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This sounds like libertarianism to me, not socialism (small S or not.)

Libertarianism is the term for people who believe in the Non-aggression principle. (NAP)[1]

The NAP says "The initiation of force is immoral."

Thus libertarians believe that it is immoral to initiate force (against the innocent) though it is moral to defend yourself with force against its initiation.

Ragenwald rightly points out that the free software movement is more like going into competition with the company. Don't like the policies of a for profit (or even another open source) project? Build your own and compete.

The NAP makes it really easy to see the morality of various actions. Apple excluding software that is incompatible with the kind of store it wants to make: Moral. You might not like it, but it is not aggression.

The GPL restricting the way that software licensed under it is distributed or modified? Moral. You might not like it, but it is not aggression.

The workers taking over a company and kicking the owners and managers out to run it as a "workers collective": Immoral. Using force to take property from others violates the NAP.

Those same workers leaving to form your own auto company organized around your socialist ideals: Moral

The difference between libertarianism (those who agree with the NAP) and socialists, is that socialists do not agree with the NAP. This may sound like a tautology, but how many socialists oppose: (just to pick some topical examples.)
-- Minimum wage laws
-- Laws that require companies to recognize and negotiate with unions
-- Universal healthcare
-- Mandatory coverage terms for health insurance

All of the above require the use of violence (or its threat) to coerce people to act in a way that the socialists approve of.

Libertarians (by principle) oppose these positions because they violate the NAP. Socialists often support them. Also, practically, libertarians believe that all of the above make people worse off, increase poverty, etc. The NAP is the principle, but the philosophy involves recognizing the economic effects of violating the NAP are always worse than respecting it.

I've always seen the open source movement as intrinsically libertarian, and in a way, capitalist. If you don't like the terms of what's out there- compete. Getting others to contribute their time to make the product better is just an efficient form of competition. It works better for some types of software than others, but it is moral.

[1] Its popular these days, especially among those who came to call themselves "libertarians" because they like Ron Paul, to think it just means "freedom". But this isn't accurate. The founders of the Libertarian movement were clear, and the Libertarian Party required all members to sign a pledge to abide by the NAP as a condition of membership.
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Then why do they insist I fax my business documentation when I apply as a business for a developer account? :)
The market down the street and Starbucks will decry the hippie for trying to prevent them from using his beans. But they are his beans and he has every right to set terms and conditions of sale. His goal is that those who do receive his beans and make special blends, etc. will give the same freedom to those who end up drinking the coffee as they have with his coffee beans. If the hippie's goal is coffee drinker freedom, he is likely going to leave the world a better place. If his goal is spreading his beans far and wide regardless of the restrictions on the coffee drinker at the end, he won't reach his goal.

(Or am I imagining a GPL vs BSD analogy?)
Assuming there is nothing wrong with dueling, then should you include two gangs having a voluntary shootout as part of the overall murder rate? In there minds and abstractly there may be little difference between a shootout in 12th street and one in Iraq but it's hardly a sign of a 'safe' area.

And what about Union busting. 50 people died from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint_Creek-Cabin_Creek_strike_... can you imagine what would happen today if the same level of violence became national news? Yet, for the time while it was larger average such things where not all that uncommon.

Looking at http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-... you can see a 11x difference in 2010 murders between Louisiana 11.2 and New Hampshire 1.0. But, considering the amount of migration within the country I think a national perspective is necessarily. And nationally, 200 years ago things where a lot more violent.

PS: Granted, it's not hard to twist these statistics if you include vehicle accidents the numbers start to change dramatically.
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You seem to either be defining "culture" very narrowly in terms of work ethic, or you haven't spent any significant amount of time in the countries mentioned. Or maybe both.

Even with the narrow definition of culture, I can't say I agree. Austrian society is rather conservative. There may be progressive and industrious individuals, but I certainly not the country as a whole. I haven't lived in Germany, but I'd certainly say British people are more liberally minded and individualistic than Austrians.

Despite their disdain for politicians, Austrians will typically expect the state to solve their problems, and accept paying vast amounts in taxes. An example of this is higher education: the majority expects it to be completely free for students, very much at the expense of quality.

The civil service is enormous, inefficient and somewhat corrupt, but it seems to be accepted as a requirement for stability and welfare as a huge provider of jobs. Contrast this to the British fears of a "nanny state" and general grumbling about taxation.

Here's my theory how the differences came about:

1. You're right to point out a certain north/south gradient across Europe, but you're forgetting that Austria and Bavaria were historically the centre of the counter-reformation, unlike central and northern Germany. So, for a long time, very much catholic like southwestern Europe; even anti-protestant. Religion obviously has very much taken a back seat in recent decades, but culture (there's that word again) changes much more slowly.

2. The Austro-Hungarian Empire used to stretch deep into the Balkan and Eastern Europe. Although the German language dominates today, Slavic and Hungarian surnames and people's appearances today still hint at a past where Austria, and Vienna as the capital in particular, was much more heterogeneous. Even the use of the German language is also not quite as straightforward as it seems: the names for many foods are different from those used in Germany and have Slavic, Hungarian and Italian origins. (and I would personally consider food to be a part of a society's culture)

The English-German connection you point out is, by the way, quite far in the past. The Norman invasion of England injected a lot of latin vocabulary into the English language, and that was in the 11th century.

I'm not trying to make a moral judgment by the way; I have family in and from both countries. I can't predict which country will be more prosperous in 50 or 100 years' time; Austrians are probably the happier ones at the moment. I'll readily admit to having my own strong opinions on whether it will stay that way, but that's not really the point here.

For what it's worth, I likewise can't really comment on the differences in culture across the United States from personal experience. I'd be surprised, though, if the differences were as big as across Europe. (I'm leaving aside insular communities such as the Amish who deliberately do not mix with general society; you get those everywhere, and their populations tend to be small)
Oof. Hard to let that Fallout 3 comment slide. New Vegas was a spiritual successor to Fallouts 1 and 2, and was an amazing sequel. I'd like to know more about how she believes Fallout 3 exceeded New Vegas, as New Vegas was arguably closer to the original vision for Van Buren, and a heck of a lot of fun (and funny) to boot.

That aside, I've beaten Crawmerax probably nearly fifty times by now, so everything she says about addiction, I'll agree with. Multiple pearlescents and armory abuses for the win! :D
How overdue is "delete all email messages"? Clicking edit and then swiping a mess of messages to delete is tedious. The workaround for me is to have server side Exchange rules that put messages into particular folders. Which means I have to fire up a VM running Windows to get to Outlook because the Mac version doesn't support server-side rules ... arg! This is the single feature that I miss from my old Android phone.
Uh, did you mean to comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3693108 ?
This is a good start, but I would like to see more real world experience on 1) How will this benefit w.r.t replacing or using alongside Sessions (HttpSession in java for example) 2) Size limits - 5mb and 1mb for IE7, storages different per scheme/domains 3) Data Security
Purchasing, yes. Purchasing. That's a rather important word. Consider its implications for a while, and I suspect you'll see the point.
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Even if you’re being judgmental you may yet have a point (Ad Hominem Tu Quoque fallacy on me)...

Saying "you can't use my software because your code is evil" is not going to win anybody points for diplomacy.

Could would not say the same thing about GPL or any other license that is not completely free?

Saying "you can't use my software because you don’t give YOUR code away for free" is not going to win anybody points for diplomacy.

I can’t bring myself to believe that Mr. Crockford was scheming to waylay lawyers and BigCo when he wrote that line. I also doubt he was trying to ignite an anti-evil fire. Most importantly, I even doubt he imagined that there might be some disagreement about what is or isn’t evil. If there was, what makes you think he would have the right to decide?

Perhaps a court of law would rule that only the Vatican can decide what is or isn’t “evil.” His license doesn’t include the usual lawyerly language that he sets the rules and has the right to change the rules arbitrarily and without notice.

Thus, I agree that his license is not what you ro I might find convenient, but I am not persuaded that he was being dickish. Impish, perhaps. Thoughtless of the consequences, maybe. But not full-on dickish.

To borrow a word I just learned, your argument that he’s a dick is phallacious.

;-)
No, if the finally clause is called while an exception is active, the runtime will call std::terminate(). This is why it is bad practice to throw exceptions in destructors.

Hence, in most cases where the scope guard pattern is used (to guarantee exception safety), your code is basically equivalent to calling std::terminate().
That's true. But personally, when I think about the impact I make at a startup vs at a bigger company, it's how far away are you from that direct impact.

I think with anything, you can somehow relate it to making an impact in the world. I could say working at a consulting company who's on a project for a car manufacturer, on a project that improves the data quality of owners of cars - i'm making an impact because with better data, people are getting the right information / advertisments for cars that are right for them, thus improving their lives by helping them choose the right car. Obviously, this employee is many layers away, but he could still say that he is still making an impact in some super small way.

I think it really is just up to the individual to see what they believe is enough of an impact for them personally.
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I didn't think to mention its roots on that page, given that it's one of the first things mentioned on the main clojure.org page.

Added a note about it being a Lisp dialect.
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Personally, I prefer the non-spaced variant when dealing with one-lined css. Simply because grouping it visually in chunks makes it easier for me to skim through code.

Here I can recognize 4 chunks almost immediately:

.error{ width:350px; height:200px; color:red; background:blue; }

While here everything gets mixed up due to its uniformed spacing:

.error { width: 350px; height: 200px; color: red; background: blue; }
I didn't get a chance to talk to them but they did really well, and won a category if I remember?
I've used an ubuntu cd to rescue the data from a g4 laptop when all else failed.
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Minor note: enforcement of GPL (and copyright) would be considered aggression (or threat thereof) by some libertarians because it consists in the state abridging life, liberty or property through imprisonment or seizure of property in response to non-aggressive actions.
Have you ever tried to resize a window in Ubuntu? You know what I'm talking about...
The hippie isn't selling coffee, he's giving it away with terms, but you can clearly lie to the hippie and use the fruits of his labor in a way in which he's specifically asked for them not to be used.

I think your second sentence is the thesis that the metaphor is trying to refute, though. Refusing to give you something under terms that you would like is not removing your freedom any more than any other copyright, it's offering you an option other than growing your own.
This is all wrong.

His dad would never install the Consumer Preview himself. He did not know it exists. He did not read blog posts about it, articles, interviews, etc.

CP was released for developers and users who are interested in seeing what the new Windows looks like. They are already familiar with it and know how it works.

Obviously, after installing the final release there will be a tutorial explaining all the new features, problem solved.
"No they do not. Installing multiple operating systems on a single hardware system is very much a power user behavior, "

I'm not talking about multiple simultaneous installs. I'm talking about the hardware being the same across operating systems. If I'm buying hardware to set up a linux machine, I will go to the same place as if I were setting up a windows machine. So I guess I could take your advice in that case and try to find a Tux key keyboard. Got it.

But I wouldn't. Because I don't use full size keyboards. Which brings me to the original and more significant point. I don't think the operating system should expect this "command" key at all. If people use it, that's fine. But it sounds like Windows 8 might be a serious PITA without a "command key" keyboard.
I wouldn't be totally surprised if MS internally has argued endlessly about removing the start button. That's a huge move on their part. I wouldn't be surprised if this consumer preview is partly an experiment to see how people react.

I feel like I'm pretty open to changes in software, I'm a habitual upgrader. But ditching the start menu really throws me for a loop. Having to leave my working screen and go to another screen just to launch a new app is super annoying. It could be that tablets are the future, but most of us are still using an actual computer so it sucks to have functionality reduced down to a tablet when you are working at a desktop.
Nice, I didn't know Ctrl-T. I usually use ^ or g; to go back.
Maybe the product is a step forward but this presentation was a disaster. They should have applied the translator for that scientist first. He's english made no sense at all. What a frustrating waste of time.
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Personally, the only way I would spend any extra on a touch screen for a desktop is if it was built into a drafting table-like surface, so that it could be used ergonomically. An upright touchscreen causes gorilla arm syndrome, and is worse than useless to me; these touchscreen desktops on the market today from HP and others are just way off the mark as far as usability.
That certainly appears to be the original criticism, but the criticism seemed to be moving, so I answered where it had seemingly moved to.

Is the risk of trying to shoot a moving target.
I see some insurmountable contradictions with this program.

They ask for solutions to some very complex problems yet give very little funds to do so. For that amount the most a startup can do is come up with the principles for a potentially workable solution for the problem, but not an actual execution to see if it's effective at all in a real-world basis. Let alone there are plenty of such theoretical solutions to the problems they name, there just isn't enough money to implement them.
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> This sounds like libertarianism to me, not socialism (small S or not.)

My feeling is you've not read some of raganwald's other writings which more clearly explicate socialism, the way he's using it here:

"Socialists advocate a method of compensation based on individual merit or the amount of labour one contributes to society. They generally share the view that capitalism unfairly concentrates power and wealth within a small segment of society that controls capital and derives its wealth through a system of exploitation. They argue that this creates an unequal society that fails to provide equal opportunities for everyone to maximise their potential."[1]

[1] http://raganwald.posterous.com/hello-my-name-is-reginald-and...
A continuation of #7: I've seen ad-supported apps targeted to children that include kid-inappropriate ads.

I had a 7 year old recently ask me about dieting and weight-loss strategies because of an in-game "one weird trick to lose weight" ad.
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I respect your right to your views and to express them. The only trouble I have with your comment is that it mixes two things:

1. Explaining Libertarianism and the relationship between my words and its ideals, and

2. Professing the truth of Libertarianism.

I like the parts where you explain what Libertarians believe. I don’t believe those same things, mind you.
It might be wasted time & money, but i think most people who are willing to join startups probably believe in the idea and hopefully are passionate about it. Thus they're doing something they love and are hopefully happy, during the time the startup isn't falling apart at least. And also at startups (if run correctly), you can learn a lot in a short amount of time - technical stuff, responsibility, dedication, how to start a company, acquiring users, etc...

Also, you can learn a lot from you failures.

So while you may lose out on time and money, you gain other things too. Depends on if that trade-off is worth it.
I guess you actually have to login to twitter to get started, (though i don't have a twitter account) and to verify this i tried emailing them through their contact page but consistently only received the error, "There was an error: Invalid image code, retry !"

Further, when you try again (2nd try), the send button doesn't work. Include the non-functional "Working" and "History" buttons in the create page it's easy to conclude that this site is horribly broken.
Then why are they being given a phone and not a children's toy?
Except in SV you actually can raise further funding on reasonable terms.
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Your compensation for any given job can be broken down into an equation that looks something like:

Compensation = Equity + Salary + Bonus + Benefits + Training + Credentialing + Interest Level of Work...

Clearly some places (Academia, for example) pay you mostly in Training, Credentialing, and Interest level.

Big companies pay you almost entirely in Salary and Benefits.

Hedge Funds pay you mostly in Bonus, with some Salary.

Good startups pay you pretty good in Salary, and pretty good in Equity.

Great startups pay you almost ENTIRELY in equity on a percentage basis, because that's the part that makes you rich (Google, Facebook, ...) Of course it's hard to tell if you're working for a great startup ahead of time.
The size limits are more complicated, because strings get stored as utf16, so that 5 mb is a lot less in practice. Also, on ie7, you have to fall back to userData whose capacity depends on the security zone your app runs in, and can get as low as 64 kb.

I use it to replace cookies for storing settings that don't need to get sent to the server on every request. The collapsed state of a sidebar for example.
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I wasn't being sarcastic guys. I meant that, it's pretty clever.
I would think enforcement of GPL would be considered defensive because it would be protection of (intellectual) property.
Welcome to the dark ages of CSS3! Where you have extremely emotional documents like this one, instead of programmer specs to follow. Does lining up colons have anything to do with anything? Of course not.

The reason we're in the dark ages: we have a subset of front-end designers that are extremely emotional because their code is on display for all to see (View Source). So they take it very defensively, even tho most coders worth their salt aren't 'Emotional About Their Code'.

Also NEVER use pixels. For devices like the 2048pixel width iPad, your so-called Web 2.0 designs with static bitmaps are old school.

In the coming years, all of your graphics will be CSS3 graphics for all header graphics, backgrounds, etc. Bitmap is just too old school for multiple DPI requirements.

Currently you have to rely on an emotional HTML/CSS ninja to get anything done. Soon the CSS3 graphics will be beyond 'lining up colons' and be software generated. I can't wait. Maybe then the whining will end.
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I agree with you that people shouldn't always expect things to be simple with no learning whatsoever. But every major desktop operating system has some concept of an app launcher that is generally very simple and intuitive to access. Being able to figure out how to access that or get back to "home base" shouldn't require any training. That's a pretty major flaw in my opinion.

Also making the app launcher (metro) a modal window that covers up all of your work is idiotic on a PC. It's a tablet convention, there's no need to cram it down our throats when we're on a PC.
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I guess he will learn what the button does after a while. Show him how to get the movies going again.

You could always try turning the iPad upside down, he is probably less likely to touch the top of the device.
Disclaimer: former MCSE who quit administering windows altogether.

A minor aesthetic change which requires a minor intuitive leap for the power user is a major change for most home users. Sure, the steering wheel is on the other side of the car, but thats minor. Except that now the user has to learn how to drive on the other side of the road.

I loaded up windows 7 to look. Where's add/remove software? Wait, that changed and I need to set the control panel to classic to see it. Uh, where's classic mode at. Turns out you select the drop down box to Large/Small Icons for it to change the icon selection entirely. What? I spent a while longer searching for where to install OS components (IIS, etc). Minor irritants to me. Major headaches for my Father, Sister, Brother, etc. Even moreso when they call the family tech who can't figure what the hell they're talking about.

I change to the interface IS a change to the OS as far as all by %1 of users are concerned.
You have some interesting opinions.

It would be better if you viewed your code less emotionally, and focused on getting the job done. Maybe then you'd be more productive?