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Great ideas. Appreciate you taking the time to write down your thoughts.

1) Interesting. It should have taken you to .com/notes/create Can you confirm your OS / Browser? Or, maybe you have JS disabled? Will look into this ASAP. Thanks for the heads up.

2) I agree that there needs to be some distinction between the filler-text, and user input text. Thanks for seconding that idea.

3) Yeah. It's supposed to as you write, but there are some buggy behaviors going on right now with it. It's a little choppy and if you add or remove too much text, or break lines too fast it can get hung-up. Am looking into this and should have it addressed in the next iteration. Thanks for noticing that.

Please refer to the comment above re: your business model question (didn't want to post the same down here).

Appreciate your kind words! Glad you commented.
"[I]f you have people imagine the water going into an underground aquifer, for example, and then sitting there for 10 years, the water becomes much more palatable to the public. It budges even those most unwilling to drink the water. ... 'When you do introduce a river or even groundwater ... you run the risk of deteriorating the water that's been treated. You can make the water quality worse.'"

I am singularly amused at the possibility of contaminating treated post-sewage water with river water, resulting in a medically less safe but socially more acceptable water supply. The results of a public vote (as to whether to mix river water with the treated water) would at least tell us who needs to be mailed a printed copy of lesswrong.com.
http://mathlesstraveled.com/2011/06/04/the-collatz-conjectur...

(At the end of the comments you'll see that the author of the proof withdrew the claim.)
Tempting and amusing, perhaps, but it wouldn't exactly put him in a flattering light as a contractor. It might even scare off potential future clients.

I think he's doing the right thing by releasing it as OSS. Hopefully he'll pick up some support hours if anyone actually ends up using it.
If that's the case then 52% public posts is a lot, right?
I use my name everywhere I can. Never had the need to not use it :)

After all, my work is me.
How are you changing yourself, now that you know this?
Yes, synchronous code is the norm for many. In Java, which is where I'm from, this is due to a limitation on the JEE spec. While some servers do provide thread pools (JBoss and WebSphere), that behavior is beyond the spec and breaks the ability to switch to any container you like.

Some issues Ruby/Rails faces is due to both the language and the framework. It is not uncommon for JEE apps to pull back 10k objects, show 10 to a user and pitch the rest. ORMs like Hibernate tend to be fairly quick, especially when tuned. As a result synch code is not that problematic.

This might start to change with the advent of Scala in JVM on the server. The actors it provides MIGHT make Oracle rethink the spec a bit. But I doubt it.
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cost of borrowing has a well documented effect on prices (see interest rates and real estate)
I would be different from the rest. I play rock when I am passing time, but when it comes to hardcore coding, my background music is Metalcore.

It gives me a kick and my work speeds up :P
http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2006/10/26/a_beginners_gu...
Great companies, great organizations of all kinds, are as much about character as credentials, about how everyone works together as well as how each person does his or her work.

This is the key. Character should be a credential, and working with others is part of doing your own work. A real superstar has it all.
Minority Report preCog like software "sending the police before there’s a crime"
> a printed copy of lesswrong.com.

Does such a critter exist? Not as an actual printed copy, but a way of diving into it that's not quite so ... scary? The closest thing I see to a "table of contents" is the list of Sequences.
I agree it is overly alarmist, but it is a clever hack using the accelerometer.

Many people know that the 'Enterprise' class of Seagate SATA drives has a vibration sensor which is used to adjust the seek algorithm under high vibration loads. But you can also read it from the SMART pages. If you have an idle drive on a system you can sit there reading/re-reading that sensor to get a sense of whether or not your machine is being shaken, and if you have a lot of such drives you and make some more interesting observations about not only what is happening locally but in the environment around the drive. Not what Seagate planned I'm sure but a fun result none the less.
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Honestly, it doesn't need to be complicated. If you just require 25-50% down on your contracts that will weed out the scammers from the legit customers, and will make sure you get partially compensated should they ever leave you in the lurch. Make sure you document all communication, try to keep it over email so it's easy to do that, and you'll be fine should you ever need to take something to small claims court (which will probably never happen).
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He's trying to make the best of a bad situation- he put in a lot of time for which he was not compensated, but perhaps he can get some good PR out of it. Maybe down the road someone else will use his software and throw him some billable hours for customization.
-longterm kernel proposal a sign of Linux growth, not stangation
Hire the best. Solves both problems.
ciphergoth produced an ebook of Eliezer's posts recently which I'm finding useful:

http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/72m/an_epub_of_eliezers...
This is one of the best videos I've seen about this kind of things!
Networking == sending business to people;

Follow-up with the VP by sending him work, or an introduction to someone he'd be interested in meeting.

If you get good at sending business to good vendors you'll become popular very quickly.
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Well, they said that they "made the following changes" -- one of which is not using eTags. So I guess they stopped that.

(That said, they never aggregated this data across multiple websites, so I really don't get what the whole fuss was about.)
Its not irrational.

I know for a fact that the sun only evaporates the water and leaves the crap behind. Its a process that has been happening for a very long time.

And we all know how perfect industrial processes are, especially when managed by the government.

The sewer water isn't THAT MUCH cheaper than regular water. So I'd prefer that the experiment be run on someone other than me.

If it is cheaper and a city wants cheaper water, let them enjoy it. We should be charging market prices to all users. Then if this actually made economic sense, it would be adopted.
On a properly written server you could "fuzz" the date of "if-none-match". Then it would still work for caching, but would not uniquely identify you.

The trouble is that most servers are not written properly, the date is not parsed, rather it's string compared with the file date.

For example if the server sends the timezone as EST vs +0400 the browser will send it back exactly as it gets it, when normally you would think that should not matter.
$3/month host here, is that something you should rely on for backups

Forget about how much you think it costs to host your backups. Think about how much you backups mean to you. What would happen if you didn't have access to your backups?
I cannot understand why California has a water supply issue when they are located right next to the largest body of water on Earth. I think the public is much more accepting of desalinized ocean water than they are of reclaimed municipal water.
Tools like Emacs and Common Lisp are exactly the kind that I actively seek. I needed novice friendly tools four years ago when I was starting with python, I don't need them anymore. You're a novice only once, you're an expert for life.

I was already playing around with Scheme and Clojure for at leas two years when I started learning Common Lisp, very few things have been exceptionally hard or foreign for me, loop was definitely not one of them.

That's the reason I get so hot-headed about these kinds of things. I have invested a lot in bettering my self as a programmer. Articles like this one insult years of hard work, and my own effort is just a very small part of it. People have been building these tools and communities for 50 years before I even knew what a computer was, dismissing it so lightheartedly pisses me off. I only hope others understand. Maybe I just have too high standards. Comes with being young I guess :)
Depending on the job market

It also depends, at least somewhat, to what the degree is. This is anecdotal, but my friends that majored in math, CompSci, and Engineering rarely have trouble finding a decent job. On the other hand, the English and History majors I know frequently struggle to find a good job.
I work in Rwanda (http://www.nyaruka.com/) and we're currently doing a project for an NGO that is using the Ideos for a variety of different things, the pricepoint really is amazing.

For one, we're using them to act as SMS gateways to generate activation codes. Essentially they receive confirmation messages for mobile payments to a particular number and we wrote an Android app that generates a unique activation code and sends it back to the payer. Better than a PC because it's cheap, has redundant power, redundant network and better connectivity with the GSM world.

The other task we're using them for is to act as network attached barcode scanners for inventory control. Essentially using the camera to read QR codes and allowing people to move / receive / send inventory using a rich app interfacing to the cloud based backend we are building. They are amazing for that.

I guess my point is that this isn't just a milestone for the consumer, it is a milestone to have an easily programmable, portable, GSM connected device with a camera and a touchscreen that only costs $80. Nothing else compares.
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I also found this comparison of cross-posting tools:

http://techplugged.com/2011/07/29/link-and-post-google-plus-...
Leaked slides detail AMD’s 28nm Deccan APU platform
BDD For Node - Introducing vows-bdd
I am not a very highly qualified individual as I am doing my undergraduate. But this summer, I had the opportunity to work with a company which solely works on ASP .NET

I thought that it is a Microsoft Technology and won't be that good to work with.

But in a week or so, I understood, why it is called the framework for Rapid Development. It really speeds up work.

It is true that the cost would be higher as the number of programmers in this field is small compared to the rest.

My Point of View

----------------

1. It was a good time developing in ASP .NET

2. There were not many restrictions except for site deployment.

3. There is lots to learn in it

4. MOST IMPORTANT: It is for Rapid Development
Fantastic to hear about computing reaching the hands of the world's poorest. I wonder if poor battery life would be an issue in areas with limited access to electricity, but this could be powerful even if it reaches the more urban areas.

I love that it has a camera. I believe that omnipresent cameraphones have been an underrated deterrent for crime and government brutality in the last 10 years (in more developed countries).
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Because it's much, much harder and energetically more costly to de-salinate water than it is to "de-poop" water. Biological contaminants can be removed using organic processes, settling and chlorination. Salts and ions form relatively strong bonds with water that are hard to separate.
> I know for a fact that the sun only evaporates the water and leaves the crap behind.

How is that relevant?
This would make some semblance of sense if it weren't for two things:

1) You're not drinking rainwater, I assure you.

2) Sure, the sun evaporates water, and that forms into clouds, and then it rains. Except that things in the atmosphere can taint that rain; this is most noticeable in the form of acid rain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_rain

There's absolutely no reason to believe that treated sewer water is any less safe than the water that's sitting in your reservoir at all.
I don't think this is black and white.

If you hire a contractor, you're paying for the accomplishment of a task. If you hire someone full-time, you're paying for... what? Not X hours, maybe, but not "whatever you feel like doing," either. Something more like "your best efforts in a reasonable work week."

If you hire a contractor to accomplish X task for $Y, you don't care if it takes them 2 hours or 50, as long as they meet their deadline.

If you hire a full-time developer and that person accomplishes in 3 hours a week what others do in 40, you'd be impressed. But you'd probably also be frustrated. Imagine what they could be doing for you if they worked the rest of the week!

Even if you're not a stickler about hours, you want people to be giving you their best effort. If they say they can do that in 5 intense, randomly-scheduled hours a day, and they deliver, great. But if they work 5 hours a week, it's unlikely they're giving you their best.
Germany, France propose Eurozone government
On a related note, Portland recently blew $36,000 draining a reservoir after a guy peed in it.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011...

The reservoir is completely open. Untold numbers of animals pee, poop, and die in it every year.
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I tend to agree.

My background: I've been using Photoshop for about fifteen years nearly everyday.

Just to be more informed, I decided to download Mac version of GIMP.

What I like:
- Feels much more nimble, lightweight

- Seems like it has most of core tools I need

What prevents me from using it:
- The interface seems really unfinished. I think that's what I like about Pixelmator: it's polished and looks somewhat similar to Photoshop's layout

- The shortcuts are all different. I'm not even sure I can customize the shortcuts in some of the contexts as even some of the ones in Photoshop are sort of built in. That alone would be a huge deterrent as I rarely click on any interfaces.

- Layer effects and smart objects. I know they are in the Roadmap but without them, I can't re-use elements others or I have made from Photoshop and it does effect image creation.

- Masking is a little kludgy. When I imported my PSDs with shape masking, they all disappeared. Does it support vector masking?

- Doesn't seem to support importing vectors from Illustrator as it automatically outputs some of the elements as raster elements.

- Lack of layer folders.

The whole single-window mode? I think that wouldn't nearly entice me as it's not that much of a deterrent.
There's a difference between "refuted" and "dubiously asserted, ignoring all arguments to the contrary". :-)

Looking back on this exchange, the core of our disagreement is the word "explicit". A contract is an agreement. If I sign a piece of paper saying I agree to something, that is an "explicit" contract. But if you merely infer based on my actions in some context that I've agreed to something, you are arguing for the existence of an implied contract.

Huben's text confuses the agreement with the terms being agreed to. The legal codes might be written down explicitly but my consent to them is not written down - it is at best implied. There is no explicit social contract. If you claim there is, what's the basis for your claim? When you say agreement is established by doing X or Y, how do you know that? Just because Huben said so? What is the source of your knowledge that these ten acts establish a contract and some other set of acts don't? Could I not with equal justification claim that, say, picking your nose makes you a citizen of Hackerstan and subject to some random set of laws I've written down?
France and Germany propose EU-wide financial transactions tax
A good reminder that sometimes there's wonderful things hidden in the unknown. I'm a IT newb, but I wonder if there's a sane way for backbone providers to communicate with startups to achieve that vision he presents at the end.
Solaris 11 Express has the GNU toolchain and a modern package management system.

For those that want something like SmartOS but free, and with a modern package management system, I would suggest OpenIndiana. OpenIndiana will be integrating many of the SmartOS changes.
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Exactly. I imagine this breaks down when you have a designer that prefers to work starting at 3pm, and a developer who's in at 7am. Do you allow the deadline to slip, or ask the designer to come in earlier (or the developer to stay later)?

I'm much more a fan of "core hours": i.e. a company that says everyone should plan to be available between, say, 12 - 2pm either in person or online. Then everyone can set their own hours around that.
Flip side - If you were paying them 13 times as much you would be paying them what the market would bear in terms of work output. If you are paying them just what you are paying everyone else its unlikely you are giving them your best.
About four years ago, I started to get restless. I had been working for a large fruit company for quite some time. I had done pretty well in my job and learned a lot. I was a better engineer, better communicator and better person.

While I felt proud of the fights I had won on behalf of users (every time you type command-comma and it works…), making them more productive at their jobs, I felt I wasn't doing enough to help people directly. I didn't want to just make tools to help other people work on big important problems or give them money — I wanted to work on big, important problems.

I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to volunteer for the Obama campaign in 2008. What started out as a couple of phone calls turned into two months of solid work, helping register hundreds of thousands of voters and making sure folks found their polling places. I didn't lose touch with the grassroots field volunteer in me, either: I was on the phone, too, talking to regular voters.

I wanted to be this inspired by my work all of the time. After shipping another big cat, I left. I spent a month helping Engineers Without Borders Canada (important: not all EWBs are created equal), and went through a leadership development fellowship.

While my number one passion is for the environment and energy efficiency — and I'm not doing that — yet, I have been fortunate to pick and choose some really cool projects:

- creating an online application process for college and university scholarships
- helping EWB Canada win $50,000
- doing strategy/UI/fundraising for a network of student-run food co-ops
- building a text messaging-based tool to remind people to vote

Now I'm working on TurboVote, a nonprofit service that makes voting by mail as easy as renting a DVD from Netflix. If you've ever tried to track down an absentee ballot request form, voter registration form and county clerk mailing address, you know what a hassle that is. We make it easy.

Where this becomes a big deal is not in presidential elections, where turnout is 50-60% (which is pretty shameful), but in local, primary and special elections, where it drops to 10%. But once you're signed up to vote by mail, you just get the ballots … and you vote … and maybe we get turnout to 15%. It's not a lot, but relatively speaking, it's a big deal.

If this sounds like fun, we're hiring a rails developer:
http://blog.turbovote.org/2011/07/were-hiring/
yes...still could be faster.
Why would excluding his deadbeat client from using the code put him in an unflattering light?
Both IllumOS and OpenIndiana are quite active (which shouldn't be surprising since the latter relies on the former).
Is my navigation and ordering process intuitive?
I don't see why these types of articles have to focus on the notion of a 'victory' for either side. Microsoft isn't winning, but it's making a lot of money in various areas, so it's not losing either.

Microsoft probably is concerned about declining market share, but to suggest it was always targeting 100% of the market is misleading (there are people that have always and will always run Linux, and there are other people -- particularly large enterprises -- that they are much more focused on).
GitHub has erred on the side of hiring people who don't need measurement—we all work hard regardless of who's watching.

Also, everyone is smart. No one is assuming number of commits is a correlation to productivity. Some days sitting at home thinking about a problem is productive.

I personally work more productive hours in a week at GitHub than I ever did at a company where I was in the office 10 hours a day. But no one is counting them.
He should have AGPL3'd this code, and put a standing offer for a royalty-free unencumbered free license to anyone who contacts him directly. The net result would have been the same, but his deadbeat client wouldn't get the code for free.
real sewage is not 'gone': remember all the drugs and pharmaceuticals that are emptied on a daily basis.
Note: The ordering process is heavily inspired from Dell.com

Thanks in advance for the comments and feedback!
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_why somehow reminds me of Nattramn from Silencer (band) but in a very lightweight way, where he mixed his work with a bit of 'cool insanity' until he had to go all out and it was just not something for 'an audience'. People seem hungry for this sort of behavior, and it amazes me how harmless they think it is.
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I'd love to see someone put together a guide to Node and the current javascript world for the Rails developer. I've looked at Node a few times, but it's so much lower-level than Rails...I'd think it would be more valid to compare it to Rack. What about the other components of a Rails app? What should you use as an ORM? What about views? What about routing? Etc, etc.
This was the norm for every startup I worked at.

However, in practice it meant I could come in sometime between 10am and 1pm and then work late into the night. It did not mean I could start at 6am and then leave at 2pm. Anyone leaving before 6pm would get suspicious looks, no matter when they came in. Thus, it made no sense to ever show up before 10. It would be interesting to learn when the 7am workers mentioned in the article leave.
from my survey engineering course (which engineering major should you choose?) it's because reverse osmosis is a bitch to do, especially compared to cleaning sewage or building dams.

however, this isn't as huge of an issue as the article makes out because almost all of california's water goes to agriculture, and no one seems to have a problem with using grey-water for agriculture.
But of course you're right.

I still find it a bit hard to imagine, where would I be now if I had loan a lot more. I might be studying the same but I surely would work harder, both in school and during the summer.

On a related note things like medical care and laws sometimes makes me feel the same.
It's hard to tell what type of app you are building.. but the home page for our mobile web app ( http://dsharpdiabetes.com launching September) is a dashboard that contains all recent activity at a glance along with small sparkline graphs.
That's true, but imagine your employees started working only as many hours as they felt they were being paid for.

If the employee feels underpaid, they should renegotiate or, failing that, leave.
Seems fitting. LEGO Mindstorms hardware was based on work at MIT, then MIT made a programming environment for it which LEGO adopted, then the App Inventor was clearly inspired by that software, then MIT gets App Inventor :) Let's see what they do with it this time.
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pretty little liars season 2 episode 10 Spencer covers to uncover exactly what Jason's trying to hide at his home, and also Emily tags together with her