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The simple answer is: because every single dollar/pound/yen you're not paying yourself, you could be using to grow your business.

Imagine you're semi-profitable, you've got enough to pay wages for a few months while you finish off your next iteration/product and bring in new cash. Then your project gets delayed, and all of a sudden you're running out of cash to pay the actual programmers. Do you try to make them take a cut and risk them jumping ship, or do you cut your own salary to close the cash gap?

These sorts of things happen with (from what little I know) quite alarming regularity. The founders are almost certainly taking out less cash than everyone else up until the equity starts being traded.

The same sorts of decisions can occur even if you're not desperately squeezed for cash. Do you bump your personal wage up, or do you use it to hire that kickass designer you just found who can really polish up your stuff and give you a better chance at success?

The whole founder-as-martyr approach explains why they feel justified in taking out early cash, and why there's a general feeling that '1st employee' shouldn't get any early cash - they've already gotten their fair share through their wages up til now. It gets a lot more complicated when your employee is taking a pay-cut to work for you on the hopes you'll succeed, but then it's up to you and them to negotiate some sort of fair compensation scheme when you do get cash in.
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I think it's time to start rating energy sources in energy per square foot of surface ground space.
no, it's delivered by the Mac Appstore app.
>Instead of proving him wrong about 3 things, can you prove him wrong about 1 thing?

OK. One of the things on his list is, "Concurrent url fetching and downloads". In Emacs Lisp a programmer can call START-PROCESS to invoke wget "asynchronously" (i.e., in such a way that the Emacs process can continue to respond to the user's commands). Moreover, Emacs Lisp includes a way (which I do not remember and cannot easily look up) to arrange for code to be run when the wget process terminates. So obviously this code can read the file downloaded by the wget process, load it into an editing buffer, then bring that buffer (or more precisely a window onto that buffer) into the foreground (or notify the user that it is ready in some other way).

I know enough about Unix to know that START-PROCESS is doing a fork and an exec, and my reading of the source code file /lisp/man.el told me that Unix signals would almost certainly be involved in notifying the Emacs Lisp code when the wget process is done.

START-PROCESS probably does not work on Windows BTW.

ADDED. The above example of concurrency is so simple that it might give the reader a misleading impression about Emacs. So let me just say that although I use OS X, I almost never use Terminal or iTerm or such because I prefer to use Emacs buffers (in shell mode) to interact with Unix shells and other programs with command-line interfaces. If I were to start a long-running computation in one (shell-mode) buffer, I could use Emacs for unrelated tasks while the computation is running.
That statement is true, but not enlightening. Perhaps you could clarify; Are you suggesting that one cannot be happy without food and rent being paid? Are you suggesting that Maslow’s "Hierarchy of Needs" holds and one cannot be concerned with Self-Actualization if Shelter is uncertain? Or something else?

I get the feeling you are assuming something that seems obvious to you but may be worthy of further discussion.
I do not think I ever posted here from my blogs. Yet, since Jobs has past away, like many of us, I could not stop thinking how much inspiration, motivation and encouragement I have received from him.

This is a photo I cam across at January 2008, which was shocking, as my own loft looks quite similar to that one, as well as the fact, he was a multi million dollars guy at that time, yet, kept it humble, basic and simple.
I have had a very different experience from yours. I have found the Chef wiki to be consistently well written and consistent. Please note that I have only been working with Chef for the past three weeks, so they may have been brought into that state quite recently.
I was a Rhapsody user from its inception, maintained an account even when I bought a Zune and got a Zune Pass and now switched the Rdio + Spotify and bought an iPod touch. For me, I consume a lot of music and I want the easiest way to sync my collection to the devices I use -- office, home, portable -- and so, I'll happily pay for that. The alternative before was simply to download it and pay nothing. Physical music is nice but it takes up space, is prone to being lost (I once lost 200+ CDs on a transcontinental flight in my late teens...it sucked. A lot) and I'd prefer the cost of 2 albums a month to hear whatever I want over the cost of buying the media. I'd consume a lot less the other way.

The fact these services have finally hit the mainstream is no accident.
A fitting tribute indeed.

In fact, I'd pay to have something like this for some of my family members once they pass. Sure, everyone wouldn't have 60+ pages, but having a coffee table tribute mag that tells their life story with beautiful pictures and typography would be a fitting tribute to anyone.

Anyone do something like this? Great weekend project for someone to hack together.
We have literally tens-of-thousands of XML documents that had been delivered with one-off regexes and Perl for almost 20 years. Worked like a champ until we wanted to do an update to the look and feel of these pages, then spent the last six years regularizing the SGML and XML, as well as the transforms to just be able to manage these documents in some way.
Here's something readable:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/solar-wind/a-...
That would be a great surprise! I haven't been on the wiki form ~5 months, which does make my opinion a bit dated.
Kevin Smith gave a talk a few weeks ago in Atlanta, that they're slowly removing those dependencies. He did specifically mention removing Couch and didn't mention Merb but based on his approach to deciding to remove Couch I'm sure he's going to address it.
Exactly! For those who doesn't yet know, Richard Turley, creative director of Businessweek has a tumblr page where he puts magazine's covers from time to time. Worth to follow. Url: http://richardturley.tumblr.com/

Some of my favourites:

Khadafi: http://richardturley.tumblr.com/post/9373871854/now-about-th...

Bezos: http://richardturley.tumblr.com/post/10807034868/amazon-the-...

9/11: http://richardturley.tumblr.com/post/8470431158/been-a-bit-q...

Moynihan: http://richardturley.tumblr.com/post/9957165968/can-moynihan...
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There are high quality PDFs illegally uploaded to file sharing sites. Just do a search for it.

I couldn't find a way to buy the PDF unfortunately. It's always a shame when pirating something is the only way to get access to it.
> The recording industry likes to paint this as the artists are getting screwed. And they are getting screwed but not by streaming services. They're getting screwed by the recording industry [1].

This isn't an or proposition. Artists are being screwed by both. Yes, the industry takes the lion's share of revenue from artists. That doesn't mean that on-demand streaming services aren't a joke in terms of compensating artists.

And you're wrong about your #2. The comparison should not be made to radio royalties because radio play has been shown to increase sales, since if you want to hear a specific song you heard on the radio, you still have to buy it or sit around waiting for it to come on. People compare Spotify revenue to purchasing because, if your music is on Spotify, there is no reason for anyone to buy it anymore. If it replaces purchasing for most people, the revenue needs to stack up by comparison.
You'd pay to have it done? Wouldn't it only be fitting if you made it yourself?
Is this exclusive of China? USA seems to be the exception (in the other direction), not China. Most Internet startups are from the USA, why? It's probably because of several causes: the cultural factors that you mention, of course, but also because it's easier to create a company than in other countries, because there are VCs supporting this kind of company, and I'd say because there is a very important internal market willing to buy the products.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1948

Where's the problem?
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I would challenge the concept of the government carrying out "legitimate surveilance" through this dubious means.

The person surveiled has not been has not convicted of a crime yet the state has taken onto itself to install software that would leave the person open to further hacking by random individuals.

This is akin to the police not simply breaking into the house of a man they suspected of a crime but also them leaving his door a-jar after they left. See the Sony Rootkit.
Why should the language matter? Functionality should be the feature.
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It's supposedly regulators driving this crackdown, but almost all the quotes in the article come from competitors to high-speed trading firms claiming — surprise — that high-speed trading firms need to be regulated.
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The following approximation of Adobe AIR took gluing together and/or modifying about a half-dozen existing open source projects with just about 100 lines of code:

http://code.google.com/p/deskml/
While I often see "Puppet vs Chef", I never see Bcfg2 mentioned. Is its low mindshare related to its quality, it's exclusion from the set of Ruby-based config management tools, its origin in the government space, or its terrible name?
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I don't really understand what it does. A quick intro text might help.

What does it mean to drag "Income" to the center. Does it show cities with average income levels? Or cities with average and below income?
AM I the only one who saw the title and assumed this was going to be the Muppet's Swedish Chef vs Emeril or someone similar?
Now imagine a large amount of memory connected to the cores through tiny metal wires on the chip itself. Now imagine that it's split into a bunch of small independent memories with enormous bandwidth, with data automatically migrating between them to cut down on wire delays. Give it a few years, and this could be reality.
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https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Neem_Karoli_B... influenced Steve Jobs life a great deal.
I'm pretty sure you're joking, but just in case: lots of people offered to pay for the cost of hosting, or even to buy the data to host themselves. But Yahoo decided to kill it anyway. http://www.reocities.com/ People actually invested a ridiculous amount of effort and a lot of money to save a copy. http://www.reocities.com/newhome/makingof.html
> That's really a big deal and just shows how governments treat their own laws...

Not really. My understanding is that German law permits trojans for surveillance.
I wonder if they'll publish any statistics about the results? I'd be interested in both how many solutions were submitted and the average score per challenge. Additionally, I'd like to see how many interviews are granted and how many positions filled.
Our experience with puppet at Hipmunk was dreadful. The configuration language is clearly designed to cause maximum pain.

We have since switch to Fabric http://fabfile.org, and are much happier.
They already did all the ground work when they forked OSX into iOS, and they're notoriously paranoid about keep their options open. I bet you they already have those prototypes lying around – but the economics won't make sense for another five years.
Have you used Blueprint? I am really interested in it. Honestly, it seems like a bit of magic to me and wonder how well it works and what its limitations are.
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I've begun work on an Adobe-AIR like system, similar to something I've already done with Tcl (http://code.google.com/p/deskml/) but with Ruby instead. Below's a link to a forum where I posted about it along with a link to an actual .ext I created. But you can see from that forum thread that somebody has reported that McAfee has falsely reported it as being a virus. I list the steps I took to create the .exe, the last being to run OCRA (One Click Ruby Installer). The problem might be something done within that, but I think there is a larger problems: anti-virus software does this to many small developers of .exe's So on the other extreme, perhaps a class action lawsuit is in order? Just sayin. Aforementioned forum post (containing link to .exe) is at: http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?150123-Windows-Desktop-App-using-Ruby-(instead-of-AIR) The .exe runs on Windows only
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And they needed an analyst to find that out?

I thought Apple was quite clear about that in their presentation, there was no way any alert listener could have missed that.

Siri has the potential to be awesome because of that if it works well. We will find out soon. I’m curious.
Just as a warning: If you/anyone decides to self host a chef server, you have to get the chef-server cookbook (or your couchdb will never get compacted) and you can't be running ruby 1.9.1 (or the server will have ~1 week uptime before crashing randomly)

As for the core being built on merb. I don't really notice it. You'll probably never have a reason to go into the chef-server internals to change something. Besides that, it's not like it has to be serving 30k requests per second or anything.

Otherwise, the
Issues I've run into with chef-server: it was a little annoying to get everything installed and playing together. Couchdb + solr are very temperamental. After everything was running and stabilized(1.9.1 bad!) I've had no issues with it.
I'd be more excited about Siri if I had a better way of talking to it. I wish Apple would design a really great A2DP bluetooth headset, now that'd I'd be excited about.

My Backbeat 903s have never really fit my ears right, so I'm looking for alternatives. Any suggestions?
Saying risk capital worked before a liquid second market existed is like saying food distribution worked before the supermarket. I agree that Wall Street financiers seem to focus too much on using secondary (and tertiary) effects to simply amass wealth, and i worry that that actually has a negative overall effect on society. But without a liquid secondary market, the primary market is significantly stymied!
The thing about raising capital gains tax rates is that it will reduce the efficient flow of capital from lower performing investments to higher performing ones.
It's not the core, it's just the webui. I never use it, choosing in preference the REPL and the `knife` command.
JavaScript is more widely accessible than Ruby or a DSL. So given that the point is all about creating recipes, the language is a defining feature.

From what I can tell both Puppet and Chef seem a little over-engineered, so I feel there's a niche for a simple (solo only) tool out there. By using something like Node it would be possible to a) run with a much smaller memory footprint b) have a more event driven architecture and c) run multiple downloads or other setup related tasks in parallel.
I have written tons of fabfiles and Fabric is a great project. However it isn't intended to managed system state. It is great for code deployment but not suited to configuration management.
This.

If Siri works as well as advertised, it will be a triumph for natural language processing as a field, not just Apple.

Getting that sort of parsing and semantic analysis into a form where it can be done by a mobile device must have taken a lot of work, and I'm sure that was only the start — Apple must have had to go back through every single data source and API in iOS to add semantic tags for Siri to latch onto.
>> it seems reasonable to assume that people who bothered getting your app in the first place are most likely the people who spend more time on your website

This is a HTML5 [web] app.

I believe that you are correct in what you posit, but it is not applicable here.
Yeah, I'm going to pick one up later today.
There's a lot of editorializing from the Android camp that seems to think Siri is just Apple playing catch-up to Google's voice search.

Guess we'll see who's right in five days.
They also contract out things like brakes, engines, spark plugs, and the whole electronic shebang (which is now the majority of the engineering effort). And basically all car companies now are conglomerates of several different brands, precisely so that Cadillac and Chevy don't have to build and design most of the car — and, more to the point, the production lines for it — themselves.
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The chef irc channel can be helpful (http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/IRC)
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Once you're lost, my old navigation method can work wonders, and it's really simple: Turn onto progressively busier streets (determined by traffic control, not by current traffic).

You made it to your destination in some small residential area, but how are you ever going to find your way out of here? Just drive straight along until you come up to an intersection. You've got a stop/yield sign, and they have nothing? Turn. You're on a plain two-lane street, and the crossing street is divided with a boulevard? Turn. You both have lights, but they have the crossing button or turn signals? Turn.

In very short order you'll find yourself on a major street, which is a street you'll be more likely to recognize and be famliar with. You're no longer lost and can try locating your destination again.
Applied Materials (etc.) build the making-machines anyway.

As for "how can you have 1000 people involved", well, a modern chip can have a billion transistors on it. The MOSTek 6502 design team was nine people, although maybe you could argue that only five of them were design engineers. The chip contained about 3500 transistors, about 700 per design engineer.

If a modern design team applied the same amount of attention per transistor as the 6502 team, it would need to contain 1.3 million people.
That doesn't invalidate my point because curation, which you can argue radio is, and promotion (radio stations are paid to pay particular songs) is still possible with streaming. Just look at Pandora, last.fm, etc.

Also there are different definitions of streaming. The purest definition is where you have to have an Internet connection to listen. There will be various levels of caching involved here. For example, the service might cache the entire song--possibly several songs--to avoid stuttering and service interruptions.

Another model might better be called "cloud management" of music where you have a cloud-like iTunes interface (or even a non-sucky interface) that would sync that playlist to your device for offline listening, something I think iCloud will either be or quickly become.

Bandwidth and service issues are going to make local storage of music a superior solution for some time to come (IMHO).
That's why I've created the "non-traditional" Emacs Prelude https://github.com/bbatsov/emacs-prelude ;-)
Thank you for this insightful comment.

You're right, music keyboard is obviously better than computer keyboard in all ways. I didn't want to argue opposite statement.

Behringer UMX610 looks more interesting, but it's a bit more expensive. Having my old casio, which has nowadays only one really annoying thing (less annoying is broken volume potentiometer, so only one speaker works above ~10% level) - clappy sound (don't know any good term for it) of its keys - I don't have real need for new keyboard (I don't intend to compose being outside of the home, but OTOH having small keyboard next to keyboard would be possibly convenient). It's still unknown about this casio's MIDI capabilities, i.e. whether they are working correctly. First thing I have to do in spare time is get some MIDI on USB interface cable (like Roland UM-1G, which is already more than 100PLN) and test my keyboard on it after years to see whether old problems are still here.

As I stated in response to troyal7562, I have some relative pitch recognition skill (not accurate) that combined with the knowledge of key indeed gives good results, but not good enough for real-time transcription-through-play.

Well, I can write, but not off-hand, that's the point. Also via playing you can develop and change your ideas further, so I wouldn't call this additional stage as trapping. Remember I am talking about prototyping, not crafting final version of some music piece. That is also why having it in my computer, when I can (or should be able to) easily alter, improve and combine my musical sketches, is that important. But surely having perfect sound recognition skill would ease all of my efforts.
Ready to put in the effort, now which language will be best?
Hey everyone,

I've been debating very hard over the past few months about actually committing to learning a language. I dabbled with Ruby a bit in the spring, but have now decided its time!

My question is though, which language will provide the best convertible framework and most efficiency for general coding operations? Basically, what would you suggest? I've done some research and PHP or Python seem to be coming up frequently.

I'm open to suggestions?! Thanks very much!
First, if your payoff after 10 years is $200k, then perhaps you chose poorly :-)
Second, if you know those are the rules, why would it be unfair? Don't do it if you don't want it. Phase out long term capital gains 20% over 5 years, and we're done!
I wouldn't be surprised if they pulled out a high-performance ARM chip (more cores) to completely replace x86. Someone's got to do it, right? Windows 8 is also headed in this direction with support for both ARM and x86, but all current ARM-chips are low-power low-performance and can't compete with x86.
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It's been around for about 3 years and is the most widely known Emacs setup out there. I guess this is what "traditional" means...
Good to know, that does make my concern significantly more trivial.
Great explanation, but we should distinguish between memory bandwidth -- how many bytes we can read or write per second -- and memory latency, how long it takes to load or store some memory location. Bandwidth is actually pretty fast these days; the latency is what sucks.

So, for example, if you want to add two large streams of numbers (e.g. dense matrices) together, a CPU can do this pretty quickly, because it can fetch the memory in bulk and not need to incur much latency penalty. (It can also avoid polluting the cache, with the correct hint instructions.)

On more typical workloads, though, where you've got a lot of harder-to-predict memory access, what would really come in handy is lower memory latency. And if this type of RAM works, it will give us both: huge bandwidth, and dramatically lower latency.

The system stack, instead of being HD->RAM->L3->L2->L1->registers, could look more like "Hard drive -> Giant shared non-uniform nonvolatile L3 cache -> shared or core-local L2 cache -> core-local L1 cache -> registers".
As far as I know multithreading will be implemented in Emacs 25 (at best)... There is nothing new related to multithreading in Emacs 24.
I wonder if this requirement can be sidestepped by shipping the customer something, but just not the actual item being pre-ordered. For example, emailing them a redeemable code or physically delivering a voucher.

If not, it seems like you could go even further and bundle something small but tangible with each sale. For a game pre-order, maybe access to a demo or access to private forums?
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