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> I know what I'd like to be doing, but I also know I'm not motivated to do it.

You just contradicted yourself. Being motivated to do something means wanting to do it.

The problem is that "What do I want to do" actually has two meanings. It means "What would I like to be doing each day" and it means "What do I want to have done". These are very different questions, and they have different answers. I'd like to have fed the poor, but I would not enjoy standing on the street asking for donations from passers-by. I want to be designing computer games, but I won't be particularly proud of writing Battlefield N+1.

I've spent years optimizing for how my life will look in retrospect. This came as a revelation to me, but if I look back at my fondest memories over the past few years, none of them have involved big goals. Instead, they've all been things that were fun to do, like gamejam and trapeze lessons. This year I've got a new plan: -Ofun. I might not change the world, but maybe if I'm enjoying myself a lot more that'll be ok.
To me (Brit) _free_ in this context is perfectly understood as _free at the point of use_
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Do people really use these suggestions though? I don't think I've ever used them personally (maybe once?), but maybe others do. And even if people use them very frequently, I still don't think that would make the usefulness of Amazon grow as a "square" of the number of users as the article implies.
USPTO rejects Oracle’s patent claim on Google Android
SMS, contacts and internet access for a simple game? No chance I would install this or even recommend this.
The return rate will be high and Amazon will suffer for it.

The Fire currently has over 8000 reviews on Amazon with an average rating of 3.9. Over 5500 of those reviews give the device 4 or 5 stars. Something tells me the average Fire customer does not have such high expectations.
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It only takes the mistreatment of one customer.
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In my case the two tend to cluster together. I've found that the EHS is usually triggered by a small physical sound in the environment, like the house ticking as it cools. It was scary as hell for me when it first started happening, but I've grown accustomed to it.

I've never gotten used to the sleep paralysis, but thankfully it is much less common for me. Both seem to be triggered by stress in my case.
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The comment about the effectiveness of AOL's lock-in looks a bit optimistic with the benefit of hindsight too.
Most of the mainstream media is sadly over-stating this. Although this is welcome clarification on the Wire Act, online gambling still falls under UIGEA and IGBA laws. The Black Friday indictments did not make use of the Wire Act specifically because of the ambiguity.

For further reading from the online poker media:

http://pokerfuse.com/news/law-legislation/department-justice...

http://craakker.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-doj-wire-act-opinio...
Ah, but Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Pirsig is very much tech related!
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, old but definitely worth the read. Changes the way you look at things.
You need to open up, for someone to understand your problem and suggest any solution. What is your specialization, your interests, expertise etc.
Tell that to Absolute Poker exec Brent Beckley who just pleaded guilty to charges that included violations of UIGEA

edit: And this clarification of the Wire Act changes nothing as to the legality of online poker.
I think I bought my iPod early 2009, not sure anymore.
An amazing book. Read it twice already, and the 3rd time isn't too far away I think.
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Mmap just gives an alternate API - access the file contents as a memory buffer, not a file. Turns out the underlying mechanism is the same, and if you are happy with fseek(), read() and write(), you don't really need mmap at all.
The Game Innovator’s Dilemma
Seriously? I've often seen this book recommended, but I just can't figure out what people find in it. Care to share?
I am a disgruntled entrepreneur who for nearly 2 years have been developing an enterprise 2.0 solution for the "closed" startup. I predict this will be the year of the Open Startup and it's foundup®. We running a closed alpha development trial and launching public beta on 12.12.12. What's so great about the open startup? It doesn't need the 1% to succeed and they launch as Open Corp and new selfless framework in which 20-80% of net profits are invested into lannching more open corps. My prediction is this...

1) Closed incubators such as this one and other clones will be displaced by a highly scaleable open free solution that offers a solution where 1% are not needed.
2) Closed crowdfunding funding platforms like profounder, KS, IGG, etc will be disrupted by our free version that offers TWO new ways to raise funds, 1) has raised over $1.6bn for npo strategic initiatives and another is my creation that I call passive crowdfunding.
3) Developers will be marginalized to becoming construction workers. As I have invented a new way to validate ideas.

There is a lot more but I will leave some things to be suprises :) Here are my talks... http://j.mp/OSiplaylist. If you want to see the solution that lies outside your paradigm to fully comprehend and you are willing to sign an NDA then I would be happy to show you it. After all I don't want this BS happening to us http://j.mp/modista. Open Startups is really Stupid simple... it combines 10 years of me beta testing experience, throws in fundraising lessons learned and 2 years of picking apart the Valley Startup. Just as Wikipedia disrupted MS Encarta. The Open Startup will change the world. I am here telling you but it should so absurd none of you will take heed... that OK. FOUNDUPS® Vision statement is "Be Good." because let's face it "Don't Be Evil" just doesn't cut it any more. We are a blue ocean strategy just letting now the red ocean we are here and would LOVE you to own some of use to hedge against our disrupting your business model. Jimmy Wales never did that... I think that was wrong. Paul, there you have my prediction... Love to show you our Open Startup !ncubator (OS!)

FOUNDUPS® Michael Trout, CEO
Sorry for the edits, like Shakespeare I am highly dislexic
While I agree that social action is the best course, I disagree with one premise: that drug users don't know the consequences. They quite often do, they decide they'll take the risk for a variety of reasons, including plain-old self destruction, boredom, depression and others. Each of those has to be tackled in a different way — no silver bullets here.
Your original comment should read:

> The number of dead people whose ashes got a known-to-be small but definite odds at being put into space by Elon Musk? 208.

It's well known that new launch platforms fail a lot initially. Soyuz still fails after 757+ launches, and the fatality rate for humans is still 2%.

So, when you get on launch #3 of a new platform for which launch #1 & #2 failed, you've got no excuse for to complain about failure.

Links:

http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/log2011.html#rate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_acc...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_1#Launch_history
This was always going to happen. It was only banned in the first place to clear the field of foreign companies that dominated the market. So now - 6 years later - american companies have finally caught up, it's time to repeal the ban.

Side note: I don't necessarily think this is a bad thing. I mean if someone's going to profit off the misery and suffering of addicts, it might as well be their fellow countrymen.

EDIT: re:"it was only banned" : I know it was technically illegal, however I suspect that wouldn't have been an issue if it was a field dominated by american companies.
The website has the graphic 40+ and tells me theres over 50 quizes... why?
Oh boy, here come the spambots...
I hope NaCl doesn't gain any traction. It really is a step backwards.
The author is from Britain, which is much better mapped in OSM than the US.
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We need the internet access, so that we can add more quizzes to the app. We will be adding new quizzes every week.

We provide carrier billing with our app. So we need that SMS permission.

Contact permission is required for integrating with Openfeint.

Sorry to ask for these permissions. We take your privacy very seriously.
Damnit, yes, thanks. I now feel a bit stupid. I dug through a mixed stack of Bradbury, Heinlein, and Niven earlier in the year, so who-wrote-what is a bit mixed up in my brain.
Unless something has the potential for generating $100m+ in revenue it's not worth twitter looking at it. And I doubt you could find 1000 people willing to pay $100,000 for that service.
http://predictionbook.com/ is handy for keeping track of predictions, and getting feedback about your overconfidence/underconfidence. (It generates a graph of your your confidence vs. accuracy - '90% sure' should happen 90% of the time.) Outside of specialist sites, you generally see no confidence values attached to predictions, and vagueness that makes judging them difficult or impossible.

Of possible interest:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/7z9/1001_predictionbook_nights/

http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/8dx/predictionbook_a_sh...
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Intel Medfield (tablet/smartphone SoC) specs and power consumption leak
Just because you do not agree with me does not mean my comment should be downvoted.
Because of Bob Parsons' peculiar arrogance.
Sorry it was a typo, we are starting with 44 quizzes but we will be adding more quizzes every week.
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Born to run by Christopher McDougall

Read it in the beginning of this year when I was starting to run, very inspiring. And look, I'm still running!
1) RIM will be bought.

2) Google will fold ChromeOS and roll up everything into variations of Android.
It's actually quite simple.

When you throw a ball, it only slows down because of friction with the air surrounding it or because it hits something.

When you give an object force, it will just keep going because there is no opposing force to diminish the force you gave it in the first place.

Hope that makes some semblance of sense!
"The 4-Hour Body", by Tim Ferriss.

Because of that book, within 3 months I went from running completely out of breath after 2 minutes of running, to finishing a half-marathon in 2 hours. And during the prior 3 months, I had lost 15 kilos by following the "slow-carb diet" described in the book.

Reading it seemed to flip a switch in my brain: before, I would think of my body as something I had little control over, while after, I saw it as not only something I had full control over, but as something I could hack. I've also followed up on quite a few of the product recommendations in the book (e.g. Inov-8 trainers, Aqua Sphere goggles, etc), and have yet to be disappointed.

That said, the book does come with a heavy dose of Tim's pointless boasting, half-assed chapters (e.g. the polyphasic sleep or the baseball batting ones), and far more conjecture than a book of that sort should have.
Yes, found about this in a old blog post. Thanks for the information.
I enjoyed "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" by David Graeber, an anthropoligical look at the history of money, morality and the nature of debt.
The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind - Julian Jaynes

Very Powerful Read!
Using read()/write() to access shared files is a bad idea because you have no control over buffering. Just because you've written something to a file does not mean it actually has been written somewhere where other processes can see it when they try to.

However, using shared files for IPC is very practical (I've done it before), but you want to use mmap() in conjunction with at least memory barriers or mutexes/semaphores/condition variables that work between processes. If you just need memory barriers, then the atomic_ops lib (http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/atomic_ops/, https://github.com/ivmai/libatomic_ops/) will include those. For more advanced interprocess synchronization, you can use named semaphores on Linux/OS X (sem_open() and friends); on Linux, mutexes also work in shared memory.

Also, channels created with pipe() are very efficient on modern UNIXes; if that type of IPC is all you need, you may not require anything else (I've benchmarked them myself vs. handwritten implementations, and they're difficult to beat if there's any measurable degree of contention).

Incidentally, despite the author's father having misgivings about shared memory models, there's nothing inherently problematic about them; it's the near complete lack of programming language support to make it safe that makes it so frustrating to use. If you have a language that does not allow you read/write access to data without first having acquired the corresponding read/write lock, it's not any more error prone than interprocess communication.

The other element that makes shared memory concurrency hard is again a programming language issue; the absence of efficient thread-local variables. If you have efficient and convenient thread-local storage, you have all the benefits of separate processes (you can just make all your data thread-local), but can gradually share those data structures that can safely be shared, and generally more easily than in a multi-process model (try keeping anything that contains pointers in an mmap()ed area without tearing your hair out).
It has to be Java Concurrency in Practice. Even though it has Java in its name I think every programmer should read this.

Other books I absolutely loved are Effective Java 2 and Programming Interviews Exposed. I'm waiting for Amazon to ship me the second edition of the latter.

Hackers and Painters is a classic I default to whenever I'm looking for inspiration.
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Only the beginning of the end of Closed Institutions.

For the last 5000 years the closed institution has ruled humanity. 12.12.12 that will change. And a new collaborative framework will marginalize the 1% and their money.

It all started with the the closed family of the strongest tribal leader... future generations became chiefs by enslaving and killing rivals. Fearful of others killing them they sought mystics to aid them and in turn these anointed them into Kings with divine right of rule; and the "closed" religion casts were born. And these leaders become great and powerful tyrants. Innovation brought about a new class "the merchants" and these eventually usurped the tyrants in great rebellions Magna Carta and the French Revolution and over time more innovation made these expand into global territories and giving them eventually more power and control than the leaders. Such power in fact they decided and controlled all matters -- spinning everything out of control: Climate, Fishery's, Forests, etc... Until that day that the bearer of the gift arrived and that gift was the Open !ncubator Framework (O!F) makes a good story :) http://mtrout.com
The curious will get labeled as doctor shoppers, then you will get nothing but an entry in their database. It's crazy, they treat the stats not the patient.
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We concentrated a lot on the Single player game play and moved the multiplayer aspect to a separate tab called "Challenges". We will work on making it easier.

Thanks
Pretty much same here in Sweden. Before everybody jumped to Facebook, they where all on MSN.
The one thing I dont understand is why are gaming companies showing public support of SOPA. They should know that the trend-setters in gaming industry are geeks and nerds who are all very aware of how internet works and how SOPA may potentially drain the life out of it. Also, a lot of gamers are tech-savvy enough that they will start pirating their games just to spite them.
> "It is very rare for OSM to be completely bare in a major metropolitan area"

I don't think anyone claims OSM is simply missing entire cities - but entire developments in cities are definitely missing in many cases.

> "You don't have to be a cartographer to add data to OSM. You sign up, point and click or drag and drop."

Not true. OSM gives you a handy satellite image reference, so you can certainly fill in streets - but unless you're from the area, you are poorly qualified to decide what type of street it is, and you certainly don't know the street names. In other words, the common contributor is empowered with little more ability than to trace satellite imagery, with no knowledge of place names, street names, or landmarks that are necessary to build a real map. In fact, the only places that the average contributor is qualified to map is the area directly around themselves.

This may work for a casual contributor who wants to see their neighborhood on OSM, but it's entirely unrealistic for a developer who wants to support his/her users.

Consult another map? That violates the terms for contributing to OSM - for good reason, they want to steer absolutely clear of any allegations of plagiarism or copyright infringement.

So if someone complains that my app has missing map data, unless the user is located near me or one of the areas I'm intimately familiar with, they're SOL until someone else fixes it.

> "Mapping with paper and pencil on foot or bike or car is a great way to get outdoors and thousands of people use this technique to add to OSM every day"

This makes no sense at all. I get the spirit of the project, and I fully support it. In fact, I have contributed to OSM. But expecting this out of most developers, or even a significant portion, is lunacy.

This is like telling your IT manager "we should use this very incomplete library. The code is open, so any missing functionality or bugs we can fix ourselves! This will be a great benefit to our coders, so they can crack their knuckles on some problems they don't usually get to work on."

Which is entirely true, but misses the point by a mile - developers may be interested in contributing to OSM (I know I am), but how many are willing to ship this in a production environment, where the goal is to build a great product, not baby-sit an incomplete data provider?
I can't really decide, but here are a few of my favorites.

* Song of Ice and Fire series. I never really liked fantasy but this series is wonderful. The TV-series (Game of Thrones) is okay but a far cry from the books.

* The Pragmatic Programmer. The best programming book I've seen. A must read for programmers I'd say.

* Introduction to Algorithms. Haven't really gone through it but so far it's been great.
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Onward by Howard Schultz

Howard has returned to CEO post at Starbucks just before the crisis of 2008. A great story about turnaround effort.
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I don't think de Button mentions anywhere that status is based on merit (which is good because the correlation depends on many factors and is tenuous, at best), or what you have achieved.

He's saying that your therapist might ask about your parents and family, but won't probably ask about the nameless people you run into every day -- your neighbors, the people in line at the store, etc. -- but these people also play a large role in terms of your self-esteem and ultimately your happiness because you are constantly defining yourself in terms of those around you. You will be happier living in a place where you make 10% more than the average, than where you make 10% less, no matter what that amount is.
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If you are using write(2)/read(2) on a local file, is there any other buffer that comes into play aside from the memory in buffer cache itself?

You are correct that obviously we don't really know when the data will hit disk, but that doesn't matter because the readers and writers are all hitting the same in-memory cache.
The solar system is huge, Voyager still won't leave our classical definition of the solar system for many, many years.
- The year of the startup.

- Massive government policy changes.

- Revolution in conscious dream and mind (self) control.

- Apple TV sucks.

- Facebook gets lucky.

And of course...

- My startup is the most viral web app of the year!
I've snapped awake from night terrors many times, and my personal experience is that exploding head is an altogether different phenomenon (although the adrenaline rush is the same.)
BEWARE!

Spammy link goes for shysters charging for free software.

If you really want to JB an iPhone, you want the iPhone Dev Team blog: http://iphone-dev.org/

(Currently logjammed because they just announced the untethered iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak today.)
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Am I wrong in thinking that G+ attempts all of these things and yet still struggles, or am I in the wrong circles? Or is it that Google has yet to reach a tipping point with their product?
10x-100x growth in enrollment into online classes from top universities (like Stanford classes)

Non-TED lecture to get 5M views on Youtube
It looks like highcharts.js to me.
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Google maps now showing isometric overlay?
On the other side of the trade ... some RIM related commentary on seeking alpha by one of the people I pay attention to, Rocco Pendola: "don't expect anybody, particularly Amazon, to buy RIM anytime soon.".
http://seekingalpha.com/article/315331-amazon-making-blackbe...
The coming retail apocalypse: some axioms
I had the opportunity to talk to two ladies from the review team in person at a recent Apple event and my impression was that they really know what they're doing.
Any GSM phone vulnerable to new scam: researcher
Yes, marketing is my achilles heel. Thanks for pointing this tool out. I'll definitely have a look.