote abuse. If your post is worthy of having a link, someone else will post a linked comment for you. It's like the wikipedia rule of not editing your own article - it works just fine.
I did. In fact, I used viper mode (vimpulse) for about three weeks before deciding it was worth a shot to just try vim proper. I haven't really looked back. Viper was alright, but there were far too many moving parts in that setup.
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For a "leaked memo", this sure reads a lot like a press release.
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It is not impossible to have a large code base without unit tests. I'm sure my employer's code base is in the millions of LOC. At least 99% is not covered by unit tests. Probably 99.9%.
Very cool idea. My one suggestion would be to add an email signup to your homepage. Something along the lines of:

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You could also add a form to the individual show pages by simply replacing "shows" with "episodes".
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Upvoted just for this absolute gem:

[...] it also depends on where you are on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The lower on the pyramid your product is, the crappier it can look. If your product is core to helping people make money, pirate movies, or sell your useless couch, you don’t need a designer. But if you’re high on the pyramid, ugly/clunky UI makes it impossible to for people to see your vision.

Never heard this advice in reference to Maslow, but it's truth! I should print this up on cards and give it to a load of my tech and designer friends.

The entire "It's like [Craigslist/Amazon/eBay]... but with a beautiful design/UI!" fallacy falls to its knees with this paragraph.
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It's not okay to plagiarise someone else's thesis paper, because the entire point of a thesis paper is to demonstrate your own ability to think/research/etc. If you plagiarise a paper you can fully expect your university/college/school to reject the paper, and you suffer the consequences.

I don't think the same set of moral constraints apply in Zynga's case. They aren't trying to prove themselves to some 3rd party. The whole point of Zynga is to make money for the people who own and work at Zynga. And apparently duplicating other people's games is working pretty well as a way of meeting that objective. There's definitely nothing noble about what they're doing. And I don't know how much effort they are putting in, but certainly seem to be doing what they are doing (which is distributing games, not producing innovative games) better than everyone else.
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Wouldn't it be nice if governments worked like this?
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agree good advice for filters as well, check out www.Streeteasy.com as a good example of this.
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Why can't we use other people work to create our own. If someone took my thesis and turned it in and got an A, I would be psyched for them and happy they used my work. It doesn't hurt me at all.

The problem is that Zynga isn't operating in a vacuum. Sales lost to Zynga do hurt someone else.

In the University paper example, how would you feel if the number of A grades available were limited, and because someone copied a previous year's A-paper, someone who deserved an A now received a B? What if that person was you?

There's a spectrum between inspiration and impersonation, and Zynga is clearly on the impersonation side. IMO, it's extremely disingenuous of Pincus to try to pass of his game as somehow derivative of Sim Tower or Yoot Tower. I'm surprised he wrote a memo at all, considering that Zynga employees aren't stupid - they know what brings in the money, and it isn't coming up with fun, novel, interesting games that are built upon the shoulders of giants.
nope and theres the rub....this problem has been trying to be solved for a while...
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I can write Java code that will not surprise me with unexpected copies, contain huge memory problems (GC does have edge cases, but if you throw that in I will throw in "non-trivial memory management in C++ when 'just use a smart pointer' doesn't work" and you don't come out ahead at all), or surprise me greatly with the memory model. It doesn't have a huge syntax, and the language doesn't get 50% bigger on every release of the syntax. Many Java programmers can answer questions that go quite deep into how Java works.

I don't like or use Java, and it isn't perfect by any means. My point is just how far I didn't have to go down the list of "mainstream languages" before your claim is completely false. C++ is an outlier.

C also has the memory leaking issue, but the rest is false as well. Though in the memory model case it's by virtue of not having one.

And that's sticking with a very generous-for-you interpretation of "mainstream". If I'm allowed to dip down to Python or something you're even worse off.
It's a good point but there's a huge field of potential software and opportunity out there that we programmers are not the users of. Who should build it then?
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The reason I ask is because I am aspired to work in startup and want to know whether I should keep developing my .NET skills or start learning Rails, iOS, node... which seem to receive much attention from the HN community.
I see. I really didn't like viper mode (the little bit that I used it), but I occasionally do miss Vim.

I could never leave Emacs at this point, though. Elisp is just too great.
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I disagree with the comparison; IE to NS was ONE app.

This is an industry of blatant copying.

The "genre" you speak of is so shallow - whereas the "genre" of online/mobile games is a fucking galaxy by comparison.
I checked out the Curry Ferry demo site on my iPhone. It looked nice and was easy to browse.

In addition to the "Menu > 20% off for group guests" link at the top of the homepage, I would add it to the bottom as well. That will allow visitors who read through the restaurant's description to easily check out the menu without scrolling back up.
There is a recent Washington Post article that says they are on the verge of breaking thru.

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Start working really closely with someone who is a user.
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I'm going to guess the missing thing is that the legal department wasn't the one that implemented the autoupdating date.
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Maybe I should write down every thing I use for a day and glean ideas from that.
Woah. Micro? I'm playing the big numbers game with small amounts of customers ;)
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I don't get the username either.
Personally, I think Pincus wrote the memo intending for it to be leaked. I'd like to be wrong, but I'd be surprised if somewhere there's a Zynga engineer truly surprised that the design of their game isn't fresh and new.

I do wonder if there's any internal tension between design and development - surely there's someone there thinking "We're ripping of game X. This can't be right."