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> people actually make videos on youtube demonstrating how to download files for free from sites like MegaUpload

While I have little faith in the intelligence of the average human, a dog that's been dead for six weeks could have figured out how to download files for free from MegaUpload.

> 1) enter captcha in top right

Can't say I recall that.

> You'd have to be delusional, or in torrentfreak's case pandering for ad impressions, to pretend anyone would bother putting their friends, family and colleagues through all those hoops

I've been called many things, but delusional is new. I've had to download more than a few unpirated files from MegaUpload over the years. Some of it even related to open source projects. People like the simplicity.

> email,

Size limits routinely bite people in the ass, and you can't exactly post a link to an email attachment.

> skype,

I'm not even aware Skype has file transfers, but then I don't use it much. In any case, same link problem as email.

> msn, [...] yahoo,

Has IM file transfer ever worked reliably? See also email, skype.

> dropbox,

Largely unknown until 1-2 years ago, wants users to install software, has storage and bandwidth limits, and in general too complicated for the more simple-minded among us.

> free hosting, $1 hosting, $2 hosting, $3 hosting, $4 hosting and so many other, easier options

Most people don't have the first clue how to get or use web hosting, or even why they would even want to.
They are paying more. Wasn't there a story here a couple of days ago that the median salary in the valley just hit $104k?
The real problem is not learning iOS, the real problem is unlearning all the java you know lol.

After you are done try learning C pointers first.

Sorry but I have to vent out my frustration of reading and fixing pathetic Objective C written by java programmers!
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I completely agree with the premise that once you get past the initial scare, it really is very easy(assuming a programming background). I also set myself a goal of submitting an app by a deadline. I got to the day of the deadline, panicked because I hadn't submitted anything and wrote an app which totalled < 100 lines and took about 1.5 hours to write. 170k downloads later I'm thoroughly proud of the truly awful app I've made. Really worth the time investment both financially and emotionally
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In Paul Allen's autobiography he mentions one time he and Gates were just late for a flight. The plane hadn't actually taxied away yet, so Gates rushed into the tunnel thingy and started manipulating the controls to hook it back up so he could board. (A regular commercial airliner -- they weren't rich yet.)

Well, maybe he's laid back and humble now.
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I think Bill Gates was every bit as ruthless as Jobs was. But Bill had his enormous success earlier in life, stepped down from his company earlier, and was thus ahead. Despite being the same age, they were in very different stages of life, career, and success.

Who's to say that Jobs wouldn't have gone into philanthropy once he had stepped down from Apple, had he not been a (relatively) late bloomer and died at a (relatively) young age? Then again, maybe he wouldn't have. But I think it's unfair to lambast Jobs for not living long enough to reach that stage of his life.
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Promoting these practices does little good for companies that aren't GitHub, and believing in them might be woefully idealistic.

Let's look at GitHub:

* Most of GitHub's 50 or so employees are engineers[1], not sales or marketing or product management or art directors or logistics or accounting.

* GitHub's primary product is github.com[2], a product which is primarily used by engineers.

* The company hasn't taken funding outside of friends & family[3].

* They claim to be "very profitable"[4].

* Their team is distributed[1], which can work well for engineers who enjoy time alone.

Compare this to my startup: Engineers are < 33% of the company, we're all in one location, we have a range of web and mobile products, and we've taken funding from VCs.

Our customers are normal humans, not engineers (no offense, I'm one too), and our products need to be sold and marketed so that people understand why they're good. We don't have the benefit of a customer base who intrinsically know why the product is great once they use it like engineers do. Our products want to make our customers come work for us.

We're all in one place because we need to collaborate with non-engineers to build our product. Good in-person relationships with the sales and marketing people lets us work together very well and is important for non-engineers, who especially can't use a DVCS to collaborate.

We iterate quickly, so systems like Campfire or wikis are useless. There's no point in writing documentation and employee on-boarding instructions if they're going to be out of date in two weeks or if it's easier to walk over to The Guy Who Knows That Stuff and ask. Yes, our bus factor is horribly low, but it's not worth documenting a system that will change wildly in two months.

We also have a board of directors who are demanding. We have monthly and quarterly goals we need to meet. We don't have time to work on cool things like bots and music players because we're busy experimenting and building products which we're still defining. Sure, we add a few easter eggs here and there, but I need to finish the damn CRM improvements, otherwise the sales team can't handle our customers in the way we want, the customers won't have the best experience, we won't hit our January numbers, and the board will be angry.

I love GitHub. It's one of the greatest things to happen to open source and software project collaboration. But whenever Zach Holman shows off a well-manicured presentation or blog post about how awesome GitHub's ideals and work environment are, I have to roll my eyes a little. His intentions are good and he's a swell writer and presenter, but I can't help but wonder what kind of magical, mystical fairyland he think's he in.

(No offense, Zach. I think you're great. Let's get a beer.)

[1] https://github.com/humans.txt
[2] Probably. What else do they do?
[3] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1454597
[4] http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/24/github-one-million/
Any idea what might happen if they took down a plane? Would it have been their "fault"?

I know the chances are something like a trillion to one.
The money he's spending is extorted from our industry. If you believe the good somehow outweighs the harm, do you also believe that every tech company and every computer user should be robbed and the proceeds used to further help the poor, with no vote and none of the burden being shouldered from outside tech?

It disturbs me that there's still no real restitution sought from people who knowingly, deliberately attack our society's mechanism for allocating most all resources.
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It's about proportions. Fedex = mostly legit packages = less reasonable to shut it all down. Megaupload = mostly infringing content = more reasonable to shut it down, especially since the other counts against Kimmy are rather serious white-collar crime charges.

This whole argument is ridiculous, now that I'm typing anyway. The government doesn't have any obligations against the customers of a company that does illegal things. When the IRS impounds all the property of a cake bakery, they have no obligation whatsoever against the couple who have a wedding the next day and now all of a sudden don't have a cake. Megaupload users can ask Megaupload to give them their data back (which they obviously can't), or sue them for damages. 'Sueing the FBI' is tough talking from a bunch of armchair lawyers, but has no relation to the real world in any way.
Some programmers value type safety. That is the niche that Roy fills I believe. I'm certainly excited about it.

CoffeeScript is certainly a pleasure to work with but it lacks a type system and static type checking.
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A friend is going through the exercies on codeacademy, which is great, but she still hasn't started to think like a programmer.

Does anyone have some good resource (self-learning or otherwise) to help her get around these mental hurdles?
Even if the "agents" won't go to prison, the goal is to get back those files as soon as possible, because those are withheld without good reason.
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If you look at the cards that Jobs was dealt with in life (upbringing, fired from his company, cancer...) and what he was able to accomplish, it is admirable and inspiring.

I think Jobs and Gates both exemplify to whom much is given, much more is required.
Although non-profits has good tax breaks, it's much more difficult to get funding since it's "non-profit", hence no return for the investor capital. Why not try to create a social enterprise instead? You can still get a bit of tax breaks, AND you can earn profits for yourself and investors.
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Back in the day, Bill was kind of a dick, too. From Gates by Stephen Manes:
“The Gates motivational method: You yell, you holler, you point out how stupid something is, the chastened subject goes back and redoubles his efforts to do a better job.” Actually, I’m not sure if he’s mellowed out over time. You’d have to ask someone at his foundation.
no, it's a beaglebone and an arduino. we looked at the raspberry pi, but availability wasn't great.
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'Ease of implementation' is a very low-ranking, I would almost say irrelevant, factor for the utility or uptake of a programming language. So what if there are only a couple of hundred lines of C, you'd still need tens of thousands at the least to provide a useful standard library.
yeah I meant teacher of a grad course, and I should probably give a better explanation, it wasn't so much about a class not having a review as the teacher's attitude. Also it was a computer science class, being both a comp-sci and math major I know in computer science reviews are far more useful, especially in this particular class, a distributed systems course that was a general requirement, covered tons of topics (the book was closer to a dictionary than a textbook), and no one really understood what was taught.

The thing is that any speaker will tell you that if you want to teach someone something you should tell it to them three times - intro, actual discussion, and conclusion, so I view a last day study session as the conclusion part, making it a useful teaching tool. I totally understand that graduate students should be able to learn on their own and not need something like that, but I still think teachers should keep an open mind and try to teach their students as well as they can.

However our teacher told us several times, in kind of an arrogant manner, he wouldn't have the review because otherwise he would be "holding our hands." He didn't have the attitude that it's a tool, he didn't ignore it, instead he looked down on it like if you want a review then you're stupid. This guy constantly used us being grad students as an excuse not to teach us, he would expect us to know entire classes that were never required, never taught, and not prerequisites, simply because we were grad students. We actually had a project worth half the class that centered on a major networking project when the entire class had no networking experience. The whole class was miserable, we learned nearly nothing, and then he curves tons so we pass and he doesn't look so bad. I just hate the attitude that a teacher's job isn't to teach, but instead to read the book to the class. I encountered that with all my required classes in grad school while the electives were amazing with teachers who were extremely challenging but at the same time actually taught us enough to deal with the challenges.
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Realistically, you do not always have perfect competition and you have problems with monopoly, oligopoly, etc. Firms are potent enough that their decisions can manipulate markets, and in this it would be labor markets. (Perfect competition assumes that no single firm can manipulate markets.)

Libertarians oppose a government presence in markets because they believe the result is inefficiently functioning markets, and we are all worse off.

In this case, the firms are manipulating labor markets so that they behave inefficiently to the advantage of the manipulative firms and disadvantage of labor. (This is usually where people try to justify labor unions as a counter to the influence of firms.)
There is one possible signal that Jobs wouldn't have chosen to go into philanthropy: He never reinstated Apple's charitable gift-matching program after terminating it during Apple's darkest days. Instead, that turned out to be one of the first things Tim Cook did.

Obviously this is a very limited data point. We know very little about the context around those decisions (e.g. were there external factors that took some time to sort out? did they decide to do it and then deliberately hold back until Tim Cook took over?, etc.). Nevertheless, it is one of the few data points we have on this question.
There some other projects like these. But I do not believe they can break their "niche toys" market and became mainstream. They are expensive and meaningless toys for any other sane people except us, nerds.
I've turned down positions at two of the aforementioned organisations in favour of much smaller companies (<50 employees). It's worth it. It's better to be a well known and respected employee in a small company than a fungible cog in a corporate machine.
No.

Apple (and Google, and Netflix and anyone else..) should campaign to have statutory music licensing[1] extended to video/film.

That originally came about when the music industry couldn't agree to reasonable licensing terms for radio, so the government intervened to impose a licensing regime that allowed the new industry to build audiences while still making a return for artists.

Sound familiar?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsory_license#United_State...
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That is indeed a very simple matrix.

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Doesn't it depend on the harm caused by his misdeeds? If his business practices caused $100 billion or more of harm to humanity (by holding back the tech industry), could $30 billion wash that away?

I don't know how you could calculate the cost of Gates' misdeeds in a way that people would agree on, but I find it entirely reasonable that some people feel that the harm far outweighed the giving and that some people feel the opposite.
This is the famous tragedy of the commons problem where where the increase of members participating the in game (in an game theory sense), any individual is more likely to become a freeloader and hence less likely to put the optimal labor.

The fundamental problem comes from a form of information asymmetry where any individual is not able to assess the amount of labor placed by other members. If a project is run by 5 people and requires labor input of 5L, an optimal allocation of be L from each person. However, because each person does not know how much labor other people are placing into the project, they assume that others might put more than L, or the total labor from others are 5L-x where x<L. Hence the person in question only puts x amount of labor in the project. Alas, if everybody thinks in the same way, we only have 5x, which is far less than the required 5L. Unless all 5 people are together at all times, there are bound to be information asymmetry, and it is just much easier to manage with fewer people, in the case of 2-3.
I tend to think the usefulness of a (standard) library tend to decrease with the size of its interface. Because with more functions, it is harder to learn, harder to find the function you need, and makes programs less accessible because there are so many ways to do the same job.

My bet would be a minimal standard library, based on empirically most useful functionality. I very much doubt you'd need more than a thousand lines to implement that (not counting a possibly crap-load of optimizations).
I've always taken "kill Hollywood" as a call to reinvent entertainment and come up with fresh alternatives to the current garbage.

And oldstrangers nailed it with his iTunes comment. Ugh. Can't stand that software.
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I would suggest you to do some more research. Maybe put up a landing page for your dashboard product and see with web analytics how many people are actually clicking on the "buy" button for the unfinished product. Compare that with the traction you get for your social playlist. In addition, look at the market and competition in both fields.

Many companies do pivots like that but the hardest part is always to make an educated decision and not to pivot around in circles.
"anti-gentrification sentiment is interesting because it never stops."

Excactly! Where does one draw the line? Usually one draws the line so that protection includes himself. For me, it's a moral problem as well, because this line-drwaring scales up to elections that justify way too much government regulation. From my perspective anti-gentrification sentiment is almost always misplaced.

"By contrast, NIMBYism is more of a middle-age and old person's thing."

Maybe the difference is also, that NIMBY-ians engage proactivly against changes (they know that where they live is already good), where as anti-gentrificationists seem to be more reactionary (not anybody expected sudden price rises to occur).

Where I connect NIMBY- and anti-gentrification-sentiments is that one want's prohibit things to change (anti-immigration, trade restrictions). All of those sentiments are understandable. But prohibiting things from change via legislation tends to be an unfair deal for future generations. The change I don't want to happen is an opportunity that for many will never occur.

"to expect neighborhoods to stay the same on the time scale of decades is unrealistic."

Absolutely. In Hamburg there are restrictions on building heights. The most stupid one is, that in downtown 'no bulding should block the view of the churches'. It's the one place in Hamburg, where land is so expensive that buildings need to rise in height if you want affordable rent prices. But the buildings can't rise, so no one lives there anymore. Thus the churches have lost their communities and downtown is a dead place after 8pm. Just one example where the attitude of "conserving culture" leads to killing it off.

Update:

Took a while for me to find it, but to prove that anti-gentrification really never stops, take st.tropez/côte d'azur france, where the millionaires don't wan't the billionaires to come in http://www.amb-cotedazur.com/Did-you-know/rich-russians-are-...
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I'm so happy to see what he's doing with his money. They way he earned it was problematic to say the least (see the ECIS paper for a succinct history, if you are interested: http://www.ecis.eu/documents/Finalversion_Consumerchoicepape...). But I have to say, he's making up for it with how he's choosing to spend it. I definitely did not see that coming.
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> A graduate course that ended with a review would feel really weird to me.

Also, I don't think most of the courses can be summarized in a review lecture.
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I personally think society has come to the stage where its clear that problems are no longer solvable in a technological way, or by more advanced technology/science. That dream is gone. For me, this makes programming feel more like a means to make money and survive, than something exciting that could change the world for good.

Presidential candidates still desperately try to rake up foregone "moon base" dreams, invoking the nostalgia for yesterday's future, which says enough....

"we" used to think that in the 80's, 90's, that somehow advanced technology would also advance people, to look at the sky instead of grabbing what they shortsightedly can. Series like Star Trek are an example of that hope in culture. But people did not change a bit.

Open source/free culture is still exciting to me, but the "brave new frontier" that computers and programming seemed to be is gone. It's lost part of its charm for me.
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