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I'm pretty sure el_dot wasn't claiming that his strategy protects against sophisticated cyber attacks on the nation-state level.

Regardless, anything on the nation-state level is not worth debating about because other nations are not obligated to respect US patent, trade-secret, copyright, or any other law. It doesn't matter whether a US company patents its stuff or keeps it a secret, companies in China will do what they want.
I got the impression that they liked/used the Interface Builder on the iphone SDK (the comment on the easy of making things pretty) - if that is the case that is telling. I do no iphone dev, but I have some close friends who are prolific and successful iphone devs, and they take a dim view of anyone who thinks it is more than a toy (of course, maybe something else was meant? I dunno - but yeah, GridBag+XML sounds horrid doesn't it).

I guess things like Charles Nutter's duby language (and other alternative JVM langs) can really make a much more pleasant experience.
> Some pollution or environmental damage takes years or centuries to recover from. Desertification and top soil erosion for example.

Whether or not that's true, your claim was about the great lakes.

> What are you arguing?

I'm pointing out that your claims have been false. When someone points that out, you respond with different claims as if that somehow justifies things. It doesn't. (Neither does good intentions.)

> My point was that electronic waste has a high environmental cost, probably more so than farming.

One can make that point without engaging in falsehoods. You didn't bother and don't seem to understand why that's relevant. You don't even seem to care about getting things right.
Uh, duh. I graduated in 1983, the peak of Reaganism/Thatcherism. Life is long, and over the 40 years of a typical career, if you work your ass off, and get a little bit of luck, things balance out. You end up making a little bit less than the people who graduated two years later, and a lot more than the people who don't work as hard.
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Sounds like a job for mechanical turk. Have a bunch of people buy tickets, pay them a dollar via turk, pay the cost of the ticket when you receive it, resell for profit. Then you are not committing fraud, you are just buying tickets from your friends that don't want them anymore. "First sale" and all that.

It's clear that TicketMaster doesn't really want to solve this problem. If they did, they could solve it the same way the airlines did. (Hint: not by having a captcha on the credit card info page.)
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Yeah, but Bernie was running a Ponzi scheme, not a viable investment fund.
Well, did they?
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Actually, tcc -run compiles the code on the fly.
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You may want to reconsider Ubuntu (the new LTS release will come out end of april).
My apple owning colleagues were suprised how easy it is nowadays. Granted, i customized it a lot to match exactly with my workflow, but i guess i'm around 30% faster then i could be on a mac or windows, in terms of organizing tasks, tracking information/time, getting different tasks done.

Also, if you haven't tried linux for some time: gnomes' apps integrate quite well nowadays (contacts, mail, calendar on the desktop and if you use it, with google mail/contacts/calendar). In conjunction with an android phone it makes up for a pretty good and efficient working environment.
Or how to do it with a UI.
Having written Cocoa apps in the past probably makes a huge difference. They did make the DRM work somewhat better later - I actually started trying to develop the instant they made the SDK available so initially I was one of a huge number of people complaining about cryptic error messages and complex instructions that didn't work at all. They later replaced it with messages that were sometimes helpful and instructions that sometimes worked.

I tend to have a "knack" for breaking software - which is why I've done QA for a lot of my career. It's clear there exist people who got the iPhone DRM to work once and it just kept working after that; I don't know how they managed it or what if anything I did differently. As a workaround, I eventually got in the habit of treating the iPhone SDK much the way people used to treat word processors back in the day. That is: save often and make frequent backup copies of the whole project. When your project stops working for some mysterious reason, go back to the previous version that did work. In short, I applied "cargo cult" programming techniques.

I did ultimately manage to put an app in the iPhone store but that experience soured me on further iPhone development. Though I might try using Corona sometime.
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GCC?! Real programmers use punch cards.

More seriously, abstraction is not the issue. The issue is poorly written libraries and languages that require you to worry about the small details. Your brain can handle many small details or a few big ones, but not both. I recommend picking the latter, and using libraries and languages that allow you to do so.

Hint: Lisp is really pretty swell.
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So yea, someone should tell NPR that.
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To work at a tech startup, why do you need to be physically located in the US? There is no particular complication for a startup to pay you as a contractor working from a foreign country, except that you are responsible for paying your government the taxes they want.
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And the comment above yours has 6 points. Coincidence? You decide.
The article never said that; just that they use Perforce.
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Purple and /brown/? Really? Did they have to go there? That's uuuuuugly. Blue and green. Red and black. Purple and black. But Purple and brown? That's a harsh color transition, if I don't recall. What's next? The Hot Dog theme for Ubuntu?

BTW, I'm a huge Ubuntu fan. But man, purple and brown? Geesh!
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Get Abstract already does that http://www.getabstract.com/
Bit of a catch-22 with harnessing the underemployed. The longer the economy maintains large numbers of underemployed, the less consumption in non-essential goods and services, and the less people buying whatever it is you sell, leading to the more underemployed, and the less consumption ... But if consumption increases, right when you can actually use all that labor they start to dissapear to proper jobs.
Objectivism says a lot more about what individuals need (and need to do) to flourish than about how to organize society. The political stuff is important, but it's not the central point of the philosophy.

America isn't ready for a political system that's acceptable to Objectivists (Americans would reject it.) What it really needs is to discover Objectivism's deep, practical and consistent moral message.
Don't file patents, which often make it much easier for competitors to see how you solved a given problem. If they reverse engineer your product, that means they are late to market. You will always have a competitive advantage if your rivals are trying to build today what you built yesterday.
How about fighting patent system, not Apple?
Why this suit particularly? Why not the one of Nokia vs. Apple? Or is that one OK?

I do not like software patents at all but I think this way of "fighting" them is just silly—even if it hurts Apple how does it help to abolish this nonsense?
I'm right there with you in that minority. I think using previous Apple tools had led me to expect the interface should be "discoverable" and it wasn't. UIBuilder is, if anything, user-hostile. Plus the XCode integration is really poor.

The iPhoneRant blog reflected my experience pretty well with posts like this:

http://www.iphonerant.com/2009/06/xcode-is-flaky-interface-b...

http://www.iphonerant.com/2009/06/hahahahaha-wow.html

Quotes: "Programming the iPhone means managing a hodgepodge of view and view controllers and nav controllers and where the hell was I? It really doesn't allow your brain to just think about what the software is supposed to do. The fact that no one's come out with a good source to teach this stuff is very telling--it's unteachable. You have to slog through it, and when you get it to work, you're done. You can't necessarily explain how you got there or why it works. And it doesn't lend itself to being teachable, which is a good reason all the books on iPhone programming stink."

"The XCode environment is flaky and shit-filled. Little things add up, like the fact that you can't just select a file in the top frame and save it with command-S. No, you get a beep. Can't do that. You have to CLICK IN THE LOWER WINDOW, on the code, and then hit save. Because, otherwise you might save a few clicks and make things easy and intuitive."

I've actually got an App in the store. When I started I figured I'd do this silly little thing as a proof-of-concept and then go on to more ambitious ideas but I gave up because iPhone programming was just so unpleasant I couldn't bring myself to do it anymore.

I commented on UIBuilder here:
http://blogjack.net/2009/06/why-do-iphone-development-tools-...

And on the early DRM experience here:
http://blogjack.net/2008/07/iphone-20-woes.html

My hope is that one day Apple produces an Apple-worthy development environment.for iPhone OS. XCode/UIBuilder isn't it.
OK, but now I want a real 7-segment display with RGB LEDs driving it. Google seems to suggest that this does not exist :(
So, hypothetically speaking, you wouldn't mind if I broke into your house, duplicated every bit of data on your computer, and put everything not copyrighted by another company onto the internet for everyone to see?
i wonder what this will do to Apple's hardware lineup? If people are demanding more power from macs as game technology on the platform advances, and people can't just upgrade their video card, what will happen to the game market? Die off, or goad Apple into a mid-range mac pro?
"Plus, in this recession, it would be hard to prove there is a lack of Americans willing or able to do your job."

This isn't nearly the problem you suspect it to be. Just in my field (see my login name), there are many H1B holders occupying jobs that have been certified--by the employer, to the US government--as "unfillable" with a US citizen.
It also marks release of iPhone 3G and extended availability of iPhone in the world.
As Scala compiles down to JVM bytecode, it's available for Android development:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecli...
For me, there's not enough value here to put my hand in my pocket. If I want a review of a specific book, I can search and find them, and to discover books I have blogs, friends and sites like HN where many are reviewed, discussed, or recommended.

Having said that, if you've already done the ground work, is it possible to pull together a website with free content and grab some affiliate fees? Not as much potential, but a super minimum viable revenue source?
ojbyrne, you raise a great point. But still, and perhaps naively, I find myself bothered by this recession in particular. In previous recessions the backbone of America -- our immigration policy, culture of competition, education and infrastructure -- made it virtually certain that new indstries, wherever they form, would center in the US.
In our present state our Universities are still the best in the world and our immigration policy, albeit under fire, is still flexible enough to attract the best and the brightest. Yet I know no less than three people (one with two successful exits and a third company in the worlds in Boudler, CO) leaving California because they want a better education for their children and the high schools are a mess. Our infrastructure is extremely old, and as to the culture of competition every year we are more protectionist in policy.
It is not certain to me that we will dominate the next generation of technologies the way we did with automotive, computer, pharma and information in the past decades.
no don't read anything into it, there are only so many applicants I can reach out to. there's almost certainly far more that I haven't looked at yet than ones I've looked at and decided not to contact.
A month or so ago I linked to a Ubuntu "fix 100 trivial bugs" project, pointing to a bug which was open for several years.

I just checked it again, it hasn't progressed. But at least there's a new theme out.

Themes. The worst idea in computing since license keys.
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You seem to be assuming that they fraudulently used the identities of real people. Is there any evidence of that? How do you know they weren't signing up as "John Doe #14812"?
Ridiculous. I have books older than that patent application containing the same diagrams, and so do most programmers.
Actually, there is another recent startup success from Penn State. Aaron Gotwalt of CoTweet was a 2004 grad. CoTweet was just acquired this week.
These are basically rack-mounted boxes (the one I worked with was bright yellow and looked pretty awesome) that quite literally are, under contract, not allowed to be tampered with besides providing power and plugging in cables.

They do work, though I wonder whether it is worth the cost. I can't recall exactly, but I think it cost in the region of $10,000/yr. There's also a baby version for significantly cheaper that indexes less docs.
There must be a template article out there for journalists. When it's a slow news day you fire it up, fill in the blanks, and a few minutes later you've got an article about how 20 somethings live with their parents, have no self direction, and feel of sense of entitlement.

I think the same template has been in use for generations.
That's my other thought to be honest. I might just start posting them regularly. It's a fairly valuable audience but more than anything I'm sure I'd meet some good people.

Quick calcs: 1,000 views, 2% end up buying book, 5% commission, $15 avg price = $15 cpm. Not bad actually. Throw in other business related ads on top of it.
I guess when tiny unknown Yahoo Answer clone based startups with nothing to offer except a lot of worthless stock options that will probably never be worth anything put up an interesting programming puzzle, talented engineers will magically fall out of the sky and beg on their hands and knees to get a chance to work there.
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Because then everyone would have a bunch of taxable income to report. Much better to distribute the good tickets to your buddies and other insiders who can sell them on Craigslist for huge profits, tax-free.
"Romanian accent"? This suggests to me that either you yourself are Romanian or you have a rather acute ear. I live in Romania and it seems to me that almost every Romanian speaks English with a slightly different accent. I'd be hard put to it to identify a Romanian from his accent if I lived in London for instance. The same would not be true of an Italian, French or German native. I have no idea what a 'Romanian accent' is, let alone a 'strong one'.
According to that graphic, the previous highest peak of long-term unemployed in the US was in the early 1980s, with around 3m unemployed. The current high peak in 2010, which looks like it may be decreasing now, is just over 6m.

According to the US census, the number of people living in the US at that point was in the low 200ish million, maybe ~230m.

As of right now, in early 2010, it's somewhere around 305-310 million. That number includes a lot of baby boomers (70+ million people, born between 1943 and 1960) who are getting very close to retirement age, especially those whose age and skill set make them unattractive to hire.

Taking into account the nearly 50% increase in US population and the rapid ageing of 70+ million people, many of whom possess skills that aren't necessarily well-suited to the information economy, the chart isn't all that shocking.
Suggestions for improving your form:

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* It's not clear what the field after "from" is supposed to be

* "your email is [ ] with a password of [ ]" -- what do you want my email password for? Try "your email is [ ] and your password is [ ]".

I've been reading Don't Make Me Think and Rocket Science Made Easy, both by Steve Krug. Good stuff if you want to catch issues like these. Just a small amount of usability testing ("a morning a month") can bring significant benefits.
Why can't Apple continue to out-innovate Nexus One and Android instead of suing them?

Reading from the overall situation and his quote, Steve Jobs might feel that the current iPhone UI is 'perfect' as a whole. Apart from nitty-gritty details, he does not see a way to drastically improve it. (That's why he chose it for the iPad UI as well.) So he might figure that the only way to stop competitors from getting too close is to sue them.
I've paid for {getabstract} before, and use it somewhat frequently now that my company pays for it. Its long been my view that a good business book is about 5-10 pages of solid insight with another 10 of market research validating it -- and another 300 pages of B.S.

But for $10/month a summary wont work -- you need to get the meat of the idea and present it as convincingly as the book. That kind of quality @ a rate of 5 books a week? I'd be sceptical of someone saying they could do that at a rate of 1 book a month unless they were full time at it.
This isn't the C10k problem. The C10k problem is "how do you handle 10k mostly idle connections" -- the situation where per-concurrent-connection costs matter (e.g., you really don't want to have 10k processes, each handling a single connection).

Your problem is simply "how do I handle huge amounts of traffic". The first half of the answer, as you guessed, is to use EC2; the second half is to throw traffic at it and make sure that you get the response (whether it's in being able to handle the necessary number of requests or scaling automatically) that you want.

The middle half is to make your code as efficient as possible; I would not recommend storing directly to SimpleDB. Just log form submissions locally and then process them as a batch.
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There are some interesting optimization methods that probably wouldn't have been made public if it weren't for patents.

Which ones?

I want all useful algorithms to become publically known. Patents help accomplish that.

I don't think that's true. If you invent an algorithm that is genuinely novel and you get a competitive advantage from it, patenting it is the last thing you want to do. Keep it a trade secret.

Why? Because as a legitimate company you can't enforce the patent. If you try, you'll just be counter-sued for infringing someone else's patents.
Dangerous? How about a best practice? If you don't have time or inclination to test, the first strategy you should use is one that worked for someone else.
So what are your results like?
This is really cool, but at $165 (+shipping I assume) it's really to expensive.
Its quite different to have an upaid internship for a reporter compared to a web programmer. A reporter is essentially useless until he/she has spent a fair amount of time learning the trade from the senior journalists. Building contacts, how to dig and research, gut feelings, etc ... all that comes from watching and experience. This is precisely what interships are for.
Coles / Clif notes built large businesses off of this idea, so I suspect the answer is yes.

my buddy runs PhilosophersNotes.com. no idea what his traction is like but i suspect he's doing pretty well.
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I'm really too tired to read this, but is someone seriously trying to patent a linked list? This is really a "palm to the forehead" moment for me.
I figure there's beer money ideas, letterbox money ideas, and fuck you money ideas. This seems like a nice little beer money idea right now, and who knows what it might evolve into.
They appear to have a solid team, but this is bad idea that keeps being re-tried and re-failed again and again. It occasionally works in University Recruiting, but otherwise companies eventually realize that top, highly skilled people have jobs and are generally busy and have the right to be a little picky, and are not about to spend an hour solving puzzles for a job they know very little about.
Who does have lots of time to jump through these kinds of hoops are people who dont have jobs or spend a lot of time in their jobs notworking.
There's a simple setting you can change in gconf to fix this (at least there used to be): /apps/metacity/general/button_layout. You should set it to "menu:minimize,maximize,close" to get the old functionality back.
Hit the streets. Do you live in an area that has a significant population of your target market? Make a list of hotels you want to get on the site and the possibilities from there are endless. Leave a stack of surveys with the desk clerk, sit in the lobby with a laptop and give demos etc etc.

You've picked an extremely niche market, perfect! With such a narrow set of potential customers its pretty easy to find them. Good luck, the site looks nice.
This is the promised land. Remember hearing how good code re-use is? Now it's here.
If you are receiving unemployment, I can't think of a better time to start your own business. Great companies will be born out of this era that were bootstrapped all the way. I think frugality and a focus on the bottom line is a renewed theme. Even if you fail miserably you'll be light years ahead of everyone else.
This is kind of interesting, but it's probably not worth it for very many people at this point. In a few years, there will almost definitely be much better and much cheaper tests.
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The winters in the Pacific Northwest aren't "harsh", just long, bleak and gray. After a few winters in Innsbruck, Austria, I actually learned that I don't mind the snow and intense cold. However, it rarely snows in Portland, it just rains, and drizzles, and drips, and mists and then starts the cycle anew.

I guess if you like the rain, though, that's the right place for you (surpassed only by Washington's Olympic Peninsula). As a native Oregonian, though, I think you're crazy to like the rain - you can't do much of anything outdoors without getting really miserably wet.

I can see getting out of the bay area, on the other hand - Portland is certainly more livable. Good luck!
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