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And on the upside, you'll know what to expect when you see a link from 'alearningaday' next time. ;)
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Kind if like piracy? Yeah, we saw how well that worked out.
This isn't really a mask in the more commonly perceived digital graphics sense, in it's not actually creating transparent negative space around your image. The "masked" area is still a solid color, in this case white.

It would be more appropriate, and less flashy, to call this PNG matting, because it's far more analogous to cutting a matte (overlaying a paper stock frame over your artwork to shape it's borders) than it is to an actual mask (using an overlaid shape to actually define a new transparent alpha channel for your image)
If you only spend $10 a day and manage to survive with that expenditure then you're living on $10 a day in a very straightforward sense of that word. As far as misleading headlines go, this one's rather mild :-)
Already replied on a sibling comment but once again, the $750/month was for a single room, no more than 15-20sqm, in a two-bedroom flat. If that's "on the cheaper end of the spectrum", I might have to negotiate a raise.

The "Copenhagen bathroom" was the single worst turn off in the whole deal. Glad to know it's not like this everywhere in the city.
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I think He means that to an upper middle class person, someone who is worth $100 million (say with 5-10% of that liquid) would be superrich. This might be someone who was a startup founder whose company was acquired for a large cash + stock deal. If he hangs out with Bill Gates, his money wouldn't be as impressive.
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If you still look at the prices of the stuff you intend to buy then you're not rich.

Once you stop looking at prices you're rich, no matter how much actual money you've got.
Within the article the definition of creationism in the context is clearly defined in the first paragraph:

"A new Gallup poll, released Dec. 17, reveals that 40 percent of Americans still believe that humans were created by God within the last 10,000 years."

There is another 40% thinking like you claim, but there still is that 40% who are about as anti-scientific as you can get.
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I decided to use chef-solo instead, mostly as a way to start learning chef but it ended be good enough for me.

This way I'll be able to invest in the server part of chef later on, when I need it.
That's usually my first reaction to the AGPL -- Because most open source projects I try to file away as "This might be useful for XYZ client, or in a project that does UUU"

I'm not sure that this fits in that criteria, I could imagine installing this on a server, unmodified, and just for internal use. You're not breaking the license from my understanding, and you got some use without selling or modifying it.

This seems like the only time that I'm interested in something that's AGPL. I get most frustrated when things like libraries or widgets are marked as AGPL.
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One of the biggest changes in my life when I left my job to work on my startup was the freedom to not be pinned in a chair from 8 AM-5PM. If I get tired, I go take a nap. If I get stiff and sore, I go for a walk. If I can't think, I go do something else.

The net result is that I'm able to be productive 100% of the time that I actually am working, and I can work more than I could otherwise, if so needed.

If you have the luxury to set your schedule, listen to your body, do what it asks, and you'll find yourself operating much more smoothly than you're used to.
Which is why you can't use an A record, as I stated.
The question is more whether your should do that.
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"A million dollars then would be about $20 million today, which is, interestingly, $1 million a year at a 5% aftertax return."

5%?? Does anyone know what investment is he talking about?
The term you want is "highest occupancy rate" or "lowest vacancy rate" not "overcrowded." I've had a hard time finding good numbers for comparison. What I've seen suggests that Copenhagen's vacancy rate is about 2%, New York City is 2.9%, and Geneva is 0.25%.
I am not sure of the writer's intent, but this is a very strange way idea that, as written, suggests that Apple is spending in an inefficient way:

"In the twelve months ended June, Apple will have spent $2.9 billion in M&E to manufacture 118 million iOS devices. To put that in perspective, Nokia, which manufacturers a large (if not majority) of the 340 million phones it sells, expects full year 2011 capital expenditures of $1.1 billion.
Correcting for amortization and depreciation and deducting some spending on Mac M&E, it’s very likely that Apple spent twice as much as Nokia on the instruments of production for one third the number of devices."

There is another, better interpretation that can be given to the facts: Apple's level of investment is high because it believes it will experience dramatic growth in the near future, and Nokia's level of investment is low because it does not expect dramatic growth in the near future.

This bit is an especially odd bit of reasoning:

"it’s very likely that Apple spent twice as much as Nokia on the instruments of production for one third the number of devices."

Investment in production facilities are investments that are aimed at the future, whereas how many units you've sold so far is a reflection of what you've done in the past. What Apple is investing in the future says nothing about what it has paid so far to produce its iPhones and iPads. Building up production facilities is more expensive than maintaining them.

Imagine you have 2 companies, A and B. Imagine A has a great decade where it dominates its industry, but then in the next decade is falls into decline, and starts to lose market share. Imagine B sleeps through the first decade but then takes off and has stellar growth during the second decade. What sort of investment patterns would you expect to see in that second decade? Clearly, you would expect investment from A to be declining, and investment from B to be rising. But A probably built up some impressive production facilities back when it was doing well, and it can coast on those production facilities for awhile. It can continue to produce large amounts of units, without investing a lot more in new facilities.

My point is, one has to be careful when drawing a relationship between present levels of investment and how many units a company can build. Past investments in production can allow a company to coast a long time. Building up production facilities is more expensive than maintaining them.
I think it serves a great purposes; clearing out some myths about design. There are too many people right now believing design is nothing more then beauty. It's about form and function which beauty follows when designed correctly - not the inverse.

A great presentation to keep, always useful!
Two million bucks is the great dividing line between middle-class comfort and worry in America right now.

Is this irony or just staggering cluelessness? A family net worth of $2 million puts you in the top few percent.

(From http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/scf/scf_2009p.htm, it's somewhere above the 95th percentile of family wealth in 2009)
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Remember that this is one guy doing it. It's possible to make great money just by basing your buy/sell decisions on coin tosses. Is it likely that it will work out well every time, hell no. But if a load of people did it, there would be some with great runs. By extension, the fact that many people did terribly doesn't mean that others didn't do great.

And with your "80+% of..." - the 20% left weren't necessarily more skillful, many will have just been luckier.
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Is the 10% before or after taxes? Would love to get a sense of your rent (or equiv. wage) range if there are no privacy concerns.

The high taxes line was just a flippant remark, I can't really complain as I knew about it beforehand. Having said that, the perks that come from high taxes are of little value to an expat moving there for a 1-2 year gig.
My main concern is for the young as that has a lot of influence how each develops in later age, and how they feel about school.

Universities was just afterthought; I wanted to say that it does not get better even when the students have selected the subject (I gave CS as example as that is what I know of).
Had to laugh at this:

In a new report published in the Silicon Valley journal Quora

A Q&A website is now a journal? And a post is now a published report? Hilarious.
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I guess this comment I'm replying to was downvoted for being too vague and blunt, but it's a perfectly valid point.

Let's say my monthly expenses (in areas that might theoretically have coupons - e.g. house rent isn't going to come with a groupon offer) are $2k, then saving 25% of that is only ever going to net me $500/month, and there's a hard cap based on how much I'm already spending.

Whereas with investments, there's no cap on it, except the amount I have to invest, which could be much, much more than $2k.

Obviously this skips over the question of success in those investments, but that isn't the question being discussed.
Apple is investing in helping its oversea partners to build these facilities in exchange of ridiculously low prices and few months of exclusive on all those shiny things they produce. That's how Apple's margin are the double of a device with a similar price (e.g. the tables)
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The infix operations are mostly syntactic sugar - [3 4 5] is the same as (list 3 4 5), [A|B] is (cons A B), and so on. I don't know about '->' for pattern matching and '<-' for backtracking (maybe others), but you can of course replace '->' by conditionals as is usually seen in Lisp programs not employing pattern matching.

It's the non-open license (forks seem not to be allowed) which is a bit more disappointing. I guess it's a reaction to historic Lisp fragmentation but I doubt this will help adoption.
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I haven't done much Haskell programming, but this feels a little dirty to me. Can other Haskell coders chime in and tell me if this is good practice? It does seem cool to have functions return different values depending on what you ask for, but especially as a parser it seems like it would be fragile.
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Um, I dunno. Did you read his apology too?

Did you ever have your house burgled? It can be quite a lot more upsetting and emotional than just "losing some valuable stuff". It's a violation of your personal living space, some unknown person touched, threw and wrecked your stuff: "had my bedroom violated and invaded and will have to move as I can’t face sleeping in that room any more".

So yes, IMO, that's one of the few perfectly good justifications for getting shitfaced and lashing out at everyone being a cunt because the last thing you want to hear is all the really obvious hindsight "advice" from half the Internet that should bloody mind their own business and that is perfectly fine and acceptable with me. I hope he got it all out of his system.
This is definitely a thought-provoking article. There seem to be two key points: (1) separation of concerns - the govt should decide and enforce what should be allowed or not, not private manufacturers and (2) what's profitable or good for business today is not necessarily what's good in the long run.

I'm ambivalent about (1), but I buy (2). Yes, we know that piracy might kill the music industry, but that doesn't necessarily mean that's a bad thing. Industries and jobs have been dying since the beginning of time. A hundred years ago in India, you could get a job as a "fan-operator" (loose translation from the Hindi term "pankha chalak" which literally means fan-driver.) The folks would sit outside govt offices and pull some mechanical levers which operated fans directed at the bigshots doing "real" work inside. I also remember reading some stories in my Hindi class lamenting the death of the fan-operator's profession. Oh the irony of a privileged middle-class writer complaining about an unskilled almost-demeaning job going out of existence!

On a unrelated note, I especially liked this part:

As a politician, I have other concerns than sound engineering and profitable businesses. It is my job — it is my damn responsibility — to take a larger view and look ahead, decades ahead, generations ahead.

It's a pity how few politicians we have today that actually work towards that goal.
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Our engineering society at school provided tutoring and workshops for test prep on major exams. PE, GRE, and some industry specific certifications. I would imagine there are other organizations who provide tutoring and workshops for other tests as well. This is primarily what I'm talking about and will likely be competition for you.
Yeah, I wouldn't either. I found the blog post a bit grating as well; we all have expectations that when not met can be a maddening ordeal, but this one just seemed uninformed from the get-go.
Before tax. Rent is 3400 DKK, in a nice house share with two developers. Our lease is up in January (original owner wants it back), but it has been nice otherwise. 10 months here.

You can extrapolate the wage from this, but it's not high in the field at all.
This.

Thank you. This article is ridiculous. I sold my startup last year and I'm (barely) in one of those groups that he discusses. I know I'm "rich" (upper 98-99%) and extremely grateful for it.

I still work, but I now have the luxury of not worrying about the price on the dinner menu or thinking twice about getting a new laptop. I don't desire boats or fancy cars (which I would have to look at the price tag). So my real source of wealth is not my Fidelity account balance, but because I like being at home watching movies with my wife and I prefer electronics and gadgets that I'll always be able to afford.

This article is crazy, especially in this economy with the wealth gap between the rich and everyone else widening in the last few decades. A lot of people work until they die. $2M is unimaginable to them. It's a sick world we live in where $50M is scoffed at and $2M is considered "middle class".
I have three fundamental issues with Chef;

1. The node object ends up being two large, which leads to memory issues when a search returns more that 200 nodes (800MB of memory).

2. Chef discourages declarative configuration.

3. Chef lacks a remote trigger mechanism.

Issue one starts to kill you once you have a large number of nodes. Dedicating a quater of the available memory to configuration management seem like a poor financial choice. We've come up with work arounds at my company(generate files centrally, and distribute with chef remote_file syntax), but I still feel they are hacky.

Issue two is more serious. Reindexing on chef only occurs after a node has submitted its node object back to the chef server. This results in incomplete searches until a node successfully completes a run. If you wish to remove a node from a particular role or attribute from a host, you may have a hard time doing so until the next chef run completes.

Problem three is really a result of the expense of running chef. If the memory and CPU costs were lower, there wouldn't be any real issues running Chef more frequently. Some changes I need to go out immediately, some don't matter. I end up back in the world of the SSH loop too often with Chef.
Once you're at that level, differences between local economies are such a small percentage of your net worth that it really doesn't matter.
I'm comparing it to GitLabs which is mit. This is why I have no interest. I'm working on issue 13.

http://gitlabhq.com/
From the license page (http://shenlanguage.org/license.htm):

"Part of our motivation in maintaining a tight spec and a reliable platform is to hold the Shen community together so that we do not splinter our resources on multiple incompatible forks. We do not want multiple incompatible dialects of Shen, multiple compilers, multiple incompatible libraries. We want $free readable libraries that work for all of us and libraries we can pick up and use without worrying about compatibility. Hence the production of derivative non-conforming programs from our source, whether called Shen, Shin, Shine or Shoo, is barred by the license. To give up on this is to give up on the motivation for Shen."

Whilst avoiding forking prevents splintering it can also be dangerous. OCaml suffers from a similar restriction which has seriously impeded the development and use of new compiler features like staged compilation (http://www.metaocaml.org/), type-safe marshalling (http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/hashcaml/) and delimited continuations (http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/browse_thread/thread/...). INRIA rarely accept new features into official distribution and the license prevents anyone else from doing so. Extensions have to be distributed as patches and inevitably bitrot.

Tying the long-term viability of a language (or spec) to a single owner rings alarm bells for me. Clearly they want to avoid another Scheme but I've had bad experiences in both directions.
Is the rental housing market so competitive in all/most of the bigger Scandanavian cities?
If a pressure group limits the choice of customers by unilaterally enforcing limitations, which is generally the situation we've known in software and digital media in the past, we'll simply stick to the (very) suboptimal current situation: DRMs on one hand, generalised piracy on the other. Do you think the current situation is optimal? Did we made much progress since the first copy-protected software in the early 80s?
What you propose is going on the same way we did for the past 30 years. As the saying go, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
If I write a git pre-commit script for my repo in githaven, is that forced to be agpl?

I'm using githaven and yes.

If I want Geckoboard to show a chart of how many githaven commit per day I did, do I need to agpl geckoboard.com?

I don't know.

I'm not a lawyer. This is my interpretation and I would like comments.

<gnu.org> In AGPLv3, what counts as “interacting with [the software] remotely through a computer network?”

<gnu.org> If the program is expressly designed to accept user requests and send responses over a network, then it meets these criteria. Common examples of programs that would fall into this category include web and mail servers, interactive web-based applications, and servers for games that are played online.
5% is pretty conservative, especially if you're in it for the long haul. If you look at any 30 year average pretty much since 1920, it tends to be 9% or more:

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2008/12/16/how-much-does-t...
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And that goes for any profession. I was far more inspired to hear a recent NPR story about a welder at a local factory who's 90 and just celebrated his 65th year with the company. He likes going to work every day and keeps doing so.

Far more desirable to me than finding some golden goose is to find a path that keeps me enjoying work for years and years.
"I have been to copenhagen" meaning, you rode the roller coasters in Tivoli? I'm sure visiting as an (affluent) tourist would be a much more pleasant experience.
good article, but it left out a major factor. food. eating right is so important for energy. i went from normal everyday lebanese food to eating mostly high raw vegan foods and i cannot get enough day for the energy i have. i'm never tired in the afternoon, i don't drink coffee, i get most my protein from spirulina, and i juice every day.

drinking a lot of water is super important as his mentions, but, try to drink 1-2 liters before when you wake, before anything else goes down your throat and you will noticed a drastic change in your body.
Indeed. Working on a car can be pleasant. Admittedly I do not currently- partly because bikes are more fun to work on, partly because I don't have a good space in which to work- but I hope someday to resume doing some repairs.
I wasn't familiar with the quote, so I wondered: "that Jim Jones?". Apparently so.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/jimjones389862.ht...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones
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Keep in mind that Forbes (and this author) live in a world where people make money almost exclusively via cash investments. Given THAT world-view, the article makes more sense, and $2M is indeed a dividing line between classes.
Well, if you have a fixed salary you probably work 40+ hours per week. This means your free time becomes scarce, and its value increases.
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The article should be renamed- 18 (wo)man-years.
You should stop caring, YC is so oversubscribed that your chances of being accepted are small anyway, and I doubt that an email update from you would swing it noticeably either way.

Stop caring and continue working on your product, YC is not the be all and end all of a successful outcome for you.
Certainly. But here I mean that the flow probably came through the Norse. The Scotts definitely got their term from the Norse. Since "Christianity gained a foothold in Finland during the 11th century. It was strengthened with growing Swedish influence in the 12th century and the Finnish "crusade" of Birger Jarl in the 13th century." [Wikipedia] and since the Swedes were often trading and plundering along the Finnish coast, then I strongly suspect that the current Finnish word came from the Swedish one, which comes from the same Germanic root as in English.

The only etymology I could find is: kirkko [from Germanic. Compare Estonian kirik, Karelian kirikkö, Lapland girku, Swedish kyrka] : church

A quick scan of http://www.freeweb.hu/etymological/finnish.htm shows many words of Germanic origin. I like how "kihlat" (dowry) compares to the Swedish "gisslan" (hostage).
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Thanks! I assume that the border-radius is what causes the image to appear round like that. Do you think it works in all the major browsers which support rounded corners? FF, IE8+, and WebKit?

Also I think there is one more factor
* The background position is probably being controlled by javascript as well
When someone writes "Shen has the most powerful type system of any existing functional language, including ML and Haskell", I get suspicious.

Have they really studied each and every type system out there? What kind of dependent types do they have? How do they compare to Agda, Coq, Epigram?
Make one or two of them co-founders. Until you see traction, you have no choice but to keep the team extremely small and bootstrap like crazy.