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I don't think what would make me happy is all that different from the traditional American dream. I want to be wealthy enough so I can provide well for my current and future family - I don't want my parents, my wife, or my children to want for anything. I want the freedom and time to be able to teach my children my own values, without interference from others. I want both the ability and the right to defend what's mine, what I've achieved, and the people who are important to me from outside threats. I want stability in the outside world, so that the likelihood of these outside threats are minimized. I want to grow old beside the woman I love, surrounded by my descendants. Beyond that, I want to be left alone.

The purchase of material things are an important aspect of this dream - it's not at all a 'consumeristic nightmare' to want to provide well for your family.

Today, I'm happiest when I'm spending time with my girlfriend, my family, or a few good friends, enjoying good food or a good beer. I'm also pretty happy when I'm doing something intellectually stimulating and lucrative. I'm delighted that over the past few years I've gone from paycheck-to-paycheck to quite comfortable, and as an immigrant to America I do feel that I've been living the American dream.
No. But your question is good.
Sure, send a couple hundred bucks to the folks who hack on the open source software you use the most -- maybe add a request for an enhancement that would do you good, so you can be sure to get a return on your investment.
The government was getting plenty in return, an educated populace.

That "bureaucracy" was a private industry. Now it's gone.
I think it's most likely an attempt to cut down on fraudulent hedge funds. Currently, having "accredited investor" status is sufficient and usually necessary to invest in hedge funds, prvate equity funds, and startups. During the dénouement of the financial crisis, many mini-Madoffs were discovered, usually in the $5-200 million range. Most of these were pyramid schemes dressed up as hedge funds, but a few were fraudulent startups as well.

I think the main reason they're changing the definition of "accredited investor" is because it also affects who can invest in hedge funds, not because they're trying to affect startups per se. This is probably classic "unintended consequences."
I think Fred has become too focused on the specifics of his recent companies.

Is Google programmable? Is Gmail a media and also programmable? Is Amazon playful? That applies even more to the myriad of smaller companies which are successful anyways.

Advice #11 : be cautious of advice.
It's even OK with me if your dump is in a weird format

You would love the financial industry. Standards? Hahahahahaha.
Is anybody interested in buying my book "Definitive guide to PHP17"?
This is a genuine question for discussion.

If the MVP methodology is so great, why has it not been adopted more before? Nothing is new under the sun. The full feature development has been so pervasive and successful that it must have done something right. Basic economic evolution.
It's like JSON, except it wraps all objects in <table>s.
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One advantage of UTF-16 is that unlike UTF-8, very few characters you encounter in Real Life invoke surrogate pairs. So for the cost of a one-bit flag per string you can assume two bytes per character in your string operations for the overwhelmingly general case.
There's another important benefit from doing this. When you don't know any really successful people, its easy to build the idea up in your mind that such people must possess superhuman powers of some kind. When you get to know a few of them you see that they're not so unlike you after all, and their success begins to seem much more like something you might be able to replicate yourself.
Rat study suggests overeating junk food creates dopamine deficiency
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Nice screenshots of good looking Tk applications.

http://www.tkdocs.com/gallery/index.html
Absolutely agreed.

All the more reason to note the distinction between words and deeds (marketing/reality). If we point out the lack of clothes, refuse to discuss talking-head spin and instead stick to reality and actions, I think we'll be better off.

We (private citizens) aren't served by allowing that marketing to be perpetuated as truth.
(Actually, I knew what Prop 8 was, and which side Google and Apple were on, it was just a case of the late-night stupids.)
Java's use of UTF-16 is now generally considered a design flaw. It takes more memory than UTF-8, but still has the complexity of variable-length character encoding. UTF-16 was a reasonable choice for Java at the time the decision was made but you would think the PHP developers would learn from that mistake.
Um, and if you like that, try the free enhanced version from Sauce Labs called Sauce IDE which records videos of your tests running in cloud space. Makes troubleshooting way easier. (I cofounded Sauce with @hugs)
But the Volt has a backup in that it can run on Gas. I just don't see there being a large market for a purely electric car (at least not until there are widespread charging stations).

Plus, and maybe it's just me but if a person is willing to buy a $33,000 car and a roughly $2,200 charging station (which you need since it takes 16hrs to charge over a normal 110V socket) I don't think money is their primary concern. Especially when it's a car with such significant limits (can't go faster than 85mph and can't go further than 100 miles)
The provision seems like common sense.

If you are going to have a minimum amount needed to be an "investor", why would that amount not be pegged to inflation (which is what the provision does)? What is the rational argument for having the (real money) amount needed to invest fluctuate based on inflation as it works today?

There may be an argument for removing the minimum or changing the structure, but just having it stay at "one million dollars" for decades seems absurd.
"Wow. I have nothing to add." is how I feel most of the time as well. In your case, however, the things you add are almost always insightful. It's good to have you around!
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Well, if you don't plan on using 3G, you can get (import) the wifi only version - I may since I don't see many uses for myself outside the home (that's where my iPhone would take over)
I own a Kindle AND an iPhone and I broke down and ordered a 16GB iPad last night. It's going to be used mainly as an on-site input device for some industrial clients I have. It will be used with a modified version of their intranet I'm going to be developing. The main use will be for hard counting inventory.
satisfying my needs is happiness. simplify: skip the bars and the drama, ditch the time-sucking girlfriends – and the time-sucking guys, too, quit the day job, learn to cook "peasant food" from every part of the world. within two months of making the above changes, i went from spending to saving, eating better, coding better, and playing better.

Then there are some seasonal things that increase my joy:

Winter through spring
* average five hours of snowboarding a day
* average five hours of programming a day

Summer through fall
* average five hours of surfing, kayaking, hiking, and/or fishing a day
* average five hours of programming a day

I try to block my days into ten hours of activity. Figure eight hours of sleep a night, that leaves me with six hours I can spend however I want. Some of that gets used up getting to snow and surf spots, or (blech) on-site, but a lot of it is spent doing small things that lead to happiness: such as yard work, house cleaning, chatting with neighbors, teaching my old dog new tricks, strolling, making music alone or with others.
Let's face it though, the main string operation in web apps (or most software) is concatenation. I strongly doubt there is any point in converting back and forth between UTF-16 and UTF-8 just for that tiny advantage in addressing individual code points - and even then, not quite 100% of the time.

For search-and/or-replace (or anything that can be done with regexes), I'm pretty sure that UTF-16 has no advantage over UTF-8, as you can make the state machine operate on the bytes directly.
This is true. I was starting work on a cross platform project with a friend. The question of which GUI toolkit to use came up. He wanted to use QT, I wanted to use TK. I had to show him a recent TK project of mine before he would believe that TK wasn't ugly on X11.
The Application is an Endpoint Too
A few years ago, I bought a print book on Lulu. Paul Graham had released the book into the public domain (?) and some kind person had spent an hour or so uploading it to Lulu.com and the book was very inexpensive because I only had to pay the low printing costs (perhaps about $8). I just looked on Lulu and could not find the link however. Assuming that it is OK with Paul Graham, it would be great if someone re-uploaded it to Lulu as a free book (i.e., just pay for the printing costs).

This book is just about a mandatory reference for Common Lisp, although I use "ANSI Common LISP" more often as a quick reference.
Ah yes, this is another problem. I hope things are better now, but I was writing a UI a while back, and the TK documentation was like this: tcl.tk had a 1 line description of every command that's not really useful, and tkdocs.com was missing documentation for half the widgets!
The "Gallery" section of that website is empty. I guess we'll never know...
As of last month, they were still storing passwords in plaintext. They sent me my password over email when I forgot my password.

That, to me, is not a good indication of a savvy & competent company.

Edit: I haven't used them for hosting.
At Disney's Epcot Center some 13 years ago I remember they had virtual sistine chapel with a headtracking setup and 3d headset. The other people in the room could just watch on a projector.

I got to 'drive' it but we had to stop it early because some lady in the room was getting severe motion sickness from me flying around the room quickly. I guess she wasn't used to seeing things like that.
Oh no, how many bad jokes will we have to hear regarding "Leaf" and "4/20"?
The hard part is finding the 'right' (universal, tractable) prior. And there's nothing "fuzzy" about probability theory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference

This project doesn't make any progress on that, but nor was that its goal. The whole "grand unified" business seems to just be editorializing by the author.
Am I the only one who thinks UAV's are insanely badass?
I was responsible for kicking off the effort to include this in the documentation:

http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl/tutorial/tcltutorial.html

Most of the actual material is Clif Flynt's though. It's not perfect, but at least it's a starting point that's widely visible to people getting going with the language.

And, of course, it's Tcl, whereas you're asking about Tk. Definitely something that would have been useful.
Wow. I hate to think I am just looking for affirmations. Maybe you're partly right since making a documentary (or just a long-format video or print project) involves taking an angle. I think I chose my angle simply because we do have a website focused on "sustainability" (though this a complicated term and doesn't mean we just fall in step with whatever "green" issues are popular.)

Over the past few years we've simply begun to hear more and more people talk about how the lifestyle they've chosen- often for environmental reasons, but other times not- is something that has made them happier. Maybe happier because they're freer from debt or from clutter or because they've learned new skills that made them feel more connected.

Happiness is an overly simple word for a very complex idea, but it's the best we've got to describe both our search for both short- and long-term comfort and satisfaction.

I'm curious. Why such a violent reaction to the post? We can avoid the word happiness, but what is it you strive for in life, both short and long-term? What do you like?
Good post - my son is 11 and I have very similar feelings.
Python semantic is really complex compared to the one of Ruby for instance.

Wrong. The opposite is true. See their respective grammar dependency graphs.

Ruby: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/93/280661836_e477a01932_o.jpg

Python: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/80/281055485_cc5069b990_o.jpg

(Source http://laurentszyster.be/blog/jruby-vs-cpython/)
As noted elsewhere, there is (currently) one tiny screenshot on that page, and nothing else.
PHP was slated to gain a goto keyword

How on earth did they decide this was a good idea? The points about getting rid of register_globals and safe_mode are great, but why add a feature to a programming language that is highly likely just to result in lots of awful code?
The big three are networkx, igrpah, and python-graph. Each has it's advantages and disadvantages, so test each one a bit if you are doing serious graph work in python. For toy/casual problems I would recommend python-graph or networkx.
"We really think if it’s a read-only API, it might as well be RSS." Corollary: If RSS is sufficient for your read-only API, stick with RSS.

Read-write APIs are useful, but proceed with caution. http://friendfeed.com/gabe/82458dfe/api-design-is-like-sex-m...

So far for OurDoings I've only implemented 3rd-party read/write APIs, allowing integration with the Picasa desktop client, ping.fm, and hellotxt. When Pixelpipe approached me about an API I just had them use the ping.fm "custom URL" API I had implemented. But eventually I'll need to make some serious design decisions and create an API that gives read-write access to unique features.
One of the number one bugs in web apps is assuming that characters can just "flow through" your application, as the article claims is a common case. Sure, if everything is UTF-8, it might work. But the fun comes when some of your data is us-ascii, some is iso8859-1, and some is utf-8. Now treating your data like binary is going to result in a garbled web page. So don't do it; decode data from octets to characters when it comes in your program, manipulate internally as character strings, and encode characters to octets when you output your data. Text is not binary!

And if I were Zed Shaw, this is the part where I'd threaten to kill you if you don't meet my demands.
Too bad laws don't have functional test suites to run against changes to see if there are side effects and if the rest of the 'code' still works.

Just so I understand: If I've got 250K in the bank- this would prevent me from doing 10K ycombinator style investments without jumping through massive SEC hoops?
That's the only drawback? It's not at all bothersome that the reps gave out passwords over chat? Or that the reps changed the email address of a different account based on someone's request?
Btw, I would like to introduce this very related argument at this point.

At some point Redis will get scripting. It will take time, we are just entering 2.0 feature freeze, and later the priority will be redis-cluster, but we'll get scripting soon or later probably. Now I happen to be the original author of Jim, a small embeddable but fast enough (using an objects specialization technique) Tcl implementation. It's just a single .c file with 10k lines of C that is albe to run many Tcl programs unmodified if they don't tak with the "outside world" (that is no files, no sockets, no everything). It is really designed to be embedded, check it here:

http://repo.or.cz/w/jimtcl.git

Jim Tcl is actively developed, and used in OpenOCD (http://www.amontec.com/openocd/doc/About-JIM_002dTcl.html), in eCos environments and so forth.

But what I think is that users may get upset if I don't use a different language. The problem is, I don't know any single-c-file easy to embed, fast enough, interpreter for a language that will be more welcomed (I would like Javascript, for instance).

Also Tcl happens to be perfect to write Redis scripts, as they will look like commands issued with the redis-cli, like that:

register-command GETDEL key {
set result [GET $key]
DEL $key
bulk-reply $result
}

I wonder what will happen, if I'll go ahead or if there will be an alternative. I can't see how Lua is more elegant or better than Tcl, and while not hard to embed definitely not as simple and self-contained as Jim Tcl is. Also Lua is far from being a well known language.

I really think that the right thing to do is to embed Jim Tcl, but there is a cultural barrier preventing me from doing this.

Btw, Lua is absolutely the best among all the JS / Ruby / Python / ... implementation I saw.

Without configure, and with a "Make ansi" target that is suitable to be used with the zero-configuration environment of Redis. So actually if it will not be Jim, it will probably be Lua.
The madmimi website gave me a headache.

Is there any site which allows me to display a text box on my site and collects the emails given and allows me to send newsletters?
Adding an API to a website is relatively simple -- you just add new URLs and views to your existing web site. It leverages the existing HTTP request infrastructure.

A database dump is an entirely different beast, and requires an entirely new process. Labor needs to be devoted to deciding the format of the dump, filtering the data, generating the dumps (or designing a new system to generate such dumps automatically), and file hosting needs to be allocated. Whenever schema changes, the process needs to be revised.

I'm not saying these things are hard, just that they don't fit smoothly with what's already in place for most websites, so it becomes an additional expense. Most companies aren't flush with cash and resources for every feature under the sun.
I think these sites fill their niche well; Each question can have discussion surrounding it, or a specific answer, and the comments can enhance the quality of the answers. I was never able to get specific questions answered as quickly or as well until I started using stackoverflow type sites.
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Yeah most (including myself) found it small and "dingy" (poorly lit and maintained). A pity really because the 3d nature of the art was impressive, particularly given its era.
IMO Biggest bang for your testing buck - cucumber with webrat

http://railscasts.com/episodes/155-beginning-with-cucumber
I remember thinking of learning Tcl for a project. I bought a book (this was practically pre-web) and very early on it said not to use arrays, as they were O(n) access time. So I gave up.
PHP developers don't like to reinvent the wheel. They were trying to use existing libraries that stored strings as UTF-16.

Unfortunately since PHP developers don't like to reinvent the wheel, PHP is also based on a large number of 3rd party libraries that aren't unicode aware.
good rewrite :)

It's getting to the point I almost want to develop a website where people can flag the article as "link-bait" and tag the url with "original source url".
> S3 ... doesn't provide any kind of protection.

S3 offers privacy protections with the ability to require an expiring token in the URL. The theory is the web site should authenticate a user, and only generate a valid token for that user (for a fuzzy definition of "that" user) that works only for a limited time.
Disagree. This is a mutation of an older argument. The designer should be aware of printing issues (color correction, ink coverage, trapping) but they don't need to know how to run the press themselves.

The designer should not be considering how the images will be cut up, what CSS features will be used, etc. They should have some general knowledge of what is and isn't possible, and what works and doesn't (interface/design wise) on the web, but then they should throw the .PSD files over the wall and let the coders get to work.

Thinking about the implementation while working on the design can only result in a dumbed-down design, not something that pushes the edge of what's possible. The best sites I've worked on came from designers who threw me a loop, but I managed to reproduce their design anyway.
okay this does match up with practice.

However, this makes it a poorly designed link sharing system. I never know where the link that i'm clicking resolves to, and it isn't really optimized for parsing the links out of the message (as a developer i've got to do a regex or something to pull the http:// garbage out of the message). Why isn't there a seperate field for links?
The first two campaigns you mention are of a different era and no longer used. Haven't seen the third. The dancing hipsters, you'll notice, has been neutralized over the years with iPod ads focusing more on pop artist appearances, e.g Mary J. Blige (pretty mainstream). In any case it's only part of a larger range of ads; in my opinion the arrogant superiority complex of the ongoing Get a Mac campaign is directly analogous to the breathy narrator of a Lexus ad or a BMW ad proclaiming the Ultimate Driving Machine/Joy of Driving [a BMW]. The iPhone ads are 100% neutral and rather impressive in serving as simple but compelling 20-second product demos.
I typically have a backlog of things I would like to do. When I go to conferences, or have boring meetings where I only need half an ear to the proceedings, or whatever, I do those things. Usually they are toys or side projects and what-have-you. They are usually doable in some form that 'I've been meaning to learn'. They are usually fairly easy as well. Then I just combine all the above factors. If I want to learn some new vim thing, (or generators or ...) I do the extra task (which is easy) with a focus on using what I'm trying to learn.

It doesn't always take, nor do I expect it to. Even if I get just one small technique to "stick" and become regularly used, I do this enough that I fairly rapidly gain new skills and tools.

HTH
One more point, I'm not out to say that there is only one route to happiness- and that it is an anti-consumeristic one-, but simply that it is possible- and possibly more common these days (given circumstances)- to choose this path.

This is simply a bit of counterbalance to so much television that sells the opposite stance. I know that on some of the tv shows I've worked on, I've been complicit in spreading this idea that stuff is cool. So perhaps this is my more personal response.
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Nope, you are not alone. I actually always preferred projects that had their docs available as pdf, but now I am thinking that epub will be my preferred.
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It seems like it all comes down to what happens after the lecture from the BMI guy. He gets his card and then actually calls him.

I'm think if I was in this situation, I wouldn't capitalize on this and just shove the card in a drawer - having no clue what to actually call the guy about, or be too afraid to ask for something.
Philosophically this is true. But in the real world...

First, the "Myth of the Rational Voter" tells us that for any individual, deep research on politics doesn't pay off economically (their individual opinion makes little enough difference that what they lose due to a bad decision is smaller than what they'd have to invest to make the right decision). Thus, the actual democratic process is an example of the tragedy of the commons.

Second, I wonder to what degree people really hold the positions that they talk about. To what degree are the people trying to fit into the norms of their community? Perhaps the people are showing a behavior that's analogous to the "marketing" chameleon behavior of politicians and the MSM.
This reminds me of something I realized the other day while shopping for artwork to decorate the guest room. I'd rather order a print of a photo from deviant art or some other such website than buy some medium quality picture from Target or other big box retailers.
You're oversimplifying on both assessments.
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Yeah, I'd agree Matthews is a poseur "hard-hat - union" Democrat, but not so much a liberal.