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That's a pretty bigoted comment. When's the last time you heard of a "redneck"/"hick" as you'd probably call them, commit mass murder with a firearm? If anything, I find them generally far more responsible with firearms because they grew up learning about them, not learning about them in violent action movies with ceramic Glocks.
> Peopple have figured out how to do this.

'This' being 'taking firearms away from people willing to obey the laws in the first place'.

What's the problem with using that logic to take firearms away from criminals?
And it was called the Sonic Screwdriver.
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Same thing happened in France with Free.
I was primed to buy the bundle when I saw it was available, but I really don't like any of the options so it's probably the first bundle I won't snag.
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Of course (I live right near Alaska and hunt).

If you can prove you hunt (permission from a land owner, hunting permit, tags, etc.) you should be allowed to own a couple of weapon. No semi or fully automatics, no handguns, no "assult" shotguns or what-not.
Those are not for hunting, and every hunter knows it.
Right now the average level of comments ("reviews"!) on the App Store is just a tiny bit better than YouTube comments. It's rare than you can "really" find a useful review. Now an army of Facebookers/Twitters is able to comment too. These guys have their own subset of English language that I don't quite understand (or rather try hard not to understand), and usually try to fit their message in 140 characters or less. Guess it won't help the App Store(s)'s comment much...

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The difference between Australia and the US is that here in the US, we love our guns. A lot. Look what happened during the alcohol prohibition. Look how well our drug war is going. If you try to take guns away from Americans, especially the midwest, I will guarantee you there will be riots. I don't think some of you realize just how much American's love their guns.

I own exactly zero guns, but I fully support the 2nd amendment.

Using the argument of "Hardened criminals will still get them anyway" is like saying we shouldn't have a law against murder because some people will do it anyway, so it's a waste of time. The point is to deter or make it extremely difficult for as many people as possible

No, it is nothing like saying that. Murder in itself is a very bad thing. Owning a gun isn't a bad thing, it's what the gun can be capable of that is bad. Just like alcohol itself isn't a bad thing, it's what the person is capable of doing when drunk, that is bad. That's why alcohol isn't illegal, but driving drunk is. That's why guns shouldn't be illegal, but using them in an unsafe manner should be.
> To be fair, this tool has only one use: it kills things.

If you ignore all of the other recreational uses, sure; you can also say that motorcycles only have one use: To kill people who ride them and the people those riders hit.
Java has nothing to do with that.
If you want to you can put everything in the default package (no nesting) or in a 1000 nested directory.

Java does not stop you from doing this:

Minecraft-API

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Besides the mentioned licensing-issues, Dinnerbone (the guy hired by Mojang, who used to work on Bukkit) – as well as others involved – has said that they like the opportunity to start fresh.
Things, which was done one way in Bukkit, isn't necessary the best way and given the opportunity to do it better, it's not a hard choice.
I wonder if you can pay them a fee to hide the negative security reviews of your name.
Only because you wrote a bunch of other stuff that gave it context. Stubborn much? That statement, on it's own, says the opposite of what you meant. I don't know why you're arguing with me about it.
I agree in principle, though to be fair most UNIX utilities have so many incompatible variants that striving for maximum backwards compatibility often does more harm than good (like producing options that do entirely different things in the presence of other options, in the absence of a leading hyphen, etc.). Practically speaking, sysadmins generally use more consistent tools (e.g., Perl) for nontrivial cross-OS things once this becomes an issue, and, as a developer, it's not clear to me that build-time dependence on, say, Perl or Python is any worse than depending on GNU versions of basic UNIX tools, the existence of which tends to only be a safe assumption on Linux. On non-UNIX platforms, this is an even bigger issue: I'd certainly rather recommend ActivePerl or the latest binary Python 2.7.x release from python.org to the average Windows developer than any of SFU, Cygwin, or MSYS (and I say this as someone with a strong UNIX background who works with both Windows and Windows developers on a daily basis).
Oh, and if you build it yourself (as this person has done), no tax need be paid, no serial # need be applied, and all perfectly legal provided you have not been restricted from purchasing a weapon through normal channels. That is, a felon making a weapon is now a felon-in-possession, where a citizen with full rights making one has not committed a crime.
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Where did you get the idea I was suggesting that we go backwards?

All I'm saying is that things haven't gotten worse. In fact, they've gotten MUCH BETTER.

Just because the OP hasn't EVER been satisfied with a telco isn't any reason to discount all the good that they do or the progress that's been made.

Some folks forget that cellular companies in the US were fighting an uphill battle against the telcos for a while. The compromise was for an "A" carrier (telco) and a "B" carrier (non-telco). So competition was built into the program for telecom modernization from the start.

Back then, a mobile phone cost $300-$800, service cost $30/month and included no free minutes (priced at $.10-.25) each. It didn't matter which provider you chose because that's what it cost to build the network in a greenfield environment.

And here is the rub: the OP can have almost ANY kind of service he wants. Don't like the incumbent? There are any number of CLECs that will lease you a fiber pair directly to the local colo for 20 years. PROBLEM SOLVED.
You're leaving out a very key point: because of an antitrust case against AT&T, they were forbidden from turning their non-telephone technology into proprietary products. In other words, they were essentially conducting research for the public interest at no real cost to the public.

That's very different from any definition of a 'monopoly' that I'm aware of, and very different from modern network providers.

Many factors were essential to Unix's success, but the fact that it was anything but a monopolized product is certainly one of them.
> But here I was, helpless. The only thing I could do was direct her to BART and join the rest of the class inside

... or pull the class out and refuse to attend it out of principle?
the article's main message that being in 19% is an easy target is based on the mistake brudgers discovered; namely 25K in 4 years, or <10K in 1 year is barely a good target for any company or indie developer.

that's a presentation trick from Apple, mainly not telling how much developers get in current quarter, but rather bragging about a rolling number. the blog writer was a victim of the apple trick of rolling the revenue given to the app devs back to the beginning of the known history.
I'm solely on Android at the moment and doing free apps with admobs included.

In the 10 months since I started releasing on the market I've had an average of 400 downloads per month; and currently 1,100 active users.

I've literally made about $20 in admobs credit, it's been nothing to shout about but my apps were mainly just released to get my name on the market. I managed to get some contracts on the back of my own work.

I'm in the middle of developing my first major paid application. I'll stick it on iOS as well. Hopefully I will eventually no longer be reliant on contracted work.

I do enjoy my work. I'm at University full time and doing this part-time. It's the summer break right now and I'm working in my living room, in shorts and watching TV. It probably doesn't get much better. I'm hoping that once I graduate I will be able to do this full-time.
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I think we're probably mostly in agreement, even if I wasn't clear about it. In my line of work, there have been times where I was not permitted to use external scripts or binaries (highly sensitive environments). However, that one small example doesn't mean ack should be disregarded!
No, I did not skip over that at all. I acknowledged it in the grandparent comment, because it was spelt out to me very clearly in the instructions with the first set of buckyballs I purchased. After trying two of the magnets on the membrane between my fingers and noting how powerful they were, it was obvious to me why having them exercising their magnetic attraction for each other in your intestines would be an incredibly bad thing. I did, in fact, realize the danger perfectly well.

This is why I don't put them in my mouth or nose or ear, or let children play with them. Now, while this particular mode of operation is unique to magnets, do you really think that sharp screws or small nails are going to be kind to your intestine?
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With the "Free Internet" plan, what happens if I pay the construction fee, then move out of my "fiberhood" into a house that isn't part of a fiberhood?
>Then again, I first learned about it in an economics book in the 90s ... and I think that book was from the 70s.

Well that explains why you have such an average grasp of the concept.
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what if people with assault weapons were also outed in their neighborhoods?

That would be fun. A list for criminals of 'houses not to rip off'. Also: list of houses to rip off with impunity.

Would you be willing to share a wall with someone who had 6k rounds of ammunition?

6,000 rounds is not lot - a few guys can burn that many off in a weekend.

Sure, why not? What matters is intent.

Also: a prudent gun owner is not going to use a rifle in an apartment building or duplex.

That's what shotguns are for.

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There's a good argument for eliminating that deduction, as it effectively grants high tax states and localities a subsidy from the residents of low tax states and localities.

That being said, the deduction doesn't take away the full force of the tax. Some quick math tells me that 40% federal + 10% state - the deduction is a 46% marginal rate.

Medicare/Medicaid FICA has been uncapped since the '90's, and adds 2.9% or 1.45%, depending on how you want to count the employer "contribution". Next year for top earners it goes up another .9% to help pay for ACA.

So I don't think claiming marginal income rates are approaching 50% at the high end is unfair. Does anyone doubt that a popular "fix" for Social Security will be to uncap that tax as well? Then we'd be talking 60%+ if you discount the accounting fiction of the employer contribution. Or are self-employed.
Because I have a friend working at Zynga, I'm sad that their stock is going down - but, given Zynga's business model of wholesale ripping off other people's game concepts, and slapping down their own art and calling it "new" (Dream Height versus Tiny Towers) - I'm actually pleased that their stock is taking a hit.

I've even heard it rumored that Pincus actually _encourages_ his team to take other people's game concepts, and change the trade dress/graphics art and market it under the Zynga name, rather than investing in creating brand new game concepts.

I worked at Netscape at the end when we decided to just wholesale clone Yahoo's portal, and create "Netscape.com" - people worked really hard, wall after wall was covered with mockups of Yahoo, and the equivalent netscape.com version - it was a thoroughly depressing place to work, and any engineer with a sense of self worth quickly departed.

I'm not saying there isn't a business model there - I'm sure there is - it's just not one I would hope the best engineers would aspire to.
No, I believe I was contrasting the GOP's line

'I was on my own, I made it, and you can do the same.'

With the reality:

'I was on my own, I made it with the assistance of resources that government provides, and you can do the same if we actually wanted to support that mode of government in the future, but we don't.'
> Why own a game system...

There's actually a service called "OnLive" that streams games, it seems pretty cool. It's a mashup between Steam and Netflix; you don't have to have a gaming PC to render the frames, just a fast Internet connection to stream them.
The 0$ offer reminds me of Free too.
I wonder if they could be partners to deploy fiber access in France.
That makes it sound like sandboxing is a matter of personal taste, and that if I as a developer consider my self "too good to sandbox" someone else will eat my lunch.

I fully agree with your line of reasoning in many other debates about the App Store, and I'm not against appliance computing. Take the 30% cut, for instance. If Smile had discontinued TextExpander's App Store presence because they didn't like the 30-70 split, I would be the first to point out that this leaves money on the table for someone who runs a lower-margin business, and that everything is in order as per the free market.

Sandboxing is different in that many features can't be done; not because of price point or some rms-esque FOSS principle, but because policy is holding the technology back. Developers are not given a choice.

It's not about "a different model" where incumbents refuse to compete and lose their foothold because of stubbornness. It's about limiting what any developer can do; they're not given a choice.

We will have perfect competition in the realm of distraction-free writing environments, but we will have no third-party backup tools. Nobody can happily come along and write one, because nobody is allowed, incumbent or otherwise.

TL;DR: No, I'm not speaking out of fear of competition. Sandboxing doesn't just hurt incumbents. It limits products, not development models.
> Billy Bob

And this kind of simple classist bigotry ("The poor people are dangerous! They aren't like us!") is one reason the people who want to increase firearm regulation have done such a terrible job of it: You can't intelligently impose laws on a culture you have no understanding of, especially if you think it's not important to understand.
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It had everything to do with her name: she was turned away by the person with the guest list, but not by the security guy checking for fake IDs. That was the only piece of information they had.

And no, she's got a down-home 'good old American' type name, if I've ever heard one.
Not sure that would achieve much, except maybe make her feel (unfairly) guilty and the rest of the class potentially resentful (despite this not being her fault).

But sending her away makes no sense either. Why not ask her to wait outside, ensure the rest of the class finds their way, then attempt to find somebody with suitable authority to allow her in?

There's no point arguing with a security guard past a certain point; they simply do not have authority you're seeking.

However, even if you spend the entire session trying to find somebody and don't succeed, at least the student will respect and appreciate your effort and won't feel alone in her plight.
Yelp wasn't gaining anything by people attending. The attendees were gaining by attending (I would love to hear how Pinterest scaled). Should the whole class be punished for Yelp's stupidity?

Now, if Yelp gained anything other than "they gave us a spot to meet", I would agree with you 100%. I would give them no benefit for being moronic.
> I was trying to use a "generic" name.

No, you were not. It was deliberately aimed as a classist swipe.
We used to have a horizontal quilt[1]. We got rid of it both for design reasons, and because the math behind it is much trickier and limits the layout (e.g. you can't do arbitrary ordering of the photos).

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Not exactly an open-source project but id software releases their source code under the GPL license after a couple of years. So you might want to have a look at the sources of say, Doom or Quake. Both of them were written in C. In fact everything they did up to Doom 3 (C++) is C code if I remember correctly.
>Someone mentioned that it's a $700 cost

It was some guy higher up who provided no sources. We don't know how much it actually costs Google. There are so many factors involved that I highly doubt $700 is what it costs.
the idea is to use 'find' if you want something fancy

I don't get it, can someone explain? It also appears in the ML thread linked elsewhere, and I don't understand it there either. (I understand the reasons for the change in behaviour, just not this specific line.)
That was there a week or so ago when I accepted the beta invite.
More importantly, it was before the 1980s.
I am going to let the "never" slide because you switched on it again. So we are down to your point being that there aren't any good designers around ? And somehow "great design" occludes knowledge.

Does this configure or bring any hope for users, it would be the designers that lock users out of the know-how... you see how that may not even be possible, because of innate properties like human curiosity, the very target of said "great design".
I'm not the OP, but I do have evidence that a homebrew firearms industry is likely to spring up anywhere with a large number of violent criminals:

http://improguns.blogspot.co.uk/

Most of these are either machine pistols or disguised firearms, both of which are already severely restricted in the US. It seems likely to me that restrictions on firearms in those countries are the reason people are building guns instead of buying them.

Some of these guns came from Brazil and Ecuador, which have significantly higher homicide rates and tighter restrictions on firearms than the United States. This suggests to me that some other factor is likely responsible for the high homicide rates.
> cars are good for something other than killing things

Not all kinds of cars. What legitimate use does a massively overpowered Lamborghini have? Or a massively overpowered motorcycle?
You need better programmers and sysadmins.
I cannot find a clickable link to the author's product on the blog post. I think you are leaving money on the table right now!
It would be nice if the wages were standardized against cost of living. This would show where the wage truly equates to higher compensation.
you're not alone. It's harder than they make it seem.. much harder. As an example, landing pages for SEO is trivial.. stupid trivial. How to get those pages to rank for your desired keywords though is challenging, but no growth hacker wants to do that, or tell u how to do that.
Kansas City - yeah, that'll do it. I'm sure everyone in Kansas City needs Gigabit Ethernet.
So it's a choice between bad and worse?
That makes sense.

I just wonder how people like DHH feel...I wonder if a) He feels like he knows everything about Ruby and Rails.

shrugs
You were very, very lucky. If I remember correctly, fewer than 20% of the US population has more than one option for their cable provider.

I'm moving into a new apartment (in NYC) and the only 'choice' I have is how much I want to pay Time Warner for what's likely the same speed.
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Thanks for the interest! I added a mailing list for volume 2 (at the bottom of the page).
I had another 9 students inside, and the talk was worthwhile for them. Furthermore, the problem was not with the organizers (who were generous and accommodating) or the speakers (who were similarly generous), but with the venue. Nothing would have been solved by protesting: I'm not important enough that anyone would have noticed.
> Centralization of malware. Monocultures are subject to waves of viruses.

This is a completely nonsensical argument. Malware has absolutely nothing to do with the distribution mechanism of the program in question.
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Stop saying '1000+ rounds of ammo', as it makes you sound like the alarmist you are.

Point of fact - a loaded magazine for an AR-15 weighs in at approximately one pound. To carry '1000+ rounds of ammo', you would need to carry something like 30 magazines. Try it sometime - that only happens in video games for a reason.

A large truck driven through a crowded market could kill many more people than your average looney with a semi-automatic rifle. These highly publicized events make up only a tiny fraction of the number of homicides we experience per year, most of which only use a few bullets, and not from a 'high-caliber semi-automatic assault rifle'. Calm down.
In this particular example he had a finite list of people he wanted to kill in either case, so if moderately athletic guy who's for-armed himself with a baseball bat and knife I'd expect him to be able to murder a person or small number of people with or without a gun.

As to someone who's really crazy and wants to kill as many people as possible, well, people who use bombs seem be much more deadly than people who use guns, so I'd be nervous about banning guns for fear of channeling them into less visceral but more deadly sorts of mayhem.
Mountain Lion already prevents those, by default it won't let you install anything unsigned.
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Sincere question -- how do you programatically create 900 pages that aren't crap? I often advise the multiple, targeted landing page strategy, but I've always considered the best performance to be carefully considered pages with crisp copy that should at least be reasonably performant, and then test the hell out of those pages to try and boost them.

I've seen the programatically generated 'query-catcher' pages that the big boys use and have always dismissed them as effective (because they don't work on me). Am I completely missing the boat somewhere or is there some intersection I've yet to discover?
The US is different -- the murder rate is a cultural/economic problem, not a guns problem per se.
I love how HN jumps immediately into a gun control debate and almost completely misses the fact that what he printed is a long way from an AR-15. It's just a piece of metal called the lower receiver. When I say lower receiver, I believe he built just the shell not the trigger assembly or bushings. In addition, the bolt and barrel (the upper) weren't manufactured.
But lets assume for a minute that he printed the entire thing from scratch, how is this any different than the fact that anybody with a good machine shop can produce a full AR-15 by hand?
Most Americans actually believe in the decriminalization of both - you don't need to be a libertarian. It is the parties they vote for that don't.
what's your opinion on building automated computer-generated content from data you own (trends from stats, etc). Isn't that frowned upon by Google?
How else can it be done? If you want namespaces you can use them, if not you don't.