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This is largely VLC's fault. But VLC works fine on Linux, so the problem is clearly Apple.

10/10, A+++++, would get trolled again.
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So many similar content... :/
That's a very clever product, and design. Kudos to her.
Any suggestions for books of this sort? I've never read anything on the subject, and just realized how many of these I've been doing without realizing. (Especially "I'm the boss", oops.)
Re-purposing your own possessions is not illegal.

Mac OS X does not become your own posession just because you bought a copy on DVD. The DVD, however, is yours. If you want to re-purpose it as a coaster, go right ahead. I think you'll find Apple has no problem with that or any power to legal recourse to stop you if they do.
The DMCA has an exemption for backups.
I also can't help but notice that some of the interview questions were confusing or misleading when taken into context with the other questions.

The engineer says that he got lost when she mentions ads might have a 25% click through rate but in another question the click through rate was 20%, as an example. She probably thought, but did not write that her earlier estimate would have been ok or acceptable which would be confusing given the engineer's reaction.

Also, if said question was meant to test reasoning skills and not a raw answer, then a wrong estimate for click through shouldn't "lose" anyone. After all, if you haven't worked in search or heard of google or the internet ad business internals, how would you know what the click through rate should be more like? Advertising is but one of many industries.

I think google needs to be a bit more careful about how they ask questions or at least have interviewers talk to each other. Probably too difficult since they all have other tasks and duties to do.
Your description does not match the description in the judgement:

http://www.groklaw.net/pdf2/Psystar-214.pdf

Psystar first bought a copy of Mac OS X and then installed it on an Apple Mac mini. Next, Psystar copied Mac OS X from the Mac mini onto a non-Apple computer. This non-Apple computer was used as an “imaging station.” Once on the imaging station, Mac OS X was modified. Psystar then replaced the Mac OS X “bootloader.” The bootloader runs when a computer first comes on and locates and loads portions of the operating system into random access memory. Without a bootloader, Mac OS X would not operate. Psystar also disabled and/or removed Mac OS X kernel extension files and replaced them with other kernel extension files. Psystar’s modifications enabled Mac OS X to run on non-Apple computers. The modified copy became the “master copy” that was used for mass reproduction and installation onto other Psystar computers.

Yes, the IT department at my organization images workstations too. They do so within the scope of the software's license, though, and they certainly do not resell the workstations afterward.
Ask HN: Solution for eye strain?
A while back there was a post on wrist pain with some good advice on circumventing it—posture, etc.

Do any of you have problems with straining your eyes? I've been forced to wear sunglasses while I work at the computer, even though I've set the brightness and contrast settings to zero. I wear contacts, and for extenuating circumstances, don't have glasses, nor will I for another month or so.

I realize the most obvious solution would be to level down computer usage, but that's not a possibility for me right now.

What do you do for eye strain?
Is contributing money to a defense fund really evidence of conspiracy? That seems legally questionable.
If you look at the article, it mentions that the ad enabled devices are optional and that too on a lower price. Now a person who cannot afford an iPhone may opt for the ad enabled device and may make it through the price barrier own a shiny new iPhone.
Yes, Apple should protect us consumers against these hackers. They obviously know what is best for us.

Maybe Microsoft should partner with the PC manufacturers and do something similar.
When you misquote out of context, it does sound like a troll. When you read my entire sentence in the context of the parent post, however, it is clear that I am trying to parody the "dumb user" that will blame Apple for creating crap when it's not actually Apple's fault.

Oh yeah, but I kind of said something bad about Apple, and The Tribe Must Be Defended. (That part was the troll, for those of you keeping score at home.)
Find a project that you are interested in. Use their version control to get the latest. Find something wrong. Figure out how to fix it. Submit the fix to the administrator. Do that a couple of times in order to build trust.

Are you interested in software agents? If so, then check out http://kato.sourceforge.net/kato.html
While it would seem unlikely for Apple to implement a scheme like this for ad-subsidized computers, it does seem like something they would do for the music industry. I can see ad-supported itunes store content; watch this 30 second ad, and then you get to listen to the song.
I believe so, but all you have to do is take a $30 ferry out to Uruguay (not a terribly torturous procedure in itself!).
This is fundamentally flawed, because the sources for infringing content are many. Piracy doesn't line up for the counting. Not even all torrents could be watched, let alone all protocols, and darknets abound. This would only create an arms race of more darknets and new protocols.
Your analogy is flawed. Fruit-taping is not a violation of copyright law. Circumventing content protection measures for non-excempt purposes is. Presumably the law factored into the judge's decision.
I'm telling you that commercially successful hi-tech things in general, and programming languages in particular, should be easy to use for average prople. Java and especially PHP (which is a total mess which was never designed) are the proof of concept. Note that both of them are using C-like syntax.

The biggest prof is, of course, the mobile phones market. Usability and simplicity (along with simple visual effects) sell. And interface practices and some widgets were adopted on the web.

And yes, Java (and Windows) was designed to use low-skilled labor. There is nothing wrong with it.
I'm not sure about that. I don't know much about their process, but if they treated each individual machine as a separate "walled off" machine and installed a retail copy of OSX, I don't think that they would be creating a derivative work. Even if their updates/hacks were scripted, I don't think that this would be a derivative work. In this case, first-sale doctrine might apply.
I always find it interesting that say if someone asked me to describer every article I read on HN in a day I wouldn't be able to but if conversations with friends come up where each of them were relevant I'm usually able to describe there point of view and information and detail.

Also it's similar with studying, I will go through the material and write all the key points down. I won't actually read them again, unless I forget something relevant later in study. I find in the exam when I'm given a relevant question I have near perfect recall on what I've studied no matter how large the amount of knowledge that I've gone through in a couple of days.
Marco's response: http://www.marco.org/244246945

Equally as well written, IMO.
1) Standardising on office software tools that are essential to the work of the dev team is in my humble opinion, a terrible idea. Yes, this means the microsoft stack, it tends to make people jump through hoops they're not fond of jumping through and in all instances I can think of it's actually better to be doing it some other way.

2) Standardising on anything that requires Mac OS means that you're pretty much stuck with people that are happy with Mac OS, and while admittedly that is not a small number of capable devs, others really hate it, and with very good reason.

3) Virtualisation can offset "essential" items in the standard operating environment, as long as they can run on platforms that can actually be virtualised, which is my Mac OS is such anathema here.

4) Having virtualised environments that are self contained working images of everything required to "be productive" takes the guess work out of "Does employee X have everything necessary" and drastically alleviates any crippling hardware issues, if all it takes to keep going is a virtualisation image and a new machine, disaster recovery becomes very trivial.

5) If you're really insistent on the whole "having everyone at the office" idea, you could even try trading out virtualisation for remote access to various environments. Once again, this is an Everything But Mac OS solution as OS X remote access is terribly bad compared to Windows or Linux based solutions (RDP / NX vs VNC)

6) That said, I think tying your team to their desks is a good way to annoy some people, long term if you decouple your team from the requirement to remain physically present you are a much more attractive opportunity than otherwise. Go distributed whenever possible, this means dev environments that have full deployments of whatever is necessary to work 100% offline. Git over subversion, make sure they have copies of databases that are required to actually run the code they're writing, etc etc etc. Long term goal should be that they can work from absolutely anywhere any time regardless of network access.
I am trying to parody the "dumb user"

i.e. trolling
It would have been easier to release the machines with linux installed and post several artical/posts/tweets describing how to install OSX on it. They dont even have to use there names just some anonymous person make a cool hack for there machines. That ought to work i think, wont it?
Look away often, preferably at distant objects.

Take breaks, go for a walk and look at natural things like trees, lakes etc.

Sit with your eyes closed for ten seconds.

[these are the things I do]
What's Pulling the Milky Way Towards It at 14-Million MPH?
There's the EULA side of things, and there's the copying to RAM or hard disc side of things. That's why Apple won.

Neither of those things have anything to do with "respecting the intent of the author."
sounds like a catch 22 kinda situation to me. Or for that matter Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
Were you among the physicists? :) Notability is not an intrinsic property of articles: it's like weight, not like mass. Your argument fails at the "if seriously engaged in by enough people" point, since it's simply false (by definition) that at time T1 the first uninteresting thing is sufficiently popular, at T1. It's also false that people will a) notice and b) care enough to make it sufficiently popular even at time T2.

Same goes for numbers. The fallacy is in confusing intrinsic and extrinsic properties.
I suggest you play with the color schemes for your editor. I've found white backgrounds w/ text tend to tire my eyes more than a deep blue background w/ gray text.
Is the problem you are solving really a problem?
Well, you cite perfect examples of the parental and societal pressures that tend to work against founding a startup. But there is tremendous "underground" culture of startups in India. Case in point, have a look at http://pluggd.in/ or the startup event of India http://proto.in/

Agreed that Indian startups are still light years away from achieving the same _sophistication_ as the Silicon Valley's, but increasingly I am seeing more and more people jumping into getting their hands dirty. And given enough startups, purely from a statistical point of view, a few great startups will eventually emerge from India.

Unfortunately, I will have to agree with you that the state of R&D is poor, but it is just evolution. We started late and now have lots to catch up!
You must realise that the eye is delicate, and long term stress can lead to adverse effects; However, I frequently just wash my face/eyes whenever I feel I'm strained, and do some other things for a couple of minutes.
But you reinforced lukifer's point instead of rebutting it. In the 80s and 90s (pre-OS X), Macs had crappy market share, and when they improved them (OS X timeframe), you saw much more developer interest.
Possessions are only a burden if you identify with them. The strain of this is enough to cause some people to throw out important stuff. (It causes others to ceaselessly acquire new things but that problem is well known.)

A more sane approach is to treat possessions as part of the scenery and solve household problems as and when they arise.

Much of the configuration of your house represents the result of solved problems. It embodies knowledge which you, the owner, may have forgotten. This is why after moving house it can take months or years to get your domestic life back together.

So solve clutter problems as and when they arise. Don't go looking for stuff to throw out. That would be like vacuuming under the couch.

e.g. If a pile of books is impeding entry into the bathroom, then by all means chuck some books or put up more shelving.
For me, fever is one of the things that causes problems with screen brightness. I have serious health problems. Getting generally healthier has reduced the frequency with which such things are a problem for me. You might try treating for fever and see if that makes any difference.
I'd love to do this. Too bad I won't be at Penn State until the Spring.
Why jQuery shouldn't be in the (Django) admin
I made a similar shift a few years back. If you use Visual Studio (at least older versions), it can be a bit stubborn about applying color changes. Restarting it helps.
I really like IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad keyboards, mainly for the trackpoint ("pencil eraser" mouse device), which requires less hand movement than a typical trackpad, mouse, or trackball.

They have an external USB version for desktop use:
http://lenovoblogs.com/designmatters/?p=2364
Ceci n'est pas un engrenage? :)
I recommend (in addition to the other tips here) that you try switching your IDE to a variable width font.

Heresy, I know, but reading is about shape recognition, which is more difficult in mono-spaced fonts.
Job Interview 2.0: Now With Riddles
I'd go back to the drawing board with the pricing plan. Usage based metering is really good for bottom of the barrel pricing ( electricity at home, amazon aws for servers ). For everything else people want predictability and therefore monthly subscriptions.
First Off: Many (if not most) film festival winners and even some Oscar winners (Slumdog Millionaire, Japanese's The Departure) don't cost a huge fortune to produce, esp. in relative to Blockbusters.

Certain creative pursuits, like TV shows, might get back to its cheaper, more natural roots. I'm sure the cost of making a good TV show wasn't this high in the past. The cost is getting higher partly because of the competition for talents.

With less money in the system, it's true that some talents will move to another industry, but many will stay and accept a less extravaganza lifestyle (which is not a great thing to emulate for the society at large anyway). People who really love doing the stuff will likely want to do it no matter what.

Of course, certain sorts of movies/shows like those which requires a huge amount of detailed computer graphics will be harder to come by, but that doesn't spell the end of creative works.

Lower cost for the whole system could potentially result in better quality (of a different kind) because of less focus on techniques and more on the arts and concepts.
sure, why do you write the 1st draft, we'll co-author
I know it isn't possible for everyone, but I've always found it really good for me to have a window close to my computer. I'll look out the window every time I stop to think.
You can pay for a copy you use. And that copy is intended to be run on an Apple platform. You do not have the liberty to put your copy on a non Apple platform that you are selling for a price.

Don't like the terms? There is always Linux for you.
Oh. There's a limit on thread reply depth?

Anyway, re: whopa, ah, I see what you mean now. I misread it as saying "Apple doesn't care about developers in general".
"And yes, Java (and Windows) was designed to use low-skilled labor."

This is an assertion I've seen repeated many times, but never with anything to back it up. Do have any evidence for this, or is it just a feeling that you have? Based on what I've read, Java was designed for use in embedded systems like set top boxes, and the authors wanted to design away some common developer errors. An evolutionary biologist might say that Java was "pre-adapted" for use by low-skilled labor, but I don't think there is any indication that it was designed for it.
I'm certain that the RIAA and MPAA hope that the "cartel" known as the BitTorrent protocol will be ruled illegal. Sometimes collusion can be relatively spontaneous and nearly anonymous.
I guess, if you want to only know basic stuff. But engineers, programmers, physicists (etc..) can benefit from maintaining a large knowledge base of stuff that they wouldn't find interesting or have a conversation about. If you only try to remember stuff that interests you, you probably won't be as successful as someone who can remember even the uninteresting stuff.

Besides, knowledge is a VERY powerful thing.
So what is the intersection of the sets "people that want to work on Django's Javascript" and "Javascript programmers that are unable to learn jQuery but could pick up an in-house Javascript framework"?

My guess is that it's the empty set. If you can pick up arbitrary custom Javascript, you can probably pick up jQuery pretty quickly, too. Even I know jQuery...
I was given some advice on this once:

Lie in bed at night (make sure it is dark so your eyes don't try to focus on anything). Do some eye exercises (up-down, left-right, generally just moving them around a bit) while your eyes are open. I think the rationale behind this is that when you stare at a screen not only are your eyes focusing at the same distance but they are not moving around as much as they should be. Don't know if this is scientific so caveat emptor etc.
That is not what trolling is.

Calling every literary technique other than trolling trolling, however... is trolling. Oh the irony.
ThinkGeek sells these things. http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travel-outdoors/9260/

(Not affiliated with ThinkGeek. Just an occasional customer.)
n(n+1)/2 is not something one should memorize. IMHO you waste too much of your life if you (constantly) memorize, try to find the beauty instead. :)

1 + 2 + 3 + ... + n
n + (n-1) + (n-2) + ... + 1
-------------------------------------
(n+1) + (n+1) + (n+1) + ... + (n+1) = n*(n+1)
Try changing your ambient lighting - when I had an ergo exam at work, they suggested that I make sure that the areas beside my monitor were of a similar brightness to the monitor (the idea being that it's stressful for your eyes to adjust brightness when you look to the side of your screen). I can't say I've noticed a difference, but the logic makes sense to me.

Also see if you can have some surfaces around your monitor that are different distances away from your seat, so you can periodically look to them for a few seconds to allow your eyes to adjust and not get strained into one fixed "focal length".

Lastly, don't underestimate the impact of some good eye drops. Many offices are much drier than they should be, and this effects contact-users even moreso. Throw some drops in now and then, and if you have an enclosed office, run a humidifier in there to get some moisture in the air.
Statements by many lawmakers ghostwritten by lobbyists working for Genentech
I'm not sure if I understand the problem correctly but will using canonical URLs help solve the problem? The gist of canonical URLs is that you let google know there might be duplicate content, but the base url to index is your canonical URL. Quite easy to implement as well.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-url-canonicalizatio...

Hope that helps.
In which things are mapped, but also reduced [alternate Wide Finder in Closure]
Go to Amazon. Type in "toaster". Pick "House & Garden" to let you sort. Sort by bestselling. Look at the first six items and pick one. Done. Time taken: it need not be more than 60 seconds. Quality of purchase: unlikely to be worse than what you would have gotten by visiting an appliance store.

As for me, I do take more time to select. But that's because I choose to. I don't have to. I am not in a situation where failure to spend half an hour selecting is going to ensure that I get garbage.

In short, shopping is not broken, at least not judging by the very example he gave. Shopping is better than it has ever been - even for items like toasters.
The ability to forget certain things is important. Knowledge advances by rejecting false theories.

Scientific and engineering knowledge fits together because reality is consistent. So it isn't necessary to memorise everything.

Rather than trying to 'drill in' certain pieces of essential info, it's better to improve the state of your mind, so that your memory works better generally. We waste a great deal of vitality by overeating, watching TV, etc. It seems to dull the mind and the memory significantly IME.

Forcing yourself to memorise stuff that doesn't interest you will tend to shut the mind down. It's like being at school.
I could not help but be amused by the fact that your blog post renders as grey text on a yellowish-grey background. (Not your fault, I know...)
I wonder how much money she made with that afterwards as it seems not to be doing so well now.

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=whateverlife.com
> And, that all happened because I clicked one button. If that’s not blowing your mind right now, go read all that again. Because that shit is sick.

It's also sick that it took 54.66s for this page to load (over 1.065MB). I went and got some hot chocolate while I was waiting.

Time - http://imgur.com/ttZgU.png

Size - http://imgur.com/C7yXj.png
Not only is she going to become a millionaire from it, but she's doing great work helping the disabled. Incredible work.
I've read the details of this system. It's quite clever, but it won't work.

The problem is not people "hacking" elections. Actual instances of voter fraud or attemted voter fraud are extremely rare in this country.

The problem is the perception of fraud. And this system is WAY too complicated for anyone to understand. Sure, it's great and I hope it gets adopted all over, but actual security at the polls was never really the issue.
The author also assumes that more developers know the raw DOM API than know jQuery. I think that very few developers know enough to write efficient, portable client-side code using DOM calls directly. In my experience working with tons of different web developers, it's a lot faster for any developer (veteran or brand new) to learn and use a good framework like jQuery than to try to write cross-browser code without it.
Upvoted for your username.
This is just silly.

If you want to write raw javascript against the metal and want it to be in any kind of usable state, the person writing it would have to be very familiar with cross-platform issues and quirks in various browsers and be able to route around them. In other words, they would have to, by defintion, be good enough to implement their own javascript framework.

Saying that using a framework which already handles this and is popular, standardized and free (as in speech) will increase the barrier for contribution is just plain misguided.