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I'm reacting to the phrase "they're criminals" - I've had clients, really, really valuable clients, ask me to spam for them. I've had to say NO, unequivocally and awkwardly.

Then, I've had them ask for me to build tools that could help them mangage email campaigns... I build those tools, and I know what they could do with those tools. I hope they don't and I counsel them about what they can do and cannot do. I'm OK with this the same way I'm OK with telling them they're free to go over the speed limit in a car I built for them if they want. It's their choice and I believe there's a difference between occasional speeding and reckless endangerment the same way there's a difference between the occasional campaign from the boise real estate lady who put her stack of business cards on her email list and the true BULK spammer...
Between the start of the mining boom to the onset of the global financial crisis:
annual price inflation in Perth averaged 4.0 per cent, compared to the national annual average of 3.3 per cent;
Perth rents increased by two-thirds more than the national average;
and Perth house prices grew by 14 per cent a year, almost triple the national average growth rate.
http://www.pm.gov.au/node/6884
Um, no you can't.
Creating a loved brand by telling a story [video]
I prefer Intel syntax too, in every other respect other than order of operands. That's really just because it differs from the only other assembly language I've ever used (68k). I still think it's unintuitive, but it's no worse than, say, the order of arguments to the Unix 'ln' command. You get used to it.

The comment about the lack of delimiters was not a value judgement; I was just pointing out one of the obvious signs that the article wasn't using AT&T syntax. I think that having to stick $ on immediate operands is particularly annoying, for instance.
This article is also factually wrong when it comes to the US. It is NOT illegal to send unsolicited email according to CAN-SPAM. All you are required to do is honor unsubscribes and provide contact info.

Also, if customers are already on your list, they've implicitly open in to receive transactional and commercial emails. You may get in trouble with your ISP or anti-spam authorities, but unless you're blasting out millions of spam emails without any way to unsubscribe, you will never get in trouble with the law.
Australian court extends ban on PS3 modchip sales
Step 1) Setup OpenVPN. Step 2) Block ssh access using iptables or equivalent from all but the VPN connections and one or two trusted IPs (the latter just in case you need to do OpenVPN maintenance). Back in the day, you would have had a separate network for administration. Simulate that with OpenVPN.
I find it troubling that the article doesn't even mention a single time the reason why professors have tenure in the first place: academic freedom. It's difficult to have scholarly discourse on unpopular or unprofitable topics if you have to fear for your job.
Yeah, I've thought the same thing as it seems like it would be helpful (but still possible compared to something like the dribbble invite system).

Also, another idea I had would be to make link submissions cost karma. It could even be dynamic based on your average story up-votes (i.e if you submit stories that get up-votes it costs you 1 karma, otherwise more).

In the end, this is PG's site and I'm sure he has thought of (and tried) a lot of things.
I learn something new every day. Thanks for that!
Our rates aren't high by Australian historical standards:
http://www.loansense.com.au/historical-rates.html

Regarding the house price graph, I think you are being misled slightly by the scale.

If you magnified the 1978-1993 graph it would look very similar - a HUGE ramp up in the prices in the late 1980's, and then stagnant in the early 1990's.

Compare that to how the current graph looks: HUGE ramp up in 2003-2007, and then stagnant.

I agree with what you are saying about the inequalities of mining salaries and the problems with the crowding out effect. I think that contributes more to the stratification of society rather than inflation, though.
"shoots", "feeds", "Tip-Ex" (or "writes", "rewrites"), "strikes", "tickles", "pisses off" (this one's a little gross)

Doing a bogus word is also great.
Robots.txt

User-Agent: * Disallow: /x? Disallow: /vote? Disallow: /reply? Disallow: /submitted? Disallow: /submitlink? Disallow: /threads?
You don't think if an MIT frat was planning a harmless(ish) prank of the Harvard–Yale game today, and some Harvard students learned of it and tried to get the MIT students arrested, that the MIT deans would be looking to help their students out of trouble?
This kind of "awkwardness" is felt as a result of being stuck in your head. It's only awkward if you're worried about making a mistake. But you can relax, you're allowed to make mistakes. No one except you really cares if you said something stupid or rude or pointless.
I would never suggest buying art as an investment. No one should buy something as an investment unless they understand what drives its price, and very few of the people who buy contemporary art understand what drives prices.

Years ago I knew someone who made a living as an art advisor, telling rich people what contemporary art to buy. She was one of the top handful of people in this business. I once asked her why she didn't just use her knowledge to invest in art on her own account. She said it was way too risky. If she wouldn't do it, no layperson should.

It's better just to buy stuff you like, without thinking about whether it will get more valuable. It will make your choices more honest too.
as long as you provide an unsubscribe link(and the people actually subscribed) it shouldn't matter what you do with an email list.

if you send them crap, they can always unsubscribe
No surprise on "fucks" :). Guess what most people are trying first...

Other words I have found: "hugs", "Tipp-Ex", "kills", "shots", "jokes", "blows".

Btw., their 404 is also nice.
One assumes that a core characteristic of spammers and spambots is that they ignore Robots.txt - or at least I would be extremely surprised if disallowing them in robots.txt has any effect.
As a final project for a photography class a year ago, I wandered across town and took many photos of the MIT tunnels. None are online (maybe I’ll put some up someday, but since these pictures worked much better as 16"x16" prints, I’m not sure how well they’d work at a few hundred pixels on a side on a screen), unfortunately. In any case, I recommend everyone who spends any substantial amount of time in the area wander around down there sometime. It’s an interesting eerie mood (especially at 3 AM) found in few other places.
They are willfully wrecking a worldwide communication medium just to save marketing costs by forcing the burden onto innocent people. They're doing more harm to our civilization than the average thief or killer. If there were a way to ban them from ever touching a networked computer for the rest of their lives, I would.
lol. It is not THAT bad!
Is Android Only Surging Because Apple Is Letting It?
I actually just ditched my iPhone for a phone only marginally more sophisticated than this[1], but with the same standby time.

I thought about trying to find an F3 instead, the only thing that put me off was the apparently very crummy text messaging. That's one thing that I still wanted to do.

It's quite hard to find a decent quality non-color-screen phone, though. Nokia still make at least one, but to cut costs they put the earpiece on the back side of the handset (combined with the loudspeaker). Which apparently makes it hard to talk on sensibly.

I think if a manufacturer took current technology and built a phone with a ten year old feature set and no colour screen, to a ~$80 RRP budget, they could get months of standby time and a tiny light device that would last for decades.[2]

[1] http://projectgus.com/2010/09/my-no-iphone-no-smartphone-exp... (I submitted it the other day but didn't get much interest, hope this doesn't come across as spamming.)

[2] Not sure how big the market is, though. Even in the "third world" countries everyone is talking about, fancy phones are usually a big status symbol.
"kiss", "rides", "s", "fishes", "buys", "plays", "plays chess with﻿", "sleeps with"
My GeoNet RSS feed has been going nuts with all the aftershocks.
I was working for AppleCare at the time this was written. AppleCare management saw a huge uptick in calls from customers curious about how to carry such an (at the time) odd form-factor and insisted we have a kbase article for it.

We all felt utterly ridiculous about it...
Art may go up in price for a large portion of pieces the problem however is art pieces require a substantial investment for minimal interest, you would make more money quicker by buying 10 year bonds or through more risky, compared to bonds, investments.

Not to mention the market for art isn't big.
Actually if she was an advisor, she could easily buy the stuff she was pushing before she pushed it.

Are there rules (besides the ethical ones) against that?
They shouldn't let MG Siegler write about iOS v. Android on TechCrunch. :)
But some people thought he was going to be good at baseball!
What?

I can only hope this is a joke.
Glad you like it! Hit me up at aaron@structlab.com if you have any feature requests or bugs to report. I have v1.1 in the pipeline right now, and would like to incorporate a couple more user-suggested changes before I submit to Apple if possible.
Can you try not using double negatives like "does not involve ... activities outside first-hand knowledge"? It's really hard to read, especially since I'm tired.
Sports programs do not pay for things at colleges. For all but a few universities the sports programs are subsidized by student fees, academic funds, and the endowment. Even at so called profitable sports universities they don't factor in the cost of stadiums and upkeep.
I read over some of the coverage and it stipulates that Cole was wearing a seatbelt, but due to the give of the seatbelt, he was still ejected.

The Explorer is unsafe, because if it does roll, it will be crushed by its own weight, regardless of speed. 1 in 2,700 Explorers manufactured between 1990 and 2001, has been involved in a fatal rollover. The numbers are worse for its predecessor, the Bronco II, where it is 1 in 500.

I couldn't find a source of truth for Cole's speed at the time, but by all accounts, it didn't sound like he did anything else wrong (he swerved to avoid a car driving on the wrong side of the road).
I think the key point is that the recipients of these emails often haven't subscribed; they've been "discovered."

I've seen companies do this, I've been on the receiving end of this. Both suck.
You'd hope someone could have an MVP up within a week or two!
I, too was annoyed at the obtuse presentation of message passing. I've been writing software for Mach/NeXTstep/MacOSX since 1988, and even before that, message queues between threads were in common use. I can't believe it took 5 or 6 slides to realize what they were presenting. I read the whole presentation and it definitely wasn't worth it.
Definitely. There was a case a couple of years ago. Search "Star Simpson" for more info.

Edit: the case was not about hacking "oficially"
Your (or my) definition of "shouldn't matter" is not at issue. The two primary above-board email distribution services (MailChimp and Campaign Monitor) will boot you to the curb if you go beyond 1% unsubscribes. I'm stating fact, not opinion.

Therefore, the issue is that if you serve them anything more than a few months after you get their email address, they are much more likely to unsubscribe. And on those services, unsubscribes count against your standing.
This, and other coverage of the android vs. apple competition seems to alway miss an important point. For instance he says "if the iPhone didn't exist, I'd certainly use an android", and that they are much better than other phones that are out there.

But if the iPhone didn't exist, the android phone wouldn't exist in its current form.
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Just as a point of clarification, I believe that marketers who send out millions of emails are bad people. They actively avoid doing the right thing, and have no interest in making anything better so long as they are making money.

If you read what I actually wrote, I did not suggest that accidental spammers (ie. your clients and mine) are bad people. Please understand that you are misquoting me.

I further believe that it's up to folks like you and me to be patient and help people do the right thing when possible.
Correct. But to be fair, it's a Canadian domain, and the article linked to a report on the Canadian equivalent of Can-Spam.
It's factually wrong for any country that isn't Canada.

I'm Canadian, but thanks for stopping by!
"They" aren't wrecking the system, so much as the inherent flaw in the system makes it inevitable. Email costs a negligible amount to send and there's no way to reliably control the overall system.

It's not a problem in isolation, either. The bigger issue of systems that no longer meet the definition of economic scarcity is growing. Scarcity has always been our way of controlling abuse by excess, but many things are becoming so cheap as to negate this method. We need to build other methods into our World.

Some systems that have dropped dramatically in price, such as phone usage minutes, haven't become a problem (much). Others, such as calories, have become severe ones. Email abuse didn't hurt much else, but it's nearly ruined email itself.
The background music and dramatic reading of Gate's Open Letter to Hobbyist's was annoying.
The debt ratios aren't directly comparable, because there are significant differences in the way housing finance is conducted in the two countries.

Unlike the US, Australian house loans are never non-recourse. This means that borrowers tend to continue to pay them off even if the notional value of the asset drops below that of the outstanding debt - they can't just mail the keys back to the bank and get out of the loan.

Most housing finance in Australia is provided through one of the "big 4" very large and heavily regulated banks - small regional banks are not a significant portion of the Australian market. Australian housing loans also tend to be variable-rate, as opposed to the fixed-rate that's the norm in the US.
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the accompanying article is much better, "A Taste of Home in Foil Packets and Powder" ~ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/weekinreview/05gilbertson....

The bit that caught my eye, "Australians get a dark-brown spreadable yeast-paste treat called Vegemite, for example". I have a picture of the item being described here ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/4961948487/ which came from a PR1M (Patrol Ration One Man) which I used earlier this year marching 240km for a lost bet on house prices ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/collections/7215762379...
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I didn't mean to leave you confused or scared. And true to the spirit of my article, I'm eager to help you or anyone else figure out the answer to the question of "am I doing the right thing" to the best of my ability. I'm not an email marketer, but if you want to talk about why you're concerned, then I'm hoping to turn your opinion of the relative value of my article.

Want to talk about it? I'm leftisto on Skype.
This is a brilliantly conceived ad and the problem with online advertising. Since about 2005, I've seen CTR's on ads and online ad values in general decrease significantly.

They're not as effective. It's not a big surprise, very quickly, we are naturally desensitized to ads.

Why aren't more online advertising folks thinking outside of the confines of the boxes we put our ads in? We know that people get annoyed with popus, that expanding flash ads don't work for everything and that text ads only work when they are extremely well matched to the content that the user really wants. However, why aren't people trying new things?

Is online marketing really just about "throwing enough stuff against a wall" or do the folks who made this ad have it right and there is a whole world of online advertising out there just waiting to be explored?
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puts("Screw you guys! I'm going home.");
}

I'm thinking they were glad to see you go because you took an hour to do 60 seconds worth of work.
One of the most important balances you are advised to learn as a tenure-track and a tenured professor is that between research and teaching. The college measures your performance, and hence decides if you get tenured, based, among others, on how much research (publications) and on your teaching evaluations.

At least officially, for a tenure track professor (mine is a Math dept.) both research and teaching are equally important, but while you can limit the time spent on teaching (preparing notes, office hours etc.) research and service take all the rest.

Spin off the med schools and research institutes, they say. University presidents “should be musing about education, not angling for another center on antiterrorist technologies.”

Isn't the purpose of a scholar that of creating knowledge and disseminating it? I don't think a professor that does only teaching can create knowledge, at least not as much as the one that does both --- with the right balance, obviously.
Tenure is weird, but its only a part of the reason university prices are so high.

First, getting a great education in a luxurious environment from world famous researchers is just going to be expensive. Unsurprisingly, not everyone is going to be able to afford that. Most people will have to find another way.

Second, government subsidies and regulation must raise the cost of education for the entire market -- private schools too. Ironically this hurts poor people the most.
10 second explanation of A star: you have a graph + matrix of node-node distances. You want to find shortest path from origin to destination. Standard Dijsktra only allows lookahead of one node at a time. A star allows you to incorporate a long range heuristic, like Euclidean distance from current node to destination. This gives a lower bound on current candidate path length and allows you to discard bad paths more rapidly.

Note that in all cases you need some basis for this heuristic (eg lat/lng of each node). Also, while 2D maps/nodes as cities is a great way to build your intuition for the algorithm, you can generalize it to arbitrary node types as long as heuristic function gives a good lower bound.
FYI, you can stream this from Netflix in high quality. Watched it on my friends Xbox the other day.
Why not tar?  Limitations of the tar file format
Looking in Adelaide, Australia for another developer/biz person co-founder with skills that complement mine. I'm planning to apply to YC for this (October) intake.

I'd like to remain a little stealthy about exactly what I'm working on, but it's location based, with mobile and web components. Despite that somewhat generic description I think I have one unique insight which just might have some fairly profitable ramifications.

I have some other ideas too, and I'm more than happy to discuss anything you might have, too.

Here's what my YC application currently say about my co-founder situation:

I don't have a co-founder, but I do have people who would join if this was successful.

I would like to find the right co-founder, though. Ideally I need someone who is a natural networker and business development person as the success of this project will come down to adoption. I'm good at the product management side of that, but someone who can drive building distribution and advertising partnerships would help a lot.

Other things that would be useful:

- Local
- Design taste for both web and mobile apps
- iPhone developer skills (I can handle Android)
- Java or maybe Python web-dev skills

Contact details on profile
joyent is nice and their support is tops
> "i can't be bothered to log in to give you feedback because i don't like your login"

Eh? I wanted to try this product out, but I don't have a Twitter account. In fact, I deleted it a few months ago. Now I have to create a new account just to use a (admittedly sorely needed) Seinfeld calendar? No thanks, I'll just use Vim and a text file.

I realize Streak.ly is a free application, so I have no right to complain. What bothered me about your comment was the assumption that everyone on the Internet should have a Twitter account.

> "i'm sure kyle will get around to supporting other login methods eventually."

I bet he will. But by the time he has a simpler login set up, people would have forgotten about Streak.ly altogether. The average Internet user (read: me) is a fickle being.
> make hay while the sun shines

If only we were actually making some hay, or put some of what we do make in the barn instead of gorging on it. I think a better analogy is "let's party while the champagne is flowing".

Instead of long term investments in permanent infrastructure and educating our citizens we are largely just padding out the middle class with spurious welfare benefits. That's almost worse than just throwing the money away because it is creating an enormous future liability and false expectation among average folks.
The two things that could cause Chinese demand to collapse is war, or a people's revolution. Both will be very very bloody, and you would worry about other things than just property value or annual salaries.

Be afraid for your life, no matter where on the globe you live.

As a Taiwanese, I always feel that tension on the bead, that possibility that either World War 3 or the world's largest and bloodiest popular uprising would erupt before my eyes, perhaps on the back of some trivial issue, like denying China the ore that it wants.
Not sure if its a great business plan, but its something that I have been looking around for quite sometime now. Very useful idea!
For the most part, I agree with what you're saying. The only problem is, "better" is subjective.

I've had cases where the person I'm working with can clearly explain why he feels one UI is better. And I was just as adamant about a different UI. I coded both up ways up, we played with both -- and we were still on opposite sides of the fence.

In this particular case, we ended up throwing both our solutions out the window and found something better, that we both agreed on. Unfortunately, it doesn't work out that easily.