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It seems like a perfectly useful concept to me: if there are indeed goods that, by their nature, only some social arrangement like a government or a de facto government can provide, and if I think that at least some of these goods are things that ought to be provided, it follows that there are are reasons to favor having governments. I don't personally care much what phrase we use to describe them. I have in mind things that even relative state-minimalists like F.A. Hayek had in mind as legitimate roles for governments, like provision of basic health care, defense against invasion, police and fire services, and a social safety net.

(One counterargument would be to claim that there are no goods that, by their nature, can only be provided by a government, but I don't read that as what you're arguing. Of course, another counterargument would be to claim that no such goods are desirable, or at least not desirable enough to justify government existing.)
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Totally recommend that book too.

The fully story is a bit more complicated than you can squeeze into a hollywood movie.

Well, you can say the same about the book, but you do have to start somewhere.
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Because java did make it and python doesn't compile to machine code (with the exception of using a jit compiler maybe)?
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Now he just needs two cameras, for a stereoscopic display.If Avatar and HTTYD told us anything, it's that the killer app of 3D cinema is flying sequences.
I think these old articles provide valuable perspective. There's an interesting book from 1998 analyzing Apple's fall up to that point:

http://amazon.com/dp/0887309658

I'm partway through and so far it's good. The detailed analysis untainted by the company's current success is quite interesting. At that point Jobs had come back to be involved in the company but not yet officially taken over as CEO (publicly he said he wasn't up for it).
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I'm trying to work out at what level your question makes sense. I'm unaware of a GCC-based Python compiler, so surely there's nothing to merge there?

As for Java: http://gcc.gnu.org/java/ (this has been in for years)
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Why should he stay behind? What does he owe to the people of the state of India? If already gave them far more than they would get from most of the poor people.
Both of them? ;)
Wow they've done an awesome job. Another massive blow for Adobe, losing the battle once again (and I'm a flash developer)
While I'd agree it's incorrect to call Tumblr a niche site (it's demographic is too broad to be niche), I disagree with your logic. Why can't a niche site be in the top 100? If a niche is big enough, why not? Facebook at one time was in the college niche.
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Come on that's not busy; that's a lot of good well-curated content on one of the best design blogs out there. Every site does not have to look like the Google homepage.
I prefer the Flash version, to be honest. The typography is a bit lacking at the moment.
Does anyone else think this dance was just to get a baseline valuation from a serious buyer before they IPO'ed?

It seems like there is too much resolve in this decision to pass.
It was common sense in 1977, when the people I worked with were connecting their computers together.
Tsutaya is not going to be happy. Considering how their shops always have piles of writable DVDs next to the cashiers, they obviously thrive on ripping.
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Any normal todo-list app could do. Actually any text editor such as notepad.
I work for a business that is exactly like that, owned by a Gentleman general entrepreneur.

It's very weird, a little C/C++ in the morning, some PHP in the afternoon, and then massaging some huge datasets with Python and JavaScript in the evening could be just your regular day, in fact, I think I had at least three just like that. It could be fun, if you like that sort of thing. It can also be absolutely exhausting.
I don't get why Google doesn't simply clone Groupon. The barrier to entry seems very low and I can't imagine how they couldn't replicate their business for 5B$.
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A lot of corporations are coming out against Wikileaks, and I don't feel the same way. What are they considering that I'm not
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Just routers and servers, and in the US, an army to stop people stealing copper wires.
They're considering how uncomfortable it is to have their arms twisted.
You know what's cooler than six billion dollars? Nothing, you idiots, take the money.[1]

[1] http://twitter.com/#!/DavidKaneda/status/10857535430983680
Seems like you could almost use TeuxDeux http://teuxdeux.com/ with this system.

1. To start add everything to the 'Today' column

2. Look through, action what catches your eye, dismiss any items to the 'someday' list

3. Completed items just get crossed off, if it's a recurring task, cross off and re-add to the next days column or for speed just drag it across

4. Incomplete tasks auto rollover at the end of the day

Granted it's not perfect for this system but it might work.
In the early 70s the XEROX PARC guys had defined a computer as a communications device rather than a computing device.
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Isn't that why virtualization was invented?
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I know two guys over in Europe who have bought one. Both cited Flash as the primary driver.
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I just donated via Paypal yesterday. Guess I'll donate again, but via credit card, today.
25 million members of a mailing list is not a $6 billion defensible advantage.
What better way to learn through osmosis than immersing yourself in a foreign (in terms of familiarity not nationality) cultural environment? Then youre learning every second of every day, if youre trying to or not.
Just read this to understand why.

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If we found a way to make BDUF work reliably, it would transform the industry overnight, and turn software development into a recognisable engineering discipline. The fact that we haven't yet, and that one particular approach failed, doesn't mean that it isn't possible. Nor does it mean we should stop trying.

Iterative development is an interesting stop-gap, but it's certainly not the be-all and end-all we should be looking for.
I'm not against governments, I'm against the way they're being run today.
Anyone else has the problem that they need to log in with a Google account before being able to see posts on Google Groups? I even have this on the group I created, which I set to the most public settings.
Paypal also took the account of the Wau Holland Stiftung because they collect money for wikileaks.

PayPal told us we are "in violation of PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy regarding (...) financial support to Wikileaks" and took our account.
http://twitter.com/#!/wauland/status/10987193778569216
I got to the bit where he said he was 40, then googled his birthdate (1955) to arrive at 1995
Your (bootstrapped/lean/side project) startup was profitable from day one?
I would love to read about startups which were profitable from day one and gained a lot of traction! Please share your story.
I read the manifesto; it's troubling for people who, like me, are in support of the general principle of greater transparency but don't support an ideological reading of the US as an authoritarian conspiracy.

As for "morally unassailable", that's a ridiculous assertion. HN can't even decide whether or not TechCrunch was right to publish the Twitter emails; this is at a much more morally complicated level. The potential to put people in harm's way is being used by politicians as a stick to beat WikiLeaks, but nonetheless there's something to it.

When Amnesty International says you're putting people in danger, there's more than just hype to it.
* Continued for another year on the roller coaster ride that is mobile services + applications, im now not sure its actually possible for me to get of this roller coaster so hanging on for and enjoying the ride!

* Fortunate to work with and meet some great people

* iPhone apps:

* Bath Rugby http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/bath-rugby/id391265972?mt=8

* Jeego premium core application
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/jeego-ecards/id387728936?mt=8

* Three Disney Ecards applications
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http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/disney-christmas-ecards/id405...
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/disney-spooks/id398583345?mt=...

* Work with two startups and help from the mobile side of things
- http://bardowl.com/
- http://www.vpar-golf.com/

* Two other iPhone apps that should be in the store in the new year

* Launched http://www.jeego.me and mechanised its maintenance

* Launched our consumer focused site creator http://www.sitetaga.com and heavily testing its two complementary sister products for launch in the new year

* Spoke at and attended some great mobile conferences including Openmic, GoogleIO and Droidcon

* Taught myself Rails + Sinatra

* Drove down the PCH from SFO to LAX
Paypal suspends my account at least once a month just because I sometimes use a different IP when logging in, I'm honestly shocked they didn't do this to Wikileaks earlier.
I saw compiler flags for OSX in the source tarball [1] but to install on OSX probably requires installing from source, and if my experience with using macports to install Conkeror and uzbl is any indication, installing all of the dependencies correctly is likely to be something that requires hours of tedious effort unless one is an expert. The reason for that is that luakit (and Conkeror and probably uzbl) rely on a very large stack of "non-Mac-like" software including the GTK toolkit and the X windowing system.

If you can get around in Linux, I would test drive the software on Linux to make sure it is as useful to you as you imagine it to be before doing the work of figuring out how to install it on OSX.

I will add that the difficulty of installing relatively unpopular Linux packages on OSX is one of the biggest disadvantages of OSX for me. (The unavailability of laptops in which everything Just Works is of the biggest disadvantages of Linux for me.).

I've tentatively given up on relying on software that requires X while I am using OSX: I plan to keep on test-driving such software (on Linux), and if I decide I have got to have access to it, I will switch back to Linux.

[1] https://github.com/mason-larobina/luakit/blob/develop/config...
looking at the original version of it, which is written in Python helps to understand the whole scenario much better.. (Probably because I'm familiar with Python more than Javascript..)
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The Horowitz book is always quoted as the electronics bible. But I always found it really dry and couldn't really grok the concepts at least when I read it years ago. I think I learned a lot more by just reading articles online and trying out random circuits people posted on geocities.
> To quote wargames, the best way to win is not to play.

How is this relevant here ?
Question for the developers.

How was JVMC? Was it very useful using the MVC format in your JS, did you end up using it mainly for classes or did you do the whole MVC format?

Why JMVC over something like Backbone?

A write up on this in a blog would be awesome.

Was Javascript templating useful? It seems to be me that it would be very slow (though faster than doing async request to servers I suppose).
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I'm also getting into Arduino, just ordered mine. There seem to be a lot of blogs and the forums also look good.

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I wouldn't expect ANY outcome from a police report prior to a conviction in court. After all, the investigation now spans at least two states and two continents. I expect that the "accused", if informed that he has no case to answer, will immediately let all us know that fact! I WAS sursied when Shirley posted her accusation, but then got to thinking that she has no other mechanism to warn others - the police case is "sub-judice". Have a nice day and remember that women can knee you in the balls if you are smaller than them.
It also did things that have still really to be replicated for web developers in a joined-up way; things like proper developer tools (including Interface Builder for the web), a seriously nifty ORM, and the ability to write the back-end once and produce both a web app and a desktop app.

(I know Interface Builder doesn't appeal to the hardcore set, but at least it is an attempt at a different way of working. Our never-ending focus on creating interfaces programmatically makes me wonder what would have happened to desktop publishing if we'd said "what? We made you a postscript mode for emacs -- what more do you need?" and left it at that.)
As a user of both - dear God, no!

Flickr has a pretty large and pretty serious audience of users who at least regard themselves as proper photographers. A good portion of the (me included) pay for the pro accounts.

Flickr could, I'm sure, be tweaked a bit to let you more easily keep track of your friends other than through their photos - journals, one-line 'status updates', link sharing and the like. But how would this not alienate their already large and paying constituency of photographers, or their developing relationship with Getty as a supplier?

Honestly, I can't see how this would be a probable net win for Yahoo.
They did: http://slashdot.org/story/10/01/23/2138204/PayPal-Freezes-th...
Letting PayPal keep all Wikileaks' donation money for themselves is not exactly something that requires that much arm-twisting. They've done it before, and now they have a scapegoat.
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As a fellow ActionScript developer, I congratulate you and the rest of grooveshark frontend team on doing a brilliant job with the flash UI. I always point people to Grooveshark, for an example flash based UI (and also remind myself, its not that the tool that matters, its the craftsman.)
Indeed. A government as a separate entity from "the people" should start going away (and communications technology is a key piece in that evolution).
It saddened me as well,

..the environment he moved form was the set of tools that provided the ways to find the solution in that if you constrict free money and other overwhelming free resources you get someone hungry to make changes..
It's only a small part of all of it. In TPB you can find like 30 now and going up : http://thepiratebay.org/search/cablegate/0/99/0
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What WebObjects would have allowed us to do today if it hadn't been left to bitrot was write an app's business logic once, customise the interfaces and have a webapp, Mac app and iPhone app all from the same codebase. They would connect to the same database, and sync seamlessly.

You can feel the lack of it every time an iOS developer complains there isn't an out-of-the-box syncing solution. They're all using CoreData (which is a simplified cut-down version of WebObject's EOF); it should be a simple matter just to sync to a Mac app, let alone to a web site.

Instead, devs have to learn three different stacks and join them all up manually. Frustrating to watch when you know we've had something better since 1995, and it's sitting neglected.

If you see WebObjects as competing with PHP then yes, it absolutely lost. If you see it as creating the cloud 15 years before its time, then it's actually the only contender that comes anywhere close.
Interesting, but I note the article is three years old?
that's what I did as well. Plus I cancelled my PayPal account.
Being frustrated with PayPal's poor support, but pleased with its ubiquity, this was an lost opportunity for PayPal to earn my goodwill. I, for one, am advocating against paypal from now on.
Please don't blame PayPal that much. If you have been in their situation, you'll very likely do the same. So if you have any issues, go and blame the US gov.
Well, I hope all this does not come as a surprise to Wikileaks.

They are essentially screwing the US government, and using services (Paypal, Amazon etc.) which are incorporated in the US, and operates under the US regulations.
Somehow it reminds me of Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age).

The Primer is intended to intellectually steer its reader toward a more interesting life, and grow up to be an effective member of society. The Primer also reacts to its owners' environment and teaches them what they need to know to survive and grow.
I visited Grooveshark just yesterday, and I just thought it was a flash rewrite. I did like the theme a lot, but the only sad part was my playlist was gone >:( (didn't have an account, it was just saved as cookie or whatever)
What do you mean by cheap? Inflation? I doesn't seem to be that cheap for me.
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To expand, that means that if a user's average lifetime clicks is .5, an email sign up is worth $50 in eventual revenue.

I have worked with clients (retailers) on their numbers and found that a subscription (pen, paper and a person asking a couple of questions) is worth more than a sale.
I have only seen two iPads so far, because friends of mine bought them. The world's population is bigger than 1 Million by an order of magnitude.

Also, several of my friends at least twittered about playing with Galaxy Tabs, so they are out there in the wild.
- mountains of work on Playtomic, it started the year with 40m events/month, uglier, slower, smaller and with less users, now it's doing 300m/day, real time and gorgeous

- released 7 Flash games (2 are pending release but pushing publish isn't up to me)

- got some travelling in, had a couple weeks in the US and a little more kicking around in latin america
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I've downloaded Angry Birds on Android and seen the ads. I'm very surprised at the irrevancy of the ads, a memorable one was a Romanian programming outsource company. How is that relevant to the game? AdMob is owned by Google, who are very good at making contextual relevant ads on webpage, how come AdMob ads are so rubbish?
Yes, I have noticed this. Although I am usually logged in to Google, it seems to want me to log in again, which I am much too lazy to do. So I just don't use Google Groups.
Nice work on that UI, simple, elegant and functional.
What's gcj? Oh, the Java compiler in gcc? Hmm.

As for why Python isn't in gcc... it's because nobody has sent a patch. There is no conspiracy here; Google wrote Go and sent the gcc folks a patch to add it to gcc. Simple.
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I just closed my PayPal account because of this.

Here is a direct Link if you want to do it yourself.
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_close-account
It's worth noting that _if_ there is a bubble, it is a fundamentally different bubble than we had in 2000.

In 2000, we had a lot of companies pre-profit having an IPO. It got so crazy that companies got into the IPO-business, you could drop anything on the public markets (it seemed) and watch the price skyrocket.

This is all private investing, not public offers. And it's a big difference between what a bunch of rich guys do with their extra money than what grandma does with her retirement fund. It's also different from the housing bubble, which involved huge swaths of public money and touched anybody with a mortgage. If you're a big believer in free markets (I am) then this is exactly what rich guys are supposed to be doing -- gambling their money on a horde of young bucks with crazy ideas to change the world (or little parts of it). I'd also point out that startups today are much sounder financially than they were back in 2000. So while it may be a bubble, it's a bubble we can easily live with. We could use more bubbling, actually.
Jobs was entirely wrong about the web

For low values of 'entirely'

He's made, in this interview, probably a dozen or more statements about the future of the web. I'd say for many of them bang on, certainly a lot better then most predictions from 15 years ago.

As for web objects being dead (as a commercial product), well that's because it's time has passed. Apple made it free years ago and I think even then they it had had its day in the sun. It was, however, a very good framework and powered a number of very large sites, including Dell.
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I'm surprised PayPal didn't "bend over" sooner on this one. No more will I use PayPal.
I think he means dead as a commercial product, not dead as in no longer used
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> By definition, after hours parties are not professional. That's why they're after hours and parties.

Definitely. Were you under the impression that I was saying otherwise?