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I believe the apps market, especially games, is and will become even more like the chart music industry. It will settle into major 'labels' who will pick games on criteria they think will make it a success, and then apply their big guns on promoting it using ever evolving methods. Sometimes an indie production will slip through but as the methods mature so will the independent successes be increasingly niche bound.
> It's hard to imagine that he wasn't smart enough or brave enough to truly ask the community for help.

He did.
It would seem to me that uranium-based nuclear power itself would never have been developed or commercialized (indeed as a byproduct of the military use first being developed) without massive government investment.

I don't see this argument as a specific counterpoint to Thorium-based nuclear power. That said, I am not particularly informed as to the benefits or drawbacks of Thorium -- I'm just observing that the counter-arguments don't seem to be particularly specific to Thorium and could have easily been applied to Uranium-based nuclear power had this been 1932 instead of 2012.
There's an old saying that a good prosecutor will convict most guilty men, and a great prosecutor will convict a few innocent ones too. That's how these machines think. She's right only in that congress was stupid enough to give her any form of discretion at all.
Project managers think they are the life of a project, Developers think they are the life of a project, Designers think they are the life of a project.
One problem I see is that it helps creates more way to do basic things like declaring a class or a function. (There are already a number of different utility libraries for OO in JS).

Now imagine if every JS codebase use a slightly different convention for class/function declaration with slightly different behaviours. It can become a nightmare to understand even the most simple function definition, just because you don't this particular "def" has some side-effects.

Now, I agree that in some cases, macros can be useful and reduce the complexity of the program, but declaring classes and functions certainly isn't the best use case for them and it's a bit sad those are the two first examples on the page.
No they don't, they base their attainment on what looks nice or looks to be working.

Engineers base it on knowledge, technique and what really works.

Do you really think that the world let Architects (form of designer) put down buildings without engineer bureaus thoroughly calculating if the plans are really able? I think not.

This world should stop celebrating their extrovert superstars instead of the people that really make this world tick, and stop seeing their shallow remarks as true.
Actually, I think you misunderstand the analogy. The color of the middle wire on the distributor is something you'd like a prospective mechanic to know, so he isn't learning on your time. It isn't, however, something that is in any way relevant to driving a car. I think this is why your comment provoked such hostile responses.

The programmer equivalent of the middle wire color question is something like, "Is the 3-phase power supply on XYZ mainframe wired in a delta or wye configuration? As a followup, what is the input frequency tolerance?" A sysadmin might need to know that, and an electrician certainly would, but it is far, far outside the purview of a programmer. [Edit: I'm assuming the programmer to be someone writing software running on the mainframe, not the firmware for a microcontroller in the power supply]

Maybe you're just a very good interviewer and haven't had to deal with the 90% that are crap? :+)
So geeky, it may actually hinder adoption. The general disdain for bluetooth headsets was quite widespread - voice-operated Google Glass would face the same backlash.
Does some other body write laws? It's 100% justified to criticize congress if you actually want to change things; a prosecutor can only prosecute for violations of the law.
Interesting. Either it doesn't apply to company phones or their filter is shockingly bad.
The statement says as much: "Ultimately, any sentence imposed would have been up to the judge". However, it's a little bit of a stretch to say that the prosecutors were seeking 30 years from the statement (there may be other statements that give information to the contrary).
This is Not News. Many mobile networks offer content filtering, and it's often turned on by default until you turn it off (this is true in the UK at least).

Just like the crappy filters you had to fight constantly at school these are extremely broad, badly curated lists of sites that they get from a third party. Three hasn't gone "let's block political and sex education sites", they just subscribe to a list made by another organisation, and often that list will mark a site as adult content purely because it has swear words on it.
No, that would get all the CoffeeScripters attention. I believe it is slated though.

I much prefer raw javascript + macros. In my opinion it kind of negates some of point of coffeescript since you can implement the few key syntax improvements.
Why can't parents take responsibility of their kids.
Strictly speaking, we haven't Godwin'd this yet.
People are able and should be tracking the F.B.I. it's all in the numbers.
It would be nice if some of these plugins at least provided a decent demo. Even on their github page or something. Maybe jQuery should make that a requirement.
what about the "to be followed by three years of supervised release, restitution, forfeiture and a fine of up to $1 million" ?

and adding to that, his legal fees would have also cost millions?

everything about their stance said "we are going to destroy you, grind you to bits", with all the "up to this" and "maximum that", it seems like only the very luckiest outcome would have left him with his life and that of his family somewhat in tact.

apart from the legal fees, those would go down the drain regardless, just for buying the chance to fight back.

can someone explain that to me btw, I've heard it a few times, but how can legal fees become so exorbitantly high? In other cases I've heard about numbers like $100k, which is also crazy high, but normal for the US, but for Aaron's case I've heard numbers quoted like "millions in legal fees", how is it possible that those legal fees are suddenly 10x more than the already high numbers I normally hear about? Does the price go up because he's rich? What happens to people that cannot buy justice?

Being forced to sink a million dollars will ruin most people's lives as well. The worst part is, as legal fees, it's not even part of the punishment, officially. As an individual, $100k is a tough pill to swallow, but a debt you can work yourself out of over the years.
He's not Godwinning this at all. Claiming superior orders is exactly what the Nuremberg defense was all about, it is simply an accurate association. Just because something happened in relation to WWII does not automatically mean that any reference to it invokes Godwin's law, that's for inappropriate comparisons. This one is entirely appropriate as far as I can see.
Javascript is a dynamic language. And especially one that is difficult to do static analysis on. We get much more out of macros than we would with some attempts at static analysis, when it comes to programmer productivity in the end.
Critically, there are in fact much worse things you can do to many someones than stealing their online banking session.
The thing is, without the project managers and designers, the project still gets delivered...
If by respect for designers you mean recruiting intelligent, productive and talented people, allowing them to have an impact and encouraging them to do great work then I surely agree. Great products have great design at their heart.

If by respect for designers you mean feeding the ego of so called "creatives" while indulging in endless bike shed meetings that achieve nothing then I surely disagree. Better lipstick will not make your pig taste any more or less like bacon.

This is my position.. yad yada yada
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If it is native-client, then it doesnot need to install.
Why not just give us an url? I do not want this extension to pollute my chromium.
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"Under my coat is a weary heart, but a kind one-one that could do nobody harm."
-notorious murderer two gun Crowley

Unless you can improve on the silence, don't open your mouth...

Before this statement I had hopes Ortiz had regrets...Now I know she doesn't...where did I leave my pitchfork?
I don't think there's a mass hysteria, is there? Certainly a few arrogant Haskellers, but I don't see an epidemic.

Static typing eliminates an entire class of bugs. It's not like any of us need it, it's just a powerful tool. It might be a nice option in a Lisp if it could be done elegantly.
"If Aaron had distributed them he might have damaged around a thousand different institutions involved in an important segment of the knowledge and innovation industry"

I know there is his manifesto from a couple of years ago but we can't be sure what he was going to do with them.
It is not appropriate because Ortiz is not accused of war crimes.
Isn't this just the way these things are done in the US?
America has an adversarial system of justice.
It also has a plea bargaining system.
Don't those two together naturally lead to situations where each side will threaten their worst in an effort to gain the best bargain they can from the other?
The reason why those legal fees are so high is because you're not just hiring a lawyer to defend against a federal suit, the lawyer is just the point man. There is a whole army of support behind that point man working hard to supply him/her with relevant data. A missed detail can cost you the case. The other side in cases like this has a (from the point of view of a single defendant) unlimited budget to make something stick, so just like any other arms race your own resources (money, translated into legal time) will have to be brought up to match this or you will almost certainly lose, even if you are innocent.

There is something extremely wrong here but that is how it works at the moment.
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Yup, the per-mile risk is higher on short journeys.

(Also you might want to edit your comment, it's ended up all on one line)
People without assets: that is, precisely those people for whom "I wouldn't have bought it anyway, so the rights-owners have lost anything" is demonstrably correct.

Seems OK to me.
You seem to be operating under a popular misunderstanding of what Godwin said. Godwin said, merely, that if the discussion goes on long enough, eventually the nazi era will be mentioned.

He never said it was always inappropriate to mention it, nor that those who mention it are always wrong, etc.

The popularity of "Godwin's Law" (especially this incorrect interpretation) has lead to a lot of people denying that anything in the US (or any online discussion) could be accurately compared to anything that happened in Germany.

Which is silly, but just another case of "when america does it, it's different."
> getting featured on two facebook page of more that 200k fans each and not get at least 1k download is still interrogating me.

That stat is pretty worthless. You can buy "fans".
Back when I was using them, they blocked almost all Romanian news sites on the same basis (I don't know if they still do). I went through their stupid procedure for proving I'm over 18 and instead of unblocking everything, they opened up their own page where they sell porn!
Not sure - how do non-famous defendants without millionaire friends and that haven't sold a start-up fund their cases? He could try that.
and do you think the world would let engineers put down buildings without architects?
I agree that the "Statement" is misleading. If Ortiz really believed that a Guidelines sentence was inappropriate they could have offered a capped sentence of six months or stipulated to a lower financial valuation of the stolen documents to bring down the Guideline. Neither was done. A prosecutor's recommendation is useful, but it is not binding on the Court. They did not agree to dismiss the other counts of the indictment, and while this would not affect the Guidelines, the sentencing judge could decide to impose sentences consecutively. Swartz would have been without computer access during a two to three year term of supervised release as well. If Ortiz really believed what she wrote in her Statement her office would have limited Swartz' criminal exposure to six months. US Attorneys' offices do this all the time. Hers did not. Her statement is misleading.

The cover-up is always worse than the crime and this Statement only makes me wonder what else is out there. She should resign.
Chromium is open source, the extension is open source and it runs on nativeclient which itself is open source and was designed and audited to be secure and sandboxed. Making it secure and sandboxed was part of the initial goal of both Chromium and nativeclient, and again, they and the extension are all open source and audited daily by Google engineers and tons of security companies.
Yeah, they went to the top of my shit list for not only spamming me but not even taking the time to realise that I wasn't in Silicon Valley. From memory, the email was also pretty obnoxious

I heard about the founder on a podcast (= mildly positive feelings for the company) and then a few months later got the spam email (= HATE them forever).
It is actually, because unlikely though the name may seem to you the Nuremberg defense is actually a lot older than WorldWar II and was historically invoked for lots of other things besides war crimes. The fact that during the Nuremberg trials it was used so frequently that it got named because of them does not detract from this.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders
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In a word, "no." LinkedIn is professional, Facebook is personal. Two totally different aspects of my life that I treat separately. So LinkedIn isn't going anywhere. The power of Yelp is derived through crowdsourcing. I don't have nearly enough Facebook friends to capitalize on the long tail crowdsourcing requires. So Yelp isn't going anywhere. And google? As if - I don't have enough time and space to explain why that isn't going to happen!
Actually that happens a lot.
What? But they only asked for 29 years, not 30!
Wikivoyage is already working out great. Most of the contributors have moved over to the site including Evan (one of the co-founders).

But one of the real benefits of the change has been that there is now integration with the other Wikimedia sites: the same login that one uses to edit Wikipedia works to edit Wikivoyage, and a fair few Wikipedia admins and regulars have jumped in to help Wikivoyage out.

In addition, Wikivoyage now has direct inclusion of images from Wikimedia Commons, so if you are writing a travel guide, you can just hop over to Commons and find an image, rather than having to upload your own like you did on Wikitravel. And there is an international community of people who curate that image collection.

Now that the contributors have mostly moved over, Wikitravel are now just descending into spammy oblivion, while Wikivoyage adds new and fresh content, fixes mistakes and so on.

All the while Wikitravel employees seem to be going around spamming blog posts and posting about how this is all an "anti-capitalist" conspiracy against them. Well, sorry, it's pure capitalism: if your service sucks, people will go to another provider. That your service sucks so much that you are being beaten by a non-profit... well, just the free market at work.
"so maybe they decided they needed to put a lot of pressure on him to crush his spirit."

Isn't that maybe where proportionality comes in though?

It seems like they did indeed put on enough pressure to crush his spirit but maybe what they needed to do was give him a little wake up call/warning.
Engineers build more than buildings.

No designer input:

http://www.healthcare.philips.com/main/products/mri/systems/...
I wouldn't call that "offering content filtering."
I use it a lot in my 13" Air, I switched from PC+Ubuntu desktop to MacOS and having multiple desktops makes perfect sense to me since day one. But I've got a weird issue with multiple monitors and extended desktop, when I switch from a virtual desktop to another one, monitor shows a gray background and I can't place windows on it making multiple monitors plus virtual desktops totally useless.
I have the same issues regarding load speed on large files. I am a long time UltraEdit user and it is the fastest editor on Windows for working with large files that I have found. Unfortunately UltraEdit has a pretty awful UX compared to modern software. It is still very much a Windows 9x app which kind of sucks. Also it has some annoying as hell Unicode issues which is why I ended up switching to Sublime Text for 99% of my work and just keep UltraEdit around for those one a month moments.
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Out of interest, how are you finding GiffGaff - £12 for a plan with unlimited internet and texts and no contract looks too good to be true!

[Edit: thanks to everyone who has replied, I think I will give them a go!]
Awful, I'd rather people talk to me if they have changes for me work so I can justify it.

This sort of thing reduces a designer to a photoshop monkey.
What about profiting at a lower price?

Playing devil's advocate here: I agree with "teens sharing music", but what if I sold them for, say, half iTunes price, and made $500. I would deprive an artist while profiting for enough money, and if I spend it, the money is gone. Seems broken.
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Programmers, product management, project managers and designers are just roles. It doesn't mean that they have to be performed by different people.

Without product and project management, the right product wouldn't be shipped on time. Every role is necessary.
The plea bargain could have been capped at six months. US Attorneys do this all the time. There is much more that the office can do than just recommend a sentence to the judge. The defense attorneys may not have wanted to run the risk of consecutive sentencing. The probation office could easily have reached the conclusion that the property taken was valued at $5 million based on the FBI affidavit and at that point probation is not permitted under the Guidelines. Supervised release additionally would have prevented any computer use for 2-3 years. The defendant would have gotten low security anyway and that determination is not up to their office or even the sentencing judge--it is a determination made by the US Bureau of Prisons. The statement is misleading in more than one respect.
Not really because it's fairly obvious that the baby has no ability to say anything. In fact, most abortion opponents are also "parental rights" supporters, which means they're actively opposed to kids having any kind of fair say in anything even when they are old enough to do so: http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2011/10/20/religious-r...
If you are on windows , there is a small app to change your mac address easily: http://www.zokali.com/win7-mac-address-changer
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I've spent as much time hiring one designer as ten engineers. In that sense good designers are more rare and harder to discern. But they go and stay where they're respected (like engineers and everyone else) so I don't think this will change anyone's behavior toward them. Despite some of the negative comments here, i think most folks who have worked with a good designer can see the difference and don't accuse them of "superstar syndrome" any more than any other team member. That's not the same as respect and that is why it is hard to get them.
They are just roles, but the OP implies that when the roles are assigned to individuals, there is conflict.

This is true.

Any software engineer worth their weight is a good product and project manager and knows how not to build something that looks like complete shit.
Same thing goes for Engineers
I would definitely buy this.

I am searching for that for months now.
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Your site is almost unreadable. Screenshot: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2858326/windows8%2C%20chrome%20-%20...
>> And it is slowly trying to disarm its own citizens as to be sure that the day people realize they're governed by an oppressive government they won't be able to do anything about it.

The USA is still a democracy.
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They get incompetent public defenders.
The "problem" with Emacs and Vim is their out the box state is a bit daunting, if you allow a little time to get used to and configure Emacs, it'll blow the shit out of any editor you've ever used. ... Grab ocodo/emacsd from GitHub, it's a very sublime like setup.
Will be interesting to see how this event is received by the community as it is the first charged (£6) event.
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If they did that, every other country in the world would be within their rights to enter British embassies and detain people they don't like. That would not be a wise move
VPN to your own network. It's the only way to fly.
It looks like they want to be one regardless. Their USB computer with hosted VMs will need tons of custom software support.
This blog post shows how you can use cloud-based image transformations to easily manipulate the opacity of images and how to use this technique to add watermarks to images. Sample code in Ruby, PHP, Python and Node.js is included.
*means are different

as in "The ends justify the means". It took me a couple of reads to understand what you're saying.
With a twist: in this variant, patent trolls risk their money if they lose, hence only enforce patents they truly believe in.
Hello Joseph, we've exchanged emails before.

No, I meant fax, not signing.
Emacs can do all that. I wouldn't be surprised if Vim could too... The point about these two editors is that no matter what feature shows up in an editor, both of them could implement it.
One question that occurs to me - does a felony conviction prevent you from taking political office in the US? Given Aaron's activism, might that be a reason why that was a sticking point?
Doesn't it bother you to use a propitiatory CPU architecture such as ARM? </sarcasm>
It is. They will collect your personal information, and make it available to their parent (Telefonica, via O2) and one of the other subsidiaries set up specifically to do this, and then re-sell it to the highest bidder. See http://www.fastcompany.com/3002010/telefonica-sell-customer-... for example.

If you then subsequently leave them for another network, you will get more SMS spam than you can possibly imagine.

http://zingongle.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/o2-selling-my-deta... for more details.
If they lost, that patent has probably been invalidated. At the very least, its applicability has been downplayed.
Does anyone know the censorship policies for all UK network operators? My contract is up.
If he accepted the plea bargain of six months, then the case wouldn't have gone to trial, avoiding the excessive legal fees. I don't understand the timeline, but had he accepted the plea bargain, is it not possible that he would have already served his sentence by now?
Another registry for Javascript files and another json package description. This is getting ridiculous, you guys (npm, component, bower, volo, ender, jam and now plugins.jquery) should get together and fix this mess.
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Strictly speaking, no.

I would say that is possible to have a very basic product without designers and managers, but not without engineers.
A balanced and frank explanation of Aaron's case
Emacs IEdit mode has done this for years
Anyone else find it ironic that it's being held at an all-male establishment?
Likewise, I've got an EE mobile on my company and I haven't tripped it yet. Not even for political satire.