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I haven`t talked to a whole lot of women about hair loss because, frankly, I`ve just been too embarrassed. But I am happy to post here that things are starting to turn around for me since I started trying this stuff called Provillus. Already noticing results and I`m just in my second month.
Both points of view are valid, and both are represented in the Squeak community. There are projects to make 'businessy' frameworks to harness the power of Smalltalk for conventional applications. There are also lots of people who love Squeak precisely because it's so different from their day jobs. They do what they find fun, and care not a jot if there will be one other person who might find it useful. Sometimes this is frustrating, in that you feel the effort could be channeled elsewhere, but if it weren't like that it wouldn't be Squeak.

There will be real world applications for Squeak all the way down, but it clearly won't be another general ledger or another social bookmarking widget. It might be an iPhone that anyone can reprogram for themselves, or it might be a device that no-one has realised they need yet, or...
Awesome, can I live in your warehouse when you get it built?
Dab,

Actually, I don't think so. The accuracy of one's predictions must be weighed against the expected importance of their consequences on how one might decide to act. Obviously this is an issue important to both of us. But the energy problem is a big problem, perhaps the problem, with monstrous amounts of data, being generated faster than one can argue about it, at detail.

The goal is to act well, not to make zero mistakes. The arguments we've had have unearthed interesting data, but I would not suggest it's worthwhile to continue much further, unless, for either of us, it is in good sense productive. Some of the arguments and contrary positions you've taken have been very helpful for me. But I must admit, I am getting tired, and there is work to do.
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Probably. I'm sure we'd (you, me, and other people living at the space) probably want to meet you first though.
The way it works isn't terribly reliable, since it counts on the comic being the element on the page with the longest title. A quick View Source reveals a dearth of helpful hooks like classes or ids, but the comic image is the only one with a URL of the form http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/comic_name.png, so it might be better to check for that. Here's some new bookmarklet code based on this approach.

http://gist.github.com/13311

Obviously this will break if there are ever two comics on the page, since it will just print an alert for the first one and execution will then halt.
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Why hasn't he accomplished all of those things? "Because I'm chained to this desk 50 hours per week at this horrible [insurance|programming|government|administrative|whatever] job.

So he has no doubt that he would get all these things done if he didn't have to work? "Absolutely none. If I didn't have the job, I would be out there living the dream."

Suppose that the guy cashes in his investments and does retire. What do we find? He is waking up at 9:30 am, surfing the Web, sorting out the cable TV bill, watching DVDs, talking about going to the gym, eating Doritos, and maybe accomplishing one of his stated goals. "

:-D

Source: http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/early-retirement/
Look at this blog post - despite what it says (Django) it's fairly generic Python.

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Wow lovely web app! how did you manage to do this?
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I like it. Seems like a useful tool that has been pretty well executed.

Now some observations:

- It's hard to tell who posted a panorama - the only information about the user is their image

- Is each person's rating posted as a comment? This could be problematic if hundreds of people end up rating a panorama

- I'm not too sure your permalink structure is good for the long run (using folders, categorization will make it easier for search traffic to find more content)

These are just my observations, please take them lightly. Like I said, the site is nice overall and can be a useful utility for those interested in panoramas.

Best of luck!
It would be helpful if someone came up with a reasonably objective comparison between Rails and Merb. The Merb guys should also come up with some marketing type material showing really compelling reasons to switch.

I've invested a fair amount of time in Rails, am happy with it. I'm not sure I'd jump for something that's "a bit better".
While I did try out Ramaze a few months back. I had a hell of a time trying to setup the ORM. The documentation has a looong way to go compared to other frameworks. So far the best documentation I've ever had the pleasure of reading is CodeIgniter and Django.

I would love to use Ramaze on future projects but unfortunately it's documentation needs work.

[EDIT] I love how Sequal was designed to allow the developer to craft their data with a high degree of granularity compared to most ORM's that try to do too much magic behind the scenes.
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I decided to run a small test to see whether the comic's title was always the longest title of any image. Here's the screen scraper I wrote for it:

http://gist.github.com/13315

I discovered that following comics don't have the longest title of any image on the page: 11, 18, 25, 27, 76, 82, 99, 126, 393, 412, 455.
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This is neat.. you should sell ad space to travel companies. (Hell, you could even sell travel ads based on the location that the user is currently viewing)...
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This is really cool and interesting. Still I'm not sure it will be easy to bring to the masses. People like much more to put useless photos of their cats on flickr.
I love panoramas! A few usability comments:

1) I would really like the "hand" mode to be the default. It took me a while to figure out I could change it.

2) I would like an easy way to load the whole picture in my browser at full resolution so that I can scroll horizontally at will.

3) Related, one approach to 2 that I've done on another site is to automatically resize the picture to the maximum height of the user's browser when they go in view full screen mode.
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I'd be building robots. I've never wanted to do anything else.
Nice, my first thought was 'how do I photograph a panorama?' after 20 seconds on the landing page I couldn't see how so I left.

Good luck.
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I find that the letters (especially in the menu) have too much spacing between them. It's hard to read.
15 million for a one man operation is very impressive. Any idea how much fleaflicker was acquired for?
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15 million for a profitable website in a very large and lucrative space (as you know). This was a DCF acquisition - not a talent one.
It's difficult to tell how much of this is a calibration effect. The fundamental problem is measurement, which is usually some variant of:

"On a scale of 1-10, how happy are you?"

I have no clue what the difference between 3, 5 and 7 is. Neither do villagers in New Guinea. So I (and I suspect most people) look around me, assume the typical person is a 5, then rate myself accordingly (I don't have a Wii, therefore I'm a 4). You are really measuring a weird combination of happiness, and what the typical person thinks a "6 out of 10" actually means.

Basically, most happiness research is BS.
Whatever the fuck I wanted, which is the true beauty of it. :)
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$100k/year isn't that much. I barely get by on that, so I'd first have to sell the farm and move farther out to find a place that would be affordable at $40k/year. Easy to do if I don't have to limit my commute distance which is the main reason my current place costs so much (well, that and I didn't want to buy a 100 year-old house).

Then:
- Raise money so I could do research in medical devices: barriers to entry are all about money in this field.
- Start a company offering software services to the medical device/pharma/healthcare industry
- Robotics research with a focus on elder care or construction assistance
- Raise s few goats and a pair of cows (already have horses and chickens)
- Farm software (already looking at this on)

I'm in the medical industry and I'd love to start a business in this field if I could afford to. At least with 100k/yr I'd have the time to raise the amount of money it would take.
Bankrate has been acquiring companies at least since December 2007.

Here is a short list,

Dec 2007 - NCS (Nationwide Card Services)

Dec 2007 - SavingforCollege.com

Sept 2008 - CreditCardGuide.com
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/bankrate-inc-expands-i...

Sept 2008 - Bankaholic.com

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/bankrate-inc-announces...

I listened to this call last Wednesday (about an hour long),
http://investor.bankrate.com/eventdetail.cfm?eventid=59808

Here is what I learned,

- credit card "affiliates" who drive customers to credit card companies generate more revenue for bankrate.com

- years of working together (atleast two of the companies listed above including bankaholic.com resulted in the deal)

- organic google search results are certainly useful but I guess beyond that traditional "models" helped realize more revenues, this is purely my interpretation.
Oh yes, please include this information. I would like to know too.
No. The reason we have people working fast-food jobs is that they need the money and it's still cheaper than full automation, but the industry working on it.
Have you seen what goes on in McDonald's these days? They automate everything they can and they are constantly trying to increase this to get costs down and increase speed.

My brother in law is an executive in fast food: it's amazing how much they try to reduce the in-store labor. I should really talk to him about business opportunities in that field.
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That's debatable. It is, however, the most widely known language (besides maybe java?) that you can write the types of applications that C++ is used for in.
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We should form a secret society or whatever ;)

Question.
Why did we (human beings) spend so many resources and so much effort developing the LHC when it seems obvious that a comparable amount of effort and resources could have dramatically improved our way of life?

I mean, if people didn't have to work for a living, wouldn't we see like a ten-fold increase in people pursuing the arts and sciences?

Btw, I've thought the same thing about fast food chains for a while.

One of my dreams is to create a completely automated restaurant. Touchscreen menus embedded into each table. Food is prepared in the basement and rises up through the center of each table. The only thing actual humans would have to is feed the machines unprepared food :)

It's slogan could be:

Reliably tasty food

or

The same exact food made my the same machines every day
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"I'm not going to take sides on whether today's executives are overpaid, but those executive titles occupied by actual executives, are not being paid for nothing. Someone who can be an executive at all, even a below-average executive, is a rare find."

He's not arguing about compensation. From what I gathered, he's calling to attention his perception of how this self-admitted biased group of people at a conference seem to have something 'different' about them from a random person picked from the population.

The best he can describe the common difference is what he calls "functioning with recourse". It's like the same unnamed quality of a startup founder, only best described as "quiet confidence".

Everyone is bidding for the same people, because apparently, there is only a small number of people that can take huge responsibilities (like running a company) without someone correcting/covering for them. Even the advice of other smart people can only be taken with a grain of salt, since it might not apply to you. So these two combined make it a difficult job that's easy to fail at, and once fail, a big hoopla is made about it. I'm not sure a lot of people want this sort of job, much less is willing to do it.
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I might actually expect an inverse correlation between executive pay and company performance. The reason is that high executive pay seems to be linked to broken oversight by the owners and directors. I'd expect companies where the owners are not in charge to do worse, as the management pillages the company for short term profits.
it looks good, nick, and i think we're overdue for this split
you found a small group of similarly interested people who agreed to meet regularly to discuss and provide mutual encouragement, pursued it that way ?

Well, thought about that. Unfortunately, where I live it's not easy to find like-minded people who are willing to meet regularly and provide mutual encouragement. Moreover, one thing that I really miss about school is the social life. I almost don't have any friends I can count on. I mean I've friends but number is relatively lower than someone who went to school for four years. Besides, for some reason I really miss the energy and atmosphere of a school. But your point is taken, and for most of my life I've self-studied and it worked well.
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/software.html

That's a long list, but most of them are toys, scripts or quick hacks. Even the ones that almost look significant at first glance -- i.e. bogofilter or sed -- not so much.

His version of bogofilter was 900 lines of code and his version of sed 1700. I'd guess that the total amount of code that he's written that gets packaged for a standard Linux distribution is maybe 5k LOC. That's being generous, honestly. And that's what I find disingenuous when he's busy talking about his prolific OSS background.

The comments about Stallman's sanity weren't meant to be taken literally. I assumed that was obvious.
I particularly liked this:

"Although the use of metaphor may ease learning for the computer novice, it can also cripple the interface with irrelevant limitations and blind the designer to new paradigms more appropriate for a computer-based application. The designers of the Phelps farm tractor in 1901 based their interface on a metaphor with the interface for the familiar horse: farmers used reins to control the tractor. The tractor was steered by pulling on the appropriate rein, both reins were loosened to go forward and pulled back to stop, and pulling back harder on the reins caused the tractor to back up [5]. It's clear in hindsight that this was a dead end, and automobiles have developed their own user interfaces without metaphors based on earlier technologies. Nonetheless, people today are designing information-retrieval interfaces based on metaphors with books, even though young folks spend more time flipping television channels and playing video games than they do turning the pages of books."
The reason we have people working fast-food jobs is that they need the money and it's still cheaper than full automation

Right, that would be part of what I view as a larger problem with society (at least in the US) at the moment. People should no longer have to generate money for food and roofs, or if they do, they should not have to resort to doing repetitive, boring, brainless work all the time.

Unfortunately, there is no simple solution to this, and most feasible solutions require an overhaul of most of our economic structures, not to mention the education system, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

Edit: I somehow missed the "still cheaper than full automation" part. I can see that - but certainly having one or two humans at the resturant, with almost full automation would be cheaper?
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one quick tip for taking panaroma picture:
- turn your camera clock-wise so that you can take vertical slices of your pictures which will gave you more height.

in this photo there are 5 or 6 vertical slices of photo.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/orionlogic/2456850403/sizes/l/
Most people who go to Davos are pretty mellow. It seems like if your looking for high energy people who are intelligent and plucky, your local YPO chapter is indeed probably the peak of the curve.
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Question. Why did we (human beings) spend so many resources and so much effort developing the LHC when it seems obvious that a comparable amount of effort and resources could have dramatically improved our way of life?

That's a complicated question, the stuff of long-winded conversation. I'd say that it boils down to (very overgeneralized here) we didn't, a certain set of people did - who happened to be able to get the funding needed to undertake a pretty amazing thing.

Sometimes I think I just read too much Asimov as a kid, I think that there's a pretty big under-use of technology for the purposes of making everyone's life better. When I think about the reasons for that, my head starts to boggle after a while. I do think that another large reason for the state of things right now is that our ability to do really, really awesome things for humankind has only recently become very apparent.

If you ever open your resturant, I'd recommend using both slogans. "The exact food made by the same machines every day" in fine-print, or something.
excellent job!
He is definitely a journalist, especially in the original sense, publishing his thoughts with considerable regularity on his blog. And he's quite good at it.

You need merely have flipped to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Eliezer_Yudkowsky to encounter discussion of Yudkowsky's qualifications and the Wikipedia post in general.

If he says he's an AI researcher then I accept that. But he's also a journalist, a good one, and that's the face that I see presented most.
but certainly having one or two humans at the restaurant, with almost full automation would be cheaper?

If you believe this, why don't you raise some money and start a company to out compete traditional restaurants? If it's really so easy to automate as you think it is, you'll be raking in the dough.
It would be good if when you zoom in on the Google map on the front page, and then go to a panorama from it, and then use the browser's back button, that the Google map would still be how you left it -- so that you can then look at other nearby panoramas).

In a similar vein, the Google map shown to the right of a panorama, should (be able to) locate all the other panoramas too, for the same reason of being able to see what else is nearby.
Exactly!

I've learnt to use and love Rails and it has a massive community spanning many years, so I'm not going to jump ship because others said its cool...

Thats not to say I'm ignorant to new methods of doing things, if something is better I want to try it - but why is merb better? If you compare rails 2.2 (thinking ahead) with merb, what can I do better, faster and safer which will be worth the time I put in to learn the quirks of the framework?
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I very well may, although that's only one example of what I view as a much larger issue. I currently make less than 10K a year though, so I'm sort of focusing on that first.

EDIT: Clarification.
I like it! As a suggestion, I wasn't able to find a search bar. Can you search for panoramas?
wtf is this?

http://www.gooncity.com/city.htm?x=1.676788330078125&y=-...
> "Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults;"

Terminal.app ?

> "[Macs are] computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work;"

But don't Macs have a larger share of the 'technically-minded-user' / 'geek' (whatever) market than Wintel ? Also, I feel more patronised by the kind of messages Windows puts up on the screen than by the ones OS X gives you.

> "Why has this rubbish aspirational ornament only got one mouse button?"

I type this on a Mac equipped with a multi-button + scroll wheel mouse (no driver installation required).
and this

http://www.gooncity.com/city.htm?x=2.220611572265625&y=-...
Thanks for your observations. I'll make a panorama author link more visible.

Permalinks are a problem, I agree. I would, for example, like to have links like panoye.com/country/city/panorama-name.html but the problem is with google maps. When you signup for your gmap key - you have ONE key for ONE directory on the web server (for example country/city/). It means that I should have (and use) houndreds of gmap API keys :(

Thank you again for your comment!
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