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I spent twenty years as an agronomist. Herbicide resistant weeds are not new, we had them before Roundup was as widely used. Most university scientists predicted Roundup resistant weeds before Roundup resistant crops were grown outside the lab.

Monsanto isn't the only company to sell GM seed resistant to herbicides. But they were the first and are still by far the largest. There is a hatred of them similar to how the software industry feels about say Microsoft.

Genetically modified seed is the single biggest advance in agriculture in the past fifty years. Do you have any idea of how many millions of pounds of insecticides aren't sprayed anymore? Roundup is also both cheaper and safer than a lot of the previous alternatives. Yet there is still strong opposition to GM seed and Monsanto, especially in the press.

Farmers and the fertilizer people who do a lot of the spraying live in the community. Having been a part of that fraternity I can guarantee you they aren't going to do anything to pollute their world or ship a product they wouldn't let their own family consume. But I guess you're going to have to take my word on that one.

There is seed ready to be marketed that is resistant not only to Roundup but two other herbicides with different modes of action. That is a fact the article does not mention. It won't solve the problem entirely, but will make Mother Nature work a lot harder to defeat it.
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Android has been quite a revolutionary product in the field of technology. A lot has changed with the evolution of technology. Now human gave gone dependent a lot on the technology.
The fact is though, RMS, today in 2011, isn't helping the free software movement any more than Phelps is helping Christianity

It's hard to understand the internal reality that either is basing their actions on anymore, but it doesn't change the fact that they both see the world through their own singular vision which they're no longer able to coherently share with others and convince others of - they've taken their premises as axioms and just go around preaching hate to a shrinking choir and offending the rest of us with their actions

If Larry Ellison had just died after his company purposely screwed up MySQL, OpenOffice, Java, Hudson, OpenSolaris ... RMSs comment would still be tasteless and inappropriate
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which fails to meet its purpose and the fun is still a mystery to me, even if the screenwriter Will Reiser, is basically telling her own story.
Obviously, the implication is that it is a combination of nature and nurture. Don't be thick.
I upvoted you to encourage you to tell us why you downvoted it.
While you do have a point, I disagree strongly with the way you've expressed it. There is no need for name-calling and personal attacks on this board.

Calling someone a "nobody" and a "big mouth bozo" is uncalled for.
Seriously consider an alternative. Tweak your browser to your liking. You can always break out into a different browser, if you want to see the site the way the author intended.

I use my own style sheet with opera, and customise firefox flipping between the two, and occasionally breaking out into chrome.

I also find the terminal more readable than the browser, so have made my browser look like the terminal - I even use a monospaced font. Because that is what I'm comfortable with.

W3m and Elinks are actually really nice to use, readability wise.

Funny to read your highlight method, I use that when away from my computer.
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Based on the domain next to the headline, I thought Stallman was posting to Google Plus for a minute. Heh.

(I was surprised to see Douglas Crockford posting there.)
Opera has a nice fit to width toggle.
Maybe there are so many bug reports because so many people use it?
Another nice solution with Chrome and Opera is to set a default zoom. Up it to about 140%, and it will scale the page without breaking it.
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>horrendously, gratuitously crass and offensive way.

And?

It's rms. He's the biggest nerd in the world. Nerds are expected to be horrendously, gratuitously crass, offensive and insensitive of people's emotions.

This is like being mad that the sky is blue. Pointless outrage.
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Wow, whoever drew that cartoon knows very little about those people.

Mr. Jobs is a legend, but he's no Ben Franklin. He had a lot in common with Edison though... in particular getting credit for the inventions and work of his incredibly talented employees. Also... like Edison, he used patent litigation extensively to crush or hinder opposition.
Two Non-Tech Co-Founders...??
So, is this a bad idea?

Some quick background:

I came up with an idea. I researched potential competitors, talked to potential customers, and overall got good feedback. So, I went along working out features (as well as refining down to MVP) and started designed a pretty detailed wireframe. I consider myself a business/design co-founder. I feel I have a good eye for design and user experience. I'm learning to code the front-end now. Unfortunately, those skills can only get me so far.

So, I decided to ask a friend of mine (who is also non-technical) if he wants to do this with me. The idea I had in my head is the following....

I could outsource, but then I have no one to update/maintain anything. Though I guess at that point, I would have an MVP and (hopefully) customers and could get a tech co-founder on board.

I could do it myself. But then I spread myself thin everywhere, take longer to accomplish everything, and likely can't really do a professional level job. The outcome is the same as above. I get MVP out there and (hopefully) customers and could get a tech co-founder on board.

Then there is hustle hard to try to get a tech co-founder without an MVP. Difficult. (I have to try though... so perhaps I should have tried that first? I'm not just trying to be the "idea guy" or anything. I know I need to bring more value to the table than that)

Ultimately, all the above issues show one glaring weakness. How do I even know this tech co-founder won't be a huge problem? From what I understand and believe, your relationship with a co-founder is just as important as their skill sets. You need to get along, share a vision, have trust... it's not easy to find this person. If you can find them at all.

Fortunately, my friend and I do have a good relationship, work well together, trust one another, and so on. If he was technical, I'd have IMMEDIATELY went to him. But unfortunately who doesn't know any coding, but he's willing to learn to become technical co-founder. An additional plus is we're both in the a position to go at this full time.

However, what can I expect here? Is it a bad idea? He's a smart guy and learns quickly. But I know there's a lot to learn... there are those with years of experience out there. So, is it setting myself up for failure/problems?

I am just second guessing myself here. While I'd feel bad to "take it back" because we're good friends. I would rather do that now, before we get started working on it, then down the road when we realize it was a mistake. To be honest, the reason I am second guessing myself is because maybe I'm underestimating my ability to find a technical co-founder? Or even underestimating my ability to "do it all" I suppose.

Any and all advice here is appreciated. Thanks!
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I didn't find it tasteless. Is it really such a criminal thing to say that you are glad Jobs's influence is gone? Can't reasonable people disagree on that point?

People totally go overboard wrt Steve Jobs, as they do his company, Apple. RMS comes from a time when computers were generally open for tinkering, and Apple strove to make its products impenetrable lest Jobs' pain-stakingly "perfected" designs be gaudied up by consumers. From the original Mac which didn't have expansion slots to today's iDevices that don't allow the consumer to do so much as change the battery, Apple has a long history of tight lock down.

Do you not see how an old-school hacker could be disgruntled by that philosophy? The beliefs and experience of that group runs deep enough that they are not hoodwinked into deifying Steve Jobs because the iMac is the sleekest desktop computer around.
And there aren't very many other islands in the ocean. It's a huge demographic that virtually nobody has successfully targeted.
This is a great one site solution, but it get's a bit tedious personalising each and every site individually.
Interesting thankyou. I will have a dig.
I agree completely. This is, in fact, the difference that I am pointing out. In the case of paid parking, most people would agree that the trade of money for a parking space on land which someone else ones and maintains at cost is a fair trade. Similarly, most people would agree that debt collection as a whole is a fair industry in that it seeks to make sure that those who owe money for value received pay that money owed.

My point is that–especially in the world of software–this general consensus does not exist for the patent industry, (that a large majority of everybody else is already convinced that it is time to change the rules,) and that this general dislike for the rules is the real source of the anger directed at patent trolls. This aligns with your earlier point about there being no difference between outsourced and in-house torture, in that I would say that people are just as upset about Microsoft's, Oracle's, and even Google's patent portfolios as they are about Intellectual ventures. The only difference between IV and those others is that they manage to win people over (or at least mollify) with the rest of their work.

Edit: I would say that seven_stones cutting straight to the morality of software patents in general pretty well illustrates my point here.
And today is the day /usr/bin/gcc changes from "deprecated" to "deleted". I'm glad something finally pushed me over that hump.

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And it works wonderfully well. Thanks for posting it here; it's unlikely that I'd ever wade through Reddit to stumble across it myself.
Talk about timing! Our class just got a presentation and tour of Michigan Blood in Grand Rapids Thursday, including a presentation on the Marrow Registry. One thing y'all might be interested to know: most requested donations now are not marrow donations, but peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) donations. If I recall correctly, marrow donations account for only one in five requests, these days.

PBSC donation is through a non-surgical procedure known as apheresis. It's essentially a blood donation, except that blood components not required for a procedure are actually returned to the patient.

In this case, the desired component is blood stem cells. These aren't normally found in peripheral blood (which is any blood outside the bone marrow), so a series of injections are required for five days prior to donation to coax more out. Then, the donor's blood is removed and passed through a machine that extracts the stem cells and returns the rest of the blood to the donor, typically through a second needle in the other arm.

It's a time-consuming process; about four hours, according to our guide. Donors may also experience headaches, or bone or muscle aches for several days prior to donations, side effects related to the movement of more stem cells from the marrow to the peripheral blood. On the up side, it doesn't require penetration of the pelvic bone, as a marrow transplant does. It is a bit more complicated than a regular blood donation, and the need for a needle in each arm is certainly inconvenient. Some apheresis machines are now able to perform the withdrawl and return process through a single needle, but I'm not sure if this method has been adapted for PBSC donation yet.

Anyone interested in learning more might like to check out the National Marrow Donor Program at http://www.marrow.org/Home.aspx. The donations FAQ is especially informative: http://www.marrow.org/Registry_Members/Donation/Donation_FAQ...
No, this is about the OP blaming Stallman for being glad somebody died because it furthers his cause (the FSF's goals).

Which is clearly not the case. Stallman specifically says that Jobs did not deserve to die and he's not glad that Jobs died.

The OP could have just said that Stallman is not the right person to be the leader FSF because he's often politically incorrect. That's debatable, but understandable.
Great article. Cult of Mac had a story where Sculley remembered a meeting between Steve/Land:

Dr Land was saying: “I could see what the Polaroid camera should be. It was just as real to me as if it was sitting in front of me before I had ever built one.”

And Steve said: “Yeah, that’s exactly the way I saw the Macintosh.” He said if I asked someone who had only used a personal calculator what a Macintosh should be like they couldn’t have told me. There was no way to do consumer research on it so I had to go and create it and then show it to people and say now what do you think?”

Both of them had this ability to not invent products, but discover products. Both of them said these products have always existed — it’s just that no one has ever seen them before. We were the ones who discovered them. The Polaroid camera always existed and the Macintosh always existed — it’s a matter of discovery. Steve had huge admiration for Dr. Land. He was fascinated by that trip.

http://www.cultofmac.com/63295/john-sculley-on-steve-jobs-th...
great points. will work to surface the contact link more.
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Apple seems to have a good relationship with old mainstream media outlets but they can't stop all these random blogs from making up rumors to get traffic. This year was kind of a perfect storm due to the delay of iOS5. They had to show it off at WWDC but couldn't possibly ship it on a new phone. That created a few extra months of speculation and rumors plus the need to rehash iOS5. (and of course the WWDC, iPhone 4 and iPad set a very high expectation level to start with)

One of the biggest challenges Tim Cook has is trying to maintain the energy and media interest around these events. It may be that ultimately Apple will have to find a new strategy for announcing products. For example only doing media events when they were releasing major new products/updates. (as they now often refresh the Macs with little fanfare)
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That's more or less how Stallman saw it, but the other dozen or so free-software luminaries that Raymond brought onboard from the beginning didn't see it that way. Stallman was literally the only one on the original Cc: list that opposed the new "open source" movement.
This article mirrors my thoughts - Steve Jobs was truly a great business man who revolutionised consumer technology and the entertainment industry.

But if we really think that these are the industries that betters humanity, we need a strong reality check.
And then, if your assistant gets anywhere with the date, file a lawsuit to prevent them from ever mentioning it in public.
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Stallman wrote this in 1993.
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Re: fixed size layouts, I don't get this. You might be able to zoom these on the iphone, and scroll around the page easily with your finger. But I find fixed sized layouts can be a pain. Preferring fluid. Because at least I can resize the browser window - to get a good line length etc. It's annoying if you do zoom in and the text flows out the side of the browser. I don't enjoy side scrolling.
It's not the most popular move, but it can totally work in the right industry if you hustle. If you're trying to build Facebook, stop now. But if you're working on something sales heavy, B2B, with complicated legal/marketing hoops or in other words, more business-y needs than killer tech skill needs, then by all means make a run for it.

I started my company with another biz guy and it worked out. We hustled like crazy, got sales before there was a product, gave design/coding our best shot and eventually got lucky enough to find a tech co-founder who could tell that we were legit.
It's not the easiest road, but it'd doable if you are in the right space with the right person. GL
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Ever since Filipino Jemaah Islamiyah hackers pwned an MQ-9 Reaper and zapped the governor of Palawan with USAF-owned Hellfire missiles, the Americans have gone back to keeping a human finger on the trigger: not because a state governor from a foreign country was killed, but because of who was in the armoured limousine right behind him. (The prospect of having to utter the term collateral damage in the same sentence as President of the United States before a congressional enquiry had focussed a few minds.)

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> The public has failed at this. Nearly every big government program is electorally popular.

But I think this is the product of a feedback cycle. Increasing government intervention erodes civil society, creating pervasive problems that society can't solve on its own, thereby generating pressure for more government intervention. We can halt this process by making the deliberate attempt to address social problems within society, without turning to the state.

You can't treat the public as a monolithic entity here; a small group of like-minded people can work together to build self-sufficient social structures on a small scale, and establish a feedback cycle that gradually erodes the support for state intervention by making more people less willing to rely on government. Social entrepreneurship, with good leadership and a long-term strategy, can start to reverse the process.

> Where has this tweaking actually succeeded? All Western governments are far larger than they were originally intended to be. Even if this tweaking is theoretically fool-proof, the fatal flaw is that government bureaucrats themselves must implement those tweaks. Conflict of interest.

You're thinking in too short a time scale. It's worked quite well over the centuries. Look at the progression from Magna Carta to the US Constitution. I'm not saying that we need a new constitutional settlement - and if we tried to in the modern era, it'd be too heavily influenced by people who want to treat society as a machine to be administered from the top down, or who equate the state with society - but that doesn't mean we can't set up some better second-order constraints within the generally good set of constraints we've already got.

> The courts, on their own, stretched the Commerce Clause to ridiculous extremes. The courts, on their own, reduced the Tenth Amendment to a dead letter.

Only because the courts have bought into the modern notion of democracy, which blurs the line between the state and society, regards the formal legislative process as being the true consensus of society, and regards universal prior restraint as the solution to most problems.

This modern concept of democracy is what's undermined the balance and effectiveness of our political system. That's what we need to start challenging, and make people understand that democratic process is necessary but not sufficient to keep the political system working properly.
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>hatred and bigotry outside of religion, it pales compared to what religion has given the world.

The 20th century is evidence enough that man is capable of resorting to the worst possible barbarism without invoking deities as justification, plenty of other excuses are readily available. Going by death count, political purges in officially atheist communist nations took the cake... by far. Ethnicity was a distant second behind politics, and religion a distant third.

> Of course I consider most "-ism"s to be religions too.

Communism, solipsism, humanism, socialism, nihilism? If the majority of philosophical and political beliefs, even those with a stated opposition to religion, are now redefined to be religion, then "religious belief" is no longer a subset of "belief", and you've expanded the categorical definition of that word to be useless at anything other than proving yourself correct.
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He is extremely agressive and out of place, calling for a split on a major organization he didn't help in any meaningful way and feeding the hate [sentiments of a particular faction of users] against it. Also,

> I’m really tired of having to make excuses for Stallman
> when he goes off half-cocked like this, which is why I’m
> no longer a FSF member.
I downvoted it because it's incredibly presumptive. OP posits that "at worst, [Jobs] would have said nothing..." apparently on nothing but his assumption that Steve Jobs would never do a controversial thing, or a thing that the OP thought was tasteless.

Unless OP is a close friend of Steve Jobs and knew him well on a personal level, this is completely baseless speculation based on OP's general good feelings for Apple and the assumption that because Apple products make him feel good, Steve Jobs would never say something rude after a colleague died.

None of these people know Jobs and yet they assume he's some super great dude. Making such assumptions about the CEO's personal character based on your affinity for the products of that CEO's company is very juvenile, yet it's irritatingly common.
The point of the linked article, as I understood it, was that "it's just Stallman being Stallman" should no longer be an excuse for tolerating this behaviour. It casts bad light on the free software community as a whole.
Thank you. I found the Indian address and called them but no one's picking up the phone. I'll try again on Monday.
I think this is a microcosm of a problem I've seen in the open source area in general... a preference for code over people.

Open source software won't take over by being 1.86x faster and using a totally sweet heap sort algorithm. I'm a geek and I find that kind of thing interesting at an intellectual level, but it doesn't make me want to spend an entire Saturday trying to get Linux to recognize my sound card. "Normal" people absolutely don't care and won't put up with the hassle.

With Steve gone, there's a taste-shaped hole in the entire technology world that I can't see anyone stepping in and taking over. Until the open source world gets its own Steve Jobs -- someone out there who starts focusing relentlessly on the users (how to make software "just work" and look/feel great at the same time), it's never going to unseat the dominant players (as much as I might want it to).