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I worry people may be taking "don't use .NET, its GC sucks" away from this blog post, which really isn't the point (or accurate).

I get the feeling some already came in with that opinion, so they will take away what they want to. I personally got the impression that this is something that would have caused pain in almost any language with a generational GC.
OP posted this article with a title emphasizing Publicly funded science. There is no excuse for not sharing data acquired with the help of public funds.
Wow. I thought the lemonade stands was a metaphor for small startups.
Not actual lemonade stands by 6 year olds.
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Alpha particles is two protons and two neutrons bound together into a particle identical to a helium nucleus. If your fusing hydrogen and spitting out an Alpha particle your losing energy. Anyway, generally speaking, Alpha particles show up when something decay's. It's possible to put mix fission and fusion to get energy but fission by products are far less energetic.
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I agree. However, I have begun modifying it slightly to describe what I think to be the true objective of what networking is: "It is not what you know but who knows you".
I got a free GoogleTV from Google last December and I really enjoy it, especially after a software update that auto-installed earlier this year. My only disappointment has been not having time to try writing an app for it - this has been a busy year for me. (I wrote a simple web site http://cookingspace.com/ 3 1/2 years ago to help me track nutrients in the meals I eat, and I had hoped to have time to write a custom rich client for my own use.)

I may buy the new version if the hardware is much better but I'll wait a while to see what any future software updates do for version 1.

Most of my use is with Netflix streaming, and I have considered quitting my Hulu+ account because they block use with GoogleTV.
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You really have to demonstrate in which situations it is superior to just a "regular" rss syndication service like http://netvibes.com Maybe create some "cases" where you can show the true benefit from your product as mentioned before. At the moment the API makes it sound like a b2b tool (i.e. a tool only for those that work with APIs already?) and I am not sure in how far they would use such a service (familiarize with the API) over just coding something similar themselves.

But what I could indeed see as a very successful service is something, where you just enter a shortned rss feed and it spits out solely based this information a full-text rss feed. You got to pick one of these aspects, focus on it and clearly communicate it - otherwise the API thingy is making it very tricky to interpret what it does. Oh and one more thing... the testimonial guy has in my opinion already a bit of "overexposure" through the web. Be careful about that. I hope you know what I mean...
At work, before we switched to Git, I used the git-svn bridge. It feels kind of hackish, svn-externals don't work and working with remote branches is doable but you have to be careful when merging ... that being said, I did extensive work with local/remote branches with git-svn and I never saw anybody actually branching / merging in SVN.

I would never go back to SVN. And this is not a zealot-thing in which I'm stating an opinion to protect an investment -- Git is so much better that it isn't even funny.
We use svn at work too, but pretty much all developers have switched to git-svn.

People used to working with tortoise or versions for mac still use vanilla svn, which is a big reason of why it's kept around.
If you can read german Gründerszene and Deutsche Startups are two big blogs covering german startups. They also have a database similar to crunchbase.

www.gruenderszene.de
www.deutsche-startups.de
71~94: Your equity grant is worth a lump sum of money which makes you about as much money as you gave up working for the startup, instead of working for a megacorp at a higher salary with better benefits.

Or phrased differently, you get to work for a startup you believe in and enjoy instead of a soul-crushing megacorp, with (almost) no cost.

This counts as a win in my book.
Maybe credit notes are written in Japanese :)
I got a free GoogleTV from Google last December and I really enjoy it, especially after a software update that auto-installed earlier this year. My only disappointment has been not having time to try writing an app for it - this has been a busy year for me. (I wrote a simple web site http://cookingspace.com/ 3 1/2 years ago to help me track nutrients in the meals I eat, and I had hoped to have time to write a custom rich client for this web app for my own use.)

I may buy the new version if the hardware is much better but I'll wait a while to see what any future software updates do for version 1.

Most of my use is with Netflix streaming, and I have considered quitting my Hulu+ account because they block use with GoogleTV.
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This reminds me of the major undercover sting operation that took place several years ago against a group of people who had formed a private poker club in Colorado. It sickens me that the police would waste the time prosecuting this, instead of catching murderers and rapists who are free. As if they have nothing better to do. May God save this pathetic country.
I originally thought this would be illegal because of the Skype EULA. In Blizzard vs Bnetd the eight circuit ruled that, while reverse engineering for interoperability is permitted in some cases, you waive these rights when you agree to an EULA that says you can't.

https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/reverse-engineering-faq#fo...

HOWEVER the skype terms of use read:

4.2 Restrictions. You may not and you agree not to.

(a) sub-license, sell, assign, rent, lease, export, import, distribute or transfer or otherwise grant rights to any third party in the Software;

(b) undertake, cause, permit or authorize the modification, creation of derivative works or improvements, translation, reverse engineering, decompiling, disassembling, decryption, emulation, hacking, discovery or attempted discovery of the source code or protocols of the Software or any part or features thereof (EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW); (emphasis mine)
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The bits can't be in the same memory word for concurrency reasons. Setting a bit is not an atomic operation on most processors.
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I'm positive about Tesla's future. They had to do a big investment in technology that now seems to be paying of in 2 ways:

- building a sedan that has mass market potential

- selling tech to established car manufacturers: http://venturebeat.com/2011/07/20/tesla-toyota-100m-rav4-dea...

It's a mini version of the Samsung model, and I can see it working well for them.

edit: found a link that's not behind a paywall unless you have Google as a referrer.
I love corporate, boring, "soul-crushing" work. Why? Because I can sit down, whip out a basic CRUD form with a small approval cycle in a day. It saves a company 100K over the year, I am loved by the customers, and because it is so simple, it normally requires no maintenance. Maybe we update the fields once a year or so.

At the end of the week, I've already saved the company more than my salary. After a year, I am a critical asset to the company.

After 3 years, I've optimized everything, the ROI slows down, and I move on.

This pattern is not a tragedy. It doesn't crush your soul. It makes you a prized commodity in the business world, with a chance to make a change in your life every few years.

I have usually alternated between 3 years doing this, then 2 years doing startup work. It has given me a much broader base of experience and skill than anyone who stick to one one side of the coin.
It also has given me years of experience in large industries (banking, energy, etc.) which I then use to find very real problems to which a startup can be applied.

I have led a very satisfying career, doing this for almost 20 years now.
Details: http://osxdaily.com/2010/11/06/the-iphone-daylight-savings-t...
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For concurrent data structures this "runtime" ends up being basically a re-implementation of garbage collection.
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Or to put in a comic-friendly way: "It's not who you are, it's what you do that defines you".
Big +1. Who could have predicted that American fascism would be an unholy marriage of the nanny state and the police state? "Don't worry, we'll keep you safe. Now close that lemonade stand or we'll break your teeth."
There's also this recent ruby-core discussion:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/vframe.rb/ruby/ruby-cor...
Hard for them to maintain, or they wouldn't be as inclined to, if it were written in their language du jour?
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I don't understand you java people. Are you really saying that because a pointer-to-Foo will always point to a Foo, you're somehow safe from bugs?

Sure, you might be less likely to crash; but you're far more likely to get silent data corruption -- and I know which of those two I'd prefer to see.
Positive network externalities: the more people who use it, the more valuable it is, which creates more incentives to use it yourself.
Something becomes a derivative work when excessive amounts of the source material structure comes from a copyrighted work. If you reverse engenear a program create a spec and have someone else code to that spec then copyright does not cover you.

You could create an original novel that was not a derivative work by taking once sentience from every book in a library and trying to create a meaningful work of art from it. Doing the same thing using a single book would probably not fly.
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Macro economics can give you a pretty accurate estimate of the "market cap" of privately traded companies: just work your way down from the Gross National Product by segmenting it into public and privately earned. (You could also look at total tax revenue and calculate from there)
> It's not that great a career; you have to love it to stick with it forever.

Many are driven to stick with it because if they don't, they'll get deported.
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I don't know what VIPR squad is doing, but it seem pretty much as European customs officers under Schengen region.

Since there are no border customs checks any more in Schengen area, the customs officers have authority to stop any vehicle and to strip it bare, while searching for a cause for an investigation.

In Slovenia as of this year, customs officers are allowed on private land to perform an inspection of fuel for vehicles (heating oil is basically diesel with lower tax and often used in heavy and farm machinery).
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This is not just a few isolated events. My brother set up a lemonade stand on family property a few years back, and they didn't operate for more than an hour before they were visited by the township health inspector and, after they refused to move, the police. They were a bit older, sophomores or juniors in HS, but it should be clear that local townships are not fans of micro entrepreneurs.
Or the intense attention to detail that you love about Takamasa Matsumoto.
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Only if it is acute poisoning and only if they cluster in time and space. Devices as nasty as this, of course, would be detected, but less deadly materials would easily go undetected until someone, 50 years later, notices something like leukemia being 20% more deadly in a given region than the surrounding areas.
Complexity: Apple already let 3rd parties in, so I'm not sure it would be significantly more complicated for anyone. Unless the presence of an additional icon is significant complexity, and there are some inherent complexity in letting the user have root permissions. Of course, 3rd parties applications could crash, but that is already the case.

Choice: to some extent, it is about privacy: Apple knows exactly what Apps you purchase. Anyway, I recommend regulation. First, the owner of any device whatsoever should be allowed to do whatever he wants with it, provided it wasn't illegal in the first place. We should also allow reverse engineering (doing it as well as publishing the results), even when it involves the discovery of "protections" such as cryptographic keys.

General-purpose computer system (which may include the OS) should be subjected to a more drastic regulation: as soon as there is any way to add or change functionality (mere firmware bug-fixes don't count), then the end user should be allowed and given the means to do it, at no additional cost, with no artificial restriction. Among other things, that would outlaw the monopoly that the App store currently enjoy over non jail-broken iPhones, and the restrictions Blizzard put over the creation of user-made maps for Starcraft 2 (they host the maps, and have discretion to delete them if they don't like it). Note: I don't mean to outlaw proprietary programs and OSes. But a program that is a tiny bit open should be at least that open to the end user.

The privacy side of things is more complicated, but boils down to one thing: private shenanigans should be kept private, end of story. E-mail is private. Chatting is private (even in a chat room with 10 or so people). Visiting a web site is private (between you and the web site owner). Restricted publications ("friends only") probably should be considered private as well. Servers who host private shenanigans should not be allowed to: log them, look at them (even if it is "just a machine"), aggregate them (except maybe in a reliably anonymous way, which is very hard to do). Well, you see the trend. Note that GMail, Facebook, and probably Blogger, in their current form, should totally be outlawed (heck, it applies to nearly all mail providers out there).

Note that privacy violations aren't less serious if they are performed by machines only. I don't care that "only machines" looked at my e-mail before sending me that specific ad. They still influenced me by using my private information.
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Agreed, I'm doing programming.
You do realize you are basing your assessment (and its very serious implications) on a movie, right?
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What's unknown is if the police are shutting down the lemonade stands on their own volition or if they are acting on complaints from residents. Not that either is right, but if they're acting on complaints it kind of shifts the anger.
I was reading the "My Dad taught me cash flow" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3167630) article and I thought "I bet kids couldn't do that in the UK." So I had a quick search, and it turns out that some places in the US are cracking down.

But why? What is the risk here? I'm not asking about the actual risk, but what the perceived risk is from 7 year olds selling lemonade at 25c per cup.
That is hilarious. Thank you for putting this extreme hubris in its place!
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sounds similar to something that happened in seattle.
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-long-con/Content?oid=...
How about a surgeon? Their actual core competency is performing surgery. Should they not describe themselves as Surgeons?

Edit:

Are accountants high status? I'm not sure. They are generally regarded as making a fair bit of money but they are boring. Probably a bit more high status than a programmer, perhaps. But I wouldn't suggest to my accountant friends that they stop selling themselves as experts at accounting.

And anyways, high status = social status, and how is that relevant to any of your points? Social status is mostly useful for when you're trying to get laid (because that's mostly when you are trying to impress people) or prove something to your parents. We, as programmers, still get paid very well and are valued by many many companies.

The lack "high status" thing in comparison to doctors and lawyers is just because:

A) Laywers and doctors generally make more money. A lot of lawyers and doctors make over 200K. Programmers, not so much.

B) Laywers and doctors are almost certainly better educated than programmers. This education is validates a person in lots of ways, in that you are automatically learned about a variety of topics with which to converse with at parties, and that you are smart enough not only to perform as a lawyer/doctor but to achieve the level of education necessary to do so (unlike programming, where you only need to be good at your job and not necessarily good at 6+ years of higher ed).

C) The laywer and doctor professions have been around longer and are therefore safer. Doctors are the most ancient and historically valuable professions. Laywers, not nearly as much so, but for the past few hundred years they have emerged as a staple profession. I like law a lot but I would devalue lawyers over doctors a bunch.

D) It's harder to become a lawyer/doctor than a programmer, so it's a bigger achievement.

E) The jobs generally require more social skills than working with computers.

Programmers will probably never be a high status job because of the above reasons. But that doesn't really affect your argument, which is describing how you should sell yourself to potential employers.

I'd like to reiterate that I'd prefer to well rounded people who are good at programming and specifically good at our tech stack. That's the ideal. Take classic ASP.NET programmer and tell him to write a complex Ruby on Rails project and watch him flounder for months no matter how good he was at ASP.NET. There's just a lot to learn. Now, for someone who is more seasoned, used to unix, used to working with actual HTML+CSS+Javascript (instead of .net controls) used to writing tests, used to dynamic languages, that person will adjust fast, but not everyone will.
Inexplicable indeed. Have we solved every other major problem facing society to the point where we should be focusing energy on child run lemonade stands? I am doubtful.

I think the bureaucratic state has gone far enough. This is a shining example in my mind of why smaller government is better. Just think, every one of those people responsible for shutting down a lemonade stand is making a living wage, made possible by my 33% tax contribution. Sickening.
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I am simply stunned at the intro song to this site.. sounds other worldly.
I really don't know why or how. But to me it seems like an inverted 1984 scenario, where instead of "kids" turning in "parents", in current western society parents are trying to beat down on the kids as much as possible.
Am I the only person who thinks this article is silly?

"...but many of the regulations that come down the pipeline are pushed by brick-and-mortar competitors who want to keep competition at a minimum."

Or perhaps the brick-and-mortar competitors simply want for the competition to be on even ground. If the kids were required jump through the same hoops as the legit stands, then the kids likely need to sell lemonade at higher prices than a quarter.

"Police said the girls needed a business license, a peddler’s permit, and a food permit to operate the stand, which cost $50 per day or $180 per year each, sums that would quickly cut into any possible profit-margin."

Correct. These fees cut into profit margins for all stands. Why should kids get special treatment?

"Who stands to lose from a couple of six-year-olds selling lemonade?"

Any purchase I make at one stand is a lost opportunity for another stand. Again, why should kids receive special treatment?

"Kids have been selling lemonade for decades without permits of any sort. They often set the stands up just for fun, but many lemonade stands (or bake sales) are used to raise money for schools, cancer, or sick pets. Lemonade stands represent the most innocent, optimistic side of capitalism out there."

Lemonade stands for kids is a great learning experience. Having to deal with the law is part of that learning experience. A lemonade stand run by kids and shut down by the police is as good a learning experience as one that is able to run without interference from the government. If the startup costs of a lemonade stand are too high, then perhaps the kids should try a different line of business.
this image shows pretty clearly what is part of the ISO code that is required:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Containernumber.jpg

the size and type codes aren't used in the check digit, are not required, and are usually displayed on a separate line:

http://www.containerking.co.uk/buy-cabins/images/Shipping%20...

anyway, back to the original question, you can't have two containers with the same owner code, same container ID and made unique through the size and type codes

the problem is solved because the large shipping firms (ie. the 5 or 6 that control the industry) each have dozens of manufacturing codes. see my answer in the other part of this thread
Just to give some context, a friend send this across.. and I absolutely am blown away by the intro music that the site loads up.. not to mention the actual craftsmanship.

Wow. Stunned.
This is as it should be...as long as users are made aware of it.

Google+ for Apps has great potential to be used inside companies, as an internal social network. Messages can be propagated easily by people "+"ing other users, and you get a much better way to communicate than email. (Much as Wave intended.)

But unlike many other "social network for the enterprise" offerings, it's porous. You can easily introduce posts to the outside world as well. This is really how most modern enterprises should work. Not a complete sandbox, but a single system where you can communicate publicly, privately, or some combination of both.

I can't see companies adopting such a thing unless they did have access to all users' data. The point is that you use it wearing the hat of your company, not as an individual.

If I was working in a big company, I'd still maintain a separate individual Plus account and use it in the same "semi-work, semi-personal" way I use Twitter. I'd still be using the company account a lot, but mostly for posts and comments constrained to circles inside the company. The only public posts would be more official posts, e.g. new product announcements.
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I have no idea if this is a reasonable price, but the mentioned product is a self-contained measurement system in a ruggedized enclosure with built in computer and software that identifies isotopes automatically. It is marketed to "homeland security" type agencies, so expect it to have quite a sales-margin :-)

If you'd want to be on the cheap side, there's a used Ge on eBay for $3k right now, add a HV supply anda suitable ADC card for your PC and you can go recording γ-spectra in no time, possibly on a $5k budget.

As you'll have to identify the isotopes yourself, check http://www.inl.gov/gammaray/catalogs/catalogs.shtml for reference spectra.