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hey @racerrick, my mom's a retired lawyer. (for context.) lawyers issue threats the way other people say hello. if this person says to you on the phone that you have to prove that you don't own the site, guess what? you can't prove she said it, since it isn't in writing, and it's not against the law to lie about that in the first place.

you need a sharp lawyer who won't rip you off. hire one. free advice is worth every penny you pay for it. however, IN MY OPINION, if you had a sharp lawyer who wouldn't rip you off, such a lawyer would tell you how to translate "fuck off, this has nothing to do with me" into lawyer-speak.

the translation would (IN MY OPINION) be brief, clear, and non-argumentative. whatever you do, DON'T be upset by anything they say to you. provoking rash reactions is just a tactic they employ.

if I were a lawyer, AND I AM NOT, I would tell you to write a letter that looked more or less like this:

"Dear Whoever,

I read your letter with interest, and noted your request that I shut down XYZ Site. However, I am unable to cease operating XYZ, because I do not operate it, and have never operated it at any time. In fact, I have absolutely no connection to XYZ, have never had any connection to it, and am unable to help you. Good luck, and have a nice day."

Again I AM NOT A LAWYER, but that's really all you need to say. You put that in the mail, certified of course, with receipt, so you can prove they got it, and you forget this ever happened. Any aggressive, offensive noises they make other than "here is your court date" are just NOISES. Ignore them.

In the unlikely event they get you in front of a judge, the judge will hear your simple defense - "nothing to do with me" - and ask them if they have any proof of it being anything to do with you. Since they don't, it's a short conversation, and you go home.

If you find yourself saying anything further than what I just described -- "not me, got your letter, nothing I can do" -- STOP IMMEDIATELY and either hire a lawyer or shut the fuck up.

speaking of hiring lawyers, again, disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, grain of salt, your mileage may vary. seriously just hire a fucking lawyer because panicking, freaking out, and/or writing 10,000 words about this is just completely wasted energy.
Obama was the most tech savvy campaign 4 years ago and remains so today. Think of all the Senators, Representatives, mayors, governors, etc that have nowhere near the sophistication of any presidential candidate, let alone Obama. It's not a question of whether or not technologists can make better software in the next 4 years, it's about what politician can do so, or which technologists would a politician trust to run their campaign.
Thanks, Red Hat, for the donation. It is a gesture, but an important one. I can appreciate treading the fine line of meeting market (ie, Wall Street) is demanding and keeping alive the ethos of the open source mantra at the same time is challenging. You've hired open source developers and people who's passion is in writing code and doing it well. I remember how Red Hat offered shares when they IPOed (http://tech.mit.edu/V119/N30/30redhat.30n.html) to open source developers. Red Hat did not have to, but they did.

So, thanks for doing this. It does mean a lot.
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Got any scribbles to share? Sounds really interesting.
also, just to be clear, this is not legal advice. I know absolutely nothing about the law and am just some asshat making shit up on the internet.
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The game has no major female characters who aren't hookers.

No arguing that LSL has its place in gaming history, but it doesn't have a place in a future that is trying its hardest to remove objectification of women from society.

EDIT: The down voting button is not a disagree button. If you disagree, reply!
I absolutely agree with you. But if they make LSL for now, it'll keep me occupied and happy for a while before we get to meet Roger Wilco again.
Good idea. Before you get him to draft the letter though, you should try to negotiate a flat fee for the service. You don't want some guy that bills $x00/hr spending a few days on the letter.
This is just silly on the lawyers' part. What are the chances the screenshot in the TC article just happened to include a comment, in a random article earlier in the day, by the creator of the thing the article was describing?

Clearly you were in the wrong place at the wrong time and made an ambiguous comment that was misinterpreted by Facebook's lawyers.

How do they expect you to prove you're not involved? (hint: they don't) It sounds like they're just trying to intimidate you.

IANAL, but I'd very clearly explain exactly what happened. If they continue to pursue this I'd be very surprised, and will make sure I never use their law firm...
One of the things that makes Fotoblur such an amazing place is its commitment to artistry. We're damn lucky to have such talented photographers who have come to participate in both our community and magazine.

In the past I have done some inquiry into the magazine industry and find its way of doing business horribly wrong. Fotoblur's intent has always been to create a magazine that focuses on art, instead of advertising and reviews of cameras. I refuse to go that route in developing Fotoblur Magazine any further.

However, you could say that Fotoblur, in its own right, has done things differently. We've used the Print on Demand services from our friends at MagCloud. This has allowed us the freedom to make our own rules as it pertains to designing our own publication.

Never-the-less, with the increasing popularity of tablet devices, especially with the retinal display now offered in the iPad 3, its time that Fotoblur start looking into this arena to make an impact.

It is my belief that some portions of the web work better when offered as a magazine simulation. Its is more intuitive to view images or news stories as if they where in a book. Combining real-time web into these experiences will dramatically change the landscape of how humans consume information.

Fotoblur is on a quest to participate in this evolving landscape and wishes to do so by promoting the work of Fotoblur's contributors through software that is made to be enjoyed on a tablet device.

Fotoblur Labs is a prototype of what I've been working on. Its concept goes back even further. Its a web application that is best enjoyed on a webkit enabled browser (Safari or Chrome). It will also work on Firefox. The best experience thus far has been on an iPad (2 or 3). iPad1 gave poor performance. It will not work in any Internet Explorer browser.

Again, this is a prototype. The question is, do you like it? Please be honest in your assessment.

Lastly, there are a few warnings that come with this adventure. The software may have bugs, may be down for maintenance, or may be broken as its worked on.
Good design is, amongst others, making sure your headline font isn't too thin to render nicely on your target platforms and your body text is easy to read.

It is also avoiding pie charts in general (see Tufte for an explanation), and definitely those with just two data points.

Content-wise, the key message seems to be that AirBNB, Apple and a few others place a high value on visual design and are successful, therefore you should emulate that in order to be successful yourself.

I've got to say, it's all a bit superficial for my taste. Others might find it a good starting point, especially for some of the referenced resources.
I'm sitting here typing this on a WYSE VM machine.
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I had a kind of similar idea a few months ago: http://nhoss2.github.com/gapp/
It is not similar to GWT: GWT is client side only, with Wt you develop one code-base all in one language (C++ or a JVM language) that handles transparently server side and client side operations, including communication between both sides.
The only question that come to mind is this. How did they know your address?
Fortran implementations are usually faster than C++ implementations, because the language design allows for certain optimization algorithms to be used, which are not possible in C++, specially due to aliasing issues.
I'm not one who has produced a many exploits in comparison to the real pros, but if I had to find a hole in an OS or browser these days I'd much go after Linux or Firefox than Windows.

3rd party apps on Windows are a different matter however.
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Obama came out of the 2008 campaign with a huge, well-segmented and highly targeted email list, and big numbers on social media. Many folks thought he was going to dramatically change Washington by coming into office with basically his own grassroots army. Yet, a year later he was struggling to get health care moving and the lists weren't helping.

It turns out that no matter how good your DB is, people just don't get as excited for legislation and regulation as they do for a candidate. Ultimately politics is not about technology, it's about message. If the message is good, tech can help maximize the impact. If the message isn't good, tech can't save you.
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Hear hear!

Always remember that FB's attorneys get paid to mess with you. They could give a rats ass about your innocence or well-being. If they win they get paid. If they lose, they still get paid. Logic and reason will simply fall on deaf ears. They are hourly billing automatons.

Remain calm and follow your lawyer's advice.
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I have to agree with this. A lot of people are probably remembering the game through rose coloured glasses. It was a great game when we were all kids and got excited at the prospect of seeing a nipple.

It's a little disappointing to see immature misogynistic entertainment getting so many upvotes on HN.
Well they are Facebook... And he is on Facebook...
Mad props to the guy!
A user who introduces a new variable binding environment?
Ever wish sometimes you could take money away from Kickstarter projects? LSL is one of those things that should be left in the '80s.
That's your DOM idea; I'd argue it's not homoiconic, because it's too indirect. But I wouldn't argue very strenuously as I don't know the actual definition of homoiconic. :-)

You're right that the AST is available only for passed text; I hadn't thought of that as a limitation, but you're right. I was thinking of macros, that you define and manipulate within a program: the limitation doesn't affect this use case. Doing it this way, you also get control of {read,compile,run}-time.

I think it's fair to say there are degrees of homoiconicity; you can get some of the benefits by having just a subset of the features. I conject that "a language with full homoiconicity" is identical with "a lisp" - but it doesn't really matter, if we're interested in benefits.
It's easy to look up that sort of thing through public records.
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It's not faith in some undiscovered technology, we already know how to quickly cool the planet for almost no money.

The concerns you raise are addressed by the references provided in the original comment.
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I am not going to do the wrong thing. Ever.

That's a really strong statement. If you stood up and did the right thing, that's awesome. But if your opinion on every situation 'ever' is that you're not going to do the wrong thing, step back and ask whether things are so simple.

I'm not saying moral absolutes don't exist, but striving toward 'the right thing' is seldom so clear. For instance, you quit on the spot. What about the wonderful engineers who now have to pick up the slack? I'm not saying you made the wrong choice, but there are consequences to be weighed in every situation. If your method of decision-making rests on the idea that you don't have a choice, I think you're limiting yourself.

And finally - I thought a lot about writing this, because I generally hate comments about commenting - you responded to a really interesting post regarding privacy and hiring in an era of easily accessible sensitive personal information to point out how ethical you are - in your words 'not going to do the wrong thing. Ever.' It's not immediately clear why this applies to raganwald's post, except that both involve company bureaucracy and a protagonist resigning.
Perfect timing eh?! (j/k)
The letter should be an hour discussion plus an hour of drafting, at the most. @vellum is right, always negotiate fees and estimated level of effort up front. In these types of cases it's generally best to deal with each task discretely until, in a worst case, you must consider litigation. This helps avoid locking yourself into a significant retainer when a single letter might do the trick.
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There's some misunderstanding here. The migration did not take 9 years. The project itself started in 2003 but was put on hold in 2004 or 2005 due to the legal worries surrounding Linux and software patents. It was resumed after some decision of the European high court. Still, the first years up to 2006 were spent on evaluation and planning and political board games.

Measuring the success of an IT project in years is wrong in any case. Success is defined in meeting your goals at the required time. Munich is a little late and they have had their own share of issues and roadblocks, but all in all they met their goals. Considering that this was the first large scale migration of a city administration in germany, that's not dismal.
I'm sorry you're getting downvoted. I think this comment adds to the conversation quite a bit, and this is actually the conversation I was expecting to see when I came to check out the comments. It's crazy to see this so recently after Geeklist, Sqoot, etc.

Please, downvoters, read this essay: http://notrichyet.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/whats-the-big-dea...
Oh my, you guys are boring.
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> There's a reason it's legal to sell bongs, because they have lots of other uses than illegal drugs.

Just out of curiousness - what do you mean?
As a programmer this sounds like some pretentious bullshit. I've done so many UIs where 20 people jump in all thinking they are experts and have long drawn out discussions about how the UI should look, only to change their minds after I've done it and have another round of discussions...

Honestly, all the word "design" means to me is "I take so long to get anything done that I must plan my ass off like I only have one shot, and force everyone else to work this way".

Just get stuff done, and move on. No ones going to give a crap about your sweet design if your product doesn't do anything.
Exactly. Anti-discrimination is why this shouldn't happen.

Token vanity plug for when I said this (far less artfully) a few days ago:
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I have to agree with i386. There's a pretty disturbing screenshot where Larry says that "this is the hooker's seedy bedroom. The bed's a mess, so is the hooker!".

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I've had the same experience. After working almost exclusively in dynamic languages for ten years I've been back to static typing in Scala, Java and C++ and in many ways its a welcome return. Dynamic languages are great for quickly hacking around small problems but I really appreciate the help of a good compiler and the kind of refactoring that modern IDEs can do in static languages.
Since you already parse the links, it would be awesome if you can parse the poll results and plot them somehow while still keep the comments in tact.
The problem is you went to Dribbble looking for a designer. Dribbble is a website for artists. At first, this idea may be confusing because of their job board and the postings which call for the types of people you may be looking for.

The reason you can't find anyone you want comes down to the very essence of the site: a place for artists to show off their pixel perfect creations on 400px canvases. Artists aren't that great at problem solving, but they can make really beautiful UI and related imagery. Go there when you need pixel magic, but I wouldn't expect to find the kinds of people to solve high level design problems.

You are probably looking for a "design thinker" type. Someone with a brain sculpted by a big consultancy like IDEO, Frog, etc. trained to think about design in terms of logic and creative thinking rather than visuals. But definitely not an artist.

Good luck.
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I know. Respect for women is SUCH a dull way to live your life.
I C & D thee for defamation!

How dare you comment so freely..
It's a file server and firewall, what does it need high-clocked CPUs for? Stick a big heat sink on it and you can go with no fan or a silent fan.
I wrote an iPhone game that's extremely like Leisure Suit Larry, about a year or two ago. Same spirit and game mechanics. Called "The Adventures of Khaki Pants Pete". Pretty much a nod to LSL, even the name was a tongue-in-cheek reference to it's name. I did it under contract for a dev shop that in turn did it for the company that owns the Klondike Bar. A lot of people said it was pretty fun. I thought it was fun. And I'm old enough to have played LSL version 1.

From the LSL Kickstarter project goals:

* The freedom to play on mobile devices
* A modern point-and-click/touchscreen interface
* Updated, ultra-high res graphics
* Fully voiced characters
* Even more of the humor that’s made Al Lowe a household name…like “Borders” and “Enron”!

Khaki Pants Pete did/does all of that, except the voiced characters. Has music and audio feedback effects, but only on-screen text dialogue bubbles. Though pretty funny.

I'm not sure if I like or dislike the fact that their KS project has set a goal of raising $500k to fund developing it. I know our/my budget for making Khaki Pants Pete was much much less than that. My slice was much smaller anyway. :)

clarification: I did not design the game play or script, but I did design and code the entire game engine from scratch, solo.
Extreme violence and gore? No problem!

Consensual sex between adults? Disgusting!
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So what?

What matters is the behavior of the system in reality, in the present and in the future, not the intent of the original designer at some point in time.
Wow... according to Wikipedia, the women on the box were all employees of On-Line Systems, the precursor to Sierra. One of them is a bookkeeper! I'd be curious as to how the convinced them to pose naked on the box.
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Your absolutely right! I've got a Macbook Pro 13" and it's absolutely brilliant! I will never but a non-mac laptop again.
Lack of a sync API I'm guessing is a big one. There's no way to guarantee a file you place in a Dropbox will be there in the future unless you're notified if it's gone (which you can now do with /delta). Also, storing files isn't that big of a challenge, it's not like Dropbox is equipping you with a new skill. There needs to be a very compelling reason to put someone through an OAuth flow that requires a third-party service subscription for something that can easily be done transparently on the server or using S3 directly.

I personally don't think it's compelling for everyday file storage, like S3 is. However, I think there are a ton of other possibilities that are very compelling: data export, save to Dropbox, collaboration and sharing amongst multiple users, etc.
In my future, sex is OK. Jokes are OK. Playfulness is OK. And hookers probably still exist, regardless of whether they should or not.

Also, I think humans are pretty much hard-wired to objectify sexual interests. And there are places and situations where it's okay to express it and act on it, and places where it is less so. But not it's some black-or-white thing where it's always bad or always good.

Is it OK in computer games? Heck yes. Should it be in all games? Probably not. Is the world going to end if it's in just one game, or a small subset? Heck no.
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Seeing a nipple doesn't excite you anymore? Then you are probably dead.

I am not for misogynistic entertainment, though. But sexual attraction exists in the real world, we can not just make it go away by pretending that we don't see it.
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I find it quite disturbing that so many HN posters think sex with a prostitute is consensual.