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I asked Tom from github about this when I met him. Apparently they hear it a lot. He had two responses. The first was that they didn't want to commoditize their service, which they thought competing on disk space would do. The second is that they limiting private repos made people upgrade, and provided most of their revenue.

I really don't like the response. git encourages a repo-per project, but github discourages it with their plans. This impedance mismatch means I don't use github for private hosting, only for open source projects, where there is no such mismatch.
Andrew Mason first had the idea for Groupon in September 2006, which was more than 2 years before Groupon officially "started" in November 2008, and probably at least 3 years before they achieved mainstream success.

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2010/On-Gr...
Elite status customers can cancel and change travel plans at will on many airlines without penalty, not too mention auto First class upgrades, no baggage fees, priority boarding, special security line access, etc... A number of folks do mileage runs just to get this privilege...

I always wondered why frequent flyers don't claim about all the stuff normal travelers face. It turns out they are exempt from the horrid experience.
You're kidding, right? How can you draw such a conclusion from a list of twenty billionaires?
The comments and/or advice you're giving (and the tone you're using) are the type of things you say to someone before they decide to make the jump if you want them to think long and hard before making a tough decision. When you say it like this to someone who is announcing that his decision is made, you just sound condescending. It doesn't help that you throw in a bunch of advice when you don't even know who he is, what his company/product is about, or what his plan is.
Well ... if there is any competitor.

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I've seen this line repeated over and over and over again, and honestly I don't see why this makes perfect sense to a bunch of people yet I haven't seen a good explanation of why you think that?

I want the state department to be able to do its job effectively. I saw extremely little in the cables (if anything) that changed my view of the state department, where is the scandal?

But the state department is now less effective than it was pre-Wikileaks.

Why, as an American, would I ever support that?

I agree if there is a scandal, leak that shit. Blow it up for all to see. But leaking by the original guy who had the clearance as an F U to the government, and now by Wikileaks as an F U to the united states doesn't seem necessary to me.
As an Argentinian, you should be well familiar that your country took in scores of actual fascists...

Perhaps he's arguing from a position of greater experience recognizing fascism as opposed to superiority of non-fascism, as you indicate. He admires America, and now he does less so. Exactly what the historical dictatorships in Argentina have to do with his admiration of America is unclear to me.

Calling America "borderline fascistic" because private companies aren't allowed to harbor illegally obtained diplomatic documents is less an accurate characterization of the United States than it is a display that you have little or no understanding of what fascism is.

And yet, this is not a situation where private companies are being prohibited from harboring illegally obtained diplomatic documents. Both because Amazon wasn't prohibited, they voluntarily (though perhaps with unknown or unspoken and inappropriate pressure) stopped their service from hosting documents and because there is ample historical data to indicate the documents were not illegally obtained by Wikileaks. So who is presenting the less accurate characterization, exactly?
Does Startup Riot offer any type of mentoring pre-show assistance? Also, the application states that presenting companies receive a table at the event. What materials are normally used at this event? I have a small startup and am not sure if I can afford a lot of professional sales materials at this time. The application also asks how many people from your company will be attending. Will they receive passes if we are accepted or do they have to apply to attend the event?
No: I wasn't trying to refute what you wrote. I was pointing out to the reader that though you were arguing that test cases are no replacement for proofs, and were right to argue that, the bugs that test cases catch may overlap with the bugs that a proof will catch, but the former set is not a subset of the latter set.

If I offended your sensibilities, my apologies.
Thank you very much (Canuck here so I don't usually get the political references).
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Why would you link directly to the apk's? If you install the .apk's separably instead of through the Market, you won't get updates. (At least, the Market client won't notify you of them).
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Based on past experience, I am sure there will be some post in the near future which I will be unable to restrain myself.
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hey just wanted to say thanks and that i had a final chat with people around the project. Their advice was not to go open source but with a completely rational reason. If this was open to all then students whose projects are to be checked by the system, those same students could download the source or the binaries and then try and game the system to accept plagiarized documents.

Thanks again all the same and I will use your suggestion for a bunch of other ideas and projects that I will be starting work on very soon
I think it's a good idea in principle, make it available and let the market decide. No windows yet? Foolish. But: no samples, no specifications, no source code, no technical details...no thanks.

Well, you can find one sample: http://www.saveaswwf.com/en/press.html But not many English readers are going to download a document in German. As for the printing, it just looks like a limited document permission with an secret password. Ooooh, a secret password, on PDF specification 1.3.

Removal instructions: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Adobe/Gallery/anon21jul01-pdf-enc...
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What is the muck? What in the cables was surprising?

This is what I got out of it:

-The State Department gossips about heads of other states (so what?)

-The State Department is party to spying on other countries and the UN (really? we didn't know that already? come on)

-More countries agree with us on Iran and North Korea than I thought (shit, maybe our state department is doing a better job than I thought)

This is not watergate. I wish we had half this much attention on other major scandals that have gone on in the last 20 years that were far more important than everything I've seen in here so far.
You absolutely can, if only you're willing to break the rules. :)

(Note that this does NOT break referential transparency as long as you're not dependent on the program's debug output for correctness of the rest of the program.)

include System.IO.Unsafe (unsafePerformIO)
include Control.DeepSeq (deepseq)

(unsafePerformIO $ putStrLn "OES NOES") `deepseq` doStuff

VVV EDIT: blocking would also block doStuff owing to the deepseq, which means that your program might take longer to complete but will either return a consistent result or none at all. Similarly, if it causes an exception, at least it won't have failed silently. Moreover, none of these complaints are any worse than those you'd find in another language and both cases are esily detected (i.e., you immediately know when referential transparency is broken), so it's still fundamentally safe as a debugging aid.

Let me state that another way: if there is no evidence that putStrLn fails, the result of the above is identical to the result of "doStuff" alone.

(Anyhow, upvoted your comment because your statement is certainly correct, even if I claim it doesn't invalidate my initial claims about debugging :) )
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Given the way the 37Signals blog tends to lean, I'd wager they're going for: quicker to implement --> simpler design --> good design.
Where was Senator Lieberman when Dick Cheney leaked Valerie Plame's name to the press?

This guy is such a two-faced liar and a hypocrite.
Indeed. It's a little depressing that we live in a world where someone driven by principles instead of profits is regarded as extraordinary.
Good deal, I am happy for you! Get some stuff done.
In a centralized system, hosts can be held accountable.
Now if they could only get rid of BigResource.com pages. They come a lot on my searches, especially coding specific ones, and that site has no content of its own. It just aggregates forum threads from other forums (not its own), and what's worse it's usually in such a broken way as to not let you read the thread on the page you're given OR find the original forum thread it was scraped from.

Yeah, I know, there are a lot of questionable sites cropping up more and more as everyone is going all DemandMedia on monetizing SERPs without providing much real value. That's kind of my point, and why I don't bother reporting BigResource even if I thought it would accomplish something (which it wouldn't) -- because it is by far not alone.

Google used to be so good at identifying scraped sites or made-for-adsense and it seems more and more are not only slipping through the cracks but in fact dominating the search results. To me this is a much more important issue than that of people getting a ton of backlinks from negative stories/comments which anyone with half a brain would be wary of giving money to if they actually checked (by searching for the company itself directly and discovering all the bad press instead of just searching for "$mycity $productname" and then giving their credit card info). Yes, I know that's too much to expect of most people. But really, I think google should try to help people who can effectively use their engine and try hard to do so but get poor-quality results before people who can't or won't bother to use it effectively.
And it took up roughly 150 GB. Six average BluRay movies take up as much space on disk as the 1998 internet. Hosting that much on Amazon S3 would cost about $20 per month, not including bandwidth bills.

Boggles the mind, doesn't it?
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I find Gene Simmons' talks on this to be rather telling. Summary: With no father, his mother was working 2 jobs and was rarely home while he was asleep as a child. He said he'd wake up from a nightmare crying for his mom but she didn't come. He'd then be crying out of fear as he was helpless and alone. Then he'd cry himself out with anger because she wasn't there.

He said that was the thing he hated most growing up, the feeling of helplessness. He knew money brought security, so he's spent his life making sure he has security through money.

To say KISS isn't exceptionally talented, that I can list a few dozen bands off the top of my head that are far more talented... but barely any of them are as widely known, with as big a fan club, and with as much financial success.

Simply put; to say The Beatles are reputed to have sold a billion records (IE 10 times KISS' sales figures) it shows how little their company is marketed to say that the band's members net worths are estimated in the $600M range, but Simmons' is actually reported in the $300M range.
JSF and JSP where abominations from the onset ASP and PHP are not far behind. I am glad that the browser wars are over and that we now have a viable alternative with JavaScript. It is so much easier to have clean separation of data, UI and style elements and toolkits that specifically address each layer.

The web 1.0 way, was a bunch of concessions for one role or the other, either the CS guys one and you got a ridged development toolkit (struts, JSP) or the designers won and you got the data and transaction integrity of a wet noodle (PHP). With the seperations of the layers that JavaScript and browser based apps provide those concessions are now moot. The back end developers get to use rigid and verifiable tools while the UI guys get dynamic and flexible tools that allow them to pivot on a dime. The new web is a great place for developers and I for one am happy to see the dawn of new development practices for the web. The old frameworks and toolkits where abominable at best.
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Turn on Super Cache which uses the file system.

Spider the site to populate the cache files.

Copy them to a public web directory.

The internal links might not work right out of the box, but I'm sure you could massage them into shape.
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You could also give my Hacker News OnePage extension for Chrome a try (It's also a greasemonkey script for Firefox). It's what I use everyday and I like it, someone else might too :)
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If I have two pieces of advice I can share,

1. Pick up some contract work - you can easily turn 6 mths into 12 mths, and then 2 years, then 3...no matter how many projects fail to get off the ground, if you have a bit of side income, it'll help in the long run.

2. Don't ever forget why you quit - if that is to "pursue your dreams, not an income". Write it on a wall above your monitors and don't ever forget it.

EDIT: Oh, and good luck! :)
Perhaps you could elaborate on that feeling?
(and also clarify what you mean by supporting data and code)

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You make it sound like it's not possible to talk about both the good they did and the effect race has on their success.
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That's assuming that you can verify whether or not any given person gives a shit about Haskell in O(1) time.
how much cash do you have in savings? i'm thinking of doing the same thing.
Now let's calculate the excessive energy required to launch adobe acrobat and install a new security patch weekly.
Glad to hear this kind of stuff. Your words encourage me to do the exact same thing.
My dad was a mathematician and has an Erdos number of 2. I figure that gives me an Erdos number of 3, I'll count my dad helping me with homework when I was a kid. Perhaps no one else will.
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Kind of reminds me intuitively of skip lists where the additional partial lists provide a "fast track" for searching, inserting, and removing in the list in logn rather than n time.
I downloaded a free Gutenberg version of a Robert Benchley book to my iPhone, but was ill-formatted, particularly around illustrations, and hard to read. So I got the same title from Amazon. The formatting problems were fixed and the book was quite readable. They added some value in that case.
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Also, for Windows, CCleaner.

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google bought a company within the last couple years that had made a really smart open source data app that ran in the browser or something. Anybody know what it was called?
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If they did it would put them right up there with China and their great firewall.
If Julian Assange is charged with espionage, his lawyers will be able to argue that he is engaging in protected first amendment activities, and that he has not committed any crime in publishing confidential data that he had no obligation to keep secret.

Note that this does not apply to Bradley Manning or others who may be sources and who may have committed crimes in passing classified information to uncleared people. But as much as our political elites might wish it; embarrassing the government is not a crime.
I'm a staunch atheist, but when I read this article, my first reaction was that apple overstepped their bounds here.

Then I read the text of the Manhattan Declaration. Sure enough, there is decidedly very anti-gay marriage and anti-choice language in it.

"...the institution of marriage, already buffeted by promiscuity, infidelity and divorce, is in jeopardy of being redefined to accommodate fashionable ideologies..."

"...by which the lives of countless children are snuffed out prior to birth."

This is pretty extreme language, and I don't think the app store should be a political soapbox for it.
This may get the 2010 award for most sensational headline. In no way does the article make the case that Apple finds Christianity offensive.

Sensational blogging at its finest.
I glanced at the first test.

It had only one history question. The rest were reading comprehension questions that anyone with fairly basic English and logic skills should be able to answer.

I'm not a fan of memorization. But it seems plausible to argue that contemporary education hasn't added anything very challenging in it's place.
By too technical, maybe the mean "lacking business knowledge"?
"The Manhattan Declaration is an ecumenical document promoting traditional marriage, the sanctity of human life and religious liberty. It’s been signed by almost 500,000 people and is extremely civil and respectful in language."

"Traditional marriage" is nothing but a euphemism disguising a belief about what other people should or shouldn't do. "The sanctity of human life" is nothing but a euphemism disguising a belief about what other people should or shouldn't do. Neither has much to do with liberty. Using euphemisms may make your language respectful but it doesn't change your intent. Use four-letter words if you want and I won't blink an eye, but try to tell people who they can or cannot marry (and thus receive unequal protection of the law) and we will have a problem no matter how you couch your words.
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They aren't mutually exclusive :)
That depends on how much of the data is strictly government property. If any of it is was written by contractors, etc. it may still have that avenue.
Microsoft's entire empire was built on platform lock-in and network effects -- from business to business, to customers, and to the homes of their employees. It was a staggeringly successful strategy that everyone copied, Apple being the most prominant exception. They've always made products to please the consumer who bought it and nobody else. Cherry pick counter-examples all you like, but this is pretty much how it was.
Senator Lieberman called for an independent counsel to be appointed to avoid interference into the investigation by "the people under suspicion"[1]. I disagree with him about the Iraq war and censoring video games but let's avoid the ad hominem attacks.

1. http://www.slate.com/id/2089079/
Thanks - but I was hoping to hear from DanielBMarkham, basically because his position seems fatalistic to me but it's also intelligently reasoned, so I was wondering if I was missing something.

Incidentally - when was the last time politicians changed world for the better in a major way? (and I don't mean simply voting money to schools or hospitals - I mean structurally).
If I had attended school for 8 or 9 years prior to 1895, almost certainly. Many of these questions rely on knowing precise terminology no doubt used in that class or its textbook.

The time difference is the only thing that would hinder me. Heck, try asking a college student in 1895 a super easy question like how many states are in the United States in 2010.
Would you rather read another rallying cry about WikiLeaks?
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And they are still on the Index

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=...
> I don't think you were referring to these, but there are actually a few windowless, fortified concrete skyscrapers in New York that were built as telephone switching centers.

Actually no. The ones I'm referring to were (usually) built way out in rural areas, where they were away from the expected blast area of a hit on a major city. The one I'm aware of is built mostly underground, then backfilled so that it looks like a natural hill (a hill with a concrete top, and a big microwave tower).

Some of these facilities were rumored to have ground entry points for a system called Combat Ciders ...
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/c3i/combat_ciders.htm
Cool but what about easy iOS game development for Android..?