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Unbelievable thanks for sharing these. How wide or narrow were you wanting to keep their distribution?
To each his own; I jog a 9-ish mile pace (4-ish miles) often. I find it enjoyable, and it provides good exercise, yet it's not daunting enough to make me drop the good habit.
I think at this point we're leaning toward the C&D. Is it absolutely necessary to have a lawyer do this or can we just contact them directly?

Right now our inclination is to just "shake hands" with them, tell them what they did was not cool, and ask them to change their direction.
Not only is this on Palm, but I suspect they planned it. They knew Apple wouldn't allow this to happen. It forces Apple to generate their own bad press. Next step is for Palm to write a workaround and look like the hero. Except they should've been paying attention when RealNetworks tried this a few years ago. That strategy relies on turning Apple fans against Apple. And if you follow the tech industry at all you know how difficult that will be (hint: damn near impossible).
A device identifying itself as an iPod in a protocol is no more "blatant infringement on Apple's marks" than it is when every modern browser puts Mozilla/4.0 in its user agent.
But it is nothing to do with the software. From the article:

For instance, it prompted doctors to follow guidelines for preventing infection when dressing wounds or inserting IVs, which in turn caused infection rates to fall by 88 percent.

Trained doctors need a computer to prompt them to "follow guidelines for preventing infection"? Apparently so... In that context, any software is better than none.
Easiest way: Look up the monitor's serial number online, and see if it's 6- or 8-bit.
Legal fees were about 15k, due to a pre-existing relationship between my publisher and the lawyer. It never went to trial, however. It was settled rather quickly. It was a very clear case, and the companies legal staff pretty much just made some grouchy noises and then came back with a settlement offer.

Yes, it counts as a win for me. It shut down the violations, and it cost an evil company time and money. Had it been a less egregiously nasty company, I probably would have been satisfied with a C&D. The violation in my case cost me very little (the materials in question were already available for free on the web, and their products were not competing with mine).

So, maybe my own past experience, and the specifics of that experience, makes me more trigger-happy on the subject than is prudent.
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This seems hare-brained on a number of levels.

Firstly, a hurricane involves an absolutely phenomenal amount of energy and area. The typical hurricane is 300 miles wide, covering an area of 280,000 square miles. Even the core (100 miles wide) is 30,000 square miles. How big are these tubs? How much of that area are you going to cover? How many of these things do you need to do that?

The idea goes even further off the rails when they start discussing non-hurricane uses, in two paragraphs saying the tubs "could stir up nutrient-rich sediment on ocean floors to promote plant and animal growth in environmentally-degraded areas" but then also "moving nutrients and other material from the ocean floor to the surface to promote growth of algae to trap carbon as a tool in fighting global warming."

Stirring up muck from the bottom is either going to feed fish (unlikely) or promote huge algal blooms (much more likely). But not both -- algal blooms pull oxygen from the water, killing fish.

It seems more like a crazy scheme drunken students would come up with at 3am than a real invention.
Please note that the 6-bit image is not what will be present on an Apple screen. The difference between 8-bit and dithered 6-bit is difficult to notice for most people.
I already using Unison to sync my music between my various computers. I would much rather have a usb device that I can just use with unison then have to add another program to my computer-use-flow.
Have you ever stopped to think that one of the reasons that people evangelize TDD is because it has worked for them and they want to share that with you?

Here are things TDD gets me in my everyday work:

* I don't have to refresh the web page and re-fill in my forms to see if the record saves correctly this time.

* I don't have to log out and log in as a different user to see how things work

* I can plan an API much easier with tests that I write first.

* I know that my features are done when my tests pass

* I can write new tests to prove that bugs my users encounter are really bugs. (You can't get everything tested the first time, but fixing bugs is much easier with tests)

* I can upgrade to a new version of a framework or library because when stuff breaks, I have a roadmap of what I need to change. I can then give a customer an accurate estimate of what it will take to do the work cos I KNOW what I have to fix.

You're doing it wrong if you write ALL your tests first. You write one, and you only write enough test to cover the feature you're implementing. then you implement the code to make it pass. This iteration takes no significant time at all to an experienced programmer, and automated tools can run in the background, monitoring your code for changes and only running the tests your code impacts. Because we're programmers, and we know how to write code that does that.

You think this is a joke? Something to be ignored? Go ask a CPA (accountant) how they do the books.

They sure don't just do the math once and say "trust me I'm really just that good." They balance the books. Dual-entry accounting. They do this because they are disciplined professionals. And people pay big money to accountants to get that right. Your tests shouldn't exist to exist, they should prove your code does what you want. Checks and balances.

Of course the path to this is the same path one takes to learn a new language. It will be slow to start. It was for me, but really, it's such a huge win for my long-term productivity. I am happier, my clients are happier.

Really, what's not to like?
Anyone going to OSCON next week?
We'll be there...our first time with a booth at a conference. Would enjoy running into some HN folks.

We'll have T-shirts (cperciva, I'll hang on to one for you, if you'll be there, as I hear you like that sort of thing).
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Well, I'm in India and it does display the calculations for me.
Hopefully not too far, but so others could share in them:

http://gist.github.com/148247
Yeah.

15K to get out with a pre-trial deal, doing not much more than send letters back and forth, some discovery and agreeing a settlement deal.

scratches head and wonders why he's not a lawyer
get a lawyer. - do it badly and you risk being sued yourself.
Indeed. The interesting programming problems are almost always independent of the business problem domain. I work for a company that writes HR applications. Very boring. The programming part, though, is very interesting.

Things like Moose, KiokuDB, and so on all came out of this work.
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We're early phase, and I realized recently that if I could hire any developer that I've worked with in the past that all of my top 3 (one of whom we recently hired) were college drop outs, and in general, I'd actually bias my decisions slightly towards those who had completed degrees. This surprised me a little.
can you remove spencer pratt? I refuse to recognize him as a celebrity...
I don't think litigation risk is greater in Europe than in the US at all.
I tried to ford the river. Didn't work :-\
I didn't actually intend to make actual speaker "goodness" into a factor in the discussion, but I see now that it seems to have done so; the scare quotes were to indicate that a non-engineer (even a musician who isn't also an engineer) would possibly prefer consumer speakers because they often smooth the sound and boost some frequencies often perceived as being "good".

As you note, consumer speakers (at most price points under the obscenely expensive mark) tend to hype certain frequencies: bass and highs in particular. Folks hear it and think, "Wow, so bright and clear! And dig that bass! You can really feel it." Studio monitors do none of those things, on purpose. The job of studio monitors is not to lure a consumer at Best Buy into thinking this set of speakers is better because it is louder and brighter in a room full of noise. Their job is to accurately reflect what is on tape.

So, engineers very rarely talk about whether monitors sound "good". The word engineers use as praise is "accurate". And, when they do use the word "good" in this context, they usually mean "accurate", where someone else probably means "hyped".
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Yes I read the article as well. The issue is that Google probably has as close as you can get to an infinite amount of bandwidth, which makes this sort of a low priority item. I don't want to trivialize the technology; it's obviously very cool stuff, but it's the solution to a problem I doubt they ever had.

"Hi everyone, welcome to the Monday morning Chrome staff meeting. Um... so we've gotten some push back from management. They -- guys you're not going to believe this -- they think we might be using too much bandwidth. I tried to make a snarky joke about YouTube, but they weren't having any of it. So, um... we're gonna go ahead and pull two or three guys from the [INSERT IMPORTANT BROWSER COMPONENT THAT WILL LEAD TO A BETTER BROWSER HERE] team and have them work on making the updates smaller."
I wouldn't say that forefoot landing (part of the POSE method) is strictly "better" - it's a hotly debated point.

Many top runners do not run this way.
That's weird, I didn't see it either this afternoon, but now I do.
For instance, check out the Launch Escape System:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_spacecraft#Launch_Escape.... Plenty of hacks, in particular the Q-Ball cover.
Apple is changing this in Snow Leopard: The default gamma will be the same as windows.
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How many of us are working as if the world will end tomorrow? Should we?
No matter how unlikely life is determined to be, we still have a massive universe to help balance the odds.
I currently sync my music to my Pre via iTunes. All of my music is tied up in it, so it's convenient. I didn't think it would last, but I can hold off on an iTunes upgrade until Palm patches. Ad nauseum, I'm sure.
AFAIK, Joel is not the 'Atwood' of the two.
Apple only made the move to non-DRM songs when Amazon opened their DRM-free music store. There's no good faith in anything Apple has done recently - as a Mac user I'm disappointed with how draconian Apple has gotten as of late.
So how do you manage playlists?
Before fingerprint scanners were as common in laptops as they are now, you could totally freak out border guards. The fingerprint scanner would give them the impression they were working with some really high-level, VIP person. Now, of course, it has less of an effect or no effect as a lot more machines have them.
A lot of people are on surprisingly crappy connections.
>Does this man do anything without at least some kind tiny piece of ulterior motive?

Nope. The billions of dollars of donations to protection against malaria is simply to keep more people alive to buy Office, I'm sure.
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I think a key item in Stack Overflow's success is that they can predict with high reliability how big it will get. They are safe going with scale up because they know they will not have to scale out.

Compare this to a more mainstream consumer website, say FriendFeed, which is currently on roughly the same scale as Stack Overflow. FriendFeed's business model is more "swing for the bleachers" and success would mean scaling to the size of Twitter. They need an architecture that can handle fast growth if it comes.

Stack Overflow is a much less risky proposition. They had excellent knowledge of the market, knew they could pull all the traffic from expertsexchange almost overnight, and they knew that scaling to tens of millions of monthly visitors was something they needed to worry about.
As someone who works on a project with a team of dedicated engineers under fairly strict code guidelines including code reviews, I can tell you from experience none of these factors have to do with "code cleanliness" (as ours is not, at least in my opinion).
One might just as easily say that it's treating time as a 4th spatial dimension (offering a further 2 degrees of freedom, when our actual experience of time seems to be sadly one way, unless you read pravda). What he's suggesting is not substantively different from the color analogy.
I was thinking the same thing. IIRC, the language of prime numbers isn't context-free, either.

Though to be fair, since the universe is finite, no existing computer is powerful enough to check if an arbitrarily large number is prime.
Right, from the title I was anticipating a new compression algorithm in the traditional sense like DEFLATE or LZW. This is a new differential compression algorithm; indeed still considered a compression algorithm.
Not just you. I seems much more natural to me to think of an integral as "continuous sum."

You can often describe the exact same thing using a discrete sum or an integral, e.g., in a classical mechanics class you first consider a system of N connected springs, and a number of properties (like, say lagrangian, energy etc.) of the system will be expressed as sums with N terms. Then you take the continuous limit, the connected springs become one string and voila, all sums become integrals.

In quantum mechanics for some systems the set of all energy levels is discrete (e.g., the harmonic oscillator), for some it's continuous (e.g., a free particle), and often it is part-discrete part-continuous (a hydrogen atom.) Many formulas will require you to take a sum for the discrete part and an integral for the continuous part. Some quantum mechanics textbooks introduce a special symbol, a capital sigma overlaying an integral symbol, which means "integrate or add, whichever appropriate."
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I think GPA is a better measure of "I can work inside a system and play by its rules"

Does having a high GPA indicate that this is what the person was trying to prove? Does it even suggest that following rules was the motivator that got them where they are? As I pointed out in my earlier comment, maybe the graduate's GPA was high due to motivations that had very little to do directly with wanting to achieve a high GPA or wanting to please other people.

The meaning is ambiguous; as are the meanings of everything someone might rely on to assess someone's ability. You need context to figure out what each individual indicator means, and this includes the GPA; it might mean absolutely nothing, or it might be the thing that pulls two or three other indicators out of ambiguity and makes the true ability of the person become more believable.
About two months ago, one of my shoelaces broke. I was still three miles from home, and walking wouldn't get me back there in time. So I took off my shoes and socks, and continued my run. It felt a bit awkward at first, but after twenty strides or so my feet started to figure out the proper technique. After half a mile, I was able to really start running, and boy it felt great! (I made it home in time without any problems, except for some pretty sore calves the next day.)

Because it was such a great, joyful experience (and I still didn't get new laces), I've continued my barefoot runs. Yesterday morning I ran 10 miles (6 miles brick sidewalk, 4 miles sandy forest path), without any problems whatsoever. You do have to watch out for broken glass trough, so when I go between dusk and dawn I put on my aqua socks. But otherwise, I've found my bare feet to be incredibly resilient and wear-proof. Also, I am running completely pain-free for the first time in years. It does require some changes to your stride, most importantly not landing on your heel. But not being constrained by rigid running shoes anymore, your body is able to figure out the rest as you go.

In a few weeks, I'll be running the half marathon in my city. The self-conscious part of me wants to wear shoes and avoid the questions and strange looks. (You will get those, anything from people shouting "Hey, you forgot to put on your shoes" to others nearly walking into trees and lamp posts while staring at your feet in amazement.) But the Dvorak-typing, trackball-using part of me just want to do what feels best, regardless of any social standard, and go barefoot: zero pain, maximum joy.
I, on the other hand,

do indent to be a smart ass.
hey it would just be nice if they opened this up, standards help everybody in the long run.
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Joel is referring to his programmer(s) and I think Atwood is coding for StackOverflow
It's also nice to be paid as well.

While I can understand saints who just contribute, I grok the argument that the author makes regarding making his latest package GPL instead of BSD-licensed if that will help him get acknowledgement and/or get paid.

Sure an software engineer can be like an artist, but preferably not a starving one.
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it's about the word "free", and the feeling that "you can modify and distribute this only if you accept my terms and restrictions" is perhaps a strange definition of that word.

Only strange because you're framing the issue with individualism. The GPL was created by a socialist and values social freedom more highly than individual freedom.

The two ideas of freedom are always in contention. Like the freedom to swing your fist wherever you like vs the freedom from getting hit in the face by random people.

BSD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty

GPL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_liberty
Apple is trying to be Microsoft, then why there is so much hate about Microsoft not for Apple?
For the same reason trained pilots use checklists before takeoff. I doesn't mean they're less good. When you're optimized to focus on high level problems, it tends to be the trivia which cause you to trip up. You might as well ask why programmers have this dependence on editors to do syntax highlighting and automatic indenting - "can they code or not? What can't they be happy with notepad?!"

Even in surgery, it turns out to be useful to do things like attach labels saying 'operate on this leg (or...)'.
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So is http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044 out of date? I hate to sound pushy but could you post this as a text file or put it in some sort private repository?
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Who are these people? I've heard of the Terminator and Craig Newmark, but none of the other twitters you display.

Maybe you could have a-list.celebritiesthattwitter.com, b-list.celebritiesthattwitter.com, and what you've got now which is not-reallly.celebritiesthattwitter.com
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Gee, that was an amazing surprise. Not.
It all depends on your network configuration and service model. What do you want to happen when your servers lose the connection to their loghost?
That 88% figure came out of a legitimate study.

Another option is to give the nurses checklists - but then the nurses may not call out the docs (or the doc may ignore them). (I believe there's a similar issue with co-pilots -- lots of crashes are when the more experienced officer is flyer - believed in part to be that the co-pilot is timid to call out his mistakes)
Let me add to our happy collaborative spell checking exercise: It's supposed to be "intend" I believe ;-)
It would be very interesting if one of these technologies eventually made carbon capture so cheap that multiple countries could single-handedly afford to reduce carbon levels to whatever they wanted.

At that point carbon levels become an active decision. The words environmental policy would take on a completely different meaning.
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I'm with you on this one. Consider him removed and celebrityless.
I think that for the most part, it is expected that some sort of geo-engineering (call it what you like) will take place.
I'm in Croatia and it's not returning calculations for me. It seems only select locations got this enabled in the first run...
Infographic: Comparison of trad airlines vs low cost. Pax/emp is interesting.
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Apple being an ass for storing the library in an open xml document any other third party client can read? like Nokia has been doing for years?

Don't you think it's completly rational what Apple is doing here?
I...don't?

I have a now playing queue that repeats and shuffles. (I actually use windows media player to listen to music. Because it er, lets me queue up a few hours of music and then plays it. I've used winamp, foobar and itunes, but I really don't need any features beyond "plays whatever I drag/drop in".)
Even the list I emailed mishmash is out of date, now.
Ah there you go, TBL is English. I stand corrected.
wow.

nothing like taking a whole bucket of people and throwing them in the trash. I for one think the idea of taking teaching and calling it stupid is insanity.
His loony slogans is like the Fox news of the anti-agile movement.
Ok, (very very frequent) international traveller here, this is my advice:

Have two users on your machine :

User you with all your goodies (xmonad, etc) on /home/you , home mounted on a different partition than /
user alarm with a fake very visible and easy to use gnome / emails mounted on /user/home/alarm

On the gnome init session of the user alarm , create a bash script to be called as soon as you log into that account with the following content:

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It almost needs to be a private service API.

edit: for simplicity sake, maybe HN users with 100+ karma ;) see a top level "Spammers" link to a nightly text file?
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What if you did have more interesting projects but focused more time on your studies?

When your paying large amounts for a college education you want to make the most out of it.
news.ycombinator.com, hah. that was most of what i read anyways so i just switched over one day
Why are so many anti-agile/TDD blog posts just silly ranting? I guess we all like to make a little spectacle.

Please, present a more thoughtful argument without the wild-eyed zealotry.
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