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$5k sounds like a lot for that, there's a blog post around describing the whole process to incorporate in Delaware around, try to use HN search to find it, I'm on my tablet now and can't look for it, but I believe the whole procedure was under $2k, there are lawyers specialized in this.

P.S. sorry for my english, not a native speaker.
I'm still tryin to understand why all my servers seem to be ok even if they have kernel that should be affected and some of them are running mysql... For example one of them is a debian kernel 2.6.32 running mysql and ntpd, and i see in dmesg Clock: inserting leap second 23:59:60 UTC but the cpu load is ok...
While it does seem to be regarded to be easy to avoid infringing on the SIFT patent by changing the algorithm in a minor way (e.g. using SURF features but doing SIFT-style search), I know there are companies that have licensed SIFT from Lowe, and I would expect he's been paid for those licenses.
I really like the short style of this post, but the only thing I kept in mind while reading the piece is that it wasn't written for the author himself. A nice morning read, by the way!
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http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1184914

Less than a year ago there were already people thinking about your job security. (It's a better explanation than "the glibc maintainers are insane".)
Yeah, this is what we're aiming at, making how developers interact with the community as part of our scoring metrics.
Even then, I wouldn't be surprised to find the majority of people hopping on the wagon aren't consumers of Apple.
I hugely enjoyed the full memoirs but there is one conclusion which I strongly disagree with. "Outputs trump inputs", the frantic scramble to do something. I spent the first three years of grad school reading and talking to people. Then I wroteone good paper which made my name. And when you have a name things are easy.

I was certainly very lucky, but fully and deeply understanding my field helped me do research which was considered by others interesting.
Thanks a lot for your suggestions mike and eranation. Will definitely work on that next weekend!
You are getting left behind in the rat race and this is making you miserable. And what happens if you finally do catch up? Will that truly make you happier? Perhaps the best way to be happier is to completely exit this race and design a new lifestyle

Here's an idea. Move abroad to an area such as S.E. Asia where you can reset your expectations in life and live cheaply. The new experiences will inject excitement into all the little things you never noticed back home. Your frugal lifestyle will allow you to save money at a more rapid pace. Perhaps you would even be able to sock away the same amount of money each month as friends and family who are making a lot more than you are. Certainly this would be the case if you measured your savings based on your lowered living expenses (one mediocre month of freelancing in some places can bring in enough cash to pay for many months of living expenses in some regions of S.E. Asia.)

If you were to setup a legit business elsewhere, then you get all sorts of interesting options for lowering your taxes. The Philippines has special economic zones where new businesses can get a tax holiday for something like 3 - 6 years. Your personal income isn't taxed by the U.S. until it hits something like 90K per year (assuming that you're personal income is being taxed by the country you are residing in.) With creative accounting, you could probably figure out all sorts of ways to seriously reduce your tax bill (or even eliminate it entirely.)

Maybe you want to get out of freelancing but still enjoy working independently. What better way to bootstrap new business ideas than by living in a country where you can pay your monthly bills with one hour of billable work per day? That gives you a lot of free time to develop other ideas. Or you could build up your savings and then do something radical like doubling your rates. There are also interesting opportunities in emerging markets which aren't options in the U.S. because of higher levels of saturation and competition.

Don't short change yourself. You have six hard earned but valuable years of freelance experience. Get out of the rat race and watch everyone else envy you rather than the other way around.
The Android subreddit on Reddit is boycotting Apple? That surprises you?
It could surely be a post meant to remind the author himself that he shouldn't stray from his path :)
I, too, feel like I'm just muddling through my first foray into a personal blog. (For what it's worth, I found your four posts pretty interesting. Hadn't heard of Design for Hackers and I'm definitely checking it out now.)

I think the "write for you" advice is good, because it gets you through the early stages of writing and posting content. This might lead to a lack of restraint in some, but it reminds me that I don't need every post to be super-insightful or essay-of-the-year worthy. I just need to write about what interests me, which takes a lot of the pressure off.
I wonder if this isn't a breach of the stricter privacy laws we have in Europe. Redirecting the email I send to my frieds to Facebook's servers without asking for my consent looks very suspicious to me.
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After scrolling down a bit the content continues to jump, but not by as much.
There is no content in that "article". He doesn't even attempt to answer his posed question. It comes up only in the last paragraph and all he concludes is "Apple may be tempted to request preliminary injunctions against newer products". What insight.

Gotta get more page views, and based on the comment count vs normal forbes posts, this is the right formula.
For me that was absolutely the crowning part of the story. "I will need tools to cut someone up, someone to tell me how the heart works and where the blood goes from the heart, and, uh... Oh! I'll need a coffin!"
S3 isn't where the SSDs will go, it's the EC2 instances. Many, many, people would pay those numbers for local, dedicated SSDs when their instance is running a database.
It's actually month day hour minute.second

Originally (and perhaps still) the month day is optional; allowing you to set the date with just hour and minute.
They've patented the hell out of everything that they've done in the last decade with the iPhone, but the very foundations that they stand on have been patented the hell out of by Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia, etc for the decades prior.

Standing on someone else's foundations isn't the best place from which to start a thermonuclear patent war.
Huh.

That doesn't ring true to me. Professional software development is inherently a collaborative process. Yes, there are portion of the day or week when the primary interaction is the human struggling with the computer to bend the machine to the human will, but the process of defining the product, the architecture, and the implementation -- even in a small company -- is work that involves interpersonal interaction.

I don't know any software developer who doesn't need to -- and benefit from -- talking to real people on a daily basis. The successful programmers are the ones who can actually do this without burning bridges and making enemies.

So: I'd love to hear more about your experience, because it's a pretty far cry from anything I've seen.
Cheap Space Exploration is like planes or ships were for various generations in the past. It is hard for a man in the old stone age to think of the value of the ships or planes. They look like pointless "advanced technology" to go to places that do not matter. But then time passes and we figure out things like carts,trains,ships,planes and space elevators or solar sails or ion engines are just an obvious part of our economies.
Being a fan of Google doesn't mean that you're disinterested in a competitor's product. I'm sure there were Apple forums that had a lot of comments (both positive and negative) regarding the events held by MS and Google.
This matches my experience with opencv. Great job liuliu! For practical tasks your libccv looks really useful.
I am assuming you are going to setup /r/boycottsamsung, /r/boycottgoogle, /r/boycotthtc as well ?

Because their FRAND abuses are 1000x worse than what Apple and Microsoft have been doing. When you have governments (FTC, EU) and non-mobile companies (Intel, HP, Cisco etc) complaining you know it's something serious.
Correct, I was trying to describe initializing a stack variable to a constant array, and shouldn't have used the word static. In retrospect, I think the cost of this is probably just the same as zeroing it, since behind the scenes it has to be copied from a constant? But the rejection wasn't due to the performance harm, but was based on a philosophy that one shouldn't change "provably" correct just to make it more compliant.
So you're opposed to boycotts? Or are you criticizing this boycott because it's not (yet) big enough to influence Apple?

Lots of boycotts have been successful throughout history, and most of them started small.
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The coolest thing I found about this link is coderwall.com. First time seeing it, just signed up.. Looks like fun.
Be serious.

Google+ we know has a high percentage of technologically savvy users and in particular Android users. I would be surprised if it wasn't a popular topic on there. But it is no way reflective of (a) the general public or (b) the entire IT community.
What are the other ways to protest? I don't mean that as a rhetorical question. I'm genuinely curious.
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Doesn't work for everyone (Didn't work with our java processes on RHEL 6.2)
Perhaps you could blog about this topic in more depth. I'd be interested in reading it.
Whoops, should be $2 billion. Too many zeroes, misread.
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Apple posted the bond almost immediately during the Galaxy 10.1 injunction. I see no reason why would it be any different now.
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> I am assuming you are going to setup /r/boycottsamsung, /r/boycottgoogle, /r/boycotthtc as well ?

Samsung have given me a replacement for two monitors that were just out of warranty. They came over and replaced them right then and there. For free. They were just normal 17 inch LCDs. No extra warranty. Google has given me untold GB of emails and made it work just everywhere, even in every text browser. I love Google Authenticator. I use DuckDuckGo, but still acknowledge that Google are a company that knows how to put things together. They do charity, contribute greatly to open source, help endangered languages and at least seem to have a bit more of a conscience. HTC has taken the mobile phone and turned it into something a great deal better. I don't own any of their products, but I can honestly say that my mobile is better because of them.

I'll now let you compare all this to my experiences with Apple over the past two, three years: http://www.reddit.com/r/BoycottApple/comments/vvdfd/my_perso...
Yeah, way too late.
Our patent system is insane, granted. But in this case, at least Apple, ya’ know, actually invented some of the stuff they are using against Android.
It seems to me that the problem is in all kinds of code that relies on time to do some critical operation when it really should not. Time is for people.

Computers should use a separate "time", that only moves forward. A numbered pulse.
Also, all the liberal social causes you believed in when you were in your 20's are now the status quo, and the new crazy social causes are inconceivable to you now.
I think the Judge is going to rule tomorrow (yes on Sunday) about a important matter in this case which will open the doors for injunction to be enforced.
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I believe Apple's success still depends on public image more than most. Their products are high quality but some of those from other vendors are very very good as well.

If this label of "evil ugly sociopathic corporation" were to stick they could end up in big trouble.

Check out this tweet: https://twitter.com/joeycmiller/status/219271776394412032

The guy's profile says he's a Marketing professor so he knows the angle he's spinning. But this is the kind of thing I would be really worried about if I were Apple.
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"I just cannot see how spaceflight could be more important for humanity in the next, say, half-century than transportation."... 50 to 60 years is the difference between 1904 and 1956. Do you really think your models of what space "exploration is" in 2012 will be the same in 2062?? In 2062 probably no one will commute to work. All transportation may be purely for socializing personally and travel or adventure. 2062 is so far away that even futurists consider it beyond their comfort zone of dreaming up stuff. How are you so sure of Mankind's priorities in another 50 years?
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Why not?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/73492989/Stephenson-1966-Cultural-...
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I think that spending 4-6 years doing research in an area you love is something anyone would be interested in. In addition, going into it with the decision that you don't want to have a career in academia would free you up from much (though of course not all) of the "game." The OP echoed this sentiment in the memoir. You can go to conferences without worrying about proper "networking" and just talk to people. You can focus on research that interests you even if it's not a "hot" or "prestigious" field among academics, as long as your results are publishable. You still have to bend to the system in some regards if you want to graduate, but I think not having to worry about securing a professorship would really take a lot of the weight off. In fact, I would consider doing a PhD under these conditions :)
It wasn't just XBox. It was Windows 7 as well.

And I am pretty sure there are a lot of companies e.g. Sony, Sharp, Canon, Nikon, Facebook, Netflix who also must be very anxious at thought of Motorola filing injunctions against them.
They've been there for a few years already at the high end. EMC sold my former employer 2TB of SSD SAN back in '09.
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Okay. Do you use Netflix or Hulu, own a Canon camera, play on your Nintendo, watch TV on your LG, use Skype to chat, connect with Facebook, edit home movies using Adobe Premiere ?

Because Google/Motorola could stop ALL of that and so much more.
That's true only if you don't count China. The statcounter data they refer to so under-sample China that it only comes up at 1/5 the internet usage of India (the #1 chrome-dominated source in their stats), despite being more populous, richer and having higher internet penetration.

http://gs.statcounter.com/sample-size/StatCounterGlobalStats...
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Can anybody explain to me what that's for?
I realize this has been a community for less than an hour, but eight submissions on the front page of that are single-serving, meme/image macro photos.

Just my opinion, but maybe spend these starting hours educating people about the boycott and save the cute photos for later?
We spent roughly $3K including fees, which were nearly $900 of the total cost. If you want an intro, let me know.
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I like writing, because of it structures my thought and forces me to think it through thoroughly.

It is also greatly satisfying to share the lessons learned down the road.

So I don't think you shouldn't write for others. In the end, no one is Spolsky or Yegges except for themselves, but we shouldn't underestimate the benefit to the masses that may learn from you.

I am by no means an authority, but I get a few appreciative emails every so often and that brings me great joy.
This came up not that long ago on Hacker News. If the article headline is posed as a "yes/no" question, the answer is "no".

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4092880
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That's not actually how A records work. Clients are supposed to randomly select one of the A records, although this doesn't always distribute the load as randomly as it should. (My company's site used to have 4 A records for 4 load balancers, and we found that one of them received 25-30% more traffic than the rest.) Clients certainly don't have a mechanism to retry if one of them fails -- they'll be stuck with the failing IP for the length of the TTL.
The FreeBSD Project has elections, and is in short order going to announce a new Core Team.
Don't bother, architbhise is a troll.
If you have enough lawyers it is. You can do anything with enough money and lawyers.
Yes. A trending G+ topic is basically equivalent with Rosa Parks. /s. When was the last time an e-petition led to actual change, because I've seen dozens of them signed by huge numbers of people and never any with a tangible effect.

But mostly, who honestly thinks Apple is going to change their policy based on a trending topic on G+, they're probably laughing hysterically at it.

Pigs will fly before this translates into any measurable decrease in sales or revenue for Apple.
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Have you actually looked at the four patents used in this litigation? I think it's highly arguable whether Apple really invented any of those concepts.
You just doubled my traffic for the month.
But they haven't.

Apple is the one making the move here. Let's not forget that.
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On a small scale, petitions will work better than a hash tag on a Google-owned website. The person that made the decision is the judge. So a rational way to protest is to protest the decision itself.

On a large scale, make something disruptively innovative to fight back.

#BoycottApple may work by alarming and reminding Apple of their unethical act (to the crowd). But the effect is small because it has nothing to do with Apple's product quality and customer service. If no one buys Apple products any more, we won't necessarily be better off.

That said, I think Apple seriously doesn't have to go this far. If they have the energy to continue innovating there shouldn't be any fear.
Did you forget about SOPA, when the community united against restrictions forced upon it. It was a silent protest , mostly through petitions.
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A few years ago, I thought to myself, "Self, you haven't started a really stupid business with a remarkably high chance of failure in a long time. Why don't you start a magazine?"

I was bored, so I did.

Within a few months, I had founded a magazine. My co-founder and I bootstrapped it, so we didn't have access to the highest caliber of writers. Consequently, we did a whole lot of development work; taking writers with passion and some technical flaws and working with them until they could bang out some good quality content.

I learned something really valuable working with young writers. The 'write for you' advice is great...to a point. If you really want to become a good writer, you need to write for an editor. Find someone you trust and get him/her to butcher your writing. Write for that person.

The problem with writing for yourself is that it is too easy to say, "well, the audience didn't come because x." (where x != my writing sucks)

The joy of writing for a good editor is that you will improve faster than you can possibly imagine. And then, you can say, "who cares about an audience, I'm a better writer now."

You can become a great writer...anyone can. Hell, if you can write code, you're already 95% of the way there. My email address is on my profile - if you want someone to edit your stuff, send me some mail...
If you are protecting Windows users then mcafee and clamavx seem to be recommended but panda, Sophos and kasperky exist.

If you are protecting yourself uninstall your weaknesses, Microsoft office, java and flash.
Some ISPs (in particular, those in countries far from the US, such as those in the Middle East, although occasionally even Europe) do not even honor the hour-long TTL used by ELB (for reasons of latency, not load), so if you care about your traffic not being routed to someone else's server, you should not allow ELB to get exposed to end user requests (in my case, I use it to balance my backend servers, but the only incoming connections it handles are from CDNetworks, whom I know has a to-specification implementation of DNS caching).
The general public does not matter here. This is a technology subject. IT community matters here. As far as entire IT community is concerned I am pretty convinced based on discussions before on HN and other blogs that IT community believes that patent system needs reforms. Taking legal decisions based on broken law is equivalent to injustice.

EDIT : Care to explain why you down-voted this comment?
Yes, I didn't really think about that. However I think a threat to open speech on the Internet and an injunction against a single type of smartphone are likely to evoke a different reaction. If we have every news organization talking about an Apple boycott in a week, I'll happily eat my words.

I'll say it again just to C(M)A, I am no fan of Apple doing this and would love to see them accept Android as a competitor instead of trying to litigate-secure their position.
Nice job staying on top of things, but looking in from the outside it does seem a bit wasteful to spend what, 100 man hours of effort and expense, canceling a handful of otherwise happy Friday nights, just to gain a couple hours uptime during a period where roughly nobody is using your thing.

I had a site that was affected by another one of Amazon's outages a while back, and here was my disaster recovery plan in its entirety:

a. go to sleep.

There's a reason you farm things like this out to Amazon in the first place. They have a big team of smart people whose only job in life is to keep your stuff alive, or scramble like mad to bring it back up if it goes down.

So long as your site knows how to start up automatically when the box turns on, there's really not a lot you need to do in a situation like this.

If forty percent of the internet is down, and you're part of it, your users will probably understand. They'll expect you to come back up when the rest of the internet does. If you do manage to come up a bit earlier, you might get a shrug and a "cool", but it's probably not enough of a win to cancel Christmas.
I'm in Australia. I use Skype to chat and Facebook.

If Google or Motorola ever do me as wrong - even indirectly - as Apple has, I'll start /r/boycottgoogle. But they haven't. Not even close.
I will agree with you here about being fan of multiple product. But it should be noticed that when you have millions of users (based on Google IO numbers about G+) biased voices are usually stifled and general consensus emerge.