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When the paper was linked on HN, it was taken as an indication that the Democrats were beholden to Hollywood and the GOP was by contrast progressive on copyright, which is itself a distortion. That was the PR effect it had. So I can understand if the article does not shy away from mentioning that the GOP is also beholden to various interests.
> Do you really expect users to consider and care about the side effect?

And then there are people who consider this side effect and completely don't mind it, or even find it desirable.
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This is great advice as long as you know the difference between a detail and an issue. They are often easy to confuse.

Detail: What font should we use on the payment page?

Issue: Should the customer's credit limit be for our division or for the entire company?

Ignore the former and make faster progress.

Ignore the latter and be prepared to redesign your database and rewrite your app if you made the wrong choice.
Yes, but I think you may have a few too many sig figs there.
At least it was nice enough to reveal a bunch of server information, right?
I understand T-shaped, but what are Y-shaped and I-shaped?
I agree that this problem is not exclusive to the medium, but it is endemic. I mean, many blogs speculated about Adobe's motivation for releasing "free" software, but did anyone pick up a phone or send an email to ask them about it?
Thank you. I quit reading after a while because the author wouldn't just cut to the damn chase already.
I have a high-deductible health plan (HDHP) from Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Colorado, associated with a health savings account (HSA). It has worked well for me and I recommend that general route to other self-employed people, but man have the premiums shot up in the past few years. It was ~$80/month when I signed up (2005 or so, maybe). The same plan is now around $400/month.

For dental, I pay out of pocket but use a discount card (Vital Savings by Aetna). The discount card basically lets you pay the discounted rate that the insurance companies have negotiated with the dentist, which can be significantly lower.
If problems is shorthand for "has a lot of cease and desist paperwork to file" I agree.

I'm not clear what Adobe did wrong here, other than actually try to not completely screw people running very old versions of their software.

Sadly, no one would seriously make an accusation that they were screwing up if they had just shut off the validation servers and posted an note to their knowledge base, ID #FU-CS2-15-01734-81-CS6-plz.
The big challenge with 'scholarly search' is that what users want is to get to fulltext, but most scholarly fulltext is behind paywalls.

Google Scholar and MSN Academic both have ways of trying to deal with this. Interestingly, both often get you to a copy from the extensive number of "a professor illegally posted a PDF on the public web even though the publisher holds copyright and wouldn't allow that" copies. Google Scholar also will try to let you register your academic affiliation as a 'preference' and use the academic institution's infrastructure to get you to a post-authenticated licensed copy.

scholar.ly... doesn't seem to do this all that well.

I'm surprised that dude_abides thinks MSN Academic is 'light years better than Google Scholar', hasn't been my experience.

(I happen to work in the field we're talking about, being a software developer for a university library)
Say what you want but I know people in their 30's that can't put something together this creative. I love the idea. Very creative. I hope he finds a family.
The second being 'cross your fingers'...?
Ah yes, the content age. What would we ever do without it?
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Photoshop is one of the most pirated pieces of software. It is not hard to find CS6 online for free. One way or another it's always been the honor system, no?
NB: don't be confusing a "marketing spend" with product sales. Schools "make money" on kids paying tution, not sports. They would have to spend this money otherwise on junk-mail or fancy dorms.
Yeah? Is there a freely available api for your service, which exposes PDF links among other things? If so, I and many other university library developers would be VERY interested in your service. If you'd like to get university library software engineer attention on your service (and especially if you have a freely avail API, please let us know), I'd suggest you email some info to the code4lib listserv: http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?SL1=CODE4LIB&H=LISTS...
Too small, and the planet won't be able to retain an atmosphere (e.g. Mars). Too large, and it'll probably retain too much.
Does it really cost that much to keep an activation server running? How much are we talking here?
Maybe where YOU work they're not.
I've wanted this for a very long time. I'm in search of a summer internship, so I've been hoping for a way for potential employers to quickly see what I've been working on. Not just my own projects, but also my pull requests to other projects.

Thumbs up for GitHub, this is a welcomed feature. Very attractive, too.
Having just come back from touring Italy, I think I can say that anything south of the olive line (that is oil producing regions) would constitute Southern Europe. This, typically like European countries is not as useful as it seems as France, Italy etc. all exist both above and below the line, but there is definitely a cultural (and ethnic) difference between those living in colder and warmer climates.

Similarly I'd suggest the point at which grape production for wine tails off would signify the start of Northern Europe. Wine grapes are grown in England, but I wouldn't call England a big wine producing country. Similarly, the Netherlands has some wine production but I wouldn't class them as a major wine producer and as such part of Northern Europe. North of Dusseldorf or Hannover? Arguably Northern Europe. South of Dresden? Probably Central Europe.

I completely appreciate this is made on no scientific basis whatsoever and I'm probably completely wrong, but if you visit Spain, southern France, Italy, Greece and Western Turkey you'll see remarkable cultural and ethnic differences and similarities between them and Austria, Poland, central and southern Germany and in turn Northern Germany, the Netherlands, northern France and the UK.

TL;DR - Europe's a mess. We can't even really all agree on what it is.
Sure. All the proxies between you and the client are a lot more likely to cache a GET than a POST.
I don't follow... wouldn't it lead to more people using CS2 not fewer?
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> Do young folk even care about "small government"?

It was primarily young people's enthusiasm for Ron Paul in 2007 - 2008 that drove his campaign, platformed as it was on small government values. His campaign principles (and some of its messages) were then co-opted into the current-day Tea Party.

"Young people" -- as much as any over-generalized demographic can agree on anything -- seem to understand the value of small government, they just want a specific kind of small government: smaller military, less international presence, more infrastructure and social welfare (both at home and abroad).

> Dear Mr. Romney, you are pitching to the anti-Roosevelt faction of the country and it is rapidly shrinking.

Conservatism didn't suddenly appear in politics thirty years ago; it has been around, in this country, since before it was a country. In the colonial U.S., the conservatives of the time would have been called "Tories".

So while the demographics of modern conservatism might be mostly old white people, they'll either be replaced in a few years with idealistic young conservatives, or modern-day young liberals will slowly age into conservatism.

> If the GOP pushed an "innovation" platform...

...then it would no longer be the GOP. The GOP is not simply a group of people who like each-other and regularly meet to decide what they should have as a platform; it is the political realization of an idea, the idea of conservatism. You might as well say, "if the Democrats pushed a 'tax the poor, cut welfare, and abolish the estate tax platform'..."!

Conservatism exists for a good reason in society. It's there to act as society's "rudder", to (theoretically) keep it from evolving too rapidly and adopting too many stupid ideas. It can certainly be harmful when it gains a disproportionate amount of influence in a society, as in modern Afghanistan, but it is not inherently harmful -- and it shouldn't necessarily adopt aspects of a liberal platform.
> Does the fact that they require a license key (or make you click a box saying "I own a license") change this from legal to illegal?

Definitely not. They should have released a version that doesn't not require a license key to use, but they were too lazy to open up the source code so they're giving out the special keys instead.

The fact is the program is their copyright, so you can't download it (or use it, or share it) without a license, under penalty of a lawsuit.
It reminds me of jobdreaming.com
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Apologies. I think I just accidentally downvoted you.
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I find it sad when clueless people end up well-rewarded. It leads to articles with terrible pieces of advice, such as this one.

Anyone who pays attention would notice that things that work well are always built by people who pay attention to details.
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I personally think the linked page is more interesting than the full article (though it is also interesting). I liked the headers with tidbits about the relevant companies.
I think it's not only the actual cost of running an activation server, but supports associated with it. (E.g. People maxing out activation count, etc.)
With the difference being that to most people it would appear the second method is advocated by Adobe whereas no one expects that Adobe wants you to pickup Photoshop from pirate bay.
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duolingo isn't open source, so goes against the question.

That being said, duolingo is awesome :)
A problem arises if users start to use github as a defacto trusted source for public keys. Githubs security standards are very high, but they have a large potential attack surface due to all of the functionality they support.
Anyone who can't make enough money off the back of Adobe is probably not worth Adobe fighting for anyway.

A lot of these pirates will be younger and or students who will go on to work in the industry and help Adobe maintain it's software hegemony.
They are not. I am not from Slovakia, but Albania (a neighbor country) and I can say that the average public high-school in the US is not any better than most high-schools in south-eastern Europe.

But, graduating from an US high school gives you much higher chances to get accepted to a US college, and get a scholarship (if you have top grades).

Talking this from experience: I came in the US for my senior year of high school as an exchange student (lived with an american family), and then got a full academic scholarship from an american university.
I was taking mostly AP classes, but still found my self running circles around most students in sciences (math, physics, chemistry) etc, and I found generally much easier experience than my classes back in Albania (even with the language handicap I had at the time). But still, that year in the US was very valuable in learning language, culture, making life-long friends, and getting me into college with a full scholarship.
Uneducated guess: something didn't get logged into GCRM properly and the record of the repair was blitzed. It sat in back for a few days with nobody questioning it since it's among dozens of other machines. Then you showed up and a panic ensues since nobody's even able to confirm the serial number of the machine in question.

A new iMac is presented. The end.
If you view the loop as:

Creator(s) -> Product -> Creator's feedback -> Consumer's feedback

Google seems to have heavy focus on the "Creator's feedback" portion, while Amazon has heavy focus on the "Consumer's feedback." That's why Amazon will release crappy v1's. This is basically the same as the agile development philosophy: orient your process to get external feedback as soon as possible.
The primary reason for using detergent as a currency, beyond the fact that the market for stolen Tide is so strong, is that shoplifting carries a far lower penalty than robbery or burglary -theft-.

If they were robbing the stores at knife point, or breaking and entering, the risk is significantly higher. This way they have a low risk, easy to turn over, virtually untraceable scheme, and that is obviously a very attractive thing.
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I think I understand the problem. I'm curious, do you think it would have helped if I had some subheaders similar to how blog posts get broken up, and some blocks of editorial text?

Also, maybe the link titles being so large is confusing?
I often find Forbes blog entries more interesting than the actual magazine articles, though that is, of course, not the same as saying that the blogs are on average any good.
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> I think your key to success will be if you can figure out someway of getting lots of passive job seekers to signup.

If you want people to do something there is way that often, but not always, works: pay them.

Why not share the fee you charge the companies with the people on the list? Obviously there are issues to be worked out to stop people from gaming the system, they need to be legitimate candidates, but I'm suspect there is a way. Basically it's the same as cashback on credit cards - they charge the merchant and share some of that with the consumer.

Just some food for thought
Tide as a poor man's bitcoin.

TL;DR version - Laundry Detergent is pretty fungible, everyone needs it, and its difficult to trace, unscrupulous retailers will buy stolen tide for cash.

This situation provides crooks with a couple of benefits, one they can separate the money trail for selling drugs, after all who thinks this looks like a drug buy:

Alice goes to grocery gets laundry detergent;
Bob sells stolen detergent to a grocery for cash.

No way to connect Bob and Alice until you add:

Alice goes to grocery gets laundry detergent;
Alice gives Detergent to Bob for drugs.
Bob sells stolen detergent to a grocery for cash.

Now you can connect them and see the drug deal. Hard to get a warrant to search Bob's car for laundry detergent.
IBM has done this forever. Its called soft licensing. (or at least that is what their term was)

It not a free copy. If you use this and they have proof, you would be sued for violating the licenses. Its the same as stealing. Just because they aren't locking you out doesn't mean you can use it.
The only thing you need to get good at is selling...
This is generally suspected to be because of large primordial impacts, much like the one which it is proposed created our moon. I don't think there's anything intrinsic about Goldilocks zone orbiting rocky planets which would lend to tidal-locking with the star.
Can someone help me understand why it is a problem if my public key is, uh, public?
A good marketing ploy to save money by decommissioning their Validation servers. Would be interesting to see the cost of maintenance versus.

Having said that, this is bad for the GIMP guys
Where can one find out about "The art and what it does"? I had a quick look on wikipedia but didn't see anything.
I'd be curious too. For me the Fermi paradox is best satisfied by the 'Rare Earth' hypothesis. There are just too many infinitely rare combinations of variables required to support the kind of life we see on our planet.

I don't hold out any hope of finding much beyond the odd microbe.
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True, but it's not a bad idea to check for an @ in the string as a sanity check, in case the user has accidentally put their username/password/other in the field.
Don't you already have sufficient numbers of potential candidates at your other venture (coderwall.com)? Coderwall and PitchBox are both owned by Appdillo. Why not make it clear that both sites are related? The relationship is buried in the TOS on both sites.

Your TOS states: "For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a wall at trypitchbox.com to provide a username, email address, location and links to their GitHub, Twitter, and StackOverflow accounts." Since Appdillo owns coderwall and PitchBox, and coderwall already has a lot of information about developers, is there any manual or automated privacy bleedthrough?
How could anyone give you an estimate? We have no idea the amount of corporate drag associated with this. In theory, it could be a large cost considering this is a large enterprise which has to meet many, many customer information and privacy regulations.
omg that's me.
"...talking about moving the Tide to stores “back home”—which in their case is Vietnam."

Not only popular in the US!
Lenovo have had a pretty good track history though, so hopefully it wont come to that.
"Exchange student" programs have existed for long time. Usually the exchange students are required to buy at least "catastrophic" health insurance, and they might have to pay the tuition for the high-school they attend (even if it is a public school, since their parents are not us citizens and haven't been paying taxes).

The family is required to provide food, shelter, and some basic transportation, but that's it.
Students are required to have some money aside for monthly expenses.

I never have heard bad stories from the family side (i.e. they end up with a bad students) as the students themselves are well filtered. Most horror stories I have heard is from the students, where they go to a family and then they find themselves they have to babysit or do other stuff they are not expecting to.
I don't have a strong opinion on whether that's a good way to do it or not, but it's definitely not RESTful.

The question I would have is whether it is ok to put your GET parameters in the body, which is generally frowned upon, but might be acceptable in this extreme circumstance.
So does 17 :-)
Of course they didn't. Mostly because they just wanted to have the story "first", and secondly because most of them either don't have editors / fact-checkers or don't care about them.

It's the price we pay for getting news as fast as we do.
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At what point does something enter the public domain, though? (I know the Disney/Sonny Bono 70-odd years rule for copyrights, but this seems different)

If an algorithmic trading company that is killing it happens to mistakenly leave a link to the copyrighted source code, can I use it? What if they publish their algorithm on the front page with no explanation? What if they publish it on the front page with a note saying "Free, take it!" but then retract that, saying it was a rogue employee? What if the CEO sends it to the WSJ or posts it to a comment box on another site? What if they make t-shirts with it, and a huge banner on the side of their building?

Basically, at what point of ridiculousness does the protection break down (if any)?
FINALLY. I've been wanting a summary page for all the projects I'm working on. I don't get the streak thing though
That's one useful case, but the primary use case is keeping your code clean. If it isn't keeping your code cleaner, you're probably doing it wrong.

Serialization, for example, is a spot where the visitor pattern is useful. Take the example of a fairly complex hierarchical document - maybe something like a Word document. You need to support being able to save it to a whole bunch of different formats, and you want to do it as simply as possible.

- Hard-coding the save functionality for every possible format into the document classes themselves would be a mess, and would quickly pollute the data structures with a whole bunch of clutter. That violates the single-responsibility principle.

- Writing completely independent serializers for each format would be somewhat cleaner, but the serializers would end up containing a mess of repetitive code. That violates the DRY principle.

The Visitor pattern is nothing more complicated than a way to keep the code cleaner and more maintainable by factoring all the common elements of the task (saving, in this case), so that your code doesn't end up littered with a bunch of unmaintainable copypasting.

This shouldn't be anywhere near as difficult as what the grandparent suggests. In an object-oriented language, just create an abstract "DocumentSaver" class that has concrete implementations of all the common stuff, and abstract methods for all of the stuff that needs to be different for each file format. Then create subclasses for each of the save formats and voila, you're done.

I think the grandparent is absolutely correct that this is a pattern that is probably unnecessary in a language with algebraic data types and pattern matching. But to say that this means a pattern like Visitor is therefore a hallmark of being a bad programmer is unfair, if not downright risible. Most of us work in mainstream languages - and mainstream languages just don't have those features. For us, Visitor is an easy idiom for reclaiming some of the benefits of that functionality. And frankly, it should barely take more code to whip up a Visitor than it takes to pattern match your way through the problem.
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I really like viewtext. To whoever made it, thanks!
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This article makes Tide almost sound like its worth the extremely high cost. I buy store brand everything for the most part. Am I missing out?
There's a lot more to life than just liquid water. In fact there are a huge array of requirements including distance from the sun, right arrangement of planets, tidal systems, plate tectonics...
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Right, but scatology do not have to be silly. Aristophanes, Rabelais, and I'm sure many more didn't fear taking about shit, pee and so on.
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