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Size of portfolio matters.

This is the reason that tech companies seek to acquire large rather than technically sound patent portfolios.

Briefly: defense against infringement runs around $1-$10 million per patent )(it may be higher, my information's somewhat dated). Defeat one patent, and the company with the larger portfolio presses suit with another, and another. Even if the plaintiff successfully defends itself against these suits, it's still out $1-$10 million per patent. Often far better to strike a licensing deal for $40k (or some value less than $1-$10m).

It's possible to countersue, and this happens, usually with the result that the companies reach a cross-licensing arrangement.
I believe the default crashplan setting is 15-minutely. It saved me and my from the described situation many times.
That's what Dell just did.
It's 6am. Also I'm a dumbass sometimes. But thank you :-)
As a little thought experiment, imagine someone who you buy services from told you that they wanted to be paid in Burmese kyats. That's the currency of Burma, a country with a population of 50 million people … e.g. it's bigger than Bitcoin. Would you bother buying their service? Probably not. It'd be far too much hassle. Bitcoin is exactly the same - if you're interested in it then you've researched it, learnt about it, and perhaps bought it using a secure service and stored it in an offline wallet. If you aren't interested in it, you might have heard of it, but nothing more than that, so the steps you'd need to take to buy from you would be ridiculous.
Because hosting it yourself is so much nicer and you learn so much more from it. It's not nicer in terms of connection speed (although unlimited bandwidth counters that a bit), but you just have everything under control. You can do and put anything on the server while being assured there is no BOFH nosing in your data, or someone social engineering the support team. I would not feel entirely safe storing private keys on a VPS.

I agree that from a business perspective, a VPS is the obvious winner. You don't get redundant hardware and fast internet at home for the same price as you can with a VPS. And if something goes down, you needn't be the one on call: your host fixes it all for you. But for personal hosting that doesn't need someone on call, I prefer hosting my own stuff.

And, especially on DSL internet, it's much nicer to have your data and backups in the LAN instead of having to up/download it all through that pipe. So if you have a server at home anyway, no need to get another VPS really.
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As an Italian I feel insulted by such claims. I have worked with American, British and German people and I have often found that Italian people are better prepared, more humble, more hard-working and less arrogant than their foreign counterparts. While the Google tax maybe illegal it's extremely unfair that big companies have legal means to avoid the standard tax regulations that are in place in a given county. This is simply unfair competition as much as China can compete unfairly in some sectors and industries. And this has nothing to do with innovation in fact this is the kind of things that could even hinder innovation in Italy. How can an Italian company compete on the same grounds with another one if the spread on taxes is more than 35%?
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No, the cost of the phone is just spread out over 12 or 24 months. It's like saying a new car has the cost of a small down payment, it's completely absurd.

A contract phone is just a regular purchase with a payment plan over 24 months AND hopefully a rebate compared to buying the phone cash, since you are bound to the specific company for a period of time.

As an example, an iPhone might cost $1 when you sign a $50/mo contract for 24 months. If that contract would be $25 if I keeps my old phone, then the cost of the iPhone is 24 x $25.

The bottom line is: the total cost should be easy to calculate, specified on monthly bills (how much is phone payments vs. call costs), and obfuscating the phone payments by masking it as e.g more expensive pre-paid minutes must be outlawed as it makes it impossible to compare the contract to the equivalent contract without the phone.
No problem if the car's API is accessible to Apple's Phone and to Android/Windows. Just get the Mercedes SL iOS app, sync via Low Energy Bluetooth or a dock and you're good to go. I think Apple is just the first one to make the connection. The car companies would be foolish to become part of an Apple/Android/Windows battle.
What's the advantage over JavaScript 6? Typed arrays are already available with JS 5.
It's not a requirement for a customer protection law to be protecting only the average citizen. Even if there is a minority of people affected but significantly the state feels entitled to act, rightfully or not. A good example is drug use/abuse.
Well, there are some BMW iOS apps in the App store now: http://www.bmw.com/com/en/owners/bmw_apps/
That's the point. While the Googletax was a mistake the "doublle irish with a dutch sandiwhich" must be absolutely fixed. It allows companies to drain resources from any country ( and not only Italy) without contributing fairly to taxes based on the generated revenues.
2% can have a big impact. Many business have a gross margin of 20-30%. If you take Square's 2.75% from $100, that's $2.75 off a $20-30 gross margin – or 9.2% to 13.75% of the gross margin. That is a very large cost for a service seen as a commodity.
About the t-shirts, perhaps that is how Snowden got away with it. He was wearing one of those t-shirts at work, so they were unable to ask him what he was doing due to the impossibility of having a conversation.
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I do wish there was a distinction between the freemium app types. I'm okay with demoware (first level free, pay to unlock the rest) but I hate the buy coins every day model.

Maybe in-app purchase can be categorized as one-time or recurring?
Poor Nokia...
And they lived happily ever after... Really?
A few serious questions.

What's your theory on why those employees are not being compensated fairly for their labor? What is preventing them from taking other higher paying jobs that better reward their talents? If their labor is being significantly undervalued, it implies they should be able to seek better employment.

What is fair compensation for those jobs? What decides that? Who decides that?
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This used to be much easier when I was young. Freeware vs Shareware. Just searching for "freeware <x>" would normally find me the truly free (as in beer) thing if there were multiple versions.
This is what I hope is the case.

All I want from an in-car thing is a large docking area with facades per device, so that your tablet/phone (of whatever manufacturer or future OS) can slot into the centre console.

Then, using whatever wireless tech makes sense, the device would connect and be aware of all in-car controls and sensors as well as the entertainment system... and we'd all get the choice and freedom to use whatever device we want, and whatever apps we want, to do things with our vehicles.

Unfortunately... this interoperability is not the history of any of our major tech companies, and I doubt it's truly the future either. Every one will want to fully own this.
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It's standard to mention that you work for the company you're promoting.
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And Richard Branson's Virgin Group. Also, DeBeers diamond business, I believe.
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I am going to respond to this with a quote from the Batman reboot: it is not who you are inside, but it is what you do that defines you.
A company can't buy itself, at least in cash. The cash reserves of a company are (or should be) worth less than the company itself.

The company obviously can't raise capital to buy itself by issuing shares, so it would have to get the money loaned to it. At this point I think it needs to convince its creditor that its stock is undervalued, and at that point the creditor is better off just buying the undervalued shares themselves. If they bought enough then they could take the company private if they wanted.

Now, maybe if someone who owned a company outright decided to donate all of their shares to the company, then it could "own itself". I don't know how that might work legally, though.
It's skipping over ':' characters (which serve as delimiters) to get to the next token of the string (or end of line). So it looks correct, but the check for end of line is superfluous (unless any architecture uses ':' as end of line marker of course).

I think it is more likely it looks the way it does because it was made by copy-pasting and editing the loop a few lines further down that copies a token:

while (categoryvalue[0] != '\0' && categoryvalue[0] != ':')
*cp++ = *categoryvalue++;

As for the shifting, I would assume glibc is free to expect whatever holds true on the platforms it currently supports. But fair enough warning about it in a analysis tool.
Well, the C64 was an Apple-beater...
I don't think it's an indicator of quality.

But "enterprise readiness" (whatever that means) which is what Rob the random commenter was talking about in his comment, seems silly on a runtime that is below version 1.0

Yes npm is 1.4.4, but node is 0.10.25. So an expectation of ANYTHING being "production ready" on a non-production ready runtime seems fraught.

I get that nodejs is high quality and it is run in production all over the place (I myself run it, and even meteor in production applications). But I understand there are risks and it's a fast moving target.
I mean advertisement made by people disguised as some kind of post.

It's a risky business though because if they get caught they get masses of anti-advertisement. Though one would say that best advertisement is anti-advertisement.
I would guess that this is just a joke, but a fun one.
Sounds like a new version of "you have been selected for a random search" to me.
Well, for one thing the legal audience for these games includes children, whereas even for legalized drugs such as alcohol, I don't know of a country where children are a legitimate audience.
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Then there shouldn't be an expectation that it is "enterprise ready" at all, right? :P
Passionate people create drama... which technology stack are you in that doesn't have drama? Because I can't think of a modern one that doesn't have some amount.

And the catch all is of course Steve Balmers sweaty speech...
Or just google the title of the article and click through.
No, I'm suggesting that "relatively open" is semantically null.
"When Baker asked how much he thought his alleged tokens were worth, the agent responded, “It fluctuates all the time.”

Either a surprisingly well informed (and a tad snarky) TSA officer (who inexplicably dwells on the possibility of vanishingly rare physical Bitcoin), or a tounge-in-cheek satire presented as fact. I suspect the latter, unless the supposed victim can produce any non-anecdotal evidence to corroborate the story.

Edit: It seems strange to me that TSA would be making such a big deal about searching for Bitcoin, when as far as I'm aware, limitations on transfer of cash only apply to international flights, and would be handled by actual law enforcement or Customs, not TSA. And other than the author being a bit of a dick in his supposed TSA interaction, I really don't see how this situation would have been plausible.
What happened in December 2009?
I would like to know actually how much of Apple's sustainability projects involves government subsidies. Oh well.
What about quitting first after knowing of this fact?
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Any open source replacement for the Raspberry Pi GPU driver is going to rely pretty heavily on reverse engineering too. The code they've released runs on the VPU, a custom-designed scalar processor within the VideoCore IV that Broadcom still haven't released architecture documentation or a toolchain for. Without a whole bunch of low-level reverse engineering (much of which was already in progress) it won't even be possible to compile the stuff Broadcom have released. Without working VPU code you can't even boot the Pi, let alone make use of graphics.
Could a company create a second business (I'd go with Apple ][) and then have the second company just buy the original company for like a dollar? I'm assuming there are legal reasons why that can't happen.
I'm from Oregon.

> As an Italian I feel insulted by such claims.

Which claims? That Italy has a lot to offer that other countries don't? Or that the politicians are by and large incompetent? Or that it's a terrible place to do business?

http://doingbusiness.org/rankings - look at where Italy is there.

> I have worked with American, British and German people and I have often found that Italian people

I have worked with lots of people too, and found that Italians are often quite skilled programmers with good communication skills. Although English is not always a strong spot, the underlying ability to easily communicate and deal with other people is usually quite strong. Italians don't take home a lot of money compared to other countries, so with lower taxes, their wages could easily be quickly bid up by foreign companies taking advantage of highly skilled labor at competitive prices.

> While the Google tax maybe illegal it's extremely unfair that big companies have legal means to avoid the standard tax regulations that are in place in a given county

As Renzi said, this is something to be dealt with at a European/International level. Not with some stupid, ineffective law that merely makes Italy look bad, and does next to nothing to Google, merely passing on extra costs to Italian companies.

> This is simply unfair competition as much as China can compete unfairly in some sectors and industries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage

There are probably some things where Chinese competition is genuinely 'unfair', but that's a pretty huge topic, and a lot of their advantage has been low labor costs. So, unfair in the same sense that Italy has an unfair advantage over Finland in producing quality wine...

> How can an Italian company compete on the same grounds with another one if the spread on taxes is more than 35%?

Answer: they can't. That's part of the reason the economy has stagnated over the past 20 years. But that's not China's fault, nor Google's fault.

The good news is that it is a solvable problem, and indeed, the basic recipe is pretty well known at this point. People just have to get their courage up and do it.

http://www.corriere.it/editoriali/14_febbraio_21/purche-si-d...

http://www.amazon.com/Good-Italy-Bad-Conquer-Demons/dp/03001...
But what if instead of working more, they spend time educating others and their peers in the free time and brought more into the field - then they all work less... thought capitalism make take a bit of a whack out of that concept.

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From a security point of view this could become interesting. Regarding how terrible (IT-)security is in CAN Systems a jailbreaked Radio could lead to major annoyances.

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Great ressources.

Shame many of them are only beta with no preview :/
Quoting "common position" document (whatever it is) http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/enforcement/docs/common_positi...

"The use of the word "free" (or similar) may be tolerated for games which are not entirely free, if it is complemented by appropriate qualifications characterising upfront in a clear manner what elements are for free and which ones can be purchased. In such cases, the consumer should be able to access discrete parts of the game that stand alone without the need to make purchases. "Free" may not be used where the consumer cannot, without making in-app purchases, access content integral to gameplay or play the game in a way that he/she would reasonably expect. "

Essentially, the customer must know what parts are free and which have to be paid for prior download. There is going to be grey zone of course, but if you app have paywall, it shall not be called free.

On the other hand, you can sell custom avatars or additional levels and call your app free, as long as the description says something like: playing first five levels of the game is for free, but custom avatars and additional content have to be paid for.
Yeah, when I want to learn why some startup failed or the reality of some tech, I don't listen much to the public tech world. I have to reach out to people and probe to get a better picture. Because then they won't be so busy applying spin for public consumption.

Like recently, there was some article here about a failed startup, and it felt like most of the discussion was pointless. Killing time of people's lives for no end. Because I knew people at the company, and there was such massive dysfunction which severely cut the chances of success regardless of virtually any other factor. I mean really goofy, where elements should be on a sitcom.

Or when you read about some tech which "everyone uses", and there's fundamental issues with it which inevitably bite people hard when they actually try to apply the thing, but everyone's like rah-rah.
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Don't try to convince anybody. Just present it as an option, maybe with a small reduction.
Interesting point! I like to think that all of my clients are forward thinking and techy, but it doesn't make business sense for them to deal with the additional hassle of buying or exchanging their currency and then transferring it to me. So I guess the next question is this, how would it be possible to facilitate BTC payments? I suppose one would have to act as an intermediary, as in some kind if bank-like service that treats all currency as "foreign" and converts to BTC, just like if I were to accept Kyats as payment they would automatically be converted into USD by my bank...is that correct?
"Update: A TSA spokesman says they have been unable to find the agents in question or verify the incident. I’m told Baker’s story is complicated by the fact that protocol would be to contact law enforcement if someone was taking large amounts of cash for a suspected purpose, rather than request additional screening."

So basically, he most likely had some 'TSA' agents that were trying to rob him.
You get that in the US too, however I wouldn't call it a loan because if you sign for a 1 year term and then cancel or switch providers after a month you get your money back

It's more like a SaaS offering you a discount for paying yearly
Ah that's a good point. If I wanted to make it as simple as possible for them, what would I need to do? Or can I simply add it as an option in the invoice?
No, but there are pre-paid Apple Store credit vouchers you can buy pretty much everywhere.
Maybe that's true to a certain extent, but I have to think fear of death is on a whole 'nother level.
Of course, to not remember exactly what a monoid is is completely fine for a mathematician who's field isn't abstract algebra and related stuff, but to be clueless as to what the concept is at all is somewhat disturbing. I would have no problem if they said something like "ah, yeah, it's a little simpler than a group, I can't remember the exact properties ATM".

Hm, I just gave a quick glance to one group theory textbook (the only one I have in English), and to be honest in the first 20 or so pages there is no mention of the word "monoid" (as far as I can see, I really just quickly scanned through the first chapter) but it does mention semigroups (which are just an identity element away from monoids)...

> And I'm pretty sure in our Algebra books (for CS students, 2 classes in the 1st and 2nd year) there was no much mention of monoids (or, possibly, the professor skipped over those chapters, maybe had some brief explanation and went on to other things).

Yeah, and that's fine, but for maths students to not even remember that it was mentioned is kind of sad. It shows they don't really care that much about what they're doing. If it wasn't even mentioned by the professor, shows a disinterest on his/her part to actually teach concepts. It's always much better when teaching a concept to also at least mention related concepts or similar ones at different levels of abstraction, that gives a complete picture in which you can neatly place things. A group doesn't just appear out of nowhere (although it certainly can be defined on it's own), and it's not alone...

> For example, a surprising percentage of degree-ed Computer Scientists cannot even solve the fizz-buzz problem:

Sigh... I know. But you see, that's why I found this discussion about the unintuitiveness of the word "monad", here of all places, absurd. I wouldn't expect people who cannot solve fizz-buzz to have any clue about anything, and on some level I'm fine with that, this is not an elitist rant, but people in a place like this? After all, programming routinely involves dealing with concepts that are much more unintuitive that a monoid, IMHO.
You are a little over a year old 10000 hours into your life and you are hardly and expert at that point :P
Contributed a "small" amount? Bah!

You're the one who's been consistently curating std::num for many many months!
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Obviously experimental physics can be extremely expensive, but coffee-and-chalk theoretical physics positions like (afaik) Higgs' have roughly the same costs as most math or humanities posts. And apparently theoretical physics has huge problems of PhD oversupply.
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The climate change versus shareholder value debate aside, I would be angry that this representative was obviously trying to hijack the shareholding meeting discussion to make a political point or have me (Tim Cook) say something polarizing. They got the latter, but not in the form they hoped for.
Italy has a lot of niche engineering businesses that are pretty good, and a lot of talented people who work for a lot less than they'd get elsewhere. If the politicians made it an easier place to do business, I think a lot of foreign companies would invest.
More likely he just made it up and techcrunch lapped it straight up
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This smells a lot like agents getting a bonus for seizing cash over $10k which the TSA keeps.

When a chain of people start aggressively enforcing laws for their own gain without giving a damn what the original intent of the law was, very strange things start happening in society.
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