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I completely agree. One of those books which was in some passages extremely hard (or even painful) to read is "Thou shall prosper" from Daniel Lipman, a (right wing) Rabbi! It changed the way I look at business. Some arguments convinced me, others I still can't accept. But it showed me that axioms which seem counter-intuitive to me can build a very practical world view.

Another book which is rather on the extreme side is Eckart Tolle's "The Power of now!". Again, I sometimes couldn't stand his opinion. For example whenever he quotes Jesus and explains that most people get it wrong but in fact it would be like this or that.

But the book showed me that I was worrying and thinking way too much and that this is at best useless and sometimes even dangerous.

Often books don't even tell you something new. And I think even this is worthwhile as long as the author explains what you already know in a very different way.
Even if it were informative it might me more useful for terrorists than defenders. For example if the market correctly valued hard to fix vulnerabilities then all the market does is help terrorists pick targets (as the market is one big analyst leak and asymmetric warfare is by definition easier for one side).
MongoDB 1.7.5 Released with single server durability
Yes.

I started out with Stronglift 5x5, but switched to Starting Strength when my copy arrived. It's a shame that Stronglift 5x5 postpones power cleans.

I've been considering using 5x5's volume for Starting Strength, but Starting Strength 3x5 is already taking up quite a lot of time. But I added some dips, pull-ups and chin-ups; they are useful for climbing.
I use Teksavvy as well. Slower internet, but no caps (for the time being).
Steve Wozniak interview (1984) [video]
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You might if you found out that people in other Western countries with similar costs-of-living could buy the same shirts for $1.50.
You can also find lots of videos of Rippetoe coaching on youtube. I still recommend buying his book, but you can convince yourself that he's sane first.
Any evidence that a nude scanner wouldn't have spotted the bomb? I hadn't heard that sad about this incident.
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Although today WP7 has the least global reach of any of the major smartphones. Android is on all carriers. iPhone is on fewer carriers in the US, but more worldwide, and Blackberry is everywhere.

W/o Verizon and Sprint they'll continue to struggle. And frankly they should have made sure they were on Verizon before iPhone. A US CDMA launch would have likely been better than a global GSM launch.

And the phone still has many holes in it. It looks like a great foundation, but they need to fix the holes a LOT faster than they've been doing.

Not fixing the holes is frankly inexcusable. And IMO probably the best indication that MS is culturally broken. I get having trouble rev'ing Office or Windows -- those have huge existing user bases (deeply entrenched inthe enterprise) so you have to be extremely careful and move with great deliberation. With phones they have no legacy, no current customers, aren't in the enterprise at all, are playing catch up, and have huge holes. If this isn't a time when you rev hard and fast, I'm not sure when it is. And they have a great model in Chrome of a team that can do it with high quality.

MS not being agile with WP7 would worry me more than threats to Office and Windows, because it indicates an inability to react.
In light of this I'd like to point out jgc's efforts to help preserve Bletchley Park: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/01/1000-for-bletchley-park-thanks-t...
It's interesting to note that there was a recent story that went around in September about the Buran being "rediscovered" in a junkyard. This is interesting since the traditional history of the Buran states that it was destroyed when the hanger it was stored in collapsed. I don't read Russian so it was hard for me to follow the story so take this with a grain of salt.

source: http://www.mk.ru/photo/social/1090-buran-prinesennyiy-v-zher...
Vox is another great, simple, MP3/FLAC music player
http://www.voxapp.uni.cc/
Say what you like about the Maritimes, but one thing is for certain: I'm so glad that the main ISP out here is Eastlink. 15Mbps is the stock standard, and for a bit extra you can double that (or, for a lot extra, you can go to 100Mbps). Admittedly there is a 250G advertised cap on the faster plans, but nothing advertised on the 15Mbps plan. Plus, we definitely don't have to deal with weird torrent filtering, shaping, interceptions or anything.

And it definitely is good enough for Netflix.

Just wanted to throw that out there... you never know, they may eventually creep westward and bring some real competition :)
The nude scanner may spot the bomb, but that doesn't prevent the attacker from blowing himself up in the waiting line. Patch one hole, but there are countless other openings.

n.b. airports are not the only places with crowds
Sony announces NGP (aka PSP2) and talks Playstation gaming on Android [video]
The Game is an interesting book for a lot of reasons; I don't agree with the idea of picking up tons of random women or some of the methodology he espouses, but it's a powerful book for making people sit up and realize that yes, you can change your life, and yes, you have the tools to do it. It says that "Hey, people think in certain ways and you can hack that," which may be the first time a lot of people encounter any kind of social engineering.
I left Lisbon around 7 years ago and moved to Barcelona for games programming gig. Moved to London 3 years ago and life has become less flexible so moving back to Lisbon is just a wish for now. But I do think about it a lot. The quality of life is just great. Miss the Ocean. I know some great people there if you need some references.
That spells out perfectly the recipe needed for a fast-moving innovative risktaking startup - the pizza, the schmoozing, the all-nighters.

Working remotely and meeting a couple times a month? Preposterous in the startup environment. We're talking Agile daily standups, sharing screens and keyboards during all-nighters, doing a pitch at an hour's notice, recruiting in the coffee shop.

Its fine to contract remotely, perhaps be a peripheral player in a startup, but to be an employee, much less a founder, there's no way to do it half-way.
I'd recommend starting with `Starting Strength's cookie-cutter program, until you know what you are doing.

Any quick hint or URL you can give for forearm strength? I'm also doing some climbing and pull-ups/chin-ups, but I don't know whether that's enough.
In a nutshell, yes. And the earlier comment about DARPA's marketing is spot on. Their poor response did not temper the response from Capitol Hill.
I hate the idea of paying per GB.

However, the foundation of this argument is baseless. All that discussion of how much it costs to provide the bandwidth really is irrelevant.

I've said it before and I guess I have to keep repeating: the price of a product is unrelated to its cost!

The price of a product is the point at which a producer is willing to make another unit of it, and at which a consumer is willing to buy that unit. Costs don't come into the discussion at all. Everything based on the perceived value of the product from each party's perspective.
I just tried it on linux and it works :/
I can't live without Visor. Its one of my favorite OS X utilities.
Worldwide Internet usage passes 2 billion users
At $8-$15 per license they are charging, thats $16-$30M. They still have some ground to make up on the $1B or so dropped on the Kin. Does not seem like this can ever be a profitable business for them - especially compared to the $149-$499 they get per Office license.
"FluidDB is an openly writable shared database." The flexibility, REST and query language look cool.

Can I install FluidDB for myself and use it for projects? Or is it more meant to be a centralized db of stuff that you guys run?
Car Window Clings Are Universal Stickers
One has to say that car window clings are universal decals for the reason that they have very impeccable designs and cost effective prints. That is why window static cling would promote your brand image emphatically.
How unbelievably rude of him. Even if you're not what he's looking for, he could have at least asked you for referrals. You'll probably never refer anyone to their product/service again after having been treated that shabbily (I know I wouldn't).

Feels like you should name names, but even if you don't here, you'll probably do so when retelling this in person to other people.
Performable’s Got Game – And They’re Playing For Keeps
they start their next startup. Until they stop failing.
For a text editor on OS X, look at SubEthaEdit. It looks and behaves a lot like XCode, probably because it uses the same Cocoa libraries as XCode. It has code folding that works well, even in Python, and you can even have selections processed by by external commands.

If you need to open a ridiculously large log file, there's also gedit. On OS X, it looks ugly and awkward, but it gets the job done on 500 megabyte files where even AquaMacs and TextMate fall down.
Nokia posts quarterly results. Sales up. Profits down.
Australia has a terrible broadband network.

I live in the US and pay 45$ a month for a 35mbps up/5mbps down on a fiber connection with no cap. The actual cost of me downloading 1TB works out to around 10$, but like most customers I don't break 200GB/month which is a small fraction of my bill, and the company is wise enough to realize overcharging for bandwidth is just going to piss me off.
I prefer that term too. ;)
I live in (near) a smaller city (70,000) with a University. We have a vigorous startup landscape.

There is no monopoly on brains in a large city. In fact, as my Aunt Kate used to say, Honey attracts Flies. Big cities have a disproportionate share of not-so-good players. In smaller towns you can only stay if you're employable, have a modicum of skills.

Still, there's many other drawbacks - scarce investment, more difficult to find markets, absolutely bounded set of talent, hiring inertia (folks tend to stick to their job).
iTunes is pretty snappy for me. (Except for the Store which for whatever reasons takes forever to load.)
this. he should be looking at you as a hire, not a co-founder. he put in $1mil+. what are you going to put in? nothing but experience? then there shouldn't be an expectation of anything close to equality.
Maybe it's time for you to found/cofound. It matters more when it's your creation, and that might be the missing ingredient. You gained battle scars and learned quite a bit at your three failed startups, and to hell with baseball analogies anyway.
Programming languages are machines, not media
If you're in it for the big exit: run away and don't look back. If you think the work is interesting, consider if working on the problem is worth the pay cut. Treat the offer as a job offer & nothing more.
If you get a fair salary and you're given a piece of the company that's a pretty good deal when he's already invested that much, but that does not make you a co-founder, even though that might sound nice as a title.

A co-founder is someone that is carrying a good sized chunk of the risk and that is likely not going to be receiving a market rate salary for a long time. A co-founder would see the stock as their compensation and since it's risky stock there would be more of it.

I can't say much about the risk here, there is not enough info in your post to take a stab at that but unless the guy is very wealthy he must have thought through the risks himself and your risk is limited to a small fraction of what you'll make over those four years in salary.

If it's less than what you made at your last job then maybe you should shop around a bit and see what your real market value is, that will give you an idea of the 'hidden cost' here, which in turn will give you an idea how much that 2% should be worth to make this worth your while.

2% is not much at face value, but if this is the next Oracle or google it might still be worth your time. More info->better advice.
Because of their code-breaking, British intelligence was able to catch most German agents as soon as they arrived. Some of them were given the opportunity to "turn double". One example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Chapman
Some other keyboard shortcuts:

In Safari, alt-tab switches focus to the next control; tab normally just switches to the next input element.

In Expose (F3), cmd-tab cycles apps; limits the Expose view to that app's windows. Arrows select a window, <return> then brings that window in focus.

In Expose, cmd-` cycles apps, limits Expose view to that app. Similar to above but you don't see the App icons overlay on the screen; they are instead highlighted on the Dock and the switching happens immediately.

To activate Spaces view, F8 by default but that launches iTunes on my MacBook. I remapped mine to F6 in the System Preferences. Then arrow keys select a space.
I don't think its realistic to expect someone who has been a marketing manager for 20 years to get laid off and then tell them to go learn SQL or get a plumber certification. Most people don't think that way- their career is a huge part of their identity. They need to exhaust all options and go through the whole 7 stages of grief, they can't just switch careers on a dime.
Or you could just equip predator drones and Strykers with IMEI/IMSI intercept and a DoS. Costs a lot less... and it's already out in the field.
I did some research and looked into the Colorado Experiment, and as of late, Tim Ferriss' Occam's protocol. From there I mix and matched what I thought would be right after doing some research on the muscle groups I was looking to hit.

The basic concept is 1 set til failure, 5/5 cadence (5 seconds lifting / 5s lowering).

I've seen amazing gains within the past month I've been on the program. Have increased some of my weights by up to 120%, whilst the minimum increase has been 40%.
+1 TotalFinder. Couldn't live without it. Great stuff. Way faster than PathFinder.
Perhaps I'm not enough of a power user since I'm quite happy with most OS X apps, but there are two replacements I can recommend:

- Spell catcher to replace the built in spell checking

- Divvy for window management
Shreveport, LA.
It's certainly horrible— more horrible, perhaps, is that not buying commercial chocolate isn't going to help those people. There's always a market for slave labor.

Is this a good place to talk about what a socially conscious individual could do to actually fight slavery, rather than just not support it directly? Somehow I feel like writing emails does not have a huge effect.
You are ignoring competition. If the cost to produce X is 1$ and someone is charging 10$ then there is an opportunity for someone else to step up and charge 5$.

In an open and free market the cost generally works out to around 1.1x the cost of producing the quantity of product that customers want to buy. Which is why most large companies hate free markets and do everything they can to create monopolies either natural or legislative. Cable companies would love to charge 1$ for something it costs them 1c to make and they are trying everything in their power to make that happen.
Being one of the few teams not from BYU, I was initially a bit worried about potential biases in judging. Quite to the contrary, the people at BYU were incredibly kind and welcoming, and made the experience a generally awesome one.

My co-founder and I had the fortune to spend a large part of the weekend with a CS PhD candidate from University College London. He had been a part of Business Plan competitions run in the London area for the last few years, and was effectively sent as an envoy to see the benefit of a Business Model competition. After talking to him and competing in said competition, I've come to realize the underlying benefit: The emphasis on input over output truly puts BYU's competition above the rest in terms of practicality and learning.

As an aside, my co-founder and I make up Gamegnat, the team that took first place at the competition. We're currently exploring options for MVP creation, and would love to talk to anyone with a passion for gaming and web development that may be interested in working with us in a founder (significant equity) or freelancer (cash) capacity. See profile for contact info.
Brain connectivity starts off promiscuously
Some of Greenspun's ideas are great in theory, harder in practice. Part of the problem is that you put people through a training course, now they have to try to find jobs in that area, and that may be just as difficult or more difficult than before. So your unemployed person (who yes, did get through a training course but had no money to pay for their or their family's needs during that course) now has more skills, but possibly more debt accumulated due to living expenses. And there's still no guarantee they will find a job.

Or you take a mid-thirties woman, out of work, who has developed a reasonable competency in some mid-level A/P job for a medium sized business. Put her through a language course and now you have a mid-thirties woman with a reasonable competency in German and mid-level accounting. Does that really make her more employable than she was before the training course?

Not saying that a WPA-style project instead of extending unemployment would be bad, just that there are a number of repercussions to it that would have to be considered.
I've had tcho. It is amazing.
This is a solved problem, although I'm sure there's lots of space for improvement. Google for "android bluetooth game controller". It does mean you're carrying two devices around, but you can go for the PSPhone if that bothers you.
I can only imagine how a bubble in such a market might "pop".
True, that's why we have unemployment, and other entitlements for job retraining, to help people through that transition period. But 99 weeks?
Mobsters taking confession on their deathbeds in return for a large chunk of cash? When it comes to self delusion humanity has no limits.
What every it leader ought to know about fighting bureaucracy
There was once a programmer who was attached to the court of the warlord of Wu. The warlord asked the programmer: "Which is easier to design: an accounting package or an operating system?"

"An operating system," replied the programmer.

The warlord uttered an exclamation of disbelief. "Surely an accounting package is trivial next to the complexity of an operating system," he said.

"Not so," said the programmer, "when designing an accounting package, the programmer operates as a mediator between people having different ideas: how it must operate, how its reports must appear, and how it must conform to the tax laws. By contrast, an operating system is not limited by outside appearances. When designing an operating system, the programmer seeks the simplest harmony between machine and ideas. This is why an operating system is easier to design."

- from the Tao of Programming
Ask HN: Review my startup playwire.com
We are doing a video hosting solution with a very strong focus on monetization.

This is our first public release so if you have suggestions for features they are more than welcome (API is coming soon).
original paper: http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(11)00002-X
You must go through this list - http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/82/os-x-application...

Infact, most of the questions on http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes are worth checking out. It'll make life a lot easier (at least it made mine).

The whole eco system of applications on the Mac makes me think that switching over from an ArchLinux box to a Macbook Pro was one of the best decisions I ever made.
Zero stroke (caused by hyperinflation)
By that logic, iOS is fragmented because there are over 200,000 apps available, most of which duplicate functionality available in other apps.
Drupal 7 Cheat Sheet Desktop Wallpaper
Yes and how much of the US by population has the option you have?
How does JPEG actually work?
Actually, there is one message left to be decrypted. See http://www.bytereef.org/m4_project.html . Since the link points to a distributed project dedicated to decrypting the last 3 undecrypted Enigma messages, we can safely assume there's significant computational effort necessary.
Excellent. How dumb do you have to be to try and DDoS the homepage of a major credit card company from your personal computer using a downloaded tool? Script kiddies or not, the law is the law. I'm glad to see them get popped for this. I can't stand all that Anonymous crap -- they've redefined what it means to be lame. This should hopefully set an example for anyone else that decides to do some vigilante work of their own. LOIC, give me a break.

"We are Anonymous. We are legion. We are no one. And everyone."
Easy to say. But a "failed startup" is often coincidental with a failed relationship, failed self-image, drained savings, eroded health.

Starting another one right away can be a 'rebound' decision. It can be helpful to wait a little while, maybe work at some mundane job until you get your perspective back.

But yes, keep positive, assume you will soon be back in the game.
Pull ups depend on the width of your arms, a wider grip is mainly working your lats, but they generally work biceps and back complexes.

Try http://exrx.net/Lists/ExList/ForeArmWt.html for exercises. Generally speaking, forearm strength is through wrist curls and movements.
As someone whose startup is focused on helping new grads land jobs, I've learned that most job seekers focus on the job search process. They try to find better jobs, improve their resume, network, and do other things that will help them sell the existing product. Very few commit to actually improving the product. Instead of admitting that they may not be good enough, they focus on trying to convince other people why they are good enough. I think a lot of startup founders have this same problem with their products.

On another note, here's an interesting blog post from Greg Mankiw (another Harvard academic) on the economic rationale behind setting a time limit for unemployment insurance: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-agnosticism-about-...

The basic gist of it is that there is an optimal time limit for unemployment insurance benefits, and that that time limit should probably increase during a weak economy to help reduce income uncertainty and prop up aggregate demand. The question is how did we end up with 99 weeks? Why not 199 weeks? Or 13 weeks?
That would be Truth About Abs, paying $28 commission/ebook, netting $3 a pop at high volume.
I'm surprised that the author replaced iTunes with Pandora when Grooveshark is so much more versatile. Plus, it can be made into a damn good Fluid app.
Additionally, some of his "replacements" are just extensions to normal processes; Hyperspaces runs within spaces, and Witch runs within Expose. On that note, though, there's a QuickTime add-on called Perian that makes the program much more versatile, and can in many cases re-replace VLC.
No of course it wasn't an isolated incident.

Also the Chechens seem to have a bit of an issue with telecommunications gear:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzhokhar_Dudayev
Really, 99 weeks is just too much. If you cannot get rehired in a year or so, do you really think you will get hired at all? If you were good enough or lucky enough you would get a job in 1 year or else you seriously need to rethink your "career"
> They still have some ground to make up on the $1B or so dropped on the Kin.

Did they really spend $1B on the Kin? Do you have a breakdown on what they spent that much money on?
However they do seem to offer mutual logistical and training support.
1M/1M Announces Partnership With Persistent Systems
Administrators are generally advised to disable Telnet if the protocol is not used to prevent attacks targeting it, but some forget

I'd like to know which OS in recent memory installed with telnetd running by default? None I'm familiar with.