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No license covers non-humans in the way I think you're implying, they don't exist as legal entities in any way that would allow them to the required legal rights.

(Note I'm not saying that the law doesn't recognise their existence at all - it obviously does in many ways - just that they don't have the same rights as a human in terms of making contracts, owning property and so on).
the short summary of the article: "Be human. Stop hiding. Be yourself." is a good suggestion
I bought a bunch of Cisco "Small Office" series equipment recently. Some of the items, particularly the NAS (NSS 300 series), have been very disappointing.

More disappointing, though, is that there seems to be no simple way to get meaningful support or contribute feedback afterwards. Half the canonical links on their web site don't even work. They seem to have a whole bunch of forums scattered around the site, but it looks like you can only participate after jumping through all kinds of hoops that we just don't have time for.

You can't even download documentation on how essential features work. Obvious example: If we're using encryption on our NAS, how does the key system work and do we need to keep a back-up copy of anything like that in case one of the disks in the RAID array fails? More subtle example: If there is this great integration with Mozy to deal with off-site back-ups automatically, why can't I even find out the prices and do basic due diligence about data security before I sign up for the service, and why did the Mozy call centre staff apparently not even know about the deal and the Mozy sales e-mail address not even reply to a basic enquiry? Is there even anyone at Cisco we can talk to about this?

Given that the only other reason to buy the Cisco version of the NAS rather than the original model from QNAP seems to be the Cisco 5-year "support", and the QNAP has had all sorts of enhancements and new functionality rolled out in the intervening period while Cisco have done squat, it's all one-way traffic in our office, and it's away from Cisco.

So I'm not surprised they're tightening up. If their other groups are performing as poorly as their Small Business people, I imagine they're suffering a rapid exodus of customers to organisations that understand the meaning of the term "customer service" and realise that professionals working with their kit have a job to do and don't like to waste time.
Doesn't Goldman Sachs have Vice Presidents who have no people reporting to them? Back in the Golden Days I used to read about programmers, who actually programmed all day, who were Vice Presidents. Of course they made several 100k but still, they weren't in charge of anyone. (All of this IIRC)
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English is not my primary language and sometimes I really have difficulties writing what I want to say. I will try to read more about this.
I would expect an airline routing problem to be an integer program (because you can't send 2/3 of an aeroplane along one route and 1/3 along another), and integer programming is NP-hard. On the bright side, at all times you have an estimate of the best possible solution so you can terminate early when you're within some percentage (say 1%) of optimal.

Interestingly they still use the simplex method repeatedly during the branch-and-bound solving process, because it only requires a little work to adjust at each step, whereas the methods with guaranteed polynomial worst case tend to take that polynomial time regardless of how "close" they start to the optimum. So, as you say, convential complexity analysis suggests that simplex would be an awful lot less useful than it is.
So, there are more and more murmurings about this in comments on posts like this one. I guess I'll kick this one off this time:

Passwords make for terrible security. Non-computer folk just don't want to devote the necessary headspace required to do it right. Hell, I handle this stuff for other people all the time, generate on average a few new random passwords of varying lengths every day, have memorized tons of the buggers -- including some rather ugly ones -- and I'm still not doing it right.

No, I don't know what would be better than passwords.

But I'm looking forward to it when it shows up.
Please pay attention. According to Tsagadai's description, the people he supervised were capable of climbing onto roofs in order to avoid work and were capable of working when ordered to do so.

They merely preferred hiding in the bushes to doing actual work. This was the same situation Georgia had when they tried to get probationers to work the fields - they were capable of working, but unwilling.

This is the group of people to whom I applied the term "lazy bum".
Under my proposal, no one has to live on the streets. The only option which is eliminated is the "be lazy, force workers to pay for your leisure" option.
I agree with this sentiment.

1. I'm a libertarian interested in changing the world towards a stateless society.
2. The best way to change the world is to change incentives
3. The best way to change incentives is to use technology

My interest in tech is thus opportunistic. I don't get excited by beautiful code as such.
But aren't those all derivations of the Linksys products? I mean I loved Linksys for home use, but they're hardly in the same class as the 'original' Cisco products and quality (or at least as it was 10 years ago, I don't know how they compare nowadays).
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There is no such thing as a free lunch; if you want a government backed monopoly on something you can surely bet it will have to cost you X. Whether X is a figure that is too much for you is a free market decision you will have to make.

Is a few thousand a year too much for a limited government backed monopoly on a name? I would say no.

I would also like to point out that I haven't discounted the social benefit of trademarks, but the registrant pays model is probably the best practical model.
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Nice to see it's already been added to the relevant page on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaque
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When I've made that page the idea was to present myself as a person, as one software developer working on a nice product.

A lot of people suggested a middle path... that is what I'm thinking to do now but I will give it more time.
You've fallen into the trap of assuming things need to have copyright. It was only 1978 (in the US) when things got copyrighted automatically on creation, before that you had to register it to receive monopoly rights from the government.
Yep, especially if you're using it to raise financing. You're essentially giving the company free promotion to a very influential audience (angels and VC).
Call it revenge on my elementary school English teacher for complaining about "ain't." ;)
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Amazing blog, thanks for posting it. Been living in Paris for two weeks now and not really even tried to speak French, my aim by the end of my internship was to become conversationally fluent. Definitely starting this soon: http://www.fluentin3months.com/the-smartest-decision-you-wil...
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You missed the best part of that paragraph:

You may think it a badge of honour that you can do "$ git rm -cached readme.txt" from memory. I think you’re burying your turds with a trowel in a thunderstorm.

Made me laugh...!
Hardware tokens you can carry in your wallet or on your keyring. Yes it means you have to carry it around all the time, but you also have to carry your house keys around.

And in reality your online accounts at this stage may well be worth more than the stuff in your house.
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If the answer is that the monkey owns the rights, then it's very similar to the "orphan works" problem in copyright where items are lost to society because the owner cannot be traced.

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

At the moment we seem content to let all this stuff fall through the cracks of history simply to strengthen copyright protection of big business.
Sorry for OT, but regarding the Fujitsu, do you cut the spines off your books and throw them away afterwards? And do you read them from PDF's? On what, a regular computer? That seems to be quite a step backwards; I love epub on my ebook, but reading non-reflowable formats is hardship on it. Or do you have an A4/letter ebook?
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Trivializing money by referring to it as "just numbers in a bank" is surreal. Those numbers in a bank are the #1 determinant of whether you will do things like: eat, have a roof over your head, or pass on your genes.

It's pretty much impossible to overemphasize the importance of those numbers.

You're pretending that class doesn't exist while you pretend that money doesn't matter. Class is real. And class is important specifically because money does matter. A lot.
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Love the way blog posts like this assume you're running the same OS and using the same language that they are. There's nothing to say what platform it's on, or what language it's analyzing - you have to go and work that out yourself.

Or have I missed something obvious? Yes I can click the link, but that's not the point.
I am a recovering Cisco engineering Director.

It is excessive and it isn't typically done at Cisco. I'll speak to the engineering organization since that's what I know (reminder: Cisco is not organized by product at the top level, they are organized by function: engineer, sales, etc). A typical senior manager will have approximately 30 people under them: 3-4 managers with 7-10 employees each. A Directory rolls up 3-4 managers, a Senior Director 3-4 Directors, and a VP 5-10 Directors and Sr. Directors. A VP would typically have several hundred employees under them.

Cisco is actually quite regimented about how it does this. Part of the yearly evaluation is (or was, when I was there ~ 3 years ago, not sure if it is still done this way) essentially "does this personal manage enough people to warrant their title". They will make exceptions and won't punish you explicitly if you don't, but it will be harder to compete for bonus and promotion dollars. They typically like for you to be managing beyond your level in terms of people before being promoted.
I don't think I'll have enterprise customers, my target market is formed by small sites that have to be online (eCommerce and services that ask money). So i'm left with the middle path or personal.

Thanks for your suggestions!
Bruce compares using CLI tools (git rm –cached readme.txt) to camping in harsh weather and then goes on to say:

> I spend a considerable portion of my income on a house with a heating system and three flushing toilets, so there’s no bloody way I’m going camping.

Let me kindly remind you that every comfy house is built on ground first pioneered by people enduring hardships of camping. Not because they wanted to punish themselves, but because they were working on the frontier and pushing bounds forward. It's thanks to them -- both the well known explorers and the John Does of the frontier -- that all lands, once devoid of civilization, became user-friendly.

You may want to live in the suburbs of GUI, that's cool; I'd rather git-commit myself to the frontier and git-push forward, for much is still to be discovered and conquered. And there's great sense of adventure and camaraderie around there :-)

-- wanders off to work on that pesky little website
This was a major mistake by the witness in this case, and everyone who has been watching the case already knew about it. Do you know why?

Because it was presented to the jury during the trial.

The jury was told that the number of visits to that site was transposed with the number of visits to myspace. A prosecution witness cleared the record in open trial.

In fact, defense attorney Jose Baez even brought up the fact during closing arguments and used it as a reason to have reasonable doubt of the entire case.
Most of the things he listed as "good technologies" are actually horrible. Has anyone been to a webex training that was even remotely useful? Salesforce? Process management software?
A VP at a financial services firm is not a VP at Cisco or really any "non financial services firm". Firms like Goldman hand out Assistant VP and VP to, essentially, 3-5 year tenured employees. Directory and Managing Director are where the rubber really meets the road in these organizations.
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It would be interesting to know the reason for the article having been removed, as I would've liked to re-read it, having only more or less skimmed it yesterday.
The most important rule is: don't lie or misrepresent what you've been doing. Second: don't sound silly. "our 4 year experience in the server management industry" violates both a little bit.

It's OK to present a company profile as "we", but don't overdo it by constantly implying a large group when there is none. And really, even one-man-shows generally have help from other people (be it friends or family or freelancer) so that's OK.

That being said, I think it's often a good idea to present a separate About section specifically detailing the founder of the company. It can even be on the same page as the company profile. This is the place where you put professionally relevant personal info, such as "4 year experience in the server management industry". You can even make it more personal by giving out info about what motivated you to do this in the first place, which can be a powerful tool to establish a deeper connection with your potential clients.
More money will NEVER solve your problems

That just isn't true - the problem is that people realised that being rich isn't the same as being happy, and it was a good point. But then people took it too far, and it stops making sense.

Sure, for some people, having more money wouldn't improve things, but for many people, it definitely could. And I'm not just talking about people who are starving or homeless. You don't need a car to be happy, but if it means you waste far less time every week driving wherever you need to get to, it certainly has the potential to make you happier.

Can a really happy life be built entirely on having money? No (well, maybe for some people, I don't know), but that doesn't mean money can't or doesn't help to improve people's lives.
Not really sure what this means, but Cisco is losing because they lost sight of what they were really good at: core networking and applications that fundamentally rely at on really good core networking (for example, IP telelphony: go ask Nortel and Avaya whether they're eating Cisco's lunch).

Internally, Cisco has serious Apple envy. They desperately wanted to be seen as a cutting edge consumer company, to the point of hiring some well known former Apple UX designers. They entered markets where they had no business being (Flip) and starved their core business units (can you believe the guys who build the work group Catalyst switches could almost NEVER hire anyone because of budget) to pay for it.
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The library in my city (in the Netherlands) is open from 10am until 5 pm on weekdays (one evening a week until 7 pm), on Saturday from 10am until 3 pm and on Sunday from 1 pm until 5 pm. With budget cuts coming, they're going to close completely on Sunday soon.

With opening hours like that, who can go to the library? Pensioners, and every now and then a lost student who needs something from the local history archive. It's ridiculous, it's a huge, fairly beautiful building too, and 75% of the time it's empty.

Oh and coffee (tiny, 4 US fluid ounces! be sure not to pay attention when you drink because it's gone before you know!) costs 2 euros (2.8 USD). Don't spend an afternoon there, it'll set you back a tenner.
The poster was suggesting that you use 'impersonal discourse' on other parts of your site but can leave the about page as 'personal'

The rest of site should not be about you. It should be about the product. Otherwise it comes across like a hobby project (and I'm guessing you don't want that).
Cisco is known to provider 6+ months of severance along with health benefits and other perks to employees that it lays off. If you ever have to pick a company to get canned from, Cisco is a good choice.

Anecdote: I know quite a few engineers who were laid off as part of a product reorganization (read: engineering for this product moved to India). At a minimum everyone received 6 months. On the high end, if you were asked to stay and help in the transition, you received 6-9 months plus 1.5x salary during the transition, which lasted approximately 4-6 months if I recall.
All you've done there is say "I have a different definition of wealth".

From the perspective of most people discussing this wealth and money are interchangeable and it's not helpful to start substituting in new definitions (even if those definitions are justified).
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I believe what he means by this is part "more money will not solve ALL your problems" (ie: it's not a panacaea) and part "if you have food and shelter, everything else is a form of luxury". If you require a car to provide food and shelter, then I don't think that what he's said is invalid.
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I tried to present two extremes. Unfortunately English is not my primary language and the company extreme looks a little strange :) .

Some grate advice in your comment,
thanks for your time.
It was something I had discussed with some friends who were testing it, but the combination of "would require more work" (although not necessarily too much-- there are various mods based around "survival" concepts that I could theoretically use) plus "gets away from the basic concept of out-of-the-box Minecraft" left me unmotivated to continue.
Another option could be to install the ViEmu extension and get the benefit of vi key bindings in Visual Studio itself.
It is incredibly annoying for the suggestion list to change after its first appearance. You may have been about to select a particular URL when it changes unexpectedly, and you end up navigating somewhere you hadn't intended.
Sure a lot of things in life are luxuries, but that doesn't mean they are bad, and often can still solve problems.

"My feet hurt all day" might get solved by buying a fairly expensive pair of shoes, for example.

Will winning the lottery give you the perfect life? Doubtful. Can money solve many problems and improve your life in other ways? Very often.
Both! Describe the company: "tagbeep's goal is to help administrators...". Then follow it up with a message from "Your Name, Founder": "After working for four years as an administrator, I started this company to...".

That way, the about page projects a professional corporate image while keeping the personal touch. A bit like how GoDaddy is more than just Bob Parsons but he's the face of the company in some ways.
I'm the author and I agree with Vacri's interpretation.
"To be a young Eastern European today is a glorious thing"

LOL, of course, that's why they flock to the West to pick asparagus &_& . Now I agree that many people from the East have better work mentality than the unemployed here in the West, but that's out of economic necessary, and not some sort of fundamental genetic trait; and it'll be gone in 15 years when the economic standards have leveled and everybody has gotten used to it.
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"we are very careful about making sure we got the right guy"

Sometimes notsomuch...

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http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/Injustice_in_Texas_T...

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3472872.html
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You have a crazy idea of prosecutor priorities. They don't give a shit about the defendant.
Being a business owner and having multiple people working for you != 'being a plumber'. 40k is about half of the US median programmer salary.
As I've been saying to others regarding startup advice and lessons, it's much more helpful and interesting to read stories. You may think you are extracting out wisdom from your experiences, but really, more often than not, these "life lessons" don't mean much without context. I certainly can't take them for a rule and apply them to my life. It may turn out to be the wrong advice for me and even if it doesn't, I'll always have the nagging doubt that I took the wrong decision based on someone else's experiences.

It would be nearly impossible to read these "N lessons" posts if they were not in the form of lists, which points to the fact that they don't flow very well. They are written in bite-sized chunks for information-hungry internet nerds like us.

Writers, please tell stories. We don't need more advice.
What would be better than passwords? Public-key crypto. The password/phrase is only used to protect the private key, so there's only ever one password to remember. Of course, validation of the owner becomes the troublesome point here.
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A little John Lennon here, a little Miguel de Cervantes there.
Another post that you may find more relevant to Paris is my experience in finally learning how to get along with Parisians: http://www.fluentin3months.com/closed-minded/
This is important to keep in mind as it's the only place in the world that my speak-the-language-from-day-one approach needed some tweaking ;)
Enjoy the city - my favourite activity there is to stand over the bridge to the Cité and wave at a boat passing underneath and have 200 Japanese tourists wave back. Fun times!
Most of these life lessons have nothing to do with travelling. Most people I know (especially in their late 20's) would come up with a similar list even if they've barely travelled.

I think this is just merely the blog poster's world view articulated into 29 points, and incidentally he has travelled the world instead of living in one place.
Point #1 is why we shouldn't be at war, why people in power shouldn't be always trying to control the populace, and why there shouldn't be so much poverty
Sad to read that Wozniak got cheated by Jobs :(
I think phones might be an interesting possibility. Granted, you can lose one or have it stolen, but for most people that's probably less of a risk than using bad passwords that are the same over multiple sites.

Of course, there are all kinds of things I'm not thinking of, because... it's not my area of expertise. It just seems like it might be something that's potentially doable and a decent compromise between security and usability.
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