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Oh, please. I know lots of passionate people who are insanely smart and talented and "non-corporate" and still respect time-honored decorum. Why? Because enlightened and influential people choose their words very carefully to avoid acting like bullies.

This is indeed an open-and-shut case of blatant thievery and pathetic excuses and apologies, but let's not make it out to be the mother of all sins. 37signals will continue counting their millions in the morning and a light slap on the bare ass of a small-time thief would have been much more effective.

Somewhere else on this thread you called someone out on his/her analogies yet you invoke Samuel Clemons and George Carlin? Get it right, DHH is Andrew Dice Clay in this whole mess.
... Mobile, Alabama's Craigslist? What of it? Am I missing something?
I have had a similar more modest luck vector. The blogging got me selected for Google Summer of Code and opened doors for conferences, which lead to a book for Pearson.

Rather cyclic not that I think about it.
There's a difference between downloading music (albeit illegally) and taking someone else's work and trying to pass it off as your own. When I download a Duran Duran album, I don't post it on my website and claim that I made the album and attempt to sell it as my own (as much as I wish I was Simon LeBon).

This isn't an issue of piracy -- it's an issue of plagiarism, which is quite different in my opinion.
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"it's never a good idea to point a QR code to a fixed domain" why not?
Oh man. Well, that was embarrassing.
I wasn't talking about the suitability at all. I'm still learning so I can't comment on that, but it seems fine so far.

Maybe another way of thinking about it is: I wonder what it would be like when haskell gets to the point that an application written in haskell is distinct or ordinary because of what it does, not because it's written in haskell.

And that kind of goes back to the question during the talk: there's nothing distinctive about a website that sells dog food, so if people start choosing haskell for that kind of thing, that would be a turning point.
I said, "in public," and no, I have not heard anybody professional of stature rant like a baby like DHH did. Writing and speaking about your life and biz does not make you like George Carlin or Mark Twain. I do both of those things, and I am not even close to being the entertainer or cultural icons those people are. Nor does the fact that you talk about yourself and your accomplishments entitle you to belittle people or act like an idiot and pretend it's part of your profession.
I've had this happen and they were actually using a sizable amount of bandwidth.

The great thing about it, though, is that you can move your originals and change the hot linked images to something else. Like a message to their customers, gross pictures, etc. it can be a hilarious opportunity to mess with somebody who is stealing your stuff!
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What do you mean by larger than fractals?
Why? Who gives a shit, other than people who would rather talk about "professionalism" rather than, oh I don't know, actual Things That Are Happening?
Someone should have clued you in a long time ago: cussing in professional contexts is like the Hot Topic of edginess.

Your defense of DHH as an entertainer is hilarious. O'Reilly presents... An Evening with DHH.
Worst apology ever!
Hey, how's RAD? You guys rock, keep it up. =) Pretty much my heroes. The game industry is far better off due to your work.

On fractals -- I wish it had a clear definition. It's too subjective. For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal. By the popular definition, it seems fine for non-linear growth in the number of shapes vs the level. (Though not especially interesting.) But I agree more with your interpretation.
If /tmp fills up, things start mysteriously not working (a surprising number of things create temp files, including things you wouldn't expect to), so it needs to be on a partition that won't fill up. I usually put it in its own partition, so that accidentally filling up / won't bring cause mysterious problems.

/var should go on a separate partition so that the log files don't fill up the partition that /tmp is on. A server can easily generate large log files quickly, and it would be unfortunate if that caused the server to fail in weird ways at inconvenient times.
And the fact that the error bars are so large make the danger GREATER, not lesser.
I am not sure if people here acknowledge stealing/pirating movies/music as an acceptable act. What we want is for the movies that we genuinely purchase (be it as a DVD or a direct download), to be more accessible and available on different platforms. Or we want services that make these resources free and yet make a profit to the creators (youtube/pandora).
I believe that something I have already paid for should not be constrained to a device/platform and so will find ways to make it more shareable between devices/platform. I differ with the draconian laws used by the movie industry.

The thin line that separates the two things you are trying to compare is: In the case of movie/video sharing we are a customer (hopefully) of a service that is sold (music/movie) whereas in the case of copying a website, neither is the website selling their design nor is it in public domain for use.

I think it is ok to be inspired and create a "similar" design, but to plagiarize, is probably as pathtetic as it can get.
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They just try to pass laws to make interoperability (format shifting) a criminal offence.
How many reporters were beaten in Hungary?

Really no need to pass laws restricting reporters when you can just hit them instead.
Really? I can't think of anywhere I could go to buy DRMed music right now if I tried... iTMS watermarks music files, but they're not sold DRMed music files for years. Magnatune has _never_ sold DRMed files. ihearmusic.com - no drm. All the direct from artist music I've bought in the last few years - no drm. Soundcloud or artist "Pay what you want" deals - no drm. I can't recall having purchased any "big four" owned music directly online (as opposed to via someone like Apple), but at least in _my_ little world, DRM does appear to be dead...
I think that is a pretty good point, the matter of taking credit for the work.

How about using copyrighted music in your own YouTube video or something like that? If you give credit does that make a difference?
Disrupting traffic is a "rally the base" move. It energises supporters but pisses of moderates - note how the Seattle mayor had to break his support for the protesters following their act. Since the protesters' actions have material negative externalities they trigger a necessary cost-benefit analysis. I for one lose respect for someone who thinks they have to spit in my face to get my attention.

I agree regarding identifying press, but more so in terms of protesters donning it and this diluting the effect. I don't think the US is at the point of cattle-herding journalists yet.
Or, if curebit had put a credit at the bottom "design based on 37signals" would that have made a difference?
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His opinions on not rebasing onto master and instead merging are his own. Personally I find merging far more confusing in terms of understanding history graphs and always rebase before issuing a pull request. I think you will find that generally a lot of open source projects on Github have this practice of asking people to "please rebase your changes onto master so I can merge".

One practical reason is when doing bisects.

There are certainly two schools of thought on this, but "this is confusing to me so don't do it" shouldn't be considered a valid opinion.
I was skeptical as well, but it really is true. The labels gave it up years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management#DRM_a...
> with the added benefit that you can put pressure on the programmers because they are behind schedule from day one.

Are there still people who believe this works? I have been on teams who sometimes go into the super-effective mode where the team seems to work as one unstoppable goal-reaching mind. Yup, but this never happens due to external pressure, especially one perceived as bogus from the start.

"So you say we need to work "smarter not harder" because we are on "aggressive" schedule? Yeah, right. Can you please also hang some motivational posters around so we can watch them while we utilize the synergy to maximize shareholder value?"
Wouldn't it be more beneficial overall if you threw everyone into the same pool. Then the win chance as high as possible and anytime anyone wins, everyone wins? I don't really gamble, but if I did I'd try it as long as I felt sure I could trust the service.
Excellent resource. I am sure many people would want to help you finish it.
But how do you intend to take suggestions?
Comments on hackernews will not be efficient as the person would need to check your website and then come back here to add a comment. Very very inefficient and people would be discouraged.

May I suggest making a google doc(and making it public) or making a google sites. You can always point your webpage to that doc or site. That way you will have the original credit :)
I actually agree with you...at present, we do not have any great alternatives (on the basis of cost-effectiveness) - although nuclear energy is an up-and-coming candidate. However, I do think we should at least reduce foreign dependence on energy - it complicates our relationships, twists our political motives, and enriches countries with questionable motives. By some estimates, we have enough natural gas under native soil to make up for foreign oil several times over, only environmental regulations prevent tapping many of these resources.
Fair comments, and completely accurate. But you're responding to a post that was focused 100% on what our experience was when applying to an accelerator. So yes, it's going to sound like we're only talking about that stuff and not everything else that matters more (like execution). That's not the full picture of us and what we're working towards. We'll have future posts that are (hopefully) interesting and aren't at all about the accelerator process.

FWIW, though, it's hard to overestimate the value of getting into a program like TechStars. Forget about the money (although it's awesome that we have enough runway that we won't have to raise immediately following demo day if we don't want to). It's the network and relationships and simply amazing people that we get to meet. Of course that's not enough, but it's crazy valuable. I know for sure that we're already more successful because of it.

Thanks for the comments!
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Now you're not even trying to conceal your trolling. Keep it civil or buzz off.
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Keep in mind that DDG's url is duck.co and .com is still the default, in most people's mind.

Also, consistent usually means uncontested and unambiguous, rather than representing some quantity.

Edit: DDG's url is not actually duck.co, that's just the community url.
Except that Dropbox dedupe _everything_.

So I suspect what happens is that everybodies bittorrented dvd rip of Avatar on dropbox is deduped and stored once on S3, admittedly encrypted, but all with Dropboxes encryption key and all with the same hash pointing at the same single encrypted instance of the file.
"Mentor Whiplash" is real and has already been felt. Whether or not it will get worse remains to be seen. :)

Getting in to one of these things is a bit like winning the lottery, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try for it. Regardless, there have been successful businesses started with both the "fuck my job, I'm going to do this full-time" and the moonlighting approaches. Do what makes sense and feels right for you is all I can say.
My god, I never said they acquired the domain because of the then-nonexistent DuckDuckGo nor did I suggest they give it up to them. All I'm saying is the domain was sitting there idle, Gabriel asked them for it, and they told him no and made it point to their own search page instead. They had every right to say no but it seems like a conscious act of meanness on their part to suddenly make it point to themselves when their competitor asked to buy it. It's kind of like adding insult to injury (rather denial).

Why are you so aggressively set on defending Google when I'm not really even attacking them?
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We solve the problem with rebasing. If it's not part of the main branch then it's not part of history, so rebasing to organize the pull request makes sense.
You missed something; the only part of ACID its relaxing is isolation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID#Isolation

"This property of ACID is often partly relaxed due to the huge speed decrease this type of concurrency management entails."

Indeed.

If you have the viewpoint that DB validation is for catching programming errors, not invalid data (i.e. you validate everything before it hits DB anyway), this relaxation can be reasoned about client-side anyway.
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What if Curebit had an important demo/presentation that was botched as a result of this? I think the response should be tailored to provide them with a learning opportunity rather than to hurt their startup. A private naming/shaming like betageek suggested would probably do the trick.
I have no direct experience with column oriented DBs, but I'd expect if you have a wide table and are getting all the columns in a query, then a column oriented DB's performance would suffer relative to a row oriented one's. So it's a trade-off, sometimes it's slower, sometimes it's faster, depends on the use-case.
I think I could stage strong arguments that 1) DHH considers his coworkers to strongly fit in the second half of the term "family/friends", and 2) that for some people "serial entrepreneurship" carries many of the traits of cocaine addiction...
I asked how many...

Anyway, compare these:

http://en.rsf.org/report-hungary,108.html

http://en.rsf.org/report-united-states,176.html

The report lists 25 reporters as having been beaten or arrested in 2011. It does not list any beatings or arrests in Hungary during the same time period. Neither are good, however the comparative scores seem just about right to me.
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Oh look... A press badge and a real camera.

"I'm not aware of it."

Open your eyes.
I don't see a huge difference between this and music/movie piracy. I feel it's down to the financial/commercial nature of the infringement and also the scale. I think this is fairly consistent with the legal viewpoint, if the copyright owner was suing for damages what could they reasonably claim?

It's one thing for somebody to copy a DVD for a few friends or family members, worse if they put it on BitTorrent, and worse still if they start selling bootleg copies.

I don't think there would be such a big outcry over this if it was a personal website getting a few hundred hits a month, or even if it was a moderately successful non-commercial project. Curebit had already received funding from Y-combinator and I assume their team were working on it full time, so in my opinion that's rather different to somebody cutting a few corners on a weekend project.
Doesn't Spotify use DRM? Which is not to say that it's wrong for them to use DRM on music you didn't buy -- that's a different question.

But "only used for music you don't own" isn't the same the same thing as "dead".
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I don't think DHH has had a need to hustle in a while.

It's cluebit that are scrappy guys still hustling, even if they got over a million in investor money...
And the second is J. Scott Armstrong, Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School.
How about we compare it to someone who put up a youtube video of themselves lip-syncing to Duran Duran? They're not necessarily claiming that the music is theirs, they're just using some random song they found to provide a background/prompt for their own performance.
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Uhm... yes, but it would be a very contrived way to solve the problem.
True, it is another thing, but I'll say it: all work (obviously, in this context of digital "intellectual property") should be public. I left "property" off the end of the sentence for the same reason I put "intellectual property" in quotes: I don't believe that property rights make sense when applied to abstract, non-scarce things like ideas and digital works.

This really isn't about controlling the fruits of your labor, because creative works are really only valuable if they're distributed. If you want to design a website and keep it secret on your local machine, then by all means property rights protect it (i.e. it's illegal to steal your laptop). But if you distribute it on a global network where people freely trade bits, I don't believe you should have the right to control which bits people can copy and which bits they can't.

Both choices (keeping the website secret or publishing it) constitute your legal rights to the fruits of your labor. But once someone gets the bits onto their computer with your consent (by visiting your public website), I don't believe you should have the right to control what they can do with those bits.

If you like, I believe you have the right to perform any obfuscation you want to with your digital works, or find ways of providing scarce (non-copyable) value. DRM and software as a service are examples of these, respectively.
People preorder video games at stores all the time.
> (1) the manner in which the domain name(s) is/are identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the Complainant has rights; and

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

> (2) why the Respondent (domain-name holder) should be considered as having no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name(s) that is/are the subject of the complaint; and

They were called Duck. Their early codecs were often referred to as Duck. Assorted patents are still assigned to The Duck Corporation. Why did DDG decide to infringe on their trademark?

> (3) why the domain name(s) should be considered as having been registered and being used in bad faith

It was registered by The Duck Corporation, and pointed to their home page. That corporation has eventually wound up as part of Google, and the domain now points to Google's home page. Seems pretty straightforward.

> Domain squatting has nothing to do with who had it first.

Trademarks have a lot to do with it. By the way, why is DuckDuckGo infringing on the trademark of the Oregon Ducks? What about Duck® Brand duct tape?
"How many were arrested versus beaten? And how long were the arrests?"

The answer to either of those would not change the importance of the figure.

Suppression of the press with police force is suppression of the press with police force; the only case in which individual details are relevant are in the lawsuits the reporters have hopefully filed.
Has anyone heard from 37? Curebit is good tech that works, they have been more than fair in the few dealings I have had the privilege to work with them on. They, like most companies constantly change... how many logos did Google have. Rather than an indictment on them I see it as on the community. More help, more share, less complaining about things that really don't matter. In today's world product matters, template design is secondary to the many things they are doing daily to make a business. and 37 is the one company that goes out of their way to share what works and encourages startups to use their advice. So curebit made yet another change to their homepage...who cares save the few who tear down cause they cant build up. Allan, u created a great product, u made ur clients more money and are positioning yourself to lead a great new company. Commended u are, and your success will have nothing to do with the design of your homepage....if it were that easy.
duck.co is not the URL for the DuckDuckGo search engine, nor are most people even aware of its existence. The search engine is at duckduckgo.com, right where it should be.
I've heard "user shared resources" which is similar. I'm glad "usr" meant "user", though, I can go back to naming my home directories on Windows "usr" instead of "home" :)
"Does it seem to violate their "Don't be evil" mantra to anybody else? This was clearly a conscious decision to confuse people."

With your statement, you're implying malicious intent. I'm stating that I don't see it together with substance to back up my statement. That's not "aggressively set on defending Google." That's simply trying to clearly make an argument.

No aggression here related to this topic :)
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Yeah. These corporations dealing with employees sound more like pimps dealing with their "ho"s.
Blockbusters are not the only movies that get made. Let Hollywood keep Batman. In the meantime, it's not hard to imagine a new way of making and distributing Mad Men and Portlandia.
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I'm not the one who injected a question of quality into the discussion, and not agreeing with the obviously-biased founder of DDG is not "trolling". Please apologize.
Curious on a few things... Honest questions:

1. Do you have any programming background or is this a first?

2. Why deadset on RoR?
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Im sorry, the point of this is what?
That's the legal ju-jitsu performed by the GNU GPL and related copyleft licenses.

The stronger the anti-misappropriation measures of copyright law, the stronger the sharing (and compulsory re-licensing) provisions of the GPL.

Playing other legal regimens against themselves in a similar fashion is a creative and often effective strategy.
Perhaps he got fed a lot of this as a kid:

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

I was blown away the first time I saw one of those.
What the fract did you just said?
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If somebody is using it, they presumably think that it is good, your opinion on the matter is irrelevant to them. Hell, the issue of quality doesn't even have bearing on nitrogen's statement; it works just as well if you remove the word 'good'. You very clearly were trolling and I will certainly will not apologize.

Furthermore, nitrogen is not epi0Bauqu.
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Yea, I guess that could work out very well if properly set up & organized, count me in.
You should be aware that the iStockPhoto (and BigStockPhoto) license specifically excludes using their content in logos.
Maybe its more fundamental? - People do it if they know they aren't going to be exposed (like downloading illegally) and they won't if there was a way to expose them (say via facebook/blog)? Just a theory.

I still believe downloading illegally is wrong, but thats my opinion.