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The real difference is that it's expensive as hell to get a patent in the first place, even if you're an independent inventor.

I just finished writing and filing my own - for normal entities, a normal patent is around $2000 dollars to file with the USPTO, for "small entity" inventors its $600. But that's before the ~two years it takes for the USPTO to review your case and the costs of fixing and refiling. With rush fees, and to get the USPTO to actually review your application in this lifetime (just kidding.. well kinda), add another 10k.

If you want to go with a lawyer (and these days, unless you're willing to literally spend months drafting your application and researching previous claims, it's really hard to avoid) you'll spend anywhere from $5k for a basic patent to $20k for something building on existing tech for a "real world" product.

Whereas copyright is a) instantaneous and self-evident (you don't need to "file" for copyright) and b) actually a much more powerful protection. With patents from small inventors, you have a lot more at stake (enough that it was worth it to go through that process), a lot more has already been invested (so there's more to protect), but simultaneously protecting it against bogus claims is also more expensive.
I wrote the article, so please let me try to reformulate a bit better. When you start with a so complete, consistent and well though base design, it is hard to introduce new original concepts. This is because these new concepts will have to somehow fit nicely with the base design. It is kind of attracting you to simply do incremental improvements not to lose the benefits of the base design.

I am sorry, I am not a designer and not a native English speaker, this makes it a bit harder to formulate this correctly.
Interestingly enough, I see lots of people around me moving to WhatsApp, undermining FB's undermining of E-Mail. (My uneducated guess: because FB is absolutely TERRIBLE at mobile.) So nothing is cast in stone, it is just that G+ simply failed.
Is this also a telling point though? "After years and years of giving his work away for free, Rich Burlew just raked in more than a million"

IE: You need to spend possibly years and years building your brand before you can expect any type of money like this. Everyone cites Louis CK as a way to raising tons of money online directly from fans, but a huge part of this is having fans in the first place. Isn't the hardest part of all of this struggling along for possibly years as just another small artist online trying to pay your bills before you make it big?
I like your analogy but it didn't quite convince me, and I was trying to work out the best way to explain why, and here it is: How many of the world's buildings were commissioned, and had fantastic architects working not on their own ideas but on the ideas of people with money? Or painters hired to do a portrait, or composers hired to write an opera around a libretto.

Of course, in most of those cases I would assume that the person/s providing the money would have a lot less input into the final product than a non-technical founder would have in a company, so perhaps they're better compared to a VC than a founder?
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The way I've had it explained to me is that the pricing is high because the Japanese market will bear it, and so lowering the prices on the Japanese market would hurt profits. When they've experimented with selling U.S. DVDs cheaper, Japanese fans have imported them at the lower price, killing sales of the more profitable Japanese region version. One way they've attempted to mitigate this is to make the DVDs unattractive to Japanese buyers using the methods you describe such as having dubbed audio with no Japanese sound option, or delaying the release.

edit: the japanese market's willingness to pay high media prices is explained on page 2 of the article
Agreed. I had a collection Brittanica back in the day and I remember randomly perusing through it and finding interesting tidbits of information I would otherwise be ignorant of. What a resource it was. That experience is not found by today's technology, yet. Wikipedia has a "random article" link, but it's not the same as flipping through a Book and stopping when you see interesting key-words/pictures.

Maybe there is an iPad app in here somewhere that mimics this behavior ;-)
He's very particular about how this symbol should and shouldn't be displayed. Don't think that's a bad thing, but it's interesting.
One reason I wear my watch is because there is a builtin solar panel and it automatically corrects the time (and DST) via the radio signals every night. (The builtin "battery" would last 11 months if there was complete darkness.) The watch is also 100 metres waterproof so I never need to take it off.

It is nice to see that there are an increasing number of water resistant Android phones but nothing too mainstream yet. And battery life is typically less than 24 hours, which is also typical for this inpulse watch.

What is also desperately needed is for the size of use to be different than the size carried. For example it would be great if the phones were smaller than a matchbox in your pocket, but when you want to use them they expand to a larger size possibly via some of the mechanisms you mentioned.
An average XBLA game makes millions?

I need to change careers.
Not so much on how feasible it is, but more on the "they will make life hell for the residents on some kind of blacklist".

How so? Wouldn't this be the same as any other cruise ship?
> we hope to be targeting up to Python 3.3

All major projects seem to be adding support up to the latest Python 3 version, not the 4 year old 3.0 one.
It is sad for nostalgic reasons, but what a brilliant sign of an amazing feat that we have accomplished since the dawn of the internet age. Print material was the only way to disseminate information for about 500 years and this marks a significant milestone for information distribution in the digital age.
A fast compile time is one of the stated goals, is it not? I ask because this seems like the kind of thing that's hard to do correctly unless it's explicitly stated as a design goal.
> sometimes they require codec downloads from sketchy looking sites

I'm not sure where you got this idea from, but it is patently false. Although the recommended software for playing anime fansubs is Media Player Classic Home Cinema, which is open source[0], I have had no issues using MPlayer either. And as of 2.0, VLC is supposed to have the requisite subtitle support as well.

0: http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/
Wearing a suite is something I'd pay to watch.
Exactly my experience. I wonder why DDG doesnt integrate with Bings image search (and more natively) ?
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I'm sure there must be an equal and inverse list for errors in Wikipedia that are correct in Britannica, and lets not even get started on things explained in Britannica with clarity and brevity where Wikipedia doodles on minutiae.

Seriously - I'm not quite sure what the point of this is, other than as a Wikipedia PR exercise.
This has retarded any progress of mine toward learning Python. Every so often the urge strikes me, and then I remember that I want to learn Python 3, and then I remember that means no Django, and I tend to go and learn something more fun and less practical...
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It probably helped him to feel in the right way for an interview.
Note that, at the moment it looks like Go will never have shared library support. It seems to not be required and I think there's a conflict of interest with the complexity of (or lack of developer resources for) the fast linker Go uses.
Partly.

Also I think there has to be an understanding, whether it is learned in this process or learned beforehand, that every business fails in the beginning. Every business runs out of money. Every business has to fight to figure out how to keep going. If you are able to be successful, this is a step along the way towards success.

My business, which has been going on for 8 years, is starting slowly to shift from self-employment mode to startup mode (that transition may take the rest of the year). I have run out of money a couple times, had to go up against inlaws who said I wasn't cut out to be in business for myself, etc. There are times when I am so grateful for all the crap I have had to put up with in life (being physically bullied in public school, and much more I don't want to go into here) because these things, more than anything else have given me the confidence and ability to persevere regardless of what everybody else thinks.

But embarrassment has never been a reason I kept going. I kept going because I wanted to succeed eventually, or because I didn't want to go back to a standard job, or because of loyalty to my customers. And of course for me is part of it is plain old-fashioned stubbornness.
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> Rather than ensure that everything we push is an epic success on day one, we're putting it out there for people to try. Some people don't like Google+, some do.

Oh, I got bitten by this before by Google. I was a heavy Google Notebooks user which used it until the last days. They stopped supporting it some time ago and now will be shut "anytime soon".

The problem I see with a lot of the 20% projects (labs, or microsoft Garage) is that all of them are wasted business opportunities stalled by the corporate aspects of the companies. When a new technology is created on the side (such as say, Wave), there should be a way to create semi-independent "startups" which tries to make bring the technology to the market on its own (making it mature,etc). Later, if it is good, Google (or Microsoft) could then buy it and integrate it to their stack.
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There's been some talk recently about somewhat ridiculous symbols representing attribution. Sometimes, a good icon or symbol works really well; other times less so. I think this is a nice idea and looks well-executed.
The key stat is how much time an average user spends on facebook, it's taken a massive slice out of TV. That's a lot of time to show them ads for even if passively
I strongly suspect the ICE people will be relatively favorable toward this -- it's not skirting any of the laws they care about (drugs, terrorism). You can EASILY win the PR battle to say this is creating wealth in the USA. All the ship administrators need to do is run a law abiding California-registered corp on shore which pays all costs for a private dock, etc., and to comply fully with SOLAS, USCG, and such -- allowing inspections freely, and generally being respectful toward the local maritime community. The big issue is going to be whether existing customs/immigration facilities have the kind of hours the blueseed people want; if not, they have to pay for extra federal service.

I ran tech ops on Sealand 2000-2002 (which is basically "The Platform That Rocked"), and due to a great relationship with the local pilots and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, there were zero problems with them. This wasn't the case in the 60s/70s, which is why they got treated badly.
Hah! That's giving Job's API's too much credit :)

The feeling of pages ruffling past your thumb as the words flew past you at lightning speed, the slight upward draught created by the screaming pages...and suddenly stop thud stillness -- not knowing whether it was a word or a colour or a picture that caught your attention, but here you were, another page, but a whole new world to discover. The whole process almost imitates the way your mind moves -- fast movement between subjects...and still contemplation within them.

Contrast that with the "tap" or "swipe" on an iPad or the "click" of a mouse and it all just seems a little...bland.

This got me thinking about API's and the limitations of hardware in providing experiences, and then I realised that the ultimate consumer computing device would be some kind of "possibility field" that could morph into whatever was required by the user.

The hardware itself would be an API called by the user's interactions...ah one can dream, right? :)
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I had started learning Python 3. But my job now is on Django, so I am forced to use Python 2. I know a good number of people who had the same problem.
> but I think people subconsciously discard it as a real possibility because they can't imagine how it could actually happen

Or because it clearly gives power and responsibilities to the consumer. If the game sucks, I will still have paid for it. The role of the investor suddenly was forced onto me as a consumer, and I really don't want to have to do that. Going through kickstarter and reading up on each person's credentials is not worth my time, I'd rather have a third party do that (and they will only do it if they have Copyright to protect their guesses.)
There are perfectly good ways to provide this capability in a manner that has far fewer costs.

Not really. It's either some specialized tools (throwing away all environment uniformity benefits) or another layer of indirection (display name->real name->inode), with it's share of bugs (and having two close, often equal, but different identifiers won't make programming any less error prone).

shells to generate such meta-character-free identifies from richer display names

You still need to pass rich display names to shell, so old problems are still there, and, on top of that, consistent mapping of display names to real ones is required.

In this case, the cost was WAY too high

-- "$FOO" instead of $FOO, and ls -1 instead of ls?
(Not accounting for \n here, because in that case i agree on it's abysmal benefit/cost ratio and banning)
Thanks for the post, the road map should be a lot more clearer for users.
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What is better name for startup which is a platform connecting events creators and those who'd like to participate - "Amusely" or "Eventsbaker"?
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This is a really interesting idea, but they will have to be very careful about the culture and laws they enforce, especially with regards to wages and working hours.

Who pays the rent? What if the team member wants a private cabin and not sweatshop style accommodation? (Maybe I am thinking about the wrong demographic?)

- What happens when you want to leave and your visa is expired/revoked ? This sound like a place where you could really get stuck, with all the associated potential for abuse.

- They can make a killing on the price of coffee, food and entertainment for all these people.

Minor quibble: the 1GBps link seems small distributed over all the companies/person they imagine.
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Like any good branding, it's particular.
A corollary to this is that resources are eventually going to get diverted to produce the kinds of things which appeal to hyperconsuming outliers who actually spend money on anime rather than e.g. a broader demographic which prefers to steal their anime. That is a large portion of the reason why the Akihabara crowd gets what they want in Japan -- they actually plunk down $X00 for a boxed set of Young Geek Improbably Surrounded By Beautiful Women Who Suffer Wardrobe Malfunctions Around Him with some degree of regularity, though that market appears to be drying up in recent years. (For obvious reasons I don't follow it, I just hear things on the IP grapevine.)

More mainstream audiences can't get things done for them without e.g. a cross-subsidy from Nintendo who can afford to treat the anime as a loss leader for the video game or collectible tie-in.

This is a shame for folks who care about distributional access, by the way. For example, there exist people who think that shoujo manga is a Good Thing (TM) for the U.S. comic books industry because it provides young girls with stories they can relate to and helps counteract the insanely rampant hypersexualization and misogyny of the US comic industry. Unfortunately, shoujo manga has fairly few crossover hits and hasn't had a commercialization success in the US comparable to e.g. Disney's line of princess products, which means that the industry is largely a) not willing to devote marketing muscle to promoting it as much as Bleach / Naruto / Pokemon / etc and b) some would argue that the old guard justify their marginalization of the genre and its fans by saying that (because of their marginalization!) it failed to sell well.

n.b. I'm neither a fan of shoujo manga nor a great lover of women's studies but someone who was both had veto power on my degree, so you can bet I at least listened for the more credible claims.
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I think there is much truth in what you say. It would be interesting to imagine what may have happened had Rails not gone with Git (and had GitHub not been so slick). I can't speak for anyone else, but for _me_ personally Git being more "powerful" was most definitely a deciding factor in switching from Mercurial. And then of course I've influenced people at the places I've worked to use it too, and so on...

"Better" is obviously a loose term as you point out; although I do think that there people who sometimes misunderstand Git. Like claiming it "changes" history and therefore it must be dangerous. I often find many people don't even know about the reflog, which I think is a crucial aspect of using Git and knowing that you're history is relatively safe once you commit. I suppose I'm hoping the article will dispel some of these myths, or at least paint a clearer picture.
Proof perhaps that running an extremely high-quality client-services business also has potential for an exit in the same way a startup does?

(Whilst also generating healthy profits in the meantime.)
This would be really great as an addition to the icons that already ship with Twitter Bootstrap, something like that would really speed up the adoption of this as a standard.
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+1 for amusely. Eventsbaker more gives out the idea of an event organizer.
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Germany also shut down sth like 60% of their nuclear power plants in response to Fukushima hysteria, even thought in central Europe there are no tsunami, nor big earthquakes.

Then, January/February this year cold snap happened, and they had to buy power from neighborns that still have regular obsolete power plants, because they couldn't provide enough energy for themselves. Green energy means you hope for good weather or neighborns to have enough electricity.

Germany is now protesting Poland new nuclear power plant, when Poland is trying to change its dependence on fossil fuels (sth lik 96%, I don't remember exactly).

This isn't smart. This is hysteria-motivated energy policy.
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I'd go with amusely. It's shorter and I find it easier to say.
That is certainly the hard part, but technology like kickstarter is still helping to make it easier. I don't think it's really fair to judge by extremes- they show what is possible, but not what is typical- but there are artists who are happy to make a livable salary to continue making their art and growing their fanbase. The thing that's exciting about this new technology isn't it's potential for getting rich quick (which really isn't likely for most people) but how it cuts out middle men like publishers and record execs who have not been adding much value for their cost lately.
(Offtopic) Out of curiosity, do you think SeaLand's goal of becoming a datahaven was ever realistic? do you think other datahavens will come up in the future?
Well, I don't agree with you entirely at least. It is not at all evident to me that looking at the past helps avoid new mistakes. It might help avoiding the exact mistakes that were made before, but it is highly probable that the mistakes that, again, in hindsight, should have been avoided are not the same mistakes as those that others made before.

In fact, I think there are plenty of examples throughout history of how it is the desire to avoid certain previous mistakes that directly lead to new mistakes being made.

I do agree that the lessons to be learned can be found equally among previous failures as in successes. In the same way that I think it is problematic to focus on individual previous mistakes, I also think it is problematic to focus overly much on individual previous successes. Simply copying the strategies that worked for someone else won't lead to similar success, as hundreds of failed attempts at replicating the Apple iPad can attest to.
I think this is a bit disingenuous. Ruby 1.9.0 was released Christmas 2007, 1.9.1 was released in January 2009, and 1.9.2 was released August 2010. Ruby 1.9.2 was the first release that most Rubyists considered "stable".

For the uninitiated, Ruby's tiny version is the equivalent of Python's minor version (Ruby 1.9.2=>1.9.3 ~ Python 3.2=>3.3).

Rails 2.3 supported almost the entire Ruby 1.8 series (except for one release, 1.8.3 I think, that had a serious bug). Rails 2.3 had experimental support for Ruby 1.9.1 when it shipped, but most people used Ruby 1.8.6 or 1.8.7, as Ruby 1.9 was still somewhat unstable at that point.

Rails 3.0 (which also shipped in August 2010) dropped support for Ruby 1.8 versions before Ruby 1.8.7, and shipped with stable support for Ruby 1.9.2. Ruby 1.8.7 shipped in May 2008, and was very compatible with Ruby 1.8.6. We (the Rails team) continued full support for Rails 2.3, which supported Ruby 1.8.6, until August 2011, when Rails 3.1 was released.

We have announced that Rails 4.0, which we still have not shipped, will drop support for Ruby 1.8.7. This means that we have dropped support for one version of Ruby (we will still support 1.9.2) in more than 2 years. That hardly qualifies as "New Ruby alpha? Deprecate everything!"

Short timeline:

- August 2006: Ruby 1.8.5

- March 2007: Ruby 1.8.6

- December 2007: Ruby 1.9.0 / Rails 2.0

- May 2008: Ruby 1.8.7

- June 2008: Rails 2.1

- November 2008: Rails 2.2

- January 2009: Ruby 1.9.1

- March 2009: Rails 2.3

- August 2010: Ruby 1.9.2 / Rails 3.0

- August 2011: Rails 3.1

- October 2011: Ruby 1.9.3

- January 2012: Rails 3.2

Releases of Rails 2.x all supported Ruby 1.8.2 and above. Releases of Rails 3 have supported Ruby 1.8.7 and Ruby 1.9.2 and above. The only change in Ruby support since Rails 2.0 was requiring at least Ruby 1.8.7 in Rails 3.0. There is an announced change for Rails 4.0, but Rails 4 has not been released yet, even in betas.

Rails is moving more quickly at adopting Ruby 1.9 than Django is at adopting Python 3, but that is because it was possible, from the get-go to support both Ruby 1.8 and Ruby 1.9 in a single codebase. That was not possible with the move from Python 2 to Python 3.

The typical argument I've heard about the difference is that Ruby 1.8 to 1.9 was a relatively smaller release. I think this underestimates the work that the Ruby team put into compatibility while developing Ruby 1.9, especially given the large encoding-related change made to Strings in Ruby 1.9 (Ruby 1.9 Strings are encoding aware, while Ruby 1.8 Strings are semantically simple byte Arrays).
>Now which would you bet your business on?

Scala/Play! I was fed up of waiting.
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I think Atlassian is on a shopping spree again. After HipChat now Pivotal.
Precisely. What you have done, not necessarily in the context of a start-up. That's why this experiment will be interesting.