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I like the idea, really, in terms of goals, presentation, and spirit. Unfortunately the second thing my mind goes to with this is the practical stuff: What are the limits and licenses?

The licensing is required, but the limits on it make me wonder about how much use I'd get out of it. I see links to the license on the FAQ: https://creativemarket.com/license - but there's only one type of license offered. It's very artist-friendly, I'll admit, but... that's the only license. The FAQ says that if that's a deal-breaker, to use the contact form. But there's more about that license that's, well, confusing.

It seems about what you'd expect (by which I mean good for a seller, and not as much as I'd hope for as a buyer, but buying IP is always going to be hard to balance, so it's understandable/expected), though there's one that worries me: "All other items may only be used in a single commercial project." This is referencing items that aren't add-ons.

Does this mean, for example, a purchased WP theme could only be used on one client's site, ever? That's how I'm reading this plus the other terms.

And those packs of between 25 and 500 or so icons, can they only be used in a single client application? It looks like some are add-ons to Photoshop, while others are apparently a non-program specific package, doesn't that mean they have to be used differently per this license since one set of icons is an add-on, the other isn't? I know it's called "SimpleLicense", but licenses are never simple.

And then there's another licensing aspect. The true ownership of the items. The FAQ says that each item won't be checked when uploaded to the market, so the developer can update listings as they please, and to use a contact form for copyright issues.

I'd hope that'd be enough, but I already see one person who looks like they are probably infringing copyright, from what this lay person can see: https://creativemarket.com/Adrien/activity - does this individual has licenses from Braun for his UI product and individual licenses with each car manufacturer listed for the car designs that allows him to create products based off those and resell them with a restrictive license?

A place to report copyright violations in excess of just a contact form is going to be required, sooner or later. But a check to begin with to make sure someone isn't offering an item that already exists... I can see how that'd be an impediment. The texture packs make me wonder for both site and seller, as I wouldn't want to be the person that has to make sure one particular version of the texture "crumpled paper" isn't the same as the other 1000 versions of it.

That all said, it does feel like something that has great potential to succeed. I do some design work, and even with all I noticed, I'd still be tempted to use this site for selling sets of graphics.
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Cofounder here. You're absolutely right. OAuth 1 (still used by Twitter) is a huge pain to implement. OAuth 2 (Google, FB) is easier, but the implementations are different enough to cause a lot of headaches.

So, we agree that OAuth is flawed. Where there is a problem, there is an opportunity. :)

By the way, add in Email/Password, and new things like Persona (which we'd like to add soon), and auth has gone in a few short years from being incredibly basic to quite complicated. We hope to abstract away all of that noise and just give devs a single API for identity.
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I'm trying to make www.investopad.com clickable in a comment elsewhere.

Is it a karma thing?
Except that browser also has apps:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/home
As long as Google doesn't prevent other companies to develop software for Chrome OS, it should be fine.
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"No cork taint"

Theoretically cork taint is mostly avoidable as long as the wines aren't stored in buildings made from wood or that have wood floors, and as long as there isn't air conditioning. The reason for cork taint is that the chlorine that's used in cleaning products and that comes out of air conditioners (running on chlorinated city water) builds up in wood over time, and then reacts with the mold in cork to form TCA. The other problem is that the vast majority of cork is stored on the ground and is just left to get moldy with zero quality standards, despite what this article would have you believe. Cork taint should be essentially non-existant up until the time of purchase, it's just that the industry has been completely unable to get its act together.
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how come you're not downvoted all the way to hell yet?
Punching out those corks looks extremely satisfying.
I consume NPR as my exclusive broadcast news source and I agree with you. NPR is more often balanced and interesting than the others, but there are times when the liberal bias is glaring. Even if all the stories broadcast are balanced, which is often not the case, there is bias even in story selection; why does NPR always have stories about how sad it is to defund the National Park Service instead of stories about how great it is to reduce the national debt and how much taxation and interest this will save in the long run? Because they'd rather pay more taxes and keep the Park Service alive.

A recent example: in a snippet about some magazine's "First Lady Cookie Recipe Cook-off", the invited commentator was a writer for Jezebel.com, a feminist political blog, and while they ostensibly offered a chance for rebuttal, the Jezebel commentator spoke for about a minute and they read the three-words justification from the publisher: "People like it" as a response. One may ask, "Why did they give venue to this commentator, whose opinion is obviously skewed hard to one direction and outside the mainstream concept, and not at least give equal time to someone from Focus on the Family or something?" The answer is, "NPR likes Jezebel more, and wants to promote commentators that will give the audience the perception that this is a sexist/unequal thing".
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Just Chrome is not enough.

Add GNU emacs, evince (if chrome still not renders pdfs), terminal with antialiased Source Code Pro Ligth font (same for emacs) and openssh-client and I will buy it.)

Well, SBCL, MIT Scheme or, sigh, Racket, please.)

OK, just emacs and fonts and openssh - 'M-x term' would be enough.)
I believe the meme is

"What _is_ a Wall Street analyst, and why are such considered credible?".
> [...] everyone here knows what was going on at MegaUpload and anyone trying to deny is either twisting their minds into a preztel with the mental gymnastics they'd have to do to convince them otherwise or they're just outright lying. I said it.

I wasn't really aware of megaupload until the bust happened. Maybe I don't spend enough time looking for pirated copies of Lady Gaga albums.

So that's a third option for you.
<nosnark>

Maybe if we didn't have "critics" like you that are quick to rant and diss other people work while not doing anything themselves, highly-visible projects wouldn't have this problem and wouldn't require such steps.

I lead a fairly successful open-source project and I'm on the receiving end of this attitude of entitlement as well.

People don't realize how much work goes into developing of software and when you give it away for free, with source-code, it's very demoralizing to have non-constructive, abusive comments like the above ("crap interface" ?).

I'm sure Ubuntu, being vastly more popular and visible, receives vastly more "constructive criticism".

</nosnark>
Google's revenue is very closely tied to the amount that people use the web in general. So much so, that they will make more money simply by encouraging people to use the web more. As a result, their strategy is largely to reduce the barriers to the next click and the next session, and thereby moving closer to the next Google search. Faster connections, faster browsers, cheaper devices, more ubiquitous access, etc.

It's almost like oil companies subsidizing the cost of cars to make more money. Reminds me of the start of the Michelin guide book, which was created to encourage people to drive to interesting places in France.
And of those migration changes, the move to 1.9.3 will be the biggest change for shops still on 1.8. If you're already on 1.9, the move is straightforward.

Switching find syntax over is rather simple, though tedious.

Gemifying a plugin takes 30 minutes or less in my experience. It will take more time if you haven't done it before, and more time beyond that if you've never made a gem before.
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Bonny Doon Vineyard makes a good case for screwcaps.

https://www.bonnydoonvineyard.com/screwcaps/
No Microsoft. No Facebook. No IBM.

Very few from this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_technology_...

Do you have the raw ranking data available?
Looks really good. If you add GAE integration, you'll convert me immediately.

I'm on a very slow connection and it's much faster to do a git push than to deploy a compiled application.
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Maintenance is hard.
Recycling cork seems crazy. Why not just compost it?
IMO, Mr. Shuttleworth is a douche.

This is the person that forced his user base into living with interface and design decisions they did not want. The decisions made by Shuttleworth have nothing to do with FOSS or the users. His decisions were made solely with personal goals in mind. Mr. Shuttleworth desired a single code base for Ubuntu. That meant merging the desktop version of Ubuntu and his proposed baby, the portable device version of Ubuntu. Mouse and keyboard do not function well on portable devices so...enter Unity.

All of these things would be fine, if Mr. Shuttleworth did not claim that all of this was to provide his users with a superior experience. We already had a wonderful experience. Now, not so much.

I will now be replacing all of my machines', and our corporate machines' Ubuntu installs with an alternate flavor of Linux. I was willing to live with the Unity change, I was willing to live with the Grub change. I am not willing to live with this.

FOSS is not built upon secret sauce Mr. Shuttleworth. For shame!
Sorry, right. We aren't sure how many people are porting to the Windows Runtime (Metro) environment from the Win32 APIs.

While it might have a high number of entries, I just don't think we know how well supported it will be 2 months from now.
What flag do you suggest we use for es_US and fr_CA? Or how to distinguish de_CH and fr_CH?
So you are saying Windows 8 is bad means backstabbing Microsoft? Everyone seems to be doing that lately.
As far as I know they're not sending the requests directly to Amazon and there are currently 2 ways to disable that. Have you tried disabling metro ? Good luck with that.
Also Dash no longer displays adult content from Amazon.
They really need to find a way to provide an integrated Android/Chrombook experience.

Hardware:
* Touch screen
* Detachable keyboard so you can use it as either a tablet or a computer
* 8+ hours battery life. Keyboard can have an extra battery.

Software:
* Android
* Chrome browser with all the abilities of the chrome OS

Price: $400 and under.
Why on earth would we blame Intel? How about blaming Google for designing a $250 quality laptop that retailed for $500?
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This doesn't apply to startups, which are always set up as C corporations.

Most businesses are set up as S corp or LLC to avoid our broken corporate tax system/double taxation. The high corporate tax rate obviously encourages entrepreneurs to pass profits through to themselves rather than keep it in the business and grow the company.
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Plenty of musicians post the official copies of their music videos on YouTube (and don't always embed the videos directly on their own site).
Prediction is difficult, especially if it's about the future.

There will probably be at least a few analyses published in the next few days claiming this miss was "obvious" for various reason, all with the equal benefit of hindsight.

If you can consistently identify things which analysts and those who follow them are prone to overlook or fail to comprehend, there's all kinds of money to be made.

Personally, I've had some great successes putting money behind my own predictions.
In America everything is for sale, except people, see 13th Amendment.
$250 for a browser, with a metal/plastic shell.
I'm in New Zealand so guess I have to wait...longer. My concern is the Samsung aspect. I have one Samsung netbook at the moment and while it's certainly a rugged machine, it leaves much to be desired in the performance department (especially running Chrome for any length of time). I understand it's a netbook and they aren't made to be power-horses but how are other Samsung notebooks?

I also have a Samsung android tablet and I despise using it. It's cheap, flimsy and slow.

Overall, based on my own experiences with Samsung hardware, I'm not exactly enthusiastic about this being a Samsung device. Maybe it's just me or maybe my expectations are too high but I'll wait for a complete product review before considering this buy.
As a developer interested in this space (and as a gambler at heart), am disappointed that I need a Facebook account to even check this app out.

That said, I like the idea and love that you are willing to take some risks in these gray areas. I'm rooting for you. Now let me in!
But why would you want/need to do that? I'm not an expert on labor law, but AFAIK the company doesn't have any legal ownership claim to the employees or their services; employment in the US is at-will (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment), so if Apple and a Color employee come to an agreement that the Color employee will go to Apple, Color doesn't have much say in the matter. There's no Reserve Clause (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_clause) in tech.

Maybe the employees signed a non-compete agreement, and what Apple is buying from Color is a waiver on those agreements? Non-competes don't have a great record of standing up in court, but OTOH $2 million split 20 ways isn't that much money per person either; might be considered cheaper than the risk of a legal challenge. I dunno.

The reporting on this story could definitely do with some additional detail, but given how rapidly the story's been changing we may just have to wait an hour or two for that detail to be uncovered :D
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(Honest question)
Is there any user-friendly alternative to Ubuntu?

I switched from Win7 to 12.04 a few weeks ago, but it's full of tiny-yet-annoying bugs. EG: sometimes a program disapears from ALT-TAB and I need to minimize everything else to find it. Or the resize-window border that is barely half a pixel thin.
>it's very demoralizing to have non-constructive, abusive comments like the above ("crap interface" )?

I'm sorry, compared to standard GNOME (v2, v3 can join Unity on the junkpile IMAO) or KDE, Unity is crap, and I am hardly alone in that opinion.

Perhaps certain open source developers just suck at taking any kind of criticism? That's sure what these moves feel like.

I would bet large sums of money we're going to see something distasteful come of this, along the lines of further intrusive desktop advertising ala Amazon Lens.

Maybe if you would start listening to the community more when there's a large outcry (amazon lens, unity, gnome 3, etc etc etc) there would be fewer people who feel they are "entitled" to a desktop experience that doesn't suck!
Fantastic! I enjoyed your article Dan. That's a very helpful way of considering the twitter ecosystem.
So if I work for company A, and one day, company B comes to my boss and says :

B: 'Hi, sell us 10 developers for $n million'.
A: 'Sure, any prefference?'
B: 'No, not really what do you got?'
A: 'Well I have a good 2 men team, 1 really good debugger and blablabla...'

Maybe I'm biased, but when did we become comodity? Can you trade developers at say a country fair or what?
What's worse is that the phrase "missed analyst expectations" is common in the media yet nobody questions what that really means anymore. It's just generally perceived to be an instant negative.
It also works almost flawlessly out of the box on the Retina MacBook Pro. The only thing that requires adding is the Broadcom b43 modules and possibly the proprietary nVidia drivers.

Very impressive.
Would love to know if anybody has had some experience with patents and their value for start-ups
I think you just catalogued the definition of the bias that exists here as being based upon sweeping generalizations and ignorance:
"Something like 9/10 funds under perform the market as a whole, right?" - What does that mean? That 9 out of 10 mutual funds return less than the average improvement in the Dow? That means that 9 out of 10 funds would be weighting in the bottom 50% of all stocks?
"Analysts are almost all liars marketing themselves, I don't think they need a 'break'."
- When has it ever worked out for someone to say "All or nearly all people are X" when you're talking about a large group? It reflects very poorly on the author whenever they make sweeping generalizations like this.
"the profession of stock analyst is about equal to Snake Oil Salesman"
- Which is really just a step above name calling in the schoolyard. And a stock analyst is very different from a fund analyst but I doubt that really matters to you.

I have often suspected that one of the things that drives PG was this generalization that programmers by their very nature don't understand how business works and therefore don't need a seat at the business table. It's always better to be breaking down stereotypes rather than playing into them.
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He seems to be saying, "people with idiotic beliefs are idiots." Nowhere in there are programmers mentioned or is any comparison to them made.
Context:

> I never thought I’d be “playing with APIs”, but turns out programming is easier than I thought it would be. Ruby is a lot more fun than the C++ I learned in engineering school. Hours after everyone else in the house went to sleep last night, I was here in the office with 10 tabs open in Chrome. I was not facebook stalking or reading #binder tweets. I was learning how to sort hashes so I could make a list of our top 10 apps by event collection size.

As an engineering-degree earner, I concur with her. I learned C, C++, and Java and decided I didn't want to be a programmer. When I got into a job where I had to use Ruby to do data-gathering and site building, learning it was much, much easier than I had anticipated or remembered from com sci classes.

Part of it is obviously already knowing the abstract concepts in programming and knowing one's way around a command line. A good part of it is the abundance of online, amazing and free resources to learn from (hence, the 10 tabs open in Chrome...and hell, even that browser flexibility is a nice boost) compared to what we had 10 years ago.

But the ease of executing a script is a huge part of why programming seems "easier" than we remember it from Java classes: if I could've learned arrays through scraping live data and aggregation, the concepts would've been much more interesting to me.
Aren't these Chromebooks subsidized by Google to get into mainstream faster? I always felt there were big tie-ups. (See Asus Nexus tablet pricing)

And How much is a google user+account worth? An android or a chromebook device is worth atleast $$$+ for Google on the long-run. And users are Locked'in with google's services! And more and more Web users mean more $ flows for google. :)

It must be certain for every subsidized device that ships, Google must be sharing revenues.
Not bad, now if Google allowed installing at least some of Linux apps, such as file manager, Libreoffice, VLC, this thing could be a winner.
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For submissions you can submit a url or text but not both, and URLs in the text don't get parsed.
I respect this but I definitely think it's not for everyone. My personal style works better when I'm scratching an itch--so I want to build an app, I learn how to build it in Django, and then as I become more familiar or push limits, I starting trying to learn what's going on behind the scenes. That, or I'm forced to, to implement some functionality that's not "batteries."

Mostly I think it's nice to know "this goes here, this goes there" and have nice obvious examples of where to go next.

Just looking at the front page and tutorial for flask, I wouldn't be thrilled about it. Writing SQL, for instance.
Thanks for your response. I'd definitely love some tips as to how to do well at Startup Weekend. I'd email you if that's more convenient.

Thanks again.
Check back next week, we should have basic AppEngine integration available. We use appengine ourselves (although not for drone.io), so it is high priority for us too
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I haven't liked Ubuntu very much in the past couple of years. I just don't care for the UI at all. I have really liked Linux Mint (http://linuxmint.com) so far. They still maintain a Gnome 2 desktop that is very stable.
I think you'd have to test the latter assumption too before you go betting against them.
What is your worry about removing the most significant conflict of interest from a news organization exactly? It seems like it might cause other issues but I can't think of a reasonable reason that it would do anything but reduce the amount of bias present.

And really? The Daily Fucking Mail? First of all: middle ground fallacy. Second: What sane person takes the Daily Mail's position on anything as a serious data point about where on the political spectrum a hypothetical unbiased news source would lie.

I'm finding it difficult not to stereotype you as an american who feels the middle ground between the Democrats and Republicans is a true middle ground (and that reality therefore has a left wing bias).
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Nice try, analyst.
I think the issue is that Dojo and jQuery are very different in their aims, Dojo is a comprehensive toolkit, where jQuery is more focused on selectors and the dom, it has grown over time but it is not as complete as Dojo or some of the other project that's goal is to be a comprehensive toolkit. Dojo targets the same market as YUI or Ext and out of those I personally prefer Dojo. Dojo is a good tool when you are looking to replace a tradition large application with an HTML based equivalent. It's not so great for packaging up a 3rd party widget that people can just drop on their page.

Further I see Dojo as following the Java or .NET model of one large well integrated project where building apps with jQuery is more like the Perl approach of small projects contributed by a host of individuals. So with jQuery you generally go out and get Require.js, Underscore.js, Backbone.js and piecemeal together your libraries as you need them. There are merits to both models but some prefer one over the other. For me I use both, but it depends on the requirements. If someone wants a large corporate app replaced with a HTML version, I choose Dojo, if someone wants a widget that they can give out to third parties I choose jQuery.
Although I think most serious investors either ignore analysts or know to adjust for their biases. Some of the real victims are lazy academics, as the paper discusses.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-lens-shoppin...

Make sure you disable the shopping lens before searching in public. Amazon searches can be NSFW!

Don't search for analyze in a school or Saudi Arabia.

I think that this is unacceptable default behaviour but currently seems to be a WON'T FIX.
Now that's what I call balanced journalism.