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Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_Patent_License

"It requires entities licensing their patents under the DPL to license all of their patents under the DPL, with free licenses granted to all other DPL participants.[4] DPL participants remain free to launch patent lawsuits against non-participants."
Is there a large English speaking population? Would I be able to get by with mediocre Spanish for a few months?
Not exactly. He also had to change the User-agent header.

Also: let's say someone accidentally exposes their password because it's on a post-it in the background of a photo. Clearly this is crappy security; clearly, at that point, information protected by that password is readily available until the password is changed.

The intent of the owner of the data does, in fact, count.
High framerates give the appearance of and in some cases substantially better images reducing significantly various temporal aliasing effects. They are without doubt better in every way from a technical point of view.

There is however a cultural issue that is worst amongst the film creators that "film" is regarded as expensive, high-end and good so that things that don't have the artefacts (low frame rate, film grain and colour) are regarded with at least suspicion. This will probably pass with time especially as the number of high budget, high quality TV series increases.
> Out of curiosity, why do you propose a relocation to London?

Not sure about the OP, but the London market has been screaming for web developers for the past three years at least and I would be very surprised if it slowed down any time soon.

To give you concrete numbers, I came off a contract at the end of October (I'm taking a few months off for baby arrival, due any day now) and went to one local user group event to line up some new work for January.

Based on that outing and pinging a couple of recruiters, I have two potential clients who have given me offers for 3+ month contracts, another two interviews next week and the client I just finished with wants to re-contract too. None of the new clients are referrals. Daily rates (subject to change!) circa £500.

I get regular emails from past employers asking for recommendations for full-time developers too. In the vast majority of cases, I have no one to recommend as all of the good full-timers I've been in the foxhole with tend to be quite happily employed.
I just replace the window manager. If that can't be done, GNOME is not for me anymore.
6.5k km2 is actually more than 1/4 of Israel's land area (20,770/22,072 km)
What's more civil than having your well-trained legal representatives argue out an issue for you?
For many people there are also substantial tax deductions you can make. E.g. you can subtract 30% of interest expenses on private loans (ränteavdrag) and 50% of renovation costs of owned houses/apartments (ROT). Now unfortunately these deductions lead to higher property and apartments prices, so it might not reduce your total expenses after all.
No.

You're not listening, and you're not arguing in good faith.
Why don't people like to read anymore?
Be on a mission that doesn't suck
Depends very much on the size. The resulting edginess becomes much more pronounced the fewer pixels you have. I'm just pointing out that in some cases you can conserve CPU usage by cheating. You could render a shoddy version first just to get the page up, for example, and then replace it with a high-quality version; some browsers already do this today.
1Password 4 for iOS
This is unfortunately true. He could shoot a child in the face and get a pardon...
You only win once
Again, nearly everything in the Ubuntu repository.
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I feel like I'll go mental if I hear one more film buff talk about the essential nature of various imperfections in traditional film. It's so obvious that nobody would have chosen to go with film grain, low frame rates, or any of the other limitations that were foist upon them if they had had a choice. But now these technical limitations get enshrined as the medium's supposed true nature, at least by some....
I don't have a dog in this race, but the statement was that Google abhors patent trolls, not patents. If they're buying up patents with the intent to use them to build something rather than flip them, that is not inconsistent.
See also the eternal discussion about whether vinyl or digital music formats sound better...
I guess you meant "was slow." As of now, the Android emulator ships with an Intel Atom image that uses Intel HAXM tech for native execution (and is much faster than using the ARM image/emulator) on an x86 machine.
Well yes, securing the world is a known problem. Look at the other wall.
CrowdStrike says that it hooks vfs_read and if the data read contains the line it injects into /etc/rc.local, it is removed from the read buffer.

This means you could just read the file byte-by-byte (I guess runnin dd a couple of times would work), though I haven't tried myself.
Why the hell? Why?
Unfortunately, because of buffering I believe this would still be inefficient. Also, it would screw up HTTP keepalive. A better way would be for the browser to fetch the header first by using the HTTP "Range" header, and then fetch the subrange it needs, but that adds one roundtrip just to get an image.
Why would you do this to me? I'm supposed to be working!

I'm fascinated by F1 because of the technology in the cars. The driving is astounding, but for the technically minded, Formula One cars marvelous.

I'm already excited for the race coming up in Brazil. Now I need to forget that this site exists or I will lose all productivity in these precious few days surrounding the Thanksgiving holiday. (Bogus holiday BTW, but at least I get to chill with my family).
I'm not convinced that intent of the owner counts, but let's say it does. AT&T intentionally put the information on a publicly accessible server. They even distributed a script that fetched the data when it was requested, when users set up an iPad. So as far as "intent" counts, this data was intended to be accessed.
Recruiting and hiring isn’t considered a core activity

Previously maybe. The trend towards acquiring internal recruitment teams is growing dramatically. Despite not actively looking for work, I've had four job offers for internal recruitment roles in the last 6-8 months.

Remember that oftentimes by the time an employee comes to tell you he’s leaving it’s too late to retain him.

I have to disagree. It's difficult to convince an employee to stay when they inform you they want to leave and quite often it's not worthwhile as their motivation to leave will resurface again in a few months but it can and has been done successfully if you know how to go about it and actually listen and understand your employees needs.
Hexapod robot running Lynxmotion Phoenix code
I weirdly agree and disagree with you :)

Stallman's ethical and philosophical approach is awesome, and his unwavering stand behind those things is also. I don't agree with everything the man says, but I agree with a lot of it and it's clear he's thought it all through.

I really, really, really hate this when applied to politicians though, because they ought to change their positions based on evidence. When they're crowing about how unwavering they are it's usually because they're flying in the face of common sense and raw, obvious fact.
> On basically all political issues, unwavering is a good attribute.

Only in the movies. In real life, this trait can be disastrous towards making any progress for the betterment of society.
Sure it does. One's inability to see that they can't speak on behalf of everyone else in the industry because what worked for them isn't the One True Answer does everyone a disservice. Pageviews and a chance at sounding important or intelligent are all that matter in most of these scenarios.
> This gives Scandinavians and Dutch entrepreneurs an edge compared to most other European entrepreneurs

how? the world's ranking of english proficiency is dominated by Europeans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EF_English_Proficiency_Index#2... I am pretty sure among the IT branch the scores are much higher although you don't need perfect language skills to understand technical concepts.
It's all well and good that we are attempting to address the software patent system but the myth of beneficial medical patents still prevails. If you are of the opinion that medical patents are necessary, please read through this document - http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/against.h... - in particular, chapter 9. Just like software patents, medical patents have a long and rich history of stifling innovation. Don't buy the lies wholesale - look at the evidence and make your own decision.
If the wing breaks mid corner in a high speed section the results could be spectacular as it would result in a sudden, unexpected and uneven (front/back) loss of grip.

If a front wing comes off it can wedge under the car lifting the front wheels off the ground removing most of the braking effect. Near the end of the straight this could mean 200mph towards the scenary.

Generally there are limits imposed so the cornering speeds don't get too high.
This is why I use Clojure. I can do Functional, OOP, logic, or any of the dozens of other programming styles in one language. And since it's a lisp I don't have to worry about having to need extra syntax from the language writers to get what I want.

Pragmatic languages FTW!
I love the themes of reinventing yourself, starting from scratch, and how we derive ultimate meaning from the communities we invest in.

Mullen makes a poignant comparison between the open source community and the skateboard community.
> Of course not. If you never use ell's, then anything that looks like it might be an ell is actually a one.

Code is not just for your own eyes, it is for the eyes of future readers and maintainers. Though you might be aware of your "no bare l" rule, your readers are not.

Besides the fact that "1" and "l" are intentionally made to look different in fonts used for programming, syntax highlighting usually makes numbers stand out from everything else. In my editor, "1" is red and "l" is black.
> Maybe autoautos can handle 200km speeds.

You can do more with normal cars today, already. (In fact, I've done so.) The economics of those speeds just don't add up for cars.
It appears to be because everything written is believed to be... too long.
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Just imaging self-driving minibuses.
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What on earth?

Blaming this on Linux or Rails is ridiculous. And as for 'mystery technical problems'...

I think the reality is more like they got in over their head, decided it was all a bit too difficult, and gave up.
If he's not interested in converting these people then can I suggest going to a conference full of them might be a waste of his and everyone else's time?
Real linux or not, putting out a mobile OS platform is a considerably ambitious and expensive enterprise. Let's not even address user adoption at this point.

A "geek" friendly phone will always conflict with the need for decent market adoption. Ubuntu on the desktop is "awesome" but according to current market adoption numbers, no one cares.

Any new mobile OS needs to at least match or exceed Android or WP 8 and demonstrate the capacity for breaking new technical grounds in (AI,voice recognition,location & commerce). It's a tall order. I applaud the folks at Jolia for trying but from the look of it, they're not there yet.
It was a customer support / issue tracking service.
I would add "practice what you preach" to this. Everyone hates the junior developer who says "ugh, this code sucks, it doesn't even have tests." Everyone loves the junior developer who says "ugh, that code didn't even have tests, so I found a seam and added some tests for the new method I added, here's how to run them."
Revolutions are won by winning over the masses. So this is not an either-or dichotomy.
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Yes, kernel bugs exists

You can open a bug with distros and try to work around it. It is usually doable

"unfixable kernel panics" don't seem something a person familiar with Linux would say. Also, there are several distros, kernel versions, and Ubuntu isn't my first choice for a server.

And the gist is over the rate already.
I'll add my baby to the pot: http://skimfeed.com.
A Very Dramatic Reading of Francisco Dao's Tale of Startup Failure
Truth in 24: Amazing view of racing technology and strategy
Well the state tax isn't as i said it, bjourne is correct about that part.

I see that extra tax as money that if not for the tax would be part of my salary (at least some of it) because it's based on how much I earn, not how much I work or when I work. Thus making it of 100% of my salary, not 131%.

I never said it's bad. It's OK. I'd just rather pay for something great/world class than having someone else take some of my money throughout my whole life and pay for average things for me (whether i want them or not). It's a lot harder as a consumer to demand things when you're not paying for it and you loose options when there's a single entity that pays for everything and wants everything done a certain way.
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You can find (previous) references to it on Amy Hoy's blog unicornfree.com.
Reading news isnt necessarily recreational for everyone. Just because someone want to stay informed about current events in a concise manner, doesn't mean they don't like to read. You can consume the news quickly and take your time reading something else that you enjoy.
Another extreme direction to try out is the direction toward the machine. The value of trying out assembler programming may not have similarly direct benefits. But I personally find it a great general advantage to have detailed knowledge of under which practical conditions your program must run. To know that whatever fancy high level constructs you are making use of, you are always building a giant state machine where space is traded for time.
There is a bit of a flaw in this article. A 24 fps film projector displays 1 full frame at a time, there is no scan line. This is very different from TV and the CRT originated scan line. Comparing frame rates between TV broadcast and Film projection is flawed.
Seems to be real. Here's an article in non-governmental news site: http://lenta.ru/news/2012/11/20/oo/

Reminds me when my mother first started researching issues of domestic violence in USSR. When requesting criminal statistics she was told "Soviet families do not have this problem."
Get ready to sell, look at the chart, it can hit previous peak and retarct
http://i.imgur.com/kslWN.png
And that lost to email, I guess.
I'm as bewildered as all of you. But let's give them the benefit of doubt, he probably just forgot to mention that they tried other OSes. I mean, who wouldn't?
Dev here, just getting it out there hoping to get some feedback and reviews. Note, there is a known bug in the iPhone version that cuts the last line off on a few comments, but it will be fixed soon (and you can also just go to the web version instead of the custom comments).
I posted this not because I agree with it, but because I only partially do.

Arron Levie makes the claim that, essentially, if your mission doesn't suck, you won't burn out. I certainly don't subscribe to the same overall viewpoint. More likely for him is he's been burned out more times than he realizes and he's soldiered on, harming his health and his company in the process. The fact that he's managed to succeed anyway is irrelevant to the burnout argument. That's not personal observation, that's science. His psychological contortion in convincing himself that doesn't apply to him is fine to keep him happy, but he shouldn't kid himself: if he'd taken the occasional break, he would probably have been able to think better more of the time.

The main message—passion matters—is important, and I agree with that for sure. That's for keeping your energy up regularly. The secondary message—if you're passionate, you can work without stopping—is incredibly dangerous. More likely if you're passionate you can lose sight of whether or not you've burned out; I know I've kept working in a burned out state before.

Even if it's true that Aaron Levie has avoided burnout because he's just so damn passionate about what he does that he's become immune to general biological observations (perhaps he has a rare mutation that exempts him from these problems…), science pretty much tells us that chances are, you won't have this advantage.

So be wary of following his argument to its logical conclusion. Work on something you're passionate about, yes. It will make your days more fun, it will make your interactions with your fellow workers more fun, and it will make life more fun. But don't forget about the other side of life. Do take vacations. Do take breaks. Do, in short, keep an eye on your broader needs, not just those of the company you've chosen to found or work for.
Do you think they enjoy wasting $6b of development money to avoid being sued?
Also, while most people have learned to hate overdrafts because of fees, they're another form of credit. But you might have trouble getting more than a few hundred to go through.
To anyone who gets harassed by clueless recruiters with doubtful job fillings, I have a much better idea than answering with angry or rude responses.

Simply send them a stock email that tells them that you have had bad experiences with other recruiters and that to filter out the serious job offers from the shots in the dark, ask for 500$ before continuing any conversation.

Do not remove yourself from the market, simply price yourself too highly for them to bother. And asking for money up front sure shuts them up fast. You still maintain "good relations", stay polite, and, in the worst case, you get 500$ to send them your C.V.
"The crowd was told a recording would be made available later in OGG or WebM format."

Two lines down. I guess that line could have been added later..
To be fair, the article doesn't relate what the "insults" (Stallman's words) were that provoked his reaction.
Article inaccurate. Notes: "Inman responded by drawing a picture of a woman meant to be Carreon's mother becoming intimate with a Kodiak bear." but in reality: "the drawing of Funnyjunk's mother."[0]. That's okay though Joe Mullin, you made the same mistake Carreon did himself. "That fact that he [Inman] wants to react by advocating net war against me and accusing my mom of bestiality makes him lower than the low." [1]

0 http://theoatmeal.com/blog/fundraiser_update
1 http://www.ramblingbeachcat.com/2012/06/not-backing-down-ram...
I guess so too but phrases like that are going against free software/content/everything. It gives the reader the impression of requirement of cost and proprietary technology.
or a premium price for leaving a vehicle in a sorry state
>non-chromeos linux

Or you could just use the pre-installed linux kernel underneath a distribution of your choice.
Front-end devs are absolutely developers. A better question is why we allow people who don't know how the web works to design for it.
Nice that you noticed. I was indeed inspired by Squeak Smalltalk. I love that system. Pity it didn't get widespread.
> although it's kludgy

Some implementations are, but the concept is sound and can work smoothly. Your second factor could be a smart card or a USB dongle that's simply plugged in. Like an ATM, especially European ones.
This comes down to what the basis for beliefs are - as the quote goes you're entitled to your own opinion, you're not entitled to your own facts.

Politicians are an odd breed though. By the time you've made it to elected office you've almost certainly had your beliefs and how (or even whether) you can express them so warped that I almost think it's unfair to hold what they say against them. They're the product of a screwed up system - most of them are (or were) smart principled individuals until they got too close to government.
Hm, tricky. Somehow you'd think that that part of the gas that is exposed to friction is limited to the portion that was slowed down by the interaction with the wall, and that the rest of the gas would not be subject to this because it is moving at roughly the same speed as the carriages.

During the acceleration phase this would definitely be an issue, the gas in front of the carriage would be compressed because the carriage is moving much faster than that body of gas. But that (hot) gas could be dumped just prior to insertion of the carriage into the tube.

Maybe the outside of the 'sheath' could be made from a heatsink like profile? I haven't given the thermodynamics of the thing much thought, I was basically just trying to figure out a solution that would not require some far-out technology.

I know that lots of people like to link space with Elon Musk but I think he's much more practical than that, space is a means for him to get to mars and Nasa a convenient way to finance it.

Other than that Tesla doesn't have anything to do with space and is ground transportation, I don't see any reason to go into low earth orbit with all the associated risks if you could do the whole thing on the ground and be:

- safer

- as fast

- not have the energy expenditure of having to work
against gravity

- easier to maintain

- shorter path

The thermodynamics of having 'slugs' running around a tube are beyond what I can easily compute back of the envelope style, the only thing I see is that the amount of power put in to the system would have to be radiated out somehow or you'll end with a net gain in energy.

That's mostly a surface area increase problem, the air over a highway is notably warmer than the air around it simply because all those cars dump the combined energy of burning all their fuel into the environment. If you can reduce the energy input into the system then you'll reduce the amount of energy you have to get rid of afterwards. So I can see that reducing that input energy is really important and that changing the speed of the cars is brutal in this respect because it causes the air behind it to pile up against it (heating it up) when decelerating (but the air in front would cool down due to expansion) and vice versa.

It's an interesting problem and if I wouldn't have a ton of other stuff to do I'd happily cook up a simulator for this.
One point in addition to what I posted earlier: check out the old (maybe the original) version of Slate's "Today's Papers." It was awesome: a ~1 page prose summary of the major newspapers every morning. The Slatest is but a pale shadow.
I love this post. I'm in a similar situation in trying to figure out what the MVP for our upcoming launch needs to comprise.

We've done some market validation but aren't totally convinced it's there yet. At this point, our only recourse is to build something, put it in the wild and see if anyone signs up.
Bayesian explanation of the ‘Uncanny Valley’ effect
You'd still have the friction between carriage and wall.
Law enforcement agencies routinely unravel money laundering schemes that are much more sophisticated than this. You really think this'll stop them if they have a reason to investigate your funds?
The rise of internal recruiting teams is definitely promising. We work with a lot of companies that are smaller and/or growing at a slower rate and therefore can't justify a full time equivalent for recruiting. They're hiring maybe three or four people a year. For those kinds of orgs I think "making it a core activity" is just as important, and perhaps more difficult because they can't justify full time help.

Good on you if you've figured out the formula for retaining employees that are potentially on their way out the door. I'll stand by my statement that it doesn't happen often. I'd love to read a blog post about how to do it successfully! :)