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You can fork standard till the cows come home, the only thing that matters is what the browser vendors do.
I am not sure about the relevance/importance of the w3c either, given the history of HTML5 which was born as Web Application 1.0 outside of w3c and partly out of the frustration caused by that organisation.
I agree - particularly if you are client-facing and working on a SaaS product. You suddenly have someone who is a better pipeline between the clients and the full-time developers.
It's easy to prevent attribution in the sub-license. But I've never heard of this as a fear for consumer level photography. Who wants to share photos of their kids with a big attribution to the photographer?
I am working on a similar project: a persistent database in Node for Node projects, with no external dependencies. That means you can use it with a simple require(), no external software needed.

This is useful for small projects that don't need the power of a behemoth like MongoDB and want to be installable by a simple git-clone + npm install

I am very interested in feedback on it! https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb
Knowing how to code things makes you better able to understand what you're asking for when it comes to adding functionality to a software product. More understanding is definitely a Good Thing. There's much less confusion if you're speaking the same language as the people you're requesting something from.

The counter of that though is the old adage that "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing". Being a part time developer with the arrogance to think you know as much as the full-time experienced guys would be crippling in any technical discussion.

So yeah, definitely learn to code, but don't assume that puts you on the same footing as your team, any more than if they spent a few hours a week learning your job.
Isn't this what http://eatfeastly.com/ does?
Thanks! HTML version is not using media queries explicitly, but it's readable on ipad. EPUB probably works better on smaller devices.
It used to be that "noob" was rude (referring to a new or incompetent person who is stupid and irritating) and "newb" was not (referring to a new person who should be treated kindly and helped along). Maybe the meanings are starting to blend together?
The article explains fairly well what this study does to counter your point. The charter advantage seems to be fairly narrow: urban overcrowded areas. However, in those areas there does seem to be an advantage and it appears to be due to longer hours.
I can imagine some insidious menace adding this to the top of a file:

#define public protected
Yes. I learned it hard way.
I grew up in an abusive home with parents who didn't give a shit. So did a lot of successful people.
Yes. Except I'm not even sure you can activate a Steamworks game's disc multiple times - I think it's one key per disc and you might have to buy a second copy off Steam/at retail and download it yourself.
He had to cut a slot in it to stop inductive currents in the metal.

I would think that slot could be used for slight sizing adjustments.
Surely the solution would be to fire that employee?
We take a 16,7% on every booking request.
https://www.cookening.com/en/faq/guests#answer2
> I think it's more common today for people to include the digital copies in the price or sell them to you for an additional fee.

They'll give you the digital copies but not the rights. It might not be a problem until you hit a store that won't make prints for you.
> DRM is software working against its own users.

Well, what's the problem then? If DRM works against the users then the alternative will surely win? Nobody forbids you from not using DRM capabilities in your own product.
To me, it has always felt like there is a difference in how tangibles and intangibles are priced. A cup of coffee might be $4 but it is a tangible thing that I consume. A song on the other hand is (nowadays anyway) intangible in that it actually doesn't take any effort in creating a copy for me. So asking me to pay the same $4 for that song would be different. I have no answers here - I have been on both sides of the fence as a consumer and producer of content. It does seem to me though that we should all try and come to grips with the new world where it doesn't take much to create copies of some things, but where the initial cost to create it still needs to be recouped somehow.
Woolwich machete attack leaves man dead
This article is kinda silly. Yes google owns everything but if they can afford to run a bunch of pilot projects that ultimately fail, what's the problem? These products can be re-imagined in more effective ways. Also allowing different teams to house their projects in various places (google code, github..) is awesome. Yes I agree things are a little bit all over the place, but I would possibly want to work at Google.

Maybe my perspective is skewed, as I don't use many google frameworks or resources to develop with...
I don't see any place in the article where they say that Weil was the first to form a connection between numbers and geometry. The only thing close they say:

Weil suggested that sentences written in the language of number theory could be translated into the language of geometry, and vice versa.

And since this is elaborated upon later on in the article I don't see anything wrong with the sentence.
So in short, if (1.1) SCAD pays you for your work, or (1.2) you assist a paid employee, SCAD claims copyright. That's not all that unfair to me.

Item 4 in the list seems like a reasonably standard "license to use" your work but they're not claiming ownership of copyright and/or restricting your rights to the work.

Doesn't actually sound all that unreasonable to me. Facebook claims more rights to the selfies you upload than SCAD seems to be asking for regarding creative work done with their resources.
Do you have a better solution for unifying identity across Google accounts? If your opinion is that separate products should have separate accounts and credentials then we will just have to agree to disagree. I can understand why that would be someone's preference, but I can't understand why someone would bash a company that has the desire to utilize a single profile/account for all of their products.
> It sounds more like a rhetorical truism

And yet, people frequently dismiss it as a "libertarian meme." One doesn't have to look far on the Internet to find someone that will deny that government enforcement of things like taxation or zoning regulations do not constitute violence.
After years of being a loyal Xboxer I'll (probably) be on Steam Box next.
Okay cool, I really like the layout so far. The question now is, since this is a solved problem, you already have competitors, how are u going to get me to move from Zite, flipboard and pulse? I do use all especially pulse and Zite.

You need a hook, a story that will get me to use you. I am not motivated to add you to my iOS home screen or use you on my desktop.Therefore if u can differentiate your product enough to get me(someone like me) then u onto something. Test some crazy stuff since u have nothing to loose and the status quo will kill u. Maybe become the zappos of curated content or priority inbox for your social links.

Another thing is copy Zite and let me explore the site without signup. Create a session Id in browser, let the user select their interest tags, then refresh the page with the curated view. If they sign up just us their session Id to match them. Also allow them to push the articles to Evernote, Dropbox and drive. This is how Zite got me to try and test them out and I was hooked afterwards.
Leaders vs Managers
Financial trading as well, but lots of real time systems would have similar issues.
Actually, Hipp has said publicly that he intended to created a new embedded database called UnQLite.

It seems this developer just blatantly ripped off the exact name Hipp was planning to use. He also ripped off some of the core SQLite code (the VFS, etc.), which is legal to do since SQLite is in the public domain, but still...

Not cool.
million/year ? where did you get that number ? perhaps its possible in the sales department.
Allow the students and parents to be selective, not the schools. This supports market segmentation (a good way to look at it), but doesn't introduce actual unfairness.

What you're talking about is more like the case of Abercrombie and Fitch refusing to make clothes for people that they don't find attractive size-wise. That's fine for private business, but not appropriate for publicly-funded systems like schools.
Normally when I think of the stereotypical disliked DRM scenario it is something along the lines of:

A publisher offers to sell, I do mean sell not lease or contract,
you an ebook. The ebook however comes with DRM. It is not
legal, in the US, to break that DRM under most circumstances.

This is case where DRM conflicts with the first-sales doctrine [1] and most people belief that they should be allowed to do pretty much whatever they want to their own property.

Often publishes advertise something as selling property, but really only want to lease access rights, which is a different problem, false, dishonest or deceitful advertising.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
It's funny that Microsoft feels XBox Live Indie Games was such a mistake and seems to think that indies did so much harm to them, given that indies generally feel like Microsoft has been intentionally harming them from the start.

They basically left that system to rot without supervision, and then it did. Where's the surprise in that? It's like they decided to greenlight it only so they could sabotage it and use it as proof that they don't have any reason to work with indies. It's incredibly stupid given that some of the best indie XBox Live Arcade exclusives (or former exclusives) were all built using XNA - Bastion, Fez, Dust - but they screwed those devs as hard as they could too, despite the fact that those games were partially funded by deals with Microsoft!
You vastly overestimate the quality control, safety testing, and labelling requirements of pet foods. Pet food does not need to be certified, or pass any tests to be sold. Pet food is labelled according to AAFCO guidelines, which merely specifies how much protein/fat/calcium/phosphorous and a few other things are required. That's it. Those pet foods for fat dogs and old dogs and young dogs and kidney health and shiney coat and furballs and clean teeth are just ordinary pet food. They do not need to be different in any way. The manufacturer can literally put the exact same food into all of those bags, and none of the claims on them need to be verifiable.

>Talk to British people about dog excrement, and there are people of a certain age who remember dog poo being white and furry

That is because they remember dogs eating meat. Now dogs eat corn. There is no patent on dog food that makes white poop.

>Notice, also, that pet food is often a mix of biscuits and meat, or just meat, or just biscuits

This is for the benefit of marketing the product to people, it has nothing to do with nutrition.
I clicked a hackernews link yesterday and forgot about the tab for an hour. When I finally got to it I was somewhat shocked to see it was a google+ page that automatically signed me into hangouts, where several tried to chat with me. About half my google plus home screen area is devoted to chat or attempts at convincing me to upload a profile picture or attempts at convincing me to find more friends.

I'm sure if I was a regular user of google+ I'd turn off many of its social features, but by default it's at least as social as facebook. I agree ultimately its "lowest common denominator" purpose is a unifying platform for google, but as a heavy google user who isn't looking for another social network (which describes a lot of people out there) google+ is way too social. It's simply something I want to avoid, yet I feel like I'm forced to interact with it too much.
The company I'm with now recently started implementing "cost cutting measures." Coffee is no longer free (.50 cents per cup). Annoying, but not really a huge deal. You can pay once a month and get it out of the way instead of having to keep quarters on hand.

The bigger issue, to me, is that management decided to stop using a cleaning service. The 30-employee workforce is now part of a cleaning rotation. So, once a week, we are all expected to stop what we're doing and spend 30 minutes to 2 hours cleaning something, depending on our assigned area.

How can that possibly be cost efficient? You derail the thought processes of all 30 of your employees for at least a half hour every week. 15+ man hours that your highly skilled employees could be using elsewhere. In the case of the half-dozen programmers here, it's even less efficient. It takes a lot of concentration for me to get into a mental state conducive to good programming. 30+ minutes of cleaning is enough to get me out of that programming "mode", and it is very difficult to regain that state of mind once lost.

I think that's at least part of the reason why these progammers were so up in arms about the soda machine: Because now they have to think about it. The company has introduced an annoyance and distraction (I'll admit, a trivial one) into their work day, for very little apparent effect on the company's bottom line.
Afraid my interest in this comes from building a matching engine. There are definitely other domains where this stuff is important but I bet the financial sector is the biggest employer.

NB: I write a matching engine in my spare time. For pay I don't touch anything as interesting this.

https://github.com/fmstephe/matching_engine
Well, that's how people work. It's the job of management to understand how people work.
A payment I owed him was late by 2/3 months. I have a lot of shit excuses as to why I didn't pay him on time but it was just a bad mistake.
Yes, so did I, especially given that the author of SQLite said he was working on a new database with exactly this name, UnQLite.

This UnQLite developer is a first-class tool.
No, that's what happens when you are complicit in bad management taking advantage of you.

Saying that good companies, even software companies, can only be ran by software developers is a rather odd takeaway.
Keep the free pop, can the employee.
The reader and reading data visualization
It goes a bit further than that - you're asking people to make the shift from a non-monetary transaction to a monetary (quantifiable) transaction. This shift is one-way; once you get people thinking in monetary terms, it's very hard to get them to stop[0].

Dan Ariely talks about this in Predictably Irrational, and he gives a great example of this involving an Israeli daycare center: http://www.npr.org/2008/03/31/89233955/dan-ariely-takes-on-i...

[0] Of course, you could make the argument that this principle applies on a corporate scale, not just a personal one, which is the point of TFA - Ariely's study just happens to focus on the individual.
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I'm curious what the dividing line is. I don't think taking a drink or even two with you for the drive home is particularly bad (I've certainly done it when visiting various places). Cases of soda for home, bad. Office supplies which are used for work at home, probably fine, but could look bad.
As mentioned above, Steam already does this. So...
auto-play video ads should be disabled at the OS level
I don't even know where to start with this post.

Arial has its flaws (what font doesn't?), but to call it "a bad copy of Helvetica" is just plain wrong. If Arial is a copy of Helvetica, then Helvetica is a copy of Akzidenz Grotesk, and so on.

Traditional web fonts had their place and might still be a valid choice for some sites, but with higher resolution screens becoming more and more commonplace solely recommending "web fonts" no longer makes sense. If anything, Verdana and Georgia look clunky on retina screens (like they do in print), whereas classic fonts aimed for print have regained their subtle shapes and now look elegant on screens.

Yes, Lucida has a larger x-height and thus looks 'more readable' to a lot of people — but only at the same pt size. I'm so used to Helvetica's word shapes and tight letterspacing, though, that I'll have to disagree on that as well.
What I don't get about the DRM issue: If there's no DRM possible with the video tag, then it's IMHO more likely that big content owners won't use the video tag than it is likely that they will go DRM free.

Too many workable alternatives to <video> exist. They might not work as well (not provide as much DOM integration, use more CPU power), but they do work.

So for me the question is: What is more important to us? Getting rid of plugins that are a hassle to keep up-to-date and open a whole lot of privacy and security issues? Or being idealists about keeping media free of DRM?

As long as a lot of media is served using plugins, browser vendors can't disable plugins (just like MS had to back-pedal with cutting plugin support in Win8), as long as <video> and <audio> don't support DRM, media will be shown using plugins.

A way to break the cycle and get rid of the plugins (which is a much worse issue than DRMed content IMHO) is to allow content publishers to use native browser features and a way to allow them to do that is to allow DRM.
Sorry about that - I had a link copying issue, and thought I was adding the Barron's destination and instead got the hyperlink from the Google search.
I don't even know where to start with this post.

Arial has its flaws (what font doesn't?), but to call it "a bad copy of Helvetica" is just plain wrong. If Arial is a copy of Helvetica, then Helvetica is a copy of Akzidenz Grotesk, and so on.

Traditional web fonts had their place and might still be a valid choice for some sites, but with higher resolution screens becoming more and more commonplace recommending "web fonts" no longer makes sense. If anything, Verdana and Georgia look clunky on retina screens (like they do in print), whereas classic fonts aimed for print have regained their subtle shapes and look elegant on screen.

Yes, Lucida has a larger x-height and thus looks 'more readable' to a lot of people — but only at the same pt size. I'm so used to Helvetica's word shapes and tight letterspacing, though, that I'll have to disagree on that as well.
What a pretentious article.

> Do NOT Use Black on White

> The only reason I don't visit Quora is bad typography. Yeah, I am that crazy!

Meanwhile, OP's body copy is a heavy slab-serif, his headers are a custom sans-serif without any margins or visual differences besides 6px in size. Using something like http://www.gridlover.net/, you can accomplish better readability and hierarchy.

He suggests type based on what's available on your OS despite the fact that those should be your fallbacks, not your defaults now. We've got a brilliant library of web type that look good and sites like http://hellohappy.org/beautiful-web-type/ + http://font-combinator.com/ + http://daneden.me/type/ help to figure out what emotion you're going for.

He also completely ignores the weights and families available with Helvetica that truly make it superior to Arial that you can call for most OS X users, and fallback with Arial for Windows folks. http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/better-helvetica/
Why is Google so afraid of making a standalone application to run on desktops and not in a browser?

Then you wouldn't need your browser open to use "OK Google"
This seems like one of those cases where having your email address in profile would get you spammed by recruiters :)
I don't understand what's so bad about tabs. With tabs, all you have to do is adjust the settings in your editor, and each programmer gets the indentation (s)he wants: 2, 4, 8, whatever...

Also, do you really want to be pressing the space bar twelve times, instead of tabbing three times?

I've seen the results of spaces-only: inconsistent, sloppy indentation, 7 or 9 spaces instead of 8, as long as it looks "indented" enough.

How, specifically does the tab character "not seem to have worked out at all"?

I'm not saying you're wrong for using spaces, just wondering...
It's a hard problem for them. In traditional industries there's some natural protection from the problems that google encounters with product management.

It would take Samsung forever to start up a factory to make a new kind of washing machine, for example. If the new washing machines don't sell, Samsung could discontinue the product line without pissing off very many customers because all of the washing machines they already sold would continue working.

Google has the opposite problem where it's easy to start a new product but discontinuing even a minor product pisses off thousands of people. If they cared about customer happiness and trust, they'd get better at choosing products to release and they'd move more quickly to killing off unsuccessful ones. (Honestly, I'm not sure they care about customers enough to change. They may place more value on flexibility than they do on customer happiness and trust.)
I think we both know that's not the situation at hand. Even Microsoft isn't going to go around writing HR nonsense about the occasional soda taken home.

Really, this attitude is precisely the problem. You're looking at this as a confrontation from the start. Perks like this only work if they're offered and accepted in good faith. If you don't trust your employer to interpret your soda consumption charitably, your employer is getting no benefit from offering it.

Basically, if you want your employer to offer snacks and soda, be grateful about it and don't look for trouble.
In my own direct experience Plus business pages just flat out don't work most of the time. Our business moved back in February and I went to change the address on our Plus account since that's now what appears in search results (it seems to override whatever is in Google Places). I've been locked out of the account ever since with an error 500 and the address in search results is still the old one. Zero help in any form from Google via the product support forum.
Agreed, but in rpgs (as in most jobs) you normally work on a team not solo.
> That digital file is their negative and you could very easily take that into Photoshop, make it look like it was painted by a clown and then put it up on your website with the photographer credit. You can do that if you want but you're going to pay for the privilege.

This is inane. What photographer would give you the priviledge of publicly showing "defaced" work as theirs? Can't you do this anyway be mis-attributing?
Fred is probably the most dog-fooding VC I have ever seen. Before the redesign of his blog, the site was crawling with scripts and other stuff from the companies he had invested in.

He's like the Scoble of VCs (in a good way!). :)
fancy UI.
> As long as the used/borrowed copy still plays fine without any fees when the disc is in the tray, I don't see any difference to the console status quo.

In order for someone play a disc that they have purchased on someone else's console, the owner will need to sign into their Xbox LIVE account in order to play the game. Even if the owner leaves the disk with his or her buddy, they will not be able to play it without either a) signing in with the owner's XBL account or b) paying full retail price for the title.
Android doesn't require a Google Account to operate. You just won't be able to use Google services or third-party apps that use them.
More or less. One key difference is that Steam is relatively open compared to the console market.

Except for a few major titles, most stuff gets discounted eventually, sometimes even substantially. This leads to decisions of buying it now for a lot or half off later. Console games take forever to get discounted by comparison.

Combine with a locked up marketplace and it's bad aspects of both worlds: Full price downloads with no disk sharing.
My own humble contribution (lots of Bach and other baroque composers):

https://github.com/ciconia/music
That or you spend an hour figuring out what's broken about the machine.
But at least they won't charge me a monthly fee for the privilege to.