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Someone once said that 100s of thousands of books have been written to try to express the inexpressible, but only 1 has succeeded... The Book of Mirdad.

> Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple; but a burden for the swift of foot; and a greater burden for the winged.

Most people will read two pages of this book and hand it back. But that's their failure, not the books'.

If you read the above quote, and don't get its true meaning, don't get this book, it will read as pure nonsense.

The true meaning is that we (the cripple, all of us) use logic (a tool, the crutch) to help us (which is good), but at some point in time (after you've mastered logic) you reach an understand that there is no right or wrong, no point in progress or success, that the universe does not care about any of this, and that logic now holds you back (from enlightenment).

Using logic, you can be a scholar, even a philosopher, but you'll never reach enlightenment.

Now watch the truly crippled downvote this away.
>Why would space war ships be manned when we're already flying unmanned vehicles on earth

Because the longest distance on Earth is only about 0.07 light-seconds.
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Thanks. I updated my post to point to this one.
SOME people respond better to a face and voice on video. Others prefer any one of a kaleidoscope of possible engagement methods. That's why it's important to try lots of approaches and see which ones resonate with your market.

Use your creativity folks - your videos CAN and WILL rank on page one with the right SEO (assuming there aren't already 1,000 videos targeting the same keywords).
Borker was also arrested later by NYPD.
Do any developers maintain statistics for their apps on jailbroken vs. non-jailbroken devices? Do any developers take jailbreaking into account when building their apps, or is it just an ignored segment?

It would be interesting to note trends in jailbreaking activity against iOS versions and any potential changes to functionality for App Store apps.
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Thunderdome is the only real civil court methodology.
That is, people who understand class-based inheritence have a very small leap to get prototypal inheritence.

I used to think that, and then I watched a lot of people try. It's harder than you think.

I used a networked server used primarily for MUDs called DGD (Dworkin's Generic Driver) for awhile. The most common MUD libraries for that use prototype-based inheritance. I know mine (based on Skotos) supported multiple prototypes. I think Skotos did as well.

It was interesting - it was pretty easy to explain the prototype-based inheritance to non-programmers. It was much more difficult (usually) to explain it to programmers.

I don't think it's as much "class-based inheritance is good preparation and prototype-based inheritance isn't" as you think.
RubyGems doesn't have anything particularly better here, unless you're maintaining your own gem server. If Facebook deleted the repo and the gemcutter published gem, you'd be in the same boat. If gemcutter disappeared (even temporarily due to an outage), you'd also be stuck.

In general, you should mirror external dependencies to the extent you're risk-averse. Mildly paranoid startup? Fork any github repos that might disappear and that don't already have forks you trust. Running a large financial institution? Run your own gem server, apt repo, etc.
To those saying Amazon initially announced one month: no, this is what they switched it to when it was finally available for purchase, after already having told every tech site that when it launched it would come with a year.

Some websites out there that contain historical information still reference it, so Google for it and look around.

I feel that it is a bait and switch. Even if the news did not originate from Amazon or Amazon was misquoted, Amazon did nothing to correct these sites and has profited it,
>>rather than leave the regulation to questionable jurisdictions in island nations I have never heard of.

You never heard about a place but they are a questionable jurisdiction?

"Antigua is a recognised centre for online gambling companies. Antigua was one of the very first nations to legalise, licence and regulate online gaming."[1]

"Stable Jurisdiction: Antigua and Barbuda is an independent nation state with a stable Westminster-style democratic government. General elections are constitutionally due every five (5) years.

Antigua is a member of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), and is one of the fastest growing economies in that region. The currency is the Eastern Caribbean dollar, which is pegged to the US dollar at a rate of EC$2.7 to the dollar."[2]

When I was growing up[I'm an Antiguan], Antigua had the most ip per users in the world. Even right now they are working to keep their infrastructure top notch.

Investors don't invest in countries that are unstable[insert something about PESTLE here[3]]. The fact that it's a internet gambling hub testify to its stability for economic venture. The people in power are pretty cognizant of the fact that they need to appear stable and have a transparent democracy.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigua#Internet_hosting_and_ga...

[2]http://www.investantiguabarbuda.org/abia/offshore/financial_...

[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEST_analysis
Coincidentally I was asked I put together one of those "top 15 of 2011" lists for .NET magazine on more or less this topic, you might find these of interest: http://www.netmagazine.com/features/2011-review-15-web-confe...
I'm one of the two people who wrote the article in question. Thanks for this response. This is much closer to what we were trying to express than the impression that many people (including Nutter) seem to have gotten out of it. It's reassuring that at least some readers were able to make sense of the general points we wanted to convey.

> The position of Dart guys is simple: by compiling an arbitrary language (Dart in this case) to x86 (or whatever native arch the browser is running on) they can get a much faster code than compiling to an abstract VM, like JVM or .NET or parrot.

Not just that, but that's is much simpler and easier to do so. It may be possible to get just as fast with a public intermediate bytecode format, but the amount of work required would be much much greater. Given how much effort it already takes to create a new language and all of the surrounding infrastructure (we're designing the language, iterating on it, writing a spec, building a VM, writing compilers, filling out the core library, writing tools, editors, documenting, evangelizing, etc.), anything we can do to minimize effort is a good idea.
Divorces are already generally settled out of court.

As for other forms of civil court... I'm curious to hear the justification for your claim.
When I read the heading, I expected this to be a rant about patents and the imposition of artificial scarcities to various industries like music, software and pharmaceuticals, where the marginal cost of production is negligible compared to how much they cost customers.

The article was a pleasant surprise; instead of arguing the trite, it made a point that was rarely made. For me though, I just write off these "wasted" minutes of walking up the stairs to get the scissors as "exercise."
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Yes, I have contacted Amazon. However, the device does not look like it was damaged in shipping, it looks like it is a manufacturing error.

Amazon is not gaining any points from this, at any rate.
Yes. I was thinking of the case where if you win, thousands of people will file similar suits against the same company.

In such a case, the company has more at stake than you do. It's more likely that it's not worth your while to get a lawyer to fight the appeal.
Great idea, but what happens when every major purchase includes a EULA that requires binding arbitration, like so many contracts already do?
Especially if they get flash-mobbed like she's calling for. Since they would need to show up at so many places to be able to even try to appeal. Some jurisdictions don't take kindly to not showing up to small claims court and then trying to appeal a default position against you.
Without specific evidence like phone records, how could they prove illegal collusion?
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We're missing the point on SOPA
This is mostly spot on. But I believe there is a part about decreasing parallelism that is subtly wrong. The posts specific arguments against parallelism seem to imply the optimal way to create shared understanding is to locate it in a single head.

The issue with trite parallelism is that it creates priority inversion. The critical resource is the devs who understand the problem and the code. Trite parallelism merely occupies all the devs who understand with the task of teaching new people, thus prevents progress on diagnosing existing problems. It is however important to know that increasing the number of devs who understand an area is a postive. With increased understanding of an area, new ways to partition work can be discovered or created. Reducing the latency to correctly triage outstanding bugs is also important for re-scoping, which is somewhat more powerful than merely re-estimating.
Honestly, until they shell out for lobbyists to help push through a bill I like, I don't consider them redeemed.
As recently as 2011, Microsoft launched Small BASIC, although that might be more aimed at kids. But anyway it's entry level, that's for sure.

http://smallbasic.com
What about a shotgun approach? Take a comet, accelerate it up to a significant fraction of lightspeed (after all, you you have lightyears in which to do so), and trigger a bomb in the comet to blow it apart into a few smaller pieces, each traveling at a significant fraction of c. Rinse and repeat.
Thanks, Patio. I gather you were on the workforce side, correct?
Can anyone explain why would one want to transfer a domain from one US-based registrar to another given that all recent domain-related issues are US-centered?
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Correct - there are problems in this world that cannot be solved with force and guns, quite the opposite. The US is learning that in various ways these days.
The can still support SOPA, even if they aren't on the list. It would be nice to see a definitive "I was wrong about SOPA." statement from Bob Parsons and a personal commitment from the company stating the reversal of their position.

This move only seems to make it look like they don't support SOPA on the surface, with no underlying commitment to oppose it or even stay neutral. It also serves to throw every other company they've stood with to support SOPA by throwing them all under the bus.
Debatable. On the one hand, the farther the projectile is from the planet, the less it needs to be deflected. On the other hand, you have to expend energy to get to the damn thing in the first place.

I suppose the survival of your species renders moot most energy concerns though.
I agree that transcripts are mandatory - unless you are a super entertaining person on camera like Gary Vaynerchuk (most of us aren't).

You might think your on-camera presence and videos are unpolished and unprofessional - but that's YOU.

What if that slightly unpolished and rough video you created is EXACTLY the video a potential customer has been looking for? What if even a poor quality video could deliver the exact information a potential lead has been seeking, and answer their exact questions?

I think you underestimate the impact that average quality videos can have on customers.

I do, however, agree with your first point - the video must be relevant - to your content, to your site, to your startup, and most importantly, to your AUDIENCE.
I couldn't agree more.

Facebook started college only and had no competition in that space, so they did well but had the luxury to expand slowly, essentially the B&J model in the article. When it was obvious the next step was to open themselves to the public at large, the social network lockin effect worked against them. Everyone at the time was using MySpace or Friendster or whatever else was popular at the time (I honestly don't remember). In order to make a dent, they had to hit hard and fast, so they took some funding and exploded out of the gate.

The point I'm trying to make is, Facebook mixed both the Amazon and the B&J model for growing a company. They did one, then the other, which really made sense for them considering the position they were in at the time.
I'd say quite a lot of GoDaddy services require a domain to be registered. But that does not mean they need to be registered with GoDaddy.

Services that do need a domain registered with GoDaddy:

Domain Name Registration
Transfer Domain
Bulk Domain Name Registration
Bulk Domain Transfers
Internationalized Domain Names (IDN)
Discount Domain Club
Domain Buy Service
Go Daddy Auctions®
Private Registration
Business Registration
Deluxe Registration
Protected Registration
Certified Domain
Premium Listing
Premium DNS
Domain Backordering
Domain Management

Services that don't need a domain registered with GoDaddy:

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Virtual Dedicated Servers
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Virtual DataCenter
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Go Daddy Hosting Connection®
Website Analytics
Search Engine Visibility
Website Protection Site Scanner
Hosting Management
Go Daddy Email
Hosted Exchange
Online Calendar
Fax thru Email
Online File Storage
Email Marketing
Email Management
Webmail
Search Engine Visibility
Website Analytics
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Business Consulting
Business Solutions
Quick Shopping Cart®
Merchant Accounts
SSL Certificates
Code Signing Certificate
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That sounds great for the telemarketing and political system, to me! I tire of calls about my political stances on random issues... as well as telemarketing calls.
I am not pissed off at Ocean Marketing. In fact I love the put downs in their emails. Of course it was awful customer support. But damn. Mike K of Penny Arcade tries to flex his muscle saying he runs Pax. The Ocean Marketing rep did not give a damn, and took the piss out of him too. LMAO!
Depends where. You probably can't live in Manhattan working as an oDesker, but you could easily make enough to make a good living if you're in the midwest.

Your strategy though would be to build up a resume with oDesk. You're probably going to hit a limit though - I mean I've worked with $20/hr Eastern European developers that would be $100k developers in the Bay Area/NYC so it will come down to: what is your reputation and how much can you command.

After you build up a portfolio, you're going to have to use it as a spring board to get a fulltime job or fulltime onsite contracting for like $40/hour, etc. at a company.

From there you can basically build a "normal" software career and get the industry contacts, start networking as a programmer and if you decide can go back to remote contracting for a better-than-living-wage.

This isn't the path I took, but I know a lot of developers who have took this path, worked their way up the ladder throughout the 90's/2000's around the US, then 'retired' to a good life with their family in say Kansas/Nebraska (insert midwestern state) doing contracting work and getting to enjoy life the way they want (life Silicon Valley/NYC isn't for everyone).

REMEMBER, software as a career is going to be mostly networking and people skills in the long run - good luck!
I don't think its a question of if poker is a skill; people, skilled or unskilled, can become dangerously addicted to poker and lose their shirts in the process. Most legitimate games of skill do not involve risking your livelihood to participate.

To "disrupt" the gambling industry is to inevitably profit off of addicts.

(Though, the same could be said of booze makers and alcoholics.)
In a case I read about recently, the megacorp sent a paralegal with zero pertinent knowledge to represent them in small claims. (I think it was on HN — does anybody remember what I'm talking about?)
Well GoDaddy that doesn't change the fact that I've had my domains unlocked for 4 days now and all my authorization codes still come back as invalid. Is that normal? I've been transferring domains for 10 years, now all of a sudden I don't know what im doing.
Pretty slick. Anyone thinking of using this for anything serious, though, should note the disclaimer:

“The HTML5 Filesystem API is only supported in Chrome. Therefore, the library only works in Chrome.”
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Using the same Visual Studio to code desktop programs? Or are there some plug-ins for the mobile development?
from the screenshots, the graphics look good. do you make the graphics too?
This handy guide should help you through GoDaddy's maze of a UI. http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/14629857835/a-step-by-step-g...
I don't think space combat is even going to happen. Any combatant with the necessary wealth and technology to develop any space-combat capability is going to have significant terrestrial interests and nuclear weapons already, at which point they're already subject to MAD and won't engage in direct combat anyway. At the very minimum, you would need economically and politically independent Moon/Mars colonies, and even they would be so dependent upon Earth trade that they would either not want to start a war or, even if they did, would have Earthbound allies who are significantly more vulnerable than they are, and no less essential to their survival.

The closest we'll ever get is probably the development of ASAT weapons, and even those aren't likely to see much use.
Hibernate should be to programmers what cake mixes are to bakers: beneath their dignity.

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It depends on the momentum of the asteroid. If I've accelerated an asteroid up to .5c, then even if you discover the attack years ahead of time you might still not have the energy to deflect the asteroid by enough to save your planet.

You also have to remember that the attacker can launch multiple simultaneous asteroids. You might have enough nukes to deflect one asteroid. Do you have enough to deflect ten? A hundred?
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The fighting methods in that essay still require ships (to sneak up into e.g. Kuiper's Belt). In any case, a big, dumb projectile can have its course changed with much less energy than required to fire it. The bigger it is, the earlier it will be detected; and the faster it goes, the smaller the angular deflection needed to miss its target.
Make sure to use an affordable arbitration institution.

I am launching judge.me in a few days, offering $299 email arbitration service that is legally binding in 146 countries.
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Wow, the concept and screens look great, but I can't help feeling a bit disappointed when I find out the latest OS X version is from late 2009.

I would love to put some time into it as a hobby project, but the source isn't available :(
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The wonderful thing about nerd rage is that it gets stupid things done. I fully expect to see a response project of ACTUAL TCP/IP implementations via lego trains. Hell, multiple response projects, probably.

And then someone will do IPX/SPX just to be cute.
I'm currently mocking and misunderstanding Foursquare and Turntable.fm. Which startups are you mocking right now?
I don't know if as smart as would be valuable against as low powered as. A computer would make decisions instantly, take much less resources, would die less easily, wouldn't get bored, wouldn't forget it's mission, would feel no sympathy, could travel farther, could stay in operation longer, could tactically self destruct without hesitation, would take no salary.

But that being said, I honestly can't think of a reason to ever have a space battle. You either want to blow up a planet or not. If so, you do it from an large distance with a humongous rock. If not, you land on the planet, or fly around their atmosphere and kill them the old fashioned way.

Maybe defensively you chase down an attacker to prevent future attacks? But then all you have is guided missiles and the speed of their ships. Not really a battle.

What I guess I'm saying is I can't ever see there being an attack position other than lets wait until there are no rocks in-between us and them.
How is this better than Gluster[1] or MogileFS[2]? Haystack is pretty neat but it seems like it loses quite a bit when simplified.

[1]: http://www.gluster.org/
[2]: http://danga.com/mogilefs/
Sorry I couldn't help more, internally a lot of us were surprised by this move also.
I have just asked a question related to yours: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3396823
my takeaway: there will be no space battles, because whichever side has more money will always have vastly superior weapons, and they will take what they want. violence will happen in key strategic plays, like political assassinations. it's not like today's earth-combat where we're all mostly equal and everyone has time to launch their nukes and we all die. this is all assuming that one side doesn't simply exterminate the other like a termite infestation.
The problem with expecting the community to step up and maintain the library is that Facebook's URL level API is a complete disaster. Badly documented, frequently changing for no apparent reason, often breaks in subtle ways for weeks on end and then they ignore you when you bring it up, what documentation they do have is often blatantly wrong, etc.

I don't think you'll get much community support behind maintaining an API which relies on their URL-based APIs unless the people involved really, really need this functionality. The mess Facebook has created with their APIs makes this a very non-fun itch to scratch for its own sake.
Thanks for linking and for sharing as well :) .

I'm in Uruguay, we have a decent developer culture here, but I want to go the freelance route as well (I'm sick of my current job - it's safe and pays a reasonable local wage but is Dilbert-esque).

My programming skills are similar to what you had at the beginning. Did you blog about what you went through?
I don't understand much about it, but i am impressed how robust this thing is. Especially when you know the tech industry as it is today, these are complete different design principles.

We should focus on faster space gear, so we don't have to wait so long when anything happens to Voyager.
Does anybody know something about solar-sails, i heard they can theoretically accelerate to 1/10 light speed.