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Agree. Also, in the case of chocolate there are other important reasons (chocolate slavery) to refuse buying from industry giants.
http://vision.ucsd.edu/~kbranson/stopchocolateslavery/
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Yep. I surely had high hopes on Obama. What's worrying me is how much opposition he has found and how much power he lost.

It was enough to talk about socialism and having a bigger governmental role, and people (on both parties) seemed to start distancing themselves from Obama.

If he doesn't succeed, I am not sure there will really be another chance in time to make a real difference (i.e. to keep USA as no.1... I have no doubt USA will continue being a rich country for a long time to come).
The first Android phones were nothing compared to the iPhone. Giving everything (including revenues) to the carriers and manufacturers is exactly why Android exists now.

Google could have stuck to their guns, but the situation would be unchanged.
The answer to (a) and (b) might be Mercurial. Each of its commands does one thing well. You combine them to do more complicated things.

(Core) Mercurial basically has three concepts: repository, changesets (commits), and working directory.

A repository holds changesets.

You make new changesets by making your working directory look how you want it to and using 'hg commit'.

You can "move around" the DAG with 'hg update'.

You create a branch by committing while you're at a changeset that happens to already have a child (or several). You can use a label for the changesets on the branch (also called a "named branch" by Mercurial users) by running 'hg branch' first, if you like.

You can merge branches with 'hg merge'.

You move changesets between repositories with 'hg push' and 'hg pull'.

There are a lot of extensions that add more features if you need them, but vanilla Mercurial has the cool things you talked about.

It's safer than git -- there is no history rewriting built in except for the 'rollback' command, which is a one-step "undo" command. Once a changeset is in a repo it's there for good. There's no deleting of branches in a remote repo, no rebase --interactive, etc.

It's also cleaner than git. For example, in git you can move to a different place in the DAG and create a new branch with 'git checkout -b foo SOMEREV'. With Mercurial you use two commands, each of which does a single thing: 'hg update' to move to the new position, and 'hg branch' to start a named branch.

http://hg-scm.org/
> There's a huge difference between a phone maker having control and a network having control.

There is, but it only distracts you from understanding that you should be the only one in control of your phone.
Not really. Back then, they weren't looking for cheap controversy, their posts actually contained good content and were reasonably named. Just from a random look ...

http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/3_ways_to_make_money_with...

http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/confidence_in_people_proc...

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1324-beware-of-future-creep

I agree with 'nkohari', SVN blog has turned into a self-promotional, douchey piece of shit, existing solely to generate traffic/signups for their webapps, and providing very little actual value.
I'm sorry, but does anyone else feel like their blog posts are filled with sweeping generalizations? I also noticed their use of "it turns out", sneaky little bastards.

They seem to write a LOT of opinionated blog posts recently that I just disagree with completely.
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Just give it time. If there is useful content on Blue-Ray, people will use it and the experience will improve.

I thought we would have been there by now. DeCSS came out at about the time my parents upgraded from VHS to DVD. My parents just purchased a Blu-Ray player, so I'm thinking ... any day now. People have commented on how long it's taken to get the HDMI master key, but I'd argue it hasn't been that long. Despite some theoretical attack methods being published as early as 2001, there wasn't any reason because HDCP/HDMI was exotic for quite some time. Going back to the "My Parents" analogy: their first device to ever have an HDMI port on it was purchased earlier this summer. Both Panasonic devices, yet my dad has to power cycle the blu-ray player occasionally because the TV won't pick the picture up.

Here's my theory on how consumer electronic DRM cracking:
1) DRM or other scheme is created. It ticks off geeks/enthusiasts, but they largely deal with it. ...2) Despite itself, eventually it gains critical mass and a bunch of those geek's non-geeky parents buy devices and experience the same trouble. ...3) Geek children get constant phone calls from parents about why their new stuff doesn't work as well as their old stuff and ask said Geek Children to come over and fix it because they don't know what an HDCP Error is. ...4) One or more geeks get irritated enough with the phone calls to finally test that theoretical attack. ...5) Geeks everywhere find custom firmware for their parent's televisions and players and permanently solve the problem, while also recommending to their other non-technical friends precisely which model of TV and Blu-Ray to buy based entirely on its ability to have the play-back destroying copy-protection removed. The last part hasn't happened yet, but one can dream.
For some reason, this is the page I get whwn I type google.com into the address bar in Safari (Webkit nightly). And I have yet to see Google Instant.
Oh man, this is awesome. Too bad it's vim-specific and not a shell built-in, which would be handy.
When I saw this I felt like I had seen this exact thread play itself out before, so I Ducked around to check my feeling. It was correct:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1130984

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=784479

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=374722

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=145035

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1520323

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=135666

(And for future reference, for when I inevitably re-post this in some future Google interview thread and forget to include this post itself in the list: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1690792)
Yesterday, there was a news coverage on the 2 year aftermath from Lehman Brothers collapse. The New York Time reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin predicted in the interview the next wave of collapse will be governments, like Greece and possibly states like California.

I was a little bit surprised to hear such a strong opinion. It is clear the federal reserves do have now better tools to avoid private institution collapse which could have severe impact on the economy. On a bigger scale, like states it seems not all that clear what regulation mechanism are available. But reading repeatedly the warning signs from several known analysts about the debt issue and upcoming correction I am wondering if such collapse scenarios will take place.
Why would anyone want to work at Google at this point? They can't hold onto their people, have very high churn and dissatisfaction rates, etc.

I could see maybe wanting to put in a year to learn the google stack, or if you have a particular area you've been researching and they will pay you to do exactly what you want, but beyond that... there are lots of companies offering better salaries and options with serious value, with similar challenges, that are going places. When you have people leaving despite half million dollar retention offers... why would you jump on that ship? Don't get me wrong - I think Google is fundamentally a good company. I just don't get why people aspire to work there, given the other options available.

Is it a mensa thing, with a brand recognizable outside the valley? Like you pass the interview, you're in the IQ club, stamp of approval, all that?
The more a stylized a cartoon character is, thee more it look like you. E.g what ethnicity does this character have: ☺ ? I bet it has the same ethnicity as you!
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This may be a stupid question, but if a startup has found a "repeatable, scalable customer acquisition process" why would they need to talk to angels?

Presumably your repeatable, scalable customer acquisition process will be bringing in lots of customers, who in turn will bring in income. So, you won't much need angels for money.

Also, the fact that you have a repeatable, scalable customer acquisition process means that you've solved one of the most, if not the most important problems a startup faces. So, you won't much need angels for the connections and advice on how to increase your traction.

Of course the above is over-simplifying a bit. Even with income and more and more customers signing up, you may still need money to expand at the rate you want. Still, once a startup finds a repeatable, scalable customer acquisition process, it's hard to see much need for angel investors.
I think the best part of this Daily is in the comments; more time is spent criticizing the code than is in discussing the social implications of putting something that sensitive in a repository.
Obviously it's not a good idea. But I would imagine that the answer if you can't fill your pot holes is to raise taxes, not hope that the future will bring something better.

If during a boom you've cut taxes, why now that money is needed shouldn't you raise them again? Didn't Clinton leave office with a surplus? So if at that time you had a balanced budget, and now you can't even pay to fill your pot holes, and one of the reason is because of your massive cuts in taxes... wouldn't that suggest that to fix you books you need to raise them again?
And of course, the premium service will be called "Quid Pro".
My sub-optimal solution to this problem has been to use Facebook for personal stuff and Twitter for professional stuff. The problem you mention about your boss seeing drinking photos or your grandma seeing racy links is easy to avoid with Facebook today, but maybe not for users who don't know about the functionality. Put your boss in a friends list that can't access your photos. Click the lock button when you're posting the link and exclude your family members friends list.

My problem is that I want almost everything to be visible to everyone, but I don't want to publish everything to everyone's news feeds and pollute them. Everyone has hobbies, interests or professions they enjoy talking about, but they don't want to burden all of their friends with those posts. If you can fix that without making me drag all of my friends to another social network, I'll use your tool in a heartbeat. I don't think it's possible for anyone but Facebook to meet those restrictions, since only they could change the way posting on Facebook works.
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"I am not a fan of the iPhone because of its dependency on iTunes. iTunes is an overweight bloated piece of junk and I won't go back to Windows just to run it."

You do know they will activate for you in the store and then only time you ever have to use iTunes again is when an update comes out? Now, this means your phone will not get backed up, but if you set Google up as an Exchange server all your emails, contacts, and calendar items are stored on the cloud anyway.
Yeah, I also didn't understand if they meant outbound legs or outbound calls.
The problem with having to buy a developer account or jailbreak the phone is that many of the apps that wouldn't be approved never get written. The commercial viability of an app is somewhat limited when the first step in the installation instructions is "jailbreak your phone".
Tell that to Cisco. They practically built the whole dang company on talent and idea acquisition.
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> Facebook's barrier to entry (its closed social graph)...

Huh? http://graph.facebook.com
I think Diaspora and others will fail because it is tackling the problem from the wrong angle.

I don't think people really want to micromanage things like that. Think about it. Every time you post a tweet, picture, blog post etc, do you want to meticulously decide who receives it, or would you rather click "all" and let everyone else decide whether they read/view it? Conceivably all facebook needs to do is tweak how you recieve messages a bit and these startups are toast.

You can't defeat Facebook by adding one little feature Facebook doesn't have. You need to come up with a completely paradigm-shifting approach.
Why are SS and Medicare the biggest drivers? Didn't Clinton leave you with a surplus? And didn't he have to pay for SS and Medicare too? What's changed since then and now?

Anyway I am not arguing that big government are always the best. I am arguing that big government sometimes are. Or to put it another way I am arguing that SMALL government isn't always the best.
In some ways I agree (I've long unsubscribe from SvN because of their black and white position on how to run a company). But from a publicity/marketing POV, I can see why they are doing this.

Their market segment is the small biz and they write stuff about how to run one. This is a blog topic segment that is super-saturated, ranging from PG's essays to "get rich quick!" blogs. So 37s made a choice to get notice (and gain leads for more BaseCamp subs) in this arena by any means.

Yes, you can argue it is at the expense of audience deciding NOT to become a customer due to opposing their view. But this is the gamble they are taking. They are betting that most people are able to separate having an opposing opinion from seeing the value of being a paying customer of their products.
Maybe a made-up story to find out who is leaking info to the press?

http://www.fakesteve.net/2010/02/just-for-the-record-i-am-no...
T-mobile USA is (AFAIK) the only US provider that is making unlocked phones better deals. They provide two service types: with contract and without contract with the latter being cheaper.
'I’m a driven person and I surround myself with other driven people. Generally, when I land on an exciting new idea, I can’t wait to jump on it'.

I read this as 'Self-control is great because I have great self-control.' I'm a big believer in the thesis of this article (to an extent, anyway: I'll take someone with high intelligence and low self-control over an extreme example of someone with low intelligence but high self-control), but he completely turned me off in the third paragraph. And then again when he likened a fifth grader wanting a treat right now with an adult committing statutory rape.
and incidentaly C tends to be better object oriented language than C++ :)
My hunch is that they've just scratched the surface of their plans. If not, I am similarly disappointed.
Should is a funny word. Just because our perception of fairness dictates that we should control our phones, its just not going to happen in the foreseeable future.
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The part that threw me off was where you said that the Canon sensor contains 3 photosites per pixel -- which based on this pots leads me to believe that you meant that it uses 3 photo sites to record each pixel, which is still not entirely accurate; the Rover's capture every color at every photosite, so they use all of their sensor's resolution. Canon (and everyone else but Foveon, for that matter) making a single-shot sensor can't do that, they instead sacrifice the real resolution of the sensor due to the Bayer filter, and use interpolation to make up the difference.
The eyedrops you refer to are belladonna, Italian for 'beautiful woman'.

The intro from the Wikipedia entry ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atropa_belladonna ) says:

"It has a long history of use as a medicine, cosmetic, and poison. Before the Middle Ages, it was used as an anesthetic for surgery, the ancient Romans used it as a poison (the wife of Emperor Augustus and the wife of Claudius both used it to murder contemporaries) and predating this it was used to make poison tipped arrows."

and

"Drops prepared from the belladonna plant were used to dilate women's pupils, an effect considered attractive."
I don't understand how that's even possible. Is she also allergic to all fruit and most vegetables?
> but the combination of fragmentation and very slow adoption of latest releases by the android

Actually, Android is doing not doing worse if not better than iOS here thanks to over-the-air updates of android. To update your iOS you need to connect it to a PC and sync it with iTunes, too much for many people whereas Android updates automatically over the air which makes updates applied very fast once available, check out the numbers here:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/09/11/the-state-of-android...

> Apples market has little fragmentation and high hardware consistency.

>But I digress. Without google imposing some licensing terms, android users are always going to have a poor os upgrade experience, it seems.

Again, I couldn't disagree more. Not having to use iTunes and over-the-air updates is such a better experience than updating an iPhone, so much that Android users update their OS sooner than iPhone users. Plus if you look at the stats, most of the big phones got their update 1 to 2 months after the official release of Froyo, so it's not that bad. And if you have a Nexus or a rooted phone, it's instant upgrade.
Too much self-control/discipline can also cause you to single-mindedly pursue the wrong path for many years before realizing all the time and effort you've wasted. Outward success is pointless if it is not felt inwardly as well.

Discipline needs to be directed by intuition, which is connected to impulse. So it's not simply about the ability to suppress impulse -- creative ideas come as strong impulses. It's about the ability to harness and direct your impulses in ways that make you happy. If that's watching films all night, then maybe that's fine. I know some people who would need to exercise quite a bit of discipline to control their workaholic impulse for a night in order to sit down and enjoy a good movie...
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Thorvalds v. Tanenbaum redux.
A win from whose perspective?
| Obviously, there are plenty of people happy collecting their large paycheck every two weeks, or there would be a lot of startups and not a lot of Goldman Sachs.

Or their fears and lack of confidence/desire for security overrule their happiness.
Neither of the names are PR gold. 'Blackwater' is the plumber's term for sewage. 'Xe' sounds alien or like a B-movie villain accent: "We have xe plans, nothing will prevent xe final solution now!"
It is no more true that Obama is unpopular because people call him a "socialist" than it was true that Bush was unpopular because people called him a "fascist." You are confusing cause and effect.

I think foreign observers think that the American public is atavistically motivated by invocations of "socialism" because they view the US through the lens of their own politics. In reality, Obama is unpopular because the economy is in the shitter and unemployment is running near 10%. It doesn't matter whether that's fair or not.
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Actually, lighter skin used to be an issue for westerners too. Lighter skin suggested the same thing as it did in Asia and tanned skin was looked down upon. Recently, with the massive changes in the economy over the past hundred or so years, tanned skin has begun to demonstrate leisure and wealth more than paleness, so the situation has reversed. Korea and Japan have modernized much recently than America and the West so that could be the reason.
Pretty much the best we can do right now, is make is obsolete by proving DRM is useless

The proof is in their own studies, really ... if they believe them. According to Big Media, piracy rates are incredible. It takes a few words in Google to find that everything that has ever been put behind DRM is available without it, for free (illegally, of course). The negative effects of DRM schemes are huge (see rest of comments).

There would be so many very cool things that have nothing to do with piracy if DRM wasn't part of the equation. And they can be done right now by breaking US law and circumventing whatever scheme is in place.
I think that's true of most rules. Almost no native speakers can come close to explaining anything, but experts in language studies generally have very specific rules.

And by the way, articles are not the biggest mystery imo. Coming from a country that speaks Hebrew, which is a language that doesn't have the very "to be", explaining what that verb does is much harder. In Spanish things get even funner, since there are two version of the verb "to be", and which one is used depends on the next verb and has to be memorized.

And don't get me started on tenses. In Hebrew, there is no such thing as "I went" vs "I have gone" vs "I have been going" vs "I am going", etc.
I've done two now (Redmond & Portland) and I would highly recommend going to one if your just starting to get involved in startups. I learned an incredible amount at my first one.
My biggest problem with the article is that it seems to think a startup is only successful if it hits a huge, exploding market, like Microsoft/Facebook did. On the contrary, plenty of successful startups have been formed on markets which didn't explode and get huge overnight, but were plenty big enough to sustain more players.
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I would have chose the Galaxy S as the top; faster and feature compatible with the Nexus and longer batter life than the Evo. I own one (personal bias I guess).
Which is exactly what he is doing, justifying and using a third party: "Hey , my kid has to eat"
Blind leading the blind.
But you are comparing apple and oranges. You are comparing Microsoft today with Apple in 2007. There were a _lot_ of people doubting Apple would succeed if they ever tried to move into the phone market. And carriers (at least in the US) had a solid grip on the market.

Nowadays the situation is completely different. Apple had showed that their vision of smartphone is successful: Microsoft (or Google) don't need to prove that anymore. Also carriers have lost a bit of their power, and are more afraid of ending up with a world controlled by one company than before.

The point of the exclusivity is that if it runs out in a few months as many expect, that's pretty much when the new MS phones will come out (give or take a couple of months). So I don't see what damage Apple made.
I've often been tempted to call it squeal myself.
I see - I thought the first child you meet is always a boy in your example. So I am still not sure what you are calculating, but at least I understand the tuple notation :-)
What? I didn't say anything outright wrong, though it's a subject of some controversy. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony#Verbal_irony_and_sarcasm

More specifically:
Some psycholinguistic theorists (e.g., Gibbs, 2000) suggest that sarcasm ("Great idea!", "I hear they do fine work."), hyperbole ("That's the best idea I have heard in years!"), understatement ("Sure, what the hell, it's only cancer..."), rhetorical questions ("What, does your spirit have cancer?"), double entendre ("I'll bet if you do that, you'll be communing with spirits in no time...") and jocularity ("Get them to fix your bad back while you're at it.") should all be considered forms of verbal irony.
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I've just stolen this script for my new movie, with Samuel L. Jackson as college professor. :-)
If I have to alt-tab, or exposé between windows back and forth, that's a time waste.

Only if your hands aren't already on the keyboard.