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This is essentially how Magnatune works. You pay $15 per month, can download and stream any amount of music from the Magnatune catalog and 50% of your monthly fee gets paid to artists in proportion to how much of their music you downloaded and streamed.

aapl

13년 전discuss

One issue with just using a public key everywhere is that the most common public key authentication protocols result in some degree of non-repudiability. This is desirable for signing in to a bank but not for potentially embarrassing sites. I guess the cryptographic community might already have an answer to this, though.

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13년 전discuss

About the Finnish system, you can find an example of the tax return form here:

http://www.vero.fi/download/noname/{302EA05D-2530-4021-8931-...

And instructions here:

http://www.vero.fi/en-US/Precise_information/Forms/Tax_retur...

aapl

13년 전discuss

As an actual example, in the GitHub penis incident, HN seemed mostly supportive of the target:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2601342

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13년 전discuss

In Finland, your income tax rate only depends on your total yearly income. If you estimate your income too low and too much money gets withheld, it will be returned to you the next year. You can also adjust your estimate at any point during the year.

aapl

13년 전discuss

Firefox now comes with a console, DOM inspector and JavaScript debugger out of the box.

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14년 전discuss

Try Sony Xperia U. I have the previous model Xperia ray and have been very happy with it. Great display (3.3 inch widescreen high-DPI), great camera, okay processor, would prefer more memory. It's so small that just about everyone mistakes it for a feature phone.

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14년 전discuss

The Book Depository is owned by Amazon too :)

aapl

14년 전discuss

AbeBooks is actually owned by Amazon now.

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14년 전discuss

Hyperbole, true, but it's equally silly to say that things just fine because it's the same situation in China and Korea. Why not compare to Japan where work permits are not tied to an employer and if you lose your job you generally have at least 3 months to look for a new one? Or many European countries with similar or better terms?

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14년 전discuss

Some metro and train stations have those in Japan too, though they are still somewhat rare sight.

aapl

14년 전discuss

Raw TCP was considered for WebSockets, however briefly. Due to security reasons, WebSocket was designed so that it's impossible for a WebSocket client to spoof any existing protocol.

I would argue that things are actually swinging to the opposite direction right now. WebGL is very close to OpenGL ES 2.0, Web Audio API includes low level features, WebRTC 1.0 is slated to include datagram channels... Recent standards efforts are striking pretty good balance of flexibility, interoperability and security, IMHO.

aapl

14년 전discuss

Pure speculation: maybe these apps are actually ebooks or some other kind of static content just packaged as an app and they are generated by an automatic or a semi-automatic process. Assuming that the article is correct, of course.

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14년 전discuss

I frequent a couple of niche forums where the rule is that you have to write an introductory post of at least X sentences (or come up with original witty answers to a list of questions etc.) before you are allowed to post anything else. All introductions are read by admins or volunteers and approved if as long as they seem written by a human. No spammers and very few trolls.

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14년 전discuss

This sounds interesting. What Xerox document are you referring to and what is the most relevant part?

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14년 전discuss

This also applies to Freshness Burger and Kua'Aina. I don't understand how the Japanese can pull it off but Americans and Finns can't.

aapl

14년 전discuss

Good advice here. I would like to add two things:

When Apple demoes desktop applications, they have multiple computers linked to a keyboard-mouse-monitor switch. If the demo fails on one computer, the presenter can quickly switch to a fresh system. IIRC there some videos that show Jobs doing just this.

If you can't afford redundant systems or it would be unelegant to have them around, make sure to make a video or a bunch of screenshots of the planned demo. One of the most fluid "demos" I have ever seen was just a sequence of screenshots. Because the presenter was pointing out things on the screen and clicking on where he would actually have to click to make the next action happen, it somehow felt more like a demo than a slideshow.

aapl

14년 전discuss

I once heard a lecture by Joe Haldeman, an author who was a close friend of a Heinlein. IIRC, he said that Heinlein liked to play by taking ideas to their logical extremes and much of what he wrote should be taken as "a modest proposal" instead of perfectly reflective of his personal beliefs.

aapl

14년 전discuss

Maybe something like this:

https://vimeo.com/8569187

A less cynical version:

https://vimeo.com/14294054

aapl

14년 전discuss

I'm a big fan of the model of teamwork where everyone is welcome to offer their opinion on and spend a bit of time thinking about and working on any aspect of the product, but there are fairly clearly defined responsibilities regarding who has the final say on what goes to the final product. Or to put it other way, everyone is involved in everything, but each thing has only one person responsible for it.

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