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I have both run and worked in food & beverage businesses and that is exactly the problem. Even here in Austria where service personnel usually gets paid much fairer wages there is still the problem of simply not being able to pay them those really fair wages because perception of prices by customers is broken.
The reasons for that are similarly complex to why no iOS dev I know could likely make a living from selling apps on the Apple app store.

E.g. one woman/man food cart or bar owners who offer services for dumping prices don't know and/or value how much their time and energy is actually worth or simply feel the need to take the risks to get a competitive edge.

It's a true race to the bottom. In 2013 actually very, very few individuals and companies are still generating profits (thinking about Amazon, Salesforce.com, etc).

So profits are drying up for most of us, it's a shame really that a lot of capitalism critical thinkers seem to have been right all along.

How can we get to a more even distribution of authentic wealth without throwing out the benefits of capitalism?

Realizing how far I've digressed already, this interview is very relevant IMHO if we talk about our own industry and the fairy tales in connection with it:
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3488-i-talk-to-jason-calacani...
Given that it was a military trial under the UCMJ, no it wouldn't have.
[EDIT:] The Abelson report is a huge effort at hand-washing. [Clearer?]

Here's the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
It only works because that's the schools dated and closed ecosystem
Military defendant.
You sound like you want the Ubuntu Edge.

The Windows RT is supposed to be competitive with iPads; i.e. they expect developers to re-tool their apps to work well with touch in WPF and/or Silverlight.
I commend Manning for sticking around to face the music and not going AWOL. As such, in my eyes, he's way more of a genuine activist than Snowden.

There can be no Letter from Birmingham Jail without the jail.
While Apportable is a very nice example, they're also doing something rather crazy - "cross compiling" apps into a wildly different set of hardware, software, and OS targets. And trying to be efficient about it, for graphics performance.

That isn't simple anywhere. I'd call it flat out amazing that they have apparently mostly succeeded, and a massive testament to the level of consistency that does exist.
> Because those exercises are by definition rabbitholes

What definition of what term makes that case for you? You seem to basically be denying the concept of causality entirely, which, fine: causality is a brittle concept. But we can still use it to help us reason around things. There are proximate causes and distal causes and all kinds of causes in between and beyond. These are messy, flawed concepts that are useful for trying to analyze systems.

You act like you don't understand the distinction between the relationship between MIT and Aaron and the relationship between those negotiations and Aaron, but I am fairly certain you do.
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I'd be inclined to agree with you if he wasn't in the military.
For just some interesting historical context, around the turn of the last century, new middle class in America were very against tipping in restaurants, viewing it as un-democratic and un-American.

> Anti-tipping advocates often championed an egalitarian vision of capitalist consumption in which both consumer and employee would benefit. Tipping, they maintained, undermined the dignity and independence of citizens in a democracy. “Let us not congratulate the servants on their gain,” one writer admonished, “for no servant takes a tip without losing something of manhood or womanhood.” Another argued that to accept a tip “is to enter into a relationship of dependence to the giver and by implication to acknowledge his superiority.” Frank Crane, a syndicated columnist, contended that the tip put waiters “into a class with the beggar, or the receiver of a bribe.” And Alvin Harlow, a historian popular at the time, wrote: “What, may I ask, is more un-American than tipping? It doesn’t belong in American society; it doesn’t belong in a democracy. It is a product of lands where for centuries there has been a servile class.”
http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/summer2012/features/tip...
Awesome. I was just the other day thinking that there should be this exact service when considering doing one of these shots. This is going to save me a lot of time, thank you. Will be much easier to create marketing assets.
Surface Pro does it, but at a higher price point for certain.
> Is money that tight? Maybe you should just be eating at home.

My point is that I'd rather the menu just said $10 for a burger. I would give them $10, they would give me a burger, and we'd both be happy.

> Food tampering is illegal in the entire United States. In some states, food tampering is a Class I Felony. So your hyperbole is far from reality.

Yes, that was a hyperbole, you got me. The point for that one was that even when servers give awful service, you're still expected to tip them because that's how they get their money. That basically defeats the whole rhetoric of "tipping incentivizes good performance".
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Manning Acquitted of Aiding U.S. Enemies
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Espionage is not just spying for someone, it's the act of obtaining the information illicitly, which he did.
Is this necessarily true? If you can get drivers for the video card, wouldn't it work?
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I think the author is merely worried about how much of BGP relies on operators trusting each other to configure their networks properly. All it takes is one typo somewhere to bring down the internet for half of America.

Granted, seeing how slowly IPsec and DNSSEC are being adopted, I think the author is fighting an uphill battle.
So I read (on wikipedia so not the best source) the key tenants of the espionage act which he was found guilty under. I find it to be written generally enough to be ambiguous in a similar vein to recent laws such as the NDAA not really defining hostilites and enemies. I wonder what are the limitations on it? Was the constitutional definition of treason not enough. Again I feel like overly broad language in a law used to convict people that politicians deem need to be convicted.

edit: I think this further proves my point/adds to its ambiguousness http://rt.com/usa/court-ruling-whistleblowers-prosecution-76...
What exactly does he deserve to be in jail for?
He took classified data outside his purview and provided it to folks without access, which seems like pretty clear espionage. You don't have to be working for a particular foreign government to be performing espionage.
I like it, also didn't know about arglists until just now =P
> What incentive does a waitress have to give you good service if she's making a standard wage and no tips?

The same incentive every other worker that gets paid a hourly wage or monthly salary without tips has to do a their job properly.
Er, Manning would likely not have been caught without Lamo ratting him out. Manning 'sticking around' has been entirely outside of his control since that happened.
He was spying on the American government for the American people.
Makes sense, since camera projection is used to convert 2d to 3d (movies).
I was prepared to be outraged at the verdict after the defense appeal to vacate the 'aiding enemy' charge was thrown out by the judge the other day[0], but being found not guilty is very important in terms of both his sentence and precedent for future military whistleblowers.

It also vindicates the defense decision to stick with a military hearing rather than a ~~civil~~ jury[1], which almost certainly could have been stacked to find a guilty verdict on the aiding the enemy charge (especially in Virginia - the preferred jurisdiction for fed government prosecution because of the slanted jury pool of ex-military and ex-gov types).

This is probably the best Manning could have hoped for, the evidence was stacked heavily against him on the other charges and he had already pleaded guilty to most.

[0] http://www.thenation.com/blog/175355/judge-refuses-throw-out...

[1] Thanks mpayne, you're right - military jury
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And of course, http://placeit.breezi.com/b0ddd82

Edit: I was bored. http://placeit.breezi.com/d0f04d5
Why should someone have to lose their freedom for exposing another's wrongdoing? We should incentivize whistleblowers, not make them risk rotting in a jail cell for the rest of their lives.
Not fascist. As an enlisted man in the US military, Manning is subject to the jurisdiction of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). [1]

[1] http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ucmj.htm
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This is a false dilemma and disingenuous stance. You are basically saying that "unless you are willing to suffer, the problem you're talking about can't really be a problem".

(Actually you're saying that you can't be an activist without suffering, and the implication is that if it's not worth activism, it's not a big deal. So basically what I said).
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That's not an interesting read, it is an out of date article from CNN.
It's pretty much impossible for any judge or jury to find him not guilty of all charges when he leaked over 700000 documents that had absolutely nothing to do with anything illegal that the government was doing. If he had only stolen and leaked incriminating information, his case would have been much stronger.
Surely it would make more sense to group them? If I'm going to be creating a universal application for iOS, it would be much easier to see all the available options.

That said, I do think the other platforms should be given some sort of visibility to show that they're actually present.
> This is also the reason why I find this article distasteful. So if you are really that sure about your position, why the hell don't you raise your prices 20% or even 30% for that matter

Unless they have forged a particularly tight bond with the community, simply raising prices is a sure fire way to lose potential customers.

Tipping is so ingrained in American restaurant culture that everyone assumes it to be in place. Unless they have a gigantic sign that flashes "NO TIPPING" in neon colors, you can bet that anyone scanning their menu will just assume it's a really expensive restaurant.
> "In a letter to the MIT community announcing the release of the report, Reif wrote, “The review panel’s careful account provides something we have not had until now: an independent description of the actual events at MIT and of MIT’s decisions in the context of what MIT knew as the events unfolded."

How is this an "independent" report when three of the five people named as leaders of the investigative committee work for MIT?

> "Compilation of the report, “MIT and the Prosecution of Aaron Swartz,” was led by Hal Abelson, the Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, at the request of MIT President L. Rafael Reif in January. In conducting his review, Abelson was joined by MIT economist and Institute Professor emeritus Peter Diamond; attorney Andrew Grosso, a former assistant U.S. attorney; and MIT assistant provost for administration Douglas Pfeiffer"
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Well, take Microsoft. They put an awful lot of effort into testing their operating system on various real-world hardware and working around hardware bugs. Does Google do the same?
How do we know it's not an increased sense of entitlement rather than a reduction of willpower?
In web development (I don't know how well this applies to native app development) the way to get around 90% of these worries is feature detection. If touch screen, do such-and-such. If X pixels wide, do such-and-such.

Pixels (CSS, not physical) are especially interesting because they're an angular unit of measure based on the user's expected distance from the screen. Once you start building off that foundation, many device fragmentation woes go away.

That said, there are a handful of places where we logic-branch based on API version by reading the UA string. These are usually due to features that report working, but fail miserably.
I do the opposite thing when someone asks what to buy. I sort them out an older Lenovo T-series with windows 7 x64, security essentials and open office for around 150GBP. Never a single complaint.

Sure it ain't pretty but they work and are cheap and way more functional than an RT device.

Not sure I could live with the inevitable brick wall when someone takes their RT and tries to install some obscure bit of software they've been relying on for years on it (or open university materials for example). That's instant end game for them, resulting in "why did I buy this piece of shit"
My modus operandi is setting up bottom right corner of the screen as a hot corner for Show Desktop. Just bump your mouse down the bottom right, open up a finder window to find your file, start by dragging the file down to the right corner, which resets all windows – and the just drop! This is obviously even smoother for files that are already on the desktop.
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Depression is a complicated disease with many causes, and no one knows exactly what was going through Aaron's mind. But I believe his depression was in large part situational, and that yes, MIT is at least partly to blame for that situation.

At the bare minimum, whether or not you believe MIT aided the prosecution over the defense (and I believe they did), it seems clear to me that Aaron and his family (his father is an alumnus, and worked for the MIT Media Lab) deserved better than "neutrality" from the MIT administration, if for no other reason than that I can't think of a single conceivable technical reason to call what Aaron did "felony" hacking.

By standing pat, MIT also contributed to the ongoing prosecutorial weaponization of laws like the CFAA, which makes a felony of a wide range of activities that most hackers would not even categorize as misdemeanors, to say nothing of crimes that bar you from voting or holding most jobs. It is a terrible precedent no matter how you look at it.
looks interesting, have you any plans to open source the UIKit Components?
> Correct me if I'm wrong but they deserve blame for initiating the destruction of someone's life (jail time and fines in the millions)

So Aaron had nothing to do with getting himself into the situation that he did?
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Manning was never under threat of being judged by a civilian jury. It would have been a military jury, who even if pulled from Ft. Meade would have come from all walks of life before joining the military.

Likewise I don't think this means what you think it means for future whistleblowers. He could still very well be sentenced effectively to confinement for life, after all, and the thing that saved his bacon regarding 'aiding the enemy' is that the judge added another element to the charge, which the prosecution then failed to prove.

With that said, I don't think it could have gone better for Manning under a jury trial, so it certainly looks prudent from his end.
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They get around 5 new customers for every 1 new linkpeek.com customer.
Not sure I could live with the inevitable brick wall when someone takes their RT and tries to install some obscure bit of software they've been relying on for years on it (or open university materials for example).

Like when someone tries to do the same with their iPad? As long as you don't sell the RT as being able to run everything, I don't think people will expect it to.
There's a false adversary here, in the 12-hour days and 7-day weeks associated with startups. If you're not a founder, don't work more than 40-- possibly 50 on occasion but only for a project that benefits your career in a major way. Giving your all to a company in exchange for 0.02% of something without a well-defined value is a chump's game.

On the other hand, most passive income material smells more like an old-fashioned pyramid scheme than anyone else.

Yes, there are terrible startups out there that expect extreme hours. It's easier to leave one of those, and get a better job, than it is to generate a passive income stream from that point. Take the first step first. Get a better job first. Get some security and sanity in your life. Then, start to think about passive income.

It's hard to come up with good ideas when there's a gun in your face, which means that having a really bad job (e.g. the 84-hour-per-week startup gig) will make it almost impossible to build something that people will pay for. However, I wouldn't advise quitting wholesale for most people; if you end up with no job, then you have a different gun in your face, which is that you're rapidly running out of money.

I'm not going to argue that it's easy to generate passive income while working full-time; only that it's not easier for most people to just quit their day jobs and "magically" come up with the golden iPad app.
If MIT had said his access was authorized all of the CFAA charges would have gone away. The wire fraud charges I am not sure about, but most of the charges brought against him where about unauthorized access, so authorizing his access would have made them not applicable.
Does this apply to Aaron Schwartz as well?
Waiting tables is the extremely faint end of a spectrum that reaches to prostitution at the far end. Why pay someone to bring you food, if you aren't ill? Because you want to be made to feel good. More feelgoods, more money.
I completely agree. As an app developer, it gets very frustrating to see a certain percentage of users who are dealing with issues and not having a consistent approach to solving their issues. It's definitely gotten to a point where we have 3 classes of devices (and thus users) similar to how PC software used to be (and probably still is).

1. Performance: These devices can run your app smoothly even with a large number of assets demanding computational/graphics processing.
2. Basic: These devices can open and run your app but it starts to lag when pushed to the limit.
3. Incompatible: These devices don't make the cut in terms of specs and it's worth not even allowing the app to be downloaded.

The quickest way to deal with this is to eliminate the bottom wrung of devices by choosing only to deal with the more recent Android versions since older devices may not be able to upgrade. From there, it's probably worth excluding certain devices based on your app's performance trends (crashes, lags, customer complaints). Obviously, the most optimal solution is to continuously optimize your app to further include more devices.
A caveat of this: The distribution is very different depending on the geographic area. For my recently released US-focused app, Android 2.3 makes up 15% of the downloads.
Doesn't Surface Pro even have a fan? For me, it's a PC then.
"So, the two servers make a total of about $26/hour each, while everyone else in the restaurant is stuck at $8/hour."

My first jobs were as a busser, dishwasher, prep cook and line cook.

As a customer, I hate tipping! Tipping is an absurdly unfair practice. I never tip over 15%, usually 10% and sometimes nothing at all. Waiter/waitresses are overpaid for what they do.

If the food is good, tip the kitchen, not the person who brought it to the table.
It's hard to scroll down without zooming out on the map because there is no max-width for the container the site is in.

Logo could use some work. The word (BETA) is too big for my taste.

Either geotarget the location and zoom in there, or start zoomed out more because I live nowhere near where the map is zoomed in at.

These are just a few of my opinions.. nice idea overall.
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Bah, in the big picture I don't think it is any of those things. "Slow to change" was not the reason I used Powerpoint, Word, and OneNote in college. I used them because they were the best I could find at what they did, and I could afford them because they offered attractive pricing to students. As much as Office might irritate people on occasion, let's be honest here- Office is pretty good, and I'm not aware of any honest competitor.

The only other applications I used specifically for college were remote computing clients, Matlab, and a fairly slick PDF annotator.
As a volunteer member of the armed services, he is expected to be held accountable by standards that do not necessarily apply to civilians. That can cut both ways. In this case, it is likely to the defendants disadvantage, but that was always part of the context of his possible actions before they happened.
> I don't think a competent IS&T would have gone directly to the Cambridge police if there were no MIT police.

Can you explain this more? INLINE EDIT: I take it you are saying that IS&T would have not gone to the Cambridge Police Department at all if there were no Campus Police. I'm not sure this follows. They wanted to get this person to stop, and they surely could have just confiscated this laptop, but that may have actually been illegal since it wasn't theirs.

Edit: Need some explanation on this, too:

> I love how MIT tries to pin blame on their budgetary cutbacks and staff furloughs, too.

I assume you are referring to page 20, when MIT employees didn't respond until January 3rd to a JSTOR email sent on December 26/27th. How are they "pinning blame" on anything there? It reads as a very straightforward description of the timeline.
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Although this number clearly states the unfeasibility of subsisting solely on Spotify plays of a few songs composed, it fails to translate this number to the present value of the expected plays throughout the years before the song becomes public domain.

Such value would constitute a fraction of the payment the artist would get for composing those songs, since, as mentioned in another comment, "selling" your songs on Spotify does not require you to refrain from selling them elsewhere.

Only given the sum of the present value of all the different passive sources of revenue the artist will get from a song and the time he spent writing it can we begin to compare his remuneration with the minimum wage.
How do you determine the waitservice quality upfront? You can't trust reviews, since the super positive ones might have all been written by people who 'looked like high-tippers' and got the special service, and likewise the 'apparently poor-tipping party' service reviews might make an otherwise good restaurant look bad.

So you're pretty much stuck with going repeatedly or relying on anecdotal suggestions by friends or locals. And maybe you still can't trust those, for the same reasons.
The strategy one employs to deal with being punished for revealing wrongdoing has nothing to do with how "genuine" the activism is. To suggest that Snowden, who has given up his life to alert humanity to the worst surveillance program in the world's history, isn't a "genuine" activist is, frankly, ridiculous.
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Are you sure they didn't use "Canadians" to refer to black people?

Because from my understanding that's much more common.
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