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I'm probably going to get down-voted to hell, but I'm not sure what this counter experiment is trying to prove... we all already knew it is easy to take from Jonathan's card.

When people noticed that money was disappearing off Jonathan's card $100 at a time, most people thought it was an uninformed, karma-less nobody stealing from the card. It is incredible that the transactions are due to some educated do-gooder imposing his beliefs onto the donors of Jonathan's card.

I've read many of Sam's comments before, and respect them as thoughtful and intelligent. However, just because you don't like the idea of "yuppies buying yuppies coffee", doesn't mean that you should try to destroy Jonathan's card. Some people feel good and more connected with others by adding to and taking from Jonathan's card.

By taking money out of the system, you are in effect going against donors wishes and imposing your own beliefs on them. It is almost like taking from the vault of a charity that you dislike and giving the proceeds to your charity of choice. Its less atrocious than pocketing the money and buying an iPad, but obviously still bad.

EDIT: I feel sorry for Jonathan and his good intentions.
You may be interested in git-annex.

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AeroFS isn't as refined as Dropbox, but the flexibility of cross-computer sync makes it pretty ideal for large media storage. I have almost 200GB of photos, and dropbox really wasn't an option for that. They release updates to the product every few weeks, so it's getting better.

Gripes:
1- It's a lot chattier than dropbox. This could be a tradeoff for being a distributed protocol, but it's something that dropbox seemed to improve in over time as well.
2- Iffy compatibility with Lion: I often get "AeroFS is already running" messages.
3- They recently added the needed ability to change the location of the AeroFS Library, but I'd love to modify the location of each Share in the Library.
4- This is likely beyond the project's scope, but I'd love to be able to access my files without syncing in a pinch.
5- Better activity view: Dropbox's menu icon changes to indicate activity. I find this useful, so I can shut it off if my connection is slow. AeroFS's icon doesn't change, and to view activity, you need to open Preferences.

Positives:
1- Unrestricted size, great for large media libraries
2- Seems very fast, especially over LAN
3- I love how you can set up multiple shares - one for a workgroup, one for personal projects, and one for photos, and you can sync those among any computers you want.
4- It makes offsite backup effortless
5- Auto-updates are great
Did you read his comment? His point was that the OP seems to think we can't indulge ourselves occasionally and must always work towards solving those big problems. We're human. We should allow ourselves to have some fun once in a while.
I won't deny that it's an attention-grabbing piece with a lot of missed points (I can hook up a monitor to my laptop too!). However, your point #6 is because Apple has started shipping laptop keyboards with their desktops, not because they've started putting good keyboards in their laptops! :)

Thinkpad keyboards have always been the best... but mine is currently in a docking station, which combined with the height of my desk makes typing an invitation to injury, so I use an external keyboard. Oh, hey, PC Magazine, I can plug a desktop keyboard into my laptop! You should write an article about it, since it's apparently a new concept to your writers.
I love your rig. If I worked from home as much as you do, I'd probably go the same route.
I almost wasn't sure if that was real or not till the front page changed to the guy with the big expression holding a white piece of paper with the words "CONTRACT" in large, dark, font. Well played.
The stated policy differs from the reality. If your account is flagged for potentially having a false name, you have to produce government ID or online evidence that it's your name, and they're very selective about what online they accept. And the details of the policy forbid single-word names, names that mix languages, or anything involving a number or punctuation.
It sure seems to be that whomever was in charge of M&A decisions/negotians at Yahoo was an utter failure. It appears that the common thread in the downfall of Yahoo is their inability to have successfully acquired some major assets that were either scooped up by google - or went on to become stellar successes.

I'd really like to know the internal dynamics that resulted in this. Although, if you heard that earnings call where Carol Bartz was totally called out - I can only imagine that the issues are intimately related to the arrogance of the exec staff.
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I kind of agree with your point, but saying that the Starbucks brand takes a "huge" hit is a bit of an overstatement.
I'd agree that an incubator bubble isn't a scary bubble, but for different reasons.

In slightly oversimplified economics, bubbles are bad because they mis-direct investment from productive areas to the unproductive but bubbling area of the economy.

The result is too much of something (ex. houses) and the inevitable crash almost always result in a shortage of funds (ex. a credit crisis). Thus the bubble hurts the rest of the economy in two ways. 1. Creates too much of something which which is not needed. 2. Deprives productive business of funding, by both sucking it up and later possibly causing a financial panic.

I can not think of how an incubator bubble can do those things.Can you have too much seed investment in startups? It's like throwing money at the ceiling, but so what? How's that so different from what angel investors do now? Is there any angel who has a long term track record of guessing better than random chance? Yes, pg and company are great, but that's not because they just guess, they also provide huge support after they pick a startup, imho that's where 50% if not more of the magic is.

And what would a bursting of the incubator bubble result in? A credit crisis? I can't imagine that. Incubators would have to become a HUGE part of the economy, I can not imagine this.

And if a collapse in incubators leads to a lack of funding, well its like the valley of death after the .COM 1.0 bubble burst. How many great companies came out of the aftermath of that? Tons!
The 99 cents is arbitrary. Basically any number low enough to keep you from getting scammed. I was "yes, helpful" vote number 154 this morning. Hard to imagine too many others buying it.

The charity idea is a good one too. Or you could create a beer fund for your fan base. :-) Or follow Knuth's example for people who find errors.

I suspect this will all be resolved to your satisfaction shortly. Please keep us informed.
Any quick tips for improving the look of my blog(s): http://www.justanotherphotoblog.com/ ? (My other blogs are pretty similar too..)

I don't have a bad eye for web design, but actually creating a good design seems to be beyond me.

I do like the very simple, basic, minimalistic look, but black courier new on a white background isn't exactly beautiful.

Or if you know of any good, free templates along the same vein that would help.

Thanks!
I think what google is trying to prevent is not dissenting opinion but rather things like the fact that 80% of newt gingriches twitter followers being fake. They want to create a community based on honesty and real world identities. if you need to post something anonymously on the internet, there are plenty of ways to do that. For instance googles blogger TOS doesn't disallow pseudonyms. So if you need to publish anonymously then maybe G+ just isn't the place to do it.

Real names is obviously a tricky policy to enforce but there is value in it. I think that eventually the policies and enforcement will converge on a better solution. This is probably one of the reasons G+ is still in field trial.
Close - they bought one gift card, and then used Starbucks' website to transfer the money from Jonathan's card to their own.
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Some of these (esp beautify) would make great 99c iphone apps
I’m not going to throw a hissy-fit over every social application that doesn’t cater to my perceived personal needs, but as someone who is well-known on the Internet by my pseudonym, I have no use for Google+ and its “circles” unless I can be raganwald to some people and Reg Braithwaite to others. Or until they drag me into it my getting practically everyone I know to use it instead of Facebook.
In addition to the other points, it should be pointed out many games had busy loops in them. Such games will always take 100% of your processor, except in some cases where the busy loop crashes because it manages to count too high and overflow something or other such crash bugs.
Do you have an account manager? If not, you may want to request one. Our experience with PayPal has been fine since we started directing inquiries through our AM vs normal support.
I believe so. My photos on two drives were about 3 months out of sync and and it seemed to only sync those that were missing.
Hey! Thanks so much for giving back! I've mostly just lurked in the HN community for the past 5 years, but this week, I launched my alpha-beta-pre-launch phase of my startup, http://www.srvr.dj -- I've already filled out your WuFoo form, would you mind giving me a few sentences of candid commentary?
Because Microsoft makes money by selling operating systems. If mono takes off then Microsoft can't make money by using .NET to sell operating systems.
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If you are interested in CDNs, look at Amazon CloudFront or MaxCDN (there are others, but these are the easiest to use, and they're cheap). Look for a feature called "origin pull" rather than push. Amazon can be set up in about 5 minutes. Here's how it works.

Lets say you have a basic website at www.domain.com. All of the files are on a single server, so when I request a page, i get www.domain.com/index.php. Apache fires up, PHP does its thing, fetches some data from MySQL, and presents a page. My browser sees that the HTML needs www.domain.com/style.css, script.js, and a dozen images. So it requests them from that same overloaded Apache/PHP/MySQL server.

Instead, create an Amazon CloudFront distribution. Go to your DNS setting and create a CNAME record (e.g. cdn.domain.com) and point it at your distribution url. Enter the cdn.domain.com in the CNAME field in the distribution detail screen. Set the origin to custom (DNS), and enter www.domain.com. Wait a few minutes for the distribution to be set up, and however long it takes the DNS setting to propogate. Then change all paths for static files (CSS, JS, images, etc.) to cdn.domain.com instead of www.

Now, in that scenario above, when the page gets served by the browser, all requests for stylesheets, javascript, and those dozen images hit Amazon's servers around the world. The user gets routed to the closest one to them. If Amazon doesn't have your image, they fetch it from your server and cache it. But after that, future requests get served directly from their servers, not yours. So if 1000 people from a certain city visit your site, instead of 20,000 requests hitting your server (assuming one page has 20 requests for images, css, js), you just get 1020 requests (the first one was a cache miss, the rest were cache hits).
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That's not the context of the quote. He's wondering if people will bid over the face value of the card, or if no one thinks that charity is more important than caffeine. He's not dissing on Jonathan's Card, he's wondering about his auction.
P.S.: Forgive the WoW shot; it’s the only game I had installed when I set it up. Hate that game. >,>

Also, I cannot recommend this GelPro mat highly enough. A several-thousand-dollar Anthro desk is great, and I love it; but this $US 200 standing mat really “makes the setup.” Without it, standing was an absolute pain; with it, I’ve been standing for weeks, and have absolutely no desire to ever sit down again.
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I think you miss the entire point of my comment. I am not suggesting that companies describe equity stakes in percentage or "you would make $x" terms (they can do neither), or that they provide anti-dilution protection to rank-and-file employees (it isn't going to happen). And while your assumption that nobody can afford to pay the tax on restricted stock grants is simply wrong, that's a different discussion.

Here's the bottom line: at a venture backed company, you will almost never know what your equity represents - in percentage or dollar amounts - until there's a liquidity event. As such, the value of the equity component of a compensation package should not be overestimated if you're a rank and file employee at a venture backed company. It should be treated like a lottery ticket because that's what it is.
No, they don't need to justify the purpose of Google+.
Yeah I think that's great. Honestly I think it's awesome how he's redirecting this money from Starbucks to a worthwhile cause. BUT he can do that without the holier-than-thou attitude; the latter is not a requirement for the former. :)

Basically I've heard that line before ("how can you X when Y is going on in the world??") and it's basically just a way to feel morally superior and boost your ego, it doesn't actually achieve a useful end. You can use this line on basically anything people are doing that can be considered art, and unless you're suggesting that all artful pursuits be indefinitely suspended until the world is free of problems, it's an inconsistent, nonsensical argument.

tl;dr: I like the project, I dislike the attitude.
So essentially you're proud of stealing huge amounts of money from a fund set up by people for a specific purpose, and then you channel this money to suit your own needs while claiming moral superiority?

You know, even if the money you stole for "the little children OMG think of the children" really reaches the intended recipients, which it probably won't if this is a typical 3rd world development fund, you still betrayed everybody's trust and you're actually proud of it.

Sam Odio is either the worst kind of stealing hypocrite out there, or he's genuinely living in a cardboard box under a bridge giving all his money away to charity. I think I can guess which one is the case.

I apologize for the tone of this post, but the sheer amount of arrogant jerkiness on display here actually makes me angry; and that's saying something.

On the plus side, I suppose now we know who kept on abusing the card (people were wondering in other threads).
I bought a Macbook vertical dock so that I close my laptop and connect it to two monitors, a keyboard, and a tablet and effectively use it like a desktop.

That basically solves 1, 2, 4.

3 doesn't bother me because I have my headphones on most of the time. If I'm at my workstation, I use my speakers.

5 is subjective. I've been able to get around for the last year as an on-the-go freelancer without much problem with the size or weight.

This allows me the huge advantage of mobility (for working at difference offices, cafes, houses, travelling to other cities, or even different rooms in my apartment) and space savings (I can have my vertical laptop on my desk which takes up the same amount of space as a small lamp) to be coupled with the advantages of having a full-fledge desktop setup.

FWIW, I spend most of my time using graphics programs.
Another lesson here is to be careful with @font-face styling - http://i55.tinypic.com/1z342ee.png - the whole thing is barely readable on Windows.
Smart Bear does the same thing: http://smartbear.com/best-kept-secrets-of-peer-code-review/ - I received a free (paper) book after attending a session about peer code review.

I still haven't read the book, but that's a whole different discussion.
Sam hacked Jonathan's card and is doing good with it. But his hack defeats the original purpose of Jonathan's social experiment. Jonathan's card can probably only work as it was intended to with restricted access among a select group. But as the pool grows larger and more anonymous, it'll most likely be abused. Solve Jonathan's card and you'll solve Tragedy of the Commons.
That may be. But it's unethical for PayPal to blindside businesses. PayPal's behavior often appears arbitrary and capricious; at the very least, it's unpredictable from the customer's viewpoint. If PayPal absolutely must cut off the cash flow to its supposedly high-risk business customers, it should do two things:

1) Have a written statement of the criteria for freezing funds, demanding a 100% reserve, etc.. Make the criteria concrete and objective enough that business owners can reliably predict whether this will happen to them.

2) Notify account holders of this policy in a very conspicuous way. Burying it in the TOS isn't good enough for something like this.

It's fine if PayPal wants to be strict about business models it deems high-risk. But they should do a much better job of managing customers' expectations. Right now, it seems that most customers find out about PayPal's draconian risk management practices by unexpectedly losing their cash flow or by hearing from someone else who did. That's unacceptable.
Since I don't find the idea of yuppies buying yuppies coffees very interesting I decided to mix things up a bit.

OP/Sam, I understand that you believe there are worse problems in the world. I have no doubt that you are correct. However, this does not change the fact that your own social experiment amounts to you taking advantage of the good will of those who contributed to the Starbucks card by stealing from them. Contributing the money to a charity afterwards does not change this fact.

You are not Robin Hood stealing from a corrupt Sheriff of Nottingham. So please don't act like it.
Why does a project that's about a minor form of good will always need to be trumped by something else? Like we need to be incessantly reminded that there are starving people for every decision we make in our day to day lives?

It's nice that he's trying to increase the awareness of starving children. But I don't see why he feels he needs to basically destroy the system Jonathan has come up with.

Yes, apparently the one second you were thinking about your own needs, or anyone OTHER than a very poor person, was selfish and horrible. We should all stop buying things, walk out into the street and start screaming at the futility since there are people in the world who are worse off than us.
If Starbucks does a viral marketing campaign, gets outed, and says “Yes, we did a viral marketing campaign,” there’s no hit to speak of. But I do think that if they deny in writing that there is a viral marketing campaign and then are busted for lying about conducting a viral marketing campaign, this is a scandal that would end up on the evening news.

I suppose there’s room for conflicting views over how much damage that might be, but I can’t see any marketing person thinking that it is worth the risk.
This reads more as an argument against netbooks than an argument for workstations. I don't think anyone really needs convincing that netbooks are dying, but it's not desktops that are killing them.

While I agree that the workstation is not dead, the reasons listed are neither compelling nor convincing. #1 Ergonomics, #6 Keyboard and #2 Screen Space all make sense, but I am typing this right now on a Macbook Pro connected to a 27" monitor with a bluetooth keyboard at my desk. Suggesting that these things aren't available to a laptop is a false dichotomy.

#3 Storage is similarly unconvincing. All my photos I host on SmugMug and music on Google Music. This not only removes storage requirements from my laptop, it also provides access from other devices.

#5 Dents and Dings is just ridiculous.

Laptops not only have almost all these things available to them, they also have the added advantage of portability.

If one were to make an argument against laptops, I would say the biggest drawback would be the security risk posed by portability, as others have mentioned. Secondary to that would be #5 Processing Power provided by heavy duty workstations for things such as video processing. For other applications, laptop processors are more than capable.
Because the distinction on how common and acceptable your name is just seems too absurd for a ban-able offence.

Note: If legal name is Charles Jones Jr. then Junior Jones is acceptable. That isn't the same as saying prefixing Junior in front of anything is ok.

Also lumping friends, family, co-workers together doesn't fit for everyone.

I'm known primarily by Skyler, Sky, Skydogg, and Pyrodogg. All in 'real life', among different groups of people. Who is to say that Pyrodogg isn't my common name if you're talking about the 80+ members of my hackerspace?

Sure, it's my online moniker but it has migrated back out into the real world as my "common name" with those people.
I don't think that "it was never designed to" and what you should do with a technology necessarily go together. A lot of innovation comes from doing things with technology that it was not originally designed to do. You should be aware that you are beyond the intended purpose, but you should not let that stop you.
You no longer control the money once you donate it to an anonymous recipient! You don't get to choose how the money is spent. If you're not comfortable with that, don't put money on a publicly accessible debit card!!
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Good morning everyone, I'm one of the co-founders of AeroFS. I'll be here the rest of the day answering questions as they come up, if anyone has them. Otherwise, feel free to either chat with me on the website, and/or through support@aerofs.com :-)
You can close your Air, hook it up to a 24" monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and use it like a desktop. Best of both worlds.
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On this day in 1981, the PC/XT was introduced. My tribute to the venerable machine is this FPGA based XT clone system on a chip.
This is clearly theft. What he used the money for is not relevant. The card was put out for a specific use, and this use case was not the intended one. Had he actually bought an iPad, everyone would agree that it's theft. Transferring money between someones else's card and your own with out permission is theft.
Gift cards held by a group are an interesting way to move money around with a little deniability.

If there was an easier way to cash in Starbucks gift cards, Starbucks could take over Western Union.
meh. don't care who you are donating too, its still shitty. get down of your high horse.
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I think you're right that they track this very closely internally. You hit the nail on the head with LTV - with the amount they spent to acquire what they already have, the outlook for clearing that LTV hurdle doesn't look that bad.
Why you are not offering a paid eBook format?
I am sure people would like to pay you for the eBook version.
Actually, I’m moving all of this into an office in the next month or so, and renting out this last room.
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Yep agreed, I did I believe mention it is most valuable when you have mostly have creates & reads and less updates like in the example of web applications. Of course there are valid in memory level operations, quite famously in the Java world we have ConcurrentHashMap which is a CoW semantic. However naturally one size doesn’t fit all, but then it never really does :-)
I got an invite yesterday and I'm trying it out, one thing you could make more clear on the website is for what purposes it does connect to the central server. I had to enter a username/password so it must be doing some communication with your servers, no? Otherwise, how does it find other computers that are connected to the account? And if your service goes away, would I be unable to add new machines to my 'sync network'?