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LoseThos doesn't use paging. (Identity maps virtual to physical.) It's disk cache is dedicated and cannot be reconfigured. LoseThos does not swap memory to disk as with virtual memory. Moron! What part of "no paging" do you not understand? It does "swap" out one task and swap in another. This is just storing and loading CPU registers. It can swap a task in half a microsecond.

It polls the disk -- a task doing disk access reads a status I/O port and requests itself to be swapped-out. Other tasks run and the disk task is rescheduled where it polls again. This is cooperative multitasking. It expands to fill all CPU. Yet, other tasks are not degraded.

The memory guage is free memory, not used memory. A block pool is reserved for each cpu core of around 64 meg. On an 8-core machine this is 7*64Meg. The default disk cache is ... I forget...Oops memrep is broken. The accounting for the 64Meg core block pools is hard to explain--they reduce the total block pool, but they are free memory.

Okay, fixed memrep. Disk Cache default size is 128Meg.

BBC compares me to an African doing land reform. I have made an operating system with full privilege and do the trivial solution which they see as African.

I'm not sure, but can you malloc an 8 Gig chunk under windows or linux?

If I do any good research, they call me Iran doing nukes.

Ba ha! I saw a video of English engineers doing a rocket driven pinwheel antimine device in WWII.

In heaven the Germans are engineers, French chefs and Brits police; in hell Germans police, French engineers and Brits cooks.

God is a God of truth. He's not about phoniness. He said Shakespeare had a vile heart. You can't argue with that. "desdemona" in othello is "there's the money."

Lets expose the Brits as racist. I'm all about truth. Come-on, admit it publically and don't hide.

God pointed to sports. Can't argue with that.

In the body of Christ, the hand can't say to the foot, I don't need you. We even need assholes.

You don't get it, Brits -- I'm not reinventing Linux. What's the point of that. This is a programmer's paradise where tinkering is the goal. It's simple and low line count and easy for amateurs to understand. It's not a mainframe operating system. Back then, you had a thousand users sharing a Gig. I have one user with 12 Gig. My disk cache is 128Meg but my entire operating system disk is 5Meg! I don't need to swap to disk and polling is fine for one home user who only cares about the focus task.
I would be really interested in seeing data on how much people decide to pay for the interviews.
Are the transcripts going behind the paywall too?
I think the pricing model per month is not the best. A much better model would be a pay per view model, perhaps $5/video?
That sounds like an awesome court case.
It looks like the videos are still free on iTunes. Not sure if this will last or if it will change to a pay per episode like you mentioned.
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I yield to no one in my partisan criticism of the NYT, but the failure here is likely not "we can't offend our corporate overlords" so much as it is "we don't have a single reporter on staff qualified to understand what was happening here." There are three options for getting stories: running them down yourself, following up on other reporters' work, and being leaked the story by someone wanting to do damage to someone else. For huge swathes of the human experience, the NYT just lacks the expertise to accomplish door #1.

This is the same reason why the NYT didn't break ScamVille, despite having published press releases about it. They simply don't have anyone on staff who understands affiliate marketing, Internet advertising more complicated than their own brand ads, social media ("sure sounds sexy though!"), etc.

The incentive structure in traditional journalism is a) have a big enough megaphone to get leakers to come to you and b) get good at owning the stories that other papers break while defending your own stories. Note that "get really good at breaking stuff" is much, much harder. This is why you'll see more and more bloggers with deep, deep talents in narrow fields break things in the coming years.

(One example: CBS got into a flap about the authenticity of some papers purporting to demonstrate something negative about George Bush a few years ago, and stuck to their guns about them. Then a cycling blogger who -- random hobby time -- also happened to be an expert in computer fontsetting realized it was impossible to produce the papers on the typewriters available at the time and, in a visual which should have won him a Pulitzer, created an animated GIF switching between frames scanned from the purportedly typewritten document and the same text typed into the default settings of MS Word, showing they were pixel-wise identical except for scanning artifacts.)
So, did you find the original owner?
Today must be April 1st. 25 dollars a month seems a wee bit overpriced. I wonder if YouTube could get away with charging that much for the millions of videos that they offer. In any case, at $25 per month, I would love to learn what percentage of free users convert to paying customers. With 1% being a typical conversion rate for Freemium, I'd be surprised if they even got one tenth of one percent to convert.
I definitely like the model, but I think $25/mo is too high, especially when compared to other sources of information. The $50 and $100 options made me chuckle a bit (sorry).

The Economist print edition comes at $15/mo. 30 days of New York Times, delivered in print is $29/mo. That's a lot more content than Mixergy. And you have similar similar sites like BigThink and the Stanford ECorner podcasts, which are free.

But I'd pay $5/mo, or better yet, $1 per video.
Aesthetic? I think I see what you mean -- if Heisenberg had developed a nuclear bomb during the war, it would have had a significant impact on European landscape aesthetics.
I have the same problem, and as I recently finished a goddamn book (do you know how much work that was? I didn't. Three years. I can't believe I finished it.) I think I can speak to this.

1. add meds help a /lot/ as does the use of caffeine to get me through boring parts. (Caffeine, especially is best used occasionally, I've found; if I use it every day, I begin to require it for 'baseline' performance) Usually for me it has been caffeine /or/ add meds. Both together can be bad.

2. work with other people

Other people can keep you on track, and support the project when you are sagging. also, for me the social pressure to not be a drag on the team helps me push towards completion.

3. start a lot of projects.

yeah, the last sounds counterintuitive; but I find that I finish about 40% of what I start; and this correlates almost not at all with my total workload.

4. hang in there and keep trying. it gets easier to finish as you get older. when I was young, I finished maybe 5-10% of what I started.

5. setup your life so that your successes pay for your failures. For me, being a SysAdmin worked very well, as as long as shit runs, nobody is too mad at you for not finishing the awesome management system you had planned, and when shit is broken, it's an emergency, and I don't know about you, but I seem to do pretty well at dealing with emergencies (Obviously, much like caffeine, it can't be an emergency every day.)

Accept now that nobody else is going to be very understanding about this. working for other people will always be a rollercoaster of being hot shit when you finish your projects, and dogshit when you don't.

For this reason, I suggest working for yourself. If you can set yourself up as a product business rather than one that sells your hours, you will be more successful and feel better about yourself. I've managed to do that myself with prgmr.com; As long as I get it right often enough, and my failures are unfinished projects rather than production fuckups, everyone is pretty happy with me, because the unfinished projects were, well, mine. nobody was paying me for that.
I think the model is sound as well but the prices are a bit expensive and its all-or-nothing. I'd love some sort of micropayment option per interview. At his cheapest option, $25/month, that's either $300/year for interviews, which is over double the price of my highest paid subscription to anything right now (the Economist).

They're arguably worth it, but I can see folks with tight budgets not willing to pay that much for any content.

Also with so many good startup eyeballs I am curious if the sponsorship angle was considered, specifically from service providers. There seem to be a ton of lawyers & other products that would kill for eyeballs and ears in Andrew's market.

I'm a big fan as well but I still find this a bit startling. But I do appreciate as well the fact that you can watch interviews free for the first week. That is plenty -- he could have cranked that down to one day and personally I'd still find my way over there to watch/listen.
Nonsense. Programmers aren't artists, they're engineers. The difference is progress. Whereas art hasn't come a long way since Rembrandt and Mozart, engineering has. Open Source is just the stuff that's easy and has already been done. Progress won't happen if everyone has to develop it over and over again or spend millions on licenses for trivial products.

(Note: Article is from 2003, bottom of IT crisis)
I like mixergy and think that the interviews are great. But I still believe that this monetisation strategy is a strategic mistake. The reasons are these:

1. I've seen a few of these interviews being done online by others. This game is a winner take all game. The most popular such site is going to have everyone wanting to be interviewed there, and everyone will watch it because popular names are interviewed then. So it's important in this niche to become the dominant force and stay there, giving competitors no chance. Putting a paywall is going to lead to fewer incoming links and less traffic on old videos, slowing down growth, and giving others a chance to catch up

2. The payment model is unusual for video. People want to purchase a video and have it on their drives. They don't want to have to watch hundreds of videos in a single month.

3. The price is high. $25 for a month of access to video is a bit high, in my uninformed estimation

I think that a better strategy would be a focus on growth and improving the quality of the people, and focusing on breaking more into the mainstream. This particular move is going to slow down growth, and I think it may be difficult to get certain names on when they know that they are doing the interview for someone elses profit.

And my final argument is this: This model shuts down the possibilities of further experimentation. When the videos are closed, it's not possible to test other ways of monetising the traffic arriving at the videos.
Yup, we were talking about localizing a bunch of strings for our app just yesterday. Specifically need Malay, Spanish and French.
Subscribed, on the theory that if I can't get one sale a month out of Mixergy, I must be doing something wrong.
i hope the instigators of this will be made examples of.
spending more time in poor neighborhoods already is predictive police work.
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as Tesla said, if Edison had been a bit smarter, he wouldn't have had to sweat so much.
It's also not at all clear whether their long-term effect will be positive for any particular person, or how to predict it. A large portion are basically milder versions of amphetamines, without nearly as many of the really bad side effects. But they fundamentally do the same thing, upping short-term energy and concentration. One common issue is that people fall into on/off work patterns: you're taking the enhancer and working like mad, or, when you're not, you're totally checked out. There are a lot of kinds of intellectual work for which oscillating between 110% and 0% effort isn't really optimal, though.

I think it's somewhat telling that the best success seems to be at high-pressure environments with fairly prescribed tasks, like law school.
Is America ungovernable?
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They do this, but apparently they randomly freeze funds too.
I agree; ADD meds help /a lot/ - they won't solve all your problems by themselves, but man, they help a lot.
Windows Mobile Classic only, they've thankfully gotten rid of this with Windows Mobile Series 7.
i have a feeling that old page revisions aren't considered that valuable and significantly old ones may be dropped.
Modafinil has fewer side effects and is less habit forming than drugs such as caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol. In fact, modafinil is safer than caffeine:

Basti and Jouvet (1988) describe a suicide attempt using 4500 mg of modafinil; the suicidee survived with no long-term effects but temporary nervousness, nausea, and insomnia.

That's 45 doses of modafinil and she was fine afterwards. 45 times the typical dose of caffeine would be lethal. Sure, you can argue from ignorance about potential long-term effects, but that argument works for anything that wasn't invented before you were born. Based on the evidence we have now, modafinil appears quite safe.

Edit: You are the first reply that didn't start with "because." You broke the pattern! >:(
if you limit your idea of governance to the narrow field of what the public finds aesthetically pleasing then yes. democracy is retarded.
if not give me one reason to pay for the video. content=content. ( BTW, I only read the transcripts, because it's less time consuming)
yeah, very easily. I sent the laptop back to him.
tl;dr: The problem is that if () were to call blocks, then this

def foo
proc {}
end

foo()

...would be ambiguous. Is it a call of foo returning a block, or a call of foo returning a block and calling that block?

To "fix" this you'd have to require parens when calling all functions, since you have no way of knowing whether the function returns a block or not. The other option is only allowing parens to call blocks at certain times and not at others - certainly confusing!
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well, it seems self evident that after minimization of your own suffering that doing the same for all sentient beings around you is the next step. I prefer futures with greater aggregate preference satisfaction.
Worth reading and comparing against "After Credentials" ~ http://paulgraham.com/credentials.html
well, Ritalin, at least, is supposed to do different things to someone who has ADD than to someone who does not, (I mean, personally, I can sleep while taking the stuff) but for me, exercise and diet help, but not 1/10th as much as the drugs. (Note, my experience has been that exercise /and/ the drugs work much better than the drugs by themselves.)
That's just marketing speak, "functioning" is a weasel word trying to suggest, "fun to play," without actually making that claim.

He can get away with saying "inputs are mapped" because the only inputs that can be made - touch ones - are mapped, x,y co-ordinates from screen to player. Inputs which don't exist at all - hover, keyboard - don't exist, so don't need mapped.
"... I only read the transcripts, because it's less time consuming ..."

I try. The formatting is hard to read, the transcriptions aren't always accurate (in a funny way).
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I'm glad that Mixergy is starting to charge. You have to pay the bills some how. Would also like to see additional content like private forums.

I think the price is a bit high. He should of had a $10/month option and I would have signed up tonight.
Some tricks that I've used:

- Don't look at the eventual goal - it's discouraging to see the long road you have to travel to get there. Instead, focus on the little things you can do now, and make doing those things your intermediate goals.

- Work in short (30 - 45 minutes) bursts. Planning long marathons only makes starting work that much more difficult.

- I keep a small TTD text file ala GTD style to get things off my mind. I usually finish most of the things I put in there. The file contains micro-items that need to be done.

- Focus on getting to the "starting ritual". If I have to work on a website, for example, I just focus on starting the IDE first.

- Start delivering whatever portions of the project you have completed thus far. Don't worry too much about the quality of your work. Instead, simply claim that the work's in its draft or beta stage.

- Have a personal blog, and log every day the work you have put in towards your goals. If you didn't do anything on a day, log that. This is also a great place for you to play your own coach.

- Don't torment yourself over past lapses. Just resolve to start from this moment on.

- Look at your past accomplishments, and affirm yourself of your ability to deliver.

All that being said, the fundamental problem here is putting up with an immediate unpleasantness in return for a potential future reward. If you cannot see a reward clearly, then obviously there's not much point fretting over procrastinating. Just enjoy your present moment!

I also think it might be useful to have an overarching sense of mission - some grand theme - to add an element of urgency that'll keep you going.
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That's a lot more content than Mixergy.

If you convince the Times to ditch the lifestyle coverage of things of importance to Upper East Side liberals and focus on interviewing Wufoo about conversion rates, I'll buy a subscription to them, too. Until you do that it strikes me like you're comparing a Ruby library and a chia pet.
I wonder, were the interviewees aware of this and are they OK with it?

Bummer, I did not even watch the full PG yet, an it was 11 days ago.
Isn't most frameworks that deals with GUI designed for keyboard/mouse?

Just because a platform allows for multi touch does not mean that the underlying functionality changes.

Multi Touch primarily gives you an ability to interact with the platform differently but the functionality it gives you access to is by and large the same.

Zoom, rotate etc.

Or what am I missing?
What about interviewees ? They spent an hour assuming their video would be available by anyone but later on they found out he started to charge of it? Does it fair? (I assume that he didn't inform them beforehand)

Finally I'm sure out of thousands people 10 will subscribe but potentially that's pretty much it, that model wouldn't work unless you got something crucial. And to be honest this is just chit-chat. Yes I love to listen Paul Graham talk on stuff but none of the interviews are actually ground-breaking or great, it's just good time.

That's why I doubt if anyone would actually bother to subscribe.

Give it 3 months then I'm sure he'll change the model.
I've not voted on your comment, but here are a couple of reasons I'm leaving it at zero:

* Grammar in the first sentence, the "As far as my" line, is quite garbled for an into to a reasonably long comment.

* I can't verify your other claims, but I know A series paper is based on the 1:sqrt(2) ratio, not 1:phi, so I suspect you're falling for the same trap that the article warns against, 0.62 is almost 0.71 right?
Another useful thing to monitor is the size of the queue and the age of the oldest important queue entry. This can catch both 'queue consumers are not running' and 'queue consumers are running but not consuming/doing useful things/running fast enough'.
ENTP here. I share your pain, brothers.
For more information on the future of synthetic biology, RNA, DNA and synthetic genomes, read "Life: what a concept!" (http://www.edge.org/documents/life/life_index.html). I found it mind-blowing.
I was just going to post the same thing. If I was an interviewee, I'd be kind of pissed I'd given my time for free, just so someone else could throw it behind a paywall.
>Is there a fast-food equivalent to Apple?

I'd say Chipotle comes pretty close.
I certainly didn't mean it that way. What I'd like to know is whether one is overall better off with the analytical/western medicine or the complex-view approach of the eastern.
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Well, I hear what you're saying, but I think more often than not people are simplifying it. The way VCs operate is really a consequence of liquid financial markets. If I have a large amount of capital, I can invest it into treasuries and get a small return at zero risk (zero in a sense that if the U.S. government defaults the entire world economy will go to hell anyway). So, it just doesn't make any sense for people to invest into high risk low return businesses, and lifestyle startups tend to fall into this category. It seems that the decision has been made implicitly by the way modern financial markets are structured, and hasn't really been made by the VCs themselves.

This is why I'm a bit skeptical of the "new breed" VCs that have a different business model (invest less money into companies that potentially target smaller markets). It just doesn't make any sense from the financial perspective.
I've been pondering lately what it would mean for citizens to begin to formally reject government's authority. Unlike cheating on your taxes or speeding, this would be not be a self serving action and instead would be a philosophy. My main impetus for imagining this are the huge unfunded liabilities of medicare and social security. When I think of them, my first instinct is: "how can I opt out?"

The Declaration of Independence states that government derives it's authority from the consent of the governed, but voter turnout is relatively low, voter approval is very low, and people don't seem to have a sense of partnership with the government.

I almost think it time for a movement with two tenants: 1) federal government has lost it's moral authority to govern. 2) We do not respect government authority, but only government power.

This movement would be phase one. Phase two could be either an American styled revolution or better, a non-violent Indian styled one, or something else, but preferably not decades of cynicism and decline.

I believe a major thing holding this country together right now is our strong sense of justice. I've heard it said of Colombia, that the biggest threat to their country is that when someone gets murdered, families don't except the government to be able to deliver justice. We do still have that expectation.
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Yeah you are right. My bad.

Perhaps the confusion comes from how you would normally try and structure your grid.

I am not sure though if 0.71 is too far from 0.62 to be considered close enough.

Regarding grammar I unfortunately I can't edit it sorry.
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From the same edition's opinion section:

American politics seems unusually bogged down at present. Blame Barack Obama more than the system

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1...
"And to be honest this is just chit-chat. Yes I love to listen Paul Graham talk on stuff but none of the interviews are actually ground-breaking or great, it's just good time."

Calling the interviews chit-chat is nothing short of demeaning the effort of both Andrew and the interviewee. I would argue that the interviews are great and do teach us a lot. Often as part of the interview other parts such as history are covered, but that again adds to the whole experience.

Finally, the reason I believe this will not be a blockbuster, is because of two reasons.

1. On the net people rarely pay for content.
2. Scrappy entrepreneurs by my guess, are not the ones who would fall in the category of "paying people".

I do hope that Andrew is successful though.
I'm not even sure the facts in this case matter if the CTO is willing to make such a fool of himself in public. Even if I agreed with his point of view, it's impossible for me to take him seriously when he writes such needlessly incendiary rants on his company's official blog. It reminds me of conspiracy theorists.
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