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Just to be sure, you're getting downvoted because you're claiming non-programmers can't easily understand the concept of an activity having -multiple layers-. An execution stack is but one example of this. The construction of a cake, for example, is another.
No, the plot of Inception really is very complicated, unless you're a computer programmer

Personal anecdote: My friend who is in marketing and is not at all a geek also thinks if you have half a brain the plot is obvious. She has no special math training beyond an MBA, and has done absolutely zero programming in her life.
Of course, yes. My mistake. Busybox is one of the first things I add after rooting an Android phone.
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Is copyright the only way for content-creators to make money? No. Is it an honourable, respectful way and probably the best option we have? Yes.

(also the smells equivalent in music would be more like trying to charge people who happen to overhear music while going about some other activity)
It's a big deal. Not "lightening up" is a service to the company (and, I guess, the whole industry). I'm married to a woman who has put up with a lot of shit in this field (for instance: job interviews in which she was shown pictures of her interviewer's bare ass; I was, fortunately for all involved, in a different state when that happened) and am the father of an absurdly intelligent 10 year old girl who will, with enough not- taking- one- iota- of- shit for the next 10 years, not have to suffer any of this.

So I guess what I'm saying is thanks.
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The first illustrated version of Inception is here http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?num=1&lo...
That was not the response. The actual response

It is tragic that Alan Turing was convicted of an offence which now seems both cruel and absurd-particularly poignant given his outstanding contribution to the war effort. However, the law at the time required a prosecution and, as such, long-standing policy has been to accept that such convictions took place and, rather than trying to alter the historical context and to put right what cannot be put right, ensure instead that we never again return to those times.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2012/feb/07/alan...
I completely agree. I was just pointing out that sexism of this nature had gone on for years without apparent protest. I was not defending the practice.
(thank you for a fuller response)

Re: your 3 assertions towards the end.

1) Agreed. However, the absolute amount of content being produced is increasing regardless as population grows and tool proliferate. We all know you can't count a decrease in growth the same way you count an actual cost.

2) Content creation becoming expensive can be a function just as much about expectations of what something should cost as it is actual production cost--so, no, I don't agree that creation costs what it actually needs to. Expensive things won't be made, sure, but what about ten cheap things instead? Or a hundred hobby things?

3) Agreed that time is used. However, how many people program in their free time if they do it as a job? How many people shoot movies in their free time as Best Boy Grip or whatever? Just because they do it as a day job doesn't mean that they'll do it as a hobby, too. Or that they wouldn't increase their hobby time now that they don't have to do it for a living.
lol, because Zynga stole nearly all of their game ideas from other poeple. Graphics and all.

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-zynga-is-just-like-micros...

Don't forget Tiny Tower
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2012/01/25/everything...

If Mark Pincus was more open about it and said "We're better marketers, business builders, and job creators than the original game creators. Yeah we copy their games, we might not be original and creative but we're a lot more valuable for the market, and for the consumer." we'd see Zynga in a different light. It's the fact that he's completely delusional about it.

Here's a quote from Mark Pincus, "I am proud of the ethical and fair way that we've built this company.". That's what makes Zynga despicable. And Pincus a scary person. He's obviously an intelligent businessman but he's so caught up in his own bullshit that he actually believes it. That's what makes it frightening.
This just makes me sad for the industry as a whole. Unbelievable that in today's world women have to put up with this.

Guys, want to know how you can help change these kinds of attitudes? When you see/hear another guy make these kinds of comments, pull them aside and have a talk. Maybe it's a gentle reminder of how hurtful and counterproductive these kinds of attitudes are, or maybe it's a forceful "I never want to hear that shit again" - depends on the type of personality you're dealing with. Regardless, you need to have the difficult conversations with friends or colleagues who act this way, because turning a blind eye and ignoring the problem doesn't help anyone.
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This is my second book; the first was http://pragprog.com/book/tbcoffee/coffeescript.

I ran a Kickstarter in February to try to attract advance buzz: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/869786663/async-javascri...
I prefer this one https://github.com/saberma/shopqi/pull/409
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@kcunning - How do you contrast your desire to have a perfectly professional relationship with everyone you work with vs a desire to enjoy an office environment where you can joke around and have fun?

While I understand your answer may well be, "Leave the jokes at home, Mr. Colbert. I'm here to code and make a paycheck." I would be sad if my relationship with my coworkers couldn't handle, let alone thrive upon, humorous interactions.

While there are always those who don't know how to avoid crossing the lines of appropriateness; do you feel that most of your coworkers are doing so?
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I'm pretty sure you need a license to own a car in most jurisdictions, but that's not the point. (And you definitely need a title to own a car because that's how you own a car. In some jurisdictions merely possessing the physical copy of the title implies ownership of the car, which is why you always keep the title in a safe place.)

Actually, you made my point for me. The point is society limits the way people can use property for practical reasons. There's no reason you can't do that on intellectual property because "omg it's made of bits".
Oh man, those Rogowski coils are cool :) I've only ever seen the type used on AC clamp meters, which are ferrite-cored and thus heavy.
Policy proposal for fixing US Internet security strategy
TLDR: A policy proposal primarily aimed at shoring up the US Internet from cyber attacks from China, Russia, etc.

1. Exorcise from policy cyber concepts that aren't grounded in reality - cyber weapons, global cascading effects, attribution theory, etc. Mostly consultant speak by policy wonks without sufficient technical expertise.

2. Switch from law-enforcement strategies that require knowing the identity of an individual black-hat with certainty, to ones that hold nation states accountable for behavior of malicious actor within their borders

3 & 4. Bring the NSA under U.S. Cyber Command, give them the authority to monitor the networks that operate the nation's critical infrastructure. This is essentially an end-run around a clueless, conflict-of-interest-laden Congress that is incapable of implementing a meaningful cyber security strategy.

5. Make ISP's responsible for monitoring customer activity for malicious behavior and infected machines. This can now be done without infringing user privacy [1].

6. Refocus diplomatic and development efforts on global bodies. Review US strategy in the ITU, where we are creating enemies among those we will need to partner with to defend Internet governing bodies from hostile takeover by Internet-unfriendly countries [2].

1. http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-Lync-Server/TeliaSonera/European-Telecom-Uses-Microsoft-Security-Data-to-Remove-Botnet-Devices-from-Network/710000000132

2. http://www.politicaldigestonline.com/2011/07/21st-century-statecraft-foreign-policy-of-the-internet
They did buy Chomp, so they are probably trying something
Great. You use the FOSS alternatives and let the greedy guys play business with commercial software.

But then ... tell me ... for what do we need the pirate bay?
The point is not the one moron who does it; the point is having herself to escalate the issue to HR. She's the victim, but she has to play the role of the "problem".

Try to think about what you'd do if you were in the room with a team member who made a comment like that. I know what I'd do, and I don't think it is an industry norm yet. We need to get there.

If it helps you to see it: think about what you'd do if a team member made a lighthearted racist joke in front of an African American team member. See how we actually do have the norm there? Let's just get it applied to the whole half of humanity having to deal with this stuff.
Thank you, your messages are one of a kind compared to the heavy rain of "holier than thou" blog posts on that matter.

As a non american(coming from a more egalitarian society, or at least a less objectifying society about women) this is for me a totally ridiculous issue. I'm pretty sure the same people that are being so offended by that small sentence have been in the last months to a Strip Club or a bar with prettier than average waitresses.

Some users talk about professional events and that it should not have been like that, go one day to any tech/arm/car/comic con expo and tell me the hostess are not "hot" and chosen because 1) they are women 2) They are good looking.

What a non-issue and HN front page was flooded with that today...
TLDR: A policy proposal primarily aimed at shoring up the US Internet from cyber attacks from China, Russia, etc.

1. Exorcise from policy cyber concepts that aren't grounded in reality - cyber weapons, global cascading effects, attribution theory, etc. Mostly consultant speak by policy wonks without sufficient technical expertise.

2. Switch from law-enforcement strategies that require knowing the identity of an individual black-hat with certainty, to ones that hold nation states accountable for behavior of malicious actor within their borders

3 & 4. Bring the NSA under U.S. Cyber Command, give them the authority to monitor the networks that operate the nation's critical infrastructure. This is essentially an end-run around a clueless, conflict-of-interest-laden Congress that is incapable of implementing a meaningful cyber security strategy.

5. Make ISP's responsible for monitoring customer activity for malicious behavior and infected machines. This can now be done without infringing user privacy [1].

6. Refocus diplomatic and development efforts on global bodies. Review US strategy in the ITU, where we are creating enemies among those we will need to partner with to defend Internet governing bodies from hostile takeover by Internet-unfriendly countries [2].

1. http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-Lync-Server/T...

2. http://www.politicaldigestonline.com/2011/07/21st-century-st...
DA is a really interesting proxy - It's a pretty large market. I'm a RISD grad and can imagine TONS of my classmates using this. ETSY = Craft Majors, EveryArt = Painting, Illustration, Sculpture.

This is going to be huge, Best of luck!

FWIW I took notes on a panel that the DA founder gave at ComicCon last year.

http://replicatorinc.com/blog/2011/08/how-deviantart-has-cre...
perhaps I should have clarified a bit.... I use Debian Squeeze which uses gnome2, and on it I have had no problems for the whole of 2011 (and I run advanced visualization softwares such as VTK on large datasets, still no trouble). Maybe the problem has to do with gnome3? (No problems with chrome/WebGL either.)
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Spend more time working on your ideas than reading HN all the time. That's the only way you will feel good and energetic.
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We don't get to have an economy based on paying per copy in the digital age. Ransom and work for hire are unaffected, because nobody can copy work that hasn't yet been created or released. This is a good thing; rationing copies has been reducing every work's overall use value for society.
Or they could just serve the tattoo market right? As much as the name is "EveryArt" I could totally see this being a place for tattoo artists to make a name for themselves, sell commissioned works, etc.
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But advertising it, or at least they way they did it, strikes me as offensive, but I don't know why.

Here's my take. Things that are implicitly accepted as being the true state of things can become offensive when they are shared or explicitly shared. You can pretty much assume everyone you meet poops or masturbates, that's not offensive. But if we deliberately express details of these activities in public, it then becomes inappropriate or even offensive.

Likewise, we all have opinions on people's characteristics, conscious or not but we accept these things as quirks of being animals. What makes us decent and human, however, is keeping unpleasant or uncontrollable thoughts and opinions to ourselves, and if we start sharing them explicitly, it becomes inappropriate.
There's loads of stuff on Deviant Art, for instance, that I wouldn't mind hanging on my walls.

The problem is the total overload one suffers when browsing around that site.

I'd totally use some kind of smart discovery service to find me cool art. But how does one algorithmize subjective visual aesthetics? De gustibus non est programmandum :)
I can't wait until the government types (or involved parties with money) roll out hunter-killer drones that target these, furthering the oppressive use of modern technology. ;-)
The point of PJAX, though, is that it's super-easy to have it gracefully degrade, so I wouldn't lump it together with plain AJAX that easily.
I actually did that this morning! The new Google image search is neat in that you can drop an image into the search box. I saw an unattributed piece on pinterest this morning, dropped it in GI and out came the artists name.
Oh, I didn't think you were including moral consequences.

Then the questions I have are; why is copyright infringement free from moral consequences while car stealing isn't?
Whats the third book going to be about... I wonder...
The major reason I'm excited about this shift is the potential for higher scalability out of the box. Instead of rendering pages, the server is just for static pages and data. Instead of using a central server to render for each user, it's distributed out to the computing power of all clients.
As nupark2 says, the password doesn't have to be involved. It's tempting me to change my password to something as short and simple as possible, which is pretty much the opposite of what I should be doing.
this was upvoted so quickly because it is jwz, a man famous for his anger and rants - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jwz

This was not a good one, in my opinion.
As someone who works outside of US government and about as far away from the pervasive thinking there as possible while still being a US citizen and resident, I find it interesting to get peeks into their thought processes from time to time.

This is an interesting article attempting to address some of the political, diplomatic, and organizational problems that make the US vulnerable to widescale cyber attack, while not going off the deep end.
Same sort of thing happens with C#/.NET as well.
But I want to do more with it.

Sounds like something with a lot of potential, actually. Imagine if you allowed people to register their vehicles and keep track of oil changes and what-not for warranty purposes as well. Maybe even have a feature to scan and upload receipts for oil-changes (and other repairs).

I can imagine a complete "auto maintenance tracker" type site, and I could see it as something I might sign up for.

Here's a thought... log tire changes, along with mileage, and brand, and allow the customer to see what brand of tire gets the best mileage. Maybe even ask the user for permission to use that data in aggregated format... I'm thinking you might be able to sell that or leverage it in some fashion.

Anyway just some off the cuff ideas that popped into mind.
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Maybe... but she indicates that she's dealing with this issue constantly when she said, "It's probably not even the first thing I've had to deal with that day, unless you've gotten to me pretty early. "

So if she works a 9-5 schedule and pretty early means, say, before 10 -- does that mean that she's dealing with maybe 4 sexually inappropriate comments on average per day?
Nitpick all you want, he's right about SOPA/PIPA killing the Internet. And I'll support anyone as popular as PG who writes against it.
Thank you for your excellent expansion of my point. I wager that they either haven't identified the boulder rushing down at them...

...or are trying to win the piracy/IP battle enough that it gives them a credible position from which to attack the populist works that remix what they perceive to be their IP.

Especially if, for example, they've succeeded in making faceless/nameless/processless takedowns possible--a pretty solid weapon against populist entertainment.
> Absolutely they would.

That's still just an assertion.

> an even greater majority of American drivers will disobey road safety laws (most commonly the speed limit) which are statistically shown to mitigate traffic fatalities.

And that's far from obvious, actually, especially when it comes to speed limits which you single out. See for example this analysis from the Cato Institute:

> Despite the fact that 33 states raised their speed limits immediately after the repeal of the mandatory federal speed limit, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported last October that "the traffic death rate dropped to a record low level in 1997." Moreover, the average fatality rate even fell in the states that raised their speed limits.

http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/speed-doesn...
"Everyone does it" is an important consideration, if only because making regular people into criminals erodes general respect for the rule of law. "Everyone does it" won't outweigh every harm, but it surely outweighs some.
This reminds me of the latest Who's Hiring post, where the top commenter was complaining that he'd never heard of Etsy, and they should really explain who they are in their job posting.

Clearly, anyone reading this article is expected to know Etsy as well, so I wasn't off in my thinking that he picked a pretty poor example to make his point.
You can't apologize for making someone feel badly about something if you still hold that something to be true.

You can express empathy with the other person though. And in English, at least, this is commonly done using apologetic language, "I am sorry that you feel that way and I understand that you are upset" etc.

It is possible to totally disagree with someone but still feel empathy for their reaction to your opinion. As such, you certainly can "apologize" for making someone feel bad even if you don't find the cause justifies it. You're just not apologizing for your opinion.
I'm actually a fairly baudy person. I've made sailors blush. I don't mind joking around at all.

What irks me is when someone does something sexist, and I do speak up about it... and I'm told to 'lighten up'. If it was important enough for me to say something, then at least acknowledge that.

Most of my co-workers are awesome. They'd never dream of making the dress comment, or tell me to go get their coffee. But it doesn't have to be everyone. Even a few jerks can make an environment go from awesome to horrible.
I think pg is spot on. Record companies make money on distribution. They are no longer needed. Artist always have made more money on live concerts, with a few notable exceptions. The thing record companies are trying to hold on to is controlling distribution, because if artists realize they don't need a record company, record companies will cease to exist.
Except Apple is a bunch of creative people. So is Kurzweil and O'Reilly and, heck, even Starbucks.

Markets are not pay-what-you-want, because pay-what-you-want implies $0 is an acceptable price. At least that's how I was using the term. Apple will not accept $0 for an iPad. If you don't accept their price, you don't get the iPad. That's why people buy it.

Copying media lets you get it even if you don't accept the price. Which means the only reason to pay is because you want to.

My contention is that making people pay in order to enjoy a product is often what provides the money necessary to exercise creativity. The iPad could be improved by an individual working alone with their own funds, but it never could have been created that way. Without profits from previous products, the creative people at Apple who designed the iPad never would have had the resources to do so. We have iPads today precisely because Apple is closed.

What is the next innovation in personal computing? Who will come up with it? Will it be Apple or someone on Kickstarter? My money is on Apple. Even if it is someone on Kickstarter, will they be able to raise the probably millions of dollars necessary to make a viable consumer product? Unlikely.

A system in which producers pay upfront and then recoup costs is actually better for consumers. You get to see the finished product before deciding whether or not to spend your money. If the finished product sucks, only the producer loses. If the finished product of a Kickstarter project sucks, everyone who contributed loses.

How many iterations do you think it took Apple to perfect the iPad? Each of those would have to have been separately funded on Kickstarter for that system to produce the iPad. I doubt even the costs of one iteration could be raised.

But when you cut off the ability to recoup production costs, you cut off the incentive to pay upfront production costs. Which cuts off the funding to creative people who are doing important work.

The problem with only being able to collect voluntary payments (pay-what-you-want, Kickstarter, etc.) is that people don't necessary know they want something until it's done. The 1st iteration iPad probably sucked. So why would people fund it? If Apple builds an iPad, it only takes a few people's shared vision to make it happen. If a Kickstarter project wants to build something as innovative, it will required the shared vision of everyone contributing. You'll have to convince thousands of people that it's worth funding numerous iterations at thousands, or possibly even millions, of dollars, in the hopes that the final product will be good. I just don't see this happening.
If we'll take out any database, then management gets more complicated more expensive imo.

In this case scalability/replication is accomplished through MongoDB, which is great at storing binary files and is super easy to maintain...