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excellent point, often that is the case. I should have followed up with more concrete evidence, but as jdp23 points out, CNN coverage was after the fact. As is my posting of this article to HN. jdp23 comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2110158

It will definitely be interesting to see how long CNN and others covers the events in Tunisa moving forward.

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second, it's more interesting that's it a portable generator that's 'fun' to energize. I'm not too concerned about car windows in places that actually use kerosene lamps to light their homes.

the revolts and demonstrations, and even murdering of journalists, continues to get very little attention in the US media. Despite blogs, social media and video sharing sites being part of the vehicle of dissent. I wonder if mass media feels a bit burned by the previous Iran 'twitter revolution' not leading to a greater outcome.

just b/c rss is dying, thank god too, doesn't mean syndication is dying. already ideas like pubsubhubbub have provided realtime syndication in a more compact format.

The web is just moving to realtime and ingesting a big long text file and determining deltas sucked. For that matter, XML as a data transport vehicle should end in favor of more compact and type friendly solutions like JSON.

Don't be so alarmist that a crappy tech is being phased out. Now, where's my Tandy 1000.

kinda cool to see creative commons has recognized unlicense as a legitimate alternative for dedicating code to the public domain.

the whole foods in union square NYC was using a multiple register, multiple lines feeding those registers, using an employee as gatekeeper of 'who' got to be next between the 6 lines.

From a customer point of view, it looks like you are standing in a short line (and kinda have to due to limited space in NYC). but it's basically managed by a person to be a single queue to multiple registers.

thanx for the overview. Sounds like this falls into the same groups as LABJS and ControlJS to some degree.

I don't really agree that putting the script tag in the head is a simple example. The tornado web docs, talk about loading script tags last, and they cover a lot more than just where is the best place to put script tag.

http://www.tornadoweb.org/documentation

I could buy the "it's okay to write demos with script tags in the head" bit in the same why I buy it's "okay" to use document.write() examples b/c it's 'fast'. Which is to say, I don't buy either argument.

If requireJS is aiming at people who don't know any advanced JS 'hackery', why on earth would that same dev know they need "sane modularization and dependency management". They still think it's "okay" to load script tags from the HEAD.

i feel like requuireJS hit hacker news last week, and the week before that.

I'm would genuinely like more information on the authors of this library. I a little confused why their examples have the script tags in the HEAD of the document, when it is well known that script tags block all other resources from loading and should be placed at the bottom of the page.

http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/04/27/loading-scripts-...

If the authors or developers have some magic to bypass this, besides just drawing the script tags via JS as Steve Souders suggests, I would be excited to see that presented more front and center.

absolutely agree. It seems as if the author is saying all open source, versus the small set of proprietary software.

I know I have lots of 'open source' half finished projects, which I may or may not be using, and it doesn't really matter to me if someone else wants to take the code and continue it, or fork it or what have you.

I certainly prefer for my web server an open source stack. That's not to say there is anything wrong with proprietary alternatives, but I worked for a very large company that transitioned from proprietary software to open source, precisely for the 'open source' credo (it's stable, tested, more secure etc) as well as its gigantic cost savings annually.

I think proprietary software has a place, but I would like to see the author argue when and what those cases are instead of just talking shit on free software. Perhaps desktop applications for MacOSX and Windows is such a case...

while i agree that this tracking method isn't the best of ideas, I hardly think this merits a decree of a security issue. Any person could steal a package off a doorstep. Stealing mail and other packages not intended for you in a serious federal offense.

Besides all of that is the xmas season here in the U.S., and packages arrive to my apartment building in such quantities everyday, this time of year, that you could argue that XMAS itself is a 'security issue'... All these people, getting packages at close to the same day - all over the country! Imagine... /smugness

(oh and for those that down vote me for being smug, you should be down voting all the folks on this thread that keep calling this a security issue in the first place). It's not like you can subvert the package destination, and if you steal a physical object - you are definitely going to jail.

pretty sure firefly is ChartBeat now.

Thanks for writing this up. I have heard a lot about zeromq recently and have been wanting to check it out.

I'm interested in using it for message passing and job queueing in particular from python using tornado.

agreed, such people and publications are an embarrassment to journalists at large.

Though I am not one to suggest getting a lawyer, I would take the steps towards that direction, including DCMA takedown and the like, as suggested by several others.

If this editor has been knowingly doing 'this' activity (clearly violating copyright) a class action lawsuit against the entire company could be in short order for copyright violation en masse.

Having to pay a lawyer sucks and is expensive, but outright theft and then re-branding with their own copyright is disgusting.

I wonder how interested groups like EFF and ACLU would be in this story.

awesome video clip. hardly the behavior corporate america aims at though.

that's great advice in spirit, but terrible advice in reality. At the least, your ISP might ban you, and at the worst, the cops or FBI could show up to ask what you are doing.

http://nmap.org/book/legal-issues.html

There are a lot of thoughts on this subject over on the nmap.org site on messing around with data on someone else's computer, be that a private or public service.

second that, lots of fun to attend. The presentations I have seen so far have been awesome. It's nice to go to a tech event and not look at a powerpoint preso

agreed on the culture clash, however, there is something that is a little odd about this story in general. vb.ly launched in aug 2009 with the very overt subtag: "The Internet’s First & Only Sex-Positive URL Shortener"

Why did it take 13 months for libya to care enough to take it down?

Here is the post on it's launch (possibly nsfw in libya?): http://laughingsquid.com/vb-ly-the-internets-first-only-sex-... (NSFW??)

excellent point, pushing yourself outside the comfort zone is critical, at least that I what I have found.

Though, I have also found that companies are willing to hire and teach you, if you can exhibit excellent projects (and code), even if they are in PHP

this list is huge and awesome. thank you!

I would say JavaScript the Good Parts is pretty much the bible of JS for the client, the definitive guide is nice, but a lot of stuff in there is very dated. It's not a good guide for DOM manipulation. The JavaScript cookbook by shelly powers (c) 2010 is much better.

Also, High Performance JavaScript by Nicholas C. Zakas is a great book for people who need to go from beginner to intermediate / advanced.

this is an absolutely wonderful read. I stumbled across it about a week ago. Every web developer should at least peruse it.

well yes we are discussing her, since you make multiple mentions of her (1st graph, block quote, summary), my comment is about her, and your defense is again, about her.

There have been many figures throughout history who have established similar ideas (the lower class write about people... the upper class write about ideas) but you didn't choose to quote from them, you choose to quote from Ms. Roosevelt.

Essentially, I'm suggesting that you could have pulled any quote about this idea, but you used mrs. roosevelt. I think you did this b/c you admire her and it supports your idea, but you used her as your vehicle.

My point is that it's a mix, and even when trying to advocate that we take the moral high ground and not chit-chat about people, we (wait for it) chit-chat about people. Hence the original statement... "dont you find it ironic"

Regardless, it was a good read. thanks.

hmm, I'm not really sure he was inspired by Hemingway in any meaningful way. Perhaps purely by coincidence is that true, with Hemingway winning the nobel prize a few years before this letter was mailed, and thompson actively copied heminway's work, as well as several other novels, in order to learn more about writing style, though he never published any plagiarized work.

Hemingway was a traditional, fiction, novelist and focused on his characters. Thompson defied (edit: was defined, oops) 100s of years of traditional writing (both novel and newspaper) by inventing so called 'gonzo' journalism. The man openly included his own personal life directly into all of this work, including this letter. He also, never worked in canada.

While I hold both men in high regard, the only parallels between these two men are the facts they both were journalists and authors (and drunks), since that's true for almost every published journalist, it's a thin comparison at best.

I agree with the sentiment, it's a noble idea and cause, however, don't you find it ironic that 90% of your post is about the thoughts and ideas of Mrs. Roosevelt?

> We can more or less now what you're thinking about.

i really hope he doesn't know what we're thinking, this must be a freudian slip for google instant.

I've never really thought about renting software, it might make it more practical to get legitimate copies of something like photoshop, which is fairly expensive.

For the web (and really and computer software) I am in the more liberal camp of http://unlicense.org/ (no affiliation to them) I think opening up everything to the public domain will speed innovation, among other things.

Nice letter, glad to hear the 'end patents' drum beat growing louder.

though I don't have any patents personally (companies I've worked for do) I'm not a fan of patents either. I always find this site questioncopyright.org (http://questioncopyright.org/promise) to be uplifting when I think about out the US patent and copyright system.

true, but from the phrasing in the story, it appears any company encrypting data will be required to provide the FBI a backdoor, including the application layer.

What I find interesting / related is Google, Yahoo and other internet companies and ISPs are pushing for less invasive probes from the DOJ (http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20002423-38.html), maybe the Feds need some draconian laws to bargin with.

this is working on FF, Chrome Safari for me. I don't have IE to test

i'll second that for score and sensibilities, though I prefer code and politics to statistics.

flickr is huge, but I don't think yahoo has done very much to advance the original feature set. which is also true for delicious. though I agree there are cases, I'm hard pressed to find many. Maybe android (google), but not dodgeball (google).