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>I don't understand this viewpoint. What is an apology? An apology, at least to me, is a statement that you regret an action you performed, and hence are saying that if you were transported back in time and could relive that moment, you would have acted differently. Saying you are "sorry people were offended" does not imply that you would have acted differently.

Yes, but the world does not owe us to deserve apologies every time that we are offended.

Sometimes we are offended, but we shouldn't be (because we are wrong), other times we are offended and it is arguable if we should or should not be (because it's a complex issue that can be seen either way).

So people can both be sorry that you were offended and _still_ feel like they have the right to say what they said. I.e they don't like offending people, but they feel that what they did was right and you should not feel offended.

Here's an extreme example:

I might say in a conversation that "Republicans are creeps". This might offend someone. Now, I could truly feel sorry for making that other person feel bad, but that does n't mean that I also regret my opinion.

The key here is that other people are not summed entirely in that one _thing_ that I might have offended them on (ie. my friend is not described entirely by the fact that he is a card-carrying republican). So, I might like them as people, as friends, as colleagues, etc, and feel sorry if I made them feel bad, but still dislike that _thing_ about them.
Down voting without providing a response to my comment or a without furthering the conversation in any way is the type of meaningless emotional response that down voting was meant to combat in the first place. You have not helped the conversation in any way and have not provided me with a reason to reconsider my assessment.
This has no remarkable impact on Bitcoin or the community, it's just the founder of Bitcoinica (which was hacked several times) disassociating himself from Bitcoin because his reputation has been decimated.
"Germany is a profoundly civilised country. America, not so much."

I don't think making unnecessarily provocative comments like this adds much to the discussion.
Sorry, to clarify, I meant "firearms discharged in the line of duty by police officers", as per the original article.
The lesson here is that default settings are very important and you should spend some thought on them.
> Unfortunately, when they do use them they do so to kill innocent foreigners, execution style (which then gets largely swept under a rug): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Jean_Charles_de_Meneze....

Not to defend those involved, but that was a single tragic incident that occurred at a time and place of very high tension (being about two weeks after the 7th July 2005 London bombings [0]). Your use of the plural ('they do so to kill innocent foreigners') implies a pattern - unfairly, to my mind.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_bombings_of_7_July_2005
That's an awfully hypocritical attitude as a bittorrent pirate. Technically one could claim that pirates abuse the bittorrent protocol to justify their means. At any rate, it's an example of technological innovation and should be respected for the efforts...unless you want to quash any technology which stands in the way of your established practices?
And in the process sell your soul to the advertisers? No thanks.
I think he meant discharges by LEOs, not private citizens. And we're probably only talking about during duty shooting, not target practice for the german figure - I know I send at least 100 rounds down the range when I go shooting.
> I'm a firm believer that if you write code that writes code, you are using inadequate tooling.

> Building successive abstractions is the right way of doing things.

You seem to think that "code that writes code" only addresses problems that are solvable by building successive abstractions.

Most "code that writes code" that I've seen had nothing to do with implementing abstractions. Most were implementing code based on data, database-driven-code generation if you will.
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I think there should be a step 0

0. Get your CV out there

So you can start some leads and if they ask for some weeks notice, you'll have something going (at least some leads) when you're no longer there
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So what are they doing following this particular sub-thread and giving other people condescending advice?

Why aren't they busy reading other sub-threads where the presentation's content is discussed?
With a text editor I meant something like Gedit.
Are you selling Ontology 2 (http://ontology2.com/o/)? It looks really interesting. Who are you trying to sell it to?
Despite all distrusts and controversies among some people, you still did a great job. I believe that Bitcoinica actually reduced the price volatility instead of increasing it, I also in my whole heart believe that Bitcoinica is much much more than just a place for people to speculate. You devoted a lot to the community and deserve appreciation.
I often see policemen helping tourists with directions and things - I even once saw some policemen replacing a punctured tyre for what looked like Japanese tourists in an obvious rental car.

[NB I'm in Edinburgh which is usually full of tourists so I suspect the police are particularly well behaved here!]
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That's not how you do it. It helps, but it's far from comprehensive, hence not "zero-defect".

The one thing that may possibly create zero-defect software is formal proof, but that is far from being practical.
That link does not say that it's not dangerous. It is less dangerous than a bullet fired at close range, and it is not as likely to be lethal, but it still can be lethal, or cause serious bodily harm, and therefore it is still very dangerous.

Furthermore not all warning shots fired into the air are fired at high enough angles that the bullets decelerate to terminal velocity before hitting something.

Even if it reaches terminal velocity and doesn't hit anyone, in an urban area it can easily hit someone's property and cause property damage to roofs windows or walls.
The built-in one is agonizingly slow to open.
If I did something seriously wrong, I would definitely admit it.

The recent hack is not my fault. It just destroyed the only reason that I stay in Bitcoinica.
>That's flawed reasoning.

You don't say.

>Suppose their technology killed BitTorrent over night. Will it stop piracy? Of course not - we have a myriad of other technologies adept at transferring data from one host to another.

Yes, but it would be a very significant setback. Already the raids on DDL sites have had a large impact on the availability and easy access to pirated material. For example, they made 5 years worth of DDL links unreachable in one night.

In the end, you don't have to kill piracy --you just have to make it inconvenient enough, and most of the people will give up.
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I downloaded one million pages. I analyzed what to analyze. And I analyze. What do you think about results?
Ok, so they're making something that already exists. I know the HP version costs about $80.

What I want to know is how are they planning on bringing their costs down to be able to provide something cheaper than a larger company that already has the ability to produce whatever they want.
Google cache:

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Can you share some technical details/details of your conversations with this guy please?
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Oh yes, that makes sense. My apologies for misunderstanding your point. I would have thought that law-enforcement discharges were tracked as they are often fatal. If not at the federal level, then certainly the state level.
I use Go and I don't see any particular expressivity or ability to code easier/faster, compared to, say Python.

The benefits are: type checking (if you need it), more speed (but not as much as advertised), and easy concurrency (if you need it).

I think one of the main "marketing" points of Go, in a grassroots way, is that some people coming from Python/Ruby/js etc, that have never (or only very lghtly) used C/C++ before, feel suddenly like they are using a "hard, grown up's language", what with pointers and everything. It's mostly an illusion, though.
Ditto on the horrible credit card interface.

Should've waited a few years and outfitted with Squares.

Or better yet, a NYC-based Square competitor if there is one!
That's likely because salaries are also linked to how much everyone else in a company is making as well so it's hard for someone to be paid a lot more than other people at the same level in a company. Contractors can be budgeted differently though being something closer to a pure transaction of "you write me this, I pay you this much".

Very curious about these well paying non-finance contracts though - I've been thinking about leaving the financial world, but so far the salary differentials have been stopping me. I've not worked outside of finance, so appropriate places to find those type of contracts is an unknown to me.
I found it particularly valuable for iOS development. Even if it didn't solve my problem straight away, it pointed me in the right direction.
I almost didn't tip in a cab once. I got into a cab and everything was great ... then the driver ran two red lights (not lights that just switched -- he went from a dead stop while it was red) and damn near hit a bike driver. I made a comment about it and he grunted and kept going. While most likely nothing would've happened, I decided to tip him simply because I didn't know what would happen if I decided not to; I'm sure the stories I've heard are overblown, but...
I should add that bullets can go through the roof, and this has been documented to happen in some of the incidents of upward-aimed fire causing injury.

But I agree with the idea of aiming towards locations where the bullet is likely to penetrate but not go through. The ground might be dangerous because of the potential for ricochet - but many other surfaces could be adequate.
Sounds some what like a corporate Tucker Max. (Well, before his recent repentance.)
It would not because users will immediately switch to ipv6, vpns, encryption, private trackers, other protocols.

Sites that actually provide competitive service (like ivi.ru) pose much larger threat to piracy.
Neat, my Fl0wer demo was featured there. That version is a bit of a WIP (it started as a quick hack in the morning to get my brain working) and weighed in at 891 bytes. The new version is at http://demoseen.com/windowpane/nufl0wer.png.html and is 747 bytes -- still a long way to go before it hits 512, though. I've got some nice renders of it at http://www.behance.net/gallery/Fl0wer/3914351 as well; it's funny to think that the demo itself could fit thousands of times into any image on that page.

(I feel obligated to note that the Behance page has prints available for sale, which I'd absolutely love for you to buy; I decided to knock my cut down to 0% to bring the prices down to something I considered sane, since I really don't care about making money from it. Edit: Btw, the standard cut I'd get from one of these is about $36. If you buy a print and feel inclined to do something more, find a broke programmer and them a Raspberry Pi with the money you save.)
That's just not true. People who want to be paid for their work need to let go of the idea of selling copies and embrace the idea of servicing their media to the public. Every amount of friction between the consumer and the content is at play -- quality, morality, reliability, legality, and so on.

Region locking your content, pumping it with unskippable ads and legal threats, releasing it arbitrarily in certain countries... are all practices which serve to alienate the consumer. These are pervasive in the content industry, and you couldn't honestly say they're even trying to compete with piracy with such stubbornness.
Still, you don't want to bet your life that the assailant doesn't know how to wield a knife.

I don't agree with shooting anyone who is brandishing a knife, but trying to disarm them is a horrible idea as well. As others have mentioned, using beanbag guns or a taser or tear gas or rubber bullets or just about any less-lethal option (with other officers ready to shoot if the assailant charges) is the best solution.
Also, given administrative support you can simply cap the outgoing traffic to one tenth of incoming. Nobody can seed efficiently any more, so the whole experience becomes suboptimal.
"Cap your spend."

How do you go about doing that? Just decide on an amount upfront manually watch the balance? I didn't see any function to cap the total lifetime spend on a campaign or stop it once it hit a certain level.
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I am certainly not accusing you of any misbehavior, but even you would admit this incident did not serve your reputation well -- deservedly or not. And that is indeed your motivation for leaving.
While this is true, an unintended consequence is that no other waiters care at all about you. If yours is neglecting you, you're going to have trouble getting another who's not receiving a tip from you to care.
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Hello -

I've an iPad, and use it to specifiy alarm systems, generate floor plans and create/e-mail bids and invoices.

Now if only someone would support per-character formatting in a spreadsheet that runs locally, rather than in the cloud...

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There's no way to stop piracy, everyone knows this. The key is too slow it down and make it more troublesome. Just like there's no such thing as a safe that can't be broken into, that's not the point of anti-piracy measures.

Piracy is a problem because it requires minimal effort and is far too easy these days, often easier than obtaining the content legitimately. If the copyright holders could just occasionally shutdown whatever the most popular site is at the time, and force people to smaller sites. Far less people would be pirating.

The crux of the problem is that it is incredibly easy to pirate things, and even a token/whack-a-mole effort would dissuade most people.

Look at web-advertising. If browsers came pre-installed with adblock google would have to find a new business model. But such a small thing like not making it the default, has huge effects. Similarly having to find a new public website every month to download things is going to dissuade a big percentage of people.
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This looks great. I suppose this will help a lot of class rooms in poorer countries.
Google learns, so the amount of links from Megaupload or pages with Megaupload links in the search results is almost zero by now.

And this guys are probably going to become the center of DDOS attacks and legal conflicts, making their business model even less profitable.
This is my first attempt at writing an HTML5 game, done for the purpose of learning more about javascript and canvas. Any feedback on the browser compatibility (I only tested it with chrome) and/or game play appreciated.
"Most people don't pirate out of a "It's too difficult for me to buy this song via itunes", they pirate because they don't want to spend money"

Therefore, ad-supported streaming services exist.

The only reason why ad-supported streaming services aren't the king is because they can't stream every content. That lands us back on availability problem. Copyright holders can not figure it out.
The ads are tailored to you, or whomever uses the same computer the you're are using. Google thinks you need those pills. The kids will get different ads based on what google detects as their interests.
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you just have to make it inconvenient enough, and most of the people will give up.

Let's verify that claim, shall we?

1. Fact: For the past 10 years the content industry has been doing everything in their power to make file-sharing as inconvenient as possible.

2. Result: http://disruptive-music.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/201...

I'll tell you where your (and their) mistake is. Instead of trying to make "illegal" sharing inconvenient, the focus should be on making "legal" consumption convenient.

When the content is available immediately, everywhere, at good quality, for a reasonable price, then most people have no reason to consider other channels.

The content industry has only themselves to blame for not providing that. Case in point: I'd like to watch avengers, on my flatscreen at home, asap. Chances are PirateBay will make that happen before iTunes, even though I would happily pay $10 for it, if they'd let me.
Interestingly, if this would be widely deployed, it would probably result in adaptations to the BitTorrent protocol being developed to counteract this technique. Just look at the history of Distributed Hash Tables and Magnet links. Ironically, rather than stopping people from pirating content, they are actually spending money to make BitTorrent more resilient. While this will surely come in handy when SkyNet finally takes over, I'm sure the money would indeed be better spent on more competitive products and services.
4. Because none of these people live in Germany:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw5pZpGh5Hg
To be honest I never understood why wsgi conflated buffered and streaming modes in one API. Having two separate specialized sets of API makes much more sense.
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It seems it's not in fact a thin client - as far as I can tell, it's a USB hub and USB graphics card which then gets hooked up to its own X session on the host.

It's much more limited than the HP devise you're referring to, so I would think it needs to be a lot cheaper to make sense.
> and most of the people will give up.

And start doing what? Buying all the stuff they were just hoarding because it was "free" and they never were able to afford in the first place? I don't think so. If the effort to get stuff increases above the value of the stuff, they'll simply wait until somebody solves the problem and decreases the effort, so the stuff becomes "free" again.
It depends where you live and what you are hoping to use it for? E.g. if you do business in Asia, then Mandarin chinese would be the most valuable. Personally I like Italian/French/Spanish/Portuguese since they are reasonably easy to learn.
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Police officers in Germany in most cases when someone points a gun at them wont even draw their gun, but try to talk to the person, or take cover and call in extra support.
Why make piracy inconvenient ? Why not make legal purchases more convenient instead ?
Speaking multiple languages is a great thing, but if you already speak English, maybe you ought to consider if its worth your time if you don't have a clear goal in mind.

Do you want to learn a new language for the sake of knowledge? To travel the world? For business?

I would figure that out first and then make a choice on what to do.
Not to mention the police attitude to people. Its like nazi Germany in the United States. Police can do anything and get away with it. Im watching the police in the US and comparing to Europe, and I cant believe the amount of sadistical violence that is going on there. Maybe because ex military people become cops?

Its a very scary place. I dont even go there as a tourist because they have a legal right to throw anyone in jail without trial if they want to.

That being said, ordinary people are very friendly. But the government and the police are scary as hell. Totally dark forces going on there.
At first I was wondering about the benefits of using such a system vs. something like deploying the raspberry pi en masse (which is a full system for under $50), but after some thought it comes down to the fact that the average utilization of any computer most of the time is very low, but we really notice the CPU power when we do something intensive (although not very often). Each user on this system could potentially feel the same power as a full desktop, as the probability of multiple users requiring intensive computation at the same time is relatively low. Kind of like how web providers quote 10MB per customer, but their infrastructure only has to cater for a tiny fraction of the potential full utilization.
You make some decent points, but a guy like Doug can work wherever he wants so while Yahoo! might release more open source packages than 99% of the shops out there, you can't just throw out the other, better companies in the top 1% like Google and Twitter who, in my opinion, release much better open source software, software that I actually use. I agree that Yahoo! has over the years done a respectable job in becoming a leader in open source JavaScript development, but since Doug has had a huge hand in this, couldn't one argue that he could bring that along with him wherever he goes? Furthermore, in some of these other companies, at least his CEO won't be just pretending to know what JSON is :)
I think was a great idea, ten or fifteen years ago. But not today because the era of growth for desktop computers is essentially over.

I have no idea what I would do with this today. I have a MacBook Pro, and my wife does, too. Nearly everyone I know has an iPhone, and an iPad.

Why would any of us use this? Each of us already has two or three computers of some kind that we carry everywhere, nearly all the time.

I'm not trying to be mean. I just don't see how a $50 computer that you have to plug into a keyboard, mouse, and monitor is something that anyone with mobile devices would want.
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Based on the description of the product, it sounds like it performs man in the middle attacks on BitTorrent trackers or an attack on the Peer Exchange feature of some clients. I am willing to bet that either TLS-enabled trackers or disabling PEX would be all that are needed to get around this.
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I like being introverted. I enjoy spending time alone with my thoughts.

I hated being shy, which made me anxious in social situations. People confuse these a lot. Anxiety is pretty much always a negative. Introversion can be a big positive.

Getting over being shy took a long time and it basically just took a lot of practice...putting myself in social situations despite my fears.
You can cap the daily spend for an ad and adwords will keep things below that.
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It certainly doesn't inspire confidence in his ability to single-handedly securely run a financial company targeted by hackers, but I think he has handled himself quite well otherwise.

His forthrightness with the incidents, covering of customer losses, etc. has made me respect him.
>> "I'm much more interested in working on this kind of technology/product/etc. and I want to go pursue my dream."

IMHO, this has some chance of hurting OP, depending on how similar the "new direction" is, how litigious they are and how successful OP is in what he does next.

I'd stick to "personal reasons" or none at all.
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You used the word 'often'. Please substantiate this.
That's a nice cutesy view, but it's wrong. Lots of people refuse to use advert supported streaming services because they don't want to stream and they hate adverts. Content owners can't win. Just check reddit sometime, it's depressing how demanding people are.