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Originality is valuable.

And it takes consistent hard work and courage to be and think differently and survive until its value is found.
If it weren't for cows and pigs and chickens being so tasty, they would probably not be so ubiquitous, because then humans would not have reasons to breed them en masse.

By this logic, I say we start eating endangered species, creating a market demand and thus an economic reason to breed them.
I suspect you too must have strong feelings on the subject of open source
economics since you've clearly misunderstood and mischaracterized my
point: airing these views doesn't help promote Qi so he shouldn't link
them all together.

I'm not an expert on lisp or functional languages so I'm willing to give
him the benefit of the doubt on the first two pages where he presents
the design tradeoffs of Qi. Then on the next page instead of learning
more about Qi, I find myself in the middle of an argument where his
word choice confuses the distinction between free/unsupported open
source and free/unencumbered open source. WTF? Didn't he just
tell us on the previous page one of his strategies for Qi development
was "3. Infiltrate don't confront".

And then I get to learn how he's decided to resign his job and
become a wandering Taoist.
It certainly has been a strange phenomena, seeing otherwise intelligent geeks arguing the virtues of such a closed and locked down system. I frankly started to wonder whether Apple had a team of paid voters. Hopefully all this results in a freeing up of US mobile networks.
From the look of it it seems the company is trying to get the courts to prop up their failing business model. If they think the only way Google can monetize their operation is by eliminating competition first than they are seriously deluded. Why only Google? Why not sue mappy, viamichelin, and all the other companies providing free maps.

Also, you can't sue for just any reason. You have to make a valid case that the company is doing direct harm to your business. If companies could sue for any reason the free market would grind to a halt as failed businesses sue successful businesses for being successful. What you can do is send a stupid letter and a press release saying you are going to sue. They are hoping Google will settle before it reaches court, because the judge will take one look at this case and throw them out on their asses.
Not really, because I tend to look at the broader picture.

All mobile-phone platforms are still ultimately mediated by the carriers. If there's something they don't like, they'll find a way to stop you doing it; maybe it'll be an agreement with a hardware or software vendor, maybe it'll be implemented in the network, maybe it'll just be in their customer terms and give them a justification to cut you off. But they'll find a way to apply restrictions that will make people angry, because they can and because people jumping ship from Apple isn't going to change that.

And the alleged alternative at this point is Google. Google, which has a track record of simply shutting down accounts at their other services with no warning, no explanation, no appeal process and no recourse (unless you're lucky enough to know someone on the inside). Which makes "I'm going to develop for Android" sound an awful lot like "I want more of the same". Sure, you don't have to go through Google, but see the paragraph above for why it won't matter.
Ok.

I agree with you on the text links, but if it was just to recoup the costs that should do it without any real work on your end.

I don't see how rewriting the pages is going to help recoup expenses, that just costs time and does not bring any cash.

Yes, celebrity sites make money, but they are also the shadiest operators when it comes to SEO, then there is the 'legal' angle.

Referral fees are usually only for sites that turn a buck, you do not wish to be seen linking to that kind of content.

It's one excellent way to kill your reputation, both 'online' in terms of PR and offline.

Maybe you could make a deal with a single website that targets the same demographic as the one that you seem to be attracting and place a single banner or such for a fixed fee per month.

http://www.affiliateranker.com/directory/

has some candidates, but it will take you a while to find something that works well. A/B testing is the key to getting an affiliate program that converts well.
Yes.

I believe it was initially sola fide (only by faith), but he also added sola scriptura (only by scriptures) and sola gratia (only by Grace)

Luther was increasingly upset over being able to fully reconcile with God. Even at confession, he was concerned that in trying to do a good job confessing he might exaggerate his sins, committing another sin. He might feel proud that he did such a good job confessing, committing yet another sin. It was like an endless loop for him, which sounds a lot like this article.

To top it all off, Luther saw the church selling indulgences, which basically meant you could write a check and then do bad things and you were covered. I think that was the straw that broke the camel's back. A similar observation, which this article did not make, is where famous people who break these rules are still deemed "okay" because of the monetary support they give to the correct causes. If Aaron had made this observation it would have been almost a perfect analogy to Luther's early concerns.
Your wife, it seems, is a bodhisattva. Best wishes to you both.
The irony of it all is that many MS fanboys I know are now becoming Apple fans. Just as Apple turns to shit.
I've played with Dropbox before, so it's an option, although I'd prefer something with finer granularity of pricing. I'll probably need more than 2GB, but unlikely to need more than 10, so jumping straight to 50 is quite a leap.

I also got the impression that Dropbox doesn't cope so well with being run from a different computer every day, and would want to sync all my existing stored files down onto the computer I happen to be using that day, which isn't so good. And AIUI I'd need to make double-double-sure I'd uninstalled it from each when I was done, and notify Dropbox that this machine is no longer active etc. But I admit I haven't dug too deeply into all that yet.
> will have good network access

You will need a reasonably fast Internet access to use the online backup. Depending on where you will be traveling, you may run into upstream bandwidth being severely restricted.
Sorry, you are correct about US intervention in Afghanistan. I intended to limit the scope of my response to the Eastern bloc, not the entire Soviet sphere. Poor choice of words on my part.

The reason I can be pretty sure there wasn't much US involvement in Eastern bloc revolutionary movements is that these movements time and again followed one of two patterns:
A. "Reformist"
1. Trusted, committed Party members have falling out with Party Secretary, who is heavy-handed/incompetent/annoying.
2. These Party members (usually Politburo) force out the Party Secretary and promise to get the worker's state back on track.
3. These new leaders (to the surprise of everyone) actually become popular by forcing out the hated leader and promising reform.
4. The non-elite classes (i.e. those not in the Party) get a little too excited in the midst of this public euphoria, and start calling for cheaper meat, less overbearing local Party hacks, freely-elected union representatives.
5. The Soviets march in.

B. "Dissident-led"
1. A small group of self-proclaimed dissidents publicly and repeatedly denounce the regime.
2. Because of this, they lose their (usually) intellectual, white-collar jobs, guarantee no secondary education for their children, endure frequent jail stints and get assigned back-breaking physical work.
3. Nevertheless, they refuse to back down, and instead continue their public activities.
4. The economy gets bad/a rally is organized for a slain WWII hero, and 10k-15k people strike/protest/rally in the streets of the capitol city. Anti-communist chants inevitably occur, and someone gets shot.
5. The shooting, and the Party's embarrassment about it, encourages more people to protest and gives them a reason to protest. Soon as much as 1/4 of the population is in the streets on any given day.
6. The Soviets march in/Gorbachev writes off the Eastern bloc.

Neither of these patterns is especially useful/conducive to US interests. The first severely damages right-wing interests; here is an example of the people of a Soviet puppet state showing trust and affection in their political leaders. If it had worked -- if Hungary or Czechslovakia had transformed into something closer to Sweden or even Yugoslavia -- the meme of socialism as perpetrator of evil would be tarnished. It's also difficult to generate political enthusiasm by more than a few hundred people. That just doesn't happen, no matter how much money/support you give.

The second pattern is even more difficult to produce. Anyone willing to be bought off is a rational actor, and in 1977 nobody believed the Soviet Union was going to disappear anytime soon. Why would you give up all earthly comforts for a future that would likely never come?
The different reasons for company code contributions
true, but you could bring a usb stick with ubuntu NBR on it and use that instead. It's my favourite way of taking a computer with me when I don't want to bring a laptop.

All my tools and stuff exactly where I expect it and no chance of having my email or ssh stuff compromised because of some nifty keyboard sniffing virus in an internet cafe. Usually the owners don't mind the reboot.
GV only uses the data network to initiate the call. All the actual calling is done over the voice network. And SMS is free with GV.
> until web authors can use "display: table"

IE8 supports it, so any day now.
have you tried something like pubmatic?
http://www.dawdle.com - it's an online marketplace platform. Until we get funding, we'll just play in our current video games, systems, and accessories niche. But we know exactly what happens with cash. It'd be fun to try.
I am not going to claim to know much about it, but have you considered a creative commons license?

http://creativecommons.org/
Why don't they teach us about this early on in life? Wait a second, my father has been telling me this for years :D

Only after being hammered to death by life (and my father's gentle reminders) I'm beginning to finally understand it.

I suppose one needs to understand/experience it our own way.
I would put them on S3 via any of the FTP clients that support it. Just keep the installers on the hard drive.
The problem here is that you're confusing "legally wrong" with "morally wrong". I don't think anyone here is questioning the fact that Apple has completely covered their ass with the developer agreement. In fact they’ve essentially made it so they can do just about anything with impunity.

But that doesn’t make it right or fair. I’m not one of those “everything should be open” types but Apple should at least be required to publicly spell out its terms. In the example given in the article a developer had their app approved and it was actually in the store for months. Apple then pulled it months later and refused to even give the reason why (which in turn prevented the developer from remedying the situation). Then turned around and said the developer was responsible for dealing with the disgruntled customers even if it meant refunding their money (which they'd have to do since they had no way to remedy the situation).

Further I'd suggest these discussions have a precedent in our society. Society recognizes the fact that some things are simply too morally wrong to be allowed. Even by contract. If I sign a contract saying I allow you to do anything you want to me you still can't beat me to death with a baseball bat. Though this is obviously not in the same realm of heinousness as that the precedent is the same. You can't legally indemnify yourself against that which society won't tolerate.
San = Bushman. The reason I mentioned them is that they preserved their hunter-gatherer culture till a few decades ago, and anthropologists were able to measure what they actually ate, which was mostly vegetables.

You respond to this contrary evidence by simply restating your claim. There was "virtually no" plant food, and people "clearly" lived mostly on meat. Do you have any evidence at all?
No, I'm sticking with it.

But I would avoid doing apps that threaten AT&T by creating an opening for end-runs around AT&T services.

However, if I was Google or a third party, say, GV developer with enough funding, I would redouble my efforts on those kinds of apps, to build consumer demand for them as they rolled out on all other platforms.
Yeah that was the answer I was afraid of. Dozens of hours spent trying to save 20 bucks. I might just delete the pages.

I agree that I don't want to get into the naked famous people biz. But being a normal person and not trying to have a tightly targeted blog means that these images are going to be part of what I like writing about from time to time. Which presents a quandary.

It would be neat if somebody could write an app that let people put up pictures of famous people as part of their blog articles and then have the pictures "expire" after a month or so. Visitors after that would have to log-in/pay/be-annoyed in order to retrieve them. I think this would allow publishers the ability to use images freely while not accumulating a lot of junk traffic.
For the last time, it's not a VoIP app!
I had similar experiences. Also when I last used Yahoo they had a "minimum spend" restriction, which meant that if they were unable to find you enough traffic, they'd charge you any way!!?! I closed my account after a couple of months of them charging me because they couldn't deliver enough traffic.

You should definitely always contact google by phone though. Email never works well.
This, every os will have FTP

You can also take 7z to pack everything. I also carry winscp if I feel like uploading something like docs
If that's what he actually meant to say, then it's a pity he didn't use those words since they make much more sense.
THIS IS SO ILLEGAL
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As long as there is money to be made there will always be developers so a boycott is pointless. If every developer currently in the app store decided to abandon it tomorrow it would only serve to create an irresistible target for developers who had been turned off by the heavy competition.

Until we live in a world where every developer has all the money they could ever want there will always be developers for a platform with over 30 million potential customers.
So how about simply adding those pages to your robots.txt file ?
Do you own the photographs? or the rights to reproduce them? If you do not I suspect monetizing your site will put you into some legal danger.
The analogy with the Mac doesn't really work, because the Mac has never been anything but a computing platform. But the iPhone is a phone first and a platform second. Remember that the iPhone was a huge success when it was introduced in 2007, despite a higher price point and no third-party apps at all.

As long as the iPhone is subsidized by phone carriers, Apple's cash cow will be hardware sales. It won't be until the smartphone market reaches a certain level of saturation that Apple will have an incentive to focus on the App Store as a revenue generator. And when that happens, I bet they will be a lot less mercurial with their developers.
Why is this only newsworthy when Google has to pay the price. Developers have had to pay this price since the inception of the app store. This is one part of the agreement that I think is very unfair, and I am glad it is getting press.

Sure we signed a legal agreement, but still it is a bad deal for us, and we have no alternative.
They do it for the publicity, not the authority. Only a small minority of people read HN. (And let's hope it stays that way.)
Awesome visualization.
No, but endless whining on HN about it makes me less likely to visit HN.
Awesome.

That was the simple solution I was looking for. Add it to robots.txt, google drops the page from it's index, random searchers go elsewhere, and Bob's your uncle.

Doh!

It's amazing how bouncing problems off other people can lead to simple solutions. That's probably best-kept secret of HN -- using "Ask HN" articles
Breakfasts are quite faint, unlike lunch and supper. It seems like people with higher education spend more time eating in the morning, they also have lunch later (makes sense).

I wonder if it is because they can afford the time and know the benefits, or if it is a good practice that made you more successful in school.
Yes, the practical upshot of this is that not every problem is suited for cluster computers. I think the term for that class of problems is 'embarrassingly parallel', little or no interdependency between processors during the computations.
You're welcome. I wished my own current Ask HN post would get some traction, if not I'll have to break out the C compiler :)
Charles and the team are doing a fantastic job bringing Ruby to new platforms and enabling the language to flourish in Java-centric organizations.

It's hard to underestimate the significance of their effort in enabling Ruby applications to run anywhere the JVM does, be it App Engine, Android, or inside a major corporation strapped by IT policy. Along with that, they've brought many new ideas to the language, such as single-file deployment to an application server such as Glassfish using Warble - I like capistrano, but that's brilliant. All of this really is a tremendous amount of work.

Glad to see Robuto in action, and excited to think about what might happen on the platform (especially once the "next steps" features he mentions are implemented).

Kudos!
Couldn't you have the dropbox folder as a folder on your removable drive, removing the need for syncing every time?
> The customers' money is in the developers account

It gets worse: some 30% of that money is in Apple's pocket, but 100% of the refund comes from the developer.

Apple gets to keep their cut even after the refund, as per the developer contract, even though the reason for the refunds is because of Apple blocking further deployments from the developer.

Harsh circumstances.
I'll be spending most of the trip in countries where I don't speak the language, though, so trying to explain what I'm doing to them could be interesting, especially if there are network settings to configure etc.
FORTRAN bindings for CUDA simply allow you to call compiled CUDA libraries from FORTRAN, but they don't let you take libraries written in FORTRAN and compile them to run on CUDA. However, there is a company that nVidia has just partnered with that is writing a FORTRAN compiler for CUDA, which would let you run those libraries on the GPU (though I can't say whether they will work without some modifications).
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If it's just photos, you could possibly use Flickr Pro? It might be tedious downloading them all later if you lose them, but it's a fairly obvious online home for photos, especially if you want the world to stumble across them. Just another option, really.
As Bill Gates said about NeXt:

Develop for it? I'll piss on it!
Maybe Google should've bought Zappos instead of Amazon, have some of that fanatical customer service culture seep in..
Yeah, that's one of the unknown quantities in all this, and it's one of the reasons why I'd like something that can remember what's been uploaded already (and ideally handles partial file transfers etc). Then I can just leave it running everytime I'm online and have it just pick up where it left off next time. Then when the connection isn't great I can at least hopefully get _something_ uploaded, and when I hit good connectivity everything will catch up.
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Sounds like a simple-enough prog to build: check the port regularly and shell out a command if conditions are met.

The trick will be just limiting it to simple functionality. Easy for these types of apps to get out of hand.

About ten years ago I wanted to write a windows app that allowed text to appear as a window -- no rectangular frame, menu, or close button. Just text. The text was the window, and there was nothing else but the text.

I figured out how to do it, and ended up writing something that had a properties page that looked like it could launch Trident Missiles. Fun project, but definitely overkill for what I needed.
The difference is that in an IRC channel, you're not the other guys' paying customer...
While there was a time I was always on the edge of technologies (both as user and developer), now I tend to wait bit to adopt new ones.

Sure this leads to some missing opportunities, that's the price to pay.

I've been watching the iPhone and Android platforms since their inception, and although I felt the iPhone was more "exciting" to develop for, these fiascos make me think it twice.

So I'm hoping Android takes off next year, specially internationally.
I recall Amazon being fined by the French government a few years ago because offering free shipping was "unfair competition".

It can't be good for innovation when you can sue your competitors simply for offering better value.
I've done this in Colombia with good success and believe me my spanish is non-existent.

As long as you pay was usually the attitude.

The more advanced internet cafe's (usually with a card based system where you buy a pre-paid card with some time on it) are more difficult.
You can sue for anything. It doesn't mean the Judge won't throw it out or that you even have a shot at winning, but you can file suit for any reason you can think up.
I don't think developers have a problem with paying a full refund for user-returned apps so much as a problem with paying a full refund for Apple-returned apps (the capriciousness is just the icing on the cake).
I think NASA is no longer in the business of rocketing people around the solar system. It now actively does and funds science projects to better understand our universe. Almost every project revolves around sending a probe into orbit or deep space with some sort of new sensor to detect some sort of particle or whatever. Should NASA create heroes or science? (or both..)
The one thing that has always bothered me is I don't see why Apple can't put a hook into Mobile Safari that allows a web app to take pictures. I mean, it's not rocket science. A dialogue that says "this web app is trying to access your camera" and a simple file upload (camera takes picture and uploads the file like normal) is all that's required.

If Apple added that I would see very little reason for native apps (aside from games)
But what good is that if the information isn't deemed reliable? I read, and enjoy TechCrunch for new product announcements and reviews -- almost exclusively, and don't really need it for much else, but if a significant portion of TC's "breaking news" is unreliable, then it may as well not exist.

I also don't know if breaking news is as important to readers as it is to journalists, for a number of reasons; Notably, I have a certain number of sites that I peruse per day, and I rely on them for the majority of my daily intake. I don't seek out news, and WSJ and NYT aren't on my reading list, while TC is. I frankly wouldn't know the difference if TC broke something an hour (or even a day) earlier than the next guy.

Really though, I think that TC has enough market/mindshare that they should focus much less on breaking sensationalism, and more on reliably reporting news as accurately as they can in the traditionally plain-English fashion that made them famous.
Most of what I'll be uploading will be .jpg, though, so 7z isn't really going to help there much, right?