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Like most engineers, he did the coding part right, the political part wrong. The right way to approach this would be...

This assumes there is a right approach. In reality it is highly probable that there is no such thing as a right approach. So actually the right thing to do is find another job.
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A lot of private schools follow the "charge just as much as the Ivies, so you can tell employers we're just as good" model.

As a percentage of students, the Ivies are small. As trend-setters that lots of other people follow, they are very significant.
I don't know, twitter, reddit, foursquare... those are all big names
I can see where this would be effective. The question is whether you can convince a company to believe the hype, pay money up front, and put in extra effort at the end to recoup that money if the goals aren't met.

To anyone who isn't open to new ideas it is hard to invest in ideas like this because they would be automatically labeled as a pipe dream.
You can try using Xubuntu. I just switched from OS X to (Ubuntu) Linux and didn't like Unity either. A co-worker suggested Xubuntu and I haven't looked back.
You're right if OP was using a small bloom filter, and wrong if it was a big one. Hence, the phrase, "depending how you tune it."
While that may be true, it's not germane to an RFC for "Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement."
I had a friend who started something similar one night when he was drinking. But this is much cleaner looking. ;)

I find digging into stats and broad psychological trends relating to human behavior kind of exciting on one level and depressing on another. From one perspective you can really increase your likelihood of getting people to do what you want with small tricks and tweaks. But then you realize that we're all just a bunch of manipulate-able sheep. :/
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Exactly, but the mystery is why they are wasting time at those useless universities! :)
> Organic giving from individuals who work in the educational sector doesn't come hand in hand with organized, well financed political pressure

As long as you don't count union lobbying as "organic giving from individuals".
Is there any reason you crawled for 40 hours? Was this the optimal cost from Amazon? Why not do this over more time using bid for spot instances?
And the white house promptly ignores it.

Guys, it took a near shutdown of the internet to get congress to back off on SOPA/PIPA. I don't think a mere letter is going to sway anybody that matters.
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This is essentially what I commented on G+ and what I came here to say.

A programmer who does not understand the tradeoffs of liberalism vs conservatism as Yegge defines them is not a good engineer. At best they might be talented at doing things a very specific way, sort of like a designer whose stuff all looks the same and is often inappropriate for the job at hand. Such a person is more an artist than a designer, and I'd make the same distinction for someone who writes log-processing code in Haskell or codes software for a spaceship in Ruby.
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> It's awesome that they've been involving the public so much in the details of how the rover mission really works.

It must be mission critical to spread awareness since their budget cuts are getting worse and one way to correct that is to get people excited about space exploration. They now put a considerable effort in PR, involving people in the mission, sharing most of the information and making professional videos. And i believe this is why we see twitter accounts of most astronomers, satellites, rovers and other NASA properties. The NASA's ustream has been very popular lately and they have presence on every major social network. And curiosity was named after an essay written by a student in a competition organised by NASA for school students.
Cu2o is still about 2-3x as expensive, though.
Essentially a million dollar company in two years, impressive!
If I spend $1 million to develop something innovative and the guy next to me stole that innovation; he effectively stole $1 million from me. That's a huge disincentive to spending another million to innovate. Copyrights and patents don't stifle innovation, they protect the creators and the resources they expended. To drive innovation, people need to innovate, not steal. If I can't copy the iPhone, then that drives me to create something even better, not just an iPhone with a few little tweaks.

For those that disagree, I challenge you to open source all of the code you're working on for your companies. Then, I'll set up an exact clone of your application (including using your logo) and start making money from your work. That would encourage you to innovate right? Cool, innovate, then I'll use the new code you made, along with the new logo and continue making money from your work.

How is THAT fair?

If you bake amazing cookies and sell them in a shop, should that cookie recipe be given away to a competitor? Intellectual property is a critical piece of developing a competitive advantage. Take away that competitive advantage and we might as well be the Soviet Union.

If you create something, you should have the right to profit from it. If you look at the innovation in China, especially in software, it's very flat because the protections there are almost non-existent. You build something there and it's copied almost instantly, so the incentive to innovate is much, much lower.

Be careful what you wish for.
Awesome points. I've noticed the Capital One logo at the bottom of the ING Direct page, so I hope you're right re: new UI/UX.

As for rates, does your checking account's interest rate ever really help you make a decision? Personally it doesn't, but would be curious to hear what others have to say.
Steve is wrong about macros - they don't compose as well as functions, and that's why people don't recommend them where a function works just as well.

As far as adding new things into the language, though, Clojure does tend to be conservative. There is a lot of thought (hammock time) that goes into each potential addition, and whether the increase in complexity is worth the increase in functionality.

This seems like a good thing to me, but maybe that just means I'm a software conservative (I doubt it, since I also love Ruby).
Does anyone know more about the architecture of this space radio network? For example does it use tcp/ip on top over radio or is it packet switched as with amateur packet radio?
Not really. Sand is (among other things) silicon but silicon(crystalline) is not sand.
While that is certainly a nice and well regarded model, it does not say much about what actually happens. It really only amounts to a proposition, and cannot be read as indicating a necessity. As Landes and Posner themselves later say:

"Economic analysis has come up short of providing either theoretical or empirical grounds for assessing the overall effect of intellectual property law on economic welfare."

-- 'The economic structure of intellectual property law'; Landes, Posner; 2003.
Conclusion, p422, s3.

That is, to spell it out, we do not know if intellectual monopoly law is doing any good at all. This is easy to see for oneself: there must be, and obviously are, costs -- legal, enforcement, search engine 'fixing' -- yet we have no idea how much the gain is. If there is a negative, but the positive is unknown, it is quite possible the sum is itself negative.
What do these entrepreneurs all have in common? They own, operate, or invest in server-side Internet services. Such innovative products do not need IP enforcement because their core IP assets are protected by the client/server barrier, or they depend on network effects to protect first-mover advantage.

Innovations which must be shipped in whole to the client--like new music, new movies, new games, packaged software, client device software, pharmaceuticals--are not so blessed.

For example: most video game companies ship their entire IP directly to the customer. What keeps from making a copy of Skyrim and selling it on my website for half the price of the original? The legal enforcement of IP protections.

I think it is really easy to fall into a bubble where "innovation" comes to mean "the latest hosted social web service". There's a lot more to innovation than that. Which was more innovative--The Dark Knight, or Triggit? I would say TDK, which was a major cultural event in the U.S. Or how about Gardasil vs. I Can Haz Cheezeburger? One will prevent thousands of cases of uterine cancer, the other hosts user-generated cat pictures.
Yeah, it's all licensed up there. We've got a license from OFCOM (UK's FCC equivalent) for the radio link.
You claim 50% contribute nothing. I offered a rebuttal. You insisted 50% do nothing. I offered a rebuttal.

42% of federal revenue is from income tax. 42% from social security and Medicare taxes.

50% pays no federal income tax due to unemployment or low wages placing them below the poverty line or the use of various deductions. I have not disputed that. You draw a false conclusion that that indicates they contribute nothing. You have expressed a belief based on a feeling rather than fact that 50% of the population is worthless.
thats cool I guess but we would only use filepicker without all of the aviary stuff
Yegge took a massive shit on technical discourse, and if not countered, the ramifications thereof could be felt for years. His influence is disproportional to his value, and I am extremely disappointed to see anyone here taking his emotional arguments seriously.

Unless firmly censured, I expect to see Yegge's ridiculous viral meme of "liberal vs. conservative" spread and repeated by inexperienced developers indefinitely.

If I had any respect for Yegge, I entirely lost it here. The question of how to write software should be founded in careful consideration of specific problem domains, experience and research, and studied approaches. It should not be founded in some gross politicized and emotional argument.

Yegge is not just wrong, his reframing of engineering decision making is dangerous, and his ridiculous and viral engineering-as-politics meme makes people dumber for having simply read it. I'm disgusted with it, as well as any debate that seriously approaches his irrational appeal to emotion.

Yegge should be ashamed.
I personally opted to just skip over the whole Unity thing and move to Xubuntu... Personal preference, but I find Xfce has been the closest to a "traditional" desktop experience while still maintaining a full feature set.

Then again, to each his own :)
I'm at Stanford, and if you think that Stanford doesn't use every bit of its institutional influence to promote liberal political power, you have rocks in your head. This university, like its peers, works tirelessly with media such as the NY Times to promote their candidates. They aren't allowed to donate institutional money directly to a candidate, which politicians need to buy media ads to get their message out. Instead, Stanford only employs those who support the institutional liberal political agenda (calling this policy "celebrating diversity"), then those people go to their partners in the media as "Stanford professor so-and-so" with "news" about what they've just "discovered" that has implications for how you should vote: "Stanford professor finds that [conservatives are mentally ill, people who vote for conservatives are bad, Republican claims are wrong, Obama is awesome, businesses need more regulation by liberals with elite degrees and no business experience...."]

Conservatives have to donate money to buy ads. Stanford gets to post its political campaign messages directly as "news."

Meanwhile back on campus, every effort is made to indoctrinate thousands of students and send them out as an army of "individuals" to do heroic things in the service of those who people at Stanford are expected to support. I had to break off my work a few weeks ago and go to another building when the second floor was taken over by a law professor who was leading a pep rally for Obamacare called a "discussion of the issues."

The notion that universities such as these just have some left-leaning individuals acting privately while the institution itself remains resolutely neutral politically "seems rather disingenuous to me."
> If Yegge doesn't like Clojure, fine. But to rationalize like this is weak.

A bit of historical context from the last time this came up:

http://groups.google.com/group/seajure/browse_thread/thread/...
As someone explained to me on another thread, the orbiters they have now are in polar orbits. A more equatorial orbit would create very frequent uplinks.

One thing is that they didn't know Gale Crater was where they were going to land until pretty soon before launch. There were a number of other sites. And if they chose one further from the equator, that satellite wouldn't necessarily be in the right place.
Thanks for the succinct bit of observation! It is something that no one really picks up on, but when you are told about it all you can think is "huh, that really makes sense". For that I thank you. I am going to go really ask someone how their day is going. =)
It's not even true.

A thriving startup will be reinvesting in R&D and marketing expense, thus bringing profits back down to $0 (or lower if you've got investor funds).

It's absolutely dishonest to pretend that corp income taxes matter to startups in any meaningful way. If you're on track to make $1.2m next year, aim to increase your average monthly spend by $100k, and you'll make no profit (and thus pay no corp income tax), while retaining ownership of an asset whose value is increasing at a multiple of the revenues.

Innovation and IP laws matter to entrepreneurs. Corporate income tax rates are close to irrelevant for entrepreneurs.
Came here to suggest 80legs too, happy to see you're on it. I would add that if the project was being done for actual work and not just curiosity, then 80legs has the added advantage of not spending all that dev time building and testing it.
I dont consider stripe to be a paypal replacement. I consider it more of an authorize.net replacement. If I were to start using stripe we would probably still offer PayPal and CC through stripe.
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It's faster than my work's connection!
The problem is not the author, the code, or the original programmer,
the problem is here:

"First to my boss and then to my boss's boss and then to his boss and then to a whole assortment of higher ups..."

"Many of those boss's boss's bosses were seriously pissed at me...That was when the Biggest Boss of All..."

Too many bosses with bosses
This is a great article. On a side note if you want to do this all day and get paid for it let me know :-) Crawls are the first step of a search engine. Greg Lindahl, CTO at blekko.com) has been writing up a variety of technologies used in our search engine work at High Scalability [1].

One of the most interesting things for me is that a lot of the 'frothiest' web pages (those that change every day or several times a day) have become pretty significant chunk of the web from even 5 years ago. I don't see that trend abating much.

[1] http://highscalability.com/
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Yeah, I agree. As a for profit company it seems like a really immature thing to write.

I think it's pretty clear there is a problem in education finance. That problem affects a lot of people of different racial backgrounds. Comments like that create discord among the very people you are claiming to want to help.
You are missing the point. The point is that innovation drives advancements technology, and litigation stifles innovation. Money that companies spend litigating products which will likely be outdated / deprecated in a couple years is not money well spent.

So what if Samsung and Apple both make use of a light-weight rectangular touchscreen? Consumers benefit more when there are competing interests than when there is a monopoly. Consumers benefit when there are two separate branches iterating outward and improving something very basic.
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No, but companies are all about making things into money. That's why they choose a number of subjects (and degrees) that they deem useful and disregard everything else.

What people fail to understand is that a degree in the humanities also provides qualifications other than "let me tell you about the depiction of French rats in late medieval English clay paintings." However, these skills are not seen as being easily converted into revenue and thus ignored.

Such skills include independent problem solving, a high degree of organisation, formulation and proof of theories, descriptive and abstract work etc.

However, if you have an engineer who builds you parts for a car or a website or a backend or what not, you can immidiately slap a price tag on it and give more money to your shareholders.
Kirill and Jenn are absolutely relentless in their pursuit of building something truly fantastic. Couldn't be happier for them with this launch.
I was a bit surprised at my result since I've done large systems and have been developing for 30 years. I think I lean toward more of the "get it done" camp unless it's a super high-production (i.e. money gets lost when down) system then I might tend further toward the center. :)
There is a market for closed solutions and that market isn't us; it's technophobes of all stripes who just want their devices to work and want someone else to worry about the how.

To extend an analogy: I know how to make coffee and like to know that I can buy my beans, grind them as I like, and brew them with the right temperature water at the right time. I don't ever want someone to take that option away from me. In practice, 90% of the time I drink coffee from my Keurig. I pay more and get coffee that is suboptimal for some tastes, but it's good enough for my purposes so the trade off is worth it.

I think a lot of people like their machines to operate this way too. Apple has proven that this model can work and will be embraced. We're in for MORE of this, not less, and it's the market that's going to allow it to happen.

If anything, what the market is telling us is that choice isn't always a good thing. The vast number of options and configurations (along with innumerable failure modes) is perceived as a market failure, not a success.
You are describing what IP is supposed to do- not how it is shaping the industry today.

Why do copyrights need to last hundreds of years?
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I am amazed at how well Google always treated, and still treats its employees. I am even more amazed at companies like Zynga, Amazon and other popular valley companies (both big and small) dont take a leaf or two from Google's playbook, and start treating employees with more respect and give good perks, and spend resources to provide their employees an awesome working environment. The more a company gives, the more it gets from its employees. It is a simple rule. Marissa is prudent and wise enough to know this. Food is free for employees at Yahoo! now. Other execs can learn a thing or two from her.
I do pity the guy for moving back to the UK, expecting some kind of blessing of freedom. Perhaps he has been gone too long to realize the extend to which our police state now reaches. In the past 15 years, we have reintroduced star chambers, armed the police, failed to prosecute anybody in the police force for murdering innocent citizens, introduced 'precrime' arrests to stifle dissent, and we're extraditing British Citizens for not committing crimes in Britain.

This lunacy shows no signs of stopping either. In fact, it's accelerated massively with high profile events like the royal wedding and the Olympic games used as excuses to kill political dissent and keep the population dumb.

Of course, most British people are mindlessly flag waving about the Olympic games, despite how they embody the erosion of civil liberties. The British do feel superior - their ego and patriotism blinds them to their own enslavement, just as it does the Chinese.

I know nobody will take my advice, but I'll give it anyway: Pick somewhere other than the UK (or US), because you're gonna be quite sour when you find out what you're really in for.
I bet Youtube gets more takedown notices than just about any other site. Are they going to delist Youtube?
I'm wondering how do they prevent non-NASA entities from sending commands to the rover - are they using some sort of cryptographic signatures when sending the commands?
That's called a blessing in disguise.
"And curiosity was named after an essay written by a student in a competition organised by NASA for school students."

Nasa has been doing this for some time now, Sojourner[1], and MERs (Spirit & Opportunity) have also been named by student competitions.

[1] http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/rover/name.html
> letters like this never really do anything, sadly what works is lobbying.

I'd really like to see tech companies get off their moral high horse and buy my politicians. Their current handlers are about to destroy the 21st century.
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They are contributing nothing to the federal income tax, which is the major contributor to the benefits and entitlements that are handed out. I don't know why you think that is feeling rather than fact.

I didn't say they were worthless, just not contributing.

Just because I said earlier "that's how it feels" doesn't mean that I am trying to argue everything from an emotional standpoint ... I'm very well read on the subject - as I'm sure you are ... we just happen to disagree.
You're an inspiration! All of my paid customers (90+ so far) all know I have no plans to ever take outside funding. Once you do that, you're no longer accountable to just your customers.
> Once you default on a student loan, you'll be hounded for life: student loan debt is the absolute worst kind of debt you can have, as it is not absolvable by bankruptcy.

I've always wondered two things about this.

1. How is that even legal? I thought the whole point of bankruptcy was to raise a big flag that says "I can no longer pay my debts", and they go away. Why is student loan debt different?

2. Why do American students tolerate it? Look what happened in Quebec when they tried to raise tuition even a little.
How would this be different than https://www.dwolla.com/personal ?