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That's what they want it to be.

The market seems to think otherwise :) and there's clearly a place for a market for up-front selling of (perceived) cool new products :) . I hope it's them.

I love the Kickstarter idea. It's the ultimate customer validation, too :) . I only hope they take extra care not to get burned by the inevitable first high-profile failure.
Troll article! The arguments are hilarious. I don't think the writer is ignorant, I think they are a jackass.
No, but that sounds like a great fit, thanks! Have signed up so I know when the next round opens up for applications. Thanks, great pointer.
Google Talk will be tested by Google employees, and how many of them don’t have a Gmail account? :) I still feel that this should work though.
Chatimity got through: http://www.pluggd.in/chatimity-app-chat-with-nice-people-297...
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I vary on this one. I have a bunch of hobbies, of which coding is one. When I go through a coding phase then I'm not a 501 developer. When I go through a boardgaming phase I am.

In any case, I try not to _work_ more than 40-hours per week, but my play frequently still involves computers.
Aztec-C's performance on the II at least was terrible. A colleague explored it for a project and gave up - the program ended up being developed in GraFORTH.

Very fast.
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Not so along ago (probably still now) Windows had the best software & hardware compatibility. Apart from that, who's going to have an iPad/iPhone and a Windows 8 laptop? Or a Macbook and Windows 8 tablet/phone? At least for the Apple side it's pretty clear to me. Finally, part of what you mention is also developers' responsibility rather than Microsoft itself; as someone says above the company's investing quite a lot in getting developers aboard.
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I concur, how is this even HN worthy... Sysadmins and developers have been doing this for years and years
I love the 6502. One day I'll finally get to learn VHDL and build myself a 64-bit 6564. x86 is no fun.
"Worse" in what sense? Won't the prices deviate pretty randomly around the true price, sometimes behind a penny higher than the continuous exchange, and sometimes a penny lower, making it basically a wash?
Even Java Plumbr: https://twitter.com/#!/JavaPlumbr/status/192147574206119936
Agreed. Keep your pity.
Edit: Now I think I was wrong in this reply. I did not realize that paragraph 4 of the agreement gives the inventor the right to license the patent to another party to enforce the agreement. However, the broad language of the second paragraph still gives the assignee a lot of wiggle room to argue that they are not breaking any promises made.

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Original comment:

I mentioned this in another thread, but it is actually simpler than that. As I read it, the twitter agreement gives all rights in the patent to the assignee, just like any other assignment, but it adds on the clause that the assignee agrees to get permission from the inventor if they want to sue offensively with the patent. In the future, if the assignee (whoever it is at that time) decides to sue offensively without the permission of the inventor, the assignee can (and indeed they have the right to, as the holder of all the rights in the patent). The inventor would then have a cause of action for breach of contract against the assignee, but who knows what that would amount to.

Basically, I doubt that a court would read the agreement in a way that prevents the future patent assignee from using the patent offensively, even without the agreement of the inventor.
The thing about this is that the "Filter Bubble" isn't actually new. It has existed as long as mass-media has. Technology may well be making the phenomenon worse, perhaps to the point of creating something qualitatively different from what has been seen in the past, but anyone who thinks that the media has ever provided an accurate reflection of actual reality is horribly mistaken.

In fact its difficult to see how the media ever could provide such a reflection. Actual reality is very boring, reading about it doesn't interest people, because the brain has its own filters which lead us to only be interested in that which we find new or surprising.

Unfortunately providing people with information which appeals to them (which is what the media has always done, with or without algorithms) will invariably distort their own sense of reality, just as would training a probabilistic model only on outliers.
Sociopaths have always been in power. There is not much socially unique about our times. Scales have changed (there are so many people!) but not the principles.
Almost all the funded hardware projects end up on Shopify afterwards. Including pebble.

The "store" part is actually a tremendously complex software to do well, hardly a feature you add to an existing system.
And the former middlemen who lived on the $0.10 spread that existed before hft.
Right. I shouldn't have continued the implication, but in a generic sense their stake is still valued at $380 (with perhaps some recoverable if Elon Musk suddenly disappears and SpaceX creates the Blob or something). I guess I was distracted thinking about the upcoming IPO. Last I heard was 2013Q1.
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that's how it worked for the first thirty years or so, until Milton Friedman(!) invented withholding. the point was, surprise surprise, to provide a more reliable revenue stream for the government.
British newspapers tend to convert everything to pounds without citing the original figure. I find it really annoying since I can never remember the going exchange rate for GBP.
that's not too far from where twitter is going with its IPA
they should get francesco zappa in to do the soundtrack!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxHO92S1Yw8
yes, exactly. that is the thing that many people are missing about the elegance of this hack
Twitter, facebook, airbnb didn't do any SEO
They developed three rockets and a reusable vessel for $1 billion? That's impressive!!
Sadly, the 65C02 used on the //c and //e enhanced converted those to NOPs :-(

I actually had to rewrite some code because of that. I remember the comments in the source code were less than kind towards the engineers responsible. I may even have the listings somewhere.
I believe there was an app for gtk+ that removed all nonessential parts of the library when you built custom apps... Maybe something like this is needed here?
You should preferably not use a computer you don't have complete control over for sensitive stuff at all. Even with two-factor authentication, a computer you don't control can still store the emails you access, etc. etc.

It's email, people. You won't die if you don't check it for three hours. And if you do... well, then you should probably've brought your own laptop (although that may make system administrators sad).
Please stop using the word "beautiful"...
I already said this on reddit, but I guess we should make a "501 programming lover" manifesto where we keep everything but the last part of the 501 developer manifesto.
They were my thoughts too
Their business tactics are ridiculously sleazy though. Aside from the google smear campaign fiasco last year, do you know that facebook does not allow AdSense advertising on it's 3rd party applications? They don't want FB ads performance to be compared with Google's (more profitable ads) on the same pages.
Did you actually read the agreement? Kliment is correct. The inventors are granted an irrevocable license to sub license the patent to any target of offensive use of the patent. IANAL, but presumably existing licenses on a patent are attached to the patent and are not just a contractual matter between the licensee and original patent owner.
SNI is backwards compatible with sites that are not using it, so this is really an asymmetric problem.

If you are writing your REST service with a library that doesn't support SNI then you just fall back to the old one SSL certificate per IP:port. When a browser comes in presenting the SNI option it just gets ignored and life goes on.
The decision made by the court was that they had to provide access to "secret" APIs

What did those APIs do? If they were APIs that one would need access to to make a competitive alternative to IE for Windows, then my story would be surprisingly accurate given the little that I remember. To be clear, the case I'm remembering greatly predated Windows 7.

Anyway, maybe I just got the story from some shitty pop news article many years ago and it's all wrong. But it stands as a hypothetical rhetorical device in the discussion about monopolies.
From a semantics point of view: the post I originally replied to asked about compiled bytecode, not textual code.

From a deeper point of view: Theoretically you are correct. But in practicalities... Peresumably you get 2 benefits from compiling the code to bytecode:

* obfuscated source so people can't steal your secret sauce.

* faster execution because the compile step is skipped.

The second one has real practical limitations: for any major gain, the bytecode has to be in a format that allows fast execution, which usually includes taking out certain checks that can be done at compile time, taking advantage of lower level runtime stuff and in some cases, optimizations for the hardware arch below. This is all well and good, but when you have multiple engines interpreting the bytecode, this can be done in very different ways. In practice, to get from a robust bytecode to something that takes full advantage of the system, effectively invokes a second compile step from bytecode to the vm's internal representation. This is what a lot of JVMs do. I'm not sure anything would actually be gained in that case.

Further, a robust bytecode format would required, since there are already piles of hacks in the JS libraries we all use to handle various browser differences. To get a bytecode that allows this, we end up with something that looks more like a simple source code transform than any bytecode that gives significant speedup out of the gate. (and at that point, your obfuscation of the code starts to go away too - you could just disassemble it to something that looks like jsmin output).
I've long wondered why we don't see something similar for roads. Instead of the long disruptive process of trying to build a permanent structure in place (and later try to rip that out and put in a new one), make segments which can be dropped in place and leveled (and re-leveled) with automatic jacks - a segment breaks, or you need something wider, just pick up a segment and replace it in minutes.
Because some people work better with deadlines, without deadlines they might keep putting of working on it.
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How did you find out the details of the software he's using?
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I'm very satisfied with 1Password..
Does it bother anyone else how slowly the buttons change when you mouse over them? I mouse over a button and decide that it won't change before it starts changing. I expect hover-states to be much more responsive.
I agree that a job shouldn't define who you are.. but I think what you choose as your profession says a lot.
To me, the concept of a '501 Developer' as outlined in the manifesto seems kinda foolish. It shouldn't be outside of industry norms to value one's family over one's company, or to treasure time spent with friends over time spent with coworkers.

The list of pitiable/respectable items are a bit different. In particular, "Mostly only read books about coding and productivity" I do find unsatisfactory; the power of literature is massive and too often untapped, and the thought that reading 300 pages about a language or productivity is more valuable than, say, The Brothers Karamazov frightens me a little.

Dearth of passion doesn't make someone a '501 developer', nor vice-versa; I just think being passionate about one subject to the exclusion of everything else is dangerous, no matter the industry or lifestyle.
I wouldn't call this a bubble. Rather, Kickstarter is exploiting the law of averages. Take a couple of passages from the story as evidence:

> Few investors were interested in betting on a hardware startup, or dealing with the headaches that often come with manufacturing goods.

Let's assume "investors" are people with some knowledge of funding hardware based products. This group of individuals is going to look at the product (the upsides) as well as the challenges (the risks). A project might have tremendous upside on the product side, but an experienced hardware investor is able to identify the risks. I'm not a hardware investor, but anything involving wireless (even Bluetooth) automatically sets off warning buzzers in my head. I'm sure hardware-oriented VCs looked at this product and saw their own set of "uh oh" problems, thus they decided not to fund it.

> Migicovsky said he’s more adept at pitching to consumers than to venture capitalists.

I'm not sure Migicovsky is entirely aware of what he's saying here. This could be restated as "I'm more adept at pitching to laymen than people who are familiar with the challenges." That's scary.

At first glance, this appears to support your hypothesis: that one day, this whole thing is going to come crashing down. However, I believe you underestimate the pool of fools ready to part with their money. I don't really mean that funders of this project are fools, just that by some people's perception, they're fools for taking the risk.

Stated more succinctly, I believe that on the broad scale, there are a sufficient number of non-risk-averse individuals to sustain Kickstarter for quite some time. I believe this will remain true, even after some catastrophic funding failure.
4000 dollars in attorneys and CPAs? Ouch. The U.S. sure is expensive that way. It's nice of them to breakdown the costs.

The poster also looks really nice, but I didn't know such art would cost U$ 2.000 (I know some talented guys here in Uruguay that don't make as much in a month. They should try competing for those commisions).

PD: the game looks really awesome :) I didn't know about it, but now I'm looking forward to it.

PD2: That much money would hire me for a year, but I wouldn't be able to make Star Command on my own in a year obviously.

PD3: I'm looking forward to an X-Com remake someday...
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Exactly.

Kickstarter isn't "supposed" to be an e-commerce site, but that's what the majority of its users seem to be using it as. That's the emergent use case that's become almost a standard for the site.

Regardless of how we might feel about it, pricing needs to accommodate this user behavior. Not the other way around. Expecting users to change how they use Kickstarter is a recipe for sub-optimal subscription, if not failure.
The only reason this whole debate exists is that there are lots of us who love programming, and would be doing lots of it whether or not it paid.

This naturally makes 501 types uneasy, because it leads to unfavorable comparisons.
Psychology. The vast majority of people show significantly better results with specific deadlines. Here's one study showing the difference:
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You present very valid arguments.

Regarding UUID v1, refer to spec in section 4.5.
"Node IDs that Do Not Identify the Host". In the case of generating IDs, I don't care about the device's MAC or allowed block of addresses to use, so I can make a better use of that. Some implementations of UUID v1 uses random jitter which is what I believe is up to date and useful for this case.

In some cases not allowing the number of bits is a hard constraint.

In other cases you'd want to generate a TimeUUID (Cassandra) and take down 2 goals in one strike.

Eventually, in the second part, I pick generating a TimeUUID with simple_uuid (which uses jitter, https://github.com/ryanking/simple_uuid/blob/master/lib/simp...) exactly per your conclusion.

The goal of this part of the post was to present the problems this kind of thing presents :)
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Sure, but tech is small-fry talk compared to finance. Want to talk finance and we'll have to up the chit-chat to A-league economics... are you game?

Tech is easy. It uses machines to make light of manual tasks. It helps to find efficiencies. Add money into the mix and it creates a gold rush. Is Silicon Valley more than a gold rush where the guy selling the spades is getting seriously rich while once in a while some idiot or other hits a rich seam and then everyone wants to build an instagram... sorry, I mean mine in that place...
Absolutely. It takes so much more than 'I hate it' or 'I love it' to really develop anything worth a damn.
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I think it is completely unrealistic to even think that MS would add SNI to XP anymore. 5 years ago, maybe? But now, that's ridiculous.

And I strongly disagree with the title that MS is the one holding secure web back. I'd blame the users (both corporations and personal ones) who won't upgrade, either to modern browser or a modern OS.

edit: Additionally those nice graphs are misleading. I bet other (SNI supporting) browsers have significant market share on XP too. Compare the market share of IE <9 (<20%) to XP (33%). And some of those IE8 users probably are on Vista/7.

edit2: And if we look at IE8 market share trend, it has been steadily decreasing for the past year. I feel safe to say that in a year it has decreased to a low enough percentage so that it can be ignored.
Programming is awesome, but so are lots of other things. I don't eat sushi for every meal either.

I have seen so many developers exploited by people making a bundle off their work with the explanation "I am doing what I love!"
Instead, I think it is possible to create without working outside of work hours. I can learn on the job in a way that can be more context driven than reading disembodied books on technologies that will probably never be relevant for my craft.

I don't know about anyone else, but I was always the kid who did the extra credit whether I needed the credit or not. I feel like we still sometimes get stuck in that attitude of needing to do everything in order to not be less-engaged than other people. As long as the community keeps rewarding those over-achievers we will be stuck trying to keep up with the Joneses.
I think it's a very important mindset to have, especially within a startup. I'm going to make a conscious effort to evaluate aspects of my life in the same way. As with anything, repeated use develops the 'muscle' required to do this quickly and I see it being a very valuable skill.
So the obvious problem with the movie Minority Report was the false dichotomy between (a) imperfectly predicting crimes and then punishing people before they commit them and (b) not predicting crimes. The obvious third choice, which has been in use since time immemorial, is (c) imperfectly predicting crime and then applying normal crime-prevention measures to increase the chance of catching the perpetrator and/or reduce the chance that the crime is committed at all, while simultaneously using less resources. In any sane world, the technology of Minority Report would still be used to reduce murders through direct intervention and the deterrent of more effective enforcement, without taking people off to pre-crime prison.

The author's implication that FAST is an implementation of the obviously-bad idea of punishing people for crimes they haven't yet committed is just one of the many bad and misleading aspects of this article.
If VCs published data of all their investments, and produced it in a form that is comparative with other 'asset classes', you would soon see why tech VC HAS to be confined to the desert...

(yes, yes, I am over-dramatising, but would it be any fun if I put across something more balanced?)
Up until recently, us non-sociopaths used to have a little more recourse, in the US anyway.

The past ten years have changed all that. Very little wiggle room to escape them conventionally anymore. We have to resort to more and more extreme means to be able to find some small escape from them. That's why I no longer use commercial airlines, for instance.
If you don't care about what grade you get you can probably still work at your own pace and just not get a good grade if you don't finish on time. And if you do care about what grade you get you are already pretending you're taking a college class.
should all work like multi-state commuter taxes--i live in NJ, work in NY, and my NY tax is credited against my NJ liability (leaving no liability to NJ, as NY rates are higher (at least with the extra NYC tax thrown in)). tax treaties (as exist between many states) just make the revenue sharing easier from the governments' point of view.
Hmmm, I work more than 40 hours a week... Between my day job, and getting my own company going, I work roughly 16 hours a day... I enjoy it.

But then again that's during the weekdays, weekends I barely do any work, so I have no problem working such long days during the weekdays.
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> I just think being passionate about one subject to the exclusion of everything else is dangerous, no matter the industry or lifestyle.

Probably true. But you don't get to be Mozart or Van Gogh by being well-balanced. ;-)
The SaaS application that I am building will have multiple customers pointing to a load-balancer(still deciding EBS vs other options) and I am still figuring out how to get the ssl part of it set up. I like your point on keeping ELBs as the SSL end point. I haven't been able to find a definite resource explaining this. Is there anything that can be shared?
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Haskell has no real world use, it just exists because the author wanted it to?

Did I misread that or is that what the author is saying?
I've never heard of this 501 thing before, and I'm not looking forward to all the posts, replies and counter-replies on the HN front page.

Can't we just agree to work during working hours (if you need me to work a bit more as a favor to you, or if you pay me overtime, that's totally okay most of the time), and spend the rest doing what we love, including, if one is so inclined, programming?
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> Few investors were interested in betting on a hardware startup, or dealing with the headaches that often come with manufacturing goods.

I wonder how many potential smartphone/tablet companies are not being launched due to the timidity of the VC community.
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