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It's interesting that picture sharing is so popular and ubiquitous and yet the problem of sharing the natural extension, videos or clips, has proven to be surprisingly elusive over the last few years. What is the missing component?

I think it's not any one big thing, it's several small things and details that have to align in just the right ways for adoption. For example, the sharing needs to be fast, the videos need to play right away without any action (like GIFs), there must be some fun component to it (usually in form of an arbitrary limitation that challenges creativity), the design must be clean and functional, and it needs to integrate well with existing services.

Vine has a checkmark next to all of those. The idea isn't particularly novel, but the execution is great and the Twitter integration helps. I particularly like the mechanic of recording only while a thumb is down. This might just be fun enough for me to use.
> It's been normal since long before Twitter.

Exactly. And before GitHub. And before open source. And because haters will hate no matter what, we shouldn't let them stop us from sharing what we build and learn.
Not quite. You have bought your phone effectively with a loan. It's not rented, it's bought with a loan and you're paying that loan back in monthly fees. You can't give the phone back and receive the part of the loan you paid, so it must be your phone. Leasing is just a special kind of loaning money, where you're loaned money for the sole purpose of purchasing a given product by the same merchant that sells you that product. If the telecom expects that you will use the phone only on their network, they can trivially add a "minimum monthly charge" so they'll cover the cost of the phone regardless. In fact, I believe all of them already do it.

As a country with an economy built around loans (i.e. credit cards and so on), making things bought on credit not really yours seems insane.
But... but... they bought it all at the Thrift Shop!

(I know, I know....)
This reeks of useless snark.

Yes, we could and should petition to make locking cell phones illegal, but as of this weekend the exemption that allows you to unlock is going away -- this is a much more present problem than high-aiming goals of reform.

Also, this is not misdirected, as the exemption is being taken out by a policy change decision of one person. The DMCA is a definite fault, but this specific instance is an example of something that can be ameliorated extralegislatively.
The argument the article makes is that the pie is getting better-tasting. That is, because Bob can derive more enjoyment from a fixed volume of the new pie, it doesn't matter that Bob now takes home a quarter-slice, instead of a third-slice, so long as the net volume of his new quarter is at least as large as his old third.

It argues that Bob is still being rewarded fairly for his continually increasing productivity, even if his net volume is stagnant and his share of the whole pie is falling, simply because the pie is getting better tasting.
> 2. “Specialization is celebrated and rewarded.”

> Traditional education is concerned with staying in context and within the lines of subject content; Innovation is the exact opposite. It is all about crossing boundaries, and digging deeper into problems and their solutions from a variety of angles.

Eh. Here's what this misses:

You can't cross boundaries if you're not inside those boundaries to begin with. You can't usefully apply different perspectives if you don't have a solid intellectual investment into those perspectives. That grounding gives you the ability to generalize and abstract, and it's using those abstractions, girded by referents, that make those perspectives useful.

You can trumpet innovation all you like, but what's really going on here is that innovators tend to deeply understand multiple fields without being snobbish about cross-pollinating. That's all. Trad.Ed. only really fails here because it fails to encourage such behavior.
Well lets hope that the CircuitHub team can get the traction they need to get the attention of the big manufacturers then.

There's certainly a chicken and the egg problem happening with this kind of innovation right now. I know for a fact that there are many people at the large manufacturers that know that symbol and footprint library management is a major headache. They all want a good solution to the problem, but nobody is willing to take the plunge on an as yet unproven system.
It's not one of 'FSF's own licences', it's a modified GPLv2 licence where the 'or later' clause has been removed so that it is GPLv2 ONLY, thus making it a NEW licence.

No GPL licences crafted by FSF has this limitation.
I actually think that a strong emotional reaction to unsolicited ridicule by high-profile people is a typical human response, not a weakness that needs to be beaten out of people.

Regardless, my point is that I don't think I'm able to grow a thick enough skin to be indifferent in the face of such cruelty, so I'm not going to extend myself. Other people may feel differently, and that's great for them.
I have to disagree, somewhat. It's about the person's skills (or lack thereof), not about the person. An insult to the person would be "you're ugly".

I can totally see WHY someone can get offended, and I am not saying it's OK to say those things. But in my culture this would not be a problem because of what I said above.
Medical treatments invented between 1970 and 2013 are not new fringe benefits?

The skyrocketing health costs pay for fancy new treatments which didn't exist in 1970. CPI includes no hedonic adjustment to health care - it focuses and ignores benefits. (In contrast, some categories such as food and housing attempt to incorporate hedonic adjustments.)

Last Feb I had spine surgery that didn't exist in 1970, guided by a scanner which didn't exist in 1990. This Feb I'm on track to deadlift well over my bodyweight. None of this was free. Suffering back pain in 1970 was. I'm quite happy to pay a bunch of money today for these benefits, happier than I would have been suffering with back pain in 1970. I.e., my real wage went up relative to my hypothetical 1970 self because of health care.
Why Gloomy Pundits and Politicians Are Wrong About America's Education System
I think that is drawing a fairly long bow. I read his use of the word bullshit as effectively saying rubbish, only in a more colourful way.

So to paraphrase the OP I read him as saying:

Rubbish, I don't agree with you and here is a list of reasons why?
Regarding websites operating internationally, including tvshack.net and O'Dwyer, I think pretty much every country tries to regulate websites that server pages within their borders.

Consider "obscene" speech/media/etc. Consider hate speech. Or look up "google vividown lawsuit" (the defendants all live in the U.S., and no one cared about that fact). And let's not even get into national firewalls (e.g. China, half the Middle East, etc).

With respect to the phones... first of all, it sounds like we agree about the likely odds of individual phone users being taken to court. There's no way that anyone would be individually prosecuted for this, without there being an ulterior motive. Of course, that's a big "without"... the RIAA/MPAA seem to be utterly free of compunction, and there are so very many cases of prosecutors bullying people with obscure drug laws for various incomprehensible reasons. "3 felonies a day" and all that.

Second, yeah, if you run a business in France unlocking phones, and some of the phones you unlock happen to belong to U.S. citizens vacationing, it's not clear that the US would claim jurisdiction over you. IANAL!!! But if you run a business in NYC unlocking phones, yeah, you've got a problem.

Did I mention that I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice? 'Cos I'm not.
Wait, since when does "Design" not include aesthetics?!

[Indeed, I'd say that most common uses of the word "design" are almost synonymous with aesthetics... "industrial design" => making cool looking cases; "graphic design" => pretty pictures; "web designer" => someone who makes pretty websites]
I more or less agree with everything you said, which is why I think the really salient question is whether income inequality is actually a driver of technological progress. Everybody loses in a more "fair" but ultimately less prosperous society.
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I stand corrected. That being said, the point I was trying to make is that even if they spent $10k or $25k on studio equipment buying all new gear they still sold 254,000 albums to date.
No and yes. No, she did not ask anyone to post snarky comments on Twitter about her code. Yes, after said snarky comments were posted, she asked those posting the comments for constructive feedback. (I don't believe any of them actually gave her any constructive feedback, though.)
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Why is it a 'douche move'? If the original licencors Ribbonsoft had not released the code under a modified GPLv2 licence where they explicitly removed the 'or later' clause then there would have been no problem.
It's true that it happens, but it's the antipattern of our age.

When you have seven applications written against a single database (plus a load of complex SQL that operators use for support), it becomes impractical to refactor the schema. Now your business is evolving around rotting data structures.

Companies like Oracle make their money by convincing people that they should adopt this misdesign, and then licensing expensive training, staff and technology to help manage it.

Even putting aside the management issues, databases+SQL is a synchronous communications model, so you can't stream data effectively.
But the sequence of multiplications chosen to reach the exponent isn't different. What the user's expt function does, when asked to compute (expt 2 488), is to compute (expt 2 244) and then square it. When it computes (expt 2 244) it does the exact same sequence of multiplications as if you just asked for that directly from the REPL.

What am I missing here?
If you call out bad code, you call out bad people?

Half of you included, look at the ridiculous shit you say, and how much more offensive you are than anything anyone originally said.

Also this is great for a laugh: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/116385/Slingshot/Pictures/Screen%20S...
Private industry isn't elected.
I've suffered pretty severe depression and anxiety for most of my adult life. While the idea that we should all just grow a thicker skin and 'just deal with it' is both understandable and practical given the nature of the internet - it just wont happen for me. I know myself well enough to have recognized that even a tiny drop of vitriol could have me questioning my every decision and shatter my self confidence for days or even weeks. So I simply write code and keep it to myself, and I'm sure there are plenty of others like me.

The idea of open sourcing our work is truly admirable however there are some of us out there who just can't stand the hate and Alpha-nerd jockeying, so we opt out. I don't think the world is missing out on much by my own lack of contribution but who knows how many truly brilliant yet fragile minds are self selecting out of the open source community because they just cannot cope?
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Now, if worker compensation was growing significantly faster than inflation, wouldn't we expect the amount of disposable income to be higher, and hence savings and debt to be lower?

Not necessarily. If college education and its financing became more broadly available and increased expected lifetime earnings by more than the cost of the debt to pay for it (+ opportunity cost), you might expect to see many more households with college debt without your expected lower incomes.

We've been living through two decades of historically low rates of interest and inflation. It's possible that had folks in the 1970's seen rates like that, they might have chosen to debt-finance more as well.
A person who looks at a piece of art and says, "Eh. I could do that," isn't a critic. He's just another asshat with an opinion.

Criticism is the highest aspiration of non-fiction writers. Zinsser says so in On Writing Well so it must be true. Even if it's not, what he says about most people sucking at it, certainly is. Negative criticism is easy, positive criticism isn't. Lead with an insult, and the internet pays attention. But it is hard work to criticize something productively - to point out the value and the areas for improvement. Writing a lead for that criticism is even harder.

Most people, including myself, are not in the habit of spending the time to do it right. The article takes the time to get it right. It does so by looking at why Heather did what she did. It compares what she did to the common alternatives. The author tells what he did when faced with similar situations. That's what makes it good criticism.
Man there sure are some sensitive sallies in the dev community lately over this whole debacle. Part of this industry is handling criticism. Not everyone is going to be a fan. That's part of being a developer. Devs were getting their pants torched long before me on the Internet and I don't see that ever ending. A lot of it is opinion. So treat it as such.
Sadly, I too found it unusably buggy. I reported a number of them. Some were fixed, some weren't. Their support response times were great and I really hoped they could get it working smoothly but after a year I was still having issues and it was not to be. Shame because I loved the simplicity.
I don't have any examples, but people keep asking me about this sort of stuff, so I've been working on making some. The idea is that we pick a web site or two, identify a couple of interesting features, and then I clone it. All the while, I take copious notes and snapshot often so everyone can see how it grows from an empty directory into an actual usable site.

This isn't about having yet another Twitter clone (or whatever), but rather having the ability to see one come into being, one step at a time.
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In reality, the CA=YES cert loaded onto a Barracuda MITM proxy at an enterprise would be a second-tier trophy in the biennial internal network penetration test.

Internal netpens for F-500 companies are often (maybe usually) considered failures for the pentest team if they don't yield mass server compromises from an unprivileged starting point.

If you can log into a middlebox like a MITM proxy from the Internet at all, you now have an Internet to internal-network pivot. You are at the "unprivileged starting point" of an internal net pentest. Go ahead and grab the CA=YES cert, but then get on with owning up the whole network.

Internal network security at large enterprise networks (the kinds that routinely MITM intercept SSL traffic) is extremely bad.
Awesome - it's like `seq(1)` but with other bases.
"In the beginning I looked around and couldn't find the car I dreamed of. So I decided to build it myself."

("Am Anfang schaute ich mich um, konnte den Wagen von dem ich träumte, nicht finden. Also beschloss ich ihn mir selbst zu bauen.")

-- Ferdinand "Ferry" Porsche on inventing the 356
Apparently I'm totally confused and don't understand this at all.

"III. The Designated Classes
Upon the recommendation of the Register of Copyrights, the Librarian has determined that the following classes of works shall be exempt from the prohibition against circumvention of technological measures set forth in Section 1201(a)(1)(A):

...

C. Wireless telephone handsets – interoperability with alternative networks Computer programs, in the form of firmware or software, that enable a wireless telephone handset originally acquired from the operator of a wireless telecommunications network or retailer no later than ninety days after the effective date of this exemption to connect to a different wireless telecommunications network, if the operator of the wireless communications network to which the handset is locked has failed to unlock it within a reasonable period of time following a request by the owner of the wireless telephone handset, and when circumvention is initiated by the owner, an individual consumer, who is also the owner of the copy of the computer program in such wireless telephone handset, solely in order to connect to a different wireless telecommunications network,and such access to the network is authorized by the operator of the network."[1]

As far as I can tell, software unlocking your cell phone was already illegal under the DMCA; in October this exemption was enacted, saying that software unlocking old phones will no longer be illegal; new phones purchased between then and this upcoming Saturday are also legally software unlockable; it's only new phones purchased after the 90 day period that don't fall under the exemption."

Is this interpretation accurate?

e: And of course there's the whole issue that software unlocks are primarily illegal because of their use to circumvent contracts after buying subsidized phones, but I don't have a well-reasoned opinion about that :\

[1]http://www.scribd.com/doc/111227035/DMCA-Rules-2012 https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2012/10/26/2012-263...
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http://www.gnu.org/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html
ah crumbs. this is the wrong link. but this is the correct link. http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/aleksey-vayner-death-video
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Er, except Google's services aren't unstable.

That doesn't mean they're completely problem-free, but nothing is.

[and given the importance of services like gmail to vast swathes of the population, I certainly hope they require many sign-offs for code commits!]
I've used IRDA, I just couldn't think of it's name. It was a nice protocol. A friend and I would often use it on our Palm Pilots.
As a former AT&T, and Verizon customer, I just needed to say that T-Mobile is by far the best carrier I've ever had. Here in SLC their 4G is very fast, their customer service is so much better than the others (they have always gone above and beyond to help me, I haven't a single bad thing to say about them), and I couldn't care less about the iPhone. If this is really true, then it is genuinely 'news' to me.
Ah I misunderstood the comment to mean the facility just wasn't available (being lumped in with Windows) which struck me as odd.

I generally just wrap things in checks for $OSTYPE and Perl when I'm not working with the system itself.
The point is that you challenged my contribution.

And I didn't filter it out.

Nor did I tell you to stop challenging me.

I adapted.

It's a simple concept.
It's not totally useless, but then neither are search/replace. I'm pretty sure I hadn't seen seq when I wrote it. Perhaps the most embarrassing thing about it is how over-engineered it is. But I don't get to write C very often, so I wanted to enjoy it as long as possible. :-) What's wrong with sharing something like that with the world?
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I find the physics fascinating, but that muonic hydrogen stuff, that has marketing gold all over it. SmartWater, now made with Muonic Hydrogen, get it before it decays!

I expect its going to take several days to digest the paper though, it is quite dense.
Or by escaping: \+
I didn't even know there is a -r option, I always escaped the plus sign (and parentheses)
the second is ignorable, so you should just make it public.

I wish it were that easy. Other people'e negativity just... gets to you.

The only way I've found to deal with it is to run away from it until I have a project I truly feel will help the world (even in some small way). Then I'll happily face the negativity.
This is getting way off topic of the original project, but as an older (40) programmer, I've learned that even if code is objectively bad you generally shouldn't call it out unless you have the full context of how it got that way.

I write code every day, some of it is great, most of it is good, some of it is shit (working shit, but shit nonetheless). The reason some of it is shit varies: time constraints don't allow for the proper solution, working around a crappy abstraction that I can't control, etc, but if you decide to focus on some snippit of the shitty code I wrote and extrapolate that to assess my skill as a programmer I reserve the right to extrapolate that your experience doing real world programming is pretty limited, because otherwise you wouldn't be so naive.
The experimental apparatus is pretty specialized.
Do you want meaningful commentary or empty snarky ridicule?
No, but let telcos compete without the lock in. What they are doing with subsidized phones is obfuscating prices.

And nothing prevents them from imposing early termination fees.
I hope they plan to open source Simperium server to allow self-hosting.
I'm saying the median 25 year old today is more educated than his 1973 counterpart. That has a host of benefits, including qualification for jobs that not only pay more, but are less physically strenuous and more mentally engaging.

Nobody's forced to go to college. They do it (hopefully) because it's a good investment in their own success and happiness. And let's be frank: The government has made sure it's incredibly easy to finance, and if it feels like a huge burden to be there rather than working shifts at a steel mill, you're probably doing it wrong.
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How do you approach this issue?
http://www.distilled.net/blog/conversion-rate-optimization/w...

I haven't come up with a decent answer yet especially for smaller sites that can't run tests on very specific segments...
Yes, I believe it was consciously designed to emphasize a few key dimensions that could make its balances uniquely useful as a circulating currency.

So rather than being useful because of some physical and traditional qualities (like gold) or other practical consensus qualities (like state-backed fiat money), it bootstraps the necessary portability/divisibility/non-counterfeitability from cryptography and computer networking.

On the other hand, Bitcoin has much less anonymity than is usually assumed (and often asserted, with hand-waving). So it's not a perfect mapping to traditional cash, or other idealized descriptions of cash/money. It's a new species of specie!
Any tweet with a Github link shows a card when viewed through the web interface. Here's one of mine: https://twitter.com/dpearson_/status/288415765223321600
This is highly suspicious!
You've probably been flagged for something. Most people I know get it very easily once they have permanent resident status.
Exactly. Or you forget to do backups again and lose 6 months of email...

For 99% of the population, centrally hosted, professionally maintained, email services are vastly superior.

Sure, there will always be those who prefer self-hosting, corporations, the sittin'-inna-tree-with-my-M16 crowd, etc., but it's not really the best option for most.
As much as I hate the APK file format, this is not a valid reason why, as Google covered this. When you build your APK, you are more than welcome to simply not compress certain files, as the .zip file format has an algorithm that is just "store". In fact, the SDK does this by default for certain kinds of commonly-mapped files that don't benefit much from compression anyway, such as .mp3. I am not certain if aapt lets you specify other files easily, but you can always just add your own stored content using the zip tool itself.

Then, the normal build process has you run "zipalign" on the resulting file, which will guarantee that uncompressed files fall on boundaries that would make them efficient to memory map directly out of the APK. Finally, the AssetManager API provides an openFd() method that will open a file (which must be uncompressed, or you will get an IOException), return a file descriptor for that file, and tell you the offset into that file where the data for the file you wanted starts (an API sufficient to describe a range of an APK).