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Let's face it, this is not just another car company. They are selling a high-end luxury car -- but oh yeah, it's electric. It's almost hard to believe.

I hope their stock continues to do well.
Can you explain how the content of your post relates to the title?
Maybe you should move straight to Apache Avro? From what I've heard, it's a lot more sane than both Protobuf and Thrift.
If this were ancient times the Greeks would spend endless hours proving this whilst the Romans would just fire up VB VI and get an answer.

Dim a As Integer, b As Integer, c As Integer, d As Integer, n As Integer

n = II
For b = n To I Step -I
For c = n To I Step -I
For d = n To I Step -I
n = n + I
Debug.Print n
Next d
Next c
Next b

And the answer is MMXCVIII
I'd like to vote for Mockingbird at http://gomockingbird.com. It is simple and effective.
Sheepdog: QEMU/KVM Distributed Storage Nirvana?
Why is there a need to put a label on the device? If it doesn't have a label, you can put it either way. If it has a +/-, use that as indicators. It doesn't have to be as complex as you're describing.
Why does anyone ever bother making a deal with a private equity firm then, if it leaves them in such a bad position?
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Get a new iPhone with help from Selenium
Frustrated by the lack of stock in UK O2 stores, I wrote a couple of simple scripts to quickly find out stock levels. Hopefully this will help me to get my iPhone 4! I hope it helps others too!
Google pays for search placement, as do at least a couple of other search providers I believe. They used to pay people one dollar for getting Firefox plus Google Search installed on a machine so they clearly view it as a money maker rather than a charity.
Mozilla Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation (whose stated mission is to work towards an open web) and was mainly set for tax reasons. This makes it very unlike Google or Apple.
Red meat certainly takes a lot of energy to produce, and may well be environmentally beneficial to cut it from your diet if that's your thing. Personally I stay away from beef because my genes have decided that I have more than enough iron, thank-you-very-much.

However, there's surely some benefit from growing food in your own backyard - you do cut down on the (admittedly minimal transport costs), and doing something physical outside has got to be good for you - even if it is a few pots outside if you live in a high-rise. Here's hoping you don't cut your finger off doing so.
All things being equal, I would agree. However things are not equal. Especially when China has been artificially pegging their exchange rate much lower than it should be for much longer.

I'm not for tariffs actually, but neither do I think 'common knowledge', especially if it's 80yrs old, has earned any right to go unexamined. Globalization and free trade are not without their problems, especially not if Grove is correct (I think he is) in asserting they've cannibalized a significant portion of our economy that both creates jobs and enables innovation.
> Trade policies and externalities have absolutely nothing to do with that.

You're right on that since we're clearly talking past each other :-) Yes, businesses become commodities over time. We agree here. However this is orthogonal to innovation and job creation. If an old mature industry is on its last throes, then by all means, farm that out. Those jobs are gone. But that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about new industries that if they can stay put for even say 5-10 years could provide immense benefits to the innovating nation. It keeps the middle class healthy and prevents the have/have-not scenario that you mentioned as troublesome. I share those same concerns. It also creates an in-house knowledge base for future innovation and an investing base for venture capital formation (think Paypal/Google mafia). It also has the effect of incenting the country to implement pro-innovation policies to continually lay those golden eggs. A virtuous cycle if I ever saw one.

Now enter the bureaucrats in Beijing who have created their own "incentives". The main one being cost which they obtain by mortgaging their labor/environment and toying with the exchange rate. These aren't truly economic advantages but are really artificial rules put in place by a planning committee for national interest. Government intervention if you will. Entrepreneurs and startups who must factor in cost to any decision are thus improperly incented to quickly offshore. Thus we have the familiar story of "we innovate and they get the jobs" This is why Grove said creating more startups won't do anything to help US unemployment since they do their scaling elsewhere. The proper course of action is for China to due away with their policies but we can't make them. This is game theory folks. The unfortunate reality is that the rules of engagement are written by bureaucrats and Grove is saying if China is playing that game we must too.
What did you expect to find in a footnote for a logo/company name?
It is nice to see how reserved this guy is being - just quietly pressing forward with his questions. I hope he manages to highlight some of the hypocrisy the Australian government is engaged in right now.

At about this point in the Google Wifi sniffing beatup Stephen Conroy (Minister for Broadband) was waxing lyrical about how Google was creepy, how they deliberately sniffed people's bank passwords etc... It would be sweet justice to see him charged with a criminal offence based on his own hyperbole.
You sound like the slow-adopters of facebook. In the world we live in with security becoming more of a general concern, they could be on the front-edge of the revolution they think they are on. Plus, if they deliver on the UX/UI, people will use it.
Of course you have been trained, but what about the fun factor? I mean people love to fit, insert things into other things and feel they fit. Kids feel good when they insert a cube block inside the square hole.

USB cables and Apple batteries design are very good in this regard. No need to look at symbols. It gives you instant sensitive feedback. I'm highly kinesthetic so that is brilliant design for me and a lot of people. Like blind people.
However, these transitions simply take a long time. Apple purchased NeXT in late 1996, and the first usable Mac OS X release appeared almost five years later.

Also, Apple had Steve Jobs.

This does not look good for Nokia.
If there was a magical way of doing this don't you think everyone would???

Plus even if you did have a great idea for a start up (which I am guessing you don't) most fail.

Anyway, what are your skills? We can't give you much advice without that info - otherwise yes, the illegal is the only way to go... but seriously, what can you do? What could you normally earn in the open market? What are your costs? Do you want to have earnt 10k, or have 10k cash in hand? Can you live on next to nothing? Or will you need to earn 20 or 30k in that time?
Yea, this is pretty much the comment I wish I'd posted.
Trademarks, disclaimers, parent company references. (X is a registered trademark of Y. Y and X are not affiliated with nor endorsed by similar-sounding Υ or Х. Y is a fully owned subsidiary of Z. All rights reserved. Blah Blah.)
Install Linux Without Burning An ISO To CD/DVD
Why would you assume that you're "below average", "average", or "above average" without any evidence?
There's no sense in judging yourself with a shot in the dark especially if you're hoping to improve.
Well, I deny access to the old clients. I consider this an advantage because I force users to keep up to date.
If you're careful you can just add items to the end of the stream and the old clients will work just fine. I don't
support this though, but I do it in practice.

But yeah, protobuf wins in that domain. Specially if it avoids a high serialization/deserialization overhead penalty. It'd be cool to use rabbitmq to route the protobuf objects around with a cleaner interface.

Shameless plug for my dev blog: http://developingthedream.blogspot.com/
This is not true. The book you cite, 'SuperFreakonomics,' by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, apparently misquotes the original research on which they base their claim. Here's a quote from the book[1]:

"Even the 'locavore' movement, which encourages people to eat locally grown food, doesn't help in this regard. A recent study by two Carnegie Mellon researchers, Christopher Weber and H. Scott Matthews, found that buying locally produced food actually increases greenhouse-gas emissions."

But compare that to how one of the two authors of the original study, Christoph Weber, actually summarizes their findings[2]:

"The point of the paper was to say that yes, you can lower your footprint by eating local foods, but you can do more on average by eating differently. It’s not that eating local is a crock."

In that light, it seems as if Levitt and Dubner either misunderstood the paper by Weber and Matthews or preferred to portrait it in a light that helps make their own book look profound and surprising.

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Books/superfreakonomics-read-exce...

[2] http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es900427m?cookieSet=1
If current trends continue soon everyone will be above average.
Go education system!
On the other hand, complexity also geometrically increase the payoff for successfully making intuitive software.
But I am speaking from a point of jelousy as it would be nice to have such a hetrosexual culture without a monetary exchange.

So, uh, we do. It's called dogging[1].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogging_(sexual_slang)
in some markets
I work for a company which develops software for airlines. Our product is bought simply because it makes them 1.8% more revenue per year. We could have the greatest user interface and it wouldn't matter at all. The users are ignored. I've seen customers replace users because they had a hard time to adapt to the interface of the new software. Sad but true.
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Good, having dealt first hand with the terrible data companies like Worldspand and Sabre provide in there xml's I really hope they stick it to em.

Not bitter at all, hmmmm
web 2.0 - ajax

web 3.0 - comet
All Colours Are Beautiful
How Goldman Sachs gambled on starving the world's poor - and won
LingPipe - A tool kit for processing text using computational linguistics
Driving theory test, hazard perception test training material
The theory test book contains entire 2010/11 official theory test questions and answers from Driving Standards Agency. This is very useful to know road, traffic signs, rule and regulations if you are preparing for your driving theory test or practical test.
ASE is awesome, but it doesn't expose the full android API to python scripts. http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/wiki/ApiReference is what you get currently, though this list seems to be growing pretty quickly.
Fair tax is a great idea, it's basically a lot like a VAT or border adjustment tariff that most countries already have. VAT applies to domestic consumption and imports but not exports, this is one way to encourage exports (China already does this).

Anyway, the reasons the fair tax will not be adopted are:
1. Too many special interests benefit from the current tax structure:
-Charities
-Accountants/CPA firms and their lobbies
-Large corporations who pay a very low effective tax rate
-Rich people
2. The government LIKES a complex tax system with different tax treatment for different types of people and tax credits which they can use to "shape behavior"
3. Progressives always cry "Regressive tax" when we aren't appearing to tax the rich proportionately more than the poor. News flash guys the rich are smarter than you and avoid paying most of their taxes already by using personal corporations to hold their wealth. Also as has already been stated the fair tax has a cost of living rebate for poor people.
4. It would make too much sense, and we can't do anything that makes sense in America, that's just downright unamerican.

Also can we please stop pretending "creative destruction" and blatant mercantilism and market manipulation by the chinese are the same thing. China doesn't believe in free market capitalism, they never have, they never will, they have a planned economy and manipulate their currency and subsidize factories to create large amounts of manufacturing wealth. This is not the same thing as buggy whip makers going out of business, this is the wholesale destruction of the American manufacturing economy to the benefit of the chinese.

We need an import tariff on ONLY chinese goods UNTIL they stop manipulating the currency. The tarif should be the same amount by which they have devalued their currency, about 40 percent. All of you trade hawks screaming about trade war seem to believe we only trade with China, this is obviously false. If we don't levy tariffs on anybody else things will be fine, we'll just buy crap from viet nam, south america and south korea until china falls into line with their currency policy. Sure China will retaliate against us, but we'll still be selling stuff to every other country who's name isn't China.
How are blog writers motivated?
3.0 was supposed to be semantic, atomized data.
Your link is not clickable - not sure if this one will be: http://www.meetup.com/
Can you point this out in a legal brief, law book, SEC ruling? something?

I believe the only thing legal you are required to do is not to defraud your shareholders. Any idiot can, legally, run a company into the ground.
"Since 2008 the author has been working on rewriting the layout engine to be more robust and use mmap()ed fonts efficiently..."

That's not technical?
Dammit, what shall I fill my blimp with now? Hot air?
I don't think this will catch on. Diaspora is too hard for people to say... ;)
What language are they using?
Legally Bound: On media licensing, Location, DRM, Terms and conditions
Finland to make broadband access a legal right
Thanks. Seems to work for me; if not: http://www.meetup.com/Makespace/
Ad revenue.
The Indian startup Cleartrip moved to a better & scalable programming language (Java) sometime back. Meanwhile I have moved on to do my Finance startup built in Clojure.
Sorry, but they're the same.
"Depictions of a sexual nature are as old as civilization (and possibly older, in the form of venus figurines and rock art),[2] but the concept of pornography as understood today did not exist until the Victorian era(1900s)" [1]

But my idea of "pornography" was simply depictions of sexual nature (which is centuries old as stated in Wikipedia)

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography
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You can see better quality feynman here in the BBC archives: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/feynman/

It maybe for brits only though... I'm sure there are ways around that.
Nah, that's not actually true, and only someone who knows nothing about how enterprises actually work would think that.

That SAP billing system you hate? The CFO uses it too, to run his dashboard. That crappy Exchange email? Drives the CEO's BlackBerry. The godawful IMS database? The CTO's bonus is tied to its uptime.

There is more to computing than Rails-driven websites, I don't think the 37signals guys get this.
No, I have seen so many devices with tiny labels or even no label at all that I wouldn't just assume I could insert it in any way.
well, Blu-ray isn't that great.
Jobs is right, the world is moving towards downloadable content.

The only viable long term usage for blu-ray would be backups. One blu-ray disk is roughly equivalent to 5 dvds in terms of storage. Unfortunately, in the coming years, blu-ray will become too small to be viable for backups, the same way dvds have become.
Drug dealing.
Call it whatever you want, sweetie.

Looking like a duck and quacking like a duck doesn't depend on your silly definition of "war." What China is effectively doing is waging war on the US. Whether we wake up to this fact or not will determine whether the US becomes a nation of the rich in fortified castles sitting amongst the poor and desperate, or whether we return to the American Dream.
All compartments (I could find around me) have the spring which holds the battery on the flat side of the battery... thats the indicator I use, without searching and reading any tiny diagrams
That is a nasty linkbait-y retitling. As far as the Helium Privatisation Act goes, the government was being accused of "waste" in 1996 when it was sitting on a vast stockpile of helium (from prior military uses.) It decided to sell it off over a controlled period so as to not depress the price excessively and put private suppliers out of business. They gave themselves the deadline of 2015 to have it all sold, presumabley so as to reduce the government debt in a reasonable time frame. [1]

Now it seems that helium is much more valuable but the price is depressed because this stockpile has to be sold by 2015. So something that made sense at the time now doesn't, and a new act is needed to say they can take longer to sell the helium. Government fail? Only if they don't change the policy.

Oh, and the HPA almost unanimously approved by Congress (411-10, with 12 not voting.) [2]

EDIT TO ADD: I am grumpy about this because titles like that generally go with the articles along the lines of "nasty government interfering with the market." But in this case, the report wants the government to be the government, to act strategically, not to sell at the market price but above it, and generally to interfere. The 1996 Act stopped the government doing its job in order to cut perceived waste and debt. The act should never have passed congress in the first place, or at least not in such a fixed way, but it did because it fitted people's stupid, prejudiced narrative that the government is too "big".

[1] http://www.helium.com/items/874929-understanding-the-helium-...

[2] http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/104/house/2/vote...
There's an epoll-based implementation of the java.nio.channels.Selector so JNI should hopefully not be necessary.

I haven't tried netty yet, it seems a lot more heavyweight than xSocket/xLightweb? Or is my perception warped because it's hosted on jboss.org and the description uses "enterprise-friendly" language?
Grigory Perelman Turns Down $1 Million Prize for Solving Poincare Conjecture
Like Derek Sivers, I can only be sure of being more humble than average.
Anything you either submit or upvote will end up on that list.

Submissions are easiest using firefox and the 'bookmarklet' (see bottom of the page)
Agreed with this. Hang around with the people that you think are better than you and you'll either learn from them or realise they're not that great.
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Google Apps Scripts is also awesome!

http://www.google.com/google-d-s/scripts/scripts.html
Quasi-quoting: ASCII art to define data structures
Every startup has more reasons to fail than to succeed. That doesn't stop a few from succeeding though.

Why is it worrisome that they outsource a part or even all of their code ? They came in to a boatload of money, maybe they're just using that to accelerate their development track.
Can't we just admire the simplicity of this without starting all the MS-bashing? PLEASE?

Seriously, this is ridiculous. Whatever this is, it is an improvement over the current style. Hell, you know what, label the battery slots with an arbitrary direction if you're so worried about "confusing the user" - and then work in other ways, too.

But all this hating is completely out-of-line with the hacker/engineer spirit. How hard is it to just appreciate a nifty hack when you see it? No matter who it comes from?
I mostly agree, except for the part claiming "programming" to be the first discipline encountering this "issue".

I think this is true for most professions based on knowledge and using mostly mental capabilities: scientists, journalists you name it...

Rating mental work is very hard and still quite a new requirement for our societies, thus we are really missing reliable and acknowledged "frameworks" to handle this.
The point is that they're not learning science, they're just learning new forms of pseudoscientific jargon. Which could be considered to be more dangerous than remaining untaught, because now they have a false sense of understanding the world when in actuality they merely have different names for the same unscientific superstitious mumbo jumbo.
"What we really want is lots of high value add jobs here. This comes through innovation, creativity, a highly skilled and motivated workforce...."

This is what most of the Western world wants, yet it is very difficult to achieve this - largely because of education. Most of the West, not just America, wants the bulk of it's jobs in high value-added positions because of labour costs arbitrage which many companies are forced to engage in because of intense competition. Where education is concerned, some people don't want to go to college, some aren't suited to it and well, funding education is damn expensive and the pressure on politicians to cut educational spending (which takes a long time to payoff) is huge. So you are never going to get all of the workforce in the country to work in high value-add roles, for various reasons.

I was fascinated by this interview with Andy Grove, because I had read an interview with Craig Barrett (current as chairman of Intel) who took a largely polar opposite view to what Grove has said in this article. Barrett was talking about how Ireland must change in order to move out of recession. I think he would be appalled at the notion of the US entering into a fully-blown trade war with China, as Grove advocates.

Barrett quote [on Ireland]: What I said is that [having] smart people (good education) is important, smart ideas (investment in research) is important, and then letting smart people get together with smart ideas to do something is the third thing (the environment). The very same could just as easily apply to the US.

Full article here (a very good read): http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2010/0212/122426...
Hydrogen!
I couldn't disagree more. Nothing could be more important than curating and encouraging the maturation of skepticism and critical thinking in growing minds.

Indeed, I see this as a kind of QA for science education. If you can trick your students into believe unscientific bullshit then you've failed to teach them science.
Practicality: PHP vs Lisp
He's right, but right now there is a lot of value in a player. Especially in places outside the US, here in Australia were only really just coming out of the dark ages of download caps, 8gig is still a sizeable chunk of download.

I think it comes down to the player cost, which would move the mac mini out of the range their comfortable with. Wouldn't surprise me at all if they do an about face and market a blu ray player as a great feature in a future product iteration.
Looks pretty nice.

However, the "startup" license model at $9,500 a year really should give better support than "10 emails".

Would be nice if this was offered as an online service - especially if the price point was a lot lower.
Ask the French how reducing the workweek to 35 solved their unemployment problem in the last decade or so.
"Every startup has more reasons to fail than to succeed."

That is true. But I'm curious -- is Diaspora a startup? I understand they're a bunch of students with a right attitude and a wrong idea, trying to give something to the community for the greater good -- have I got it wrong?
OK so how does one profit from this? I have tried to find a way to buy Helium futures before, but haven't been able to. Does anyone know where/how this is possible?
I thought the explanation of the conjecture was quite good, but I already know about it. I'd be interested to know if others here found it enlightening. Or not.