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My experience at Burning Man is that 8 liters per day per person is a more usual rate of consumption, because you need water not just for drinking, but also for cooking food, washing dishes, washing your body, washing your hands, and washing wounds.
An excellent read, albeit dated.
Source: http://blog.xkcd.com/2011/03/19/radiation-chart/
LinkedIn, at its core, is very simple: its a replacement for the big Rolodex you see in 80s movies. Instead of trying to keep a network together using business cards, you use LinkedIn.

You lean on your network when you need something from it: a contact, a new job, help finding people for a job you need to fill.

LinkedIn does this very well because the people using it all understand this. It's not supposed to be Facebook. It's OK to not check in on it or the people you're connected to for a year. You just have a social contract that when someone does need you, you scratch their back, and you will have you back scratched karmicly in the future.

If you don't "get it", you're expecting it to do something it doesn't. You probably expect Facebook for business.
"we know" ... "Fortean Times" ... does not compute
It is my opinion that Entrepreneurial attitude is strongly linked to what Carl Jung calls "Extroverted Intuition"

http://greenlightwiki.com/lenore-exegesis/Extraverted_Intuit...

Extraverted Intuition (Ne) is the attitude that the unknown is filled with wonderful things. To make use of them, you must be flexible in your goals. If you try to set things up so that only something known to be good can happen, you close your eyes to the zillions of opportunities that you can't know or define in terms of what you know now. As more of the unknown becomes clear, the more it changes your understanding of the (currently) known.

In Myers-Briggs terms, this mentality is most present in NP types (iNtuitives & Perceivers)

It also corresponds with what PG calls "staying upwind"

http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html

I think the solution is to work in the other direction. Instead of working back from a goal, work forward from promising situations. This is what most successful people actually do anyway.

And it seems to me like this is pretty much the same thing that this paper calls "Effectual Reasoning".
Frankly, this isn't very interesting. Some guy gets inspired to launch a startup, grows a company beyond the bare minimum, and we are supposed to swoon?

Come back when you have 150 employees and the competition is begging for mercy. Then sing to us about the blood sweat and tears.

People get inspired to launch startups all the time, and some of them become great businesses. Some of them fail miserably. Lets all do ourselves a favor and not praise effort before it bears fruit.
Really? When I think of the 1990s, I think of calling a site with decent traffic a failure and needing to be in the #1 slot or bust. I think with Digg's current levels you could make a good business of it while refining the site or starting a parallel site. You need to keep costs down, but that is something learned from the 90s.
Just a lurker here, but whoever is running this site is clueless.

It lists figures like "800Gy/h" which is far higher than the radiation level at Chernobyl, right after the accident, standing right beside the blown reactor.

If you check the sources, the units are in nano Gy/h.
Their conversion to milliSievert is closer but still off by a factor of a 1000.

So the highest reading I can find is 700nGy/h at Hitatinaka:
http://www.houshasen-pref-ibaraki.jp/present/result01.html

If you turn that into a yearly dose, using a weighting factor of 1 as the monitoring station website suggests, that's 6milliSievert/yr: the average yearly dose from background radiation. Exciting!

There's really no justification to make such a website.
I love watching people complain about how this should've been going on since the dawn of time. You all do realize that this is, sadly, somewhat important, right?

This is a huge industry that makes incredible amounts of money year over year. You can't endorse fistfuls of free products with no clear revenue stream and then complain about the efforts of an industry that actually handles some revenue generation off of said products.

Apple, at least in the realm of Mobile, is pretty awesome in this regard: by having a model where things have the expectancy of charging you up front, they can safely say "fuck you" to advertisers/marketers like this. More companies should realize this and run along the same tracks.
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Totally agree, i just dont get it at all, then again i dont do "networking" in real life either, i'm just not wired like that at all. I find that whole ecosystem of networking, sharing contacts, phoning people to "touch base" very fake, incestuous and pretty sleazy, so i just dont take part in it at all.

I know though that people who are good at it can be extremely successful business people because they know how to work the system, its definitely a flaw of mine, but its not one i want to correct because of my general distaste for how its done. Luckily, i do ok on my own path.
why not just store the permissions granted on your end as you get them. why do you need to ask facebook?
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Buffett may be a huge anomaly but he probably never had close to 50 positions in his stock portfolio at any one time.

Some of the best investors concentrate.
With regard to the bandanna, one of the things I learned repeatedly through hard experience at Burning Man is that you never leave your dust mask behind. In the last few years, I've had a number of times when I wished I'd not forgotten that lesson: when I was in Riobamba when Tungurahua erupted, when the irritating smoke from the burning fields enveloped Buenos Aires, and an occasion while traveling in December when I was subjected to an involuntary mosquito-fogging. I imagine the protestors and bystanders in Cairo wished they had dust masks, too.

Obviously in most of these cases there are still particles too small to be stopped by a dust mask (or, especially, a bandanna), and of course many fires produce gaseous poisons much worse than mere particulates, but it still makes a real difference.
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Except those flying out of Tokyo land eventually, thus they have a cap on their exposure.
This is a great idea in part because of the incredible stagnation in the upgrade path for a restaurant's POS technology. In my experience the entire hardware+software system gets upgraded only once every 5-10 years at a typical restaurant. Probably because the two (hardware and software) are sold together, making upgrades a big investment.
Just think "Platform as a Service" but open.

I don't know what "platform as a service" means. I watched the video on the right side of the page, and I still don't understand.

Edit: I looked it up on Wikipedia. I still don't really get what this is about.
Good question. There's a few things going on here. If a brand new user comes and you store his initial permissions and also setup the web hook to get updates on user permission changes (such as if she removes offline_access from facebook.com/settings/?tab=applications) then you can just query your backend (which would store this somewhere). Then you won't ever have to do this.

What if, for example, this is a pure client side application that doesn't store anything in a backend database? Everytime a user comes to your site, you can check to see if local storage has anything sure, but if they're on a new computer or have cleared their storage, you're in the dark.
An article with 'numbers everyone should know' without linking to Peter Norvig?!
Here goes:
http://norvig.com/21-days.html
I don't understand why people hate ads so much when it makes so many products available for free. I know many would gladly pay but its not realistic to pay for every site and every service.

Think about the forums you visit once because it had an answer to a question you googled. Now imagine if that site wasn't able to make money off ads it served you. Chances are it couldn't exist.

Ad tracking is good for the community because it helps the sites we use everyday make more money. I want those sites to make money so they will continue to exist. If we use a site, the operator of the site should make money.
Oh, an edge case: If facebook doesn't call your web hook to update your db on the newest permissions before a user revists your site, you may have some bad consequences.

Another edge case: say you have millions of users, only 1000 regularly visit the site. You would have webhooks for a million users updating your backend, rather than just confirming permissions with facebook whenever they arrive to your site. The hop to facebook is probably just as fast, if not faster, than checking in with your own backend. Let Facebook take the brute of the traffic ;)
I remember looking up a former coworker who was a great coworker who I was trying to recruit.

It was so odd that he had links to people that he hated. Not only that they each had written about each other and how good the other person was. It was all made up. It was weird since I had worked there and knew the calibre of their work.

I remember asking him why. He just said that is how he and the others networked. Or maybe they all hoped that the others would get another job and leave -- you know when someone gives a stellar reference.

Linkedin is too faked.
we feel every single earthquake that is on this map.
we live in Nikko Japan and operate a hostel http://zenhostel.jp (500 meters above sea level), 160 km southwest of the Fukushima Nuclear Reactor and 100 km due north of Tokyo.

the fact that the epicenters are offshore is meaningless to the fact that the mountains here in Nikko are shaking with each of those earthquakes.

I have felt 3 earthquakes in the time it took me to write this message.

i was making a video of my brother at the Unesco world heritage area when the 9.0 Tohoku earthquake struck;
http://youtu.be/tH1Y0kMcQwM?a
The Tyranny of the Extroverts
Honest question-is there really any decent uses for 3rd-party cookies that I, a fairly technically savvy internet user, might benefit from? (and I don't consider "more targeted ads" to be a benefit) Ive had 3rd party cookies disabled in my primary browsers for a while without any seemingly meaningful loss of functionality.
Can you give the definition of a cash register and a personal payments system?
I wish I knew. I'd guess late afternoon from Monday to Thursday, but I don't know which time zone the majority of the upvoting users are in.
It's not only the entrepreneurial kids of today that want to be rockstars; it's the "journalists", too.
From what I see, everything is free. How do you make money?
There must be a certain sweet spot between tracking a user's browser history and having zero targeting in advertising. A niche community or site has things simple -- they need to get direct advertising from businesses in their field. A more generic web service (like Facebook) could use only the data a user explicitly provides on their profile. A site with wide ranges of content could use contextual advertising. All of these options only use data that's already available on a company's servers, and do not require tapping into browser histories through tracking cookies. The main problem with tracking is its implicit nature -- most people don't realize just how much their browsing history reveals about them, but they do understand the information they explicitly reveal on Facebook or Twitter.
I use LinkedIn like a "validated" resume -- people can see where I worked, and know I worked there, because people at those places have written recommendations and are my connections.
linkedin is for the unemployed. And as others have mentioned very fake, there is no incentive for honest reviews, everyone is too nice about everyone for fear of breaking or narrowing their network.
This essay is ridiculous on a number of points, but the point that stood out the most to me is below. The author writes:

"I shouldn't have to say this, but there is a place in the world for introverts. Show me the ten most innovative minds of the 20th Century and I will show you ten introverts. From Einstein to Wittgenstein, not one of them could carry a conversation if you put handles on it."

Apparently Richard Feynman never happened.
Someone brought this same thing up on Reddit. I'll just recycle my comment from there (but with more genteel language):

I'm curious. How big of a budget increase for NPR would it take to stop Gaddafi from crushing the rebellion and massacring the rebels and many many uninvolved civilians?

I suppose if Gaddafi were a contestant on "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me" and won Carl's voice on his home answering machine, he might feel so happy he just could not bring himself to order the next round of killings. Or maybe if "This American Life" were on more, he'd get caught up in some of those great stories and forget about the revolt? Maybe Gaddafi is crazy because there's a weird noise in his car, and if only "Car Talk" were on 7 days a week instead of 1, a solution to his problem might be revealed, and then he'd stop being crazy?

In other words, what the heck does NPR's budget have to do with the situation in Libya?
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They were lucky not to live in the US! Since the foreclosure crisis began, a lot of people have found out their rental home was foreclosed when the sheriff showed up on their door to evict them.
They should have called the plan "all-your-iPhone-can-eat-plan Note: meals not to be shared with other devices"
I get LinkedIn, find it rather useful from time to time. What I find completely useless are LinkedIn recommendations. It's almost an inverse relationship, the more recommendations you have, the worse employee you are.
I get it completely. It's Facebook for your professional life.

It's not perfect, and I'm not disagreeing with any of the criticisms people give below, nor am I on LinkedIn more than once every few weeks. But it has a clear purpose in my eyes.
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Agree. Some of my best coding and problem solving was done when I was pacing around my office while playing with a stress ball. Sitting in front of the computer is my least productive spot for solving problems. I code best when pacing around, in the shower, or driving...
This is pretty killer. We use Chef, and although its repeatable results are nice, coding for chef and deploying via knife seems tougher than it needs to be.

This seems to have serious potential to position chef as a way of communicating configuration while requiring very little direct writing of code for Chef.
They are. Gray indicates a complete lack of danger. I'll ask them to add a legend.
From the revenue numbers LinkedIn generates, I gather it prequalifies people who may want to contact you for professional purposes. Kind of a better Inbox.

For example, you might try to email someone at a Uni directly, but it'll be competing for his attention in the inbox. With LinkedIn, it is clear to him you are willing to pay to contact him, so it is something you clearly place value on. In addition, it allows him to take a quick look at your professional profile.
The interesting thing about this comment is that OGL allows such vendor specific extensions without totally destroying everything else. No need to sit around for 2-3 years and wait on MS, people can start programming for that hardware relatively easily. My understanding (not too involved in 3D) is that vendors usually mimic any unique extensions that their competitors might have, but even so it's easy to test caps and turn off a feature if hardware doesn't support it (in fact, all games do this, even DX games; you still have to test caps and profile hw to know what code paths to run and what features to enable). A well-architected engine is flexible and allows you to write sfx even if only one card on the market supports that feature without much hassle, and this is a lot easier to do in OGL with its extensions model than DX, afaik.

Again, not too heavy on the 3D, please correct anything I got wrong.

I agree about open drivers, though. There is such a wide field of possibilities with open drivers if vendors would only take them seriously and quit being so paranoid about "their IP" and all that. I think great OSS drivers is one of the most important goals for desktop Linux atm.
Dr. Sarasvathy from UVA wrote that original publication. I found her page on the Society for Effectual Action website and specifically this webcast on What is the Entrepreneurial method: http://www.effectuation.org/videos/saras-bigthink-what-entre...

I thought it was very relevant and very true to what we ourselves followed. I dont think her publication is dated. I thought it still resonates on the three core aspects she has sought to highlight. a) Emphasize affordable loss b) Build upon Strategic partnerships and c) Leverage contingencies.
Agreed. LinkedIn, in its current implementation, is a glorified resume database. I use it to look up people and find out their background. It's terrible at helping me make new connections.

I should know, that's partly why we founded http://letslunch.com. We felt that the LinkedIn introduction "the InMail" just didn't work. So we implemented a sort of reverse-Facebook concept: meet people who are not your friends yet. So far, it has been really successful at growing people's connections, where LinkedIn, in my opinion, failed miserably. I met people through LetsLunch who are great, cool, entrepreneurs, and I would never have met them otherwise.
The problem isn't using a debugger, it's being overconfident in how much you can infer from any given debugging run. The solution is to have realistic levels of confidence, not to swear off the use of debuggers. Obviously, if you're trying to understand how the code works, having one empirical sample is better than having zero empirical samples.
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Cam to Scan is software to give camera images into scanner. You will think how, when you take any picture and then you want those picture printouts.
For me, the most useful case is when hiring. I usually look up a candidate on linkedin. I can see if their work history for public consumption is similar to the one which is on their resume (tailored for the position). I can also see if anyone I know has worked with them before and then get an off the record assessment of their previous work and a feel for them as a person. Neither of those directly contributes to a hire/no-hire decision but it does help with getting to know what the candidate is like.
As a side note, I tried posting a job recently and was hugely underwhelmed with both the quality and quantity of applicants.
I've seen plenty of extroverts who are bad team members.

I've seen plenty of introverts who are effective communicators.
Great job guys. As we are building our core app, this is something that we have been committed to do, from day one. I am real glad that we have some precedence now to follow. We believe that an app should ask for the least amount of profile data as possible to do what it needs to do. And if that changes as the app grows, then it should request for additional permission as its defined in a granular manner. Offline Access is a bad idea especially when 99% of apps are those you play with for two days and never ever use again.

Once again, thank you. We look forward to doing the same and giving our users control of their privacy and their data.
It's sad that Safari does this, especially considering there's a work around using POST: https://gist.github.com/586182 -- it translates to complexity and has performance hit, and doesn't actually add security.
"And I hope we value and develop other skills, like independence, focus, persistence, deep thought and careful reflection, which might not be as natural for extroverts."

Amen. Extroverts ruined my K12 education, how about yours? Now they're busy doing the same to the political system, entertainment, etc.

And what're the introverts doing? Oh, they're off building the next Facebook/LinkedIn to facilitate the extroverts...
Definitely. We want people sharing their configs more, just like code. Secondly, we feel that for most people, configuring via the command-line is more natural, or at the very least an easier way to get started w/ puppet or chef.
It's harsher than it sounds? Or it sounds harsher than it is? These are two very different statements.
And your knowledge of Gaddafi's cruelty is based on what?
Could you expand on that? I haven't experienced that "inverse relationship" at all.
Skip the {unusable, redundant, crappy} Scribd Flash reader and get it from KV: http://www.khoslaventures.com/presentations/What_makes_entre...
LinkedIn is what you make of it. And if you're saying "LinkedIn is full of fakes", or "it is for the unemployed" then I suspect that you're only looking at a small segment of it. Any community will have outliers, and the fakes and unemployed on LinkedIn, in my experience, are the outliers.

LinkedIn is a professional resume sharing service, among other things. I find some people sharing a link to their LinkedIn profile rather than sending a resume. It is great for reconnecting with ex-colleagues, seeing who is joining and who is leaving some companies, and finding contacts at potential clients and employers.

It isn't a social networking service and it isn't a service for making lunch dates for networking, though you could use it that way.

The Groups are moderately useful, though people tend to set up too many different yet related groups, diluting the value. I really hope the Twitter-like link and comment sharing does not catch on as a) I have Twitter for that and b) it pushes other useful information off the bottom too quickly.
> Fortune 500 companies are run by 499 extroverts, plus Bill Gates. There are 435 extroverts in the House of Representatives and 100 in the Senate, two from each state.

I doubt it.
I'm a big fan of the LinkedIn groups for professional discussions that just don't feel appropriate to Facebook.

I have a group of UX people that talk shop on LinkedIn, as well as finding new people to hire, new places to work, or gigs to do.

Sometimes you want a place to go for work-related things that isn't Facebook, with all its farm games, ads, spam, and photos of people's pets.
Why is the write test -> code -> run test -> code -> run test -> etc. circle being derided? Given that your test cases are stringent enough, it should be fine.

If you did indeed write good test cases, then that's a prime indicator that you understand the problem you're solving well. Try test first programming, it's trickier than it sounds at first. In my opinion, it is too easy to get caught up into coding something (especially with languages that have large amounts of boilerplate, such as Java) and lose perspective of what you're actually trying to do. Writing test cases beforehand forces you into thinking about what you're actually doing.
I thought On September 11, 2001 it was Talibs, or wait, it was Iraqis, or wait, right, it was Gaddafi! Finally...
Exactly this. Getting a config running is quite often an iterative and exploratory process that should not be enshrined in structure until it's actually running. You get this, which is why Blueprint makes sense.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this.
He picked two out of a ten not mentioned and you rail against him because he missed Feynman? You make the claim that it is ridiculous on a number of points but what you site is not a point at all--- just an exclamation that you don't like. I guess his real mistake was not to have gotten into a time machine and zoomed ahead to ask your blessing.
it's where you go to update your profile to indicate to others that you're looking for a new job.