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Your savings account underperforming, or your adjustable rate mortgage being more expensive than it would be otherwise aren't obvious forms of theft...

And the second order effects as businesses smaller than major banks attempt to make up for their losses are even less obvious forms of theft.

And if the marks don't know they're being clipped, what's the harm, right?
These strong arming of other countries is something I really hate. Its underhanded and simply bad style and unworthy of democracies. A least for me. But the US aren't the only ones doing that, the EU isn't that much better.

But freezing his assets all over the place and such, even for legal fees? In this case you actually trying to exclude him from support. If one might call this unbiased trials, ok. I don't.

What I don't like about all this is that even if you go as far away from a certain legal system as you can for whatever reason you will never escape it. I'm not talking about being criminal, just about chossing the rules you want to live under. I think certain countries and people (and I'm not going after the US or anyone in particular) should learn to accept that individuals choose for themselves.
>Ok, wait, that's not a correct analogy. It would be correct if I was advocating that men with guns go around and force you to give up %30 of your income to the church and saying that forcing you to do it was justified because its like insurance, right?

You realise that you just described taxes, don't you?
China, Russia, India and Canada are going to be thrilled to have more U.S. influence thust upon them, I'm sure. These are all on the U.S. "watchlist" of countries who have Problematic Intellectual Property. [1]

The axis of IP awesome actually. A pity that Australia's not on it.

1. 2011 Special 301 Report. Section II, Country Reports; pp.19-43. URL: http://www.washingtontradereport.com/Special301-2011.pdf
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Strangely, laktek.com does not seem to have a SOA record, nor NS records.

How is something like this even possible? Does whoever runs .com these days create direct cname entries without delegation?

Puzzled.
Thanks, so Ticbit 5 pts from you :) How about Gameonium?
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From the list I like best "Mouse Aim", the others are kinda ordinary, the second would be ticbit
To the recipient, in my experience. And it tells you when this has occurred or if it is deferring to SMS for the send. The UX is very slick.
It seems like he's still stuck thinking about computers the way he was many years ago.

Google, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Yelp, etc. ... infinitely more transformative than nearly all software that came before

Ah, pop culture, you make me laugh... you make me cry...
I think this post shows a remarkable difference between American and other work practices.

Here in the UK people get a minimum of 28 days per year off work (including bank holidays). At Mandalorian we do 30 days a year plus 1 extra day per year of service. Most people at Mandalorian don't use all the allowance (mainly because we're results oriented so people routinely check out during the day to drop kids off at school, pick them up etc.), but seem to be comfortable with the fact that they can take time off when they need/want to.

When people go on holiday, they generally disconnect here although some people will take phones etc. I've just come back from 8 days on a remote island in the sea of Marmara with a couple of days in Istanbul and my total contact with work (as the owner) was two text messages and one email on the way to the airport.

I have American friends who tell me that when they go on holiday they have to take their laptops and phones with them, and routinely take calls and do conference calls during their holiday, which sounds insane to me but each culture has it's own nuances.

If this is doing something good for American workers then I'm all for it, but I can't help but think that if I were in their shoes I'd say keep the $7,500 and double the holiday allowance.

EDIT: Thanks to willholley below for pointing out that the minimum entitlement includes bank holidays, as seen here: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/employment/employees/timeoffandh...
Because trans-bmp characters are very rare (think less than 1/10000000) and unless you work with specific corpora you may never come across them.
So under the pay-proportional-to-viewship model, artist A runs an intimate orchestral music performance and 10 people donate $100 each (because hey, orchestras are expensive to run); and artist B runs a punk performance in a warehouse where 1000 people pay £1 each. Under your model, the punk performers would make $1980 and the classical performers would make $20 - right?
Because see how healthy man can be if only he want? Ever tried? Moreover technology evolved so much and healthcare seams to work worse than before. Think about it, science can tell what happens billions of killometers away and what happens in subatomic scale and it can't find out how human body works enough to cure most common diseases? It doesn't convince me.

And why not to believe? There are many people doing bad things. There are wars, animals are treated like garbage. Why not to believe someone want to make bussiness on disieses?

How about remissions, why nobody believe they occur for a reason? People are too stupid to find out that reason? I don't think so. Or maybe am I wrong and scientists try to find out why they happen?

Why basis of caring about health in mainstream medicine now are meds and vaccination and not healthy diet and doing sports? I use no drugs and I don't get sick. I used to, before i started to care what I eat and what I do for my health. Noone ever told me to do what I've done. I rather seen commercials of drugs that are not healthy and not realy work.

Does anyone care about that psychedelic drugs relieve cluster headaches (where no other good working med is known)? Anyone cares MDMA decreases symptoms of Parcinson disease? Is it so difficult to find out why? I mean, if anybody except single scientists care? I don't mention how great can they impact on state of mind.

Hemp is great painkiller, medicine for insomnia, and others. Why I can't use it to relieve my pain or to help myself fall asleep? Why medicine use much more dangerous drugs if hemp could be used? As far as I know It's illegal because someone don't want to admit it's useful for medical reasons.

Medicine is so broken. For me someone want it to be broken or people in medicine are stupid. I can hardly believe they are so stupid so I'd rather believe second option. The fact that some people always wanted to enslave somehow other people. We had explicit enslavement and religion. Why medicine wouldn't be next one?
"Defense spending" as it is now, probably doesn't require actual war. The whole "war drives tech" idea is fueled by the idea that war causes society to funnel cash towards a singular purpose... RADAR, Manhattan Project, NASA, etc. Nowadays we are still spending a ton of money on the military, but think of what that spending would be like if WW3 were to break out (barring nuclear holocaust). That's the generic idea behind the 'war <=> tech' relationship.
$99 HTML5 gaming console
The OUYA project got me thinking: how about lowering the barrier to entry for developers even more?

A $99 linux-based console that runs games on webkit could foster an interesting community. Of course games would have to be lower-res and fairly simple, but great gameplay doesn't depend on graphics and most casual gamers don't care either, millions play on tiny Kongregate windows everyday. Retro titles would be at home.

It could offer other options for heavier games, like Lua or C++, maybe using Chrome's Native Client, but HTML/canvas development would be accessible to millions of developers worldwide. Compatible games can be created and tested on any desktop computer or the console itself. Distribution is via a web UI, you can download apps directly, with a URL or buy them through a marketplace.

Hardware could be based on AMD Fusion, Cortex A, or anything with reasonably decent graphics. Maybe use something that ships as OEM boards for faster time-to-market, and to avoid the hassle of sourcing manufacturing.

I know you could publish HTML5 games on OUYA using one of the many frameworks available, but it would be nice to completely sidestep Android and have a more focused and independent platform.

What do you think?
but thats shrinking. more often you'll see the 13th split up 50% for june and 50% for december.
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Even when you 'win' it costs you so much it feels like loosing. The Government has an unlimited amount of money it can print and spend.
Except that you could use that money for everything you wanted. So many (most?) people simply saved it and viewed it as part of their regular salary.

The new thing here is that you MUST spend the money for something fun. So it is more than just money. Its like a free lunch. They always taste better than the ones I have to pay for ;)
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Ticbit tidbit?
Any Key to Play too long
Do While Play too long but edible
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Mad Council now that's a name
Mouse Aim FPS-only?

I'd follow kellros' advice: go for a short, solid name.
Could somebody clear this up for me (I've seem to forgotten it): I know you can run a HTTP and SPDY "versions" of your webpage in parallel. But how does the browser know which protocol to use (if it supports both)? Does it initially make a HTTP request and the server responds with some header that let's it know it can use SPDY or what?
Only use a locale that does unicode collation if you need to, as it is a big performance hit.
Go to https://xxx.appspot.com then go to chrome://net-internals/#spdy
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I don't like it, because essentially your boss is commanding you what to do on your vacation. He wants you to disconnect, so that you come back fully recharged.

I'd rather get the money in salary and decide myself what to do with the money, without anyone dictating how to spend my free time. It is perfectly possible to disconnect and recharge spending one week slacking off and hanging around friends, just as much as a one month vacation.
I haven't read too much Alan Kay before, but this interview made me realize that he's not really the inventor of object-orientation as we currently think of it. He says as much directly in the interview:

"And that's true of most of the things that are called object-oriented systems today. None of them are object-oriented systems according to my definition. Objects were a radical idea, then they got retrograded."

It sounds like his conception of "objects" is a more user-facing thing; an object is something you see on your screen and can interact with and manipulate by programming. This view blurs the line between users and programmers. I'm not sure this is a terribly realistic model for how normal people want to interact with computers. For all his disdain for the web, it has succeeded in bring content to over 2B people worldwide, most of whom wouldn't have the first idea what to do with a Smalltalk environment.
I'd speculate you just don't know it as well as you know web programming.

My background is in systems programming and low level stuff; I've only been a web-programmer for two years.

I agree with your points; all those technologies are not perfect. Their limitations are mostly the result of unexpected explosive growth (the 640kb barrier, depletion of the IP address space, etc.) But they feel soundly engineered overall.

I just don't get the same feeling working with the web-related things (browsers, JS, AJAX, CSS, cross-domain policies and hacks to bypass them, etc, etc.). They all feel ad-hoc and it shows in the codebase I have to work with nowadays: it's often ugly, buggy and hard to maintain.

As a systems programmer, I've been amazed by the ingenuity of things like process forking, pipes, the proc file system, regular expressions, lexer and parser generators (the list goes on). But I can't remember a single web-related technology that made my jaw drop in amazement.

And I don't even want to get started on the difference in the quality standards and average mindset of hardware/OS design and web development (the whole "agile" and "extreme" programming thing and such).
If you distribute a balanced tree data structure with Galaxy (say, a B-tree), I think that the amortized number of invalidation messages per update comes down to O(M/N log N), with M being the number of machines in the cluster, and N the size of the data set. I'll do the math more carefully and write a blog post explaining it. In any case, an update operation does not need to wait for invalidation acks in order to proceed, so this cost affects throughput more than it affects latency.
Somewhat off topic, but the concept of 'unlimited time off' has been brought up in the comments here. I work at a startup that uses this system. It's a great concept and very comforting to know you can have time off when you need it, but it's also somewhat confusing. Since there is no benchmark, I have no idea what is considered 'acceptable' time off. In the year that I've worked for this startup, I've taken maybe two weeks - that includes a week for Christmas, and the rest are just days here and there (like an extended weekend for an anniversary camping trip). Most of these days I'm also connected to a computer, whether it's coding for a bit in the evening or checking mail periodically throughout the day. I'm sure I could take more time off and go on an extended trip, for example, but does this weigh into my employee review? I know it doesn't make sense, but I feel like I'm cheating the company when I take time off, especially as an early employee.

Don't get me wrong - I love the flexibility and freedom, but can somebody familiar weigh in? What is considered 'acceptable' or 'standard' for employees at early stage startups with 'unlimited time off'?

Edit: The company is YC backed and the founders are regular HN readers. Maybe they'll weigh in :) ... or weird vibes at the office tomorrow.
Here in the Netherlands, we actually get extra 'holiday pay' by law too. It makes salary calculations more complicated but it also makes me get a big grin on my face in May :)
I have no problem with people disliking his ideas, I just think that they should be disliked for what they are, rather than because he's made some bad choices in web design.
How did you find BKK to KBP to JFK flight? Skyscanner and Hipmunk don't return this within the results. But so doesn't Aerosvit site.
That's the traditional model, at least. I think it's falling apart. At least here in Italy, vacations like that are something that only a certain set of people can afford: those with traditional "Permanent Position" sorts of jobs, which, increasingly, is a smaller and older set of the population.
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Apple could be a leader and show everyone else how to care for the environment. What does this say about their customers?
In my mind, Penny Arcade was as it started out - two guys drawing comics. $500k each sounded like a lot. I don't know if Childs Play and PAX are a big money sink for them?
Requests are requests.15B is a gigantic amount.
I read something somewhere once that claimed that employees with "unlimited time off" actually take less than the standard US average.

It's nice to say "you can take time off whenever you feel you should", but in reality it's extremely difficult to create a culture where this is actually respected.

I'd actually rather have the policy of "X weeks, but we're not actually looking that hard". That way I don't have to plan things down to the very last day, and rest easy knowing there some give, but also still feel entitled to take what's mine.
Where I live most bigger employers already give people some additional money for vacations (but nothing like 7500$, more like 200$-300$, so the OP idea is still good :) ).
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The server tells the client it can handle SPDY through an Alternate-Protocol header. The client then makes subsequent requests over SPDY.

http://dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-protocol/spdy-protocol-dra...
>HFS+ is a Unicode-aware filesystem, so the idea that "you want your filenames encoded as ISO-8859-1" is fundamentally invalid and unimplementable

Sure. But it's still the idea that linux would apply, and how linux APIs (that expect a filename to be a stream of bytes) work. I really think this is a linux/locale problem rather than a python problem.
For processes on the same machine, an IPC mechanism like domain sockets or shared memory would surely be faster.

Why are you sure that these would be faster than reading and writing a file?

There is a key truth to be mindful of while doing optimization work: programmers are, as a rule, terrible at anticipating at the cause of slowness in their application. This is counterintuitive but almost always true.
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The same thing is common here in The Netherlands. Also, 20 days of paid holidays (excluding weekends) are mandatory, although some employers offer more. IIRC I have ~37 days of paid leave (excluding weekends), but I am not exactly sure since I never completely use it :). We also get extra days off for e.g. moving or marrying. Most of my colleagues completely disconnect during holidays (no work-related e-mail, phone calls, etc.).

I think the idea of restricting the spending of holiday money to holidays only is difficult to execute in most organisations.
Edit for my above post: It is diffcult and NOT impossible to tell if you stall. Diffcult is the better word.
OK thanks. That cleared things up :) Too bad that this means that the first request (which is usually the most expensive one) is always done trough HTTP :/
The whole trend of censoring things you can buy with Paypal scares me. What is Paypal thinking? Have they been pressed by politicians lately, without this actually being a law? I know they were very obedient when Lieberman asked them to censor Wikileaks earlier, and they seem to have increased instead of decreased their censorship efforts since then.
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Being based in Germany I just gave my wife the gist of the article/idea and she was literally shouting 'Hell, yeah' (okay, I translated this one) when I told her about the requirement to disconnect.

I know I could disconnect/drop off the grid in my free time, but I'm addicted. And what's the incentive to do so?

If, on the other hand, someone pays me good money for the promise of staying offline for 2 weeks: That sounds like a sweet deal to me, Europe or not.
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Also examples of some of the greatest human meatgrinders and public-private war profiteering the world has ever seen. As a society we shouldn't remember the sweet without also remembering the sour.
Just for clarity, the minimum 28 days in the UK is inclusive of the 8 bank holidays.
Hmm? I might not know excactly what you're referring to and so on, but...

I guess you increase input lag if you're doing vsync and double buffering and your drawing things can't keep up with the refresh rate (so framerate gets halved and that).

With vsync and triple buffering, compared to vsync off, you should only (potentially) miss out on stuff like "I could have drawn the bottom third of this new screen I've rendered one frame earlier".
It's probably one of those things, like where you get to set your own price on a meal you eat at a restaurant.

IIRC when people try 'price your own meal' they invariably end up taking more money than when they charge the set price as per menu.

It wouldn't surprise me to know that 'unlimited time off' actually means less time is taken, for the simple reason that if you're told '2 weeks' then that's what you work towards, conciously or not.
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Working in Germany.

The companies I've worked for offer neither of these payments, so you're getting 12 salaries. Of course my exposure is limited to tech companies and small one at that, but for me these 13th or 14th salaries are unavailable, that is only present in big corporations or interestingly for non-academic jobs (i.e. metal work shops I know do pay these, so do some construction companies). IT? Nope.
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I suspect hanging around with friends for a week would be perfectly acceptable.

For others, it might be hanging on the couch, eating Taco Bell and watching bad cable all week

Presumably they mean "disconnect" from the company rather than all people you know.
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Totally agree with you, but looking at the comments above it seems like we've been imprisoned for so long in this glorious cave called the World Wide Web that we've forgot how we could have transformed the real outside world. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave)
Great feedback. Mad Council is very popular choice, but since our first game is for kids I am wondering what can be effect of "by Mad Council" as the first thing popping out when you start the game for you child.
Out of curiosity, did you ever spend much time reading the code of the various frameworks on offer? Especially since you have the experience of building everything from scratch, I think you could have the same level of understanding of any frameworks you put together by browsing the code.

In Rails land at least, a lot of relatively inexperienced developers tend to have trouble when they can't google for the thing they want to implement or find it in the docs. I find that if I open up the source in roughly the area in which I need to implement something, a hook point is provided at about the right level of abstraction. Your mileage with other frameworks/environments may vary.
It would apply in the way that there is only one iPad or iPod branded device from one company, which has marketed it as the only thing in its category. While on the other hand there is a plethora of various Android based tablets with many differing features, hence leading to confusion and analysis paralysis.
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It sounds like they'd be fine with you "hanging on the couch, eating Taco Bell and watching bad cable all week" rather than spending the money on a fancy vacation.
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I'm sure you had great fun on your trip, but for most people I believe that going with your workmates would make it much, much harder to truly disconnect.

Sure, maybe you aren't sitting around with laptops and whatnot, but I'm sure all sorts of work talk will pop up.