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> I'd argue that there is no check large enough to restore a lost market advantage.

I think you're considering the status or intangible satisfaction of being the market leader. That is not what Apple's shareholders are interested in. They are interested in money. If Apple had the choice between getting a check for all the money they would ever earn for all their products and liquidating the company, vs. remaining in business, they would close their doors, cash the check and pop the champagne. And that check would be worth much more than a "lost market advantage."

Now they're probably not going to get such a check. But if not that's because the court will deem they don't deserve it. But the real reason they want this is that it will clearly do much more harm to Samsung than it will diminish their case against Samsung, better yet, they still get to bloody Samsung's nose even if the court eventually rules against them!
I wish python 3 would make default parameters immutable. It seems to go against the "simple", "explicit" python philosophy, not to mention that (it seems) most people tend to learn about the feature through debugging.

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I read that as "there is nothing that can be taken away from you"

Same frame of mind I think, slightly different way of expressing it. :P
Also know as the Red Hat model
gs/Goggles/Glass
(I make the same mistake all the time.)

I broadly agree with you. However, I don't think that Project Glass will replace desktops / traditional computers, but I could see them being a replacement for tablets - in that it's the way most people will do un-intensive browsing, cheicking emails while sat on the sofa, etc.
Off topic: I've been looking for some kind of app to keep track and share predictions like these? Would you use it if it did?
I got annoyed when this happened to HTC, but Samsung is a different story. Their entire business model is based on dumpster diving at 1 infinity loop. I agree that these patents look silly on their own, but when you add them all up you see a concerted effort to copy apples products, and in some cases deceive the ignorant.
I support your comment, but the lawyers are making a killing.
"If Apple won their current market position through innovation, and Samsung is eroding it by taking advantage of that innovation counter to patent law, there's no reasonable amount Samsung could pay to set things to right."

Let us say that first "If" is held by the judge as a given and that allows for him to deny the same rights to the other party. How does that work at all ?

When one of these gets overturned "there's no reasonable amount" Apple "could pay to set things"..."right.". How is that loss calculated ? Is it calculated at all ?

This automatic assumption after the cry wolf turns to nothing in the end and the plaintiff abused the law and the courts to retain commercial position while trying to cement its stand through jurisprudence.

This is a sad state of things and points to a needed overhaul, if not, it will just go on and on until it breaks in the end. Billions of dollars later, the "leaders" will have chocked everyone else not because of innovation but because of bad legislation that assumes too much at the preliminary stages based on incompetent assertions that cannot be equated like other parts of the law. Yet, here we are.
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The funny thing is, you totally can catch up. I have two friends who learned to code after college, both with the explicit aim of getting programming jobs. Both are now working for Silicon Valley startups.

Programming seriously isn't that hard for anyone who has the necessary general intelligence. It's easier than calculus, for instance.
He does seem to be ignorant in regard to languages that are not php.
There is no abuse of the law, there is law, and there is not law. Using the law is not an abuse, regardless of what it may seem from the cheap seats where we are all sitting.

If you don't like it, fix the laws.
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Have you seen http://longbets.org/ ?

Maybe it's over a longer time scale than you were thinking...
Our front-end team did extensive research on this that wrapped up a just a couple days ago. They landed on angular and have been very happy. I'll see if I can get one (or more) of them to comment on their findings.
And when more places start doing this, or quietly dropping support for IE6, 7 and 8? People are going to start clamoring to be able to install a decent browser.
The next time I write my boilerplate bio, I'm totally going to use that line.

Just kidding. (Can people on HN read sarcasm? I never know.)
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I realize the 'profits' are donated to Teach for America, but doesn't using any part of the $10 warp your incentives?

If you have a list of improvements to make to the site and it turns out one of them indirectly helps students avoid the $10 charge without them realizing it, aren't you going to move it down on the priority list relative to something that doesn't make paying your expenses harder?
Why not... It's an age-old concept, one I've enforced over decades, but seriously..... nowadays, once you are in, you are in, and systems (at least the ones I've put together in recent yeras, I can only assume the same of others) are very regularly refreshed from scratch from servers that can't be reached from the public facing stuff. (so even if you manage to find that one old php server and find some bug and drop some php thingy on it, it's going to get squished in 30 seconds, give or take, as regular housekeeping takes place. If you managed to actually focus on the attack and go deeper, it might take longer -but root or no root, the damage you can do is the same either way, and limited hte same either way.

EDIT: For the record - I still follow this practice, I'm just debating it's relevance these days. Things change, right?
I've programmed in C, C++, PHP, Python, Perl, Java, Javascript, Prolog and probably could program in any general purpose language out there given some training and enough motivation. I still "don't understand two thirds of the list or why they're problems". I.e. not that I can't literally understand what the complaint is about - I can't understand why it's anything special to PHP and why it's a PHP problem as opposed to agressive exaggerated "don't make me actually learn anything that contradicts my preconceived notions" stance. PHP has its own quirks, so has any other language out there. I do not see a big deal about it.

The idea that disagreement is because person disagreeing is not educated enough and only if he could learn The Next Best Thing he'd immediately become a fanboy like you are - is deeply fallacious. I've seen your Next Big Thing. It's nice. So are other hundred Big Things. They are all nice, and all have its place. And no, I'm still not a fanboy, sorry. I still think Python is a nice language for its uses, and PHP is a nice language for its uses. Banality, but somehow so many people can't grasp how can it be. Please believe me, it can.
I completely agree with you ars, Apple is getting totally out of hand. They are becoming what Microsoft was in the 90's and it absolutely sickens me.

Consumers have the right to choose what products they want to buy.

I have been slowly switching away from the Apple products I own. And this just reaffirms that I will never buy another Apple product.
Having a hard time understanding why anyone would put unfettered effort into building up content on a platform where they have absolutely no right of access save at the pleasure of the platform owner.

Take that love of the show and build a fansite or better yet something where you don't have to worry about the copyright holder shutting you down.
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Like file system encryption is done. You don´t encrypt the hard drive with your pass phrase. You encrypt the encryption key to your hard drive with your passphrase. Your problem is solved with an extra key in offline storage.

In this case instead of just encrypting private keys with K (derived from user's password), you encrypt private keys with K and encrypt K with user's password. You also encrypt K with your own master key which is stored offline. You could either retrieve K manually or through a rate-limited API.

However, Estragons point about it only slowing down the attack still holds, although in Bitcoinicas case the loss would be much less, since they discovered the attack early. "not even you(!)" however is false.
Is this kind of stuff not brought up in court? How can you possibly patent something that already existed?
so, no disrespect, innovate innovate innovate, keep on going, looks great.

but.

In general terms - what does a potential user of this service conclude if the server appears to be hosted on a single machine and the admin staff doesn't seem to know how ulimit works?

(Yes, I realize this is ycombinator and about ideas and VC and all that.... just throwing the concept out there.)

Great product, but total lack of either understanding or preparedness on the lower levels.
Shouldn't the plaintiff though be the one to take on that risk?

If the damage of losing market share is truly irreparable, then the court would be doing irreparable harm to Samsung on the basis of Apple's unproven allegations.
Wow. Not only is this totally insensitive, and completely fucking rude.. it's also widely naive.

He obviously built value for a lot of people. In addition I'm sure developed some very portable skills. Helping to curate a site that brings that many people joy? We should all be so lucky.

The idea that the rug could be pulled out is indeed a significant lesson, but it's frankly one that both sides of the coin need to learn. Platform sites that encourage users to invest in and create content for will suffer if that content isn't taken good care of, in the long haul.
This seems to be based on the most bogus of Apple's patents - things like "slide to unlock" (something used on physical door's for hundreds of years, moving it to pixels doesn't suddenly make it inventive) and auto-converting data to links (well documented back into the 90's.

It's a shame that the places where Apple really moved forward are not where they are exploiting their patents. It seems, those ideas were already beyond Apple's ability to patent, so instead they got a bunch of bogus stuff through and are using it anyway. It really besmirches their actual amazing record of inventiveness that they take rubbish like this forward. I hope these all get overturned.
Nobody said its products are inferior. The argument _is_ against its business strategies, which is quite absurd, to say the least.
I think the reason why ars advocated a boycott was as a 'protest' to show Apple that it must not partake in such activities.
And please please don't give me the argument that Apple is a corporation that exists only for its profits etcetc. There are ways to maximize your profit without being so paranoid
Man, I need to set me up one of these. Step right up everybody, lose 20 lbs or pay me $100. Thanks for signing up, ma'am! Oh, how do you lose 20 lbs? Heck if I know lady!
These patent wars don't help anyone but Apple, and directly hurts consumers. I don't think this is what anyone wants. It actually sickens me to see the law enacted in this way.

I really hope this comes back to bit Apple in the ass. It seems there has been a story about Apple doing something shitty everyday for the past few days, and the taste it leaves in my mouth is just getting worse and worse.
"A means of detecting and marking up data like a phone number or an e-mail address, and then initiating a phone call or an e-mail when the linked data is clicked" nobody should own a patent on that, what the heck? The patent system is seriously messed up. Don't get me started on the other patent: "A means of searching multiple databases and sources for data." how can anyone be awarded such a generic patent? I'm disgusted.
This appears to be the same story that Inc ran on May 30, 2012,

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201206/christine-lagorio/alexis-...

And has been discussed here already:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4043092
A company I worked with in SF used ZeroCater, so I was a customer.

As a service, they are awesome. I have food allergies and they were on the ball, making sure i always had options. They've got a great feedback loop and it's obvious how it informed future decisions. Honestly, if they had a Palo Alto branch, we'd be all over it.

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Doesn't that just mean more money though? I'd agree that the analysis of the damages would get pretty fuzzy at best if you're trying to account for such factors, but it's still ultimately just a loss of money.
That's an absolutely baseless claim. Nothing prevents you from learning both in the same time. You are saying "you're not learning programming but learning to copy-paste from internet and copy-pasted examples are in PHP - ergo, PHP sucks as a language". That's baloney - PHP is perfectly suited to be used as beginner's language to learn programming - the only precondition being you have to learn programming. Otherwise, of course, PHP couldn't help you - it's not some magic dust that can make you know programming just because you copy-pasted some PHP code. Blaming the language for that is just wrong.
Sure. It says PHP is popular enough and mainstream enough so that people feel attacking it would not be pointless and would bring them some clicks. And it says there are arguments in defense of it - otherwise there would be nobody to defend it.
You're trying to apply common-sense to law. That doesn't work. The court has to assume the patent is valid until it's proven otherwise. The patent was legitimately granted though it can and will be challenged. This is important because it explains why these patents are continuously being tested in the court. Apple is being offensively sued by various parties themselves. They need to have strong patents that have been validated by court rulings to defend themselves. Companies are less likely to sue Apple if they have a strong war chest of patents. The reason certain companies are able to get 'picked on' is the lack of a strong war chest to defend themselves. Samsung is a very rich company yet they are getting it from both Apple and previously Microsoft who simply offered licensing. Apple could easily find themselves in the same situation if they don't play by the absurd rules.
VersionEye allows you to follow software libraries and talk shop with other developers.

This should be up there in the top, slightly re-formated to something like:

"Follow software libraries and discuss their progress with other developers"

Ditch the whole "it's like this and this for that"

Never lock yourself into other peoples definitions and never assume people know what yelp or twitter is (unless your product is an extension of those services)
Certainly. I'm not saying it's a viable business model. As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, one person could even buy the pre-built binaries and freely redistribute them. The GPL allows this. However the parent is still factually wrong.
I like it. I was looking already for something like that. That is really a use full tool.
I dunno, sometimes it feels like I spend 8 years a day in my cubicle.
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This is true, except when it's false. Stormpulse was free for years and is now collecting subscription revenues from customers that used to be free users. And they are not the slightest bit angry about paying.
Aaah... if only Open Source developers learnt from that Joel's article from 10 years ago!

Instead, filing a bug for Firefox, Gnome or the majority of popular open source projects requires you to provide even the color of your socks.
Knowing how something works does not make it a good idea. I see this attitude a lot: if you've mastered something complicated, it seems so logical and inevitable. I had this attitude myself once when I only knew PHP. But then you discover that PHP is not god given or a natural phenomenon. A human put each and every behavior in a programming language. Some choices are better than others. Significantly worse choices were made in PHP than in e.g. Python. Therefore new programmers should learn a language like Python, not PHP. It's a waste of time to learn the intricacies of things that ended up that way due to a bad decision or even by accident. Note that Python is far from perfect too, but it's one of the least bad to start with.
I've found that there is a lot less customer service work to do in a B2B setting than B2C.
That's really too bad. Although I'm happy with Penultimate, it's unfortunate that various sorts of latency rarely seems to be considered for consumer electronics.
This is a preliminary injunction. It doesn't mean Apple wins against Samsung. From TFA:

"Apple was ordered to post a bond of $95 million to enact the injunction, which would be used to pay Samsung damages if the decision is later reversed."
Well, except that PHP has access to the database, sessions, cookies and the filesystem. There's a whole bunch of state right there.
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Would that, without any configuration, actually fix this?
A lot depends on the kind of clients you want. If you want to be subbed out work or hired short term by an existing development team, marketing your persona, maintaining a technical blog, and other things will definitely help.

But if you're like me, you want to work directly with founders and small businesses. They tend to trust companies, they seem more... permanent (even though it costs $100 and an hour of paperwork to put one together) And it's also all about appearances. Say you attend a networking event. When you pass out a business card with "ABC Consulting" and your name followed by "President", I'm almost certain the results would be better than "Brennan Dunn, Web Developer".

There are a few other benefits that come with being under a company.

I've realized the need for some pretty firm processes: payment schedules, handling additional scope, etc. And I think it's easier to stick to processes when they're a company thing, even if it's just you.

Second, if you get more work than you can handle and need to subcontract things out under you, you'll want to manage that as a company.
It's already been done [1]. An interesting point someone brought up about this is if your money goes to a good cause, it may be less of a motivator, since even if you fail your personal goal, you still did some good.

Perhaps donating money to a charity or political party you don't agree with would be more motivating.

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I think that some people need to stop their blind love of Apple products and take a step back and look at how unethically Apple is behaving in some of these cases. Just because you think your gadgets are sexy and cool doesn't mean Apple can do whatever it wants. Competition exists for a reason, I know that most people here are smart enough to recognize that.
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Arguably, forcing other company's to innovate could be a Good thing. Is a rectangle with rounded edges the one and only perfect tablet shape? I don't know, but if everyone just copy's the iPad it's going to take a even longer to find out.

The windows tiles may or may not be an advance, but they are clearly not a row of buttons just like the 1st gen iPhone and 2 out of every 3 smart phones that followed.
You're using circular logic. "The court finds theory of irreparable harm to be plausible because the court finds that the full extent of these losses would be irreparable."

OP's entire argument is that the court's finding is incorrect and that's why its a victory for Apple's lawyers -- I think you're severely underestimating the forecasting techniques used, especially in a company as competent as Apple.
This actually got me wondering if Google has ever sued someone in the same manner and it does not appear as if they have. I find that very interesting - does anyone have any links to the contrary?
There is: it is called a "community page". This person flagrantly violated this mechanism, against Facebook's terms of service, in order to capitalize on the fame of a television show he did not create and was not involved in.
Guessing here: it might be a unit test which only works during the current year. I came back to work from holidays in January 2011 to exactly that. Someone had coded a test for "August 15th" being a certain day of the week. It worked great until the year changed.

That particular test hung out unnoticed for at least 4 months. Its failure was inevitable.
Uh, my 99 touchpad has a better browsing experience than ipad or Android tablets. But yeah... It's dead Jim.
Anything there non-obvious? Despite the Android hindsight...
I love this because I feel like one of the biggest problems that I can see in taking these online courses are that people think "Oh this looks cool - Let me try it out." Soon enough they forget to stay on top of the lectures and other course material because there's nobody there to force them, we just do not keep going. Out of general laziness. I'm sure these constant reminders and schedules would help many of keep on track - but adding the $10 charge really ups the motivation, nobody wants to lose money.
If it provided no support, the site would gain no traction. 0 users paying $10 is $0. I actually think the pricing scheme is a touch of genius - it makes me like the service way more, not less. The reason: as a human, I'm subject to the sunk cost fallacy. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs#Loss_aversion_and_th...) Paying that money would motivate me to do the class. Same way having a gym membership motivates me to work out, even if I don't technically need a gym for most of my work outs. I say this is awesome.
> Who's Rasmussen?

Brainfart. I meant Rasmus.

A programming language is a tool to get the machine to do what you want. A good tool will help you get the job done faster, and with fewer problems (like, say, security holes). It's not a "mere artificial interface", and if you think so, feel free to go write a web server in Brainfuck.
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Google (like many tech companies, I think?) promises their employees that patents will only be used defensively.

The only related example is that Motorola Mobility recently began a patent suit against Microsoft and then Google acquired them (in that order) so it's unclear whether that promise applies.
Thank you for a feedback. Yeah, I was looking too, and there are several alternatives, but they all are not so useful and only support one or two markups.