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I thought 3-5 years would be a good enough length of time (leaning more to 5 years for physical applications). Though companies may still then hoard technology that isn't ready for the market yet, which would slow innovation. Longer patent times are perfectly fine if fees are regulated.
I'm a big fan of octopress now, which is just jekyll with some rake tasks and plugins already set up to make things even easier to get started.. https://github.com/imathis/octopress
My only reason to use jQuery is to avoid cross-browser js issues.
Actually most of the world, that has gotten rid of royalty, seems to be doing its best to bring back at least some of the trappings; for example, http://westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/07/21/presidential-transp...
Today, JavaScript is distributed in minified and/or obfuscated form. And the JavaScript code might have originally been generated by a compiler from a different source language. So calling the stuff your web browser downloads and executes the "source" is not really a valid argument.

Instead, JavaScript is used as a program representation with small size and immediate execution in mind, and it really sucks in that role.

Even if the code is distributed in source code form with white space, identifier names and comments intact (bandwidth isn't cheap, you know), licensing is still the factor that legally determines if it is free software or just open source by default.
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There are 2 main (tech) differences:

- Mongrel2 uses SUB/PUB (2 channel), BlastBeat uses ROUTER/DEALER, you
only need one channel for request and response.

- Mongrel2 put the whole request in a single message, this is easier but
forces you to pass uploaded file as filenames (so backend must be on the
same machine or need access to the mongrel2 machine) or to buffer into
memory (for adding datas to the zeromq message). BlastBeat requires you to
manage request content data assembling 'body' messages.

So, 2 different approaches. In addition to this mongrel2 is a full
featured webserver, an area in which BlastBeat does not want to compete :)

Source: http://www.mail-archive.com/uwsgi@lists.unbit.it/msg03917.ht...
With the advent of pretty print in Chrome's web development console (and add-ons available for Firefox), minifiers are less of an issue for learning how a site works.

I suspect that minifier arguments are no-win situations: either someone doesn't like that they can't easily read the JavaScript, or someone complains it takes too long to load the scripts for a given page.
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"Fucking dumb" - Dumb meaning very stupid. "Very fucking stupid" has a bunch of syllables to help release those energies too, if that's what you're going after / feel you need.
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I'm an NZ expat who has lived in Berlin for the last few years. While Berlin is cool, let me present a caveat...

I've enjoyed the music scene and cheap rent, but have experienced major culture shock. It is a very intense place, full of contradiction, i.e. extremely open-minded in some areas and absurdly conservate in others. Berlin alternatively challenges and reaffirms one's various values.

Sometimes it seems like the 'adults' have left the city and left the 'kids' in charge. At other times, it feels impossible to breathe without violating some ponderous rule. Many are sucked into what is called a 'Berlinquency' - an existence in which one is spoilt by the hedonism, looseness, and condusiveness to self-obsession this place affords.

The tech scene is ok. There are a lot of clones. Some great meetups, though. It all seems to be on the up. Watch this space. And visit for a month before deciding to move here.
No offense meant, but where does this idea come from? I hope it's not common - US Court decisions are valid in the US. Period.

Anything else is an international thing, and unless covered by treaties signed into law between countries, courts from one country never just honour some other countrie's legal system.

Extradition is possible on crimes where both countries agree it's a crime and generally have an extradition treaty, or policy for such requests, but to think that the US courts are somehow global is factually incorrect.
There is a difference when YC wants you to live in SV for YOUR success and other accelerators wanting you to live somewhere for THEIR benefit, right?
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It does not matter how rich the parents or how much the family is worth, this is just plain criminal. If the object cannot be sold or donated because of the Eagle- then it has 0 value. I hope that the courts find in favor of this family.
The idea that there is a 50% estate tax in this country is BS. Why not make it 100% and we can just become Marxist...and be done with it.
If the business is in Sweden, it would have to go to court in Sweden, would it not?
Does Sweden actually allow judges to have a look at a foreign decision and then just declare their ruling, no trial, nothing? I suspect not (eager to learn if otherwise)
I'm on a Google internal ubuntu 10.04 version, which works very well.

As for the support - I have to support the other users ^^
Why is it scary? Isn't it natural for children to not worry about their future too much at that age? It is important yes, and it is being emphasized to the kids. However, they aren't naturally interested in their future at that age, and you can't artificially try to make them become sincerely interested in it. There are exceptions, of course. There are kids at age of 8 who tell that they will become pilots, and want to learn French at age of 10. And there are kids who say at age of 13 that they will become translators, and will take optional English classes because of that. But the majority is not like that, and it is fine.

I think the natural curiosity and will to learn(for example by motivating the kids to study, making school and studying as fun as possible etc.) is far more important than planning your futre as a minor, let alone trying to aim for a career as a minor. I'm talking about whole classes of students from various backgrounds and performances, not just the top 5 % performers of which most will attend universities and achieve great things. I'd guess many HN'ers fell to the better half of the average performance at school, and as such might easily miss the other half who did not do so well.
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succulent > succinct, perhaps?
I'll defer to experts on the patent issue, but in principle, if you are quick to take measures to avoid doing business with people in states that cause you trouble as soon as they bring it up, it will very likely give you much better chances in court, and much more favor with whoever is deciding your fate, especially if it's international.
I see your point, but what I'm advocating is a solid service similar to Instapaper or Pinboard (not necessarily premium) that comes with a guarantee that the service and positive product development will continue.
>"Naming people on the internet in regards to sexual crimes is dangerous."

Sexually assaulting people in real life is dangerous.

Why should the victim care one iota about what happens to these guys? Because of some arbitrary "moral-code", "justice" or "rule-of-law"? If this were me, I'd have done the same or worse. Which is why I can say, unabashedly, good for her. She witnessed first hand how the justice system works. They got their slap on the wrist, no she'll get hers.
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"Upload pitch" isn't working for me in Chrome.
I think you can benefit by simply providing a link on top of page for the start-ups to apply.
I agree with the article and with, "I look for an applicant that fits the culture, who is bright, and who is excited and wants to learn." Recruiters can't automatically filter on culture, so that is out. Recruiters aren't always that experienced (no offense), as they've probably gotten recruited into the recruiting company as new blood or just started doing it because they thought they'd be good at it. So having them judge things like culture, how bright the employee is, and how much they want to learn (and not just faking it), would be tough.

And without a recruiter, you are going to be missing out on a lot of candidates. I personally have gone through this recently and know small companies that either tried to do this themselves or with a minor (not heavy hitting) recruiter, and finding people that way is SO SLOW.

So basically, this advice is good for interviews once you can get people in, but you won't be able to change the fact that the process to getting people in will stay the same.
You can change the sensitivity in the settings (and of course, there's the usual mouse-speed setting as well).

That said, I have found that some of the newer models have much more sensitive trackpoints than my T60.

Edit: Changing the cap can be useful as well. The concave tip in particular.
> Thanks to the App Store, the days of paying $30+ for boxed software and paying again every year or so for version n+1 (assuming it comes out at all) are pretty far back in the rear view mirror now.

I think this is overblown. There are a lot of business models, many that don't revolve around app-store-like freemium or one-time $1 purchases. They are waiting to be used. In the enterprise world, I don't think the app store has even made a dent in purchasing decisions.
"5 points". Figures. Everybody here wants to be part of that elite?
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Before you get too wrapped up in the idea of "other valid fields for patents", you might check out some of those other fields. There is actually quite a bit of evidence against patents in many other fields as well, though the only link I have handy is to Derek Lowe's discussions related to pharma - http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/patents_and_ip/
For probably half the price in Romania and Bulgaria,you can get Gbit internet connection...not to mention that when you start out,you aren't forced with most providers to sign long ass contracts and on the next day your internet is up and running.If you ever have issues,they'll sort it out in hours.

Again,loved Berlin,it's just I always see some guys hyping it without being able to back up their points,so I'm calling their statements out.
A lot of things clicked for me when I tried to wrap my head around the concept of money as debt. A debt to be paid by the rest of society to the holder, when he's in credit. Or a debt to be paid to the issuer if the holder's a borrower. I'm not going to pretend to understand economics in any great depth.

Thanks for your detailed reply, I was thrown by the communist thing, and missed your point almost entirely.
Again,the points were about setting up a very early stage company in Berlin YOURSELF.It wasn't about finding employment.I've been robbed only in Western Europe,Berlin included and not even once have been victim of a crime in Eastern Europe for 18 years.So there you go :)
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Assuming you are correct, the person who created all those jobs is dead. The people paying the taxes, the heirs, did none of those things.
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According to Wikipedia, he owed the taxes (to Ohio, not the IRS) but was likely unaware of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_the_Plumber#Tax_controvers...

It was Ohio Job&Family Services and the Highway Patrol which started trying to dig up dirt on him in retaliation for his criticism of Obama, not the IRS.
I'm a US citizen. My take is that if I was still single and not a parent, I would be in Berlin immediately. In some ways, it sounds better than Silicon Valley or New York. Transportation around SV doesn't sound like it's based on public transportation and housing prices are crazy. New York has great public transportation, especially with the addition of water taxies on the East River, but housing is out of control.

Learning German, if you're a native English speaker, is easy. Simple sentences in German can often sound like an oddly accented English. German is highly consistent, i.e. not a lot of exceptions to grammatical rules. You just have to get used to word order being different in some instances, e.g. verbs can appear at the end of sentence, and case endings. (Case endings are no big deal. Getting them wrong doesn't prevent the person listening from understanding you. Getting them right is the difference between a great speaker and a good one.) My experience in Germany around 1989 was that native Germans were more than happy to switch to English when I was stumped about how to say something in German. Learning the German language should not be a barrier.

For anyone thinking far enough ahead about being a parent, situating in Germany has other benefits. Germany has a better health care system and better public education. They are large costs/worries for any parent.
But that's for the protection of victims.
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True, but she'll probably use the PTO for doctor's visits and other pre/postpartum stuff.
Do you disagree with the very concept of inheritance then? Do you think nothing should be allowed to pass from you to your children?
God is just.

I'm almost as rich as Jesus.

God says...

C:\Text\WEALTH.TXT

),
any rise which can afterwards happen in that of any other sort of animal
food, cannot much affect the circumstances of the inferior ranks of
people. The circumstances of the poor, through a great part of England,
cannot surely be so much distressed by any rise in the price of poultry,
fish, wild-fowl, or venison, as they must be relieved by the fall in
that of potatoes.

In the present season of scarcity, the high price of corn no doubt
distresses the poor. But in times of moderate plenty, when
Compilers targeting JS exist because it is possible and because people prefer various other languages. Replacing JS with another language would just mean people would write various compilers targeting this new language.
There's no chance of the Euro zone falling apart. The worst thing that could happen is Greece exiting the Euro zone.
You are incorrect. When it comes to public school, students and parents sign documents agreeing to be bound by a code of conduct and the like, effectively modifying the students' asbolute rights or even signing some rights away. But in general, citizens of the United States, regardless of age, have the same rights.
I've read about killings before, I lived through 9/11, but for some reason these killings struck me really hard. Even more than school shootings. Perhaps because I think of the cinema as sanctuary - a place of make believe where we go to escape (move over places of worship!) but mostly because I wanted to really know motivations - why did he do it? Especially when it turns out he's not a person who tortured animals as a kid etc etc. I want to know why a seemingly normal person can meticulously plan such a senseless act of destruction.
I talked to the CEO of a Berlin-based crypto appliance company and he literally called the place "off-shore". Berlin is located in former East Germany, so it's totally separated from the rich former West German states where all the thriving export industry is. He told me they have practically no customers in their vicinity. They apparently can easily find staff, due to the attractiveness of the city and the various universities there, but all their customers are located in former West Germany or in other countries.

If you go to southern German states like Bayern, Baden-Württemberg or Hessen, cost of living is much higher in the larger cities there than in Berlin. That's because of the export industry which has been able to grow there for the last decades, and the resulting abundance of high paying jobs.
> there are reasons other than emotional to take a course of action

Which reasons? Why would you choose one action over another if no emotions are associated with any outcome?
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Which means you'll have to pay even more taxes, too, right?
Any examples of what is 'absurdly conservative'?
Pretty girls in online dating websites face a similar problem : their inbox is basically full of generic "hello" messages from guys hoping to reach them. I wonder if this solution - the more popular the girl is, the more you have to pay to contact her - would work on the dating scene ?
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"So you're supposed to feel sorry for people in that position?"

Because, God forbid, we treat other humans as humans. They've got some form of pretend wealth so screw them.

Right?
> The figure is equivalent to the size of the US and Japanese economies combined.

The author of the article apparently does not understand the difference between capital, money at rest, and GDP, money in motion, a yearly measure.
There are various insecurities in the existing package ecosphere; e.g., provided a package X does not currently exist on Marmalade, anyone can upload a possibly-doctored version of X and make it available for installation. There's often no way to involve the upstream author directly, because many of them don't use or care about ELPA, and many are simply unresponsive.

A robust process for auditing packages is going to be hard to establish. In practice most developers seem to be happy to install any and all updates as long as they're reasonably sure they came from the original author. By using verified upstream source repositories both el-get and MELPA ensure this is the case, as long as one steers clear of libraries originating from the EmacsWiki.
TN1 is not really a viable option unless for very young out of school kids to try out their luck and gain a few years of experience somewhere else.

Anyone that has family or house in Canada would be crazy to uproot their family and go to the USA on TN1. Because the visa is for a limited time and has to be renewed by going back to Canada and re-applying just like you did the first time. And it is at the sole discretion of the person you are talking to at the border to either grant you the visa or not. And they don't have to justify their decision to anyone (there are quite a few horror stories related to this).

This pretty much means that someone with experience, making decent money in Canada, with house etc would be crazy to put themselves through that kind of additional stress and uncertainty by living in the USA on TN1. Besides, USA with its out of control gun culture, out of control politics, christian fundamentalism, and horrible health care is not really that attractive.
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Perpetrators of mass killings seem to be very much emotional, filled with anger, resentment and bitterness. I don't think you would go through the trouble of killing other people if you are detached from emotion. Why would you?
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So when the person dies The possessions should go back to their rightful owner. The government.
Do you mean murders in general, or only these spectacle-type spree murders? It seems like much of the discussion is trying to generalize about murder based on these very rare spree killings, but imo it'd be more productive to look at where we have a lot more data, even if it's less spectacular. It's very unusual for someone to shoot up a school or a movie theatre, but it is not, alas, particularly unusual to "[kill] the people we live with and people we meet daily": there are about 12,000 murders annually in the US. If that's due to a hardware bug, there are a lot of bugs!
I agree on that. I've moved to Berlin together with hype and there is only handfull of really successful startups. Berlin needs more internet millionaires and more transparency. By now, afaiks most of Berlin tech millionaires come from Rocket Internet and people that spawn out of RI have different mindset from what you can see in Valley.
But, I'm pretty sure that new generation of Berlin entrepreneurs are on good path to change tech scene from ground up.
The article says they sold $600m of the collection. Which means even with the huge tax bill, they have over $100m plus whatever art they havent sold left.
This looks like it has all the right ingredients to spark a David vs Goliath battle. I'm not sure about elsewhere, but in Australia the Blackboard product seems to completely dominate this market, and as far as I've heard it's nearly universally disliked by students and staff for being hard to use.

No doubt blackboard has a much longer feature checklist, so it'd be great to see Lexim come along and score a win for usability and putting the needs of students and staff first.

And Lexim even has a pricing page! Incredible. Blackboard is way too 'enterprise level' to reveal how much they're going to charge you.
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The philosophy is modelled incorrectly.

Rather than being paying customers of a software costing $15 and expect support forever, be a paying customer of software costing $5 a month and expect support every month, while you're paying.

With regards to perpetuity software, the developer only has incentive to keep on building the product whilst the market is relatively unsaturated. When the entire market has purchased the product, the developer is no longer incentivized to produce new features besides the ones he must build to fulfil his contract (e.g. fixing bugs).

With a monthly subscription model, the developer must continue to improve the product, lest his customers switch to alternatives.
Arguably the US was much closer to Communism than Russia in the 50-60's. Unions effectively controlled the means of production through conflict 'strikes + other means' and redistributed more than the fair market value of their labor to the workers over the long term. Russia on the other hand was a de facto feudal system, with the party sharing power and privilege to a few at the expense of the peasants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_Coal_Wars
Lovely article but I'd like to ask that we call things that "compile to javascript" transpilers. JS is not "web assembly" and if we keep communicating that message in the community it will be believed to be.
I was about to write a long reply, but your single sentence summed up my exact thoughts in a very elegant way, thanks!
If anything, they seem less detached than many "normal" murderers who are for some reason less often seen as "evil". There are many people in the US who have killed multiple people, but in separate individual killings, which requires being able to treat killing as something you're able to do repeatedly, perhaps even over the course of years. Particularly common in organized crime or in drug gangs; just becomes part of the job. That's a bit scarier to me than someone snapping in a single incident. (Scarier both in psychology of the killer, and in a fear-for-personal-safety sense: I am much more likely to be shot by a gang member than in a Columbine-style incident.)
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94% of inheritances are untaxed in UK. Why? It's because it's a rich inheritance tax.

Do you think children should win the birth lottery?
>> I think of the murderers as having some kind of hardware bug.

Must you geeks relate everything to computers?
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How do sites like Gizmodo and Lifehacker get away with these posts? I know they're not illegal per se, but surely their corporate parent must frown upon them?

Since both sites publish 99% worthwhile content (at least to their target audience), the only thing I can surmise is that these types of posts must be SEO gold mines to be worth the backlash.
Stay in gorgeous, perfectly renovated apartments in pre-WWII residential buildings with high ceilings

I'm not sure everyone feels that prewar residences are a good thing. For many of us, it's sort of a reminder of everything that, you know, happened.