Actually they were business people who have been through this battle before spending in the six figures to defend their marks (along with my brother who is a patent attorney). But yes, you are correct that sending a letter is the first step but if that step is ignored then the next step will cost money...and too much money for a single developers side project!
The system is a mess. I have a small side project and I trademarked the name, yet a competitor of mine used my trademark to promote their site and after speaking with several people about my situation they made it clear that unless I was willing to put up about six figures to fight it there isn't much I could do.
Absolutely! We are way past the time, at least in the U.S., to not have a guaranteed basic income system of some type (that includes at least basic health care).
Xamarin's value proposition is developing for multiple platforms at once (or at least, as a current Xamarin user, sharing as much as possible between platforms). Swift still offers nothing for that scenario so I don't really understand the comparison.
Obviously if you are only going to ever develop for iOS then going with Swift could make sense but then it seems that Xamarin would've never really have been an option anyhow, irrelevant of cost.
The job board is RemoteCoder but already looked at a Rails/EmberJS job posting and they are looking for candidates "hopefully" within 2 cities they mention and definitely within Australia. If a remote job board is to succeed, IMO, I think those posting should not be allowed.
I don't think that encourages spending....I think that encourages offshore bank accounts and the like. Anyhow, I'd think that anyone with any type of massive windfall is pretty thoroughly invested so in some capacity it is contributing back to the economy.
I also can't imagine there are many who receive some type of windfall and are just sitting on it!
Spending doesn't do as much as starting or investing in new companies or even philanthropy itself.
Gates and Pickety agree on the estate tax which would help for people trying to sit on their wealth and simply pass it along to their heirs. Of course the estate tax needs some improvements.
So naturally, and not to be insensitive, but this rule goes out the window when someone famous dies? I've seen the front page of HN covered with stories about Steve Jobs death (amongst others)?
Doesn't "item" denote the actual article that's posted, not the subject of that article. This is a strange definition of duplicate if you can't post different stories about the same topic. Don't we encourage multiple points of view and if we find someones interpretation of the topic interesting doesn't it deserve to live or die on its own?
He deserves no such applause. The fact that he recanted his position so quickly shows that he literally put no research/effort into his initial article that was published not just on a small personal blog, but on the Washington Post's website. It is completely irresponsible of a man of his intelligence/qualifications to post something like that to a major news organizations website.
edit: If down-voting I'd like to know why as I'm not saying anything inflammatory. Please don't down-vote for disagreeing as that's not what down-voting is for!
I haven't read that one, but I'll definitely check it out. I'd also recommend Charles Petzold's book called "Code". One of the best technical books I've ever read!
Only if said glitches were noticed during the auction and you took preventative steps to not notify any winners and explained the situation immediately to all participants.
After announcing a winner and accepting money the deal is done!
The wealth disparity that is increasing is mostly due to investments and an extremely low capital gains tax. We can't just increase the income tax because the wealthiest 1% probably don't even have much of an income...they have capital gains from investments. Yes, the income tax needs to be increased (or actually more brackets need to be created) but we also need to raise the capital gains tax for higher amounts of capital gains.
But it's certainly reasonable to assume most of his customers are middle class individuals with enough discretionary income to spend on occasional car washes. The articles point is not that your friend doesn't deserve credit in creating jobs, but the initial creation is only one part. Sustaining those jobs requires sustaining the customers and to do that they must maintain enough discretionary income to spend on car washes. With the income disparity ever increasing it's easy to see the middle class fading and as that happens so shall your friends car wash business.
True, but we are talking about things like candy bars. Kids can pick up a candy bar and not realize that a candy bar that contains THC is any different than a regular candy bar. Not to mention that the candy bar may contain extreme dosages of THC.
I'm not in Colorado but I saw one of the downsides the other day which is the manufacture of items like candy bars with multiple serving sizes of THC in the one bar. People aren't paying much attention to the serving sizes and there appears to be no restrictions in place yet on how much can be in a given food item. I'm in favor of legalization but there may need to be some more restrictions in place on how much THC could be included in any one item.
I'm not a fan either but I must admit I've taken advantage of offers presented to me in this fashion before. Some shopping sites will do this. If you've added items to the cart then go to close the page they'll offer an x% discount for you to complete the purchase.
However, I much prefer the sites that send me an email days later with an offer to purchase what is still in my cart but to do that you already have to be a user of those sites.
That is actually not true. Any software you develop whether on company time or not belongs to you UNLESS you sign some type of intellectual agreement with the company prior to the development of that work.
That is not logically equivalent. One group is trying to deny another group rights...the other group just wants to be treated equally under the law. Eich, unfortunately, is on the wrong side of history here and he suffered a consequence because of it.
Again, this is not a "political belief". Actively, and I say actively because he donated money for his cause, denying a group of people rights because you disagree with their lifestyle is bigoted.
We wouldn't call it a political view if he was donating to groups trying to remove rights from other minorities, yet it seems ok when talking about LGBT rights and specifically the right to marry.
I spend a lot of time in many different languages, but right now I'm working on a personal project with C# MVC backend (API) and EmberJs on the front side. Great experience on both accounts!
I wouldn't call denying certain groups of people rights a "political view". It's not a political view to say that a black person shouldn't be afforded the same rights as a white person...it's racism. Call Brandon what he is...a bigot. He believes that because of the way a person is born they don't deserve the same rights as himself. So, to answer your question, no you shouldn't support him no matter what views you have in common. And definitely don't give credence to this idea of denying a group of individuals rights by calling it a "political view"...it's bigotry plain and simple.
When has Google ever closed a service that they haven't given you plenty of time and great capability to export all of your data? Not arguing their history of closing services but I'm currently paying $200.00 to Dropbox a year and can convert to Google and pay 48 bucks.
If something happens they decide to close it in the future I'll get my data pulled down and get into another service...but until then I'll be happy to keep my 150 bucks a year!
Well, that's what happens I guess when you spend all day working on one problem and stop to check HN and randomly comment...guess I was too tired to realize what the parent comment actually said!
Edit: Curious why the downvote, I ask a legitimate question to the parent to provide a source that the command pattern is the most utilized architecture in the industry so please don't downvote without an explanation.
I don't think they randomly spam, but sometimes when you login to Google+ it will show you a large window of all your google contacts that are not in your circles with an easy way to invite all of them. It's easy to accidentally click the button to send invites just to close the window and it's also easy to not realize who all you sent them to.