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If this is true how does Apple make sure there is a culture of collective responsibility and not personal recrimination and back stabbing?
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No problem - I'm reading the PDF now.

...

OK - now I've skimmed the PDF - interesting read. I'd like more time to analyse it, but I'm too busy right now. Nice work, though. Good luck with it.
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Right, so your data point is not really relevant to the conversation. The implication was that anyone interested in bitcoin would probably have a jailbroken phone, and since none of your friends are interested in bitcoin, whether or not they have a jailbroken iphone is not particularly relevant. The original context was:

For those interested in Bitcoin right now (mostly geeks) I'd say the percentage of jailbroken iDevices is much higher, i'd throw 80% out as a guess.

I think we can all agree that this is reasonable.
No, off course not. But we all know how FB is with responding. It's usually nothing or they get back to you after a year or so. I'm just trying to speed things up.
his proof that a neural network can not be trained in any way to "learn" the exclusive-or logical function

What you mean is a neural network without hidden layers.
Luckily FB is not our primary source of traffic, but we'll still take a hit if this doesn't get resolved. Unfortunately this is the state of the web right now.
Ah careful. RMS's Free Software is not the same thing as Open Source. Open Source in and of itself is not at odds with capitalism. But Free Software is at odds with some ideas of capitalism. (In my humble opinion anyway, which is really irrelevant to my original point).
well the motivation to make money is a fairly strong one for a lot of people - many worse things are done every day because of it.
It's not just public transit - everywhere you go in Taiwan you get the distinct feeling that things are getting better, all the time. There's an optimism in the air that is dangerously absent in America.

> "Maybe you need to upgrade your lifestyle and buy yourself a nice set of wheels. That's how we roll in America ;)"

Nah. Grew up in a suburb, drove around all through high school out of necessity. I consider a set of wheels a downgrade in lifestyle. Why would I blow away so much free time behind the wheel of a car, missing the opportunity to connect with the place I'm in by ensconcing myself in a shell of steel, plastic, and glass?

Why would I voluntarily live in a place where the most interesting landmark is a strip mall, and the only people I will ever meet are the ones that I must consciously choose to meet? Whatever did we do to the richness and spontaneity of life to deserve that kind of existence?

Heh, that really bring up another salient point: in Asia urbanism is embraced - the Taiwanese have found ingenious ways to solve many of the problems that are common with city life in the US. America, on the other hand, despite standing amidst the flaming wreckage of its housing market, with inevitably ever-higher gas prices staring them in the face, is still desperately clinging to its suburbs and its utterly unsustainable lifestyle.

While Seattleites are gridlocking their way every morning across the 520 bridge here, the people of Taipei will travel the same distance, car-less, going from doorstep to doorstep in half that time.
I just started playing with this! It's brilliant. It uses asynchronous I/O and strictly follows a 'shared nothing' policy between instances. Its module repository is pretty useful and straightforward, though they do tend to target Java rather than Scala (which is, of course, compatible).

More cool stuff:
Writing recurring background jobs: http://www.playframework.org/documentation/1.2/jobs

Async HTTP/Continuations and a note on WebSockets: http://www.playframework.org/documentation/1.2/asynchronous

If anyone wants to mess around with Play + Scala + facebook connect, I rewrote the play-fbconnect module in Scala: https://github.com/toulouse/play-scala-facebook-connect-exam..., although in doing so I coupled it with the controller using it, throwing away the Java reflection, as it didn't seem to work well with my classes for some reason. Not the best way of doing things, to be sure. As it turns out, though, writing a Play module is quite straightforward, in Java and in Scala (!!! awesome!), so there's no reason I couldn't rip it back out.

It's definitely a work in progress, and I'm still learning Scala in whatever time I can spare from work, but if anyone wants to learn Scala and Play with me, it could be fun!
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Sounds like it's already happening - to quote construct "Some quick research shows a handful of big players in the mining market who have invested heavily in high-end GPUs for dedicated bitcoin mining, some with over 50 GPUs running 24/7 for months now. These guys are bound to have huge quantities of bitcoin they are eager to unload when the price is right. Meanwhile, news coverage is driving exploding popularity, which appears to be pulling the exchange rate sky high. On paper, many of these guys have become overnight millionaires just by running a bunch of computers 24/7."
Yes, so he cares about the freedom of the user to change software. He doesn't care whether or not these users share these changes with each other and collaborate to develop the software. Although he thinks that's a nice-to-have side effect.

He cares that this freedom propagates to all users, not just you, and so just like he gave you this freedom, you also must pass on this freedom.
I've thought about buying MSFT, for the dividend yield if nothing else. But considering how much MSFT is continuing to burn in their online division, and the fact that their two cash cows of Windows and Office are not necessarily stable -- I could see people switching to Office equivalents on iPads, etc., and ChromeOS potentially making a dent in the enterprise market (not having to pay for an extra help desk person for every 25 windows users is huge for a CIO), and with sales of PC down, I'm not so sure their revenue base or their installed base is guaranteed to be stable.

The problem betting with cash resources is that this assumes that MSFT executives will be disciplined in spending it, and more importantly, not spending when an idea doesn't pan out. VC's are disciplined about knowing when to invest more, and when to cut a startup off. If you look at how much money MSFT poured down the Xbox hole, and how they are still don't have a positive ROI even taking Kinnect into account, I don't think their track record is very good on that score.
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Hysteria about the financial sector "taking money" out of tech is unfounded paranoia.

The financial sector moves money from idle hands amongst the rich to working hands.

Investors lose access to their cash for an agreed amount of time, and risk losing it altogether. For that risk, they are compensated by some amount of return.

This is not an immoral thing. This is the mechanism that allows people with great ideas and skills to build businesses.

If you don't like capitalism, then go sample the delights of communist North Korea.

Capitalism affords us an excellent quality of life, full of opportunity. Don't take it for granted.
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All leveldb access is done in the main process (which also handles UI, network, most file access, etc).
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Sites like dice.com or monster.com are of no use, there are very few telecommute job offers there. And on websites for freelancers rates are too low.
So where do people like you are searching for skilled foreign engineers?
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I'd like to see some of the many bitcoin evangalists about the place convert their life savings, serious cash, into BitCoins and keep it that way. Talk is cheap, particularly when it's abstract economic theory.

Then I might think it's got something in it rather that looking like a volatile ponzi scheme that geeks are keen because they think they're in early and going to make mint.
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It's not as if we live in a purely capitalistic system. In a pure capitalism, there would be no taxes. Yet here we are living in a system where the government takes money from you, specially if you're really rich.

It's not as though any idea that's at odds with capitalism will require "an alternative system". There's not gonna be any change to the system that requires a new theory of economics.

Suppose bitcoins are at odds with capitalism because they're just like gold (yes I know this is ridiculous, but just for argument's sake). What now? Should bitcoiners make a case for an "alternative to capitalism"? No. You will still be able to buy and sell and own property and trade and own factories and rent an office space and build a company and hire employees.
Chromium compiles leveldb using the standard Xcode toolchain, but has a dependency on Chromium's "base" library, so it's for sure possible. I can't tell you the exact steps, but I suspect it wouldn't be too hard to get the posix port compiling with Xcode as well though.
The short notice can be even shorter than that, real-time. 2-weeks is just a courtesy. But I've been on the other end where it didn't takes months of negotiation to get work. In the past this wasn't a problem there was enough work for everyone, but with globalization, outsourcing, and automation the scales have tipped greatly in favor of the employer.

The UK is only slightly better in labor law. A lot of the UK companies have learned a lot from the former colony. If they can't fire you outright they'll just get more creative (ie. We caught you using the office copier to make flyers for your football league, fired for abusing company resources). My wife's company (big UK company) is in a protracted labor dispute with the unions. So what do they do? Find exagerated reasons to get union leaders fired. Of course unions have lawyers, but the company can keep it in court longer than the union can pay its lawyers.
I believe the idea is that mining was a solution for launching BitCoin, and that as BitCoin has become more popular, the value of mining has gone down, meaning that at some point (I don't know if it's already happened or not), mining won't be worth the returns.
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Gold isn't "real material" any more than paper. It's only has its value because of supply and demand, just like fiat money. If someone finds a huge lump of gold underneath the ground, or in some other possibly accessible location, gold's value will dramatically drop. If a new industrial use for gold is found, its value might dramatically rise (assuming the industrial use returns higher value than current prices).

I think the chances of a flaw being found in the Bitcoin cipher system are a lot higher than e.g. a sudden disintegration of trust in the US dollar.
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That's not a good idea. Being passionate about bitcoin doesn't imply you should convert all your money to bitcoins. In fact I would never advice anyone to invest too heavily in it: treat it like a side project, like an experiment. Maybe accept it as a form of payment for some non-essential products or services that you provide. Maybe try to make some trading with bitcoins. Try to see if you can buy a pizza maybe with bitcoins.

But only on the side.

Not because it's a ponzi scheme, but because it's still in its early days.

> ponzi scheme that geeks are keen because they think they're in early and going to make mint.

I just learned about it yesterday, but I'm excited about it because it has the potential to become a "Free" currency (free from the central control of a powerful authority).
Good points, particularly the strong support of Macs.

I have doubts about any technologist that would choose to use Windows in their personal life.
I was wondering about this after reading a little about how BitCoin worked. It sounded like every client needed to know about every transaction ever, which clearly can't scale to a mainstream currency.

Perhaps there's a way to partition/shard the historical data?
Its just a ruse. They are required by law to post a that position, and then after "exhausting all options" only then can they recruit an H1B candidate.

If you see a position that has some outlandish requirements (10+ years of C#) than you can be sure it's a jon post for a candidate they already had in mind but were legally required to list.
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Nobody wants a free market. That's a market that includes slaves, child pornography, assassination contracts, etc.

At the level of globally integrated economies, I think the gold standard has been pretty well proven to be disastrous. It especially doesn't deal well with trade imbalances that unwind suddenly. The trouble you see in the Euro area can be seen as a microcosm of what a gold standard is like; countries like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain don't control their money supply - more or less, it's like gold - so they're caught in an extremely painful bind, when what would be best for them is to devalue their currency some. Instead, they're having to struggle under huge debt burdens, and some might have to default, or leave the Euro (i.e. by analogy leave the gold standard).
The Veer is overpriced. My Inspire 4G cost the same two months ago, and it's much better hardware, plus something like 10 times the apps. HP should have priced it to where AT&T would sell it for $0 on contract. At $99, there's no way they'll come from behind.
I'm not sure I buy the "government banned this to promote consumerism" argument, but I'm definitely interested in trying it out as an experiment.
Why not? If the crypto is bulletproof and the theory is sound shouldn't it be the ultimate place to keep your money?
Is there anyone out there with a background in economics who could explain why it's reasonable to expect a company's revenues to grow indefinitely?
I get that there's inflation, so there will always/usually be some upward pressure, but surely there are natural limits?
Hmmm, the list of skills, that should be interesting because it seems to be the core of the "millionaire" thing, is in Dutch. Ouch!
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Does anyone know if there's a guide anywhere on how to write the 'non-nerd hackable code' described here? Sweet article btw.
I agree that we don't live in a purely capitalist system and in fact, I don't like to call it that way as it undermines its meaning. In a truly capitalist system we wouldn't have this discussion at all since there'd be no federal reserve and currencies would be free to compete against each others. In my opinion, Bitcoin (and the gold standard in some ways) is as close to capitalism as it gets.
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I don't think they contradict. But they seem to imply

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It's only the disclaimer that's in Dutch. The actual list of skills is below.
While the article is so long and so wrong in the beginning that I can't blame you for not reading the whole thing, but he does mention the reason

The idea was to help the fish in their oxygen competition with algae
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the comments that guy made against bitcoin just smells like good and old FUD.

Linden dollars didn't tried to replace US Dollars.
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can you point out the difference between "free software" and "open source" that causes one being at odds with "some ideas of capitalism", while other is not? Apart from "free software" being connected with RMS's ideology.
And I'm, of course, showing my American-centric view. Ha! It's frustrating how one company can be so different around the world. Few companies seem to be on the same page everywhere.
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I really think those days are over for MS. They can't bully anyone around anymore.
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Any idea to where is this coming from? Any related articles?
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This is one of the reasons Readability links you back to the original article when you share document inside the service. It keeps a small overlay at the top which you can use to make the page more readable again.

Slightly off topic:
I've been playing around with an idea for a service that would be able to share content this way - would make reading a lot more fun again.
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While it may be correct (I don't know) to say that the current problem is 2% detergents, the numbers were different 40 years ago when phosphate started getting banned, one source saying 50-70% of the problem being detergents [1]. One could say, on a percentage basis, it was successful.

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Smart move - I was thinking whether this might act as a model of how other trading blocs to be more closely temporally clustered, but I think this is a special situation, facilitated by the date line and the geographical proximity of Samoa to Australia.

IOW - probably wouldn't work if eg India and Brazil wanted to get cosy.
Because market value of BTC is not at all stable or proven as the market is quite small. It is entirely imaginable that somebody will design similar, but slightly better system (faster transactions, more efficient implementation, whatever) that will cause most bitcoins traders to move there. Essentially, system like this depends entirely on market, while nothing has "inherent value", most physical things can be still exchanged for something (and actually gain value) after market crashes, when this kind of virtual market is abadoned, you are left with completely worthless big chunk of data.
STPP is already being restricted in automatic dishwasher detergents as well now. Here is what Consumer Reports had to say:

"The good news is that while the low-phosphate products we tested for our last dishwasher-detergent report tended to perform worst overall, several low-phosphate products from different brands were very good this time around." (1)

[1] http://news.consumerreports.org/home/2010/07/phosphate-ban-d...
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The issue is your statement "you have control over your products" does not apply.

Copyright law legally prevents you from including someone else's software in your work, unless you get permission. The GPL grants you that permission so long as you follow the terms of the license. In other words, it isn't "your products", it's a joint product, and the other contributor wants a say on how the joint product is delivered.

If your product doesn't use anyone else's license, then the FSF does say that it's morally reprehensible to not have free software, but they stay well within copyright law to change the system from within.

Have you considered that perhaps it's copyright's temporary monopoly grant which is "at odds with certain capitalistic ideas"? After all, copyright in US law comes from promoting "the Progress of Science and useful Arts", not making profit.
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Yes, but destroying BitCoin would not make you any money. At least I don't see how.
there really is way to "shard" historical data. But mainly, it is expected, that most users will not use whole transaction history, but trust majority opinion of network without actually verifying it or even use services of established network nodes without actively participating in network. This can be seen even now, when there are disjoint sets of nodes that actually perform "useful" transactions (users) and nodes that timestamp them (miners).