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So the challenge is 'listen to what you want' versus 'discover new music'.

People will listen to something for 'free' even if they aren't sure they will like it, but they won't pay any money for something that they don't know whether or not they will like it.

Radio was a way to introduce new music, but with an iPod/iPhone/mp3 player people can carry around days of music that they already know they like, and it has no annoying adverts in it, so they don't listen to the radio any more. Thus a source of discovery is cut off from them.

'Pirates', listening to music and then giving a copy to a friend who they think might like it, allows new music to be discovered. That seeding is required for artists to develop a following. Pandora does similar seeding, but like radio injects advertisements which are annoying to many.
People probably would be irrationally alarmed. People are also irrationally alarmed when one pretty blond girl vanishes, or when a moron tries to set his underwear on fire on a plane. 60 minutes does devote undue attention to such things, and Obama would probably say "something must be done".

People are more irrational about some topics than others. So what?
right... well, that's almost what I did. saying where it was, letting someone google my name in nyc and look for court records. i've only sued one person in nyc - it wouldn't be that hard.

But, publicizing on my blog, yeah. In some ways I think the moment's passed. If/when we ever get to court, I'll release the name then, unless there's some gag order (am I being too dramatic?)
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That doesn't make any sense; there's a lot of overlap between different people's music tastes and across genre fans. Even so you could also easily have things like a punk rock bundle, rap bundle, electronic bundle, etc and that might even be more lucrative.
We have come to accept a vast panoply of behaviors of sharing creative works and of allowing people to "consume" music, art, movies, etc. without directly compensating the creators. Radio, television, libraries, used books, etc. We accept such things largely because we've grown used to them. We have lived long enough in an era of libraries and radio to understand that they do not destroy the ability of artists to make a living.

Uncompensated sharing in the digital age has been unmoored from some of the traditional limits on sharing, moving it well outside the comfort zone for a lot of people and causing a lot of backlash against the phenomenon. But even though the returns on uncompensated sharing in the digital age are sometimes more diffuse and indirect than for the more traditional forms of sharing we are used to they still exist. Art will survive. Artists will not end up in the poor house. And eventually people will grow as used to what gets labelled "piracy" today as they have to libraries, museums, and radio.
Ultimately the main problem with sweatshops is something to the effect that "the best kind of job these people can get is at a sweatshop". The real solution probably isn't shutting down sweatshops, but getting these people better opportunities. (Then the sweatshop problem goes away, since people can simply walk away to better jobs.)

Local effort will need to be involved. Some efforts to help organize workers into unions may exist, and will be of some benefit, but without good alternatives to sweatshop employment the picture is incomplete. Places with top-down command economies may also be ill-positioned to create additional opportunity...
It's not about getting something for cheap. It's about being able to make derivations and incrementally tweak things. It's about that not having any base tweak makes it quite hard for both Artists and Coders. It's about that there's many ways that things could be tweaked that would be fun, but if you're beset by a wish to do that you're gonna spend a year creating art for a total conversion. It's about that culture in games is not code, it's assets as well, and if the assets aren't released, they're lost and never to be derivable of, because of the perpetual copyright crap.
Interestingly enough, he defends record companies as well here. He's in a very compromise position:

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/01/31/neil-young-defends...
Thanks for the numbers. It looks like we still need plenty of breakthroughs or drastic shifts in society for this to be realistic.
> It lacks a first-rate IDE

That is an interesting claim. What are the first rate IDEs for Javascript, Python, Ruby or C++? That isn't a rhetorical question I mean vim, emacs, textmate all seem equally good for Javascript and Lua. I know people use Eclipse for Javascript but it hardly seems like a killer integration.
Liked the article although I believe with the rest looking for their place in crowded sunbathing area I really think the United States, or any other country for that matter, will hardly match, in this century, the same type of success it enjoyed in the 20th century.

The US will be younger than both China and the Europe, but for me the best chances for spectacular growth will come from India[1] and Africa, their population will be much younger than the American and I think they are both natural candidates for industrial jobs once the average Chinese worker becomes older and begins to receive much more money for their work.

This is of course only an opinion.

[1]: Pakistan and Bangladesh probably should be included in this list as well.
The difference is that with piracy, there is a chance you'll stumble upon something new. With the radio, you're stuck with the same handful of songs over and over and over again.

But seriously, I have always wondered how the radio model is supposed to work. Whenever I hear a song I like, just wait an hour, and I'll hear it again. There is simply no reason to buy the CD (or record, or digital download).

Value is, in part, driven by scarcity. When you only have 40 songs in your rotation, there is no longer that scarcity required to drive the high value. It's no wonder people were no longer willing to pay $20 for a CD.
Directors get huge payouts for the same reason athletes or other performers get huge payouts: simply because they generate a TON of money AND because the pool of potential candidates is so small that there is no one to undercut the rate. That $xx million ($200 mil was the budget for the whole film fyi) that the director got paid is a fraction of the total revenue generated by a major blockbuster like The Dark Knight, just as the 10-30 million an athlete receives is a fraction of the revenue he generates for the owners. You simply can't get around the fact that many people will spend a lot of money on entertainment, and even if we don't think actors and directors deserve all of that money in terms of social contributions and the long-term redeeming value of their work, the numbers don't lie: they get big payouts simply because they generate lots of money.

The same principle applies in other jobs, the values are just much smaller.
Of course tech is/will lead the economy boom! Technology = doing 10x more with the same resources. This in turn creates massive wealth. The kicker is that this time technology startup costs are plummeting as the efficiency of creating new technology has a much quicker development cycle.

Big Data, Smart Manufacturing and Mobile.

Look at every industry and they are all ripe for disruption. Cut out the waste and make education more efficient. There are more incubators popping up every day to take advantage of this situation. Many "startup" will fail, but that is expected.

What is happening now is the 100 year storm. Jump on-board or get out of the way.
OK, native code can crash. Not much of a problem. He have been running servers written in C/C++ since the ancient times for more critical tasks than your average Lua program. From Apache to Nginx and from Qmail to MySQL to MongoDB. So what if a Lua program has the "potential" to crash if you interface with C?

You do the interfacing because there is a need to do it, anyway. It's not like you go FFI for fun.
At a UK price of £38 the amount of software for the money is incredible, just to play it all.

Along side all that source as a learning tool it's astounding. Wish I could make use of it :-)

Thanks ID!
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Awards:
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Ironically, Apple already does at least one of those two. See the section on "Preventing underage labor."

http://www.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/code-of-conduct/...

I'm also a fan of less dramatic changes here. It's too easy to get romantic about this subject and delude yourself into thinking you can change the world tomorrow. I think it's better to work on making tomorrow a little better than today.
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But I believe I can. These kids often choose between living in hopeless poverty and earning a reasonable living. It's pretty plain and simple. You don't have to be 21 to make a rational decision in a situation like this.
Ooh, this looks interesting ... hang on ... "If you're still building websites without it, you're an idiot."

Well, fuck you too, and congratulations on losing a little bit of mindshare.
Anomoly's website screams at you that it's already available on the iphone, so iOS users aren't losing there, either.

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Hindsight is 20/20, but typically any sign that they're weird and irrational (trail of angry developers/no business model), or that they'll try and screw you out of a fair payment (won't do commencement payments) are a red flag.

Even if you can't afford a lawyer, I would have something along the lines of terms and conditions, what happens on non-payment (usually work stops), etc. The "Fuck you, pay me" is a pretty good introduction to the field.

For web design you'll have milestone payments on commencement, initial design (with a couple of rounds of changes), conversion to HTML (with no changes) and installation on the site. Payment terms are 7 days, or as short as you can get away with. If they need more changes than agreed, or they change their mind, then they pay the balance and you requote for the new work. If they decide not to use your work, then they pay the balance. If they delay on any part of the work (eg. won't provide content for six months) then they pay the balance and you do the work later on. You get the idea, I'm sure.

If they balk at any of your conditions without a good reason, that's usually a sign that they'll be trouble and that you'll need to keep them on a tight leash and/or handle them with kid gloves.

On the flip side, if they're a good client, good payer and you're happy to work for them, then give them a lot of leeway. But the deadbeats get held to the letter of the agreement.
The radio model was not geared to you (as far as I can tell). Up to the 90s, lots of people who heard a song a dozen times on the radio would then go and by the single or album. Even at $8 and $20. I don't know why they did, but they did.

I suspect the big problem with piracy (from RIAA perspective) is that it is teaching those people that its just as easy to get it online. Except that iTunes went and made it even easier to get it for $1, so most people in that market I know just buy it on iTunes.
That and exploiting third world workers.
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Or 'echo "Hello World"'

for shell/bash users.

And the manager should really do it as a requirements document.

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How has it anything to do with moral relativism?
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Good catch, I fixed the comment.
A git pull request is a request for the owner to merge a change or fix you have done back into the original.

It's called a pull request because you are asking that they pull the change from your fork.
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Big. For reference, their current valuation on private markets makes them worth about as much as Amazon.com.

FB on Sharespost: 83.5B

Amazon on Nasdaq: 88.4B
The 500 stockholders rule says nothing about going public. It says that they must adhere to the same onerous reporting requirements as public companies. Therefore, many companies choose to go public at that point and get some of the benefits along with the complexity.

(Also, it's worth noting that Facebook was exempted from that rule in 2008, anyway. See http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/vprr/08/9999999997-08-0430...)
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> You can't extrapolate a subset of the suicides and compare that to the national average for all suicides.

No, but you can't meaningfully compare suicide rates between socio-economic climates either. I mean, you can look at the numbers and say "each death is sad, I wish both were lower", but that's about it. Achieving that goal is something you have to do in context. Mandating that a wildly different culture meet your culture's definition of ... anything is a very dangerous game.
Just curious, is Wepay not available outside of the US? I was under the impression it could be used in Canada, but perhaps not.
Are they really so different?

The radio plays songs interspersed with commercials that thousands of people hear and a handful of those folks are influenced to go buy cars or soap or deodorant or fast food from the advertisements they heard (thus effectively paying the advertisers, thus compensating them for the advertisements, thus providing the radio station with revenue to pay the license fees which get paid to music studios and eventually to musicians). Is that really so very much better or more ethical than millions of individuals listening to music through file sharing and a handful of those folks being influenced to buy albums, go to concerts, purchase t-shirts and other merchandise which directly benefits the artists?

Edit: to add an additional punch to this: how is it that advertisements can be so enormously compelling that they can sustain 4 levels of profit margin (for the company selling the products, for the ad agency, for the radio station, for the music studios) yet the music itself is not sufficiently compelling to support even one level? The answer is that it is. The licensing fees are a token, the ads support the operations of the radio station, the music supports itself. Take away the technological need for a radio station and...
I run a mail server on my VPS, did nothing special to set it up, and it mostly works. I probably should look into SPF and reverse DNS and all the other TLAs, since at least craigslist.org silently drops all email from me. There have been two or three other cases over the years. But I'm really lazy and just fall back on gmail for those.
If you have any sources for that I'd enjoy seeing them (this isn't sarcasm, I'd actually like to see them).
Scheme community frowns upon mutating code. R6RS even forced that by default, though the rest of the specification was a mess.

So, scheme style these days is all about pure functions, tail calls and continuations. To think about it, that really is setting it apart from common lisp.
Just build a kill switch into the code. If they don't pay, use it.
Except they're not Apple's workers, those are located in CA. They're Foxconn workers.
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Don't sysadmins eventually work for AWS, Azure, Heroku? Certainly they can find something for them to do.
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After last week's debate I looked for an app where I could get objective, near-real time analysis pertaining to the accuracy of a candidate's claim, since Wolf Blitzer obviously wasn't interested in doing his job. To my surprise, I couldn't find an app that did what I wanted. I considered writing one, but it's been almost a week and I haven't done anything yet, so I'll share the idea and maybe someone else will build it.

The basic idea would be that you press a button whenever a candidate says something you think is controversial. This will bring up a list of recent controversial statements made by the candidates, and you have the option to select one. Meanwhile, someone on the server side is using his best google-fu to immediately find primary sources that are relevant to each controversial statement. When a primary source is found, it is immediately pushed out to the user.
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There was something quite excitingly German Engineering about those photographs.

My wife says if I ever have a successful web or iOS app, I can have my Porsche 911. Until then, perhaps a used A4 to tide me over...
People probably would be irrationally alarmed.

It's irrational to be alarmed about a company driving workers to commit suicide? Are you seriously making that argument?
While I would like to see it, absolutely, it misses the point a bit in regards to how Carmack is approaching this.

He's a tech guy, first and foremost. He's been dedicated to releasing the source to his games, because he's dedicated to sharing the tech that went in to these games. To the point that he went back and made changes to the Doom 3 source[1], at the time a four year old game, to appease the lawyers who were shy to allow them to release it because of software patent concerns.

If you're looking for the game, then yes the source is useless to you. If you're looking to learn what went in to the game to make it work, the source is literally invaluable. With art assets, it would be better. But by itself it is such a precious treasure. No one else in the industry is releasing the code to their AAA multi million dollar budget games. There are not enough words to describe the value of the contributions Carmack has dedicated to open source and release.

A colleague and close friend of mine directly attributes his early programming days to the fact that he was able to take the Quake 2 source and hack away on it. He's now a programmer in the games industry. You just cannot put a value on that kind of knowledge and examples and source being freely available. It sings to the core tenant of what Free as in Freedom is all about.

[1]http://www.tomshardware.com/news/DOOM-source-code-depth-fail...
It's not going away, it's just evolving (albeit in a less than stellar direction). An enterprising individual will be prepared to take advantage of the forthcoming restrictions and profit from them.
Of course. Give the numbers a randomly generated id, and check for the winning value server side. You'd also want display the numbers in a way where it's tougher to compare them than checking the text values--the target value is $('#left h1').text().trim(). So that means using images (not named 1.jpg!) or canvas or something like that.

Also, your app is vulnerable to replay. I can keep POSTing the same request over and over and my score increases.
While I appreciate what you've done here, it doesn't solve the real problem that I think that most people would have.

Downloading the files is easy. The real issue is putting them up somewhere else.

If your system moved them from Flickr to say, G+, then I'd pay you money. Otherwise, I don't see the purpose of this service as dropbox is more expensive than Flickr for storage and doesn't really have the same hosting options.
I didn't actually read the blog. Why am I commenting? I want to share the reason why I didn't read the blog.

I judge books by their covers. In fact, I don't know anyone who doesn't outside of trying very hard to convince others they do not.

The layout of the blog draws my attention to your picture and subsequently your "download my resume" link. I clicked since I was interested in learning a little about the author, his background, and what may have caused him to write such an article.

As soon as that link opened, I knew I would not read the blog post because the resume layout rendered the content difficult to read. Why does that bother me so much? The answer is simple: it ruined your brand for me before I even had a positive impression. Right off the bat, I'd give 2 suggestions to clean up your resume a little:

1) Do something about the half bar headers you are using as it currently divides the page when viewed, this wouldn't be an issue if you actually had a 2 column design which lined up, but it doesn't.

2) Never and I mean NEVER use justified alignment unless you're publishing a newspaper.

Sorry if I seem a bit harsh, but being that you're fairly young and these are very simple mistakes to correct, I thought I'd point them out.

Best of luck!
Thanks mgrouchy for another site that breaks pgdn. The header that never moves hides some lines on the next page. Reading becomes an annoying series of page downs then scroll up a bit to read the hidden sentences. Does this annoy anyone else?