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As it happens, I do not believe in a moral basis for copyright: independent invention ruins all "property" aspects of most creations, as does the way almost every "invention" comes about, which is by incremental advances on some one else's ideas or creations. Another way that ownership fails is that the "owner" can't really tell if his or her idea has been "stolen", and has to have the state enforce property-style rights.

What I'm pointing out is that at least in the USA, legislation since 1976 has moved away from the constitutional basis for copyright or patent, and towards an "ownership" basis. "Copying is theft" type slogans and commercials prove that wealthy entities in the USA are pushing ownership as a moral basis for "intellectual property". The fact that a "World Intellectual Property Organization" exists proves that for a lot of people, "ownership" is a good moral basis for "intellectual property".

I've even heard my 6-year-old daughter complain that one of her classmates 'stole' my daughter's idea for the format of a book report. Ownership, like the idea of a "just price" is just one of those illogical things built in to human nature.
The difference is that people are more willing (or perhaps capable) to be rational and idealistic about long-term abstract decisions like voting for a candidate who wants to ban unhealthy food, than about immediate everyday decisions like whether to eat a salad or a donut...
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Do you use any programming languages that don't use English syntax?
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Good article. I enjoyed from start to the end. I wish you the best luck on new ventures, as I stated on Twitter. I'm doing something right now wich has similar things (not wine) and it was good to read what happens and all the things that are in the game.
Purchased as soon as I received the email from Manning.

fogus, eagerly anticipating the logic programming section. Skip everything else to draft that, of course after the Clojure/West miniKanren conf. Which I am unable to attend (crying softly in my cubicle).

Maybe at lambda jam you or David Nolen will do a workshop on logic programming. Who do I bribe to make this happen?
I don't think you can call this a 'clone'. It's at most a proof of concept. I can build a POC of Airbnb in Rails in an hour. It doesn't mean I should build an Airbnb clone in Rails.
I answered your last paragraph upthread.

Since otherwise reputable sources are running articles suggesting that CISPA is "the worst bill since SOPA" and "a power grab by the content industry" and "a backdoor warrantless wiretap" and "a mechanism by which the feds will read our email", I respectfully disagree with you about the utility of refuting uninformed criticism of the bill. Most of the criticism of the bill is uninformed.
That's not necessarily an advantage. E.g. PyInstaller can create stand-alone executables from Python packages.

That said, it's certainly much cleaner to just build static binary executables like Go does.
I was at their meetup yesterday. What you're implying is definitely _not_ the vibe.

I thought Netflix OSS is great. They're opensourcing something like 30 projects, putting on super well organized meetups with expo like rooms where you can pick Netflixers brain about the software and their internal systems in general, free food&beers, free Ts, etc. It was great.

They do it go give back to the community, to get patches and ports from the community, and hiring of course, there's nothing wrong with that!
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Found the commit, it was due to the load:

https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/commit/f5ec4fa37d0a81...

Hopefully it will go back to 64 once things get under control.
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some interesting reads over on the gaming stack exchange:

http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/simcity
How were some language communities able to prevent fragmentation
Ah, okay. Now that's a different angle than the 'X for Y' device usually follows. I imagine you guys were shooting for the fewest words possible in deciding to go with the 'X for Y' approach as you did here. However, "X for Y" is a stylistic device that employs an analogy, and when the analogy is not based on the form or function of a thing, it gets easily confused.

Think of other products that use the 'X for Y' device--for example, a service that markets itself as 'Facebook for Sex'. The nearly automatic connection potential users are going to make is that this service is going to have certain obvious and well-known features of Facebook--like connecting with other users, building up a list of 'friends', etc. Now, if that service was, instead, a news feed of stories about sexual subjects, I think the users would be rightly confused by the analogy not being correct. Here, they'd have been better suited using the 'Facebook-like news feed for sexual content', or something more apt. The same could be said if the service was 'Google for Philosophy'--someone is going to automatically expect a philosophy search engine, not a pair of wearable eyeglasses that help you connect your everyday experiences to greater philosophical questions.

Perhaps you'd be better served with something along the lines of "Dropbox ease-of-use for WiFi passwords", or "Dropbox-style management of WiFi passwords". Here you're able to invoke the actual Dropbox feature your sample pool was connecting to that is not communicated clearly with the original wording.

Also, the only reason I think it's worth your attention is that you're actually having to explain the analogy multiple times to commenters here beside me. That's as strong an indication you can get that the analogy isn't working. You shouldn't ever have to explain what your marketing message means to your potential users.

Again, I think it's a great-looking product. Very well designed and executed, and the interaction simplicity is the real killer here (as you're obviously trying to communicate).
Hey, it’s one of my favorite dumb movies. I have no problem with it as a movie.

I have a problem with people saying that it has some sort of profound message. Yeah, it satirizes current-day stupidity pretty well (and I like that) but I do not think it makes any reasonable statements about humanity’s future.
Lambda functions are just syntax, they aren't "flexible" in any meaningful way I can see. And I argue that they certainly are rare -- virtually all major languages (other than C and C++03) have some form of straightforward anonymous function with some form of local scope closure (and to be clear: C++11's implementation of that bit is sort of a mess!).

Other than node.js, virtually none of them make regular use of them. When they do, it's mostly just to have a convenient way of passing a callback.

Lambda's are good. But as implemented in C++11 they really don't do anything to change the nature of the code being written. On the other hand, proper use of initializers does, by virtue of not having to write a thousand setXXX() functions, etc...
Look, I am completely out of my element on this one, and apparently, the people attracted to this entry feel very strongly about it. I've only ever been to industry and academic conferences, and I would actually characterize these other things as festivals.

Browsing HN via /newcomments inherently places every comment out of context, and I realize it is my choice to browse that way. I also strongly disagree that my complaint is without "an iota of validity." As to your last point, I am pretty much a loner, so that's not off base.
EA doesn't care, they never have.

They will take a game studio, squeeze all the juice out of it and use the profits to buy another one. Ad infinitum.

> http://ultima.wikia.com/wiki/Electronic_Arts
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Male baldness occurs late in life - high value individuals have had a chance to accumulate wealth. Malaria hits early, before potential earnings have accumulated. Though it hits poor people, the potential lifetime excess incomes of malaria victims should rival that of males willing to spend on baldness. Thus, we have an issue of time horizons - finance knows how to solve this!

A coalition of African governments could create an X Prize for a malaria cure, committing to a certain level of expenditure, e.g. 30% of the population within 10 years, for a cure or vaccine that meets certain efficacy and cost hurdles. Theoretically, taxes on the salvaged incomes would pay for the safety net - this presupposes a reasonable level of productivity. A coalition willing to levy a conditional tax on its population for when a cure meeting certain efficacy and cost hurdles becomes available should also qualify for some sort of multilateral backstop, thus increasing the probability of the "prize" being paid.

Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations did not speak about the economy alone, but of the political economy. Talking about capitalism absent the institutions that frame the market is vacuous. Philanthropy is a good balm, but I reject that malaria is immune to the vectors which are fighting male baldness.
No folders or tags? How do you separate or prioritize? I may have five hundred plus feeds and I may not be watching all of them all the time.
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Still a decent effort :-)

I wonder if it's something to do with UK companies importing/exporting between the US and Europa
I wonder if Merchant Circle would be willing to sell the old Bloglines codebase seeing as they aren't using it.
Changing a certificate check in a binary is just finger exercise for anyone serious about reverse engineering. "Hard-coded" does not mean what you (seem to) think it means...
Break it into smaller pieces that you can estimate. Is there something that is similar? You can always say let me research a little bit to get you answer. In engineering/technology it better to under commit and over deliver. In business it's better to over commit and work your ass off.
Beauty is inherently linked to readability, at least in my opinion.

If you look at typesetting, a lot of care is taken to tweak letter spacings and getting the font just right. This makes the work easier to read than a giant wall of text, and visual beauty comes as a natural side effect of that optimization.

Code really isn't any different. While there is certainly some variance by the beholder, code that is generally easy to read is going to naturally look beautiful. Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, if the code is beautiful, it will attract you to maintain it.

I am still a Go newbie, but my initial impression is that certain constructs make it more difficult to write beautifully than it should, which only serves to detract from the readability (not talking clever one-liners here – which shouldn't even come up in beauty discussions). However, given that I am new to the language, I may just not be yet able to express things as well as I could.
The kernel of his thesis is

The best way to create social mobility for smart people is
to create a massive, irreparable cleavage in the elite. In
1540, it was the Protestant Reformation, leading to
exploration and trade and new theories about politics,
culminating in rational government and modern capitalism.

That is entirely backward and has little grounding in history.

The points you make are sound and accurate, and had they been his, I would have had no reason to criticize.
Sadly:

> You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.

Not even a description of what it is or why I want to give them my information.

Sorry, but /close
But it also means malaria gets more funding than it would otherwise.
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>"For one, everybody does it them with XCode and auto-complete."

Which is not necessarily a good experience. From all the IDEs I had used in my life, XCode is the only one I really hate.
They've done something like this with movie recommendations in 2006 -- got a super-cheap solution to a hard research problem.
Without a doubt you could eventually patch and replace all of SimCity. The question becomes when it's more work than just building a brand new game yourself.
If by whisky?

The problem is that the two effects go hand in hand.
Not sure if you were serious or not, but assuming you were, this type of "promotion" just doesn't fly for high-end goods such as fine wine.
> Why bother making changes?

One that springs to mind is that everybody you burn on this one is potentially a lost customer of the next one.
Ty, that report was an interesting read. Rich media and Digital Video was way smaller than I would had thought, and email way bigger than I ever feared.

Sad that they didn't include a Revenues by pricing model for each of search and banner specific market. The second thing I would have very much liked to see which markets sold the space.
That they never used...

http://www.wired.com/business/2012/04/netflix-prize-costs/
Source? Google yields nothing for that phrase.
No, this is not a problem with market fundamentalism, whatever this is, but with properties ascribed to market fundamentalism.

Advocates of free markets tell you that the outcome is such and such if and when market participants can serve their interest as they see fit. They don't tell you that the outcome will be what you call "rational".
I was thinking more of propagating the read state of the feeds.

Maybe just a script that can run occasionally and dump the new items as a single HTML page (plus another file with state info) into Dropbox.
Can the mods kill this account? It is clearly a spammer.
We can convince the public that a cause is worth investing in,
or we can force the public

I think this is a fundamental distinction. I am surprised and dismayed so many (smart and intelligent) people do not appear to consider it critical. Perhaps I have a different perspective after having lived in a non-democratic country for about half my life? I am not sure.
This may well be true, but this is still only a matter of cost, not value. Again, I apologize for being pedantic on the matter, but my point was that the value of a commodity, including labor, is a very different thing from the cost of that commodity.
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So, Google Reader was basically Google's Microsoft Internet Explorer moment.
Now you are arguing that OP should have pivoted to something new under the assumption that he had an idea of how to so pivot. That's fine, but it is not a defense of the point you originally made and instead agrees with my counterargument.
A developer that's noticed that they've open sourced some pretty useful and significant cloud-oriented projects?
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It's a linkbait title, probably wouldn't have even made the front page without it. You can complain about it, but it's human nature to be attracted to sensationalism and controversy, as tabloid newspapers and reality tv show producers will be happy to tell you.

It's also possibly a not-too-suble nod to the comedy movie "Waiting", which featured a sex-crazed chef.

“When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.”

— Steve Jobs
Can you tell what the problem was? I still haven't got the followup email.
Thanks for the nice feedback & your suggestions, so encouraging!

> Can you please enable a couple of sub-task level to make it really useful, similar to Google Task?

We do not plan to add sub tasks at the moment. In general, we do not try to outfeature other task apps out there. We try to be better than email at first, so we have to keep it as simple and natural as possible.

> where does collaborators edit the list?

Everyone who knows the secret URL of a task list can edit it
What's in it for them, though? I'm guessing that most of the developers want you to use their reader and I'm not sure there's an advantage (for them) in adding code that makes it easier for you to switch to another product.

Don't get me wrong. I totally agree w/ you and wish that switching is easier. That "cost of switching", though, is the primary reason I'm still using the reader that I am (and have been for years).
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Some of the evaluation criteria [1]:

* Submission provides evidence that code is in use by other projects, or is running in production at Netflix or elsewhere

* Submission has a large number of watchers, stars and forks on github.com

So the entrant has to prove that it is used in production at Netflix? And why would they care about the number of watchers/stars/forks? If I made a great contribution to something very specific (let's say aiming for the "Best contribution to performance improvements" or "Best contribution to code quality" awards), why would anyone watch/star/fork my repo? This seems more like a popularity contest to be honest...

[1] https://github.com/Netflix/Cloud-Prize/wiki
Nobody says they're happy, yet people keep buying it. You vote with your wallet, but as long as nobody else does, EA doesn't have to care what a few angry people on the Internet think.
I've opted for the new StarCraft 2. The launch went smoothly without an issue.
And you certainly don't want to wait for the 59th month of that year.
The mid to late 20th Century was largely about the contest of ideologies. While there may not have been as much mass bloodshed, it was no more peaceful. Proxy wars were fought across pretty much the entire globe. Other conflicts also erupted in areas that were not defined by the Cold War, but their own local Ideological differences.

I think some of this talk about ideologies is throwing the baby out with the bath water. Abstracting your worldview so that you can better explain yourself to others should not be looked down upon. That is how you will ultimately come to better compromise when it possible. You can't solve problems without ideas.

Ideologies are harmful when you take some text some Russian wrote years ago and try to bend the world to match that text. When you define your own worldview and don't rely only on the words of a dead guy that isn't there to clarify things, then you get into trouble.
I was there too. I went with a coworker who is a former Netflix employee. He was almost celebrating with each announcement. His biggest complaint about working at a startup is not having access to the tools they have built up. Netflix has built up an amazing platform that is tightly integrated with AWS. By making these tools open source our little startup has a quicker route to a robust and scalable platform. In my opinion that is awesome.
PG described a process by which the most literal-minded participants -- those with abnormally low tolerance for ambiguity -- drag everyone down to their level. I would welcome measures that neutralize that process even if the negative consequence you describe comes to pass.
> As far as malaria is concerned, DDT turns out to be real effective at killing mosquitoes, the major problem in the developing world of LOTS of infectious diseases. But those of us in the developed world got more concerned with the eagles and stuff and essentially go out of our way to keep DDT from being used even though it's use in the developing world would literally save tens of thousands of human lives.

Mosquitos have developed DDT resistance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT#Mosquito_resistance

In many impoverished areas it is largely ineffective as a mosquito pesticide now. If we'd use it more liberally, it's possible that resistance would have developed more quickly due to the increased selection pressure. DDT is not a silver bullet.
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I'm wondering whether some (or rather, how many) people will now conclude that there's a proof God exists, since scientists have found "God particle".
Again, not sure it's much more grey than that. In the US, breast cancer gets more funding in part because the Susan G. Komen organization is massive, powerful and well connected. Age adjusted death rates for females has fallen dramatically since 1975 while funding has dramatically increased.

Yes funding happens because breast cancer happens more but also because the breast cancer lobby exists and the pancreatic cancer lobby mostly doesn't.

[1] [http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2009_pops09/browse_csr.php?s...]

[2] [http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/NCI/research-fu...]
This is a demo of StackMob, AirBnB was probably chosen as a reasonably realistic example that isn't a todo app.
It's your enthusiasm that they will pick up. More so than any resource you can direct them towards. It's your attitude and charisma which will affect their attitude towards coding.

At that age LightBot is the best resource: http://www.addictinggames.com/puzzle-games/lightbot.jsp
I refuse to build anything that uses Google API's for this exact reason, They could pull the plug on gmail next week if they decided they were not getting enough metrics from it.

Look at what happened to the translate API. How about the licencing changes to Google maps API. They build something like this and if they can't find a way to generate more money (maps API) it gets shut down(translate, now reader.), even if a bunch of people use it. And by a bunch I mean a small collective of tech people.

I would not be surprised to see Google Groups get munched once they finish adding a few more features into the communities bag.

I do use gmail, I have multiple accounts in fact, but I backup everything locally that I think might be valuable to me in the future...just in case.

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