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While consulting and building websites is a fine thing, it is not the only thing.

Moreover: You literally have the rest of your life to do paying work. Unless the alternative to going to work as a kid is hardship or hunger (which would be an even more regrettable problem) I see no sense in rushing into the workforce.

It would be nice if your school had been interesting enough to capture your attention with one of the hundreds of other subjects of possible study. One, perhaps, that is mind-expanding and awesome but which doesn't pay. Math and science. Art and music. History and philosophy. Languages and literature. Machine shop and robotics lab. Studying these things is what school is for. Building stuff for clients is what the remaining five or six decades of your working life are for.

I find it heartbreaking that the most interesting thing you found to do in your school days was to get a NET+ certification. Obviously, everyone's tastes are different, and details matter, but my first-order reaction is to regard that as a terrible failure of your environment.
HN != YC
lol at Scoble was and always will be a blogger. he can still deliver a ton of traffic...and even better with his experience deliver a critical eye over what you've built.
I agree completely with the article, however I wouldn't hold up 37signals of an example of it "well done", I think their page is way to long and heavy and putting their calls to action at the bottom, dumb.
The 10:1 productivity gap is well established in the academic literature for software engineering.

There are not many concrete quantitative statements one can make about the profession, but this is one of them.
TWENTY TWO GCSEs? Christ... You didn't go to a comprehensive!
I would avoid Mozy. I was using them with their unlimited plan. Less than a year ago, they dropped their unlimited plan and the new plan would have quadrupled my costs.

I switched to CrashPlan and have been happy so far.

With my current usage (just over 125 GB), it would cost me $11.99 per month for Mozy. I payed CrashPlan $118.99 for 4 years of unlimited usage, or less than $2.50 per month.

Mozy essentially "fired" me as a customer. They stated that some customers were using too much data on their unlimited plan and introduced the new tiered price structure with the intention of pushing out the heavy users. Seems odd to me, since I only backup my music, photos, and important documents. I don't even backup my videos.

It just didn't make sense for me to stay with them. The idea of charging $2/month for each 20GB above 125 seems pretty steep. And since the amount I back up will grow over time, so will my month cost.
My mother would fail to be able to do this. Not just because it's a technical challenge, but also because her ISP sends out routers which are preconfigured with a SSID to make setup _easier_, you just plug and play. No admin console, no telnet (TBH: I didn't look to hard for either).

Perhaps GOOG feel privacy is only the concern of people that have enough nouce to setup a wifi router? 100% of the routers at residential buildings I connected to wifi at on my recent trip to the UK were this type.
Is Google's music store doomed to failure?
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I've used Play! for work and personal projects, and I've never had to deal with XML. Play uses .properties files for simple things (actually, there's just one main .properties file), YML for more complex data (like a list of fixtures to load for unit testing), and "convention" for pretty much everything else (that is, you don't have to write any configuration if you put things in the places where Play expects them)
However, if the backscatter system operates correctly then the amount of radiation exposure is really quite small compared to the amount you'd receive on the actual flight.

Very true, but the danger from it is still about the same tiny magnitude as the danger from terrorists without the x-ray system.
For a site named 'readability', the font they're using seems awfully thin and spidery. I need to selecting the text to comfortably read it, and my eyesight isn't bad.

Is it just me, or are anti-aliased web fonts these days harder to read than their normal equivalents?
This is truly a waste of humanity's time.

Edit: Check out the guy in the back on his iphone most likely looking at some form of "infringing content."
Yes. And it simply _must_ be done. The widget drag-and-drop javascript framework is merely powdered sugar on the cake (not even frosting).
Backify was to good to be true SCAM
Cars currently have $50 toxic batteries, in them and yet the recycling rate is near unity for them. If we can manage to recycle something worth $50, surely we can recycle something that is more valuable.
Unlike Marco Arment and Instapaper, Readability will now give their app away for free.

Founding partner Rich Ziade says the company is still "figuring out" their business model.

But the parser Readability created under the Apache license is being used by Apple and Amazon in millions of devices, neither of which pays a dime in licensing fees to this small startup.

He talks about it here - http://www.betabeat.com/2011/11/16/readability-focuses-on-fr...

Readabilities dream of a long form "slow" web that rewards publishers is noble, but they would be better equipped to build it if they had secured their business model early on.
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It was proposed to the English Wikipedia community (late yesterday) and as of now I don't think we have consensus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposa...

By my reckoning, so far at least half the commenters think this would break the "Neutral Point of View" policy. I personally disagree with that, but as an employee of the WMF it's not my place to tell them what to do.
"If ... can do it"

Of all of the above companies you listed, as of right now, it's only on reddit.com
i respect what he is saying that we have moved on from myspace and pets.com etc so you need to be more advanced.

it's still hard though to get from good through the iterations to great.

I've been working with my co-founders on LiveFanChat for about 12 months now eg http://www.LiveFootballChat.com - http://www.LiveNascarChat.com etc

We have a good userbase but something is still missing to "strike lightning".
I have carat and a little circle. The bastards.
Cataloging the location of public WiFi hotspots is not one of them

Is it only "public" hotspots that they are cataloging? Are any access point that broadcasts it's SSID?
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Computer scientist Roger Craig built an app to prepare for Jeopardy domination.
Most recent tournament champion, Roger Craig, broke Ken Jenning's all-time money record.<p>His finest display of Jeopardy prowess was this back-to-back "Daily Double" all-ins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRwK8SyVeJE<p>To prepare for the competition Craig developed a web app to analyze all the questions in Jeopardy's archive and reverse engineer the game. He explains it here.
http://vimeo.com/29001512
I'm not sure what you're complaining about exactly. You object to giving them information they already have so they can remove it?
Why? Personally, I'd love to see smartphones and other smaller devices with Intel processors.
It's good that we've recognized many of the problems with education. However, simply recognizing them isn't enough. I think that in this post you've highlighted the next step.

I'd love to see a slew of articles that talk about different testing methods rather than all of the articles we see about different teaching methods. These articles are interesting, but are accompanied only by anecdotal evidence that the different methods are doing any good. It's not that they aren't, it's just that we can't measure it.
He's not arguing against capitalism. He's saying that the market is currently overvaluing certain kinds of businesses, causing resources to be misallocated. That's it.

You may be right that he is either wrong or making his argument for self-serving reasons. Or he might be right.
SOPA claims to cover counterfeit goods as well, and some of the previous DNS-based censorship targeted sites distributing counterfeit goods.
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Still, those presumably required jailbreaking, which I gather was not done by the majority of iPhone 1 owners, and certainly not by the earliest buyers, who bought before that was even an option.
It is. I believe heavyweights like Google won't let them get away with this. They have lobbyists too.
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Having a semi-public database could be a bad idea. Depending on how often the database is updated (and how it is queried) you could track where your new neighbours have moved from and where the old one went.

If someone is being stalked they'll disconnect their phone, but who thinks to change their router SSID?
The legislation covers blocking or redirection of DNS queries by zone.

Last I checked, the HN hostname is inside the ycombinator.com DNS zone.
Doesn't the phone have to be local to the AP in order to get the MAC to send to Google for the location?
I have worked with people who needed to see the whole picture before they could implement anything. Whereas I can seem to be able to jump in and start building even while lacking information. I have some weird ability (or perhaps not so weird, it is probably just a result of experience) to infer what is not yet there; the whole picture only becomes clear to me when I am done.

In those cases, I was seeing at least a 10x productivity increase because while they were sitting around thinking about the problem, I was already writing code, working on the parts that I did understand, while gaining a greater understanding of the rest during that process. Once we all reached the point of understanding, those gains became negligible, and our productivity was probably closer to par.

If you're writing the same old boilerplate code day in, day out, it is probably hard to realize increased productivity between individuals. However, if you're venturing into new problems constantly, I believe different developers can be quite a bit more productive over others.
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He has links and things providing his point. I agree with him, it was clearly a corruption thing from the start. Otherwise, why would people need to be scanned while leaving the airport. It only makes sense for either (a) creating useless jobs for people and/or (b) buying useless equipment to do the useless job.
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Yes, I did. Students with upwards of twenty GCSEs are not all that uncommon anymore
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For the record, there are a lot of experimental battery technologies out there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery#Variations_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-sulfur_battery

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanowire_battery

Just... one of these will probably catch on, yes, and that's awesome, but we've come up with so many different ideas that at this point, demonstrating a high-capacity lithium battery prototype is the Aristocrats joke of battery science.
It's a sad day when Google apparently cares less about social justice than YouPorn.

edit: I withdraw my criticism, see below.
This article seems completely oblivious of the fact that the GoogleTV platform (embodied by devices such as the Logitech Revue) is based on an Intel design (and thereby is targeted towards x86).

As this platform has now launched (is now launching?) the Android Market, and (despite Logitech's bowing out) is unlikely to be entirely abandoned by Google (at least in the near future), there is an actual concrete short-term reason why Intel would have strong interests in the Android platform.

It is therefore very difficult to take any of this article's speculations regarding what we might see from "x86-powered smartphones and tablets are concerned" seriously. :(
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""""After seeing their rate of replacement I would never own an Apple laptop without AppleCare because the difference between being stuck with a brick and having Apple replace it with a newer model free of charge is worth the money.""""

Yeah, but for me the difference between not having to use a PC is worth even more money.

If you're casual about computing, buy whatever, but if you are professional buy what fits your work needs best, be it Mac or PC, not what is cheaper. If $1000 or $2000 / 5 years seem a lot to you as a professional, then you are in the wrong business.
There are also heavyweights like Microsoft who are sponsoring the bill. My guess is there are still more money being invested to make this a reality than otherwise.
Yes. Use something like TonidoPlug to do the local backups of your computers.
Not to mention firmware updates or reset-ing the router back to factory default and forgot to do whatever Google suggested you to do.

Suddenly it becomes a burden.
They're conducting YC interviews atm, I doubt this'll even be noticed; I hope it is though.
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While I think that having to change the SSID is a lame solution, the problem with your suggestion is that there's no way to ensure that the person opting the networks out actually has control over the network; it would take minutes for 4chan or other mischievous people to opt-out whole neighborhoods.
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If they support this, then why not put the "stop censorship" banner across their logo like the other supporting sites?
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Patience. It's usually a minimum of 5 years for tech to go from the lab to commercial use, and often 10 years before it's in common use. Furthermore since there are probably dozens of competing technologies currently in the lab for energy storage, most of them won't ever make mainstream commercial use.
I wouldn't use a smartphone with 8 cores and 4 GB of RAM and a long battery life if the user interface sucks. If Ice Cream Sandwich is mediocre from a usability standpoint, no hardware can save it.
Final result of this SOPA campaign is going to show how much influence does American internet users actually have in the "Real" world.
to the UK works via media player, but at work can not test sound.

This is not looking good brothers on the otherside of the sea. What i read today is a 5to1 debate :/ and i got a horriable feeling the nervous looking girl might be the 1 against :/
I went through in August, and it was mm wave. Humorously enough, the security guard said, in broken english, "sound, not dangerous like your scanners".
I love this explanation. Note my username :)
The politicians who fund our schools demand results so they can get elected/re-elected. The numbers they need can only be obtained through standardized, modular testing. It's a vicious cycle.

There are schools that eschew the standardized, rote methods of learning. But they produce people like Cory Doctorow, who is a writer/speaker/etc. and doesn't produce anything terribly useful. Well, except for thoughts, books, etc. - things that do not follow measurable standards. But certainly no iPhones, yet.

We will have to flip the whole teaching scheme on it's head in order to sort this out, and it will be painful. Teachers will have to be valued more than engineers and politicians (since the teachers produce little engineers and politicians) and we'll actually have to trust them to know enough and do their job. Possibly even pay them more.

Until then, it's square pegs in round holes all around.

NOTE: I am not Cory Doctorow nor would I even know him if he laid a hard, sharp thought on me in a crowded room. But he did go to a liberal school in Canada.
When the wireless router broadcasts the SSID, is that all it broadcasts or does it also broadcast its MAC address, etc? How can you tell the difference between one "linksys" router and another one, also broadcasting "linksys"?
>"... = Better future workforce"

Any educational system where that is the goal is going to be fucked from the beginning...at least for anybody who agrees with Dewey's idea that the goal of education is to make better people.

A country that considers itself made up of consumers and workers rather than citizens, invites crap like SOPA, PATRIOT, and the TSA's shoe fetish.
The stream worked for a while in VLC, but it was choppy. It doesn't work anymore. I don't think they were expecting too many people to watch this.
Stream is working fine for me. The content makes me wish we could find a way to firewall ourselves from powerful Luddites.
I’m German so don’t tell me about European cultural standards of privacy.

There was a huge outcry in Germany when Google announced that they wanted to start Street View there. Photographing the fronts of homes is perfectly legal in Germany (and will continue to be legal), the ability to opt-out was a concession from Google, not a legal requirement. That said, Google certainly caved in to prevent a Lex Google.

I despise the official German view on data protection that found its expression in this outcry, fueled by many politicians. To me it’s nothing more than thinly veiled anti-americanism and a reduction of data protection to limiting freedom and not the state.

Google’s freedom to photograph the fronts of homes or collect SSIDs is my freedom, too – at least if the law isn’t selectively enforced (and it shouldn’t be). Data protection’s main goal should be to limit the state and not my (and Google’s) freedom.

That’s what I mean by failed ideology of data protection:

1) Its meaning can easily be twisted and turned and consequently it can have perverse consequences.

2) Control over data is practically impossible and we should much rather try and find ways to better arrange us with a world in which privacy is hard or impossible to achieve.
This means nothing without quantitative evidence. If you've watched the page evolve, you would have noticed that they've varied their length greatly as they've tested for conversions. Not saying they have the greatest page, but many times what you may think is "too long" or "dumb" - when tested quantitatively - often proves otherwise.
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Define your target market and advertise on graphic/design sites that they regularly visit.

Least then you know you're hitting a more qualified audience straight away.

Have a look at how other similar apps have marketed themselves, where have they shown up?

What about writing e-mail to graphic/design bloggers to see if they want to check out your app and give it a write up.

I guess try to use the networks that are already in place out there to get the message to the community you are aiming at.
Use one of those plug computers like TonidoPlug to perform a local backup of your computers
Is it too late to do any sort of petition since the hearing is today?
Ah. That makes sense. Both Jinja2 and Mako are very much tied to Python. (Though compiling a subset of Jinja2 AST's to JavaScript would be an interesting exercise...)
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Even more interesting, to me at least, is that LiveDrive doesn't even offer themselves as an alternative. Carbonite, Mozy, etc., but not LiveDrive, where the data already sits?

I suppose they either do not see themselves as a "Backup" provider or they don't want to risk being seen as trying to poach Backify's customers.
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""Let's not forget the REAL motivation for the US Gov't to buy these things [1] The former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff whose company, Rapiscan, miraculously won a contract worth $173 million just days after he left his office and essentially bought the company.""

[1] http://thenewamerican.com/economy/commentary-mainmenu-43/524...
Your assumptions are completely wrong. This is nothing to do with whether an access point is public, private, encrypted or not. It is not used to populate a database of public wifi points.

Instead it's used to correlate publicly transmitted SSIDs with longitude and latitude. Such a database allows wifi-capable devices (including your laptop's browser) to somewhat reasonably geolocate without GPS (or, more common, more quickly but less accurately before a GPS fix is available).

Anyone outraged about this needs to extend the same outrage to Apple, Skyhook, among many others doing exactly the same thing. With no mechanism of opting out at all (because, really, opting out is ridiculous anyways).

HN, to some degree, is hijacked (including its own administration that hellbans people who hold contrary opinions). Somehow this useless rant by Siegler -- about a complete non-issue -- sits at #4. Another useless article, quoting Gruber, hit the front-page yesterday.

If I could exclude the votes of anyone who hit up arrow on either of those, HN would be a much more interesting site.
I'm listening currently (11:43a EST) and they're quoting cyber security experts about how it could undermine security. From consumer union groups about how it affects consumer safety, from venture capitalists about how it can stifle innovation.
A lady right now is addressing how it's an issue that they don't have any technical expertise on the panel.
It's not ALL madness..
Disagree with both of you. Video and audio are both smooth and free of dropouts, and the testimony of this attorney (who is she, btw?) is clear and informative.

Compared to some other hearings, the reps asking questions seem legitimately interested in making the bill suck a lot less. Time will tell, I suppose, and it sucks that this bill made it this far, but I'd highly recommend watching the feed if you care about the outcome.

For example, your next letter to your elected representative could reference specific content of the discussion rather than rehashing something that was talked about. Nothing says "I care" like "I cared enough to sit through the same hearing you did."
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PIPA and SOPA Need a New Name
I do not take seriously critique by anyone who judges something they can't (or don't) do themselves. Even Roger Ebert is at least a screenwriter as well as a film critic.
It must sucks to be a bright hacker that work for Microsoft.

Don't you think people who ought to know better should be opposing this bill? If we could get Bill Gate on board, that would be great. I mean, he already have billion of dollars, why should he care about making more money?
Talking about the Firefox plugin to workaround site blocking now...popcorn...
My point is just that if there were profit in processing transactions as wire transfers, they'd have been streamlined/automated/replaced with a more-modern equivalent long ago.
I'm so glad to hear that there's a mild representation from a few voices of reason. Trying to drum up any sort of attention from my Facebook/Twitter list is just frustrating and had left me very disheartened.
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It's interesting how subtle yet important that difference is.
Zoe Lofgren's statements were really good, and her criticisms of the way the hearing was structured (5 for, 1 against, no engineers) were compelling. Her question of, "How many sites would you want to see taken down?" and the dodging is telling, too.

And Darrell Issa did a phenomenal job calling into question the need for the legislation because of the function of the ITC & usefulness of administrative law solutions already in place.

Wow, Dennis Ross (R-FL) apparently doesn't understand that free speech protections apply to the GOVERNMENT, not to business. "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech..." So yes, when Google takes down a site, it's not unconstitutional. When the government does it, in some instances, that is unconstitutional.