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The difficult part is "related" if for example you wrote songs as a hobby and wrote a top 10 hit you woudl be safe - the difficulty comes when your employed as a "developer" its a lot harder (and expensive) to prove your work is not "related" to your employment.
Well, if you keep in mind that Google's game is data collection, it makes sense that a product that will give them an even more detailed look into the life of people will help them monetize that somehow at somepoint. (I have been doing lots of macro level SEO research lately and have come to the conclusion that Google is getting ready to make some big moves in the near future.)
> Candy Crush Saga, Bubble Witch Saga, Pet Rescue Saga, Farm Heroes Saga, Banner Saga? Just by looking at the names, a casual consumer might assume they're all from the same company.

I understand the legal argument, but from a policy perspective, it's sort of perverse. Any casual consumer taking more than two seconds to look at Banner Saga would realize that it's not from the same company as Candy Crush Saga.

That's really the bigger annoyance IMHO. I'm all for King getting a trademark on "Candy Crush Saga" and then examining each potentially similar mark for confusion, but they're effectively taking the stance that the use of any one of the words in their trademark would confuse consumers -- see, for example, their cease and desist to "All Candy Casino Slots", even though the use of the word "Candy" is more descriptive than anything else.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuO53xeZkm8

Does this look like brave people risking their lives to say "No!" to tyranny, or like a bunch of young energetic people who have no idea about whats going on in politics throwing molotov cocktails at police?
You're correct. It's not ONLY good for consumption, it's just a low-fidelity, low-bandwidth input device. Touch does have the advantage of feeling natural, so that probably lends itself to a better input device in specific scenarios. Still, I can't help but pine for a future iPad on which I can use a pen. Whoa!
If it is in the contract it could become complicated (expensive time in court) to confirm it unenforceable.

My previous employer changed contracts to one that stated that they would own any IP created "in the course of employment" and I got confirmation by email that it only covered work related to my job before I accepted the new terms.

Duck Duck Going for the term now produces a guide[1] on IP created at work from Unite (a major British Union) that looks quite useful.

[1] http://archive.unitetheunion.org/member_services/legal_help/...
Isn't it obvious this is some kind of weird reverse-psychology ? They can always call catch 22 , or they need not to , we can only guess . But it's kind of obvious this happened to dismiss the fact they ARE doing this on regular basis .
>who sent the previous president to jail on trumped up charges

Previous Prime Minister.

And I'm not 100% sure the charges are totally trumped up.

Not that it changes anything.
how would you define "Civil War"?
It's a canvas element that they render to now. It's very similar to the previous Flash implementation, in that it's an area of the screen they can draw on. It just happens to be in Javascript instead of Actionscript now.
Cool.

Within a few minutes of clicking NEXT I started getting duplicates.
I'd check your contract of employment - and "custom and practice " may imply this sort of term.
This is what it's all about. These cdn sites exist not out of good will, but because they give tracking information.
That is brilliant :)
Gmail, Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles, etc. Lots of companies have survived branding issues in the UK without a complete end-to-end rename.

Microsoft's marketing department is just crazy. How many times did MSN Messenger get rebranded? Photo gallery? Their webmail thing?

It's crazy. When they have a major platform, they're rock solid on the name (like the Office Word/Excel/whatever) but they change icons and GUIs willy-nilly.

When they have a smaller, supporting platform, they get complete ADD on the name.

When they have a developer tool? They just give it an ungoogleable description that doesn't even count as a name. Their SQL Server is called SQL Server. Their common language runtime is called the common language runtime. Their MVC framework is called MVC.

Microsoft sucks at naming things. I think XBox is the last brand they created that they actually properly curated.
The use of the word "kickstarter" is pretty confusing here. My first thought was that this was something people at hackathons could use to put up ideas and see who's interested in joining them. I guess I should have noticed the lowercase "k".
The cynic in me says that this has been waiting to be published at an opportune time.
Wow. A provocative diagram. Here's the source: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB123051100709638419
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You present a false choice here, regarding employees not "generally sharing in the bad times". The CEOs of these companies often don't share in the bad times either, while they most certainly are rewarded for the good times. Why should it be any different for all levels of employees?

Now, regarding the owner of a small business loaning their company money, while employees do not. Employees are not given the choice, likely because the loan is to high of risk for the average employee given their personal net worth and as important most owner's don't want their employees to be given the option (ie. as an owner of a garage I would not want my employees having that level of access to the company's finances).

The primary issue however is the treatment of labor, let's not get lost in details of risk/loans/etc. Given that technology is leading to a surplus of labor, a general multi-decade trend against labor. The question that society needs to address is how do we treat labor? Business can exploit labor pushing what's acceptable, which will lead to larger wins for industry as we can already see today, but is that right? I think you and I differ in opinion on the answer to that question.
"...we had to oppose their application to preserve our own ability to protect our own games.&nbsp; Otherwise, it would be much easier for future copycats to argue that use of the word “Saga” when related to games, was fair play."

That's disgusting. "We use the word saga in more than one of our games, therefore it's our game word and it's unfair if other people steal that word from us." ...
Hi, Sorry really liked your article wanted to share it with everybody. No harm in that.
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Why the FCC Can't Actually Save Net Neutrality
Ok. So they are rather brainwashed than stupid. In other words they strive for such irrational things like glory rather than better life conditions. Is the actual situation any better than it used to be in soviet times regarding unemployment, affordable healthcare, education?
I am curious, what are the benefits of VS over other IDEs?

Obviously, there is the case where the code shop may have other project assets tied into the VS ecology-dev system but is that the only case?
All of this while the EU transforms into an EUDSSR where unelected bureaucrats decide everything (EU commission). Good luck...
Here's one way to split the US into two (mostly) contiguous regions.

United States of Canada vs. Jesusland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesusland_map
Just this last week I started working on a new project with django-socketio, and I'm pretty happy with it so far. Why is django-websocket-request better?
I really can't speak for him. This was some years back, well before G+ and associated stuff, though after Gmail.
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I think there is often mass support for the government during a revolution. There were Americans loyal to the crown during the American revolution, and no shortage of people at least opposed to the revolutionaries during the French revolution (War in the Vendée and so on).

I would suggest the dual of your definition: in a revolution, there are established political actors only one side, whereas in a civil war, they are on both sides. The English civil war looks very much like a revolution (people vs king and nobility), but the fact that parliament was on the people's side makes it a civil war. The American civil war pitted various states against the United States.
Right, technical details aren't the real issue. Ultimately, the govt has to earn back the trust it has destroyed, or face rebellion. That's how trust works.
> We don’t see Google services go down once a month. In the last couple of years I haven’t seen any Google services I use to down at all even.

http://www.google.com/appsstatus
how would you? if a demonstration turning violent is "Civil War", they should take notice at the G8.
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Ask HN: Mastermind group for 9-5'ers looking to escape
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Would there be any interest on HN in creating a private mastermind group?

I work a 9-5, and would like to completely replace my income with a product, or a product + consulting, before I make a clean break. I think a weekly no bullshit chat session may be beneficial. If you are interested and

- have a 9-5 in the software industry
- want to create something that will allow you to work for yourself
- have an hour a week to chat
- think this would be beneficial

shoot me an email anthony@makerops.com (Tell me a little about yourself, what timezone you are in and your availability) ; I'll see what comes in, organize everything etc
Among the reasons mandatory sunsetting laws should probably be a thing.
FYI: I think your last link should be "http://technicaldiscovery.blogspot.com/". There doesn't seem to be an active site at blogpost.com.
First principles tell us that any work created in the course of employment is automatically owned by the employer (s.11(2) CDPA '88) except where there is an agreement to the contrary.

Unfortunately the phrase 'course of employment' has been held to have a broad meaning. The 1989 UK case of Missing Link Software v Magee held that where an employer could show that the work created was one that could be reasonably contemplated as part of the employee's duties, the employee would not have a claim to it. So if you're creating software programs in your spare time and your job description includes writing software programs, then the potential is that you wouldn't have a claim on them (although it depends on how closely the outside work is aligned to the work duties by the looks of things).

All the above doesn't require there to be any explicit clause in the agreement covering all IP rights. If there is such a clause, then I don't immediately see any reason why it would not be enforceable (although http://www.dyoung.com/article-ownership suggests the clause would be unenforceable).

All in all, I'd see a lawyer. If you want me to look at the agreement feel free to get in touch. I'm an in-house lawyer but will be able to give you some initial pointers and suggest a lawyer (I know a good firm in London who will provide an initial consultation for free).
Interesting, I didn't know they had a Kickstarter. It's a novel question, because trademark is established by "use in commerce." Is a Kickstarter page "use in commerce" before a product exists? On one hand, you can't just lay claim to a name saying "we intend to make a product in the future with this name." That's not use in commerce. But a Kickstarter is a lot more concrete than that.
From personal experience with a family (two kids) my best time to work on a side project was always between 0am and 2/3am. The only downside is that this doesn't work for a longer period of time as you are getting more and more burned out.

The mornings don't work for me as they start pretty early.
The govt does scan copy massive amounts of paper mail, also.
Well, I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, so I'll just list some random quotes from the article.

> With the ease of ordering takeout, White used a smuggled cellphone to arrange exchanges between outside drug dealers and corrections officers, who brought the contraband to him to be sold inside the jail at huge markups, the affidavit alleged. Percocet went for $30 a pill; one-gram bags of marijuana sold for $50. The gang’s control was so complete that any non-member who tried to get in on the action had to pay a tax or risk physical harm.

> Thirteen of them [the female prison guards] allegedly smuggled cellphones and drugs inside their hair, lunches and underwear for the man they called “Bulldog” or “Tay.” One tattooed his name on her neck, another on her wrist. Four have carried his children.

> Documents that investigators recovered from the Black Guerrilla Family detail how its new members are taught to target specific officers. Look for women, they are told, with “low self-esteem, insecurities, and certain physical attributes.”

> Jon Galley, a top Maryland corrections official, said he likes to show trainees a copy of a how-to guide, confiscated from an inmate’s cell, that lays out how to win over guards. The two pages of tips include dropping a “kite,” or love note, confessing to the officer that the inmate “felt a connection to her, that she was beautiful.”

> officials would “turn a blind eye to contraband smuggling and actively protect White and the [Black Guerilla Family] by warning them of investigations,” according to the affidavit. One such warning allegedly came from Tiffany Linder, who had worked at Wal-Mart and Panera, her uncle said, before she was hired to be a guard three years ago. Investigators say the pregnant guard alerted White in January that cells were going to be searched.

> In one taped conversation, White boasted that he made $15,800 that month, less than normal. “This is my jail. You understand that?” he said to a friend. “I’m dead serious. . . . I make every final call in this jail. . . . Everything come to me.”

White ("the prisoner") is the victim here?
Conversion tracking is definitely the norm in the app-install world.

However what the OP did is sort of life-time-value (LTV) analysis which in the long run might give a better indicator on return-on-ad-spend. Post-install tracking is available now via various 3rd party tracking solutions.

It does involve more up-front work on an app developer - i.e. find all the important metrics in the app that is relevant (sign-ups, various activities like virtual good purchases etc...), and track these metrics over time.

There are quite a few flaws in the OP which most of the comments here have captured, and provided remedies to fix them, so I won't repeat them here. I look forward to the follow up here.

Disclaimer: an ex-Admob engineer + currently working in a mobile ad startup.
That has some elements of propaganda yes, but from my talks with many Ukrainians including several of my employees, this seem to be more or less fair depiction of the facts.

Nobody calls protesters Nazis, but Russian media view of the subject is indeed extremely biased.

What's worst of this is that the view of it from Eastern and Western sides of Ukraine is totally different, too (while both dislike Yanukovich strongly, which is a big difference from the state of things just 3 months ago). West dislikes him for being evil, East dislikes him from being stupid and not protecting their case strongly enough.
I would agree for normal employment disputes you have to use the "approved" procedures not quite sure if this applys for disputes over IP.

For example if an employer ignores the rules on sacking /redundancy they can get additional fines on top of the normal penalty - courts do not like people taking this piss
A revolution would have been over more quickly.
IANAL. First, get legal advice from a lawyer. Some law schools offer free or inexpensive clinics with law professors and law students.

It does depend on your contract, common law, and legal precendent. Contracts can be modified. Some companies and organization require that you get outside activities or employment approved by management and human resources or ethics.
I cannot account for what's happening in Ukraine but last time a video like this one released in Istanbul during protests, it was undercover police throwing molotov cocktails to armoured police vehicles. It was the only video shown by all the news agencies [0].

It is quite funny that a community of skeptics being pedantic on silliest social networking apps takes what they see in a video for granted and makes harsh judgements about people.

EDIT after citation request:

So this is the famous video. The masks they are wearing are identified to be standard police issue. They are also holding radio transmitters similar to used by police but that would not prove anything.

However, this is the only instance where the police have not heavily "interfered" to the event. The pressure they use on these guys is one tenth of what they use against unarmed civilians. There are quite few videos showing how they shoot people with water canon and literally threw them away. These plus the fact that this is literally the only video shown by all news agencies clearly indicate that the whole thing is staged.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxuOmnQpu8E
My girlfriend calls me babe all the time, and I don't think she is being sexist about it.
Quote: You’ve probably got lots of side-projects; they’re all exciting in their own way.[...] Focus on getting one launched [...] Otherwise, you might be spreading yourself too thin.

That's so true for me. There are so many exiting things to do, and I'm trying to do start them all (for me those are statistics, Java concurrency, Haskell). The result is predictable - a bunch of started projects, nothing completed, no satisfaction of the work done. It's easy to start, but it requires discipline to continue. I am trying to figure out what can help to build this discipline and the habit to complete.
It's a summary of those links, instead of having to visit them all you get an overview of the results with links to the relevant supporting evidence.

It's actually an interesting overview despite me not been an Ubuntu user.
They didn't only copy our model, they copied our exact texts
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Microsoft buys Gears of War franchise from Epic Games
Would it be better if they were 'woman' pages?
What is this crap? This is a denialist website that published patently false information that misinterprets what climate scientists are actually saying.
"Saga" is much, much more sweeping than "Banner Saga". It's like the difference between trademarking "Quest" vs. "King's Quest". In fact, it's just like trademarking "Quest", "Legend", "Adventure", "Story", etc.
Whether it's enforceable or not is irrelevant; what matters is whether or not you can prove that the IP was completely developed on your own time if the company does decide to sue (and whether or not you can afford to prove it). Make sure you keep a time log of when you worked on personal projects, do frequent checkins to GitHub or a similar service (even if you're not working on code), and make sure you don't use company resources in any way to work on it (especially a company computer, even if you're just doing a Google search).
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Hmm, I found one of the infamous ghost towns and thought the opposite (I don't deny the beautiful places).

http://randomstreetview.com/#p0sb5_f2nu7_p7_a_-f
My guess is that, since Russia is no longer a top global power, this area is not a priority for the US now. Georgia lies in more strategically important (lots of oil around) and fragile region, while saving the Ukraine would be mostly a favor for Poland and rest of EU (not to mention Ukrainians).
Good point. For better or worse, iOS is native code, and you could potentially write C or C++ that targets both.
I'm sorry to say, but at least right now the new search is absolutely dreadful. Try searching for "Go".
Thanks for the advice, I added a disclaimer.

I understand the Wikipedian urge to render everything credible by referencing authoritative material, I just did not take the time to do it here. I am confident my advice remains helpful nonetheless.

Also, a craving for references can present undesirable effects [1,2].

[1] http://xkcd.com/906/
[2] http://xkcd.com/978/
The European Elections are in May 2014 so make your voice heard.
> Being a salaried employee protects your 50 year old blue collar worker from downside because the 30 years worth of savings he piled up is completely safe even if the company goes insolvent

Except that a blue collar family with children don't exactly "pile" up savings... and most of those savings are tied up in his house, whose value is closely correlated to local employment.

It's obvious that you are neither a blue collar worker, 50, or with children, so try to see things from that point of view instead of simply projecting your personal political beliefs
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I can't help but notice you replying to basically everyone with how wrong they are without providing specifics. Can you either provide some substance or find something more constructive to do?
3 marketing lessons from a year's worth of stcok video downloads
Essentially King are telling Stoic they can use the name, but cannot own it, because it includes the single word "Saga." It's a little unsavory of King to claim ownership of that single word in such a broad context, and the particulars do not sensibly favour their cause.
"No one is saying that you broke any laws. We're just saying that it’s a little bit weird that you didn't have to."

- John Oliver
This is a video of something NO ONE is disputing. People just say "revolution" and "saying NO to tyranny", but what do you think that means in practice? What ELSE could there be on the video? It's people making molotov cocktails, stones, and throwing them at police. That's how it looks like, regardless if it was staged or not, which, to me, it seems obvious it's not. The crowds shown are huge, and the acting would be Oscar winning.
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Scratches? Seriously? It's in a data center. Who cares?

Besides, the enclosure is there to take scuffs in place of the computer's internals. That's protection enough for people who use these services.

As for vibration, SSDs and the lack of CDROM drives mean that these things have no moving parts to be disturbed.
"9-5'ers looking to escape" is an odd demographic to target, since if your group launched a product, you'd be working much longer than 9-5.
Look at it, at many angles as possible, don't be a ram.
http://zyalt.livejournal.com/984735.html
Point taken, but as a person who tries very hard to not let my filter bubble be too small, I am surprised at the lack of people talking about what I suppose could be considered the North Ukrainian point of view. I did see a few mentions that they would be more aligned to Russia, but haven't seen any in depth reporting from that perspective. Have you seen such?
> C++ is the one language that can work on both iOS and Android (and Windows phone?)

C# can do that too, using Xamarin.
Good tie-in. While I liked the name SkyDrive a lot ("It's like a drive ... in the sky!"), this is pretty good too.

Microsoft is never one to leave well enough alone, so I look forward to OneOffice, OneStudio, and WindowsOne.
What do you expect it to look like?
now you just have to keep being one step ahead :)
Moving from Octopress to Sandra.Snow
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