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The point of getting a lawyer (1) and later going to court (2):

(1) At some point in a conflict it's not the technical expertise anymore which one may get with a lawyer—no, it's that there's is somebody who is not emotionally involved, who doesn't fear to loose, finally someone whose mind is at 100%, who is fully aware and who has no emotions like fear, hate and lack of self-control which could impair negotiations in court.

That's the main reason one should get a lawyer: those who are involved in a case cannot perform as good as the not involved lawyer. And latter is important because the court shall get a truthfully and entire picture in order to reach a fair verdict which is in your very best interest.

With Judge.me, it's strongly recommended to get a lawyer or another not involved third party who is in favor with me anyway and this person would just say, 'hey I don't know Judge.me, even worse I don't know the people there and I do not know their history of cases and how their decision making process is. I cannot prepare you carefully as I could do if we went to a normal court and thus, I cannot tell if you gonna win. So, I'd suggest to go to a normal court (2)"
This is a low-quality essay that is not worth discussing directly. (Meta-note: see, it's possible to have firm opinions without being abusive).

I just want to add that there are plenty of outstanding engineers with very high standards who lead projects without going on the kinds of abusive rants that Linus is known for. For example: Roberto Ierusalimschy (Lua), Matz (Ruby), Ian Lance Taylor (Binutils, GCC, Gold linker), Shawn Hargreaves (Allegro, works at Microsoft now), Jeff Dean & Sanjay Ghemawat (two of Google's most senior engineers), just to name a few.

These guys don't compromise their opinions or let crap into the code-base just to be nice. But they're all really nice guys who don't rip into people for being wrong. When you see messages from them on a mailing list, you get a warm feeling because you know they are going to be insightful, accurate, terse, helpful, and friendly.

Some people like the machismo that comes from people like Linus. It's like watching superhero movies and rooting for the guy who kicks ass against the bad guys. But I think ultimately this is not a healthy way to lead a community. If you speak in a way that triggers people's defense mechanisms, you make it harder to rationally evaluate the issues. If you ridicule people for their opinions, you aren't giving them an out that lets them change their mind later; a person is inclined to dig their heels in rather than look foolish.
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I would ask yourself a few (perhaps obvious) questions:

1) Can you differentiate yourself easily? Better looking site, smoother UI, and better performance are potentially low-hanging fruit. Better customer service (if it applies) can also help set you apart.

2) Were you planning to add features, or just go with what you've got? Your Same Niche Idea can become niche plus X, Y, and Z, making it no longer Same Niche Idea. Harder than #1, but worth considering. Evaluate, and perhaps go through another iteration of features (or two.)

3) Final one: can you simply outmarket them? Perhaps they're just as good, but you have a larger marketing budget, have better SEO, a stronger professional network, whatever. They've had some coverage, but that's not the end, obviously.

HTH.
He caused no damage whatsoever.

Yahoo caused the damage the second they put it up for download and someone downloaded it, at that point the cat was out of the bag and the certificate compromised.

When dealing with certificate signing and compromised private certs "Maybe no one noticed" is not a good enough response.

(I am assuming he used various methods of contacting Yahoo directly as well as publicly calling them out of course.)

EDIT: Thinking about it he MIGHT have caused damage because maybe no one else may have noticed before yahoo got the cert revoked, but that chances that no one else (blackhats for example) noticing before the cert was revoked are very small in my opinion.
I would expect info videos in general to result in a much higher bounce rate, unless they are accompanied by a text-based explanation of what the product is.
Unless other people consciously choose not to reward pricks. Natural selection is driven by both the environment and other members of the species.

In a field of tit-for-tat always-defect players no longer win.
The Facebook Fallacy: Facebook is just another ad-supported site.
Has anybody confirmed that this works?
(´・ω・｀)This is like a TODO.
Competition is good, it'll make you work harder to succeed and you'll have a better product as a result of it.
Business as usual. There's a lull in technical stuff, so the more broadly interesting links rise to the top.
My point was not that there's no demand whatsoever nor that no disallowed apps might ever take off if they were to be allowed, but simply that Apple doesn't feel significant pressure from their customers to reduce their restrictions and I don't see that changing.
Thank you. I don't know where the 'young bucks' demarcation point is, but I, at 34, can remember when I was either willing to forgive my idols for their transgressions or wasn't. And I also remember that feeling you pointed out of either rationalizing it or being unable to, and it mostly having to do with how I felt about them before I found out about whatever thing they did that crossed me.

I don't remember when it happened exactly, but I've since grown to the point that I can separate someone's good qualities from their bad. I hate Ben Roethlisberger for his off-field behavior (and because I'm honor bound by being a Ravens fan,) but I won't let that delude me from thinking he isn't a quarterback that most teams would kill to have.

Maybe it's just seeing more and more of your idols fall away as it's hard to find anybody who honestly doesn't do something that irritates you in some way, and in just the way your closest friends do. Everybody put on a pedestal will eventually fall off, or failing that, die.

Anyway, I'm rambling at the moment, but your post touched a chord, and hopefully people can appreciate the truth in it before rushing to rationalize it.
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It's rare because RPC & filesystem access is usually wrapped in a library or module which does not have any business knowledge of the task at hand. A more realistic example is your getUser() call which calls 10 stack frames down to a filesystem access, and let's say you get a filesystem error. The natural thing to do is throw an exception which goes up all 10 stack frames and gets caught by getUser(), which provides some sort of "sorry, internal error" message to the client.

The notion that typing "if error return error" through 10 stack frames makes you think more clearly is absurd. Decades of C experience has shown that lazy programmers will ignore critical error conditions and introduce hard-to-find bugs because execution plows ahead past the original error.

Whether getUser() returns an error object or throws an exception is a question of high-level API design. Sometimes UserNotExistsException makes sense, sometimes a null (or error) result makes sense. That is an entirely separate issue. Any designer with significant experience will use both approaches as appropriate.
No, there are no Ninth Circuit precedents saying APIs are protectible by copyright. I am referring to the Johnson Controls line of cases that specify that software is to be analyzed piece-by-piece (including its "structure, sequence, and organization" - a judge-invented doctrine) in determining which pieces are expressive and which are functional. This line of cases makes it virtually impossible for a trial judge in this circuit to conclude as a matter of law that any specific element (such as the menu structure in Lotus v. Borland) is categorically excluded from copyright protection as falling within 17 U.S.C. sec. 102(b) (which excludes ideas, systems and methods of operation, etc. from copyright protection). Since SSO obviously has expressive elements to it, it also virtually forced the judge to instruct the jury that the SSO for the APIs could be infringed if they found that such expressive elements existed (a point which Oracle argued vigorously, e.g., by emphasizing all the creative choices an API developer makes in designing the API structure).
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In my opinion, Mark Zuckerberg's decision is a prudent and rational one. He is diversifying a heck of a lot of exposure away from a stock that is now at the mercy of the public equity markets. Besides, in relative terms, he is still retaining the vast majority of his wealth tied to Facebook stock.

His performance as a CEO is essential to ensuring solid performance for the company, but the stock price - like every other public share - is now at the mercy of macro variables that affect the performance of the equity markets as a whole...

Mark Zuckerberg is being prudent in diversifying a fraction of his exposure away not just from FB, but also from the asset class and perhaps even the currency / country.

C'mon, is anyone here willing to admit that they would not cash-out a small fraction of $18 bn tied to a single stock if you had the ability to do so??
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Yeah, that's not how venn diagrams work.
When will this be usable (ie not earn you an App Store rejection)?
I'm not saying wantedness can be rewritten. All along I've been saying that wantedness cannot be measured by success of the advances. If I ask you 100 times for a $20, and on the 101st time you give up and give me $20, my requests have been ultimately successful but I doubt at any point they would have been wanted. This lawsuit isn't about the $20, it's about the requests.
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Wealth implies merit? Have you been asleep the past three or four years?
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I'm running it here in Firefox for Linux (Mint) and it's working fine.
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Oh, really? How does it work?
Ignore the other site and launch... Full steam ahead! You never know what may happen, and two companies are never exactly the same. Maybe you'll appeal to a different set of customers. I think it's too early to give up especially since you haven't launched.
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Nobody has mentioned this yet, but if HN doesn't, who will? So, here goes: the graph makes no sense! Overlying the reading time and attention span graphs only makes sense if they use the same scales, but then why would attention span decrease as the number of list items increases? Shouldn't it be a simple horizontal line?
I stumbled across this website a couple of weeks back, and I have to say this is my new favorite egomaniac.
Ditto, I just looked through the code and demo and it looks very similar to Knockout. Does anybody know what the performance would be? I heard Knockout performance is not that great with big DOM document comparing to Backbone.
I wonder if historically, tech luls could at all be tracked to the season (at least US based tech news). It is spring/almost-summer (warming up, sun is out) as well as around the time many master/doctorate students head out for the summer/vacations.
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Well. We've actually managed to get quite far without a Lead Engineer, but we'd be kidding ourselves if we thought it would be wise to proceed without one.

Dash is building a mobile application for teachers to keep up with students and their families. On a bootstrapped budget and with very little background in tech, we've managed to build a Heroku+Ruby+PostgreSQL system, with an iOS interface that is about 90% finished. You can see it here:

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Yes, they massed up the IPO, Facebook doesn't have a true value as Google or Apple, ads do not work and user growth is finished. I have doubts too that Facebook will match expectations but I am a sick of reading every other day why FB fails or what happens after they fail.

I don't like Facebook either and stopped using it actively but I know for sure that Zuckerberg is a very smart and talented guy just looking at how he build this company, kept power the entire time and with 16B$ he'll find sooner or later a way how to get money from all those Facebook addicts.
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He points out some of the terribly targeted ads that Facebook pushes on users. I think this is a huge issue that's not discussed enough.

Facebook has all the data but no real targeting. This stems from two core issues: 1) they don't seem to use their immense datasets as effectively as Google does and most importantly 2) they rely on the advertisers to target their ads. Advertisers, even when handed the best demographic tools in the world, seem to get it horrifically wrong. This means people are exposed to bad advertising and learn to ignore it. This also means that advertisers will complain that Facebook doesn't give them the bang for the buck that they're after. Facebook don't mind however -- they still get their revenue.

In the long run Facebook need to work out how to target ads. The longer they leave these horrible ads in place the more desensitized their userbase will become. They're poisoning their revenue stream by allowing any and all ads through, regardless of quality or accuracy in the target market.
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At the origin, this place was just to have a cool email adress ... days after days it comes out as a need for all to express their voice as this place too but for free software / hardware and then to help and spread all over the world.
The fact is that most of people here do not have trouble with computers, software, hardware LAN ... But in some place on this world some people at this time just never touch a keyboard.
Computers Without Borders just offer to be this link with us and them, to help that people to discover on their 1st boot the best of GNU/Linux-libre.
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You should really give Mozilla Sync a spin. Or Chrome's synchronization features. Axis really isn't doing anything new here.
Maybe it means "remaining attention span"?
Probably the obvious fix is for them to change the auto update path to https rather than http on a subsequent update. Are there any good reasons why this wouldn't have been done in the first place?
Shouldn't Yahoo focus on the products they are neglecting (i.e., Flickr) rather than introduce more products to then neglect?
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If internet advertising is a bubble that's going to pop they might as well retitle this article:

After Google, Yahoo and most web properties fail.

I guess all we're going to be left with is craigslist and basecamp, also there won't be any newspapers because they're dead because of the internet, and all their replacements are dead too because internet advertising doesn't work. (according to the OP)
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This was such a great talk. The best comment was from the Professor when someone in the audience asked about being a single founder.
It's going to perform terribly compared to Safari. As far as I know, Nitro is turned off for UIWebViews, which means JavaScript performance will be at 2006 levels. UIWebViews are for showing simple HTML content and maybe running some simple JS code, not for actual browsing.
Every time I read about how online targeted ads have poor returns for advertisers, I think to myself:

"These advertisers know that the ads have low ROI because things are measureable online. How (in)effective would traditional advertisements prove to be, if they were as measurable as their online counterparts? How (in)effective would traditional advertisements prove to be, if they didn't interject themselves into the medium in such grotesque, user-experience destroying ways?"
That doesn't provide any evidence that college is the best way to do so.
I got excited because I thought it was a brand new web browser, low and behold it is just an extension to your existing browser. Pass.
Was a little confused that Yahoo has their own browser... except on the desktop, where it's just a plugin to your existing browsers.
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Cue someone responding "But Google targets intent."

It's the same discussion, over and over and over.
Yahoo included their private certificate in Axis
What do you have to lose?

If you are close to finishing, you might as well launch.

Competition means other people see an opportunity in your market too.

Who knows what the results will be? Maybe customers will resonate with your product. Maybe your product can be differentiated by better performance, better usability, or better service. Maybe customer feedback will lead to a pivot. Or maybe your site will lead to other opportunities.

The point is you are almost there. Make the jump and don't look back. If you haven't launched products in the past, the experience alone will be worth it.
HN is a different beast. We link to others' content instead of rehosting and claiming credit (and ad revenue) for it, and much of the value of HN comes from the original content we post in the comment threads. This site doesn't even vaguely resemble spammy content rehosting sites.
Then the ruling can be attacked as capricious and arbitrary, thereby negating any value to the judgement in the first place. Curious how they are going to deal with that.
And what about when all TV is served over the internet? Or when all billboards are controlled over the internet? Or all magazines are displayed on epaper via the internet? 95% of advertising will be done over the internet, and if the author is too short-sighted to see that well then that speaks poorly on him. Of course if he had any insight maybe he'd be building something and not whining about it. He just sounds bitter because he's getting left in the dust.
I could see facebook being replaced by nothing more fancy than a web design app with a social webring gizmo.
I don't think it's a matter of people rewarding the pricks for being pricks. I think that there are certain boundaries that "pricks" are willing to cross that "nice guys" are not willing to cross. Crossing the boundaries may not be nice, or ethical, or popular, but it could make the difference between leading an organisation full of talented people, or rewarding programmers in the team that actually /sap the productivity of others/ and letting them do that, simply because you don't want to be a prick to them.
I think there's a Facebook Advertising bubble, not an Internet advertising one. I don't think Facebook ads have ever really worked, but most thought they did, which is why it's a bubble.
Wow. That is quite a story.

I hope he doesn't actually file suit against her. Partly because she's so obviously nuts that I'd feel a little bad. And partly because it's a bad idea to get involved in a court case with a crazy person. You may win in the end, but your lawyer can rack up some big bills keeping up with a manic loon.
> Can you get into the hub position without being a prick?

The two easiest examples to provide are probably Guido van Rossum of Python and Larry Wall of Perl.
Can you elaborate? What ruling was this, and how do they define "own time"?
I gave it a chance. Thought it was great.

Three Reasons why I uninstalled it:

1) It gave me useless trending search results every time I expanded the search bar (I don't care who won American Idol.)

2) It required a Yahoo account to create bookmarks (I understand this is probably necessary for them, but I would have liked it to just use my existing chrome bookmarks.)

3) I'm happy with Google and DuckDuckGo search results.

I would love this kind of tool if it integrated with my existing google account and allowed me to customise it further. Obviously that wouldn't be in Yahoo's interest.

Great opportunity for another developer without vested interests to take the idea and improve on it.
Couple ideas:

Judge.me should have a public list of shamed people who haven't paid their bills. If it gets big enough this might be relevant, people might look at judge.me to see if a person they do business with is reputable. Or maybe it could somehow be reported to the credit bureaus.

Another one is if Judge.me holds the potential payments in escrow before the judgement takes place.
Send them your portfolio and tell them why and how you can be very helpful to them. Easy ?
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