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There has been a lot of research on pirate markets, from illegal downloads to counterfeit designer clothes, and it's pretty well understood.

Pirate markets appear when the cost of a good in a market is way above the perceived value, and a pirated version can be produced for a fraction of the cost. Legit goods cost only money, but pirate goods instead cost time or uneasiness of breaking the law. Consumers then make cost-benefit analyses as to which version they want, and as long as enough consumers choose the pirated version, the pirate market is sustained.

The way to beat a pirate market is to simply treat it as a legit competitor and out-market it. iTunes music store is so incredibly successful, because it is out-marketing illegaly downloaded music. Netflix is so incredibly successful, because it is out-marketing illegaly downloaded movies. They simply provide cheaper and better service than the previous legal alternatives.
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I look forward to seeing "your next thing"

It hasn't received a huge amount of attention yet, but my guess is that kivaloo will end up being my "biggest thing" in 2011.
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I'll take your advice seriously if I know you. I don't know Sebastian, he should present himself otherwise I might be wasting my time with a joker.

I've clawed my way from poverty to lower middle class, helped out as many people along the way as I could

I'm doing the same, not online. The people I'm helping know my achievements and listen. Doing it online won't help much, since there are lot of more credible and talented people than me.
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Fixed that, thanks.

Glad it was helpful.
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tl;dr but I got a kick out of the bit on his about page that says he aims to get between 4-7 hours of sleep a night and insinuates that 8 is too much. The way he's going he'll be dead at 40. Sleep is important, don't skip it.
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"One contributing factor might be Orange's offer to give anyone upgrading to the Lumia a free Xbox 360."

Gaining market share is one thing, making a decent profit is another.
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Prof. Ng is teaching Machine Learning again next year, too.

* http://jan2012.ml-class.org/
Whoa! This is incredible!

I've never seen anything like this --- an accurate 3D model of a brain, which you can click and drag to rotate. This has a lot of educational value. (Apparently, static 2D images of the brain on Wikipedia et al don't really give you a good "volumetric sense" of what the brain looks like.)

My only wish is to be able to "highlight" the various structures of the brain, e.g., the Hippocampus, to know where they're located / how big they are in relation to the whole brain.

Bravo. Wonderful work.
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I think it's a good follow up to ai-class.com (Norvig/Thrun), which is largely based on probabilistic networks and planning. Looking forward to it :-)
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I think that's probably ascribing Jobs too much credit. He certainly wasn't the first businessperson with a superinflated sense of self-importance and a serious disregard for the well-being of those "in his way", even when those people are his employees.
The "public" part is what really surprised me the most. I get that it's his "thing" to post a lot of stuff about his make-believe success story, but you simply don't post what three people are supposed to be motivated by on the Internet. Not even when you edit it to obscure their names. They /can/ read your blog, you know?!

The text in itself is very close to self-parody and severely lacks editing (as most of his writing that I have read or sampled) but that can be forgiven in a person-to-person context. There is a whole different world of rules that apply when you address an entire audience that does not happen to be on your payroll. As it stands, this is a kneejerk "and you know what? I'm so taken by how motivating my own writing to you guys is, I'll also blog it ON THE INTERNET" reaction that reeks of delusion.

Telling your employees "hey guys, stop joking around" and telling the entire world that your employees are "jokers" are two very different things - even if we don't know them in person. Having the person I work for confuse the two would be quite the wakeup call for me.

In fact, this reminds me of an anecdote - I once did an internship at a design studio. One day, one of the guys asked me for a favor - send out faxes with his software and make sure to resend all the faxes that failed to be sent. (He had to leave early, for whatever reason.) Turns out, he kept a LOT of failed records and I ended up sending a lot of faxes from previous batches.

He was obviously angry at me and I could certainly agree with that. But then he proceeded to call every single recipient and tell them that the idiot intern messed it up. There were a million excuses (the software failed etc.) he could have used that were perfectly harmless and he won nothing by shaming a particular person in front of them. But still, he did. So yeah, that WAS quite a wakeup call.
he's manic, and one of his friend should take him to a therapist. he's comparing himself to nietzsche, hannibal, byron. he's making crazy plans of self-improvement. he's swearing, cussing, incoherent, ALLCAPS in every blog post. he's not sleeping. he's not focusing on anything of real value. I really hope he has someone that takes care of him.
Although I had to drop the previous classes due to time, this looks promising. Particularly with the unified style; that is the one thing that seemed to hurt this years effort - The most widely advertised course (AI) had the worst layout and 'features'.
he says he's actually bipolar in that first blog post.
I was just thinking about it and I'm sure if all the page said was 'Stop SOPA' and had all of those logos there.. I would be wanting to find out more about the issue.
he's a complete egotist

"Whenever I compared myself to people similar to me, it wasn’t even close. I worked more, accomplished more, produced more, did more meaningful things, was traveling the world. I read more books, did more writing, was generally healthier and more disciplined, spent my time well. I was the top 1% for my age, and even better than that if you measured me against people from similar backgrounds."

http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/the-weakest-of-the-great-me...
The SaaS class (http://www.saas-class.org/) is missing in the title. Looks exciting!
On my phone Flash works fine. On a WAP phone, I wouldn't be seeing anything. Like whenever I try to visit hacker news on my nokia 7110.

Which is of course no excuse to make flash only restaurant sites... Nor is it to make canvas only, webgl only, image only...websites.
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They do a very good job presenting their product but the price point is way too high in my opinion for what the product is. (10-12.50 per unit based on the kickstarter pledge values)
Considering that US is an important market in terms of ad revenues, that might be as good as shutting down youtube.
Yeah, there is some hypomania there, stimulant induced or otherwise.
Both ML and DB classes are better executed than AI class. AI class is backed with a broken platform by a small startup, whereas ML class was run by code developed in Stanford. AI class also had jarring video editing which totally broke the rhythm. Both ML class and e.g. Khan Academy has this natural flow that is pleasure to follow.

To me it has been surprising how big difference in experience the technical execution between classes made. Both Norvig and Thrun are clearly good teachers, but AI class failed because of the poor technical implementation.
Does anyone have a reference to the allegation that someone who influenced the decision on purchasing the scanners has a vested interest in the scanner company?
tl;dr: "Competition is good; It motivates me to keep my offering better"

There are in numerous Basecamp clones out there, yet a handful of them manage to do a percent of the revenues Basecamp does.
A couple points -

They're partners, not employees.

Yes, I'll suffer at the printshop when I promised it. My colleague offered to do it, but he just had a baby and it would be ridiculous to keep him all night. No one else was available on Sunday night.

> they tend to be neither very good businessmen nor good employers.

My staff like me, I pay top of market (sometimes 10x market pay, if the person is worth it but short-changed due to supply and demand), everyone is treated great, we have a culture of radical transparency and honesty, have a book club, there's no task management, and everyone is free to basically do whatever they want whenever they want as long as they get their job done.

I want people to be their best and keep their word. And again, that email was to business partners, not to employees, on what was supposed to be a very short project that dragged on.

I don't know if you'd like working with me. Maybe not, it's not for everyone. But I look for top performers, pay them extremely well, treat them well, give them huge respect and autonomy, and push them to give their best and really deliver. We tend to have fun, too.
Addressing your last point--I don't think that would really be all that effective. It's like teaching a driving course without getting in a car. The best you can really do is go over the basic safety rules.
I haven't got a big thesis here but I'm skeptical of the notion that study can be hard.

Bringing your mind gently back to a topic again and again (until thoughts arise which make it clear, or giving up if they don't) isn't intrinsically hard in the sense that shovelling coal is hard.

What seems to make it hard is the belief that learning hurts, and fearing about one's future, which comes largely from the legacy of being continually graded and assessed at school (as if knowledge could ever be measured!)

Fearing that study is hard seems to make it hard. And this makes it easy to be distracted by other interesting ideas upon which one isn't being assessed. Also drinking, partying, and other typical student pursuits (which are in fact quite straightforwardly boring if you try to take them seriously).

The intellectuals and scientists that came up with the knowledge in the first place didn't find it hard. They were essentially determined to have a good time. Fortunately nobody was there at the time to check whether they were doing it right.
We all know that there is a lot of data being pushed in banks networks, but your ATM example may not be a very good one. The transactions you are talking about do not occur in a single bank.

Twitter in not only big in terms of traffic. 200 million tweets per day is not small, even if a tweet involves less processing than an ATM transaction.
You can also consider Facebook as an example of website dealing with big data.
And yet, used game sales -- to specifically take on the parent's example -- are legal, much to the consternation of the game industry. The fact that they're legal is what prompted the development of online activation systems: to make an end-run around the resellers.

Whether they should be legal is a different and murkier question. And resale of digital music files is clearly pretty ridiculous, since you could just follow this plan for free stuff:

1. Copy the file.
2. Upload it to the reseller.
3. Profit!
I guess the reason that the US thinks that 220V is unsafe is the plug socket design?

Could you adopt a new plug for existing 220V appliances (AIUI you have 220v for washing machines & dryers etc?). Then over time you could migrate all your plugs to the new sockets and voilá - the whole world gets to boil a kettle in a reasonable amount of time.

Would still take 7 hours to charge your 20kWh car battery, natch.
Microsoft contributed the code under "GPLv2 or later", despite samba being under GPLv3.

GPLv2 does not contain the explicit patent grant that are part of why GPLv3 was created. And I very much doubt the courts will consider "or later" to include the patent grant.

The code in question seems very peripheral (something about using Firefox for configuration), and have received zero comments on the developers list. I would be very surprised if Microsoft had any other motivation for the release, than to make the engineer who worked on it happy.

However, it is probably not an accident that they choose the version of the GPL without a patent grant.
Evolutionary, and probably not even a unique idea. My post does go into the intelligent sharding a bit. Essentially sharding, in the case of &bang, on teams with a simple lookup to find which server a given team is on. Allowing the stateless app layer (as you rightfully call it, other than keeping track of subscription event routing) to connect to multiple Redis servers as needed. You could be on two teams on separate servers and it would work fine.

I also agree that people have been using Redis for messaging, however, what we're doing is a step past that. Again, probably others are doing this. We have atomic verbs for dealing with higher level objects in Redis that use Redis-PubSub for communicating the changes to the objects. This way, whenever an object (feed) is changed (publish/edit/delete/reposition), it can bubble up to the user or processes that care. These feeds are broken down by not only topic but subscribe-able units of interest as well. In this way, processes, users, etc only get updates on data that is relevant to them.

I'm working on converting these verbs to Redis-Lua scripts as my tests have shown it decreases CPU time and reduces atomicity code (especially in Node.js where watch->multi->exec callback stacks can be interrupted by other events). I also expect it to make supporting Thoonk in multiple languages easier as the core code will be shared.

The gossiping is currently being discussed in the Redis mailing list and may end up taking a similar approach to Hadoop's intelligent clients. Antirez would like to provide some tools to make this easier as others have rolled their own Redis gossiping. I'll be researching that more after implementing the team sharding. HA, while related to scaling, is a bit off topic, and I admit to hand-waving here. For now we're focusing more on not losing/corrupting user data.

Perhaps Henrik's title is hyperbole. I doubt the approaches that we're taking are revolutionary, and I imagine similar things been done before. However, we believe that it is a good approach, and we believe in the direction we're taking enough to share it.

Thanks for the intelligent discussion.
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Compare this to the blog post written by Kicksend last week: http://blog.kicksend.com/kicksend-is-hiring

There is no comparison.
from "can do it" i meant publicly oppose the bill and not just change the logo. Sorry for the confusion. PS Mozilla also changed the logo.
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I think this is one of the types of things that is going to (eventually someday) finally wake people up to the limitations of unstructured (although colorful) ASCII source editing.

This.
> It's an effective communication tool.

...used really badly in this example.
I agree that Marco's decision not to develop an Instapaper app for Android doesn't itself reflect an anti-Android bias. There are plenty of good reasons that could be behind that decision.

However, if you think Marco himself isn't full of anti-Android bias and contempt, you haven't been paying attention. Check out his Twitter feed. Or his blog. Aaron Pressman at The Orange View has captured more than a few examples (as have others, I'm sure).

Marco likes to talk about how he hasn't seen a good Instapaper Android app and how that "proves" there's no market for him on Android (conveniently dismissing the official ReadItLater app, not to mention the pile of apps using the ReadItLater API that preceded it).

Personally, I think there's a much simpler explanation: Any developer working on an Instapaper Android app couldn't help coming across Marco's opinions on Android. At that point, I'd expect most good Android developers would decide that they had better things to do than to writing an app for a platform their API provider hates.
This is fantastic. I would also like to do some course in mathematics (under graduate level calculus, discrete mathematics ) to improve my skills. Are there any good places/resources where I can learn these things (video lectures with quizzes in between will be a nice choice). I am also ready to take a paid certified course if some reputed college is offering them online.
> It reads like the person has a drug habbit. I feel sorry for the employees.

It sounds more like a con-artist to me. I also feel very sorry for the employees, even though I have my doubts that they take away home any salary at this point.
You do have a Youtube music player in google+ now, though. But yeah, this is definitely a record labels' decision ultimately. I'm surprised they even went along with the artist hub.
How many people do you imagine do maths outside of school?
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Grats on the funding.
Dear Sebastian,

You worked 20 hours straight. Congratulations, want a biscuit? That's about 20 hours less than what most people here have done trying to meet a deadline, or squash a stubborn bug. And that's not counting the guys who do that for kicks on Minecraft (I kid ...).

Hannibal nearly got his troops to Rome. Presumably, he knew where Rome was, and so did his men. If you want people to MARCH, they need a destination. In web apps, this is a wireframe.

So, break out a HTML editor, and get the wireframe up. Then tell the devs to push it live, put the database behind it, and get it to scale. If not, it's because you don't have a product in mind, and simply MARCHING is not going to get you to Rome, or anywhere. When people are lost, or lack a compass, they generally walk around in circles. Does that seem familiar? Of course, good engineers use the time to check out options, so they know what to do when there's actually a clear goal.

Most engineers live to fix problems. A creaky prototype that won't work is a problem that needs to be fixed. A blank page is just a chance to make scribbly notes.
One point: what is this bullshit and who are the jokers who upvoted an incoherent, useless rant?
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Maths is certainly not my strong point, but you should check out khanacademy.org. There might be some videos there.
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Why would he "change names and details" if it wasn't for real?
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"I got a top creative designer in there working for a fraction of his normal cost by being very fucking cool with him, and also working out a deal where we refer him business, and he can use our office space to hold client meetings during our off hours.

...

The designer came with me, working for peanuts compared to his normal rates (he’s a top guy)"
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