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> Even at a tiny venue if you get 200 people to show up and you make $10 a head on average that's $2,000 revenue a show, if you do 4 shows a week

This is completely unrealistic. 4 shows a week @ 40 weeks a year means you are touring. Touring costs will eat the vast portion of revenue. Also, at a 200 person venue, there is little chance the band will see $10 / head, regardless of the cover charge.
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I wish iOS made it easier (or possible, w/o a jailbreak) to write system-wide apps like Swype. I wouldn't be surprised to see this ability in future release of the firmware.
Good point about Monster and CareerBuilder.

I interviewed at CB and that was the impression I got.

It seems like they are dotcom era relics that are destined to be made obsolete by the new job search paradigm coming from LinkedIn or Indeed.
I've never taught high school, but I'm a grad student and teach freshmen, so I have some experience. A few observations:

1) The first time you teach a class, it's incredibly hard and time consuming, but the difficulty drops like a logarithm to a relatively low plateau after you've done it a few times.

2) At one point I thought about teaching high school English. Seattle Public Schools paid $36K / yr with a Masters or $30K / yr without starting, and those numbers topped at around $70K and $55K after 30 years (IIRC, Bellevue Public School teachers made something like ~10K more). That doesn't count retirement; teaching is unusual because a lot of the benefits are backloaded in the form of retirement pay. One woman in my grad program taught English for 26 years in Michigan and took an early retirement offer; I think she gets 70% of her last year's salary for life. Granted, those deals are going away because of the budget crisis, but a lot of the retirement stuff is still baked in.

3) You can multiply those numbers by 1.2 or so because teachers only have mandatory work for nine months of the year.

4) After two to three years, you effectively can't be fired because of union rules (unless you sleep with a student and get caught in a flagrant manner, don't show up, etc.). See this post: http://jseliger.com/2009/11/12/susan-engel-doesnt-get/ for lots of citations on that, as well as a lot of the information that's going into this comment. This has value. PG figured this out: "Economic statistics are misleading because they ignore the value of safe jobs. An easy job from which one can't be fired is worth money; exchanging the two is one of the commonest forms of corruption. A sinecure is, in effect, an annuity." http://paulgraham.com/ladder.html .

Note: there are major downsides to teaching. You have to like working with relatively undeveloped people (if you're teaching high school) or children (if you're teaching elementary school). In teaching, it's very hard to make substantially more money if you really want to; whether you're a good or bad teacher isn't likely to make you more money.

My big impression is that teaching isn't going to make you rich, but you're also unlikely to ever be poor. To say that "teachers make shit" isn't really true. It is to true to say that teachers have back-loaded compensation packages that tend to be high in benefits (e.g. good health care, retirement) and low in upfront salary.

My smaller impression is that most teachers I had didn't seem to work that hard after their first three - four years of teaching.
Using "regexex" for doing what is terrible? Using regexes for a lexer is quite common, and if you read his code, that's what he is doing, and then feeding the tokens to the parser.
I do the same; I also like that it is tightly coupled to my github account, so my code and writings about code are all in the same place.
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It very much depends where you are a teacher. In Canada, especially in Ontario, it is a really high paying job that is relatively easy due to the strength of the teacher's union.
You'll also need plenty of hafnium, titanium, and molybdenum. Not exactly abundant resources. All that just to get a 4% solar->electricity conversion rate. You can put these panels under your solar water heater and get slightly hotter water with an additional trickle of electricity into your home. Maybe you could power a pair of USB heated gloves.
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I've dealt with a similar issue the last few months, mate. Introspection to the level of getting almost nothing done. I finally self-diagnosed myself with a testosterone deficiency, and immediately gave up caffeine, ate healthier and started regular exercise. The introspection is still there, but it's far, far, far less a problem, in only 3 weeks. I can't believe how much stuff I'm accomplishing.

So if I can go from crippled to David Allen 2.0 in less than a month, there's hope for anyone. Be healthy, be interesting, and the dreaming should naturally turn into doing sooner rather than later. Far better than trying to force it.

I may or may not had an issue with this. The point is my psyche believed I did, giving me specific ways to “fix it.” Mental game here.
The idea of representative democracy is that the people who don't care about important issues vote for someone they trust to take care of it for them.

You largely vote not on the issues the candidate says he supports, but on how trustworthy they seem and how well their interests align with yours.

At it's best, this means that even people who are quite apathetic get properly represented.
You can start caring all you want, but if you have to have an informed opinion on every vote, you are going to run out of time, even if you do not have to spend time to do such things as bringing in the money to live from.

Also, who would propose the votes, check legislation for consistency and loopholes, etc? If you crowd-source that, chances are 100% that there will be some decisions with unwelcome consequences. If you appoint people for doing that, how is that different from letting those people make the decisions, too?
Teachers do ok, and as a teacher I can say it's not a hard job. Not a lot of fun but not hard.
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>in reality you are saying that the laptop is worth more to you than a human life, and that is disturbing to me.

// I think you've misconstrued the situation.

If the thief refuses to return the stolen item and save their life then they are the one that has chosen to value their life below the return they can get on a used stolen laptop. Assuming that they are the thief and are not acting under some complex duress ("steal that laptop or we kill your child") then at any point they can return it and save themselves.

The onus is not on those who have been stolen from to act in favour of the thief. The thief assumes, and interestingly controls, all risk.

My instinct is that if someone does a self-motivated major immoral harm to you, are in a position to relieve or remove that harm and chooses not to then you're pretty much justified in carrying out any pre-warned harm against them. (Like I said that's just my instinct, very interested in contra-positions).
"Certainly with dual/quad core chipsets, we are close to or past the power of the Wii"

The best mobile phones are not quite as powerful as the XBox 360 or the PS3, but from what I see, they've already got the Wii beat quite handily. Remember, not only does the Wii tend to look less good than the XBox 360/PS3, it's doing it at a much lower resolution, too.

In fact I've been spending my last few nights playing Persona 4, one of the last games that came out for the PS2, and if I saw that on the Wii I wouldn't exactly be surprised by the low quality or anything. There's a reason they could sell the Wiis at a profit for $250 right out of the gate, with several tens of those dollars actually going to the controller packed with it. It isn't actually that powerful.
Re 'not all that memorable', that's because identicons were originally designed for 'distinguishing' and 'matching' data, not 'memorizing'.

Abstract geometric identicons like my original implementation as well as variations used at Wordpress and StackOverflow are, while nearly impossible to remember, distinguishable in a pile which comes in handy when distinguishing the 'voice' of individuals in a long thread of comments.

To use identicons as permanent identity, one has to 'identify' with their identicon. We can identify faces of our friends because we shared memories with them, stories if you will.

So robotic identicons like yours can be made more memorable if users had some ways to create a story they can associate with it like 'blue viking with left arm missing', etc.
Because people don't remember stuff that happened over a month ago.
Webdoc is cool.

The ability to place elements anywhere on the page is rare among online web page builders. Ditto the ability to rotate many of the objects.

Also viewers in other browsers can see updates in near real time.

The choice of gadgets and widgets is good.

The ability to embed in Facebook is cool.

I will spend more time with webboc.

And, I agree with @ mef. The article, quite frankly, is weird. It's all about Nook, Google and Flickr stuff - and yet it's Apple that should buy WebDoc. ?!?
slicehost here, though have used bluehost for a pure out and out blog before that I didn't have any need to access the shell
>Police are too busy with other larger crimes to work on stolen computer cases.

// Do you think this computes (oh, no pun intended). Don't petty thiefs repeatedly steal, don't they steal higher ticket items, doesn't capturing criminals act as any disincentive to continued crime. Is the criminal justice/rehabilitation system so broken that there is really no point in catching known criminals??
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It's not a very good analogy, but yes, if you locked up a kidnapper because you "don't tolerate forced confinement" then I think that would be silly.
this idea reminds me of how during the cold war the US military used the moon as a reflector to measure USSR air-defense radio signatures. they were able to determine the capabilities (range, frequencies etc.) of USSR air defense without ever entering the air space.

you would assume that light from earth is reflected back from objects in deep space. the problem would be sorting out all of the weak signals and finding what you are looking for by calculating where the reflection would end up and going out and finding it. the signal would likely be too weak to interpret with today's technology, but in theory it would be possible.

(another theory is with light being bent by gravity it is possible that light from earth has been bent back around to pointing back to us (ie. around a black hole). we just don't know how to find it or where to look)
I can, and it obviously was.
Could we link to the full version instead?

http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2011/05/31/the-top-5-regrets...
Some of the newer televisions out have built-in HTML5 functionality and a few folks are already making games for them this way.

Currently they're using the remote control for input, but if they could access USB devices properly they could utilise the 360 USB dongle to take input.
Yea.. Sorry about 70 Billion. My bad. That's a valid argument to make. But given the growth that the BPO industry has seen and given the industry employs mostly young people. I think its still important to consider its cultural impact.
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In short, praise effort, not intelligence.

Intelligence is vastly overrated and widely misunderstood.

By which I mean, it's not a fixed quantity that an individual has no control over; it is not the same thing as natural aptitude. And responses like "Great job, even though you did poorly on that math test you studied really hard!" are not helpful if you actually want someone to get better. [Note: I'm not saying that "Bad Timmy, you clearly suck at math and I'm giving you an F!" is any better, though unfortunately belief in that false dichotomy is pretty common in the world of education]

When someone "intelligent" gets a bad grade on a math test despite having studied hard, they realize that something is wrong with the way they studied. Or that they have a deficiency in earlier material that they need to correct. Or that they need to sleep more before the test. Etc. They never accept that they didn't work hard enough (they did!), and they never accept that they're not smart enough (they are!) - they assume that they somehow worked wrong, and they set about fixing that problem.

When someone "unintelligent" gets a bad grade on a test, they chalk it up to the fact that they're not very good at math, but hey, they tried hard, and that's what's important, right?

That's not what's important. Learning to work hard is not a worthy goal on its own if you don't learn to work better at the same time (or at least it's not the most worthy goal). This is as true in programming as it is anywhere.

Now, when it comes to child psychology and keeping a child engaged, maybe you're right and it's better to praise effort. But that should not come at the expense of praising intelligence; "intelligence" is the end product of many years of effort directed at the process of learning and thinking, not something that's doled out of a box at birth. Unfortunately it's something that we've never really learned to effectively teach, which is a shame.

[Edit: I'm also not claiming that there's no natural difference in smarts that does come "for free" at birth, there is absolutely some sort of Bell curve happening there, and some people are destined to be at the high and low ends of it, for sure. But my point is that the way the people at the top handle failure is vastly different from the way people at the bottom handle it, in that they're never satisfied with mere effort.]
"Where is that profit going to come from?"

From providing services that are already being paid for, only for lower costs? Which generally has the effect of growing the economy in question?

You are aware that there already is a space industry, right? Private companies paying real money to put real satellites up for various reasons? It doesn't take much Microeconomics 101 to think that dropping the cost to launch by a factor of four will tend to grow the already-existing economy. Skepticism about whether a viable space economy can exist at all is too late, that ship has sailed.

Cheaper space access will enable more economic activity in existing domains, will enable new types of activities that aren't currently viable, and historically speaking, it's pretty safe to say that trying to guess in advance what will ultimately be the "killer app" is actually pretty hard, but given the existence of an already-viable economy it's more a matter of waiting and seeing than hoping.
I could have said "in 454 characters of C" but that wouldn't have been as linkbaity. Thanks for clicking!

Yes, the aim was compression (golfing), not obfuscation. Compression of silly ASCII things has been sort of a hobby of mine for a while and I intend to blog about that in particular. Another little compressed snippet is my "email signature" at the bottom of my site root. Try clicking on it.
Roadshow (http://fetchsoftworks.com/roadshow/) lets you download videos to your device. I'm not sure if it's suitable for long-term storage like Pinboard is for web pages, but it might do what you want.
True, but that doesn't change the fact that it will be a total perversion of the fundamental purpose of trademark law if this guy can manage to register a name that other people are already using, whether or not they've registered it.

Trademark law is for helping you protect a business you're building, not to give you a way to steal from others who have already made a mark significant.

I hope this guy wastes a bunch of his own money and gets nowhere.
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Certainly 3D realistic games (AAA FPS titles, for example) are very expensive to make. However, many of them also have fantastic returns and have generated extraordinary revenues. Just as in the movie industry there is a place for both high and low production values.

Modern Warfare 2, for example, was the highest grossing entertainment launch in history, including blockbuster movies, making a third of a billion dollars in a single day. Today only perhaps 2 or 3 films have had higher box office revenues than Modern Warfare 2 has made. No sane person would pass up a chance for such revenues. More so when you consider that at that scale games cost far less than movies to produce: MW2 cost about $60 million to make, whereas Avatar had a budget of $237 million, Titanic had a budget of $200 million, and even the Return of the King had a budget of $94 million.

Hollywood seems to be chugging along just fine, and the gaming industry seems to have lower costs and comparable revenues.
On the other hand, Outlook still has a ridiculous bug that uses the wrong encoding when presenting HTML email - that is, it uses the encoding of the email's text-body when presenting the html-body, even if the html-body specifies a different encoding.

So, if the two bodies have differing encodings (charsets), then the HTML body will look wrong. Unless you force Outlook to always use UTF-8 for encoding emails (which is a setting, but not the default) then you'll end up sending emails that will look garbled to your recipient.

This "differing charset" scenario actually happens pretty frequently, because of the following scenario:

a) You write an email (or reply to an existing email - actually it happens most with replies).

b) Outlook's text editor decides to insert a non-breaking space (codepoint U+00A0). Perhaps it generates HTML with &nbsp; but before transmission this eventually turns into the single UTF-8 character 0xC2 0xA0.

c) When generating the text-body, Outlook decides to just use a plain old space, so the text body is plain ASCII.

d) Outlook, in its cleverness, then says "ooh, I can 'conserve' encoding-ness and use plain old iso-8859-1 for the text body, but I need to use UTF-8 for the HTML body because of that non-ascii character"

e) Outlook generates this email (please excuse formatting woes due to HN).

Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0016e64dbd929784310488b2b082"

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--0016e64dbd929784310488b2b082

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"

yo yo

--0016e64dbd929784310488b2b082

Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<html>
<body>

yo=C2=A0yo

</body>
<html>

--0016e64dbd929784310488b2b082--

When you view the above email in Outlook, you see "yoÂ yo" instead of "yo yo"
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I do not disagree with Courtney Love that the system is not great for artists but the solution is probably not in the distribution method, or the structure of the financing. It is most likely in solving the cost problem.

If it costs $500,000 to produce a record, like she says it does, that would create limited room for a great number of bands and artist to record. The market size ($s of world wide discretionary income) can only support a certain level of production.

Figuring out how to lowering that number would be far more productive than trying to create the next huge app which helps starving artists with terrible recording quality get their music heard or some other distribution method.

(She also fails to add in concert revenue which may be lucrative for artists)
> The Chinese govt gave the money to local authorities to spend.

I believe that is a overly-simplistic, "net" explanation.

I think it goes more like:

1. China's central bank grants credit (i.e. cheap loans) to big "national" banks
2. Big national banks grant credit to regional/provincial/municipal governments
3. Local governments spend on infrastructure (build it and they will come)
4. No one comes
5. ...
6. Profit?

So the big banks have bad loans on their books, but the national government / central bank will surely bail them out.
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Reportedly the genes for intelligence and schizophrenia are linked: http://www.schizophrenia.com/sznews/archives/003341.html
As a high school teacher, how hard you work is entirely up to you. There are some teachers who bust their asses and let the job suck up their whole lives, because they're so emotionally invested in how well the kids do. There are others who show up as late as they're allowed, leave as early as they're allowed, and don't get stressed out by anything. They're paid the same. Exactly the same.
For techie non-fiction stuff, I liked both of Kevin Mitnick's books, probably The Art of Intrusion more. They feature (probably slightly fictionalized) stories of creative thinkers who exploited systems, for evil or otherwise. it was very interesting to see how these creative people used their intelligence constructively (or destructively, I suppose).

on a completely non-tech book note, I'm currently reading Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (author of Everything Is Illuminated) and I'm absolutely loving it! it's beautifully written, filled with humor and tragedy all at once.

just my two cents
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Consoles are typically subsidized. Only Nintendo prices their consoles so they make a profit on them from day one. Both MS and Sony subsidize console sales at the start of a new console generation, trusting to game sales and licensing for their profit margins. Eventually the cost of the hardware comes down and they usually end up making a slim profit on it, but that's not typically where they assume to make their money from.
You must be joking. It's MUCH, MUCH better than black on white. Even studies have shown that it's easier to read. It's just a historical accident that we ended up with white on black by default.
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That makes a lot of sense. I wasn't trying to be disparing. It's a great idea, and very helpful, I just felt like it could go in a slightly different direction for this specific use-case (Public Keys)
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