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I would be fine with a provision to extend copyright by paying fees, but only if the fee went up each time, like say 2^x * 100 dollars each x year over the base.
It could be part of the job description, not every interview is for a developer.
I had a really long convoluted discussion with an IP lawyer, and he claimed that only specific instances of Mickey Mouse's likeness were protected by trademark.

I haven't really absorbed his argument, but he seemed pretty sure about it, and that we needed something else to (legitimately, in both our opinions) protect Disney's ability to control their brand even if copyright expired. He recommended giving Disney something very much like "right of publicity" for Mickey Mouse so they can still control the character, while allowing lots of old stuff to still enter the public domain.
Yea. Yea, yea. Yea...

But I like tabs. Old habit.
Both MOM and ConTeXt have out-of-the-box support for the page edge markings on the pages in this document. I don't know how much of what you're talking about that relates to. It looks awfully nice to have come from open source software, sad to say.
The design of the blog is not under my control; if it was, it'd be a lot more flexible. (Responsive design FTW.)

The lines that are 81 characters long benefit greatly from the increase to 120 characters. That was the primary reason for increasing the limit beyond PEP-8's default 80 in my FOSS codebases. There were far too many lines whose wrapping was clearly stupid, and too much developer time spent worrying about it.

I have 4 screens (2@1024x768, 1@2560x1440, 1@1280x800) and frequently utilize multi-column splits. I only turn soft-wrapping on when I need it, which is almost never. If I were utilizing your setup I wouldn't enable it on your mvim display; <2% of the lines in any of the codebases I work on exceed 90 characters.
This really isn't much more than a fluff piece giving an excuse for bad management.

It ignores many of the detailed issues and instead makes it entirely about overall revenue using unsourced and likely made up numbers. Missing was any reference to revenue sharing and fact that some teams are turning large profits while others are losing money year after year, but the league insists on keeping teams in unsuccessful locations. The Phoenix Coyotes are a great example of this full of bad business decisions from the start, and only got worse when Jim Balsillie got involved. This shows little evidence of a successful long term plan.

I am not a fan on unions in general, but I see this as a typical issue with American business. Bad decisions are made and instead of management taking responsibility, the blame is simply put onto labour costs, wages are pushed down and the same mistakes happen again.
I once interviewed at a place that had an interesting spin. They gave me three fermi questions, which I had 5 minutes total to estimate:

1. Mass of the earth in kg
2. US GDP
3. Number of carriages on the London Underground

I then had to give a 95% confidence interval for each one (i.e. an interval that I was 95% sure the true answer lay in) and then asked, for each estimate, which bet I wanted to take:

1. Bet that the answer is inside the interval at odds of 10 to 1 on.
2. Bet that the answer is outside the interval at odds of 30 to 1.

There's a lot of work that has to be done there, and potential for a very interesting discussion (this was for a trading/research role, rather than a software developer role).
Or more likely to not accomplish whatever is on the list. I read a study that claimed that the act of sharing what you intend to do makes you believe you are making progress before you even started - and making it more likely that you will not accomplish whatever you had intended.

This most likely varies a lot depending on the person. For me, telling someone what I intend to do is a good motivator (although I'm sure it would loose its value if I abused it).
Ah no, wrong, people will steal your big idea.

Apple was a Johnny Come Lately to the smartphone market that was started by IBM with the Simon in 1994 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon Qualcomm wanted to use the Apple Newton to make a smartphone out of it, Apple refused and so Qualcomm licensed the Palm Pilot and made one of the first modern era smartphones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyocera_6035 let us not also forget the Microsoft Windows CE smartphones, the RIM Blackberry smartphones, or the Linux based smartphones, or even Microsofts Tablet PC running Windows XP in 2002.

Somehow after seeing all these smartphones and tablets, Apple wanted to steal their idea for Project Purple. It took them a long time, but they analyzed the weaknesses of the other devices and developed a better smartphone called the iPhone, but to say Apple was first to make a smartphone is quite false, as it wasn't even their idea. If Apple didn't copy the big idea several other companies had, they wouldn't be dominating the market right now with iOS devices. The irony is despite prior art, Apple is suing the beejezus out of their competitors.

So yes someone will defiantly steal your 'Big Idea' and you should not fear it, and you should instead plan to out-innovate anyone who does steal your 'Big Idea' with a better product.
How does linkedin know?
Quite possibly.

I agree with your second point, which is why I am a senior member of an architecture team in a company with 80 developers. It's our job to make sure ass and elbow confusion doesn't compromise the product.
All money IS Not fiat money
"How would you rate your memory?"

Sorry what was that again? I forgot what you asked
This is a UNIX cheatsheet. Nothing devops about it.

And I concur with the comments about "sudo !!" - !! in general I've totally removed from my UNIX vocabulary. At least do something like !?string[?]
This area had a great many rail options 70+ years ago. You used to be able to ride from downtown Santa Clara (when it actually had a downtown) all the way down The Alameda into downtown San Jose on a trolley. That "dip" under the tracks by the HP Pavilion had trolley tracks on it all the way into the 1930s. I figured this out by looking at old pictures.

The big kerfuffle now is whether they should close down a lane of El Camino Real to make it "bus rapid transit". Some cities say yes, others say no, so you wind up with this odd patchwork of half-implemented systems.
The google suggests he's a co-founder of foursquare.
Treecycler: team up with companies to plant trees around the globe.
Materialized views are inherent to oracle. They might refer to them as snapshots. In mssql they are known as indexed views. There is no implementation in pgsql but it is often discussed [0]. I gave up on data portability for nontrivial applications a long time ago. If you mean instead a view across multiple databases, it might be possible using pgsql foreign data wrappers but definitely not performant.

[0]: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Materialized_Views
I purchased an IdeaPad Z570 early last year -- thus far my only niggle is that they didn't ship any CDs with it. I'm much happier with it than I was with the Dell Vostro that I previously had.
I'm totally stealing this: "Hacking is where craft and craftiness converge." Unfortunately the license is "No Derivatives" so copying small pieces does not fall under the license. Neither would using it in a business because it's "Non-commercial".
You have to decide that kind of unit you need to pay fees on. Is "Steamboat Willie" 1 work? If a photographer releases a bunch of photos, are each of them their own work? Should he release them as a book?
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The options are:

1. Trust Nokia (or Opera with Opera-mini) and use the product.

2. Have no browser on low-end phones.

This is more a case of Nokia's product not explaining the security trade-offs to normal people. By choosing to use this browser, you are making the trade-off that it's impossible to have a secure (unbroken) connection between you and a website. Period.

There's a secure connection between the site and Nokia, and another one between Nokia and you. Nokia (or anyone that hacks Nokia) can listen in the middle since it's not a end-to-end secure connection.

| It doesn't matter what geekery is used to explain it

Nothing is every truly, 100% secure. People like black-and-white answers. People either want "it's secure" or "it's not secure." People can't normally handle, "it's secure-enough for these use-cases, but not for these other use-cases." A normal browser could easily trust a fake-certificate that was issued incorrectly by a trusted source. I'm unsure how you fit these sorts of things into your world-view, but it would behove you to do so.

| its not what it says on the tin.

If you can find a tin that says so, you should attempt a false-advertisement claim.
The state of the art in Perl web deployment these days is PSGI, which shows the direct influence of Rack and WSGI. A static front-end proxy works nicely with a backend app server. See http://plackperl.org/ for more information.
> What's even more rare is someone successfully stealing an idea. Usually anyone mediocre enough to want to lift someone else's idea isn't up to execution.

That applies when the idea is something genuinely challenging.

But what if it's just a specific need felt by a specific group of people that can be fulfilled with a CRUD app. That's a viable business, but the product can be implemented by just about any developer.
"If you had turned you cell phone to silent, and it rang really loudly despite it being on silent, what would you tell me?"

Go see an ENT specialist.
Foursquare cofounder.
>"The NFL has managed this shift quite remarkably, in a fashion that has gotten them so that virtually very team is profitable"

Professional football's labor economics are radically different from other sports. They have virtually no development costs associated with talent - development of talent is largely done by universities (many tax supported).

In addition the market value of players is based upon barter - trades typically don't involve transfer fees, they involve other players sometimes and usually involve draft picks.

Draft picks are interesting because high round picks are associated with a greater out of pocket expense for the team receiving them should they choose to exercise the pick - i.e. the signing bonus and salary of the first overall pick are substantial outlays, whereas a second round pick will involve less money.
Are you hiring now? :-)
All of those examples are trivial, they're all the same algorithm. I merely picked one of the more terse, which really has nothing to do with triviality.

Seriously, read that.

You're calling it trivial with over 30 years of advancements in computer science behind you.

Yes, of course I fucking can. The ability to do that is part of what makes a "person having ordinary skill in the art" an important concept. Even 30 years ago LZW represented an incremental improvement on the current state of the art.

Regardless of the novelty of the idea, LZW has always been trivial to implement.

> it wouldn't have been a published paper in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and an active area of publication for at least the next six years.

I am not arguing that it fails the usefulness test, nor that it was not important.

Your "this looks like a pain in the ass to implement" defense of the patent is absurd. You clearly would support the patent regardless, since you seem to be fine with the LZW patents.
Bettman is undeniably an awful commissioner. He was instrumental in forcing the expansion that created the teams that can't make a profit. He has been the driving force for 3 lockouts now.

It's a fault of management, not a fault of the players who have given up ground in each lockout. The leafs are a billion dollar team, the coyotes are worth almost nothing. Cutting player costs by a few million per year wont change this dynamic.
Yes, while we can fight about the length, it should be a flat length. Young people who make works shouldn't have them last longer than old people who make works.
Based on the nature of the course, I assume these reports are all generated using Markov chains or similar techniques?
“Calculate the angle of two clock pointers when time is 11:50."

I know the correct answer is supposed to be 0, but the hour hand moves closer to hour+1 as minutes approach 60. I guess I would ask for a compass.

Another fave is: “How many quarters would you need to reach the height of the Empire State building?”

My answer would be: "What's the price of admission?"
I can't get to the second page.
That's more a case of be prepared to be embarrassed by strangers executing your idea on a scale bigger than you dreamed of. There were people building "exclusive" dating websites at my university in 2004, but they didn't meet Mark Zuckerberg or the Winkelvii.
I particularly thought the "Analyzing CS 229 Project Topics" was clever.

http://cs229.stanford.edu/proj2012/ChangSaeta-AnalyzingCS229...
How often? Daily; I use my phone and iPad while I'm mobile, out having a smoke, or whatever. At home I use my iPad more than my laptop.

You don't keep your source code in a minified state, nor do you keep it gzipped; the storage/bandwidth/IO considerations are for SCM-tracked code where there are potentially many, many copies of the same file in different states.

If you could reduce a 34-line (1KB) diff by 20% (average of two indentation levels of four spaces each across those lines), why wouldn't you?
Airbnb’s Brian Chesky: Love is all you need
Well put.

Everything regarding strategy depends on the specifics of the situation. Trying to take something as important as whether you need to be in stealth or not and making as if there is a hard and fast rule gives no help to the aspiring entrepreneur and can be harmful.

We have one self described successful entrepreneur saying very clearly not to worry. As if he's telling someone not to sweat the brand of office copier purchased for the office.
Dammit this is so awesome!! I was just thinking of similar concept for my blog. I think I now, what I'm going to do this weekend :)
The minute hand is at 300 degrees and the hour hand is at 354 degrees, so the correct answer is 54 degrees (subject to me not having messed up the arithmetic).
A modified version has already been released by someone else and I've saw this version in another blog post before it was pulled down.
The point the article makes is one I strongly believe in. A startup should reach out for all the help it can get - far better than dying undiscovered for lack of needed assistance.

Nevertheless it is also true that theft of ideas happens all the time, and is not limited to startups in any way. Think Microsoft and the Samwer brothers for instance. Little - no innovation, very successful at cloning first movers.

There are some interesting stories in the startup world too: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2009/11/th...
To be honest, I realized you probably were halfway through my rant, but ranted anyway. I'm not sure if I would agree that "bad language" can do all that much damage, but I do agree that "it's just words" is generally not an argument.
Whoops, thanks. Should have been ctrl-a, but spelling out muscle memory is, like, hard.
Nope not when Apple has the ability to block anything on OS X remotely. You unblocked it, and then they do another check and block it again.

What is to stop Apple from blocking free and open source software in the same way? Say they want you to buy iWork, not use LibreOffice for free, so they put in a block for LibreOffice. Now let's say they don't want you using Firefox or Chrome and they want you to use Safari instead, so they block Firefox and Chrome. Citing that they are all 'security risks' because they are code Apple does not control. BTW LibreOffice and OpenOffice.Org are Java based, and this Java block would stop them from working in the web browser to display documents.

There will come a time with Mac OS X that Apple will lock it down like they did to iOS, and you'll have to jailbreak it to run what you want on it. This will be done for security reasons, of course, to protect the user.
>If you can't code yourself, leave code production to those who do it well and don't whine that you can't just plug-in whatever hot new method just came out without any effort or proper understanding.

This is missing the point. I can code, and I'm not promoting code sharing to more easily use other people's research. What I want is to be able to verify that the research I read is accurate, and there's simply not enough time available to reproduce everything I read from scratch. Reproducibility is important; I shouldn't have to just accept the authors' word that their results are exactly as described. Independent verification should be happening at the review stage at the very least, and authors should be required to make that possible if they want to publish.
Useful, sure. the original poster dubbed it "one of the most important pieces of software in the world."
The name annoys me coming from Google. I know making 'creative' names like this is all the rage for startups and it works for new companies but Google thankfully has used far more reasonable names (GMail for mail, groups for group messaging, images for their image search, etc).

Why couldn't they have just called this "Google Coupons" or "Google Savers" instead of adding that oh-so-annoying "Z".
Fortunately for everyone outside of Glendale, this is an 8 year (minimum) deal. Over that period the Coyotes won't make it, Columbus doesn't look like they'll make it, and the Panthers might not either. I think the _length_ of this CBA is the most transformative part. There's nothing Bettman can do now except move or shut down franchises.
CalTrain at the weekend is the stuff of nightmares, stopping at every single stop. Then, because the Highway 17 bus to Santa Cruz is part-funded by Amtrak and not CalTrain, you get to see the bus at the stand as the CalTrain pulls in, then depart before you can get to the stop, and wait an hour for the next one to appear.

The bus will apparently wait for Amtrak trains.

The transit would be passable if they could just find some political will to force the different systems to work together in some reasonable fashion. Instead, a bus driver sees people running off the train in order to get on his bus, and then leaves anyway.
Isn't financial assistance for the non-wealthy generally intended to counteract class boundaries to getting a quality education? If you have wealthy parents, almost always you grew up wealthy and well-educated, and various assistance programs are just not intended for you.

Yeah it sucks to accumulate $50,000 / year in debt to maintain your social class standing by attending prestigious universities, if your parents could care less, but why is it some rich kids birthright anyways to attend some wonderful school, when there are probably kids a lot more hardworking, driven, and coming up from adversity, that are more deserving?
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Strikes would not happen if US sports leagues were based around free market principles rather than monopolies that set artificial restrictions on athletes salaries and conditions.
But not disk, flash, or RAM. And network transfers are not always compressed, say, if synchronizing with a WebDAV back-end with naive client software. (The vast majority of iOS WebDAV implementations suck badly in this regard.)
Nice solution, makes reading text online far easier and I read to the end of the article which is something I rarely ever do online.

Because you have a pretty good idea if the person has scrolled to the last page (cause you are tracking it) you should be able to get some metrics on how many people finish the article etc and use it to promote your product.
I've been in a similar situation before.

I joined a startup that had limped along for years just as it was launching a new product. I slowly realized that this new product was the company. Everything else was water under the bridge.

However, the company (and certainly its investors) didn't see it that way. They'd invested a lot of time and money. To them, the idea that I would have as much stock as someone who had been there for 7 years seemed unfair.

The company badly needed new funding, and it all fell apart for this very reason. Someone offered to put in a lot of dough. The existing investors and stockholders figured, ok, you're offering about 10% of what we've put into this company, so you get 10%. Okay, 15%.

The investor figured, no, that's all water under the bridge. The money I invest now is almost a brand new investment. I need way more than that. They couldn't reach a deal and the startup folded.

You may be in a similar spot. Your buddy, and all his employees, figure they've been at it for 5 years. But does that 5 years have any meaning, or is it just dead weight?

You did say that they have "significant traffic", so maybe there is a lot of value already there, and you'll be building on top of something already successful. Or maybe there's nothing, and you're essentially starting a new company but with all the baggage of a failed company.

Hard to say, but this is what it all turns on, as far as I can see.
Then it will be built, released by the secretive party, and promptly copied post-hoc. If something is simple enough to be knocked off easily, "when" it happens is largely irrelevant.
Lemons happen. That was true in the 'glory days' of lemons as much as it is now, one user's experience is nothing to go by.
>Professional football's labor economics are radically different from other sports. They have virtually no development costs associated with talent - development of talent is largely done by universities (many tax supported).

The NHL has a similar system, though. They draw on NCAA and international minor league talent, neither of which are paid for by the league.

The NBA is similar, though I would argue that the out of high school and "one and done" draft rules have hurt the league much more than anything else.
I'm a little confused by this.

The article states that Google is primarily targeting online shoppers, but when you read a bit more about the program on the Retailers page on the product site, it talks extensively about benefits like not needing to scan coupons, increasing foot traffic (e.g offline commerce).

So is it a mobile/digital coupon solution, a "targeted" promo code for online shoppers, or both?
I do not keep my code in a minified state, but we do minify it before serving it on the web.

I also do not access my code on a mobile device.

And I wouldn't reduce it because I have 122 gigabytes of space free on my machine, and absolutely do not care about saving 200 bytes worth of space, even considering it's per commit.

After all, you could reduce your code by even more by minifying it before adding it to your SCM, right? (I know, I know, if you take out line-breaks, diffs will become unreadable).
He has content and traffic. Fine. But unless this is a media website or about branding, the actual "secret sauce" will be the functionality (yet to be coded). In that sense, your work will determine 100% the success of the company. As such, 5% doesn't sound fair to me. Also, if after 5 years, he's gotten no revenue, you're number one question as a potential share holder is: Why is this? and How will this change with my involvement?
Ahh yes, you're right. The hour hand should move .5 degrees every minute after the hour. Haha I can't believe I didn't reason that out.
"Machine learning application on detecting nudity in images" Trying to make it awkward with the professor.
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Ctrl + F doesn't work as expected. And even if it did, it would be a very odd, jumpy experience.
"So yes, you may democratize prototype-grade 3D printers, but then others will be make huge, fast printers that are able to beat your per-unit cost by an order of magnitude - but at high capital cost."

Fantastic point, and something that Wired, etc. don't account for when they write about the 3dp revolution.

Great article!