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It depends on what you mean. I am a law student now, and while my perspective may shift when I graduate, I have had some tangential involvement in projects that that help people, that is extremely rewarding.

Financially, the market as a whole looks less secure and perhaps less lucrative than it was in the past, but that matters less for people not driven mostly be finances and the compensation for some of those graduating ahead of me is not unlivable.
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Despite how Uber might like to make it sound, this isn't NYC paving the way for just UberTaxi, it's paving the way for a whole host of taxi companies to operate hailing systems- any can apply to be a part of the pilot program.

So, let's see what happens- given Uber's history with government bodies I'm half expecting them to file their paperwork incorrectly, be unable to operate and protest the fact by sending a mariachi band down Broadway.

At the very least, we can expect Hailo and GetTaxi to submit applications. Probably the risible ZabKab, too.
Yeah, I would go do far as to say that WordPress made something inherently difficult look easier than it actually is (in addition to some parts which really are easier: as in, there are two metrics, and the former was lowered in an amount much greater than the latter), causing a bunch of people to mistakingly believe that they can handle it themselves; sometimes, a weird configuration file format, or a requirement that you get four pieces separately and stitch them together, is not making something harder for no good reason: it is a subtle indication that helps people understand when they are getting in over their head.

I liken it to the idea that the Infested Forest should look as dark and imposing as it is dangerous: replacing the craggily trees with candy canes and the wolves with golden retriever puppies (still trained to kill, mind you), and carefully laying a golden brick road through the center for easy access with a new sign at the entrance reading "Welcome to the Friendly Forest (Version 2.0)", makes a very dangerous situation look much less scary than it should... the "looking scary enough--or just being difficult enough to navigate--that you don't go in without an RPG party wearing enchanted armor carrying Ariadne's thread" was actually a feature, not a bug.
>Google only cares that you are using the internet.

Google also cares about its earning reports and stock price. "Using the internet" doesn't pay the bills. Google is far from a charity. Its a multinational corporation beholden to its stock holders.

Google made a strategic decision to piss on its mobile division to help its maps division. This may not have been the wisest move and considering how google stock prices have been falling lately, well, wise moves is something it needs to focus on.

I just hope google knows what its doing. Apple is ruthless against Android, yet google seems to be pretty easy going with iOS.
You probably live in a civil law jurisdiction, rather than common law.

Juries are limited, and thus less lawyers needed overall.
Hard to do, the one you will look at second will always be at an advantage. So you'd have to select two theorems of "equivalent difficulty", which is not easy. Also you need to select hard to understand theorems, else you'll understand both the representations easily anyway.
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Why should I, as a user, care? I had a great feature, they replaced it with a bad one. They shouldn't have.
> The same reasons why Apple wouldn't package Google Maps with iOS are the same reasons Google wouldn't package iTunes with Android. You don't want to concede ground to your competition. Now if they want to fight for it that is a entirely different story.

Apple would never make iTunes for Android though, so it's an unfair comparison. I have every reason to believe that Google would be willing to have its Maps application be the default.

I don't think any actual users realized that Google did not write the code for the previous Maps application, it makes no difference who writes the code. It was Google Maps, that's all that mattered. Apple already has exclusive rights to approve all iOS applications, so having a third party write the code would not be any more of a risk than shipping an internal app everyone knows is powered by Google.
That was actually in our plans not loo long ago, for real
I don't find this to be true, but that's perhaps I'm not far richer than I was 5 or 10 years ago. Somewhere along the way, accessibility to truth was thrown under the bus for clickbait and walled gardens.
Have you been keeping up with the news lately? Their latest rocket test shows that they have the ability to launch a nuclear missile that could hit the Western US.
> 1990 was $6,830 per year (about $11,700 in today's
> dollars). It is now over $48,000/year

IIRC, these 'estimates' (usually) don't just include tuition, but also things like room and board (at dorm room rates).
And at the same time it allows someone in the middle of a war torn country to take a picture with their mobile phone and instantly upload it to the world.

You are essentially talking of the same kind of barriers of entry that Anil complains about the Facebook et al put up around data exchange.
Here's a jewel from that document (I partly can't believe that this is authentic):

"There are a plethora of international criminal charges against Dr. Jones, which include but are not limited to: bringing unregistered weapons into and out of the country; property damage; desecration of national and historical landmarks; impersonating officials; arson; grand theft (automobiles, motorcycles, aircraft, and watercraft in just a one week span last year); excavating without a permit; countless antiquities violations; public endangerment; voluntary and involuntary manslaughter; and, allegedly, murder."
This question is disingenuous. The risks involved here are obvious. When you acquire a lease from a landlord, the landlord screens you. Many check references. Arbitrary apartments in arbitrary buildings are not a product offered anonymously, like candy bars or Macbooks.

In addition to the lurid- but- non-negligible risks you bring up, there are more pedestrian problems with transient tenants:

* They may leave outer door locks unlocked

* They may let random strangers into the building

* They create noise

* They can damage the building

* They create fire and electrical hazards

* They create unsafe unsanitary conditions

It is, again, disingenuous to imply that these are new concerns brought up to stymie offerings like Airbnb. These have always been concerns. Do a Google news search for "hotel zoning". People protest, often successfully, proposed zoning changes that would allow new hotels.
The USA hasn't had separate common law courts since 1938. I doubt many cases from before 1938, are still being litigated in the court.
I dislike a few things about Spotify.

1. Unsustainable financially. They're losing money and will likely have to change the service or charge significantly more at some point.

2. Occasionally it doesn't have a song. Too obscure, too new, or some kind of legal wrangling is preventing it. Spotify doesn't have a good solution in this case. I can't augment it with music in my own collection.

3. With Spotify you have a huge music collection, but it's not portable. If they change the service (see #1) or you want to use a different client, you don't have options.

4. Mobile apps are limited to 96kbps. I want to be able to connect my phone to my (or a friend's) stereo to play music in the living room. The artificial bitrate limit means that won't sound good.

These might all be things only nerds care about, which is why I don't expect the market for my side project to be particularly large. But it's enough to make me want an alternative.
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The only problem I have is when I search for something that isn't there. Happens sometimes that what I want simply doesn't exist in their store (like, for example, VLC), and when that happens all of the near-hits come up. If I am thinking about it, that is the correct behavior, but it still strikes me as strange every time it happens. I think the reason for this is that I have become spoiled by usually only searching on the web, and when I search on the web it is very rare that I don't get any desirable results at all. Google's web search has spoiled me.
No, you still can't easily highlight-open / link addresses to open in Google Maps, for example. Among other things, Apple is responsible for the old, shitty map, and they are responsible for not getting Google more native integration and having NIH syndrome. Plainly, "thanks to Apple," iOS6 Maps is a failure, and it is a huge misstep for one of (of two) the world's flagship mobile-OS.
Yeah if you want to divorce yourself completely from the business side of things I understand that perspective.

I would not however expect a company to do something that would harm them just to please me. They are a business trying to make money to survive. Doesn't matter if it is a massive company or small startup.

EDIT: Ideally I would have like the Google app to have come out a lot quicker than it did so the transition period was better but I'm not sure who to blame for that. Odds are it was Apple who pulled the rug out from beneath Google's feet during the negotiation but that is all here-say and conjecture. Probably 10 years from now we'll read in some book how shit went down.
Darned iPad...
> To participate, it expected you to know how to do a bunch of things that seem trivial to tech folks but frighteningly complicated to everybody else.

This is why a lot of technically superior cool things people invent lose out to corrupted versions.

> to get that accessibility, the hosted services make you give up a lot of things.

I don't see how any of those things are necessary. I can see how the environment incentivizes those things, but none of them are necessary. Maybe there's no practical difference in the end.

Network Effects are just as important as software freedom and technical excellence. By now, the tech world should know this lesson, as should those who would support the cause of software freedom and technical excellence.
Since you really have no idea what the negotiation breakdowns were you really have no idea if any of what you stated was true.
Your implication is that Google was surprised by what happened and so wasn't prepared with their own app. This strikes me as implausible. Apple's purchases of mapping companies was well publicized, as was it's slow break-up with Google. So if we're allocating blame for Google not being ready, I'm going to go ahead and lay that at Google's feet.

If we're talking about blame for Apple Maps being sub-par, obviously that's Apple's fault.
never had experience with Forth or anyth similar, so thanks for clearing.

and the fact that fixed arity for an operator or function makes parentheses unnecessary is cool... never thought of that before :)
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> You can almost hear him gritting his teeth as he types this, not quite able to give up Apple just yet. "Apple wins (for me) in design, but everything else is Google. But I can't bring myself to explicitly say 'this is the better app'."

Well, "design" is a subjective thing, so Apple fanbois can always say that Apple has better design. Other, more impartial people[0] say that it's better designed than Apple Maps.

But can you blame Gruber? Spreading Apple propaganda is how he puts food on the table. By being an Apple shill, he gets fed insider info from his Apple sources. And the only reason anyone pays attention to him is because of those sources.

0: http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/12/3760770/google-maps-iphon...
It isn't off topic to point out that Apple isn't as good at search as Google. Relevant to both maps and app stores.
I prefer Disqus comment system even though when you sign in, it gives it access to post on your whatever account you decide to use. I just go back to twitter then block access again everytime I use it. It's obviously not a good long term solution though.

Does every website really need to have a universal comment system?
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> Of course, to get that accessibility, the hosted services make you give up a lot of things. You lose access to your raw data. You lose your privacy. You lose the ability to change vendors if the one you're on turns evil.

That's not true. We've been building OpenPhoto for a year and a half to prove that statement wrong.

You can have the ease of use of signing up for a site without giving up control and ownership of your data. It baffles me why this model isn't more prevalent since we're proving it works and can be made easy enough for non technical users. We need more people building applications this way. Simply put, it's better.

For those unfamiliar with OpenPhoto you can get more information at http://theopenphotoproject.org but the highlights are:

* open source (https://github.com/photo)

* hosted or self installed

* web and mobile apps that work with hosted and self hosted instances (also open source)

* users select where their files are stored (dropbox, box, s3, cx, dreamhost, etc. -- google drive, sky drive coming soon)

* users import photos from 3rd party services

* users are free to migrate from one storage provider to another (we make it a single click)

* urls are properly name spaced so they're true permalinks if you map a TLD to your site

* i could go on forever....but if you're interested head over to https://openphoto.me
Feedback processes don't have to be intelligent, e.g. the thermostat mentioned in the title.
> I miss the barrier to entry that we used to have. I know this might be a narrowminded view but that barrier to entry prevented a lot of the drivel that we see on the internet today.

The takeaway: If the Network Effects aren't harnessed for the cause of freedom and cool, beautiful stuff, then someone else will harness them to make money off of drivel.
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This is what I'm referring to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LegalSystemsOfTheWorldMap....
How has Python avoided this? Is it because GVR has been accepted as the dictator because there are no language barriers? I can see how the language issue can cause a major disturbance.
heh also claiming while this app is good, Android's version is of course not. Because it's not Google-y, like Google's iOS apps. It's too sterile - Android must be made by some kind of subsidiary, that has nothing to do with the Google, that makes these iOS apps. Because in reality I hate Android and everything that surrounds it, but I have to admit the Google Maps app is quite good actually, so my Cognitive dissonance came up with this totally rational explanation.
> But it's true. In iOS 5 I had Google Maps but no vector tiles, no turn-by-turn or voice navigation, and Apple tried to get Google to work with them on that but (regardless of whose fault it was) negotiations failed. Now, here we are, and as an iPhone user I now have a Google Maps that not only has those features but is arguably, currently, better than the Android version(!)

The lack of innovation was exclusively Apple's fault. They neglected to update its Google Maps powered app and decided to enter into war with Google at the detriment to Apple customers. If Steve Jobs hadn't gone nuclear on Google, the Maps debacle would never have happened.

> Furthermore, there's now been an explosion of map apps on the app store: Nokia's Here, Waze, etc. Competition is good. In iOS 5, there weren't viable alternatives (or they weren't advertised?), but now I have four good map apps on my phone. And when one of them fails, and it will (even Google, which was useless for me when I visited Japan recently) I now have several alternatives. As a user, for me, it's a win win.

Waze was released in 2009. Nokia's Here is new, but most of the others that are popular in the store have been around quite some time. They "exploded" because Apple shafted its user base, it wasn't because of innovation.
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The web we lost is still there, it's just that's it's just as accessible as it was 10 years. We post photos to Facebook not because of the technical superiority but because our friends and family can see them.

You can still put your photos on flickr where no one you know will ever see them.
> you still can't easily highlight-open / link addresses to open in Google Maps

And this is thanks to Apple's own my-way-or-the-highway design decisions with iOS. It's amazing how people still put up with not being able to change default application settings in iOS. Then again, that goes to show you how strong the RDF still is. Apple fanbois like Steko continue to come out of the woodwork any time Apple gets criticized, ready to defend them no matter what decision they've made.
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Ethical, to me and in short, means that the analytic tech doesn't connect the data about a user to other sites; means they don't put an unkillable cookie on the machine; means that they don't try to "sell" the user's data to other entities.

Or, to put it another way, respects the user's privacy in a way that would be digitally analogous to an employee in a brick and mortar store watching someone wander through the isles.

I'm not entirely certain what, precisely, Google (or other companies) do internally with their data and the effectiveness of their policies. So I am asking around.
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Just an FYI, but the MonoMac project (which is what Xamarin.Mac is based on) will be remaining as Open Source for that situation.
> If Apple doesn't build it's own Maps, we still have the old shittier maps app though right?

Apple was unwilling to negotiate with Google because they are upset over Android. Apple could certainly have improved its existing Maps app if they were willing to play ball with Google. They weren't and now they look even more ridiculous because every iOS user can plainly see that Apple is worse at mapping than Google.
>anti-intellectualism of our industry is its downfall

I just curious to find out, what downfall are you talking about ? Isn't software eating the world and Silicon Valley making billions ?
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.. And Open Sans too
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Now comes word that applications in this admissions cycle appear to be in something like free fall. As of December 7th, they are down 24.6% from the same time last year, while the total number of applicants has declined by 22.4% year over year. These numbers suggest that law schools will have a total of somewhere between 52,000 and 53,000 applicants to choose from in this cycle, i.e., slightly more than half as many as in 2004, when there were 188 ABA accredited law schools (there are 201 at the moment, with an emphasis on “at the moment”).

To put that number in perspective, law schools admitted 60,400 first year JD students two years ago

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It sounded to me like Colin was talking about something that has affected him or someone he cares about personally. In such cases, a technical or pedantic reply is at best beside the point, and at worst pours salt on a wound.

My sister- and brother-in-law tried for years to have a child. Finally they adopted an infant, only to have her die a couple of months after she was born. A person facing something like that does not care about "impoverishing the English language".
Patents are completely broken in the software world - if your web/ecommerce company reaches ~$10m in revenue at any point, the corresponding rise in media attention will likely also bring you trolls demanding settlements. This is most certainly not what the patent system was intended to be used for. These people are legal criminals exploiting the law. The Acacia CEO's rationale is rubbish in my opinion. Protecting inventors, my foot.

ps. I'm curious about the patent that was used to extract hundreds of millions from defendants, including $565m from Microsoft, and was subsequently invalidated. Will that money now have to be refunded, along with the defendants legal fees, interest charges, etc.?
You're answering a criticism of Wikipedia's standards by appealing to Wikipedia's standards. Further, you're certainly aware of your painfully obvious cherry-picking.
This article gives me an idea. Theoretically, problem with trolls is that they can't be counter-sued because they're non-practicing entities, ie. they're not technology companies. But build.com isn't a technology company either, they just happen to use it in their operations.

From the article: "There was one for transferring data through a network, another for using images on a website, another for having a computer that connects to a database." Quick check... yup, intellectualventures.com has a web site with images. I bet they have a database of patents, too. Let's see... lodsys.com bingo.

So the real problem is just that "defensive" patents are optimized for counter-suing other technology companies, not trolls. (Well, no, the real problem is that the patent system is broken. But given the system we have...) What's needed is a pool of patents that could be used to counter-sue trolls. And hey, there are "business method" patents as well as technology patents. Could we get a patent on sending threatening letters? How about a patent on shell companies?

Now I'm off to work on my new invention: "method and apparatus for travelling to a courthouse by means of a motorized vehicle."
I was very careful to say the hosted services make you give up a lot of things rather than you have to give up a lot of things, because it's not necessarily true that you must lose those things to get the easier experience. The services just want you to, because it makes life simpler for them technically (reliable interop is hard) and gives them extra ways to make money off you.
Ryan, you should be able to select where it will install itself. It will override your existing python installation if you install it in the same location as your original, so don't do that.
I don't know, I was a bit sad when "hardcore forking action" disappeared.
ok, my bad, but you should have.
I hope they hurry up and bring it to the mass market.. I really hope that it will be available for you to use.
I'm sorry for your personal difficulties, but I try not to base my personal worldview on anecdotes.

I agree with you that these are difficult issues with large accounts on both sides of the ledger. In fact, that is kind of my point.
Again: if you "preordered by a credit card", and were charged before the shipment (not just an authorization that your bank shows as "pending", but an honest-to-goodness capture), then you can and should report them. You will note that no large company is doing this, not even GameStop.

As another cool example: if you were lucky enough to go to Google I/O this year, they were taking "per-orders" of Google Glass; however, as they are not allowed to take money via credit cards in advance of shipment (and as you can't delay a capture for more than a month or something after the authorization), they were forced to just take name and email addresses down at the event.
Oh, how soon they forget. Remember geocities?

And before that, there were many fountains of ignorance to be found on Usenet (alt.* :), Archie, Gopher...

It was in general a smaller community, and that kept the amount of drivel small, too. But it wasn't all as rosy as you seem to remember.
Sounds great for a US citizen.

What about a small town in Europe's less advanced country?
I can't say I understand the octocat. It's a very strange character.. but very good. It makes no sense, but I love it.
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