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Would be interesting to add AppServer-in-PHP: https://github.com/indeyets/appserver-in-php

It performed quite equally to Node.js on my small-scale tests (http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/php_can_perform_better_than_node-j...)
Which programs are essential with fresh OS install?
For me, a new OSX install needs:

- Textmate
- Sizeup + Divvy
- Chrome + Firefox w/ Firebug
- Synergy
- Adium
- Alfred
- Sparrow
- Reeder
- Things
- Notational Velocity
- TotalFinder
- iStats Menu 2.0 (haven't bought 3.x yet)
- Dropbox

Please share, I'm always looking for better tools for productivity.
Writing a book is hard. I had a book contract once, and for a multitude of personal & productivity reasons, failed to ship. So I definitely relate to the problems associated with the pressures of deadline driven forced creativity/production. To this day, I regret not finishing that book.

It sounds like Merlin is making the right choice for him, right now. The end product will probably be better for this experience... how did it get this point? Why was he writing empty chapters to satisfy his deadlines. Assuming this book is about productivity, there's probably some definite lessons learned to share if he digs deep.
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First off, nitpick: I think you meant "lose" rather than "loose".

Secondly, would you mind expanding on your point? I wasn't aware that a country being governed by a monarch implied a theocracy. Sure, you have countries like the UK where the monarch is both the head of state and the head of the established church but that link doesn't have to exist and the existence of that link doesn't necessarily imply any reduction in religious freedoms.
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Which browsers does it support? The output styles I mean, not the actual tool.
Vim, Xcode, Corona SDK, Hg, Graphic Converter, Pixelmator, TextExpander, CSSEdit, OmniGraffle, Soulver iWork, Cyberduck, 50+ more
Government can't survive anonymous money not only due to impossibility to tax it, but also due to assassination prediction market: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market

If bitcoin will succeed, we will see a political singularity in several years.
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As someone in NLP I think I just came up with an idea about how it would be useful, but I won't say :D
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The writer's point about it being harder to make money with internet scams is the result of the normal "learning curve" of criminal enterprise--where the victims learn to protect themselves. It is the real reason "crime doesn't pay", at least not for long. Protecting yourself from a scammer, or even from actual physical theft, is easier than doing the crime, so successful criminals need to keep ahead of the reaction.

Also, the comment about the mangled syntax misunderstands its purpose--the surest way to a successful con is to make the mark feel smarter than the conman. As several people have observed, most cons work by making the mark think he is going to get something for nothing, or at least for less than its worth.

I just finished reading Robert Greene's The 48 Laws of Power about a month ago, so all this is near the top of my mind right now; a lot of his illustrative anecdotes involved conmen.
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> Microsoft knows how to make a ton of money.

Yes, but only out of Windows & Office. It's been a while since they've been able to expand into other areas.

E.g., their online division typically loses >$500M.
> People I know get most of their information digitally, reading books, articles, news, doing research, etc., all via computers, ipads, kindles, etc. It's just an easier way to consume information.

Any book-lover would tell you that reading them books is not only about "consuming information". Otherwise, I would be a little bit skeptical in announcing the death of a cultural item that has been with us for at least 2,000 years.
I started the regular way, by creating a profile, taking the time to fill in my job history properly, and to do as many oDesk tests as possible. I set my initial price lowish to reflect absence of history.

The first jobs I got were not in IT but in translation and copywriting, where demonstrating my skills was much easier. To get the first job in IT, I had to offer references outside oDesk - which were followed up - to make my profile credible.

Once I had my first jobs, my main focus was on delivering very high quality work - even if it was not always very well paid - so as to build up a very positive feedback history. My main focus at this stage was on creating a good profile, not making money.

Once I had enough history and feedback, new job offers started rolling in, and I stopped looking for work.
My biggest problem is that I like taking notes, especially for programming-related stuff, using a pencil.

I'm reading books in my dead time, like the daily commute, and I don't have the luxury to use a notebook. I like marking important paragraphs, or add notes on stuff that was previously defined in former chapters, or add question marks reminding me to do further research online.

And yes, the device has to have a big screen with good resolution, and that screen has to be readable in sunlight. And my problem with E-Ink is that it doesn't come in color (making them useless for reading some topics, like design/photography stuff for example).

Of course, I will be very happy when such technical limitations are removed. And I'll also be very happy that such reading devices are more green, and my reading habits aren't the reason for cutting down forests :)
Duckduckgo seems to offer reasonable results: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=L. While it doesn't solve this problem entirely, it's a good starting point.
JSONP does not force you to use eval. All that JSONP is doing is telling the web service to write JavaScript in such a way to immediately invoke a function with the name of the callback. Usually it's just called with a string. What you do with that string is up to you.
In 2011, we have precrime. See video of those arrested for planning on staging street theatre to protest royal wedding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOli98fgBP0 [01:15]

"This is minority report! Pre-crime! We're being arrested for street theater."

It's amazing how well the British do fascism, complete with a bit of descent into absurdist comedy. Life imitates Terry Pratchett.
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I too believe so.

Let Google build their product first, it is still a beta, for a reason. Music recommendation is close to impossible without lots of data - and it becomes unfair to compare Google Music with iTunes Genius, which has been on the market in 3 years.
What makes this scenario extremely scary to me is the proposition that every single person alive would have to spend even 15 minutes dismissing/paying off frivolous lawsuits every single day.

Having the overhead of a parasitic legal system spread thin over the entire population doesn't make it any less of a monstrous sink of lifetime.
Yes. My particular interests are C# for desktop and ASP and javascript for web.
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Emacs, git, Chrome, zsh, along with my development environment (gcc, pyhton, autotools and whatnot).
Just came back from a concert to x10 traffic on world time buddy, which tracks back straight to here :)

Really glad to see a lot of positive feedback - thanks guys! The UX indeed took a long time to get right (?), with multiple (failed) versions over a couple of years. Simple things are hard to make.

Love the suggestions/ideas as well. Will consider for upcoming features.

Can folks elaborate what they mean by "slow". Feel free to do so in private, over email -- contact@worldtimebuddy.com

P.S. Why didn't I think of posting here myself? :)
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In an ideal world, there will be a more efficient marketplace than litigation
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I think Aspects have penetrated pretty well via Spring. They're probably used more for logging than anything else, but it's something.
As I see it, people read books for two reasons: to gain some knowledge (consume info) or to be entertained. Maybe I'm missing something else?

And I'm not at all announcing the death of books. I agree that some books mean more than just the words they contain. For this reason, I think they'll stick around as souvenirs of events, ideas, places, and people.

But, many books don't represent more than the words they contain, so I don't think people will want physical copies of them. For these reasons, I would guess the staggering majority of books are consumed digitally in 10 years. I wrote more in depth about it here, if you're interested (and I'd love to know why I might be wrong): http://www.ajkesslerblog.com/books-are-souvenirs/
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(found this in: http://www.telescopictext.org/resources/reading-tips )
The SBCL common lisp implementation (at least, I'm sure it's not the only one) can also do thread local dynamic binding.
Thanks for the hint! Here are three for you:

* My statement, based on econophysics, remains true for perfect solar or wind collectors.

* Stop using the term "renewable". It's antiphysical.

* Learn something about fission - we can invest in it too, and there's a factor of 500 on the table.
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Very understandable. Full motion, color e-ink should be out by next year (according to rumors about Amazon's ipad competitor). Flexible screens are very close to being useful. I bet we'll see what you want within 5 years. It will be fun :)
> "Why would I buy one of these when I could just buy an iPad?" . As of yet, there is not a single competing tablet with a good answer to this question

Perhaps what you're missing (and what the whole Apple philosophy misses) is that there may never be a "single" iPad competitor that is better than the iPad in every respect and yet Android may "win" all the same, because each different model offers something different to someone who values that.

Perhaps you like having an SD card slot. Perhaps you like to plug in a (real) keyboard with a trackpad. Perhaps ultra light weight is your thing. Perhaps you just have to have a real HDMI port. Perhaps you're a 3D junky. Perhaps 9.7inches is just too big - or too small, for you. Perhaps a stylus does it for you. Whatever it is, if there is a segment of consumers who lust after it, there will an Android tablet featuring that. If everyone's killer feature is different then Apple's single-model, uniform approach will never be able to win. In this sense I strongly suspect that Apple is quite happy not winning and knows that they're far better off maximizing profit on 25% of the market that really does all want the same thing rather than trying to cater to the long tail of consumer desires. Let's face it, when it's a choice between profit and market share, Apple always picks profit.
I hate to be "that guy", but the language in this article is really poor in both grammar and style, and it could use some editing to help with that. Are thenextweb articles normally copy-edited?
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This is, in fact, what happened. An enterprising douchebag used Firesheep to sniff Twitter credentials, then #poopin'd a bunch of attendees. Malte makes oblique reference to this in the post.

I'm not convinced it's the WiFi provider's job to hold users' hands here. Most of us don't maintain separate browsing habits for public networks and private networks. I know that I never had an "aha, should use Twitter over HTTPS now" moment once I started using the WiFi at JSConf, and that's my fault.

In other words, session stealing can be resolved by the site itself (by forcing everything onto https, like GitHub has done), by the WiFi provider (by selectively redirecting traffic onto https and reminding people that the network is unencrypted), or by the end user (by being justifiably paranoid). In my mind, the former two aren't _obligated_ to help here, but may do it anyway just to avoid headaches all around.
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Moreover, JSON.parse will be able to parse the JSON text containing the "U+2028" character without any issue.
Or as a daughter. Merlin's courageous and sometimes ferocious writing reminds me that I deeply admire blank honesty and to redouble my own efforts. I'm glad he's ditched a book that wasn't his own and I'll buy the one he does publish.
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The big problem with legal processes right now is that they have a high frictional cost. If that cost can be brought down -- on both sides, so that suits can be filed more widely for smaller amounts AND people have a reason to defend against frivolous suits -- then I'd say we would be better off, not worse".

I think that would be the legal equivalent of expecting average Joes to debug their own kernels when their printer doesn't work.
Pre2011, there's attempted crimes like murder, conspiracy to commit like fraud, and even thought crimes where discussing a bomb in a cafe can land you in indefinite imprisonment.

Minority report is distinctly different in that there's 100% assurance that a crime has been committed in the future, therefore the suspects are guilty.

[SPOILER BELOW]

As plot progresses, it is found that reading the computer that looks towards the future are human and there's no 100% certainty due to paradoxes among other past life twists. This lead to release of all prisoners (I think).
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In the near future, Umbrellas can probably absorb light so well due to no reflection, that it offers warmth from the cold rain.

That's from the top of my head.
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Correct me if I am wrong but I believe that Merlin Mann got the name for his site '43 folders' from David Allen's 'Getting things done' book.
I have been trying to implement GTD techniques for some time.
The 43 folder idea appealed to me hugely at first, on a first reading of that book it was the single most seductive technique. I am still using GTD but I've dumped the 43 folders. At the same time I have come to see the value of strategies in the book that at first reading didn't seem all the helpful.
The reason I dumped the 43 folders is that I don't think it's suitable for personal organisation.
The problem was that with a folder (for every day in the current month = 31) and one for every month (12), the daily folders were mostly empty. This meant that there wasn't an incentive to check them every day and then you end up forgetting to do it and then you miss stuff. The technique might work well for a business though.
Now I just store references to 'incubating' items in my phone calendar (which is synced with my google calendar).
Sorry for going off on a tangent.
>I'm pretty sure that, if that were the site in question, many of your rhetorical questions won't seem quite as ridiculous.

No, they still sound ridiculous. Completely and utterly ridiculous. Arresting someone for reporting? Providing a link to a child porn site isn't and shouldn't be a crime. Actually downloading the content is a crime.

Creating things you can't say is always a bad idea. And slippery slope isn't always a fallacy. We're watching it happen with the patriot act right now.
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It's the same link as posted on the book author's buy page ( http://portswigger.net/wahh/buy.html) so I'd imagine the parent just copy/pasted it here.
There is another way to think about this. Instead of working for one startups, work for several.

I have probably done work for around 100 different startups since I started my company in 2005.

What really helped me though was that I started the company with Morten Lund (Early investor in Skype) who had several companies in his portfolio and a good connection in the venture capital world. That helped send work our way.

Instead of going for design conferences go to conferences with a lot of VC guys. Show your portfolio around and you will most likely get some work if it's good.

You will need to be a little more flexible with regards to pricing but that can be solved once you realize how most startups get their funding.

In the angel round, companies are normally pretty cost sensitive.

One way to solve that is to charge less than your normal would but with with an option to cash in if they get their series A funding.

This is a great motivator and that is only one of the many many advantages of working for startups.
6 senators is not "dozens" and the individual mandate has not been ruled unconstitutional.
I would agree with you, but keep in mind the kind of people who end up in congress. If you're a tech savvy nerd you're probably not going to be that interested in sitting around having stupid arguments about even stupider topics about people who don't understand any of the presented material.

I'm afraid positions of political power select for the exact kind of people who shouldn't have these positions.
Good call :-)

Stay tuned.
I believe that focusing on a single product is an unbelievable learning experience honestly, and is the real gain for designers, but your point is still valid.
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I personally think this statement is pretty misunderstood. I don't think they mean "ignorance of the law is not a valid excuse" (i.e. "you should have known") but rather "if you don't know the law we're still going to punish you" (i.e. "we don't care if you could have known or not").
I'll be trying to get my contacts to use Google Talk. It has all the features of Skype, including video conferencing, for free.
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In particular, if the material on the handout is material you want your audience to refer to again, by working through the handout in a presentation you are making it easier for your audience to do that.
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If congress is constitutionally allowed to tax then the individual mandate is constitutional. Imagine a law where they would raise your taxes and give you a health insurance policy, it would be effectively the same as a mandate.
That's genius. I wish there was an organization in which they wrote most of their articles this way. Perhaps they could even send these articles to other organizations for some kind of reprinting fee.
Whack it on stackoverflow. People there love to think about stuff like that.
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Except, people with OCPD would click everything through, just to see if they missed anything, and really not make much headway into reading at all.
There are many ways to gain understanding of how to design for startups and if anything. By working on so many startups, some briefly, some all the way to series C funding, some to exit, I have learned that there are no one way that is the right way.

Also mind you I still have had to build my own company (from 2 people to 60 people back to 30 people and from 2 partners up to 8 partners and back to 4 partners) so you can say that I have stayed focused on that.
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I don't see why people would quit using Skype now. The fact that it has been bought by Microsoft doesn't change that Skype is evil. It already was. It already was a closed source software using a proprietary protocol and doing stuff you don't know with your bandwidth.

Don't get me wrong, it's great if people switch from Skype to something free (as in freedom), but not if it's because it has been bought by Microsoft, this makes no sense.
The fact of the matter is, however, that if Skype could be replaced, it would.
I saw something like this described many years ago (possibly by Ted Nelson, who coined the term 'hypertext'). The concept was like a volume control for text where cranking the volume control varied the amount of detail from one line summary through to a multi page article.

I've always really liked the idea but writing coherent content could be fiendishly difficult (the simple approach is just to provide a number of versions and cycle through them).
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Accellerando had some similarly interesting riffs on the future of torts and patent law (IIRC the main character had patentend the practice of patenting a group of patents into a larger patent portfolio).
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What would be interesting would be if some language offered the ability to do thread-local (or thread-heritable) dynamically scoped monkey patching, and closures over monkey patches. So you could make a function that rebinds the implementation of lists, and can return a list that is for example backed by a mmapped file.
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Yup. I wonder how much this talk influenced Next's NeXTSTEP design? Certainly a lot of the things he was thinking about have been solved in a fairly elegant manner - late-binding, delegates that implement mappings, reflection, using protocols instead of class hierarchies where appropriate...

Actually, when you get down to it, MVC is all about making client specific mappings for the loading of data into views. The talk is not exactly startling seen from a 2011 perspective, but it's nice to see the reasoning behind so many of today's patterns so clearly expounded.
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