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http://www.teampages.com

First of all, congrats on getting TeamPages up and running. If the numbers on the home page are accurate, it seems you're already getting nice traction.

My first thought when I saw the site was that the design is pretty solid (very clean, easy to navigate) especially for the demographic you're targeting. For me, personally, the design feels a bit corporate and that's reinforced with the 800-number being front and center. I love great customer service, but I prefer dealing with small companies and this feels larger than I think it actually is - I guess it really depends on the image you're trying to project.

Apart from that, I immediately got a good sense of what your site is about from the copy - but I'd rather see first, then read. The only images of the product on the homepage are too small to really appreciate, and the example sites are buried at the bottom of the page. I'd consider bringing the product front and center (example: Basecamp homepage).

I didn't register and test the product, but the pricing seems very fair. However, I don't think you should be putting ads up on a paid package (Pro). I think you can differentiate the [Pro] and [Pro + Ad-Free] accounts so that you have three levels of pricing, with neither of the paid options having advertisements. If I had any critique with regards to the pricing page design, it would be that the options are a bit overwhelming, especially in the Basic Features section, where every option is included with each plan - it seems to me that you could restrict some of these options on certain plans to create the differentiation I mentioned before.

One last thing that stuck out to me was that the site URLs are pretty long, and it would be tough to remember my team site if it was told to me in person by a parent or player - you might consider letting them choose vanity URLs (ex: teampages.com/washington-capitals-hockey).

Overally though, great job, and congrats again on getting things up and running. Good luck!
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I seriously doubt that Adobe made the spec all spaghetti'd on purpose. They probably just kept hacking on new features without cleaning old code, and eventually someone went "Our spec is a nightmare!". At this point, someone with decision making power considered things for a brief second, squinted his eyes, and said "good."
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Having written code to load PSD files, I have some sympathy with that view.

However, one thing which is good about PSD is that they've put a lot of attention into making it very backwards compatible, to the extent of including the same data twice and useful bitmap renderings. This is very handy, because you don't have to support _everything_ to get an accurate import.
> What value do the record companies add to that, which we can't get by other, less harmful means?

If you really want to know, look at my posts. I've answered this very question a number of times. Frankly, the fact that you ask it shows that you don't know what you're talking about. Musicians don't deign to understand what hackers and software developers do. Why, conversely, do hackers think they understand what musicians and record companies do?
Thanks but I already know that book.
It's great yet I'm specifically interested in real code bc a book and real code is probably something very different... ;)
And there goes any credibility IFPI had... I understand that the IFPI has no obligation to question the judges bias, but seriously, how could they think that this would not come out? Public opinion in this case is just as important for the prosecution as the verdict. And they probably just lost on both grounds.
Off topic, I wonder if it's a subjective bias among hardware producers against large amounts of RAM. Cost-wise, I don't think there is a problem to have multi-tera servers or desktops with tens or hundreds of gigs. And yet, you can't buy them. Even though as a software model it makes a lot more sense to keep all the data in ram and only ship the changes to an external memory.
It should happen. Let us all soldier on bravely into a world where software gets replaced with better code, and those at the bottom of the compatibility curve get annoying messages until they upgrade.
Lisp was gamechanging, C was gamechanging, maybe fortran was gamechanging.

Rails is just a framework, albeit a popular one. Let's see if people still use it in five years, or if they have moved onto the new new thing.
Let's be fair. It's not just that reddit has a million jokes, it's that all these jokes are a rehash of jokes before it.

Posting a million lines of text and then ending it with Bell-Air was funny. The first time. Same for masking a link to some site you don't expect to go. It was funny the first time they did it. Some ten years before they reused the joke for Goatse, and then for tubgirl, and then for 2g1c, and then for a Rick Roll. Kind of gets boring...

I'm sorry, but I find the whole meme-thing rather annoying. Not only does it get in the way of serious discussion, it even gets in the way of new jokes.

I don't mind seeing a joke on HN, but only if it's funny. I'd rather risk no humor on any site than stupid humor.
Again, I meant upvotes on comments, not on stories. I should have been more clear. Anyway, there are probably social effects on the voting of stories going on - I'm just not that clear on the other algorithms in place that HN uses to determine the rank of stories (that's why I left this out for now).
Sounds like this will work -- one potential judge had been excluded for having similar connections.
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> In addition to being cheaper (usually) and tasting better (very often), the food prepared at home gives the chef or baker a certain sense of satisfaction.

I think for many there is a deep and fundamental pleasure gained just in the process of creating something. I get this from so many disparate areas - cooking, music, coding, making crafts with the kids, writing a letter or email to someone.

Not everyone has that, but if you do - cooking is a great one to experiment with because it's incredibly flexible in using different ingredients and methods and physically rewarding too.
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Seriously? How on earth could this have not been uncovered long ago? I know that the pbay lawyers are really good, I wonder if they knew this all along and held it as a card in case they lost.

I mean, the judge is not just a member of a Swedish org campaigning for more strict copyright, he's on the board! Absolutely amazing, I can imagine him chuckling and rubbing his hands together when he had the opportunity to hear the case.
These community-designed security protocols make me really tired. Just leave it to the experts.
That's just disgusting. What's the penalty for a judge having an undeclared interest in Sweden, anyone?
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From that Snopes link:

> Does this mean that everyone who warbles "Happy Birthday to You" to family members at birthday parties is engaging in copyright infringement if they fail to obtain permission from or pay royalties to the song's publisher? No. Royalties are due, of course, for commercial uses of the song, such as playing or singing it for profit, using it in movies, television programs, and stage shows, or incorporating it into musical products such as watches and greeting cards; as well, royalties are due for public performance, defined by copyright law as performances which occur "at a place open to the public, or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered." So, crooning "Happy Birthday to You" to family members and friends at home is fine, but performing a copyrighted work in a public setting such as a restaurant or a sports arena technically requires a license from ASCAP or the Harry Fox Agency (although such infringements are rarely prosecuted).

That's what I wanted to know.
Actually, I wanted to know about people being sued over singing "Happy Birthday to You" to their child, but I suppose the answer is more or less given in the fragment I just cited.

Your other link is about the Amazon Kindle. Hardly a parent reading a book out loud to their child. It's followed by some highly opined speculation that you can't read a book to your child, but that's not a source of somebody being sued for reading a book to their child.

I suppose that also didn't happen, since it would be more or less the same as singing "Happy Birthday to You" to your child, which your source Snopes already said was okay.
We thought of [cheap, ubiquitous] video phones 50 years ago, and finally had the tech to pull them off [Skype] five years ago. What computer-related advances are we thinking of right now that we'll only have the tech for in another 45 years? I can't think of anything off-hand, and I haven't read any futurists thinking of them either. Apparently, technology is harder to predict than it used to be.
Win32 is full of such inconsistencies, for example:

BOOL GetMessage(LPMSG lpMsg, HWND hWnd, UINT wMsgFilterMin, UINT wMsgFilterMax);

returns:

> If the function retrieves a message other than WM_QUIT, the return value is nonzero.

> If the function retrieves the WM_QUIT message, the return value is zero.

> If there is an error, the return value is -1. For example, the function fails if hWnd is an invalid window handle or lpMsg is an invalid pointer. To get extended error information, call GetLastError.
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As a Swedish citizen this sends shivers down my spine. Since we have a rather weak constitution with little division of power we've relied on the good faith and judgement of our officials to avoid corruption, which has worked pretty well so far.

But now, to send people to jail, fully aware that he's affiliated with stakeholders in the case, that's just sickening.

Okay, swedish prisons for intellectual property offenders probably have a summer camp atmosphere to it, but that's not really the point. To take someones liberty should not be taken lightly.
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I use my netbook for coding on the go (so that I don't have to carry around my heavy, expensive laptop). Could I realistically spend an hour coding on the iPhone or iPod? No.
IIRC, Photoshop has defaulted to saving as TIFF since version 7.0 (introduced over seven years ago). I guess they realized long ago that PSD had become an unmaintainable mess.

TIFF was designed to be extensible with custom data chunks and it predates PSD, so it probably would have been the best choice all along. I'd guess Adobe decided against it for "NIH" reasons: TIFF was originally created by Aldus, a competitor in the desktop publishing market... But Adobe ended up acquiring Aldus in the mid-'90s so that reason vanished, leaving PSD and the billions of images saved in that format as a depressing monument of obsolete corporate politics. (Of course the harm done is very limited, since those affected by PSD's problems are just developers -- users don't care as long as their files are saved and opened reliably and quickly.)
I'd love to read more of these code review style posts. Does anyone have any other good ones?
Another thing to consider: a file format as popular as PSD probably had a great deal of interest from competitors. Sometimes file formats get obfuscated simply for the purpose of breaking the other guys' import filters.

I've seen this behavior in the file format of an extremely popular application. IIRC, in one section, there were magic bytes that told you the alignment of other blocks that told you how to look up the version of the algorithms that you were supposed to use to unpack the binary data blobs that held resource data. By jiggling around the various forms of indirection, it was possible to make the file formats nigh indecipherable from version to version, while still maintaining backwards compatibility.

Naturally, the parsing code was a total nightmare.
Thanks for posting. That Pirate Party release is definitely worth reading.
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I think we all hit points, like this, at some point in our coding where we get so frustrated with something we write a huge attack in comment form in the middle of the code. I think it's because we don't really have anyone to rant at whilst we're working.

Working in an environment where many people (often including the target of the rant) will see my code I find myself having to go through it before check-in to source control and remove many of these rants. Oh to be in a position where only I and my closest allies will see my frustrations!
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I don't know how Swedish courts work but in the United States all you can really do is privately ask the judge to recuse himself. If he chooses not to you can request that be noted in the court record as possible grounds for an appeal and from there you go on with your case.

So really all an attorney can do is wait things out and then present it as an appeal after the trial.
Looks more like someone forgot to renew the domain.
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I think that many of these inane inconsistencies in Win32 stem from the desire to sneak in "just a bit more features" while officially maintaining full compatibility with Win16.

In the book Showstopper!, which documents the creation of Windows NT (a rather fascinating read), there's a revealing passage about how Microsoft got this Windows backwards compatibility religion. Windows had been intended to be a transitional DOS-based system on the way to OS/2, but then Windows 3.0 became an enormous success almost overnight, and Microsoft decided to break up with IBM over OS/2 development.

NT had been intended to have "multiple personalities" in the form of multiple user-level APIs, with OS/2 as the primary one. The breakup had left them without a 32-bit API. With the success of Windows 3 depending to such a large degree on backwards compatibility with DOS, it made sense that the new API should match the existing Windows API as closely as possible. Besides, there was no time to spend on redesigning anything -- they couldn't afford to let IBM's 32-bit OS/2 to steal the market before NT.

To ensure that the new "Win32" matched the old "Win16" as closely as possible, it's mentioned in the book that any API changes had to be presented for approval by Ballmer himself...! Perhaps the group in charge of the GetMessage() function figured that they could manage just fine with the existing BOOL return type (which is just a typedef for int), rather than risk Ballmer's wrath over the cosmetic API change.
when he had the opportunity to hear the case.

Was that opportunity just a coincidence? or it was manipulated so that he would hear the case?
Not a hack, but a registrar issue.
I also hope for a retrial so they can each get 5 years of prison!
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The trick consists in generating a data:application/pdf;base64 URL, which unfortunately can't be too long for practical reasons.
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http://www.whois.net/whois/rubyonrails.org.com

It seems like the owner info was changed a few hours ago to http://buydomains.dk/
The key to the jokes are to be very specific in your examples. Dave Barry talked about this.
On the other side, we would just call him "Swedish".
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That is actually an intersting question. Put in hacker terms would you say rms' time is worth nothing?
A lot of people make a lot of noise about California being very business-unfriendly due to taxes, etc, but it's very employee-friendly

These two are closely linked.
Or, as a former boss of mine put it: Tendencies towards democracy are the certain death of any commercial endeavour. (with tongue in cheek)
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Just to further illustrate my point... I just paid $8 to download another documentary on the same topic. It was on streamburst.tv and easy as pie.
That means the domain must be bought back by Rails?
What is your price estimated for the buyback?
More likely they let it expire or the registrar messed up. (DHH claims the latter: http://twitter.com/d2h/status/1590279638)

(Speculation: Why don't US registrars usually offer autorenewal? Here in Europe, especially Germany, it is unthinkable that my domain would just expire. I get auto-renew by default, no matter how I pay. Conversely, with the US servers and domains we hold, sometimes people don't even get payment reminders before the expiration date. Only when it's too late do you get a notification. I find that strange.)
Duplicate

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575329
I've always wondered how people could forget their domains. I get at least 7-8 reminders for my domains prior to their expiry, and that's even on domains set to auto-renew. It didn't occur to me it was a difference between European/US registrars.
The advisory is up at http://oauth.net/advisories/2009-1 and the blogs are abuzz with more (or, in enough cases, less) information. Basically, the problem is that an attacker can keep a request token around and have the victim complete the authentication with the old request token, thus gaining authorization in the victim's name. There is no way for the consumer to tell what's going on, currently.

The suggested workarounds are monitoring and a strong statement about starting Auth workflows from untrusted places. But we all know how well those work. I'm curious about OAuth 1.1 or whatever.
I'm not so concerned about the anti-gay message. You can try to convince a gay person they aren't gay until you're blue in the face but I don't think it's going to get you anywhere. If you're heterosexual try flipping the coin and imagine someone trying to convince you that you're gay. I know it wouldn't work on me.

More of a concern to me is the whole "lets deal with pedophiles our self" message. If you know of a pedophile it's probably a good idea to call the cops. "Counseling him" and then having him apologize seems a little silly. And by silly I mean criminally stupid

(come to think about it these people must have a high opinion of themselves if they think they can talk gay people out of being gay and pedophiles out of being pedophiles)
Parent is correct: http://twitter.com/d2h/status/1590279638
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It seems reasonable that you first try to win a case and only invest the time required to look for these kinds of connections when it proves necessary? Especially since it should rarely occur, as judges do not usually waste the governments' money in such an obvious way. Everyone and his mother understands that this will lead to a retrial.

@TomofTTB:
IANAL, but as far as I know, these kinds of conflicts of interest will cause retrials in most of western Europe.
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Although I think this is tasteless and I wouldn't use it, what's the difference between that and a game like Grand Theft Auto?
years ago I used it (back 2002-ish?) and it worked pretty well back then. Have also used GCJ for some things - but it always seems like its just creating a little JVM hidden in the native code - still not quite the same "feeling" as macro assembler (which is how I saw C back when I did it) - still many layers above.

I know, its probably all in my head, but still, in my head the real stuff happens on the metal, not in abstractions (I am an elec engineer at heart, trained as one and will always be one).
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Good one. Off to think what are the practical uses
Friends of me had it happen with web hosters, server housing and domain registrars. When they were just starting out and forgot to tell the provider to get the monies from their credit card, or whatever, they would just disconnect the server or park the domain. Happened a few times and is really annoying. I had assumed it to be a function of the far better giro system here in Europe, but since a few months I'm paying most things by regular credit card bookings instead of bank transfer, and it still works.

Maybe people just need to ask for and demand automated payment?
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In any case that doesn't help us the programmers.

If HW gets better and better, software will get easier and easier to develop as it had been happening in the last decades. And masses will create application for themselves using the "So easy to use that your mom can build it" tools which they will consider "good enough".

Think about the progression, assembly -> C/C++ -> PHP -> Ruby. Ruby wasn't a viable solution 10 years back because of its speed. But thanks to HW advances, now it’s good enough. Next extrapolate this trend. I shall stop here because the discussion will surely get depressing from here on.

But if advancement in HW stops, programmers demand will slow down too, as all software libararies and applications for that target get written and optimized.

It's a two way sword.
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