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You're right, but you don't go far enough. Not only should we mostly give up games, but also film, TV, fictional books, travelling for pleasure, non-procreative sex. All they do is hurt society, cause pollution and produce nothing. Hell, why are you wasting time on a family? Think of all the Ruby books you could have read.

Except, in addition to being pleasurable, media shapes our society and culture. That we do more than just working to survive is perhaps one of humanity's defining features, and we should be embracing it. Video games are similar to books or film, in that they have dramatically influenced many of our minds and lives. That's why we get upset when publishers see our obsession and game merely as something to exploit for profit, then throw away, rather than as something that should be preserved as part of society's collective knowledge. Even if the DRM probably won't directly cause us any problems ever, it makes us uncomfortable. I noticed when playing the latest release of Metal Gear Solid, how significant the series has been to me.

When I played MG/MGS1, I was young - and, among other games, shared controller gameplay was a bonding experience between me and my friends. These friends are still my strongest, so no doubt it helped cement the friendship. MGS2 was when I was about 10, and starting to think somewhat philosophically. The ideas about AI and censorship, trans-humanism, robotics and nanotechnology significantly changed me and perhaps shaped my beliefs and future (in combination with films like The Matrix which I watched at the same time). MGS3, I played with my girlfriend when we first met - and even now we still talk about it, and have played it a few times since. I played MGS4 relatively recently, now moved out, living with girlfriend and working. That video game series, however, has been there, influencing my life in various ways from the sidelines - and that's just one video game out of hundreds I've played over the years. I remember when playing Sega Megadrive games when I was very young, trying to work out how they were made. It perhaps is when I started to get interested in programming.

Sure, you shouldn't be playing them all day every day - but that's just the age old problem of procrastination, living a balanced life and work before play. If you go too far down this path of maximum productivity, you start to burn out. Finding the play/work balance is hard, because on the one side is extreme sloth, and on the other is a path that, I believe, ends up making you a kind of solipsist/nihilist burnout.
I don't care whether you consider "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" to be political speech. Did the court? I don't recall hearing that Morse v Frederick only applied to non-political speech.

And other than the age restriction, the only thing you can come up with is that it was restricted to only apply to the government agency that citizens of that age are required to interact with for most of their daily life, and can be reasonably expected to have the most cause to be protesting? That sure as hell doesn't narrow it down much more than the age restriction alone.
To borrow from a US Supreme Court Justice's famous phrase regarding obscenity, I know smart when I see it.

I too went to a reputedly top tier universtity (because I didn't want to go college and applied only there, but my father had the last laugh when I was accepted) and there were plenty of students born rich with the best educations from pre-school on, but there were also plenty who qualified on merit; that is, they proved to be especially smart/successful in some field or generally/measurably smart enough to meet admissions standards.

But I found the same old curve fell into place: some folks could cut it, some couldn't.

But here's how I came to measure 'smart' as in WICKED smart: the guy who majored in physics, published short stories in national magazines, taught himself guitar for kicks while getting stoned, learned Italian in a month to qualify for a semester abroad, could dunk a basketball and play a pretty fair game of tennis, was at once personable but didn't suffer fools, yet still wanted to do more. (Not to offend, but after geting through machine language he confessed that computer courses seemed to be 'technical training' and something he could pick up later if need be.)

Oh, and he got laid. A lot.

So, while numerous comments here have objected to the subjective, narrow idea of smartness, I must disagree that it is only in the eye beholder, and only a self-comparison.
That is clearly false. GP and others have said that they like inverse scrolling and normal scrolling feels weird now, which is nicer than "at least you can turn it off". QED. Geez.
Is there really any value in a Netflix branded set-top? Every video game console plays Netflix, the new generation of consoles is coming out soon, and a bunch of TVs have Netflix baked in.
That seems more confusing, since they evaluate to the same thing.

1.9.3p392 :001 > true && 1
=> 1
1.9.3p392 :002 > true and 1
=> 1
1.9.3p392 :003 > false && 1
=> false
1.9.3p392 :004 > false and 1
=> false
1.9.3p392 :005 > nil && 1
=> nil
1.9.3p392 :006 > nil and 1
=> nil

Which is why explicitly checking for "true" or "false" in a conditional is unusual.
That's a huge restriction. School is where children are socialized.[1] It's a unique environment in our historical tradition and a unique set of rules are applicable.

[1] You might call it brainwashing, but society has historically valued this function very highly and protected it. Certainly during the founders time.
Not only that, but they charged a premium based on their false claims. I'm surprised it took this long for legal rumblings to come around.
The simpler and less colorful we make icons, the more we'll relalize we'd made the same icons 25 years ago with windows 3.1. LV may feel like they have a case, but only because they've put shudders on and are only looking at their own work and not the entire industry they are built upon.
Are we going to get up in arms about copyright of documentation?

If anything its an improvement.
I fail to see how prohibiting groups of people from spending money on video equipment is any more justifiable than prohibiting them from spending money on a printing press. Were not presses back in 1790 very expensive?
They are a customer of Incapsula.
I think the author was trying to show us how smart he was, not only in areas of codez (intimate knowledge of hash table) but also in areas of businessing (something called 'liquidity trap'). We should all hold him in high regard, because he only hires A players and had kicked many non-hashtable saavy B players (180+ in all) to the curb.
> Sim City 4 is on Steam even making it easy to get right now

doesn't Steam also have DRM?
Oh I know... someone said ruby is two parts Perl, one part Python, and one part Smalltalk. I like to think it's a bit less Perl than that, but my judgement is clouded - I'm a bit of a Perl hater.
Turning it around, what computer could you build for a $10K price point? $100K?
programmers.stackexchange.com is even more deletionist that stackoverflow in my experience.
> As unlikely as it is, I hope that Heroku terminates the account of anyone that joins the class action against them.

It would be hard to give worse legal advice than this.
I'm going back to for a CS degree after a 6 year hiatus. I completed about 90 hours of a history degree before I dropped out to start programming.

Going back has made me rethink almost every negative thing I've ever said about college (at least with respect to STEM programs).

The contrast in what I'm doing now and the history degree I was going for before is completely night and day. The difference in rigor between the departments (same school for both) is shocking.

The biggest specific difference is that Computer Science feels like a coherent program, where each class builds on the previous ones, whereas history felt like I was just taking a bunch of loosely associated classes with no overall goal.
Indeed, the Solicitor General seemed to lose the momentum of the argument right around when one of the justices got him to admit that if the government could ban the airing of the movie (of a non-profit corporation, by the way) that there was no principled way that book banning wouldn't be okay under the same powers.
Perhaps its because I play MMOs and other online-only games, but the endless complaining about DRM and always-online play is getting a little boring.

What I have to wonder, though, is how they botched the launch so badly. They know when they are launching, they (should) roughly know how many users each server can support, and they should have a rough idea of how many games they are going to sale in the first few days.

How did they screw it up?

Is forecasting game purchases that inexact? I'd think you could derive a number at least close to being accurate from the amount of pre-sales, then multiply it by some factor to give yourself some safety. At the very least, you'd think there'd be contingency plans for quickly standing up new servers in response to demand.
I honestly wonder how many were influenced by movie The Social Network.
Actually the founding fathers were very aware of corporations and their intertwining with political power. For example the Boston Tea Party destroyed property of the East India Company to protest laws passed by the English Parliament on behalf of that corporation, undoubtably motivated by the large monetary contributions that said corporation made to the elections for Parliament.

The result is that there is no shortage of commentary from the founding fathers on the evils of corporations. And that is why in the early days of the Republic a majority of US states had laws BANNING corporations from engaging in any kind of political activities.

It is historically absurd to maintain that the founding fathers merely overlooked the possibility that corporations would want to engage in political speech. The did not overlook it - they had seen it up close and emphatically wanted no part of it!
> The gist of Citizens United was that the government couldn't ban political speech near an election. The speaker in question just happened to be a company.

Uh, no. The law in question applied only to corporations. The decision has nothing to do with individuals speaking.
Really glad to see Aeon gaining traction. Their editorial voice runs counter to the dominant academic convention that separates liberal arts and humanities from the hard sciences and mathematics.

It's not about putting them together, so much as recognizing how artificial the distinction is in the first place. Both branches are fundamentally imaginative. To use a rough analogy, they're like the left and right sides of a single brain - neither of which is sufficient by itself.

If they've got one writer who stands out, it's Ross Anderson. Two of the best pieces they published were done by him. If you're familiar with the Clock of the Long Now and the larger effort to cultivate a sense of deep time, these are exceptionally worthwhile. Can't recommend them highly enough.

http://www.aeonmagazine.com/author/ross-andersen/
Why does an upvote/downvote community need moderators? Isn't the whole point of letting users upvote and downvote content to avoid having moderator overlords?
> I don't see any obvious or intentional fraud.

Fraud is usually a criminal matter.

This is a civil matter. Probably under torts law, especially if there's anything in California/US torts law that resembles Australia's tort of "misleading and deceptive conduct".

Fraud and torts are different. And to forestall the next obvious point: torts and contracts are different.

> I don't really understand what Rap Genius hopes to gain here.

A refund.

Heroku's selling pitch is linear scalability. Rent 1 dyno, get ~ (1 dyno / Σ dynos) improvement in performance. Rap Genius demonstrated that they were getting exponentially worse increments of added performance per dyno added.

> If Heroku wasn't providing enough performance for their money (regardless of technical cause), then why did they stick around so long?

This is orthogonal to the question of whether Heroku acted in a legal way.

> Would Rap Genius still have sued if the documentation had been 100% correct and instead the problem was just plain old slow I/O on Heroku's side?

Courts don't worry their heads with strawman hypotheticals.

(IANAL, TINLA)
It's not just a popularity contest. Each of the candidates had a dedicated comment discussion during the nomination phase. These comments were frequently focused on how the nominee already participated in the community moderation process.

On the other hand, sometimes is really is a popularity contest. My number one pick is someone from the tag community I hang out with the most. I already trust his judgement.
I might just be working on your dream game:

http://www.voxelquest.com

Of course, whether or not I will ever get even close to finishing it is another question. :)
" I don't recall hearing that Morse v Frederick only applied to non-political speech."

Farther up in the thread you mention that you are unfamiliar with the Morse decision. Has this changed now? If not I recommend scanning the wikipedia article:

"Roberts rejoined that “not even Frederick argues that the banner conveys any sort of political or religious message;” “this is plainly not a case about political debate over the criminalization of drug use or possession.”" [1]

[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_v._Frederick
I guess I saw this coming:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5237920

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5241686

Really, though, given how much money Heroku charge and how much money Salesforce.com would be able to stump up in a settlement or judgement ... it was inevitable that a fast-moving law firm would jump on this.
This isn't even about documentation being covered, but supposed copying of the layout of the documentation. If there was ever a non-story, this is it.

Basically, both PayPal and Stripe have text on the left half of the screen, and code on the right half. The right half also have buttons to switch between the different languages for the example.
>It really disgusts me how quick people are to bite the hand that feeds them.

Really? Because it really disgusts me when a company:

* Misrepresents their product (saying it's A when it's actually B)
* Privately acknowledges this misrepresentation under the radar
* Makes large and ridiculous amounts of bank on this misrepresentation (since you have to throw more dynos at the app to mitigate the lag caused by the misrouting.. and Heroku may be many things, but economical it isn't)
* And on that note, provides very expensive monitoring and performance analysis tools that further perpetuate the misrepresentation!
* And then force you to resort to litigation to get some portion of this huge mis-spent investment refunded. (Looking at the suit, this is all that's being asked for)

This wasn't a mistake on Heroku's part, this was calculated. And even if you accept that it was a mistake, the fact of the matter is that their negligence in this matter made them a hell of a lot of money.

This is definitely grounds for a suit.
Task switching in Windows 8 is also really nice (very similar to Web OS). Swipe in from the side to show the task switcher, then click on what you want. Snap a second app to the side of the screen if you want. Very nice balance between keeping the interface simple and offering some flexibility.

Too bad it's buggy as fuck.
This is confusion of intelligence and knowledge. I don't know how a hash function works...but that is a reflection of my experience, not my intelligence. I did not study to be a computer scientist...but I sure as hell can optimize your supply chain.
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Supreme Court doctrines aren't about left vs. right in the conventional sense. The justices are very solid about the principles they claim to stick to (standards of judicial review, what constitutes limitations on commerce clause, etc...) and civil liberties aren't a left vs. right matter.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Entertainment_Merchant... for example: Scalia wrote a very strong pro-free speech majority opinion, extending speech to cover violent video games. Beyer (generally thought of as liberal) dissented using logic he would use in any other decisions, Thomas again used the "en-loco parentis" argument he often makes in decisions involving children (I disagree with him, but he sees it as consistent with support of free speech). See also Thomas' dissent in Raich vs. Gonzales.

In 9th circuit, judge Alex Kozinski is probably the best example of a strongly civil liberties minded conservative/libertarian justice. I would like to see Kozinski in SCOTUS, but I'm pretty sure he'll receive The Mother of All Borkings if ever nominated.
The idea that the design similarities are a coincidence is just not believable on any level. Anyone that has worked with PayPal or eBay API documentation knows it's a complete disaster, and just happening to build new documentation that similar to a competitor with best-in-class documentation seems ridiculous.

If you want to see an example of some typical PayPal documentation, feel free to peruse this 150 page pdf on adaptive payments:

https://www.x.com/sites/default/files/2102_pp_adaptivepaymen...
see WebAuth, CoSign
They shut it down because the 2nd highest traffic site that used their api was a site that helped people find nudity on netflix called http://bateflix.com
Is anyone else concerned that they have contaminated the lake with modern bacteria?
You hit the nail on the head of the irony implicit in the hunt for the inherently material/prestige-granting awards in science where we're also meant to believe these individuals care only about a higher, non-trivial realm. Funny
I interview for maturity, discipline, and honesty. My codebase is made to be maintainable by most programmer. I dont include any magic and make sure that it is understandable. But I don't interview for intelligence. Because intelligence without the three factors I look for does not mean a thing.
Is this really news? That two sites have a vaguely similar layout for their docs site? If they were actually identical sure that would suck - but it's quite a stretch to call it a "clone".

The web has always been about getting inspiration from other sites on the web. As long as it's not an obvious ripoff - this is how we move forward. Building on what works. Let's worry about bigger problems.
I'm at a run of the mill state school (Georgia State--returning after a 6 year hiatus), and I can't imagine how someone who couldn't write that for loop could graduate.

You could maybe pass the intro to CS class (mostly theory, not much programming), but unless you were willing to pay someone else to take tests for you there is absolutely no way you'd make it through data structures, or algorithms.

Even in an intro to MATLAB class I took that was designed primarily for non CS majors (mostly physics and biology majors) that substandard level of programming would have resulted in an F.
Of course it has to do with individuals. It's hyper-legalistic to say that the fact that individuals are working through a corporation that they don't have individual rights. It's incredibly contrived, and it's a contrivance the Court didn't indulge.

Also, the 'corporation' in this case was non-profit. I wasn't really looking forward to a post-Citizens United-gone the other way world where the Jeb Bush administration immediately used its newfound powers to ban speech from Sierra Club, etc.
I think that logging should be separate here, so I'm actually okay with built-in logging support being minimal to nonexistent. If you use multilog (from daemontools) it will handle logging to rotated files; if you use svlogd (from runit), it can do the same, and also includes syslog support. If you just log to syslog in the first place, and your syslogd is at all modern, it can also handle writing things to log files, here or on a remote machine, which is cool too if you're okay with configuring it.

Or you can do something event more radical, like using fluentd[1], which looks really useful and well-designed. I like having this decision decoupled from the process manager. So, I would not count that as a strike against Angel.

[1] http://fluentd.org
There is a huge anti-CS degree movement, specially (and not suprisingly) among people without CS degrees.

The affirmation that almost 100% of grads can't write a trivial program would mean that somehow CS grads are worst at programming than a sample of random people.

Which language paradigm the question required? functional? logical? imperative? according the comment, they were phone interviews, meaning you had to dictate the program statements by phone, that's insane. It's impossible to take seriously those numbers.

Disclaimer: I have a CS degree, so my opinions are obviously biased :)
Or the billion dollar purchase of instagram.

People hear "A billion dollars" and immediately want in to whatever got someone that much money.
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We've been working on this off & on for a bit too long, as people had time and in between client work. Excited to ship, and interested in seeing what people think.
We've been working on this off & on for a bit too long, as people had time and in between client work. Excited to ship, and interested in seeing what people think.
I said I was unfamiliar with the details. I certainly remember the general circumstances that were at issue, but I never read the ruling or a detailed analysis of it, so I don't know just how restrictive the wording is, which is what I'm now asking about. Your quotes seem to be very nearly on-topic, but it's not clear to me whether they imply that the school's powers would have been different had the speech been a more traditional and recognizable form of political protest. If Morse v Frederick indeed does not apply to the more coherent forms of protest, then I would certainly consider that to be significantly narrowing.
There is no copyright claim here, the article says it's not illegal and they are right. But if MySpace decided tomorrow they wanted to finally catch up to Facebook and the result was a new site that was a near-exact replica of Facebook, naturally people would call them out on that.
Yeah, I didn't mean to seriously suggest that it was the case, just that it would be funny.
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How is it hard to spoof a longer block chain? If you intend to do so, it's trivial. You can create an unlimited length block chain and screw the short one that is perhaps the honest one.

This is one of the more disturbing defaults I've heard of with bitcoin.
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I'm really starting to wonder if we're in a "developer bubble."

Everyone wants to learn to code. Every other week there's a blog post on "why everyone should learn to code." Last year, NYC Mayor Bloomberg posted his new years resolution was to learn to code[0]. Soaring enrollments is just another sign.

[0] https://twitter.com/Codecademy/status/155038379216609280
If you do what that guys says and use runit, you'll be happy. I use runit, and I am happy with it.

However, I also think you'll be happy with Upstart or Systemd, even if you find them over-engineered and inelegant. They'll do what they need to with minimal configuration, and you're probably already using one of them behind the scenes. Why not use one of them, if you have it sitting right there, already installed and configured?
I have a hard time believing the claim. I've certainly seen a fair share of new graduates disappointingly lacking in certain areas (for some reason, this seems to be especially true of those who hold a Masters degree but have no work experience), but managing to graduate without knowing how to do a simple for loop is really, really hard to believe.

The only way I think that would happen would be if they were fairly weak to begin with and had a ton of performance anxiety, but I'd expect that to be exceptionally rare.