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That's not what "strawman" means. And I know that he just meant patent cases... the problem is that the criticism he used applies to all cases. That was my whole point.

> CMU was not deprived of anything by Marvell using the same pattern

CMU was deprived of a reasonable royalty under the law. What does being made whole mean if not being granted what the law guarantees?

> The focus on arbitrary jail time and fines paid to government versus restoring victims is one thing which needs to be rebooted.

This has nothing to do with patent cases. Are you saying criminal law also needs a reboot?

> If justice was a service being paid for and we implement a loser-pays doctrine, as has always been the case in common law, we wouldn't see a lot of these patent cases, besides the fact that IP cannot exist without a state to grant the monopoly.

I have no idea what you're trying to get at here. Loser-pays has some advantages, but it also has some serious disadvantages. As for IP requiring a state to grant the monopoly, I don't think anyone has ever claimed otherwise, and it has nothing to do with loser-pays. I'm just confused by your comment.
I kind of like to play a game during development (with the actual control interface).
This is a good catch, but the presentation is awfully passive aggressive. Yes, if JSON wants to strictly be a subset of JS, then those two characters need to be treated specially - either excluded from JSON, or specially escaped in JSON libraries. The simplest solution, clearly, is to exclude them from JSON. (You can still use those characters, but you have to escape them). There's no compelling reason not to do this - and I doubt that this will cause a problem anyway.
Works smoothly on Chrome 21 on Windows XP. Note that if you change tentacles to max, thickness to about 9, gravity to max, and friction to 0.3, it is a good simulation of long flowing hair - maybe could be used in a RPG with a girl as protagonist?
Yes, neglected. More features isn't the point, nor is whether I personally like it (disclosure: I still use it every day). Google Reader is apparently not being developed; it's in "maintenance mode" and run by a skeleton crew.
Too much government stuff.
> touch is essential to many games (Angry Birds)

I think Roku would like to argue that point with you, considering that Angry Birds was their flagship launch title for their new devices with motion-sensitive controllers.
I will start two projects. A new kind of Video Analytics site, mainly for Agencies, who will test their viewers reaction. And one for local artist to be able to sell their music.
http://getpocket.com/

I use it every day, it's almost perfect.
Check this out --> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4955639
That depends... If they start questioning my patient care decisions, I'm going to ask them to step away. Fortunately, we have preprinted cards explaining that if they want to take over patient care, they need to speak to my medical control physician (who will need to hear a _very_ compelling argument before they would be willing to hand a scene over to someone else)
That sounds crazy to me, but I have very little experience with ruby. In PHP/python doing that can be unpleasant.
Read again what I wrote. I clearly did not say that "ignorance is the only reason", or anything of that nature. Please refrain from making misrepresentations like that which you've just made, Dale Harvey.

Ignorance, however, does play a more significant role that you seem to believe, or would like to admit. Many of these developers do lack experience with languages that offer proper class-based OO support, namespaces, modularity, and other core functionality that JavaScript is missing, or has poorly tacked on (I'm looking at you, CommonJS).
You can't base an emotional decision on rational arguments. If you're going to be rational about it, you're never going to leave your golden handcuffs.

Unlike you, I love coding. I've learned Erlang, Lisp, Dylan in my spare time just because I really enjoy programming. I try to learn a new language every 6 months. But it wasn't always like that.

A few years ago I was a senior network engineer at a leading networking equipment vendor, made more money than all of my close friends together and had no pointy-haired boss. But, like you, I was bored most of the time. I didn't particularly hate my job, I just knew that I wanted to get excited about something. So I quit to work on a startup with friends.

I didn't start coding right away. Despite having majored in CS, I couldn't write a line of code to save my life. Hell, I couldn't even write HTML. Besides, I hated programming at the time. But I wanted to be part of the creation process, so I needed to learn the tools. I learned HTML, then CSS, Wordpress, Ruby, Python. Somewhere between HTML and Python, I realized that I actually enjoyed coding; it grew on me.

Fast forward 5 years, I still don't make half of what I used to make as a network engineer. But I'm way happier.

I guess what I'm trying to say is: don't be afraid of exploring. You don't have to be 100% certain of what your passion is in order to take the plunge and a startup is a great place to explore, since you get to wear so many hats.

BTW, it's not too late; I was 27 when I quit.
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The kernel mailing list is by desision public, and Linus's email was part of an already public thread. We can dissagree with what he wrote, but I do not think he had a good option of writing it in private.
I'm going to take this a step further and just say "Stop Generalizing" (Wait... was that a generalization?)
What features does pd not have that you need? (Alternatively, if you really do need max/msp, for the price of the receptor you could buy a pair of mac minis and have redundancy if one of them dies on the road -- obviously the receptor isn't just a computer, but laptops aren't the only alternative).
Too much meta-generalizations!
POC: http://blog.persistent.info/2012/12/screenshot-proof-images-...

HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4955639
-1 On becoming a PM. There's thousands of people who faked their way into developer jobs. Then they saw it's a lot easier to not have to deliver anything and decided they were going to be people persons.

Not being a developer is prime evidence that a person is NOT a good developer. Everybody who tries to make this play claims they're a good developer that moved on but kept their skills. 90% of the time they didn't have the skill to begin with. There are people in PM roles claiming to be developers that, at least on paper, wrote code for literally six months.
Two things: this should not have been the public chewing out that it was, Mauro obviously didn't do any of this on purpose and getting scolded like this privately would have been plenty, heck the guy probably berates himself a lot more effectively than this message could.

Second: the buck stops at the top.

Testing procedures should have caught the bug long before being seen in the wild so apparently linux still has some catching up to do there and that's a lesson that Linus should be learning here rather than to dump on the developer that caused the bug that wasn't caught in testing.

Process really does matter in cases like this. The problem is not that it happened, the question is how to make sure it never happens again. Maybe Linus was wearing his 'do I look like a people person to you?' t-shirt.
Flash lost when Adobe gave up on mobile. There are going to be a billion tablets within a few years. What's more important is how rapidly these tablets are advancing.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6426/ipad-4-gpu-performance-an...

Also, consider Firefox and Chrome get updated every 6 weeks; that's around 500-700 million users getting fresh updates. Sure, "HTML5", that catch-all buzzword, needs a bit more work before it can match the current Flash, but it's pretty clear where people should be placing their bets.
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Check out our speakers, and I'm sure you'd find that the people who are signed up so far are just as impressive. Join us?
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Perhaps he is referring to one of the Hackintosh projects that emulate Apple hardware so you can run OS X on non-Apple hardware.

Though that seems transparently different to me than this project.
Much of what you have said now is pure speculation.

Furthermore the TLAs (Three Letter Agencies) are known to engage in both foreign and domestic clandestine operations while it would be scandalous for the US Military to operate domestically, so I highly doubt they're operating domestically.
Nothing would stop a second phone with its camera recording the footage of the first camera.
There are a ton of flash games on the app store. If anything, Adobe has a stronger presence in mobile with CS6 than it did before! You probably just don't realize it because flash compiles to "native" apps.
I always like to keep in mind that while Zuck may have been in college when he came up with Facebook, Bardeen and Brattain were 39 and 45 when they invented the transistor (respectively), Tim Breners-Lee was 35 when he invented the World Wide Web, Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce were both around 40 when they founded Intel, etc, etc.
Still no solution for ennui?
Soon, I don't think even Instacart will be able to help with my Twinkie cravings, considering Hostess just went bankrupt again, and stopped production.
When doing Squats and Deadlifts, make sure you lift if your legs and not your back.

Don't be afraid to hire a (credible) personal trainer who knows how to do barbell lifts to coach you on correct form. It may take several weeks to get the form exactly right, but it's worth it so you don't get injured.
Did not know that about Tim Berners-Lee. Thanks for commenting!
The big money is definitely in in-game consumables and virtual goods now. I'd say add revenue has probably been declining every year since at least 2007, but a top 100 game earns far more now than in the past.

This talk was pretty enlightening: http://youtu.be/Ekz466sDprg
But they did, and he didn't.
We treated this as a quiz for how familiar we were with various startups. Got a good chunk of them right, too. I may need to spend more time working and less time on Hacker News.
If only people reading my comment had some sort of brain with which to interpret it instead of being doomed to apply only the exact literal meaning.
any tips for someone struggling with trying to learn Python? Im struggling motivation wise, dont have much direction. I hear its good to learn through a project or something you want to build, but I dont know enough about the language to really have a good idea of a project or goal I can aspire to
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If I remember correctly, this was a problem with Facebook user IDs. I believe they ended up making the value a string in the API to deal with this (and padding new user IDs by some large power of ten so that developers would hit this code-path early enough to catch it).
Yep, remembered "53" but then misremembered it as the number of mantissa bits.
Thanks for the suggestion. Actually, from my brief glance, the combination of Spreedly + SpreedlyCore seems like it might be a good fit. It looks like I could use Spreedly to get up and running quickly, then migrate to SpreedlyCore when I want to reduce costs or have more control over subscriptions.
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I like this post even if for no other reason it doesn't imply that I'm living life wrong if I don't want a family and kids.
Once upon a time, Apple thought so too.
No worries, organic growth is a function of longevity. So to some extent you don't have much to do. Of course if you want, you can sign up for AdWords and get something like a free $100 credit just for signing up. Then you spend that by buying keywords that people might use for a query that your page would answer. That is called 'search engine marketing' (SEM) and once you burn through the free stuff you'll have to decide if its worth buying more ads or not.
I am not as informed about Appelbaum as you seem to be, but regardless of his actual contributions to the field, maybe it's not so clear about whether or not he's doing a poor job educating the general public. The numbers of minds captivated with stories told by the likes of Carl Sagan are, as you mentioned, orders of magnitude bigger than what Appelbaum could accomplish. But take Mikko Hypponen or Moxie Marlinspike - great speakers with great things done - would you say that they come even close to what Noam Chomsky reaches with his talks? I don't have concrete data on this, but I do believe the answer to be a clear no. And that's maybe because the majority of the population of the world isn't as interested in computer security as they are in debates about religion, science, politics, sports, consumer electronics or whatever. Maybe this field is just too young to be a permanent part of day-to-day concerns or to have more than a couple of tens of thousands of people interested in it. And maybe that's why it's probably worth considering supporting the few public figures this field has.
I love when people apply what I have to say to situations to things I've never thought about. Good luck out there :)
Your self-description resonated with me: good at physics and math, never really programmed much outside of school, saw some coolness in it, sort of enjoy doing it, a little, from time to time, but not enough to really do it as a career.

Nearing 50, I've been a consultant (information security, mostly government space), a development manager, a system architect, and a developer.

I love, LOVE, solving customer problems. I'm really, REALLY good at it. But I don't like to code. Not for more than a few minutes at a time.

I would NEVER hire me as a developer: I'm just not good enough, not productive enough. I write relatively error free, bullet proof code, but I am very, very slow. So the value isn't there, even if the code can be left alone for a long time. There are markets for that, but not in the languages at which I excel, and I have zero interest in learning others. Less than zero.

I would, however, hire me any day of the week as a system architect, especially one who had to work with non-technical people and translate vague requirements into something that could work.

I would also hire me, any day of the week, as a software development manager, senior manager, or VP (sorry, don't want the job, consulting is too sweet a gig): I am very, very good at estimating (design, development, test, documentation), organizing all of that, and managing it, and managing the people who manage it. I've been a pretty good shit-shield for my staff, keeping away all organizational disruptions.

I excel with mixed bag teams where I get to set architectural direction with the assistance of a few really bright people, and set organizational priorities for that team, and for the broader team: What we develop is what you sell, what you need to sell is what we will develop.

Perhaps your path lies therein, somewheresomehow. If you have technical skill and people skill and vision and strong sense of what could go wrong and how to mitigate it, there will be places for you.

(I hate sales. I like the product management aspect of marketing, and some of the branding aspects, but despise a lot of the rest. Operations? Bleagh. Of course, I do all of that as a one-man-shop, but as a necessity to enable what pays the bills. YMMV, of course. If you want to lead a shop, learn those, you'll need to understand them.)
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In addition to the display woes I find many of the games in the Humble Bundle grab all keystrokes. This means nothing happens when you press the volume keys, and most egregiously when you press Alt-Tab!

I've found things better when using Intel graphics than Nvidia. Of course no such problems on Windows at all on the same machine.
There are many more such regions in Poland, for example - I have no time at the moment to look up their translations, but we have, among others: Mazowsze, Slask, Pomorze, Lubelszczyzna, Warmia i Mazury. That's five, too. And each of these regions has noted differences in: dialect (to the point of using language completely incomprehensible to others, which at least three(!) of this regions do), culture, food, general behavior, economy, and quality of life.

These differences between regions inside one country is exactly what is comparable to differences between Midwest and Northeast.

Now think about the fact that Europe consists of tens of countries, many of which are significantly more diverse internally than Poland. And try to compare this monstrous complexity to differences between USA regions.

For me it seems to be daunting and impossible task because of huge difference in scale, yet you have no problem with it. I can only admire your courage :)
This is a result of Google's decision to not "perfect" this on their web app - but it could be. It's just low priority.

Just as there is lag and jittery scrolling when loading older posts in the Android native Facebook app, it's not a result of the platform, but a result of poor design, or not putting the effort into that one area of optimization.
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Well Sinatra seems pretty nice. I'm a node.js developer so I use Restify and Express. But I practically build api's exclusively. I've spent a lot of time cleaning up after terrible Rails applications. Replacing bits that are too slow or difficult to maintain with smaller more nimble node applications.
...my experience (originally from Germany, in the US since 2005) as well. It's a question of mentality. While in the US a vast number of people want to create their own business or already did when they are quite young, running a business or starting one is a herculian task in Germany. And you get punished when you fail. And you get taxed to death when you don't. Running a company can easily become a social stigma too. Even if starting your company happens to be easier now then it was 10 years ago, still the majority of people are rather focused on finding a secure position in a larger company with lots of benefits then "creating" something "new".
Numerous reasons I guess for why that came to be (I don't think it was like that in the 50s/60s) - maybe as society ages there is less of a "drive" for radical innovation and a risk-averse mentality becomes mainstream. Either way, before I came to the US I had heard about "the difference in mentality" but I could not believe how "different" it really was and how much of an impact that meant on a daily basis: the biggest eye-opener was the completely different attitude towards things that needed to be changed and people just "did it".
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There's the same problem that every form of DRM has: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
I train to better prepare me for my life. As a husband and father, I find myself required to lift heavy stuff more often than I am required to run 5km. YMMV.
I feel really dense, but I don't understand why the example line is throwing an error. The article mentions line terminators, but it doesn't seem to contain any, and I also don't understand why "owned" would be escaped the way the author says... it looks as though the interpreter is just rejecting the use of quotes around the key. But I'm sure I'm just missing something, so I'd be much obliged if someone could enlighten me.
Interesting. I would like to know your source for the fact they are "getting killed".

MRVL gets a significant fraction of its revenues from the HDD industry (disk controllers, HBA controllers, etc), and AFAIK they are maintaining their position of a leader, especially in the consumer SATA market.
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Does three monitors and two cards work fine under proprietary operating systems? I would expect symmetry at the least -- something like four monitors and two cards.
Funny that you say that. Just a ten kilometers from where I live is this: http://www.haelssen-lyon.de/index.php?id=22&L=1

Also this: http://www.teaandcoffee.net/1107/tea.htm

> The Port of Hamburg is Europe’s tea capital number and handles more than 70% of all German tea imports, as well as some 50% of the European-wide traded teas.

Germany has been for centuries been heavy into international trade. The city where I live operates a large part of the world container fleet...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_ship

> The vast majority of the capacity of fully cellular container ships used in the liner trade is owned by German shipowners, with approximately 75% owned by Hamburg brokers
Alcohol is a double-whammy because it induces a degree of transient paresis, allowing the inebriated to hold it longer than they should. Just don't fight the urge and you'll be fine.
I agree. Being a freelancer means working on your own passion projects. The problem I have is the occasional inability to turn down lower paying or boring projects because I don't have a great buffer of savings. That's where taking a full-time salaried position for a while can really come in handy.
Using some logic here:

1 - It seems Mauro added a new error message called ENOENT;
2 - After this change, Mauro noticed an error at pulseaudio;
3 - Linus says that always the userspace is right and kernel space is wrong in those cases and simply discarded Mauro's argument;

But thinking about this I think Mauro is not entirely wrong. Mauro's question makes a lot of sense to me: Why pulseaudio failed after just a new error code was added to the kernel?

Can't it be that pulseaudio is doing some wrong treatment that is ignoring the possibility of a new (or non-existent) error code?
> "No wait; do you think, at all?"

Frankly, I'm offended and disappointed that you've decided to turn this into a pointless personal attack. You already know you're being rude and belligerent, so moderate yourself instead of throwing out a condescending rant.

Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-terrorism for a few groups that the FBI has historically monitored (PETA IS on that list). Given that all of these organizations have been accused of actions that endanger the safety and property of other American citizens, the FBI isn't doing its job if it doesn't monitor them. The Occupy movement could easily have spawned destructive or violent protests, and being unprepared would have been irresponsible of the Bureau.
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As a physician and government traveler, the online booking service never asks for my title, and even if it did, I'd have to choose: Dr/MD? LCDR/USN/MC? Most identities online don't require a title and I don't offer. It only induces spam.