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If it's the essay I'm thinking of, it was basically complaining that in a video that will billed as an overview of history, some things weren't covered in excruciating detail. I was not impressed by the argument.
Media has dealt with this problem for years.

Some media outlets let the advertising money corrupt them, and some don't. Just because some do doesn't mean all must.

Exactly the same argument can be made about product companies. They can become more profitable in the short term by making shoddy products that break after a while. Is that a sensible strategy? I don't know, but I think it's exactly the same as saying that pleasing advertisers becoming more important than pleasing customers.
yes of course, if you get your broadband from bt :)
Interesting in light of Go:

- New languages are needed for writing distributed/parallel applications
`Needed', no. `Helpful', perhaps. The jury's still out.
this is very anti-entrepreneurial. all the small business, affiliates (large and small) will now relocate to other states that are more friendly to their business.

All that this is business is going to accomplish is that it will collect less tax dollars, drive jobs and businesses out of state. Thank you to big box retailers like Best Buy and Staples for driving to have this bill passed.

Too bad California :(
Look, if we want a competitive marketplace, it makes sense that everyone operates under the same tax constraints. This isn't a pro-tax, anti-tax, pro or anti commerce clause thing. It's just basic economics, the best services will float to the top that way.
I agree with you about the filename, I think PyDoc is probably overkill for something so simple. There's no reason to confuse new people with PyDoc. (Does Zed use PyDoc in LPTHW? No. (Except for the pydoc command suggested for reference.))
Almost sounds inspired by crazy European Union VAT laws! American companies are technically required to register to collect EU VAT if their sales to any EU territory are over a certain amount. Thankfully, most smaller ones don't.
What do you run?
The "breaking news" part is meant as a joke. The author is using it to indicate that they think it's obvious why Google made Google+.
Oh, for criminy.. you know what I meant, right? California even has those ballot measures, the citizens vote on taxation policy on a regular basis.

The "government of the people, by the people and for the people" has a right, in the people's name, if you'd prefer.
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Yup, in Ruby/Rails 3.1 & CoffeeScript/Backbone.js.

It's actually my first web app.
When you teach basic math, do you start with introducing the student to proof theory? In any field, the natural process is to relearn how to do things. I certainly have had to change how I program, how I document, etc., and I think I am a better programmer because of learning to adapt to those things when I've found a better solution.

LPTHW looks like a great book and may be a much more thorough introduction to Python for someone who is committed to learning the language; these videos are not really focused on that demographic. LPTHW is great if you're already a programmer or go in knowing you really want to learn how to program; hopefully where these videos can succeed is bringing in new people who are mildly interested and getting them started while showing them how fascinating programming can be. One day, hopefully Khan Academy will have enough videos and interactive exercises that a programming education will be as thorough as LPTHW, but that doesn't happen overnight.
I'm not sure why PyDoc is so complicated: just explain it like a comment that you only put in certain places. You don't have to explain build tool integration or anything.
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That's right.

High levels are correlated with atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease, but they haven't been shown to cause those conditions. Some cholesterols are also "good" (high density) in that they have positive effects for people with high cholesterols -- they can lower levels.
That technology exists, but it would cost $100B to adopt it because it's not backwards compatible.
Interesting question: if someone posts medical data privately, like private messages between individuals, then does the owning or acquiring firm have any HIPPA responsibility?

Maybe not, merely for owning it. But what if the owning or acquiring entity decides to sell that data to medical insurance companies, or private investigators. Are there then HIPPA complications? Because now the data is interesting because it has bearing on medical or insurance decisions.
Does anyone know why Amazon doesn't already have to charge sales tax, by virtue of their California offices (e.g IMDB, A9 & Alexa)?
Frankly, I wish Amazon would just give up the fight and go ahead and charge sales tax for all 50 states. They're the only retailer that I do any business with that doesn't charge sales tax and, because it's a PITA to remember to save every single receipt from them for tax purposes I don't do so and, therefore, I end up paying stupid use taxes which probably end up costing me more than what it would've cost me if Amazon had just collected the sales tax in the first place.
Compiling code takes an annoying amount of time.

Really? Unless I'm doing a complete build, I never wait more than a few seconds for a build to complete.

What build system are you using?
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We're going to need a bigger breadboard.
As if Glide never existed

In all seriousness, I did 1 graphics programming course back in the day, and it was pretty insane. This was all in OpenGL. The amount of code required to draw the simplest scene was massive. I seem to remember there's a built-in teapot primitive, and I ended up just using that to construct everything (yes, there are simpler built-in primitives, but none nearly as cool as a teapot). I didn't do very well in that course.
If they're separate legal entities, they are responsible for collecting their own sales tax on what they sell in California.
real-time is no problem - just use an RTOS

In theory, yes, but the main smartphone OSes aren't RTOSes, and making them such requires nontrivial reengineering.
The video was trying to show a simple program; it's better for less syntax (often confusing for beginners) to have to be explained, at least at the start.
Because those offices aren't involved in direct sales of products from amazon.com.
First you say the value of education hasn't changed then you say the only thing that has changed is the price? Not sure but that sounds like a conflicting statement. Also people do go to college thinking they will get jobs when they get out. While that could happen, their degree offers no real advantage in many cases.
I feel a lot less ignorant of all that was going on behind the scenes whilst I was rocket-jumping, exploring black mesa, destroying diablo's soulstone, driving around liberty city etc
Glad to hear that's what you meant. But many people (especially those in government) seem to forget this.
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I only we had machines which could perform these difficult lookups for us, and directories of information that could be queried to determine which taxes apply for a given address, along with some way for these machines to communicate so that different tax jurisdictions could keep the sales tax information current... Oh, that's right, we do.

The claim that determining the applicable sales tax for any given shipping/billing address is difficult is complete BS.
It pales in comparison to starving because your three youngest siblings were born, in my not-so-humble opinion.

Granting or denying advantages to children is a good way to give a population control program teeth.
How do you end up paying more in taxes? A majority of my spending this year was made on Amazon and in my tax return I didn't enter a single one of those purchases as "Out of State Untaxed Purchase" so I didn't get taxed, which I think was illegal but apparently I'm not the only one who neglects to do this.
In any case, all Amazon receipts can be viewed in your account history.
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Can someone explain the redevelopment issue?
He's not simplifying things by putting the filename at the top of the file: he's just wrong. This is stuff which is clearly learned because people who don't know how to program correctly pass on little pieces of code like secret incantations without really thinking about them.

I'm not saying that adding extraneous comments at the top of your file is the end of the world: I'm saying that Sal violated basic programming practice in one of the simplest 10 line programs that can be written. This is a canary.

What makes good teachers so good is that they know their field so well that they can use all of their gathered knowledge to help clarify and guide people who don't know any better. It doesn't matter how good a teacher you are if you really don't know what you're teaching.
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I'd be interested in buying anyone's amazon affiliate store. If you are interested, contact me privately.
Something that confuses me is that FaceCash seem to be the only company that is (outwardly) complaining/worrying about this.

Presumably this regulation will affect all of the other payments companies in this space. (e.g., WePay, Venmo, Dwolla etc). It would be interesting to hear their thoughts on this.
UX has been around for a while. I guess the odd part is the new generation of students majoring in it.

Very curious what they're learning...
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Yes this is true but the main thing is jobs are very tight or are being undermined everyday- in almost every field. I'm saying to the ppl who are still trying to figure what they wanna do to rethink things
He could have just used the syntax for PyDoc and explained comments later.
apparently the state allowed you to spend property taxes owned into building renewal if the building area qualified.
http://semiconductormuseum.com/Transistors/LectureHall/Camen...

Some interesting 555 background info.
That's a technique that Braintree has popularized if not pioneered, but it's a neat trick that most people agree is PCI compliant (I also hope and believe this), not a change in the security standards.

Among others, USAePay has also made this possible for some years (not as well as braintree does), and the payment startup stripe http://stripe.com/ achieves the same result in a more JavaScript-y way.

It is getting more popular, though, I suppose.
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A few small sites, but most of my Amazon earnings actually just come from one post: http://kennethfinnegan.blogspot.com/2011/06/so-you-want-to-b...

The rest of the site pulls in about $20/mo in Adsense, which is still pretty nice, but them added together is much more interesting.
California is claiming that by having affiliates who are physically located in California , Amazon does have a physical presence in the state. If Amazon ignores it (and doesn't cancel the affiliate program in California, as they have said they will), California will sue them for unremitted taxes.
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You're not alone ;)

"I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby." – Kent Beck
IIRC Amazon has a pretty complicated legal structure where each of those companies - IMDB, A9, etc - are wholly owned subsidiaries of Amazon (or some other legal entity) and not considered the same entity as Amazon.com.
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According to the CEO of WePay, they have confirmed with the DFI that they do not require a money transmitter's license:

http://www.quora.com/Does-WePay-have-a-money-transmitter-lic...

Aaron himself says Square isn't a money transmitter:

http://www.quora.com/Square-company/Will-Square-be-subject-t...

Payment processors are regulated differently than money transmitters:

The money transmitter definition also provides that “the acceptance and transmission of funds as an integral part of the execution and settlement of a transaction other than the funds transmission itself ... will not cause a person to be a money transmitter.”

[...]

FinCEN has already concluded that a merchant payment processor acting exclusively on behalf of merchants receiving payments for goods and services, rather than on behalf of consumers making payments to merchants, is not a money transmitter.
Oh I don't doubt that Microsoft politics and their "own the API" policy helped hurt adoption of OpenGL on Windows, but blaming the state of OpenGL on non-Windows platforms on Microsoft is giving them a little too much credit. The ARB was just as much at fault. Apple has had a lot invested in OpenGL, both on the desktop and OpenGL ES and in theory has just as much pull (if not more) as MS, and hasn't done much to improve the state of OpenGL either. Things have been better post ARB, Khronos does a pretty good job, especially with OpenGL ES (which still has its faults... http://aras-p.info/blog/2011/03/04/mobile-graphics-api-wishl...).

In an alternate reality where Windows is still the #1 desktop PC gaming platform, and MS adopted OpenGL instead of developing Direct3D, we'd end up with Microsoft specific extensions and vendor specific extensions to keep OpenGL up to speed with current hardware.
IE's platform previews are simply minimal-chrome wrappers around the rendering engine. You'll need to wait until an IE 10 beta appears to find out what they've done to the UI.
Usually, read another post on HN.
It is likely interstate commerce, since the affiliates don't work for Amazon, but it would also likely land Amazon in court in a large court battle. That battle may eventually get to the US Supreme Court, but I don't think Amazon wants the distraction.

I do wonder at what point loss of sales from affiliates will cost more than collecting taxes. Apparently, Amazon thinks it's a long way out given how readily they cut ties.
Agree in general. Lived in Omaha but just moved to SF about 9 months ago where I've been doing Rails development.

There's a few very companies trying to do cool development but for the most part you're best served if you're an expert in Java or .Net.
"The first thing we do, let's digitalize all the lawyers."
How do I end up paying more in taxes? Because I'm aware that I undoubtedly bought something from Amazon in the past fiscal year and, therefore, in compliance with my state's laws, I check "yes" in the box and pay the flat fee for use tax. That flat fee is set at a level that reflects what the state thinks an average taxpayer owes for their "out of state untaxed" purchases, but the "average" taxpayer in their model buys more stuff than what I would ever actually buy and, thus, they charge me more in use taxes than what it would have cost me if I had just been charged sales tax in the first place. I guess it just plain never occurred to me to look up my account history and compute an exact value instead.
One of the smartest guys of all time, but this was unnecessary. Plus, Windows is _generally_ a modified microkernel (some violations, but mostly right) - and it runs > a billion machines.
Walmart has been trying to get into banking in the U.S for a number of years. They have had to deal with a lot of regulatory hurdles. They already have banking operations in Mexico and Canada. If Walmart is having a hard time getting past the regulators to disrupt this space, it's probably much harder for a startup.

http://www.americanbanker.com/usb_issues/120_9/wal-mart-gets...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04...
Fixed & Thanks.
I put that in for viewing on the iPad, but forgot to target the iPad only. ^_^
we have plenty of water, it's just that most of it is dirty, or at least, salty, which makes it unsuitable for irrigation. Dirty water plus energy equals clean water. If the political barriers to fission are overcome, we'd have a whole lot more energy.

Solar energy can also be used to clean water.
I wouldn't put too much stock in those CoL calculators. I checked them all when I moved to NYC and they turned out to be wrong (for me). Compared to living in Chicago, I pay about 2X more in rent, but everything else is roughly 10% more. I am, however, extremely frugal.
Thank you, Silicon Valley, for voting overwhelmingly Democrat and bringing this and other business killing legislation here in California and countrywide.
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No agency guarantees licensing if you meet simple criteria. For example, they can reject or revoke your driver's license for many obscure and subjective reasons.

Money transmittal is the wrong business to be in if you have a bad attitude about government regulation. Since the government creates the money and makes and enforces the rules, you have to work hand-in-hand with them. Some people are good at this, but not often hackers.
Rich can confirm this (or not), but WePay is an agent of The Bancorp, Inc. (http://www.thebancorp.com), which is a bank, so it's exempt from money transmission regulations. The Bancorp told me this morning that they consider WePay an exception and that they don't do it for anyone else anymore. I'd talked to them a while ago, but they're not so good about returning phone calls or e-mails.

Venmo doesn't have any licenses to the best of my knowledge. Maybe they're an agent of someone, too.

Dwolla thinks that they're exempt but I'm not entirely sure that's true. They have a credit union service provider as one of their investors, but that's not necessarily the same as being an agent of a federally chartered bank or credit union.

Noca, Xipwire, Cimbal, LendingKarma, KoolWallet and others are affected as well.
Sales tax laws are different in all the different states. It's not like there's a lookup table matching state to tax rate. You've got different tax rates on different categories of goods, and different tax rates by county.
You have an excellent point and I think that it is even more cynical than that. They know full well that they wouldn't collect that revenue, but by passing the bill they can pretend that they will, and then they can add that line item to the budget to make it easier to balance on paper (which it has to be before it can be passed).
This key distinction they're trying to make in this articles isn't about UX, but rather "UX developer". My understanding of UX is knowing the users & market and producing a flow.

The key benefit of a UX developer is the prototype and product are one and the same, and are created with useable code rather than mock-ups. This allows refinement and iteration all the way through production. We're not so focused on UI, because that's easy to create with static mock-ups. UX development takes the next step to determine how the different static UIs work with actual code and users.

A key difference between UX dev and UI dev: the UX dev won't worry about skins and other design parts. It's more about the layout, functionality, and ease of use. Once that's worked out, a designer can make it clean.
I'm kind of surprised not to see "good data is accurate" as an item in its own right.

You could argue that accuracy is part of "contextual" (the context of data includes the error bars on its measurement), or part of "useful" (inaccurate data are not useful), or part of "valuable" (inaccurate data has less financial or social value).

Still, I would say if "semantically correct" gets its own item, then "factually correct" deserves to be made explicit as well.
If you don't have a friend on + yet, email me and I'll invite you.
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Wal-Mart and best buy etc, have a lot to gain from this legislation. Aren't they lobbying for it?
Thanks for the recommendation. Took a look at supervisord, got it up & running in < 2 mins.
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Anybody have examples of modern (within 10 years) stealthy startups/incubators that invented new hardware that revolutionized something?

Tivo (just outside your 10 year limit though)

Flip Video

Roomba

SpaceX

Telsa
Curious – Zed didn't use PyDoc, does that make his book bad too?
[1] doesn't really discuss whether grass-fed cattle produce more, less, or about the same amount of methane as those eating conventional feed.
The are using amateur radio to test their new radios because that is the only license that they (and almost anybody) can get in the United States. He explains this in the video. They didn't want to go to a country more open to testing, so they used what they could in the US.

They are using the HF (3–30 MHz), VHF (30–300 MHz) or UHF (300–3,000 MHz) range because that is what the amateur radio license allows. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_licensing_in_the_...

They are not beating the curvature of the Earth. If their claims are true, they are doing something other than frequency modulation. The electromagnetic signal is not RF so it interacts with large bodies (Earth) differently. There is no way to know if that is true until they demonstrate.
Saying you lived below a COO makes it seem like you lived in Manhattan. It is quite easy to live comfortably in the outer boroughs (one hour commute to Manhattan) on far less - I would be comfortable with even $40,000 a year.
Huh - they don't list the sole reason I do it.
Thanks for the note :)
You can be developing other tools.

My builds oftentimes take a long time because there are a lot of cross-language stuff (libraries include some boost stuff, which always takes a long time to process) and cross-compiling (e.g. targeting tools for osx and for linux -- why they changed the syscall numbers is beyond me)

You probably have a laundry list of scripts that should exist (e.g. launch scripts, cron jobs, etc) but are low-priority. It's easy to work a little bit on a script when building.
Where can you find the numbers of property management companies?
I'm scared that Myspace is simply a total data buy. Take the existing users data and build some models off of it. Notice these quotes. Doesn't sound too promising.

'“... enhancing digital media experiences by fueling connections with relevance and interest.”' - Connection between relevance and interest? Isn't that like saying the connection between apples and .. apples?

'Specific Media is an innovative global interactive media company that enables advertisers to connect with consumers in meaningful [unwanted], impactful [in your face] and relevant [creepy] ways.' [added]