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Apologies for quoting PG yet again, but "always produce" really is what I do to find my way through my ever-changing ideas:

Sometimes jumping from one sort of work to another is a sign of energy, and sometimes it's a sign of laziness. Are you dropping out, or boldly carving a new path? You often can't tell yourself. Plenty of people who will later do great things seem to be disappointments early on, when they're trying to find their niche.

Is there some test you can use to keep yourself honest? One is to try to do a good job at whatever you're doing, even if you don't like it. Then at least you'll know you're not using dissatisfaction as an excuse for being lazy. Perhaps more importantly, you'll get into the habit of doing things well.

Another test you can use is: always produce. For example, if you have a day job you don't take seriously because you plan to be a novelist, are you producing? Are you writing pages of fiction, however bad? As long as you're producing, you'll know you're not merely using the hazy vision of the grand novel you plan to write one day as an opiate. The view of it will be obstructed by the all too palpably flawed one you're actually writing.

"Always produce" is also a heuristic for finding the work you love. If you subject yourself to that constraint, it will automatically push you away from things you think you're supposed to work on, toward things you actually like. "Always produce" will discover your life's work the way water, with the aid of gravity, finds the hole in your roof.

http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
That's pretty nifty! I can see it being used favorably by journos and bloggers.
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The rules may be strict; my point was, they don't do things just because they did it that way all the time. If they see something better, they bow before the change.

If it comes from the management, I'm impressed even more.
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I didn't realize "liberal scientists" worked for free, it was always my assumption that people paid them to do this work.
It needs zero because the market will provide these services. Or if it doesn't it would be clear that consumers didn't want these services.
I'm so impressed with your superior maturity in not being able to tolerate RMS's jokes, and how you're able to find a way of taking a swipe at one of the great hackers of his generation even though the topic is completely unrelated.
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I understand what he meant and my point still remains.
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That would work if people weren't so stubborn LOL. Some people admit the flaws but still want to steamroll ahead which isn't always bad)
one consequence of labour being so much cheaper here in india is that even some of the large chain coffee shops have waiters and a pay-as-you-leave policy.
Society definitely plays a role. Working in "some little, unknown company" (a startup) is hard to explain to people with little or no knowledge of what we do. Being an entrepreneur is worse: you are considered "insane" if you quit a well paying job to start a company.
This post misses the key point about working for one of these big outsourcing companies: there is no technical career path. The only way to advance in a company like Wipro (the one I have the most experience with) is to become management. This leads to a very unhealthy dynamic, and I don't see how these companies can remain competitive over time. Without an equal investment in ensuring that they have some technical skills to bring to the table, they will never been much more than a cheap place to outsource your testing or running a complicated build environment. I'm amazed they can't see that.
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It's not a petition. It is a form that emails your congressperson, which it derives from your address (you can either include your own message or use their form letter).
It may be where most of the money comes from at the moment. But Google did not start out as an advertising company, and I don't think (from reading "In The Plex") they really want to be one, either. If they could kill ads, they would do it.
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i'm perfectly happy to work with someone like a little neighbourhood coffee shop in their desire to avoid credit card processing fees.
There also could be an option like Quora have where you can submit anonymously, where instead of it saying "by USER" it says "by anon" with no link to a users profile etc.

However, I don't think that it really makes a big difference either way but it is a nice idea.
This is great advice, thank you. It aligns very closely with my own ethics, but worded in a different way and very clearly put. "Walk the talk" seems to be another fair abbreviation of the concept.
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No, it has hard links to already backed up files, but individual files are not stored as deltas. If you have a big file that changes often, say 4 GB virtual machine image, Time Machine will just copy it every time.
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"Now we have set up [...] Adsense-Accounts [...]. Each time someone visits a Web-Sites within our network of sites, he/she triggers a series of robots. For each click we receive a micropaiment from Google."

Robots? For clicks? That would mean, that they are stealing money from AdWords advertisers.

Did I overlook something?
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Its a fact here in India indeed. At least for now.
Off topic but in Australia coal miner is not a too bad job, miners earn much more than software dev, and of course, it's a much tougher job.
This is pointless. About 100% of engineers, who are looking for a technical carrier path already know this.
Fusion is a nuclear process so I would have thought it is fair to label a fusion reactor as a nuclear reactor.

Note: creating controlled fusion isn't a problem, it's creating fusion that has a net energy output that seems a bit tricky:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
By reading the Wiki on this, it seems like they're either on to something interesting, or they're great con artists... Why does this concept seem so simple?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell
I know that the plural of anecdotes is not data, but I currently run Sid, and I have been for several years. It hasn't been problem free, but I don't recall a system-killing update. The most common problem is some missing or broken dependencies for a package forcing me to hold off installing a package or updating my system for a few days.

In the mean time, back when I used to live with someone who used Ubuntu as his main system, and when I used to run Ubuntu on my laptop, I had to fix system-crippling bugs at least 3 times.

So, anecdotally, I've had less system-killing problems with Sid than Ubuntu's stable releases.
I'm not sure I get this. Is this a joke? What's the goal here? What's the business model? Have I missed some fundamental development in nuclear physics that makes it possible to build a fusion reactor for $3,000. Is the $10bn being spent on ITER redundant?
It's just expensive... We wish it were cheaper, by this is about as cheap as 3D printing gets.
There are so many alternatives because most of them suck.

I've had the misfortune of choosing Piston for a production app. The API broke several times, not to mention the version I'm using which is fairly recent is still having problems rendering the documentation (triggers a weird error and then server requires a restart).

Also, automated documentation is NOT a feature you want, it's just something on which devs waist time - it sounds well in practice, until you discover Sphinx. Sphinx does a better job in a more generic way. I don't get it why people reinvent the wheel.

Django's routing is fine IMHO and you can always write your own magic decorators or classes to add on top and it's not that hard to do.

Django's problem is that it doesn't provide guidance on what goes where and how. Even the standard project structure that's first created by django-admin is fucked-up. This is at first a strength, since you can easily spot extensibility points and as such the learning curve is acceptable, but it quickly becomes a problem. I also think that the main unit of abstraction in Django (the apps) are broken since you care more about resources, even in non-restful projects.
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Say you have doubts, and that you want to discuss them. Then discuss them, in an orderly and dispassionate way. Keep in mind the possibility that you are the one who's wrong, and you'll be fine. Be calm, rational and modest.

Also: creativity does not mean not rejecting ideas. Creativity involves rejecting vast quantities of ideas. It just also involves creating more ideas than you reject. So one important phase of being creative is uncritically spawning vast numbers of ideas. Another important phase is critically evaluating them. Hemingway (apparently - this is potentially apocryphal) said "I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to throw the shit in the wastebasket."
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I'll tell you what it means for LockInfo; I was, seriously, about to buy LockInfo (my trial runs out on the 12th, and I'd made the decision to buy...soon) - I'm not buying now.

So thats what it means; lost customers. Apple just drank your milkshake.
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What is hard to understand?
Orwell is about big brother watching you. Apple collects all our data. This allows an incredible amount of control, doesn't it?

One of the questions is: is iCloud only the bone that Apple hands us, while they get the meat. It is naive to believe that all these masses of data are stored only for our convenience. The investment for server farms is huge, so there must be a return, right? Thats business.

We also know that, since the internet still tends to offer free services, our data is what we use to pay with. Apple takes this to the next level (like always).

Microsoft has tried the same back in the 90s with their slim workstations (don't exactly remember the name). The idea was: the Pc only has a small drive (with windows on it), the data is stored in the internet. Back then it completely failed and the idea was criticized a lot. Today, combined with a useful service, people seem to accept it.

Is that really a good development?
Given that similar research is funded by the US Navy I'd have guessed that there is a pretty good chance that there is some chance this is a legitimate approach:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell

Even if there is a very small chance of this working it is a pretty small amount of money compared to ITER - and I'd love to see a small project like this actually come up with the goods.

[Edit: corrected my mistake where I assumed that this was the same lot of researchers as the ones being funded by the US Navy]
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As a reference, yes. I agree javadocs are little help for the big picture (or for the search problem of not knowing the term to look for).

However, it's much better than no documentation; and having it automatically derived makes it more likely to happen. It's much less work, and how much documentation would we have otherwise? Even if no explicit explanations are added, it's an improvement over nothing.

I think active docs, which you experiment with and see the behaviour as in the django story here, is even better again. (Although, there's little guidance and no explanation in these docs; and I got stack traces when I tried to add something.)

However, the big picture is what is missing - I wonder if there is a way to ease the documentation of this also? That shows the high-level interactions between things. I think part of the problem is that API docs show all the options, but often only 20% are used often, you can get by with even a smaller amount, and get something working with even less. That is, examples of concrete instances of API usage, not all the choices. For example, java.lang.String has a surprising number of methods, but most code doesn't use any of them (most code doesn't manipulate strings).

So, perhaps constraining docs in some way: maybe ranking methods by usage frequency; or designating examples, combining the used subsets of docs into one page. One might generalize this slightly, to show commonly used choices: this would give you the idea that this part is background that's always the same, and these parts are the foreground that changes. i.e. a grammar over the API, of common usage patterns.

This still wouldn't be perfect, but an improvement over purely reference docs; and making it much easier to produce would mean they'd be more of it.

An improvement over this would be game mechanics (I don't mean achievement unlocked BS, but a gradual learning curve, with feedback on how you are doing - puzzles, or active exercises IOW.
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That was a seriously great story, and probably deserves its own submission.
They're competing against full-HD Blu-ray rips on torrents. Cutting off their nose to spite their face (by degrading quality) isn't going to be to their own advantage.
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It's not at all surprising; it's what happens when Indian society tries to push everyone into either engineering or medicine. You come up with a huge number of bad engineering colleges to meet the demand, which in churn out bad engineers. So you have a country with a huge supply of people who are scared of engineering. What follows? Jobs to utilize this huge workforce. A real engineer is a needle in the haystack -- it's very difficult for him/ her to stand out and be recognized.
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(First, I don't get what part is the low one of stack here...)

Then you just need one leak of a movie to have it on all pirates website. Most people don't rip, but only watch what's been ripped by other... And doing so, those days, is just a matter of having a rogue HDMI dongle :D
Watching over our music tastes (Genius did this already), calenders (iCal, Calendar, MobileMe) and so on. If you want to say they have too much information on us, you didn't pick your target well (they care more about user privacy than most companies).
sadly, looks like that out of funds, he had to go back to a "normal" job:

http://prometheusfusionperfection.com/2011/03/20/new-job/
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Something like that. A passport with a US Visa, a large bank balance, and a secure job ;)
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http://meetup.com and http://eventbrite.com are your friends for finding local events. Many are not going to be announced until much closer to the actual event but something to check out if you wanted to meet like minded folks who are attending events of your interests.

Aside from the above sites, also plan to visit a few coworking spaces while you're here. Some are open to the public and its a cool way to meet entrepreneurs and hackers of all kinds. Two very popular ones are Noisebridge (in San Francisco) and Hacker Dojo (in Mountain View)... They're roughly 45 mins drive apart but you can take public transportation to get between the two places. They also house events, classes, and meetups.

There are also incubators that are somewhat open to the public that you can check out (I think StartX at AOL in Palo Alto is one).

Lastly, check these out:

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Here's a plot: http://imageshack.us/f/192/stepsd.png/

It might be interesting to plot the mapping instead.

edit: one has already been made: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2626879
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To be fair, RESTfulness is only really desirable in an API. I wouldn't want each one of my views to be in a class, because most views are GET-only. Even the ones that use POST aren't usually RESTful if it's something like a form submission, so Django's way is the path of least resistance.

For our RESTful API, I use this:

http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1071/
Well the revenue share from AdSense was revealed to be in the 65% range. So given a poor profitability by Google in the next few million years, it could still work.
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Oops, didn't notice this dated 2010.
> it sounds well in practice, until you discover Sphinx. Sphinx does a better job in a more generic way.

As someone who started to write our API docs in Sphinx (with an appropriate HTTP extension) but saw this and was about to start using it, your comment may have saved me a few hours of work.

Why do you say that Sphinx is better, though? I found that, to document an API, you can either document the code or the API (HTTP-side). Sphinx can do both, but the useful part (HTTP-side documentation) has to be rewritten from scratch and updated separately (unlike the code docs, which can be generated from the docstrings).
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> The only "serious problem" was storing seeds for some unknown reason.

I read somewhere else that the seeds are stored by RSA as an additional backup for the customers. In the event that the customer accidentally loses their seed database, it would be a very costly operation to replace all the SecurID hardware tokens.

But... well... they are forced to replace all the SecurID hardware tokens anyway.
I'd wager that any system that is complex enough to be useful has unwarranted assumptions built in. You can (in some cases should) use mathematical formalism to elicit these assumptions, but from then on, you handle them with risk management, which is classic engineering.
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This does not apply in general. A lot of things in the Japanese society are done in old, even arcane ways just because they always have been done like that. The society is not built on bowing before change but on to reach some kind of harmony. Changes might be accepted eventually, but getting there is the hard part.
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There has been an ongoing debate in the industry about the services vs the product approach. Services have been big success story whereas there has been no big product success yet. The services people highlight that fact and hype it up. It leads you believe that there is no future for product development companies in India, which really is not true. The services market has saturated and people are starting to look at product driven companies now. You'll hardly find any startups in services business these days. It will take some time to move on from the services mindset, but it's starting to happen.
Well poywell research maybe, but not _this_ particular project. Actually as someone pointed out, this is dated 2010, and the guy has had to bin it due to lack of funds. Although quite how far he imagined he'd get on $500 / month I'm not sure.
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I was in a similar position last year, and ended up crashing and burning. I was working on a startup with two friends, and we had lots of ideas in a variety of areas (not all software). In the end, we decided to develop a "quick and simple" website to learn a bit about how to work together. None of us thought the website would make money, but that was OK because it was only supposed to take a few weeks. In the end, we wasted about 9 months on it before we finally decided to go our separate ways.

I'm not sure this helps you much with your situation. In retrospect we should have spent the time doing market research on some of our other ideas which might have been more commercial. Perhaps this is something you can do with your pals? Follow Steve Blank's advice from "Four Steps to the Epiphany" and start talking to your potential customers before you do much serious product development.

While I agree with steventruong that no-one can predict what will make money, there are psychological factors to consider: if you really think the idea is a waste of time, you won't fully commit to it and that might make it more likely to fail...
> Roll your own (surprisingly common since it's not too hard)

Easy to roll your own.
Deceptively hard to do it really simply and really well.

Hence the proliferation of frameworks.

I like a comment by Fielding here: "most people just make the mistake that it should be simple to design simple things. In reality, the effort required to design something is inversely proportional to the simplicity of the result."
From a brief reading, it's potentially worse than an 8ms slow-down if you take all the issues into account. Have I misinterpreted?
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