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I believe him, Bulletball is going to be a success. Only it will be as the title of a mockumentery that the man unwittingly authorizes. Hours of film of the mentally tortured game inventor are edited into an 112 minute runtime box office smash, the man having signed away his rights for a small shooting fee, ostensibly for allowing them to document the rise of his sport, gets virtually nothing. In the end our tragic inventor takes his own life several weeks later with a shotgun recently purchased at a pawnshop, none of the hostages were harmed.
Well, that was depressing.
We've got boxes at both, and are happy. We also have boxes at theplanet.com. Also happy there.

SoftLayer occasionally has stupidly good deals, if you watch out for them. Usually on bigger hardware, though, so if you're looking for sub-$100 it's not the place. But on really big boxes, they have some incredible deals. We rented a quad core, 4GB RAM box, with 2x250GB drives for under $200/month just a couple of months ago.
I'll concur on Sun. Their hardware has come down a lot, and it is nice.

I dunno HP gear too well. I've dealt with a lot of Dell systems, and they aren't bad at all. Get the remote console card, and you'll be pretty well set for emergency problem solving.
I'd recommend you not buy your hardware, and instead let someone else be your hardware guy--the competition is so fierce in the hosting industry, and they buy in such huge quantities, that you can't come out cheaper (even if nothing ever goes wrong with your system). But, if you've got some bandwidth fairy looking out for you, and colo is pretty much free, then I guess you can't resist.

But nobody else should be going into the hardware business, if you're building a software company. Seriously.
I just installed it in a separate directory, looked around and decided that I wanted to upgrade to it. uninstalled it, so I could install it on top of my regular install.

it asked if I want to remove all my bookmarks and such during uninstall. I assumed it would delete the new profile only. Apparently it does not.
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Early adopters are useless for a company like Amazon which can advertise the Kindle on their front page to several million people each day. If you don't have that kind of existing customer base you need the early adopters to push your products for you.
I would love to. I'm going to miss this bar camp, but I'll be moving to Cambridge in a couple of weeks and would enjoy meeting some people.
Interesting idea, but I think this could be dangerous to extrapolate outside of the target audience (people seeking entrance into university).

For example, most recruitment agencies these days use keyword filters on CVs to see if you interest them. Laundry lists are the obvious response to this. the more words on your CV, the more likely you are to not get rejected by the dumb computer which doesn't have a 'sidechannel'.

Anyway, I'm not sure about the main example given in the article - smart students not raising their hands in class. I was one of those smart students, and I always put up my hand when asked. Why? Because if the teacher asked someone that hadn't understood the material, we would go into a whole long explanation (repeated) of something I had already understood. Boring! Move along, get on to some new stuff please! Teachers of course would stop asking the best students, because teachers want to know (at least at high school) if everyone has understood.

And of course, in the real world, if students that know the answer don't raise their hands, it's because it's not considered cool. They are sending a signal to their peers, not to the teacher.
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This article discusses your emacs options and some setup tips

http://thingsilearned.wordpress.com/2007/05/07/emacs-for-mac...
Tell me about it, I've worked nights for 15 years. My life expectancy is about 10 years less than someone who works days.
Determination? Or delusion?
Mozilla marketer forks over Vidoop prize to Miro.
As if giving the winnings to Miro wasn't cool enough, Vidoop went ahead and matched the contribution too.
I emailed and told him that hitslog is messing up his site and Google Analytics is better; it took 3 minutes to load his site.
I spent a summer working in a kitchen without AC. The trick I learned to survive it is to get two dish towels and soak them in water. Wring them mostly out and put them in the freezer. Wait a few hours and take one out and wrap it around your neck. The blood flowing through your neck cools down and cools your entire body very well. The reason for two is to alternate throughout the day.
Let's hope finding out he has a broken website isn't what pushes him over the edge.
If by "latest version" you mean the 1.2 alpha, which is only accessible from the Firebug website, not addons.mozilla.org. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411814#c60
[ ] I really don't think... that's going to help.

[ ] Yes! Of course! That explains everything!

[ ] His site is messing up his site.

[X] Item #5489342 on the "Barriers to BulletBall Success" list
I'm far from an expert, or even a semi-amateur with computer design, but I think Hillis is arguing that physical realities/constraints should deeply influence the theoretical computational process itself, regardless of implementation details. I don't see this as tainting or complicating the pure, theoretical aspects of Computer Science with messy implementation details that are going to change in 2 years anyway (presumably, hard realities observed through Physics will stick around for a long, long time, until/unless we discover them to be different). Rather, I see this as another place where we can use Nature as a design guide.
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Yeah but even biological computers have to observe the physical laws of nature right? The hardware of my brain is basically a parallel computer with electricity flowing through it. Maybe hardware should be influenced by physics, and software (neural networks, machine learning, etc.) by biology/cognitive science.
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I liked this part:

"In retrospect I realize that in almost everything that we worked on together, we were both amateurs. In digital physics, neural networks, even parallel computing, we never really knew what we were doing. But the things that we studied were so new that no one else knew exactly what they were doing either. It was amateurs who made the progress."
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Battle Of The Billionaires
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Perhaps you can ask them to keep those continuations open longer for logged-in users. Or they already do this.
Yes. Perhaps we could give money to a someone (e.g. a charitiy) who does this for us. It's a lofty goal.
I do not think users will really want a keyboard. Otherwise they would have already bought them.

They have to be big to be comfortable - but then they are too big for the pocket, I guess. (And Qwerty is not exactly the best layout - but nobody seems to care.)
Surely some of the creative pursuits will lead back to engineering, although maybe not in a traditional sense - and (possibly) not via university.
What I mean by that is just a device that is made solely for texting and thus does a good job at making it easy.

By the way I'm a Dvorak user :)
Peter Johns sums it up perfectly: "You can lose everything, but whatever you do, don't lose your mind."
Come on, this is just bullshit. How the heck does some spend 26 years and a small fortune on putting together a simple table and buying some balls?

My 14 year old nephew could have build him that table for 10 bucks and some ice cream...
Actually, the evaporation effect will reduce the temperature of whatever is around it, in this case the air. I don't know whether the effect is dramatic enough to provide significant cooling for an entire apartment, but it's probably enough to make you feel it. Do a calculation using the heat capacity of water and referencing it against how often you have to refill the bucket.

Evaporation is what separates nice, cuddly good-weather clouds from thunderstorms.
Evolutionary Economics: Bottom Up Solutions to Business Problems
Interview with the BulletBall guy. He is much better off than TV suggests.

http://www.realitytvmagazine.com/blog/2006/03/30/american-in...
Flan Recipe
Recipe for flan
Seriously, call serverbeach or get an AWS account.
If you can run your server in Europe, I would recommend hetzner.de. At least twice as cheap as the amazon web service.
I have no idea what I just watched. It was entertaining, but I don't get the point. "How do you identify?" There's no words there. It doesn't mean anything.

Oh, yeah: We'll do it live!
another spammer, what's it with them recently?
Looks nice. SearchStatus works, delicious works, all my old stuff got imported, and its a bit faster. I think I'll be staying with firefox 3.
But I thought we'd already established that ideas are worthless. Right?
my explanation is that i was too lazy to put my hand up
Ask YC: Average investment banker fee for an acquisition?
what percentage do investment bankers charge for handling an acquisition? i know it depends on the specific deal, but is there a ballpark figure that these firms charge?

take, for example, the recent $25 million acquisition of arstechnica; how much would an investment bank that was involved in the deal expect to make?
I concur on the beta tester conversion path. It's a twist on the freemium model without the negative that people expect some level of your product to always be free. Whenever you're ready to stop giving away from service, you announce the end of the beta. The freeloaders leave without a fuss, the real users pony up without complaint...because you were always up front that it wasn't always going to be free.
How does Amazon define "bandwidth consumed by global amazon sites"?. Is this entire traffic from amazon's data center? Have they included content they pus via a CDN?
Ask YC: How do maps monetize?
Fellow hackers, I work at an online map. The thought struck me yesterday like a train: all online maps are unprofitable! All the "advanced" ones, I mean: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo. Do you have any idea how expensive satellite photos are? When you roll out 10 terabytes over a weekend? This business isn't sustainable on its own.

What I'm saying, maybe we Google-Map-alikes shouldn't be so smug - we're plagued by the same monetization troubles as Facebook et al. It's all a swindle too. So should I change my occupation? Or make it profitable somehow? Throw in your thoughts!
Air Conditioning is one of the great modern inventions. It is what separates us from the rest of the apes. Living without AC is like living without plumbing - sure you can do it, but why would you want to?
I tend to soak 2 towels in cold water and wrap them around my torso and legs, respectively. Repeat every few hours. In REALLY hot weather, frequently take very short showers with your clothes on.

Luckily the place I'm living at has a basement, which stays cool even in summer, so those methods aren't necessary.
If you're a large enterprise company you don't want to be dependent on a non-mature company which has a high risk of failure and had a history of patent violations, government disputes and software security vulnerabilities. Simple as that.

I'm not saying Gartner is good, but I certainly wouldn't want to risk my company on PGP.
I use emacs with my Rails work. My biggest complaint is that Emacs is hard, but the community is relatively unfriendly. It seems to have inherited the Lisp culture - it is not kind to noobs.

In contrast, I found installing Ubuntu to be hard as well, as several pieces of my hardware were not well-supported. I asked many questions, some of them quite basic, and always received prompt, patient help.
Compsci is closer to Math than to Engineering. While you can study nature to find useful algorithms and approaches to solving real world problems, the fact something is not useful or solves no real problem never stopped mathematicians from exploring the idea. The very distinction of real problems from less real ones is totally strange to mathematicians. ;-)

It usually works out that the useless math of one day becomes very useful some later day, usually in an incredibly unexpected way. It is also usual that physicist tend to discover a use well before any engineers start poking around it.

As for observing nature, it's also frequent that engineers find ways to control and use something well before physicists have any clue as to how and why it works.
The Escalator Pitch
TV likes to sensationalize everything, I give this guy credit for taking the jump that many people would just never even try.

From the interview link:

"During the first 22 years since BulletBall’s conception, it was like a hobby, a game played among family and friends on weekends, during vacations, or summer picnics and parties.

I actually invested too much of my life working for Corporate America 5-6 days a week, an average of 10 hours a day, for 25 years. If I had my priorities straight I would have understood years ago that "it is better to have tried and failed than not tried at all".
Better late than never:)"
Awesome. Been stuck with FF2 at work as the Firefox beta's would crash uncontrollably (but at home, they work great). Time to download!
Sergey Brin about the Israeli start-up scene (video)
Well, I'm just quoting what he said.
Ask YC: Do anyone know a simple bash script to get the last modified file in a directory ?
Do anyone know a simple bash script to get the last modified file in a directory ?
Everything a Startup Needs to Know About Raising Funds - Daniel Gould Interview
The Web As We Know It is Dying
Nice. I hope they get this up on the *buntu repositories soon (I'm running Xubuntu but also have Ubuntu and Kubuntu installed).
In the movie version they had sun lights! http://www.qbauer.com/files/Allsummer.htm
Yeah! When I saw this I just had to submit it. He has got to be the coolest guy on the planet.
Why not move to a place that has A/C pre-installed - is that an option? I know that in some cities you're pretty much stuck with window units or nothing.
I've been meaning to read The Tipping Point... now I really have to check it out (thanks)!
If you revealed why you aren't going to get an air conditioner maybe it would lead to more relevant suggestions. Money? Environmental concerns? Too difficult to install? Something else?
What part of the article indicates that he is well off?
TextMate looks pretty nifty when someone can use it well.

I've used it briefly, but didn't look at the 'extra' functionality.

It might be quite alright for a casual coder.
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Best Buy to buy Netflix for $44?
or google app engine.
"... Additionally, many carriers have sold their tower assets to third party companies ..." you can lease space on these towers (http://www.cellreception.com/towers/)
Rails on Rubinius
Hydrogen-fueled planes
Secure/bullet proof cookies
There seems to be a discussion about bullet proof cookies lately and I’m quite surprised that most web developers haven’t read the excellent “A Secure Cookie Protocol” research paper from Alex X. Liu.
Not well off. Better off. American Inventor made him seem like a hopelessly deluded fellow. Deluded he may be, but he's not as insane as you would believe having watched only the TV show.
On FF 3 beta 5, Firebug would mercilessly crash my browser any time I made the mistake of trying to expand an email in gmail, or reorder things in my google homepage.
I'm not impressed, but after reading this article I have some respect for the guy. At least he went through lawyers, patents, and manufacturers. However minute, he must have done some homework about table size, ball size/weight/bounciness/color, and he's spent 100K on tours for his market research. If anything at all, he's got guts to make something that looks ordinary into something "professional."

That said, I still don't get the difference between BB and BBE, nor the need for one. Having watched the video, visited the website, and read this interview, he seems to have internalized the answers to that question like a tape recorder.
The point isn't that the idea was bad. Anyone could see that.

This was a demonstration of a level of passion and perserverence you rarely see any more.

I'd like one good idea from this board and 3 people like him. Nothing would stop us.
Hacker Writes Rootkit for Cisco's Routers
How Amazon Could Change Publishing?
The incentive in the GMail case is still there. If you think your action makes a friend better off, then the action is valuable to you. Whether this act stems from intrinsic selfishness or benevolence, is left for another time :-)

Anyway, I doubt anybody really thinks about this before coaxing their friends, but broadly speaking "so do I" holds true.
Whoa, thanks 2! I'm glad I clicked this thread.
It can be changed absolutely trivially. See http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/key_bindings ...

Hooray! Many thanks. I knew that if I complained about this often enough...

Someone should fix that documentation. The key I want to change is mentioned directly beneath this sentence:

In addition TextMate has the following key bindings, which are not visible in the menus and cannot be found in the standard key binding files:

That sentence managed to discourage me before I actually reached the bottom of the file mentioned at the bottom of section 3... where, thanks to your assertion that there really is hope, I finally found what I was looking for.

This is very easy to accomplish in TextMate.

How should I approach this? Where's the TextMate equivalent of the Emacs Lisp handbook? I do know Ruby, if that will help.

Perhaps I should point out, in case it's not as obvious as it should be, that the big reason I went back to emacs is just that I've been using it for a decade and have managed to learn where a lot of things are kept in emacs.

And, yeah, like I said: TextMate is a great editor. And its feature set and approach is so similar to emacs that an emacs-Textmate flamewar is even more pointless than an emacs-vi flamewar. :)
Speaking of Emacs, I've recently started fearing whether it leads to excessive pinky usage. Has anybody had problems with this?
"but the American Inventor judges seemed more focused on the inventor’s life story rather than seriously evaluating his invention"

Doesn't yc do the same thing with some applicants?
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It does greatly increase your pinky use. Don't worry. It can handle it.
For the non-MSFT programmers here, Scott Hanselman is well known in the MSFT community as one of the top authors and speakers for ASP.NET and .NET in general. The man is awesome.
"Give Brad Williams a date, and he can usually tell you not only what he was doing but what world events happened that day ... it seems to indicate there's no -- or not much -- intentional calculation going on"

It seems to me that his memory is indexed by date.
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I live in a van down by the river!
Facebook’s Glass Jaw
Great concept, terrible name.
Computer Science Was A Dead End For Me
Dang. I should've seen forbes.com before clicking. If I had, I wouldn't have wasted my time.
YouTube - Bang bang par Elodie Frégé & Renan Luce
The only difference between the two is whether you have success or not. (So get a small bit of success early on, and you'll come off as determined!)
I've written this before in response to some of your earlier questions, but I really think you will get better quality answers to your questions if you explain a little more clearly what it is you are asking.

I looked at the YouYap.com web site when it was up, but I haven't been able to really figure out what your idea is. You say it is "something like this website", but how does it intend on differentiating itself?

If you have a cool enough concept, you shouldn't have too much trouble finding a hacker who wants to help you bring your vision into reality.

But first, you need to express the vision clearly enough that somebody somewhere sees the "wow".
Any gaijin lurking here working in Japan?

The article mentioned a lot about recruiting Asian engineers, but little about Americans or Europeans (I'm a U.S. citizen). What's the market like for Westerners?

I worked in Japan for a year before, and the idea of going back intrigues me. Having a wife and two kids makes the logistics much more complicated and certainly limits the options worth considering, but I'm interested in finding out what the possibilities might be.
If you haven't already, bind the Control modifier to your Caps Lock key. Emacs was developed on workstations with this key configuration, and a lot of key combinations make more sense for your fingers that way.

If you've already done that, I wouldn't worry too much -- there are plenty of programmers working now who've been using Emacs for more than 20 years.
"The only difference"? Of course not.
On skipping the first few paragraphs, the article is very interesting.

It's asking: the more people know who you really are, the less you have to tell them straight (such as labeling yourself Dr. X or adding ", Ph.D." to your email signature.)

The article goes on to argue that if you are indeed great but you keep telling people that you are, the less likely they are to believe you -because so many mediocre people are shouting that they are great.

They shout, you don't shout, then you're distinguished. Orson Scott Card knew this and told us all about it.

Makes sense.
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I had the same question a while ago and found that the only difference between BB and BBE were the rules.
Who thought up the name snotr.com? :/
Kind of an interesting name...
Use Opera and stick it in "User Mode". Voila, no nasty backgrounds or hideous fonts!
Been using FF3 since an early beta. One of my fav things is being able to open numerous tabs and instantly go back to any of them without waiting. Every other browser forces you to mercilessly wait.
GPS III / GPS Block III (Lockheed Martin was awarded this)
PG: Disconnecting Distraction
well, if you look at it from a certain perspective, snotr could lend a natural backward progression from flickr, eh?
One that I've used successfully is to consciously transform my "um"s and "ah"s into moments of silence.

Instead of looking fumble-y, I look thoughtful.
Scala Lift Web Framework on GlassFish v3
That's what causes Firefox to use a ridiculous amount of memory, though.

(Disclaimer: I use FF3, too.)
Erlang is at long last getting the break it deserves.
I use it, too. I still have to fork over the money and buy a Kinesis Contoured one day. Or perhaps I will find one on the roadside when I am in San Francisco in fall.
Nicely done!

Your own work? I'm impressed.
There's a dangerous trap here, which is use internet-meme vernacular to shorten your pitch. I think the example fails due to this:

"lefora.com is forums made easy—it's like blogger for forums"

I need to know what Forums are, what Blogger is, and what they mean.

Compare this to Google:

"access to the world's information in one click"

I'm playing around with mine:

"Get more out of your calendar than you put in."
Still, it seems that there was about four years between the time he quit is job and when he appeared on the Reality TV show, and during that time he apparently spent about $30,000 on this-- I'm a bit surprised that he wasn't able to either a) find an angel willing to buy some equity (so that the inventor could devote himself to marketing this without having to live out of his car) or b) get a clear enough message that although he personally seemed enamored with it, this game idea wasn't going anywhere.
Sanj, the point is that you are pitching media or VCs or someone whose attention you need to grab quickly. If you are talking to someone in the media who doesn't know what forums or Blogger are about a tech start-up asking for coverage, you are probably talking to the wrong person.