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Finance 101, its called hedging. You can invest in dollars, euros, bitcoins, google, gold, food or whatever. They all have relative leverage and are all investments. Purchasing bitcoins means to investing in a share of the bitcoin economy. Its a startup currency which has never happened before. The increase in trading value has created an enormous amount of funding for bitcoin startups.
yes, my last two posts have had "ice cream" in the title. What can I say, it's hot out in LA.
Let me see if I understand this reasoning correctly. Old, fragile and stiff huge organizations like the Post Office cannot provide the numbers of jobs they used to. The economy is changing. Therefore -- some hand-waving here -- the very idea of jobs is out-of-date.

Ouch.

But it gets better. We should pay folks not to work. After all, there's no jobs for them, so why should we expect them to do things that are impossible?

This is very reminiscent to me of all the hare-brained articles about capitalism being dead that came out right around the banking crisis. Yes, things are way screwed up, but capitalism remains. You could make any kind of wide-spread social change you wanted and capitalism would still remain. People like to trade stuff.

The crazy thing here is, like most of this tripe, there's a nugget of something useful in there. We cannot predict how the labor force will evolve. To do so is folly. The answer to this is not to announce the death of jobs, it's to create systems where new job roles which are unforeseen by us are created. To promote flexible adaptation in our businesses and governments.

What's dead is our big boxes of generic labels to stick on things -- all those labels and boxes have been stretched so far they don't work any more. Trying to continue to create policies around those labels and boxes is idiotic. We all need to adapt -- not in a lets-bring-some-academics-on-tv-to-talk-about-the-knowledge-economy sense, but in a real, live policy sense. If your terms and generalizations are bad, your conclusions and policies will never work. I understand that's frustrating and that you are out of ideas -- but a mental model with a huge impedance mismatch the reason, not that we've suddenly been thrust into a 27th century scarcity-free economy.

Take a look at the comments on this thread. Everybody gets out their favorite political pinata and beats on it. Is this a very productive type of article for this site?
Not necessarily, but maybe if they were smarter, they wouldn't be caught thieving :)
Interesting - haven't ever used Mercurial but as far as Windows ports of Unix-based tools go I love the git interface. I always run it in standalone shell mode, and its shell has enough Unix commands built in that I haven't even had the need to install cygwin on my new PC yet. The "check out line endings as \r\n, check in as \n" feature is a neat touch as well (granted, any decent text editor handles both kinds of line endings, but still).
If you wanted to use git in this situation, rather than svn, I'd recommend using git-annex (http://git-annex.branchable.com/). It avoids those binaries bloating the history while still letting branches "contain" specific versions of them. You can set up a centralized annex that is eg, a bup repository (or a rsync server, or use S3) and git-annex pulls down the binaries from there on request.
As noted elsewhere, lots of things are easier to pronounce than "w w w", even things with fewer syllables.

They haven't caught on either.
I use that all the time, but the only other person I've heard say it is the person I picked the habit up from.
Yahoo does own Flickr and Delicious, two very active modern "user behaviour" sites. So it's not that they didn't have any such data, they apparently just chose to ignore it.
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Ridiculous. If we had our priorities straight, there would be low unemployment.

Our infrastructure is crumbling beneath us, yet we won't spend any money to fix it. Instead we're fighting a handful of wars abroad that doesn't help us at all.

We need better roads, public transportation, and faster internet.
That's just off the top of my head; apologetics is a big field.

Of course, all of these and more warrant a lot of study and consideration, and if you go somewhere like infidels.org, you will find answers for all of them (of varying quality). As I say, there is no such thing as proof. But there can be compelling evidence.

I think the most forceful thing to me is really the comprehensive case. Almost across the board, I think the Christian worldview is significantly more intellectually satisfying than the atheist one. Literally, better explanations. The universe looks like God created it, and happily that's what I believe. The atheist explanation has a lot of unverifiable stuff about parallel universes and a lot of "I don't know, I don't have to explain everything." The Bible looks like God wrote it, and happily that's what I believe. I haven't read an atheist explanation for it yet that sounds like the author has actually read the basic history. The Church looks like God runs it, and happily that's what I believe. The atheist explanation makes it pretty clear they have no idea what church even is. My mystical experience looks like communication with God, and happily that's what I believe. The atheist explanation involves waffling and ghosts. Or sometimes aliens.

If it was just one thing, I might say it was a fluke. If those cases that I say look like God's work were vacuous explanations (in the sense that God can do anything), it would be dumb. But look, if you get into the evidence, the Christian worldview is just . . . better. Intellectually, it's way better.

The only advantage to atheism is that you get to look like you're superior to everyone else. If you're a Christian, a lot of people think you're crazy, dumb, or both. I honestly think atheism is sold on pride. And maybe hatred for God, the church, and Christians, at least to judge from the rhetoric. It sure as heck ain't the evidence. If you follow reason wherever it leads, and don't care who ridicules you, you wind up as a Christian. Lots of folks have done just that.
try https://workflowy.com/
I've been thinking I'd like to build a simplified open-source version. It's so simple, you shouldn't need to go through the complexity of getsatisfaction if you don't need the whole custom community aspect.
it exists in the shadowy echo of the intent. while it is completely correct for tjstankus to note that it is foolish in the extreme to _not_ invest in the future, the system must also correct for the greed of men: as you say rather more politely, education isn't a cure-all and isn't the only variable.

This conflict, between the desire for generosity and the _requirement_ that the system must also compel (or at least result in) responsible human beings is where the sentiment arises.

The question is over culture. Culture of giving and providing, culture of responsibility. Those that take without giving are found both in the rich and the poor.
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That's exactly what I thought.

I'm not a techcrunch reader (actually, I find it mind-numbingly boring) but I'm not going to listen to competing publications saying how great its dimise would be for the world.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_four_properties_of_mo...

says one of the properties of money is that it has to be a 'store of value'.
Yeah, I kinda guessed that you were talking about something completely different.

The kind of server you are talking about obviously can not be hosted on a local virtual machine. imho that kind of stuff should be hosted in some data center on a stable server. As it contains many of your most valuable assets and losing access (even temporarily) to it could hinder your ability to work, it should have relatively high availability and general reliability.

The kind of server I, and what I believe the article, were talking about is on the other hand convenient to host locally. It's a machine where you can freely test your code or try out some new stuff. This way you don't need to risk your "main" server unnecessarily with your testing.

As VMs are practically free, you can have them everywhere and as many as you wish. On your workstation, desktop at home, or on your laptop on the road, each can have it's own testing VM. And every project you are working on can have it's own testing VM too, so there is no risk of them interfering each other in any way.
It's only a matter of time before someone pays the ICM Registry for on A record on XXX. so they can have http://xxx/
Interestingly, this matches up with pg's analysis from 2010, based on his experiences in 1998. http://www.paulgraham.com/yahoo.html

"I didn't realize the answer till later, after I went to work at Yahoo. It was neither of my guesses. The reason Yahoo didn't care about a technique that extracted the full value of traffic was that advertisers were already overpaying for it. If they merely extracted the actual value, they'd have made less."

The problem with customers that are overpaying is that they eventually come to realize it and stop (over) paying.
I think you're missing the overall stab. As you say "Trying to continue to create policies around those labels and boxes is idiotic"--because those labels and boxes are out of date.

Which is to say, 'job' might just be one of those labels.

This is _about_ redefining terms and generalizations.
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Although I love Git, this whole thread exemplifies the way in which Git horribly fails my one success measure for good tools: you don't talk about them very much.
I find this article not useful because nearly every point made is suffering from the logical fallacy of arguing against a straw man. It describes certain stupid behavior as "libertarianism" and proceeds to point out that said behavior is stupid. Although I will admit I have met at least one Ayn-Rand-worshiping person who does engage in this sort of stupid behavior, nearly all of the people I have met who call themselves "libertarians" do not engage in the behavior that this article describes.
The original blog post explaining how they came up with the idea is very interesting - http://blog.ifttt.com/post/2316021241/ifttt-the-beginning
I feel silly asking, but I can't find a like to the app. Where is it?
It makes me uncomfortable seeing the the phrase "learning to solder" used as an analogy to "learning to code". Soldering is actually a very trivial process and has little to do with learning about circuits. One can build a circuit without having to solder anything.

Maybe it's time for another phrase? What about "learning to wire an op-amp" or "learning to design a circuit"?
I'm interested in reading more about it, if you know of links or sources off hand.
this is cool, but this can't even compare w/the power of toolbar installs
" .xxx doesn't solve that problem unless you forbid porn on every other domain"

That is a perfectly plausible solution now that the .xxx TLD exists.
Anyone offering you salary in US dollars instead of a share of the product is implying that the dollar is a better store of the value you provided them with than the actual thing you produced.
I didn't downvote you, but it's not EXACTLY alike in any way... just clearly inspired, and I don't think there's anything wrong with offering the same report as another reporting tool.
I would think about adding/changing your splash call to action on breezy.com to: "Now you can easily print AND FAX any document - from any device." At least add fax since thats an important value proposition. I can read in one sentence what the app does.
I think this article is poorly named. If it were titled "Your API must be Compelling" it would make sense (but only as much as "if the sun is up it's daytime" makes sense).

The term platform is way overused and poorly understood.

When I think of a platform I think of something that enables a virtuous cycle of participation from 3rd parties.

A virtuous cycle will never be created if there isn't something in the mix that is compelling.

Very rarely (if ever) is the compelling thing the platform itself.

It is, instead, almost always some value proposition delivered to end users.

See my blog post on this subject here:
"Be Either an App or a Platform" http://ceklog.kindel.com/2011/08/24/be-either-an-app-or-a-pl... (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2925566)

Which got some discussion here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2912794
"Smart people with that much attention flowing through their systems will figure out the details". As an investor, I'm uninspired here -- the details are all that matter to me-- not who the smartest guy in the room is, not at these prices. Think about Enron, or AOL. I'm not seeing what Facebook makes -- this is all very reminiscent of the 1998-2001 tech boom. I know what Apple makes (consumer electronics and software), and what Microsoft makes (consumer software). I know what Google makes (software to help me find the information I want). I know what AOL sold: dial-up internet access. And Enron: natural gas

What does Facebook make? How will they help businesses make more sales and connections using their ad network? Will people get tired of 'liking' businesses, and having their posts appear next to pictures and posts of friends and family?
Yes, SimpleDB comes with SDKs for iphone and android.

For what it's worth, my question was not intended to put down Parse in any way. I've recently been using simplDB and their ios SDK and so was genuinely curious how Parse was better / easier since after reading it, a lot of the code looked like the same basic code I used to set up and use simpleDB in my project using the ios SDK from AWS.
I'd agree with that sentiment. The author goes too far to say that people are getting "hoodwinked". There are doers and dreamers, sometimes the dreamers become the doers with a bit of a push. That's not to say that it happens to everyone, but its safe to say that it could.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Commander

Would this be adequate for your needs?
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Would love to get thoughts, suggestions, comments on this concept/service.
Let me check this for MobileWorks platform:

Low effort, high reward:
You can use MobileWorks' simple API to use humans to do some tasks for you which may not even be possible for complicated AI algorithms. So, check.

Enable multiple points of value for free
The first 100 tasks are free. You can get a lot done with that. So, check.

Make it accessible
MobileWorks is REST-based. Uses simple auth over https and no API key. So, check there too.

Tooting my own horn aside. I think it comes down to reward/effort ratio. If a programmer can get a lot of reward for limited effort that's great. It he can get little reward for no effort, that's good too. But high reward low efforts works well enough too. I think that's the only metric programmers look at.
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Is this for the online learning idea? What are you seeking in a cofounder (proficiency in a certain technology; background in education...)?
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That is exactly the issue, and it's already happening.

Why Factories Are Leaving China http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_21/b4179011

Fan is expanding his factory in Vietnam, where wages are $100 a month, one-third what he pays in China.

Once it becomes too cost-prohibitive to manufacture products in China due to inflation, HP, Samsung, Sony, Dell, Apple,etc. has no choice but to move their operations to Vietnam, India, etc. China's main competitive advantage is being eroded by inflation. They need to move up the supply chain from being a manufacturer to seller/marketer, where they can charge more money based on their brand (Apple/BMW/LV/etc.).
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stevenwagner shows by example why this isn't so, but to spell it out: If you were buying a CPU as an investment like a share of a mutual fund, to buy, hold, and sell, you'd want to wait as long as possible. In fact, you'd never buy one; we pretty much always expect the price of a given CPU to go down in the future.

But if you're going to use it to generate value, you should buy it as soon as your expectation for the marginal value it will generate is greater than the price of the CPU.
But how are jobs out of date?

What we're going through is not substantially different from what happened during the industrial revolution, or the invention of the loom. We're talking about the complete obsolescence of an entire group of skilled tradespeople due to automation.

People will continue to work for other people, doing certain things - which is pretty much the definition of "job". In time - possibly not in time for this current generation of unemployed - society will find new jobs for people to do. But jobs they will be.
You might not want your friend's art, but there's plenty of excellent art not on DeviantArt. Especially if you custom made: Kickstart and other escrow services can fund stuff that doesn't exist yet (and therefore can't be pirated).

Similar to what's done with TV shows (a pilot is made, then if there's interest by any network, they fund the rest of the season), but with artists directly proposing their 'pilots' (a first chapter of a book, a trailer of a movie, a single song) directly to the audience and letting them fund the rest.
I'm interested in learning more about these rules. (This is not snark - I don't know anything about the magazine biz.)
Based on similar fates of previous social networks / instant messengers de jour. Every few years a new generation of users grew bored with one beehive and collectively left it for a new one. IRC/ICQ/AIM/YIM/MSN/Friendster/MySpace couldnt avoid this fate even everybody thought they could. No evidence points out that FB will be able to avoid people getting bored with it after x years.
I think one of the main reasons why I like VMs so much is that they allow my base OS to stay relatively clean. Especially as I like to try out all kind of new stuff constantly, VMs make that easy without having to care how they affect the rest of my system. Even if you aren't trying out new stuff, keeping separate projects mostly isolated makes me feel happier. imho also configuring stuff becomes easier when your machines become basically single-purpose systems.
Actually, it was an honest question. Even if the only expense was food, absent government help one person would have a hard time staving off malnutrition on that much money here in the US. That's living under a bridge and wearing trash bags to work.

I don't really understand why that's the case, either.
Maybe. I didn't get yet to play with specular term, current one is just vanilla Phong.

There should be still some performance margin left, I tried to tune it to keep 60 fps on my notebook.
This is also Marshall Brain's idea:

http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm

IIRC, he advocates a 25k stipend for all americans, which incidentally, given ~300M people would cost 7.5 trillion. That's approximately double the entire federal budget for 2012. Factoring in state/local spending gets you to near 6 trillion. Given that fact and our current political climate, I don't think it's going out on a limb to say that it'll be a quite a while before adopt such a solution. ;)

Brain suggests lots of ways of raising the money (some rather implausible) here:

http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-freedom.htm
I personally like the large font. It caught my eye right away. I can understand the "legally blind" comments, but I think its unique.
The problem is not that men are discriminated against in certain ways. I never denied that fact.

The problem is de facto oppression of women based on some idea that their biology makes them want to be stupid.

Therefore since it's their biology we should expect and indeed encourage the "normal" path of limiting life accomplishments to child-rearing?
The problem is pretty simple to identify in my opinion. These people live in a culture of anti-education. This is going to take a lot of money to counter. The cheapest way to counter it is probably to simply pay students for good grades, starting as young as possible. Create an external motivation to learn and apply yourself where there otherwise would be none.
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I think we need a class in school called 'Identifying and Creating Value in the 21st Century (like your great great grandparents did)." Let's be honest, that's where the jobs are going to come from and where they are going to go.

The point of the class is to get people to go from "What do I want to be when I grow up" to thinking "How can I add value to some process that people will pay me for." This puts the responsibility for job creation on individuals, not governments, schools, societies, communities, or business.

It amazes and frustrates me to see people who think their craft is so special that they think they should be paid because they are a good designer, programmer, artist. No! You're not paid because you're good at it, you're paid because you create value. Being good at it is only a secondary consideration.

Some where along the line the wires got crossed and basically people became professional whatevers instead of value creators.
I have found that branches are the default for git users working on any project larger than a toy.
This is my idea!!!

A quad-copter with modules...

This looks very similar to my R&D...

Damnit!
http://www.6wunderkinder.com/wunderlist/ and 1-X shared lists.
This stems at least partly from a culture which disparages knowledge and education. And the people promoting that culture are often the very same people promoting a free market approach to education.
(Suggestion at the bottom.)

This doesn't help you at the moment, sorry, but awesome people have jobs, usually jobs that they chose and like, and are usually not looking. When they want to move, they look to their network more than job sites.

The best way to hire an awesome developer is to have been working with awesome developers for years, building up your network. Then you contact those awesome developers directly when you need someone, rather than hoping for a random awesome response.

I know that it doesn't help you now, but your post is a relevant time to mention this reminder.

For you, I'd recommend continuing what you're doing (you never know) but augment that with actively contacting everyone you and your team (including investors) know to see if they know anyone who's awesome and wouldn't mind a cold call. In other words, use your network, regardless of how sparse it might be at the moment.

As I saw recently, the best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.
> Heroku is better than EC2.

That's purely subjective.
Or in other words:

Ah yes, .xxx -- a solution to a problem that absolutely nobody had other than wannabe-censors.
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I only heard about self-driving cars last month. They're not putting taxi drivers out of business any time soon.

It's a concept I've considered as well, jobs are actually bad, it means that there's something someone wants that isn't done. This guy is just a bit early, try back in 50 years.
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You must have missed this announcement:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/04/bookmark-...

Yahoo no longer owns delicious.
Since no one is proposing forcing sites to use .xxx,

No one has to propose it openly since the threat is implicit. Regardless of what is said at the moment of creation of the domain, all that a would-be censor has to do is wait [Internet-memory-erasure-period] and say "hey, we created XXX because all the porn is supposed to only be here" and viola.
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