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Just to add some clout to this one, I'm doing consulting for WP Engine and @patio11 was here for a week in January. Jason, the CEO, is an amazing person to learn from, as he's already had one successful exit, and he builds a team that's the best of the best. We also have a great office space in downtown Austin and are flexible with remote workers.

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Back when Mr. Dodd was in office, I and others referred to him as "the Senator from AIG." Though his recent comments set off a firestorm, I am more interested to see that relationship examined in full daylight.
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From their blog: "The ability to sell Kinect for Xbox 360 at its current price point is in large part subsidized by consumers buying a number of Kinect games, subscribing to Xbox LIVE, and making other transactions associated with the Xbox 360 ecosystem. In addition, the Kinect for Xbox 360 was built for and tested with the Xbox 360 console only, which is why it is not licensed for general commercial use, supported or under warranty when used on any other platform."

The hardware is also a little more advanced, supporting "near mode" detection.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kinectforwindows/
Well Athens had that system and made some bad kneejerk descisons - for example The Mytilenian Debate.

And you would be handing much more power to unelected civil servants.

I think both parties going to OMOV and doing away with primary's go back to state delegates deciding who the presidential candidates are - Oh and I would ban mandating of delegations.
Agreed. I was mostly hoping to mitigate any conclusion that the design was a result of them being .Net developers. :)

Luckily there are some constructive comments in this post which point out some valid concerns. This is a good chance to share opinions and learn a bit. Unfortunately there are a lot of developers out there who are tasked with projects and have no one in-house with experience. I was in that boat and it took developing and maintaining a lot of bad APIs to learn what made a good one.
Opt-out for a privacy policy!? and for a policy which aims at reducing the amount of policies!? read it and if you don't like it then don't use that product, there is your "opt-out".

As for the changes in question, my point is that they do not warrant that sort of reaction, and seeing as Microsoft is in the habit of hiring big DC PR firms to blast competitors it's not unfeasible that it's them behind all this, the difference is that this time it's public.
This happened to me twice. Both times I asked for a refund and Valve refused.

I was quite insistent and even mailed and faxed a letter to their corporate headquarters. This strategy has worked with other companies, but I never heard back from Valve.

Needless to say I quit "purchasing" games from them. They lost a loyal customer that had spent thousands of dollars with them over a $5 sale item.
Very cool. Thank you for putting that up. I'll be using that on future bootstrap projects
Were the sound APIs from other operating systems of that era any less limited? Presumably you could reproduce a modern API just as easily with a filesystem, using the same general schema.
Thanks very useful...
No doubt a court order will soon be sent to Google so that they can no longer index or cache TPB.
It is difficult for Microsoft’s business actions to lose any further respect in my eyes, as I have so little of it to begin with. However, in this case there are two things:

1. Attack on Google.

2. Appeal to use Microsoft’s products.

I’m perfectly ok with agreeing with the substance of point number one while choosing to do my searching with Duckduckgo instead of Google Search,and collaboration with DropBox instead of Google Docs, and so on.

So perhaps we are in perfect accord.
Server-side host-based filter (e.g., blacklists): reject at SMTP

Server-side content-based filter (e.g., spamassassin): usually marks up the email based on rules, and may either reject/discard it, or leave it for the email client

Email-client filter (e.g., in thunderbird, outlook extensions, etc.): silently discards
Except that Plan 9 was designed by the people who built UNIX. Are you implying that the people who built UNIX don't understand it?
Random selection (qua jury duty) is still "statistically democratic" and without bribery may very well be more democratic than what we have now.
This is almost certainly dependent on various merchant agreements, but (I'm pretty sure chargebacks have a limit on the timeframe you can do them. The only recourse you'd have would be to try to take Valve to court.
Sorry, my bad. I'm not that familiar with the specific terminology, so I tend to confuse some things. A better formulation would have been "TLDs which are based in the US".
The current state of forums and comments is pathetic on the internet. Most group attempting to engage in open discussion are defenseless against the combination of spam, Eternal September, flame wars, etc. There ARE technical solutions to this problem - I don't buy that people just don't want to hear open discourse.
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That law is pretty new and quite untested.
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Thanks for the info! I love learning things :)
For over a decade, dozens of actual people used Plan 9 as their main environment. (Many but not all of these people worked at Bell Labs.) I tend to believe that Smalltalk has also seen serious numbers of actual users. In contrast, who has ever used Oberon as their main software environment except perhaps students required to do so to pass some class?
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You actually do have a right to copy them, to some degree.

For example, if you buy a "music" CD-R and then burn a copy of an audio CD to it, you can retain that copy even if you've sold the original, legally.

Edit: this is because there is a tariff levied against "music" CD-Rs, which results in the ability to legally make such copies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy#United_Sta...
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Everyone survived eons of staring at old Windows application UIs, and this is prettier to look at! Believe it or not, a lot of business users expected their apps to have that boring look or else they might not consider it a full-fledged Windows program. The old Winamp design around the turn of the millenium looked alien in Windows--it looked awesome, but no business users would've considered it to be professional. When you go into a company to knock out some internal apps for them, creating something that gets work done is going to come first, and Bootstrap makes it possible for your app to look decent even when you don't have a designer around.
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Ignoring WebWorkers, the underlying Javascript engine is single-threaded, so the problem you describe can't exist. Once you start down a code path, it will continue until it finishes and yields execution.

Further, "hold" is almost certainly a magical statement that actually compiles into a pattern of calls to .setTimeout and various handlers, and has no literal existence, so there probably isn't any point at which the hold is "executed".

You can't actually turn a single-thread runtime into a threaded runtime at the user level. You can apply a series of increasingly sophisticated hacks that may make program like it's multithreaded, but you can't escape the fact you have only one program counter. (This isn't a criticism of the library. It looks quite useful. It just doesn't magically make browser Javascript truly multithreaded.)

This approach is actually quite useful, and is part of what makes the event-based programming style practical. For all the stuff that's going on, you do always have the guarantee that any given event handler will fully execute, and no other hunk of code will be able to observe the half-executed state of any given handler. Without that property you'd basically just be doing conventional multithreading with a really inconvenient code structure.
>7M+ pounds of weight have been lost by website enabled users (Estimated ~18M pounds lost across all users)

Perhaps the best stat I've ever seen on a mission statement, more fat... I mean power to you!
Not information in general, just transactions.

Currently only small text messages are being embedded in the block chain. It wouldn't scale to larger files.
It's the CS193P. The lecture videos are on iTunesU.

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/

http://itunes.apple.com/itunes-u/ipad-iphone-application-dev...

I'm "taking" it right now, so I should get back to work instead of reading HN :) I like it so far. If you have prior experience with object-oriented programming, it is a good resource. The basics are enough; understanding the concepts of classes, methods, etc.
Would be nice to have numerical values shown for each slider for reference later. Thanks for this tool!
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Am I the only one who doesn't feel bad for these guys? The Pirate Bay was always set up to try to infringe copyright, and I don't consider it a legitimate form of civil disobedience.

I don't like the MPAA, RIAA and others either, but sites like the TPB are not helping matters.
The Bloomberg API provides access to that information. The only "hard" part is paying for the subscription.
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Who is they? Is this about my comment, Google or Microsoft? You really did confuse me here ;-)
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Do you find comments by users on your blog useful?
They include banks and other very-security-conscious folk... with money to spend on easily deployable apps that address their needs. Feel free not to go after them as customers, though.

Are you kidding me? Most banks wouldn't touch an external service like Basecamp with a ten-foot pool. Basecamp is not "deployable", it's externally hosted.

They also have a ton of money. You might not want any of it, but some do.

Every company does not necessarily fit into the "some" that do.

Everybody has money, it's "how possible it is for them to part with it" VS "what your company has to do to make them give it to you", that matters.

If you don't understand the notion of "opportunity cost", you shouldn't be running a business.
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I think it's a pretty weak reason to give up on a language because you were using a global variable and expecting it to automatically be treated as a local variable within your function.

As others have mentioned, you are using a global variable ($_) inside a function. This is generally considered a bad practice.

The standard perl idiom of getting your function arguments via shift would make this a non-issue.
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For me, it's just a helpful description. I know something about an API if it's RESTful, and I know what others expect from me when I say it. And practically, Backbone.js expects REST conventions from the server API, which is a (small) gain in setup time.
It seems to me that to wait for yet another startup to solve this problem and hope it becomes popular enough to become successful and continue to hope it doesn't outgrow itself or get bought by a big company to get neglected is not the way out of this mess.

That's part of the reason I'm so excited about OpenPhoto and the consumer productization of self-hosting solutions. And BrowserID. And the Locker Project. It sort of looks like a decentralized social networking standard is in our near future.
> Until mankind becomes entirely focused on building social welfare (what's good for all) instead of personal welfare (what's good for me), these problems will always be here.

Until we start building social and political systems for humanity as it is rather than humanity as we might idealistically want it to be, we're going to have these problems -- not that I'm convinced that self-interest is really something we want to eradicate from human psychology. Markets already have features which effectively translate self-interest into the greater good, and so does democracy in the sense that if everyone voted selfishly, majority rule would benefit the majority. So let's focus on where markets and democracy aren't working the way we'd want them to and stop wringing our hands about how evil and selfish the human nature is.
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Oh please. $6.8 trillion damages? I thought HN was supposed to be free of hyperbole.

This sort of speculation is meaningless.
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One of the biggest challenges we found with big Backbone apps is serving templates. Looking forward to hearing how you serve assets from the backend!
Replace your DNS server with 8.8.8.8.

Death to lying DNS servers (well, at least we won't talk to them).
The sets of people who can do calculus and people who are trolls are far from disjoint. Until there is strong AI, I don't think that a "content value" filtering mechanism is really possible. Even people have a hard time differentiating irony from stupidity in comments.
Agreed. There's still a very significant portion of China using IE6, for example. If you've got an international focus on non-developers, it's not really even close to feasible to drop IE6-7.
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That's part of the point I'm trying to get across. Every political system has it's pros and cons. I studied Comparative Politics in University and we studied various forms of government and election law, each trying to solve a specific problem but introducing their own different problems.
Mr. Raganwald, this is your friend Nickieben Bourbaki. They are mostly right about Google but partially wrong (as explained in another response). They are entirely wrong about it being a good idea about trying their products (also explained in another response). But more interestingly, they are entirely wrong about their business strategy here.

FUD was perfected by IBM when they were the Goliath of computing. When you’re the consensus #1, you are the safe choice. Therefore, if you can make something else appear unsafe, you are going to drive customers to your “safe haven.”

In search and data collection, Is Microsoft a safe haven? No. In the eyes of the marketplace, Google probably is, even if nerds and privacy wonks don’t agree. FUD is something Google could probably get away with, but it is going to backfire as a business tactic for Microsoft.

Although idealists like yourself would love it if users left both services for alternatives like Duckduckgo, what will actually happen is that anyone who reads the ads and becomes aware that these giant companies are collecting personal data is going to decide to go with someone they trust. Right now, that’s Google, not Microsoft. This is especially true in technical circles where Microsoft has absolutely zero moral credibility.

Therefore, I suggest to you that yes, they may be right about Google in some respects, but this is the wrong ad to run for Microsoft the business.

p.s. Next time, lock your screen before going for espresso :-)
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