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To quote one of my favorite personas on the internet: "You's trolling".

I buy a lot of indie content, I hope that it helps them make a living. I'm currently contacting people to try and start a legal offer for indie content: apparently nobody got that right yes (if you know of any, let me know).

As for sharing my code, part of it, yes, open-source has been very beneficial to the software industry in the past... 30-odd years, and we plan on keep doing it since it seems to work out on everyone.

I probably shouldn't even have replied to that comment, but from all my comments here it's pretty obvious what I really want to happen: it's not movies.io, it's a 'Steam' for movies. Who cares if you don't have the latest mainstream crap (read: BF3, etc.) as long as you have a sort of 'quality seal' and very very easy payment/access ?
Yes, it qualifies as social engineering rather than cracking. The original title is more appropriate.
Is there such a thing as a Muslim dominated country that's secular?
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You guys should ask the guy that does the peter Theil lectures so you can turn his blog posts into a book.
With pictures, graphs..ect. I think it will be cool.
Humm .. understood point #1.
Yes, the original goal was to bring money to a fund through sales.. but if the sales are diverted to a for-profit, ultimately beneficiaries will not enjoy it.
I was coming of age just after the internet bubble burst (graduated high school in 2002). I entered college as a biochem major and so did my peers, a couple of whom are now biomed grad students. Thinking back, I remember a lot of biotech-topia talk, but it seems to have waned in recent years (against a wave of social-mobile).

Just one anecdote, but I notice a cycle between tech-social and tech-bio. Time for the pendulum to swing again?
I must be missing why this is important, shocking, or otherwise news-worthy.

I imagine a lot of companies use Google Apps, regardless of size - it's a reliable service that requires very little in the way of setup and a lot in the way of functionality.

If Twitter offered email, documents, calendars or competitors to any of the other core Google services then I could understand why this might be interesting. IMO this is no more significant than Twitter using Microsoft (or Apple) operating systems.
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FOCAL! I spent many hours in front of a PDP-8L and ASR33 that was on loan to my smallish (at the time) university. It was my first exposure to a computer that was smaller than my apartment. 4K 12-bit words, I think it was?

I just looked, and I still have a 1970 copy of DEC's "Programming Languages" manual, which contains the FOCAL language description. Thanks for the memory jog.
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In the case of C safer also means weaker and less useful, it is a language where you need to be able to do everything. In some way C is "Assembler-complete". With valgrind you have no compromises, because you have a specialized runtime giving you control over what happens only at debugging time.
Yes it is overly complex.
Aren't app specific passwords simply single-factor auth tokens, thus defeating the purpose of using two factor auth? Wouldn't a sufficiently complex pass-phrase be just as secure?
Alltså we have typ that in Swedish as well änna.
Let's suppose you app uses an API, or whatever other thing that you do not have control over it. You make your app and release it. Then you make a paid upgrade. After some time, that thing your app rely on gets deprecated or changes. If you push an update to only people with the a paid upgrade you screw those who have not paid, leaving them with an non working app that they might have paid for. which sucks. But if you push a free update for everyone you will screw those who paid for the upgrade. which sucks.

So, what would you do?
That's especially interesting to me, as it's generally considered bad form in the US to tip the proprietor, and even worse form for the proprietor to accept the tip if offered.
It'll be interesting if they decide to use NIEM (National Information Exchange Model) as a way to transfer information to the public as well. https://www.niem.gov/Pages/default.aspx
That I seem to be one of the few who cares while most others nit on details.

For me it's you who is nitting on details.

The question whether filesharing is "ethical" or not is irrelevant.

Because regardless of the answer: The cat is not going back into the bag. No matter how many rivers are cried.

You could just as well complain that the job of the farrier has nearly disappeared because most people don't ride horses anymore.

A much more interesting discussion could be based on the following questions:

* What distribution and compensation model will emerge as the successor
to the current "pay-per-consumption" or "pay-per-physical-copy" approach?

* What are the consequences for artists and content-producers?
Are million-dollar blockbuster movies still possible in the future?
Will "making a living" as a musician still be possible?

I.e. please discuss under the premise that the current model is dead, because that's what it is. We do have horseless carriage now, and the raw numbers tell you that most people consider the advantages to outweigh the disadvantages by far.
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Well I am sorry if I offended you.
GMAP3 (http://gmap3.net/) is the killer ;-)

Actually, this feels and looks like a ripoff of J.B. Demonte's work (https://github.com/jbdemonte/gmap3), or is it a fork?
Really? I found it rather easy to use compared to say, GIS.
This drawback is why sensible UNIX filesystems don't allow you to create hardlinks to directories.
There is always Linux, one does not have to switch systems entirely.
If you want to learn C, K&R is the right way to do it.

C: A Reference Manual is excellent and is probably the only other C book you need, but only if you are already a C programmer, and only for what the title implies: reference.
But yes, I agree it tends to show an interest for the idea! ^^
Tim Cook basically hinted in a recent interview that the screen size would not be changing: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/apples-tim-cook-rules-out-ipho...
Oh, I know plenty of people who say it's awesome to consume stuff without paying too. Of course, 90% of them wouldn't buy that stuff anyway since they're already struggling to feed and clothe their kids (Yeay for living in a country in a permanent economic crisis for the last 30 years!).

But the few I know that can actualy afford that stuff aren't spending less; at most, they moved to spending more on concerts and less on albums. Which is supported by real data in other countries:

http://www.hypebot.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2012875f077e8970c...

So, sorry if your anedoctal "evidence" doesn't convince me.
I think you may want to examine the assumptions in 'but if the sales are diverted to a for-profit, ultimately beneficiaries will not enjoy it.' Is that the truth, or is that what you think the truth is? There is an important difference between the two.
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Are you seriously not understanding what I am saying or are you just looking for a discussion?

You asked (basically) why anyone would consider jaywalking, taking drugs, and downloading movies to be ethical, but not hosting a torrent site. So, I tried to give a rough stipulation of my own personal ethics. That definition was not meant to be universal, bulletproof, or exhaustive.

1. My point is that what is considered harmful or not is decided by the rules of society. Different societies agreed upon different rules about what the rights are of a person. If there was a society were there copyright is not commonly accepted then making a movie pirate site is (obviously) not a problem. If you don't agree with the rules, you should work to change them, but not take justice in your own hands.

2. Specifically, I was thinking about a situation where you buy drugs and that money gets used to finance a drug war. Even though, I think that is bad, I don't think it an deciding factor in this case if buying drugs was legal or not.

3. That's why I added "from his point of view". If I would consider it ethical in this case depends on whether I think it is reasonable or not, and whether the mean justifies the end in this case.
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I foresee a future article: "70 Million Yahoo Passwords Leaked"
Might be a good place to start. Is there a free place where I can start hosting it? I hope to eventually have a real book that I can publish. Any tricks on getting the output formatted nicely?
This paper is an excellent survey of fundamental GC designs.
It would be easier to follow if you used actual colours rather than several shades of grey in your description of your 4-colour design.
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I guess what my grandparent said, albeit in a slightly dismissing tone, is that relying on tools like Valgrind or Purify to produce good code makes for weak programmers. The days spent trying to track down missing frees can be reduced to hours with practice, and the programmer skilled in this hunt is less likely to forget the free in the first place. (As opposed to the programmer relying on Valgrind and not caring much when writing the code the first time).

I do not necessarily abide by this point of view, but I do respect the kind of harsh discipline it advocates. Valgrind is definitely useful, really useful, but great C programs (and programmers) existed long before it appeared.
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> The code relies heavily on preprocessor macros and some weird gcc-only syntax that made my head hurt.

The preprocessor is generally recognized as one of C's biggest flaws, is not for nothing that Ken Thompson, the first C programmer and the greatest influence on the language other than DMR himself, cut down most of the preprocessor when he wrote his own set of C compilers for Plan 9: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/comp

And of course Go has no preprocessor.

As for your second complaint, one can't blame C for gcc's extensions ;)

You should try Go, many people would consider it C's spiritual successor (or as somebody put it: the language the people who created C would come up if they had 40 years to think about how to polish and improve it), it keeps all the simplicity of C, while being probably the most readable language I have used, it is concise but keeps everything explicit, and figuring what code does is very easy, because code does what it says and says what it does, no dark magic needed.
I haven't been able to reach Jquery Documentation for several hours now.
This is 2012. Are we still doing the whole pirating == stealing thing?
You can achieve paid upgrades through in-app purchase.
I somewhat doubt he's targeting the average programmer.
> How do you suggest we reinterpret? Should everyone get everything they want for free?

A Kickstarter-type patronage model would work: the creators of Game of Thrones ask for funding for a new series, then release it directly into the public domain.
Be lives on in Haiku OS:

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It's an absolute botch. It's Vista times 1000, and if Microsoft stays on this road it's downhill permanently.

The most important users are those who don't like childish interfaces. If you want a tablet-style skin, pay one of your developers 16 hours of overtime to make it, allow it as an option for mobile users, the end. You don't have to completely change everything for a damn skin.
"By way of comparison, the Python program takes 1.5 seconds to run, so that's about a 10X speedup."

Only tenfold? Interesting. While Python is surely not the slowest interpreted language around, a result like that borders on the performance of Java. That seems unlikely, especially given the fact that Python version uses worse algorithm.

I would think about how big is the portion of time eaten by I/O - that is, actually reading the `words` file from disk. I wouldn't be surprised if it eats most of the ~100ms that C needs to performs the task, leaving only a tiny percent for actual computation.
It seems to me that the most immediate implication of inexpensive genome sequencing (23andMe et al) is the ability to tailor an individual’s medical care based on their genetic information.

America’s legal system has miles of catching up to do before any genome-informed personalized medicine solutions can come to market. 2008’s Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act was necessary to ensure that biomedical research continues to advance and so that patients are comfortable availing themselves to genetic diagnostic tests.

There are really unresolved issues: (1) who should ultimately have access to the results of genetic testing? (2) when should a physician divulge information regarding patients’ liabilities for certain diseases? (3) who can decide that someone’s genome should be sequenced?

Re: 1 In the 90s the Icelandic government contracted DeCODE Genetics as the monopolistic provider of genome testing in order to prevent fragmentation in genetic data libraries, so as to aggregate more genomes to better inform resource allocation for drug production. But in the wrong hands, the government could put this information towards policy measures that might vaguely resemble eugenics-based methods of control. There are pros and cons that have yet to be decided.

Re: 2 Supposing that physicians have access to patients' genomes, the matter arises of if and when to divulge information regarding their liability for certain diseases. The default should be to give the patient the right to any amount of information. The actual amount of this information to be shared by the physician, however, should be determined on a case-by-case basis through a conversation between the physician and the patient in question. The true litmus test for this question is the net benefit to the patient. Supposing that a patient is at low risk for a disease and the treatment for this disease would be expensive and time-consuming, a physician would most likely be less inclined to divulge this liability, but there are still no standards of disclosure- we’ll see what happens.

Re: 3 We’ve already banned insurers and employers from mandating genetic testing, so the closest analogue seems to be the relationship between a parent or guardian and a child. There is precedent that caretakers in a better position to make decisions for a minor or impaired individual should be given the ability to do so. Still, the issue remains of how parents will react to the results of testing. It’s likely that sequencing a baby's genome will eventually become a legal requirement for newborns much like a birth certificate, but until that point the question of who decides and pays for genome sequencing remains.

All things considered, I say fuck it- the legal infrastructure will catch up with personalized medicine and the genetic testing companies and drug manufacturers already making use of the information will be in the best position to take advantage of it. Paddle early.
Really? My devices take a week or more to show a noticeable discharge when sleeping.
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Hey all! Friendly neighborhood AgileBits Support personnel here.

This was previously true. However, we've not determined that for sure at this point. Users spoke, we listened. 1Password 4 is still a ways away and we'll determine whether it goes MAS exclusive sometime closer to release.

That said, nothing is ever set in stone with AgileBits. We do after all have Agile in our company name. :)

Our goal is to try to make our customers happy. We did make the MAS version cheaper upon introduction for users to make the transition a little easier. The pricing was roughly equivalent to what an upgrade would cost from our direct store.

We would also love to see a way to transition users to the App Store from our Direct Sales, but as you all know, Apple doesn't provide a mechanism for this.

We do always welcome users to comment and offer their comments and suggestions. This isn't the place to do that, but feel free to voice your opinions and suggestions (politely please, we are human after all) at our support site: http://support.agilebits.com

I'll do my best to follow up here, but due to a busy day here I may be a bit slow. Best to contact our support site directly where on duty support can assist you more quickly.

Kyle Swank
AgileBits Support
I think they are talking about web APIs here, not client-side libraries.
Press Ctrl-Alt-Del, then choose shutdown.
Having diddled around with Windows 8 for work, the interface is not as bad for a keyboard-oriented user as the author makes it out to be.

Examples:

Win + R still brings up Run. From there, all of our familiar .msc adn .cpl are avalable. Run "control" brings up the control panel. Keyboard shortcuts using the Win key haven't changed.

Start menu search functionality is available with the same keypresses as in Windows 7 and Vista. Only the appearance is different. Win key + the first letters of the program brings up a menu on the right side of the screen showing matching programs. Enter key opens, or use up and down arrows to select. A keyboard-oriented user will need to make no changes to their practice.

Shutdown is not complicated at all. Alt-F4 brings up a shutdown/restart/etc. dialog.

I'm an experienced Windows user, the type of person the author believes will have problems, and I had zero difficulty doing what I wanted with Windows 8. For a mouse- or touchpad-oriented user, some difficulty is foreseeable, but for anyone who knows their way around keyboard commands, it's easy.
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No, because each app has a different token and you can revoke them individually.

Google does want people to use OAuth instead of app-specific passwords as much as possible, but sometimes that's not possible or just isn't done. Then you at least get some security from not posting the same password to a million places.
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I really like that the interface is generic, abstracting away the mapping service. This way it may be possible to write bindings to other mapping services, such as OpenStreetMap or Bing Maps, and switch the service by just changing a variable.
And if you are unscrupulous, planned obsolesce combines with paid upgrades really well.
I type `git push staging development:master` to deploy to staging, `git push production master` to deploy to production. Apps are deployed to Heroku. Code is hosted on Github.
My intro course in college was run this way as well and to this day, I'm very glad to have started my career bottom up instead of top down...
you write bug-free code? please, tell me more.
What businesses will want to know about the Windows 8 Release Preview
The applications I work on mostly target businesses. I wonder the impact Windows 8 will have on our customers' expectations. I also wonder if the Metro interface will catch on for web-delivered applications.
Good point as well, maybe biaised.
However, beneficiaries can get returns through a partner who has experience and ensures the right return to beneficiary, when they are not transparent -- so unsure.
You're right!
A thousand times yes. I absolutely hate this behavior of mobile sites. Even worse, this particular site crashes Safari when I accidentally swipe.
Great work, I'm using GMapEZ, but gmaps.js seems to be much easy and cleaner IMHO. Will take a look at it later. Thanks for sharing.
I don't think there is much you can do. Your idea is not unique and they did not copy some individual business method. When I read the headline with the word "cloned", I thought they copied your web site or business model. You are selling something that exists and so are they.

That being said, I wish they were not doing what they are and am rooting for you over them. I just don't believe they have really infringed on anything.
The applications I work on mostly target businesses. I wonder the impact Windows 8 will have on our customers' expectations. I also wonder if the Metro interface will catch on for web-delivered applications.
This in known since that time when Twitter got hacked.
See, that's the kind of info we'd like on movies.io.

There's so much more about movies than you can learn about from TMDb, some people do research, are passionate about a particular subject, especially niche movies that aren't available anywhere (not legally, even often not by torrent).

We'd love to nurture that. We're looking for a great way to manage that information: just 'comments' on the movie isn't going to cut it. Stay tuned.
There's OpenLayers too (http://openlayers.org/). Google Maps or Bing Maps are one of the possible layers. Works well for GIS-type folks, has some quirks otherwise. Don't like the layer switcher myself however, not very strong UX wise.
What you've said is funny because your words could just as easily have come from a Windows 8 PR release. They love tasks! They're all about them! Have you used Metro? The main screen isn't just for launching applications. Tiles can be simple app-openers, or they can display information, or they can link to "hubs", or they can be file/website shortcuts. And then, within individual apps or hubs, the contracts system allows fluid movement and interaction between different apps and hubs. The Metro model is the very opposite of artificial data firewalls.