atomicdog

My dad could beat up Anonymous' dad.

>Megaupload never complied with DMCA requests

Really? Because that statement completely goes against what people are currently saying over on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/onplj/feds_shut_...)

Some examples:

>I'm a DMCA agent and this may well make my job harder. Megauploads was incredible with their response time to DMCA notices.

>They swiftly remove violating content, which will inevitably appear due to their business model. They do not condone piracy, and comply with DMCAs.

>The funny thing is that they TRIED to prevent this. They allowed record labels and movie studios to search through the files and delete anything they found as a copyright violation.

So someone's either misinformed or lying.

>the abolition of the death penalty - a policy which most Britons still oppose.

I don't think this is entirely accurate. If by "most Britons" you mean "most Daily Mail readers" then maybe...

"an all-out war between Hollywood and Silicon Valley." makes it sound as if this is simply two factions of lobbyists battling against each other.

The other of course being that very cool sleepsort algorithm that was posted there

This is a very good point.

Reddit, HackerNews & SlashDot down = Tech sites blackout

Reddit down = Remember that website that we reported was full of pedophiles last month? ...

>Shock waves from HN being blacked out won't travel to the general public or politicians.

I disagree. If certain big sites (google, facebook) black out then it WILL be covered by the mainstream media. As a result they're bound to publish "lists" of all other sites that have followed suit.

Every single site on these lists, whether Joe Public knows them or not, strengthens our cause.

>(I think pretty much every commercial game works like this.)

Is it common for commercial games to write AI in Ruby now?

And hopefully not "defeated" as in "renamed to 'Flags for Orphans act'"

Also: When I'm watching a video on a Windows PC the last thing I want to see is a simulated iPad border around the video.

>I think the issue of kids being manipulated by mobile games is a legitimate issue.

Unfortunately, the DS seem to have targeted a fairly legit company to "expose" this issue. I mean, it's not as if there is a massive dearth of shady companies on the app store they could of featured... the Daily Show just took advantage of one legit company's openness and naivity.

The video, while funny, kinda reminded me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bThouBcsMO4

Depends on their content:

An ad for a local garage? Fine. But I would class "Mom discovers new TEETH WHITENING solution! Don't listen to your DENTIST! CLICK HERE TODAY!" to be pretty distracting and intrusive.

Weren't they mostly maths/physics/electronics graduates, though? Besides, university attendance was much less commonplace in those days, so it's not a particularly fair comparison.

"It takes up precious screen space... so we've replaced it with a fatter bar that takes up even more space."

Hmm, it would be interesting to try to use this to generate ascii heightmaps for games out of images.

>would then require extra complexity to provide a syntax for lines that should not get wrapped,

And what's stopping someone implementing this?

I'm still on Doom :/

I would say 3 weeks could reasonably be described as "roughly 1-2 weeks", but another week would be pushing it. Either way OP should assume the worse and constantly be looking for other jobs in the meantime.

Good idea, but saying "I work at X company doing Y" for most companies is about as 'anonymous' as the average Facebook profile.

Erm... this doesn't make any sense.

>But in addition to lotions for the most common programming languages ??are gaining more and more popular functional languages ??and platforms

This could revolutionise the generation of meme-images...

Music has existed ever since a caveman decided that banging a stick against a rock made a cool sound. It'll continue to exist long after EMI, Island Records and the RIAA have gone.

Would love to see a version of this for popular music

I suppose it depends what the cost of said productivity is. Slave societies were pretty productive.

OP's scenario is further complicated by the fact that his wife is (presumably) half supported by himself who (presumably) is earning a living.

So... How many single people earn a living, pay rent, bills, feed themselves and live to an acceptable standard from selling Hamburger ebooks?

That's kinda like saying a book and a pad of paper is all you need to learn astrophysics and work at NASA.

I get the impression most developers use Objective-C because they have to, rather than because they want to. Take a look at the Tiobe graph for Objective-C:

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Objective-C.ht...

I have a feeling it would see a distinct dropoff in usage if Apple were to change their focus to, say, Java or C++.

>Objective-C was Apple’s response to object-oriented programming

Apple's response? At its inception it had nothing to do with Apple and for a long time was the language of NeXT. It's only since OSX that Apple has adopted Objective-C.