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This is kinda odd, Google Checkout and Paypal were at each other's throats a few months ago. I wonder what the advantage for Google is?

Sure, it gets access to Paypal's large installed userbase, but that being said, is it conceivable that all Android users don't already have Google accounts with credit card info?
Reminds me of GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR. Did no one run the simulations before firing off the first suit?
I say this not as a kid who was bullied, but who had many friends who were bullied. And being a guy, this really applies to guys, girl bullying is a different dynamic.

The best way to overcome a childhood bully is to get in an old fashioned schoolyard fistfight with them. It doesn't matter if you loose, just don't loose badly. Fight them until your face is bloodied and your nose is broken, until your knuckles hurt, and you can barely move. Cheat, use blunt objects (no biting or weirdness), sucker punch, tackle, throw dirt in their eyes, whatever. No sharp weapons or anything that'll do permanent damage. You aren't fighting for honor here, this isn't feudal Japan. You're fighting for street credit.

If you're winning, stop when he stops. Make the exchange free of emotion and a cold business negotiation.

If he tries to fight you with a bunch of buddies, do whatever you can to move it in front of a neutral crowd.

9 times out of 10, they won't even show for the fight. When they do, put on a good show.

If you make it so troublesome to be a target, no matter how weird you are, they'll leave you alone. You have to make it a bad equation for them to pick on you. They pick on you because something is bad in their lives and they have to pick on somebody and by not fighting back you make it easy for them to use you as the outlet for their problems. Make it not easy, introduce friction into that equation.

If you do fight, 9 times out of 10, you'll end up being their friend and most of the time you'll find out that the bullies really have shitty life stories and need a friend.

Treat the bully like an angry dog, don't turn your back, don't run. Slow movements. He's not bullying you out of a rational decision, he's doing it out of instinct. He's a dumb and dangerous animal you should treat that way.

In my experience one fight is generally enough.
The Social Network comes out in theatre and first Zuckerberg gives $100 million to a public school and now they're allowing you to download your data.

Who knows what will happen if there is a sequel? :D
Seems like a reasonable way to cut the ever expanding deficit. The real question is will the Obama administration welcome the ideas, especially from outsiders? A good idea is a good idea, regardless of where it came from.
The page should be back online.
There's a used book sale I know about that charges a fee on the first day of the sale, and is free thereafter. It's basically a tax on the resellers, who all want to get access to the mis-priced books. If you go to used book sales, you're more likely to go on the free days, and hence won't see the resellers.
Can't Change Your Leader? Change How You Follow
> ...except that announcing your goals makes you less likely to follow through with them.

Not exactly. I know that study, and I've seen that Sivers article/talk, and it's good.

The worst thing you can do for goal-setting is to casually talk about your goals like they're inevitable.

Public commitments do help motivate, though.

The best might be publicly committing while acknowledging that you're not there. When I talk about my goals, you'll often hear me say, "This is neurosis-inducing, because I'm behind schedule."

That, of course, leads to lower happiness levels and higher neurosis levels, but I get a lot more done than most people do.

I agree with Derek not to talk about your goals casually to other people. I think public commitments, especially emphasizing that you've still got a lot of work in front of you - I think doing it that way is a net gain.
In most markets, the waitlist to run a Groupon promotion is so long that it's tough for a business to dictate terms.

That is a good reason to run a promotion with a groupon-clone.
Wouldn't getting over our fear of reprocessing Uranium make this a non-issue? That seems the simplest and most straightforward path... Just have to figure out a way to lock down the resulting plutonium.
Completely Agree with the exercise part of this - I exercise before work most days, and it's unbelievable how much of a difference it makes. I also try to go for a walk around lunchtime rather than staying inside to eat.

In terms of diet, I try to eat smallish meals every 3-3.5 hours. A nice mix of protein, complex carbs, vegetables, fruit, healthy fats like nuts etc works for me. I found the best way to avoid eating unhealthy stuff was simply not to buy it - sounds stupid but it's crazy how long it took me to do.
Guardian.co.uk created the graph

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/oct/04/microsoft-m...

we just added the little Motorola -> Apple line

Couple of other nice graphs:

- http://news.designlanguage.com/post/1252039209

- http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/whos-suing-whom-i...
Garage biotech: Life hackers [pdf]
> The combined size of social networks that aren't Facebook is over 1.5 billion people, probably more.

How much of that overlaps with Facebook? Approximately 500 million? Also, they're measuring total registrations: FB has probably close to a billion registrations on their 500 million actives. All that statistic tells you is that FB has room to grow.
I think you are very much right about this. Bullies stop bullying almost always after they have been beat down or at least stood up to. No amount of reasoning will change them. As an anecdotal example: I knew a kid that was bullied in High School constantly by another kid. I and a few others told the bully many times to lay off and nobody thought it was funny. So the bully wasn't doing it to impress anyone else or anything like that - he was just a dick. Then one day the kid being picked on snapped and pushed the bully...knowing full well a fight would start. The kid also knew the bully would most likely beat his ass. Well, unbeknown to the kid pushing back (and fortunately), there was a ledge with a shallow guard rail behind the bully that the bully fell back against and over the guard rail and then fell over the ledge. The bully fell about 15 feet to the ground and got hurt pretty badly. Had the bully not been hurt...not only would he have beat the kids ass but he would have continued to bully the kid - that I have no doubt in my mind. However, the bully never bothered that kid again after he recovered from his injuries.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488800
> This has been well understood since antiquity (in the CS world at least).

Yes I believe it was first Cicero that pointed this out. Or perhaps even Aristotle. ;)
this will probably hit 1,000 members in the next couple of hours. If you all find it useful, I'll take the time to keep it alive/engaging.
You can't own a song, but you can own a candy bar.

As much as the ads say "own the cd now" or "own the blu ray now" you own nothing. You are just paying for a license and some otherwise useless physical media.

Having said that, I still don't get why paying 99 cents for a song is so egregious if you've got a job.
I think it is a good idea but I will wait for the storm to settle.
Used book stores have a hard time figuring out how much math and computer books are worth. It seems like it was easier to sell them in the early 90s. Later there were so many new books being published during the dot com boom that most stores stopped accepting them. The books were becoming obsolete too quickly.

The best used book store for tech books that I have ever seen is http://www.powells.com/technicalbooks

It is my understanding that they buy technical books only on certain days when they can have local grad students come in and do the appraisals.
You mean something like DB experts working with server experts working with programmers working with UI designers?
Both posts are about the same domain.
People are missing the point - you can get a copy of your information but I doubt they'd erase their own copy for you.
many years ago, back when I was sawed-off software (arguably a much cooler name than prgmr.com) while the software for all this was still being built, my goal was to create software for these people. I failed, but it was an amusing story.

I though "well, first I need to sell some books, so I know what it's actually like" I'd hit craigslist for anyone wanting to move more than 500 books for under $0.10 per. At my peak I think I was approaching 10,000 books. Yes, I learned what it was like to be a book seller, but I got so distracted by actually selling that my software never amounted to anything salable. I eventually gave up when the competition's software reached a certain level of quality.

It was fun, though. did you know the barcodes on mass market paperbacks don't have ISBNs? trade paperbacks and hardcover paperbacks usually have ISBNs right on the barcodes, but not mass market paperbacks.

Mass market paperbacks have a publisher specific prefix, then the last four digits of the ISBN... so what I did was I created a lookup table that went from the publisher prefix to the ISBN prefix. whenever the software hit a unknown publisher prefix, it would ask the users to input the full ISBN by hand, from which it could fill in the database for that publisher prefix.

It was a lot of fun, but aside from getting distracted by actually selling books, I was focusing on the inventory control aspects of it... I was not picky about the sort of books I bought, so the vast majority would sit in inventory forever, and bring a dollar after shipping if they ever did sell. I talked about some kind of PDA scanner you could take to booksales, but I was obsessed with figuring out how to automatically identify the pre-barcode books (which seemed to be where the real money was) rather than going for the low-hanging fruit, the barcode books that were worth a few bucks.

my vast collection was donated to my brothers, who I think ran the bookselling software for a month before deciding it wasn't worth it. It ended up getting donated to the local "friends of the library" booksellers. (of course, the books had all been online for a year; anything that had a barcode and anything like a market value had gotten sold; I pity any other seller who wanted to pick through the mess.)

I did have some really neat pre-ISBN books. I had several translations of "the little red book" and a book by jack chick where he rants against something or other, I forget exactly. I think I still have a beautiful picture book about the American fission bomb tests over the pacific islands.
... along with Verizon Math: one cent is equal to one dollar.
Pimples Treatment - How to Get Rid of Pimples on the Face
It's not the number of people using it that matters so much as who those people are and how they use it.

Myspace was most popular among high school kids, indie music culture, and people looking for dates. Many people in their 20s and 30s started using it to keep in touch with old friends and make new contacts but it never grew beyond that. By the time they implemented the news feed, it was too late. Facebook had already gotten the momentum.

Now, people (and organizations) of all sorts have Facebook profiles and pages. Families, adults, colleagues, friends, new acquaintances, all use Facebook to stay connected. Sure, the kids will almost certainly find something new to play with soon, but that won't matter anymore.

Facebook is huge, and now pretty clearly shows enormous potential to continue growing.
I hate to say this, but this is true of any service. Facebook, Google, Twitter is within their right to change their respective term of service at any time, to enforce those terms of service at any time, and to even revoke the usage of a service to a user. I find that this would be specially true when the doing business with a foreign based company.

Another problem I have not seen anyone bring up, and the main reason I never bought fugg.ly, is Libya's Axis of Evil status. The United States can can potentially put an embargo restricting ownership to .ly domains.
Each ccTLD is delegated to a competent operator within the country it is designated. In almost all cases (except some historic ones) this is to an entity with approval of the national government of the country. They in turn set their own regulations on domain eligibility criteria, pricing and so forth.

So when you buy a .ME domain, you are subject to the relevant law and regulation of Montenegro, for .CO in Colombia, for .LY in Libya and so forth. If those countries elect to allow registrations outside their borders, that is their choice, but there is no external regulation on how they do that. They are accountable internally to the local Internet community of the country, and the local laws.

ICANN, on the other hand, is responsible for regulating many aspects for generic top-level domains (currently TLDs with 3 or more characters, such as .COM, .NET, .INFO).
Holy crap this could be a time sink!

Proceeding with caution :)
> Android has made great strides in market share, but that's about it.

That's about the whole of the argument, yes. :-)

> Have you used a Droid 2?

One of my techs got one a while back; one of my other techs got a Droid X just a couple of weeks ago. They both seem extremely happy with them. Several of my clients -- including those that aren't technically savvy -- also have Droid devices, and seem fairly satisfied with them.

> They're loaded with bloatware now... it's like buying a Dell PC.

That's a funny example to use, since Dells these days really aren't all that bad. They certainly are nowhere near as bad as, say, Acer.

> Android is a joke.

Eh. 32% of the people that bought a smart phone within six months prior to Jan 2010 - Aug 2010 seem to disagree.

> ...but Apple is still delivering the best mobile experience.

Before September of this year, I'd've agreed with you.

Most people don't seem to care much about which device has which camera or how many LEDs there are for flash or what-have-you; that seems to be more a software developer complaint.
Seems like the least we can do is use it. I propose we use this by default for links to bing.
I mean, it's an odd statistic. You can use U-235 directly, or you can burn it in an LWR, getting back just 1/5th its equivalent in Pu-239, and use that. If you're trying to maximize fissile input for fast breeders, LWR spent fuel isn't an efficient way.

And moreover, with mined uranium there's no limit to your rate of expansion other than mining. You don't have to sit and wait for your atoms to reproduce (doubling time 20-40 years), when you can just dig up new ones.

Some back of the envelope numbers:

Assuming 3% enriched fuel burned to 40 GWd/ton, and 33% thermodynamic efficiency, the US nuclear fleet (~100 GWe) consumes around 100 tons/year of U-235 in fuel. At about 10 kg/MWe fissile inventory, just 10 years' of present US uranium consumption would be enough (1,000 tons) to start up a 100 GWe fleet of fast breeders -- same as the current LWR fleet.

I found a table of fissile inventories here:

http://nuclear.inl.gov/deliverables/docs/msr_deliverable_doe...
There are some really great open-source Python libraries for UHF RFID tags (battery-free tags that can be read from 6+ meters away): http://www.ros.org/wiki/hrl_rfid

These form the basis of my PhD work. Turns out you can do some cool stuff when you couple it to an autonomous, mobile, manipulating robot: http://www.hsi.gatech.edu/hrl/pdf/pervasive_computing_2010.p... (PDF)
Renting livingroom, Valley
Guys, hello.
Addressed to all who live in the Valley - tell me how easy it is to find accommodation and how much it usually cost? We have two.
My wife travels a lot for work, she's constantly using google maps on the iPhone to find directions while talking on the phone to the person she'll meet. She's not very technical, she just does it without thinking about the steps involved because it isn't really very complicated when you do it.
To makers, Android isn't a competitor to the iPhone, its the base upon which you build that competitor.
While I don't necessarily disagree with you, do you have any research to back this up?
A lot of these points are valid. We are talking about local journalism. I use the word "newspaper" to describe the business and staff which comprise the folks that are creating the content, spending time with real people face to face and creating culture. People can call this piece marketing, but I call it supporting what I believe in. The fact is that SI and other companies are finding newer and better ways for "newspapers" to thrive. This directly keeps our nation's local journalists employed which equals more boots on the ground reporting and informing us about local issues. It may be tougher for folks from large cities to make the inter-personal connection I am discussing here, but the main point is defending American culture is valuable in units of measure beyond US Dollars.
Legal Usury: The skeevy business of payday loans (ft: Swish Marketing)
No need for a 'permanent storage solution' for thorium waste. What little waste there is decays to safe levels in less half a century.
Let's assume there's total overlap, meaning everyone who has a non-FB account also has a FB account. Now let's assume all of those smaller, but substantially sized, networks started inter-communicating. Who would stay on Facebook? Why would you stay on the centralized network with 500 million people when you can spend all your time on the open network with 1.5 - 2 billion people?

As for active versus registrations, we can't be sure of that from anyone, but rest assured, a decentralized network has much greater potential than Facebook does. Especially in the rest of the world where Facebook isn't nearly as popular.
While I'd love to continue this pointless debate with you, I think I must be too "ignorant, stupid, or both" to bother.
You know, what exactly can Facebook do to make people like you happy?

Facebook has to make money to do this they have to have users to do this they have to make a good product to do this they have to hire good engineers and to do that they have to make money, oh and if they're super evil no one will want to work for them, let alone use their product

Facebook really isn't as evil as most of these comments make out, and the fact Facebook lets you download your data isn't good enough makes you, whatever the opposite of a fanboy is, to Facebook.

Can I download my data off Google? Flickr? Any other major consumer site? Amazon doesn't hold my hand if I want to move to another service.

If you assume anything non-evil that a company does is "because the PR says so" I pity your outlook on the world.

Here's what I think. I don't think Facebook is evil. I think Facebook is young and they're pushing the boundaries of the web, and sometimes - sometimes - they over step a line and do something wrong. And what do Facebook do? They apologize. They change the features. And it doesn't make any difference to people like you.

Oh and by the way, normal users don't give a shit about any of this.

Haters gonna hate, indeed.
Remember yesterday's bogus "Small businesses getting taken for a ride by the FTC" story?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1761440

Hey, their story made it to the big time!
My understanding is, it's a url shortener that predominantly links to erotically charged destinations.
The idea of the last test is to compare how the browser renders untagged images and page elements. On a wide gamut display, the untagged elements will be over-saturated, unless you're using Firefox and have it properly configured to assume sRGB on untagged elements.
I know that since 'the good parts' it's almost become the ironic t-shirt of the programming world, but I really love JavaScript, here's some of my reasoning:

1. By now everyone knows of JavaScript's functional features, which I must admit are awesome, but many other languages share these. But what few languages share regarding these is they're a very common part of standard js programming. A lot of new python and even ruby programmers have never touched the functional features of the language, but even a copy & paste js 'programmer' has probably written a lambda function, used a first class function, and maybe even used a closure.

2. It's fundamentally different than most other other languages. I love Haskell and it's awesome type system, but I also love JavaScript and it's true rejection of a type system, even throwing out classed based inheritance for prototypical. It's also a world where events and asynchronous computing are completely commonplace. What's interesting about this is that it is related to number 1, in other words it is an extremely practical application of principles of functional programming. Having written my share of parallel C code, writing concurrent/parallel code is much more of a pain without basic features of a functional language. On top of this being able to easily implement things like currying is actually pretty amazing. At the same time the language is very, very simple at it's core.

3. The above 2 reasons are things I would expect from a less popular and therefore harder to distribute language. Common Lisp is definitely more interesting of a language than JavaScript, but if I want to share something I've done in Common Lisp with someone, they better also be a fan of the language. On the other hand if I make something really cool in JS I can easy share it with anyone, even people who think IE is the 'internet'. Also I'm pretty sure that more people of varying skill levels can read JavaScript than any other language. So if I want to demonstrate something, for a very general audience JavaScript is much better than C, and for demonstrating functional programming techniques it's worlds better than Lisp or ML.
As somebody who knows...skip the traditional martial arts and get them into wrestling and Brazilian Jui Jitsu. Anything else will just turn into an embarrassing situation.
Why income distribution can't be crowd-sourced
when I was inventorying my books, my goal was five seconds to scan a book, including dealing with the exceptions.

Laser barcode scanners are in a different league from the barcode scanners on smartphones that decode a photo. the bottleneck is how fast you can position the book.

(of course, in his case, he's got to wait for his thing to go look up the price, which may take considerably more time.)
The premise of patents is that Facebook would not have done this innovation if it was not protected by patents. I highly doubt that is the case.
The book "Hollywood Secrets of Project Management Success" shows how similar Hollywood and software business are. http://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Management-PRO-best-Practice...
It may also be that face-to-face, he realizes it's a lot easier for someone to haul off and smack a hippie than it is via the Internet.

On the other hand, I think just about everyone comes across a lot friendlier in person, merely because it's easier to portray interest and friendliness than over email.
How to Deal With the Bootstrappin’ Blues
The industry did a phenomenal job predicting the outcome of the iPhone and the iPad, didn't it!