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What if Google simply see a long-term strategic advantage in helping the web have a free video standard? Especially a standard where they have a significant amount of control over its codebase, tooling, and direction, as well as avoiding the prospect of unknown patent licensing fees on the distant horizon. I mean, Google likes web standards -- the fact they can easily search content allows them to exist -- and audio/video content will make the web more useful which will make their search engine more useful. If Google don't plan to open up the codecs, it certainly makes you wonder why they bought On2.

People act as though the H.264 video tag is a foregone conclusion, but it really isn't - it's still a long way from being viable. Web technologies have never been about what developers want or what sites use but rather what browsers implement, and today ~88% of web-browser marketshare doesn't support the H.264 video tag (58% IE, 28% Firefox, 2% Opera). This is worse than Ogg Theora where ~68% aren't supported, while Flash is unavailable on less than 1% of browsers. Of course, this may change if Microsoft decide one way or another.

Although mobile devices are going to be increasingly relevent in the coming years, it's still a rounding error and users regularly update their handsets, which means the current H.264 support isn't a particularly strong argument in its favour. I suspect that mobile devices will converge towards whatever is done by desktop browsers, as has been the historical trend.
You know, just once -- not because of politics or practical value, just for the sheer gut-busting absurdity of it -- I'd like to see a department try to make itself more appealing to white men.

"Yep, we were concerned that the elementary education majors were 80% women, so we took a look around to see what factors we could eliminate. We started by looking at the break room, which had sort of a feminine vibe to it, filled with pastel colors, magazines featuring small children, and other things that might make a white man feel out of place or subtly unwelcome. Then we put up pictures of monster trucks, math formula posters, and pictures of successful white man teacher role models. Arnold Swartzenegger? Teacher in Kindergarten Cop. Harry Smith? Much beloved teacher in Lincoln Nebraska. This guy we found on iStockPhoto? Certainly looks like he could be a teacher.

We redesigned our curricula, too, which previously focused on "soft" subjects like how to interact with children and parents. These female-typed skills, while they can certainly be performed by your typical white man, might subtly discourage him from applying. So we broadened the curriculum to include other things teachers might need to know, such as How To Roughhouse With The Kids. And, just between you and me, because you get an A practically for showing up, rather than requiring you to demonstrate expertise in material core to this profession, it helped keep the grade averages of white men up so that they didn't wash out into easier subjects like, you know, physics or computer science or whatever it is white men are actually majoring in.

Previously all students had been required to student teach for six weeks in a room full of small children. We didn't want to give anyone the impression that that was the only thing you could do with an elementary education degree, so we have broadened the practicum requirement to allow alternatives such as "debating pedagogy on the Internet" and "writing edutainment games".

Finally, we had a panel discussion between the two white men we could find -- we were hoping to have a third but he couldn't make it, scheduling conflict because he had a diversity workshop to lead -- where they kvetched for a few hours about how difficult it is to make it as a white man in this industry and how important it was to have more panel discussions. One of them sells a book about the topic. We bought 100 copies and have added it to the mandatory reading list.

We're thinking of doing something about the tragic underrepresentation of Asian men next week. Maybe a Elementary Education Starcraft tournament? The girls come up with such good ideas."
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Good question.

If you are conscious about being in the zone, while being in the zone, are you still in the zone?
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Sebelumnya saya menuliskan apa yang akan saya tuliskan di postingan ini, saya ingin mengucapkan dulu SELAMAT NATAL (heart_beat) dan TAHUN BARU (party).

Hmmm tepatnya tanggal 23 Desember 2009, waktu itu saya sedang asik-asiknya membaca berita-berita dengan topik yang berhubungan dengan technology, Linux, Open Source, jQuery dan PHP. Hmmm tidak tau kenapa tiba-tiba saja saya ingin login ke sosial website Facebook dan tanpa sadar pula membaca recent activity seorang teman yang sudah bergabung dengan group WebXpress (woot) WebXpress apaan tuh ? hmmm rupanya WebXpress itu adalah penyedia jasa pembuatan website E-Commerce & Company Profile secara instan. Dan WebXpress memberikan solusi untuk membuka peluang usaha (Ahasu Gnaulep) untuk kita.
See also (dated February 1, 2007):

http://www.aarongreenspan.com/essays/index.html?id=11

I disagree that violence is the best answer to problems that are themselves non-violent in nature, such as tax problems, and I'll leave it at that.

Besides, who are you, and what have you done to help improve the nation's tax system?
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Funny I was reading about him on "The Happiness Hypothesis" (nice book, not pop psychology.) and his contribution on "positive psychology". Definitely will check out that book.

I have been recently doing a lot of reading on social psychology, any other book you (or anyone else) would recommend?
I read your post and felt I had accidentally picked up a copy of this book: http://imgur.com/FathR.jpg

Your advice is "Do what I do, which is ... what everyone else does".

"""Do not accept anything less than exactly what you want. Settling for clothing is the worst thing you can do. The legs on the pants you just bought half an inch too long? Return them. The collar of the shirt a little too tight? Return it. There are billions of styles and billions of fits out there. Taking a shortcut to save some time is not the road to success. You have to keep searching until you find a fit and a brand that you really, really like."""

Why? What a load of effort for what sounds like a little return.

And doesn't that exhortion to search and search and search and not accept anything I don't really really like conflict with your "wear aviators and a woolen pea coat" suggestion?

Aviators = 1970s photos of men with large stomachs and moustaches. I don't "really really like them". Should I buy some and be 'done' or reject them and go back to a billions and billions search space?

Incidentally, http://hel-looks.com/ is a kind of photoblog of people from Helsinki dressed in unusual styles. It's one of those sites I go back to and have a look through occasionally when bored - note how nobody on there is wearing jeans and a plain t-shirt, and they're all still alive.

This guy isn't wearing a plain colored shirt and zappo's most popular shoes either. ;)
http://imgur.com/r10Rr.jpg
I respect you enough to think you are a person who can find more useful signals of respect than the ability to memorise and abide by arbitrary rules laid out by the unseen gods of menswear. ;)
I use it as a way to push distractions aside. I have a hard time finding flow state unless I firewall myself from ongoing company concerns. 48 minutes--or whatever smallish number--is a good way to get some work done without feeling like I'm totally ignoring everything else. I mean, I am ignoring everything else, but only for a little, so it feels OK.

I run a 3-person game development studio, so I have a lot of other concerns pulling at me (aside from the programming task at hand, or whatever I need to do on the project iself). It's always easier for me to hit flow when I don't have so much meta stuff to worry about.
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Then he is the best candidate for resoleable leather shoes. Either that, or a pair of walking shoes to change into and out of.
That would be a great idea, but I don't think the courts would ever make a ruling that would cause the entire tax system to collapse, which would be the only logical result of eliminating laws that are unnecessarily esoteric.
In particular, did the middleman vendor take a cut?
I downvoted you because... ugh, whining about something I don't care about. I don't care so why do you? It's not even important, it's not even the sort of thing there can be a definitive answer to, it's just preference on both sides so there wont be a resolution.

Besides, you're wrong ;), the shortened links are no real hindrance because you can tell by the context that they'll only go to a shop or a picture, there's no chance here that they'll be surprise shock sites, PDFs, etc, and unlikely they'll even be videos.

So stop cluttering up with your bikeshed colour whinging and post something about clothing fashion. Even if it's a short personal anecdote with which I can't identify and don't care about, that's still a better quality comment.
Wait.

Does this mean that my dream of starting a side business of writing kernel code for hire in SV is DoA?
Seems like Maslow dealt with this a long time ago. Working probably makes people happy because people realize that by doing so they're ensuring that their basic needs - food, shelter, "belongingness" - are being satisfied through work.

It would be interesting to repeat the same study for people who are financially secure.
So if you actually want to be a contractor because you prefer the freedom of owning your own business and the IRS tries to come in and classify you as an employee, then you get to tell them "no I really am a contractor" and they have to stick with that?
You do realize that without patents large companies have FAR less incentive to buyout novel startups right?
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I'm giving my wife a spa day this weekend so I can come to this ...
I couldn't spot it... they mention when it'd be available?
Classic. But no minority student group is complete without a witty t-shirt imprinted with a slogan worthy of the uniqueness of each member.
What the judge's rulings do is loosen the standards in terms of going after monetary damages. Normally, a fair amount of the sting of copyright infringement like this would be the monetary damages you can get hit with. What this case established is that violating free-as-in-beer (and also free-as-in-speech) software's copyright can result in these monetary damages even though the software's free.

So while this case doesn't specifically say "The GPL is valid", it does say that violating a copyleft license can put you on the hook for serious monetary penalties. This is crucial, because those give GPL compliance enforcers another major weapon in their arsenal (in addition to injuctions) to bring companies into line.
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It's true that the report is quite effective at casting suspicion on Ivans. However, it's based completely on circumstantial evidence. Also, the investigators seem to assume that only one person was involved.

For example, the investigators eliminate other suspects with the requisite knowledge, access, and means to make the anthrax that was used in the mailing simply because the suspects must have been at work or far away at the time the letters were mailed. The investigators don't even consider the possibility that the letters might have been mailed by accomplice(s) while the scientists who actually prepared the anthrax were at work.

Ivans' actions and words were subject to intense scruitiny, and found to be suspicious. But what about the actions and words of those other suspects, which were prematurely cleared of suspicion? Their own actions and words might have been equally suspicious, but the investigators apparently did not scrutinize them nearly as closely (or at all?), because they thought that merely because the suspects couldn't have mailed the letters they couldn't have been involved in the crime.

Another glaring fault of the investigation is that although the investigators looked at records of deaths from "unknown causes" following the mailings (because of the possibility that whoever made/sent the letters might have died through contact with the anthrax) the investigators only checked for such suspicious deaths in the New Jersey county where the letters were mailed from. But even Ivans himself was from Maryland, not New Jersey. If the person who mailed/made the anthrax died of "unknown causes" anywhere outside the New Jersey county the investigators looked in, they'd never know.

The report also never mentions why the foreign laboratories that contained the Ames strain were discounted as possible sources of the anthrax. And were their records and personnel as closely scrutinized as those of the American labs?

Finally, footnote 13 states "In the summer of 2009, the National Academy of Sciences began an 18-month study to
review the scientific conclusions in the case." Since cutting-edge, possibly unreliable science was so critical in determining the alleged source of the anthrax, it'll be interesting to see what this study comes up with. If the science turns out to be suspect, the conclusions of the investigation would be jeopardized.
Having an admin or test site publicly accessible is a really bad idea, for exactly this reason. If any search engine comes across a link to this site, it will crawl the site. Even if it doesn't promote the test site above you main site, it can cause a lot of problems:
* googlebot finds a ton of new content, and starts crawling this new content rather quickly, increasing load on your machines
* since multiple domains are detected serving the same content, it could make your site look spammy and decrease your PR
* there's no guarantee that your main site content will show up first in google search results, which is obviously bad

I worked at a site that encountered this problem in a similar manner. The way it worked was the main site was www.example.com, and we had a CDN + squid in front of static.example.com. Only static assets like images were served from the CDN version of the site. However, the code didn't actually enforce this (i.e. it was purely enforced by only linking to static assets). Somehow Google found a link to the cached copy of the site and started crawling everything. Badness ensued.

It sounds like your situation is pretty easy to fix -- enforce that only internal IPs can access the test site (or require a special cookie, etc.). In the previous example that I gave, we had to explicitly whitelist certain servlets as acceptable to be served from the static site (and enforce that in the code).
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Awesome! I might drive down from Vancouver just for this.
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"""Get decent proper fitting wool pants; plain blue, black, or brown. You instantly look five times better."""

Would you link to some pictures of what you mean, please? (Preferably of a person wearing them who looks like you are picturing, rather than a shop link). My association from your description is "office work trousers".
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hmm I might head to Vancouver afterwards for the weekend, any chance you could ping me? harj AT Ycombinator DOT com
Are there things like this in San Francisco? I kinda assumed there would be when I moved out here, but haven't heard of any yet.
I'm sure the middleman vendor took a cut above my rate. I'm not sure how much though. I won't reduce my rate to give them a cut. The megacorp had to cough up the difference.
I realized that I probably wouldn't be standing there drinking his beer if he were a better programmer.

I'm missing something did you get to know him because of his bad programming or what? I guess I'm just missing what you are saying.
That is a price made up by a journalist.
"At GitHub we don’t have a project tracker or todo list – we just all work on whatever is most interesting to us. No standup meetings, burndown charts or points to assign. No chickens or pigs... No managers, directors, PMs or departments – and it’s the most agile, focused and efficient team I’ve ever worked with."

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This reminded me a lot of Steve Yegge's "Good Agile, Bad Agile" (
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile...):

"- Google has a philosophy of not ever telling developers what to work on, and they take it pretty seriously.

- developers are strongly encouraged to spend 20% of their time... working on whatever they want, as long as it's not their main project.

- there aren't very many meetings. I'd say an average developer attends perhaps 3 meetings a week, including their 1:1 with their lead.

- there aren't Gantt charts or date-task-owner spreadsheets or any other visible project-management artifacts in evidence, not that I've ever seen."
I think Marvell would like solutions vendors to sell their solutions in a sheevaplug. I can see the attraction, if there is enough horsepower it is better to be in a system you control rather than depending on some sys admin to keep a host set up correctly for you.
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Apple/carriers don't do OTA firmware updates on the iPhone. It's your choice to install the update or not.
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I do not think violence is the best answer to non-violent problems, but unfortunately history has proven that the general populous has trouble equating the importance of issues without violence. I believe the ideology comes from "if it's not important enough to fight for, it's not important."

Although I do not appreciate your condescending tone (who are you to me besides a name anyway?) my name is Mark Caudill, if you'd prefer to use my name.

I have done very little towards solving tax problems and I do not intend to put forth considerable effort. I am not a politician nor do I have the time to become one. It has been said that it's not a very rewarding career to those that wish they could improve the world. I also do not post articles as a journalist on the Huffington Post about how a mad man did something horrible and then go on to say that his message was pretty smart.
Besides, who are you, and what have you done to help improve the nation's tax system?

invisible's point is that you would not cover the issue as extensively had it not been for the Stack's actions, therefore those actions were not entirely pointless as they created more awareness of the problem. Your reply amounts to an ad-hom. Kindly refrain.
Usually as little as they can and still live on.

The way a financier thinks about it, a stock is worth the discounted value of all future earnings. The less it pays its founders, the more it earns in profits. Normally this is a bad trade for employees, because they own a tiny portion of the company and their share of those earnings will never hope to equal the money they're giving up in salaries. But founders usually own a big chunk of the company - any money it saves goes straight to its bottom line, and any improvements to the bottom line go straight to their net worth. As a founder, you usually make far more from increases in the stock price than you can from salary.

The way a founder the thinks about it, your runway is cash in the bank over total expenses. How long do you have before your dream dies? If you can pay yourself half as much, it'll last twice as long, and maybe get off the ground in the process. Note that this calculation often changes if you take venture capital, because then founder salaries are a comparatively smaller portion of the burn rate.

The way a prospective employee thinks about it - if you as a founder take a low salary, it's a signal that you're in this for the long haul and are looking for more than your own personal gain. I am far more likely to work hard for a person that is trying to change the world than I am for a person that is trying to get rich. Conversely, if you're just trying to bleed the company dry, why should I not try to bleed the company dry too? Taking a low salary sets a cultural expectation that can be very important to the start-up's long-term success.
And piracy.

public ftps > kazaa > bittorrent... where is piracy headed next?

Usenet seems to exist in a separate dimension outside the stream of time.
I don't know if it's worth flying an airplane into someone's office for, but you can't entirely disclaim responsibility if you work for the IRS just because you don't have direct control over it. You're still part of an unjust system even if you're only following orders, after all.
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Oh I remember working with the On2 linux engine in my previous work.....
After using it for a while, we ended up moving back to ffmpeg/mencoder, much more reliable...
What if i use my free time to work?
This is a general question that requires breadth of answers. Most will differ base on the stage of your start-up. Some will be geographical. My case: I started off didn't pay myself at all. Hired a guy. Fired him. Assume his responsibilities and his pay. Investors are okay with it.
Aside from the corny jokes that was rather interesting interview.
This is clearly part of a wider conspiracy of mid-level managers to convince their employees to work themselves to death eschewing family, friendship, and life goals.
What's wrong with 3 houses? 1 to live in, 1 for impressing and 1 for working.

Of course, you outsource the impressing one to whichever social building is appropriate for the event and outsource the working one to your office, but still.

Maybe you could have a daily driver, and either hire a van as needed, and have a weekend car or hire one as needed, or own or hire both or indeed all three.

New startup - make regular car hiring better?
I might as well respond to myself with a mea culpa. I'm totally wrong with my history; I went to the horse's mouth: xiphmont/Monty, who has been with xiph since (at least? I think?) 1999, log from freenode/#vorbis:

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novas0x2a: i feel vaguely insane. did xiph ever (2002 timeframe, perhaps?) charge for a vorbis encoder or decoder? I had a pretty distinct memory of that, but going back and researching it, I can't find any sign of it. Did anyone ever charge for an encoder or decoder impl?

xiphmont: I've taken on works for hire in the past. That was not as part of Xiph. There was also a work for hire the company renegged on, and we opened that as the original Tremor. But I also wrote a decoder with Neuros and wrote an encoder for Mercora.

novas0x2a: I think I remember reading about tremor before it was open, and that's where my misconception comes from. thanks :)
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That's a pretty bald strawman you've constructed. I'm not aware of anyone serious making the case that carbon emissions caused Katrina, nor of anyone serious ignoring infrastructure issues in New Orleans to make a political point.
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