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by gavinballard 15y ago
Definitely illegal in both Australia and the UK, and as far as my legal knowledge extends to the US (directors' fiduciary duties are pretty similar across these countries), illegal there as well. In the situation described, founders are ess
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Financial Analyst puts RIM at the top of his 2012 investment picks(techcrunch.com)
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by gavinballard 15y ago
The title of this article is somewhat misleading. A clause that prevented any right of action whatsoever would most likely be illegal in many countries (including, I think, all EU countries, the US and Australia/NZ). However, "binding arbit
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TripAdvisor dumps "Reviews you can trust" slogan(theage.com.au)
2 points by gavinballard 15y ago|0 comments
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The Craigslist Reverse Programmer Troll(teddziuba.com)
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by gavinballard 15y ago
Anyone with a US legal background know if this raises any antitrust issues? It would certainly raise some red flags under Australian competition law.
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by gavinballard 15y ago
For any other Aussies that, like me, vaguely remember the plans for building this near Mildura but can't be bothered watching the video to find out why it didn't happen, the reason cited is a "complete lack of incentives". Sad that somethin
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by gavinballard 15y ago
Greg Wilson often mentions that very few programming courses will incorporate the study of existing, proven programs and their code. This probably applies equally to self-taught programmers, and many programming books. I recently bought and
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Guaranteeing a Million App Downloads(pollenizer.com)
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by gavinballard 15y ago
In Australia's history, of 44 constitutional referendums held, only 8 have passed (3 of them in the same ballot). It's very difficult (some would say, too difficult) to amend the Australian constitution, and definitely not something that
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by gavinballard 15y ago
Very nice! I'm currently building our wallboard, so thinking about this space a lot recently. Are you planning on providing a means to create custom widgets?
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by gavinballard 15y ago
Some seminal examples of this (in Australia at least) include "McDonald's" (pretty much impossible to brand any good or service, no matter its class, as such) and "Nike" (the shoe manufacturer prevented the manufacture of "Nike" perfume).
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by gavinballard 15y ago
The type of token isn't what at's issue here, it's the method of obtaining one. OAuth 2.0 doesn't make a distinction between bearer and HMAC tokens during the authori[s]ation phase, which is what this article and discussion is about. By t
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by gavinballard 15y ago
Yup - that's one of the thing the USFTA changed when in came into force in 2005. The old restriction of +50 was changed to +70. See http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/... .
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by gavinballard 15y ago
In the IP sphere, free trade agreements are more often focused on the types of laws countries must put in place to protect (or limit, depending on your point of view :)) IP within their own country . So, for example, the US-Australian FTA
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by gavinballard 16y ago
One of my biggest pet peeves are forms that make you enter your address information, including your "ZIP Code", before asking for your country. Extra annoyance points go to sites that then do a clunky page refresh after selecting a differ
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by gavinballard 16y ago
From the article: "If business owners could hire people in the US to clean up their messy databases for $3.00 they wouldn’t need to go on mechanical turk to hire the same person for $1.50 an hour." That's completely against the very pure fo
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by gavinballard 16y ago
I think there's a time and a place for public dissemination of emails like this. To take an example, TechCrunch does it all the time - sometimes I think it goes too far (every single internal email AOL sends out), sometimes I think it's app
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by gavinballard 16y ago
Actually, in Australia and NZ (not sure on the situation in the US and elsewhere), empty threats to sue to enforce intellectual property rights are illegal (I am an Australian law graduate, not practising, this is not legal advice). It's sa
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by gavinballard 16y ago
It's really interesting to see that so many HN readers describe themselves as "self-taught programmers". I would describe myself as that as well, despite just graduating from university last year with a Software Engineering degree (at my un
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by gavinballard 16y ago
Sure, that would make sense for content that could be so served (for example, the pencil icon used as the example here) - but not all content is like that. What about content you want people to interact with (a blog post on your site, a spe
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by gavinballard 16y ago
That second formulation is how I thought of it in the first place. You could get around the link-sharing problem for those that wanted to avoid it by offering single-use URLs, and provide Gumroad either with a way of generating a new single
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by gavinballard 16y ago
What's being sold isn't the "link" but ability to access what it points to - an image, a blog post, etc. I think it's a great idea with oodles of potential - a link-based mini-paywall :).
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by gavinballard 16y ago
I think this is a great point, and the one that designers (and anyone feeling threatened by the evil onslaught of spec work) should be focusing on rather than the notion that the mere existence of 99designs is "insulting" to the profession.
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by gavinballard 16y ago
I agree with the author's overall thrust: that the new Skype UI for Mac is horrid and that a large company with lots of cash should generally pay quality, full-time designers who can spend a lot of time understanding the product and produci
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by gavinballard 16y ago
I get quite annoyed when I read comments of the "hah, [X] has had [Y] for ages!" variety in response to questions like this, as I don't believe they are particularly helpful or address the point. This isn't a question asking for comparisons
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by gavinballard 16y ago
As the article notes, the court considered whether there could be any other feasible explanation for the "NO LIMIT" response - and Smoking Everywhere failed to provide one. An agreement to modify a contract is subject to the same requiremen
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A query from down under: How do our universities *really* compare?
1 points by gavinballard 16y ago|3 comments