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No, just have multiple tiers of basic funding for all scientists. Junior scientists start out (say) two tiers above the bottom. Every scientist gets funding at their specific level which lasts for a full five years, no questions asked. After the five years are up, each scientist's progress is assessed, and they move up or down one or more tiers on the funding ladder, based on various performance criteria. If you fall off the bottom, you're finished as a researcher (unless you can obtain some private source of funding). If you do particularly good research, your funding increases. You are also free to pursue extra outside funding as you see fit.

Under a system like this, there would be no more grant applications prior to conducting research, but rather the emphasis would be transferred to a defence of research already carried out.

As for peer review; it's fine and necessary, but it should no longer be anonymous. Let reviewers stand by their reviews.
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That is pretty much exactly correct.
There's a lot of mental gymnastics going on in your comment. Both Apple and government are simply a bunch of individuals. The difference is which group contains individuals that will use violence against people to get its way regardless of the people's consent.
Exactly, with 1 or 2% of the market using TS the only reason to not use vanilla JS is because it is to complicated for you and you want to replicate a C# experience. That's a shame because you loose a lot of the advantages of pure JS.

And, if you want to use an IDE over say vim or Notepads, then Webstorm is the best.
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This guy complains about npm's scalability and architecture but is himself not able to structure a single blog post to make it readable.
But outside of games just not being playable, people are talking about not having fun without the IAP. This is fairly subjective. I didn't spend a dime on Plant's vs. Zombies 2 despite it having IAP, yet somehow people suggest you "have" to spend money to have fun.

No, the games are free.

> You can't call your food pesticide-free or GM-free or gluten-free unless it really is.

Yeah, not even the same thing.
And what about people who release free software with no in-app purchases or advertising, who simply want to learn programming or get enjoyment from having people use their software? These people are exploiting their users for personal gain too!
Just to be clear, you want the government to protect you from games that are really, 100% free, but provide IAP for additional things that might enhance your enjoyment of the free game.

Seriously, take some responsibility.
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I like that an article from 1987 is freely available on the web. I wish most of the news organizations that have historic content locked up in libraries and microfilm would do this.
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I know this won't get any upvotes but still thought to share it with the HN users, may be someone find it useful
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"NCPPR is a member of the Cooler Heads Coalition, whose object is described as "dispelling the myths of global warming by exposing flawed economic, scientific, and risk analysis". They deny climate change and confront the CEO's of large companies claiming ROI is more important than protecting the planet for our children."

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We have this situation already in Austria.

Solar panels dump power onto the grid and you get paid by industry electricity price. But at night solar panels don't produce and one has to pay "consumer" electricity price that is 7 times higher!

So a battery system that covers nights and that has a durability of at least 10 years and with a price tag that allow for a amortisation within 8 years would be the way to go.
It makes it clear that a contract is being broken, which, if one is following semver, would necessitate a new major version number. As it is, an expert could easily miss the change; making this explicit is a Very Good Thing™.

On the Cell Freeze matter: I don't understand your question. Can you clarify what you mean?
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I hope Apple makes it a point to advertise everywhere that they're doing this

In which case they are going to be accused of doing a "bullshit PR dance." Damned if you do...
When I was 4, I threw a tantrum in the middle of a mall because my mom wouldn't buy me a toy. In exasperation, she sat down at a bench and let me embarrass myself for a half hour. Kid's gotta learn eventually he can't get his way by being a brat, eh?
How do you draw a line between deliberately designing a game to be enjoyable and have hooks in order to earn revenue, and "exploiting/subverting/forcing" them?

You seem to be making a distinction between people who pay money for "legitimate" enjoyment, and people who spend money for what they think is legitimate enjoyment but is actually just a trick. I'm not convinced this is a meaningful dichotomy, and I've never heard anyone even try to explain what the difference is. I'm not a big fan of strict normative statements about where I can or can't spend my money on entertainment.
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Interesting.. I've ran into similar situation before although it was not at a work environment, more like an email thread that contains ~30 friends to ask for opinions on some activity, and not everyone is facebook friends with each others.
I do find email threads create "spams" for people who do not have as strong of an opinion on the topic, but it didn't seem annoying enough to piss anyone off. Are there something else that you really dislike about using the email chain itself to ask for opinion/suggestions?
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> WTF? Those SaaS/PaaS usually make clear what the plan cover and don't cover.

WTF? Those free games don't cost you a thing, too! And damn, if you don't want to pay, you don't have to. Apple tells you straight out if a game, free or otherwise, has IAP. They provide you with prices.

What more do you want?

> I do have a problem with companies saying those are free games where they aren't free and have paid requirements to keep playing the game.

So... your problem is that you don't enjoy some free games? You think if a game isn't good enough, it shouldn't be free? That's harsh.

Of all the first world problems to have, this really takes the cake.
Case docket and documents here:

http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/index.html?id=1860459
This provides a bit more context on the meeting between Elon Musk and Apple's Adrian Perica a couple of weeks ago.
How can you claim that this is a reasonable expectation, when the most popular and top grossing games on all platforms for several years have been dominated by so-called "free" games with in-app purchases? For someone to expect "free" to mean "no in-app purchases" would require complete ignorance on the state of electronic gaming, which is hardly reasonable.
Given that they don't make any money on it, isn't Cash really just a fantastic marketing tool for them?
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Love this: The procedure has never been tested, he added.
I have enjoyed many F2P games without paying, Candy Crush as a matter of fact. I just stop playing when it gets too tough to go on.
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> I'm at GoDaddy in Platform and Commerce development

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> But outside of games just not being playable, people are talking about not having fun without the IAP. This is fairly subjective. I didn't spend a dime on Plant's vs. Zombies 2 despite it having IAP, yet somehow people suggest you "have" to spend money to have fun.

You didn't clarify that in your original post here. If I understood this is what you meant then I would've edited my post to remove the "fun" part but rather change it with "take full advantage of".

If Plaint and Zombies were advertised as a free game, you download it but it only lets you play 5 minutes before you have to pay, then that's not a free game. It's a free demo/trial.

> Yeah, not even the same thing.

Yes, it is in this point we're making. The people didn't make this happen, it required the intervention of the government to mandate this type of information accuracy.
Apple already does this. I am literally looking at a game right now in the App Store and it's free and Apple makes it very clear that it offers IAPs. It even gives you a list of the Top IAPs. So, listing every IAP, it does not do. But beyond that, it gives you exactly what is being asked.
I'm struggling to think of a situation where Git could be overkill for anything... I've personally used it for hardware and software projects where it was just me, where it was used for small teams (3-5 people), and with hundreds of developers doing on a large code base. It worked well on al of them.

The only thing I would not use version control is if you have files that don't change. Everything else should be in some form of VC (sometimes Git is not the best choice, but it's good for lots of things)
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I agree that the biggest liability to the economy at large of huge patent portfolios, little seen so far, is the ability of multiple incumbent corporations to collude and increase barriers to entry so they collectively are not threatened by innovation from upstarts.

That said, most of the time that Palm (and Handspring etc.) devices existed, they were PDAs, and the reason Palm beat out Apple's Newton is probably that they chose a subset of functionality that was more modest and probably more appropriate to the hardware of the time.

For example, while Newton's handwriting recognition was often unreliable, Palm devices asked its users to use a an arcane script that was easier to process. (Later lost in a patent-related issue, if I remember correctly)

Probably someone here was actually involved in the history of developing the devices, but as I remember it, the revolution of Palm pilots and other models was that they worked more smoothly, and they synced more reliably with your computer than any competitors. That involves a lot of good engineering and attention to detail, but it does not necessarily mean that there can't still be overlaps with patents held by companies which invented something earlier but with an implementation that didn't win over enough customers to survive.
physical attendance at the conference costs; it's minimal for a day session for a student, but its possible to listen in remotely.
It's a little bit hard to take this seriously. If someone found a 0day in the filesystems or thumbnail renderers they would take the easiest approach and try to spread the bug as fast as possible before it gets patched (the way worms normally work), not drop a random usb and hope someone tries to mount it in a system that is configured in the fight way to allow that exploit to work. They might do it in a targeted attack against a single user who accesses secure airgapped systems but the odds that such a person would go plug it into a secure system out of curiosity (assuming the USB port is even available) is slim.
But what I meant is: where does the "pressure to get it right" come from when government decides to regulate something? If the aggregation of actors' choices in a competitive market doesn't provide pressure to get it right, why would the aggregation of actors' choices in a government provide pressure to get it right?
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I don't think people think they're arrogant. I think people find them unsuited to the task at hand. If you felt that way already, this incident would have been another nail in the coffin.
FYI, the exact definition of the class here is people who "worked as a salaried Technical Employee":

(a) for Apple from March 2005 through December 2009;

(b) for Adobe from May 2005 through December 2009;

(c) for Google from March 2005 through December 2009;

(d) for Intel from March 2005 through December 2009;

(e) for Intuit from June 2007 through December 2009;

(f) for Lucasfilm from January 2005 through December 2009; or

(g) for Pixar from January 2005 through December 2009.

Source: https://hightechemployeelawsuit.com/faqs/#q0

If you fall into this group and want to file a claim to be part of the settlement, you have until March 19th to do so (which you can do via the above website).
Well there are waterproof Bluetooth ear-phones, maybe even Wifi ones. Though it's preferable if the former use the classic channels so the range is up to 300feet (~100m) or you could install the app on a waterproof Android watch.
We have a simple version of JotForm in the same space. You can install it on any LAMP server:
http://www.interlogy.com/products/jotform/

It does support LDAP as well.
I didn't say anything about in-app purchases at all. I don't use mobile phone apps, so I don't know much about that market.

If products are being sold deceptively, there's a public interest in preventing that. Responsibility has nothing to do with it.
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> ..damn, if you don't want to pay, you don't have to. Apple tells you straight out if a game, free or otherwise, has IAP. They provide you with prices.

If they're saying it's the free game of the week, people actually understood it to mean it's actually free. Several of my friends and family members got confused with this and actually thought the IAP was free as well.

> So... your problem is that you don't enjoy some free games? You think if a game isn't good enough, it shouldn't be free? That's harsh.

What does enjoyment have to do with anything? That wasn't the point, the point is the marketing, not the games itself. I don't have a problem with the games, I have a problem with the marketing saying they're free entirely.
> "You didn't clarify that in your original post here."

What? That was literally in reply to your post which I replied to.

"Their free app of the week is often so-called free games but they almost always have in-app purchases that's required to actually enjoy the game."

You were talking about enjoyment from the beginning.

> Yes, it is in this point we're making

Not sure you know what point you are making.

Sorry, I'm done dealing with people who act like trolls.
Now imagine what that system looks like from the outside. It's dark and cold, yet still has mass to implement gravity and emits neutrinos (presumably).

If you want to explain dark matter, no need to go further than this.
Well, the former Reddit founder is on the team. And I seem to recall reading something about how that did that with early Reddit posts too (marking the voting counts much higher to make it seem like they have more users than they did).

They just didn't quite do it good enough. Would have made it more believable if they did a random 5 to 10 addition on each signup. Probably had to rush out the landing page to capitalize on the opportune MtGox disaster.
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> Everyone should absolutely be running from a virtualenv. Never touch the system python.

Why exactly? I find it convenient to have some packages installed system wide so that they can be used by quickly loading up a python shell without having to activate a virtualenv first or if they need to be used outside any specific project eg. requests, nose, jedi, pyflakes, sphinx etc.
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Except there are confusion when Apple markets it as the "Free Game of the Week". Many people thought this meant IAP was free as well.

Say "Free game of the week with paid IAP still included", I don't have a problem with this.
I don't mind "advertising" per se, e.g there's lego apps for kids that, like Saturday morning cartoons, could be viewed basically as advertisements, but are reasonable experiences in themselves.

On the other hand the apps that throw up full screen ads with tiny, hidden close buttons are annoying. Mostly they seem designed to provoke accidental clicks, which don't seem to offer any social value at all.

(Also, no one seems to note that fake free apps are undermining honest for pay apps, a model which people here seem to support).
The difference is which group derives its power from the consent of the governed, actually.
Sorry, tough to decipher :)
> I didn't say anything about in-app purchases at all.

So? That's part of the conversation? Either join in or leave.

> If products are being sold deceptively

They aren't. They are free. Money doesn't exchange hands. You are getting a game you can play for free.
They are the primitive functions for making and destroying objects on the heap which requires more care than construction and destruction on the stack.
Next time a child asks for permission to make an in app purchase, turn off the electronics go down to the creek and jump in puddles together.

They are only four once. It's right now or it doesn't happen. There's no second chance.
And my point is that the default behavior of both collectors -- the behavior from the very first word of their first call -- was in violation, and they continued to violate the law in numerous ways.

If an entire industry is so systematically rotten that good behavior (read: compliance with the law) is the exception rather than the norm, what is one to do?

For example, if the debt collector does not provide any written notice and refuses to provide an address to which one can mail a written notice of dispute, what is one to do?

If the debt is intrinsically fraudulent, and the "validation" of the debt consists solely of confirming its veracity with the party committing fraud, what is one to do?

If one tries to dispute a fraudulent claim when speaking to a debt collector on the phone and one is told "I don't fucking care, if you don't give me a goddamn credit card number right fucking now I'm going to garnish your wages and fucking destroy your credit!", what is one to do?

And don't tell me that I should complain to the FTC -- since there was no written communication, and I couldn't identify the parties involved, they were unable/unwilling/uninterested in helping me.

At this point I have no sympathy for debt collectors. The very best of them are preying upon people who are already in a bad position and that's being generous.

I'm almost tempted to be late on a bill or two just so I can use this service (whatever it may be -- still can't access it) in an attempt to discourage these vermin from continuing in their chosen "profession".
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(The problems would be dramatically helped by better diagnostics about the kinds (e.g. showing which field of struct is causing non-Pod-ness) and better documentation of them (e.g. the kinds are not listed on documentation pages for types). But that still doesn't completely help with library interaction.)
If you can maliciously drive an armored car onto a missile silo in a military base, you have already owned the military base.
> better still JVM/.Net!

Sure do, enjoying them every day.
Sorry, but it tells you the cost, right on the damn screen. It's not hidden. It literally tells you the price. This is well after you've already downloaded the free app. So you have the game. You are inside, and their are prices next to it.

I mean, damn. Do these same people go to a club, get in for free, and then wonder why they still have to pay for drinks?

> Say "Free game of the week with paid IAP still included", I don't have a problem with this.

I guarantee that using that wording, people would think that the paid IAP was included with the "Free game of the week." I mean, they are already dumb enough to see a price and ignore it.
I already checked that and it won't work for my platform but I am sure there will be a workaround soon.
Free software != GPL. One could argue that the Affero GPL represents a continuation of the ideals which gave birth to the GPL, now that more and more applications have moved to being network services (something less common in 80's).
Maybe instead of calling them free, use Freemium instead?
... except the collection agencies -- but good riddance to them.
Thanks for the feedback, it seems like you did follow it correctly

> In particular the move/copy/clone semantics would (under this proposal) no longer be chosen automatically

(Technically, it's just the move semantics: i.e. if passing a value around by-value (i.e. `a = b` like C, shallow-copying the bytes of the values) makes the compiler consider the source unreadable (a move, non-Pod types) or just duplicates the data, leaving the source still readable (an "implicit copy", Pod types).)
Awesome, thanks for answering my curiosity.
You said "[j]ust to be clear, you want the government to protect you". I clarified your misconception. The hostile attitude is unwarranted.

Alternatively: Me leave? After you, pal.

As to your second point: The product being sold in question is the in-app purchase, not the original app. The app, however, could be part of a deceptive marketing practice.

Not being a citizen of a EU member state nor an expert in its legal system, I am content to leave this decision up to its regulatory apparatus. If the citizens of any EU member country are dissatisfied, they can elect governments that will leave the union, or elect Members of European Parliament that will change the rules.
I think it'd be a good thing to do. You have a process in place, and enough self discipline to avoid installing such apps. But not everyone is like that. I'm guessing majority of the users go like this: "ah, it's a free app, great, I'll get it. <10 mins in the game, when they run out of gems, bullets, whatnot> Oh, what do I do now? £0.99 is not too bad, I'll just get another pack of <blah>, so I don't have to wait 30 mins".

Can people self-regulate and avoid behaving like that? Yes. Do they? I doubt it.
Yours is more aesthetically pleasing, but being able to see the "or" quickly helps one understand the nature of the full conditional at first glance.

The other reply to you seems to be the best of both worlds.
I was under the impression that anyone could flag something on disqus and it would be censored automatically.
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"more aggressive"? So you feel bullying and abusive tactics are justifiable means of collecting a debt.

That's pretty fucked up.
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Dollars (and Euros) stopped being a gold-based currency a long time ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money

Besides, "understanding" is very slippery verb in this context, what do you understand about gold? You know where it all is? You know who is in charge of protecting it and who is the owner? You know its location? You know who is digging for it? You know where are they digging? I don't clearly see what "understanding" you have about it.
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You: "What does enjoyment have to do with anything?"

You from a parent comment: "Their free app of the week is often so-called free games but they almost always have in-app purchases that's required to actually enjoy the game."

> Several of my friends and family members got confused with this and actually thought the IAP was free as well.

Yep. I'm done.
Or maybe

def is_file_for(is_nagyker, type):
return (
(type == KIS_ES_NAGYKER)
or (type == KISKER and not is_nagyker)
or (type == NAGYKER and is_nagyker)
)
Don't be a hypocrite. Tracking is tracking is tracking and it's as wrong when you do it as it is for anybody else. Show your users some respect and value their privacy.
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