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I think what's going to happen eventually is that the A-level engineers are all going to leave Apple and start their own company, when they start getting frusterated with the new Apple. I don't think Tim Cook understands the arguably 25:1 dynamic range that exists in software the way Steve Jobs did.
Why would you say that? It works well enough here.

Of course, exploring new ideas always creates some rework due to bad decisions (and we had a couple of them along with the good ones).
Well it works razor fast for me, so congratulations.
Well, in my perspective, both music and apps are bits (practically free to copy, transfer and store), and the relevant transaction is putting those bits onto an end user device.

While music is routinely pirated (and this action sanctioned in many communities), apps aren't (and it's not because of jailing - this is also true for Android apps). While I'm sure pirated apps are available, I've just never come across them, it's nowhere nearly as conspicuous as pirated music.
Thank you tuxguy. We currently don't have apps for iPhone and iPad but your feedback is certainly useful and we will consider it for our future product roadmap.
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The behavioral psychology behind the Coldwater Creek promotion?
The comparison is flawed. The theft is not of the physical product, but of the proceeds or profits.
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Absolutely - look at PapiJump as compared to Doodle Jump. I've heard on too many occasions to count that PapiJump is just a less polished clone of Angry Birds, despite the fact that is predates it by more than a decade.

People probably look at Farm Town and assume it's just another FarmVille ripoff...

First to market only makes a difference if you're huge, otherwise you might as well be doing market fit analysis for your competitors.

Then again, games are an area where success is particularly easy to track, so you gain very little by keeping sales figures private. In other areas, you might be giving away a lot more information by letting people know that your weekend project is selling 10k a day.
I don’t see how checked exceptions impose decisions of severity & recoverability on a function. If you are a function, exceptions are how you notify your caller that something has happened for which you are not responsible.

Checked exceptions are not about imposing responsibility, but about disclaiming it and deferring it to a higher authority in a type-safe manner. And the issue seems to be more syntactic than philosophical; Haskell models checked and unchecked exceptions as a monad (or as a monad transformer for running exceptional code in another monad) and it feels very natural.
but getting into college isn't hard either. Unless you are shooting for Harvard it's just not. They are businesses that like to make money. They want to take your money.
Take a break. Seriously.

After your 9/10 hour work day, focus on something unrelated: Exercise, meal preparation - things you have already mentioned. Come back to your projects after a couple of hours, and WITHOUT pressuring yourself to do so. The added pressure will make these personal projects/goals less palatable.

Edit: Clarity
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their clipboard username.
I assume that if a thief steals my laptop, I'm not getting it back even if it's got GPS, a car alarm, and exploding dye packs. Instead of worrying about that, I just make sure I have good backups and that my insurance fully covers all my equipment.
I have no idea if what he's trying to do here will actually work out for him, but I went ahead and donated $5 because I have to respect him for at least trying.
You think the price is too high, that doesn't mean that it's above market value.
Scientists invent revolutionary chipset for high-speed wireless data transfer
Are you in the UK? Maybe they don't use cookies for uk users as we aren't shown adverts since we pay via the license fee.
Copyright infringement and theft are not the same thing. Using the word "steal" confuses the issue.

When something is stolen, the owner no longer has it. This is not the case with copyright infringement.

This may or may not be morally right or wrong in certain situations. But it is definitely different than "stealing", and just applying our same moral and ethical precepts about theft to copyright infringement does not work. They are fundamentally different and must be considered separately.
You're responding to the guy who stated he didn't think the donating model would work for musicians. He also implied that he got paid for creating open-source code, which I'm guessing was the gist of his suggestion for musicians too, get paid for being a musician, not by monetizing the legal right to restrict duplication.

I've lost track of the music business, but have they even moved past the "making it difficult for people to buy music digitally and randomly suing young music fans while cheating the musicians" stage yet? Maybe they should try just selling music online directly from artist to fan for a while (and sack anyone who's no longer contributing materially to that goal) before moving on to the giving it away for free stage.
I'm afraid not, sorry. I've always steered clear of Apple's infrastructure offerings as they don't play well with Google (which is bad as our entire IT infrastructure is built on Google Apps)
They've made a self-driving car. The merely annoying parts are going to be the fun bits! Everything else is going to be difficult, if not bordering-on-impossible. I find it very difficult to believe that there is any technical barrier to computer-operated indicators.
This seems very similar to the element inspector in the Chrome developer tools window. Incredibly helpful when working on html!
We have had requests for gravatar from other users too so we will consider it for our future product roadmap.
What is Internet load balancing?
If an idea was so easily cloned, then it wasn't that valuable in the first place. This is the primary driving force behind all things that drop in price with economies of scale, lack of scarcity, and/or increasing ease of access.

Besides, ideas often aren't cloned because someone talked - they're cloned because (a) multiple people/groups often co-create very similar ideas because we're all feeding off the same pool of inspiration, and (b) your idea probably isn't as unique as you think it is, and the "brilliant stroke of insight" you experienced to create this thing was probably obvious to a lot of people.
Can any lawyers, or those who have incorporated their own business as a C-Corp, provide a rough estimation of upfront and annual costs?
The album mentioned in the post "Soundtrack To A Vacant Life" came out a couple of years ago. So this post might be old.

Also, that's an excellent electronic/idm album to work to.
Ah, didn't know it was such an old game. Well in any event, thanks for sharing. While plenty of people will admit to downloading music and videos, not so many outside of the UG community admit to games. Maybe as developers, we're more wary of resentment from our colleagues which are more likely to feel harmed by our actions.
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When you refer to empty land that surrounds cities, are you talking about one of the most underappreciated assets a city could have which is arable land in close proximity to the population?

Arable land may become a valuable economic engine for many cities as peak oil and climate change realities break our current modes of distribution.

Building more roads and tacky exurban houses destroys this valuable land we all may need, and only a few benefit from it (and everyone will pay more in taxes). Think about it.
Eeek, good article. This is something government needs to step in and help with. However curious of the patent troll letters to ignore and not ignore?

For example, if you don't pay your mortgage and ignore letters from the bank, you eventually lose your home. So you would legally need to respond to some solicitation, no matter how trivial.
Yes. The Mac Mini is a smaller Cube. The iMac is a squished-out Cube with a screen on the side. Like the Cube, they (and other Apple products) are personal computers that are more consumer appliance/device than the traditional tower or rack.

Another way of looking at the Cube (and its successors) is that it's a `desktop laptop'.
Now bigger start-ups have a chance to use shared coworking spaces
I've never seen this "x-ray goggles" bookmarklet before. A fancy way to inspect and modify, very cool.
Before they determine who stole their music, they should figure out who stole their stylesheet.
I spent three years at one of the world's largest hedge funds. I was a banker for a year before that. Most important lesson I learned: Don't play individual stocks and think you have anything more than a gambler's chance of success.

There's a public perception that stocks as an asset are simple to understand - good company=stock goes up! - that is hugely far from the truth. Equity is a complex instrument. The factors influencing the movement of equities are complex.

For the retail investor, the best move is a balanced mixed of assets designed to capture long term market beta - effectively the tendency of asset classes to gain value over time. That's not so easy either, but if you gamble, it's better to gamble on a cornerstone of capitalism as a whole rather than an individual company.
Or WordPress...
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CNN Auto writer, actually. The article is just reprinted on KTVZ's website.
"Investing in the stock market is crazy" ?

http://www.mymoneyblog.com/impact-of-inflation-on-stocks-bon...

Real Returns from various asset classes:
Stocks: 6.9%
Bonds: 2.3%
Bills 1.0%
Gold 2.4%
Housing 1.5%

Stocks crazy? Looks to me like the rational thing to invest in.
Over time, this $20,000 stream accumulates and compounds at 5% after inflation, and raises their combined net worth by an additional $1.329 million over the next 30 years.

It wasn't mentioned, but I guess the money is being reinvested in equities. 5% is a stretch goal seeing as the savings rate in the US is around 1% (or less). Inflation there is running at about 2-3%. I see no talk of capital gains taxes or broker fees in there, so I'm a bit skeptical when people throw around instant, magical compounding calculations that net a million dollars.

Oh, it's 5% after inflation which means the money is compounding at approx. 8% or so. That's a very lofty goal!
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Just a personal viewpoint based on the limited information available (and not meant as a personal knock on the OP since I don't know him or his particular situation in detail):

I would be extremely wary about joining a tech start-up that has to go through an open job application process for a CTO. If the founder can't make enough of a believer out of someone within his or her own network to join, I would see that as a bad sign -- not just in terms of the start-up's idea but also the founder's ability to sell his or her idea. If it's the case that the founder doesn't know viable candidates in his or her own network, then I'd be doubly concerned: it's a tech start-up and a strong network within tech circles will be necessary for other resources down the line (future engineering hires, advice, potential investors that add value to the company, etc). Additionally, if s/he isn't really plugged in to the tech community, I'd worry that s/he doesn't truly understand the business, my skills as it relates to the business, and the value that I bring to the table. And in this particular case, I'd also be concerned that social networking is what this start-up revolves around and the founder (again, from my limited view on the outside) doesn't appear to be able to network effectively enough to at least get introductions to suitable CTO candidates through secondary connections.

I'm not saying that this is necessarily the situation here but that's my thought process just based on the information available. I consider things like sales ability, existing network and hiring ability to be essential things for a non-technical founder to bring to the table before I would consider working for him or her -- otherwise, I'm almost as well-off starting my own thing and own a hell of a lot more equity.

There are a handful of non-technical people I know that I would join in short order if one of them ever called to talk about a job at his or her start-up. And if I declined I would refer them to other people I know that might be interested because I know no matter what he or she is doing, s/he has a great chance of succeeding. If you're not the kind of person that inspires that level of loyalty, being a lone non-technical founder at a tech start-up seems like it would make an already arduous journey incredibly difficult.
The future of touch – How haptic feedback could change mobile UX forever
Switching to a password manager (SuperGenPass)
2000 MBAs in a non-retail workforce of 28000 is still not a lot. When a startup with 15 employees starts getting middle managers, that's a bad thing, but a large enterprise like apple probably does actually have some need for business development folk.
This is going to get quite annoying, fairly fast, for those of us who browse on-and-off in incognito mode.
I too hate that term. Even Microsoft rejects it.
He also suggests buying directly from the label, which give 90% of the benefits to the original musicians.

That is the best of both worlds: easy to download, easy to pay for (when the label has the easy money transaction thingie going on). Not far away from a simple donate button.

Maybe musicians should "sell" their album through kickstarter :)
thanks. and you are right, at least two other people found the same thing, then searched twitter and found my post about it. one of them was @rasmus the creator of PHP (pretty funny timeline of him discovering and then finding on twitter).
There's also 80/20 T-slot system ( http://8020.net/ ), which is industrial strength. And like BitBeam is a miniature version of Grid Beam, there's MicroRax ( http://microrax.com/ , they were also at Maker Faire).
I was sceptical as I read the title but it turns out I'm already practically doing the same thing. Only instead of using printed out study guides, I load them up on my smartphone. This way I never waste any time waiting for anyone or anything. I'm always learning something.

However, this doesn't work for every kind of material. It works fine for classes like History and Law but it doesn't work quite as well for Pure Mathematics. That all from self experience, though.
Did your hedge fund outperform an S&P 500 index fund during the long run? Investing in stocks does not have to be complex.
Google, Facebook and Twitter have made clear statements that this data is not used for tracking. ( see http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870428150457632... and http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ads/#toc-serve ). So if it does (and I am not saying it doesn't) they would be outright lying.

Did anyone actually try to investigate if or to which degree this happening? It should be actually be possible to see if there is some correlation between the site you visit and the advertising you see.
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I am all for justice but this type of behaviour happens all the time. It has just made the front page news because of retail investors discovering shares go down (as well as up). I know this message will get down voted but the financial markets are a fickle place. Sorry.
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You buy an Affidavit of Arbitration from us (costs $35) and than ask the a court in any jurisdiction where the losing party has assets to recognize and enforce your award.

Most jurisdictions will add the cost of court recognition to the amount of assets to be seized.

http://www.judge.me/online_arbitration#enforcement
Not impressed at all... the site is quite slow. Way to toot your own horn.
Well bowled. See also: the original Macbook Air.
I absolutely agree. I did CS and EE at Cornell for my undergrad and there's simply no way to complete the weekly or bi-weekly projects on an hour of work alone. I could believe that someone with a strong memory and solid work ethic could make it by with an hour of studying a day/week but that's only because their knowledge was supplemented through the hands-on work.
This was extremely timely. I just got off a call where I was struggling how our team could communicate appointment availability with a third party. This is a great solution and you don't have to share personal/sensitive calendar information with others.
love the distributed systems references! :)
Currently we have one large room which feels quite chaotic, that's the reason why we are thinking of dividing the people into smaller blocks.

Separate meeting/phone rooms is a must, this is something we are trying to improve now when we move as we currently only have one meeting room which isn't enough for our needs.
Whilst I agree with the title of this post, it would be nice to have some evidence, or at least some examples of the sort of things that experience brings.

Related: "The Secret Life of the Grown Up Brain" is an interesting book looking at what works and does not work in the middle-aged brain (defined as being 40s, 50s, 60s): http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-Life-Grown-up-Brain/dp/0670...
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Surprised to see so many responses without a fact check on this: "the biggest indicator of the shift in their priorities is that they took 100 billion dollars in cash and used it for stock buybacks and dividends."

The dividend and stock repurchase will be more than paid for out of operating cash flow. In other words, even with them the cash pile will increase.

Look at some of the analysis that Horace Dediu is doing to observe that Apple is actually investing a tremendous amount of capital ($7B this year) in as yet unknown equipment, maybe real estate. (http://www.asymco.com/2012/05/22/up-to-eleven/) That's not including the billions they spend on R&D. If that's not reinvesting profit in a big picture way, I don't know what is.
I use Apple products and this really annoys some people, but I let my stuff get beaten my cosmetically. I fix it up when I'm selling but no one looks at it with 'oh that looks shiny and new'.
This article does a good job of separating the practical benefits of testing from the religion of it. You should write tests because they help protect you from silly mistakes, and automate things you would otherwise do by hand. Who could say no to that?
I'm surprised it takes more than 1 email each to pick a time.

Offer: Let's have a call. I'll suggest 2pm Tue. If that doesn't work, please let me know any time between 1pm-6pm Tue or 9am-11am Wed.

Response: 9am Wed.

I do think the gmail calendar approach is neater; the only downside being it requires the other party to use google calendar already.
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>"unless"

You, me and The Lorax all agree its possible.

We just hold different opinions regarding under what conditions it is likely to occur. Google or Facebook's proprietary access to the data they have collected only makes strategic sense so long as there is strategic value in exclusivity. Given that there already are a variety of ordinary existing circumstances in which exclusivity is not strategic - e.g. subpoena - the argument that it is only in extraordinary business circumstances that the data might be sold needs a stronger case made in its favor.

We are not talking about a few million dollars, but several billion or more. Just look at patent portfolios for a parallel way in which the market may suddenly revalue intangible assets. Particularly consider the case of Nortel and if Facebook could experience a similar demise over the next twenty years. Even if Facebook stopped collecting data today, most of it would still shed light on living people.
For IP there might be an issue as long as we don't have arbitrator profiles, for all other issues: we are dealing with contract law for private disputes so political views on the common good do not matter much.
I have met lots of highly skilled older coders. They tend to not jump on every fad, but that's because they know that software engineering is faddish. Instead they focus on deep expertise, robust architecture, and how to ship.
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It depends on the action. If we had been immediately sued then, yes, we would have had to respond. But often patent trolls will contact you first threatening to sue in an attempt to get a settlement. This isn't a legal motion filed in the courts, so you aren't required by law to respond.
It is and has been easy to buy music online for quite a while, so I don't think that's really a problem. The problem as I see it is that musicians simply don't see any of that money. I can say this with confidence because I have two albums on iTunes and just about every other music site and I have never seen a dime from any of it. And my group has a fairly boiler-plate label deal. (this is from a while back, I don't play music professionally anymore)

An app store for musicians I think is a fantastic idea and I don't understand the babarock's distaste for that. It seems some people are just opposed to any way of profiting from digital creative work whatsoever (although conveniently their personal source of income always seems to be ok). I find it hypocritical. It is very, very difficult to be a musician for all but the hugely successful.

I read something about the RIAA having stopped their lawsuit strategy http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/riaa-bump/. I don't know if that's actually true or not.
There's quite a good guide here: http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/applemac/I731-006R-2007.pdf

If its good enough for the NSA it's almost good enough for everyone else /tinfoilhatting
Yeah, this text file was included with torrents that Benn Jordan (the guy behind The Flashbulb and the founder of Alpha Basic Records) "leaked" himself to trackers when the album was first released. I'm surprised to see it get so much attention years later.
A lot of bands that want to do it for a living will gig the usual local circuit until some label rep picks them up and funds an LP and bigger tour.

Who owns the copyright to the LP in this scenario?

I'm just wondering if there's much difference between giving your music away to fans and giving your music away to a label, except the fans won't use obscure accounting practices to make it seems like you owe them money.
Doesn't simply forcing your keychain and ssh/gpg agents to lock when your machine suspends or locks protect you from the ram attacks? I suppose you would still have to ensure your screen lock timeout is low enough and correspondingly annoying enough.

I've just recently been able to stop having any plaintext credentials on my drive, though it takes a bit of work in some security-naive programs like s3cmd: https://github.com/technomancy/dotfiles/commit/da64e1c390421...
The project is inspired by Robert Morris Card File: http://www.artslant.com/la/feeds/show/20009

GitHub repository: https://github.com/raphaelbastide/1962
Note that the firmware password can be bypassed by any Apple tech who calls into their call center, identifies themselves, and requests it. It's defense against a casual thief, but not someone with Apple connections, LEA, or any of thousands of Apple employees and third-party repair places. Still worth doing, just not as secure as the ones on old IBM thinkpads, say.