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Because APIs are more functional than creative.

Imagine an Array class. How many names can you come up with for: "number of elements in an array"? Count(), Size(), Len(), Length(). Those are 4 common names.

Now imagine a system where you can copyright those names. The first 4 people who use those obvious, functional names get a monopoly on their use because that's what copyright is: a government granted monopoly.

We have hundreds of languages, and many languages have multiple Array classes.

Can you see how such system would destroy our ability to write understandable code?

An API is a very small part of the overall code.

If you want to compare this to writers: code is the novel and it does get copyright protection, just like a novel.

API name is like a chapter name and just like Melville doesn't get copyright (i.e. exclusive use) of "Loomings", a programmer shouldn't get a an exclusive use of Array.Count().
That's true, and I don't know what they are doing to keep app notifications, time, and device status on the HTC phone if it remains fullscreen. I think we're all mainly talking about the feedback which the app is getting for people who have installed it on other devices which had their own launchers before installing.
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'The Arrest of Ai Weiwei' Puts Digital Dissent in the Limelight
In the first part she asks male co-workers if the same thing had ever happened to them. It seems to me that she's prepared to consider if phenomenon X happens due to sexism or it happens to everyone.

It seems that out of the 3 episodes she mentioned, the first one rarely happens to men here, while #2 and #3 happens sometimes do. Of course it might as well be that #2 and #3 happen more often to women, but I don't think anybody is doing a scientific investigation here.
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It's a lots less money, today!
Just Who Uses Social Media? A Demographic Breakdown
this is what the tomahawk project is attempting to do. you should check it out. http://www.tomahawk-player.org/
I thought it was a little low, too.
I'd say in a stable market the real value of bitcoins would be the value of goods exchanged for bitcoins in a given time divided by the velocity of money. But since the market is expanding, it makes sense for investors to be forward-thinking, so the value depends on your projection of the growth of that market.
Thanks!

Wow -- didn't realize so many people tried the eye pressure thing. If I did it and you did it just because we thought it was cool, I bet there are a lot more people out there.
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Posting my comment on the site here:

Of course social media results will suck if you’re doing it wrong.

Most people have no idea how to optimize their social marketing efforts; that timing can drastically effect the ROI of a tweet; that topics and geographies should be optimized differently.

Here’s an example: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5clvhpib0drqv8s/social_infographic...

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In addition, we just built http://www.rewardrkt.com to integrate our API with the http://rewardstyle.com API.

According to rewardStyle, approximately 80% of their publishers are earning revenue directly from social media. Some publishers, generating $20-30k per month in revenue, see 60%+ of their revenue from social channels.
It doesn't matter. Less attention they get the better.
Musicbrainz.org has been assigning unique IDs for tracks, albums and artists for about a decade. Its community built and has insane coverage. They are used in spotify's API as one example.
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Didn't realize my sound was off. Way cooler with the sound on :)
Worth noting in this whole discussion: Apple does not have a Facebook or Twitter page

EDIT - I stand corrected:
https://twitter.com/Apple
I do ctrl+o because I hated having to hit ctr+a two times to go to the beginning of the line in console apps.
When I came up with my own search terms, Google won, 4 to 1. When I selected from the set they gave me (the list below the box to type in a manual query), Bing honestly won every single round. That's actually how they ran the experiment: they gave each person a set of search terms chosen from the Google Zeitgeist to select from. If you are curious to learn more about the experiment, Microsoft has a not-terribly-in-depth article covering the setup (there may be something more in-depth somewhere, but this is what Bing forwarded me to and it at least seems to directly answer your question).

http://www.bing.com/blogs/site_blogs/b/search/archive/2013/0...

Frankly, though, the reason that I believe Bing kept winning for me is that for these really popular core queries, the results were very similar: Bing simply selected more useful text snippets from news articles (letting me avoid clicking results) and weirdly even had better page titles, so it made what was overall the same results more pleasant to use. When I selected my own queries, though, the fact that Google continues to (and will forever) have a larger selection of the Internet available to its search engine became the deciding factor, as it would surface a few interesting things that Bing wouldn't catch.

What I thereby obtain from Bing it On! is not that I want to switch from Google, but that Google has too much power at this point: they are probably forever going to get my search queries simply because they figured out how to index the web extensively and efficiently before "how to build scalable systems" became more general knowledge (although some of that is actually due to Google, so there's this part of me that is saying "shut up and be grateful"), but now that they have this lead there's no real way to kick them down, even if someone else has managed to use the data they have more effectively.
There must be some sort of financial equivalent to Godwin's Law that requires everything eventually to be compared to a Ponzi scheme.

A Ponzi scheme involves someone guaranteeing a return, then using new deposits to satisfy older guarantees when the return doesn't materialize.

Nobody's guaranteeing any valuations in the Bitcoin market. People are simply speculating and creating an old-fashioned bubble.
Given that all work takes energy, it seems vastly stupid to call "a disaster". It also costs money to click cows, watch cat videos, make toast, and cuddle babies. Relatively speaking the impact is low. The intrisic value is based in the difficulty of obtaining it, like many other assets.
the redesign is much, much better. Just update the "Copyright 2012" at the bottom to "Copyright 2013".
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That's pretty much how all financial markets work.
In March 2012, Linode acknowledged it was a breach of their internal systems, not the customers'.

Today, they are reseting the password of all customers, making it pretty certain this is another breach at the Linode level, not at the customer's level.
The landing page for Pinterest does not scroll. In fact, the png itself is cutoff: http://passets-ak.pinterest.com/images/signup_splash/loggedo... . Perhaps you're logged in.
You were responding to me, and no, that's not what I meant. ;-)

I'm not saying that comments are the "most important" aspect of system maintainability, but that they're one of a few things that are all of top importance.

Obviously, if you write spaghetti code, your system won't be maintainable, no matter how many comments you write. But that's a false dichotomy: you need to write good code and you need to write good comments. Neglecting either one leads to unmaintainable systems.
Well, BIOS flash tools would work in this case by flashing the new BIOS on reboot using a feature of the existing BIOS, which is when the BIOS signature would be validated.
There's a long passage in the Patrick Suskind's novel _Perfume_ that is an extraordinarily evocative description of the main character building an imaginary palace of smells. He also imagines "constructing" new smells, similar to what's described here.

The books does an amazing job of evoking smells using only text. Highly recommended.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfume_(novel)
You may be using a web app on a PC or a tablet, and if that's the case you may have several browser windows or tabs open: The result would be that a window you aren't looking at would suddenly produce a sound effect.

A mobile app on the other hand tends to be a peer to a web browser in that it takes over all of the screen real estate on the device, so it's assumed that you are just looking at that app at that time.

Also sound effects for an app aren't a left over thing from the 90s: Your app may be a video game! And if that's the case you really want that sound.

But as an interface designer I beg to to not think "all sound is bad". Sound is like anything else: It's a very good thing when used correctly in the right context.
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We spent about $1600 on ads, resulting in about 3,000,000 impressions and about 2,000 clicks through to the app's promo page (http://www.class3outbreak.com/iphone-ipad-ipod-touch/games/z...). From there it's impossible to tell how many of those people bought the game, but I assume it's much less than 100%.

Those clicks cost us 80c each. This is not effective for a $1 app which gives a 70c profit after Apple's 30% cut. Even for a $2 app, it would only be effective if about 60% of people who clicked the ad bought the app - it seems unlikely that it would be anywhere near that high.

Most advertising seems to cost about $1 per click. Based on the cost per click and the potential return from a sale I don't think advertising is cost-effective for promoting apps. The only way it might work is if you spend tens of thousands of dollars, so you're on "all" the websites and so "everyone" becomes aware of your app. Therefore it gets talked about, and each click results in potentially more than one sale, by spreading through word of mouth. This also only works if the game is good enough :)

I mentioned briefly in the blog post that we got a few reviews written up. Jay contacted dozens of review sites and sent out about 20-30 review codes. We had a poor response.

In the end I think the only marketing that was really effective was that we had an existing community around the web versions of our games - at the time of ZOS's release we had about 30,000 visitors a month to our website, and about 8,000 fans on Facebook. I think this is the main reason that we did as well as we did :)
Just as I can copyright a work such as a novel that contains the word "Count" even though I might not be able to copyright an isolated sentence containing it, I think there's a good argument that something like the Java standard library API hangs together and should be subject to copyright even if a single method signature would not.
It just occurred to me that https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/04/password_secu... was in response to last year's breach.
The mistake is in thinking that domain names should be property. They're not property, they're address space. Imagine if trademarks worked this way -- right now to get a trademark you have to actually use it (or certify that you intend to use it), you can't just squat on a thousand different names and hope somebody is eventually willing to pay you for one of them.

And the solution should be the same. You can't sell a trademark. What you can do is sell the goodwill it has accrued and transfer the mark along with it. That sounds like the same thing, right? But if you haven't used it there is no goodwill -- in fact, if you stop using a trademark then you eventually lose the rights to it. It shuts down the squatters but not anyone else, which is why we don't have trademark squatters the same as we do domain name squatters.
You know sometimes on My tablet touchscreen (iPad) I go to click a link, or arrow in this case, and my fat fingers cause it to register the wrong one. I'd suggest making the arrows bigger and the vertical space between them larger too.
Who else would receive such an award?
This model might be great if you have a successful and well-researched idea. But I'm concerned about validation, costs, and pivots.

What happens when your learnings pivot the app in a direction that [some] paid users aren't interested in? They have bought access to a service which might not align to their needs anymore and they likely wouldn't have access to the version which they paid for. Sure, a dollar is a small amount, but I feel as though the effect is more pronounced than with free services. Heck, free services get flack a lot of the time for changing strategy or shutting down.

I guess if your feedback and learnings are from the vocal majority, you might underestimate the backlash from the silent real majority.

Furthermore, what happens when you have 10 paid signups (let's say $10 total) for a service that needs $100 worth of infrastructure? Do you end the service and refund the money? Do you pocket the money and move on? Do you fork up the remaining infrastructure cost from your pocket and continue? I thought the value of kickstarter and the MVP model was the validation to support the product, whereas this model seems to have a grey area in that regard.
Oh... New Programmers suck at estimating project completion time. I mean this, it's bad.

They will procrastinate, often unintentionally. Of course you can warn them, and give them lab time in class, but that may not be enough, so plan for what you will do about late assignments.

I know one teacher who always gave specific deadlines, and then moved them on the due date, just to get people to start working earlier. Even that wasn't entirely successful.
Social media loses a ton of its value when we abstract away the usage/meaning of it in order to view/use it only as a tool. Once we start plotting it into a plethora of graphs, charts, and marketing plans, OFTEN egocentrism and depersonalization happen.

We begin talking about users as "users" (a metric) instead of users (people). Likewise the same happens to a variety of the other attributes (i.e. interactions, etc). ROI this, reward plans, etc.

The best social media plans are the ones that don't lose the core component to any real marketing:

Empathy.
How did supercomputer Watson beat Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings?
Such a plaque should, being from the internet, feature an engraved copy of the goatse image, with suitable text. Something like, "I was reamed by the internet for $40,000 and all I get was this lousy plaque"?

It is always nice to see frivolous legal proceedings backfire on the perpetrator. My wife, being a lawyer, always challenges me when I say that anyone can sue for anything, no matter how frivolous. I hear of enough outrageous things on a regular basis that it's hard not to imagine this being so. Glad to see her proven right.
I'm curious, after looking at a computer screen for a little while and then closing your eyes do you ever see a rectangle that is the same proportions as the computer screen?

It doesn't have to be a screen even, it can be anything. I have noticed that I will have an almost exact replica "burned into" my vision when I close my eyes. I can then (somewhat) manipulate this image in my mind. I've kinda thought that these changes in light (from whatever we are looking at) creates the initial image and then this image can be manipulated in the mind. I think that the retina or the parts of the brain that are involved in visual imagery must somehow be involved in these visualizations we are seeing (not the after image). It would be inefficient to develop a new skill from scratch, a big part of our brain is already dedicated to sight and imagery, so I wonder if we can somehow make use of the visual cortex to enhance our ability to visualize things?

Need to find a way to hack into the subconscious..
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I understand using console window managers when logged into a headless system where you don't otherwise have access to a UI, but I'm baffled by the desire to use console-based window managers within well defined GUI like OS X.

In OS X, there are multitudes of tools to allow you to manage windows. Spectacle is a simple one, Slate is extremely customizable.

Why not use the built-in OS X window manager to manager various windows rather than a console-based one? If you say the advantage is the shortcut keys, Slate lets you setup shortcut keys to do just about anything.

Can anyone give me a list of pros/cons for using a console-based window manager over a native one?
To put it another way: everyone (except Richard Stallman) has always wanted to use both open and closed systems. There is room for both, and neither will kill the other.
"We have been advised that law enforcement officials are aware of the intrusion into this customer’s systems." sounds like a customer was hacked, not Linode.
One of the people I worked with used the expression 'We're not saving babies here!' when people were stressing to get stuff done. Until one day someone in the meeting burst into tears and ran out. Turns out they previously had a miscarriage.
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My Visa (that I use for Linode) was compromised this week too, someone tried to order ~$100 of stuff from Amazon but my bank rejected the charge and now I have to wait another week before I can make payments again (killed my card...). Probably a coincidence but it makes me wonder too...
As a non-fan of 3D printing, I did need to use one for a project once or twice and it was better just to use one at a coworking space or friendly company. There are also services online, which may be the only affordable option if you need something like multiple colors considering how expensive that is to own. So anyway, keep in mind you may not need to buy one at all.
How do we know this is really _why? I think someone could have registered the domain after it expired.
You may not realize it but iterm2 is using tmux for its split panes. :)
Far, far too many people to list. Adam Orth is a very recent example who also suffered real consequences.
Entry level in LA for _good_ engineers is generally above 90K, and Los Angeles has a lower cost-of-living than Toronto. This article just confirms what many of us already know, outside of SF/Austin/LA/NYC, software developers aren't recognized for their value and are seen as an expense.
Your use of the feminist shaming word mansplaining makes this new reply of your's rude and ad hominem as well.

You may wish to consult the urban dictionary or other sources for feminist shaming tactics http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Feminist%20Sh...

And here is an article by a feminist at xojane discussing why she will never use the word "mansplain" http://www.xojane.com/issues/why-you-ll-never-hear-me-use-te... I do appreciate your femsplaining why all the men here have been wrong to disagree even mildly with rachelbythebay

I also would highly recommend you read Feynman's Cargo Cult Science. You may find it insightful. http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm
This "deconcentration of attention" website is fascinating. Have you attempted any of the exercises?
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I found a way... well, sort of:

var log = function(){
args = [].slice.call(arguments);
args.unshift(console);
return console.log.bind.apply(console.log, args)
}

But you have to add extra parenthesis at the end, hopefully is not too much overhead for most devs.

log("message")()
Is the current reading experience of the web broken?
it is lightweight, contained, and excellent if you have a "unix-like" workflow. Typically I'll have a watch script, server, and vim in a given window, and it is super compact. Some cons are probably the learning curve required to see any advantage, and the fundamental lack of any respect for mousing, which can be in the pro column for many.
>I fail to see how this could possibly fit into my use case for Twitter

obviously no product is going to fit everybody's use case. but if you look at the number of links to music videos on youtube that are passed around every day, it's pretty clear that music on twitter fits a lot of people's use case.
This is straw man fallacy because they have not demanded gratitude. They have been given a gift that they do not understand or value, then you've expected them to return their own gratitude.
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nice job linode!
Putting cost into something doesn't generate value. I have an acre of land. If I hired a team of workers to repeatedly dig a hole in my land and then refill it with the dirt they dug up, my land wouldn't become worth a million dollars just because I expended a million dollars of labor doing something pointless. Likewise, bitcoins don't have value just because you expend valuable computing and energy resources mining them.
Though probably do transmit a "Content-Disposition: inline; filename=foo.jpg" header. Otherwise, the OSes that infer media type from extension will get confused when the user goes to save the file and it appears extensionless.

(That might be called a browser bug, actually; it'd sure be nice if browsers on these OSes could take the observed media type and tack on an extension to extensionless files on Save As to ensure they'll be viewed by the OS to have that same media type. Or it might be called an OS bug: why the heck don't filesystems have a required media-type metadata field for files yet!? ;)
$75k in Toronto & $75k in SF are very different things. One could live in Toronto in a 2br apartment for $500-750 a month.
Water rights are going to be the defining political issue of our time, and the fundamental challenge of our generation. No resource is more necessary and less replaceable. Our reaction to this challenge is going to define our political and social institutions. We will either meet that challenge, or let the usual petty squabbling and infighting and opportunism get in the way and the fallout will either kill or enslave huge swaths of the population.
please do this for basecamp!!!!!!!
Gasp, turquoise people. There would be no stopping them.
The single most irritating thing about tmux is that viewers have to look at the same window or whatever it is called. My typical usage pattern is to connect twice, have one window where there is a long running task I want to monitor and a second where I am typing commands. But I can't show one in one connection and the other in the other connection.

Note that I use byobu to front end things, and when using screen this can easily be done. I have seen workarounds that involve using multiple copies of tmux talking to each other in various heroic configurations but that is silly.
I just checked my app and the numbers for both monthly and daily actives appear to be about an order of magnitude too high. They are close if you just divide by 10 though. Maybe this is the case for all the apps? The rankings look like they could be right.