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They also have numerous number of people doing so. And people kicked for using their real name. Etc.

In short it just prove the unenforceability of the policy.

I heckled them about that in a conference and when offered to get help to have my account fixed, I declined saying that the only thing they need to fix is the policy itself by retracting it and apologizing.
Anyone getting hit with Cloudant rate hike?
I have been slowly moving our production services to Cloudant and happy with the results, but I got an email a week ago that said our rates will increase 10x and we have 3 weeks to prepare for the new rate schedule.

I emailed them but they haven't gotten back to me in 1 week :(

Anyone getting hit with this or know why they are increasing their rates so much?
Does anyone else notice themselves leaning to the left? I feel uncomfortable.
Really? I always maximise my browser and usually dislike not having windows full-size on my screen. It just gets fiddly otherwise. Also I like leaning back as I surf, and I need a big browser window and 120-150% page scaling for that.

Using someone else's computer with a browser that isn't fully maximised irritates me, but I generally only see that on Macs. I don't think it's very common on Windows.
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Exactly, and 98% of people don't care or even notice the difference. It takes experience working with video to know what is actually higher quality and what is overcompressed, bitrate-starved crap.
I was expecting to see BT4/LE in use. Any reason to stick to the more power-hungry 2.1?
Agree.

It does seem like the images are real, because apparently the site is in the business of selling very high-res versions of such chips:

http://www.chipworks.com/en/technical-competitive-analysis/r...

"Die photos are available in the Chipworks Report Store at top metal and lower metal/poly"
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It is also worth considering Apple's stake in this. Just because they were launching the iPad didn't mean they had to sell ebooks. There were already plenty of ebook vendors and readers on the iPhone, after all.

One effect of the agency model is to make end users care less about which retailer they buy a book from (because the price is the same). A device manufacturer might be interested in encouraging that. For instance, they also might be interested in selling ebooks that only work on their devices to create additional lock-in for the future. An alternative spin would be that they might not want to be hostage to a powerful ebook vendor in the future (the way platform owners often depend on the developers of their key apps).

In any case, Apple's stake was and is altering and, arguably, restricting competition in markets related to ebooks. That's something else the DoJ should be interested in.
If you think that's bad, government laws are copyrighted in some parts of the world. Yes, you're a pirate if you try to share government laws.
And a swing in front of his business for strategy retreats. Take note, folks.

There is a lot to be said for the creativity-inducing boredom of an analog, resource-starved existence. If you grew up in a certain time or socioeconomic situation and became a geek, you know what I am talking about.
Yes, that is what I was assuming.
Just thinking out loud I believe wheat and other similiar commodities are traded across state lines and therefore the personal growth of a commodity can exert a substantial effect on the overall industry which because it is traded across state lines is regulated by the federal government. The source code for proprietary trading is done within the state and all for the in-house use of the firm developing the product so I am not sure if you can transfer the analogy to growth of a commodity such as wheat for personal use. A lawyers opinion would be nice to hear though. I assume because there is no substantial market for source code development of prop trading systems and because it is not traded and sold for use by multiple firms across state lines this wouldn't apply?
Can someone explain to me how this works?
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/hometech/death-to-microso...

It's the same article. So are both SMH and Slate syndicating from the same source or is Tom Socca employed by both?
Apple, like Microsoft before them, might be holding out for a change in the people who oversee the DoJ.
Can anyone talk about the state of the compiler in Go? How good/bad is the optimizer? That's not something you usually address early in language design.
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Pretty awesome. I like discussion so far, a lot of good points made, however no-one didn't mention now.js, and this kind of is mostly similar to now.js and magic it does.

It definitely has a potential to bring huge changes. I love how packages are bundled. Other things as well. I will try it out with coffeescript.

Congratulations guys, this is pretty awesome.
I must have the wrong version of the story. My understanding is that WB wrote D and AA came later (and wrote the book).
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"Microsoft showed users how it feels about sharing work when it switched its default format from .doc to .docx in Office 2007, locking old and new Word customers out of each other's files."

Wait, what?

In any event, he's clearly not the right customer for the product. Neither am I; my pathological hatred of Word has dimmed over the years and settled into a mild perpetual annoyance. An itch, if you will, that you dare not scratch too long or it will likely draw blood. And I got to that point even before I got hired at Microsoft four years ago.

But I've also seen times when some of Word's abilities (like the "Track Changes" feature being dissed in the article) are not only useful but essential. Example: a language spec being worked on by several people and actively reviewed by several dozen more.

Ultimately, I suspect the "right" customer for the product is a medium-to-large business who's using it to churn out various types of paperwork -- not for the person who's just trying to write some text.
They are not very accurate if you are trying to map addresses to zip codes, for example. The data is compiled based on Census tracts. For each census tract, it tells you the most common zip code in that tract.
This is reminiscent of the Intel 486 processor and 487 co-processor.

Intel sold 486SX and 486DX parts - the latter had a built-in floating point unit, whereas the former did not. Or at least that's how they were sold. If you had the SX, you could get a 487 "math co-processor" as an add-on to get your floating point unit.

As it turns out, the 486SX, 486DX, and 487 were actually the same chip, with different functionality enabled (although I think the 486SXs were actually ones with defective FP units).

Anyway, if you upgraded your 486SX with the 487, really what happened was that your 486SX got disabled completely, and the 487 became your one and only processor, with a FP unit.

[EDIT: typo]
Mind if I ask where you are located and what you are doing? I know job titles are meaningless but where does it only take 4 years experience to be a senior engineer and earn 115K? I have 10 years and I'm still a few years away from being considered a senior engineer. I'm not in California, but DC area doesn't exactly have the lowest cost of living either and I don't make 115K.
"Sorry I can't read PDF, do you have MS-Word"

True story.

Today I sent a link to my CV online, in HTML.
When you're working with streaming JSON like this (or in a web app), it might be easier to use a decoder/encoder. See http://play.golang.org/p/TLNORK2WK9 for an example.

Also fwiw, it has never been my experience that json decoding/encoding become the bottleneck in a web app. I/O (to a database, or the filesystem) is by far the largest bottleneck in any app I've profiled. A good benchmark for a web app language is hard to write, because it tends to depend on (unreliable) IO-bound systems.
Also, no thread about Word would be complete without that mix of grimace and dismissive smirk we reserve for people who paste screen shots into a Word document, then attach it onto an email in order to send them to us.
Don't most of the big companies have German offerings? It's mostly the startups in their initial stages that don't move abroad (at all, not just Germany). And a lot of that is due to legal and financial issues. We probably need a few startups in the internationalization sector to alleviate that.

I don't see anything specific against moving business into Germany, it's just that right now Germany has some pretty bad copycats, which makes this an issue.

Following the blog post, I'd expect to see companies moving to Spain or France before Germany, and I didn't really notice this as a pattern. It's not moving out of the US at all that's the problem (any Canadians want to chime in?).

And yes, a more lively startup community in Germany (and Europe in general) would be great.
Brief summary _ a form of non - traditional soundscan
The New Music Exchange. (an indie music social network)
There are a few online music serves but what makes my site different then others ?
This story should help to explain.
i'm dealing with an artist who signed a record deal with Sony Red. That means he's at the end of the road and his problems should be over but the new standard deal with unknown artists is the following -
The artist will have his cd mass produced for limited release and if the cds sell a certian number in limited release then Sony reserves the right to conside doing a larger run of cds and then promoting them through their network. So it's up ot the artist to advertise their own cds to reach the number because to prove they are a profitable group then they have to reach that number through "soundscan".
("soundscan" is a system that records music sales)
Please keep in mind that if they don't sale a certain number then they get no support and also upon intially signing the deal they signed any most of their online music rights so even if the shelfed cds don't sell the record company can get paid from the onlie sales and keep most of the profits.

The New Music Exchange offers another option.
An artist goes to our site and uploads their music and lets fans know that they're on the site. Music fans look them up and if they like what they hear they download.
Now we can give the artist back a demographic -
women between the ages of 17 - 25
location - brooklyn, New York
hits - 20,000
download - 17,523
because of this information an artist can now prove that they're profitable and it also gives them the option to go on tour and make money outside of theire original deal.
The service is free for music fans and independent artists however it's subscription based for industry accounts however a bulk of our revenue will come from advertising.
The site is more then a service - since we now have added NMX radio and NMX social it's more of independent music and information hub where we control content, advertising and promotion. We can even inform members when they're favorite band is in the area and we'll be upgrading to mobile base soon.
We are looking for $2m to move our brand further.
Canada law is weird. They have "Crown copyright". As for Canada Post, they are required to make money, and are not required to not exploit publicly funded dataset like the postal code database. This is called monopoly.
5000$. Missing a zero.
Someone should teach the kid about HN. I'm sure he will be a valuable member in the future. What a beautiful story.
> For Saint-Exupery, perfection is not reached when every feature has been added but when any unnecessary feature has been removed.

You mean Jonathan Ive. Sorry, Albert Einstein. Wait, was that Graham Bell? Or Leonardo da Vinci? Maybe Mies Van Der Rohe? Damn.
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Chipworks are in the business of all manner of reverse-engineering silicon. It's a pretty interesting process.

Sadly, it's one of the few semiconductor segments in which Ottawa, where I live, is still something of a leader.

And, weirdly, the owner of the company used to live in the condo below me.
There is no EFF equivalent in Canada.

But the CIPPIC is acting as counsel for these guys. They know what they are doing and are the closest I can see.
There's an update at the bottom of the linked Geocoder page that says the site is now being represented in federal court by the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic.

There's more info about CIPPIC at http://www.cippic.ca/en
> Old 8bit processors just start with the instruction pointer at a known value (e.g. 0x0000).

So do new 8bit processors and almost all processors, x86 cpus still have a reset vector, its 0xFFFFFFF0.
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Yes and no. It is true that what matters most of the time is a functional interface, not how that is achieved. That being said, it is much harder to successfully implement a functional interface if you are using side-effects willy-nilly inside.
And that's a lousy way to go, considering how spread out your properties can get. It's okay in small amounts when applied to a group of adjacent elements, but going any further makes no sense (unless you like using Ctrl+F a lot).

I need an editor/IDE with a dropdown that displays the properties of any element in one panel, perhaps showing me where the actual stylesheet changes are made in a side column. Like editing styles in Firebug, only smarter. Anyone got a recommendation?
If they make a browser that doesn't increase my development overhead then they are welcome to the party.
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> <img id="obligatory-clippy-joke" />

> "[MS Word] has become an overbearing boss, one who specializes in make-work. Part of this is Microsoft's more-is-more approach to adding capabilities, and leaving all of them in the "on" position."

> "Publishing a two-word sentence as a Web Page, then pasting the source code back into MS Word yields an eight-page document. Egads!"

> "Track Changes ... makes an uneventful edit read like a color-coded transcript of an argument between the world's most narcissistic writer and the world's most pedantic and passive-aggressive copy editor."

> "A tool that's lost its purpose makes a great toy."
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The SMH syndicated from Slate. Scroll down to the bottom of the article and you'll see the attribution.
When we take inventory we can ensure fast delivery times and a consistently Fab experience. Also, most drop shoppers are not setup to handle the type of volume Fab generated. Drop shipping maxes out at a relatively small number of orders.
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I don't see any reason why something like SMTP error messages can't be standardized if several major e-mail software vendors and related groups get together and agree to implement, over a period of 5-10 years, an extension to SMTP. Sure, it might not be as clean as rewriting the protocol from scratch, but it would work for all practical purposes. A lot of features of HTTP that we take for granted, like cookies and anti-clickjacking headers, were added through a similar process. The problem is political and economic, not technical.

I also don't see anything wrong with having a free-form, vendor-neutral, decentralized messaging protocol that can be used for a million different purposes. As long as the underlying protocol itself is reliable (e.g. it has proper error handling) and extensible (e.g. you can add custom headers and MIME types that other software won't mess with), innovators are free to implement whatever functionality they want on top of that protocol. Heck, Richard Stallman uses e-mail to browse the web! If you restrict the protocol to what you think should be its only purpose, you're unnecessarily limiting what other people can do with it. That would be like restricting HTTP to hypertext documents only, no AJAX, no API calls, no streaming.

IMO, e-mail doesn't need to become a TODO list or notification system. When I say "fix it", I mean we should clean up old cruft from the protocol (e.g. make it 8-bit clean) and make it extensible so that it is not too difficult for interested parties to implement a TODO list, notification system, etc. on top of it if they want to. People will obviously disagree about how exactly that should be done, but people disagree about everything anyway.
including the usa: http://boingboing.net/2012/03/19/liberating-americas-secret....
Or Node.js == Rack? Something like that. Agreed.
How about Bluetooth on the second generation iPod touch? That's a prime example of "chipset supported this, Apple locked it out with software and unlocked it with an update."
I agree. "A few hundred employees" and the average amount of time to be considered a senior engineer is only 4 years? That's either a title for title's sake, or the actual engineering department is all of 10 people.
We should also include Microsoft's obnoxious tendancy to release read-only documentation as mutable docx files instead of portable PDFs or even in its own not-invented-here PDF format, XPS.
Some non-Cygwin alternative SSH servers are discussed here:

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/install-...
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I know the feeling you're talking about. It's the difference between writing your own logic and simply learning what functions exist that someone created to handle the task you've been given.
That makes Satellite View in Google Maps look like a much more amazing feat.

Isn't that algorithm going to erase any islands small enough to not show up in zoom level 5?
Kind of amusing that this article has such a link baity headline. I was expecting to see more tech blog bashing, which imho is well deserved. Nonetheless, this articles point that you should target journalists in your specific industry, rather than the tech blogs, is sound, but a bit boring.
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From openstreetmap http://www.openstreetmap.org/ .
While many jurisdictions hold the same, that 'facts' can't be subject to copyright, there is often a (lobbied for) grey area surrounding compilations of facts.

The usual suspects in these cases are recipes, Geodata and my personal favourite - Premier League Football fixtures. The latter is in the final stages of a European court challenge that is rightly claiming licensing such a simple set of data for thousands of pounds is absurd: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17218968
That's okay as long as your skills are in demand and you have luxury to pick what you like. Will one refuse to demonstrate her website to an important person if by accident he only has some old version of the browser?

There are plenty of people who would submit in whatever format is required to land the job/contract/anything they desparately need and that positive quality is called 'perseverance' :)
Not if you're planning to advertise the next version of your product as "now it has a dual-core processor"
Sorry, sarcasm doesn't always come across clearly on the Internet.
I had one of these (The SX), it was AWFUL! I couldn't even play games that required the math co-processor. I ended up upgrading the processor to one of those Evergreen ones. Worked like a dream. I wish I can remember which game wouldn't run. I believe it was the original Demolition Derby?
Math geeks always see it this way. It's the same for any geek and his favorite subject. What's sad is that he should have studied harder in his English classes.
Would it be piracy if someone was able to provide tools to enable disabled parts?

"You're making us lose business by providing a tool to allow customers to use more than what they expected and paid for."
I think Word is fine. However, we really need to get to that open document standard so you can use whatever app you happen to prefer.
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That's exactly what we have today. Bounce message on top, details of conversation underneath.
I would agree with this article especially after it used the word "till". Till isn't the word you want to be using moron. Till is what a farm uses. Til, as in the shortening of 'until', is what you want to use. How the fuck does shit get published where 'til' is the accepted shortcut for a word that doesn't have an extra til.

Till exists in such popularity simply because spellcheckers won't correct it. Til brings up the red underline thingy, and people want to assume it knows what it means. Sadly, most people listen to it.

Till isn't what you mean. Til is. Fuck spellcheck, if that thing actually was smart you wouldn't have any headaches.

That's the sad thing about technological achievement. Most of the time it occurs because enough people start following the default behavior.

Don't get me start on how 'referer' became the default spelling for the HTTP referrer.
It looks like most of it is in http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f4b7ecf8a5f8
I think this is the year that LibreOffice actually takes off as a widespread replacement. No offense to any devs that might be reading, but the last few times I used it (or Open Office), it was awful in a vague, this is just sucky, slow, ugly way. 3.4.6, however, is great; I know my office could move over with barely a hiccup (we are technical bureaucrats -- lots of SAS and Excel and GIS).

I think it is only if you have some complex workflow dependent on VBA and links and all that crap that you would have a problem, and I think most people tried that garbage in the late nineties and never did it again. Mail merge is the only stupid automated thing that sort of works, and Libre has that.
If your API is read-only no one is going to use it. Might as well write a greasemonkey script to automate stuff instead.
I find it even worse when a project owner's default answer to anything is "sure, please make a pull request!" while swinging away from the discussion.
A more direct and recent example would be the Intel Core Solo, which was an identical situation. New chip, high bin rate while working out the kinks, so they disabled dead cores on Core Duos and sold them as Core Solos.
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It's because most recruiters want to be able to easily copy and paste data from your resume into reports for their clients and that doesn't work well from PDFs.

However, I don't want to work for a company that uses external recruiters that put stupid, restrictive requirements on applications either because they are too lazy to do their job well for the $10k+ commission they get for new placements.