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It is funny that some of the same people that claim that using and sharing other people work is ok and that copyrights and IP are evil also think that what Zynga did in this case is "stealing", "rip off" or immoral, at best.

Why would it be ok to just copy other people work and enjoy it, while creating something similar to something else is not ok?

It seems like a new course of action for MPAA.

1st they failed to push SOPA in USA.

But, they may force Ireland and other smaller countries to pass SOPA like laws.

Then, they can push again in USA claiming that it is good since everyone else is using it.

This whole story reads was interesting as a reminder of what public information people leave on the internet unconsciously, and how to find it. More interesting than most crime stories :)

And best of all, blog author didn't do any wrong, except maybe violating SOPA. He just published information that is already publicly available all over the internet, and thus can't be accused of harassment.

Unless you have to integrate with their "mission critical" SOAP based "enterprise solution".

You forgot various change request, often contradictory by different departments, countless changes to things already signed, specified, implemented, tested and deployed, at least three starts from scratch because of different "visions" ...

To me, as a customer, startup has a negative connotation. I am always reluctant to depend on any nontrivial service provided by someone calling itself startup, because I know they are not here to stay and continue to provide the same or improved service in the future. Instead, their goal is to exit by selling itself to whoever wants to acquire them, and that usually means the end of their service.

If I have to depend on the service, let it better be provided by a business that is struggling to make money on it for as long as possible.

You have to hit F5 to reload page, since otherwise the old page will be displayed from browser cache. Probably something wrong with page cache expiration settings.

In general I agree, except for the IDE part. Every single IDE I haven ever used have better editor that Smalltalk IDE.

Not being able to use your own editor, whichever it is, and being forced to use something that is basically equivalent to plain old browser textarea is a showstopper for calling Smalltalk environments pleasant.

Maybe Gnu Smalltalk is a cure to that, since it doesn't have live image and you can use whichever editor you like, but that kinda defeats most of the benefits of Smalltalk.

Reading only the title I would answer: "Of course not", but there are more questions to this.

Why the original owner allowed company to use his own account? By the fact that he handed down password and permissions to the company to operate this account, one could argue that this is not his own account anymore.

However, whoever wins this suit, the right thing to do for LinkedIn would be to just disable/delete the account for misuse. The fact that multiple people inside a company had been sharing the same account, changing person name, picture and position is a bit fishy, and potentially a scam against other linkedin users. I wouldn't be happy to connect to "John D" and write recommendation to him, only to find out that few weeks later this is some "Alex F" I don't know.

> Despite the Jobs quote saying he wanted to sue Android out of existence, Apple does not really want to drive Android (nor other competitors) itself into oblivion, Apple wants people to stop copying their design. They want to force the copycats to differentiate, if not innovate.

So Apple is suing everyone because they want their competition to differentiate, innovate, and, in general, become better?

No, Apple is suing them, with or without merit, in order to make it harder for competition to compete with them, to make their lives harder, and to ensure own leadership position as long as possible.

In addition, it's not fair to call someone copycat just because it has square screen on square phone. What they had to do, to put round screen on triangular device?

The title is a bit misleading. It's not that they were trying to add them for 7.5 years, but weren't able to do it, as the title suggests. It's just that hey didn't have intention of adding line numbers, but changed their minds recently.

Standard threading finally. Now, when this get traction, it will be much easier to port non trivial applications between various operating systems.

Nokia Symbian phones had this waaay before iPhone.

Yes you can[1], and you should if that patent affects your business.

The whole point of public patent application is that the competitors have time to oppose it if there's no reason for that patent to be granted.

And that's what a lot of non-tech companies are already doing.

[1]http://www.fishiplaw.com/faqs/cat/opposing-patents/36/

The same quote also mean just quality, since you get better phone for the same money you want to spend ;)

I understood that HTC is from the US banned until they change their product, but you may be right.

Anyways, it's much harder for any non US company to compete with Apple (and Motorola) on US market. Take an example of Nokia which was absolute smartphone leader everywhere in the world excluding US. HTC and Samsung are in the similar position.

Why nobody opposed this? I see comments that this "invention" is obvious, yet nobody opposed it when Apple applied for it.

Isn't it more effective to prevent Apple from getting this patent in the first place than to wait for it to sue somebody over this patent and then battle it at court?

In France Apple doesn't have home advantage and as strong patent portfolio as in US, so it has to compete with the others only on the merits of quality and price of their phone.

It is keyboard friendly, but I still find google Tasks more intuitive regarding keyboard usage. It just worked, without any explanations, at least for me.

That being said, stripped down web version of org-mode would be a killer web app for me.

Ok, this might be true, and logical. But then, it still applies in the same sense to civil engineers, mechanical engineers, and all engineers in general, not only programmers. But still, only programmers are flagged with "asocial" flags.

Why, oh why, this stupid meme that programmers are asocial or antisocial still exists in this day and age? Is it because of some antisocial programmer individual that wants to be like everyone else, and label everyone else as antisocial? Or is it because they have less "friends" than merketing guys whose job is to call acquaintances friend? I agree that there are asocial people in this profession, but no more than in any other profession, and this generalization is only making harm to other programmers.

As a punishment to this name calling, I will remove his site from my "Ad block" exceptions list and will call all my "friends" to do that too ;)

As for Total commander example, that was out of the box experience, without any tweaks. I just wanted to point out that even when using emulation layer to access Windows native filesystem type, Linux was significantly faster on file system operations.

As for my homework "copy" command, I know that it is not fully replacement to file copy windows command, but if copy operations takes >10min, all those checks and additional tasks shouldn't make IO bound operation take couple time longer than what some student implemented as homework.

I'm not sure if it is related, but the fact is that file system operation on windows are much slower that on Linux. I remembering that copying large ISO image from one windows partition to another windows partition using Total Commander under Wine on Linux was faster that doing it directly on Windows.

I also remember that I was able to create file copy utility in assembly as a homework assignment that was couple times faster than windows/dos copy command.

The only two reasons I can think of that explain this are: 1 - noone cares about windows fileystem performance. 2 - someone decided that it shouldn't be too fast.

Does this mean that IE9 will be available on Win XP?

It would be great, but I doubt that Microsoft will do something like that. Most likely Win XP users will get "only" security updates an service packs for IE7, Vista users for IE8 and only Win7 users will get the latest IE.

That being said, I can't see this as a big leap forward, since large majority of users will not get the latest browser update.

We can only speculate on that number. But point is whatever percent that is, they are likely Firefox users, since Chrome doesn't do real blocking of those sites.

If the number of privacy concerned people is only 5% (a guess as good as any other guess), add that number to Firefox percentage, and the picture looks quire different.

Since Chrome doesn't have real AdBlocker, it is logical that stat counter will show its number accurate, while Firefox share will be underestimated due to a large amount of users blocking StatCounter and similar tracking services.

Much more informative that the title itself. Touching file and changing maybe one line is not a big deal, but rewriting half of the source code base every months is.

No list of Window utilities can be complete without even mentioning Total Commander (or Windows Commander as we called it back in time).

It's so essential to me that I wouldn't mind if Windows decided to remove Windows Explorer & Desktop completely from the next version.

Just downloaded Sublime 2 and it looks very nice at a glance. It will probably replace TextPad as my second editor (still Emacs as primary one).

The only missing thing would be Eclipse backed autocomplete and navigation. The first editor that get it seamless will be the one I'll use the most.

I know there is eclim project, but it feels slow and cumbersome to use.

I understand why someone wouldn't like to use cygwin, but why new project?

MSYS/mingw-get are active projects that provide a good base to build upon. Why not helping improve it? Unix tools on Windows is niche enough so that choice only leads to fragmentation, not competition.

Does that means that I can legally use their software free of charge if my conscience doesn't prohibit me from using it unlicensed?