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Inexcusable but not a bad move in the end. This will all settle and be forgotten except that everyone will remember their name. Unethical and unwitting but a good publicity stunt nonetheless.
WYSIWYG has two major disadvantages:

1) It's hard to share components of WYSIWYG design across different projects.

2) It's hard to see what differences are between two versions in source control system. In order to do that you still need look at underlying code.
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You've just proposed an odd dichotomy: that big budget films can only be funded through Hollywood with DRM and other restrictions, or by technology companies without DRM and other restrictions.

You're going to need to elaborate on that, because on the face it, this sounds absurd.
> They should just donate the domain to DuckDuckGo if only to squash conspiracy theorists.

No, it should go to Black Duck Software. Or perhaps Duck Records. Actually, it should go to Disney. Duck Guides Inc.? How about Automatic Duck Inc.? Or perhaps redirect to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck ? There's a Flying Duck Inc. in Berkeley, heaven only knows what they do, but they've existed since 1998, why don't they get the domain?
I don't think they would. Hollywood budgets are partly due to Hollywood accounting. If movies were set up along startup lines (where only some folks get a guaranteed salary and the vast majority of earnings by everyone comes in the form of profit sharing) then I think you'd still see very big, expensive to make movies.
If they did move it intentionally it's a stupid move. It can't be winning them users and someone will mention it and depose staff about it the next time antitrust proceedings are brought against google.

They should offload the domain to DDG, redirect it while maintaining ownership, or start a service named duck something that's unrelated to search and use it for that.
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To make an endeavor feasible, it would really have to be a GX large-scale multi-nation effort, and, the agreed (tacit or otherwise) collapse of certain industries (like, collapsing copper pricing, etc.)

I don't believe the current socio-political-industrial-financial mechanisms in place have any desire (though don't actively "conspire" against this sort of thing), as its too "long term" thinking, and, is really more a "species survival" deal vs short-term profit gaining.

/This is rambling, apologies.

thoughts?
Not only unwise, but prohibited: http://www.istockphoto.com/license.php
Whose (sic) concluded that copyright infringement is stealing

That's the facts under the law as it stands at the moment.

I figure there are 2 views

There is a broard range of opinions ranging from a major criminal offence, to a minor offence to a non-criminal civil offence to not wrong at all to a duty of all people.
I like what he said about Wal-Mart of China being an on-line company. A lot of the emerging markets skipped fully building out landlines to go mobile. Could a country skip brick and mortar to go largely online?

I can think of a dozen reasons why he's wrong, but I'd have said the same about several of his investments, and he's the one who has been right so far.
The first guy listed, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_All%C3%A8gre, is a real winner too...

Asbestos removal a leftist plot, telling a Nobel Prize winner in physics that atmospheric drag doesn't affect the speed an object falls, etc.
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Don't understand the downvotes at all...
Curebit's case sets a very ugly example. Profanity in the same sense sets a very ugly example for younger minds, especially when coming from such a well respected entrepreneur.
The loss of particular functions like the ability to see color, or sense motion are interesting demonstrations of the localization of cortical function.

In this case, it is possible that visual area MT (V5) is damaged. This area processes motion signals.

For people interested in follow up reading the story of Phineas Gage is an interesting illustration of the functions of the frontal lobes, and the book "The man who mistook his wife for a hat" is also very interesting.

Also fascinating is Gazzaniga's book "The cognitive sciences" which has chapters relating to very odd sensory/cognitive deficits.
Dropbox is just a replica of local storage.

It gets scary when the operators of the "replica" has the ability to delete files from your local storage as well. Amazon did this with Kindle & 1984, which caused a sizable controversy at the time. Next thing you know, somebody sends a DMCA notice to Dropbox, they delete your remote copy, and your local Dropbox folder is automatically updated to reflect the change. Whoa, no thanks.

Dropbox is also an apt comparison because part of the MegaUpload indictment has to do with their deduplication system. Dropbox is also very good at deduplication, which means that a single court order can cause all copies of an offending file to be remotely deleted from everyone's Dropbox folder.
For another cool CoffeeScript "dialect", see Contracts:

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It's a great way to write defensive code for those of us who find writing regular unit tests a little onerous even (if they are often necessary). I'm planning on using it in all my CoffeeScript, up to -- but not including -- generated production Javascript.
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You can embarrass yourself without feeling it, watch a political debate sometime.

And yes, in my head I do feel embarrassed for him when I see him lowering himself to name-calling over such a trivial issue.

I have no problems with salty language between equal opponents or when the other side is clearly malicious. In this case the opponent is such a pity that it feels akin to someone slapping a 5yr old for scratching their lamborghini.
Plus, CO2 apparently has an odor (metallic) at high concentration, and our exhalations aren't particularly high - just 4-5% more CO2 than the air we inhaled. Three basic fact fails in one sentence.
That is not correct, DRM and other restrictions do not fund big budget films. Those things actually take away profits from film in the form convoluted distribution cost. see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3514416 . Big budget films can only be funded by companies with the money and will to do so. Large tech companies have the money and means to produce & distribute big budget films, they just have to be willing to do it.
Indeed, you are free to. On occasion I've tried to do the same thing. But in practice, I don't think it usually helps. It muddies up the waters of conversation, which depend on everyone having roughly the same definitions of words. At least, you have to be careful, and know that most people won't (immediately) change, and that you're making things more complicated.
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Yeah, it's really a tricky subject. What if:

a) The images weren't linked directly to 7signal.
b) The html was * slightly* modified, but enough to show that it wasn't the same.
3) A little bit of tweaking here and there to make it * slightly* visually different.

By the way, I'm more playing the devil advocate as, even if this was actually legal, that'd still be an unrespectful move. It's hard something to draw a line between inspiration and stealing. I.e. When you are a beginner, you keep taking stuff here and there. As you become better, you start to use pattern that you've learned. As you become even better, you know that everything you do is based on something, somewhere and can even point to where you've learn it / been inspired by. Only when you really master a subject can you really create something.. and then, it's not a full creation.. it might be only small details.. which will then inspire others.
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Funny. The other guy is right though, its generally when things seem like they're really fscked that they change.

Maybe because desperation forces people to think differently? I don't know, but its worked for me.
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while not always true, a lack of professionalism typically signals a lack of integrity.
Just for context, I'm the author of the OP.

First, thanks for the thoughtful reply. I remember your post about your YC experiences, and it was great, especially since I was considering doing something like this and really identified with it. I think I probably would have quit my job anyways, but getting into an accelerator like TechStars really made it a no-brainer.

I'd like to raise the point that the idea you apply with doesn't matter a ton. It should be good enough to show that you're not stupid, but that's about it. We've already changed what we're working on significantly based on early customer development and discussions with the amazing TechStars mentors. It's actually been a little hard to convince myself that the reason we got accepted was like 90% team and only 10% idea (totally made up numbers, of course, but you get the drift).

I completely bought into the concept of an accelerator validating your idea, and that was really just kind of wrong (at least in our case).

Anyways, thanks again for the comment. Here's hoping we'll be as successful as you suggest. :)
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There's copyright infringement for personal reasons (i.e. I really wanted to watch that movie) and there's commercial plagiarism. It's a completely false equivalency.
Most importantly, we should send them extortionate threats of law-suit based on easily fake-able evidence that claim they owe us thousands of dollars just to get us to not send them more letters.

And then when they stop using our service we'll say it must be because they're doing something illegal.
Oh, and while the DMCA requires DRM to be "effective", that has proved to be a low bar.

I think the "effective" in "No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title."[0] probably means something more like "has the intended effect of" rather than "does a good job at."

[0] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode17/usc_sec_17_0...
In the early days people loved the flat pricing and no haggling, and their Saturns. It wasn't until 96-97 when Saturn became just another Lego set GM marque, complete with haggling, that it all went down hill.
I can't wait until we have the abstract startup factory factory factory.
Science is a debate. Use of the term "settled science" is an attempt to shut-down debate, which is unhelpful.

More so, the subject at hand is the evolution of a chaotic system with literally thousands of different influencing variables. This is not something as simple as gravity, electromagnetism, or even evolution. And the science of climatology is still very much an open debate. If the evidence of AGW actually was overwhelming then it'd be easy enough to present it and move on, as happened with the ozone hole. Instead the evidence is rather more subtle and has very significant error bars. If you believe that AGW requires bold action to avoid catastrophe then shutting down debate is an enormous mistake, because all it does is leave people who are unconvinced even less convinced while it forestalls the advancement of climate science and potentially the strengthening of evidence in support of that theory.
Copying isn't theft. At best, it's "infringement". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling_v._United_States_%28198...

Please don't try to bring back the false-to-fact concept of "intellectual property". Independent invention happens all the time. Who gets to own such an idea? The first person to think of it? No, the first person to file on. Morally, that's just rubbish. Wait, the person who thought the hardest should get ownership. Bah, humbug.
3,000,000 people is a substantive problem, no matter what percentage of some population they comprise.
Hollywood losses are partly due to Hollywood accounting. The budgets for production are real cost. In these high budget movies, there are major expenses apart from just salary. In the Dark knight, the batmobile and other machines are real vehicles, the sets are made with real materials, live effects are not cheap, permits are not free, not everything is done on a computer. This only scratch the surface of the expense involved in making a big budget film.
I don't think DHH has had a need to hustle in a while.

Exactly. Guys in his situation don't need to, but they still choose to. When you're playing with that sort of passion and intensity, you defend with vigor. That's embarrassing?

It's not like he drove over to cluebit's office and started smashing shit. He called him/them out. That's it, that's all.
On the other hand, Apple gives Steve Jobs $200million+ to make an iPad, and Microsoft certainly gives someone 200 million dollars to make Windows.next. Google gave someone $200 million to develop Android. We just don't see it as much because software doesn't depend on personalities as much.
The primary difference with your 1984 example is in that case the content originated at Amazon. In the Dropbox model you provided it to start.

If mozy was taken down do you think that it's possible they would wipe the drives of all users? I don't.

Amazon also quite clearly keeps hashes of all keys in S3, which Dropbox rides on. Would you expect the government to be able to issue hash based takedowns to amazon across all buckets?
It probably wouldn't work everywhere but JC Penny's is a little weird with their sales, it generally seems like at any given time about a third to a half of their stock is "on sale." I don't know about the everyone else but at this point in my life sales at JCP don't even register.
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I'm not so sure.

Maybe every professional should hone their writing skills, but blogging is not the ideal exercise. Typical pop blogs spew out thoughts with regularity, even when the writers haven't thought about the subject carefully, they write just to write, to make the blog look up to date. That's ok as a writing exercise but it's not in the interest of readers who's attention they'll inevitably try to attract.

You can blog out many quality posts if you have some big yet narrow theme to write about. But most people don't. If you want to keep a diary of thoughts, it will work much better as badly edited short braindumps, not writing exercises.

If enough professionals blogged, it wouldn't be a good way to improve your career and make professional connections, since there would be a multitude of terrible blogs and it would drag down the current reputation of blogging, which isn't so hot already.

That's why every professional should treat the separate aspects of blogging like writing exercises, attention whoring or leaving braindumps, as separate aspects.
please, for the love of god, stop with the "google is evil" crap. every single post about google, there's at least a couple comments saying google is violating their don't be evil principle. it's really fucking annoying. can't you find a criticism that's at least a little bit more original?
I wonder if we should take Milner's statement with a grain of salt. A reporter asked him, essentially, if he is planning on dumping his Facebook shares as soon as they IPO. There's no way his answer was going to be yes. He has to say no, and give some reason why not, no matter what his actual plans are.
Those are probably skills you want to get better at anyway, right? Even if "your code speaks for itself", I. Your career you're going to need to write (or at least contribute to) documentation, specs, requirements, proposals, pitches, business plans, here's a _lot_ of writing tasks that are really just "part of the job", hell - you're going to have to write a few versions of your cv and matching cover letters.

Maybe "actually doing work" by blogging is more of a skillset increasing (and caree advancing) exercise than it seems at first...

Big (busily not following my own advice...)
I don't and wouldn't use the language that he did.

But what he said was true. This wasn't ad hominem because it wasn't an argument. The argument is clear, Curebit stole, and have apologized. Therefore his reaction is not an attack but an accurate label.

Whether it is "professional" or not is a different story.
Hollywood are not in the business of offering a service, only a product. This is mostly why the two aren't compatible and why they aren't interested in developing it.

The thinking is that a product is far more profitable and has higher gains than a service which bleeds money by comparison due to it's constant maintenance costs, upkeep and customer care and that drop in profit would make their pyramid business model unsustainable.
When I blogged, I was popular but felt like a scammer. When I stopped blogging, I wasn't popular but made some pretty nifty stuff. I'm not saying it's like that for everyone, but I'd rather be building stuff than become yet another talking head on a soapbox.
you hire a guy and spend 60k training him, he probably feels some loyalty to you. maybe he doesn't, maybe he goes somewhere else, this is one of the risks you as an entrepreneur must take. creating a culture of loyalty is a way to lessen this risk. attempting to sabotage your employees options is not an acceptable solution, either legally or morally.
They bought a company before duckduckgo existed that owned duck.com.

I guess it's becoming fashionable to think of Google as the new Microsoft. Sometimes it's fair. In this case, it's not.
Are you an entrepreneur? If you are, and you've had any success, I'm sure you've "just published" something along the way. It's actually a rather important skill. Not that you should copy and paste something to try it out - you definitely shouldn't - but quick and dirty trial implementations are fairly common.

Edit: Not sure why this is getting downvoted, anyone care to explain? Action in startups is not always deliberate.
Doesn't this qualify as domain squatting?
Here you go: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3384606 (From Oyster.com)

This is the only one I remember, from a hotel review startup and I believe the server was just for backup.
This was not ad hominem, please look it up.

An ad hominem is used within the confines of an argument. There is no argument here. He is calling them what they are. They stole, that is clear, the argument is air-tight (they have even apologized).

I wouldn't use this kind of language myself (not in any circumstance), but ad hominem it is not.
By duckduckgo or google?
I don't know about that, the founders of Curebit are old enough to be held responsible for their actions. A 5 year old, not so much.
This still seems to focus too much on what WYSIWYG is now, as opposed to what it could be.

Problem 1 can be solved by designing your WYSIWYG editor UI around modular page components and templates, kind of like desktop software designers like QtCreator.

Problem 2 is a matter of designing a good visual diff tool for the DOM. You could combine the Tilt Firefox addon with other visual difference tools like A/B overlays and highlighting changed attributes (e.g. if the text color or border size is changed on a particular element between two versions being compared, set the text or border color or size of that element to some highly-contrasting or even animated value when the element is hovered in the diff view).
"Ad Hominem" doesn't apply here.[1]

(DHH didn't say that using 37Signals assets directly was bad because they were fucking scumbags, just that what they did was bad and they were fucking scumbags as a result.)

[1] http://plover.net/~bonds/adhominem.html
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This particular event appears to have been for Stanford students only and apparently not widely advertised, but you can keep up with the public events in the area with a couple sources:

Meetup.com, Stanford Engineering's public mailing lists, your local network of Stanford students and alums that you cultivate, and if you're near Stanford, actually spend time on campus. The Huang Engineering Center has bulletin boards downstairs and an electronic one upstairs outside the Terman Library entrance with a lot of these announcements. Sign up for their mailing lists as well.

http://lib.stanford.edu/englib

http://events.stanford.edu/byCategory/22/

http://soe.stanford.edu/visit/huang_center/index.html

http://soe.stanford.edu/about/index.html

http://www.facebook.com/stanford.engineering

http://twitter.com/stanfordeng
yep, what if you do? copying a color code is certainly not speaking to copyright concerns.

There are a couple of points to consider though. the first and most obvious is that generally a background color by itself will not work well with the other colors on your site - choosing items in isolation like that is generally a fantastic way to end up with coder art (believe me, I know something about how to produce coder art).

The thing that good designers do, and do well, is make all the elements work together, generally if you simply take a single element (background color, font sizes, etc) from someone else's site and dump it on your own site without considering the overall effect, you are doing a stupid thing.

I don't think anyone here is worried about the sharing of ideas - uses of color, general placement of elements and so forth, taking those things and merging them with your own needs and messages is how new art is made.
The problem with copyright usually comes when someone simply does wholesale copying without the process of considering each element in terms of its effect, the message you want to get across and so forth.

IMO A 'good faith' copying of highrise done competently would produce something new, something where the source of inspiration can be clear, but where there is sufficient change and obvious consideration of the factors that made your own product unique that there is no question of direct copying.

The damage done by straight copying is always twofold, the first is the obvious - the breach of copyright, the second is also clear but many people miss it - a design produced that speaks to a specific product, specific website goals and specific messages is very unlikely to have the same positive effect if transplanted wholesale.

That is why wholesale copying is not just a sign of a lack of ethics, it is also a clear indication of a total lack of competence. The person doing the copying entirely lacks knowledge of the process that is required to produce good work, and has no idea why the site they admire so much works so well.
Even putting copyright and ethical concerns aside, I would have no interest in working with someone who lacks the competence to understand why wholesale copying is usually a stupid idea. They will not produce good work targeted at my needs, they will produce good work targeted at something entirely unrelated.
Yes, and Microsoft is spending billions on Bing, if Google pulled a so called Hollywood move, by making Google search a pain to use, people will start using Bing more. We don't have that with big budget films. DRM died in the music industry, in part, because a number of popular artist, like Trent of NIN were not afraid to go direct to fans without DRM.
Too bad there's still (post price) sales tax.

$20 is still $21.65 in texas...
Just because an emotional response goes against MBA Corporate PR 101 doesn't make it wrong. He can do whatever he wants, and he does. In the context of his company, I'd even say it's a winning business strategy, because it's different and doesn't feel artificial, which is refreshing in this age of sterilized corporate communications, and is therefore memorable.

And there's nothing morally wrong about fighting back against people who have ripped you off.