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godaddy is ridiculous. I'm sorry to say that I actually defended them in a post a while back. It was primarily because they were very cheap, but when you consider that other providers charge ~$10 which includes automatic private registration, it's not even cheap, it's the same!

The last straw was when I tried to link a "this domain is available" page with godaddy - you can't it uses some stupid weirdo asynchronous loading (yeah because the other 453 things on the page are so important, they've got to load first).

SO F them, I use dreamhost.com now but that's primarily because I have had an account with them from a couple years back when I had a shared hosting account. They get out of the way, the fee is $10 bucks auto private. Simple, done.

Also someone here recommended domai.nr/ for domain searching. I'm a big fan!
> The classic problem for self-hosting compilers is that of bootstrapping: with what will you compile the compiler?

> Since it is arguably one of the largest hurdles standing in the way of widespread adoption, the awib development team has decided to attack this problem by making version 0.2 a three language polyglot. As of now, awib.b is not only valid brainfuck code, but is also a fully functional C program and a bash script. You can run it in your shell, you can build it with your C compiler and you can execute it in your brainfuck environment of choice.

This is the most awesome thing I've seen all week!
Interesting. I've read that under the rules of Islamic finance, which forbid lending at interest, people have exploited similar loopholes. In the UK, HSBC (I think) offers an "Islamic mortgage" product, in which the bank purchases the house, the prospective homeowner rents it, and the bank agrees to give him the house if he's a good renter for thirty years. The loan market interprets lenience as damage and routes around it.
If someone had fun, how could this time be wasted?

It's interesting, that the kind of people, that see this as wasted time,
because they think this isn't changing the world, that it isn't ethical
to use your own time this way, that these people will always criticize
themself and others regardless what they do, because there's always
something more meaningful to do.

At the end these people won't change anything in the world, but just
bring harm to themself and others.
Yea, I sometime use the time travel one and pretend that my older self is talking to me. Sometimes, I split myself up into years and have the different me talk from the past but for this I use a script and write down what the different years are saying. The past years talking helps to identify times when I think the ship is going to sink and it didn't[or when it did]. Also, it helps to identify the key players in a particular scenario.
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Sure, if my senior developer had something horrible happen to him, I should allow him to work 0-2 hour weeks, keep him in the same position and payroll, and let my startup go down and hurt the lives of the other 9 employees who worked hard on it.

"Respect and care" means among other things, that you keep your business running so it can respect and care for the majority of employees. If you're going to take things to extreme, why then I need to "respect" every candidate by hiring, and "care" for any employee who just feels like taking a 20-month meditation trip to Tibet, since the woes of this modern world are depressing him.

The fact remains the same: a lean, highly leveraged startup can't allow developers to go off on vacations for 3-6+ months, no matter how badly they need it. Hell, if you're that kind of startup, those 3-6 months may very well be your entire product (or life!) cycle.
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A central location to easily switch languages/locales would be great, especially for people who move around or live in foreign countries. Searching each corner for the flag icon gets old fast.

Having said that, I rarely ever pay attention to what's in the address bar, and I'd like to keep it that way.
Right. Would be good to be able to mount a phone in a keyboard, and to hook up an external monitor.
debt.
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Certainly one of the great examples of scratching one's own itch.
In some ways it's equivalent to solving any other seemingly esoteric theoretical problem that people seem to like solving (and some people get PhDs for doing so!). He took a formal system (a particular simplified model of city simulation), and produced a constructive proof of some properties of the system. Of course, the SimCity simulation parameters are unrealistic in a lot of ways, but it doesn't seem inherently any more absurd than the people who get PhDs for game-theory theses that also rely on absurd parameters in their problem setup.
Please keep in mind this is from 18 may 2007... CSRF protection is now enabled by default.
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I remember electronic typewriters like this.
I'm very interested in the HTC Desire. Unfortunately, in Spain the options are rather limited at the moment.
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It's mostly the "you don’t program, but you let them learn" part that's a bit weird/inaccurate. You have to program analog computers, and don't get any automatic learning built in. It's just a different kind of programming. Some things, from a digital-programming perspective, are amazing freebies that would require difficult programming on a digital computer. Other things, that on a digital computer would be trivial, are frustratingly difficult to implement. But it's still programming of a sort either way.

And it doesn't make a ton of difference these days anyway, because "continuous" vs. "discrete, but with trillions of gradations" are indistinguishable for a lot of problems, so you can simulate an analog computer on a digital one, or vice versa, with reasonable accuracy.
Does your computer have an on/off switch?
Also worth checking out: highlight.js http://softwaremaniacs.org/soft/highlight/en/ (doesn't use jQuery and is modular).
I don't think you're getting the reference..

http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257
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You can symlink individual application preference folders rather than the entire preference folder.

Also some apps let you specify where their preferences folder is located by holding down the option key when you launch them. Then you can set them to use a folder in your dropbox.
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I won't really argue with that - although reality is that the vast majority of startups need to launch fast, or have the entire market move away from them, guaranteeing failure.

If you're developing an innovative product for the iPhone market, you can be sure that it won't be "innovative" in a year, especially if it was a good idea to begin with. Not to mention that in a year, such a fast market will move so far, that your original business model will be outdated in significant ways, because your price point, features, and target audience analysis are now all obsolete.

Even without that, though - you realize that VC-backed startups are a huge chunk of the startup sphere? In fact, the author of this article is a VC, and probably most of this article was written with VC-backed startups in mind.
The same to me, Asimov influenced me a lot. Also, IMHO, he is one of the best Sci-Fi writer ever and one of his best book is The End of Eternity.
I have for years contemplated buying a mac mini to hook up to my plasma TV, but I just haven't been able to justify the cost when I can just hook my laptop up to it. When I heard about this Asus keyboard/computer a couple years back I got pretty excited, especially about the wireless transmitting to a display.

Now I own an iPad and the appeal of surfing the web on my plasma greatly diminished for me. As for watching internet video like Hulu, I think I'm just gonna get myself one of these Henge (http://www.hengedocks.com/) docks and save myself the $600.
> "In the case of Mahalo, it seems like they have a large asshattery factor (Calcanis is an overbearing idiot who will post nasty things about you on Twitter)"

Why anyone would willingly work for someone like that is beyond me. You're setting yourself up for abuse, ensuring other employees are abused in the process.

In my view, once you post something ugly about any of your employees, you lose your ability to hire any non-desperate (let alone loyal) employees forever.
What would be a reason to work for you?
Isn't it better to optimize the titles, not just abandon them completely? One way would be having dynamic titles based on what you do: user identity coordinator, analytics specialist and keep it flat? Titles change when your actual role changes and if you leave the company it will be (even more) possible to meaningfully describe yourself in the CV.
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The site's started to hit Firefox's "Reported Web Forgery!" page...

"This web page at ismycreditcardstolen.com has been reported as a web forgery and has been blocked based on your security preferences."
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The problem is that what "we" really want is to be able to mail, chat, play games with, send photos to and do other random stuff with our friends. What a subset of geeks want is an open architecture that with fine-grained privacy controls. The average person wants that about as much as they want to ensure that they have access to the source code of their operating system.

Social networking requires a critical mass; the critical piece of building an open architecture isn't writing the software and putting a site up, it's convincing enough people to join to make the experience worthwhile. And for that you need a better carrot than geek fodder.
http://jambav.com is one such venture by Zoho (started when it was still AdventNet), dealing with autism + scratching one's own itch need.

Read about it at..
http://startups.in/India/Edutainment/Jambav--Indias-Magic-Ki...
Presumably there will be a wireless HDMI dongle so you can pop down by any screen, plug in the wireless dongle and use that screen with your keyboard computer ("keyPad"? "netboard"?).

As for iterations, when I can fold it and put it in my pocket ...

I don't really see how this is better than having a netbook or in a static setup having a wireless keyboard with a touchpad (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003GU1028?ie=UTF8&tag=... , aff).
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or homogeneity of political views.
You're gonna love DesktopCouch: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktopcouch

AFAIK Ubuntu is looking at putting that in their Ubuntu One cloud service.
"The real number could be arrived by studying competition, market size, target audience, perceived value of your service and many other factors."

It would be helpful if someone did a study on pricing plans of popular web apps and could show how the pricing models affected the overall success of the apps in their own markets.
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Now that the White House has released opensource code for it's drupal stack, have known to dabble in free/open source applications, and are making extensive use of FOSS in gov.net will the US be added to this list?

Even if they aren't it would be whirlwind of irony.
I don't think marketing of services is encouraged here. I would not want to work with someone who doesn't even advertise his name/place on his portfolio site.
I must admit that is a notion I don't understand. Why shouldn't it be possible to simply pay for a job and have it done by a professional? Like if I pay somebody to build me a house, am I supposed to give them ownership of the house afterwards?
From wikipedia:
"It first appeared in the November 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly and was reprinted in the collections Nine Tomorrows (1959), The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973), Robot Dreams (1986), the retrospective Opus 100 (1969), and in Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Vol. 1"

I personally read it in Robot Dreams, which is a great collection of stories.
There's so much more to it than price.

For example, if a product has a good price, but poor targeting (saying "this is for you!" to a niche or type of person/business), or the net they cast for traffic is too broad (e.g. people from Digg), they are not going to have success selling plans, period.

In other words: There's no price that is good enough to sell a boob job to a man, for himself.
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you can use a file synchronization algorithm. here's one I did for JSON:

http://blog.mozilla.com/rob-sayre/2008/02/15/restful-partial...

It works well except when array elements move around (that works, it's just unintuitive)
I was thinking something more like encrypted storage in the cloud for pull and offline access to feeds. Realtime updates would happen over a push mechanism. (Otherwise polling would make things expensive.) Everything would be encrypted and in complete control by the "local" segment of the graph.
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Since when has being evil made any difference?
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I know brainfuck is a silly language but... good lord look at the source code: http://awib.googlecode.com/svn/builds/awib-0.2.b
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Yes. "Antimicrobial" would be the general term.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimicrobial
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they can implement whatever sales policies they like

A small nit here but it's important to point out that this is Not Quite True. Over the past hundred years we've worked out some rules about what sales policies companies are allowed to have. For example, you can't deny sales based on race, you can't deny sales (wholesale) because a store sells a competitive product also, and so on. It might be that in the global market place these rules need to be revised.
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I agree that there is a lot more to it than price but it would be helpful when doing market research.
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looks like the first cases appeared around 1999, and that it's a fairly rare disease.

[original research?] Oddly, I actually know someone here in the United States who had an infection like that more than a decade earlier, after travel to a tropical country. There probably wasn't such elaborate genetic testing for specific strains available in those days, so the infection was only classified as to genus, Cryptococcus, in that patient. The infection was so puzzling to the doctors at a major metropolitan research and teaching hospital that treated the patient that even the hospital's director of infectious disease gave the patient a bedside visit.

AFTER EDIT: From another news story, a link to the PLoS report on the newly reported strain of Cryptococcus:

http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2F...

This link

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol4no1/buchanan.htm

on the related fungal species Cryptococcus neoformans describes why usually fungi of this genus are not particularly pathogenic and what characteristics of Cryptococcus fungi most influence disease virulence.
So, the entire point with starting a company is to make wealth. This wealth is traded with money. The day your company create so much wealth that you go break-even, that will be the day you have established a profitable company, and you can be considered entering the phase of intrepreneurship (meaning to work on a already established business-model). A startup is entrepreneurship.
So the next question would be: is this model which I've "entrepreneured" sustainable? Will it continue to grow?

To sum it up, I would say that 'entrepreneurship is act of creating a profitable business - where as intrepreneurship is the act of maintaining it'. I would also add that the distinct difference between those two people, is the willingness to take risk one often see in entrepreneurs. Whereas maybe inrepeneurship is handed to college-kids with an degree.
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Well, if porn in the workplace keeps government law enforcement agencies from doing their job to stop serious crimes,

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hOvd2ZHpLg...

maybe it should be a concern in those agencies, whether or not it is a concern to profit-making private businesses.
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A social network billing itself as the "anti-Facebook" with regards to privacy issues could succeed. The only thing such a network would retain control of would be related to ads. Everything else would be encrypted and controlled by users.

Such a startup would have to operate like Craigslist. It would have traction because it's there to provide functionality for users, not to maximize profits.

Reddit-style ads would pay for cloud resources, with the ability to opt-out by paying for services directly. By reddit-style, I mean that the ads can be shared with your friend network and voted up or down.

Smartphones and the iPad could be used to implement such a network.
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CD's are not typically rewritable, you can put files on them once and that's it. CD-ReWritables do exist, but they require additional drivers/software to be loaded to function- which means loading the OS.

You'll also need the OS loaded for updates via the internet.
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I wonder if they're looking at injecting advertisement into the html stream? I know some cable companies replace your default search page when they find you've 404'd. It wouldn't be too hard to inject some pop-up scripts onto pages.
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It certainly appears so, from our point of view ;-)

If, however, we think of time as another dimension, we can still see him, right over there, a couple years in the direction we came from.

From here, it looks like a remarkable life.
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> I saw quite enough of that on slashdot so was very disappointed to see this sort of bilge get so many upvotes here.

A developed vocabulary is awesome, but you always got to consider who your audience is and why you're writing. If you're trying to persuade a lot of people, it's almost always better to choose the easier and more readable word instead of the bigger or deeper or more obscure word.

I read a hell of a lot, and I had to look bilge up to figure out exactly what you're saying - you could've just said "trash" instead and everyone would've got your meaning. Likewise, "tedious" could be "boring", "smugly belittle" could be "insult", you could drop "endlessly" altogether since it doesn't add any more information. Likewise, "quite enough" doesn't convey more than just the word "enough", "nuanced grasp of reality" could've just been "perspective". Here's how I'd write it:

> Few things are more tedious than reading science majors endlessly, smugly belittle arts subjects. "Oh ho ho, something I don't understand and haven't done and probably couldn't do, they must be idiots, let's constantly mock them". I saw quite enough of that on slashdot so was very disappointed to see this sort of bilge get so many upvotes here. Thankfully some of the comments, at least, show a more nuanced grasp of reality.

...becomes...

> It gets old reading science majors put down the arts. It's easier to mock something than it is to try to understand it. Sheesh, I saw enough of that on slashdot and I'm disappointed to see it here. It's good that at least a few commentors are taking the time to share a perspective from the other side.

So, you write less, it's faster, more people understand you, more are convinced, and you come across less arrogant. Anyways, I been there myself, I grew up reading lots of books and always used to choose the bigger word. Now I choose the simpler more readable way unless the bigger word is really necessary or conveys more.
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Well, I think what we really need a standard, bare bones open source platform that implements something rational, and several providers (they would have to be fairly large ones) so that there's competition. Social networking needs to be a utility, not a walled garden.

Now, one of these providers might be ad-supported, but I would gladly pay $10/month for ad-free Facebook if it was just like a hosting provider - no data crawling, no new features, basically it's the job of the people I'm paying to make sure I can back up my data and that others can access it subject to my privacy controls.
When he was talking about geological timescales, what he meant was how long a memristor retains it's state after being switched, while I'm more interested in how many times can he safely switch the device.
> What a subset of geeks want is an open architecture that with fine-grained privacy controls. The average person wants that about as much as they want to ensure that they have access to the source code of their operating system.

That's extremely condescending. Everyone I know wishes they had better control over their privacy on Facebook. The problem is that properly understanding and maintaining Facebook's current privacy controls would probably take several hours a month of analysis. That's intentional - Facebook is making the privacy controls too complex, and changing them too frequently for anyone to manage them properly.
I still use godaddy because I have about 50+ domain names. Its a hassle, I'd love to switch to something better, but I don't really have the motivation.
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I think he would appreciated that thought, a lot.
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Looking at the situation objectively, we will either destroy ourselves, or incidentally gain rocket technology capable of destroying an asteroid long before an extinction-level event occurs. There is no reason to make asteroid deflection a priority. There are far more pressing threats to the human race. Mostly the human race itself - and the humanities are the best defense against humans.
That's the one. :/