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> but that does not permit them to distribute it without the original work's copyright holder's permission (and the original work's copyright holder would need the derivative's copyright holder's permission to distribute that.

There are cases (at least in Scandinavia) where the subtitles on a Norwegian subtitle site showed up on the Blueray version (noticeable due to huge cultural mistakes in the translation), when the Norwegian site clearly had subtitles first.

I'll start holding my breath for when the law will be applied equally on both sides.
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The main thing here is that all subtitles from Undertexter.se (the raided site) are entirely fan-made, e.g. dialogs interpreted by the sites users, and then translated according to their own interpretation. I actually don't understand -how- this could be copyright infringement, so if anyone could explain it for me, I'd be glad!
Yup. It's frustrating for me since I used a winmo device 7 years ago with TomTom that provided flawless offline maps. There doesn't even exist a comparable offline maps program for newer Windows Phone OSes... Google abandoning offline maps in the Android OS is another reflection of this trend, but the world's infrastructure just isn't there yet, especially when you leave California - here in Southern Ontario, coverage is good but the cost of data plans for all is prohibitive once you've got a family full of people with phones.

Of course, Google has been eschewing offline support throughout Android - like the anemic and non-expandable storage on their entry-level Nexus devices, pushing their cloud-based music service instead of the traditional "just load songs onto the device" approach, and so on.

This massive technological regression on disconnected mobile software is really disappointing.
15 years of consulting left me dreading reading this article a little.

There is no set formula that I've found. I'm open to finding it. Until then better I get at business, the better I get at all these different ways of "earning" formulas.

You exist to help the customer get the result they want, who usually don't know what they want.

If you don't know what you're doing, or worse, don't know how to help the customer find what they need, the meter can be run up hourly, or lose your shirt fixed price. Both are poor delivery of value for the customer in retaining a sustainable, no-surprise-giving, stable business partner.

The second we are in consulting, we're in business, not an hourly employee. It's a comfort net to say otherwise of not having to learn business skills.

Still, businesses are great customers. They're a lot more logical than consumers. They especially listen to anything that adds value to their business.

What's this hokey "add value" thing?

One definition is:

Saving or making your customer money, or time.

Time? Yes. The cost of their employees is the #1 cost in their business.

So, if person x spends 5 hours a week generating a spreadsheet at $15/hour, and there's 50 working weeks a year, this spreadsheet cost them $3750 in 1 year.

That's just $15/hr!

If I spent 10 years learning to do something in 2 hours, should I charge the customer the 2 hours, for the 10 years it took to learn, or say.

"This is costing you $4000 a year, I can get rid of it for $1000 permanently".

If it's a large company, you can even look at the savings over 2 or 3 years.

See? You're saving your customer money. Get the sign-offs on any solution from the ground up to the signing authority and put good decisions in front of them.

One reality is you end up doing a bit of both fixed and hourly. The better you understand your clients business, data and processes, the more fixed you can go.

With new clients, for example, I do small fixed price projects to minimize risk for the client and to build small momentum building wins.

When customers see the value themselves, instead of trying to trick them into liking you, what they pay me becomes far less of an issue. Some still prefer hourly so I just quote the total number and let them imagine what the hourly rate is. Some still want to know the hourly rate and I let them know we work extremely fast and have 15 years of experience each.

Regardless of hourly or fixed, if at the end of it they look at it and say "yes, they built what I asked but it wasn't what I wanted", customers will start doubting good decisions in the future because your inability to guide the canoe better. This is a bigger threat to your business than anything, especially if you want to stay in consulting.

Help your customers spend their money with the care as if it was your own, and you'll find yourself with as many long term consulting customers over the years that you can handle.
GMail is already integrated with Google+.

Google Docs will likely be integrated with Google+ soon, the document sharing is currently based on GMail groups and contacts, I'd expect them to supplement/replace those with Google+ circles and contacts.
1) That is a big problem. Really hard to convince people you are more than 3x as good as the 3x cheaper alternative. But than again lawyers manage to do it. Why would web developers not figure it out? ;)

2) Yes. It does not scale in a way "startup people" are used to. It's just part of the deal :(
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you were embracing it.
Lyrics and guitar tab sites were attacked heavily by copyright owners years ago, most went completely down. I'm not even sure why the number of them started slowly creeping back up years ago, other than a a changed focus by the legal arms of record company associations.

The original music copyright wars were over sheet music (or even just chord transcriptions) and player piano rolls, and they haven't ended.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_book
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100712/18325210185.shtml
Re: negotiating your bill: It blows my mind that in America you would approach paying for healthcare the same way you would purchase an expensive car. I don't consider my health to be a luxury good... But in the USA it is priced as such?!
But is this really a age thing?
I'm 24 and in the situation you described I'd have reacted exactly like "the older part" of the board.
Isn't it more dependent on one being more extra- or more introvert? (which could also depend on your mood at the moment...)
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The CDN is also down which means websites embedding jQuery and other content will break.
Yes, the Whitelines notebook is a little bit self-promotional. It makes sure you don't forget that you're holding a Swedish, patented, revolutionary notebook.
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I played EVE for a few months, just to try it out, and I noticed this too. I played EVE for a few months, just to try it out, and I noticed this too. I played EVE for a few months, just to try it out, and I noticed this too. The endless repeating was one of the things that put me off eventually. The endless repeating was one of the things that put me off eventually. The endless repeating was one of the things that put me off eventually. I also play WoW and we use mumble there too, and we seem to get pretty good along without repeating everything three times. I also play WoW and we use mumble there too, and we seem to get pretty good along without repeating everything three times. I also play WoW and we use mumble there too, and we seem to get pretty good along without repeating everything three times. Maybe it's part of the EVE culture. Maybe it's part of the EVE culture. Maybe it's part of the EVE culture.
Yeah, I can't believe that to be non-obvious to anyone.

When Google+ was new, the joke was that it was like Facebook, only your parents weren't on it - the main reason to use it.
Unfortunately, the data is pulled from FlightAware.com, which I've criticized [1] in the past as being inaccurate.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6014958
Maybe his logic favored the fact that bicycles are the most efficient mode of transportation.
This angle of "why prosecute Apple when Amazon has the monopoly" is just lazy. Monopolies, which Amazon does not even have and is unlikely to gain, aren't illegal. Conspiring to raise prices is illegal. Amazon just has the potential to abuse consumers (maybe, possibly, in the future) due to their entirely legal success. Apple already did abuse consumers.
But the creators/translators of these subtitles weren't selling them, they uploaded them for free.

I guess argument could be made that the actual site owner made money from ads (assuming there were ads on the site).
VideoLAN nor VLC are companies.
This is a cynical view point. Do we really have to choose between monopoly and collusion?
Standards are two ends of one spectrum, but the code that the article is about is open source, so it's neither proprietary nor standard. It's just a feature in an open source project.
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There are a lot of counterpoints here saying that fixed-price is better for us as consultants.

But this article is saying hourly-billing is better for the CLIENT.

I think this is an important distinction. Obviously there are advantages for us to doing value-based fixed-price billing, but that says nothing about the merits to our clients. If you don't do hourly billing, you should be aware of these potential gotchas, and be aware that some clients won't work with you.
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Well it's supposed to be using XMPP and PGP, so that's fine. My complaint is that it needs to be open source. Closed-source crypto is no good.
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Reminds me of CS Lewis's The Inner Ring - mostly the quote from War and Peace:

"When Boris entered the room, Prince Andrey was listening to an old general, wearing his decorations, who was reporting something to Prince Andrey, with an expression of soldierly servility on his purple face. “Alright. Please wait!” he said to the general, speaking in Russian with the French accent which he used when he spoke with contempt. The moment he noticed Boris he stopped listening to the general who trotted imploringly after him and begged to be heard, while Prince Andrey turned to Boris with a cheerful smile and a nod of the head. Boris now clearly understood—what he had already guessed—that side by side with the system of discipline and subordination which were laid down in the Army Regulations, there existed a different and more real system—the system which compelled a tightly laced general with a purple face to wait respectfully for his turn while a mere captain like Prince Andrey chatted with a mere second lieutenant like Boris. Boris decided at once that he would be guided not by the official system but by this other unwritten system."

http://www.lewissociety.org/innerring.php
"Snow White" is a derivative work. Doesn't stop Disney from owning it lock, stock, and barrel - so why should this be any different?

Oh right, selective justice.
There is one thing that anyone can do to help fix this situation.

Bicycle.

1, increased numbers of cyclists aid awareness among drivers and others. 2, increased demand helps justify building bike lanes, etc.

Yeah, it's a vicious/virtuous circle situation. It's tough until things improve.

But accusing those working on the cycling side of folly only makes it worse.
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Good points about folding and pattern matching on algebraic types. Thanks.

Of course, there is TYPECASE in CL and some similar macro in Clojure, but Haskell's pattern-matching syntax is more concise.
Mentioned it before in another thread here: This makes sense when you have a well established business that's tweaking it's processes. Impossible when building an MVP and/or experimenting with a new product/service.
"Tolerance" is being thrown around as though yours and OSC's arguments are equal, on the same lines as Apple vs. Android or Chocolate vs. Vanilla.

On one side lies liberty and civil rights, and the other is for disenfranchising people. It's a slanted argument. You're accusing one group of people of being inferior and immoral. It's a dig against other human beings, an assertion that some aren't as deserving.

One can debate methods or policy as to which is more effective, or whether or not designated hitters should be allowed in baseball. It's another thing entirely to assert that a whole range of people are unworthy of the same rights as others. Regardless of whether you or I prefer we live our lives in a different way, doesn't imply that somehow we should trample the liberties of others.

"Intelligent and sane" individuals don't tolerate segregation, racism, or the persecution of others based on their orientation. That your puppet legislature miraculously cast a unanimous vote for continued repression while all other governments across the world continue to roll back this anachronism speaks much for the state of "modern" Russia.
Well I am probably going to be shot down here. glibc has all the basics down. And its on every Linux (and other OSes) box. How about letting fopen() open a URL? It would be great if any *nix code could do that. There already a a bunch of sorts qsort(), heapsort(), etc. But there isn't a sort for huge array using disk or mapped memory (that I know of). How about making qsort() work differently based on an environment variable? OK fire away.
I don't see the problem of using Google+ for Location only, if that is the only part you care about.
We looked at this concept but results were not so good. But there is some visual effect after teleportation is completed. We will work on more that in further releases. For now we have to address some issuess and Android :-)

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My friend just tested all sharing options on his iPhone5 - worked fine. It must have been some random crash in your case. Nevertheless it will be visible in our statistics.
> Without this I may need a dedicated GPS device.

I find this ridiculous, but you're probably right. I could run a complete offline maps application back on WinMo 7ish years ago. TomTom had the complete maps for the entire continent, text-to-speech synthesis, and directions being calculated all client-side on general-purpose phone hardware. There is no reason we should need a dedicated GPS device.

Then again, there probably already exists a similar app in the market for Android that provides all of this service offline, we're just ignoring it because it costs north of $50 or something.
One of the reasons we like it is that it IS a LOT easier than rolling our own at our current low-manpower state. It is MORE convenient for us.

We end up with a bunch of infrastructure that for the most part runs, updates itself, scales itself, and is pretty secure/safe by default. That's nice, and worth paying a little more for.

It doesn't need to be fast for us, because we have designed accordingly. It is "fast enough".
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Agreed. I noticed that as well and found it kind of scummy. I've read about ET3 and the hyperloop before separately and knew they weren't related.
OVH is really cheap as well:

http://www.ovh.com/ca/en/dedicated-servers/
Sure but then Netflix and Universal stealing translated subtitles from these "pirates" and including it on their commercial content is also piracy.

Thing is though, as a civil claim, the monetary incentive is clear on the movie companies side but not the "pirates". I suppose with all things being equal, in the spirit of fair play, we can expect to see headlines stating these people have been awarded a massive sum of money in the future right?

People get confused about copyright because it is confusing. It isn't what it was when it was created and your interpretation of copyright makes no allowance for fair use, and as far as I am aware those precedents set in the 80s still stand to this day. So until they don't, you're only half right.
Consumers couldn't get a lower price from Amazon (or others) because the colluding parties had an agreement to set the prices for all retailers. That's the crux of the case.
Isn't python's GC reference-counted and deterministic anyways?
just talked to a friend in NYC - no issues there, so doesn't appear to be entire East Coast
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Down side to hourly rates:

1. Clients hate them. Very rarely do you they understand the difference between paying for your time and paying for the finish product they are asking for (and it's correlation to your effort/time).

2. I much prefer day rates over hourly rates. If something can be done in a few hours, then it should be free.

3. If you are a good developer and can develop quicker than most than doing a fixed price has a huge upside to it.

4. The number one reason for hours/days going longer than expected isn't based on developer/designer competency, but rather project management and lack of clear requirements (or changing requirements). Pinning commercials against the root cause of most delays can cause really messy situations.

If you're working with startups specifically, I typically do the following:

1. Give a rough estimation of what their project will cost.

2. Tell them that with this estimation they get X number of designer/developer days to build their project. They get to see an update of the project every 1-2 weeks and can decide how they want to use their budget accordingly.

TL;DR - I tell my clients that they are paying for my team's time and not for a web project. Otherwise, I do a fixed price and massively buffer it.
What you're proposing are virtual appliances, a virtual machine image "intended to eliminate the installation, configuration and maintenance costs associated with running complex stacks of software" (to quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_appliance). It's not uncommon to see commercial software distributed this way, and I've seen some open source projects do it as well. There are multiple existing attempts to build a "registry", such as https://www.vmware.com/latam/appliances/ and http://www.turnkeylinux.org/
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Sad news.

I don't ride my bike out on the roads because of the danger of being hit. I often marvel at the courage, audacity, and sometimes foolishness of those who are brave enough to ride their bikes on our roads. There needs to be a stronger push to makes this safer.

Bike lanes should be in every city in the country. Everyone would be better off if there were bike lanes and bike use was encouraged. I realize that this probably isn't OP's intended point, but it's worth mentioning.
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My experience has been the opposite, and I think fixed price benefits both sides. Of course, it depends on the circumstance. Fixed price and hourly each have their place. I will say that a fixed price contracts can be tricky.

My primary point of reference is a medium sized fixed price project that was delivered early, and the customer loved the solution and came back for more business. I've also worked countless hourly contracts from both the customer and consultancy side.

1. Assuming a fixed price project requires a big up front spec is wrong. Follow lean/agile principles, iterate and refine. The contract should specify high level basic functionality and the problem being solved.

2. Hard to quantify, but hourly is plenty risky having worked both sides of the relationship. I've seen hours and hours burned building things that are not at all necessary. A fixed price helps everyone focus on building precisely what is needed.

3. Hourly rates put customer and consultant's priorities in line? From a short term view, if I'm paid hourly I'm going to milk the deal. If the consultancy is taking a long term view, everyones priorities are in line. Consultancy delivers fantastic product on time, it's a win by bringing the customer back, and word of mouth.

4. Again, it's how you structure the contract. If a giant spec is written up as part of a contract, you're doomed before you begin.

5. I'd argue the fixed price is a risk balance between the customer and consultancy. If the consultants finish early, they're rewarded. If they are late, they are penalized. This is in contrast to hourly, where it's win-win for the consultant.
Actually it tends not to go to such interesting places.

"Nudge" refers to a concept in mainstream political science that minor behavioural-economics inspired changes can have a more powerful affect than draconian laws.

The Bernays quote is a sort of tin-foil hat extension of that idea, that someone somewhere is so all powerful they can influence the masses to do what they the person wants.

Total crap.

if the slope of economic self interest is downhill, all the nudging and the clever manipulation of people's perception will not get the rock of humanity to move up the hill.

Idiots like Bernays who think the crowd cannot be left to itself because it might hurt itself with scissors, think that small PR related nudges can guide great decisions. Which is probably true if all you are doing is selling washing powder, or have selective confirmation bias.
Of course we do fanthom that.

People who don't build their own server are either lazy or stupid. (not saying being lazy is bad)
Related tangent. If GCHQ are intercepting and storing all traffic that transits the UK, they're surely the grandest copyright infringers on the planet. Why have they not yet been raided, and had their equipment seized?
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The article says it's a mystery but then nails it:

"In line with Google’s vision to organize the world’s information, the focus on Google+ seems to be shifting to content more than relationships. ... I wonder if Google is more interested in being Reddit (the front page of the Internet), than it is in being a Facebook/Twitter clone (what your friends are up to)."
This might get passed off as something for people looking do to evil/illegal/etc projects, but Gazelle is easily the best tracker front-end out there and it's super customizable (google "Gazelle tracker" and you'll likely find a bunch of screenshots of different sites implementing it differently—from skinning it to adding new features). Bittorrent is underused as a medium for legal downloads and I encourage anyone interested in a torrent site of any kind to check this out before they try to write their own.
It has been explained in several of the comments. It constitutes the creation of a derivative work.
Does being "logical" require that I never accept an elevated risk in order to do something I love?
I certainly don't.

Other than for the sheer technical joy of it, I thought we were in this game because we can get paid enough to enjoy the other parts of life?
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psychology, communications, economics, sociology, philosophy, history, political science, journalism, etc. can combine all of psychology, communications, economics, sociology, philosophy, history, political science, journalism, etc.
The discussion of validity when replying to someone referring to effectiveness is deceptive.
Or you just wear diapers like other people with that disability...
I wonder how that can be "surveillance-proof". Even with e2e-encryption any product using central servers can still see who is chatting with whom, who's in your address book and what IP address your phone is connecting from. That's exactly the meta-data Verizon got accused of sharing. They might be of The Pirate Bay-fame and not share this with the NSA voluntarily, but they're not immune to being hacked or infiltrated.
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