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And yet, the side with the lawyers won the case. Funny how that works.
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> With regards to revenge, I believe in tit for tat. That's the rational way to play iterative games.

Bullshit. You're not expressing a rational plan to advance your self-interest. You're expressing an emotional fantasy. You really should let go of it, but if you must hold on to it, at least don't lie to yourself about what it is.

Besides, they paid you. Resigning after collecting a salary for 9 months ought to have been revenge enough.

Also, if you sat around for over 2 years after quitting, what they did to you is not the cause of your problems.
Many of the "programmer heavies" at MS used Epsilon (an Emacs clone with quite good Windows integration). To be fair, a lot of them also used vim. Notably, few of them liked Visual Studio all that much.
There is one point to understand. This greatly benefits Google as it allows to reduce the response rate of competing marketing products, and increase the response of their own. Not that they should care about being fair. Gmail is theirs. They can do as they please. People should understand that they will simply optimize for their benefit, not for the benefit of some other platform (in this case Mailchimp.

Want to increase your rates? Send your email to the user's facebook account. Those get read almost instantly.
Although I learned a LOT in grad school (and in postdoc #1, and in postdoc #2), I will have to say that choice basically ruined any chance I have at getting a faculty position in academia. If you can't join 'em, beat 'em ==> I'm starting my own research institute.
This is the most correct reply in all the comment section. I work in operatioa consulting for warehouses and previously worked for an automation company. Very, very few companies are willing to pay more for automation. A lot of times, it just doesn't make sense. Even if there will be a projected return on investment in a few years its a hard sell.
I'm happy to use Emacs. I'm also perfectly comfortable to personally and professionally dislike RMS.
I couldn't disagree with you more. There's a rich tradition[1] in the creative world of improving a product through self-imposed restrictions. Sure, you don't get any artistic credit just because you did something in a difficult way; a single red square has the same merit whether you clicked each pixel in turn or used a flood tool. But exploring the limits of a medium itself certainly does.

People can argue all day about "what is art?", but to me, it's something that provokes thoughtfulness or a sense of wonder. Something that communicates a view of the world. And I think this [ http://hallasko.com/collections/prints/products/looking-up ] and this [ http://hallasko.com/collections/prints/products/aglowfish ] easily meet that condition, while also exploring what can be done in the medium.

Yeah, we're talking about that they were made in Paint, because he's showing us a painter[2] can do with Paint. If you ask me, that's valuable.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained_writing

[2] He has a lot of experience as an actual painter, too, which means he's a lot more qualified than I am to decide something's artistically valuable.
If the cost to acquire a customer is $200 and taken in the first 6 months of finding a customer lead and the average customer brings in $100/year and stays for 5 years and starts becoming a paying customer after an initial 6 month sales period then you will not be profitable easily as long as you continue growing. It'll take 30 full months to amortize the net cost of acquiring a customer down to 0. That's a long time.

Also, if your growth accelerates you'll just keep digging deeper and deeper into a hole.
I don't care what some fancy digital artist complains about above. It's beautiful. You try painting something beautiful with 90% of your vision gone. I imagine you probably dislike Michelangelo's work since he didn't use Photoshop either.
"Not printing on Thursday" sounds like a bohrbug.
> But artistically, you'd be hard pressed to find any value in this due to its only merit being "made in Windows 95 in 2013" or "made by a 7 year old" or whatever.

Erm..maybe. Is Erwin Wurm's art art? It is in galleries. It does have monetary value. But it is conceptual. It is basically says here put 15 sweaters on. Or stick your head into a hole in the wooden fence. Is that art? What if I stuck my head in a wooden fence would that be art. What if I told by Wurm to do it and someone took a photo or video of it? Is that art?

It is hard to defend the position of inherent objective artistic value. You are welcome to try it. Art to me has always been an extension of the artist, their life, story motivation and work. On its own it is just up to the art critics to tell us from their high places what is art and what isn't. And that seems to be pretty arbitrary to me so I don't buy that. But maybe you can humor us and give a set of criteria so we can better pick between genuine art and the fake art.
No, they'll send men with guns to imprison you.
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I like how it's called "limit" and not "disable". Compared to infinity, anything with a finite value can be considered to have 'limits'. Even Apple's $100B in cash has a limit, despite the staggering size. Weasel-words are an interesting phenomenon.
It's not the copyright system's fault in this regard.
The originator of the LibreCAD code has no interest in hiring another legal team to go through the process of re-licensing an already open source project, and the FSF sees anything less than *GPLv3 in its own projects undermining the end user's freedom.

So I ask again, who's right?
Very nice article.
ethics! this is the problem of our society.
the next article should be about making people sensible. How to reward them for been responsible.
The thing is people don't care about their live. Managers change jobs, people accept NSA...
Might be intresting to compare Customer-Live-Time-Value und Business-Model-LiveTime-Value.
What if they knew that the bomb will be nightmare?
I would love to see numbers? How about calculating Update-Costs of the SW to "how about having a new business model". The aren't these "dark pattern" businesses VC driven?
Put a price on their advice and connections. Don't hand out 5% just because. They could end up owning your company over the long term. Don't be so quick to hand out equity. Ever.
Apply a filter. There is a Photoshop filter for it, I am pretty sure. Which again brings us to a discussion point. Would that be art? What if this man spend time building a Photoshop filter and starting applying the "pointillism" filter to random images. What if he wrote a script scraped the web, applied the filter and then published it out in his image archive. Would that be impressive? Would we have heard about him?
Paul Graham, http://www.paulgraham.com/pfaq.html
Not making a choice is still a choice.
Typically, extra labor -- that is rewarded -- for an art piece is going to be something that is pertinent for some common end.

Using Windows 95 to paint something doesn't add anything to the end of a piece.

Using marble and creating a structure that looks like a fluid river (or flowing something) adds value to the piece even though it was hard.

Using marble, period, adds value simply because the work is in marble (monetary value) and represents a skill that you can produce works of art in marble. Using Windows 95 means you can use dated technology to produce literally the same thing that Photoshop CS6 could product (most likely in less time): a JPG.

It literally is the same difference as painting a scene with your hands, and then doing it with your feet. Nothing was added and the work is no different, but you did it with your feet.
Yes. If anything that is legal is "okay," then there is no point in discussing Gmail's new inbox because that is obviously "okay" too.
I think they're beautiful. Very 50s illustration in style.
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Yes, create is the most important part. I learned most of what I know taking online courses from Stanford or Coursera or lynda.com
I think there is a group composed of Hispanic Pyladies. Not sure if its active. Go to their site (pyladies site) and check.
>For "2. For digital drawing/painting in particular, the tools probably aren't as important as most people think."

I said this wrong. If you want to get into digital drawing/painting, the tools probably aren't important enough that you'll fail without them.
This caution makes sense in general, and it is good to be skeptical of long chains of causation. However, we know so little about the brain that it's possible we're missing a much shorter chain of causation. It's possible that impulsiveness, IQ, aggression, etc. is only tenuously related to whatever aspect of the brain actually affects criminality. A very strong circumstantial case shouldn't be dismissed just because we can't think of a mechanism.
www.getapp.com. Search any business term (eg, Procurement) and add "Management" + "SaaS" or "Cloud" or "Software" and you will find a wide array of companies that I bet no one here has heard of.
I enjoy reading HN very much, Most start ups that HN invests in are started by a group of very young people and from what I understand, the amount of money invested is relatively small, which is probably wise. But as someone who has, let's say been around awhile, let me just say that it probably would have been really helpful to have a resource like YC when I was making all my mistakes (ahem, several fails, leave it at that). I agree, PG sounds like he knows when to shake you up a little, I wish I had had a little guidance like that back when. YC'ers, pay attention.
No. I don't have an iPhone.

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And unless I clicked to see if there was an android version, I never would have known.
Focus is on installs, user LTV (so yes segmentation, retention, etc) and crash analytics.
Many of them are famous Lisp programmers. Of course, Lisp grogrammers use Emacs.
Yes, great idea. I'm guessing Twilio?
Don't wanna start an off-topic conversation but in spite of being somewhat of a Google fanboy I'm actively using (and have set as default) Safari instead of Chrome on my 2010 macbook pro for any page or site that is "heavy". My usage of Chrome has now shrunk to scenarios that involve heavy dependence on omni-search.
The proper way to appreciate this website is with Van Halen's "Right Now" in the background. Open this link in the background to see for yourself: http://grooveshark.com/s/Right+Now/3XdxpO
It's a little hyperbolic language for sure, thanks for asking.

I'm referring to the fact that Photoshop was created as a photo/bitmap editor, and has of course grown to be very advanced and full of features. That is in fact sometimes a defect, depending on your task. Of course photoshop doesn't produce HTML and CSS, but that hasn't stopped it from becoming the standard for designing things that are intended to be HTML and CSS in the end.

I've designed Edit Room to be very specific towards designing with words and content for the web. Therefore, the focus is on typography & layout, color & style, and flexible/responsive layout. Using the native formats of the web for your designs ensures you're building with real bricks, so to speak.
Whether you are using ancient tools like brushes and oil, or the most cutting edge paint program out there or MS Paint, or whatever, it is the artist's skill that matters.
I might even go so far as saying that is isn't about the tool, it's about the enjoyment you get from it. Quality should be important only if it's important to you. For most people it is, but if you enjoy doing something, it shouldn't matter what the quality is.
Thanks very much! I'm sorry to hear you found a bug. I'll investigate and see if I can get a fix up.
Imposed restrictions are all about removing common treads so you have to think outside of the box.

Writing a poem in a certain meter is certainly challenging, but not the same thing as writing a poem where you can't use the letter `e'.

This isn't about self imposed restrictions, but merely a choice to do something the hard way.
I agree, I just posted the same sentiment, sorry for being redundant.
The unintuitive layering and double negative wording clearly tells me that Apple tried to have it both ways.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb3A1TdqXug
this one is more impressive to me than his artwork
Having a limited set of tools forces me to be more creative. When I only had simple monophonic synthesizers, the results were much better than with the nearly unlimited sounds at my disposal now.
I only have so many hours in the day, I already got assigned on a different project, they told me they don't have time to support less than 5% of users.
You can "patch" jumps in generated JS by replacing the JITed JS function. That has overhead, but might be fine for small functions that are not JITed too often.
I know, sorry about this. Someone else mentioned that the title of my post should include android, but I don't think I can change it at this point. I'm glad you clicked the link anyway and found it!
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Some of your :hover transitions are a bit wonky in Chrome.

Hovering over, say, "JavaScript" under your TeamCoco job bumps your span.label from 70px width to 72px width. My guess is that this is from Chrome rounding partial pixels weirdly in your transitions, but it's clear that you didn't mean for the other elements in line to move.

Also on Chrome, not sure you've got your Fjalla One font included properly. Even though computed style is showing that as first choice for your header elements, my machine is defaulting to Helvetica Neue. This is due to you calling it "Fjalla+One" instead of "Fjalla One" in your css.
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Neal Stephenson is in the original list, but he is switched to Scrivener now. http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2011/09/19/neal-steph...
Yay :) The video made me very happy. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks smit for liking the concept behind it :) Our goal with these videos is two-fold:

1. Share our experiences so that other early-stage startups can benefit from it.

2. Present our opinions on a variety of topics so that folks with a similar mindset might consider joining Kamcord and working on a lot of the exciting challenges we talk about.

Also, it doesn't take long to film. We just sat in a room and talked unscripted for a couple hours. Our awesome intern then pieced the best parts together.
I haven't read the paper (yet) but thanks for your thorough explanation. I need to go implement a bloom filter to help make them feel less like magic.
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I'm okay with it. Weev is the type of guy I wish was behind bars. He's a stain with no redeeming qualities that I can tell. He takes a lot of joy in causing people pain, and many peoples lives are better with him behind bars. So I don't really care if it's for wire fraud or tax evasion.
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> BTW - I wish a prerequisite for publishing these papers was an open-source sample implementation! :-)

I sometimes feel the same, but much interesting work in algorithms has been done by people who are unable to program in an executable language.
Please go back (quite a ways at this point) and find my response that started this thread was. It wasn't top level, it was in response to someone specifically calling out companies for sending them email after signing up. In that respect, this isn't just about spam, it's about user responses to company email communications. Please view my posts in that light if you want to accurately interpret my position.
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Don't forget that the NSA is, when all is said and done, a Government organization with all the multitudinous layers of bureaucracy. I have no doubt that their electronic mail systems are under the control of an IT staff that is just as competent as any many of us deal with in the corporate world. But they have the added restrictions that secrecy entails: it would not surprise me if the server software is a decade old because that was the version they vetted way back when and it has never been updated.

The groups that work in the basement do not have such restrictions: or at least have very different restrictions. This dichotomy is not a surprise to anyone who thinks about it for any length of time.
In your example with the arrays, what were you trying to illustrate? I don't understand.
It's hypocritical in that the use of a service by a company whose actions you publicly call out supports that company, and by extension, those actions.
I don't think that's the same thing at all. The mention of "(rich)" was an absolute statement, not a relative one, which portrayed light aircraft owners as wealthy people hurting the populace just so they could have a little more money.
"Form e-mails" to representatives are pretty much completely ignored, as I understand it. Does it really matter if "x" percent converted if it has zero effect anyway?
Primarily for talent (the big guys are dying for innovation and they are paying for it) and client lists (prove your end user customers actually like using your software versus just being a business need). Sometimes it indicates the potential of an "untapped" market and I would see these acquisitions as getting a horse in the race (when Gamification/Social Enterprise blew up for a bit and you saw everyone buy a horse).

Prove people love using your software and you can get acquired if you want.
The copyright system is to blame because without it there would be no need for them to even think about hiring a lawyer because these complex licensing issues wouldn't even exist. I would advise against looking to blame someone, as the system is not known for working in the first place.

But if you really want to blame someone, you can blame both of them. They're both wrong, because there are workarounds.
Truly stunning.
Maybe that's why previous versions of Visual Studio came with Emacs keybindings by default?

Unfortunately, the latest VS is missing those.
My question is this, where do these find these losers who are willing to sit around and read other people's mail? I would be ashamed.
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Changing from:

https://payroll.example.com/SSN=000-00-0000

to:

https://payroll.example.com/SSN=000-00-0001

shows intent to gain access that you were obviously not authorized for, even if you immediately report what you find.

Wasn't it ruled that accessing stuff that you aren't authorized to that is publicly (within a company) accessible to all on a shared drive violates the CFAA because you are exceeding your authorization?
I was referring the "wondering if blocking tracking cookies" question. I don't have a problem with criminalizing attempts to pull up random people by their SSN.
Well, if you have SSH access, you could just edit those files with Emacs anyway. It has support for remote files (via TRAMP) out of the box.
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IIRC, all he would have been selling is email addresses that are known to belong to iPad owners with AT&T as a provider. I don't recall that he had any credit card info.
EVE is very careful about keeping everything in "an alternate universe" which saves them from prosecution. Meanwhile the SEC, FinCEN, et al have decided to regulate Bitcoin, and there's no universe barrier to save it.
> It tells you with 100% certainty if the item is NOT in the set, and it tells you with variable certainty if the item MIGHT be in the set.

This wording is hard to understand - particularly the first clause. I assume you grok it, but for anyone confused: it returns either "no" or "maybe". If it returns no, you're 100% confident in that no. If it returns maybe it might be "yes" or "no" so you have to do a more thorough check in another kind of structure. The advantage being that you get that "no" or "maybe" super fast, so much of the time (any time you get a "no") you can stop looking early.
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Actually, I think Pollock's work is more the other way around — the pieces are the remnant of a bit of performance art the viewer never got to see. While I'm not in any sense a fan of the work aesthetically, it feels even more of a cheat since the process was what was important, not the product. Neither do I particularly care what sort of anguish Mark Rothko may have been feeling when he put a black border around a yellow rectangle — however poetic his intent may have been, he had a piss-poor way of expressing himself. At least the Warhols and Lichtensteins of the period were authentic: they were unashamedly in it for the fame and the bucks.
"I want to design something my mom can use".

Ahhh, remind me again where I have heard this before. Thank god, pg shot the idea down.
The FSF's site[1] points out what looks like a serious problem with this license:

> This license does have an unfortunate wording choice: it provides recipients with "Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software…" This is roughly the same language from the license of Pine that the University of Washington later claimed prohibited people from distributing modified versions of the software.

To me, it sounds like "modify and/or distribute" means it should be okay to both modify and then distribute the modified version. But I'm not a lawyer, and if the same language has been used to argue you can't distribute modified versions, that's pretty scary. Enough reason to prefer the slightly longer MIT license.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ISC
Substituting "power" for "freedom" doesn't really change anything. You can certainly argue that a software distributor exerts power on a user when they don't provide source code, but you can just as easily argue that a software distributor exerts power on a user when they provide the source code but don't allow derivative works to be distributed without source code.
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Sometimes old tools are better, they have a stable operation and a lower CPU and memory usage. Maybe some famous tools like Photoshop should review their products carefully, they do have abundant functions, but to a certain extent, are they useful or practical for most common users?

Best wishes to this great man.
> I don't have a problem with criminalizing
> attempts to pull up random people by their
> SSN.

If I see that the URL contains my SSN, and want to investigate if they were stupid enough to have this as a security hole, what are my options?

You seem to say that if I pull up the page of someone else, I am immediately a criminal and need to go to jail.

Should I instead report the possible issue to the company? Will they actually take, "I see that SSN is in the URL and that might be security hole, but I don't know for sure because I haven't attempted to try it," seriously? Hopefully they would, but I find that hope to be way more optimistic than the 'real world' should get credit for.
Thank heaven they worked a picture of Stephen into the post.
Copyrights are not contracts. They do not have to be agreed upon for them to be legally enforceable.
I think it may have to do with the fixed 'border' the entire page has. It is interesting though how Chrome chokes and Safari glides, though with choppy repositioning of the fixed border on scroll completion.
> The slavery quip doesn't really make sense, because in that analogy the source code is the slave.

Wrong. Your users who don't have the same power to make changes as you do are the slaves in the analogy, not the source code.

I sum it up thusly: BSD is about freedom for the developers; GPL is about freedom for the users. I work professionally as a software developer, but I use far more software than I develop.