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Why ? What was your reason for doing it this way in the first place, that's what I can't get my head wrapped around.
I think it would take a bit more than an hour or two. It would require a full investigation: copies of relevant documents, approval from their accounting department, approval from the App Store management at some level, consulting with their legal department and probably an affidavit from the developer too.

It's a bad situation for both parties. It sounds like he's doing the right thing trying to make it public and get advice. If the media does some of the vetting of his story Apple will take him much more seriously and perhaps not view him as a fraudster.
Good thing for me I wasn't arguing that the TSA was actually testing the liquids and thus not wasting everyone's time!

Edit: on the other hand, I'm not sure it's so infeasible... If 5% of passengers have liquids, and 5% of those get checked, that still seems like a smaller fraction of people than those that get extra security already. Simply having agents open the bottles and smell them (this actually happened to me in china!) would be somewhat effective...
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Making money definitely doesn't take the same amount of practice as piano playing. You won't find a single world-class piano player who started playing when he was 20 years old. But you will find many successful entrepreneurs that started to get interest in making money in their twenties or even later.
The main reason is that luck alone can make you rich, but will never transform you into a good piano player.
It may help you in creating a business if money is your primary interest (e.g. Friedrich Flick), but it will even help you more when you do something that's fun (e.g. Steve Jobs).
Agreed. My winning example: Family guy got two seasons off then Fox canceled it. Changed the revenue model and kept its fan base. The rest is history (of course i skipped over all the failure, hardships, stress, and sleepless nights ;) )
You are far overestimating how good detectors and searching is.

No, I'm not, which is why I'm doing all the other stuff, too.

They are already doing all your suggestions, so I guess you are happy with them.

Yeah, actually, I think a lot of what the TSA does is completely reasonable and, when executed properly, effective. The fact that some policies are stupid theater does not mean all are.

Profiling is effective. Israel does it.

The United States isn't Israel, we have extremists of all colors and creeds, and terrorist acts here by any one group are rare enough that particular instances can't really be taken as indicators of who will be exclusively trying to do it in the future.
You wouldn't even need to swallow it. Just strap it to your body, as it won't set off the detectors. You can assemble the detonator from parts in the rest room. X-rays are simply nowhere near 100% effective. Similarly, you can easily make knives or limited-use guns from non-metallic parts.
(FYI This took so long because of some bad wifi)

We had been making these arrangements for the last six months.

edit: As for why I didn't leave earlier. There's the obvious carrot, but frankly, the 'stick' wasn't that bad. I operated almost identically as during our startup days (no oversight, no one to get approval) and with that kind of freedom (compared to my last job, in a parking garage where I had to ask to use the bathroom), doing work that I very much enjoyed, I had no good reason to leave early.

Though they're not regarded as a tech-savvy company (and there's a good argument for why), Conde Nast handled us remarkably well - especially through the lens of how most post-acquisition stories go.

Ultimately, though, it's hard to reproduce the feeling and attachment that comes with starting a startup (or starting anything of one's own). And that's why it felt like the right time to move on when my contract ended.
Here Apple is dealing with someone who basically invented a fictitious company in a different country (! ! !) and is now trying to collect on payables. What do you expect to have happen? I actually believe vessenes --- he may just never get paid. I wish him the best.

I'm curious -- what reporting to the government/legal paperwork do you see Apple as doing that makes the payout legally more difficult due to the use of a fictitious name?

In the U.S., using a fictitious name is incredibly simple -- is it really that much more complicated in the U.K.? Why is this suddenly an "oh my god" situation?

What is possibly preventing Apple from changing their records to use his personal name?
Freelance and build an app for someone else in order to drum up short term funds to pay the bills. If you've got the runs on the board, surely picking up a freelance gig wouldn't be impossible? I know I've looked around for iPhone developers in the past and had no idea who to try.
Both this and the above link are giving 404 errors? I think the TSA is censoring the comment posts. Typical.
But good, insightful discussion and commentary is infinitely more interesting than any source article by itself. 'Tis why I read Slashdot and HN.
These kinds of slide presentations just don't make a whole lot of sense without accompanying audio.
The forum page isn't loading for me, what problems are they having?

My vps is still up and has been up (at the dallas datacenter) and seems to be working fine.
From what I've heard, they took funding primarily to build the photos app, which ended up being FB's killer feature over other social networking sites at the time.
> especially since Android and all Android applications operate on Java, which is a notoriously slow platform

There are several things wrong with that:

* JIT'ed Java, in this day and age, is actually quite fast.

* However, Android doesn't really run on 'Java', but on Dalvik, their own VM, which probably does make it a bit slower until such time as they get around to giving it a kick in the pants and including a JIT or something else to speed it up.
Our internal data is kinda one of the things we curate and I can't really give that away, but I do have access to an academic corpus that might be redistributable. I'll have a look. :)
Some link got posted a while back that made Sears look bad. AFAIK Sears threatened somehow and got the link taken off. Reddit responded en masse by flooding submissions with more anti-Sears content than they could deal with. For most of the day the entire front page of Reddit was just things like "Sears rapes babies" or such.

Reddit is the ultimate source of kneejerk vigilante internet "justice". I cannot count how many times someone has been able to stir the Reddit crowd into a self-righteous murderous frenzy over something that turned out to be fraudulent, a hoax, or just completely overblown. For a bunch of self-proclaimed progressives the community in general seems to be utterly incapable of independent critical thought. IMHO Reddit would make a terrific psychology study on mob mentality.
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It's not quite trolling.
I started reading reddit regularly again when I discovered IAmA.
If you thought you could just use a bogus company front and cash the checks on your personal account with no records, well, you don't deserve much help.

They aren't checks. They're wire transfers. The mistake is understandable, and really -- it's not that big of a mistake. Apple hasn't paid anything out yet, the documentation can almost certainly be changed -- Apple simply needs to respond to his queries.

Why work so hard to blame the person who makes a simple mistake and gets stuck in an endless bureaucracy? The process is intimidating, poorly documented, and incredibly confusing. Apple provides very little assistance when things go wrong, and quite often, mistakes made in the web UI can not be rectified without going through human support -- who will, more often than not (from experience), simply ignore you.
Get Photoshop and spend time learning how to use the tools before you try to become an artist. Get your skill set down first.

While you are learning to use the application spend some time surfing the net and looking at the myriad of plugins available for special effects to get some ideas on what you can do with Photoshop.

Use something like SnagIt to grab images of web pages or parts of pics you think look attractive. Import these new pics into Photoshop as a layer and work on recreating a duplicate of the image on a new layer. Basically learn by tracing, then you can delete the SnagIt pic and modify the traced pic to improve it.
Since no one else has said it yet, I'll point it out; that was a complete waste of time. You've done nothing other than spew vitriol at someone you've never met personally, essentially because they have an opinion you don't agree with.

You had the chance to say something constructive, but you didn't.

Going by that email, you don't seem to be a very nice person.
The company I work for does a lot of cross-border financial activity and it's all anonymized - you don't know who your counterparty is and they don't know who you are, we're the middlemen and we take care of everything. Something like this would definitely set our alarm bells ringing.

At which point, you would presumably enter into a dialog to resolve said alarm bells?
Well, there is more to the issue than just whether you can legally get away with changing a project's license. If you make an unpopular license change, even if you are legally unassailable, you risk that your contributors will leave or start a fork with a license that is harder to change.
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"TSA has a blog"

In this day and age that makes them about as enlightened as saying "the TSA uses electricity". They are just doing it because everyone else is doing it there's no credit for original independent thought here.
This.

It's so easy to screw up Apple's registration process, it actually pisses me off to see people that have never had business dealings with Apple trying to push the blame off to you, referencing some imagined "oh my god tax evasion" scenario that doesn't exist.

People: Apple is an unmitigated pain in the ass. They will not respond to your e-mails. They will brick-wall your support calls. Unless you are a large company, they will absolutely ignore your situation unless they are faced with legal, financial, and/or PR ramifications. If you are a large company, you might get someone on the phone, but you'll still find them to be a capricious and pig headed organization.
Rowing is also one of these sports.
Does anyone have a sense of what the ACID properties of this setup are, especially under replication?
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The EU can't sign treaties, only its member-states can do that.

Also, the US routinely violates international treaties, so why shouldn't the EU show us the same "respect"?

(I like the EU because it is powerful enough to balance out the US, which means the US can't do whatever it wants anymore.)
I'm sorry. You're right. I was unsure about said statement, though my experience with android apps on the G1 was probably what made me feel that way. I somehow forgot that it ran Dalvik.

Making change as soon as I have access to a non-BlackBerry device (which is admittedly also Java.)
Have we? My bad.

I guess I only start to think of work as work once I don't want to do it. Right now I'm messing with theme design, for instance, and if I'm lucky what I'm building will be used by hundreds if not thousands of people, but I'm doing it for fun so I'm not counting it as work. On the other hand, spending ten minutes to write a paper is excruciating labor.
I'm using my old celeron 1.5GHz laptop as a linux server for my company. It runs dhcpd, bind for the network, apache, mysql, postgresql, tomcat for development purposes, zoneminder for a camera (not in use anymore), in all their respective openvz containers. And it's doing pretty well with a cooler. Before the cooler it was hot as hell. Just only once, I put my lucene indexer in ab infinite loop that i had not figured out before it shut self down with it's acpi cpu protection rules :).
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What is the current cost of LAs email system? How much is LA supposed to save by switching? How long are the terms of the deal?
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I've taken more than 3 ounces of contact lens solution through a dozen airports in the last few years and never had a problem. I think there's an unofficial policy to let them through unless there's some other reason to be suspicious.
It immediately displays a bar at the top of the altered page making it too obvious
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Because the Java sites are solving actual problems, and the PHP sites are selecting one row from a database and adding <blink> tags around it?
I have the same issue with gmail. I have fn.ln@gmail and all of the emails for fnln@gmail shows up in my inbox. Oh, the info that shows up are his pay information, job offers ... I don't use this address often, but when i do log in, hilarity ensues :)
And why would they ever be different? When you're trying to evade tax or do something else screwy, or if you're not doing things properly.

Sorry to be harsh, but that's the way I see it.
That's a good guess but I'd love to hear him directly address it.

Also, I want to emphasize, I do like Gary and what he represents. I think there's a lot to learn from him, and he's a good model for a lot of people. (and I did meet Gary and his wife in person once. They seem to be wonderful people. His real life personality is not like his stage persona. He's intelligent, soft-spoken, and a good listener.)
Agreed. Even without pinch gestures, multitouch is vital for two-handed games on phones that lack button input.
I think you are missing an absolutely crucial point here, Apple already tried paying him, several times now.

The reason it didn't work is because the bank did not want to accept the payment because they would be in violation of the law on money laundering if they did.
Yup. Feature. Allows you to do all sorts of fun things...like signing up for many twitter accounts on one gmail address.
Looks like they did an update on their host machines. The update unfortunately meant that many hosts marked linodes as being shutdown, when they should have been marked up.

This meant many linodes were unreachable (No network).

linode.com was extremely slow also, don't know if it's related.

They're rebooting hosts to fix the issue, which is just horrible.

Here's a copy of the original post, since their own website and forum are slow/offline:

http://kovaya.com/linode.html
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This is odd - Sender Policy Framework was instituted to stop spoofing, & Gmail actually uses it. So allowing Gmail spoofers is bypassing the spam filters & SPF.
I agree that recur is nice and explicit about what's happening, but what does "it just seems wrong when the semantics of two identical function invocations vary wildly as a function of whether there’s an executable statement between the invocation and the function exit" even mean?

If there were additional statements after a recursive call, you couldn't do tail-call elimination, period, because you'd lose all stack information the earlier calls would need to complete. It's not like 'recur' can allow you to magically both keep the stack and perform tail-call elimination.

And how could you have 'two identical function invocations vary wildly'? The function is either tail recursive or it isn't; it either has extra statements after the recursive call or it doesn't. You can't ever invoke it both ways.
I'll be reading that, thanks for the recommendation.
Congrats! You guys made something that really has changed the internets. I'm convinced that Ron Paul wouldn't have even been on the political radar this past fall had it not been for Reddit. That's pretty impressive when you think about it.

And, I'm going to be launching a social news site soon geared towards business/financial topics. I'd love to be able to pick your brain a bit about the process of building reddit. I think you guys would have some pretty amazing insights to offer. I'd love to pick your brain over coffee and/or beer at some point. If you're interested, ping me: iamelgringo at google's_email_service dot com
There are a range of possible responses from "sorry, our mistake" to a local SWAT team kicking their door in. It would depend :-)
Sure. I wanted limited liability, and England is the only Euro country where you do not need to put out €10.000 or so to have such a company. It's also very fast and cheap, and all can be done via internet. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
Thanks, I was mainly curious to find out if there were any non-obvious reasons why doing so would be a bad idea.
I think you are missing an absolutely crucial point here, Apple already tried paying him, several times now.

With the wrong name (ie, not the name he entered on the bank account form). Which was the original problem.

Is Apple reporting the payment to the tax service? What's to prevent Apple from switching the account to a personal one, or transferring it to an additional legal entity? Why are they taking many months to find any resolution?
> made $30 in the first month, then $90, then $700, $1000, $2500, $3000, then $3500.

By the way, how much do iPhone developers normally make if they are working full-time? Does anyone know of any stats somewhere?
> there is something of a distinction between a communication channel for something that's already "made it"

> MADE IT

This was true for us even on a small student-organized webapp project. Even some of the guys on the team protested using MailMan and went on safari looking for alternatives while we were prototyping, then when the project was officially adopted by the college and all students were told "yeah, the old channels exist, but this is a new, officially sanctioned channel also", suddenly there was a lot more activity on MailMan.
yeah I have nothing against Gary or most of his message, like I said I watched all of his videos, it's just that the book is not his best work.

I actually do shop in Wine Library(it's like 7 minutes away), not often, like once a year(not a big drinker).
For the record, I agree completely. However, that does mean that your situation is clearly not hopeless, which was my point. I'm surely not looking to vulture you for a couple grand (neither worth my time to ensure it's not a scam, nor my real-life karma in the event that it's not)
Reading lots of the tangents only make me more confused. If it's a legitimate UK LTD -- not just "registered over the internet without meeting the legal director requirements" -- it can get a bank account.

To get the money that's collected so far, sounds like the poster needs to do one of the following:

(1) Get Apple to change the 'company name' to match his legitimate bank accountholder name. I can see why Apple wouldn't want to do this, especially if they've already associated tax IDs and so forth with the sketchy LTD.

(2) Get the bank to change the accountholder name to match the intended target of Apple's payment. I can see why a bank couldn't do that, changing a personal account to a corporate or DBA accout, due to policy and regulation.

(3) Create a new entity, with a proper bank account, and then convince Apple it is the legitimate successor/acquirer-of-interest in the old company. This might offer the greatest odds of getting the original monies back, but only after sending lots of documents back-and-forth to prove everything's on the up-and-up.

In the meantime, I would say the top priority is to redirect the current stream of interest in your apps and money to some new targets where things are done right from the get-go. Ignore sunk costs and stop collecting more money where it may not be retrievable. Set up a new developer account and bank account the right way from scratch ASAP; rerelease your apps there and do something with the old apps that directs people to the new home.

One final thought: maybe Apple can mail a check to the LTD at its official address? But that again assumes it's a real LTD, that can transact legal business, with the poster as an officer. It seems like that may not be the case -- the poster has bought a broken, useless fiction over the internet, and then told Apple to pay that fiction.
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According to Microsoft Aero will be enabled in Windows 7 if a DirectX 9 compatible GPU with a minimum of 128 MB of Video RAM is detected.

I installed Win7 earlier today and can confirm that it is not available on my old MacBook with GMA 950 GPU with 64MB RAM.
It is a feature of Gmail and I think that it is great. Person_A registers franz.josef@gmail.com. All mail sent to franzjosef@, franz.josef@, franzjos.ef@, fra.nzjosef@ will end up in person A's Gmail account. Now someone wishing to send an e-mail to another Franz Josef (Person_B) but not being sure of his Gmail address guesses and sends it to Person A's Gmail address.
Not Google's fault.
Google will not let let another person register franzjosef@ with or without a period in any location. All periods are ignored.
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And, I just did a quick port to Python: http://gist.github.com/220038
For immediate recursion, an explicit keyword makes perfect sense, and indeed may be seen as preferable owing to gotchas around what might otherwise be interpreted as a non-tail call, such as not structuring things with accumulator(s) as necessary.

Tail call can start to work magic, though, when you use it with mutual recursion. Tail calling is not just a kosher way to write a loop just to fit in with a functional religion; it makes it possible to structure programs that have certain performance characteristics that are hard to achieve any other way.

Consider a simple interpreter of opcodes, for a simple virtual machine. A trivial interpreter could use a big switch statement, with one entry per opcode; but that wouldn't be particularly neatly structured, because you'd likely have to inline most opcode implementation bodies into the switch in order to get decent performance.

An optimization is a threaded code interpreter; scan through the program once, transforming opcodes into function pointers, where each function implements a single opcode, and proceeds to the next opcode by calling it directly. But this causes a problem in most imperative languages, without low-level hackery or an unsafe feature like gcc's computed goto: the stack will grow with every opcode interpreted, because each call grows the stack. Tail call support permits this approach in both a safe and efficient way.

I do agree, though, that even in these cases, some kind of tail call directive would be preferable, to indicate to the compiler that a tail call is expected here for algorithmic correctness, and help the programmer avoid accidentally inhibiting tail calling.