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> "Who in the world would think that's a good idea."

Someone who manages a bunch of lazy good-for-nothings who, if left to their own devices, will sit around and do nothing all day every day.

These environments actually exist - but in the R&D and creative arenas, if you are in possession of such a working environment, you've already lost, and no amount of management "science" will save you.
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>The GPL, despite "licence" in it's name, is not a EULA-type licence //

Sorta. A EULA is also a license from a copyright [license] holder.

Resale of an item does not obviate copyright law. The creator (or successor in title or licensee) still holds the IP rights - they have only exhausted their right to control the particular copy instance that was sold. Thus a license like the GPL is still a valid part of the license of use for the copyright work.

So for the GPL it means the same as it does for other lawful licenses applied by copyright holders, very little. You can resell a GPLed work but you can't modify it and strip the GPL from it or unilaterally alter the creator's license.

In the same way the lawful terms in a EULA will still apply. You can't sell a work on to a third party and buy it back in order to somehow nullify license terms.

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Mathematically, sure. Math isn't the problem in politics, territory is. All the little things add to people's territory and patronage. It also keeps people from making the big cuts. We need a culture change to spend the money responsibly and it will only happen when "it's only a couple of million" is removed from our vocabulary.

As an aside in 2011, Defense and international security assistance is 20% of the budget. Social Security spending was higher than that (731 vs 718 billion). Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP was a bit bigger at $769 billion. The rest of the safety net style programs was $466 billion. $230 billion was spent paying interest on the national debt.
Uhm i don't know... i don't think it would work they way you described. let me explain: I, user, will not buy your app because it can updates my number because it might never happen. As you said it's rare that people change number so i would buy your app just to see it lay there. I might buy to send the notification, maybe. in the end it's probably just an email and i do not care if they will update the contact manually or via an app.
A possible solution would be, make it free, and let people buy a "change number token" via in-app purchase. I am still not sure it might take off but this way you have more possibility to open your user base.
That's not a very good map either--there's no connection between ML and Haskell, for starters.
It gets much messier once you have dependencies that aren't pure python. Last I checked py2exe was no longer maintained either.
Target's logo is pretty simple.
he's gotta start somewhere.
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If anything, it seems like an enthusiasm for chess may be a good way to get introductions or jobs. That's good news if you're not into golf.
They're referring to the Meebo chatbar, the one Meebo service they aren't killing off.
Except they're only paying extra because, ta-da!, the tickets were scalped. The competition is higher at the lower price because, ta-da!, the tickets were scalped.

The arguments for scalping only work if the effects of the scalping are ignored. Eliminating scalpers benefits everyone.
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Reviewing the test case code the basic bug seem to be that sometimes a touchend event won't fire when a secondary finger is lifted.

You can make your code much more reliable by handling all touch events and looking that the touches or targetTouches respectively instead of incremental a total touch counter on each start and decrementing on each end. This causes even the slightest movement to trigger a touchmove event which and the entire current touch state is in touches within all the events. So changing your test like so gets close and you can at least see the use more clearly:

var i = 0;
var numTouches = 0;
var out = document.getElementById('out');
var indicator = document.getElementById('indicator');

function handleTouch( ev ) {

ev.preventDefault();

i++;

numTouches = ev.touches.length;

out.value += i + ': ' + ev.type + ', ' + numTouches + '\n';

indicator.style.backgroundColor
= (numTouches == 2) ? '#8e6' : '#fb7';

out.scrollTop = out.scrollHeight;

}

var ta = document.getElementById('ta');
ta.addEventListener('touchstart', handleTouch, false);
ta.addEventListener('touchend', handleTouch, false);
ta.addEventListener('touchmove', handleTouch, false);
ta.addEventListener('touchcancel', handleTouch, false);
I think is partially already in place? Ticketmaster now allows users to resell their tickets via their website: http://www.ticketmaster.com/ticketexchange/
The actual value of a government program is a meaningless thing because the calculations you do depend entirely upon what you or your cohort personally value.

The American military's V-22 tilt-rotor "Osprey" helicopter program will cost approximately $36B. A cursory web search will show that it is considered a deathtrap that does not meet most of its design objectives.

So is the value of a program to build suicide machines worth four times more than knowing more about how foundational reality is constructed? Blark, argh, divide by zero. If you get paid to build suicide machines, it's a valuable program. If you get paid to fly a suicide machine, it both is and it isn't. If you are watching someone who is flying a suicide machine die, it probably isn't. If you like science more than you like watching people die, no. If you like watching people die more than you like science, yes. On and on and over and over in limitless permutations multiplied by every taxpayer.

All you can say with certainty is that someone or some party in the course of a government process valued that process at some point enough to make it happen.
Did Draw Something by Omgpop really cost $140,000?
Couldn't someone start an alternative ticketing method using this as a model? Proactively squash scalping, select alternative venues, and only sign artists who have big email/twitter/facebook fan bases.

This way, you can avoid the big chicken/egg initial distribution problem.
Thanks! I'll keep an eye out for it.
You're right: it's speculation. I should have used that term outright.

The problem I see is that it's speculation with a known outcome. If I buy gas or oil forward contracts, it's a play with non-zero risk. Iran might declare war or we might invent Mr Fusion tomorrow. So far so good.

But with a concert, let's be a bit more realistic. If the Rolling Stones decide to tour and play in your town this year you can be 100.00% sure the concert would sell out. If they quadrupled the dates in that town, they would still sell out. For a given set of acts that scalpers target, there is no possible way that there is a risk of scalpers holding expired tickets...unless they get greedy.
>DRM becomes anti-commerce, preventing resale //

Strictly the DRM doesn't prevent resale it prevents use. From the little I've seen I think they've erred away from suggesting their is any onus on the creator to enable the resale or indeed the reuse.
"Up to four" covers two. There was an early lottery that allowed four. (I got four myself.)
I ultimately ended up resigning after a year and then coming back to work for the same department as a contractor at a much higher salary

While that might have worked out OK for you. It's a beautiful example of this kind of dysfunction.
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Exactly what I wanted to ask, but you'd probably find that list on a Chinese/Korean/Japanese website...
Some screamed about the lottery, but capping secondary sales at face value is a deeply entrenched (and, in my view, terribly misguided) part of Burner culture.
"FLIP has no engines or other means of propulsion. It must be towed to open water, where it drifts freely or is anchored. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP_FLIP
This is my favorite comment of all. I like that people thought it was real.
First of all, just because there are a number of people willing to pay $150, that doesn't necessarily mean there are enough of them to sell out every show. So now he either has to lower prices as the dates approach or play to half full venues. Both of which are obviously sub-optimal.

Secondly you're ignoring the broader message sent by charging $150. Even if he can find enough people willing to pay that to fill a small venue, it risks sending the wrong message and pissing off people who might otherwise have bought his DVDs, watched his TV shows or gone to other shows. So now instead of being seen as broadly popular "man of the people" who "sticks up for his fans" with wide appeal, he's seen as a stuck up rich fucker entertaining other stuck-up rich fuckers. This will have obviously negative effects on his TV ratings, where I suspect is where he makes most of his money.
It's been this way for a long time. Opera is such a fantastic browser, it's a shame to see giants like Google turn their backs to it for whatever reason.
> For some reason, advertisers have put them on posters found in subways and in United Continental’s Hemispheres In-Flight Magazine, places where travelers usually don’t have reception. Such examples have made QR codes the butt of jokes. A blog called WTF QR Code contains photos of poorly placed codes that no one could reasonably be expected to scan, such as on a billboard along the highway or inside a liquor bottle.

That's hilarious! I never even thought of that when I see them on the subway.
if you build all of this, it's good practice. you might want to work a bit on the design like the logo i suggest to keep it from making the top bar higher than normal(each li element is 39px height, keep it like that), the font colors(maybe use the same color of the "footy" part of the logo), a smaller vote arrow, the comment text area look a bit out of place, try to algn it with the line over it and make it more wide than tall.

Good luck.
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Spot on. If I had to identify a root-cause of Microsoft's failure, it would be its voracious business practices in the 1990s. If you are in your mid-30s or older today, you grew up under this totalitarian regime -- and you hated it. And when you had the opportunity a decade or so ago, you were on the vanguard that led x86 server build-out with Linux, not Windows. To the degree that you had to care at all about Windows on the server, virtualization assured that it was in its own little box, never again to escape. And of course, you sure as hell don't trust Microsoft now: the last thing you'd ever do is buy a Windows phone or deploy on Azure -- you are of an entire generation that won't be fooled again.

And what if you're younger than that? If you're in your 20s or younger, you probably just don't care about Microsoft -- though you might not get why the older folks get so frothy about them. But know that your luxurious apathy is because an older generation considered Microsoft's offenses to be capital crimes -- and meted out punishment accordingly.

Microsoft proves that in technology you can get away with being predatory for a while -- maybe even a long while -- but not forever (at least not in a free society). And once the world moves against you, those that you so aggressively bullied will cheer your demise: you will never recover until you accept that you have failed your customers and violated their trust. Very, very few technology companies have gotten to a point of such vilification and recovered (indeed, the only example I can think of is IBM). And while I may be too early in calling it, I dare say that Oracle is (at long last) at that point or approaching it rapidly -- and I fully expect the same conversation to be had about their (coming) lost decade...
This also makes cross-compiling a breeze. I write software in Go for armv5 chumby devices but I edit and compile on Windows (the Go compiler itself can be compiled and run on the chumby devices, but they are very slow and low memory for doing active development on).

Getting a build for the chumby from my Windows/x64 box is as easy as setting GOARCH=arm, GOARM=5 and GOOS=linux and then re-running go build. Ridiculously simpler than setting up a full gcc toolchain that targets the device, taking into account what libc is on each device, etc. Build on the Windows box, scp the output executable over and It Just Works.
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It's not scalpers who are constraining supply.

If a show has 1000 seats, and 900 fans buy the first 900, and never consider reselling at any price, then they are the ones constraining supply relative to an efficient market. (And there's nothing wrong with that, shrug.) The scalpers, by reselling tickets instead of just holding them and ignoring the market price, actually are increasing the amount of tickets available on the market, not lowering it.

Imagine if there were zero scalpers. Then it sells out and price goes to infinity. How can price go to infinity? Because supply is being constrained to zero because people refuse to consider reselling. Scalpers delay that some and keep the market more robust, while also making a profit from underpriced tickets.

And you can never ever sell a ticket to someone for more than the value of the show to them, so the buyers never lose.

All they are "losing" is the ability to get underpriced tickets (tickets for less than they are willing to pay) from the original seller who could have charged more (since he controlled all the tickets) but, for whatever reason, preferred to leave some money on the table for scalpers.
These can take the form of the joke "if your solution to a problem is [x] then you now have two problems." Possible substitutions for x:

Regular Expressions, DB Triggers, xml, Java/VB/PHP/Other language, NoSQL... the list can go on and on here.
>downloadable games are somehow made excempt via some sort of contract //

You can't force a license on someone that reduces their legal rights in this way, it's not lawful. It appears they'll be able to apply technical means to make it difficult (as impossible as they're able) but they won't be able to use a legal remedy to inhibit lawful resale.
Every one of the problems you mention, except for #5, existed at Microsoft in 1993! It didn't really turn on a dime at all, in fact, I think probably Balmer has improved this aspect[1], when you account for the fact that Microsoft is much bigger in the last decade than it was in the 1990s.

Of the causes, of course the DoJ suit was in 1997, but the massive bureaucracy and its problems and C quality managers existed in 1993. Just nobody cared because of the boom times. I think a lot of the perception of Gates come from PR control and marketing.

[1] Say in a "degrees of turn per month per employee in total head count" metric of some sort.
If nothing else it is proper payback for American software companies charging non-Americans 1.5x-2x more for the same product as they charge Americans.
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Met Kurt at a few meetups and based on his pitch I have to disagree with the "too niche" criticisms mentioned in the article. The number of people, including myself, who have trouble getting up in the morning is a huge market. I'm not sure if his current idea is the right solution, but if he can make me productive during the 30-45 minutes that I spend hitting the snooze button every morning that'd be worth paying for.

My only criticism is that I feel he's ignoring the root of the problem, which is not getting enough sleep. Most people don't have trouble getting up after a nice, long 10 hours of sleep. It's getting up after 4 hours of sleep that's tough. And if Daily Toaster served its function of waking me up quickly after 4 hours of sleep I'd inevitably pay for it later that day/week anyways.
I like his drive, but where are his 10,000 hours? I'd at least think you'd be an expert at something before starting a business with zero cash.
Nice idea, i am still waiting for the day stripe will come to the UE, or at least UK. That will be a day to celebrate.
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Am I the only one who uses iGoogle?

I like having the weather in two different locations, top news stories by category, and my calendar for the next couple of days all conveniently on a single webpage.

Is there any viable alternative?
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On top of that (somewhat to TM's credit), I remember reading an article stating that they were the only company who had proven they could handle the huge load of online sales for top-tier acts (think Gaga and Bieber).

Let's face it, Louis CK's site probably could not handle 100K simultaneous people buying tickets and choosing seats.

EDIT: found the article
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/mf_ticketmaster/all/
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Too abstract, and very fluffy piece. So how is DDG gonna make revenue again?
Had totally forgotten about this as well and realized I would love to use it. Aside from Meebo Bar, are there any other services that provide similar functionality? (Namely, allowing you to GChat someone via a widget)
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Ads can't interfere with other ads. Doesn't say anything about blocking ads in general.
Uh no, you would do well not to conflate everyone who you disagree with into one ignorant boogeyman.

Please cite your figures for the pre App Store mobile app economy. I'm genuinely curious.
Surface was not a real product. Sure they sold it for 10k but that was cost. It got a Microsoft cool product into design agencies. No phone retailers were harmed...
Interesting that they are killing off iGoogle. One might hope there would be a Gplus theme for that home page that would duplicate it.

In the mean time it seems like a really really easy way to get about 10M uniques a month. I wonder if you implement an iGoogle clone on AE/CE and fund it with AdSense ads would they ban you?

I love the synergy of keeping a Google product alive on Google infrastructure but redirecting the money to someone willing to maintain it. Could be an interesting test case.
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Sounds like this guy took War of Art a little seriously.

http://www.amazon.com/The-War-Art-Winning-Creative/dp/159071...

As a younger person in college I always felt that being confident enough to move to Silicon Valley and try to get attention you'd have to be able to code a compiler in an interview for a language you've never seen on a machine you were unfamiliar with. Or if you were the artist type you'd produce work universally lauded for both it's execution and creativity. I guess you have to start somewhere, why not here? Oh yeah, 10,000 hours rule that's right. :)
Helpful, informative, and grammatically correct! Would read again!
I think most of the comments here are missing a key ( and in my opinion the most detrimental) effect of stack ranking at microsoft: it prevents talent from clustering around good projects (unless they are so good as to be exempted from it).

Because someone always ends up on the bottom, a fair number of devs don't want to end up on who already has a top quality dev. Worse yet, in order to keep good people, managers don't want / will promise not to bring in more good people. Thus there is an active incentive to recruit( at least internally) mediocre talent since a team needs to hire people to keep headcount and needs to pad the middle of it's stack ranking.

Yeah, in theory this shouldn't happen because the rankings for each team are merge and those on the bottom of a good team should come in above the bottom of a bad team. In practice that seems not to work because both ICs and managers seem to have the above philosophy.
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"take the big tech giants like Google, Microsoft and Apple. To them, if it is not an x $billion opportunity, it isn't worth expending resources on it." ...? Surely it's worth them spending x $billion - $1 (or some similarly small but less pedantic amount).
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"Louis C.K. is earning tons of good will by doing this"

People want to see Louis because he is funny. The minute he stops being funny all that good will won't mean a thing.
Some notes of guidance from a recent recode and redesign (which included making the site responsive / mobile web friendly) of a site with a medium-sized code base. YMMV.

1) Test multiple versions as you go. If you're targeting, let's say, three widths (320px, 321-999px, 1000+px), whenever you make a change, test it in all three. It can be frustrating at first, but it can save you a lot of trouble later.

2) Use a service like BrowserStack, which will relieve you from having to possess each piece of hardware/browser combo and from running (sometimes slow) device emus/sims locally. Extremely handy, and will probably save you a lot of time and annoyance.

3) Keep in mind device orientation. What looks just fine in landscape may look squished in portrait, and what looks just fine in portrait may look like it's lost in the big empty in landscape. Percentages may be your new best friend in responsive-land, but you still may need to tweak anyway.

4) Think about places where the direct handling of mobile gestures make sense. Things like slideshows and such work well here. Touchable (requires jQuery) is helpful here for a low-impact solution: https://github.com/dotmaster/Touchable-jQuery-Plugin/

5) Remember that things like the "hover" event don't work (yet/ever) on touch platforms, so if you were relying on that to signal something, you'll need to change your signal to something clearer for that environment.

6) Think carefully through interactive elements, especially ones that rely on 3rd parties. Your map-based application will likely need a bunch of work. Your giant sidebar widget for showing the latest posts on FaceTweet+ might need to go.

7) Mercy for those on 3G (or worse.) Not every person is going to be on a nice quick Wi-Fi connection, so think carefully about which files (images and scripts, mostly) you'll need and how you'll load them. The responsive image battles are still simmering, so you do have some choices to make, all of which involve at least some degree of ugly hackery (multiple sizes with server-side selection? Demand-loading via AJAX/AHAH?) Same goes for extra JS - are you really going that fancy animation or 500k bottom bar?

8) Ads. If you've got 3rd party advertisers/sponsors, you probably want to check if they have appropriately sized ads for you. Both scaled and down and scrollbar-forcing ads are no fun at all.

9) Navigation. Fat footer? Starbucks-style expandable list menu? Both? Other?

10) Fingers! 8px between elements rule-of-thumb is a good starting point. It may look great, but if people are tapping the wrong things constantly, they'll get annoyed.

HTH