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I do IT support for a small software house. If someone's hard drive dies, I can get a new one from a shop and get it installed, having them up and running, far faster than if I had to wait for /any/ brand-name support. We are not large enough to have spare PCs lying around in case of failure.

While I am a 'tinkerer', it is also my professional duty to perform actions like these. The Right Way is not to find a hacky "elegant and creative way around" this issue, but to have direct access.

"Or perhaps these new screws simply work better in their machines, jam up less, can be screwed in faster, whatever."

This is... optimistic...
Jorge the robot? If someone is anticipating a bot, I don't think greeting them with a name is going to dissuade them from asking.
I fail to see the significant difference between a "tap" on a screen and what you actually need to do to turn a page on the kindle: "tap" a button.

The Kindle hardware is usable with one hand. I don't find reading books using the kindle app on my android phone to be as easy to do with one hand as with the hardware, mostly because since the kindle page turning buttons are physical and have decent resistance, I don't need to hold the device in an awkward way to avoid activating an action I don't want to.

The kindle is actually much better than a book because it's easier to operate with one hand than a physical paperback is.
or disable javascript in browser
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Interesting... we'll do some tests on alternate ways to introduce ourselves. Being able to test out different approaches real-time is another benefit from live chat. thanks!
I don't think small-to-medium businesses will know what CMS, or a next-generation web application are.

Is your web site powered by your software? If so, I'd suggest that your software support SEO-friendly link-paths like Drupal or Wordpress (bringing that up because they're on your front page)

From what I can tell from your web site, you're offering turn-key hosting for people who don't want to set up and run their own Wordpress, Joomla or Drupal sites - instead they'll use your software? I think the problem is that your web page is using jargon you understand, not that they would understand. I'm guessing that your customers will
1) not want to think about web, they want to run a coffee shop or whatever
2) want guaranteed pricing (which you offer, which is great)
3) a good design - do you do graphic/web design as well, or are you working with someone?
4) Want someone local. Where are you? Your tagline could be

My opinion of your software is that you've recreated Drupal, which is fine, but there are so many modules available for Drupal that you'll always be playing catchup.

Hope this helps, you can criticize one of my web sites if you want :)
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Sweet.

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We all know that's not possible. That would be like Firefox blocking requests to facebook.com because some users end up getting phished or stuck with malware from facebook apps. Nobody would use a browser that blocks flash (and doesn't support h.264 in <video>).
You can see studies which cite that study (which would include debunkings) by doing a google scholar search: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=3661119272352849363&...

One of the those studies has this to say about the study linked by the OP: "Weaknesses in the statistical methods used for reanalysis (see Doull et al. . .) " [1].

That paper also has a nice summary of other studies on GM foods.

[1] G. Flachowsky and C. Wenk, The role of animal feeding trials for the nutritionaland safety assessment of feeds from genetically modified plants – Present stage and future challenges, Journal of Animal and Feed Sciences, 19, 2010, 149–170
What are the energy costs of an all-nighter?
Ticking the clock every single f'ing second is a bit much. I sat it out, but "2 minutes...1...0" would be better than an update every second along the way (or fifteen-second intervals). When I sit zazen, I just set a timer for 20 minutes and stick it out of view. The timer itself is a distraction.
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I am trying to figure out exactly what restbackup.com does. Does it backup customer info from a desktop app or the web app?

Anyone know?
A great point. We have come across some situations where we are asked where the team lives, and we tell it like it is. Developers are pretty positive about us being both in Buenos Aires and in SF. I think the global community is a nice plus.
This sort of thing is one reason I hate websites which use a lot of Javascript when they don't need to. Another reason is that it breaks expectations of how websites should work.
I predict a horrible UI and for it to languish around for a while then be killed off.
But Primesense developed the depth sensor. http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=h0GvAAAAEBAJ
This is a really interesting blog. I've e-mailed you, and from a dev who has never really made a site popular (other than getting some Chinese restaurant site to the top of google search by pure chance), it's given me some wicked ideas already.

I've e-mailed with a few specific questions, just my parents aren't doing too good right now, and while I can't help them financially, I can possibly use the skills to bring my stepdad more business.
Well, in a sense you are right, however before starting to code an Iphone game you should learn Objective-C and this can be done successfully on a Windows or Linux machine. My idea is to use the Windows machine for implementing all the non-graphical part of a simple game, maybe using some simple ASCII graphics. If you plan to use OpenGL for rendering your graphics on the Iphone you can go further and implement some of the graphical functionality.

BTW, actually you have access to some of the Cocoa libraries, check the Headers folder, in my case this is in

C:\GNUstep\GNUstep\System\Library\Headers

on your Ubuntu machine you should probably search for "Cocoa.h" header file.

Also the GNUstep manual claims you can create graphical application with the provided libraries. I think I will investigate this in a future post.
The warning dialog is hella scary, though.
I'm doing some very light work with .NET and am using AppHarbor right now. So far it's been fantastic.

I wouldn't go so far to say that I'd choose it over Heroku or other stacks.
Those rules are surprisingly similar to Isaac Asimov's 3 laws of robotics.
My feet are crying! Give them back the sacred obelisk! Let the mothership fly!
Yeah, like that will work.
Even if this is true, the way it's written qualifies it as (not necessarily deliberate) scaremongering, as it identifies the commonality between the experimental varieties of corn as being that they were genetically modified, rather than that they were genetically modified to produce pesticides. The latter could plausibly have such a uniform effect, whereas the former could not. They need to be precise and say what they mean.
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Doing a search will have the top results being pages that friends, or friends of friends have linked to, or retweeted.

In the results window you'll see what they said about it. You'll then have the opportunity to contact those people (if they've got that setting on) - and in time, you'll get new friend recommendations based on what you're searching and clicking: so social search leads to search-based matchmaking. It could also lead to interest groups, especially location-based interest groups from a bunch of people in similar social circles, thereby leading to meetups.

You could also put out requests for help, and those requests for help will be distributed to the right friends (by way of what they've been searching for lately), so they can respond.

FB can feed their timelines into Bing (or their own search engine) so Bing can go grab content in realtime as it's linked, rather than take the shotgun approach spidering. And then FB would harness that system.

So basically social search gives a better picture on an individual's interests, and how recent, or how long that interest has been to a person. This where Google really needs to catchup: they should really see themselves as a tiny startup against massive FB. They should see their users as individuals amongst a group of friends, rather than as silos with intentions. They should hire FB engineers, look to their own ranks for FB power users, maybe even find some people who Zuckerberg has pissed off to help.
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I spent some time working with Azure and it was a nightmare. Really Azure should be as easy to use AppHarbor and its nowhere close.

AppHarbor so far seems butter to me. It's something I think is needed for .NET devs. If Scottgu hasn't seen it, show it to him. ScottGu's patented demos would be great if he pushed his bits live up to AppHarbor.

The big problem I have with AppHarbor right now is Git. Git on Windows kind of sucks, although it could just be my lack of knowledge about it. A Subversion version of AppHarbor would be sweet.
I do, in fact I built an app to help me do it better (http://zazensuite.com)

The thing about meditation is that it's tough to get past those first few minutes, but when you do, it really helps you feel better.

I learned a lot about the philosophy of meditation from reading books like Be Here Now and The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.
One of the things we'd like with AppHarbor is to endorse best practices. This means that you'll probably not be able to run your Azure application in AppHarbor without modifications. This is not due to special requirements for AppHarbor, but because Azure requires special code. On the other hand, you are able to create a template ASP.NET MVC application and push it directly.

Another thing is that we will never provide the full range of Microsoft solutions. Microsoft already does that. Our edge is that we can offer more than just Microsoft products, and as we're running in EC2, there's a whole range of providers offering additional value as well.
For instance, we're going to support memcached, because it's industry standard. Microsoft will support Velocity, because that's what they make. I think this is a substantial and important difference.

To sum it up, we're going to support file storage, message queues and what you need to build a scalable web application. Some may be the Microsoft flavor, and other may not.
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I wish they were focusing more on improving their search engine than jumping in any possible business...
Rather than hating GCC, I do wrist stretches. (search Aikido + wrist stretch; dojos call them different things) I'm an Emacs lover, though. Vimmers have a leg up, there.

Working with languages that destroy flow probably grounds more programming juju than most other major factors put together. Context switches kill. (PS, is your timesheet ready?)
Well, in a sense you are right, however before starting to code an Iphone game you should learn Objective-C

The language is the easy part; you can pick up Obj-C in a day, if you have any reasonable experience in any other language. The frameworks (UIKit and Foundation are the important ones) are the harder. You can pick up an old(er) version of Foundation if you use GNUStep.

My idea is to use the Windows machine for implementing all the non-graphical part of a simple game, maybe using some simple ASCII graphics. If you plan to use OpenGL for rendering your graphics on the Iphone you can go further and implement some of the graphical functionality.

Anything other than backend logic and you'll want a real Mac. You'll also want a real mac if you want anything fancy like Core Data to save everything.

You'll still need to draw your text on screen somehow. You'll want an iOS UI framework, that isn't available for testing on Windows or Linux. Also, OpenGL and OpenGL ES are similar, but, I don't know how much code could be used as-is between the two platforms. My hunch is that there are parts that that can't be completely cross-platform.

Also the GNUstep manual claims you can create graphical application with the provided libraries.

Maybe for Mac OS X, with AppKit. There's no open version of UIKit for iOS.
I doubt it, he's too young to be doing nothing. He'll come to his senses and stay on!
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I meditate in the tradition of Vipassana meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka: http://www.dhamma.org/

One can take a 10 day course at many centers around the world to learn the technique from qualified teachers in its purity.

I knew about Vipassana for a long time but I did not attend a 10 day course until I was completely at rock bottom suffering from depression. Once I learned the technique, experiencing reality as-it-is for the first time in my life, it changed me fundamentally from the inside out. It was there that I found out that the results of my poor actions in this lifetime (and possibly others) were stored within my physical body and that I could remove them via observing them objectively without reacting to the sensations that came up via this observation. Having that direct realization meant that I could never go back to the ignorance of not being aware of how the law of karma has direct results upon one's experience of life. After the course had finished, I continued practicing Vipassana morning and evening for one hour each sitting for many months/years and continue to experience profound benefits.

I am much less angry and much more calm, much more adept at handling life's inevitable challenges. When I do find myself reacting strongly to certain situations, I am able to witness my reactions objectively and thereby reduce their negative effects swiftly. Emotions disturbances that used to persist for weeks are now gone in minutes.

I am happy and grounded in the knowledge that I have within my possession a technique to control my mind. That is a very liberating knowledge and worth pursuing for one's self!
I've had sudden fits of anger and anxiety caused by, well, the realization of being alive means, only I don't meditate. You may have inferred causation where there is merely correlation: I find it all too likely that the impulses that drive one to take up meditation are the same ones that drive one to consider 'life'... and suffer the consequences of those considerations. I.e. You're just getting older and wiser, with or without meditation.
Yoga is about religion like flossing is about doing your taxes. It's a symptom of the originating culture.
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This study has been debunked. It was paid for by an environmentalist group and the people behind the study used a faulty methodology to get the results that they wanted.
It's not really helpful to state that meditation is 'all about' anything. There are so many different techniques of meditation. It helps to define a technique and demonstrate in some way what it does.
Anybody knows if AppHarbor is using Windows based servers or Linux+Mono?
We're definitely pursuing partnerships with publishers, ad networks, and miscellaneous online marketing solution providers...our growing list of partners is here: http://www.cannedbanners.com/partners

But I'd never heard of PageGage. Thanks very much for the suggestion!

-Myles Younger
And my experience is: I do not really understand it unless I can program it.

To sum up this subthread: we all understand "it" better when we have experience of active involvement with it, not just passive studying.
Profound things are bound to happen with the right technique of meditation.
It would have been very easy for Google to cave to criticism about Chrome OS and Android. Instead, they're letting things play out. Having used both, I think it's going to turn out to be a pretty smart bet. At the very least, you have to applaud that they're willing to take risks like this.
Orkut may not have predated Facebook, but it predated the wide spread of Facebook--as I recall, I was able to use Orkut before Facebook expanded to my college.
Could they also please block all the .NET-related addons that Microsoft development products install nowadays? They're even set so YOU CANNOT REMOVE THEM FROM WITHIN THE BROWSER. WHY is this even possible? The addons also alter your User-Agent.

If you've never seen this before, Google ".net addon firefox".
FWIW I was introduced to Groupon by two people far removed from of tech circles. When I first tried it, it didn't even really occur to me that I was looking at a hot startup. I think its mindshare is plenty good among non-tech people in urban areas.
Brilliant guerilla marketing tactic by Tim Ferris for 4-Hour Body
I passed, because I stopped doing shit.

workrave/xwrits are better, if it actually matters.
My startup lives in the student business incubator at the University of Northern Iowa (along with 9 others). We don't get any startup funding like you would through YC (they are working on that), but we get a free office, furniture, computers, software, and, most importantly, a lot of free counseling. We have free access to professionals with backgrounds in marketing, venture capital, intellectual property, accountants, and more.

They also offer a number of programs/perks, like workshops on various aspects of business development, networking events, speakers, negotiated rates with lawyers and other services, classes on entrepreneurship, and access to grants and interest free loans. With their guidance I was able to win money in some business plan competitions and drop to part time in order to fully pursue the business. Recently they have helped us find a few angel investors as well.

Without them I'm not sure where I would be. I started out as a single founder and now I'm to the stage where I can bring on three or four friends/employees full time to help me take things to the next level.

Perhaps the best part is the constant ability to both collaborate and give back. There are opportunities everywhere for bouncing ideas around and helping other startups with their problems.
If you have an iPhone but no machine running OS X you can develop directly on the phone by jailbreaking it and installing the toolchain from Cydia.
It is like a reverse turing test.
Try meditating for 24 hours in a row. Something "interesting" is bound to happen - most likely severe pain somewhere in the body.

If you were able to observe that pain objectively with equanimity, meaning a) not averting from an experience you don't like or b) craving to have an experience you do like, wisdom about the nature of reality arises spontaneously.

More specifically, pain is not really what you think it is - some experience to shun worth avoiding at all costs. Watching the mind react to such an experience, and there are so many experiences that the mind is nearly hardwired to avert from or cling to, speak volumes. You will see how desperate it wants to stay in control of your experience and you should also note that because you can observe your mind, YOU ARE NOT YOUR MIND. Now you are starting to inquire into the nature of reality as-it-is, not as you want it to be.

Yes, you can sit against a wall.
Skynet: hi I'm a self-conscious robot based on technology from the future, how can I help you?...
Who funded the debunking?
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This is what I've found about programming as well. Computers are unforgiving of any gaps in your understanding, so explaining a process to a computer improves both you and the computer.

Of course, not all ideas can be so neatly expressed in code. Constructing essays and explanations for people is similar, though it's easier to finesse gaps with rhetorical tricks.
Either funding for repeat studies have been choked, or they had unsurprising results. At least they gave passably good instructions to duplicate their findings - beats many CS papers.

Regardless of what it says, my experience is that GE corn tastes bland. Maybe due to shipping.
I had a basket ball coach as a kid who would always ask us if we left our beds unmade after a day of doing horribly, or not better than we should be. Nearly every time, without fail, when I was asked that question, the truth was that I had left it unmade. I also never liked the game, and still don't view the sport favorably, but every day since then I make sure to take the time to make my bed in the morning.

The fact of the matter is making the bed is entirely unimportant. It's symbolic of the state of always playing catch-up because you are behind from the moment you wake up. Nothing is more important than taking a few minutes to organize yourself and your living quarters, as well as everything else in your life, both physically and mentally. Hell, you could stand there and admire the wrinkles and folds of your unmade bed, if that is how you prefer it to be kept, just as long as you stand there and give yourself a minute (or two).
Actually no the domain I wanted when using resume is not available and this has lead to my dilemma.

I like iwwr's suggestions of letting the my early adopters choose choose. I've got a bunch of other possibles and so I'll give some thought as to how best to approach this.
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Saying something is "clearly false" doesn't mean you claim to know everything - you just see there is no evidence for their conclusion. Is Scientology clearly false or should we say they have some good points? If the latter, we might as well explore every fairy tale that comes by - or we could follow real evidence to where it leads us.
I think I like the idea of letting users choose.
GNUstep is actually not that bad.

The most annoying thing is writing the makefiles. They have good documentation if you are building a library, command line tool, or application.

If you aren't, then the documentation is basically "this exists. Go read the source."

I've ported a few foundation tools to bsd.

I'm weird in that objective-c is my language of choice.
I wonder when Groupon will become a verb for falling out of relevance due to one trick pony/smarter competition. I guess MySpace'ed or Yahoo'ed never caught on.

OMG Ponies!!!!1!!
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hiding the label makes it easier to edit the boxes.
nod -- I appreciate you posting this link. I forgot about it. It seems to me the single greatest failure of acme, inferno, etc. is a lack of mainstream support. We have vim vs emacs today, but part of me always wonders about what the landscape would look like if acme was taken seriously by the programming community and actively maintained. It's too bad Limbo is so archaic.
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How amazingly cool is this!

http://jsfiddle.net/michaelsbradleyjr/sZUtU/

I had not really tinkered with flapjax on the client-side until tonight, but jsfiddle sparked my instincts to really fiddle with something I had been delaying fiddling (or "tinkering") with.

So, thank you, jsfiddle! I think you're going to make for a powerful creativity enhancer. :-D
I also have never been able to remove it from the toolbar without uninstalling it unlike every other extension. Haven't used it lately though.
I increased the crawl rate and now I see considerable increase in the indexed pages.
I know its tough for me, so i opened it and left for coffee...