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Ironically this article describes what I started feeling while reading it:

I was wondering myself, why? Why consume time, energy to write something that adds no value whatsoever. Why consuming that little amount of electricity required for you to type and that little amount of storage required to host your (destructive) boring comment. And why are you making the arrogant assumptions that we want to invest our time and energy in reading your comment too?"
Yep. And only the income above ~ €56,491 will be taxed by 52% so your average tax rate will be much lower
I normally do not buy pictures for my blog posts, I try to shoot (or draw) them myself. They are not perfect then, but that's OK for me.

When I need pictures for a presentation (a conference talk, ...) I buy those at iStockPhoto. I always found the high quality images I was looking for there, and the price is reasonable. Even though I need a lot of images for my presentations - See an example here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiKvVO93YU8 (I shot some of the pictures myself, but several are from iStockPhoto).
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Don't be mean, find a more positive and constructive output for your feelings instead - like a passive-aggressive, poorly disguised excuse for bashing another community.
I'm not voting because you require me to "like" you on facebook. I wouldn't have a problem giving you a like if you weren't trying to manipulate me.

I know this is not a scientific poll but just a marketing effort disguised as one, and that's ok, but I would try to be less disingenuous about it.

Nice game, btw.
Nice attempt to deflect their current DMCA clustercuss. Makes good points but this is rather poorly written and not well–considered... and seems kind of unnecessary for a company blog.
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> This isn't a proper Sim City game.

To me it felt like I'm playing DRM with features inspired from simcity. Sadly, I'm not joking.
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Yes the SWF format has not been fully documented [1] by Adobe to make it easy to develop an implementation.

But so was the case with Office documents, but several open source projects can now successfully read and write them.

EDIT: It seems that the Flash Player EULA is a major roadblock. Once installed, you cannot perform any reverse engineering on it [2].

[1]: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf.html
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnash#Adobe_Flash_Player_End-Us...
"Manipulate me", oh people take this so seriously.
I think the fundamental misunderstanding here is not about replacing fear and suppression as a motivation for religion, but whether a belief in the supernatural (and a service structure that caters to it) is necessary in the first place.

From my early childhood on, it's one of these things that made me doubt if I'm even part of the same species as most people. I remember a vivid discussion with the local priest about why I stopped coming to bible class (I had only been there once or twice because my parents thought I was missing out on something). The guy said the problem was not that I was rejecting his faith in particular, what made him think I was really sick and disturbed was the fact that I didn't see why anyone would have a religion at all.
I now understand your all caps above, point taken.
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ILSpy is probably one of the best utility programs I have ever used... It has saved me countless times from poorly documented API's and helps me work around countless bugs in third party libraries.
Disputing a card transaction has always resulted in a ban on Origin. But it has also always resulted in a ban on Steam as well. Ostensibly for the reason of card fraud and fraudulent accounts.

Note: I'm referring to in the US here, I'm unsure of the legality of doing that in the EU.
You should not move your company to Amsterdam because every employee can smoke pot legally :)
wow....
that was just to emphasize that modern smartphones/mobiles are not built to last. Should i trace the other wires for you as well?
It could last quite a while. Look at the COD franchise. I was a big fan of COD4. They ignored their community for a long time and each new edition is still selling like hotcakes.
Out of curiosity, where's the discussion the OP is talking about?

I do think meanness is worth calling out, FWIW, though in my experience HN discussions are better than most I see online (though far from faultless, of course).

...which in turn gives me faith that when there really are unduly mean discussions, someone calling them out can actually improve things (whereas I imagine an article calling out meanness on /. or similar and can't imagine who would even read it).
As I mentioned in the article, I only wanted to discuss some of them
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If you go and remove someones work for no damn reason and I criticize you, that makes me mean; there is absolutely no logic in your post.
The whole post was idiotic and was trying to deflect the fact that they filed a DMCA takedown when there was no evidence that the work (flatUI) belongs to them.
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In Sim City case, part of the simulation is run at their servers. Even while playing a private region, lost of aspects of the simulation are affected by the 'world' (other players). So, it´s not _just_ a matter of DRM: online is part of the game (unfortunately).
The point is: did the developers decided to do it that way _because_ EA made online DRM mandatory for them, or they did think this way since t=0 ?
We´ll probably never know.
You can find lots of free stock images on www.sxc.hu.
A very bad practice - either don't issue a statement or honour it. Am sure as the story creates some noise, the user may get a refund, but not all of them. Sad.
SVGs also carry a preferred output size where you do have pixel-perfect control. It is a bit messy, though, as you need to position lines on half-pixels so that a line with width 1 will not fall on two pixels. I tend to prefer paths when working with pixel-perfect data for that reason.

Some icons can be smaller than their PNG equivalent (even more so when served compressed) but that mainly depends a bit on how they're authored. Many authors probably just use Inkscape/Illustrator and accept the 20 KiB of cruft that is embedded automatically instead of writing a simple sub-1-KiB SVG by hand.
For those upset with LayerVault's behavior, but are intrigued by their product offering, I just found http://pixelapse.com which appears to be the closest competitor: http://www.quora.com/Design/How-do-LayerVault-and-Pixelapse-...
Please understand this correctly. This refers to the "Y-cromosomal Adam", or the Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA) patrilinearly [1]. It is important to understand that some contemporaries of the MRCA are ancestors of no one in the current population. In other words, when that human lived, there were humans living concurrently that represented the same species (Homo) but their family line does not reach the current time.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Adam
Agree. THIS is how you do parallax! I love how the scrollbar is nonexistent; that somehow made the experience better!
Or, even better, a pictorial representation?
Then take the time to teach them about it, and why it's worth picking up.

Everyone wins in that scenario.
They seem to be working on it: http://www.google.com/patents/US20120079023
The real question is of course "Is it better than Berlin?". I personally wouldn't bother with any European city with housing market problem, excluding London.
That's pretty cool, but "self healing" is a bit misleading.

It's not very self healing when it requires somebody to drive along with a vehicle that would heat up the road to fix it. That's like saying all current roads are self-healing because they just require someone to drive along and fill in the holes.

Still cool though, easier to repair roads are always good.
Most of the time I just use Flickr. I search for what I'm looking for, then click the advanced search tab. Checking the "Only search within Creative Commons-licensed content" limits the results to stuff that copyright owners are willing to let you use. Most of the time you just need a simple attribution with the image.
> My desktop still struggles to show a wikipedia map of the world

Are you sure? Mine can render and zoom into it instantly - once the data file is cached. The first time you load it it loads in country-by-country since that's how slow it's getting the data (the typical Wikipedia world map SVG is 1.5 MB, although to be fair the PNG version is only 350 KB).
I've never seen much ad hominem or meanness in the comments here. In fact, I think this place is awfully civil. People here have no problem calling one another out on something that is incorrect or dubious, and I like that. I'd rather a spade is called a spade than a bunch of people skirting around the issue in the name of politeness.
Probably http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5341679
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Any links to finding more information on moving from Asia?
You should learn what a marginal tax rate is.
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... and everyone that uses it and has no idea to click on the tiny 15x150px area that exists to change it.
Umm... Are you even aware that the submission is a forum post on "Designer News" (a Hacker News for designers) by someone who does not appear at all to be affiliated with Layervault. It's basically the Designer News equivalent of a Tell HN post.
Also factor in the time you're going to be spending learning Dutch. You'll probably get by with English alone since everyone will speak it with you, but it's certainly less than optimal.
You should learn to think.
For some reason, a teacher thinks that this will damage Facebook's reputation as a bastion of great intellect and writing.
Torrenting video games is still a bit more involved than torrenting a tv show.

You have zips, rars, 7zs, archives split into parts. Some need you to mount a iso file, some you need to mount multiple iso files. You may need to run a sketchy exe to patch the game, or copy files from an iso into the installation folder, run other patches in the correct order, etc. etc.
But in this case it's not the transaction itself that's being disputed. That person wants to return the game because it has a defect. Returning defective goods is not the same as disputing the transaction, is it? The vindictive support worker implied this himself when he said the ban was within his discretion to use as a means to close this support inquiry.
Very lively, internationally oriented, creative environment.

Very strong hacker community with excellent people who are unfortunately (still) undervalued and misunderstood by their government.

The article is probably wrong on one point:

I don't believe you ever get used to the weather.
What you have just done is not an actual defense of your community and its behavior. It is an attack on the OP. the OPs conduct has no bearing on the justifications and motivation of your conduct.

We should all endeavor to be more humane to others, and I'm sad to see a comment like this leaning towards a persecution complex more than an understanding of others.
The refund policy is nothing new to online game stores (though I do not like it). What is new here is that they publicly offered refunds, an offer which they did not intend to honour.
No, I use hot-plate and IR thermometer to control temperature.
Ask HN: Are there serious developers working in CMS's like Drupal and Joomla?
There tends to be a rationale that serious developers build everything from scratch. But I want to know if there are serious programmers out there who also work in pre built CMS's.
Ironically, this post perfectly fits the what the submitter is talking about since you don't even have your facts right. The submission appears to be as affiliated with Layervault as any HN submission is affiliated with YC (that is, not at all).
Hmmm ... if I offer what I believe as a valid criticism (constructively) but it offends someone, they're going to tend to think of me as mean regardless of my intention.

But I also think you can offer both compliments and criticism respectfully ... and I think that may be what the writer really wants. What value would there be to a "Show HN" if all you got were platitudes?

As an aside, I quit swearing (completely) when I was 18 or so, because I realized that I knew enough language to articulate my feelings. It's led to people assuming I only have nice things to say when the reality is that I can be (I think) more scathing (in other words, the tone of what you say is important too ... especially on the Internet).
Anonymity online, one of the most important problems of the coming decades. Even if you don't think it's important to be anonymous to the eyes of the government, being anonymous to the eyes of drive-by troll litigants is almost undoubtedly a good thing. (And I think drive-by litigation powered by increasingly easy access to information is only going to be getting worse.)
I think mean comments, such as you get on Hacker News often have a grain of truth to them. That such emotion is attached to that grain of truth suggests that someone likes your idea or cares enough about your product or the area you're focussing on that it's worth pursuing.

Better then to count the meanness as validation of what you're working on and to extract the grain of truth as constructive criticism suggesting how you can improve.
I disagree with this. When you have an issue with a company, that company is going to try to use all the little power it has to turn the issue in its favor. If you contact them, you're giving them power (the power not to answer your emails, the power to reply privately in a harsh way, etc.).

So go public. On a medium which the company doesn't control. And then they're not in control anymore.

It's exactly the same with SO: everytime someone comes up with a very valid criticism about SO there are SO officials (or high-rep users) saying "Put this on meta". But no, that's precisely the point: do certainly not put it on meta because once it's on meta it's the same little clique who's in control.

My opinion is that something like this reaching several times the front page of HN is the best way to make people aware of the problem (including the people at the company/ies concerned).
Apart from London Amsterdam is probably the city where you can get by most easily speaking only English.

It will be hard to fully integrate into Dutch social life without learning proper Dutch of course, but professionally it will not be much of a problem and the expat community is so large that it is fairly easy to build a decent social life within it.
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What you have just done is not an actual defense of your community and its behavior.

Was that a requirement for posting to this thread?

I thought TFA was ironic - criticizing others for wasting their electrons typing something non-productive while it was basically criticizing others and wasting electrons typing something non-productive.

Seriously, nobody is curing cancer in TFA or this thread.
EA chose their words well.

"if you regrettably feel that we left you down, you can of course request a refund for your order."

As far as I know, they didn't state they would proceed with the request, only that you can "request" a refund. I can ask for the moon, it doesn't mean I'll get it.
This is not the Layervault blog, it‘s someone posting on Designer News, a Hacker News inspired discussion community launched by Layervault.

(Of course, the confusion is deliberate, I imagine they hope that the association with a vibrant community will work well for Layervault and vice versa, like in Y combinator <-> Hacker News)
Ding ding ding! The only comment, as far as I can tell, hitting the nail on the head. For ALL the moaning about Facebook's ad revenue, I can't believe it's not being parroted more.

I recently posted a status on Facebook, were most of my audience is tech-ish people, and got an overwhelmingly affirmative response to the supposition that the News Feed is increasingly spammy. I don't blame FB. I don't want to be that guy bitching needlessly, but it's becoming a nuisance. Especially when I get way more relevant information through G+ and Twitter. Frankly, FB is becoming more and more about the Pages I like (which arguably, to some, is already nearly spam) and random pages that FB is super desperate for me to like. "Mediaite" anyone?
Better add Colorado and Washington state to that list.

And maybe we should move all of our companies to Saudia Arabia since employees can drink legally everywhere else.
Asking somebody not to be mean seems reasonable but he only gets mean after he has already "lost it". He then unfailingly perceives the other guy as the mean one and himself as the victim. If he had the self-awareness necessary to monitor his emotional state then he would not become mean in the first place.

Combine this with the fact that most people come to news sites for validation rather than enlightenment and one can expect mean comments to grow in proportion to the popularity of the site
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The real question of course is 'move from where?'. Should you move your company from Silicon Valley to Amsterdam? Probably not. Should you move it from somewhere else in Europe? Maybe.
Facebook have gone through loads of UI shakeups, and loads of people complain each time, and they're still here.
> Amsterdam is probably the only city, apart from London, where you can get by perfectly speaking only English.

You can get by perfectly speaking only English in most of Northern Europe.

Southern Europe is a different story.
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Of course they are associated. Y combinator gets cred for hosting a platform for ‘real hackers’, the hacker news users like the association with a prestigious incubator. The domain name chosen for hacker news reflects this.

Layervault is trying to do the same trick for their brand.
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Not that I commented, but, no, I didn't know that. "news.layervault.com" sounds official to me.

Also, Is this a rip off of the HN visual redeux extension that was posted, or vice-versa, or is it the same person?

edit: Well, I feel sufficiently stupid after thinking this through: I'm posting a comment on "news.ycombinator.com" after all...
Milton Friedman did a study of healthcare in the USA, and found that the government "help" had driven up the cost 26fold and driven down availability. Or put another way, the reason people could get bankrupted by an illness is socialized medicine, and it's also the reason they might not be able to find care when they need it. Contrary to what Obama says, socialism doesn't work, and if you think you'll get better healthcare in the NL than in the USA, you'll have a very rude awakening... but of course you won't be alive to post your mea culpas here on HN. Frankly, even assuming this shows a profound ignorance of both history and economics.
Thanks for the explanation, two questions:

1) what happens with perjury? how severe is "penalty of perjury"?

If at point 5, LayerVault chooses not to take legal action (say, because they realized their mistake), did they just take some random piece of work offline for 10-14 days without any consequence?

What if they do take legal action and lose?

2) You say the provider has to act like a "dumb pipe" and just obey these notices. Does this also exclude basic sanity checks such as calling back the phone number on the notice to check whether the corporation in question actually filed this notice, or whether notice-filer actually exists, whether the phone number is actually connected to the corporation the notice claims to be from, etc? Because otherwise, it's just a matter of time until somebody is going to ... take down all the things.

I just checked Wikipedia on perjury and it says, "Statements which entail an interpretation of fact are not perjury because people often draw inaccurate conclusions unwittingly, or make honest mistakes without the intent to deceive. Individuals may have honest but mistaken beliefs about certain facts, or their recollection may be inaccurate, or may have a different perception of what is the accurate way to state the truth", I think this is pretty much the case for LayerVault. So they won't get penalty of perjury, because they did believe their work had been infringed ... even when it's based on a wrong idea of what constitutes an actual infringement instead of a "heavily inspired by" rip-off?
Do other people go around bragging to their friends "Yeah, I comment on HN stuff all the time!"... or is there some other benefit I have from "being associated with a[n incubator]" (I'm quite sure HN wouldn't want me to go around saying I'm "associated" with them.)))
Not much to this post for being on the front page, I guess I'll follow up with grow some thick skin. It's stupid not to.
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Regarding your comment of toxicity inside---when was this? Is this from personnel experience? Reason I ask is that 'toxic' is counter to my experience while working for them. Had a great time working with an equally great team. No pointy hairs in sight. That however was in 93 and things may well have changed.
Ah, I was looking at this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5339287

...which admittedly doesn't have a great discussion, but it's not worthless.

The one you linked, though, is worth highlighting as a completely useless discussion, due to some meanness (mild as it goes), but mostly just a sad lack of thoughtful commenters, all of whom seemed to think several dozen redundant comments about the OP's headshot on his blog post was valuable feedback.

I didn't see any discussion whatsoever on the actual content of the OP.
There was no statement by the company. Some employee said it on forums. They honor their ToS - no refunds.
No. And contrary to what others have said, more Germans know english than Dutch know english, on a day to day basis. Though you can get by without knowing dutch in amsterdam with a little creativity.
The worst part of HN and the ecosystem isn't being mean, its people reverting to a meta discussion about how useless and silly HN is when they don't have a response to valid criticism or argument.
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You quit your job because management sucks. Do you give honest feedback?

Imho, i dont know what to do in that situation. I feel that it will gain me nothing, but brings me in a risky situation concerning my future.

Be completely selfish for this consideration and just ask yourself "whats in for me?".
Further, Amazon provides a ton of sample code showing how their various services can be used to easily export data from DynamoDB, so there's very little friction there apart from paying for an EMR cluster of whatever size you prefer and waiting for the job to finish
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Ok, so you don't pay %50 on 1/3rd of your salary for 10 years. I wouldn't exactly call that "an amazing tax break". You're still paying way too much in taxes.
It's frustrating to me that people put up with this instead of boycotting the game FOREVER!

I was thinking of buying having seen the early reviews. Now I won't, EVER. I've got plenty of other games to play. I don't need this one.