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Even bogus patents are valuable from a legal POV. The cost of defending oneself from a bogus patent is the same as the cost of defending oneself from a valid patent, and that cost is very high, in the millions of dollars and years of wasted time.

Patents are being used as blackmail or a protection racket on the offense and as a MAD on defense. They are effective at both simply because the cost of litigation to defend against or invalidate even bogus patents is insanely high.

This is what makes patent trolls so frustrating. There is no MAD defense since they make nothing, and thus have no exposure to countersuits. On the other hand, the cost of settling is an order of magnitude less than the cost of defeating against them, bogus or not, so the logical response is to "roll over" and pay the license fee. Unfortunately, that just encourages them.
One thing I've never found is a decent spreadsheet program that'll run in curses.

Otherwise, terminal + browser gets me through 90% of the day.
As an aside, Eric was also a Y Combinator company founder a month or so after this article, though his YC company, WriteWith, was shuttered a short time after. Eric's a smart guy who works hard...so, not at all surprising that he'd go on to do interesting stuff.
Ah, I think I should spend less time being paranoid. Working alone in a room really makes one sick, you start devaluing yourself and your skills without any concrete evidence. I totally get pg's insistence on teams now.

Thanks for the reply.
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I'm fairly sure there are a few existing services like this out there, have you looked at those?
While the official website has it's flaws it actually doesn't look too bad. This design however uses the color red way too much and blocks such as the news feed take up too much space. I also don't see how this would directly benefit the Ruby community but that may be my personal opinion.
First, you're right, both parties have diverted Social Security surpluses. But only one party -- the GOP -- is trying to avoid paying it back, using the SS deficit as a tool to dismantle or alter the program.

Second, that doesn't change the social contract we have with people who have spent their entire lives paying out up to $6000 a year in wages to the fund.

Third, yes, while baby boomers retire, it will run a deficit. But if the surpluses over the last SEVENTY YEARS hadn't been diverted to the general fund, they'd have enough in the "lock box" (that Al Gore advocated for in the 2000 election) to pay for 'boomer retirements.

Look at the predictions made by FDR's guys in 193(4?) about social security. They are surprisingly correct. They saw this coming. The only thing they didn't do is force a segregation of funds.
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I know what you mean. There are a lot of other good points to it as well - like conversation, exposure to interesting things you wouldn't normally encounter, and Nash equilibria which leave you doing less of the stuff you don't like in exchange for more of the stuff you do.

I wouldn't quite say that unemployment is something that happens to other people, but that's damn near the case for competent engineers if you put even a bit of effort into networking and self-marketing.
The other day there was some discussion about how some information on the Ruby home page is out of date or incomplete, so I guess this is a response to that. Well, good, you can't have too many "home" pages for a programming language. This should make things much less confusing for newcomers.
Getting someone who gets a commission to do your research doesn't sound like a good idea :)
Boost is installed standard with most Linux distributions now.
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Where do you think the money goes?

Military spending is still government spending. It's going to contractors, vendors and soldiers. They are, respectively: making jobs and selling to everybody (not just the gov't), and buying cars and houses.
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I have a folder on my USB flash with folder for bunch of papers I'm going to read.

I'm also writing in my cell phone references for later searches and reads.
I resigned from a terminal IM client, because it made me less productive than a GUI client. Additionally, some features were annoying.

> Type pine or mutt (for example), and your mail is before your eyes in the time it takes a graphical user to move their mouse to the envelope icon. Type q, and it’s gone.

Not quite. I need to wait for "fetching message headers". It takes a while. mutt and IMAP.
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> I wouldn't quite say that unemployment is something that happens to other people, but that's damn near the case for competent engineers if you put even a bit of effort into networking and self-marketing.

Either I am not reading it properly, or you probably missed a word or two. But I wanted to confirm the gist of what you are saying here- it's that the vicious cycle of being left alone (after being laid off etc.) is one of the primary reasons why some competent engineers stay unemployed.
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The idea and research of inflatable space tower was first presented by A. Bolonkin in World Space Congress – 2002. See:
1) A. Bolonkin, “Optimal Inflatable Space Towers of High Height”. COSPAR-02 C1.1-0035-02. 34th Scientific Assemble of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). The World Space Congress -2002, 10-19 Oct. 2002, Houston, Texas, USA.
That was published as article
2) “Optimal Inflatable Space Towers with 3 – 100 km Height” by A.A. Bolonkin in Journal of British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 56, No. ¾, pp.87-97, 2003.
3) In book “Non-Rocket Space Launch and Flight” by A.A.Bolonkin, Elsevier, 2005, Chapter 4 “Optimal Inflatable Space Towers”, pp83-106. http://www.archive.org/details/Non-rocketSpaceLaunchAndFlight ,
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24056182
And many others Bolonkin’s publications.
It is very strange that authors and Spaceshaft organization did not note anywhere about it?
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"DNA evidence - The Ian Ashworth Effect"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_from_Genghis_Khan#DNA_e...

Zerjal et al. [2003] [6] identified a Y-chromosomal lineage present in about 8% of the men in a large region of Asia (about 0.5% of the men in the world). The paper suggests that the pattern of variation within the lineage is consistent with a hypothesis that it originated in Mongolia about 1,000 years ago (thus several generations prior to the birth of Genghis). Such a spread would be too rapid to have occurred by genetic drift, and must therefore be the result of selection. The authors propose that the lineage is carried by likely male-line descendants of Genghis Khan and his close male relatives, and that it has spread through social selection. Both due to the power that Khan and his direct descendants held and a society which allowed one man to have many children through having multiple wives and widespread rape in conquered cities.[7]
According to Family Tree DNA, Genghis Khan is believed to have belonged to Haplogroup C3.

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The Genetic Legacy of the Mongols

http://web.unife.it/progetti/genetica/Giorgio/PDFfiles/ajhg2...
sure that he cashed out so early ? Any source for that info ?
Technology has been improving our production capacities over the centuries. It also brought new needs that in turn created more jobs.

I think that the widespread criticism of consumerism is the sign of an important event : now that we have a car, a fridge, a computer, a TV, more clothes we need, hot water, and a fully equipped bathroom, we just don' have any more demands.

If the population had the same demands as in 1700, it would be trivial to fulfill them. It would require maybe one day of labor per month per individual. Our demands grew faster than our production capacities, making the working week just a bit shorter, but now the demands do not increasing at the same pace as our productivity.

We have just reached the point where our material needs are fulfilled and we demand immaterial things : free time, healthcare, etc...

Could this be the point of inflexion toward a post-scarcity economy. I really wish.
Yes, but you are ignoring the time factor. Assume I'm going to die of natural causes in 60 years. If it takes a minute to guess a 6 digit number, that is really bad. If it takes 1000 years to guess a number that is larger by dozens of orders of magnitude, odds are pretty good I'm going to die of natural causes before the attacker guesses the right number.
I designed a social network in my head some months ago (who didn't, to be honest) and the way I handled the issue was having per-circle (yeah, I even called them circles..) profiles. I still want that, in particular I want a different profile photo for public viewing.
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I am currently developing a website of puzzle games, written in Javascript.

Rather than use Canvas, we are currently aiming to use movable divs, drag and drop.

What are the current best libraries for GUI Javascript development, in particular which will work on various browsers, iDevices and Android?
I thought you would use (e.g.) sendmail to get the mail from the server to your local inbox, and then use pine or mutt to manage them?
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"According to Family Tree DNA, Genghis Khan is believed to have belonged to Haplogroup C3."

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"One particular haplotype within Haplogroup C3 has received a great deal of attention for the possibility that it may represent direct patrilineal descent from Genghis Khan."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_C3_(Y-DNA)
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I've found myself using console applications more and more recently. The only GUI applications I use out of necessity are Firefox, Keepass and VirtualBox. I use the console for everything else: Cmus for music, Newsbeuter for news feeds and podcasts, TaskWarrior for to-do management, Vim for coding, etc. The Ratpoison window manager helps me make the most of screen space and allows me to manage my windows with keyboard commands like GNU Screen.

Unfortunately, I've never found an email client I liked, whether console or GUI, so I just stick to Fastmail's web interface.
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I do all the things one might use a spreadsheet for in awk :-).

One might say it's slower then a spreadsheet. I don't know. I can type an one liner awk summation/average, faster then it takes OpenOffice to load. This is to me the most common spreadsheet operation.

For more complex task, I feel that I'm working faster in awk (it's a full blown high level programming language, after all). I'm not sure it it's actually faster or if it's only my opinion though.

I'm happy with this setup.
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Statistically, competent engineers have very little trouble finding a position compared to the general population.

Finding an ideal position is harder, but I don't doubt that you can find something to solve your visa issue.
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Amazon Mechanical Turk and CrowdFlower (using MTurk) support that already.
I use Braintree.
The American grading system has a severe lack of dynamic headroom. The measurement system saturates at 100% for even mediocre effort and there is no way to measure achievement beyond that.

I once argued in a paper at university that we needed a logarithmic grading system like decibels. I got a C.
A link to the catalyst for said discussion:

http://www.rubyinside.com/official-ruby-site-not-so-good-524...

And the attached HN discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839580
Great examples. The Canvas demo and the 3D image gallery are impressive. Will try this library in one of my future projects.
Sorry that statistic seems completely impossible -- how would a man alive just before the roman republic became an ancestor to the Gauls (whom the Romans wouldn't discover for quite some time) let alone the American Indians?
From what I have used of lotus123, it was quite a decent program. I'm sure you could find a lotus-inspired program somewhere.
I've recently read that about every second western european male is somehow a descendant of the egyptian pharaoh Tutenchamun. I actually lived right next to the labs of a company where you can get yourself tested for that specific gene (and all other sorts of DNA related tests).

I guess then it is not too uncommon to have some genetic relation to any kind of people if they've lived many hundreds of years ago.
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nude.js (http://www.patrick-wied.at/static/nudejs/) is a Javascript library that detects nudity in images.

I can't attest to its effectiveness but it maybe what you're looking for.
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Just a quick note here: using != abusing.

I agree that the patent system is broken as is, but there needs to be a mechanism protecting the intellectual property that allows companies to share their innovations with the world without fear of them being stolen (copying is cheap).
VirtualBox does have a command line interface. You can start up headless images and such pretty easily. You could even start images with a VNC server, and control the machine from your browser. One less visual tool.
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Discovering Ctrl+r (for searching through past commands) was a big jump for me in CLI usability.
Personally, I use R. Importing and exporting CSV files in R is trivially easy (it's what it's made for, after all). Doing transformations on an entire column or row at a time is also very simple.

Import a csv, then take the logarithm of one column and plot that against some transformation of another column? No problem - two lines in R, and still highly readable.
And I wonder if KeePassX has a CLI. Its GUI current form is clunky.
Being 'scared' is rarely useful; and I don't have any specific advice other than what others have said in this thread already.

But, you will have 0% problem finding a job that pays decently, even if it is not interesting I think it should be able to tide over your visa requirements until you can find something nice.

In short; there is a much much higher demand for people with your skills than people to fill those positions so you are in a fine spot.
This was a really sloppy write-up, they didn't make it clear what is going on at all. This is redirection if you type in a domain name that doesn't exist, which isn't a new trick.

My ISP (Virgin Media) does this, but you can opt out. In fact, their opt-out page gives a much better explanation than the article: http://www.virginmedia.com/myvirginmedia/advancederror/feedb...
I was actually very surprised they didn't do this to begin with in the Nortel case, especially since the patents being bought would've helped all of them. The risk was simply too high for Google even if it was only Apple bidding against them, without all the others. Apple has twice as much cash as they do, and if Apple really wanted the patents, there's nothing Google could've done.

They need to set up a patent pool with their Android partners, and then start bidding together for other patents as well. This would probably be the most effective strategy that they can relatively quickly implement.

As for buying RIM together with other companies, I suppose Google could spend a big part of their money to buy it, and then they'll sell the hardware division to Samsung or whoever, the other divisions to other companies, and keep only the patents for themselves. But they'll have to make the deals prior buying RIM, so they can make their money back later.
I found this GitHub issue/comment really fascinating:

"Hi. I'm Jean-Denis Vauguet, one of the maintainers of ruby-lang.org (working on the French flavour).

After discussing a little bit with other active VIT members, it seems I stepped up to port ruby-lang.org to a git-based, static website generation process too. I'm using Jekyll, extended with custom tasks for generating, parsing, Sass compiling, multi-lang support… I'm also in contact with postmodern, who started its own port a few days ago (idea: merging good ideas and focus on one project). So there is kind of a "official" effort going on, despite we did not published yet (hopefully soon).

In the mean time, your port looks great :) But I do see it is not quite a "port", but an overhaul, with a different organization (links to third-party websites, for instance). I can't speak for the Ruby officials, for I'm not, but I do see this may result in a duplicated effort, and a confusing "content-hydra" (two websites with the same name, newcomers puzzled, duplicated content, etc.). So what should we do about it?"

https://github.com/rubylang/rubylang.github.com/issues/4

It would be interesting to see how a major site like ruby-lang.org being managed and run through git would turn out.
You're right. Google (in David Drummond words) called these patents "dubious", not "bogus": http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-patents-attack-a...

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This anti-competitive strategy is also escalating the cost of patents way beyond what they’re really worth. The winning $4.5 billion for Nortel’s patent portfolio was nearly five times larger than the pre-auction estimate of $1 billion. Fortunately, the law frowns on the accumulation of dubious patents for anti-competitive means — which means these deals are likely to draw regulatory scrutiny, and this patent bubble will pop.
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Being able to script a program is amazingly powerful, but I find the reason I like terminal-based programs is primarily due to the interface. The interface of a terminal program (both command-line and interactive) is the keyboard, which is a vastly superior input mechanism than the mouse for most things.

Any thought that goes into the interface of a terminal-based program goes toward the keyboard interaction; there isn't a GUI to think about. Because of this, terminal-based interfaces are usually much better than any graphical application.
Hey Noel thanks for the feedback! For your first point about the blog post both of the stats that I referred to when it comes to visitors 1500 vs 3000 are both the number of people that were referred to the site from each blog post. So I wasn't talking about the traffic stats for the blog posts themselves, I was only talking about stats that I know for both of them which was how many times they referred visitors to DomainPolish.

I think that your second point is interesting. What do you mean by more motivated to click? I can tell you that the bounce rate on the home page was a fairly consistent 30% for both posts, which leads me to believe that people just trusted the site more when they read a review from someone else and felt more comfortable buying.
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Oh, I should clarify, I don't use it as a server or anything like that. I have VirtualBox and a Windows XP image for any University work that requires Windows software. Right now that's, reluctantly, Microsoft Visual Studio.
I completely agree with this, and I'm glad that somebody's writing a series on how to be productive on the command line.

I find Neal Stephenson's 'In The Beginning Was the Command Line' to be a nice overview of why GUIs became the dominant paradigm over the CLI. I understand the desire to be 'user-friendly' to less tech-savvy people, but it's a real shame that we've equated 'functional' with 'has a good-looking graphical front-end'.

Even a few weeks after I began using the CLI (almost) exclusively, I couldn't imagine going back.
I think that this is a great point. You want your project to feel like its been around forever and will continue to be around for a long time. That inspires confidence in your users to buy from you and/or recommend you to their friends. Without longevity they can't be confident enough in you to invest themselves.
I've read Influence - great book. What do you think the difference is?
This is true (it would probably be more like $100k but it would still seem absurd) but the DOD would control the entire supply chain and intimately know the specs and capabilities of every part.

What if the military came to depend on these and showed up at the toy store only to find the asian manufacturer discontinued that model and replaced it with a weaker one with a remote that interfered with the wireless cameras you were using?

Some of whats bought for that absurd seeming price is expertise and most importantly repeatability.
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Apart from the obvious (buy a subscription), you can open the link in an incognito/private-browsing session, since the NYT monthly page limit seems to be based on cookies.
I agree, the extensive gallery really made an impression and give far more weight to the library. It should serve as inspiration for other library creators to really put time into a wide set of demos of what your lib can help achieve.
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This may come off as a reddit kind of comment, but it's ironic for me that my slightly scared state of mind became more apparent when I misinterpreted glimcat's comments in a negative light. I agree being 'scared' is rarely useful.

Also a related question to anybody who cares to answer. How often do people doing startups get scared or strongly discouraged. Is it much less often when working in a team. And the kind of well-knit team induced self-delusion which helps in hardships, also results in insularity which lead to the final downfalls- the kind we are seeing with RIM co-founders for instance.
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set header_cache="~/.mutt/hcache"

I have more than 10k emails sitting in my inbox and with this option mutt loads the headers in around one second (over the Internet).

And of course I could fetch all the emails in the background and use mutt locally, but I didn't bother yet.
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The problem isn't the voters, the problem is the process.

There is no way that basing a representative democracy on geographical cohorts can be optimal. I assume it is based originally on logistical constraints, but today is something we just accept because it is how it has always been done.

Wouldn't it make more sense to divide the political arena based on the scope of the issues allowed to be legislated and not on the origin of the legislator? Or maybe we just need a stronger 10th amendment.

It will never happen. I know. Wishful thinking maybe.
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> Patents are not used for crushing other companies. They are used for getting a fair recompensation for the IP you have created.

That's the idea, but not the practice. Nathan Myrhvold comes to mind.