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Terror organizations may primarily recruit from impoverished Muslim societies but they don't always. I have not researched this with any rigour, but there do seem to be quite a few Muslims from wealthy Western nations that have joined terrorist organizations. What draws these Muslims?

This is a genuine question and not rhetorical.
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Because Larry Ellison has different beliefs on patents than what is generally accepted in this crowd. So of course, it would be a horror to be him.
This makes Unix's orthogonality really clear. I'm fascinated the system was still able to run after taking that kind of a hit. Imagine what would happen to WIndows (immediately) if half the system (including key system binaries) were destroyed.
Well, many say that a start-up is like getting married. Therefore, it would be a lot like polygamy...?

This said, so many jobs for 23-28 year olds who are high-achieving driven people (but maybe not entrepreneurs) have similarly crushing hours, so, it's not like start-ups are such an unfair choice.

I don't know from experience, but I think #1 would be talking with your spouse and making sure at least there is a baseline understanding.
> Vandalism is never cool unless it's cool art (Good graffiti artist)

True story: I'm in Vietnam right now, and I was walking back from a bar a little after midnight with an American friend of mine. He's a very very cut and dry, straight and narrow, ultra-law abiding, patriotic type fellow.

We see a guy tagging up a wall with spray paint - not artistically, just vandalism. I say to my friend, "Should I go stop him?" See, I hate seeing stuff get destroyed. I usually stand up to bullies, thieves, vandals if I catch them. I'm a little bit trained in martial arts, enough that I feel safe, and I figure someone's got to look out for society.

My friend, very straight and narrow, he says, "Nah, nobody stands up to the government here. Let him have his civil disobedience." What a shocker for me! But then he tells me the government has been somewhat bad to the people, and only now are people feeling safe to push back a little. So we walked on, leaving him to tag the wall unhindered.
YouTubers definitely cross promote each other, but it's not nearly as disgusting as you would think. In many ways, growing a new YouTube channel is very similar to growing a startup (these people are essentially startups themselves). At this point in the game, it's almost necessary to know someone more popular than you in order for your channel to get noticed.

I've worked with many YouTubers (I'm Ryan's co-founder), and can honestly say that they are nice people who appreciate each other's talents and want to help others like them succeed. They have a very strong sense of community, and they all know (or at least know OF) each other. Of course there are a few who do nasty things to try to get ahead, but those are by far the minority, and generally don't do well in the long run.
No matter what their image, it is likely what they will become.
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Alternatively you can move to a location with a decent year round climate (Redwood City, CA) and move into an apartment.

My PG&E Bill for 29 Days ending 4/21/2010: $5.00 - 40 Kwh @$0.11877. Easily the most massive energy consumer was the refrigerator - I would have cut that energy use by 2/3 if I could have figured out how (conveniently) to do without a fridge. My Hot water came from the building, but, at 97 degrees, and northern california water pressure, I know I was probably in the lower 5% of consumers in that space as well.

Just hitting the breaker to all your wall warts / WiFi when you leave to work has a very significant impact on energy consumption.

Scott Adams touches on one very, very good point - Having Northern exposure (in an apartment not on the top floor) means (in Redwood City) that from about April through late September you will never be uncomfortable. Apartments have awesome insulation - though I guess it's possible I was leaching heat during the winter from five of my neighbors and the hallway. I never bothered turning on (or even figured out how to) the central heat.

It's amazing how much a difference your apartment orientation can make to your quality of life.
Don't get me wrong, Portal is an awesome game. But he considered Planescape: Torment too, and went with just Portal? Where's Fate/Stay Night or Tsukihime? I can't respect this college.
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Well, people can happen on the right prediction for the wrong reasons. I'm sure I didn't know about thermal atmospheric escape when I thought this, or probably even that a gas at a temperature consisted of molecules with a random distribution of kinetic energies centered on that temperature. I think I just thought that there would always be stuff denser than helium that would push it further and further away from the earth, without limit. (This is almost true, but most of the solar system is filled with hydrogen, which is less dense than helium.)
Have you actually experienced that 'Developers see tech support as beneath them'? In the interactions I've had with both computer and science start-ups ( admittedly a small sample set, 3 companies ), I never actually seen this, though maybe I've just lucked out. By and large the fellow devs or engineers did either take care of it or make sure someone was taking care of it as soon as an issue came in. It's not about altruism, it's just that's the best way to convince people to part with their money.

As a 'support manager' / back-end coder myself now, I try to follow their example. Got to agree with you that having a dedicated support person might be nice, but I can't imagine it becoming common ... first for the reason you mention, but also the types of people attracted to the instability of start-ups usually wouldn't respond well to 'oh no, John, don't muck about with the code/schematics, we want you to be customer focused'.
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The meaning of energy is to be a natural demarcation between living (smart matter) and non living (dumb matter). This is its purpose. There is no other.
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To me it's funny that you worry about toolbars that collect your browsing information and ignore the extent in which Chrome does the same.

It's true Google has their tracking scripts on most of the web pages today but what Chrome does in the background seems to be one dimension more. The only difference from the toolbars is that you're not aware of it as the browser "is faster than other ones."
This is possible -- I too sold my plane for more than I paid for it, but I'm sure that's just down to luck. I had one annual inspection that cost ~$3K -- it could have cost $750 or $8K -- you just never know what's going to break next, and in most cases, you cannot just decide to fix the problem later.

An airplane is very different from a car. If the plane has a problem, it must be fixed, within a certain time frame, by an FAA licensed mechanic. Maps and charts are updated frequently, and you are required to have current versions on hand. If the aircraft panel GPS is approach certified, you are required to have updated data if you want to use it for IFR approaches, and on and on. I spent about $10K getting my license, and another $10K getting my instrument rating.

Yes, you can skimp here and there, but there's just no way around it -- flying is not cheap, even if you sell your plane for what you paid for it.

All that said, it's worth every penny. A few years ago, I flew by myself, just for fun, on a clear autumn day from Palo Alto, CA to Little River, in Mendocino County in the northern part of the state. Flying at 7500 feet, I watched the sun set over the Pacific and light up the peaks and western slopes of Sierra. I told the controller I was going off-frequency for a moment and turned down the radio. I could see a ship or two on the water, the Russian River valley below me, and what seemed like the entire width of Northern California spread out across a 270 degree view. Worth every penny.
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Something like that.

From what I understand, food-miles is being used as a proxy for carbon output (and associated pollution), under the assumption that it takes fuel to move things, so food that travels a long way must use a lot of fuel.

A much more direct measurement of carbon output is "food cost", since the fuel used to move the food -- as well as the energy used to grow the food -- has to be paid for, and the people bringing the food to you price it high enough to cover those costs. It turns out, shipping food thousands of miles by train or barge doesn't use much energy relative to the amount of food shipped; as the article mentioned, most of the energy usage comes from the consumer, not the grower or shipper.
I don't think that's what he is saying at all. In the article, he specifically says the federal stockpile must be sold off by 2015. He also says that US supplies will be gone within 15 years.

2010+15=2025. 2025!=2015. So unless he is having a serious senior moment, he must be talking about something other than the federal stockpile being gone by 2025.

From context - 'supplies', not 'stores' - I read this as a prediction about the US oil industry's production of helium in the course of its operations.

This is in fact a prediction, since many things could change US helium production from ending in 2025; an asteroid could destroy us all, new helium pockets could be found, taxes could shut down US oil exploitation, etc.
That would be unremrkable for a ten year old.

My all time favorite unaccompanied traveller is my great grandmother, who emigrated to America with the address of family living in Chicago in her pocket. Being a young lass from the Irish hinterlands, she had no clue how to get there from NYC, and asked a passing Irishman how to do it. He called her a cab, and when the cabbie arrived asked for his license.

"Now James, this is how it is going to be. Young Miss May is going to visit her family, the Henries, out in Chicago. Here is money for the trip. After she gets there, she is going to write me a letter praising your character as a gentleman. If I do not receive that letter, James, I swear by all the saints that you are a dead man."

Obviously, since I am here to tell the tale, James was completed his task with dispatch.
The fungibility point is that it doesn't matter who the helium gets sold to, the price will be affected. It's like oil - it's all pretty much the same, so it doesn't matter whether you boycott Venezuela and specify that the oil you buy must come from Brazil rather than Venezuela, since that just means someone in Brazil will buy Venezuelan oil for you or a potential Brazilian customer would switch to Venezuelan. The oil flows where demand is.

> This is especially true when getting more is very difficult. The price is likely to go up in the future, making even more sense to hold on to it.

The price has to go up beyond the opportunity cost and one's discount rate. One doesn't invest in a merely profitable activity - one invests in the most profitable activity, and if that isn't bigger than one's discount rate one just consumes rather than invests.

If helium goes up 2% a year but Treasuries return 3%, then the savvier merchants will sell helium and buy Treasuries, and laugh at you all the way to the bank.
One house item which shows no progress on the green side is the refrigerator. Obviously it should be a split system: fridge is inside and heat exchange outside the house. If it's hot outside, I don't want fridge to heat up air inside the house so then my AC has to cool it (an you know, my house has quite limited AC capacity). If it's cold outside, I don't want fridge to consume energy - just dump excessive heat outside. It puzzles me for years why with all this green movement I haven't seen a single split fridge yet.
Many of the more futuristic looking ones are not just designed to be "green" but also to demonstrate new construction techniques. My personally favorite is the FabLab House http://www.fablabhouse.com/en/ which is very "green" (passive cooling, good roof designed for efficient use of solar, etc) but also demonstrates building houses from wood shaped with CNC machines.
This doesn't seem like a lot of money to me. If there's only 10 people on one of the top 10 biggest websites in the world who are breaking 100K for creating content, which is the site's value, then the only ones making out are the owners of the site (google).

Conversely, take the app store as a content platform. There's hundreds of iphone developers who are breaking 100K. Granted, the skills required are different, but ROI on the iphone platform seems much better.
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This graph looks like it has the same problem as Wired's recent one saying that the web is dead. GDP has continued to increase in China and India, it is just that everyone else increased faster. Probably by enough that if you put it on an absolute scale, you couldn't make out the GDP from several hundred years
One thing that I don't get is what was before and what is the source of Big Bang. So Big Bang, boom, expansion, star/planet formation, red shift, evolution, selfish gene, humans - I get. But where did the Big Bang came from? Fluctuation from nothingness? Why? From something else? Why? Something existed before and produced the Big Bang? Where this thing that existed before came from then? Doesn't make any sense.
Excellent idea. What's great about Android is that I can clone the git repo, add this feature, and see if I like it. Much better than waiting for some "expert" to "decide" that this is best and then waiting for the next OS upgrade!
http://www.google.com/search?q=reverse+graffiti

It's always interesting to see how municipalities handle "reverse graffiti" as an advertising campaign.
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Here's a solution to the travel problem:

Let the user input their hourly income. And the dates they want to be there, and their actual home and destination addresses. Then search nearby airports and departure dates based on total cost-of-trip. Time spent driving, flying, layovers, departing early, returning late, all ring up at their hourly income with the cost of tickets. Use a maps API for driving times to/from airports. Wouldn't that be better?
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Anybody to explain what was Hot Potato site anyway? I see it's a site where you register and post stuff. But what was unique for it?
The problem with this is that it isn't as flexible as a normal frige, it basically has to be built into the house. Also, if you don't have it next to a exterior wall, you have to pipe the coolant through the walls or floors. It's a great idea, but it requires a major redesign of the refrigerator, and means you can't easily get a new one if it breaks or you want it bigger or smaller.
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Interesting article. However, there's one aspect that I find a bit puzzling. I currently live in Germany and Adams' summary of tips how to build a greener house is pretty much a description of how houses have been built here for ages. I mean - the regular houses, not the ones considered particularly green. The general topic seems to be very big in this country, and apparently caters to a huge market. Almost everybody building a new house these days, not only the Earth savers, is trying to implement as many energy efficient measures as possible - that's because Germany, unlike California, is not a very warm place and to save on heating costs means to save big time. I don't actually know what it means, but the term "zero energy house" is a marketing term you see a lot here. Solar energy in private homes is heavily subsidized, too. And Germans don't move as much as Americans, they tend to build their houses to settle and grow old in them, so sustainability is a logical value.
I had to look this up. It's Settings->About Phone->Battery Use
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I don't remember where I read it but if fits your situation:

Startups are like roller-casters, it always requires your attention no matter in what stage you are. And you need a life!

This means that you have to balance personal life with startup.

Otherwise you have to be like Steve Jobs for whom business is a lifestyle.
looks very cool, but running easy_install fabulous on Mac 10.5 installed a broken version. the demo threw some errors and the whole thing blinked and didn't show all the colors. blinking terminal....

might work if i build it myself and sort out the ld dependencies. anyway, still a cool project. not sure i'll ever have use for it...maybe for debug apps.
I thought about this too. It would be really nice if there was a central compressor that will pump that cold gas into ACs and refrigerators of multiple homes. I think that will be a lot greener than the other stuff suggested by Scott Adams.
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Going by what the Gates family is doing these days, running for billionaire seems a heck of a fun roller coaster ride to raising funds for the kinds of betterment of the world that you care about. The other options being running for president or prime minister.
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This is cool, but I get the feeling it is just a workaround for the broken state of current terminals. Why are they still character based? We have had bitmap displays as long as I have had a computer, but we still emulate text terminals.

There are graphical terminals in programs like Maple and Matlab, and some years ago there was talk of an XML-based terminal, but nothing happens.

Sorry for the rant. I just couldn't help my self.
Passage would be a much better option: http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/passage/

It's very short (5 minutes,) free, and you don't have to worry about anyone in the class not having enough skill to complete it.

It's also communicates in a way that only a game can. The rules of the game themselves are most of what gives it its expressive power, not the narrative or the visuals.
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So Android will have a new feature. You take a picture of a restaurant or something else and then see search results for that object. Including reviews, prices in other shops.
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but what Chrome does in the background seems to be one dimension more.

How would you know that?
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>an asteroid could destroy us all,

Well... by that measure, any statement regarding the future is a prediction.

"I'll see you tomorrow!" - but maybe an asteroid will hit overnight....
So the article only says the on board computer was working incorrectly not triggering the alarms and suggests it had been infected with a trojan. No evidence given, which raises questions. Besides, I believe it would be quite a task to hack into the computer of and old MD-82. Seems unlikely. If it's terrorists, bombs would be cheaper.
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I'm looking for a service for a project I'm working on that will allow us to create mailing lists, manage addresses etc via an API, since we don't want the hassle of running our own mailing service. Ideally it would let us set the domain(s) that the list emails will be sent to. The idea would be that our customers can set up their own mailing lists via our app, and we would pass the actual work to the provider via the API. I've looked at mailchimp and a couple of others, but they seem more targeted at marketing mail pushes, rather than handling (possibly hundreds of) very small lists created by our users.

Any suggestions appreciated!
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Can't wait to see all the web I consume flow thru Notifo! RSS feeds and Atom feeds on way! Also make a Chrome Extension to subscribe to web page whenever I'm on it (extract the feed url from the page's body). So useful for short and long term subscriptions...
You. Not others. If you stop writing bad code, that doesn't stop others to write bad code. That doesn't mean you won't maintain bad code.
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Except you're just turning the problem around. While now, if it's hot outside, the fridge heats up the air in the house, just like you said.

With your system, if it's cold outside, the fridge cools down the air in the house (since the heat extracted from inside the fridge comes from the air inside the house, which is heated by your central heating system).

You're losing energy either way.
That was my first question, so for now, I'm thinking of it as useful for analysis of only short time frames. The assumption here is that in a given 3-month period, the volume of searches is probably sufficiently similar.

This would break down near the end of the year in the USA when the volume of searches goes up as people shop online.
Finland is now doing that for industry and warehouse refrigeration, and for some large retailers too. It might eventually find its way into homes too.
Every time I see news about Go I go and read again the http://golang.org/doc/go_spec.html to see if something got better. The first version I've read still needed ";" separators.

Still, D looks to better by the order of magnitude. I think Go solves less problems than D: What I like in D is that it moves in the direction of letting the programmer interact with the "knowledge" the complier has when it processes the code, much more successful than the C++ template clumsiness. Compared to that Go has much more "old" feeling even if Rob claim it's "modern." Even more important, D allows even writing "classic C level" of code if needed -- and for some critical places it's always needed. As far as I understand, the whole D (the compiler and libraries) can be written in D, which is not the case with Go which certainly needs good-old C.
It could not.

"liking" is inherently biased. It is in no way an objective measurement of usefulness. Pages that contain negative content will never be "liked" even though they might be very useful or linked to a lot.

As an extreme example, say a mass-murderer becomes very famous. No one (except for a trolling few) will "like" a page giving information about him, like on wikipedia. But this page would be a lot more interesting than a sensationalist article describing him as the second and third coming of Satan, which would be "liked" a lot more, without really being more valuable.
I think it's even simpler: he took it personally. He spends much of his time writing code (whatever that means), so he thinks the article is calling him lazy and ignorant and arrogant. (That's not even true, by the way. The article says "lazy or ignorant or arrogant".)

Anyway, it triggered a classic defence mechanism: "what is calling me bad must be wrong". So he attacked the part of the article that offended him. In the process, he overshoot, and tried to discredit the whole article (by saying "complete bullshit").

(By the way, I only talk about the emotional process that likely triggered alexkearns' comment. That doesn't make it wrong. Nor right.)
To compete with Bing's visual search, perhaps? http://www.bing.com/visualsearch

Also, the domain is a nice bonus. The future of search lies in recommendation and personalization, and Google will eventually want to build a brand to compete with Facebook in that space.