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That gets back to what Docotrow called the Benevolent Dictatorship of DRM. Here, DRM still represents giving Netflix an inordinate amount of control over the work and how it's licensed and how it's used. Moreover, that argument doesn't explain why Netflix wouldn't allow the artist in this case to put in a statement about finding DRM-free versions.
All of these feel a lot more native than Flash ever has.
Facebook did a nice job. Just enter URL & click get code. I got CNN.com & NYTimes.com on my blog in <1 minute. Check out: www.si-innovations.com (look on the right side after some scroll-downs), not to self-promote, just to demonstrate the ease of use.
We were joking that we were going to try to pitch a fax-based startup to VCs this year - just to see what their reaction would be.

Actually this is kind of cool though :)

I think if you keep it simple and convenient, it's nice.
Actually, it's paying attention to the choices you make (for example, continuing to buy Macs over PCs) in domains that you are knowledgeable.

I actually know a great deal about trading, having done it professionally for a while. I only occasionally trade stocks now; I prefer angel investing...
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That's pretty much been my experience as well.

Unless I'm working on work work, I barely touch my laptop at home anymore. And I barely have to use the keyboard and mouse to interact with the mac mini connected to my TV, which is a huge win.

I still use my livescribe for meetings (http://www.livescribe.com/).
I know nothing, but here are my thoughts...

What is information really? Does information exist without a conscious being to interpret it? Are the laws that govern information simply laws that are created by conscious beings for the purpose of interpreting the information? Most laws that we are concerned with are derived from nature, through our senses and experience of cause and effect. Our senses allow us to perceive the changes in state of our surrounding environment. These changes in state is information.

I guess the point I am finally making, is that the statement above concerning information is expected in lieu of our current focus, reliance, and addiction on information as a representation of reality. I am not sure what the difference is between the laws that govern matter and the laws that govern information. We're still working with information in either case. We have to take measurements, interpret the data, make predictions, and build systems to exploit the "laws" we've uncovered.
Wow. There have been a lot of cool canvas demos to date, and these are certainly on that list. I am stoked for the future of the internet, guys. Stoked as the dickens.
I'll check it out, thanks, but I do have to say the name rubs me the wrong way. It's the kind of name you'd only use if it weren't true.
Yes, I spent a month tracking down speedcats in my size last year because I am picky about my footwear. They're very comfortable and I've worn nothing but black speedcats since I happened upon them in a sale in nordstrom four years ago.

No.

No.

Also I haven't watched network tv in 10 years without DVR mediation
I love this idea. I keep asking friends about a reasonable online fax service, and the only one that keeps coming up is eFax, which seems good for businesses, doesn't seem to serve individuals well.

Most of us never need to send faxes, until we need do. When we need to deal with faxing, it's likely related to some event. A job offer, housing paperwork, refinancing, etc.

I would love the following two payment options:

- $1-$5 to send a fax. This seems totally within reason. Driving to find someplace with a fax, waiting in line, exposing your document to some clerk, etc. The one-time fee gives me the service I want with no commitment.

- $10-$20 for bigger faxing 'events'. I should be able to send unlimited faxes (which in reality will be <10 but makes me feel better they are not metered) AND have a temporary incoming fax number that I can receive faxes on, which forward to an email address. This service could be available for 30 calendar days from the moment you buy.

Nail those two things and I think you've nailed the modern use cases for faxing.
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I haven't had an iPad for very long, but I love, love, love it for web browsing. It's like you're flying over your web pages.

However, I don't like how iPad Safari handles "tabs". I would much prefer traditional tabs where I could select or close a tab in only a single tap, instead of the three taps that are required now.

Regardless, it looks like I can finally retire my Newton.
The evolution of rain in games . . .
Pride? No. Self-respect? Yes. Ally's dissing us for no good reason, and I'm pointing out that if anyone is to be shrugged off into a corner, it's not us. I'm also being a little hyperbolic for (intended) light comedy.
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Have you considered http://www.freeagentcentral.com? I recently switched from another Web 2.0 accounting system, and have find it to be fairly comprehensive system in it's featureset.

It's got Expense Tracking, Invoicing, Cash Flow visualization, a 30-day trial, and is only $18/month afterwards.

(Note: I'm not affiliated at all with FreeAgent, I just think it's a quality service. :)
A general policy to keep from being sued. Far different than profiting from your death.
I enjoyed this as both a critique of Shirky's writings (which I admittedly enjoy) and as an excellent lesson in marketing.
This isn't exactly news at this point, but I was also having this problem just today and was whining about it and here is this post. It got to the point where I was figuring out what functions actually existed by using Chrome developer tools and investigating the FB object and its members, and then trying to read the minified javascript.

On the plus side, it's bound to improve soon for two reasons:
1) It can't get any worse
2) They can't get away with this much longer

I happen to kind of know one of the guys responsible for a lot of the JS API stuff, so I plan on giving him crap about this next time I see him, if that's any consolation. :-)
Interesting point, but oil is strategic, so by your logic it must not be fungible.
> Google may become irrelevant in <1 year...

I'm not a betting man but I'd wager $1000 that FB will not make Google irrelevant in 1 year.
Last time I played with harmony sketch, I found a cool bug/feature. I wanted to know if you knew about it…

If you open it up and use the grid mode to draw a bunch of dots on the screen, then switch to a different mode (like long fur) and hit clear it will immediately render all of the grid dots connected with fur. You can then cancel and save the image. I know it works in safari… not sure about other browsers. Is that an intentional behavior?
I'm a fan. I'm from a niche market who need to receive faxes more than I send them. I'd kill for a small, annual plan that just lets me receive without signing up for monthly payments or attaching it to sending credits.

A la carte all the way. I'm unsure if competitors offer this.

Hope this helps.
After a little over a decade working in the software industry, I would put the bozo rate for employers at about 9/10. Though I don't have much direct experience hiring developers, I get the impression that they have roughly the same spread. This industry is like the music industry or Hollywood: a few gems in a sea of nobodies, all looking for a piece of the action. If you're a gem but not in the loop, it could take while to be discovered.

A developer who has changed jobs every year could be a bozo themselves, or they could be a star talent who hasn't been lucky enough to find an equally valuable employer. If it's loyalty you want, find one of the latter and give them a good working experience. They will be very very grateful.
No. It's always fungible. Crude oil is crude oil is crude oil.

Now, problems could still arise where many countries refuse to sell to us or where China just buys a bunch of oil and starts a huge strategic petroleum reserve that's mainly meant to give us more of a shortage (but that would get expensive quickly, even for China.). But that has nothing to do with whether oil is fungible.

Fungibility means that it makes no difference if Saudi Arabia decides they won't sell to us and instead sells the 100B barrels/day that they would have sold to us (made up number) to China, and because of that, China buys 100B fewer barrels/day from Canada, who sells that 100B to us instead.
Part of the point was they wouldn't even let her add a credit that had a non-DRM url. So it sounds like she didn't want to perpetuate the myth that DRM is the whole world and the only legitimate distribution venue.
Other than the few non-standard pieces (At one point, I had a C shaped block, and another an L made of 3 pieces), love it. Nicely done.
That's a very interesting article from the heart of the American foreign policy establishment. Back in 2002-03 during the runup to the Iraq war, I had long conversations with an office mate trying to figure out what was really going on (the asinine fiction of WMDs being obvious propaganda, ineptly executed at that). One theory that we came up with was that the US were doing it to gain leverage over the Saudis. It's interesting to see that articulated so plainly in the pages of Foreign Policy magazine:

the emergence of Baghdad as a rival to Riyadh

Couldn't have put it better myself!

(I'm not saying that's why, of course. I don't know why. But "it has nothing to do with oil" always struck me as a tad naive, and by "a tad" I mean "maximally".)
Just to reinforce, these are the top "most influential" algorithms in machine learning. Most are no longer state-of-the-art.
I made a Tetris game in JavaScript a while ago, I think it looks better and works a bit smoother too:

http://elbertf.com/tetris/

Source: http://elbertf.com/tetris/tetris.js
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Alex talked about something similar a while ago on TheDailyWTF. I haven't seen anyone post this link in these various discussions yet, so I'll drop it here:

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Up-or-Out-Solving-the-IT-Tur...

He writes about how IT turnover is a good thing, and suggests that job hoppers are likely to be more talented. Interesting stuff.

(Also, I tried posting this on the linked article instead of here, but it kept rejecting my post, even when I took out the link. No idea what's going on there.)
The entire tone of the story turned me off. Nothing can excuse the manager's behavior. If you are a manager, you're held to a higher standard.

But as an employee, if you're resigning by email, your message should be "I am resigning as of $(now + 14.days). Sincerely, $name".
Anything else can be expressed verbally.
Now that you've uncovered these irregularities, we can blow this Wikipedia scandal wide open!
They found an alternative strategy that works pretty well:

GIVE LOTS OF MONEY TO POLITICIANS

UAW will suck down more billions of our dollars in our lifetimes. Give them time.
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I realize that it's film, just didn't know that anyone had gotten to that point with it so early. Thanks for the link, BTW!
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Not to be a buzz kill or anything or take away from the technical neatness of it but... this has been around on Opera as a widget for a long time.

2006 was when he got the first comment on the widget. http://widgets.opera.com/widget/4196/1.2/6/#comments-begin
When I see a picture of a nicely seared rare steak, my mind wanders to nice meals I've had, places I've been, etc. The distraction effect is almost akin to having a picture of a nude woman.
You are getting sleepy... very very sleepy.

Seriously, I started feeling drowsy watching that.
without controlling for the cost of living, this is pretty meaningless
This article condemns the employee for doing something well within his rights in a polite manner because that's not the Right Way To Do Things. It then goes on to say "An employer is well within their rights to bar you from the premises."

I mean, really? This is a two-way street here.
Yours is a common argument, but isn't it functionally equivalent to, say, breaking up GS into two firms, each of which would be able to do one of the roles?

If so, isn't this primarily about economies of scale? Since the only reason both roles take place within one firm today are because there are efficiencies associated with the ancillary services (and perhaps capital requirements) that give a conglomerate iBank an advantage over two smaller firms. ??
Happy to be alive, no assistance. What don't you find coherent in my post?

>irremediably tainted by the vileness of Bernie Madoff.
My point here is that, while Ponzi schemes used to be a mostly overlooked white collar crime and a curiosity for the students of economics, they now have come to light in a very public manner and came to personify all the excesses of Wall Street pre-2008.
Yes, it's actually totally wrong. If you read carefully though, I'm not reporting Ponzi's story as it happened, but as I heard it for the first time from an econ professor, which may or may not have been pulling our legs.
As for features, drag and drop to attach files ala GMail would be excellent (if it doesn't already work).
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Totally agree. The iPad is my "couch-surfing" computer of choice these days. You really can curl up with this sucker or lie on your back comfortably while reading.

I've been using it for most of my reading (newspapers, books, magazines). A lot of my surfing and a lot more video consumption than I had expected.

The sketching apps are great. I bought a little stylus to help out where fingers fall short. I'm doing a lot more drawing than ever b/c of the facility and convenience of drawing on the pad.

The comic book readers are great (I use comic reader mobi). I hadn't read a comic or graphic novel in years, but they just looks so gorgeous on the ipad that I've been voraciously catching up on various comics that I would have otherwise ignored.

I find myself using the iphone much less when at home and the laptop has been relegated to "work"/upright/serious stuff.

iPad, for me, is something of a leisure computer. If that makes any sense...
This isn't stupidity, it's greed. People bought houses because they thought houses were a sure way to double one's money in a few years.
Local is a very interesting avenue for revenue growth. I'm very curious to see how location will play out on Facebook, especially with regards to Foursquare.
Early on in my career, I learned a lesson from a retiring colleague -- a former Army Colonel, "never be loyal to a company because the company won't be loyal to you." You can be loyal to individuals, and people can be loyal to you. But the company? Nah. Lots of people get burnt really early in their careers thinking that showing intense loyalty to an organization will be rewarded when no such thing happens -- an "organization" doesn't care. At best, your boss might give you a bump if you are loyal to him/her, and that kind of thing pays off in the long run, in terms of keeping well built bridges (it's amazing how often you meet the same people in a given industry no matter how big).

The reason I'm commenting about this?

> They’re not in the office? You wait a few days until they are. They new job can’t way? Bullshit. Or, if true, it’s a good sign that it’s an organization you don’t want to work for because they don’t care about you.

This is the kind of idealistic naiveté, that while nice in principle, doesn't really matter in reality. Show up, do a good job, when the time is right, move on. If you boss isn't there, call them. If they aren't making themselves available to the employees, then I suppose they fall into the category of "places that don't care about you" anyways.

Organizations, by definition never care about you and you shouldn't care about them. Care about your work and doing a good job -- that builds self-respect and your reputation. Ask for what you want when you want it and be patient until you get it, don't be a baby or an asshole, be flexible when better ideas than yours come along, that builds respect. Business isn't about feelings, it's about production and making more money than you lay out. If you want feelings, wait 'till quitting time and the after-work meetup at the local happy hour where everybody can commiserate all they want over $3 beers.

Think your company cares about you because of the free t-shirts, catered food and free drinks? Are you kidding me? They just know they can squeeze and extra 2-3 hours a day out of your sorry ass at pretty much no extra pay and about $10-15/day.

Other than that, the post is pretty spot on.
I like it! I've had to use one of the other online faxing services a couple times lately and a per-month fee was way too much for sending a whopping two faxes.
I wish your reply hadn't been deleted, I was about to reply with:

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Seeing this pains me, because I was working on something similar in 2002, and gave up because I wasn't smart enough to stick with it.

I had a realtime, multiplayer, persistent world, in NES-style 2D (think Zelda 1). Keyboard-based controls, monsters that moved around, etc. All done in cross-browser compatible javascript.

It used a hidden iframe to poll the map data asynchronously (this was way before AJAX) and update the tiles (a 32x32 grid) in real time. I posted it on a popular forum one day, and had a whole bunch of people moving around on the map together. It was so awesome to see my little world come to life. People hadn't seen anything like it.

Then the server admin killed my account. Shared hosting was all I could afford back then.

I kept working on it for a while on my local machine, but without a place to host it, I lost motivation. It really needed a dedicated server, and that was way beyond my just-out-of-highschool budget.

Anyway, I ended up going to college and never really got back to it. 8 years later, I no longer have the source, or even a screenshot.
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I also liked "if you want loyalty without earning it, hire a dog."

Working at a job right now that has several in-house dogs wandering around the office all day, it makes me wonder if they have 401k packages and non-disclosure agreements or not.
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See the Reddit discussion thread with comments from the author here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/bvzzt/hey_reddit_i_made_an_app_that_lets_you_wirelessly/

I find it hard to believe that this would make it through approval - even though he claims he's not using any private APIs, it seems like he'd still have to do something squirrely that Apple wouldn't like.
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See the Reddit discussion thread with comments from the author here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/bvzzt/hey_reddit_i_ma...

I find it hard to believe that this would make it through approval - even though he claims he's not using any private APIs, it seems like he'd still have to do something squirrely that Apple wouldn't like.
Do you know what's state of the art then? I've touched on most of these & wouldn't mind learning more.
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With a univers estimated at some 4 billion light years in size, I choose 100 million light years as a ball park figure.

But lets assume these aliens are in fact our neighbours and live just a million light years away.

If they are planning to pop over for a visit, it's going to take them a very long time to get here.

Unless of course Einstein is wrong and in reality it is possible to travel faster than the speed of light.
You Will Get Yelled At

A lot of comments on TechCrunch revolved around being treated badly. If you’re lucky you have a boss that’s passionate about what they’re doing. If so, such bosses will get heated and yell because they care.

Yeah, right.

I don't work well while being yelled at. I don't want to deal with that. And so I refuse to work in environments where I get yelled at. Seriously, if you're my boss and you yell at me, my resume is being updated that night and I'm going to shop it around. If you're my co-worker then I'll wait until you calm down some, and raise the issue. If I don't get an apology then I'm going to either my or your boss about it depending on the political dynamics of the company. If the company doesn't agree that you were out of line, I'm going to find another job and go.

And yes, there are people I've worked with that have broken this rule which I choose not to work with ever again.

Now I understand that some people, cultures, etc differ. In some yelling is OK. That is fine. I choose not to be in those ones. And I'm far from the only person who feels this way.

So if you're a boss and you yell, take a moment to consider this. No matter what excuses you give yourself for your crappy behavior, are you losing really good employees because they don't agree with you on this issue? After you've thought about it for a while, perhaps you'll find better ways to handle stress than yelling at people below you in the hierarchy.
How do you guys do it? Admittedly, I returned my iPad after a week or so. But I just found it to be a lot less productive, even for consumption, than my laptop.

For example, I have about 20 total tabs open right now, on two instances of the browser. Why two? I can snap the two side x side whenever I want to compare two pages, or have them both up (this is useful, when I'm watching video, and browsing at the same time).

Do most people just browse one page at a time?
I use Grasshopper, but they can't send a fax. This looks like a service I was looking for a couple of months ago, but couldn't find.

Everything wanted me to sign up for $5 a month or more. Or I could send one fax for $3 dollars. I forget the exact numbers, but I remember being annoyed.

You are now bookmarked! Though, you'll be lucking to make $10 per year off me given my limited faxing needs.
It seems like a strange application of Netflix's "no bumpers" policy. Unless this was only regarding a pre-roll card—perhaps both parties could still come to an agreement if Nina were to add this disclaimer to the credit roll instead?
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