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They are not compelling speech. They are compelling Apple to facilitate dissemination of a message that is very clearly labelled as not being Apple's opinion.

It is pretty clear that this is not a problem under US law either: All kinds of legal requirements exist to add specific notices to various products, for example.

> but it should not be required to lead customers to believe that they agree with it.

There is nothing in the proposed wording that implies Apples agreement. In fact, the very purpose is to announce the verdict of a court case where Apple very obviously argued for the opposite result.

The proposed wording starts "On 9th July 2012 the High Court of Justice of England and Wales ruled". There's no implication that Apple agrees anywhere.
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Love the idea. Great to share with non-techy families!
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I've always wanted to get onboard with the Manpacks but it's hard to justify $10/shirt when I can get a 5-pack of the same kind on Amazon for $18.
And we have systems programmers - including kernel developers, compiler writers, etc -, web developers (often divided into backend and frontend), security experts.

And we do "build houses" with a minimum of squabbling; when was the last time you heard of a web startup hacking on the Ruby core or the Linux kernel? And the compiler vendor deciding what kinds of programs should be done with it?

On the contrary; our work is very specialized. It's just that when we build some house foundations, we can just then ship'em out to others to use, as prefabricated components.
Hi Kerryfalk,

Got it. Thanks for in-depth feedback!
My previous employer had such a policy (5 year old company with less than 100 employees, total, though we all worked in groups of 10-ish). While it sounded nice, if was difficult to get time off as needed. There was always trouble making sure work was done and things were covered (it was a fairly fast-paced schedule). In the end, very few people took much vacation.

While I have no problem with the general premise of that policy, I would rather have had an additional stipulation that all employees are required^ to take, say, 3 weeks of vacation annually (or, pick a number). That way, it was expected you would be out of the office for a portion of time.

^ I guess you can't force people to do that, but it would have made things so much less confusing or difficult to me if I could point to such a "rule."

[Edit: I realize some of this problem probably rested on the shoulders of management, but that wouldn't have solved all the issues of the policy.]
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So, what happened in 1938, when a storm of similar power swept through the region? Was that also global warming?
> You may argue that commercial FPGAs are also closed and while it's true, the principle of operation is so simple (lots of interconnected gates) that can be easily replicated, like this cool project shows.

Basic CPUs are not all that complex either, there are plenty of homebrew CPU projects made of discrete components. Both those and this project share the common trait that they are almost impossible to scale up to be useful.

I would also be very surprised if FPGAs aren't also heavily patented.
So? I've got semi-recent code that sucks data out of InterSystems Caché with yet another obselete programming language. The ability to access legacy systems to assist clients is a sign of craft, not necessary pop-culture programming.
This is true, but I don't think I've ever seen a ruling quite like this one, so the lawyers probably don't know how far they can push it. I expect them to do 'better' but still get it wrong, its a delay of game tactic that makes the judge look like he is being picky. I would agree though that Apple is coming off looking badly (to me at least, and I think I am part of their target market).
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... and have ~28,000 ignore any email you send.

Email addresses of technically-savvy people are nearly worthless unless you have something they desperately need. Any person to email me without a prior relationship or mutual connection goes straight to my "never do business with" list, if they manage to pass my spam filters. I imagine most developers are similar.
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I would argue the contrary.. Maybe you can give some examples? - Are you overriding in the correct places? In the beginning with TastyPie, I would override get_detail and such, often when I should have been overriding obj_get instead..

We are using TastyPie in production on a pretty large site and I've been super happy with it. We have custom fields, custom auth, custom base classes for resources where the underlying data store are non django models, security is very granular (with minimal code overhead) and overall its been a blessing to extend and override. One thing I like in particular is how you can reuse nested Resource definitions, e.g. define a UserResource once and reuse it everywhere a model/resource has a FK to user and you get correct response output. Saves lots of time and gets you a correct, secure implementation.
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Of course those slimy judges can't get away with it in the US. Corporations in the US are people now.

Should cigarette companies be allowed to write their own diatribe under the "Surgeon General's Warning" label? Cigarette companies definitely don't agree that smoking causes cancer, so why not post a rant about how <Country X> has not yet declared smoking dangerous so the UK is wrong?
I'm not sure how to feel about tablets.

Even as a life-long Mac guy, I bought a TabletPC in 2005 because I wanted a pressure-sensitive drawing tablet that was embedded into the display. The most striking thing for me was how nice it was to be able to sit on the couch and read a webpage in portrait mode, but having to unfold the keyboard to be able to go to a new URL (or hunt/peck on the onscreen keyboard) was a disaster. When Nokia announced its pocket-sized tablet in 2006, I was very tempted to buy one until I realized it wasn't pressure sensitive.

Drawing on a digital device with an infinite color space is awesome, but being able to tangibly interact with information is a phenomenal achievement. Hell, I even built a homebrew version of the Microsoft Surface (table) to explore the possibilities.

In spite of my enthusiasm over the last decade, the tablets I've seen all feel like they slow me down. Not only are they computationally underpowered, but they're just slower to interact with. Moreover, I worry about the ergonomics of it all. My fingers tend to feel a bit chaffed if I spend too much time with a tablet. I wonder if others have this issue.

I love the idea of the tablet. I want to love the execution, but nothing I've seen has made me want to integrate an iPad/Surface RT into my life. My MacBook just works better for me.
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> Yes, yes, it’s unsophisticated to blame any given storm on climate change

It is pretty much an established fact that climate change affects the environment, and that part of the change is caused by humans. Considering the increasing rate at which the environment is degrading, it is not completely unreasonable to think that climate would be affected.

edit 2: i am blind
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It applies to patents, too.
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I had the same reaction! For anyone who's actually attempted to grow anything, that traction is astounding. The draw-something's of the world did something that doesn't even register. It's so outrageous it doesn't even count.

Doing this effectively is absolutely remarkable all on its own.
CamelCasing is not enforced, while driving on the right side is.
No it's not. Look at the appdata traffic http://www.appdata.com/apps/facebook/155727011143809-i-am-pl...

Around 150k daily active user, it's nice, especially for a first game, but with that you are not even in the top 300 of the facebook platform.

Keep in mind that games are very different from other products. You tend to have lots of them for a short amount of time, then they move to something else. It's not like a service like Dropbox where once acquire you have a very good retention.
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>If you spent US$ 10 million developing something obvious, you still don't deserve a patent on it.

That's up to the USPTO to decide, not you.
Flagged as inappropriate for HN, but if we're going to have this discussion:

It would greatly help the "we must do something" crowd if they spent some time working out exactly what that "something" would be, posting it for public comment and refining as needed.

I am sympathetic to the idea that leveling off and eventually reducing global CO2 emissions would be a sensible thing to do, but the key word there is "global". China is already the world's leading emitter by a good margin and will likely continue to increase their emissions, regardless of what happens in the West. Indeed, if we make energy and its uses more expensive here, the likelihood is that at least some of those emissions will simply migrate to China, where they will be cheaper but likely greater for the same degree of production.

I have yet to hear a proposal that is likely to both have an effect that justifies its cost (carbon taxes are wildly regressive, and removing that feature is tricky!), and is not absurdly unlikely to ever come to pass.

The cap and trade bill mentioned in this article fails the first test, I believe.
In this case, the original judge wanted the notice on Apple's UK home page. Apple did appeal that judgement, and the appeals court said it would be sufficient to put it in a link from the footer. So there is recourse.
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I don't doubt that will be attempted, but it's ridiculous from every angle. If such things are remotely reasonable, then everyone with a product will be trying to do it. You'll be inundated with "real world products, discounts, etc" from everything you touch. You'll end up rejecting the entire system flat out just to escape.

This is the same reason location-based offers won't work either - because everyone will be trying to give you an offer, and they'll try to SEO-game the system so that categories and personalization don't work as filters.

It's cool that my calendar has reminders, right? But I have five devices that all remind me of the same event, all at once and I end up turning off reminders whole-hog because I'm tired of configuring every single scenario and every single device. Sync is great right up until I hate it more than anything and death would be sweet release.
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Agreed. I'm currently half-way through the latest edition. It is extremely interesting, well-written, thoughtful, and intelligent. What a fascinating era that was.
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Does anyone else think that this article is a Satire? I think it's actually an appeal to common sense. What I read is the author is sad that programming is not moving in the direction of an emergent engineering discipline, sad that popularity, not reason, drives the acceptance of languages.
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Maybe because it's required in response to their failed attempt to use the UK court's view of the facts to block a competitor's products from the market?
Uhm.. sounds like your doing a bunch of N+1 querying, this is generally fixed by overriding get_query_set to use select_related in your manager classes and then you set .objects. to point to the overridden manager class inside of your models.
What's your latency experience been? Is yours a public-facing deployment?
Surely unrelated to Eytan Levit's idea,[1] but very funny that these arose on HN at the same time! (although clearly Eytan's post is now specifically about his idea)

[1]seen at http://www.eytanlevit.com/post/34639708833/operation-hogwart...
Except you can't use it for any legitimate purpose, as this would violate the CAN-SPAM Act.
>By that logic, driving on the right side of the road in the US vs driving on the left in the UK is "pop culture".

Not at all. I don't drive on the right side because "everyone else does" and "that's the style". I do it because its the law, and because I would be risking my life and the lives of others to do otherwise. Having a function with an underscore in its name isn't breaking any laws, and isn't risking any lives or anything even remotely analogous. It is entirely based on subjective whims.
But don't we already have that? It's called email!
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What we really need is a coordinated international Stop-Serving-to-IE protest day, where all web developers put up a page telling their customers that for the day they can't use their service using a shitty browser that requires completely separate development resources. Give them links to all the major browsers that don't suck. And hopefully, the same inertia that has kept them from upgrading from IE6 will keep them stuck in their fancy new Firefox browser.
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- "Any person to email me without a prior relationship or mutual connection goes straight to my "never do business with" list"
Why would you have your email publicly available on GH if you only answer email from people with whom you've had a prior relationship (or have a mutual connection) with? I'm really curious to know since in both cases the person either already has your email address or he/she can ask for an intro from the mutual connection.

Also, playing devil's advocate here: What if someone is launching a new tool for developers? This list could come in really handy.

Edit: Following achille's comment, such a list could not be used for any legitimate purpose.
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+1 - couldnt agree more.
I really like the design of the site. Clean, sleek, simple and easy to navigate.
The problem is that out of the 3 main bodies in any country - politicians, bureaucrats, and the armed forces - India has always had a nexus amongst the first two. Although this is much better than politicians+armed forces, it still is a problem. I won't go so far to say that we are descending into a Banana republic as yet; but if the alarming rate at which income inequality is growing right now is not checked, then yes that day wont be far.
couldn't you just email them the photos and bypass another process altogether? We're just coming full circle. email photos to friends, facebook post, now back to email photos to friends because facebook's not adding any value.
Very true, but recruiters do use GH to get contact info... It's just easier if you dont have to deal with unsolicited emails.
This is quite off topic, but related to "Facebook Photos".

There used to be an option in my sidebar on Facebook called "photos", clicking it would show all the photos my friends had uploaded. It was the news feed but for photos! However 2 days ago it disappeared, this is my sidebar now: http://i.imgur.com/Vvte9.png

The only option I have now is "photos", which is my own photos. Did Facebook kill the photo feed for everyone or did it just disappear for me?
I saw this coming. Their 'apology' was just another thinly veiled stab at Samsung. They're simply coming off as childish and immature now. They're not exactly getting into the good-books of that judge which would have worked in their favour if they ever encountered him again which judging by their history and mantra of 'sue everything' is highly likely.
diy silicon is definitely a cool concept but this project, while cool in itself, is not a step towards that goal. and that was (one of) my issue with GP post.
I like the idea. I have done nothing but charity work in a long time. This week I released http://diaconia.com.py/ for a local organization.

I would only volunteer for an organization if I can identify with its goals, so I would appreciate if you'd publish them.

There are also projects listed like bug hunting or performance tuning. You should publish the technologies used in these cases too.
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The ticker here really is that most of us can't speak layman terms. If we practice our pitch and our grandparents roll their eyes, it only means that most probably wouldn't understand our product or service we are trying to sell. They would appreciate it when we are able to tell them what to appreciate, in pure English form minus all the technical jargon.