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So this is me talking completely free form on a topic I know nothing about, but here is my conjecture anyway (because I find it interesting).

I think there is a tendency in people to totemize things. This makes a certain amount of sense -- they get attached to thier tools, because they are competent with them. But more than that, they attach memories to them, as you suggest. This is more than just with books: I certainly mourn the passing of keyboards, it takes a while to get the feel to even another one of the same model. I also have a certain affinity towards one old beaten up shovel I garden with, despite the abundance of better choices in the world.

An interesting thing I learned once, is that people are very good at learning by associating various bits of knowledge with places -- to the point that sometimes they only know some things in some places. This make sense, and there is plenty written on it.

I wonder if combining the two notions results in this affinity for books -- a combination of keeping knowledge and thoughts and feelings in the place (the book) and our love of our tools (I mean really, my new copy of APUE just doesn't do it for me the way my old worn in one did -- that one had a presence, this one just has some information, and I'm almost certain it doesn't know as much about ttys as the last one did :P ).

Anyway all that aside -- there is another aspect to physical book we must consider: scent -- books have scent and the brain is wired to respond subconsiously to various aromas. I am certain that if you grow up and love books, the smell of them has special place in your emotional processing centers. (seriously, a mysterious tome of arcane computer knowledge smells different than a well loved novel, and certainly a forgotten volume from the used book seller has a different aura than a new edition from B&N, which in turn is different from the same edition from Amazon).

Finally, maybe there is some aspect to books that comes from the refinement of the technology for a thousand years. The book is a highly polished technology - and it shows.

Anyway, enough rambling. Thanks for engaging my thinker :)
Sure they will. It will just probably be called Windows Phone (or maybe webOS if HP gets their act together and gets lucky).
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Repeating yourself doesn't make you right. Actually go read that fosspatents article. Then read the comment that links to it. The article discusses entire claims, but the comment focuses on a single element that's discussed in the article. Apple is not claiming that matching a regex infringes their patent.
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Note that I'm not listing these things as way to escape mundane-ness, but as ways you can incorporate into your life with some regularity to remind yourself tomorrow is a gift.

P.S. There's more to "in shape" than strong. I was thinking more of the running sort of "in shape" (and the fast kind, not the jog-walk kind). Ramping up the strength of your heart and your running muscles has a very different feeling than bulking up your lifting muscles. If I was to describe the difference, I'd say bulking up made me feel good & more confident, while recovering my running endurance makes me feel like leaping into the air, sprinting up stairs, or running circles in the park with dogs for the sheer joy of it. It doesn't surprise me it feels like that, as I am a believer that we are runners the same way birds are fliers.
Yeah older employees do tend to be more skilled thats why I specifically said older employees who were not skilled leave the workforce, obviously people who don't exist under this umbrella are highly skilled computer programmers that work at Google, of course in their situation it is better to be older.
I suspect bookstores are about the same (at least Borders & B&N haven't seemed terribly different to me than they were in the 90s). The difference is that alternative ways of buying books (Amazon, ebooks, etc.) have gotten much, much better, so bookstores look much worse in comparison.
Nice addition, although as a marginal Mozilla contributor at the time (and frequent IRC lurker), I remember a few other principals being involved -- notably Ben Goodger and and Matthew "mpt" Thomas, who seemed to me to be Blake Ross's primary co-conspirators. For a while it was just this skunkworks project called "m/b" (for "mozilla/browser", I believe), and there was a lot of implied frustration/drama related to AOL/NS-internal development process (the pinnacle of which was the doomed Netscape 6.)

I would love to read a real oral history of Firefox someday.
You're repeating a long disproved fallacy - Apple didn't steal from Xerox, they actually licensed the tech and then hired some of the key people like Alan Kay. Microsoft saw the same tech but didn't license any of it. They kind of went the same route they did when they created Ariel (an Helvetic clone). Apple licensed the font rather than just ripping it off.
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Sony and many other LCD projector makers have been making high pixel density LCDs since the 90s (think 1024x768 on an square inch). And there has been a smartphone out shortly before the iPhone 4's release date that had a 300+ dpi by some major manufacturer. LCD's major cost isn't pixel density, it's the size of the glass. The reason why they weren't released is because nobody was willing to buck the PC status quo of not having resolution independence (or doubling, like apple did it) since it would miniaturize everything to be irrelevant, making it not sell well. People who needed to see a lot of detail got specialized displays.

Plasma displays it's more the pixels, which is why large 720p plasmas are cheaper.

Samsung is also a huge company with south korean government backing, they can raise the capital to make whatever improvements apple contracts them out to do and make a shadow factory at the same time.
Yep, post a profile, skill-set and what type of work you are looking for. Also be sure to check out stackoverflow.com etc. Plenty of startups hiring there.
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I think you're overestimating the difficulty of getting a job. It's your life and no one else's. You don't have to fit someone else's mold of an ideal employee just to get meaningful work.

Take that year. Meet some people. Talk to business owners and other money creators. There's always opportunity to improve someone's life and improve or build on existing solutions using your skills. You might even find money in that.

Build your projects. Download the source for an open source tool you use. Learn how it works, write some documentation, and add functionality for yourself. Find problems that frustrate you and others and solve them. You might even find money in that.

Get a job as a freelancer, a server, a valet, a bartender, a hotel front desk overnight receptionist. You'll extend your runway, gain a lot of perspective and insight, pick up useful skills, and meet people entirely different from those you've met up to this point. You might even find money in that.

If none of that "works out" at the end of a year or two, start looking for a traditional programming job. The gap year(s) and lack of a Masters won't be detrimental; in the programming world, it's all about what you've done. Any company worth working for will take one look at your projects and start recruiting you to work for them.

As the article said, enjoy the journey. As Randall Monroe said, "...the solution [to seeing what each moment could become] doesn't involve watering down my every little idea and creative impulse for the sake of someday easing my fit into a mold. It doesn't involve tempering my life to better fit someone's expectations. It doesn't involve constantly holding back for fear of shaking things up."

http://xkcd.com/137/

Shake things up. Make your own path in the world and enjoy yourself along the way. Good luck!
Why would only rich people get to live longer? Advanced technology has tended to get cheaper over time, often dramatically. I'm not saying that things wouldn't be scary and tumultuous for a while, but the alternative is to slowly sicken and decay into oblivion before you've had even a single century of life. This should not be a tough decision!
I would like to hear the answer.
Just say "We only send you clean clothes in great condition." Saying you donate the crap that no one wants is offensive.
Ah, thank you for that clarification.
People change. And they would have plenty of time to get used to it.
Free markets stopped being a means to an end and became an end in itself early in the Cold War. Whether gTLDs spur "innovation" in whatever space ICANN is defining for us is irrelevant. At any rate, if ICANN was serious about "the magic of the free market" or whatever other nonsense, they would implement distributed DNS and then dissolve permanently. One quality of a healthy free market is that power is distributed such that no one entity can grab control of the entire economy. That's not the case here. Rather they are interested in: scamming money out of trademark-holders, and keeping enough power that they can act as the tool of the US government when the need arises (the need will continue to arise more and more frequently).
From what I can tell, the patent covers converting a piece of text into a hyperlink using regular expressions. There's a good chance that there might be prior art (especially, Perl books, because I remember doing HTML parsing using Perl regexps back in those days).

I can understand Apple's desire to protect its IP. But software doesn't need protection for more than a few years. 17 years is way too much for software patents. This lunacy must end.
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> For example, the 10" screen on the ipad, from what I've heard, other manufacturers had a difficult time getting that size screen for a year.

You hear this story a lot, but I don't understand: did Apple buy all 10" screens from all display manufacturers in the world?
On the projects I am working on, we have encountered bugs in the Django 1.3 stable release. So, based on my own experience, I recommend using Django trunk (with extensive testing of course).
I would happily settle for a few thousand years. Even a few hundred would be a major improvement over the grim darkness of the current wither-and-die-young system.
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Seriously? You're actually trying to make this argument? Sorry, but it's not worth my time to debate this with someone so disastrously ignorant as to think he can scrape Facebook profiles without getting throttled, banned, blocked, and litigated to hell and back.
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A few examples of the singular "they", courtesy of Wikipedia:

Eche of theym sholde ... make theymselfe redy. — Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon (c. 1489)

Arise; one knocks. / ... / Hark, how they knock! — Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595)

'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother, since nature makes them partial, should o'erhear the speech. — Shakespeare, Hamlet

I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly. — Austen, Mansfield Park (1814)

That's always your way, Maim—always sailing in to help somebody before they're hurt. — Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)

Caesar: "No, Cleopatra. No man goes to battle to be killed." / Cleopatra: "But they do get killed". — Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra (1901)

The singular "they" has extensive precedent. Some proscriptive grammarians feel that it should be disallowed, but given the usefulness of a neutral pronoun and the venerable history of the usage, I think they may be safely ignored.
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For the github route, would you recommend showing new ideas off, or more proof of expertise type things?
Congratulations. You managed to make a wrapper for arrays in god knows how many commits.
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I once took a job supervising people for a program like this. I don't believe it is a variable solution. The company I worked for was paid by the government and given other benefits (tax credit, reduced red tape, etc) and it was still barely worth it to employ these people. Out of 20 long term unemployed I had on my team, only two were actually useful workers who I would employ in a second (the company did employ one of them after I left).

The problem is, when you try to force people into work by cutting their welfare that they received for so long without effort is that your carrot is just a worn out version of the one they were getting and the rest of your incentive is all stick. I spent most of my time in that job looking for grown men hiding in bushes, on roofs, and anywhere else they could sneak off to and sending them back to work. Trying to change behaviours overnight is a waste of everyone's time and money and ideas like yours cost more money to implement than they save.
I would donate to a nonprofit if one were formed to buy out that particular location and continue operating it as a bookstore.
Your advice, while technically good, is a remarkable non-sequitur. We live in some pretty amazing times, and personally I have a happy life. Why would I want to become increasingly frail and infirm, and then die? It is precisely because I place such a high value on my life that I don't want to have it cut tragically short.
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Suppose there were an AI program that could write short stories indistinguishable from those produced by a human. Further assume that the AI operates independently of any human control and generates stories using rules it has discovered by "reading" human stories using machine learning. The creative process used by the machine is not unlike that used by a human. Does the law preclude stories created in that fashion from being copyright? And if they can be copyright, who is the author?
"This seems to me to either produce societies with wild inequities between a very few producers and a very many do-nothings"

I would imagine that as the costs of production approach zero, our real life economy will start looking a lot more like the Second Life economy. That is, where everyone is a boutique producer slash experience seeker.
"But the market isn’t wise. It seeks immediate gratification over long-term utility. It seeks profit for the few instead of optimizing for the many. The market has a child’s proclivities, not an adult’s wisdom."

Obviously true now. Has this always been the case or has something changed?
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Well yes, but there is a JavaScript version in the github repository so you don't need to know what CoffeeScript is or anything
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The big question is what kind of problem is being solved?

Truth is, nobody is giving up good old passwords just yet. Two-factor helps when necessary, but the password is still there.

The actual issue, IMO, is avoiding recovery of the plaintext passwords en masse when a typical website gets hacked. People reuse their passwords. So, as a webmaster, I don't want to be sitting on a pile of weak hashes, etc, etc.

Salted hashes like bcrypt seem to help (as far as I've read about these things). PKI offers even more potential.

E.g. a password-encrypted random keypair could be something - the client gets it at will from the server, decrypts it by prompting for password, and then uses it to authenticate a random nonce from the server.

Effectively, in that situation the server willingly gives up the entire authentication database, but trusts keypair blob's encryption to do its job against brute-force attacks.
Everyone and everything dies/decays/is destroyed eventually. Does it really matter if it happens after 100 years or a 1000 years or even a million? The universe will continue existing and existing and whatever time you were alive will become less than a speck of dust in relation.

¨Life is preparation for death¨ no matter how long it lasts. We are beings of transience and impermanence. If you aren´t satisfied with 80 years, you won´t be satisfied with 8000.
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Cultural integration is a big one. If a large number of foreigners from the same country come to an area, it takes longer for every member of that group to assimilate into the culture, since many will tend to stick with others from their same culture. If the whole area is from that foreign culture, it's even more resistant to assimilation.
And that server is not nginx. It is designed for Unix, it isn't designed for windows. The current apache has an arch much more amenable to running on windows.

Oh look, http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/platform/windows.html
At first, yes. Computers were a privilege of rich and intellectual elite, at first. But as you can see, technology gets cheaper and cheaper and more accessible to the general public. Even those who do not have any money at all are able to access it through libraries and stuff.
Animals do have rights, just not all a human has.

Many animals are proven to be both sentient and conscious (self-aware). They are just not very bright compared to many humans.
Yeah, it gets cheaper over time, but there will probably be at least a few years during which the technology will be more like private space travel.

Imagine if the few people who've been able to book passage to the ISS were instead the only ones who could afford immortality. Those are not going to be fun years.
Could you make it so that the longer someone plays, the harder it is to stay alive? Armour provides progressively less protection, you require more food, there are more monsters, monsters are more powerful, lightning more frequent etc...
Just out of curiosity, what happened to all the horses that were left without jobs?
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"What that quickly meant to me was that wasting time and opportunities were criminal, with my own potential achievements as victims that needed to be rescued from the assault of lost hours and non-productivity."

Beautiful writing.
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I think this only applies when your actively pursuing your dreams. Ie you keep challenging yourself and are never in autopilot mode. As soon as you become complacent I think you are again running out of time.

If you've never taken the time to pursue your own goals is another situation in which your definitely running out of time. For example: If you've always wanted to start your own company but you've never tried because of the fear of failure.
> if Cameron is badly damaged enough, the Lib Dems could pull out of the government on principle leading to a snap election, although I would give that only a 20% chance of happening.

I'd say the chances of that are more like 0.2%. Most of the crap that went on was under Blair and Brown.
Personally I think that idea is anti-American. The very premise of America as an immigrant society is that we don't judge your worth, we let you prove it. It's so important we even put it on the statue of liberty, it doesn't say "give me your wealthy, your well educated, your industrial tycoons".

And honestly I think that is one of America's greatest advantages. Reliance on credentialism ends up too often being just another class-based divide rather than meritocratic in any sense. Look at Andrew Carnegie, as an immigrant he had little to set him apart, but eventually he became one of the wealthiest men in the world. There are many, many more examples just like his. And yet so often we continue to say "yes, but, let's ignore that and pretend that we can filter people by merit". I don't agree that we can filter people by merit.
So, would you say that the blogging is more about talking about the process then the end result?
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In 5 years all of those trusts will have merged into Small Business Loans of America Corporation, and all the loans will be sold on the derivatives market within a month of origination, and an army of loan brokers will individual figure out how to massage the paperwork originate a bogus loan and collect a commission.

We've done this already.

At best, we might have the benefit of the fraud benefiting a million individuals, like in the housing bubble, instead of a handful, like in the S&L days.
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Downvote me all you want so you don't have to face the truth. But if you truly want prosperity, you can't listen to the liars that got us into the problem, you have to listen to the people that knew there was a problem and had a plan to get out.
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If a human purposely set the chain in motion, it's presumably the human's. If you made an AI with no intention to create literature, then its work would be uncopyrightable (public domain?). That's why your binaries are copyright, but the monkey's accidental photographs are not.

If you write a chat bot, which interacts with (and learns with) other humans, it might be more interesting.
"Did you talk to the person from the cable company?"

"Yes, they told me to file a complaint with corporate."

I'm not sure how that's grammatically incorrect.
So the Tangkoko National Park probably owns the monkey.
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"they weren't released is because nobody was willing to buck the PC status quo of not having resolution independence"

Quintuple Negative!
The grauniad would.

From wikipedia:

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How to get attention? Maybe just like everywhere else: Provide good content, worth sharing! (And then your links and posts on HN will get upvoted by Europeans AND Americans AND everyone else. ;)
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