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perhaps nothing? perhaps the artists wont sign such acontract?
if it were anentire industry doing it it would be anantitrust issue......
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But to their credit, that's not the point. This is touched upon in the novel--that it's the idea of rebellion that Guy Fawkes has become a symbol of, not what he was fighting for but that he was fighting at all.
> Piracy is where the consumer side of a transaction takes
without permission. That's cheating. It is immoral.

That's not what piracy is, actually. Piracy is simply "an infringement of copyright". And copyright is the exclusive right to copy a work, distribute it for sale to the public, perform it publicly, display it publicly, or create derivatives from it. It's not really comparable to a normal transaction.

> It sounds like you believe personal financial gain is
inherently immoral. Many people do feel this way. Many
people don't.

Well, that's not really what I believe. I do own a company after all. It doesn't get much more financial gain-seeking than that :)

The original intention of copyright was as follows: Ideas, expression, and information have no owners. They belong to the public because of free speech and all. However, this discouraged their creation, because if you wrote a book someone could just put their name on it and mass-produce it, giving you no credit. So lawmakers said how about we give authors a limited time to benefit financially from copyright. That will be a great incentive for them to create new works. However, after that time ends, the public should enjoy unrestricted use. That way we don't create monopolies on free speech and expression.

My problem is that we're straying from this original intent. The entire purpose was to prevent monopolies* on information. You used to only have copyrights for 28 years, max, before the public got full control over it. Since then, content companies and artists have endlessly lobbied Congress to give them more power, and today copyrights last an entire lifetime PLUS 70 years. Nothing ever enters the public domain.

So the real question is: How can you argue that copyright infringers are immoral, when the reality is that copyright holders are the ones who've violated the original intent of the law purely for personal gain? Their actions are ion violation of almost every moral foundation you listed (fairness, liberty, authority, betrayal, degradation).

> You should assume the opposite of your bias and form
your argument on that basis. It will make for a stronger
argument.

Thanks for the feedback.
To me, Khan Academy represents a break from the traditional educational model. I would rather they focus on innovating than proving themselves as being just like every other school.
I am an adult, at age 23 and I have realized for years how much data leakage there is.

None of the apps on my phone get access to Location services save for 1, Google Maps. There is no reason why my status update to ANY service should require my location, and luckily at the moment you can opt-out from ever having to send a location. I am very happy that Apple required the App to ask for permissions first (on an API level) and wish they would implement this further for a few more of the API's (such as Contacts which was brought up here recently).

I still find it funny when even adults don't seem to realize that they are advertising their current location to anyone and everyone all around the globe. People continue to use Foursquare to let the world know they are on vacation making them simpler targets for thieves that want to burglar their homes, they make themselves easy to follow around. For some people the FBI need not plant a GPS tracker, the subject themselves accurately documents everything and everything they do.
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It would be easier to just learn the language.

JavaScript I not c. JavaScript is not Java. JavaScript is not python. If it was one of those languages it would be named that and there would be no JavaScript books, just dom and browser books.

But it is not those languages. It is different. If people don't learn the language they cannot be expected to write code.

People always bring up var for some reason. Why var? Why not closures? Javascript is often the first place programmers come across this concept and it always causes confusion and bugs at first. Should we get rid of them? Of course not!
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Thanks for the tip! I'm trying to get some good online learning courses to look at (learning on one's own can be so directionless). I'll definitely look at it, thanks again!
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I got the same thing...
Great points. I'm going to automatically concur on the grounds that I don't think bureaucracies that produce nothing should have a say in the production of anything.
I don't see why you can't do both? Wrap "clever" things in well tested black boxes that can be used in maintainable systems.

I guess I don't get the article. "Clever" ideas for startups don't translate to "clever" solutions in code. Someone can have an idea of something "new" for a startup, but the patterns in code are often the same. In that sense having well designed code can be a plus and doesn't mean sacrifice of the uniqueness of the idea. Even if my startup requires a "clever" algorithm for speed or scale, that can be wrapped in a coherent black box that enables the code using it to be easily readable and maintainable.

Maybe I'm just misunderstanding, I'm not sure?
Ease of learning is often decoupled from ease of efficient use, sometimes even inversely related. 'Usable' is not one thing for everybody.

So: a skeuomorph is obviously not a problem if it does not cause gratuitous errors or slowdowns, and it obviously is if it does.

And in any case design also concerns matters of taste, on which opinions will naturally differ.
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Wrong. What makes JavaScript popular is how good it is. You can't explain its mass popularity growth in non browser setting (node js ) with its ubiquity. It is a great language, and perhaps ubiquity was needed to get a lot of people to try out new concepts.
At the point he invested in some of these companies they probably would have been happy to entertain your investment offers.
Every day, you are judged first for your appearance and second for eveything else. It's like introducing a friend at a party, "Hi, this is my GAY friend, Cole". I can't imagine it's pleasant to have your primary attribute be your appearance (or sexuality, etc), always secondary to your contributions, skills, etc.
The 85k for the SR-71 is the unclassified information that has been made available. Rumor has it they hit 100k+ with the SR-71. Figures on actual ceiling for the SR-71 flights that were made have never been made public.
No we have not. No need to be an ass.
While not nearly as comprehensive, using VT220 font[1] is kinda cool too.

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Zuckerberg? Okay, I guess... but I don't know...you were not specific.

Perish does not literally mean die, it's a play on the saying "Publish or Perish" meaning you don't advance.
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I have to disagree with this.

There's plenty of ways to be creative and still be disciplined.

I find myself spending a lot of cycles reducing solutions to their most simple form -- removing everything unnecessary until just what's required remains.

Or, designing large systems. Giving my input on UI layout / design / experience. Imaging use cases and how users will use the software -- what assumptions will they make?

Data structure selection, sync vs async, and a whole myriad of trade offs and judgment calls are all creative processes.

We're professionals after all. We're employed for the finished product -- let's make it as good as we can.

You can always code outside of work to flex your creative muscles if you find your work environment too restricting.
Thanks for the reply.. I agree Scala and Clojure are interesting but Ruby seems to be the most in-demand so would like to pick it up first, I have used JRuby a bit and being able to use Java when necessary I think would definitely be beneficial, but overall it seems doing a lot of web apps in Java may not be as good idea as I had originally thought
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> Coronal Heating Problem

Serendipitously to you mentioning this now, only a couple of weeks ago they announced they have a good candidate for the explanation, which is Type II spicules.

http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=118338&WT....
This is a blatantly false dichotomy--how fun and clever code is is not inversely proportional to how much fun it is.

If anything, I've found the opposite to be true: the code I have the most fun writing is also the code I find easiest to maintain. My latest side project--writing an interpreted language in Haskell--has been extremely fun and disconcertingly maintainable. Being able to add complicated features that I thought would take a while in a couple of lines of code is just eerie.

Coincidentally, this brings up my second point: writing maintainable code makes the latter 90% of programming (debugging and adding features after the fact) more fun. I think it's a win.
I agree. That's why I hope inbound takes off.
I remember thinking they wouldn't make it in the mid-90s. I had just bought one of the pizza box PowerMacs and it felt like an expensive mistake. Now it's $14B in profit for the quarter. It took my company all of 2011 to earn in EBITDA what they earn every 3 hours.

And I'll be contributing soon. The only thing that's kept me from getting an air is the lack of an 8GB model. If it's 15", even better.
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Too bad this is never going to be heard or understood by the majority of people, until it is too late. (Leave Facebook?! but how will I keep in touch with everyone?)

But don't worry, I have a tinfoil hat for this exact problem.
Their are positives and negatives to using any technology. Location services can be extremely useful. If you are that worried about someone knowing you location you should reconsider using the internet, or a cell phone. Both these technologies can be used to track you. Basically, in the modern world, if someone wants to track you, they will find a way.

It is always good to watch how much information you are making publicly available but unless your willing to go off the grid it's not worth fretting over.

(In the case of kids though it is worth fretting over and parents should be doing more to protect their privacy online. Simple things like restricting access to certain apps/services on an iPhone can make a big difference.)
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If you are just writing for yourself, and you don't need tests, etc. then who cares what you do. Follow your bliss and more power to you. But if there is some chance I will have to fix or figure out your code - please DO try to make it maintainable. Useful code is useful even if it's dirty, but it's just polite to consider your audience. Surely this is not controversial?

Maybe the issue here is some disagreement about what "maintainable" means and in particular, in how and where it conflicts with "clever."

If "clever" means intentionally obfuscated, or doing something in a complex or unorthodox way just to show off, I don't think there is much controversy that this is unhelpful and not good unless you are just pleasing yourself. If "clever" means extreme conciseness beyond the point where it makes it very hard to read and understand, I would tend to look at that as more of the same.

Cleverness is often instituted to make code more maintainable, as in many cases of "Don't Repeat Yourself" using introspection. I tend to think that gratuitously huge amounts of mandatory boilerplate are very not-clever and actually decrease maintainability.

For example, I have seen dependency injection being heavily touted for 'maintainability', but making a religion out of this can lead to all kinds of tortured and unclear code (just like what you see from many people who have recently become infatuated with "patterns"). Code which is overly complex for the task, and hard to read, isn't that maintainable in my book.

Cleverness can also be done behind the scenes of an API, hidden behind a screen, to make life easier for the API's end users. Sometimes this is good, sometimes bad. Often it is worthwhile to get a clean implementation, just hard to do.

I don't think there is any clear definition of "code monkey" but I think such derogatory terms should be reserved for people who are really incompetent all around, not just people who do clean workmanlike jobs and worry about how their code reads and extends and so on. Those are good things to worry about; there are other things to worry about, but those are good things to worry about.
MPAA and RIAA's latest attempts with SOPA, PIPA and ACTA were done specifically to avoid due process, so they can decide who goes down, and also to put the burden on a 3rd party for enforcing that so they don't have to waste their own money. They will push the laws/Constitution to the breaking limit to get what they want.

But I think they screwed up with SOPA and PIPA. They got too greedy too fast, and they broke the camel's back with it. They should be very afraid that not only all such laws will be stopped now, but that the tide will turn against them and they will end up with weaker copyright laws than they had before they started with SOPA, and maybe even fewer sales because of the increased hatred towards them.

Ultimately, they really need to change their thinking and how to approach the piracy problem. Copyright is not ownership, or at least it's not ownership like in owning a house. No idea is 100% original. It's all created from prior knowledge and ideas. And once you build upon it and improve it, you must also allow others to use it, modify it, and improve upon it once again. You benefited from others works, now let others benefit from yours. There probably should be some kind of copyright law to help recover the costs, but that's something the whole society has to decide, not just MPAA/RIAA, and it definitely shouldn't be as strict and as perpetual as it is today.
Two years ago in January 2010, Yangon had their first Barcamp. People were afraid to talk politics. Most of the Internet was firewalled. Aung San Suu Kyi was under house arrest.

Two years later, Myanmar is awakening and filled with hope for the future.
You should definitely follow mcplusplus's advice.

Another introductory course is Harvard's CS50[1] which covers a lot of subjects: Programming concepts, C, basic algorithms and data structures, recursion, basic web programming with databases, a glimpse of operating systems and computer architecture. And the instructor (David J. Malan) is great!

And I second Stanford's CS106A/B[2] (CS107 is much harder if you're just learning how to program) - it only teaches in java, but it has more depth than Harvard's, especially CS106B which covers a lot of algorithms and data structures.

[1] http://cs50.tv

[2] http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx
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Was this an attempt to illustrate "important issues" rather than promoting iconoclasm, or an attempt to say that wedge issues are what drives modern government and thus we shouldn't be paying attention to the man behind the curtain, but discussing the preselected moral issue dujour to keep us distracted and shoulders to the grindwheel rather than looking at the bigger picture?

The latter doesn't much look worth of downvoting to me, in fact I'd go almost so far as to say it's amongst the most vexing problems of humanity at the moment.
Wow. I liked hackernews before. Now I'm in love. Thanks for all the tips everyone. Front page? COOL!

Will definitely look at these courses. Muchas gracias amigos
Sounds like a key problem is the lack of advice that an investor or bank manager could give based on his/her experience.
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Creativity doesn't need to come in the form of doing some boring task in a contorted or intentionally complex or showy way, though. You can be creative in choosing tasks and in choosing good novel approaches to tasks. Often the conventional way is bad enough that there is novelty in doing a straightforward and clean implementation.

Besides that, getting it done in a way that you can reasonably verify as correct and you don't have to rewrite (read: a maintainable way) means you get to free up resources for whatever you are ultimately trying to do with that code. 'Boring' code plays a huge enabling role for creative code and creative projects.

Finally, creativity may be something but it isn't everything; in the rare event that writing code in a way that gets things done or helps people does not provide enough scope for creativity, your activity is more in the vein of pure recreation or performance art, and you shouldn't worry at all about maintainability. Just know what you are doing.
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The web - the browser programmers, the HTML developers, certainly all levels of management - is incapable of learning from its mistakes - we've been over this with Netscape, then IE6, and now the exact same thing is happening with Webkit.
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Reminds me of the pomodoro technique whereby a real physical kitchen timer is recommended to keep track of time broken down in 25minute intervals.
Rumor has it that he is not afraid to stand up for what he believes is right. Doing a quick search on Google shows exactly that - he only gets tough when he wants to correct a "wrong".
If it is true that we have moved past the era of formal standards, we will have lost something that is important. More important than most people understand.

If a technology has only implementation, even an open source implementation, that implementation will have all sorts of hidden assumptions and biases. No one will know about or understand those assumptions and biases until the time comes to use that technology in a new context.

In my work, I've dealt with multiple implementations of things like simulators, models and even languages. The additional implementations usually had some specific reason behind them (performance, alternative features, supporting different execution environments, different mathematical properties and so on). Nevertheless, the value of each alternative implementation (in terms of surfacing hidden assumptions, finding bugs, illuminating more general and flexible alternatives, etc.) went well beyond the specific reason that implementation was made.

These considerations are even more important in the case of software that is part of a large, chaotic, heterogeneous system like the Web. Imagine where the mobile web would be today if there hadn't been a W3C and, at the turn of the century, the Web really had been "what Internet Explorer renders" with no attempt to document and codify anything else.

Or, to take your example of Objective C, how much does Objective C matter outside of Apple's ecosystem?

Contrast this with:

- How much does JavaScript matter outside of Netscape's ecosystem?

- How much does Java matters outside of Sun's?

- Or, to take the granddaddy of examples, how much does C matter off of the PDP-11 and outside of Bell Labs?

None of those languages would be anywhere near where they are today without standards. On the other side of the coin, there is a reason languages like Python, Ruby and Haskell have had (and, each to a varying extent, continue to have) a "bus problem". Standards matter and even just the standardization process itself matters. I wish more people understood that.
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I'm very amused that someone else has observed this about PyPy, I began to think I was the only one. It does not seem to be the orthodox view.

I like CPython's fast startups and low memory overhead, bad scores in Pfannkuch benchmarks notwithstanding. If PyPy runs my everyday stuff better to casual inspection I will get a different impression, but as things stand I see it as a kind of Java-ization whose superiority is often unclear or qualified.

Is a JIT always better? Is reference counting always worse? Is it a total no-brainer to want Software Transactional Memory? I don't think so. But I think there are some arguments, and perhaps as importantly I think there are many newer Python folks who want to make a name for themselves.
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http://bugs.pypy.org, what can I say. Also "Is X always better than Y" is very often false for large enough domains.
Good point, this is on the way. The problem is more to do it right, that is, you want for each "word" to detect if this is a word, a chemical formula or a SMILES. Then, if SMILES, you then need to canonicalize it and search.

Nothing very complicated, but it needs to be well done to be of any use.

Thanks for the feedback!
I also recommend following a tutorial, it's really hard to start coding on your own, you will definitely get bad habits or a very shallow, incorrect understanding. I know this from long experience.
It reminds me of the Vikings. They would plunder throughout Europe including modern day France. It got so bad that the coasts ended up practically abandoned.

The rich and weak Frank empire, a bad combination, resorted to the disastrous policy of bribing the invaders to leave. It only served to mark the Franks as a good target and emptying the treasury. The Vikings would leave, plunder some other place and come back for more.

In the end, the Franks ended up giving part of their land on the coast : Normandy. This served to settle the invaders down while making THEM have to protect their newly acquired territory against other vikings.
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It's true, and since everyone upgrades their phones every two years it's not like there's a chance of older versions of a hegemonic browser haunting developers' dreams, right?
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