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Well, if you look at what they're doing in the courts they're not trying anything so broad (if for no other reason than that they'd fail; do you claim they'd get any traction against Books-A-Million) and all their reported efforts looked OK to me (the parody site is a wobbler, but it sounds like it was settled amicably enough).

Focus on the "confusingly similar"; if you're for example doing sometime social and name yourself <one or two syllable whatever>book, aren't you trying to gain something by being very similar to their mark?
Everything you mention is technically possible but it's unclear that they are actually well used, with considerable evidence (see NYC's recent data release) that the numbers are used by people who are completely unprepared to work with complex data.

Even the value add comparisons are hard to draw correct conclusions from without more context: a student shows no improvement in math. Did they have a bad teacher, an attendance problem or was it something like being an ESL student who has never received the help needed to understand their classes? That's not the kind of analysis which happens when the tests are effectively a single number which determines careers.
Reddit keeps theirs in a wiki: http://code.reddit.com/wiki/help/useragreement
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I remember those from elementary school! They were a huge fad and all the cool kids had em. They quickly got replaced by the palm pilot (in coolness). Funny how middle school fads and tech seem to have so much in common...
Yeah, because I just can't stand to pay an enormous amount like $10 or $20 for that book or album I really have to have.

I think it's unreasonable to expect people who make things to be able to profit from them for more than 5 years.

Hell, why don't we make all property expire after 5 or 10 years?

Please don't take the sarcasm personally; it was just the best way to illustrate my point.
Find out how much money the plan to raise. There's an interesting relationship between how much money a company has the influence that money has on culture.

Find out why the founders started the company, or why other colleagues joined. If the company wasn't started out of strong passion and or opportunity to solve a unique problem, it probably won't work, and won't be very fun.

Ask what the lowest point of the company has been so far and how they overcame that challenge and/or how it's shaped or influence the culture.
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It's near impossible job to predict any trend in technology with a time frame of 5 years or so. You may find a programming language that might pickup two years from now and that might rule the world in five years. So I take it easy with current situation in hand.

A good way to find trend in books about a programming language and github/google code like sites. So going for Scala now may to give you any advantage in the next 5 years or so.
You'll also need the willpower not to go and change it!
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If you don't like the words, good, go look at the moral foundation that underlies the idea.

It is a fact of reality that it is morally right to give people ownership rights for things they produce (besides, again, being the basis of society). And why not? Paying for something rather than stealing it (or changing the law so it's not officially "stealing" anymore), just isn't that big of a deal.
The author claims that these stupid and clumsy tests are of "a force that wants you ignorant and pliable, and that needs you able to fill in the boxes and follow instructions".

If we're going to believe in some malign conspiracy hindering the public schools, wouldn't we look for it first in those institutions determining what does and doesn't happen in those schools? If we compare those institutions' stated purposes with their interests and actual behaviors, would we find them self-consistent? admirable? What would happen to their influence if that analysis were performed more deeply and frequently?

And if we imagined the tools of such a force, what would they be? Control over the language of debate, insistence on particular assumptions, a particular orthodoxy of procedure and calculation, prohibition of certain questions as unnecessary or beside the point?

Would such a force be honest about its aims and methods? Or would it seek to obscure them, and claim some different, more popular aims?

We might begin looking for this malign 'fungus' by noting these tests were instituted to establish some accountability. Why exactly was that? And why were these obviously lousy tools chosen -- what alternatives were discussed, and why were they rejected?

Yes, I can very well imagine a force, answering that description, wishing to limit the critical faculties produced by our public schools. I can imagine it very well indeed.
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Why does a person have to admire?

(FYI writing the first letters of a person's first and last name in lower-case is not very polite)
Would be interesting to know if OMGPOP was planning for or had the expertise to manage this level of scalability - or if they were broadsided by an unexpected hit and called in Couchbase after they started blowing up?

Article doesn't say much other than "they reconfigured some stuff and added some servers" which isn't really a "How".
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Do credentials even matter to anyone?

* You have Joel Spolsky writing about CS grads who cannot even pass the FizzBuzz test

* You have companies like 37signals talking about some of their best hires not having any credentials at all

* You have Google (and now everyone else, it seems) giving intense testing to all potential hires -- if you already have the credentials to prove you can do the work, why do you need to be tested?

I feel the online schools have popped up at just the right time. The world is moving on from the traditional education accreditation model, as the idea of giving credentials has proven to not work (see above). However, you still need to be able to walk the walk, and taking courses online is one way to get there.
There are already systems in place to handle verified testing, like GRE and CPA exams. There are online courses that have homework and reading components online, but test offline.

For non-tests, students can and do cheat at regular Universities.

I completely agree that for this system to work, a verification/credentialing component is needed and I actually believe that the money will be there. Give away the lectures and problem assignments but make money off of more personal tutoring and the credentials.
Comparable question: What's your favourite religion?
Just wondering ... what is "large enough developer base"?

If you are hiring, you are not hiring 10000 people, you are hiring one or two people.

If you can choose between a pool of 10000 developers in PHP and 100 in Haskell (whatever...) you will probably find more candidates you want to hire in the second pool.

And it is certainly more likely that you find the appropriate candidate if you don't have to wade though hundreds of applications.
Which part is the sarcasm?
Maybe previous experience is significant - I learned to program building websites (HTML -> early CMSes -> PHP), then did a computer science degree (mostly Java, though I did a bit of Ruby on Rails), then got a job in C++ (where I still work, 3 years later), which I'd been doing for a year or so by the time I picked up Django.

To be honest, I suspect my Python's not great - I probably ought to spend more time just writing Python - I'd hazard a guess that less than 20% of the time I spend building websites with Django is spent writing Python (most is probably spent fiddling around with HTML/JS). I can always get by - but every once in a while I learn something new that I wish I'd known about long before (I remember learning about list comprehensions at an intro to Python talk at Stack Overflow DevDays after I'd been using Python for about a year!).
"Rent. People will argue that the price of the mortgage, maintenance taxes, etc is all baked into the price of rent. Sometimes this is true. But usually not. And often maintenance and taxes will go up faster than your rent."

Citation needed.

If I pay $2000 per month * 12 and get 0 equity, vs paying $2000 * 12 + 2000 and get some percentage of that in equity, and deduct some from my taxes, something tells me if I get past the initial up front costs, and my time horizon for moving is > 5 years, owning a home probably isn't a bad call.
Yaron Minsky said in one of his talks that hiring OCaml programmers was the easiest thing in the world: he posted an ad on the mailing list, got 20 applications, 15 of which were worthy of a phone interview. Of those 15, 5 were asked to come in for an in-person interview and 3 of those were hired.

Sure, he might not be able to hire 80 programmers in one batch, but I don't think Jane Street would need to do that, or that they are worried about a shortage of OCaml programmers. Also, I would be more confident of the capabilities of an OCaml programmer than of a PHP programmer.
Yeah I agree on a lot of the points you mentioned. Block scoping would have been better in my view also. But there are tools, like in other languages, to ease that pain. I never forget a semicolon due to using js2-mode which makes missing semicolons stand out. JSLint and other tools of the sort help find bad code too. And the in browser tools like the Chrome dev tools with a debugger,tracing,console really make it much easier.

Javascript without the tools would be a real pain.
Can I get something to read on this premise? This type of "unconscious influence" stuff reeks of conspiracy theory or an irrelevant conclusion from sociological data. (Not calling you wrong, but I'm skeptical of this conclusion.)
The second part of the article was much more interesting, especially the graph at the end.
While this is indeed a problem for cartesian dualism, it isn't a problem for something like hylemorphic dualism, which is the approach of St. Thomas Aquinas, among other mainstream Christian theologians.
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In general when people hate on Fortran I assume it's because they had to deal with f77. 90/95/2003 aren't perfect or anything but aren't generally offensive.
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hardcore lovers of old interface vs reduced complexity and increased maintainability of codebase

sorry but you guys are never important. you are not even 1% of user base and you will be abandoned and that is good
> Not quite, but almost. It means that variation among existing teachers impact less than the size of measurement, and the current crop of teachers are basically interchangeable cogs.

Or that the students - and their parents - are a very important factor with significant variation and classes a relatively small sample size. Ask any teacher and they can tell stories about how different classes can be - and how much a school having a weak discipline policy will ensure that many students will have poorer classroom experiences because of one or two difficult students.

It's not like we don't know how to do scientific measurements of complex systems but it's expensive and slow at a time when the political requirement is fast and cheap. It'd be awesome if school districts actually hired people with backgrounds doing serious statistical analysis or large-scale studies with human subjects but nobody is jumping to fund that.
It's actually quite interesting to think about with respect to real property. For example, many Native American tribes couldn't conceive of the idea that one person could own the land; it simply didn't match their mental model. As a result, they ended up ceding, practically, the entire lower 48 states to the European immigrants.
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After updating the 1Password (password manager for OS X and Windows): https://agilebits.com/products/1password extension it stopped working. Checking vendor's support site revealed that the new extension is not compatible with NoScript: http://support.agilebits.com/discussions/1password-38-for-mac-from-agilebits-website/12741-1password-stopped-working-with-javascript-disabled

What is more important for you - using strong passwords or protecting from malicious scripts?
The engineers probably just implemented a generic content-filtering system that could be used against images, or bad javascript, or whatever.
WASTE was pretty cool and hip but it seems to have been dead for years.

From wikipedia:
WASTE is a decentralized chat, instant messaging and file sharing program and protocol. It behaves similarly to a virtual private network by connecting to a group of trusted computers, as determined by the users.

* Secured through the trade of RSA public keys, allowing for safe and secure communication and data transfer with trusted hosts.

* WASTE can obfuscate its protocol, making it difficult to detect that WASTE is being used.

* WASTE has a "Saturate" feature which adds random traffic, making traffic analysis more difficult.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE_again

edit: Added relevant details
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COPPA only matters if it's the child the one giving personal information, and even then, it's legal as long as the parents/legal guardian consent. Pretty sure unborn children won't be giving out personal information themselves ;)
But IM providers censor malware links and other scams all the time, and your email provider censors or outright blocks spammers for probably up to 50% or more of your mail volume. Clearly people do actually expect certain classes of communication to be actively intercepted.
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If you are going to go that route, why wouldn't you go with the tried-and-true WASTE?

http://wasteagain.sourceforge.net
If the keyboard is good, it seems like it would make a great distraction-free writing device.
If this was actually done by mistake by their software, then we can expect TPB links to start working again in Windows Live Messenger any minute now, right?

I don't need Microsoft to "protect" me by not allowing me to see something. At most what they should do is warn me that it might contain malware, which is something they used to do with file transfers, too. But today I believe they just outright block most of them - even .rar files, unless they are scanned with some special MSN software of theirs that you need to download.

No thanks, Microsoft.
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A "fact of reality", like physics? You need to justify your arguments using logic, not incredible assertions.
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Let me know what you think of the site. I've taken a little of the advise offered last time around and implemented it.

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> The lack of decent sugar for tuples makes them very annoying to work with and situations demanding two or more dependent return values are the one place where my code looks nasty and is difficult to follow (unless I create a class specifically for the return type, which I usually end up doing).

At least you have the option of out params. I have to use Java every day and the only real option is return classes.
Here are two tests: one expects you to quickly provide low-precision values for common trig calculations which can be easily passed using rote memory to learn sin/cos/tin for common values. The other is a free-response question requiring you to explain what sin/cos/tan actually mean and label a triangle accordingly.

Both of those are standardized tests. The latter actually tells us whether the student understood the material but the former is much cheaper to grade and report on.
Big sites, and FB in particular, are known to roll-out new features to limited groups before expanding them to everyone. It may be fake, but the fact that it doesn't appear in your profile doesn't prove that.
Port forwarding is still a frustration when dealing with your non-tech friends. It took me 3 months to push my brother to set it up right. Now I'm trying to convince him to setup milkfish[1] on his router, so I can save mobile minutes, but I continue to fail.

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That gives me an idea for the most evil chat system ever: modify links to hotels, restaurants etc based on the size of kickbacks from competing establishments.

More seriously, chat should work so that the client signs and encrypts each message, hiding it from the provider and anyone other than the intended recipient.
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PHP actually does have some type safety, amazingly. You can declare types on function arguments:

function myFunc(ObjectType $arg1, array $arg2) { ... }

And it'll throw errors if you try to pass an argument of the wrong type.
To be sure, mucking about on the stock exchanges should earn a closer comparison of QA responsibility to aeronautics.
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Most property has value without artificial legal limitations.

I agree that 5-10 years is probably too short of a period for intellectual property to be protected. Honestly, putting an arbitrary span of time on the duration is a suboptimal way of accomplishing the goals of copyright law. Why not protect an artist’s creation as long as he or she is alive, and then release it into the public domain upon his or her death? One of the main problems with the current system is that corporations (e.g. Disney) can monopolize culturally-significant works for decades after their creator’s death.
Everything is preventable (or more correctly, predictable) when you know everything about the system. If we knew everything about the quanta of the universe, we'd know when solar flares and neutrinos and alpha particles were going to affect our satellites and other electronics.

Since we don't know everything (not even everything about our own creations like stock exchange markets and software systems), it becomes risk management. After writing software for decades, I still have no idea whether these circumstances were predictable let alone preventable, but perhaps they could have spent more time considering the minutia of the system writing more tests or whatever. Yes, the mistake was the fault of the humans designing and implementing the system. But that could be said of any (non-natural, human-made) system that fails.

At some point, someone has to decide that code should just be shipped. We're not perfect enough as people to build bug-free systems. Risk comes with releasing "unproven" code. And yes, it's embarrassing when the fit hits the shan in front of the whole world. But I try to avoid becoming one of those jaded people that can't tolerate mistakes on behalf of others nor can admit their own.
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It's not like it's unprecedented. Patents expire after 20 years. Many people and organizations get very good use out of that 20 year term.

I'm not sure why there's such a disparity between patents (which cost thousands of dollars and expire after 20 years), trademarks (which cost thousands of dollars, and have to be actively defended), and copyright (which costs nothing, is automatic, and expires after your grandchildren are dead).
For many people, the real return on buying a house is owning the house, not the increase in value of the property. Where I live housing is fairly inexpensive and I can't think if of any other similarly sized investment that is guaranteed to cover my cost of housing for the rest of my life.

(edit: typo)
I agree that there's more to college than just the classes, but why can't we try to get some of this environment to exist outside of a college environment? What's sad to me is that once you leave undergrad, a lot of the things you talk about become closed off to people.
> Without the legal threat, why would an offending company give this a second thought?

Facebook didn't say that it won't sue in the future; the Facebook spokesman merely said "we do not have any immediate plans to take legal action against any specific employer". Additionally, logging into someone else's Facebook account may be a criminal offense under 18 U.S.C. § 1030. A United States Attorney's office may conceivably file criminal charges against a company or individual who logs into a Facebook computer system without authorization from Facebook.
What is fascinating to me is the hypocrisy.

Most HNers probably believe some sort of property rights for software (or even blog designs). May here would argue that the GPL is a great license and violators should be punished.

You can also often read that Hollywood and the Music Industry are producing worthless crap, but yet The Pirate Bay is dominated by commercial entertainment, not by Creative Commons content.

Much of it is certainly an emotional reaction to the aggressive behavior of RIAA/MPAA, but it really is sad to see so little capacity to see things from a different perspective.