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Blame RMS for not knowing the first thing about branding. It's really no wonder we call it linux.
Paper, it will outlast anything other than maybe stone.
The end of online privacy
I wonder if you guys know who's doing it, and why.
Partial Classes
Can someone estimate the cost of this attack? It shouldn't be cheap to lose all these bots for a massive 1gbps attack.
Who keeps their memcached port open to the internet?

If you do that then you deserve what you get.
They do!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio
It doesn't just have it for backwards compatibility, it's still a very useful feature in some cases:

sub foo {
local $ENV{HOME} = "/foo/bar";
Code::I::Don't::Own();
}
foo();

Having dynamic scope here ensures that the foreign code will use the environment I want without me having to alter it.
I can only speak to myself, but I want to get rich not for a Lamborghini, but so I can start another company to truly make a difference.

I honestly don't understand this. To me, this is no different than the arguments elsewhere in this discussion about needing money to "travel". Why do you need money "to make a difference"? I don't have money but I run a website that makes a difference. The number of people it reaches is currently small. I have thought about it and I don't think throwing money at the problem would do any real good. If I thought throwing money at the problem would work, I would be trying to start a foundation and raise the money to throw it at the problem. But I really think the current model of throwing money at the problem is part of the problem, not likely part of the solution.

Gates said something once like "Automating an efficient system multiplies the efficiencies and automating an inefficient system multiplies the inefficiencies." I think throwing money at a problem does the same thing. If the solution you have isn't really that good, more of it may make a bigger "difference" but not of the sort I want to see in the world.

You "make a difference" every day of your life. What kind of difference are you making today? And if it is not something you think is worthwhile, why put off "making a difference" until some mythical time when you have more money?

Sincere questions, not in any way intended to bust you.

Peace.
Ruby got its flip-flop operator from Perl, which in turn got it from sed and awk. It can be really useful for keeping simple state, e.g.:

# parse mail messages
while (<$email>) {
$in_header = 1 .. /^$/;
$in_body = /^$/ .. eof;
if ($in_header) {
# do something
} else { # in body
# do something else
}
}

And other examples at http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Range-Operators
Not a simple as that. There is sarcoplasma volume and myofibril density. It depends on what your goal is.

But if you are training in the hypertrophy range and getting stronger, then you must be getting bigger.
I use gmail accounts so all my mail gets sent there first. Then I use POP3 to retrieve new messages as they arrive. I save the important downloaded messages in kmail on my desktop computer and I delete the rest locally. If I ever accidentally delete an important email locally I just login to the gmail web interface and retrieve a new copy.

It's a good system because it archives all my email on the gmail server first, saves copies of the important messages locally, and eliminates more than 99% of my SPAM so I never have to deal with it.
Really? Hadn't heard that. I know that people who want to write competing businesses will say that it's down but, in the real world, it is very much the standard. PP's customer service has really gotten better as well.

I'm quite happy with using them for handling payments on our site. They've been far better than Authorize.net, for example, at preventing/handling chargebacks.
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Hey

Your problem is common to many of us. Can you not do both together? After all, when you get old, atleast you can say you tried at breaking out on your own, ain't it?

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I think it's unlikely that you're ever gonna reach a point where it's reasonable for a family but with say 10 executives who are paid thousands of dollars an hour, then it starts to make sense.
I don't want people to get the impression that weight-lifting inevitably leads to injury. This guy was seriously overdoing it or had poor form if his body was "shot" after two years. If you want to do low-rep, high-weight lifting, make sure that you get plenty of rest and don't do tons of volume. Find a program designed by a reputable strength-training coach (such as Mark Rippetoe or Bill Starr) and don't modify it. If your form is good, you don't do more volume than you should, and you're eating properly, your body certainly won't be "shot" after two years.
I'm glad EFF is starting this project, because I read one of the paragraphs in the article slightly differently, see:

[any authority] could use [their] key to issue itself valid HTTPS certificates for verizon.com, eff.org, google.com, microsoft.com, or indeed any other website. [any authority] could use those certificates to conduct virtually undetectable surveillance and attacks against those sites. [any authoritiy's] keys could also possibly be used to obtain access to some corporate VPNs.

[EDIT] Are there any monitoring tools I can install to question the validity or motive of a certificate? It sounds absolutely silly even saying it, since I can't even keep up with other web browsing security measures: white-listing off-domain cookies my banks insist on issuing, deleting flash cookies, running no-script, etc...
How passionate are you about what you are doing? And would excited about doing the job?

Without knowing much about the situation, I would stay stick at it...
Might I ask which books you've read about him? Thanks.
You might want to read Tuva or Bust! by Ralph Leighton. It features Feynman as he and Ralph planned their trip to Tuva. With that said, it's a good book but I prefer the first two books because they are more about Feynman's thoughts and ideas than anything.
I would be great if you can juggle both. Working on your startup during your free time, i.e. weekends is quite common here.
Can't fly into busy airspace, can't fly more than 120mph or so, vfr only, single passenger, essentially overgrown ultralights.

I don't understand what any of those restrictions have to to with making flying boring. Flying is only fun when you can fly into busy airspace? Why?
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You can upload your bands MP3s so others can listen to your music, you can find other peoples music, you can read our articles and find out new information. Once signed in just click, create contact to upload a song or submit an article.
And you can't prove compliance without getting a JTCK license from ... Oracle. Which Sun wasn't very interested in supplying to the Apache Harmony project, and when I checked into the terms a few months ago they're still very restrictive. Basically if you aren't furthering openJDK, forget it.
Apple facing battle for iTV rebrand
Let's try not to kill the computer by visiting webpages it serves all at once :)
Any recommendations on PC based simulator setups?
Well, not any time soon (the Java/JVM ecosystem is too big, too rich). But in the long term, at the moment I agree with this observation in the article which captures the most relevant and important issue for me:

Forrester Research analyst John Rymer agrees [ this will have a chilling effect on developers ]: "I think this lawsuit casts the die on Java’s future," he said. "It will become a slow-evolving legacy technology. Oracle’s lawsuit links deep innovation in Java with license fees, and that will kill deep innovation in Java by anyone outside Oracle or startups hoping to sell out to Oracle. Software innovation just doesn’t do well in the kind of environment Oracle just created."

"Deep innovation" in e.g. JVM GC for functional languages (Clojure) is exactly the sort of thing I'm interested in ... and that's now at best on hold while I get a better grasp of this mess and its implications. But the real scope of the implications probably won't become clear for years and I'm certainly not going to wait that long.
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I read a story about how some government organization in the UK was giving them to drunk girls outside clubs to help them get home. Apparently, at the end of boozy night, it's a lot easier to get home in a pair of flip flops. Maybe that's a market.
How about 2checkout?
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Forgot to mention that railscasts.com has awesome screencasts on all kinds of topics. - Also, if you prefer to read them instead of watching, most are available on http://asciicasts.com/.

Also, a word of caution - http://guides.rubyonrails.org is currently based on rails 2.3. http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/ is probably the best place to look for the moment if you want to start with 3.0.

The edge guides actually follow the current master branch while the regular guides follow the current stable branch. Since 3.0 is kind of in limbo between the two (as an RC, it has it's own stable branch, but it hasn't been released yet), it's pretty much completely in sync with edge. Once it's released, everything should switch over to guides having info for 3.0 (the index page should list what version it's currently for).

...That was probably more than you ever wanted to know about Rails guides.
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Anyone remember autoduel?
Autoduel was a pc game released during the late 80's. Someone should do a remake of that for the app store. Should earn a decent amount. What other old games do you think would still be playable today?
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I hate software patents, but it is the reality of the world. Google had a chance to license with Sun, but they did not want to yield any control to Sun and implemented their own technology for the mobile platforms. Sun/Oracle believe they violated their patents in this process. So they are suing Google. I do not see this as Oracle going after open source technologies.
Google is no champion of open technologies. No corporate company that has to answer their stock holders every three months can be a true champion of open source.
They are open only as long as it suits their business model. Right now making Android open source suits their business model bcos every stupid carrier on the planet can build a stupid android skin on their own, and Google can claim that Android is not a locked platform.
Sun tried to be truly open and they literally went bankrupt.
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Where did you find this quote? Or is it original? Very nice.
...go to http://j.mp/a11K0t [Etisalat site]

> This site requires Internet Explorer !

If you were looking for more reasons to dislike these guys I guess...
I think this is spot on. The problem here isnt that Google did what it did, it's that they shouted about it for the other side for so long, and then switched teams. The same thing with China. If you're going to take a hard stance on something, then do it and people will respect it for you. But Google is turning into all talk and no walk, and walking straight into the next Microsoft.

If they had just said from the beginning that they were out for their own interest (just like everyone else), and not tried to play the good guy even when it would hurt them, then nobody would be surprised by this.
Unfortunately this is not a uniquely American problem. I think you can easily extrapolate this to at least most of the developed economies.
Thanks for the comments so far guys. Appreciate it =)

Quick question: for those juggling a job and a startup on the side, how does it go for you guys? I'm guessing any free time from work is spent on the startup?
Does anyone know if there's any source code in a public repo at the moment?
I've been asked to present a talk on this, and would like to get in early.
Perl 6 also has dynamic scoping. But I don't think they kept it just for backward compatibility with Perl 4 & 5 :)

Here is another example where dynamic scoping can indeed be very useful:

sub bar { 'bar' }
sub baz { bar() }

sub foo {
no warnings 'redefine';
local *bar = sub { 'My Bar' };
baz();
}

say foo(); # => 'My Bar'
say baz(); # => 'bar'
Someone should open a startup halfway house. It can be funded by people it helps who eventually get back on their feet.
Won't open.
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How about giving one to Naval Sarda, a great guy who owns Epicomm in India? He surely would appreciate it and would show up, even if he lives half way across the globe.
loved the bank example !
the entrance looks like it would trap snow?
the power of the wallet is more effective. Barriers to entry change over time. Costs go down or disappear all together.

power of the vote works for a while until the citizen votes enough power to the government then the only effective way to lower barriers and change things is through large scale blood letting.
Why your startup should be using MongoDB
That site was a lot better before they have put up the adsense ads. Now it kind of ruins the whole experience.
Nail, head, hit.

A friend of mine's private dream is to quit the IT business entirely and go raise sheep in NZ. He may truly be a country boy at heart, but there's little stopping him from doing it now… it's just an escapist fantasy.

I always wonder if people who claim to want to travel the world have ever actually done enough travel to know how brutal it can be to, in fact, travel the world. I spent 9.5 weeks traveling around the world last year and it just about killed me.

Most people can't separate "feeling an impulse to do something" and "knowing it's the real deal for the rest of your life." My husband is one of those types who always wants to move to wherever we're vacationing, but since they're usually backwaters, I know for a fact he'd end up miserable. It's just that they feel good because they're away from obligations. (The real thing is that he doesn't enjoy the work he's doing but he's not ready to admit it to himself yet!)
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He once built his own computer, out of nothing but TTL...

A picture should now appear with him surrounded by beautiful women and Dos Equis. (Then Chuck Norris happens by, pauses, shakes his head, and mutters "Damn, that's cool.")
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The risks aren't in entrepreneurship, they're in you. That's the long, the short, and the medium length.

I know this is hard to grasp, because it's counter-intuitive, but it's true.

My entrepreneurship approach is extremely low risk. (That sob story above was from consulting. Anyone can get taken by a conman.) It's a SaaS we built in our part time.

My business is growing 15-20% in revenue each month; even if we didn't touch it again, it'd earn more than $120k in the next 12 mos, but since we are working on it, by the end of 12 mos I expect our outlook to be greater than half a million for the year ahead of that.

See, I'm not worrying about "externalities." I'm not looking for funding or partners. I'm not trying to get somebody other than my customers to approve of what I'm doing and pat me on the head. I'm not trying to get bought (in part because I've seen how miserable people are after their startups are bought, they become employees again, watch BigCo destroy everything they've built.)

The only thing I'm gambling with is my time, and honestly, I've wasted more time sitting on my ass being sorry for myself than I would have wasted on this product if it fell apart tomorrow.
Ah, yes, the American soul according to D.H. Lawrence: cold, stoic, isolate, a killer. (That would be Natty Bumpo.)

I find this sort of piece unhelpful. It is full of generalities that seem more or less plausible, yet which can't be verified or refuted.
I bought a Samsung N210 for my mother which has a surprisingly good keyboard.

As a side note: IIRC there is a 10" thinkpad X netbook in Australia (for schools) and for a short time earlier this year, they displayed a 10" model on the lenovo website, so there may be hope...

A 11.6" or 12" version of the pixel qi diy kit would certainly be great.
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It's not easy. At all. It's like having 3 jobs: the day job, the startup, and life. The usual life things like shopping for food, eating, even seeing a friend all take time, and for time-keeping purposes, they are like a job.

Something will have to give. Unfortunately the temptation is to skimp on the startup work. If you're really serious about doing this, you'll have to be super vigilant and force yourself into using sacred time slots: when you're supposed to be ralxing, you better be, and when you're churning code at 3am for the startup, you better not be distracted and it better not affect your day job.
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While the bug is catastrophic for a 1.0 release, the team responded very well. They did not try to hide anything, they clearly stated the problem and provide now an intermediate fix.
"With kids it would have been impossible."

It's not impossible, it's just adding another degree of difficulty. I did exactly this in the second half of my twenties. Working on my projects, doing consulting when I had to to support myself and my family. I believe the impetus that drives "family men" to seek shelter in a "normal" job can also drive you to be relentless in making your startup work. More skin in the game.

Also, team comes into play here. Personally. I know that if I wouldn't have had such a wonderful and supporting partner at home, the startup issue would have been a non-starter.

Team first =)
When you list Elizabeth Gilbert and Tony Robbins, you make it plausible that TED is the new Renaissance Weekend, if you remember those.

Or maybe the new Aspen State.
Here's a great interview with Feynman, many of the clips in the "Last Journey of a Genius" video are from it: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=the%20pleasure%20of...
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Its looking great.

^^ I have adblock so my experience is still unparalleled. Now to write some php bindings for it.
Or like Slashdot, and have a "post this anonymously" checkbox.
There are too many variables to say that for certain. The corporate jet for example isn't pure ostentation; if you fly enough, or at short notice, or between airfields that aren't well served, it might well be worth it.
Thank you for linking this. It may not be hot news or a trendy topic but it was a very good read and a good refresher :)
Maybe I'm just too young, but I don't get the joke (other than that writing a web framework in COBOL is somewhat funny). Anyone care to explain?
A piece of Feynman's wisdom, in case you didn't read it yet :
http://www.fotuva.org/feynman/challenger-appendix.html
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I agree that 22 hours is a ridiculously low number of hours to be allowed to fly. At 40 hours you’re still a danger to yourself and others because of lack of expertise.

It’s interesting calculus. Who is willing to rent their planes to Sport Pilots? What will this do to insurance costs?

At the same time, this might be beneficial to the general aviation community. GA gets fucked by airports, insurance companies, and oil companies. Maybe if there were more GA pilots, there’d be more members of AOPA (a lobbying group for GA). Maybe Sport Pilots will continue their education and get more advanced certificates.

More people flying is both a blessing and a curse.
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I don't think it's as slow as this. It doesn't feel that slow, at least.
The electric one seems promising: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XagtVoAQuEw
Yes. "Wood & Stones" is a "Goban" for playing Go face to face with a friend on an iPad:

http://github.com/raganwald/wood_and_stones

I'm not even a novice player, so in addition to supporting Classic Go, Wood & Stones supports a number of Go variations that offer some learning benefit.

You can try it on Github Pages:

http://raganwald.github.com/wood_and_stones

It's based on jQuery, jQTouch, iGesture, and JQuery Combinators.
These have been some of my biggest disappointments in travelling. Globalization has made Europe look almost indistinguishable from the States in many ways. The week or two that a typical U.S. job allows you to spend abroad doesn't really accomplish much either. The real appeal of travel to me is to genuinely immerse myself in a different culture and live and see the world in a different way. This takes the kind of time that you just don't have unless you're willing to prioritize it over other very pressing needs.
The great thing about Feynman is that he defies the image of the world-distant, confused, aloof university professor, but rather comes across like someone you'd love to have a beer with while talking about interesting stuff.
Wow guys, thanks for the link! My tiny site just went from 100 hits/day to 3,800 last night.

As an update to that story, I have continued flying — larger things, to more distant places. (Helping build a Sportsman 2+2 and flying to the Yukon were life highlights.) In fact, as rubyrescue said, that newfound sense of confidence has been key in trying for my latest adventure: Living for a month at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry (http://j.mp/9gtIuc). If you’re curious, my application video — with stuff about flying — is here: http://j.mp/a7ESd0

/shameless plug

Thanks again,

Davin Coburn
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> Why, exactly?

Imagine you are developing a new language to run on the JVM, and it turns out that to get a 10x performance improvement, it would be really great to have this new bytecode instruction added to the JVM. To get it into every JVM, you would have to go through Oracle anyway, so nothing changes there. But if you wanted to distribute your own variation, a hypothetical openJVM+, Oracle is saying that they may well go after you with patent suits.

Good for people happy with the current JVM, looking for stability. Bad for people wanting to bring innovations to the JVM without explicit consent from Oracle.
Ask HN: What can kill Facebook?
Facebook is just growing & growing. It has also proven to be duplicating popular startups and effectively killing potential competitors while they're young. Facebook has also proven to be filled with excellent hackers and lots of capital + cash flow. What are possible things that will lessen the power of Facebook and eventually cause its downfall if ever?
I'm not sure if the entire checklist was meant to apply to this specific instance. Mainly since that point also didn't seem right to me.