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Don't buy music controlled by the RIAA. Just don't. The only way to stop them is to starve them. They're major campaign contributors, so the law will never be on our side until they're gone.

And by the way, don't download said music from sharing sites or friends. Artists need to see that we won't pay them any attention, with wallets or ears, if they associate with known extortionists.
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Yeah, that's the ticket... guess I wasn't thinking about the requirements for using said charts for effective navigation. I was just wondering if this would precipitate infringement claims once the point of origin is identified. As in it's an accidental "Trap Island" but it's caught some rubes nonetheless...
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Capital Cooking prides itself on providing delicious food with exceptional service and has built up an enviable list of private and corporate clients such as leading online gaming company Mind Candy and global PR firm Burson-Marsteller.
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That was my first thought, although i'm not sure why you refer to them as 'poor-mans copyright', seems like a pretty smart way of adding an additional layer of protection in cases of plagiarism dispute.

These are also referred to as mountweasel's or 'nihil articles' (http://www.omniglot.com/blog/?p=6187) and turn up in dictionaries, maps, charts and other reference works.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry for a long list, including fictitious german politician Jakob Maria Mierscheid in most official parliamentary listings.
Do you retrofit tests to old code? If so how do you deal with spaghetti that at first glance appears almost untestable, insist on a refactor?
The BBC has a video of it in operation. Wonderful to hear the sounds of this machine: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20395212
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And the lenses would be installed into any glasses or how do you envision it?
I remember that there is either a law or a royal-cort ruling in Finland that the confiscated HW needs to be returned in a timely manner back to the owner. So let's hope the little girl gets the winnie the pooh laptop back :)
I wasn't responding to Rob's remarks, I was responding to yours. Don't use Rob as a straw man. Also I didn't say "any computer connected to the Internet", that's also a straw man.

> I seriously don't care about the fine point we're hung up on here.

... and that's why you're getting your facts wrong.
I worked for a small company for the last few years, and although the company was small the codebase was quite big. Despite my many attempts out of desperation, they wouldn't listen.
And the irony is, I'm not even a developer - But i knew it was needed.

The excuse cited was always that version control was impossible with languages that compile (we were on .Net) - I'm sure there's a response to that, but I didn't know what the response was, and just decided to leave in the end (amongst hundreds of other reasons)
The premise was amusing, but the movie itself was not really worth writing home about IMO.
"Springs back to life"... talk about sensationalism.

It 'sprung' back to life after a three year restoration project.

The original article is a much more appropriate read: http://www.tnmoc.org/news/news-releases/worlds-oldest-origin...

The tech spec is brilliant:

Power Consumption: 1.5kW
Size 2m high x 6m wide x 1m deep
Weight: 2.5 tonnes
Number of Dekatron counter tubes: 828
Number of other valves: 131
Number of relays: 480
Number of contacts or relay switches: 7073
Number of high speed relays: 26
Number of lamps: 199
Number of switches: 18
Benefits of MDMA-assisted therapy for post-traumatic stress persist for years
Hehe, I suppose that wont be hard in the nearby future (25 years). The glasses could have neuro-censors that would be in constant contact with key parts of both sides of the brain.
Unless the rights holder him/herself uploaded the video, listening to it on YouTube is no less "piracy" than downloading it.
No, artists need to see an alternative way of distribution to realize, how can they make it big without the "help" of leeches.
Am I the only one who thinks Google Glass is a bad idea?

We already trusted our virtual life to google (emails, what we do, etc). Are we sure that we are ready to trust our real(physical) life too?

Don't get me wrong... It seems like a cool project but I wouldn't use it, maybe I am getting too old :/
Scientists redesign DNA to make it better
Disbar people for acting within the laws and regulations? Yeah, lemme know how that goes...

Also, I'm not sure what you're trying to show with [0].
Can a product have a competitor if it hasn't actually launched yet?
How do you explain the value add that you provide or do you stick mainly to marketing yourself in terms of selling a certain skill per hour?

I ask mainly because of recent patio11 posts about emphasizing value in terms like "I can increase sign ups by x% by doing Y". This would seem to require a lot of experience and analytical/stats knowledge that a programmer might not necessarily possess however.
I'd be interested to know how you sell git to your clients.

I have listed all the positive benefits of version control in detail to my clients and still have the idea rejected due to it being an "unnecessary complication"...
You mean to tell me that Oracle think that embedded devices will run Java? Heavens, I'm shocked.

"Embedded devices" is such a broad term now, that they need to scope it a little better. An ATM running Windows is considered embedded by some definition, which is kind of what I suspect they're talking about here - not resource-constrained devices like Arduino boards, as inferred by the image at the top of the article.
"At a time when iPhones are swapped out every 12 months, the TI-83 calculator and this computer are among the only pieces of technological machinery that have survived for decades."

The TI-83 with a graphic display is recent by comparison to the venerable HP12C.

http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=hp12c&page=...
>thanks to the "patriot" act, our ISPs are storing our search history anyway.

I think you're thinking of PCIPA (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Children_from_Intern... ), which would do that, but is still a long way from becoming law. I am fairly sure that the USA PATRIOT Act does not contain any such provision.
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Sorry, you are right; I misread the first sentence. I didn't realize that you referred to tldr.io specifically with it.
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We're distributing GPL software for free.

I just saw that the GPL FAQ says users don't need to agree to the terms of the GPL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ClickThrough

If they don't need to agree to it, then they don't need to see it! Easy!
Methods that can be executed by a human, instead of requiring a machine, are generally considered "mental processes" and unpatentable.

Yet another brilliant idea from someone who wants to fix a system he does not understand.
Because people like things like transactions and are generally risk-adverse when choosing storage technologies?
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The last point the op makes is that you don't need a nodejs framework if you're using backbone/angular/ember. I've consistently used Socketstream combined with Ember in my for-fun projects, and it's extremely easy to build use. Combine that with the massive fun I'm having pushing events to the client from node and watching ember observers adjust accordingly, wonderful things can happen.

On topic - Socketstream is actively being developed and is pretty damn awesome (not to mention easy to pick up). Meteor and TowerJS turned me away when I saw the amount of rigidity in their implementations, whereas SS allows you to plug modules in and out of the framework with ease.
I've thought that in Finland the reason to get a search warrant needs that the minimum punishment for the crime is 6mo in jail. When did the punishment for copyright infringement went from fines to jailtime :O Or am I missing here something..
The point of an MVP, as I understand it, is to determine if people want your idea enough that they try to get some value out of it. All the bells, whistles, and automation you could add to make it a less broken experience are a complete waste if you don't have people to use it.

The nearly hyperbolic (but unfortunately all too real) history of Webvan[1] is why MVP is important. They spent over a billion setting up oodles of infrastructure for a service that they assumed people would want... turns out they didn't (at that price point, at that time).

Had they spent a few thousand up front to roll it out in one town as an MVP, they might have failed fast enough to live to fight another day.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan
I'm not even close to understanding why version control is impossible with compiled languages. I use version control with Java/Groovy all the time.

Version control works best on plain text documents, but you can certainly check in binary assets to version control repos. I've done it even with CVS back 12 years ago, although IIRC it was a pain - SVN was somewhat easier, git is simple (re: binary files).

Actually, the simpler response is the .NET ecosystem has their own version control stuff (Team Foundation Server at very least - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ms181368.asp...).

Software devs not using version control should set off as many alarm bells as an accountant that tries to keep everything in their head, or doesn't keep receipts. Obviously it set off those alarms for you - it's just sad that the developers themselves didn't see it.
I am angry at the stupid Japanese government for taking our tax money and bailing out these zombie banks and keeping the status quo intact at the expense of the people and our children's future.

Hmm, that sure sounds familiar...
Hence my remark of that would make sense, but strange are the ways of upper management...
Not only that, but the market has not been established either. The product has not real solid use case except getting Facebook/G+ notifications on the go.
Big data means so many things to so many different people, I can't decipher what positive statements are being made here.
"With great power comes great responsibility". I run a very simple slate configuration that is essentially spectacle with some minor mods. It's very short and while I will admit it took me a couple of tries to get perfect it does exactly what I want.
When I say I'm not marketing myself correctly, it's exactly this point I'm talking about.

At the moment my value add for my clients is my previous experience and my communication skills. I try to reply to emails as fast as I can, that alone sets me apart from most other freelancers.

I would love to be able to sell myself in similar terms to the way patio11 does, but as you rightly state it takes a lot of experience that I for one don't have, yet.

That being said, I've read so much information about on-line conversions techniques, have run successful (profitable) affiliate PPC campaigns, got on the front page of hacker news multiple times and done other things that maybe 99% of other people on the planet have never done.

I'm sure there's something in there that I can sell as a value add.
ADHD treatment 'may reduce crime'
It should be made clear in the title that Haskell isn't leaving MS, rather it is one of the lead developers of GHC, Simon Marlow.
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Ya, i do all of the design/code/test of the those applications/games. My designing skills are not so good :D.
"...embedded devices... will be driven by Java, according to two recent Oracle-commissioned white papers."

lol
(Your benchmark site seems to be broken: http://isitup.org/speed.pypy.org )
Same thing here :(

The compatibility table is here: http://kangax.github.com/es5-compat-table/es6/

Result: IE10 supports exactly zero of these features. We can start using them (maybe) once IE10 is dead.
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"just hop on a boat to Uruguay and come back the next day"

Not to mention there are nice places here in Uruguay you can visit :) .

Buenos Aires is a nice city, but as ZempIT mentioned, the current political and economic climate is not very good.

Edit: and I think this might be an understatement. Opposition is mounting against Cristina Kirchner's government, inflation is over 25%, and I wouldn't be surprised to see major unrest:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20417517
Also wondering about this, would be v. cool to play with it on iOS.
"A spokesman from the service told Australian newspapers that while some map makers intentionally include phantom streets to prevent copyright infringements, that was was not usually the case with nautical charts because it would reduce confidence in them."
It says the decision is binary...but after reading the article I have no idea what is the 1 and what is the 0?

Not very clear on what he's talking about.
I think this tutorial is a fine start. I would like to see more like it!

I'm coming at this as someone who knows multiple programming languages and would like to get Java and C# under my belt. I'm not exactly a newbie, but I think a few years ago (when I was a newbie) I would have followed it pretty well.

I don't think you should target people who don't know what a variable is (i.e. true newbies) but rather write a separate {tutorial,set of tutorials} for that. I like how the focus here is just C#.

I think the style/presentation is spot on - conversational without being cheeky.

Please do continue! :)
Coding standards are here to prevent developers to waste time by bikeshedding about irrelevant details of the style. From that point of view, if "no coding standards" rule eliminates silly coding style controversies, it is a perfectly acceptable coding standard itself.
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The glasses could have neuro-censors

That's a frightening typo!
Exactly. I prefer to focus on what people like Steve Blank have said about creating a start up company. Better to think about how you are investing your time and resources in terms of customer discovery/validation (searching for a viable business model) and then customer creation/company building (executing on the business model). A lot of people conflate the two when thinking about the purpose of an "MVP" or just plain experiments to test assumptions - and as the poster is discovering there are consequences when you do.
How can the European Commission make life better for startups?
Does this mean that Facebook is using Haskell more these days?
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FYI, Simon Marlow is incredibly big in the Haskell community and is the leading expert in Multi core parallelism via STMs in Haskell. Some of the work he has done for the GHC compiler is frankly fantastic.

This is incredibly big news in the Haskell world. The FP community is starting to break boundaries with the industry in the last 5 years with Clojure (and Scala's functional support).

Currently, FB seems to use haskell only for basic lexing and parsing[1]. It would be tremendous to see them using it at FB scale. I think there's going to be gain for both parties - For FB, the publicity and hacker outreach, and Haskell - industrial reliability.

[1]: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry
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I think you are both right to a large extent, and the distinction is whether you are focused on the easy cases, the hard cases, or some point in between.

The repetitiveness in the common law is a massive feature and precedent does make the majority of cases quite predictable. And the outcomes of most cases are very principled - just not always with the hardest cases.

The limitation, though, is in knowing whether the facts push a case in one direction or another. Quality lawyering makes a huge difference there, and it is the lawyer's skill that enables her to figure out how to interpret and shape the facts.

As both of you have essentially noted, there are a potentially infinite number of fact patterns, but a finite set of legal rules, so any system must apply an existing law to a new set of facts from time to time. Whether that is viewed as applying an existing law or creating a new law is in the eye of the beholder, and legislators and judges disagree about that all the time. And whether that is a bug or a feature, is a deeper philosophical question that doesn't get at what an expert system can/will do.

I think the only way you'll get a truly effective expert system for the law is if the software is integrated with the people making the law - the legislatures and the judges. I'm doubtful that will happen. In part, that is because I am doubtful that computer systems will ever be able to decide cases in a way that seems independent, fair and humane to the ones being judged.

Short of that, my own startup (judicata.com) is working on mapping the legal genome so that we can identify the core legal rules, and how they are applied to different fact patterns. We think we can make big strides with legal technology in the coming years. It's not an Apollo level undertaking, but it's a pretty massive undertaking nonetheless. We're hoping that a systematic approach at understanding the law at a deep level of detail will allow us to make some of what has been discussed here a reality.
What kind of design work do they expect from you?
I doubt we will ever get to use them, unless Windows 8 turns out to be such a clusterfuck that it takes Microsoft down with it.

IE9 still can't draw stroked text, for example.
It can easily be construed as broad-sweeping and baseless collection of user data, specifically in the hopes of somehow monetizing it.

It is baseless because it is passive and without direction.

I'm not bashing it, as a matter of fact it excites me as a programmer.
A article about standards hosted in a format that is standard else we would not be able to read it. Beyond that nothing too see here.

Next week I expect a blog of 20 pages explaining why you don't document code as it takes too much time typing.

Of course I totaly disagree with the author, but I highly suspect that in a few years time he himself will also agree to disagree.

Standards are whilst not perfect a level of commonality that binds the code so that others can see and use the code, oh and adds other perks like reduces bugs, makes things just easier for others to work on others code. But anybody who just codes by themself not touching others code will equaly have a mentality that standards are wrong. See the problem.
I work in London and from the job interviews I have been to and the people I know working in London, £35k for a graduate is very high. As others have stated, jobs in finance/banking will be paying more and might be closer to £35k.
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What happens if you zoom in on the island using google maps?
I think that's a funny movie (and just brought it up at work last week), but I don't actually believe we're getting dumber. I think there is a societal "anti-smart" sentiment right now (nerd, geek, etc), and that the media portrayal of idiocracy is more entertaining (or perhaps more lucrative - Jackass, Swamp People, etc).
> things that clearly have little to no future, like Firefox Mobile or Firefox OS, just doesn't make sense.

Firefox OS has to be the most exciting thing they're doing. Why does it not have a future?
I'm from Spain, where bureaucracy and taxes for new businesses are quite ridiculous. What I did is:

- If you're making just a few hundred $ a month, don't even bother. Yes, it's technically illegal, but nobody's gonna put you in jail for not paying a few dozen $ of taxes a month. They have better things to do, and so have you.

- Once you reach a decent income, hire an accountant to do all the paperwork. I pay 70€/mo and all I have to do is once a quarter, send a summary of expenses and income, and everything is done for me. Plus, I have someone to consult if I have more complex questions.

Hope it helps.

EDIT: Forgot to say, don't incorporate until you have quite a substantial income. Here at least it's expensive and accountants will charge you more. Just register yourself as a self employed person, which is like a one-person company here in Spain. Like freelancers, etc. I'm sure the same thing exists in other countries.
> If this sort of backlash becomes common, there will be a disincentive for artists to sign up with records who indulge in such nonsense.

Unfortunately this is the last thing on artists' minds when they're about to sign a deal with a record label, and that isn't going to change anytime soon.
GHC? Great Haskell Collider?
Made me think of Jimmyr that I used several years ago... http://www.jimmyr.com/
I really like yours. Time to upgrade, thanks!
If the opportunity arises, try the following approach: Tell your client " I use some very specific tools for my work as they increase my productivity and efficiency, and as part of the work i deliver to you, i'd like to continue using those tools to deliver to you. You'll receive multiple benefits as a result, and i can name them if you wish, but don't wish to bore you with technical details"

Just try it. Not making any promises, but i think you'll have better luck if you do.
Sounds like you're either framing things wrong, or allowing certain people to make the decision when it should be yours to make ;-)
Reasons might range from the aesthetic: the "search language" of the Google Search Engine is imperative, not functional; to the paranoid: Google might datamine searches from YC company IP addresses; to the utterly practical (and perhaps likely): a toy search engine is a good way to know enough about search engines to guide and evaluate a YC company working in that area.

Then again, it may just scratch an itch as an inhouse tool.
And WHY are we still quoting “analysts” in articles? When whatever conclusions they have apparently arrived at are so obviously sponsored by corporate interests?
> So, of course, we will occasionally notice aspects of our world that are not modeled and deserve to be, and there should be a procedure for doing as much.

That is exactly what the courts do.

> First, there aren't clean principles to begin with.

Yes, there are. The courts are forever elucidating them, combining them, perfecting them. The legislature periodically replaces them.

> Finally, if your claim is that the outcomes produced by our byzantine legal system is equivalent to the outcomes that would be produced by a principled approach, then I think you are mistaken.

> In general, I think you greatly overestimate the number of principles that would be necessary, in the right framework, to improve the legal system. But I recognize that the onus is on me to back that up and I'm not really in a position to propose a specific alternative system.

Well good news. This has been tried, it's called a "code" or "civil" legal system; as opposed to the byzantine "case" or "common law" system that is used in countries descended from Britain.

And it doesn't make the actual complexity of the real world go away. I'm struggling to convey this point. The law is not complex because of the way the law works. The law is complex because the world is complex.

That is an irreducible complexity that simply cannot be swept away by a single rational system. Even the civil law acquires warts, dusty corners etc and is constantly being altered, tweaked, fiddled with.

You don't realise it, but you have stumbled upon a very old strain of wishful thinking: society seems so irrational, surely we could do a better job if we started from first principles and nutted things out from there.

It has been tried. Many times. By many of the greatest minds that have ever lived.

And they have all failed.