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Well if you weren't a parent I was going to point you to some of the links I've seen recently where people talk about how being a parent has changed their lives and made them consider everything differently. My explanation was going to be that there are enough parents on HN that this article which talks about how to live your life and how to treat your children piqued people interest. Also maybe HN parents want the other HN parents to never treat their children like that.

But irrelevant since you have kids. I think this article was upvoted due to its be better at the important things in your life theme. Analyse your behaviour and improve.

Edit: to clarify I wasn't implying that you personally needed to analyse your behaviour.
> I don't see any reason that the marginal value to the consumer of software would be near-zero.

If you look at the top 10 paid apps in the iOS app store, 9/10 are games. In a sufficiently large market, games are interchangeable; I might equally prefer hundreds of games. As long as at least one of those games is free, the marginal value of some particular game to me is zero.

Now this may not be true for example when considering applications used for business, that provide perhaps a lot of value. But these represent just a tiny fraction of the overall market, which is mostly games and other mass-market, interchangeable software. It is large in absolute terms of course; that is how a great many developers make their living. But it is very small relative to the overall ecosystem, so it is fair to characterize most purchases as having essentially no marginal value.
I want to apologize for downvoting you, I originally missed the sarcasm. :(
I don't mind as long as they don't go down the no-jailbreak route like Sky-Go, still miss that shit on my iPad.
> it _never_ gets in the way of the service

... if you use a supported platform. In other words: It never gets in the way of the service for you

Until recently, running it on Linux at all was not feasible. Even today, it requires running it in Wine or a VM. The only reason this is the case is because the DRM prevents us from using a standard player.

That is the downside of DRM. And for me it's the reason why I won't touch Netflix even if it becomes easier to use it under Linux as long as they keep at the DRM nonsense.

I learned this the hard way with iTunes, and I am not touching DRM'd content again unless I can effortlessly break the DRM (so e.g. I do buy DRM'd books of Amazon, and promptly uses Calibre to secure a DRM free copy; but I've still not made the move to Bluray because it's too much hassle)
> Also for Remote teams - Everyone should be doing support, sales, marketing, pitching, writing cool articles and almost full-stack work. Overall a Generalist attitude. This brings more clarity, responsibility and leadership overtime.

See my other post on here to see that I disagree with this. This is deeply unprofessional. Perhaps your programmers aren't professionals, so then it might make some sense. But then it's more a shop of amateurs than a really professional organisation.

Would you expect a physician to drive the ambulance, triage the emergency room, treat the patients and keep the hospital accounts balanced to bring 'clarity, responsibility and leadership'?

How about expecting a lawyer to write contracts, appear in court, manage the computer systems, man the front desk, keep the filing cabinet ordered and handle the invoicing and billing, answer the phones and including chasing clients who are late paying?

As a software professional I would certainly not work for you. Why would you make me do sales, support, marketing, pitching and writing articles? I'm not a sales person or a tech support person. I didn't study marketing nor creative writing. I develop software. And I'm damn good at it. Asking me to do these other things would be a waste of my time and of your money. If you hired me and asked me to do these things I'd say no. If you forced me to, I'd respectfully quit. And then go get a job developing software with a team of professionals, not a bunch of amateurs.
Yeah, thinko.

When I started out, accounting packages routinely sold for 20k or more. And they have been trending strongly toward zero ever since... As for the price of AAA video games, they do spend millions of dollars in production, so of course that will have to be recouped. Hard to compare that to an app that was created in 4 man months.
I really don't understand why whoever owns the content would want DRM on Netflix, since you must be logged in (and obviously have paid) to watch anything.
This is opinion only, so please don't take this as me being negative: I really like the idea, but there's one thing which need to happen for this to be upstream.

Most decent IDE's (Idea and few others) are clever enough to understand the SQL between quotation marks and if connected to database will give you instant errors if something is incorrect - misspelled names, missing commas, etc. Sometimes this can be a big time saver.
Couple of commenters have mentioned "proprietary plugins" in regard to HTML5 DRM video, but isn't that wrong? I thought the point was that it gives vendors access to everything they need via javascript API's included with the browser (Removing the need for silverlight or flash to get access to encrypted streams and so on)?
I wasn't the one making the point.

That said, if their goal was to bankrupt us & draw us out by a war of attrition - it's easy to say that they achieved their objective.
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The DRM is meant to prevent you from (easily) capturing the stream in order to make copies and give to all your friends who haven't paid and aren't logged in.
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I apparently have to have an account on Google play to download this app.

Which means that in order not be tracked by Google (by using duckduckgo) I have to agree to be tracked by Google (by accepting their 'privacy' policy).

This seems to obviate the utility which I may have gained from using the app.
Maybe a product can serve as an advertisement for your services/company? So instead of selling a product for its "proper" price one, trying to break into a market, saves on ads and "spends" it on making a product that is free/too cheap?
Sorry, did I miss something? Is Netflix the only provider allowed to use HTML DRM?

DRM isn't the reason why Netflix has such a big market share (I have no idea how one could even make that connection).
The majority of the British press often lies and misleads about EU law and how much of it the UK implements. The UK actually opts out of various EU things (Schengen, Euro, 48 hr max working week), and often implements the bare minimum of EU law (e.g. Working Time Directive).

This idea, that EU-law-in-UK is somehow worse than EU-law-in-France (or -Germany, etc.) is used an excuse to explain why other countries don't want to leave. "Why don't Spain want to leave the EU if it's so bad?" "Oh! Well they don't implement all the laws!!". Unfortunately it's not true. France goes above and beyond the EU minimum (and beyond UK) in many EU-laws (e.g. Working Time Directive).
Aside from Sqwiggle, which I hadn't heard of but hate on sight, this sounds remarkably similar to my team's workflow. I'm not certain whether idonethis would offer enough benefit to be worthwhile compared to simple daily emails to a team mailing list, filtered into a label (or folder for non-gmail folks) though.

Actually, we use Hangouts a bit differently too. We don't really have a concept of 'at work' vs 'not at work'. When I'm working, I am, by definition, busy. It's often more convenient for me to receive a chat when I'm not working - watching TV or whatever. Plus, I have Hangouts on my phone, so I'm very rarely unreachable, unless I'm sleeping. The distinction therefore shifts from at work/not at work to available/busy. If I'm available I'll answer a chat immediately; if I'm busy I won't, unless it's particularly important. Also, each member of our team works whatever hours are most convenient for them, which often don't overlap much, so it's beneficial that we're available when necessary to answer quick questions even when we're not in work mode. (Not that we need to often, since asynchronous methods of communication usually tend to do the trick.)

It's similar to one of the many objections I had to Sqwiggle: this idea that since I'm sitting at my desk, it's therefore a good time to contact me. Often the exact opposite is true: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
Who would punish governments for violating innate natural law, if not the people from whom they derive the power to govern?

This is just a corollary of what Niemöller said, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...
That isn't a sufficient solution. These spying programs are the beginnings of totalitarism. They have to be repealed.
Of course, you are right, but for now most of the phones on the planet do not support "modern" browsers or have access to high speed internet.

As the other commenter outlined, for these kind of devices Opera is a keyhole to the internet.

And you will notice that even on modern hardware with good access to the internet, Opera works smoother/faster than other browsers (it's at least the case on my android tablet).
Pricing models need to be tailored to the target demographic, volume expectations, and market saturation. While some apps which provide great functionality (logmein, spashtop, ect.) these are targeted to adults and the competition is bleak, the pricing models can't be compared to certain games or apps (like angry birds, flashlight, ect.).
This should really be supplemented with demo/free versions so that people would have a chance to try things out before shelling out 10x the average AppStore price.

When I am looking to download a new app, I can never tell from the description and screenshots if it's good or not, so the question is always - "What if it's crap". With an app that costs 0.99, the answer is simple - "Let's try it and see", so it's effectively a very cheap trial ... that just happens to come with a free full version. I would've readily paid more for latter, but I already got it and it was free, so what's not to like. This is why in-app upgrades would seem a natural way to convert people who like your app into paying customers. Let everyone kick the tires and let those who like it move on to a full version.

tl;dr - Indeed start charging more, but through in-app upgrades.
FairPlay for video still hasn't been cracked (I wish it were). But I take your point.
I have no problem with DRM on Netflix because I pay to stream the content and I think of it like leasing or renting. I don't pay to own digital copies of the movies I watch so I don't expect to own them.
How about bundle these up, sign them, and place them on a peer to peer network?
Agreed, when you know what to look you can see the components, but at first glance it looks very believable.

Too bad even such a simple visual hack was enough to get the fans spinning on my mac air (circa 2011)
Looks cool. I love DSL style API for chaining calls. Make it so simple.
Are you actually kidding?

"But until the probe returns data do not publish any papers purporting to know what the edge of the solar system looks like."

I'm pretty sure that no decent scientist ever 'purports to know' what the edge of the solar system looks like - they are merely using what evidence they have available to make an educated guess and try to get a workable model of it.

This is how science works.

You make a model, test it and finds the evidence does not fit your model. You then modify your model.

Also, you seem to be suggesting that all of, say, theoretical physics is necessarily worthless. What about pure maths? String theory? All of these things are just models, and have no basis in reality. What of them?
Genetic manipulation and other enhancements should be accepted as at least a by-product of evolution.
After all, it was evolution that gave us the brains capable of it.
As I understand it Mozilla is very reluctant to implementing any DRM into HTML5 videos and thus Netflix cannot support them.

EDIT: They can't implement it because it would conflict with their license, thanks pyalot2 for the correction.
In Europe 100 miles is a long distance, but in America 100 years is a long time.
It seems like people want to keep watching movies and TV shows, though, to the point of being willing to pay for it.
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Which is only a guideline that can safely be ignored by whoever wants to track user behavior.
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If most people consume their "DRM content" through Netflix these days, doesn't that mean they should stop using Netflix?

The campaign is valid.
I'm not cancelling my subscription. At all.

DRM on a product that I've just bought (video or song download) is bad, because it adds restrictions on how I can use something that I've exchanged money for. DRM on a product that is not mine and is merely being 'loaned' to me by a streaming service? That's fine, I'm down with that. It's unfortunately the only way studios are ever going to want to play ball, I'd prefer the righteous anger to be around ensuring paid for video downloads are all DRM free first.
Although it looks a lot better than I thought it would in that style, it's too dull and doesn't really portray the message the FF icon is attempting.

The only reason I noticed it was to do with firefox was because the original is so recognisable. This one just looks like either:

A fox hugging a blue ball
A fox on its back looking into the sky
This is really great! I will probably use this.

Thanks
Seems like OP should have considered a popularity weighting. Among the 25 weirdest we see Mandarin and Spanish, the world's two most popular languages by native speaker count. That's a hint that what you're measuring isn't exactly weirdness.

Meanwhile I see Hungarian, famous for being the hardest language to learn, is fifth least weird. Even stranger, Cantonese, which is almost exactly the same in writing as 'weird' Mandarin, is sixth least weird. How can two languages that you write the same be so very far apart in feature set?
Their problem with it here is not that Netflix does that, but that they're influencing W3C to bring such DRM mechanism to the web.
The UK went into Europe based on the ideals of the common market, what came after isn't what anybody signed up for

This is a common meme in British politics/public. The idea that "this isn't what we agreed". But I haven't actually seen any evidence for that.

It seems like backwards justification of the right wing british politics to explain why the Tories brought the UK into then EEC and to explain why the British public voted to stay in a few years later, and also to explain why many other countries (a) want to stay in it and (b) want to join.
Since when did removing unnecessary detail make something flat? Flat is the absence of shadows/gradients and the like. This certainly has both and a tonne of other stuff.
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Posession is nine-tenths of the law.
It seems to me that the absolute intuitionist and absolute logician can not exist as real persons. I see them rather as two extremes that are always mixed in some proportion (and always in fight with each other for more space, so the proportion changes over time). For instance, Euclid is mentioned as logician, but at least one of his axioms (about parrallel lines that could not intersect) is based on intuition that, turns out, is not always "true". Therefore we have got other Non-Euclidian geometries.
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If you are selling products or services where the variable cost is close to zero then free or freemium is an option. Some people will always have the incentive to go free and it makes perfect sense for them. Google and Facebook would be little niche companies if they had charged users for their services: "Buy 100 searches for 3 dollars". Personally, I would have settled for Altavista.
DoD largely uses commercial firewalls and filters (Websense was the big one) to block a bunch of stuff, ranging from porn to malware to racist/violent things. It was super-lulz when they tried to apply the same filters to people responsible for monitoring local news and responding to it in places like Iraq.

This isn't that big a change.
Mozilla isn't reluctant. They can't implement the DRM because the license to redistribute the proprietary DRM plugin is such that they couldn't offer their browser under the license they've been offering it.
I'm from Germany, we don't have Netflix here. We'll probably never going to have it.
When I want to (legally) watch a movie, I have to rent the DVD for 4 EUR at my local video store.
We have a local "alternative" called Lovefilm, where you can watch some movies from 5 years ago, but only the bad German synchronised version.
In Germany, Netflix is like some utopian fairyland.

So... you can watch all the movies/shows you want for a laughably low monthly price. And now you don't even need that crappy Silverlight plugin anymore.

I really don't see the problem here.
Your perception is not based at all on factual evidence. I see people all the time complaining about flash/SilverLight performance problems. The reality is that no browser has so far outperformed either of these plug-ins in terms of CPU or memory utilization.

You might want to use this as a reality check. What other "truths" in your life are actually true and not merely biases created by the agenda's of others around you.

Let truth alone influence you, question all hearsay. Be a leader, not a follower.
Yes, but the raging against Netflix isn't the answer. Rage against the studios and cancel your Netflix account in the process.

Making Netflix out to be the bad guy here does a disservice to the whole issue because it doesn't actually address the people behind the problem, and implicitly says "funding the studios is fine, just don't do it through Netflix".

Netflix doesn't want to be saddled to Silverlight (because, let's be honest, who would want to be? It's a dead and failed technology). Netflix is contractually required to maintain DRM on the content they deliver. Of course they're going to want to be able to use the latest and greatest technologies while meeting their contractual obligations (which, you know, enable them to stay in business). They'd be fools to not try to get away from Silverlight, and they'd be fools to not try to find a way to fit their business into the future of the web. Sure, it'd be great if they gave the studios the finger and told them "We're doing HTML5 without DRM, deal with it", but Netflix already operates at the mercy of the studios' good will, and they cannot survive as a business if they aren't willing to meet the studios' demands on the content they license.

I am extremely skeptical about the suggestion that Netflix is some archvillian cackling to themselves about enslaving the web through DRM.
Is it? It seems another way to restrict competition, just like Amazon restricted competition through DRM for their e-books. Imagine if you could take your Kindles and read them on other apps ("hacking" them and converting to epub doesn't count).

What if Amazon goes out of business 10 years from now? Tough luck, you can't read your books anymore.
First off you say this was an emotional case to sell a book, you then use an emotional case to justify the Dads actions.

"Perhaps his wife had just died?"

A child's early development is MASSIVELY different to that of an adult, the way they are treated at a young age acts as a template for their future relationships, habits and personality.

You cannot treat a child as if they were an adults or versions of yourself, children are continually learning how to deal with new feelings and emotions, they struggle to concentrate sometimes and are almost always aloof.

Yes children learn to manipulate, but you are the adult, deal with it, ignore their requests, remind them of your earlier conversations...

Children become a reflection of their caretakers emotions, you treat them like shit, they will argue with you more and the cycle continues...
For those of you who don't know of Robert, he works for Guardian, writes a lot of Scala and is one of founders of the London Clojure group. Indeed, he's talking about Riemann on Tuesday @ SkillsMatter.
Yup. People want content more than they don't want DRM. This is why if you want to actually vote against DRM, stop consuming content that is DRM'd. This means movies, TV, video games, e-books, and the like.

Most people don't actually care enough to do that.
Oh I know its coming, but I'm still not 100% convinced its going to work. I cant think of any smartphone game I would want to play on my TV, other than games I wouldn't want to play on my smartphone. There just no overlap.

I would rather have a PS4, XBox or Wii U designed for high quality games using a controller, and then play smartphone games on my phone.

Buying a separate Android or iOS console seems pointless, and plugging a controller into a phone into the tv seems like a fairly convoluted and niche offering.
Yes, but that's not an excuse for them to perverse the web so they don't have to use Silverlight anymore.
It started in 1919. It was ruled in the Schenk case that the Espionage Act (1917) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917) did not violate the freedom of speech of those convicted under it. Schenk mailed out anti-draft leaflets during WW1, and jailed for it. Per wikipedia:

'The Court, in a unanimous opinion written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., held that Schenck's criminal conviction was constitutional. The First Amendment did not protect speech encouraging insubordination, because, "when a nation is at war, many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight, and that no Court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right."'

So, precedent: freedom of speech doesn't apply if it impairs the ability of the state to wage war.

The next step was the gradual institutionalization of a permanent on-going state of war. This has been sliding into place since WW2, from the early days of the Cold War onwards, by way of the gradual militarization of the federal system; from the outside, the USA of today looks like an Imperial colossus, out-spending the rest of the planet on weapons (and out-deploying it, too).

Where you have a permanent state of war you have a permanent justification for emergency authority (as Orwell observed in 1984 -- what did "We have always been at war with EastAsia really signify?"). So wartime regulations overriding normal constitutional protections become embedded.

Finally, we have the virtualization of the permanent state of war: from a war stance pointed at a concrete enemy with tanks and nuclear missiles, to a war on an abstraction, "terror", which is drawn so widely that it leads to officials making statements like this: "We take water quality very seriously. Very, very seriously ... But you need to make sure that when you make water quality complaints you have a basis, because federally, if there’s no water quality issues, that can be considered under Homeland Security an act of terrorism."

Source: http://www.alternet.org/environment/tennessee-official-says-...

It's a slippery slope, but the USA is already surprisingly far down it -- the bottom is within reach already!