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> I would say the defining property of OO, is polymorphism.

Make it dynamic polymorphism, and I agree.

> Also, why shouldn't services be responsible for users using their service to abuse others?

Because I like Hacker News. If Hacker News was responsible for the posts of its users, it would not exist. The value it provides for Y Combinator would not match the risk.

Also, email as we know it would not exist. The price of stamps would skyrocket as the postal service would need to hire people to read all letters in case they contained death threats. If any of the web services deserves common carrier protection, it would be twitter.

Whenever something bad happens (like here), there will always be demands for more surveillance. More central control. These demands are just, the victims are real. And the solution exist. We could have a world with only a few highly curated and monitored for pay communication channels, where death threads plus anything else our governments want to keep out would be kept out.

Anyone fighting that future are insensitive jerks unable to emphasize with the victims. Or can easily be portrayed that way.

Righteous indignation comes with a price.

Small investment, tiny chance of success, huge payoff iff successful. It is the lottery of applications.

They might, indirectly. OpenSSH would seem like a good candidate for funding from the Core Infrastructure Program.

I agree. The middle class of other parts of the world catching up to rising US[] is a good thing from any perspective except for the most cynical realpolitik subscribers. Even from a pure US centric point of view, it provides a larger market for US goods.

However, the poor doing worse than 30 is really bad. Even if you believe that a high gini coefficient is needed to encourage upward mobility, a falling living standard for the poor indicate that it is not working.

[] I'd really like to see the comparison in income after tax+education+health care. Health care and education is more or less mandatory for the middle class, and the details of how it is financed (tax, savings, insurance) shouldn't affect the comparison of living standard.

Both, as they provide the bulk of the code. It would be more illuminating to examine where the unpaid volunteers contribute. My guess would be device drivers, but I don't know.

Doesn't it pretend? The screenshoot shows very old movies. My initial impression from the web site was that this application provided a nice interface to some repository of freely redistributable movies.

I really wish for a -Weverything flags that would enable all warnings, even the stupid, useless ones. I'd then put -Wno-<stupid, useless warning> to disable those.

Microsoft has been distributing GPL2 software before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX

Yes, Danish seems to be in between German and English, except for the first example.

  die/der/das -> [see below] -> the
  drei -> tre -> three
  Donner -> torden -> thunder
  Ding -> ting -> thing
  daher -> derfor -> therefore
  du -> du -> thou

I have no idea what happened to the definite article in Danish though:

  ein Haus -> et hus -> a house
  das Haus -> huset -> the house

Aside: The Danish capitalization rules used to mirror the German rules until after WWII, where we switched to the Swedish rules.

That means Google (the makers of Ingress) will get access to the list of contacts I have stored in Google Contacts.

I believe I can live with that :-)

Seen from Russia, there is a power struggle between EU and Russia about border drawing between their respective empires. Thinking in "empires" is popular in Russia. So seen from Russia, it is beyond doubt that the Kiev uprising is bankrolled by EU.

Seen from EU, EU hasn't really enough coherence to deal effectively with its internal problems, much less participate in any international power struggles. And the population is deeply tired of expansion. The only empires in the minds of EU are the ghosts of the British and French colonial empires. So EU has neither the will nor the capability to do something like this.

Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/610/

Tire burning is not really large scale destruction. From the livejournal entry:

1."They destroyed the whole city"

Not true. All of the action you see in the pictures are happening on a small square near the entrance to a Dinamo stadium. This is a government sector, there is no intereference in peaceful life outside of this area. If you make an analogy with Moscow, imagine that the barricades are someone in the area of Ilinka or Varvarka, near the president's administration. Sure, it's the center, but regular Moscovites wouldn't notice. There is dark smoke and fire on all pictures: those are mostly burning tires. There is not tangible damage to the buildings. Unfortunately one store burned down last night near the barricades, resulted from a poorly thrown molotov cocktail. Even the statue of Lobanovsky, located in the epicenter of fighting has been covered with cloth to prevent damage. Overall, the protesters are very careful regarding property. They've take apart fences and benches, but no windows are broken, noone is vandalizing, and all looters are caught and beaten. So the picture is pretty apocalyptic, but things are not so bad.

3. "The entire Kiev is paralyzed, there is no peaceful life for the regular people."

Kiev is living its own life. All stores and cafes are working, people are going to work, study in universities, get married, divorce and even die their own death. Most of the Kiev populace are not inconvenienced. Imagine if Navalny took over the Red Square and set up his camp there. What would change for you, Moscovites? Nothing. So the only people who are inconvenienced are toruists. A few stores and cafes had to close down in the very center. Also, those living in the center have troubles with logistics. But the entire Kiev is not paralyzed.

I don't understand a word you are saying.

This is why Google did the right thing tying their reviews to their social network. If I know the person doing the review, I can put it in context. There are people whose opinion on wireless routers I'd listen to, and people I wouldn't.

A lot of people got angry at the time, and publicly declared they wouldn't review any more. But that's not really a big loss. Their reviews might be the most qualified out there, but as long as they were anonymous I would be unable to put them in context, and they would be of very limited value to me.

> A free "social" site

It is not a free service. You pay for it with your personal information. It is up to you whether you find the price too high. And with the Google+ integration, the price for using Google services is definitely on the rise.

It is kind of fun how the failures didn't have to be.

IBM did successfully enter and even define the PC market.

Microsoft saw the threat of the Internet, and reacted swiftly to own it with Windows 95. Internet Explorer demolished Netscape, with illegal methods, but most people at the time also recognized IE as the better browser. Microsoft also got a strong foothold on mobile with WinCE/PocketPC/Windows Mobile.

Google was an early entrance in social with Orkut, dominating some important emerging markets (Brazil, India).

In each case the companies seemed to lose interest and refocus on their moneymaker divisions. It might be intrinsic to large companies: If you want to advance, you should work where the money is made. So the best and most ambitious people would go there, leaving the forward looking parts of the company to die of negligence.

I'd give Larry McVoy most credit of the three. He worked at TeamWare, which was the first DVCS, at least the first I have heard of. I don't know how much credit goes to him specifically, compared to the other people who worked on TeamWare though.

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

Thanks, that was my initial reaction as well. I'd have expected it to be a few enthusiasts, maybe something like 50.000 worldwide. 1.85 % of the Steam user base is more than a million players!

Robert Scoble is references in the article. I actually believe this picture helps counteract the "asshole" meme. He really does not come through as a person who takes himself too seriously here.

It does nothing to counteract the the dweeb meme though.

The reaction to the early adopters of cell phones were similar. They were perceived as yuppies who though themselves as way to important to talk to the people they were actually with at the moment.

It is an opinion piece, and marked as such. I can't imagine being willing to pay for an opinion, certainly not from an author I don't know.

But people will donate to an author or organization that consistently publish (freely) arguments for opinions they happen to agree with.

NRA or ACLU would be examples of such organizations.

Roughly $1300 according to the article.

The Oklahoma Governor's Mansion, if anyone else is curious: http://www.ok.gov/governor/Mansion.html

It would be a trade-off. It would be more immersible for you, but less for everyone else, as your only only human appearance (your face) would be obscured.

Longer term solution: Your presented face would be computer animated.

mbox can't be implemented properly, it is an inherently broken format. Or rather, a family of almost compatible broken formats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox

Sounds like Mail.app exported in mboxcl2, which breaks mail readers expecting the mboxo or the mboxrd formats.

I recommend people to use IMAP for extracting the mail, and to store it in something outside the mbox family.

That is really bad advice. C style memory management is useless in the presence of exceptions, and a nightmare to get right even in C. Choose a book that teaches RAII from the beginning, and leaves C style memory management to a late, advanced chapter.

Accelerated C++ used to be that book, don't know if there is a newer and better replacement.

"Accordingly, judgment will be entered in favor of Google dismissing the case."

The complete ruling is here. It is written in plain English. I couldn't find a non-scribd link though, sorry for that.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/184176014/Judge-Denny-Chin-Google-...

I though the option of using "G+ page" instead of your G+ profile name was there to preserve the Youtube pseudonyms.