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"No, it is not."

That's what Digg and Reddit said. I'll mark my calendar for 5 years from now, we'll come back and have this conversation again. I'm probably wrong, but I might be right. If anything I'm a hypocrite for contributing to this story in the comments above.
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Why dont't you just find a cheap Cortex M3 eval board, then?

http://www.amazon.com/SainSmart-STM32F103RBT6-Cortex-M3-Deve...

(example, not an endorsement)

Or hack a Gameboy Advance. ARM hobby boards have existed long before Raspberry Pi. Or is it the linux distro and easy video that's so appealing?
Nope, I'm not aware of past discussions on this. Do you have any pointers/links? I'd love to read about it :)

The definition I used is taken straight from Wikipedia's page on hate speech, and I feel like it's pretty straightforward.

As to how it opens the door to causes like "no nuclear weapons", I feel like it's a different issue altogether. Sure, it could be lumped in there, but I think hate speech and use for military purposes are 2 somewhat distinct things.
I think they can get away with this because to someone who is thinking about ads in an offline way, outdoors and newspapers etc the language makes it sound like your getting 3000 ads for example. When you think about it in terms though that your newspaper ad, while beng one ad, was seen by thousands of people.
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"What is to stop the VC from firing you the day before your options mature?"

A severance option in your contract which would make it even more lucrative for you if they tried to get rid of you without a really, really good reason (like a criminal conviction).
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This might be what you need:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/411
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Businesses don't like GPLv3 because... it's (arguably) bad for them. BSD licenced software surges. News at 11.
What a horrible plan! I mean, I support the basic idea of not wanting your work to be used by, say, the Westboro group. But how could you possibly define "communication that disparages or discriminates" in any meaningful way? Some cases are obvious (see the above example), but what about someone who's disparaging a repressive government? Last year's Arab Spring protestors wouldn't think that they're being discriminatory or hate-driven, but the local authorities had a different view of the matter. For a (possibly) closer-to-home example, consider the opposing sides of the pro-life/pro-choice debate. Either group would be very likely to accuse the other of disparaging or discriminating against their own "religion, or other characteristic".

Furthermore, some overly-sensitive people interpret anything that doesn't actively support them as opposing them. Who gets/has to decide whether a particular instance of communication "disparages or discriminates": the speaker, the listener, or you?

Also, remember that a license is actually a legal document. Do you really want to have to defend these vague terms in court?

The GNU folks considered such things when crafting the GPL. According to their rationale at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html , the very first requirement of a free software licence (freedom 0) is:

The freedom to run the program means the freedom for any kind of person or
organization to use it on any kind of computer system, for any kind of overall
job and purpose, without being required to communicate about it with the developer
or any other specific entity. In this freedom, it is the user's purpose that
matters, not the developer's purpose; you as a user are free to run the program for
your purposes, and if you distribute it to someone else, she is then free to run it
for her purposes, but you are not entitled to impose your purposes on her.

While many people disagree with the GNU authors on many finer points, this is a pretty fundamental freedom that many or most free software authors support.

Basically, while I sympathize with the motivation, this just can't work in reality. Nor should it! It sets a very bad example of attempting to impose behaviors on end users and that never ends well.
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I work in SF, but live ~2.5 hours away by Stockton. Moving isn't an option, family is important and we have tons of family within 5 mins. However, the nice Ruby jobs are in SF. There are dev jobs in Sacramento, but it is mostly government stuff and not as attractive. Most interesting jobs are in startups, but most nearby startups want people in the office.

Though I am working on going out on my own, since I don't plan to keep the commute up long term.
There is absolutely no comparison between Steve Jobs -- a man who carved a sizable niche in a market, created another market that never existed before (app store), built a massive company, and whose direct oversight impacted all sorts of people -- dying, and Atwood simply leaving SO.
This isn't to say that Apple's implementations were that great, though. I know a few IT techs happy to see something other than the buggy install of Samba for CIFS.

Personally, Apple's exclusion of the "nounix" option in mount_smbfs was a HUGE pain in the ass, to the point where I was a click away from submitting it as a bug. Not that it got better with Lion.
These are some interesting examples. In all of them, we are talking about disparaging intellectual positions, which I don't think belong to the same set of characteristics like the ones mentioned in the text (race, disability, gender, etc.) and therefore would be acceptable.

Maybe adding a recursion clause? "This software can be used to disparage or discriminate on characteristics which inherently disparage or discriminate characteristics such as gender, disability, [...], etc." ;)
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Apple's PC sales are a rapidly diminishing part of their business, and the share made up by hackers far smaller still. They're perfectly happy to let those devs for whom up-to-date tools and FOSS are important go elsewhere; look at any college classroom and you'll see they have way more new customers to replace them.

This isn't to say they'll actively discourage hackers from using their products, but if it comes down to a product being hack-friendly or adhering to Apple's core principles, hack-friendliness doesn't stand a chance.
The Chinese government desperately needs to create jobs, and the only way to create large amounts of jobs fit for unskilled labor is industrial scale manufacturing and building infrastructure.

But there is a problem. Manufacturing in the developed world has become largely mechanized and thus ever cheaper over the past decades.

That means that in order to be competitive on the world market the Chinese worker needs compete with machines. The reason this is possible at all is the (still) low standard of living prevalent in China at the moment that allows for a low labor cost.

Rest assured that companies like Foxconn would like nothing better than to automate most jobs, and they would do it in an instant weren't it for the Chinese government.

But there's a catch. As the people become wealthier they also gain more power and influence and will demand their rights (as they are slowly doing now) at which point the number of people employed in the industry will start to decline sharply as they will become less and less profitable. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?

So,if you wan't to better working conditions and consequently more unemployment in China you can do so by buying their stuff, boycotting their products will just make them worse off and jobless.
However expensive his hosting/advertisement is, I hope he is able to justify it by attributing increase of sales/revenues from this expense.
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>I’m also intrigued to see how far they are prepared to go with this. They already annoyed and inconvenienced a lot of people with the Samba and GCC removal. Having wooed so many developers to the Mac in the last decade, are they really prepared to throw away all that goodwill by shipping obsolete tools and making it a pain in the ass to upgrade them?

The answer is: all the way. I don't understand any other conclusion you could draw from this. Other than a few non-essential command line tools (like emacs), Apple will clean the system of anything they can't control.

A lot of code is shared between OS X and iOS, so the 'tivoisation' clause means that they can't use GPLv3 on iOS, so best to avoid it on Mac OS X too.

Homebrew will still be around to install all the command-line goodies you need. No pain in the ass required.

Regardless of Apple's goals in this action, a lot of the OSS world is moving to permissive licenses, so this isn't a terribly surprising move.
Apple's failure to update GNU software was actively impacting the security of OS X. Charlie Miller made mincemeat of OS X because of the sorry state of security of 3rd party utilities (http://rixstep.com/1/20080422,00.shtml).

As Charlie Miller noted in his '07 BH presentation:
(https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-07/Miller/Pres...)

How to Find a Mac OS X 0-Day:

1) Find some open source package they use that is out of date

2) Read the change log for that software

3) Find a good bug

4) Profit!

"The Samba on Mac OS X (on Monday) had an exploitable remote root vulnerability in it...it hadn’t been updated since February 2005!"

If anything, Apple removing GPL software creates a better situation, because fink/macports/homebrew will be available to pick up the slack and provide more timely updates.

Plus, it seems like FreeBSD is trying to get rid of as much
GNU stuff as they can, so that more of what they release is covered under a BSD license (see BSD grep, for example).
It may be that Apple is just picking up some of these changes from FreeBSD and doing a little bit of housekeeping on their end.
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Compared to onclick, it's certainly a performance benefit.

However the difference here is in looping over every matched element to add the handler (bind) versus adding the handler to a single element further up the DOM tree (delegate).
We only have the iPod, iPod touch/iPhone, apple TV, battery covers on newer Apple laptops, and Apple's hardware for their computers to show where they are headed. Some may accuse me of a slippery slope argument; I look at it as a continuation of a linear regression and projection. And where that's going doesn't look peachy.

It is a rather interesting point they do not have any GPL 3 software distributed, and for probably for both the reasons stated. However, the way the whole Mac feel is as it was a curated device (regardless the actual platform). Both Apple and Microsoft seem to want to converge on a "trusted platform"; where the trust is against you.
The Reddit/HN style is better when there are small number of most interesting or most correct replies, forums are better when there are a large number of valuable contributions. They're also better for long-running events and the ongoing discussion of broad topics.

Basically, Reddit style is better for "New Star Trek Movie announced", forums are better for "Let's talk about Star Trek".
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Thanks for the politely written, well argued criticism!

My goal in writing+submitting this was more to ignite interesting conversations like yours rather than to provide a legal document ready to use.

That being said, I have to say that in the light of what you said, I would tend to agree with everything that you said. But it still bothers me that it is possible to use free software for "hate" driven causes.

If a homophobic/xenophobic/etc. group used my work to efficiently promote their ideals, it would bother me on a deep level. I don't think there's a straight solution to that, but I still feel like it's a problem at some level- despite the fact that yes, attempting to impose behaviors on end users is a very slippery slope.
Also, Pallet is sweet - I (Adam Jacob, one of the authors of Chef) have talked with Hugo, looked at the code, and played with Pallet. It's good sauce, and it's not quite the same kind of beast as Chef/Puppet. It's much more like what the logical conclusion of tools like Capistrano and Func/Fabric hope to be when they grow up.

It's also super fun to use, partly because Clojure is a great language.
The Raspberry Pi is not targeting the Arduino's use case.

Instead the Raspberry Pi is supposed to be an incredibly cheap computer and for that the only sensor you need is a usb keyboard.
Well then what are you waiting for? Start your own chip company.

We get it. Broadcom doesn't release specs for their parts. Their market cap is 20 billion dollars, so all the open source sanctimony won't dent them a bit.
Wow. He really has videos for Wimdu and Airbnb on his p2pRooms.com page. What an asshat.
> It's not like Apple were keeping this stuff updated

Well, obviously as the major point of the article is that Apple clearly refuses to ship software covered by GPLv3, so you're getting the rapidly ancient, last GPLv2 versions. It's quite a rare exception for updated GNU software to be available under GPLv2--the FSF basically moved their entire code base from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+ when GPLv3 was released and that has cascading effects since GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible. I was unaware of the sorry state of things on MacOS actually as I don't use Apple products, but it at least enlightened me about all the bash bashing we tend to see on HN.
This was my biggest obstacle. I used Dvorak for 3-4 years in the early 90's. It was great, and I often miss it, but such were the pre-laptop (and pre thumb-drive) days, and I had to move around a lot of machines that I either was not allowed to or couldn't install a Dvorak driver. So I switched back, but my speed and accuracy was no worse on Dvorak; I was about 30% quicker if memory serves; accuracy was about the same, or at least within statistical noise.

The other irritant was editor commands. I'm an emacs guy and some just didn't translate well. And I was working on a *nix system, and "ls" was the "ol" keys. Third finger for both letters. Ack!
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If the employer wants loyalty, then they can pay for it. Maybe not literally, but when I really like my job it takes a hell of a lot more than an extra $10k/year to get me to switch.

Or they can heavily encourage it, with vesting stock options, seniority based raises/promotions, etc.

Relying on "loyalty" to keep people when the employer has shown none (an employment contract that has penalties if you're laid off? Only for senior execs) is just a bad idea.
Or you could look at it the other way around and say that this demo works for ~85% of the web already.

For the record, Chrome 16 holds the title of "Browser with the single largest piece of marketshare for vendor/version combo" with 30.5% as of Jan 2012. It works dandy in there. So yeah, it works just fine with the most common browser out there.

IE8 was released nearly three years ago. By way of reference, in that time, Chrome has shipped 18 major versions. Complaining that modern snazz demos don't work in IE8 is just ridiculous at this point.
I thought photostream was something that happened when on wifi only.
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This already exists. You could use ustream or a few different services for instant streaming + archiving. However, this is going to depend on a reliable data connection.
You can download the driver without buying a new mouse (or lost your disc). I've plugged in Logitech mice with Microsoft Mouse installed before and it still seemed to work fine. http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/29220/microsoft-mouse
I agree, as some agile guru said, a plan is useless but planning is essential. An important thing along with avoiding making useless features is also to avoid building a design that is hostile against features we do need to add. Building a good design without having any anticipation of what will come is in my point of view impossible. The tricky part is to keep the anticipations and assumptions to a reasonable level.
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I did below. PHP is a joke of a language/platform (and I say this as someone who has six years of professional PHP experience), but that wasn't my point.

The point was: PHP is dog slow, Facebook solved that particular problem with a gargantuan engineering feat, deleting photos is trivial by comparison, therefore they either do not give a crap or it's somehow beneficial to them to keep them around forever.
We need more people like David. I think every developer should pursue to create the internet according to the way they think it should be and users should use apps and software that make sense to them and which they want to use.

Variety and alternatives are good. Opinionated software is good! Mono-culture, design by committee and one single way of doing things (no matter how good or efficient) are all bad.

For example, look at what happened to the US shuttle program, the public manned space program is now limbo because of dependence on a single way of doing things. Thank goodness for the private space enterprises bubbling along and competing on the periphery where there's a glimmer of hope.

Let structures emerge from the outer edges of the internet that are in constant flux. As long as we all agree on the basic protocols in the core of Internet, we'll be fine.

On the other side of this wider debate, my friends think I'm crazy for switching from a very nice Mac GUI, MS Office, QWERTY keyboard et al to Ubuntu et al and work my way up the command line, emacs and relearn Colemak keyboard typing.

I'm starting to enjoy the pay-off of my crazy efforts. My 'sensible' friends don't know what they are missing.
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> Some may accuse me of a slippery slope argument; I look at it as a continuation of a linear regression and projection.

So, er, a slope-related argument of some sort, then. It could be friction-y, I suppose.
I know, but psychologically, you end up aiming for the button, rather than hitting the "infinite margin" that is the corner.

I honestly don't think it's going to be a bad thing for me or the people that I know, but do I ever feel bad for tech support crews that already had issues getting old people to find the start button. :)
Yes, I agree that a documented chip is better than an undocumented one.

But I, for one, am ecstatic that I will finally be able put a few boxes here and there around my house for various automation tasks.

Running Linux itself is a HUGE step towards openness. I actually don't care about the GPU.

The closest thing (in price+performance+flexibility) are open-source-compatible routers onto which I can try loading up an openwrt-derived distro (4 MB RAM, 4 MB Flash) or expensive Arduino boards, plug computers etc! This is a giant leap forward, and I am grateful to Raspberry Pi/Broadcom for trying to make a tinkerer-friendly board like this.
Thanks for taking it in the friendly spirit I intended it. Parts may have come across a little more harshly than I planned, but I meant well. :)

Again, I totally understand the motivation. I'd hate to think that someone was taking the software that I poured so much hard work into and using it to mistreat others! I think that's just something we have to learn to accept. You can use a rifle to shoot a wild animal or assassinate a political opponent. A knife can open a box or hijack an airplane. Virus manipulation can end a disease or end a country. The best you can do is make sure your own motives are good and hope for the best from others.
This is one of the reasons why Android's "Instant Upload"[1] feature is so awesome. Every Android device running 2.2+ is capable of instantly uploading photos and videos taken with your phone into a private folder on your Google+ account... not sure if the iPhone Google+ app will also do this, can anyone confirm?

There are other solutions proposed in this thread, but if you have an aversion to Google services (or perhaps an iPhone), you can also try out the new Dropbox beta that also has automatic uploading of photos and videos from your phone[2].

[1] http://support.google.com/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans...

[2] http://lifehacker.com/5881692/get-up-to-45gb-of-extra-space-...

P.S. This issue is another reason why it's so important
that the tech community has a voice in the upcoming
FCC spectrum auctions. Congress is currently trying to
prevent the FCC from placing conditions on the auction,
which will surely keep the spectrum in the hands of the
biggest telco players and prevent more competition &
innovation in the wireless market.
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Nice idea. What if you incorporate the 10,000 hours rule as a sorting method for the interface to sort more highly trained musicians near the top? You could weigh total music practicing, practicing with that instrument and practicing with those band members. You might end up needing to compare instrument similarities, but finding, for instance, a performer highly skilled in two dissimilar instruments would be intriguing to listen to.
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Did you install an additional certificate in your keychain perhaps? I don't see any Extended Validation fancy-pants business going on in my Chrome for https://www.eff.org/

If I recall correctly, Chrome and Safari use OS X's keychain system as its certificate store and Firefox does not. (Again, if I recall correctly, to manage certificates for Firefox, one must go to Preferences… > Advanced > Encryption.) I may be wrong. This is just off the top of my head. (Too preoccupied to verify.)
He missed this one, which may also be problematic:

> You may not convey a covered work if you are a party to an arrangement with a third party that is in the business of distributing software, under which you make payment to the third party based on the extent of your activity of conveying the work, and under which the third party grants, to any of the parties who would receive the covered work from you, a discriminatory patent license.

This was intended to avoid situations similar to the Microsoft/Novell patent grant agreement, but could have quite broad scope.
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> but does the presence of obscenities inhibit clarity

That entirely depends on your work environment. Will adding in obscenities will rouse up some big HR kerfuffle? Then don't do it, you're just wasting everyone's time. Otherwise, do whatever you want.
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> You're picturing some massive server failure, but not the more likely case of your Google account being disabled for any random reason, which has happened to more than a few people. As Gmail gains more users, you become that much less important to them.

"more than a few" is probably still in the ten-thousandths of percentage points if that. Some can't, but I can live with those odds.

And as Gmail gets more users, I'm guessing the odds get even better, particularly with so many of these new users being tied to Android. Google has a lot tied up with making sure things don't go south.

And then there's services like backupify.
It sounds more like they won't sign any non-exclusive patent agreements, like an IP monopsony.