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haha! Well that cleared things up.

I went to read thinking maybe there will be some great insight behind his reasoning.

But all it came down to was, bookstores will never sell amazon books, so no major authors will ever go there, so they are fucked.

It's almost annoyingly short-sighted.

This blog post would have been way better without the ranting style of writing.

It doesn't even get to the point (that programming does not have to be text-based) until halfway into the article.

The title and the objection to other people learning to code are at most tangentially related to that point. Just because there could be better ways to give instructions to machine doesn't mean other people should wait to learn how to instruct machines until those methods are developed.

It really depends on whether you want to outsource development or actually want a remote (but in house) dev team in India.

Most comments here are already inherently considering the remote team to be code monkeys who will churn out software based on specs. There is no magic here, to get good code, you need devs who are invested in the idea, and not second class citizens in the company.

Invest the same amount of resources into hiring people as you would here, pay not just a good but a great salary, make the Indian office a good place to work, where employees actually have a ladder to climb and have input in the product, and all this can work.

And yes, that most likely means having someone on the ground in the early days.

You can't expect in attract great talent with half assed hiring measures and an intent to get code on the cheap. Those people are happy doing their own startups or working somewhere else.

I'm curious, are you stating this based on your experience, or you just think it's unlikely?

"Assigning a label to myself like “hacker” or “developer” gives me the heebie-jeebies."

This in particular is not limited to women. As a guy from a non-CS background, I felt the same way for a long time. I'd say it's a function of experience rather than gender.

No, it's irresponsible to BUY magnets that are smooth, shiny and of a size that can be swallowed.

If you have children in the house.

Okay, so you don't agree with the approach. Doesn't mean you have to resort to name calling.

All you are pointing to is an alternative solution which basically has all the same issues in getting the right mix of nutrients, and more work on the consumers part. Convenience is at least part of the appeal of Soylent.

Fine, you prefer that approach, fair enough, there's no data that says it's the better one.

Does this mean there will finally be Linux support? There is no mention of how DRM will be implemented.

Edit: One of the older blog posts (link in this one) discusses HTML5 Premium Video Extensions

The article presents it as if the Guardian approached the Times wanting to collaborate on the story. If they have been collaborating with the Post on the the other NSA stories, why switch to the Times for this one?

Does anyone know how these partnerships work?

Yahoo's tumblr blog also makes the basic mistake of not linking back to the main website.

I've found trovebox.com (the openphoto project) to be a simple way to archive pictures as well as auto-upload phone pictures.

And it allows you to switch out storage backends if you want.

I think they wanted him to do a 3 hour code test before they even talked to him

"and if the goal is security, the harsh truth is that we should often err toward more secrets rather than fewer."

I thought the ongoing debate was to determine whether the security afforded by the secrets is worth it if it means establishing a surveillance state. The goal is not security at any cost, is it?

"The reality is that business owners must recruit workers and not dragoon them and chain them to their workplaces. Nor are business owners interested in harming either their workers or their customers. If they do, normal civil and commercial law will suffice."

It's funny how people forget that labour laws came up to fulfil a need, after a lot of struggle. Sure, sometimes they can go too far, but they weren't implemented on a whim.

People were actually beaten and killed[1][2]. People died because of poor working conditions and no safety regulations[3].

The above-mentioned reality only exists when workers have choice, in most real market conditions, that is not always true.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Overpass [2] http://www.forgottenshow.net/story.html [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fi...

I guess it doesn't really matter. It's win-win either ways.

If it gets funded, they get to make a showcase device.

If it doesn't, they still get better publicity than they could have bought, and Canonical gets to be the company that tries new and interesting things.

Exactly what I was thinking. If you commit to github, your account email is already public.

tala:

I'm guessing you know it means 'lock' in Hindi? http://translate.google.com/#en/hi/lock

To clarify again, I am not saying this is a good thing. I was just pointing out what seemed to be a major point of difference between this and the US situation.

A lot of the unrest and anger here is because mass surveillance was approved to be carried out in secret and the companies were not even allowed to talk about what type of data they were providing to the government.

This makes all the difference:

"Yet India’s Central Monitoring System, or CMS, was not shrouded in secrecy"

Doesn't make collecting all that data ok, but the fact that it's not all cloak and dagger means that people know what the government is doing in their name and they can vote for a change if they disagree.

Meanwhile, on other Andaman islands, there were human safaris happening. Most likely still are, but you probably have to grease some palms.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/07/andaman-islands-...

I imagine they would have had a much better response if they had just made the twitter handle @BofA_HelpBot

He's been to India a few times now, so I would imagine he's no stranger to the problems there.

It seems impressive, but now one more company is going to know my viewing habits etc etc.

Price to pay to ease of use?

really, destroys?

Awesome. We've been waiting for this for a while.

A mixture of not understanding the article and wanting to rail on CISPA?

Where does it mention that the government views citizens as consumers? From what I understand, it says that government would have access to data about consumers, as in 'consumers/customers of private businesses'.

Anyone can misunderstand or misread something, I don't blame the author. What's irritating is how many upvotes this has and how many people have piled on.

Good job pointing out at least some of the people responsible for propagating the mess. Public shaming might be the best tool to balance out the spread of misinformation. People need to realize that even publishing on the internet has consequences. Hopefully this will make people think for a minute before tweeting / re-tweeting loaded statements mindlessly.

The most ironic statement: And then later, he continued, "Journalism students take note: tonight, the best reporting was crowdsourced, digital and done by bystanders. #Watertown."

"4) Think for a minute what this implies: that a government agency that is responsible for collecting money should also be the sole source for computing how much money is owed."

Did you even read the article? All they are saying is the IRS could "pre-fill" your forms. If you don't agree, you can change the values, or get a CPA and do the whole thing completely independently. Where did you get the 'govt would be the sole source' argument?

Baseless fear-mongering like this doesn't do any good for any one (except Intuit maybe)

The pricing seems very reasonable.

I'm excited about this because if it actually makes money, supports the authors etc., then we can look forward to a well supported django admin interface.

Good luck to the authors.