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The view of the FSF is that, in the case of software, that power discrepancy is morally wrong. So copyleft was established as a method to disable it.

In this context we don't consider "restrictive" as the opposite of "permissive." The ones who are trying to restrict users are the proprietary software companies. We need to use certain language to draw attention to this because proprietary software developers are trying to downplay the fact that they are restricting their users. The only reason the GPL is not "permissive" is because it does not permit them to restrict users.
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Thanks for the pointer to Chocolatey.

I'm not a Windows user but I do keep a Windows 7 Enterprise VM on my laptop that I occasionally need to fire up. Every one else at company uses Windows exclusively, however.

I have typically used Ninite to "bootstrap" a new Windows box (on those rare occasions I've needed to) but this looks like something that can be used on an ongoing basis and that I can recommend to my co-workers (especially w/ the available GUI).

I'm still looking over the site and reading about Chocolatey so I'm sure I'll find the answer at some point, but does handle software updates as well (i.e. "apt-get update", since it compares itself to apt-get)?

Edit: Yes, it can (see "cup all").
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It does. It only costs $1mil to go to court and prove it.
You are very naive if you think journalists decide which stories get published/aired.

Politicians are PERFECT for this kind of game. Think about it, fewer than a thousand people (congress + high-ranking judges) decide on EVERYTHING. It's trivial to bribe / blackmail them when you have billions and access to their emails and billions of dollars. Think of which major politicians were killed in the last 50 years.
He should watch the show The Borgias. He should get enough inspiration on how to handle the situation after this.
From Title 35 US Code section 271 (35 USC 271)

>>>>>

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent.

(b) Whoever actively induces infringement of a patent shall be liable as an infringer.

(c) Whoever offers to sell or sells within the United States or imports into the United States a component of a patented machine, manufacture, combination or composition, or a material or apparatus for use in practicing a patented process, constituting a material part of the invention, knowing the same to be especially made or especially adapted for use in an infringement of such patent, and not a staple article or commodity of commerce suitable for substantial noninfringing use, shall be liable as a contributory infringer. <<<<

So host your site abroad and don't induce US customers to use your software within the USA. Running your software abroad and soliciting US customers to run your software on your servers abroad would seem not to be covered. Check with your lawyer; laws are often interpreted to mean the opposite of the plain meaning of the text.
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I think he meant off-topic in a legal discussion because they are merely a lawmakers opinions and not actually law.
Jefferson was the U.S.'s first patent examiner, this eventually became one of his most time consuming duties. It's claimed that this indicates he supported patents, which is false, as this letter, written well after his duties, shows[0]. He was simply trying to have them applied as granted as strictly as possible

[0]http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12.... Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson
13 Aug. 1813 Writings 13:333--35

Jefferson was, of course, an inventor himself, though not as prolific of one as Benjamin Franklin, who also opposed patents.
Communication with the programmer you have an issue with, and communication with the leadership in the project.

If you have personal issues with the programmer, such as their attitude or behavior, bring them up in a personal setting with the programmer himself.

Your issues regarding the way decisions are made within the project should be raised with the leadership.

If you don't communicate your issues to the responsible parties then you can't expect them to change.
I think you got me wrong here. I'm happy with any kind of discussions but getting stuck makes me unhappy. For example, 7 years ago, I thought PHP is really shitty and just switched to another language immediately. A few years later, switched to another.

I just think it's really pointless to discuss PHP or JavaScript or CoffeeScript in 2013. All of them are what they are and people should use them if they work for them.

Getting stuck with same discussion is just boring.
But you have to live in the UK to buy it.
As far as I've understood, it's impossible to scale a flat mesh network, because of the amount of routing information required is quadratic in the number of nodes.

To solve this, you need a hierarchical network (like the Internet has), however now it's no longer flat, and certain nodes will have more power/influence than others. On a global scale this will undoubtedly lead to similar political problems with control and privacy.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong on the details here, but this is a network theoretical problem that needs to be solved before you start designing all the other bits and only realize much later that the network will be congested beyond usability for meshes larger than some trivial size.
You don't have an argument -- you have an axiom that claims that taxes are theft. Pretty much everyone else disagrees. So are you going to leave or just keep whining like a 5 year old that you can't get your own way?
>because their daddy simply disagrees with what you think is right and refuses to pay to people you believe are good?

I'd leave out this part.

edit: or to be clear, I'd be as likely to say that as I would be to say to the children of a burglar, "I'm arresting your father because he wanted you to have nice things."
> In February 2013, EVE Online reached over 500,000 subscribers.

So what, the entire game userbase needs to be awake and in the same spot? :0)
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"How do I deal with a difficult programmer..."

If you're not project lead, you don't.

Something along similar lines came up on Ars Technica a little while back "How should I behave as a developer in a project that’s headed for failure?": http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/how-sh...

There are some good ideas there to better engage something like this.
does this change (remove?!) the eddington limit for accretion?!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddington_luminosity
The USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US (2006)
It's worth mentioning that Borges is a great author for STEM types. Apart from being a towering critic of literature, he wrote short stories. He treated these as a poetry problem -- compressing the most story into the least number of words. They are spare, lean, but powerful.

The Lottery in Babylon and The Library of Babel, in particular, are combinatorial horror stories. They take simple concepts and slowly unfold them. The sense of escalating dread at the possibilities of infinity and the uncertainties of infinitude reminds me of HP Lovecraft, yet it's all matter of fact without the purple prose.

I also greatly enjoyed Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, where Borges similarly shows the power of mere ideas to reshape the entire world; even ideas which are later shown to be utterly false.
...which still should never have been granted a fucking patent. That is absolutely block-headedly idiotic.
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I've never played EVE Online but from what I have read about it the engineering behind it seems interesting. Have any suggests for Dev Blog posts from their team?
I did read the article. There's a lot more information to be released. Snowden took thousands of documents that he hand selected. Greenwald has said that there are more NSA programs to be exposed.
It's an infection it acquired from an incestuous relationship with Reddit, where anything that isn't peer-reviewed or watermarked is the object of karma-whoring wannabe-internet-detectives.
It's not just the location, it's the fact that everything entered into Google Calendar is used to build a profile of you used for advertising. I'd rather pay $1 a month.
Senior VP Bob Mansfield removed from Apple's leadership page
Yeah, that's great, but for fuck's sake, you don't "question media" by simply launching into an ad-hominem attack against the Rolling Stone. Stop trying to defend your little tantrum up above by having another little tantrum.
Couple of years back I'd proposed a cure for patent trolls: Large tech companies form a non-profit group and preemptively attack patent portfolio of companies that they mutually agree to be trolls. The entire business model of trolls hang on a fact that they will be the first attacker so their litigation expenses are small. If a patent troll gets spammed with 100s of lawsuits for bad patent grants at the same time, they will go out of business just from the expense of litigation or at least trolling would not be as much lucrative. Obviously this plan has its own risk: this non-profit group can start attacking legitimate patent holders to keep them out of the game. But even bigger issue is that lot of large companies are already in bed with largest trolls themselves such as IV. I don't see other great ways to curb trolling. The effort like Ask Patent can prevent some bad future patents but it would be very hard to get law in place that cancels bad patents that have already been granted.
Yes, but Java acknowledges that the bulk of programmers lie near a median. It's a language for an industrial age, full of automation and great steel buttresses. Those who hanker for surgery, or lightsabres, or precision archery, or any number of analogical departures -- they naturally drift to other languages.
sorry to hear its crashing on you. I'm more of a webapp guy so haven't had a lot of success debugging my way through apple's objective-c libraries yet. In general, the backwards compatibility of the 10.8 sdk is pretty unreliable so it definitely works best if you're on mountain lion.
My first project was a favor for my father-in-law. His church needed a new website.

When I started freelancing professionally 5 years ago, I booked my first real jobs through Elance. The pay wasn't great but got some portfolio pieces and references. Over time I left Elance, but I still have some agency clients that found me from Elance.
The main thing is that order isn't always necessary, but maintaining order isn't free.

So if it isn't necessary, why pay the cost?

Moreover, the order you want will change from case to case. Today I care about the alphabetical order of names, tomorrow about the order of dates, next week I am most interested in the top 100 transactions by value.

Imposing a single order imposes an access pattern which may or may not hold true. With sets I delay that binding until the last possible moment, when I understand it best of all.
Has someone accidentally deleted the profile of one of Apple's most important figureheads or has Mr. Mansfield decided to step aside?
The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world ... and in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare. The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour.

-- Orwell, 1984
0% of what you claim to be responding to is what he actually said. For someone that claims to be want to carefully evaluate the information presented to him you might want to figure out what he actually said.
I'm curious, can you elaborate on this? What would they be querying? What kind of intrusion and what kind of attack?
Is this how Game boy games have color when playing on a Game Boy Color or Advanced?
Netflix isn't really a SaaS because it's not providing "software" (the first "S" in SaaS)-- it's providing content.

On the other hand, Google Calendar, Gmail, etc are providing software and would probably be considered SaaS products. You're providing the content and Google is providing the means of managing it.
I'm on a dinky little Sony Vaio 11" and no-script on FF has been my friend. Best thing is that it charges pretty well on a car or solar panel or bicycle + dyno or what have you.

It's ultimately disadvantageous to magazine publishers in particular (since they seem to serve the most bloat) when people will eventually block scripts en masse.

Edit: Forgot to mention, I also use this http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

Although I changed 127.0.0.1 to 0.0.0.0 and it seemed to have no ill effects.
I find it interesting that more women than men consider religion important to them, when religion is partially to blame for them being marginalized in society.

On the whole, I just look at those figures and feel a deep amount of shame for my country (US). We'll catch up, but I think part of the reason for these figures is that the US is relatively rural.
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I think a really good addition to the blog post would be a link to an article/blog post that explains more in-depth the different topics shown. For instance, when you discussed Objects, a link to http://javascriptissexy.com/javascript-objects-in-detail/ would have been very useful. Javascript has a lot of weird edge cases and peculiarities that newcomers should read about.

Other than that, awesome post. I always love just seeing the code vs. reading about it in a book. I find it's easier to learn that way, especially when the language you're coming from has a lot of similarities.

EDIT: To clarify, I have no affiliation with 'JS is Sexy', I just think the lessons/tutorials Richard Bovell writes are awesome!
Thanks, Mashape is what I'm passionately currently doing. HFT is more of a side project thing. If you are based in San Francisco, it would be cool to meet for a coffee (you can email me at: mark at mashape dot com)
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it's slightly less wrong, as far as i can see - http://www.acooke.org/cute/HyperloopW0.html
I'd be interested to see the exact phrasing of each question.
I probably take a shortcut somewhere assuming "+1" country codes during contact merging... Will fix in future release!
This reminds me of the trick where you can create a GIF of more than 256 colors, by making an animated GIF with a different palette per frame and only selectively updating parts of the image.
That's just a little custom thing I made myself with JS/CSS.
On the differing-demographics question, it would be interesting to have some finer-grained data to look at some of those confounding issues. I can believe that Americans and Western Europeans differ on some values, but they also differ considerably amongst themselves: the values of Brooklyn and suburban Houston are fairly different.

Even just regional data could be useful to be a more accurate view.
In a lot of web projects the content is likely to change much more frequently than the design. The design will be done by a freelance designer once and be reused for several years, possibly on multiple sites.

The content is often written by the business owner or as a side job for someone who works for the business full time and as such gets updated every week via a CMS.

I've seen plenty of web projects where the client has supplied the initial content and the design has been built around that. Come back in a few months and everything is a mess because new content has been shoehorned into places where it doesn't really work.

In such cases the best one can hope for is a generic template style design that doesn't break when someone copy-pastes 300 characters into a space designed for 100.
Don't say someday, look at Remo and do it like he did, just use one of these languages in your everyday projects.

http://www.codeblog.ch/2011/06/statically-linked-linux-execu...
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What steps can I take while I write my web app from scratch right now, to ensure that it scales beautifully when it is launched?
Seems like its easy to find shitty patents. How about we link to ones we think are well-deserved? Are there any well-deserved patents relating to the web?
I've taken a Pew Research Poll before. What struck me immediately was the inane and terrible format of the questions. I actually said to the individual giving the poll, "None of these questions really allow me to confer how I feel about the issues that I know you're asking me about. They're basically nonsense."
Blergh, Kamailio.

Will it scale down to a Raspberry Pi? I realise I'm completely not your target market but I need something that does VoIP better than my router does it.
Yes, I could scrap some webpages, but is it okay to make a business out of it?
nothing other than linkbait

Matt Cutts defines link bait as anything "interesting enough to catch people's attention[1].

What the fuck is HN's problem with interesting headlines? Should everyone create articles and put headlines on them like "My overview of the pros and cons of the Super Game Boy as a platform for game developers"?

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_bait
I'd be interested in seeing data from other large tech employers regarding productivity and ROI (on both the training required and the work that could be/is done at home). Author should've been more clear between engineers and support reps.
It may be off topic in an argument against the propriety of a specific patent within the current system, but is absolutely on topic in an argument favoring reform due to that system having overstepped its initial charter. I think your parent was making the latter argument.
Part of the definition of "patent troll" is that the troll undertakes no economic activity other than launching lawsuits. Therefore, a troll cannot be sued preemptively.
I don't know where you got that from anything I wrote.
An organic, non-toxic solid ball that I can put down a drain/garbage disposal. The ball would then dissolve and eliminate odors in the sink/drain.
Especially considering that each will be in their native language.

Additionally I'd like to see the breakdown of each political party in each country.
Also recommended Borges' "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" about a writer who rewrites Don Quixote word-for-word, though of course imbuing with a radically new meaning given the different historical context:

"It is a revelation to compare Menard’s Don Quixote with Cervantes’. The latter, for example, wrote (part one, chapter nine):

'...truth, whose mother is history, rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future’s counselor.'

Written in the seventeenth century, written by the 'lay genius' Cervantes, this enumeration is a mere rhetorical praise of history. Menard, on the other hand, writes:

'...truth, whose mother is history, rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future’s counselor.'

History, the mother of truth: the idea is astounding. Menard, a contemporary of William James, does not define history as an inquiry into reality but as its origin. Historical truth, for him, is not what has happened; it is what we judge to have happened. The final phrases—exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future’s counselor —are brazenly pragmatic.

The contrast in style is also vivid. The archaic style of Menard—quite foreign, after all—suffers from a certain affectation. Not so that of his forerunner, who handles with ease the current Spanish of his time."
IMAP support from Hotmail (err Outlook).
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it's great to see crowdfunded science pick up! Obviously I've got a vested interest in this and watching very closely...
It's a bait-and-switch. The headline implies that the article is about X, but it turns out to be about Y.
Perhaps it is because they are more religious that they find it easier to accept marginalisation?
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Yup. I am quite familiar. My great grandfather made a minor fortune in the 20's with a service company that would refinish the bearings used in shops with overhead drive shafts, etc.
Meh.

Sometimes you do just need to dump crap into the thing to see what it looks like, and Lorem Ipsum is better than banging on the keyboard for a few paragraphs.

I think this is a bit of a false dichotomy anyway -- you can do both, use filler text and viable copy when it's available. But if, say, you're making a forum or have a client who isn't exactly eager to dump copy on you, or they want to write it themselves, or you just want to tweak around on some css, anything is better than nothing.
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I know everyone turns to Rolling Stone for the latest research on climate science but don't miss all the articles on JavaScript:

http://www.rollingstone.com/search?q=Javascript
> On the whole, I just look at those figures and feel a deep amount of shame for my country (US).

I feel a deep shame for your comment. I can respect someone for believing in a socialist approach, why are you unable to do the same for those who believe in a laissez faire approach?
Off topic in a real courtroom, maybe. In the court of public opinion, Jefferson holds some sway.
Slightly NSFW, could someone add the tag to the title?
Is it because it sets up a situation where there are only two sides? That thought crossed my mind when it was the state or religion, and excluding a possible third option that could describe the way people feel.
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This, as with the patent comment, takes quotes out of context. The specific context relevant here is that while Jefferson was initially skeptical of patents, after only two months of being one of the first patent examiners, he became a firm believer. [1]

"An act of Congress authorising the issuing patents for new discoveries has given a spring to invention beyond my conception. Being an instrument in granting the patents, I am acquainted with their discoveries. Many of them indeed are trifling, but there are some of great consequence which have been proved by practice, and others which if they stand the same proof will produce great effect." - Jefferson to Benjamin Vaughan, June 27 1790 [2]

[1] http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/pate...

[2] http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-16-02-03...
Yes! An excellent meditation piece for language designers thinking about syntax and semantics. Similarly Kafka and his Predecessors for working out who should be acclaimed an inventive genius.

In fact, let's just give up and say that every one of his short stories is a delight.
Segway was a business with patents, investors, and stuff. This is a gift to the humanity although if somebody has to implement it, it will be Elon Musk, I'm sure.
Oh! the Java comment was not for you.

I think for your use case decac, clay, bitC and Cyclone would indeed be ideal. There is this Haskell like language with effects based typesystem that might be worth looking at, the name continues to escape me.

One can go very low level with Felix, after all you can write inline C, C++ and define C and C++ functions, but those are not type checked. ABI could also be an issue given that it compiles to C++.

All the best for fun with kernel writing :)
I would like to patent a method for making money by filing completely obvious and trivial patents, pushing it through the PTO, and then suing everyone in sight. I am almost certain there is no prior art for this, right?