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Spectrum ownership and broadcast power limitations. To operate as a wireless service provider at the scale that cell phone companies do, you need the FCCs explicit permission. The process to get approval is long, expensive, and fraught with peril (see the LightSquared debacle [1]).

This kind of regulation is ultimately justifiable. You don't want service providers using conflicting technologies and hammering each others airspace. You quickly end up with what economists call the tragedy of the commons[2].

1. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/lightsquared-redu...
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
We've put together a mini-site to further explain the history, archaeology and science of the discovery.

http://www.le.ac.uk/richardiii/
We built a massive state machine based workflow in WF3. It has limped along until .Net 4.0, but we've hit a brick wall now as they have killed the following assemblies in .Net 4.5 (all legacy WF3/3.5 assemblies basically):

System.Workflow.Activities.dll
System.Workflow.ComponentModel.dll
System.Workflow.Runtime.dll
System.WorkflowServices.dll
Microsoft.Workflow.DebugController.dll
Microsoft.Workflow.Compiler.exe
Wfc.exe

Our 4.5 upgrade prospects are going to be problematic I think as we've got to port everything to the WF4 process model and runtime before we can drag everything up.

I've heard a lot of poeple say "just leave it as 4.0", but we've been there since day one with .Net 1.0 and I'll tell you it's not fun being on the support trailing edge when you have to do a massive port.
I wonder how many younger programmers (the sort of people who would have the most motivation to develop indie games) even know C++. It's not like it's a quick and easy language to learn either.

Since we are now seeing 2d (and even 3d) games with good enough performance written in languages like JS & Java, forcing programmers to do low level memory wrangling to build a mario clone seems a little backwards.

Without XNA I don't see a big reason to build a Windows only game.
I met Phil at a chance encounter at Think Coffee in NYC and Mark Cuban happened to be there. In an awkward situation in which everyone was trying to impress Cuban, Phil came off as a genuine and nice guy. Good luck to you on the next thing.
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Carbon was a stopgap measure for two big companies (Microsoft and Adobe). It was very clear from Apple's actions with other technologies these companies didn't use (e.g. OpenDoc) and its messaging to developers that Carbon was not a permanent solution. Why people were surprise in the 64-bit conversion to see Carbon absent was beyond me.

Now, Apple has a whole hoard of technologies that Adobe and Microsoft didn't use that did not make the jump from OS 9.0 to OS X. OpenDoc is most famous for the youtube video where the angry developer questioned Steve Jobs. I suppose you could add Newton OS to that list, but it is more the closing of a whole platform.

In more modern times, if you started using GC, then you had to convert to ARC pretty soon thereafter.
Yes, well done. But I've a policy against arguing with trolls so I can't be baited.
the glacier retreated more in the last 10 years than in the 100 years before that

How much did the glacier retreat 1000 years ago during the Medieval Warm Period? And how much did it grow back 400-500 years ago during the Little Ice Age?

100 years of data is not enough to understand what's really going on.
Not trying to be douchy, but am I the only one that doesn't understand why there are so many people trying to redefine social networking and the next big photo sharing app?
Stats were horrible, and happy to share them (vanity metrics, and not):

8,000 Registered Users (Growth was horrible)
+1M people in our database total (after importing friends/connections)

Peak Engagement:
30% MAU
10% WAU
Around 0.5% DAU (I think, this last one I'm less sure about)

Our SXSW Service was the most successful, but still not good enough
:
Signed up 3% of conference goers (As much as Glancee, Highlight signed up 5% of SXSW)
25% of our SXSW users logged in 3 or more times
20% of our users reached out to their matches.

I'll keep thinking through what other stats I can share.
My point is that TV news caters to the lowest common denominator of brains so they aren't going to tell everyone about a country they can't locate on a map. That is of course, unless, there are "terrorists" there, or Israel is involved.
> Just old-fashioned comp-sci uselessness

Everything you're saying is reasonable but this phrase reminded me, one of my favorite profs used to say, "Knowing about computational complexity won't ever get you a job, but it will keep you from being fired." Several times I've started a job and discovered my predecessor had coded himself into a corner because he didn't see the combinatorial explosion on the other side of what he was doing.
You just don't like the implications of the facts. If you took 100 people and put them in the same situation, the vast majority of them wouldn't have killed themselves. People face longer sentences and the prospect of being imprisoned among violent offenders everyday without killing themselves.

The fact is that suicides are statistically aberrational behavior, even among people in high-stress situations. There are lots of factors that lead to suicides, not just the final stressor that might precipitate them. Our standard of blame cannot be so lax as to hold people accountable for atypical reactions to situations.
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Only good for simple login form of two fields. Most everyone knows that is login name and password.
No it wasn't. For a while it was up in the air which API set would become the dominant platform.
That's a great question. Right now you could include the git version in the comment of your DevJoist commit. In the future we plan to have much better integration with git/GitHub and other commonly used developer services like Heroku. A part of that will be opening up an API so that you can integrate DevJoist into your workflow however you like.
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Isn't this value derived from the system as a whole rather than Bitcoins themselves? If the monetary value of Bitcoin dropped to zero for some reason you wouldn't be able to use your existing Bitcoin for these purposes.

It's kind of like saying you could use the comment/memo area of wires/checks to send or timestamp messages.
> Yes, we likely all wont live long enough to see climate change.

This is wildly incorrect. All of us were born after our climate started to change. And the vast majority of us will live to see increasingly bad effects from it.

> There are a lot of problems that we need to look at before climate change, like population control, water management, antibiotics etc etc.

We should be solving all these problems simultaneously. Your suggestion that we should not work on fixing our climate problems right now, but that we should wait, is extremely dangerous. The longer we wait and the less we do, the worse it's going to get and the more expensive and difficult it will be to survive.
Thanks for the kind words. It was great meeting you!

That was a lot fun - don't get to do that often in your life. Learned a lot from Mark that day, his composure and fluidity in conversation (holding court against three overly eager entrepreneurs) was unbelievable.
I think it's a revolution in the broader sense - radically changing the status quo. Considering the extremely few if any at all prosecutions of bankers all over the world, I'd say this is a revolution/radical change from status quo, along with them refusing to pay for the bailouts.
Right, that was understandable if a little disappointing.

First, let us unravel the underlying assumption, which is false. When sharing a standards proposal, one isn't necessarily hoping everyone blindly adopts it as gospel but rather it provides some basis for reasonable research and/or provisional implementation within a given area that (hopefully) benefits from previous research and provides a basis for the community building upon the knowledge gained through implementation of systems in that area. The idea is that, given some common ground, people can move forward (ie. towards interoperability) while benefiting from each others' experience, and hopefully the better connected, more heterogeneous and stronger community that results.

In the particular case of IFEX, we have thus far been dealing with extremely basic areas that remain ignored by Bitcoin, ie. market identification, asset identification, and a viable decentralized internet-based financial endpoint identification scheme that provides familiar syntax, checksum protection against transposition errors, ease of integration with legacy financial systems, typo-squat-protection, and other key features. Also in the works but far more complex and slower moving are more holistic approaches to the transaction metadata/invoicing problem area than Bitcoin is apparently prepared to tackle.

The other thing that is notable in Gavin's response was the apparent notion that engineering decisions affecting the entire Bitcoin community's future are being made on a rapid basis because of perceived short-term needs. I am not sure this is necessarily a trend, but as an implementer it doesn't give me the greatest peace of mind.

Just my 2c.
It's actually pretty nice.

We have some cool stuff deployed with it (long term service correlation, long running background processes, custom workflows for business processes), but you are right about it being complicated. We're in the financial sector so workflow and process management is king to us.

The API is there for us to not have to do all the legwork. Do you know how complicated it is to produce a workflow engine and do you know how many companies have their own half broken workflow engines?
For documentation, this will do: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/con....

Thank you for that. I was aware of the POSIX docs for C/system level programming, but I wasn't sure if command arguments were standardized.

What current systems have arguments that conflict with those?

Ah, but "current" is not always what we get. It's been a while, but I can vaguely remember conflicting single character arguments for basic commands (eg, ls, ps) on OSF/1, SunOS and Linux.
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They have been doing that for ages in Switzerland. However as the distances are short, more and more people were just taking no ticket betting that the controller would not have enough time to check all the passengers.
We are allowed to. You choose your employer, ergo, you choose your work schedule.
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Yes, but RC4 should still not be used.
Technology changes and Microsoft can't be tied down to wrong decisions (wrong relative to the new world, but perhaps right at the time). We get paid to know and leverage this stuff, so just adapt or...as the saying goes...die.

Having said that, despite working in the Microsoft sphere for the bulk of my career, I've managed to sidestep these issues. XNA, Silverlight, XAML, WPF, Azure, even Winforms -- there have been a lot of solutions and technologies that were clearly of limited longevity or probability of success from the outset, so I moved in other directions.
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Sure, but my point is that any bugs in the low level code (which must be present somewhere until we have CPUs that can natively understand bytecode) can bubble up the stack.
That's part of the joke. People, even very smart people, do stupid things all the time. It's part of being human.

In my experience, a subset of very smart people do "not smart" things at a very high rate. A trite example is the absent-minded professor who can't find the glasses he's wearing on top of his head. But it's a real thing, a depth of focus so intense that they temporarily lose sight of the bigger picture.

It happens, and sometimes it's funny.
Yes

Here's a lesson, (learned personally BTW).

When you hear '90% of startups fail', failing usually means they wane.

It's like flying a kite (by someone bad at it). You can run with your kite and make it 'fly' but then you get tired and it falls to the ground. It can be a hundred reasons, it is either a bad/defective kite, it may not be windy enough, or you have to run faster for it to fly.
p\invoking DX? Use one of the many DX for C# wrappers like sharpDX? I don't know, it really is weird they would kill it without a replacement like the way XNA killed Managed DX.
Sure, if what you want is harmful to yourself.

The things I want are all things that make my life better and safer.

Some people want bad things.
There ARE men who jump on others in a showy way for strictly imagined offenses against women. Sometimes (as in perhaps most cases of men fighting in public) the motivation IS at least partly sexual, e.g. to seem attractive, or at least part of an anachronistic image of the chivalrous savior. But the sexual part isn't defining.

This doesn't mean that it is wrong to argue against misogyny.

It just points to a real phenomenon among men, where they are trying to look like they are calling out an asshole when what is really going on is logically much more similar to acting holy in a bar fight over a woman.

If you think observing actual idiotic behavior which occurs sometimes among men is misandrist then I am happy to be a "misandrist" in your perception. I think the condition of men in our society can withstand a small amount of anthropological observation.
Worrying about DMCA, patent trolls, etc, doesn't sound productive for a presumably young person with relatively nothing to lose financially and the operation at least under the umbrella of a proper corporation or LLC. Get the money rolling in, segregate it from your personal finances, pay yourself a salary and pay your taxes. Listen to feedback, keep innovating and hope for the best. Don't be paralyzed by what are at this point, made-up fears of the worst.
Which attack is easier to carry out: "Lucky 13" or breaking RC4?
I don't believe this is a joke, but I do think the organizers need to be much more forthcoming. The crucial unanswered question is what timeline they expect to follow.

I believe it would be possible for an expert C++ programmer (and this is clearly who they're targeting) to write an essentially compliant ("fully" sounds difficult, and I expect some fudge there) compiler in a year; two, perhaps, if it's a nights and weekends effort. This estimate comes straight out of my bum. It's an intuition. I'm not including the standard library: that would be a multi-year job even for a small team of truly excellent C++ programmers. But if we focus on the compiler, and allow a little fudge in compliancy, I think there are some individuals who could do it in a year. So I don't believe the scope of the task implies a joke.

The lack of information on the site raises worries. Do the organizers lack the confidence to reveal themselves? Or are they scamming? They shouldn't leave this a question.
It doesn't seem likely to me that the friend wants the job.
If you read it carefully it's not just about piracy. It's against sharing (which in open source happens without any piracy). His basic idea - sharing prevents good software from being written. I.e. only closed paid model can be incentive to create good software. It's the cornerstone idea of Microsoft and is very in line with their historic hatred towards open technologies which they always saw as a threat (and obviously not because of piracy). It also is in line with their aggressive approach to enforcing patents and copyrights.
all accurate assumptions.
Your comment doesn't seem to address the idea that I was bringing up, that the media has a role in shaping what people care about rather than being an impartial conduit that is slave to peoples' desires. For example, how much of the attention that is paid to British royalty is because it is presented as something that should be paid attention to?
Good thing I'm not a complete idiot, or I wouldn't know or understand fair use. People tend to forget that fair use is limited in its scope. Unfortunately, a lot of people's idea of fair use is, "I want it, so I'm gonna take it." It IS a moral imperative. It IS stealing. I don't care how you sugarcoat it. In high-school and the first part of my college life, I pirated music and applications with impunity. I justified it every way I could, but at the end of the day, I realized I was stealing -- regardless of what nuanced legal argument I could come up with. It drives me crazy when people say "it's not stealing, it's just copyright infringement," like that magically makes what they are doing better.
Theft is too strong a word, because nothing is taken away from the company who makes the product. The moral imperative here doesn't come from actual harm to an individual, it comes from the notion that someone should be rewarded for their hard work if others benefit from it. Which is much weaker. If someone copies something they would never have paid for otherwise, then there is very little harm done indeed.

Don't get me wrong, I like the notion that it is morally right for people to be rewarded for their hard work if it benefits others. However, if we're going to enforce it, shouldn't we start by trying to stop the exploitation of poor people before we go all nuts over sob stories from software giants, record companies and movie studios?
The context of this discussion is this comment by olliesaunders:

> Yeah but we’re not allowed to. Most employers will demands you show up for 40 hours a week and then frown at you or, at least, never promote you if you don’t stay for a lot more.

The whole point here is that we aren't limited to what our employer "allows" us to do. We choose to follow the directions of any particular employer because it typically rewards us with money, which we can use to survive.

You are making the argument that people in the US don't have options. Of course they have options. The costs may be high to exercise those options, but that doesn't mean they don't have them.

And of course, the larger point:

> We should all do whatever the fuck we want, until we die.

Applies equally to employers as it does to everyone else.
I did not 'figure'. What you described is representative money, not fiat/paper money.
It will happen. It better do as I'm an ARM Holdings shareholder.

It has happened before. I had a 32-bit ARM desktop once: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes
A year ago, I entertained the idea of mining bitcoin, but with high electricity rates locally, the numbers and breakeven point didn't make sense. Long term edges in mining are based on specialized hardware and low electrical costs.

For me, it only made sense if bitcoin kept increasing in value, at which point it's much easier to just buy and speculate.
Sorry, but we (people living in Switzerland) still love our trains.
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Right, if you mean to watch in one sitting, that wasn't something you could do in the '60s. But it's something that seems like it's been common since the '90s, since the advent of the "DVD Box Set". People would get box sets and watch these long-narrative-arc series in marathon weekends, or socially in parties. There was a period in the 1990s when seemingly everyone I knew was organizing Twin Peaks parties, and it seems like it fits the description of long-running experimental novel. People did that with the X-Files too, though admittedly it was a more coherent experience if you cut the "monster-of-the-week" episodes from the sequence (but hey, leave them in, and make it a gigantic, sprawling novel with disconnected subplots, of the Alexandre Dumas variety). Or Dawson's Creek, for that matter, or Buffy as you mentioned. In my circle of friends it seemed everyone was gorging themselves on Babylon 5, Star Trek, Black Adder, and Monty Python box sets as well; I don't know if I'd describe those as narratively complex, but there are lighter novels, too.

But in any case, I could believe the numbers are different. Perhaps box sets were not as major a part of 1990s/2000s TV-watching as I had thought?
Wow, I never realised that feedback could be a case for a law suit... Is this just in the USA or in the UK as well?
How insignificant are they? So insignificant that simply by telling me you will write a review, I would give you a copy for free.

I would agree with that.

But if someone tells me, "I want a copy, but even though you are asking $5 per copy, I don't think it's worth anything at all. Give one to me for free." ... I would not be so quick to hand over a copy in that case, and, based on anecdotal conversations with others, I suspect that is closer to the mentality of a lot of folks who are committing the trivial crime of copyright infringement.
> Just old-fashioned comp-sci uselessness.

The reason they are able to pick up "web development" so quickly is because of this old-fashioned comp-sci education.

Web dev isn't a thing, it's just another platform to learn. At its core are basic CS concepts.

Sure, you won't be a super expert on day one, but it's just like picking up iOS development. I'd rather have someone who could pick up iOS dev in a day than someone that only does it and took months to learn.
Here's Steve introducing Mac OS X for the first time, describing running applications against Classic, Carbon, and Cocoa:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko4V3G4NqII&feature=playe...

It certainly seems clear to me (and seemed just as clear to me at the time) that Cocoa was being presented as the API of the future. Sure, Carbon is on the same slide, but so is Classic!
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Just because you are ignorant of the evidence doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
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Not douchy at all - I sometimes very much feel the same way you do. The vision, as I saw it in 2008, was this:

Social Networkin 1.0 was about connecting with people online, that you had already met in real life. (You added a friend on Facebook, because you already knew them).

The next evolution of Social Networking was about people discovery. IT was about leveraging all that data we had online about ourselves, and our friend graph, to connect with new people based on our needs. Need to connect with someone at Amazon? Need to find a date for next week? Need a new cycling buddy?

Chances are that your new professional contact/date/cycling partner are just a friend away. Manufacturing the serendipity to make you connect with them is what we envisioned.

It's really powerful if you think about it - life comes down to relationships (and I don't mean that in a pure network-y sense).

It's also extremely monetizeable. Dating websites and LinkedIn make their money off of being the gatekeeprs to new relationships. If you can build the platform that is used for all of those contexts - you have the next big thing. (And Facebook just rolled out their attempt at this, which is stumbling with problems of identity and intent, but they'll figure it out hopefully)
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I've released plenty of OSS myself, and I agree with what you are saying. Unfortunately, the OSS movement is also co-opted by people who are willing to steal to get what they want, and use ideological mantras of the OSS movement to justify their actions.
Thank you for that metaphor. I was never able find the correct words to explain this!
I think the phone-a-friend possibility is a lot more interesting because it does force the candidate to verbalize the problem and interpret verbal feedback. If you make them do it in front of you, you'll also get to see how they interact with other people under pressure and also how their friend treats their asking of the question will be revealing as well.