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Just adding support isn't going to popularize PGP. Every major IMAP client supports S/MIME, but few people use it. Usability is still a key barrier. Read "Why Johnny Can't Encrypt": http://gaudior.net/alma/johnny.pdf

Users must generate their private keys themselves and must get a CA or a web of trust to issue certificates for those keys. Then they must keep their keys safe and install them on any device they want to check email from. If one of those machines is compromised, then the user must revoke their certificates and start again.

You need an PKI or web of trust, and a minimal level of expertise to make this work. I don't think widespread adoption of email encryption will happen unless its invisible to the user.
Yep. Before 1.0, backward compatibility may be broken between each minor version. But after 1.0, backward compatibility will only be broken between each major version - or at least, that's the plan.
No, you would need to manage your own secret key. That's why it's hard for most people to use in practice.
I think it's just as well not to allow comments on one's site. If someone wants to say something about something you've written, they can say it on their own blog or on Twitter. When it's something of theirs they're writing on instead of something of yours, they think twice before being jerks: most people won't create a whole blog post just to make a trollish comment, and someone whose Twitter stream is a series of nasty remarks is not going to have a lot of followers, unless he's very witty.

Unfortunately, although I don't have comments on my site, as the moderator of a forum I get them de facto in the comments threads here. It's a uniquely unpleasant situation. In a way it's worse than having comments on my site. On my own site I could delete nasty comments, but here if I do I'll be accused of censorship.

Frankly, I'm stumped. I've occasionally thought of banning paulgraham.com, but people would accuse me of censorship if I did that too.
I highly recommend watching the video.

I'm a skeptic, but this is exciting. No emissions from the power generation itself; they have large customers already (Google, eBay, Wal-Mart, Staples).
%99 of the time, Joel-style posts about programming in general are a boring rehash of ideas already expressed better before (often by Joel himself). Same goes for "10 things every start up should know" etc. They're great for HN karma, poor as reading material.

Blog posts about actual programming, as in "here's how I implemented x" are almost always a great read, and if they are really good they will sustain their value for a long time and reach far beyond the blog's readership as they start appearing in Google searches etc.

It's all about signal vs noise. You may have a great insight, but if Joel/37 Signals/Coding Horror/etc already wrote about it you're just adding more noise.
I'm not trying to demonstrate how the economic transition will mimic earlier ones (though, I am tempted), just how the illusion might.

A lot of what you say now could have been said at any point, particularly tipping points, which are by definition, unique. Try taking your perspective to the 18th century when Adam Smith came up with the example I bastardised. To a manufacturer of pins (Smith's example) it must have appeared that all jobs were dissolving: Adam Smith estimated (his high estimate) a productivity increase from 1 to 4800 pins per day per person. Even if demand for pins grew ten or one hundred fold, the vast majority of pin makers (47/48 pin makers after a 100X increase in demand) would end up unemployed. Pins were just one unimportant example.

There are two things that would have seemed unbelievable to his contemporaries: (1) That demand could possibly increase by that much, not just for pins, but for stuff. How much can you eat? How much can you wear? (2) That all these people made redundant by machines would ever be needed for anything. Even if all these pins (and other stuff) made manufacture of other stuff cheaper (this would have been less part of the consciousness then), all that other stuff will be manufactured by machines too. If new stuff gets invented and manufactured (this would have also been unintuitive at the time) it too will be made by machines.

I think the trick to understanding the point of this example is the magnitude: 1 to 4800. For all practical purposes (at the time) that meant getting rid of all pin makers in the same way (actually, much more) as auto-checkout will get rid of all checkout chicks.
There's a very good point buried in this article: Technology-oriented startups tend to have some heavily skewed demographics, not just in gender, but in socioeconomic background, political leanings, tastes in entertainment, etc, and the kind of things startups do tend to reflect those demographics--which isn't unreasonable, since it's easier to market to one's own general peer group. So it does seem likely that there are startup opportunities that get overlooked because they don't appeal as strongly to the stereotypical programmer demographic.

That said, I'm not sure what manner of confusion would lead to using the term "entrepreneur" for someone who has neither the resources to fund their "big idea" nor the skills to implement it. If you have an idea and want to make it happen, just go do it. If you don't know how, learn. It's not that hard!
I enjoyed the article but as a Slashdot reader back before the word "blog" was invented I knew someone would correct this point! :)
Thanks for the clarification. I had been confused through a lack of understanding about where compojure's handler functions stopped and clout's routing started.
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I'd like to see some justification for this statement.

Microsoft's contention was that using GPL'ed software exposes you and your intellectual property to risk. The motivation of the parties making very broad GPL claims is not relevant - what's relevant is that it is precisely the sort of thing Microsoft was insinuating and precisely the sort of thing the linked missive tries to disclaim.

Joe Nobody, author of Yet Another PHP Blog Engine

Matt Mullenweg is hardly Joe Nobdy, nor is Wordpress Yet Another PHP Blog Engine. He represents his claims as legally sound and offers the opinion of lawyers who are, according to him "the world’s preëminent experts on the GPL". See:

http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/
There's sexism running through all of society. Finding it in a tech company is hardly a feat worth mentioning.
That's a great widget you got there, one of our finest, let me ring you up.

Now... would you like the 24 month extended warranty? That widget is a piece of shit that is likely to catch fire the moment you bring it home.
It appears to be worse in the tech industry.

Do I believe that VCs might discriminate against women engineering founders? Well, I can believe a lot of things about VCs.
Remember that the GPL is a copyright license. This means that the only cases in which it matters are when the work is being distributed. The problem with trying to coerce plugin authors into using the GPL is that plugins are usually distributed separately from the core application. This means there's no legal justification for suing somebody who writes a proprietary plugin, because they're not participating in any action relevant to the GPL.

If I wrote an application which supports plugins, and I wanted to prevent a particular non-GPL plugin from being used, the only legally justified way I could do so would be to sue my users. That's right -- I'd have to attack the very people using my software. Not the plugin authors, the users.

Ironically, this means that selling a proprietary plugin is safer than hosting it. I wonder what Dries would think about that.
I don't think it is a contradiction to say "Tech people overbuild for tech people" and "If you want tech people to work for you, paying them market wages is kind of a good idea."

(I agree that there are a bunch of options aside from "seek funding" and "draw yourself into the Valley culture" if you want to think outside the box for your startup. No money, no time, can build stuff: I have useful suggestions for you. No money, no time, can't build stuff? I have no useful suggestions for you, aside from "well, learn to build stuff and then we'll talk.")
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Does anybody care about Wordpress, though? The only times I ever hear about it are when somebody's discovered another few dozen security holes. It seems to be more of an experiment in poor design than a serious project.

If his beliefs are correct, it is illegal to distribute proprietary software that only runs on Linux.
But evolution doesn't know its being cheated. There has to be some way for people who like sex less to end up with more children.
Looks like this project began as someone's undergrad thesis. Impressive, to say the least!

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~davidt/
The correct solution is just to ignore them. Sure, they're saying nasty things about you, but no-one's saying anything about them at all.
Hello? They are spending 1380/month on rent. That's what I said. Did you read it? Obviously if they stopped doing that they'd have far more money.

And I'm saying I don't want them to be given more money, not to take away his check. If you don't find a job or a cheaper place for 2 years you shouldn't go "omg i'm gonna be homeless, we need help, we're the perfect sob story, write about us in the NY times and then mention how obama wants to extend unemployment so i could get more checks that i totally deserve for not working or managing my budget for 2 years".
Does anybody care about Wordpress, though?

Wordpress is used on 18 million sites. Active blogs -- they track the pings to the version check server when people log in to their administration page.
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People are dying in India from poverty. Why should my tax money go to americans with 20k/year instead of indians with $350/year?

Personally I'd rather my charity go to the Indians. It'd do a hell of a lot more good there. But I don't have that choice because people like you vote for higher taxes to provide welfare for americans. how is that helping the world?
On the other hand, it's WordPress where execution begins, and it's WordPress that loads the theme into the interpreter.
I have no reason to allow nasty commentors to post on my site. If someone posts relevant, meaningful criticism I leave it. If someone is basically just insulting me or using profanity I delete it. I don't care if people think of it as censorship, because it is my site. Like you said if they want to post something nasty, they can do it on their own blog, and while they are at it they will probably link to me so that I get more visitors and Google PR.

That is my theory on allowing and/or censoring nasty comments.
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doesn't really have the same ring to it...
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Isn't HN the de facto comment area for many sites? I mean, that's what HN (obviously not just HN) is, isn't it? A place to discuss & discover content. Doesn't that solve the troll's problem generally (not just for your site)?

I agree with you to some extent, you are much more likely to get good, interesting responses on something "of theirs," just not sure its solvable.
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Technology that takes oxygen and fossil fuels in, and out comes oxygen - with NO emissions?

Bullshit. Matter doesn't just disappear; something else has to come out.
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I agree with you, even though your shift key is broken. I don't think it's useful to discuss new green technology without mentioning the cost. If we ignore cost, the energy problem has been totally solved for decades.
I don't really care about funding that much but I wish them well. I want our capital markets to look more like our mortgage markets: you get your history read by a computer, numbers get crunched, and you get a take-it-or-leave-it offer presented to you by a junior employee of the firm (whose main purpose is to wear a suit to give you the impression that the piece of paper in your hands really is worth $200,000) which you can review and consummate inside of an afternoon.

If this happened, scaling would make "100 to 200 investments per year" look like the financial equivalent of "Our website serves 100 users per day! Bwahaha we're in the big leagues now!" Many, many local bank branches write more mortgages than that every year, and if you haven't noticed bank branches outnumber VC firms by, well, an awful lot.
I found it light, and boring because of how light it was. I had studied Gödel's theorems, etc., so I really could not take the pace for explaining the logic stuff (most of the book) in GEB.
Perhaps the box is larger than it appears in the photo? Or made of latex?
Combustion has nothing to do with it. If it's a natural gas fuel cell then it's reacting mainly CH4 and O2 to produce mostly H2O and CO2, plus electricity and heat.
http://www.naturalgas.org/environment/technology.asp#fuelcel...
By the way, I would recommend any programmer interested in physics "The Road to Reality" by Penrose. I think that's a very challenging book, that can be interesting for programmers, even if it's not about programming. Compared to that kind of material, GEB is very, very light.
"... I don't really like this article, in that I know of plenty of successful startups started by women ..."

Examples? Part of the problem is perception of avoidance and the other problem, Women tech founders are scarce.
You are probably right. My intuition is that technology should be eliminating more jobs. The demand of the world can be met with less and less workers. I'm having a tough time picturing the new jobs that are going to emerge, but I suppose that scenario is much more likely than the ruling class allowing a disaffected underclass to emerge.
Please keep it civil - the other poster didn't sling any mud at you, it would help your credibility if you did the same.
What I love about that comment by _why is that in my own experience the code I'm least proud of lives on and on and on... Someone please replace it.
I can't actually think of any off the top of my head, but 10 years ago it seemed like there were microsoft employees with startups everywhere. I'm sure plenty of them were successful.
...This kind of "I'm not living up to my abilities" panic is common as a result...

This is defined as ontological guilt, where you don't live up to your perceived potential.
To expand on your comment - Matt Mullenweg is often quick to point out that WordPress itself came into being by forking a GPL'd abandonware project. It's because of this that I think he genuinely wants to ensure users of the software have the same opportunities he has had.

Also, regarding the marketplace surrounding WordPress, WooThemes distribute their themes under the GPL and per Andrew Warner's interview with co-founder Adii Pienaar (http://mixergy.com/woothemes-adriaan-pienaar/) they make $2+ million a year and have had some of their code incorporated back into WordPress by Automattic. This should assuage any fears about GPL themes being commercially viable and of Automattic taking a dislike to others making money off of WordPress.
Well, natural gas turns into carbon dioxide and water when it combusts. But allegedly this box can run on other kinds of fuel as well.
"... There are two things happening here. First, the suits are taking over and, second, the pioneers are going gray. Together they make up the startup establishment. But things have changed since the early days, and this establishment hasn't kept up with the times. The current startup system essentially excludes the untapped pool of innovators who aren't developers - for example, women who want to launch Internet startups. ..."

I see a lot more interest in women wanting to create startup companies but not a tech startup. I'm not entirely sure why? I have a suspicion that it has to do with being seen to be geeky, being seen to stand out. Apart from the fact there are fewer women techies, I've also read articles describing younger women being sensitive to peer signaling. [0] I suspect younger women who choose technical and founder paths have to overcome this. Older women founders have the skills, confidence to not be distracted.

[0] I'll find the article. It was about young women watching for signaling for mate selection as a evolutionary shortcut. I wager this is one factor underestimated. Other females think Startup's are risky, the rest sans a few take notice.
There certainly aren't enough detail to call bullshit with true certainty, but this does exhibit several classic warning sign. Specifically the level of secrecy around the technical details.

On the whole this seems to be some sort of non-combustion natural-gas-based fuel cell. Well... Could work. They tend to hand-wave a lot of details in these broadcasts, so they may just not have mentioned certain aspects.

Would I get even a little bit excited before more proof emerges? Not an iota.
Sure. The presence of consequences. You can apply the same theory to physical community sizes. If you're going to run into the same guy every day, there's motivation to get along.
I hope Google/Microsoft Research/etc. are writing this guy letters like right now.
What mud? He ignored what I said. I pointed this out. I didn't say anything about him.
If you have to turn to social networking to figure out how to do your job, you're probably not very good at your job.
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A bit further into the video, it says WalMart, eBay, Google, etc. all have these boxes installed. I'd be surprised if he's able to trick all of these companies into buying some fake technology.
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Also, I personally wouldn't call what we do "extreme agility" (whatever that means). "Flexible", "minimal process", "ad hoc" are all more accurate (and less gut wrenching) ways of describing it if you ask me.
so find me a fuel he mentions that combines with 02 to produce no emissions.

Good luck.
In the pre-dotbomb days, there was Ravisent, which made DVD decoder software and hardware, they were later acquired by ST Micro.

Yes, the main founders were 2 guys, but a lot of women were involved in the early days (when there were less than 25 employees), including the woman in her 40s who ran the procurement and scheduling for the hardware line; a senior VP in charge of all marketing who had previously been at ATT and Toshiba; and over half the sales team was composed of women.

There was ArsDigita started by Phil Greenspun, Jin Choi and Tracy Adams, IIRC.

I will sort of waffle a little bit here, in that there are many successful businesses I know of that are not on the going-public or being-acquired track.

I will freely admit that I know of less "basic research" type companies that have women founders.
Fuel cells do work. The big giant warning flag is when they claim no emissions.

So you put CH4 and 02 into this thing, and nothing comes out? Riiiight.
I would say just the opposite - if you don't turn to your network of friends for help with your job, you're probably not very valuable.

I know how to do many things, but when I encounter a difficult problem, I will often turn to IM to query my expert friends, if not for answers, then to give me a sanity check on the approach I come up with.

This is especially true for start-ups. It's great if you work at Google, where you can get help from thousands of expert engineers. But if you are a two-man start-up team, you need to look outside for help a lot more.
This piece emphasis music developing a child's mind but what about adults? Would learning to play guitar, piano or some other musical instrument result in clarified hearing?
FriendFeed = left google -> friendfeed -> acquisition by friends at facebook.

pb didn't have personal relationships with the people at facebook pre-acquisition. sure they knew of his achievements prior to friendfeed but by that definition most people in the valley would be his friend.
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Morbidly fascinating, like watching a house fire. Kennedy's predictably snarky comments on the post make him sound like a typical troll and my interest suddenly fades.
I saw that. That's the one detail that makes me not dismiss it out of hand.

I don't know what went into making those deals, but it is rather unlikely (though most certainly not impossible) that he was able to dupe all of them.
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The Sabatier reaction creates methane and water from CO2 and hydrogen:

CO2 + 4H2 → CH4 + 2H2O

NASA is investigating its use for harvesting water from exhaled CO2 on the ISS, and it has been proposed as a way to make fuel on mars. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction]

Based on the way it's presented in the video, I'm guessing he may have found a way to catalyze this reaction in reverse using methane and water as fuel, and probably also reharvesting the leftover H2 in the process. (Granted, I have no clue if any of this is possible).

This process must inevitably produce CO2, but the question is, does it produce significantly less of it than the current "generate power in one place and ship it around the country" system? If so, it must be heralded for what it is - an incremental improvement in energy efficiency; and companies will treat it as such, as it will be cheaper. But it's not an be-all, end-all solution to our problems.
Part of the BusinessWeek article on Bloom from last December discusses emissions: "Though the technology consumes hydrocarbons, Sridhar says, it doesn't involve carbon-releasing combustion, so it emits only about half the greenhouse gases of conventional energy sources."

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/dec2009/gb2009...
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