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You're reinterpreting what's written to fit your argument. Failure of others should be considered to define obviousness when you come up with something new that succeeds where others failed. Not because you can patent something someone else invented just because you sold better than the original inventor. That's absurd.

Apple's inventions existed before, so there's prior art, that's all. It's this simple.
It doesn't matter for the network itself, just like it doesn't matter how many accounts are dormant because you don't see those who are not active. Yes, data belonging to people who have passed will be stored there, somewhere, on a server and backed up to a tape but rarely accessed.

It won't be like standing in a graveyard. It will be like sitting at home, with you friends and family, knowing that those photo albums on the shelf are full of pictures of people you won't see again. Every once in a while you'll look through them but otherwise life will go on.
There's also the 3rd option, MediumCo.

You can work at a company of 40-80 or so employees and have all the benefits of working for a big company without the red tape, politics, and inertia. If you pick a good one you can pretend you are working at a startup, but with better hours and a competitive salary.

I've worked at startups before and the biggest thing I've learnt is that a separation between owners and decision makers is a great thing.
You're inventing a false narrative, whole cloth.
A few more here http://hackershelf.com/topic/python/
Honestly I feel that google is to blame for this.

By being so frustratingly slow to enable app purchases in the market in a lot of countries they kickstarted the need and community around pirating android apps.
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Did you mean recursion?
I wrote on my Palm Pilot Pro in '98 using my fingers. I preferred it to using the stylus, because it was faster and more comfortable for me. (Incidentally, when I left the job where I used the Palm at the end of '98, it was to work on developing a touch based tablet which had no stylus at all - see one of my other posts in this thread).

The stylus on the Palm was optional for better precision. It was by no means necessary. Not only could I write reliably with my fingertips on a Palm Pilot Pro, it was precise enough with my fingers to play games and draw stuff with it.

> This is the fundamental problem- you and others say nonsense like this

It's quite rich that you claim this when you yourself are making spurious claims about how these devices supposedly couldn't be used reliably with fingers. I can only conclude that you yourself do not have firs thand experience with these devices, or have forgotten how they worked.
This strikes me as quite similar to the difficulty in paying teachers by their performance. You can use a lot of objective data for your decision-making, but there probably needs to be some subjectivity in there as well.
Even though this specific ship is not something I'm really interested in, I'm excited to see what iteration 5 or 10 will look like.

Also, even if the institute/project is filled with a lot of people commonly thought of as nutjobs, I wouldn't bet against Peter Thiel in many areas.
I realize it's a complicated question, and that Spotify (or Apple, or any other company we love) couldn't just jump straight in and be an instant success. And while Apple certainly has the cash to cover upfront costs, staffing up, etc, Spotify probably doesn't, at least at large scale.

Are there cases where it would work, though? Bands that stumble upon internet fame are still the exception, but they exist, and it seems like they benefit much less from the visibility and other perks that traditional labels offer. Could a band like OK Go (back in their early days of YouTube success) be better off going directly through a distributor like Spotify, getting less up front, and getting a bigger revenue share? I know a couple of years ago they jumped from EMI (http://okgo.net/2010/03/10/onwards-and-upwards/). Maybe they could have done so earlier?
jQuery is kind of a big download for mobile, so I often skip it for small tasks.

What gets me is when people include jQuery and then further bog things down by loading a lot of plug-ins to do things that could easily be accomplished by adding a few lines of code of their own. Even if you do need and include jQuery, it doesn't mean you have to use it for every piece of javascript in your app.

Many times, a plug-in will do a lot more than you need it to do. If your primary goal is to just get rid of the 300sm delay translating tap events to click events, you don't need a library for full gesture support. You need half a dozen lines to listen for touch events.

If you just need to add some client-side persistence for a few basic things in LocalStorage, you probably don't need a plug-in with a complex query syntax.

Cannibalize a library if you need to and pull out the bits you need. You don't have to include the whole kitchen sink.
The laws are not a farce: "intellectual property" exists if society decides it exists, just like physical property is a legal fiction. "Property is theft", according to the left anarchists. Saying information is not property is no different. It's a political argument, not a factual one.

The whole reason we have property laws is scarcity. Such scarcity does exist in intellectual endeavours - the time and talent taken to invent and innovate. There's a lot to be said for evolving and modernizing IP laws, but you will find most people reject the claim that they shouldn't exist.
I can't help but note that that's exactly what he said in his first sentence.
Not really, a label does much more than get an artists music in a store. Distributing the content is probably the easiest thing for artists to do on their own. Marketing, touring and merchandise are more complication and labels are still the best solution.
I've become rabidly anti-Java. My friend installed Java on my computer as part of the process of rooting my HP touchpad to install android, and within days my antivirus had detected multiple java-based attacks on my system. These were literally the first attacks since I'd wiped my HD after a previous Java related attack. I uninstalled Java immediately, and hope that I never have to install it again.
"The things that Apple has highlighted are not inventions. It's simply solutions to common problems."

Name a consumer innovation that isn't a solution to a common problem.

Don't hate the player, hate the game. And if you really don't like the game, go change the game.
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seasteading communities — floating cities — which will allow the next generation of pioneers to peacefully test new ideas for government

there's a lot of marketing mumbo jumbo on the site, but I really support their premise (and frankly I would pull off something similar if I had the funds). from what I understand, they are trying to offer a research center in international waters, free from any national restrictions.

I believe it's very unfortunate that we live in a time where basic democratic processes and the deliberations of a bunch of (mostly) law students decide which kind of research is permissible and which is not. this shouldn't be in the hand of a bunch of politicians but rather a dedicated and separate ethic commission. if governments don't adapt we'll (hopefully) see more such projects.
Freeform(think a piece of paper) allows having lists, random text ... on same page. Evernote is great for that( I used backpack from 37 signals before that)

I like it this way because I can have my day schedule(very few things in it), tasks list and notes(I can easy add ideas and other stuff during the day) on same place.

My productivity system is a bit more detailed and uses evernote and google apps. I am thinking to actually write a short book about this but not being native english speaker holds me back(never published a book before). Does anyone think this could be interesting?
I think you missed the announcement where Microsoft is going to do a silent update of IE10 to consumer PC's. IE9 usage will drop to the low single digits within a year and IE10 will take its place as the leading IE browser.
An awful thing to happen, but an important lesson to any entrepreneur:

Never rely on just one client for the bulk of your work. You're a slave to your client. This also holds for 1-man bands (such as myself) who does consulting or contracting: if your client leaves, then you have no income and must find a new one or, if it is at all possible, several new ones to spread the risk.
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Agree, the argument agains is structural. you are just building more measurement/collection/distribution red tape. why not just raise the income tax? The counter-argument is "targeting", ie make the users pay for it. But we don't let this be an out for public school funding (ie, you cant opt out if you don't have kids). And, arguably, the internet covers every educataion institution and then some. So, targeting to "internet users" is a red herring. This is an inside the beltway chess game, most likely.
What do you mean by 'at the margin'?
I'm sure it'll happen faster than that

...just like it does for every single other movie and TV show out there.
Seems like a fairly straightforward case of having all your eggs in one basket.
The designs would surely be copyrightable.
This site could actually be made useful if the little area where you check which "features" you want to include that "generated" the download file actually caused cross-platform, native JavaScript examples of those bits of functionality to be included in a real downloadable file.

If you really think more people should be using plain vanilla JavaScript (and in a lot of places, I think this is actually true and even when a framework is needed, it's good to have the underlying skill) then the way to get them to do that is to educate them on it, not patronize.
Don't you get interrupted while in the zone? 25 minutes is about the time you actually get deep into something and the mind can easily focus 1-2 hours on task at hand, especially if you do something interesting.
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I've been a supporter of the institute for a while now, and one of the things I really appreciate about their approach is incrementalism. Build in small individually viable steps that let you evaluate both the underlying assumptions and the optimal direction to take from there. This steady approach makes me much more confident in them than previous similar ventures.
There is an error in the Readme. It begins with "Vapor.js is a much more...". Should be "Function.js is...".
Actually accepting that you had a whiny comment is what's keeping you on top, hehe. Anyways, I felt the same way, oh man another fake library that complaints about frameworks & libraries. It's alright these have to repeat from time to time, not everybody saw the last one, etc.
Question: is the 'Speed Comparison' for real? I find it really, really hard to believe. Surely jQuery & co. revert to native implementations (if they exists, as they do in all modern browsers) for things like `document.getElementById` and don't iterate over the whole DOM.
Some of these are simply excuses. Publishing your code doesn't mean you have to support it or maintain it. Just make the code available and be done with it. The important thing is that it's out there.
Yes, good point. I often find myself ignoring the "pause" notification. I use it more as a take-off.
No company should be able to patent a grid of icons, a pinch-to-zoom gesture or shape of a phone. Fair enough I do agree to an extent that Samsung infringed, but the incompetence of the jury in this case will make for a delicious appeal and halt the celebrations.

Some of the solutions like pinch-to-zoom, etc would have mostly been solutions another company would have eventually come up with anyway.
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Neil's still in the photo if you look closely at Aldrin's visor.
Well, that's why I said "take" on it. These companies are actually doing quite a bit that a traditional label would do: they store the media (the digital version of manufacturing it), distribute it, and market it. I don't think a traditional label is always the best solution, especially for groups that will never be big enough to justify the huge upfront costs a label puts in.

These aggregators are really for the tail end of the spectrum: the 90% of bands who represent 1% of music listening time and don't have much hope of getting signed.
from time to time, not every other day.
I disagree strongly with this. Merchants can (and often do) change the terms of monthly payments, ignore legitimate requests for account cancellations, or even incur monthly charges for things that the cardholder was led to believe was a one-time charge.

Cancelling the card has been the cardholder's tactical weapon against that nonsense. It's still a hassle for the cardholder, so I'm left wondering how much of an actual problem it is that people are canceling entire credit card accounts just to wiggle out of a contract.

And, in the case that people do that, the merchants have recourse through either collections or court. If enough such charges go to collections, the cardholder loses the ability to open new accounts.

If people are no longer able to cancel their credit cards as an item of last resort, then the merchants are left with all the leverage. Arrington's natural response to that -- as I suspect will be most other peoples' -- will be to stop using their credit card.

I don't think we want that to happen.
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It's not completely subjective. McConnell in Code Complete mentions studies by Chomsky and others that suggest that few people can understand more than three levels of nested ifs.

As for being far from the wort offense, well, I try to set my goals a little higher than "not the worst".
I think it's interesting, but start with writing a blogpost about it.
Even though I did'nt fully understand how your system works, but I'd like to read more.
Both Firefox and Chrome have features that disable plugins but still allow you to run individual applets on demand. Please turn these on; it's not much hassle and you'll be shutting down the most common targets for exploits.

For Chrome, go to advanced settings -> Privacy -> Content settings -> Plug-ins and select "click to play". For Firefox, go to about:config and enable "plugins.click_to_play".
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They said exactly what was claimed. Grep for for "bogged" and read again.

Then again, maybe that's not what he meant to say. Because as read, these quotes suggest some pretty absurd things.
Opera was pretty good and did all sorts of clever things to make browsing easier on phones, Nintendo Ds's , set-top boxes etc.
> Has it ever occurred to you that the journalistic standards surrounding photo manipulation may have actually been arrived at after a century of experience, rather than a bunch of tightasses obsessing over haughty principles, as you've so conveniently insinuated?

I think the standard rules of photojournalism are ordinarily probably very useful. If the comments of the guy I initially replied to are truly representative of the field (you haven't given any opinion here), it's IMO clearly not perfect.

> So the fact that tens of thousands of photojournalists over the course of an entire century have arrived at, and agreed upon, this set of rules for reportage means nothing.

Is there truly a consensus position on something this specific? Such that it would categorically be a mistake under the rules to use a (very good) photograph of Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon when the subject of the article is Neil Armstrong? In spite of the fact that walking on the moon is what Neil Armstrong is known for, and there are no proper pictures of him doing it, and a pic of Aldrin taken by Armstrong is the closest we're going to get?

I'm skeptical that the field's century of experience leads to such a clear and unambiguous conclusion.
> This is completely revisionist fantasy.

Revisionist? No. Personal opinion? Sure.

I personally remember the iPhone coming out and thinking it was awful. Fucking awful. And so did everyone I knew. When the G1 came out it was even worse. In my opinion, the only people that bought these awful phones were, to put it politely, "early movers".

> That's what innovation is. Not invention, no.

You're not really arguing against me. Apple deserve credit and riches for bringing a phone to market that people wanted. They don't deserve a monopoly. As you said, they didn't really "invent" anything

> only geeks and historians really care about invention

Maybe that's the way things should be. But right now the courts are involved, and the US courts (in contrast to some other courts) are saying that Apple have an exclusive right to features such as "pinch to zoom on a phone" that Apple didn't even invent.
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The CSM is not an organ for the Christian Science church. Is there some reason we believe the guy who wrote this post is a Christian Scientist?

You called this piece into question in part because of a past affiliation with the CSM. The CSM is a credible journalism venue; it's not fair to attribute fundamentalist Christian Science beliefs on people who happened to have worked there.
I noticed this a few months back. I had cancelled an Amex card and get a new one (brand new number). My old one was saved in my Amazon profile. I charged to that old account a couple times before I realized that that was the card I cancelled. But it worked fine. To this day I can still pick that card when checking out of Amazon with no issue.
From the article, "There is plenty still to do. Powner needs to turn AICA into a base, and add the phosphate. His molecule also has an unwanted sulphur atom, which helped the reactions along but now must be removed."

Here is the link to the journal publication about these experiments that is kindly supplied in the submitted article:

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja306176n

With more steps to go until actual DNA is observed through the experimental simulations of conditions on early Earth, there are still more press releases to come on this issue.
Too subtle, I think. People will miss your pervasive irony.
Except that a single button WILL do. Because you still need to press it in order to wake the screen up on pretty much every phone on the market today.

Which begs the question why you wouldn't either go straight to the home screen or show a single continue button. Slide to unlock is not what most people would do in that situation.
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Erm, sorry chap that's a period life table, not an expectancy table. It's remaining years, not total. If you scroll down eventually years remaining < age. Unless you count reincarnation no 80 year old is dying before their first birthday.
Sorry if this is me being a "statistical grammar nazi," but he started his post with it... and it's not like misspelling a famous person's name, it's spreading innumeracy.

"There are approximately 7 billion people in the world. The average life expectancy is somewhere around 67.5 years. So in the next 67.5 years 7 billion people will die"

He's confusing average with actual.

Here's a simple example: imagine we have two people. 1 person who will die in 1 year, and 1 person who will die in 9. The average here is 5 years, and after 5 years only 1 person will be dead, not 2.

While It's not always true that selecting only individuals who have a value less than or equal to the average gets you half the population, this correct for normally distributed value when there are lots of samples, so the authors numbers are basically off by a factor of two.... which he almost notices here:

"So in the next 67.5 years 7 billion people will die. 67.5 years * 365 days is about 25,000 days. That’s about 280,000 deaths per day average. Right now that number is lower at about 155,000, but as the population ages that will catch up with us."

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I'm sure I'd do much worse in your native language. :)
I think you have to sum the age and expectancy. Otherwise that table makes no sense.
Install Opera Mini. Opera (the company) hosts the servers that will preprocess and send you significantly less bandwidth and processor demanding results. You don't have to do anything special for that, just use Opera Mini as a normal browser.

There are pages that can crash Safari on iOS which are no problem to be read in Opera Mini.

I've just followed the link and the whole page is fully readable.
Why is this question important to answer? Rather than spending hours pondering whether "Superman can beat Mighty Mouse", let's figure out a way for people here to found the next big start-ups. Both of these men saw opportunity and ran with it. I'm not sure I can identify the seeds of their successes but they probably spent their energy on more important questions.
This makes sense somewhat - if you could get out of a contract with a merchant, simply by canceling your credit card, then why bother to uphold your obligations (multiple payments, length of relationship) etc... Just get whatever benefits you want, then cancel the card and wave goodbye to the merchant. That would be _particularly_ problematic on a multiple-payment scenario.

The net-net is _never_ give your credit card to anyone who suggests they will charge you, unless you have full control over that relationship.

It's the key reason why I subscribe to all my magazines and newspapers (key exception being the WSJ) through iTunes - single place to control subscriptions - with the added bonus that I get reminded every month that there will be a renewal coming up.

I also negotiated with my Gym to allow me to pay the full year up front + initiation fee to avoid having to give them my credit card - It was amazing how difficult it was for me to convince them to allow me to give them $410 up front for a $30/month gym membership. They really make a lot of money off of people who don't want to come into the gym and cancel, or forget to do so on their "Annual" anniversary when they get signed up for another year.

Most of us are in our early 20s when we discover the downsides of recurring credit card charges - I'm surprised that someone as savvy as Arrington is discovering that he can't just cancel his account to end those recurring charges - I thought it was something that students usually do and discover doesn't work. I certainly did when I was a student.
Investors who don't want their startups to accept an acqui-hire already have all the protection they need: make a better offer.