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When viewing 3D video, depth of focus does not change. That's the issue. 3D breaks the association between focal distance and convergence. It forces a constant focal distance while the convergence point varies. It's not normal for eyes to work this way, and it does cause disorientation, mild in some, stronger in others.

Whether this is a serious issue or not, time will tell.
Is it still possible to find a nice piece of land in the US and just build your home there?

I'm from the Netherlands and there is no way in hell you can buy a piece of land away from everything.
this was fun, I couldnt think it would be something I use but it was fun to sit and watch what I was playing come up (or in most cases not found)

finding lyrics isnt something I particularly need a lot, but the interapplication communication was very smooth, I have spotify scrobling to last.fm to update your web app which is pretty impressive, seems like you could make a pretty good karaoke app out of this.
As with many things in austria, it totally depends how you say it. Written, it means "human", "good person" in general.

Only if you say it in a bad context, with slang, it means sth bad. (but not really whore... more like crazy person)
"de oide is so a ménsch!" vs "er ist wirklich ein guter mensch."
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Got the "We don't have lyrics for this song :(" message in every track I listened...

The idea is very interesting, but you need a better lyrics database.
I worked with Jeffrey in the late 90s, 'new media' days. Nice guy. Not sure if he was wacky as I'm apparently wacky myself.
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As usual comments are welcome and very desired =)
So, I think you all are bringing the lyrics API on it's knees :( I just implemented caching that should alleviate it some, and next up is a queueing system.
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1. http://lystener.com/?username=yourname :) but I'm implementing a http://lystener.com/#!username soon that will get set by the form.

2. it does that, but every 10 seconds as to not completely destroy everyone's api's :)

3. Ouch. Working on it. The API seems overloaded.
> Working with the code as the data - lisp code isn't a lists itself

$ script/repl
Clojure 1.2.0-master-SNAPSHOT
user=> '(println 1)
(println 1)
user=> (eval '(println 1))
1
nil

I don't understand what about this says "lisp code isn't a list itself"

> and JVM isn't a Lisp machine in general

Well, neither's the x86, but we do what we can.
gah, my mistake. Must've been thinking about something else.
Maybe. But if you can't make €250 per month, you're doing it wrong, or not aiming high enough -- but you can learn how to do it right.

To be "successful" for a one-man/woman show I'd argue that you need to earn at least €5k a month, after recurring costs for your business, but without taxes/insurance etc.

It's really not that hard to reach that level with the right idea, the right presumptions, lots of work and none of the excuses.

EDIT: Actually, when I first started being "selbstständig" back in 2004 and got a tax consultant, she asked me "how much do you plan to earn per month?", and I said "5000 euros"-- she thought it was a joke. Mindset problem.
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He lost his job because the comments lost him all credibility amongst those he would be covering.

Also, are there any conservatives on Journolist? I thought it was a liberal echo-chamber?
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I hadn't made the timing of the event listener pretty yet, it just checks after every keypress now. Will change!

Edit: fixed :)
My weirdest disappearing story...

A work mate (not web, Linux/Unix/3D programmer) was made superfluous ten years ago.

He was cool and we others missed him when he totally disappeared. (We also missed his incredible music collection with technical death metal, weird folk and improvised jazz.)

Then, years later, I Googled his name among the credits of a game.

When people disappear, they might not have died -- it might be worse... they might be developing games. :-)

I met him last year when I traveled to where he is living now; like most everyone else he had burned out doing games.

Hmm, I'll send an email and see if he's collected himself and is back doing weird hacking...

I guess people I know might be telling disappearing stories about me, since when I got ill a bunch of years ago.
Build products that are low-maintenance, but provide lots of value to a market that has pain/understands the concept of paying for value.

We didn't start out with 100K euros, more like 30K USD, but my SaaS, developed part time, grew 5x in revenue year over year and that was not with a lot of effort - if we do that again, it'll be earning nearly $600K/yr by June 2011.

So far "we" is me and my husband, part time, plus a summer intern and the occasional freelancer. So it's a pretty good place to be, cost-wise.
With chrome, it doesn't seem to work for me. Whatever I enter in the box, sometime it goes green/red, but nothing more.. no about button, no "What is lystener"..
Advertising on forums that are specific to what you're selling. I sell firearms, firearm accessories, and ammunition, so I spend a great deal of time on forums.

One of the best is SomethingAwful. They have a sub-forum dedicated to firearms, and a very close knit community. An ad on SA costs $30 for a month (which is insanely cheap) and I started a thread advertising my company. We've done incredibly well that way, have already sponsored a competitive shooting team and met a bunch of nice people.

What you don't get, of course, is in depth tracking. You can only see how many clicks you get (just wrap the link in your ad around bit.ly or another URL shortener). But it's just as well with me, I know my advertising is hitting it's target audience and it's worked out very well.
what do you think of basic income?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income
I thought the author would have said an iPad. But I was wrong, it was a serious article.
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People who haven't learnt to draw (and I'd include all the children in this except possibly Nick and Matt) tend to draw symbols instead of accurate representations. So, what's the symbol for a scientist? A lab coat. What's the symbol for a lab coat? A white coat shape, with buttons down the front.

The children are about ten years old, right? So, despite their lack of skill in seeing, they have the dexterity to draw what they want to draw, and so you'd expect them to draw similar body sizes, in approximately the right proportion (except for the eyes which we tend to perceive as 1/3 of the way from the top, when in fact they are the midpoint.)
Wow, I didn't even know they don't cover the whole of the EU countries -- disappointing.
What's a 'superficial job'?
Good point. I displayed the information after the first lyrics are found, because it becomes useful then, but I've made it immediatelly visible now.
Journalists don't write articles like that, though, because they are thinking in terms of the textbook definition of science. They write like that when they have less interest in knowledge and intellectual rigor than emotions and gossip, in which case the meaning of science is not important one way or the other.

Comments like "evolution is just a theory" would be less prevalent no matter which definition of science was applied: the simple, elegant textbook definition or the complicated, several-page Berkeley definition. The problem is not that one is applied over the other, the problem is that neither is applied..
The same reason anyone fails: lack of conscientionness. This is the #1 attribute that is needed for success at anything. Most of the list falls into this category.
Well, that's an interesting suggestion, though ;-)
How much time/effort did you put into the web sites you sold? How much did you purchase the domains/other necessities for?
How sustainable you think website flipping is? Can you see yourself doing it for years?
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Considering that his Keynesianism has basically destroyed Japan's future (while at the same time he faults them for not borrowing enough) I'd hope he'd proceed with a bit more caution. The basic problem he has is that he doesn't really understand why we're here. When debt chases bad assets it's a disease that has to be cleared.

He ignored some pretty serious depressions in his analysis as well. The panic of 1819 comes to mind as a pretty serious one. People ignored the desires of those long on stocks and real estate to bail them out. They realized the problem was too much debt and just let it work itself out despite the pain it caused them in the short run.

Then there is the depression of 1920-21. This depression probably highlights most clearly the Austrian theory of the business cycle and why the Austrian response to the bust is the correct one. There were no interventions in the economy following the bust. It was a very serious contraction by any definition.

We live in a world that's consumed by debt. We're taught that debt is good despite our instincts to the contrary. We're taught that being irresponsible is the way to get yourself out of short term pain. Listening to these people seems like madness at this point. The real reason that budget cuts are on the table is that everyone knows we're all broke. After 10 years of this I imagine people are going to get fed up with bailouts and inflation. Krugman will still be crying for more stimulus while a few people might get serious enough to let the banks fail and start over.

Our fear of short term pain might be the worst part of the modern political system. We'd rather avoid some of the short term pain even if that means dragging things out for decades.
I find it pretty cool that you left your day job and do something that you really enjoy. (Not saying that a day job can't be something enjoyable thought). And yeah, it sure look impressive at first that you made 3x the income, however, it seems that you've went a little all-in with the stuff you already had.

Looking forward to see the next month with the android app! Question for you: Why android and not iphone?
As I wrote in post I am not going to do it long term. It is just a temporary job for some quicker cash and I am working hard to build some steady passive income from other sources.
Just wandering what the Amazon store thing is? (http://astore.amazon.com/krsbl-20).
Do you build a page, fill it with products and take a commission in sales?
No, I think it's the other way around. If you can make 250 per month plus regular living expenses from the get go you're probably not aiming high enough. Why would anyone need financing from ycombinator if they could just be profitable? How long did it take Facebook to be profitable? Or Google?

The burn rate is very important initially. It can make or break a startup.
Why don't you just do iStockPhoto full-time for a few months? It seems to be a very steady source of revenue for you.
Check the date, november 10, 2008.
iPhone needs Mac for development (and of course iPhone). Android does not. Moreover I believe that on long term Android may be more profitable.
Would you care to explain why printing money is a bad solution for the current scenario? And since economics is not a science who decides what is good economics? And what about criminalizing speculation against sovereign debt - that is the root cause of what is happening in europe right now.
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Website flipping is not free cash or quick easy cash. You build a site/service/app, promote it, rank it, get traffic and users and then sell it for cash. It's like working for someone else project.
It's the api that's the bottleneck here. Implementing caching and queueing now to see if that helps some :)
Temporary do not have good place to put all my studio equipment - will continue in next 2-3 month after I move to new house.
Not exactly minimalistic - though obviously it deals with a different scenario to the one the author describes.

In a survival scenario where you can only take a few items then your priorities would probably be (this taken from a survival course I did about a year ago):

- Warm Clothes

- Water cleaning system of some kind. (Puritabs)

- Something to store water in (ideally x2)

- Knife

- Something to light a fire with

In the 48 hour scenario the blog post describes then that should handle the bare requirements for survival. The fact that everyone in the scenario described prioritises food shows that they were really quite ill-prepares. For a 48hr survival period food shouldn't really be entering into your mind until you have everything else sorted.
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The problem is that Wikipedia articles will have "random" biases and omissions. When you read a book by one author it's at least likely to be consistent in its bias.

E.g. the latest example I've found of this, which I grant you is relatively obscure compared to more prominent and no doubt well fought over articles, is the one on the Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS), which had one of the largest Chapter 9 bankruptcies in history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Public_Power_Supply_...

All that financial history has been airbrushed out; unless you notice the categories at the bottom, check out the Further reading or the right External Link or sample the article's history you'd have no idea about what was a rather major bit of economic history, rated as one of the three both large and notable Chapter 9 bankruptcies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_9,_Title_11,_United_Sta...
It looks that I know how to do it quick (build/promote). Plus my record for PageRank 4 is 2 weeks before google pr update.
Some of them are build in a few days and then maintained with a 2-3 hours per week per site. Some of them are build a lot longer but do not need maintenance at all but more promotion.
My own music tastes are pretty...eclectic too, so that's definitely on the list (though right now the api seems to be the bottleneck) I just decided to start with the minimum: just displaying the last played/currently playing song.
It is a tool provided by Amazon. You just choose products and customize design.
I couldn't get a degree.
>If I don't use something, I give or throw it away.

>That being said, I never use my bath.

Just saying.
What you are implying is that because nobody owns the Gulf of Mexico, BP had no reason not to kill it.

I call that insanity.
I'm interested why you decided to sell the e-book site? It seems to me you could have put a small amount of effort in each month to keep the sales up to around the same amount - at least for a few months then sold it for a lot more!

Giving up website flipping seems a bad move - especially as you have now sold the e-book. Your only real source of income is iStockphoto.

I don't see how the e-book and website flipping can be replaced with Android apps given your location
isn't the GAC to handle that? multiple versions of the same assembly? and with a new assembly version attribute for .NET 4, i thought it was very much possible
It doesn't matter to me if they always decide a certain solution to certain problems, as long as they are right.

Now, I am not against regulations per se(at least in the broad sense), but the kind of regulations that corporations brought and pay for. Government regulators can be brought, or sometime the regulatory framework cause a lot of economic distortion, often to the benefit of oligopolies or monopolies. Sometime, the regulators comes from the industry that they're trying to regulate themselves.

We seen regulatory capture happens with the trains, the ACTA fiasco, and easy treatment of BP by US inspectors.

Sometime, I think people are too naive about the regulators and the regulatory framework. Libertarians got a lot more going for them than "too much bureaucracy".
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I've never heard it said that we read merely to increase our vocabulary. That may be a happy side effect, but it's certainly not a fundamental justification.

I think most people read 1) to educate themselves and 2) for pleasure.

On learning new words: my wife and I keep a set of flash cards on which we write words we don't know. We don't always look up the definition immediately, but eventually we do and write it down and then we review the words later until we can remember it's definition.
I'm glad to finally find someone who knows exactly what caused the housing bubble and subsequent crash. Could you explain it to me? I find the whole matter very confusing myself, although I've read a lot about it. So: low interest rates caused the housing bubble. Could you explain how that happened exactly?
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Mainly I have sold it because tax law in Poland sucks and it was too much to maintain all sales and be ok with all legal things. Moreover it took much more than you can think to promote such website.
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It is definitely true that borrowing money is quite cheap for the U.S. right now. Long term rates are low. The question is how much long term borrowing we can do now without causing structural problems to the economy. After WWII our debt was quite high as a percent of GDP. High tax rates on the wealthy lowered the debt steadily until the Reagan administration. WWII was a massive government spending spree that got us out of the depression.

It is definitely incorrect to say that more stimulus necessarily must lead to hyperinflation or other things predicted by the Austrian view of economics. WWII is a counterexample. This does not mean that more stimulus must necessarily make the economy better. Spending money paying for millions to go to college for free (essentially), as in the GI Bill after WWII had a tremendous benefit to the country. There are wise expenditures and unwise expenditures.

The fact right now is that millions are out of work and even more or underemployed. People are suffering. It is sound and humane to take steps to help such people. During bad economic times it is generally wise to make major structural investments in society. During good economic times it is wise for government to pull back.

The borrowing right now is only a problem if there is not enough future discipline by our leaders. They will need to raise taxes on the wealthy in the future to pay for the mess we need to get out of today.
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>Astroturfing == posting fake "grassroots" testimonials about the product/idea/company in question to make it seem like a lot of people care about it.

This is actually illegal in the EU now under EU's Unfair Commercial Practices Directive; eg http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/08/eu_consumer_protecti...
> Would you care to explain why printing money is a bad solution for the current scenario?

Sure, housing was overpriced for a few different reasons. There's quite a few causes of it, you probably know a lot of them. But - it was definitely overpriced (in a "bubble").

Now, we're having what's called a "correction" - a correction is where housing prices come back into line with where they'd in a more sensible environment. This is where stupid and reckless people get burned, and people who were sensible and saved their money now buy at the correct market prices.

Krugman is saying we should print money, which strips the value of people holding cash via inflation. This transfers money from people holding cash to people holding debt (because during inflation, hard assets like housing increase in price relative to debt - mortgages). That takes money primarily from middle class people who were sensible and cautious, and distributes that money to a mix of middle class people who weren't sensible and to upper class people (who typically have significant debt and hard assets).

Krugman's basically saying - "whoa, whoa, whoa, we can't let this correction happen - instead, we should take money from people who didn't play in this mess and give it to people who did" - that is horrific.

> And since economics is not a science who decides what is good economics?

Economics can have falsifiable hypotheses, so it can be science at times. But you're right, I should have called Krugman's ideas reckless policy instead of economics. It's more policy than economics, yes.
Quite close to what they taught us in our own survival course. But keep in mind that we were doing this during a communist regime. Maybe you don't know much about a communist regime, but food was the most important thing at that time. Although we were also identifying shelter and other necessary stuff, like the closest human presence, food was our number one unconscious priority.
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Our fear of short term pain might be the worst part of the modern political system.

When people realize that they can vote themselves more money, they will. Government will then promise more than it can deliver and proceed to spend money like no tomorrow just like what happens to Greece and California.

But it's heresy to suggest that democratic institutions should be scrapped altogether. Everyone thinks democracy equal freedom, but it's really just majority rules.
It can store multiple versions of the assembly within the same CLR..so it makes sense. .NET 2.0 can load a 4.0 assembly if the GAC is not seperated
3 (or possibly 4 - I didn't ask) of the speakers I invited started companies, with zero funding or with a bit of F&F, that have revenues from nearly-$2 mil/yr to more than $2 mil/yr.

Maybe you should write them to tell them that it's not possible without $5,000 of funding for a summer.

On the balance, if you can't manage to figure out ways to save $5k for a summer yourself, you should seriously question whether you have the ability to run a business.

If you can't figure out how to pay for 250 euros a month - which you could earn each week as a dishwasher in Vienna, so it's not as if it's some vast sum - then you are similarly ill-equipped.

If you can't bear to give up one week of your time in order to spend the other 3 weeks on your huge future business, ditto.

By the way: I wrote an ebook to self-fund our work on Freckle and it earned us over $40k. It was sooooooo haaaaaaard. But even then, it was cream - not necessary. We could have kept working on it after hours for free, as we had been doing. It would have taken a bit longer, but so what?