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I made an account just to post this. Hi everyone!

First, I think this is a fantastic idea and I signed up instantly, privacy issues notwithstanding. Not only can you exchange coding favors and build a reputation, you can also practice your design and development skills in a variety of projects, which might be an additional major draw. I can't wait for this to get underway. This is one of those ideas that I wish I thought of.

That being said, I really think you should explore this idea further and create a dedicated website for it. A mailing list is great and easy to maintain and all, but a reputation-based service has to have the appropriate mechanisms to work well. It wouldn't take that long either.

Envision a site where jobs are listed as they're approved and removed as soon as they're completed or claimed, with discussion and advice flowing freely between parties. The site would keep track of projects both requested and completed by each member, and award appropriate kudos within the community to encourage and reward participation. People would be able to link to their profiles, which would display which projects they completed for which sites, on their resumes or facebooks or whatever. You could make a leaderboard of top contributors, and perhaps a provider request system that may eventually involve money. It would be like Elance except eroding the barrier between "service providers" and "employers" - instead, everyone would be both.

There's tons of potential here. Once you get critical mass, monetization could go far beyond ads: off the top of my head, you could skim paid projects, offer premium filtering capabilities and other services to paid premium users, or even get paid by companies that come knocking on your door wanting to hire some of your more skilled members. You could maybe even provide a service for members to tutor other members (serving those who go to your site for practice) and take a % of that $ too.

I realize this goes far beyond a simple "scratch my back and i'll scratch yours" paradigm, but I really think you might have something. The cherry on the top is that some of the smaller features that you might want to add to the site can actually be crowdsourced to your community :)

So yeah, great idea. A community of developers that interact with and work for other developers in exchange for the same being done for you? Sign me up.
They said this crap about warrantless wiretapping. It won't be used against pirate sites it will be used against sites that express a POV contrary to the administration. Wikileaks is not a 'pirate' site.

When the government asks for something you should not consider how they want to use it, you should consider how they want to abuse the power. The case they trot out is specious and could usually be dealt with via much better ways via existing law.

If these file sharing sites are conducting criminal activities then they should be taken to court and tried according to the laws of the country in which the site operates.

As far as being above America's laws, I think Google's position is clearly within a plain reading of the constitution.
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I posted this on the site but I'll post it here, too.

The last point is wrong. The USB Implementers Forum complained last year about lightpeak using the usb interface. The other points have some merit but, considering sony is supposedly putting thunderbolt into their new laptops, it's still too early to call the interface a disaster. Or to blame Apple about it bombing.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/17/sonys-thunderbolt-impleme...
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I hate articles like these: a sensational headline with a lack of technical depth. I gain nothing for having read it. Many details are false, irrelevant, or information-free--for example, extremely new technologies are typically expensive at first.

Thunderbolt has a major technical advantage with a protocol lighter in weight and superior handling of asynch communication. USB "beat" FireWire because it was cheap, and it was cheap because a lot of the logic was offloaded and host-driven. You can't get many gigabytes per second with that strategy. I'd be really surprised if you could drive, say, a very high resolution monitor off USB 3.0.
Google's revenue from pirated movies and software is virtually non-existent. Their real interest is Youtube, considering half it's content probably infringes copyright somewhere.
Since kindle books are cheaper to create, store and deliver, and the fact that these books cost almost the same as the dead tree version, do the authors get a larger cut of the profits when a kindle book is sold compared to when a paper book is sold?
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This looks amazing and I’d love to pay for an eBook version, but Scribd won’t let me buy it as a non-US resident. Any alternatives?
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I'm thinking about maybe turning my sideproject into an actual product.

Teachers / Professors who have to read and grade lots of papers: would you be interested in a tool which automatically determined the most important sentences in a paper and then highlighted them inline?

Assume that the tool is at least 95% accurate, and that you can supply key words or phrases you consider important to weight the highlighting. It would do nothing to actually grade the paper - just help you skim through it more quickly.
Still looking for the opt-out. So much for Google's pledge that I own my data and can opt-out any time I want.
They had driver-adjustable front wings last year.
Multiplayer is going to be a tough requirement. There are not a lot of multiplayer games because Flash has been technologically handcuffed on that side for a while, and because most Flash game developers are indies who don't want to make that significant extra commitment.

A lot of Flash games launch without ads, you can get embed codes for a pretty fair selection of them here:

http://playtomic.com/games/catalog

For multiplayer games my friends at Nonoba (aka the Player IO guys which is the leading platform for multiplayer stuff for Flash games) are the ones you want to look at:

http://nonoba.com/

They have embed codes in the 'share' tab.
Thanks for the comments. We are in the process of completely changing the page and definitely need to articulate the value prop better. We don't have a blog up yet, so I'm not sure what you're referring to - maybe the about us/more detail page we put up?
Wait, you mean early products implementing a barely released smart protocol are going to be more expensive than products implementing an incremental update to an existing dumb protocol? Surely that can't be.
Perhaps it's because I know nothing of this organization (appendTo) or author, but this post flew right over my head. All I picked up were several generalizations and loose ends with very few hard facts, resulting in a jumpy article that was difficult to follow as well as several looming questions in my head.

I think the basis of this post may have been the acceptance of a lifestyle business, and that's great, but I fail to see any correlation to "Hacking the American Dream" or the 2011 BigOmaha conference, etc.
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If Intel isn't bundling it into every motherboard they ship I don't see how anyone could blame Apple for killing it.
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HN shortcut? Me too :)
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Daniel Glazman doesn't work at Mozilla; he's a contributor who used to work at Netscape on Mozilla when Mozilla was the codename for their browser.
Don't forget, Sony was the other large proponent of FireWire. They have a big vested interest with their video gear, I guess.

Could the USB-IF actually block a fiber-and-wire USB-socket-compatible implementation?
What was the pricepoint of initial USB hardware interfaces?
Probably ^L or Cmd+L will still work (it does work today) to unhide and keyboard focus the Omnibar, with something like Escape to dismiss it, and Enter will validate and dismiss.
Interesting techniques, but some of these styles don't work on IE8, and some are way too hackish. I really feel that there should be a way do a CSS dropdown without using stuff like "text-indent:-9999px;".
Should have it set to both instead of same id as designer for designer and both.

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<input type="text" name="email" value="your@email.com"/ class="default-value"><br>
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> USB 3.0 is more than fast enough for current and near-future applications.

USB3.0 Bandwidth: 3.2 GBit/s

HDMI Bandwidth: 10 GBit/s

I am still waiting for a truly universal bus.
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I haven't actually read the book, and some of his tips may be useful, but I stopped reading when I saw this in the book synopsis:

"How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days"

I'm a biologist and I'm calling bullshit on this claim. It is physiologically impossible to gain that much lean muscle mass in a month under the best conditions. Your body can only synthesize about 2lbs of lean muscle per month. The rest of those 32 pounds is likely glycogen (water weight) and fat.
I suspect Intel is a bit torn between USB 3.0 and Light Peak integration. Light Peak would be very expensive to integrate into every motherboard they ship -- but yes, Light Peak definitely has a stronger chance of taking off because of the Intel link.

Don't forget, Intel is due to integrate USB 3.0 at some point, too...
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I don't think that the existing W3C process is actually useful for HTML, but if we're playing this game, then it's better for it to be published than not.
I was going to say the exact same thing. This is nothing like NASCAR, or even rival open-wheel racing like Indie Car.

The amount of cloud computing the teams use is staggering too - during race weekends they'll compute the model of changing every potential setting on the car (physical, mechanical, software) and then play out the race to work out the impact. As the race weekend progresses they'll continue to lock down setting and begin to extrapolate to the permutations of every rival car in order to work out strategies.

Even during the race its not just the team's two cars and some guys on the pit wall... McLaren, perhaps the most technically advanced team in F1, has a whole "Space launch style" mission control room back in the UK where 10+ people monitor every piece of data from the car and works out strategic changes on the fly by feeding the data in the computer models.
This is only the case if the user has not got a cached version of jQuery, which is likely if something like google's hosting service. In this case the jQuery code may well be shorter than the css especially with all the browser specific rules. In addition the jQuery version will work in all browsers.
No, true enough.

It would be cool if Intel spoke out about the actual cost of Light Peak -- I mean, _can_ it be as cheap as USB 3.0, or is it inherently an expensive technology?

FireWire controllers, for example, are still many times more expensive than the USB equivalent.
I vote you up for pointing the obvious. It's not necessarily that this person is an "asshole", it's that they are heavily results-driven.

What does being nice have to do with getting a project out? I mean, I doubt the guy is running around cussing everyone out--it's that he doesn't want to take the time to "care" about you. And why should he? Why should that person even give a damn about your feelings? Last time I checked they aren't social workers--they're programmers.
> I'd be really surprised if you could drive, say, a very high resolution monitor off USB 3.0.

You definitely can't. But then again, you don't do that either with Thunderbolt. You do that with the DisplayPort signal that goes into the same cable.

Technically, you could implement a pretty crummy external video card driven by thunderbolt (may be useful for laptops, as additional oomph), but I don't think you'd usually do that.

But if you want to go into technicalities, USB3's SuperSpeed raw throughput is 4Gbps (5Gbps theoretical max), 3.2Gbps expected after protocol overhead. That's 400MB/s (full-duplex) (note that this 64% effective throughput is an impressive progress over USB2, which rarely reaches 50% of its theoretical 480Mbps throughput).

Thunderbolt is specced at 2x10Gbps (two channels per cable), full-duplex. And because it has a much lighter protocol (close to PCI-E) it should be able to reach a much higher efficiency than USB3.

It also has a significantly lower latency, even at the end of a daisy chain, than USB.
I agree on that point. The look is a turn-off, but once I got past that - this is actually very useful. For me I would shrink the font a bit so I can see even more/ consume more faster.
In the blogpost

"Roe devised her own high-end intelligence tests as follows: she obtained difficult problems in verbal, spatial and mathematical reasoning from the Educational Testing Service, which administers the SAT, but also performs bespoke testing research for, e.g., the US military. Using these problems, she created three tests (V, S and M), which were administered to the 64 scientists, and also to a cohort of PhD students at Columbia Teacher's College. The PhD students also took standard IQ tests and the results were used to norm the high-end VSM tests using an SD = 15. Most IQ tests are not good indicators of true high level ability (e.g., beyond +3 SD or so)."

Seems a decent try at it to me. But a better indicator that IQ is predictive of success is

http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2009/01/horsepower-matters-psyc...

Can psychometrics separate the top .1 percent from the top 1 percent in ability? Yes: SAT-M quartile within top 1 percent predicts future scientific success, even when the testing is done at age 13. The top quartile clearly outperforms the lower quartiles. These results strongly refute the "IQ above 120 doesn't matter" claim, at least in fields like science and engineering; everyone in this sample is above 120 and the top quartile are at the 1 in 10,000 level. The data comes from the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY), a planned 50-year longitudinal study of intellectual talent.

Ability Differences Among People Who Have Commensurate Degrees Matter for Scientiﬁc Creativity

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Peabody/SMPY/ParkPsychScience2008....
This year all teams are supposed to have it. Williams, who experimented with a fly-wheel design two years ago, switched to electrical system this year - which means all teams that use KERS now have battery-orientated systems.
This is good stuff. I'm surprised he didn't mention Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff's work on quantum consciousness. If Penrose/Stuart are right (that a lot, if not most, of the computation in the brain takes place in the microtubules of each neuron, taking the complexity of the brain to unfathomed territory) all these models of the brain based on the network of neuron connections, will be basically irrelevant.

http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/Google_000.htm
Thanks. Yeah I was looking at nonoba. I'll definitely take a closer look.
locking your filesystems helps you sometimes

take /var/log as example. if someone floods your server with traffic and you log every tiny bit (or even worse you have the debug level set to on) the logs will quickly take lots of space. if the space is full no further write access is possible

if it's a seperate partition you can't write more logs... if it's on the same partition you won't be able to log in by ssh as example because your drive is full and you can't spawn the sshd agent ;)
BTW they have an option that takes off the front two wheels and add a single wheel in front to make it a motorcycle (tricycle) it solves California regulations.
I am sure that there are many technologies that are inherently better than USB -- but it's not always the better technology that wins. (VHS vs. Betmax...)

Don't generalize, by the way - if details are false or irrelevant, please mention them so that they can be rectified.
To quote the article "Just like FireWire, though, Thunderbolt is off to a slow start." So is firewire dead, now, after a long wait for a second, third, tenth, twentieth company to use it? No. So wait for Thunderbolt to be used or not, whichever it may be within the next ten years.

Article writer is article submitter.
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Would you be able to send it to me too? Thanks so much!
> It would be cool if Intel spoke out about the actual cost of Light Peak -- I mean, _can_ it be as cheap as USB 3.0, or is it inherently an expensive technology?

It's going to depend what you do with it. Thunderbolt is basically an external PCI-E, with some additional brains to handle chaining and the DisplayPort signal. I'd say it's always going to be more expensive than USB3.

Not necessarily by much, but with USB the vast majority of the work is really done in software and on the machine's hardware, which pretty directly controls the USB device. That's, in fact, why FireWire was so much superior to USB early on and could reach much higher data rates without straining the machines: the dedicated hardware meant almost no resources (outside of providing or consuming data) were required of the machine (I remember machines in the late 90s and early 00s having trouble playing MP3s in Winamp and driving a USB communication at the same time)
What a POS article-- all speculation, no facts. And who in their right mind thinks Thunderbolt costs anymore than a single digit?
...you don't do that either with Thunderbolt. You do that with the DisplayPort signal that goes into the same cable.

No and yes, respectively... sending DisplayPort over the wire is a feature of Thunderbolt, not something you 'do with the same cable'. You can also theoretically drive a monitor with PCI Express, the other half of the Thunderbolt bus.
This is not true at all and I would love to see you back it up with a credible source.

This has been covered over and over again...

A significant portion of those sites would not exist without AdSense revenue to cover costs and make a profit.
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It's important to realize, however, that some people can be major assholes to you but charming to others. This disconnect can be pretty annoying but is something you have to get over because if you attack the "asshole" back and your friends like the asshole, you're going to look stupid.
Difference is, talking up your dog in a dog fight doesn't make him any more likely to win.
I agree.

The same is true for a lot of other articles we happen to read. The title says one thing, but the actual body of the article has little (or even nothing) to do with it.

Hey, I understand their job is getting people to read what they write, but it looks to me like the signal-to-bullshit ratio is getting worse.
Fonts in Ubuntu can be absolutely unpredictable when it comes rendering time. I remember an install of msttcore-fonts that I thought would allow me to see sites built with Verdana, Tahoma, etc. similarly to Chrome on a windows box. Not even close, and I'm talking about the kerning, not even the subpixel quality.

IIRC as sibsib said windows takes major liberties with the kerning to keep its core fonts on the pixel grid, and if msttcore-fonts are hinted, they sure don't come out at all similar to the windows versions.
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Generally, yes. From time to time, though -- like just last week -- Amazon will roll out an update that will break DRM-breaking.
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I'm unfamiliar with dutch politics but could these two positions be boiled down to equality of opportunity vs. equality of outcome?
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The original USB interfaces which apple made mainstream in the iMac? I don't know. But I do know that MacBook Pro prices with Thunderbolt are similar to without, probably because the thunderbolt controller also does DisplayPort (I wouldn't be surprised if Apple built the connector themselves, actually. Maybe ifixit knows.)

The market is different than when they put USB into the iMac now mainly because there are large amounts of cheap USB peripherals which USB 3 is backwards compatible with. I think (but haven't done any research) that the number of companies making USB peripherals now is much (one or two orders of magnitude) greater than the number of companies making PS/2 or parallel SCSI when the iMac was released. The personal computer market has grown a lot, and USB now has much more momentum than anything else had when the iMac was released. People (such as my mother) are going to buy a new computer and are going to want it to work with their existing external hard disk -- they're not going to transplant the disk to a new case. So USB, especially is USB 3 peripherals can run at slower speeds over USB 2, is going to stay for a little while. Thunderbolt is going up against an entrenched competitor, and if you compare to the HD format wars, both players worked with DVDs. If Blu-Ray didn't and people had to have two boxes instead of one, HD-DVD probably would have won. The best Thunderbolt is probably going to do for the near future is be the new FireWire.
I think what a lot of people feel about higher education can be boiled down to a fairly simple system:

1) The industrial base of the country, for better or worse, was moved overseas

2) Upward mobility became intertwined with Higher Education, as a child of the 90's the constant drum beat of "Go to college, go to college, go to college" was deafening.

3) A lot of people who would not normally go to college or have no interest in furthering their education go anyhow because of the promise of a better future.

4) These people lack a certain passion for their education
and field, they are not there because of a love of their subject but because of a love of money (which is nothing to be ashamed about, although I love computers and math I also enjoy money and do whatever I can to maximize the amount of it that I have, within reason).

5) These newly minted graduates that entered college without clear direction and with little passion find themselves with a load of debt and with little idea of what to do. They were promised "good jobs" but without some concrete idea or drive they end up aimlessly trying to find anything that requires a college degree.

TL;DR The road to prosperity got harder and a lot of people that had no real desire to be on that road in the first place are upset about it.

Post Script:

Of course this doesn't mean to say that there aren't people legitimately passionate about their field that are having troubles finding meaningful employment.
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> so android phones sell more in just 5 days?

No, Android devices activate more in 5 days.
Still not clear to me what "activation" means.
These two measures aren't directly comparable:
http://www.simplemobilereview.com/what-does-apple-mean-by-de...

That said, Microsoft still selling more WinMo devices than WP7 is a telling sign of their poor mobile strategy.
The sales of WP7 phones seem to be declining.
I don't have to deal with any asshole when I use gcc or whatever.
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