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I love how you turn some people into "people" like it was all people. Remember the Palm os? No? Revionist history? Wasn't that before iPhone? What about Knight Ridder's iPad in the 90s? Doesn't ring a bell? Thought so.
I also love how revisionist history of Android being a black-berry clone, then suddenly not is still propagated. When Google first took over Android, it's aim was to work on all platforms - to be open. That's still the aim... blackberry, or iPhone like - it doesn't matter.
I feel it important that the tech community discusses the validity of patents, not -only- write letters to a congressman. Let the world discuss how broken and harmful they are.
Also, I advise you to pick your examples a little better to blindly defend companies that you love.
My love is first and foremost to society. I have no particular preference to Apple, Google, Android, Canonical, Microsoft - or whatever. But anything that harms society, I will take offense to.
Before you shoot me down for being anti-Apple, I own no Samsung or Google/Android products, but I own an iPad3, iPhone4 and three iPod touches. However, I am vehemently against Apple in their IP crusade - which I wholeheartedly believe is to stifle competition, and in effect, harm society.
>The implied intent of the rule //

Can you quote the rule because in the article it appears that the intent of the rule was that above all you couldn't interact with other students [on the course] to complete the work but as long as you kept to that rule then general internet resources were fine to use?
Hi Andy, all of us are contributing code and product generalists need to be able to build what they design.
Prototype of idea: Last.fm TagCloud Shirts
I came up with this idea a year ago (or maybe two), I don't remember.

It is very simple: Last.fm gives you the artist you most listen, and usually teenagers are proud of their taste and want to show what they listen nowadays.

This website would allow to buy a t-shirt with a tagcloud of your bands/musician you most listen, based on your last.fm account.

I also made a little prototype:
http://www.patriciotarantino.com.ar/labs/lastfm/

I am pretty sure I am not going to develop, mainly because I don't know anything about t-shirt making proccess, but if anyone wants to refurbish the idea, or use as it is, I would be glad to see it implemented.
Adding a "Show HN" tag and opening the site to let us try (instead of requesting invites) would help.
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Also, SEEKING EXPLANATION for why there are so many dead comments on this month's freelancer thread. Some of these comments are from accounts that have been dead for 700 days, but still "participating" in the site.
The news is already on the frontpage: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4464057
I haven't been there and just want to know if it's a dangerous place for visitors?
We need to get the government to respect our rights and the Constitution and we need to make it hard for the government to violate our rights. The two aspects go together. Much as one might like this just to be about convincing politicians and bureaucrats to do the right thing, making it harder for these politicians and bureaucrats to do the wrong thing needs to be part of the process. Oddly enough, I think the framers of the constitution understood this.

And Megaupload had the technical problem of a single point of failure. Peer-to-peer is more robust - it still can be shutdown too but it's still worthwhile to make things hard for would-be censors.
>The fact that Apple is on a very long list of evil doers doesn't excuse them.

FTFY.
Any video/audio link to the actual song?
This is illegal too. I didn't bother posting again because it seems more obvious. In the previous example, many probably didn't know it wasn't an official port. (author added disclaimers later)
You still can buy it for the kindle pc app. Then, with Calibre, you can remove the DRM and convert it to epub or whatever format is suitable for the nook.
> It would be scary enough if such an actor were governed by the democratic state, which had at least some theoretical accountability to the general population. Apple, however, does not have even the pretence of that kind of accountability.

Sure they do. You're going off to buy an Android phone, so Apple lost your money and you got the phone you wanted better. That's even better than a democratic state, where you're stuck with the same one until you can get half the population to agree with you.
I hated \ as well when I first heard about it, but frankly, after actually working with it, it doesn't matter one bit.
You're right. They tweaked the obvious, and patented it. It's almost as bad. Software patents like this should not be validated.

To allow two fingers to zoom and one "tap" to set ... next, you'll be telling me that two fingers to zoom and one finger to slide left is patented too. When will this madness end?
The models are effectively identical, until they're not. In particular, they're not identical for the purposes of this discussion.

"Until pressure from a ceiling is applied" is the difference between stabilizing at 9 billion people (a bit more crowded than right now), and growing to so many billions or trillions that the grandparent poster's "no more toilets" prediction would be realistic.
A much smaller subset of yours.

Coincidentally, I was using your Shopify API client just yesterday. Thanks for that.
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Not familiar enough with Ruby, but wouldn't your Ruby sample have this same problem?
That's a nice thought but the only people who would download this app are the ones that already feel strongly about the drone program.
Or they were drowning in student loans. It's hilariously inaccurate to say that NYU students are loaded.
What makes you think YouTube's users are its customers? They aren't, they are the product.
> (because capitalism clearly failed /s)

BTW I was just poking fun at people who think that the Great Depression was a result of unbridled capitalism instead of bad government policy.
I vote for 4, since the user already uses cookies and already has that value. Also it's 2012 - what does "There are obvious problems if a user doesn't use JavaScript." even mean? If they use noscript or something similar, then they won't see "hi xxx", unless they whitelist you. That's pretty much it. (also for most pages, there will be more issues than just the greeting)

1 and 2 work fine if you're doing the caching. Exporting that kind of caching to CDNs may be a bit more tricky (not impossible though...)
Culture is more than the petri dish of your city's sidewalks.

There is life outside of the 415.
Not true, you have to pay for shipping for most items, especially the heavy ones.
Open book, open Internet and TA's that discuss exam questions sounds like the actions taken against the students are rather capricious.

It seems that the environment of the exam as well as the difficulty of the questions sugguest that the exam was designed to test collaborative abilities, rather than knowledge recital.
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What happens when residential prices rise so high that you price out many of the same employees who created the critical mass and desire for this urban environment in the first place? How do you recruit a software dev @ $100k/yr when the 1 bedroom SoMa apartment they want costs $3k/month (~ $40k/yr fully loaded, or 50%+ of their take home pay)?
Do you accept contract work? I m based in NYC also
I'll try adding a "because". Thanks for the suggestion, I'll be happy to help back in any way I can.
Well, I think the point is, building Twitter clients use to be allowed, even encouraged, by Twitter. And now it's a big no-no. So even though they're only restricting new client development, the restriction affect anyone developing with the Twitter API. What's not to say the type of app you're building today won't be restricted tomorrow.
What is this other than deferred taxation? If one earns 100k in year one, it is taxed as income at 3%. I put the net 97k in the bank and from next year onwards it will again be taxed as wealth at 4%, in perpetuity.
Well, computers are what I know so I'm concerned about that. I guess if I were a male nurse I'd be saying the same thing about men.

I think it's important to have somewhat equal representation. First, we have a shortage of developers so this is an easy way to address that. Second, like the subject of this article, a lot of girls would be interested in CS but because of the lack of women they're turned off. This is a real shame. Third, CS people are literally designing our future. Do we want to live in a world as envisioned by men or as white men or as a fair balance of people?
At work, I'm not allowed to install arbitrary software as well - but policy doesn't make my workstation any less of a computer. Also, not all smartphone vendors are as anal as Apple, and there are always workarounds [1],[2].

I don't think we actually disagree - it's just a matter of definition; please note that I intentionally didn't say (personal) computer, but (general-purpose) computing device.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooting_%28Android_OS%29

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_jailbreaking
The first dedicated App.net client for iOS hits the App Store
Well, that's the difference between deterrence and Thermonuclear War. Once the despots strike, there's no going back.
1st dedicated App.net iPhone app out - developer praises dev support
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Coding vices? Here's mine:

Premature optimization is the root of all fun!
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This seems to basically be a bunch of Jeff's blog posts in book form. Some of it is interesting to facilitate discussions but how much more "effective" a programmer it will make you seems pretty dubious.

I would recommend reading the book "code complete" for more specific tips about thinking about the code you write.
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> "It's not even very interesting if the growth is logistically or exponentially."

It very much matters which it is. It's the difference between stabilizing at 20% more population than we currently have and dealing with a little more overcrowding, and getting so crowded that we don't have toilets any more.

Running out of oil is going to change American lifestyles significantly. I'm not convinced it's going to change global carrying capacity by very much, though. Do you have a credible model that says otherwise? I would like to see such a thing (in its fullest form.)
Does the Communications Act of 1934 Contain a Hidden Internet Kill Switch?
on the side note whoever is plotting those graphs needs to do a better job.
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I'd really love to see the video, but it seems down.
But you also need to consider the other side of the equation - how much less would be paid by the existing broadcasters if they weren't buying exclusive rights.

The sums may balance one day but I wouldn't bet on it doing so now.
'television' was the first search term I could find that broke the loop - on the fifth or sixth attempt
I keep a profile at StackOverflow Careers for the heck of it. It's a fun CV builder.

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/dangrossman
No, that's my point. Through careful censorship, Apple has crafted a marketplace that offends nobody. App developers find this environment valuable, that's why they are so eager to sell their content in the app store.

If you, as a customer or a developer, don't agree with apple's well documented policy here, there are alternatives you can choose. Consumers and developers have overwhelmingly said they either don't care or like the censorship though.
Dude, that's pretty f~-d up right here! (c) Stan Marsh
He isn't saying the bolt is prior art. He is saying that the existence of the bold implies that the concept is obvious.
No, the ruby "generator" is actually a function that takes a function and calls it with each line from the file, like this:

>>> the_list = [1,2,4,7]
>>> def ruby_generator(f):
... for x in the_list:
... f(x)
...
>>> def print_it(x):
... print x
...
>>> ruby_generator(print_it)
1
2
4
7
Do you even understand the concept of "trade-off" ?

The act of driving does not allow me to live the life I have now. The act of travelling does.

I don't understand your claim that the act of staring at a road and pulling leavers is somehow beneficial to me, or anybody else.
Do they have a _real_ health system? I doubt that the life in Cambodia is better than in Sweden. Maybe it's ok if you to go the country as US-American, but the Swedish living standard is much higher ;)
Ah yes, when in doubt, fall back on good old xenophobia. It was only a matter of time really, you can always count on somebody dredging up xenophobia if there are not rational arguments to be made.
Thanks man... hate these application sites and the people they must turn away. Feel free to contact me directly if interested and I can make sure you don't get lost in those machines.
"Namedropping, attending parties, hiring non-clued employees, etc all seem like very non-core activities that people trying to build real businesses would not engage in a whole lot (if at all). "

Disagree. Who you know is important. It's not all about building a better mousetrap and having the world come to your door. Business is done many ways. People choose different ways to get to the same place.

Also, specifically regarding this: "hiring non-clued employees". There are many capable people out there who don't necessarily know the "lay of the land" but are quite capable. The fact that someone is impressed with something that they shouldn't be impressed with is no reflection on their value in an area of their expertise which you might hire them for.
The term "source code" implies that no compilation has occurred /nit
The libraries thing is just you dont need the libraries, which are the main advantage.

Python is a 3MB binary, while Lua is 175k, for a start. This is for Nginx which is 960k. Embedding something three times the size of the host is not really an embed...

Lua is embedded in all sorts of stuff, Nginx, Apache, Redis in web space for example. Python is a great language, but just not a good choice for that.

But feel free to give a Python embed a go.
I don't follow. If Google was making $100m revenue with $99m expenses currently they would be paying the tax on $1m profit. Under your system if they are making $100m revenue they would pay $3m in taxes which would result in a net-loss of $2m?

Also, would the wealth tax be placed on the stockpile of cash/assets of businesses? I.e. their properties, bank deposits, and so on.
Sure, customers are allowed to gripe, I'm not trying to tell the OP he isn't allowed to gripe, just that his gripes are not very realistic.
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Even if it was mainly about ads I do enjoy the mentality that responds to people saying "these ads are rather annoying" with "too bad, suck it up and check your entitlement"
Excellent in-depth video java tutorial on constructors
Sad fact - fascism and virtually every other ideology of 30's incorporated racism. Racism was just an easy way to garner support. It's also a sideshow to the intellectual basis for fascism, which is collectivism and authoritarianism. (The name is derived from the word "fasces", which is Italian for a bundle of sticks.)

That said, fascism isn't all that accurately classified as left wing either. While modern left wingers do embrace the collectivism that fascism is based on, fascism doesn't care much about "social justice", "inequality", or any of the other big left wing buzzwords.

Similarly, fascism cares very little about various other right wing values, e.g. traditional protestant values or whatever. They are a convenient way to convince particular corporates to join your syndicate (making it stronger), but that's all.

This is why I characterize it as "center left" - it doesn't fit easily with any mainstream ideology, but collectivism does point more left than right.

Racism is also irrelevant when attempting to determine where fascism lives. Racism is split pretty evenly across American political parties, and it is not a significant part of any major American ideology: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/08/rac...