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I don't think you'd easily win the argument, unless the parties involved generally didn't sign non-disparagement agreements.

I was once laid off from a company that gave me a small (but significant to me) severance check in exchange for signing a non-disparagement agreement. I did jokingly refer to that check as my "hush money", but I had no actual issue with the company or any of my former coworkers. That company did it simply as a matter of course, I imagine to make the laying off process more predictable.

(And I was pretty appreciative of the check itself; between it and my left over vacation days, I made it pretty comfortably to my next position.)
I agree with you. I also don't think he was being completely honest with his answers. A few examples:

According to his recent history [1], he still has a larger than life lifestyle, even though he has a family now. He claims he's no criminal but he doesn't mention his criminal history. He mentions he didn't see any reason in his past to "wear a suit and be stuck up", yet before he made it big, this was exactly the image he gave off [2]. Also, there's the obvious illegal activity on MegaUpload, the over-the-top security at his premises [3], and his hostile reaction when the police arrived, yet this was "completely unexpected".

I agree that MegaUpload has legal uses, and that he's fighting an outdated business model, but I still don't support him.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/user/MrKimDotcom

[2]: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Kim_Schmi...

[3]: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020430140457717...
>Just "fuck 'em" and the lawyers search and write letters for each and every copy?

I would say yes, in precisely that many words, but then again, I tire of the content industry's abuses and I have a huge bias against them.

When it comes to "something potentially legal being taken down" and "something potentially infringing being left up", I'm going to fall on the side of 'leave the content up' 100% of the time. The "Better 100 guilty men...." school of law enforcement.
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That's not quite what he's saying as none of the iPad models are available with a 2-year contract including the 3g models. You are always paying full price for the hardware and with the 3g models have the ability to cancel the data plan at any time with no additional fees.
Check whether you can reinvigorate your passion. What made you stop loving it? Did you get distracted from your original goal? Did you over-complicate it? Did someone else solve it better? Be brutally honest with yourself about what's preventing you from getting excited and fix that.

If you find that you just fundamentally aren't excited about the problem them you owe it to yourself to move on as soon as is practical. Chalk it up as a life lesson and be more careful next time.
The trigger wasn't 2GB, but "top 5%". Every customer that is affected by the 5% rule will very likely try to reduce his consumption. So when you take the limit as time approaches infinity, the amount putting you in the top 5% approaches zero bytes.

I could see why that is a legally questionable thing to do.
I'm truly puzzled by the notion that a CRM-for-prospective-investors should be more important to a business^ than a CRM-for-customers

^ yeah, I'm old-school and still think startups should be businesses first and foremost
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How can you Hack something then open source it? thats intelectual property, if you didn't write it you dont have the right to open source it, am I right? can someone explain if this is legal, what if someone decides to use one of this filters on an app?
I don't think we disagree, either. Maybe I can clarify how I addressed your point.

So you must already have a library that provides you with the adequate abstractions.

Given that it failed on Feb 29, either the library is weak, used wrongly, or no such library had been in use. Instead, the code may have assumed that every February has 28 days or it calculated the leap year wrongly. In either case, I can imagine that code that assumes that Feburary has 28 days may go havoc on the 29th. For example, before midnight you might want to schedule some important task two hours from now, do calculations based on the number of seconds in two hours and calculate the task to happen on March 1st instead of February 29th.

I think the issue arises because even though time is such an important (and difficult to handle) data point, there is hardly any language support or the libraries are weak.
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Besides your point with which I agree (and am saddened by), the point of this community is to stimulate our collective minds, discuss ideas we wouldn't normally think of. Evolution is one such topic of conversation -- what evolutionary traits made these creatures grow so big on Ball's Pyramid, how did they grow so big so quickly, how did they get there from the other island, etc...

By expanding our collective horizons, we are able to extrapolate useful information and perhaps even apply it to our jobs or startups. For example, ant colony optimization came about by studying ants - not exactly what the OP would consider HN material. Genetic algorithms came about by studying genetics, mutations, and all things Darwin.

So instead of asking, "why is this on HN," we should ask ourselves or each other "how/what can we learn from this and apply it to our fields?"
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So these were ripped from the Instagram code , modified and opened up via GitHub?

Is this releasing proprietary Instagram info, or did I misunderstand this?
It would be great to have this free for individuals - so that they can see if they love it or not. Either make it completely free for them, or free for 2-3 micro-funnels, or free for managing ~250 leads (like highrise).

After that it would be ideal to charge a little ($5/month) for the next 2-3 users, and more for larger teams. Ofcourse, give more features as the team sizes grow.

Note that your market is larger than a CRM.
Looks impressive so far, I've basically been doing this kind of thing manually in gmail using labels, for supporting Smart Shooter.

So its free for now whilst in beta, I just might be hooked by the time they start to charge for it..
My primary heuristic for finding startup ideas is coming across problems in my own daily life. As long as the problem exists, and I'm passionate about it, the only thing that will change is the solution. That's exactly why it's so dangerous to be passionate about solutions.

There are other ways to come up with ideas, but for me the only thing interesting is solving problems I see with my own eyes. I know there are very good companies built in different ways though.
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Something everyone should know about Silicon Valley's "humble" billionaire: he was involved in a very high-profile and nasty divorce case[1] in which he (infamously) tried to screw not just his (ex-)wife but also his children out of the windfall from his Granite options. (This was essentially overturned on appeal[2], and set the precedent for how options are valued on divorce.) Suffice it to say that "humble" is not generally the word used to describe such behavior...

[1] http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/10.07.99/cover/divor...

[2] http://www.law.com/regionals/ca/opinions/sep/h019424.shtml
I've been there once and I think the matter is very delicate. Sometimes, you have to push through a terrible lack of excitement. Knowing if it's one of those times is hard.
From the article:

> This is why table-based layout fell out of favor.

No. No. No. No it is not.

Table-based layout didn't fall out of favor because table cells didn't include enough semantic layout information. It fell out of favor because tables are for tabular data, not layout, and layouts that used them therefore created negative consequences in all kinds of situations where the UA expected a table to actually be a table, such as when accessed by a vision-impaired person using a screen reader.

From this perspective a layout using DIVs is always better than a table-based layout, even if the classes and IDs of the DIVs are named presentationally rather than semantically, because DIVs at least are neutral -- they don't carry the weight of a bunch of semantics that are irrelevant or at cross-purposes to what you're trying to achieve.

You are correct that a DIV that's named "left-column" is marginally better than a DIV that's named "span4", if only because of the additional semantic information included in the "left-column" name. But either DIV is far, far better than any table-based layout.
https://ilt.eff.org/index.php/Copyright:_Digital_Millennium_...

Cases interpreting the “knowledge disqualifier” include Perfect 10 v. CCBill, 488 F.3d 1102, 1114 (9th Cir. 2007) (noncompliant notices do not count toward knowledge, use of “illegal” or “stolen” in domain name does not create red flag knowledge for hosting service); Io Group v. Veoh Networks, 586 F.Supp.2d 1132, 1148 (N.D. Cal. 2008) (“[A]pparent knowledge requires evidence that a service provider turned a blind eye to ‘red flags’ of obvious infringement.”); Corbis v. Amazon, 351 F. Supp. 2d 1090, 1108-09 (W.D. Wash. 2004) (neither general knowledge of infringement on the site nor third party notices are not enough to constitute a “red flag”); Hendrickson v. Amazon, 298 F. Supp. 2d 914, 917 (C.D. Cal. 2003) (Amazon lacked prospective knowledge of infringing DVD sales, even after rights holder informed it that the title in question had never been released on DVD); Hendrickson v. eBay, 165 F. Supp. 2d 1082, 1093 (C.D. Cal. 2001).

That said, MU might, in fact, be liable if it can be shown that they were aware of specific acts of infringement and did nothing, which some of the emails may, in fact, establish. After that, there's some question of how broadly the loss of safe harbor applies. I'm not sure that you lose all safe harbor protections for all infringement if you fail any particular red flag test. It seems to me that you ought to lose safe harbor only for those specific acts of infringement. But IANAL, and I'm not sure that point has ever been ruled on, so maybe we'll find out.
Not exactly their niche. They might hunt for insects, but it won't be enough in terms of energy acquired. So probably they will reduce in population until rats' population will restore back.

And its good to keep rats busy. They won't wander as freely as they do now and hence eat less insects.
To offer another example that occurred to me when I was reading this: HN's Jason Kester has frequently written about how his simple, little app S3Stat allows him to travel the world, rock-climbing and working when he wants to, with S3Stat itself requiring next to no maintenance. See, for example, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1925214
Are you still on 3G? T-Mobile's throttling solution is just to force your connection to EDGE once you hit the cap.
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I recently quit my job, and I've been doing projects / gigs for a bunch of people. I'm new to the world of self-employment, and hear these words (freelancer, consultant, independent contractor, llc etc.) thrown around. Whats the main difference? And should I be worried about anything in terms of legal / taxes?
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agreed. I think it's even a little faster than the old start menu. I feel like the entire OS is more keyboard friendly in general.
An Easter egg for anyone who has been reading my blog for 5+ years. It used to be my example of the dumbest idea around. It was back at a time when "social" was the big buzz and people were trying to apply it to everything, including, apparently, the alarm clock.

It's original incarnation, if I remember correctly, was some software that you ran on a computer in your bedroom (with your speakers on) that allowed your friends to wake you by changing your alarm time. The new incarnation looks just as bad. But they did mix in mobile and Twitter and Facebook!
On windows at least, this functionality is all available for native code.

On linux the situation is a little harder. I am not aware of edit and continue on that platform.

Any kind of crash is catchable. For example, we get minidumps of our windows software uploaded by the crashing process by catching any kind of crash that is possible, and handling it.

However, I would argue that you want to crash and dump a core as fast as possible when something unanticipated is happening. Process death should not be a problem in a well designed system!
why stick with them now that the 4 major cell phone companies have the iphone and 1 (Sprint, i think) even offers unlimited unthrottled data plans?
Sorry for the typo, probably shouldn't comment with a mobile device.
This 'article' was little more than a bunch of description of how the author felt about various things. No insight, no information relevant to us.

As for living in a nirvana, I think Louis C.K. said it in a far more insightful and entertaining way.
There are two things which are a bit off-putting about this.

First, the fact that the same exact type of bug had been known in 1999 and yet they either failed to fix it in the newer code base or they reimplemented the exact same bug in new code.

Second, almost certainly the reason that these bugs weren't caught earlier is because it's unusual for Windows to have such long uptime (50 days for Win 9x is impressive, and over a year for Windows server equally so). More so, almost certainly the average user has such low expectations of windows reliability that if they see the system become unstable or slow after a long period of uptime they will as a rule merely reboot the system rather than investigate.

Edit: a thought occurs to me. Perhaps the "fix" for the older problem was to simply change from using milliseconds since last boot for tcp/ip socket age to using hundredths of a second. I really, really hope that wasn't the case.
"Reverse-engineered" is really how this project should be worded.

EDIT: At the time I gave this author the benefit of the doubt. Looks like he pulled the actual shaders from the Instagram binaries, which is not cool.
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That's true. There's a big difference between an emotional slump that lasts a short time and a big drop in passion that seems permanent.
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I wish they made this an actual option though. When you hit your cap, do you want AT&T to charge you for the overage or drop your speed? Right now it's a one-way decision, and only for those who still have an "unlimited" plan.
Yep, still on 3G.
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Snakes have bad impact on birds as well. Maybe not adults, but the eggs. I believe there is always a bigger fish in the ocean, everything is just a matter of equilibrium and its rules of self-control. Humans and rats probably are the only species that ignore those rules.
The company claims that more than 85% of the Fortune 500 now have Yammer networks, including Thomson Reuters, Shell, Chevron, Nationwide and Ford Motor.

This reminds me of claims that "90% of the Fortune 500 use our software", when in reality "90% of the Fortune 500 have had at least one person download our evaluation version". How much is Yammer actually used?
When someone offers you an unlimited plan, or says that you must sign a contract, watch out. The former means that there is a limit, and it is low and they don't want to tell you what it is. The latter means that their service is so crappy, the only way they can keep you is by legally obligating you to keep paying them.

We've seen this with "unlimited" web hosting: practically it means that you can only store a certain amount of data and only have so much bandwidth, and when you start "abusing" the service, you get booted. Calling it "unlimited" gives the provider a license to change the rules whenever it sees fit.

I welcome data caps and limits. If AT&T tells me I can only use 2GB of data and at what speed I can make an informed decision on whether to go with their offering or not. I would like to see the limits be more near a 20-30 GB mark as that is my usage, but that is better than "unlimited, but if you do something we don't like we limit you". Please, if you run any kind of service, put a limit on it an make sure you can meet the demand, unless the resource is not constrained on your part in any practical sense. For example, I say "unlimited email notifications" on Ping Brigade, but there is no real constraint in place. However, I put a hard limit on how many services/servers you can monitor because I know the limits of my system and I have planned for capacity (and have a plan to expand the capacity if all of a sudden the service gets popular).

Contrast that with AT&T, who sold first and build the service later. I guess though that it works out for them: they have billions while I can only buy noodles with my earnings.
So, how on earth is that relevant? In a divorce it is standard practice to screw over the other.
I can't say i disagree with BigCo on this one. If one wishes to use better languages the options are to switch jobs, start your own company or stay, but push to augment the existing codebase with other JVM languages. Clojure and Scala people have had some success starting skunkworks projects. But a complete switch? In most cases thats insanity. Companies have actually died trying to rewrite their apps from scratch. And even a slow gradual rewrite might take too long and be too expensive, not to mention not bringing any immediate benefits, because you're not adding new functionality and fixing existing bugs.
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I've lived in New York for about a year and a half and up until this month, I was taking cabs at least twice a day. I've had them pull the broken credit card machine excuse maybe 3 or 4 times. Obviously anecdotal, but it was so infrequent as to be a complete non-issue, and with the number of cabs on the road, it never actually caused me any problems.
Diwup, perhaps you want to take down your published hack ASAP. Just because Instagram did not obfuscate their code, doesn't mean that it is legal to take it as if you are granted permission. You may get into a lot of trouble for this.
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If you want a boxee box and you're in New York... worth checking out.
The author also omitted certain releases (and fessed up to said omissions) to better support his claim. You can't fit the data to the hypothesis.
I stopped reading. This is a novelty. Move along.
This is gold!

I'm past the point to get annoyed with those sort of replies from anonymous Internet users; but I still do get annoyed at times by similar replies from smart people that I know.

Now that I read this, I am finally at peace.
> Learning to think first rather than react quick is a life long pursuit. It’s tough.

I must admit I stopped reading about here. I don't think I'm among the intended audience for this post. It personally takes quite something for me to stand up and criticize someone's work. I certainly couldn't do it within five minutes - I need to soak an idea up first.

I often explain to people that I'm a slow thinker. I actually don't know if it's that, or that I just have a higher threshold of thought before I have confidence to speak about something. That usually means I'll be the last to speak on a subject, but I'd hope that my contributions when I do speak are then at least a little more considered than those who spoke first. That's what I'd like to think, anyhow.
This. I don't know why people are not more bothered by this. Isn't this an indirect way for Microsoft to push their monopoly? A lot of apps won't work in the tile interface, which will be the DEFAULT, so unsuspecting people are tricked into using Microsoft apps. Of course, the bigger players have the resources to develop such apps, but the smaller players won't.