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Nobody liked Giuliani's being moderate, no no no.

While he was too moderate for some (as was, for instance, Clinton on the other side), can you find me an example where "moderate" was used as a term of abuse against Giuliani?

"Moderate" really doesn't seem to belong on the list. I can't imagine anyone ever looking shocked and saying "That's such a X thing to say" when X is "moderate", but it seems to fit for most of the other examples.
I'm confused here. I assume a "dip" is actually cell phone triangulation rather than GPS? (The media never seems to know the difference between the two, and calls anything that tries to figure out where you are "GPS".) There's no reason why actual GPS should have a per-usage fee and need approval from the cell carriers right?
What the Hays Code was for movies in 1930, the Comics Code Authority was for comics in 1954: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comics_Code_Authority

I find it even more shocking because it was created a quarter century later, and it seems even more ridiculous. Hays covers the content of movies, but the CCA dictates even the title: "No comic magazine shall use the word horror or terror in its title".

I'm sure my grandchildren will say exactly the same thing about my generation, but I cannot imagine how that one word would cause anybody to even blink.

Other awesome things the CCA prohibits: gruesome, gory, unsavory, evil.
do imply youth, however, which is not a bad thing as far as I'm concerned

I am pretty sure discriminating on age is at best unethical and generally illegal in most major economies.
It's even more confusing; they made deals with chip vendors. Why would you have to pay a chip vendor for each GPS data point? This smells like two-sided business models run wild.
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My point was not that selling was the only way to achieve freedom
and security, merely that it was the optimal way. (That was the
thesis of the essay in fact: that selling a company and living off
its revenues aren't opposing strategies, but rather that the former is the optimal case of the latter.)

I don't see how anyone could argue that selling was not optimal for
security. Sure, you could gradually save money, but that's not
optimal; it's not more secure than getting a lump sum upfront.

Whether selling is the optimal way for most founders to work on
what interests them most is a fuzzier question, because it depends
on the likelihood that the average founder's startup is the most
interesting thing he could be working on. (Not just interesting;
the most interesting.)

You can't prove this, only offer arguments of various strengths.

The strongest abstract one is similar to Occam's Razor: that a
choice that has to satisfy two independent constraints is unlikely
to be the optimal choice for either alone. Specifically, that you
can probably do better on the dimension of interestingness if you
don't also have to satisfy the constraint of making lots of money.

I'm surprised people find this idea controversial. It seems to
pervade almost everyone's choices from the moment they enter the
workforce. I.e. if you want to make more money, you often have to
compromise on the type of work you do, and if you want to work on
what you love, you often have to make financial sacrifices.

There may be a few statistical outliers who escape this force (a few top athletes, for a few years each) but for everyone else it's as
pervasive as gravity.
I find that less shocking, since while films were aimed at a general audience, comic books were aimed at children. If you read it as a list of things that are unsuitable for small children then a lot of it still sounds fairly reasonable (with certain obvious exceptions).
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Not to be pedantic, but git.or.cz wasn't dubbed 'official' as far as I know, it just happened to be the only informative git site.
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SiRF makes GPS chipsets, so it's definitely GPS they're talking about.

It seems crazy to me that GPS chipset manufacturers get away with charging a per-usage fee.
Is Philosophy Worthwhile?
I've never studied philosophy. I think, however, that I have a general sense of what it is that I cobbled together from Wikipedia and discussions with my friends, and frankly it sounds like a lot of semantic nonsense. (PG's essay on the topic rang very true with me.)

Still, it seems like a lot of smart people think that philosophy (or studying philosophy, at least) is valuable in some way -- even people who've been exposed to the "philosophy is bullshit" contingent.

Is it?
The biggest problem with iPhone right now is wait times to get approval. There is enormous amount of apps backlogged in review process.

If Apple traps developers into the walled garden they should at least feed the captives.
One thing that hasn't been addressed here is the likelihood of creating a company that that will be acquired for enough money that you no longer have to work vs the likelihood that you can create a business that lets you live comfortably.

My guess is that most businesses that make enough money for you to live off of comfortably would have an acquisition value that is high enough that you wouldn't have to work anymore.
I think there are a few basic issues here:

1) Selecting for any single trait, even without recessive disorders, is going to select for other traits as well. For example, selecting for IQ might make individuals more prone to heart disease. Humans are pattern matching machines, and most of the things we consider to be human traits aren't controlled by a simple genetic switch that can be flipped on or off. Even selecting for something as simple as skin color can cause all sorts of problems. For example, most black people are lactose intolerant. Even if it isn't melanin that causes this, selecting for this one trait is going to bring with it all the other traits of the population.

2) Even if there are some traits you can select for without damaging the individual, that doesn't mean society as a whole will be better off. Societies are an emergent phenomenon and you it's impossible to predict what a society will be like based on it's component parts.

3) Who gets to decide what's good and what's bad for an individual? Who gets to decide what's good and bad for a society? What if something good for a society is bad for the individual, or vice versa?

4) Eliminating massive amounts of biodiversity within the species makes humans more vulnerable to extinction. Furthermore, evolution happens in S-curves. By selecting the "best" individuals you are almost certainly eliminating whatever mutation would start the next S-curve. Look at peacocks for example. Each female peacock wanted to mate with the male with the biggest tail. So male peacocks evolved to all have really big tails. That's why today the only place you ever see peacocks is in the zoo. This is just a case of premature optimization; in this case they've basically optimized themselves out of existence.

If our technology today isn't even sufficiently advanced to make a college admissions test that predicts academic performance, how are we supposed to tackle infinitely more complicated issues like the above?
Agreed. A cursory examination of EP would answer a lot of these questions, and most of the rest are just kinda dumb. For instance, does anyone think IQ does not exist? IQ is just a test score. That's like saying 1600 doesn't exist.
I'm in the same boat. That's why I'm glad when games, like Peggle, or Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (not really a puzzle game, but still works for the example) have options for color blind people. It's not that always difficult to add, but makes a huge difference to the end user, if they're colorblind.
That was a superb read. Thanks. Given my lack of more-than-basic economic knowledge, I find most economic analysis of the current predicament rather impenetrable. This one paints a rather distressing picture of a long-term slide that had its roots long before this housing bubble. Those of you who may file this under toread on del.icio.us, you really should take the time out to read it now.
I suppose it depends on how deep you go. If you study any one thing too much, you can lose sight of other important things as well as the very thing you are studying. A fair understanding of basic concepts behind Western and Eastern philosophies will help you understand different parts of the cultures you can interact with as well as people who are influenced by those philosophies.

A basic understanding of all subjects is definitely a good thing, further study can be either a benefit or a detriment, depending on what you study and how far you go with it. Personally, I have spent years studying philosophy and enjoy it a great deal.
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And here I was thinking that the Baldwin effect was some kind of theory possibly resembling or in some way modelling the interactions between Alec Baldwin and his brothers.
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I like the idea a lot. The only thing I'd like to see in it is the option of having the sites stacked horizontally instead of vertically next to each other. Maybe I'm just weird but I find it easier to read something when there's two or three lines per paragraph instead of seven or eight. Less likely to get cross eyed and all..
The mortgage bailout is an effort to keep people in houses, even if they can't afford them. It keeps homes from going back on the market where competition would further lower the price level.

The Bush attempts to buy stock directly in the two Fannies are almost equally embarrassing, being a bailout of shareholders that in no way affects the viability of the business, which is guaranteed by the government anyway. Let them all go broke.
True...exports are countercyclical. A falling dollar means that, if you can sell to, say, Latin America, you're in good shape.
I'm deep into philosophy.

If all you want to do with your life is code and breed copies of yourself, it is of no use to you.

Honestly I don't think it'll do someone who doesn't see the value, any good. And even if you did pursue, I think you'd be led astray.

The fact of the matter is, is that you must value truth as a noumena, something to be valued for the sake of itself.

If truth holds no intrinsic value to you, then you certainly didn't need to make a post here about it.

However, if the truth does hold value to you, I'd be willing to introduce you to philosophy. You can contact me via alnayyir at gmail dot com if you're so inclined.
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i think its great that theres all of this discussion over something such as business models -- in this age of technology i feel its often something overlooked -- but in my opinion, they are both valid, it just depends on what you're going for. if dhh is happy working 4 days a week on 37signals and earning the money that he is, and he wouldnt rather be doing something else, than great for him! if his interest were exhausted, and he were still doing that, then i would say why not sell? for me personally i could not be happier than working on my current project, because it is what i am most passionate about. however, with that being said, for the right price it would be crazy not to sell. not only could you continue to work on it afterward, but if something else came along more interesting you would have the opportunity to pursue it. i just dont think this is as cut and dry as dhh wants to make it seem, and i really agree with the clarifications that paul made in his first comment.
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I'm not trying to offend the fellow, but if the stuff is publicly accessible, and there isn't even a big "please don't link to my stuff from popular web sites" or whatever notice, there isn't much I can do. I don't have any idea who this person is, or how I would've gone about finding out why the pages were gone. (And honestly, it didn't even occur to me that somebody would put up this old material and not want folks to look at it.)
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On a side note, it's perceived as bullshit because only one philosophical explanation of an aspect of existence can be correct at any one given moment. That being the case, statistically, philosophy is bullshit.

But so are scientific theories until otherwise refined. We work with what we have.
I disagree, personally I like the look of the website. It presents itself in a no nonsense manner. It states it's intention in a straight forward way. (that's a big plus for me as I hate websites that beat around the bush, just tell me what's the product it and what's it about!)

Apart from the cute gorilla, the side bar beside him states the features of the app. Features which I might find favorable or not. But still at the most it is stated clearly.
I think the answer to that is - they didn't take the invenstement from Bezos for the money alone - they did it for the business advice and contacts they could get from him through the investment relationship. IIRC, this was stated, possibly by Jason Fried, on another somewhat recent 37Signals blog post.
A typo - I meant "investment".
I take it as a list of things that are used to suppress ideas by attaching misleading labels to them.
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"Is it wrong to call something unscientific?"

I'm surprised PG didn't follow this with: "Is it wrong to call something wrong?"

I think that:

wrong, bad, good, evil, should, right, etc.

Form the oldest and most commonly used category of meaningless, superficial, idea/difference suppressing labels.
God, even worse is -Capitalist-. Socialists say the US is Capitalist, Libertarians say the US is Socialist. Who knows? What a waste of words.
most of what is associated with government, utilities, police, paved roads, schools etc. are all organized by the state government. I have no problem with state government, they are efficient (compare your state taxes to federal taxes, then compare what you get in return from each) in fact they should have a lot more power.
federal power is the problem.
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That's actually kind of a neat idea. I think the word widget might be appropriate in there somewhere.

I wouldn't use it, but grandma might. And there are lots of grandmas out there!
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AFAICT, this idea is for a CMS that offers in-place editing of key content areas or design elements.

O'Reilly OSCON, wrapping up Friday, had two exhibitors showing open source CMS products with in-place editing: 'Concrete5' and 'PlainBlack WebGUI'.
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I went looking for a phone to replace my current one (I've been rollin' with the deuce, err...Sidekick II...for about five years now) last week. The space is just abysmal.

I expected to find a half dozen phones with similarly priced plans that had a decent browser. But it turns out, the carriers won't sell me a plan as cheap as my current one, and that's the main reason I want to move to something else. I use the damned thing so little, it's just stupid for me to keep paying $65/month for the privilege. I talk about 45 minutes per month, on average, with occasional peaks up to 100 minutes or so, if my folks are feeling chatty. I browse the web about 30 minutes per month, maybe as much as 100 minutes when I'm traveling. I don't use email (because email sucks on the Sidekick, though I do use our own webmail client which has a pretty good mobile interface), and I never use SMS.

To get pretty much anything with the same sized screen or larger, and a data plan (of any kind--even one that bills by the minute), it'll cost me more per month than I'm already paying.

Why won't they sell me a cheap voice plan (100 minutes would do me just fine) and a reasonable data plan? I guess because that'd be less money for them. But, it's ridiculous...they've priced me out of the smart phone market entirely. I don't need the damned thing, but it'd be convenient to have when I want GPS or something...but it's definitely not $80/month worth of convenience to me. So, instead of a smart phone provider getting $40/month from me, one of the pay-as-you-go dumb phone providers will be getting $20 every three months. I'll probably be happier with it anyway. I won't feel the urge to read reddit or HN while I'm waiting for my tea or lunch, and instead might talk to someone or something.
Yes. But can you find a better i.e. more normal photography?
Why use more different language constructs in a post than necessary?
What do you consider interesting?
Not only notice this - how would you know? They also have to be anal enough to tell you.
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so this is reddit after all
But, as DHH pointed out in his talk at start-up school, beyond a certain amount it doesn't really make that much difference.

The difference between having $1m and $10m is much smaller than the difference between having $0 and $1m. And the difference between $10m and $100m is smaller yet! If you can pay yourself $3m a year, acquisition is pretty irrelevant - you're rich anyway.
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Voted up, even though I think it's evil. Worrying about all those things would probably mean to never get anything done at all.
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I sure hope the next president and those in power have a chance to read articles like this. It might not be incontrovertible truth, but I do think that our current military industrial complex is mostly irrational and detrimental. How much progress would $2 trillion dollars have bought if we had spent it on creating and researching, instead of decimating and killing?
Colorblind people are only just one small group that need to be considered. Since not many sites use a blatantly impossible color scheme (truth be told the last time I've been told by a colorblind friend that there was a problem was back when Apple used red and green dots for iPhone availability (2g, not 3g), now Apple's using shapes and colors), I'd say the bigger accessibility travesty I can think of now are sites that use image-based captchas with no alternatives (audio, answer a question, etc.). Grrrr.

Not to say I don't think much of colorblindness (I still test for that on the sites I work on, there are some excellent tools around for that purpose), and not to say that I love spam, but I hate those particular types of captchas.
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With a typical salary at a typical programmer job, you can make enough money in every year to take several years time off. But meanwhile, taking time off tends to cause isolation, depression, and other problems, since modern social interactions are based around work. Making enough money to retire upfront seems needlessly suboptimal, as it makes it more difficult to do things, if you choose to avoid jobs thereafter. If you choose to work at jobs afterward, then making the money upfront simply isn't necessary.

Of course in Ancient Greece it would be optimal to not have a job, but in America it's a liability.

I don't understand the get-rich-quick mentality for making startups. It's illogical. Making a startup to accomplish a meaningful goal is interesting, but money per se isn't. Making lots of money to "be free" reduces to non-meaningful goals, no-goals centered around the rejection of much of what is worthwhile in life. It's better for people to have real, tangible goals and pursue them, which nearly always leads to work, even if said people already have "enough money."

If one needs time to contemplate, sure, take a few years off. But normally during such years, people who are healthy and challenging themselves will automatically start doing things interesting enough that they can convince someone to pay them for it. If you can't do this, then you've essentially proved the irrelevance of your work (or that you need to go into academia, if your work is too theoretical to earn money in the "normal" world.)

A strong argument for making a startup is when you want to accomplish something so ambitious that no job would let you tackle that task, simply because jobs have smaller scope.

Maybe there are other good arguments for startups, but people are very unclear when they throw a bunch of confusing messages about money out there, because increasing income doesn't make people much happier [1], and it's easy for people who live in their means to take years off from jobs, if that's the issue at hand.

Even if you want to never work again, there's a greater probability of success in taking a high paying, dull job and working hard for several years, than working on a startup. But many ambitious people would have a lot less pride in doing this, despite the higher probability of success. Again this indicates that startups are really about pride of ownership, pride of tackling new ideas, changing the world, etc, than money.

[1]. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S15/15/09S18/inde...
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I've noticed that my Javascript is usually very readable and doesn't require commenting for the most part. I think using MooTools has a lot to do with it, those libraries all encourage good naming practices.