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This is a very good explaination of why it is wrong. It all boils down to the fact that patent examiners apparently cannot be well-versed in every possible domain and therefore don't realize what is trivial or not. They give patents to each of the ten guys, when a patent should only be issued after ten guys' research of many months (if at all).

Protip: if you are interested in news that actually matters over blogspam, don't read Techcrunch et al.

This is probably the right crowd to ask: all the memory techniques that I have seen seem to be for memorizing sequences. Are there any techniques for remembering factual information more powerful than SRS? Like for the main points of a technical paper or similar?

Cool idea, but remember the botnets. I also am not sure what we gain by verifying their class of attempt if we're already defending against it.

I think technically you are not wrong but actually depending on how angry the media corporations are you can get your assets frozen or be extradited like a criminal.

For the US, I thought the converse was directly provable with empirical data. Don't you have a far sronger argument than you are using?

I feel we are like friends who never met. Is there a way to sue or force prosecution of those who violate this rule?

They probably should!

Counter-poll: should news organizations return to reporting actual news?

The terrorists have gotten what they wanted; massive expenditures and legislations against freedom in the name of security.

The people brazen enough to copy .jars and source code seem to be disproportionately Chinese.

Did you notice Guantanamo was also mentioned? I guess you are still right in that a dictatorial plutocracy is marginally better.

Cheers; this is going to be fun weekend :)

You have successfully gotten me to commit myself to looking into Clojure. Any good resources on learning/setting up, or should I go by the seat of my pants?

I'm pretty sure the canonical example should be PHP. Javascript had a lot of things interesting about it and consistent function names. It's actually not a bad language.

If people acting like jerks offends you that much, you are going to have a bad time on the internet. Although if you know of anywhere besides HN that is mostly reasonable, please PM me :)

nitpick: just as you are offended by rude comments, I am offended by advocating violence as a response to rudeness. I don't think you were serious, but I have to say there's nothing you can say or write that actually warrants a punch in the face.

Facebook often makes choices (like the default security settings) that are obviously not in the users' best interests. Twitter has a proven track record of using policy to ruin services built with its API. These are the kinds of things app.net hopes to avoid. I think.

It is a good idea, although I don't see myself using it.

You are correct, but I think in this case there are only so many different ways to write a range check function, and probably a few obvious ones. If you get 100 programmers to write a range check, there will be a lot more overlap than if you get 100 songwriters to write a chorus... even if they are teenagers.

This is a fantastic idea.

Apple and Android devices are all closed so that excuses Microsoft from doing the same? Guess again; they are all wrong.

There is such a massive load of cognitive dissonance about B2B being sexy in the responses you got. Is it really such a blow to one's ego to admit that it's boring but profitable? Yes, there are technical challenges, no, the majority of it is not interesting.

If it needs corporate money why is it still costing London 625m from tax bills and 1.5bn from lottery funds? Only 80% of the revenue from the IOC goes to the city. So the public spends on new stadia demanded by the IOC, does not recover their total expenses, AND loses the freedom to write "London 2012" or to sell chips without the fish.

Brilliantly put. There's selling exclusive sponsorship and then there's purchasing legislation to exclude other vendors. That is absolutely unacceptable, and is orders of magnitude worse than what Craigslist is doing, which people still have the option of not using.

This is a sincere question: what losses? It seems that they use 80% of revenue to help the location offset its massive costs and keep 8% for themselves.

The only guarantee you have against a situation like that is to not use the platform. I would never rely on FB, Twitter, or even a single cloud provider. It's necessary that one be able to pack up and go if there is a sudden policy change or price hike.

London has been all too willing to toss out the freedoms of its people in exchange for profits to the IOC.

I don't understand the problem. Did they not document their ABI?

I think regardless of the lies, they had a superior operating system up until Lion. Now their business practices and complete disregard for their developers' comfort is fairly inexcusable. Nor do I like the draconian systems of the App Stores.

Thanks for taking the complaint seriously :) I quite enjoyed the article but I have knee-jerk reactions when sites do this.

If you've disabled Javascript on your mobile device, this website will overlay an opaque black square over the content. A note to danshapiro.com -- when you are needlessly restricting your viewers from accessing your website for arbitrary reasons in this way, you should limit the size of the box holding the content, as I was still able to read the majority of your article.

Unfortunately we don't have standards in place for "click to upgrade" or "slide to unlock" and potentially thousands of other tiny patents that cover the minutia of operating systems and software. Why does it matter that you can use Bluetooth if you can't do anything with it?