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I think the fundamental issue is in the "how-to" nature of this book. I wouldn't expect Amazon to remove a book that merely discusses pedophilia, however controversial (or disgusting) the ideas within it are. The outrage in this case is about a book that appears to be a how-to guide for those wanting to engage in child molestation (which is a very serious crime).

Likewise, I would expect Amazon to keep a philosophical book about terrorism (seen through the eyes of terrorists) amongst its listings. But I don't think they should sell a book on how to create homemade bombs and then board planes with said devices.

People may disagree with their business decision, but I don't see their actions as being contradictory or unreasonable.

On a side note, self-published Kindle books that are morally questionable in nature are far more common and (often) hardcore (e.g., incest, rape, etc...) than mainstream printed books. They also sell well, since the system of digital delivery spares buyers from any form of embarrassment.
> BTRFS was started by Oracle. There are contributors from Redhat and other places now, it's bigger. Oracle could fire Chris Mason and BTRFS should continue.

On the other hand, ZFS works, is pretty stable, and is already available on BSDs as well as Solaris. Furthermore, while the OSX port effort was stopped (apparently due to legal/licensing concerns) it could be restarted depending on Oracle's attitude. And as kia points out, ZFS/btrfs if a redundancy and Oracle "owns" both projects. Oracle tends to eliminate redundancies in product space, so it's unlikely both projects will continue in parallel.

I don't think btrfs having been started by oracle will have much impact in the decision.
Lack of focus is something some of us may need to just learn to fight, whatever the underlying causes.

It may be hard to concentrate and stay on task if you're unhappy, but there's reason to believe that willfully improving focus can lead to more happiness, if only by virtue of accomplishing tasks and getting that sense of accomplishment.
I just wonder what viewing the listing is going to do to my Amazon Recommendations...
"I had to make up my mind, either to stop programming and become a real, respectable theoretical physicist ... or become a programmer"

Humbling to think about how far we have advanced and the shoulders of the giants we stand on. The alternatives at my disposal are not in the same league.
Is sex drive first?
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. If they GPL ZFS, they end up risking a major reason people choose Solaris. ZFS is very much a "brand" among systems administrators. It took quite a while for Sun to convince people to put their precious business critical data on ZFS, and it'll be the same story for btrfs.

Both of these projects are costing them so little, it's much easier to justify keeping them going than it is to take on the unknown business risk of making ZFS directly merge-able into the Linux kernel. Sun clearly chose the CDDL to keep this from happening, and post-merger, you've probably got the same people in charge of the Solaris and ZFS projects, so strategies aren't going to change overnight.

tl;dr: Oracle has low, predictable expenses for development of both btrfs and ZFS, and there's no reason to rock the boat for <1m/year in expenses.
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I liked the piece a lot and it is roughly right. However, as a technical co-founder, I think a good measure of a business co-founder is whether he tries to solve the technical problems himself. e.g. by learning a bit of php and hacking something together.

Not only does that show that he's resourceful and scrappy, but it also makes it more likely that he'll be able to talk about the product coherently i.e. understanding and keeping in mind the constraints that software development has. It calibrates his intuition, if you will.
smanek's point still stands. If your plan was incorrect and what you THOUGHT was going to make you money, doesn't do so, then you still don't have a business.
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It's even harder than that: You need a good technical co-founder that you have good chemistry with.
We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.

-- Ellen Ullman
Not only that, but what makes a good technical co-founder depends on the business.

Le sigh, co-founder dating is hard.
only 10% of all ad dollars. Only?
I more or less admitted that in my post.

I was curious if the representation of women in Ted talks tagged with "technology" was skewed, so I searched the Ted talks tagged as "business." 25/156 are women by women. Again about 15%.
I for one am praying this is just a marketing stunt for the Kindle.
Sounds like a great idea! Email me as well!
Confirmed. It's available in .pdf, .epub, and .mobi.
If bytecode became the standard it would further obscure scripting code and make it tougher to read other people's code.
after a long hard fight i made it faster (overall but especially in FF) .... the CanvasPixelArray Object (which is not an Array in Webkit ....) is a real bastard.
I'd argue that btrfs is not a product, but part of their support for the Linux platform. Oracle has a big Linux install base, and the primary commercial competition for these types of installs this is Microsoft SQL Server. The more powerful and useable Linux is, the less attractive a Windows-based option looks.
No, existing remotes do this horribly. Modern Cable subscriptions come with 300+ channels. I don't want to have to hold down an arrow key for minutes looking for something. I don't want to have to memorize what damn channel is AMC HD.

GoogleTV lets me type-in three letters: AMC. I get the channel. I get YouTube videos for snippets from their latest shows. I can type in House and immediately see if it's playing on any of the two dozen channels it's syndicated on, grab some episodes from my network, watch videos online of it, and read the Wikipedia page.

Try using a computer without being able to type actual words. You're only allowed to use the on-screen keyboard provided by your OS and the arrow keys to move around and confirm keys to press. I'll check back in when you're pulling your hair out trying to do anything in 5 minutes. The common computer experiences are merging with your TV. Apple's remote doesn't do anything to solve it. It's simple for the sake of being simple, and it's worthless as a modern computing remote because of it.
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No, I am not trolling. My initial remark (very early in this thread) was just that the formulation wasn't clear to me. I thought that might trigger a rewording that would help later readers. After that, I just answered questions about why I found (past tense!) it not clear. I also think I made clear that I do understand the problem:

*Apparently, we must deduce that all boxes get closed between visits from "they will not know anything about the previous prisoners' experiences ahead of time". I am OK with that,*

but I guess I should have been even clearer. It may seem nitpicking, but to solve this, I need two things:

- an understanding of what the problem is.
- a solution to the problem.

I find it natural that, getting stuck at step 2, to revisit step 1, looking for something I missed on reading it first (Quoting Polya: 'What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition?'). When I did that, I started to wonder what the description tried to say. Since the trivial answer that I gave in my initial reply, I did get that, but it didn't exactly jump out to me.

Thanks for the polite replies, but let's close this discussion. It is helping neither of us.

[Dmn: initially, I thought "of course the probability is way better than (1/2)^100'. There are only 100! permutations to choose between", but rereading the problem once more I begin to wonder whether 'in which he randomly distributes 100 pieces of paper'* actually implies that each box receives one piece of paper. Please don't reply, or I may feel obliged to apologize again.]
I don't entirely understand this. The networks make their money by both selling ads and through cable subscriber revenues. They've been pretty cool about allowing content to be streamed on the web, and they do so with limited ads and no subscriber revenue.

This has only worked because the users couldn't get that content on their big screen (without jumping through some hoops).

You call this a "War Against The Consumer" because the networks don't want to give away their product for free? I fail to see how the Networks are the bad guy in this.
I like this:

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/03/advice-on-eq...

Though he makes it seem easier than it really is.
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It makes no sense to say that individuals and businesses must offer an open forum for any speech anyone can think of. Would you allow the KKK to hold nightly rallies in your home? How about Islamic terrorists? Freedom of speech is a requirement for some governments, but private parties are not required to make themselves a platform for anybody else's speech. He didn't offer detractors space in his book, and Amazon is not required to offer him space in their marketplace.
Amazon is a long tail book seller, not a specialty store. I'd hope it would have every single book it possibly could. It needs not be expurgated for my protection.
Why do we always hear about non-technical cofounders looking for technical co-founders, rather than the other way around?

Is this like some singles bar where 80% of the people are male?

I for one would like to find a hustler who really knows how to hustle.
I'm glad you've found a new sociological/psychological toy you can use to tell yourself that your discussion partners are too preoccupied with social signalling to actually have a position, but it would still be polite to at least pretend to engage with their arguments.
Developers should all be well aware of the annual holiday closing and plan accordingly. App store sales on Christmas Day have been very high. Here's Flurry's report from last year as an example: http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/12/28/flurry-app-store-sees...
Amazing Free Dive Into a Hole in the Ocean
This amazing base jump into Dean’s Blue Hole in the ocean is breathtaking.
Will you share the traffic numbers to illuminate at what point the free-with-no-credit-card GAE quotas really kick in?
The Biology of B-Movie Monsters
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Which requires active attacks, ie MITM. And stopping MITM is essentially impossible - the best you can do is use our current CA setup, which assumes the original download of the certificate you got wasn't hijacked.

In preventing passive listeners, like Firesheep, this would work 100% effectively anywhere it can work at all. The only way it reduces security is in making people who don't understand MITM attacks feel they're safer than they are - at absolute worst it's like you don't have it installed.
Are you joking? Do you know what shift is? Why would you write all caps emails or anything else?
I was surprised when I learn pg was using vi instead of emacs, too.
Right, I mentioned BackBone in one of my other posts. You can bold on what you need to jQuery via some supporting projects, but many of the supporting projects are not at the maturity level of some of the larger toolkits. I do like BackBone but prefer to use Dojo's approach when it comes to large apps. jQuery can still be utilized with Dojo as well, where dojo provides all of the application architecture services and jQuery provides the UI services.
Comparing nightly KKK rallies to having a book available in stock if you search for it is hardly appropriate. Obviously free speech has its limitations, but absolutely none of those apply here.
In spite of this being repeated so many times still it is so easy to fall into the trap. At-least it was for me. Working on my latest project we discussed so much on the feature, design and others but never on how to get users. We kinda assumed that once the project is done users will be waiting for us.
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Relevant article from December '08: Social Media Ad revenue Will Never Match Search
http://voltagecreative.com/articles/social-media-ad-revenue-...
Freedom of speech is the liberty you enjoy to publish something - that is, make it available to the public as opposed to your immediate social circle. It allows you to speak your mind without legal restraint (subject to some narrowly tailored practical exceptions), but does not guarantee access to a platform from which to do so more effectively. In general, you're going to have a hard time finding an outlet for how-to books on illegal activities, which make no pretense of having literary or artistic value. Hence the popularity of the 'True Crime' genre, police procedurals and so on, which offer the reader a vicarious thrill.

One minor benefit of this work being published, albeit an unintentional one if it is genuine, is that it will give investigators and mental health professionals a better insight into the methods and motivations of paedophilia than they might be able to obtain within the criminal justice system - that is, the author who feels free to express himself may be more informative than the one attempting to justify or explain himself to an interlocutor. It will find its most diligent readers at the FBI and among forensic psychologists.
But how would you tell your TV what to show you? I'm not talking about spending the evening lounging around searching for interesting things on the web. I'm talking about the 2 minutes to enter "Vienna Vegetable Orchestra" so you can find the video that you already know about.

Do you have one of these that you happily use? Are you referring to using the iPod as a remote to directly control it instead of the included remote? If so, and if you've got this working, I can agree with you that this is a much better model for operation.
I find it mildly amusing that the Android phone I use, an HTC Magic, has hardware acceleration for Java built in. Talk about a white elephant.
This. The later you come into a given project, the less equity you would be justifiably entitled to.

As to the original question, if you are starting from zero and you want a means of avoiding critical shareholder deadlocks, you can split 45/45/10 with the smaller portion going to a party both founders agree will be impartial. This person can be the initial angel, or perhaps a minor founder who accepts a smaller chunk in order to maintain his dayjob.

You can also maintain 50/50 splits of ownership but still break executive deadlocks via a third vote by mandating a third seat on the board. This won't help fundamental shareholder deadlocking, but disagreements rarely go to the shareholder vote level.
You definitely have to factor in whether you enjoy cooking or not, in any rational (in the economist's sense) calculation.
Absolutely. There's no question that without IP, things would be different. The real question is if it would be a better or worse world.
What is the APT space? Guessing it has nothing to do with the advanced packaging tool. ("apt" is not very google-able, and no acronyms particularly stood out to me).
The article misses the point - Apple is aiming for a particular niche market, and it achieves that very successfully. Its niche market will pay through the roof for devices which look nice and make it easy to do the most common things but very hard or difficult to do something outside a particular square.

However, this is only a small (albeit high paying) niche, and to suggest that other companies are making poor business decisions because they aren't targeting the same niche that Apple does is simply wrong. I'm sure entering a URL, for example, on the Sony-Google remote would be far easier and more obvious than on the Apple one - and so I'm sure the majority of consumers would prefer that one over the Apple one.

In summary, all the designs on the page are appropriate for a market segment the brands they are being marketed under target.
"How I built a zero energy cost, zero carbon home server"
The same is true of print-on-demand and DVD offerings, unfortunately. You can opt for a somewhat lower profit share and be listed on regular Amazon, which is probably the best way to go - the on-demand store has the flavor of a seedy remainders outlet.
I'm interested to hear this too. On the one hand, I went with a minimal 'give me your email' address form that I could make as attractive as possible without putting too much effort into it -- on the other hand, now that it's out there, I feel like I should have my value prop, an intro, a _reason_ to leave your email address.

It's very difficult to leave it as a static page when I know that it can be better, but I'm fighting the urge to keep tweaking the prelaunch page and instead, keep working on product. I do have a deadline to meet, after all.

Here's what I went with: http://plumrss.com/
Calculating the balance between opposing gravitational and inertial forces is yet another reason why cats are awesome.
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I'm reminded of what Malcolm X said to the civil rights demonstrators:

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
I'm sure there are plenty of other books on Amazon which are how-to guides for illegal acts, from murder to smoking marijuana. Should they be banned?

I just found one as an example, Be Your Own Undertaker: How To Dispose Of A Dead Body.
Granted. Mobile devices are handicapped in terms of embeddable functionality, but that isn't limited to Flash. Java applets, the only obvious alternative for this use case, are in the same boat. I think that if mobile users want to upload >100Mb files over the air it's fair to make them use an app.
Wrote basically the same thing a month ago.

http://comments.apreche.net/166/no-you-need-a-technical-co-f...

The one thing that I don't understand is how people are willing to be paid in equity. Do you people not have to pay rent? Are you living in your parents basements with someone feeding you?

In the words of many a Taxi driver "NO! You pay me cash now!"

Lottery tickets don't keep the lights on.
This advice fails when it suggests to pick up something hard and hit a boy in the back of the head with it. That could lead to serious injury and I think would likely do serious long term damage to both young people's lives.

I'm sold on the fight back attitude, but not with that level of danger. And that is the problem with the whole fight back attitude in general. You can teach it, but you must also teach respect for human life and how easy it can be to seriously damage somebody permanently.
I think distasteful publications should be available for sale unless their publication breaks the law.

I find it difficult to understand how a guide encouraging paedophilia _doesn't_ break the law in some way.
Unfortunately no computing setup can be zero-carbon because a huge amount of "carbon" will be released in its manufacture.

Good article though.
Freedom of speech is that ungainly weapon rolled out in circumstances such as these. It is misdirection.

Freedom of speech is a fundamental and inviolate right of the individual. If I wanted to hold the belief that people with the name tom are spawn of the devil and deserve 100 lashings every day, then, that is an inviolate right.

However if I publish my thoughts in a book there is no moral or legal onus for any publisher or retailer to touch it. (Of course; if a retailer makes a habit of suppressing marginal books such as those, it will get a bad name, so social pressure might force them to be less restrictive.)

I see no problem for Amazon to make either a moral or business decision not to carry this book; a book which contains unacceptable thinking to a large majority of the populace. If to carry it means negative publicity and possibly lost sales they have a duty to their shareholders to mitigate that.
Finding this is hard, especially because we non-techies are likely on a learning curve when we're having substantive discussions with you about the evolution of our product.

But I think that as long as we're informed on technology (opportunities and hurdles) and have truly crystallized some initial business plan, I think we're better poised to experience that essential chemistry.
"This comment will be controversial, especially for North Americans and Western Europeans."

No not really. It will perhaps offend the bizarre establishment that has invaded school administration. However, this is bully repulsion 101.

If the system doesn't protect you, you must find a technique that does. Would we avoid school shootings,etc, if we taught our kids to stand up for themselves, don't let yourself get bullied? Real self respect vs the artificial "everyone's special" of today's thinking?

Sidenote: Why is this behavior (bullying) tolerated in school? What other part of our culture accepts bullying as "part of growing up" or "just the way it is?"
I'm hoping he doesn't mean "Advanced Persistant Threat" (gag), which is a marketing term invented after the Google/Aurora debacle to try to sell products and services ("APT defenses") on a "don't let this happen to you" message.

He might mean "Application Penetration Test", except that app pentests rarely pivot to internal networks and passwords (they're usually part of the software development lifecycle and are about "is this app safe to deploy").
Does this mean Yahoo gets access to all your friends' email addresses?

Or is that a moot point since they are likely drinking from the Facebook data firehose already?
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I have never quite figured out how I'd teach my kid this. I never had to deal with violent bullies myself (even though I was totally a geek, I kind of made friends with skaters and druggies etc, and I later heard a lot of them respected me) so I have no life-experience with fighting back.

Only time things ever came to blows, the other guy (who struck first) was 8-10 years older than me, muscular and a good 2-3 feet taller, and that is a fight you do NOT fight.
Well, it depends on the jurisdiction and the advice it gives - but disposing of a corpse may not in itself be illegal.

If the book was a how to on "How to kill someone and dispose of the body", that might be another matter :)
"Likewise, I would expect Amazon to keep a philosophical book about terrorism (seen through the eyes of terrorists) amongst its listings. But I don't think they should sell a book on how to create homemade bombs and then board planes with said devices."

Not sure if it covers boarding planes, but:

http://www.amazon.com/Anarchist-Cookbook-William-Powell/dp/0...
On the other hand, a business plan without technology is not a startup either. It's just a hopeful, possibly-better-thought-out-than-normal idea.
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A lot of the heavy lifting has been done. OpenCv and HandVu ( http://www.movesinstitute.org/~kolsch/HandVu/HandVu.html ) have got a lot of the "Huge project" bit done and packaged into easy to use libraries already.
I like the concept, but it would be nice to see a better selection of books about the craft of building software, rather than language guides. For example, books along the lines of "Code Complete", "The Pragmatic Programmer", etc.
This can also apply to the business world: As soon as some other company tries to damage you in an unfair way you are supposed to fight.

But like for kids, the other guy can be just too big for you to fight back.
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If you sign-up for the newsletter why can't it all come in a single e-mail versus a separate e-mail for each category?
I liked this post until he started talking about fighting the Chinese mafia and jump kicking criminals. At that point I wasn't sure whether his point was, "take your own bullying into your own hands" or "watch me brag about how badass I am on the internet."