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Actually, that's wrong by three orders of magnitude. One cubic km has 10^9 cubic meters. Each cubic m has 1000 kg of water, so one cubic km has 10^12 kg. If you now have 300k cubic km, that's 3*10^17 kg.

So you actually only need to use 0.1% of all lakes.
So using colors is bad? What is the right way to do inline? Or is the problem that Exchange wouldn't let your Linux client get the full version?
Google push their "openness" in their marketing to Android users. It's part of the sales patter. It is sold as if it develops in the open and their whole stack is OSS. It isn't. If you present yourself as a paragon of virtue and suggest that you product is entirely open, when it turns out you aren't as open as you make out, people will complain.

As for your reason why OSS is better; none of that is relevant to consumers, who account for the largest part of the market by far. How many consumers are going to fork Android realistically? None. Don't get me wrong OSS software is a great thing and has it's place commercially too, but you present your argument as if it is black and white; as if anything closed is evil. It is not.

"However, I don't care what kind of software you use, so please spare me the discussion." That was pointlessly aggressive. If you want to engage in adult conversation, I suggest that you rethink your approach. I must ask, at what point did I or any other commenter start reeling off what software they use, and evangelising their world view as the one true view?
> "Furthermore, investor styles differ. Some give you tons of room to maneuver; some like to work closely with you. Some offer tons of help and advice; others are just about the cash. Some will want regular updates; others don’t like to be bothered ... figure out what kind of investors you want, and what kind of investors will want you."

Obviously that sounds like a great thing to consider but how exactly does a new entrepreneur figure that out? It might be possible if you're after the Fred Wilson's and Mark Suster's of the VC world (just read their stuff) but it wouldn't be as easy for many others. How would you suggest someone begins?
Considering the tone of these letters (especially the last one—wow!), it's a bit difficult to summon empathy with their authors.

And I think that's unfortunate, because they have an exceedingly valid point—American universities are making a killing churning out graduates with very few relevant skills for today's economy.

That's not to say these students are completely innocent—many, many American students view college as their "last gasp" of living without any real responsibilities, and they make make the most of that opportunity (rather than making the most of the opportunity to better themselves and prepare for today's economy).

Now and forever, using only the internet, it's possible to learn... well, nearly everything. Once employers accept this, the cost of a degree will plummet, and universities will be forced to offer something well beyond what Wikipedia, web forums, and online instructional videos can provide. That's the only way they'll stay relevant and worth the investment. I think the universities can do it, but they are going to fight tooth and nail to avoid having to change.

All large institutions do.
Employees are less likely to make money from stock options than actors are to make a cut of net profit.

If you don't get the same type of stock as the VCs, and under all the same conditions, it's worth pennies on the dollar at best and likely simply zero.
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it's to make content so good it seems as if a human wrote it. If that's actually the case there's no conflict in Google -- good content gets pushed to the top.

There's an easy way to achieve that: have an actual human write it. This solution does not necessarily win one good will with Google: for one obvious example, most of the content farms were farming manually rather than farming with Markov chains.

I also think "good content" only craters the approach to the bridge of describing both a) what actually ranks on Google and b) what, in an ideal world, Google thinks would rank on Google.
Instead of 80% of the people I would say 100% of the people, but 80% of the time. Everybody has phases when their whole life just sucks and phases when they feel great and super successful.
When set up and used properly, TFS is a decent source control / bug tracking system, especially if you use Visual Studio for day to day development.

The problems with TFS come from a few areas. First, it's easy to set it up in some sub-optimal configuration, by putting it on insufficient hardware, for example. There's a very real and very high cost to doing that aspect right, of course. Second, if you're doing development with a small team and a limited number of branches, TFS is probably overkill, and the way the tradeoffs are balanced for TFS is probably way off from the actual tradeoffs your team needs. Third, if writing code in the VS IDE isn't the norm then you might be going against the TFS grain enough to cause serious pain. Fourth, if you don't use the bug/work item tracking parts of TFS then it'll have less value to you, obviously.

Finally, the biggest problem with TFS is the competition. People apply the label "distributed version control systems" to Mercurial and Git but that hides the important aspect that these systems are not just capable of decentralization but they are also extremely fully featured and highly advanced modern VCSes. If you are deciding ab initio which VCS to use it'd be silly to not choose Hg or Git for almost any project. They are free, there is tons of support, they are scalable, and they are extremely good.
Two different definitions of old - the author seems to be saying as people get older while still in the working realm [so maybe, 20-65 or so] while the study talks about the elderly/seniors. So not necessarily conflicting [and it might make sense that a person gets more and more dissatisfied as they get older and opportunities slip away until they finally let go of those regrets and become satisfied with their lot]. More on age/happiness:

http://www.slate.com/toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=230055...
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He is currently working behind the counter is a jewelry store, when he can not do to leave their disappointment with the romance to come through, when he sold an engagement ring is a happy couple.
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Relevant design pattern:

http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_.aspx
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This is not storage, not unless the gasoline is entirely synthetic and made from atmospheric CO2, which is not the case today.
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This assumes that employers see value in colleges in terms of teaching and not, say, as outsourced pedigree verifiers which are socially permitted to discriminate along axes that employers are not permitted to.

A degree from Harvard in Commercially Valueless Trivia with a minor in Not Comprehensible Outside Your Specialty and a thesis in Not Even Good Cocktail Conversation still tells employers that you were good enough to get into Harvard. (Or, more insidiously, that you're the kind of people who get into Harvard.)
It was more about getting the Developer Division to be a $1 billion in revenue department. My guess is that TFS is a drop in the bucket for SQL Server revenue.
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These letters are positively heart-wrenching, indeed. Really, what does my college degree mean, if the person possessing it can't be trusted to understand the difference between "it's" and "its," or "there" and "they're"?

Sad state of affairs indeed.
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I started to use http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ since yesterday, and it put me under pressure that I have a TO DO list, that I must finish on time.

I never used such an app before, which is very important to remind that you have something to do.
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Thanks for your feedback. I work on the Denso app which nathos plugged (thanks nathos). We're aware of our "competitors" though I think this is not a zero-sum game.

Denso started off as a personal itch of mine, but we have a unique twist on how we get instapaper'ed videos onto your various devices.

We've also kinda expanded on our vision and believe that video-watching is a more passive experience than reading, and hence needs different requirements and we feel Denso fits that niche (although we'd like our users to decide that).

We're still in private beta but we're hoping to go "live" really soon.
Also some companies have lawyers as employees. They have to do something with their time.
Plus the search engines won't index their domain, and if in some case they had to move away from your service (I don't say they should, as the service seems to be rather cool) then they would loose their presence in search engines. This is a kind of tradeoff they should be aware of in the first step.

Ability to have custom domain name will solve this problem.
Shameless plug, but Denso has an Android app in the works and it's very close to being live: http://getdenso.com/android-sneak-peek
Except that it isn't the government suing these companies, it's the people named in the credits.
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You're right—employers are being lazy.

It's safe for people in HR to mindlessly prefer mediocre Candidate A with a degree over stellar Candidate B without one, so instead of actually examining the values the candidates can bring to the company, they take the easy, defensible path.

Part of the process of employers' recognizing that someone learning online can easily learn more than someone going to a university will be to empower HR departments to honestly examine candidates' value to the company rather than looking at increasingly irrelevant badges on their resume.

In short, employers lazily prefer people with degrees. People want employment. People seek degrees. Universities see tons of demand and little pressure to improve, so they don't. Most graduates skills are irrelevant for today's employers, so they don't get hired. Employers can break this cycle by empowering their HR departments.
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I'm inclined to agree with the premise that "large numbers of people quietly despise their lives", but I think it's generally a weak effect. Most of us will, especially if questioned, find regrets that make us despise our lives; "years lost to path dependency" is probably the most common regret type.

I doubt, however, work life is the nexus of this problem. It would certainly seem so if work is life to you, but I suspect that most people aren't like that. Jobs are an inconvenience or, more likely, a neutral segment of their lives. People can (and do) push their down time into working hours, saving energy and engagement for later.

I wouldn't be surprised if the coulda-woulda-shouldas make most people despise their lives off-and-on, yielding a continuous churn of momentary depressives. I also doubt this a problem unless the length of bouts is high.
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I wonder if you add in the marketing and distribution cost for bit torrent & associated search sites you can find that the movie companies should be paying them?
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> The jump from C++ to Java was big enough

You are aware that many people still write C++, yes?
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation." Henry David Thoreau from /Walden/
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Sure... with feed-in tariffs and as long as you don't account for the idle capacity that needs to be there in case the sun isn't shining. If you ignore all that... grid parity!
> Also, we have social welfare, stated sponsored medical attention, and decent education systems in the US. Where did you get the idea we lack these things?

As an Australian who has spent a fair amount of time in the states I would argue with those points. Sure, you have those things, (not sure about 'decent' education system) but they certainly don't function as efficiently as ours do, as far as I can tell..
According to the Strauss-Howe generational theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss-Howe_generational_theor...), Millenials are a Hero generation. We grew up in an "increasingly protected post-Awakening" era of parental coddling and are now coming of age during a "team-oriented young optimists during a Crisis". The crisis is here and it is severely draining on our generation as a whole. But we are not going to get beaten by it and the only way to combat it is with perseverance.

One of the best ways to shorten this particular recession is through innovation. As employment numbers have been dropping, companies have been evolving by consolidating the missing roles and generally becoming more efficient. We need to meet this increase in efficiency with a greater number of attempts at innovating today's status quo. That's one of the best benefits of Y Combinator.

It's going to take a lot of hard work but luckily grit is regarded as one of the best traits of successful people (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/what-is-success-tr...). While it's true we have one of the toughest outlooks in recent memory, that just means we have that many more possibilities to improve upon. There is so much talent out there right now that is not being properly utilized that it could supply a couple of entirely new industries. Innovation will get us there but not after we stumble a couple of times on the way up.

It's time for us to get together, use our collaborative abilities and solve the world's growing areas of concern of today for everyone tomorrow.

#millenialmanifesto
Alec Guinness was a Serious Actor with plenty of impressive film appearances under his belt. Of course he had more pull.
I've worked for my self in the past and now I'm working for a company; doing web dev (Drupal). I'm happier working for a company than when I was working for my self. Sure I don't have the crazy flexible hours anymore but then again no one else did either so it was hard to take advantage of that aspect of it; plus if I really need to do something I can usually take a 3 hour break in the middle of the day. (I'm single so this might change if I where married with children).

The nice thing about working for a company is the whole thing is not 100% riding on me & there are other dev's who can "cover" for you. I can also focus more on what I like to do vs when I worked for my self where I did everything; even the parts I sucked at but the clients like you so much they insist that you be the one doing it.

Long story short, I like working for "the man" and am quite happy with where I'm at.
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I think you are thinking of a fairly different phenomenon than I am thinking of. Let's take two candidates, A and B. A has a degree in Anime as Literature (a degree which fairly few people have but which is available if you want it from at least one university, and which we'll stipulate has fairly little commercial relevance in the United States) from, without loss of generality, Washington University in St. Louis (my alma mater). B has equivalent knowledge regarding postmodern interpretations of Evangelion but gained it all through self-study.

You are describing that companies discriminate against B in favor of A because their hiring processes are broken and doing so is organizationally safe. I agree that in many cases their hiring processes are broken, but think that it doesn't matter because companies do not care about anime. It is utterly irrelevant to them. Knowledge of anime does not make you more efficient at filling out TPS reports. However, the degree from WashU brackets you as Top X% of Valued Quality Y distribution, where Y might be "intelligence" or "ability to follow through on moderately complex tasks with long time horizons" or simply "success in a highly selective process" if you're feeling charitable or "social standing" if you're not. Prospective employers aren't allowed to effectively discriminate based on intelligence (no, really), so they can use possession of a degree as a proxy for it. By comparison, the actual contents of the education received post-matriculation are irrelevant, so the fact that Candidate B has objectively equivalent knowledge of anime is not meaningful to the prospective employer.
Couldn't agree more. As HTML APIs further develop they'll allow access to those parts of a device that only lower level/native languages have had access to so far. Question is When not If.
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In the linked article, a 200 MW solar updraft installation is projected (by to the company that wants to build it) to cost $700 million.

That works out of $3500/kW, which seems to be on par with construction costs for recent nuclear power plants (according to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_new_nuclear_power_...)

Of course, limiting the comparison to construction costs is silly.
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Here's a project that simulates the "yield" keyword with current version of JavaScript: https://bitbucket.org/balpha/lyfe/wiki/Home
Interesting - though I have to wonder, what is to keep spending in check, if the ECB just starts to buy whatever debt emerges? Could both sides be kind of right (the moralizers and the spenders)?
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Cognitive dissonance. Dan ariely talks about it in "predictably irrational". It's the same reason people don't often change dentists because changing dentist after putting up with all the pain and discomfort that comes with a dentist means you made a wrong decision. Same thing with hazing etc for Frats, sororities. You go through it and because it was so miserable you equate the end result to having more value and justify the hazing. Great book for entrepreneurs as you can really see just how often our ego comes into play with our decision making.
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"In practice, Dries has gathered around him in Acquia an ever growing number of the core code contributors he most trusts and respects."

What's the alternative? You are a business owner as well! Would you staff your company with people you trust, with people you worked with, with people who proved their expertise? Is that not the number one choice a business owner would go with?
It's not the colour per se. Some email clients when not using plain text end up formatting your reply in the same style and colour as the quoted texted. The formatting may get lost on other email clients.

This is why I always use plain text so I get '>' infront of each line of quoted text.
Regarding the last letter, I think we've only seen the tip of the iceberg with regards to generational hatred for the Baby Boomers. Inheriting such a structurally messed up government and economy will not leave a good taste in people's mouth, and as times get desperate, having to pay large Social Security and Medicare entitlements to a generation that stopped investing in the future will become more and more questionable.
It is nice to see Krugman acknowledging the importance of monetary sovereignty, i.e. whether a government issues its own currency or not.

The trouble with the Eurozone seems to me that to any but the most hardboiled ideologues, it is obvious that significant stimulus is needed in the affected countries (perhaps combined with other measures, like strengthening the tax collection bureaucracy in some cases). The problem is how to get the stimulus there.

The countries themselves cannot do it because the financial markets won't let them, and the other countries hesitate to do it because of the collective outcry over taxpayers bailing out another country.

The ECB is filling the gap for now, but it doesn't really have the political mandate to make pseudo-fiscal decisions like buying a country's bonds.

To me, the solution seems obvious: Give the power of monetary sovereignty to the European Parliament. Since the MPs there are elected directly by the European people, they are the natural wielders of sovereign power when it comes to the Euro. Giving this power to the EP is even possible without taking any rights away from the individual countries, because right now, no one has monetary sovereign power in the Eurozone (unless you count the ECB, but again, they don't really have the political mandate).

Unfortunately, this possibility is not even being discussed yet, and there are significant political egos on the national level that need to be overcome before it can be implemented.
PV panel prices are dropping in price 30% per year at present; your link claims 30% for installed system costs in the decade ending in '08. 2008 is just before PV panel prices took their biggest plunge ever, from about $5 per watt to about $2 per watt at present. First Solar claims under $1 per watt, so the end is not yet in sight.

Nice job picking out-of-date numbers.

Moore's law for solar:

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/03/16/sm...

If the 2010 and 2011 data was on the charts it would show an even steeper decline.
I'd definitely recommend CodeIgniter with the Data Mapper ORM, I've tried others (Cake, Zend, etc) and CI seems to be the only one that never over-complicates things.

For me it's about getting shit done, I'm too busy to worry about being looked down on by Zend users :)
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My point was that people take an idealized view of solar power that causes them to see it as purely good, rather than as it really is: a mix of good and bad, like any real-world technology.

In response, you call me out for attacking solar power (pointing out bad parts), and being inconsistent about it (pointing out good parts).

So this reply looks like an example of the black-and-white thinking about solar power that I was complaining about above. I say "looks like" because I don't understand your second sentence. I agree with the all the facts you brought up, but I don't see the point of mentioning them. Please correct me if I'm missing something.
Because it's not unreasonable to expect the coder to supply you with something which will not fail arbitrarily in 10 years for a reason which is 100% predictable. A parallel example: If an Architect designs you a building which develops a leak because of a mistake in a construction detail you would sue for the cost of repairs and damage to property. Either in contract if available or in Tort for negligence if no contract exists.
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Ugh, monospace!

I recommend using BMFont by AngelCode for generating font sheets and data: http://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont/

It provides kerning information and offsets so you can use pretty much any font you like, and aren't constrained to monospace.