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Hi there. You are incorrect.

The blog post is making false statements and linking to the "Opinion" (it is a Preliminary Injunction) and fooling people like you into thinking his statements are true.

Read the Injunction he claims to be getting his information from - http://www.jurisnote.com/Cases/blue5370.htm - for verification.

Despite your personal opinion of me, the facts are as follows:

I did not, and never changed my name. During the lawsuit, ample discovery and subpoena was performed by both sides showing Court and Defense that my name has never been changed.

I was granted my Preliminary Injunction on three claims. Read it to see what they were. As I worked with the EFF with, on, and throughout my lawsuit, we were very careful to make sure the claims were specific to not establish any precedent that would, or could, negatively affect Trademark or speech rights / laws by the claims if they were validated by the Court (and they were).

The lawsuit was not primarily about the domain. Ms. Woffinden-Johnson was using my name and my likeness to perform in porn, to do a "sex ed" radio show, and to do in-person signings as me - she began doing "sex ed" videos, as well as "nerd girl" porn and "girls with glasses" porn during the lawsuit. She also dressed up as me and did signings in San Francisco as "Violet Blue." At the time we filed suit and until we obtained the injunction, her website had several photos of her on the front page as she normally looks - blonde, natural - and one image front and center of her with a black bob wig and "Bettie Paige" style bangs, and my name over that image, which the Court acknowledged as adopting my style and creating confusion.

For those interested, Ms. Woffineden-Johnson acknowledged in Federal Court and in writing that she never had the right to use my name. I did not ask for anything but the web domain and that she stop using my name and likeness. Though we discovered she was not poor (she claimed to the Court she was "indigent" and the Court was not pleased when it was revealed otherwise), I absorbed all of my legal fees. Also, the lawsuit was originally launched when Ms. Woffinden-Johnson emailed me saying she was "almost done with your [my] name" and that I could have it back when she quit porn, which she said she was about to do - and then did not. I spoke with the EFF and EFF colleagues about the email and they already knew about my problem, and then we later filed suit.
Differential punishment based on protected speech is not professional or in line with the Constitution.

That it may be difficult for a court to unambiguously distinguish this abuse of power from legitimate application of discretion doesn't mean that it is legitimate.
I think that's a healthy approach in the world dominated by invincible technology and pervasive politics.
I regularly type in multiple languages, and SwiftKey has been amazing at this on my Android phone. I can highly recommend it to anyone.
Economists: Your Parents Are More Important Than Ever
It would certainly be very convenient if secrets were unimportant in a war, or in contests between adversarial nations generally. Everything above-board, all cards on the table, eh?

However, as other comments have mentioned, that certainly wasn't the case in either of the World Wars, especially the second one. And it probably hasn't been the case in almost any war.

There are two basic problems with your thread of argument:

1. No modern government of importance will give up dealing in secrets, and

2. No government of importance has ever tried.

So if the only hope is that governments swear off secrets, I think most would agree we're out of luck.

Fortunately, there are probably other options besides the either-or choice of "no secrets" or "our current worsening dystopia."
This seems like it takes some basic facts and then jumps to a lot of conclusions without any data (like sbisker mentions) - I'm not suggesting it's BS, but it's not clear their obvious conclusions are so obvious. I'd love to see actual wage data.
Can anybody explain to me how to use react.js without their "guard" feature. I need my app to throw the error natively and not wrapped by the framework.

Thanks
(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21040538/how-to-disable-t...)
Also, I'm not sure if there'd be as much benefit when pecking with thumbs (SMS style), typing while holding the device, and that's how they seemed to demonstrate it.

If I'm looking to type more than a sentence on a touchscreen, it will generally be on a tablet and with it sitting on a table/lap. And even then, I could get away with something like home keys to stay centred on rather than a raised impression of every key.

I'd like to think that future input in these situations will come from something other than an on-screen keyboard that takes up screen real estate.
s/was/is/

COM is the basis for most Windows APIs since XP, and the basis for the new WinRT runtime.

Lets see how it might look like with Windows 9.
Sure beats the Zune I got a bunch of years ago.
It is of course, but there is a lot of convenience in using an interpreted language with a REPL and a decent standard library.
Yeah, that's a bit backwards. Really, what happened is they broke backwards compatibility for device owners which is a much worse scenario:

You couldn't upgrade your device to the new OS!

Why is this worse? It leads to a very immature platform with few avenues to improve upon it. At least iOS 7 makes it easy to still target 6, where the hard part is UI changes. Microsoft changed little in the UI between 7 and 8, but somehow the phones and tools remained incompatible.
The US gives about 1.85% of GDP, the highest in the world. Second is Israel at 1.34%. The US also volunteers more than all but two other nations, the Netherlands and Sweden. In 2010, the US spent almost 3 times as much on foreign aid as any other developed nation (US at $38b v. Germany at $13.5b). Don't let the facts stand in the way though.
I don't know why anyone here is even discussing it. They'll make the laws they want and they'll enforce the punishments they want. People's front pages are too economically viable to let reason into the courtroom.
Given the incredibly well-documented history of professional chess, learning during play isn't efficient. If you're going up against a player, just program every game they've ever played professionally into the system to study their behavior. You can be sure the human players do something similar.

Heck, I'm fairly certain that every master game ever recorded was shoved into Deep Blue and other high-end chess programs.
Consumer devices also includes patent licenses for consumer devices. MSFT makes money on every Android phone sold because of licenses.

Same for other uses of certain versions of FAT on certain device types.
Hi there. Do you have a problem with OP's article itself, or just me? And is it just your personal distaste for my reputation or person, or do you have a legitimate critique about the article's citations, sources, or topic?
The article does not make a good case for overpunishment for Keys.
And therein lies the problem. Although these companies are being prosecuted, nobody wants to run afoul of them or anybody else. I'm not saying that any one individual or company is presently a bullying wrongdoer, but what I am saying is that there is an culture of fear around speaking out or rubbing people the wrong way.

This atmosphere--along with the kind of proprietary shenanigans that make it difficult or impossible to truly own your own hardware and software stack--is the very opposite of the hacker ethos that created much of the value these barons robbed from the economy.
I'm able to hear the person I'm speaking to in many noisy environments. I don't see why a computer wouldn't be able to do the same.
Nope:

http://www.chinahearsay.com/coca-colas-huiyuan-deal-goes-bus...

http://www.chinahearsay.com/china-ma-never-make-assumptions-...

http://www.chinahearsay.com/little-sheep-deal-approved-can-w...
>I'm also curious why Princeton's search volume seems to have declined. Obviously it doesn't mean Princeton is going to disappear, but what does it mean?

http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=harvard%2C%20princeto...

Google trends represents share of search volume, not absolute volume [1]. As the higher education bubble continues to grow, ivy league schools have not grown as fast as other schools, and there are new schools being created as well. All of this activity contributes to Princeton's (for example) share of search decrease within their sector, and overall.

[1]en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Trends
Bay Area Techies are easy to demonize because they willfully handwave away all the problems they cause. Get real: we are the foot soldiers of global capital. Investors from all over the world are looking to leverage the cachet of the Bay Area, and the real consequence is masses of evictions and neighborhoods being gutted to house more of us. Liberal myopia hides these consequences by focusing on individuals transacting with eachother. Treating techies as an economic class reveals the tensions. This is your "hard reality" of the real estate situation.

My advice is to realize and respect that we are using the dead labor of the globe to inflict our socially awkward outsideness upon those who would not have it. There is a real power imbalance between techie and non. We can either implement formal checks on this imbalance (e.g. shuttle buses become public transport), or we can ignorantly bumble along wielding Capital's power and push aside those we rely upon to make our neighborhoods vibrant and livable.
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The effort to get bitcoin widely accepted as a currency is "a struggle".

I don't agree; instead, I'd call it "an effort".

It would be "a struggle" if people were risking going to jail, or being executed, or otherwise suffering non-voluntary consequences (like losing money for having speculated in BTC) for their participation, or were somehow barred from enjoying the same benefits as everyone else because of some imposed inability to participate.

As it stands, absent other, already specifically illegal activity (like the proscribed forms of tax evasion I suspect a great many Bitcoinophiles engage in, or using their cryptolucre to buy controlled substances), the greatest risk BTC owners face is selling at a lower exchange rate than they bought at — or maybe having their wallet stolen.

IMO, to call that "a struggle" devalues the word for the other things we call struggles, like independence movements, overthrowing tyrannies, civil rights, or marriage equality.
Very nice writing. Thanks for the perspective.
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That article is about promotional budgets, which is at least subtly different than advertising budgets. For instance, it includes $15.9 billion in samples (which are certainly promotional, but giving patients free drugs does not immediately jump to mind when you say advertising).

The number there is from the figure here:

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal...
There are two problems that need to be fixed.

-Housing prices. Supporting affordable housing isn't the solution here; there needs to be more supply. Given all the money invested in tech, surely the bigger companies could invest in some real estate. Or announce that you're ready to do so, when the city finally allows it - now the city's the villain.

-Fix Transportation so you don't need private shuttles. Either force the city to improve transportation or support startups that can do it instead.
You mean like OS/400 TMI, .NET, JVM?
Chartio is hiring UI developers for Data Vis
Bad news I'm afraid:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Hand_%28nuclear_war%29
Does your nephew spend a lot of time watching tv and playing video/console/tablet/computer games?
That is precisely who it was.
It's a life saving drug of last resorts. And considering the population of India, 'a handful' is too many :).
I look forward to Philip Greenspun's reaction. Each one of these planes costs more than the year-long healthcare.gov maintenance contract he freaked out about.
The documentary "Fog of War", which is basically a long interview with Robert McNamara, also covers some of that time, and was surprising.

Actually, here's some of the relevant stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZVR-DKERhc
I did not reply to the "diversity is good" comment, but to the "this is a good example why diversity is good" comment. This seems to imply to me that such a book wouldn't be made by men, which seems rather prejudiced to me. I only object to the implied prejudice.

Your comment also sounds as if you think women would approach the issue in a completely different way than men, so please explain in which way?
FBI Busts "Revenge Porn" Kingpin Hunter Moore On 15 Felony Counts
I'm saying we've pushed the notion of IP too far when I can't see your work and duplicate it on my own without running foul of some bullshit patent. I'm fine with the general idea of copyright, but not it's implementation. But software patents, hell no. Patents on drugs, hell no, patents on processes to make those drugs, maybe, but not on the drug itself. People should be free to reverse engineer anything without violating the law. Reverse engineering should never be illegal.

Ideas should not be own-able. Your software is not an idea, it's an implementation of an idea, you should get some protection of your implementation, nothing more. If someone else can do it better, or at all, they should be able to.

Ideas are not property, copying an idea is not theft.
As a programmer sure this annoys me, but I find it a bit disingenuous to tie it to growing societal inequality. Tech workers are definitely on the beneficiary side of the inequality gap, so I don't see how these conspiracies to indirectly keep tech workers salaries down to 2x to 5x of median American household income is really germane.
Typo is fixed.
Yes, my design skills are very limited. In case more people find the service useful I will for sure get somebody to make the page look nicer.

Thanks for your comment.
Can't run any brew commands
Bill Gates: I assume my phone's not being tapped

...but choose to modify my behavior anyway, of course! Oh, and buy more Microsoft stock, please!

Meanwhile...

Microsoft Offers Secure Windows … But Only to the Government

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/air-force-windows/

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2009/04/balmer...
How much of that cost is the advertisement of the drug?
Not all use cases are equal. Static pages might work great for static content, but what about something like GitHub? Wouldn't it be nice to see the issues list refresh live when somebody else closes one?
S&P was down a lot too. Just one of an infinite number of reasons to not assume price action on a company can be traced back to a given news story.
It may be that the consequences of the 'conspiracy' was to depress wages, and it should clearly be prosecuted if the legal case can be made.

However does anyone think that this was the intention behind these agreements? Isn't it more likely that they wanted to stop an insane war on one another's businesses by buying off key employees to disrupt one another's operations? It would seem as though companies with a giant stockpile of cash - I.e. MS, Google, and Apple, could stifle competitors by just taking out key employees of their opponents with large signing bonuses, regardless of whether they intend to put them to work or not. The result would be a destruction of value.
Or they'd be making drugs that actually matter, instead of drugs they can market well to unassuming consumers.
This is one reason I'm a huge proponent of having dogs at home. They're far smarter than any alarm system. They don't need to actually be big dangerous guard dogs in order to protect you from burglars.
Totally makes sense. Thanks for the info. Will also dig around in the code.
Not particularly. The saying "time is money" applies here: the argument could be made that the "rich people who ride the bus"'s time is worth more, and putting them on a bus where they can do some work instead of driving is a more efficient use of their time.

Of course you could argue that the poorer people "forced" to drive their own cars could use that time, but they might not be knowledge workers, which means that time wouldn't be productive to their employers anyways.

And this also is entirely dependent on how you perceive value to be created, and the model you choose to use.
Why is this supposed to involve tons of stupid stuff instead of adjusting a version number accordingly?
while I think the original wasn't close to real science, don't be surprised if they are somewhat right
probably referring to this from elsewhere in the thread: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080105140107.ht...
I'm from SF. People should realize that politics in this town (and Berzerkeley) are infused with an entire cottage industry of lunatics and freaks. Watch SFGOV public access to see what I mean. People sing songs, rant, dress up in weird costumes, it's a little slice of a Fellini movie.

Even if tech folks suddenly got bit by the community bug they're not going to be able to dialog with people who have basically NO interest in real working politics because they are simply using the public sphere to project their hang-ups and obsessions. Crazy people who want attention make up too much of the political scene out here. Basically SF is one giant open-air insane asylum. This is where you end up if no place else in the country (or world) has a niche for you and your particular weird.

Now all these fresh-faced, well-scrubbed tech workers are flooding in and displacing the nuts, who have nowhere else to go. Of course the nuts (and brother/sister/sophont I am one of the nuts) are upset.

Unless the techies can somehow develop the compassion for and tolerance of, say, Mother Teresa, for weird freaky shit they just aren't going to be able to engage with the old school Bay Area culture. And I don't think it's fair to expect them to.

Unfortunately, this means that the "gentrification" will proceed apace until SF has become the new, uh, Portland? Seattle? San Jose? Some other not-so-weird city anyhow.
Many (most?) backup systems allow you to encrypt your backups, so saving them in the cloud isn't really a security risk unless you choose a bad passphrase. Just make sure to keep your passphrase around...
The entire premise is flawed. Who hates techies in SF? A tiny, tiny minority of people.
If these idiots hadn't agitated for laws limiting development in the first place, then housing wouldn't be as unaffordable as it is now in the Bay Area. Instead of attacking tech workers earning high five-figure salaries, which is hardly makes them "rich" by Bay Area standards, why not relax laws restricting development?

Much of this outrage is actually manufactured, and by Gawker no less:
http://pando.com/2013/12/26/look-whos-gawking-inside-nick-de...
I only did a search for "programming book for kids" on Amazon. Maybe they all suck, maybe not. Maybe Linda's book will suck, too. I just want to know why a programming book written by a woman is presumed to be superior to programming books written by men. And I have nothing against programming books written by women - my question is why enter the gender angle.

Maybe men would be less likely to use a female protagonist, I haven't sampled the books content. Maybe not. So it's maybe nice to have a programming book with a female protagonist, but I doubt it is something only women would think of.

In fact I suppose if a man who has a daughter were to write such a book, he would be quite likely to make the protagonist female, too.

Btw. the Python books for kids looks as if there are also stories in it, and I saw at least one rave review from an 8 year old: http://www.amazon.com/Python-Kids-Playful-Introduction-Progr...

Maybe Alice in Wonderland would work, too?
To understand Crockford's language, you need to know javascript basics well.
I'd suggest to grab a copy of "
Object-Oriented JavaScript" by Stoyan Stefanov.
http://www.packtpub.com/object-oriented-javascript/book

and also follow MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript
"In the event of a surprise attack by the USSR"

I find it interesting that everyone always talks about surprise attacks by the USSR - in reality the USSR spent most of the Cold War terrified of a strike by its enemies (both the West and China). Indeed, as far as I know only one side in the Cold War had military leaders who wanted to start a nuclear war - guess which one?

NB The only possible exception to this was the Able Archer 83 incident when the Soviets thought the US was going to conduct a first strike ("Evil Empire" rhetoric etc.) and they almost pre-empted this with their own strike - but that was the terror of senile geriatrics, not a deliberate plan.
You're probably basing your opinion that FB may die by 2018 on better insights than they were basing the study on honestly.
Hard to say since the hiring boom has mostly passed. There's still demand for tech talent but you don't have multiple companies trying to hire thousands of engineers at once anymore.

We'll have to wait for another "boom" to see.
Best of luck to Pieter - it's a real shame.

If you're thinking about reading this article but not sure, just do it - you may find there's a lot you can learn from Pieter's horrible experience.
Not necessarily. There's a free compatibility pack that lets you open new docx etc documents in much older versions of Office, and in some cases, edit them.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3

This support goes back to Windows 2000 SP4 and Office 2000, which is ancient in software terms.

There are also free viewers if you don't have a copy of Office.

In any case, Office supports dozens of file formats so you're not obliged to use the latest. You can create files in old Microsoft formats and some non-Microsoft formats.
How about this (It's on YC today!): http://www.fastcompany.com/3025372/if-the-immunity-project-c...
I was at Yahoo during the years in question and must have been approached 50+ times by Google recruiters. I wonder if Yahoo refused to play along or perhaps they were never invited.
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Please link, I would like to see this.

You seem to be referring to the John Gruber "fanboy" incident from 2012: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/violetblue/the-apple-fanboy-proble...

Read it. John Gruber wrote inaccurately in a blog post that I labeled a female developer as a "booth babe" - she was not, and I had not. Unlike Gruber, I tracked down both women and asked how they felt about the whole thing, and published the results. Shawn King, who had originally told Gruber the lie, began a character attack campaign on me (calling me a whore in Twitter, etc), I believe to distract from their error. I got the usual death threats that women get, and I wrote about it (with the encouragement of my bosses at CBS) - perhaps this is the "pretty depressing reading" you indicate. Gruber never corrected his mistake. To this day, colleagues from other majors (NYT, etc.) ask me why Gruber did that. I don't know.

Now: you claim there are twisted facts in "Google outed me." What are they?
Am I being overly cynical in 1) they bought nokia, 2) revenue != profit, 3) nokia sells a lot of cheap phones.
Can you be more specific with the problem you're seeing? An example jsfiddle/jsbin would help. If you're referring to the fact that React sometimes catches and rethrows exceptions making it harder to debug, that's something I'm planning to try to fix soon. In the meantime you can use the blue stop sign in Chrome's Sources panel to catch the error as soon as it's thrown.