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> On this topic, does anyone know of any major manufacturers who dont do this with their consumer machines?

The Windows install on a Thinkpad I bought a couple of months ago was pretty much crapware free - if I am not mistaken, the only third-party utilities that were installed on the system were ones from Lenovo, for controlling features like power saving, OSD, etc..
Here's what Jeremy Allison said in the following article: http://tuxdeluxe.org/node/122

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I used to be a Microsoft Windows programmer, as well as a UNIX/POSIX programmer.
The knowledge I've gained about programming POSIX is still useful, even though I learned a lot of it over twenty years ago. My Windows knowledge is now rather out of date, and getting more so over the years. It isn't worth my time anymore to keep up with each increasingly baroque change to the Windows environment. Just as an example, over this time the latest "hot" communication paradigm that Microsoft recommended developers use in Windows changed from NetBEUI, to NetDDE, then OLE, followed by OLE2, then COM, DCE/RPC, DCOM, and now currently seems to be Web Services (SOAP and the like). Meanwhile, in the UNIX world the Berkeley socket API was useful in the 1980's and is still the core of all communications frameworks in the open standards world. All the UNIX RPC, object and Web Service environments are built on that stable base.
I do have to disagree with you. "busywork" makes it look like you're doing work. Often you can get away with it. You might very well be doing work but you're not really doing anything of value.

World of Warcraft can feel like work but you're not really trying to pass it off as work. If you managed to do that, who ever you work for certainly has some issues!
Not all IQ tests use the same scoring system. Some use S.D. of 16 others S.D 15 etc.

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That is a very good reason.

This is also why I think that most system level libraries should be written in C, because it (unfortunately) is one of the only languages that can be called from pretty much any other language out there.

If you go with JVM or CLR, your software will only run on that virtual machine. C++ may be possible to some degree but C++'s pass-by-value semantics make it a bit tricky to export to other languages (with reference based semantics), so if you have a good C++ API, it won't turn into a nice Python API. Exception handling and other issues make C++ also tricky.
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Interesting. My variation wasn't that marked. Some of the tests were different, so their scales may have been slightly different (IIRC). On at least one I remember I had when I was umm... 5(?) or 6? then again in mid 20s then again in late 30s - all were within 5 points of each other. I can't remember if it was stanford-binet or something else though. Hrm... no... I think earlier tests were stanford-binet, later were wisc and wj. To that end, the scoring models would have been different on the ones when I was a kid, and I know there's some issues between child scores vs adult scores - not necessarily directly comparable.
"All your bitcoin dealings are going to be public" is really only true if someone gets a hold of your wallet, or if you are using the same Bitcoin address for each transaction.

By default, every time you send or receive you are given a new 'default' address. If you don't use that, then yeah, a group of transactions can be linked to you. Otherwise your identity would have to be 'disclosed' for each different address separately.

Unless of course someone gets your wallet, but then as far as I'm concerned, you've got bigger things to worry about it.
Shares generally don't vaporize once issued, although you'll certainly experience dilution as new shares are issued unless you keep putting money in to preserve your stake. You'll also always be behind the new money in the preferences stack - newer investors get paid back first.

You shouldn't be angel investing, though - not if you'd actually consider suing founders because they might change the direction of their company to one you disagree with, or because they might decide to wind down the company should they fail and be unable to raise more capital. Both of those things are pretty normal, and the way angel investors deal with them isn't to come up with non-standard contractual terms, it's to have a portfolio of many angel investments, so their risk is distributed. If you're only going to be investing in one, you've just got to accept that you've got a very high chance of losing 100% of your investment. Founder malfeasance is the least of your worries - you'll lose it because most companies fail despite their founders' best efforts.

All you're going to do here is end up introducing non-standard terms into your investment paperwork which are going to scare away future investors and make the company you're investing in less likely to succeed.
I mean, even right now, do you choose django or rails?

Not the right analogy. A more relevant comparison would be with:

Do you choose Linux, with Nginx and Django/Rails
or Windows / IIS / ASP.NET ?

Well, let me see. Windows / IIS / ASP.NET can simply vanish tomorrow, while Rails (including 1.0) will still be there, still running fine on the latest Linux distribution, with the latest Nginx and the whole stack will still be free as in freedom.

Not much of a choice to make, really ;)
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"You don't need a ton of marketing ability to make a few sales and get a bit of cash flow coming in."

"Then you can hire sales and other non technical staff"

Have you ever run a business? This sounds so naive it's probably the exact thing the OP was talking about.

1. The modal amount of revenue for most payment processors is 0 dollars. The majority of all applications developed and deployed never make a single dollar of revenue.

2. 'a bit of cash flow' is 20 dollars / month. It is not easy to make revenue acquisition repeatable (or, more accurately, by far the hardest problem in any business is in finding repeatable acquisition models)

3. You cannot just 'hire a sales guy' and expect the money to flow in. Regular 'sales guys' need a pitch, a sales script, a leads source, a pricing list, in other words, they need to be told exactly what to do and how to do it. Somebody who can develop all of that is the 'non-technical founder' as it is most commonly called on here. It's like expecting to hire 'a programmer' and thinking he can think of a product, code it up and bring it to market. The vast majority can't, because it's a completely different skill set.
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And if you're especially interested in concurrency (768 cores), see Cliff Click's lock-free hash table:

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"Otherwise your identity would have to be 'disclosed' for each different address separately."

Actually, it's a lot worse than that. Most people will have a majority of their addresses linked without knowing it. http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2011/06/30/patching-the-bitcoin...
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Which reminds me of a pattern I've seen in God father, with my ex boss and some Silicon Valley middle age hot-shots: they all think they're gonna live forever. But the time is ticking and new generation is coming quicker than ever. This makes me happy.
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Apologies for the misunderstanding, I meant I would not hesitate to sue if an appropriate situation arised. Suing because of a pivot is not something I would consider.

That last sentence is an eye opener and I will now avoid non-standard terms. Is there a list/source of some expected standard terms for startup investment?

Lastly, do you know of any good sources (other than the PG article mentioned by Patio1 above) on the subject of angel investing? Any good books/sites?
ah, you're right.. s/busywork/work/
Complete waste of time. To politicians; "Done completely online" = "not much effort" = "not really that bothered about it". Phone calls get a similar response.
It's OK, when you get enough karma the "flag" button will appear under the link.
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There's not a whole lot of syntax in Haskell, e.g. no special statements for control flow. What may be a little confusing is the infix operators. Haskell lets you define your own infix operators (which is a good thing compared to a fixed number of user definable operators, like C++ or Python) and there's a few of them you need to know to be efficient with the language (>>= being the most important, $ and . coming second). Exception: <- is not an infix operator but part of the do notation syntax.

Haskell's syntax is very clean and readable, the examples in this article are probably intentionally a bit confusing or at least artificial.

And besides, when looking at a programming language, syntax is the _last_ thing you should look at. The semantics is what is important, by which I mean function calling conventions (fixed vs. curry vs. varargs), type systems (dynamic vs. static vs. inferred), type of evaluation (strict vs. lazy vs. unification) and so on.

Choosing a programming language based on it's syntax is like choosing a wife based on her looks only.
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There's no evidence supporting his claims, however, it's my opinion that there's no evidence supporting the current hypotheses in the psychology of depression either.

There's too little skepticism surrounding psychology, no mathematical model that can make predictions and the scientific method is not employed.

I take his post simply as a hypothesis based on an opinion and nothing else. Expressing skepticism to the hypothesis is healthy, and justified, but not expressing skepticism to the current state of affairs is not healthy and unjustified.

I feel there's no need to downvote the guy for simply stating a non mainstream opinion. So far, opinions is all what we have in the field anyway.
I am not sure Why Weekend Project is the wrong way to tag these submissions. I saw a similar post about people complaining about these being called "startups". Personally I couldn't care less if the thing was built in 10 months or 2 days, It's more whether I would use the idea/ site or not.
Looks like an automated response to get you signed up to a bogus spam mailing list. Why would I want to hear updates about things she isn't interested in my opinion on anyway?
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Two excellent accounts from people on the scene:

- https://twitter.com/#!/JoshHarkinson

- https://twitter.com/#!/brianstelter
It’s a shame the article itself is not freely available, but even the published abstract gives some interesting details that the CNN report didn’t mention.

http://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2011/10/28/jech-2011-20025...

In particular the abstract makes it clear that the measured associated is independent of life-course socioeconomic position.

Actually a quick search of Google Scholar throws up a number of papers on this topic, most of which seem to confirm the association reported here.

This one http://personal.lse.ac.uk/KANAZAWA/pdfs/RGP2010.pdf looks quite interesting: “The Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis suggests that more intelligent individuals may be more likely to acquire and espouse evolutionarily novel values than less intelligent individuals. Consumption of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs is evolutionarily novel, so the Savanna-IQ Interaction Hypothesis would predict that more intelligent individuals are more likely to consume these substances.”
Why do I get the feeling he's telling me to get off his lawn? I found Bret Victor's article informative and inspiring. This just feels like a grumpy rant, and it adds nothing.

On the matter of digital surfaces, I found the description of an object which changed surfaces in Arthur C. Clarke's Imperial Earth fascinating. It essentially "worked" by transmitting electric pulses through the skin that simulated the feelings - the actual object didn't change. I wonder if there's research in that area.
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Or sign up at the Red Cross centre when you're in there to donate blood - they'll take an extra blood sample for testing purposes.
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Specifically:

"I just got shoved out of the park by a police officer. I'm now going to explain what I saw."

https://twitter.com/#!/JoshHarkinson/status/1363615690754785...
I had a good laugh reading the post. I must say your comparison is spot on.

Thank you.
Nothing is said about adult IQ. It only says that kids with higher IQ end up using drugs (I can see that, it's depressing being intelligent). But somehow I doubt that adult drug users have higher IQ as well.
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The problem is that the percentages are higher than that. The biggest problem is that testing won't always pick up HIV and AIDS, because these diseases can lie "dormant" for quite a while, but yet they are still in the blood (undetectable) and will cause infections somewhere down the line.
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His weekly schedule looks awful. I would never want to live a life like this. Hope his example does not turn into something that is expected from people.

I work a job as a software engineer and do computer science engineering studies at the same time. Although I don't do nearly the hours Mr. Dorsey does, I'm still physically and mentally exhausted. And like Mr. Dorsey, I love what I do, but it's still very hard on me.
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I have just read a really interesting post on how google+ is so fast, they use Closure.

Our team uses web forms in .net to perform our day to day functions.

Flame wars aside, what languages do you use and what have been your experiences with them? Also, what db do you use and how well has it scaled for your larger projects? What have you had to give up to use them?

Like I say, we use web forms and sql 2008. Although it is very easy to develop, I recently picked up MVC 3 and found that the extra control you have on the render is fantastic so I am left wondering what else I am missing out on.

I plan to give myself and another developer a new language to learn and possibly a new db if it fits to see where we plan to be in the next 5 years so any input is greatly appreciated. I am trying to avoid "buzz" languages and want to learn something that is going to stay around for a while.
I've done some work on this (http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4524) and the phenomenon that coderr describes is very widespread in practice (we can examine this passively, from the transaction history) and its linking identities we can be pretty sure the users didn't intend to have linked.

I'd say that anyone concerned about anonymity should be using a client with the functionality that coderr's patch provides, and be incredibly careful using Bitcoin in general.
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Wasn't there a post on here last week on how you have to hunt down drivers if you do a Windows upgrade or clean install? The last VAIO I used took me 4 hours to nuke, clean install, then hunt down the drivers. (And some didn't even exist on the Sony site since they only listed 32-bit drivers).
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And if they'd have stopped developing nginx 6 months after release? Or in a parallel universe where Basecamp flopped and DHH moved onto something else? Would there still be a rails?

Yes they're open source but some projects transition, some don't, it's luck. The world is littered with abandoned open source projects.

And even now I get the feeling that Django is steadily being edged out by Rails.

My analogy wasn't great I admit, better would be looking at all the PHP MVC frameworks that never took off.

Mootools & Prototype are another two excellent examples. 3 or 4 years ago you wouldn't have looked a bit crazy for picking either over jQuery.

What about coffeescript? Is it here to stay? No-one knows yet. In a years time all the browsers could suddenly be supporting in browser Python or in browser Ruby and it'd be dead in the water.
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Like who? How much revenue do they make, combined, compared to the combined revenue of US companies? Let's not kid ourselves here - I'm European, there are many things I like about the place I live, but the tech company scene is laughable here. It's hard to find anyone who is even capable of thinking beyond the 'I set up Active Directory network and fix pc's' or 'I make websites for the local pizza place' level.

(yes there are some counter examples, I know, but I'm talking about magnitudes, not frolicking in the margin)
I was about to upvote compensate you before I read your edit.
That is nuts... Here in Australia, my salary is paid based on a 40 hour working week, minus 4 weeks holiday and sick leave. This is pretty standard for a full time job.

I can choose to work over that amount, and time worked over those 40 hours is time-in-lieu, which I can take off pretty much whenever I want (although I have to get approval if I want to take more than one day off at a time - but if it's just a day, or half a day then I just shoot them an email that morning)... My company are a bit more flexible on taking that time off than a lot of places, but apart from that, the conditions are similar to a lot of other places...
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Is this phrased accurately?

The framework then hooks into your browser's navigation code an intercepts all page loads. Instead of letting the browser replace the page with something new on load it instead does the HTTP request via Ajax and adds an additional header to the HTTP request: X-Ajax-Navigation.

Wouldn't it be better to intercept the page leave event, rather than load?
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Bitcoin mining difficulty is automatically adjusted based on the capacity of the network. If the cost outstrips the gains, then either people are content to lose money on the network, or people will leave until the difficulty becomes low enough to make mining profitable again.

You're probably correct that you'd only need $300K to purchase enough hardware to double-spend, but any profit you could make off double-spending would be offset by the cost of electricity. Also, an alternative compromised blockchain would be really obvious, so you'd only have a limited window in which to scam people. Maybe you could do something if you had a botnet (and thus didn't need to pay for the hardware or electricity), but I can't help thinking that you could probably be doing far more profitable things with that amount of hardware.
Well. When I posted the above comment, its parent was lingering at the very bottom of the page. Then it quickly floated to the top, and after that mine got as quickly downvoted into oblivion. Interesting dynamic in itself.

Right now the karma counter keeps oscillating around 4600... which makes me regret that I didn't say it was 4701 :)
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Not a direct answer to you question but I spotted this book earlier which looks quite interesting and my be useful to you. I haven't read it so I cant really comment, but it gets good reviews and will probably get a copy.

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Thanks for the link: that's really interesting.

I guess that's more a problem with the official client more than the protocol itself, though, right? If you were to create a new address and have all of those 'trackable' addresses send their balances to that new address, haven't you essentially removed this problem? I mean, all the people that sent to you in the first place can see where you sent the coins to, but they can't prove that you are holding that new account. Or is there something I'm missing here?

For what it's worth, I completely see how this is a problem. However, I don't see it as a particularly hard problem to solve (even 'programatically').

EDIT: and it was until I read the other reply here that I realised that that is actually your blog post. Nice work!
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