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Vint doesn't say what he means by 'Internet', and I think that his argument fails on a sufficiently broad definition of Internet.

The Internet is 'just a technology' if you define it as a network of nodes which communicate using Internet Protocol.

That may have been the original meaning of the term as Vint planned the early work, but that meaning is not what it means to most people.

In modern usage, the open Internet is a global network that allows data to be passed between any two hosts without requiring that third parties authorise the content of that data.

Under that definition, the Internet is a concept synonymous with uncensored automated communication, rather than a specific technology; these concepts are capable of surviving into the future even if the hardware and software protocols layered on it change drastically.
I recommend watching "Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex" from this list.

Makes one think of self-assured designers vs. AB testing, how trial and error is much better approach to the design of a site than God complex approach.
Last time I implemented it, it was in FORTRAN 77.

No. Not really. During a test I quickly coded the solution to a numeric problem in BASIC on a Casio PB-700. It was fun to watch the HP-41 crowd tearing their hair off. That's when I first learned pg's "beating the averages" lesson.
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I'm not so sure you don't have to worry about the formats. PDF can give you a much richer visual experience than, say, .mobi can. If you go for a lowest common denominator, ok, sure, you can generate both from the same sources, but likely you'll get a fairly plain looking PDF.
There are definitely those who have succeeded despite the odds, but there are also plenty who have failed because of the odds. To ignore genetics is to put your head in the sand. My Portland Trailblazers have had major issues with injuries. Brandon Roy retired due to the knee issues he was born with. Greg Oden's knees appear to be made of rice krispie treats. LaMarcus Aldridge had to get his genetic heart condition treated before this last season started. You cannot just ignore those issues, so I don't see it of value to ignore mental health.
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Are we supposed to add ours now? If so then

"Free will does not exist"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will
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You should see the command line interface my travel agent has (maybe all of them, I don't know), they seem to memorize 100s of airport short codes and use an odd syntax surprisingly quickly for 'non-computer' people.
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how do you convince your clients if you don't have physical "centralized" location?

i think it depends on the culture, but in here (asia) people will hesitate doing business with a company with "scattered" team.
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This is NOT second system syndrome. This is business, pure and simple. I had a long, LONG series of emails and calls with CouchBase about commercial support for Couch. We have some big production apps on it.

When it got down to time to pay for support, they told me (this is 2 months ago) in a rare and unusual bit of candor, that they were going to drop Couch in less than six months, so did I want to buy commercial support for just six months?

I told them not only do I not want commercial support, but I just got so freaked out I would not recommend couch for future projects to clients, because it was obvious that internally the team had moved on.

They asked me not to tell anyone so I didn't, but now that this is out there I can say what I deducted from our discussions: Couch doesn't make any money; MemBase does. Period.

Kevin Smith at Opscode said they're moving away from Couch (and to MySQL) as Couch just doesn't scale. No finely grained reader/writer locks, one reader/writer thread/db, huge and random delays due to checkpointing that can make the server inoperable, difficulty ever finishing a view checkpoint under load, etc. I think he's right - it's been abandoned as a platform.

It's absolutely their prerogative to move on and it seems like the right decision, but it's not a technical decision. The reality is that CouchDB is largely a product running small, toy apps, written by people who won't PAY anything for support. MemBase is being used by big companies with a lot of money to spend on commercial support and enterprise features.

Actually there is still one case where I recommend Couch and it's when you need the mobile sync features. I doubt that they'll make those a priority anytime soon on the MemBase product (at least I haven't seen or heard anything).
I hadn't heard of that book and because of this post, its on my reading list. So, some people in this choir maybe wayward and would do well with sermons like these :)
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This is awesome, brings back some great old memories.

Would love to see some various SunOS/Solaris reboot screens in there.
> However, imo, a better approach to win public support would be to come up with specific solutions for the copyright problem and also acknowledge that copyright holders do have some legitimate concerns.

The types of solutions that are possible are the types they are least inclined accept. Piracy is not killable without taking away the ability to communicate privately and probably not even then. Soviet attempts merely lead to Samizdat, in spite of going to extreme lengths to track people down. Also, prior to the internet, copyright infringement was widespread over sneakernet. Attempts to control that via technical means merely taught a generation of kids how to crack software.

That's not to say there are no solutions. William Patry has a new book about copyright reform. There are new ways of doing business. For example, iTunes proved successful, in spite of the fact that anyone who wanted to could have downloaded the same songs for free. None of those things are stuff they want to hear, though. They don't want to change. They don't think they should have to change. But reality has the last word and reality has no qualms about being unfair.
Well, those rights are a bit different from, say, free speech, methinks.

In my opinion, we have the right to free speech by virtue of being human. At bare minimum, one has a brain, and that brain controls one's mouth. No other human can control someone else's voice in any fashion similar to how he controls his own. To restrict someone from exercising this right requires an outside force to aggress against the speaker. Societies today more or less agree, there's little (or nothing) one can say that should justify violence against the speaker. Similar reasoning can be applied to the use of justly acquired property as a means of disseminating information. It's a promise from government: "I won't take this away from you".

The right to a trial is different. No human is born with this right, as no human pops out of the womb with a staffed courthouse in his possession. In fact, the notion of a right to trial doesn't make sense if there are no laws. It also doesn't make sense if there are no conflicts (alone on a desert island). It's also a promise from government: "I'll give you the right to contest my decisions before I use force against you". It's more like a return policy than a natural right, in my opinion.
This graph shows the different effects on the Earth's speed around the Sun. It's complicated.

Perihelion was at 1am GMT 5 Jan.[1] However, the Earth and Moon orbit a common center of gravity[2], and when the Moon is closer to the Sun than the Earth, the center of the Earth is moving marginally faster than when the Earth is closer to the Sun than the Moon.

The Moon travels about 1 km/s in orbit (Earth relative)[3],
the Earth–Moon mass ratio is about 81:1[4], and the distance to the Moon is about 60 Earth radii.[5]

References:

[1] http://1.usa.gov/AykBoB

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_mass#Astronomy

[3] http://www.freemars.org/jeff/speed/index.htm

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit_of_the_Moon#Double_planet...

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit_of_the_Moon
I'm from the Philippines too (Taguig), and when I was just starting I was paying for 2 connections. Right now I just maintain one (dsl), and during outages and other emergencies I go to cafes with wifi. Generally I try to work on a cafe once a week to minimize the isolation.
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i work for american companies from abroad (i am english, but live in chile). i have worked for a small-ish startup (about a dozen employees) and a technical consultancy (similar size). before that i had worked with a team split across two locations (usa and chile); before that i worked from england for a company in scotland (after working locally - moving south pushed me into my first remote job).

i am not convinced that the problems are any worse than working locally, to be honest. the problems may be different, but it's still true that a good manager makes life easier, and that a bad manager can be worked around.

so i would say that if you have an experienced employee that you trust (as i hope i am!) then it's not a big deal. and inexperienced people that you don't trust are still a crap-shoot - remote working doesn't change that.

any way of working has its own issues. if you're competent you can solve them; it's your job to do so. if you can't, working locally will only make the misery local.

i guess maybe people want specific advice anyway. the most important thing is that you (as employee) need to force feed status to your employer. there's no feeling worse in the world than hearing "so what have you been doing?". meeting up physically once a year or so is also a good idea. weekly teleconferences help. that's all as obvious as it sounds, which brings me back to my original point...

[ps and personally, i love it. the peace and freedom are great. good pay (compared to local market) is a bonus.]

[pps an observation that might be illuminating - i just realised that half my computer screen is devoted to communication. i have a text console on the left, with (ascii) mail in the current tab; on the right i have an open chat window; in the middle is eclipse). the web browser alt/tabs over eclipse and chat.]
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>If you can detect the eyes, nose, and mouth, and have them in a region in an orientation matching a face, you could assume that it's probably a face.

Or a car.
Nice work, looks useful - if my employers used git that is, sadly I'm stuck on svn (for work)
From the article:

- Sunglasses, for example, are a known occlusion which some algorithms account for.

- wearing masks in public can be illegal.
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There must be a share whiteboard app for iPad/Android?
I wonder if Riak will ever get to this point.
Bugger, apologies for iPad induced downvote.
Thanks for giving a detailed explanation, I appreciate it, and I do see some of the plus factor this adds over DOSBox.

To my personal defense: I just don't like it when people build meaningless abstractions over existing tools, and Boxers looked like just that to me at first, and I might have jumped to conclusions. I've been proven wrong and have to apologize.
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> * (locally I've been smashed into teams still on svn ... on new projects)*

Completely off topic, but: is this necessarily bad? Does the world stop when there's a centralized source control server?

I'm in an environment too where people are sometimes reluctant to move to newer, better software (svn is an example, our bug tracker sucks too), simply because of the learning curve / overhead involved. I started out by being annoyed with this, until I realized that at the same time using modern SW development practices is really what matters (e.g. a lot of TDD, BDD, MDSD here). I can survive svn, but I can't survive the waterfall model.
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I agree wholeheartedly. Too many talented people are on the sidelines waiting for the perfect idea. Jump in! You can make a very goood living with a good idea, and that positions you well to find a better idea.

The key is to provide value to someone. Once you have a business going, and have a good reputation, then you can start paring down your opportunities and focus on the more lucrative options, or focus on the breakthrough "big idea".
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Emails have a semantic layer standard. it handles iCal and vCard. And not only that, it's extensible. See mailcap and MIME.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailcap
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME
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A few years a go I co founded start-up in the US while living in the UK. The other two founders both lived in the west coast, and I worked remotely. In the beginning it was fairly straight forward as it was only the three of us and another contractor from Russia. I developed the app, the contractor developed a component we needed and the other two were busy getting the business side together.
When we got funded things got more serious as suddenly our little startup became a bigger company with offices and employees etc. I would basically do a 9-6 work day, and the Americans would clock on at around 5-5:30PM. We'd have a little overlap to talk about what's new over skype and I'll clock off. That was the theory of it but in practice I ended up chatting to them on skype at various hours as they sometimes needed information from me. This worked OK for me but I personally like being in an office and interacting with people. You become a recluse when you spend your days cooped up at home. Having said that, today I still try to do at least one day of home working to keep a balance between home and office.

The main problem I found in remote working are distractions from family, kids etc (who forget you're physically at home but mentally you're not), and a side effect to that problem is that because you sometimes get gaps in your workday you end up stretching the day into the night, blurring the boundary between home and work time.
How did you get started? Since you're not local, I'm curious about how you found your first clients in the US.
I wonder if this will lead to more restrictive contracts.

I joined a gym a while ago that made me commit to a year's membership by taking out a loan for buying a year's pass. This was suboptimal for me because it showed up on my credit report and ran a credit check, but perfect for them because there was no easy way for me to weasel out of my contract, and they could simply pass the debt over to a credit-collection agency if I stopped paying.

I wonder if we'll see mobile phone contracts that come with a phone being treated the same way if the phone has to be sold unlocked.
How else would it work? What would make thing A be able to recognize a face and thing B inherently not? Computers can (and probably will) become as good (or better) as people at recognizing faces.
I went and found my password for this account which I haven't used in an age just to say this is a really good idea, I hope other people who get a chance to talk on TV about this pick up on it.
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I've been working from home as part of a distributed team for the last 3 years. It's great. You do have to be disciplined and intentional about a bunch of things that are more likely to happen naturally in a collocated environment, but that becomes a habit pretty quickly.

The best thing about it is that we have people on the team (myself included) who are experts we just wouldn't have been able to get if relocation was a requirement. I think this is the killer feature of telework-enabled jobs.

The problems, in my view, mainly have to do with trust and communication. With remote employees, you can't just drop by to check in on them—you have to do it over chat, skype, etc., and the same goes for communication between team members. I think a lot of employers have a sort of mental block they can't get past over this.

When I was hired, I was told I'd be visiting our offices once a quarter to check in. I think this was just worry about how a remote employee would work out. In practice, they found pretty quickly that I could be trusted to get things done, and I've never been summoned for such a "check-in" visit with my boss. We do have periodic in-person sprints where team members get together in person, and these are very important and productive times.
It's a problem which we're mainly trying to solve with visibility. We have a HipChat bot (which shares commit messages, Jenkins feedback etc), and we're considering having it just post "What are you working on" into the group chatroom once an hour.

Like most problems, I think it can be solved with a bit of self-reflection and better communication.
I am an Employee. Working since 2004 and love what I'm doing. I had pretty bad experience in some of my prior jobs because of choosing the wrong employer or the project for me. The most common mistake was getting short term contracts for immediate need of money.

But after a while I learned how to choose teams and projects too. Preferring long term contracts with the longest elimination process. An interview some trial tasks and even an IQ or math test really makes me feel comfortable about the company I am going to work with.

Well good teams always pays less, but you learn a lot. This keeps my hourly price rising since 2009 in every project.

Currently working in a team in which we have decent work hours, great developers and scrum meetings twice a week.
Nope. They have an exclusion, they must have spent ages and a lot of money getting it.

http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/sopa-hearing-wi... Bottom of two PgDown for me.
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A nastygram at least tells you what's happening, and I believe Facebook has an appeals process. G+ will just silently remove it, at least in the profile picture case.
I'm a freelance designer and I've worked remotely almost my whole career. For example, I've successfully worked remotely for Hipmunk on and off for the past year.

I'll be honest, things do move faster when you're in the same room. But if they haven't replaced me with an on-site designer yet, I'm guessing that means the benefits of working with the right person outweigh the disadvantages of working remotely.

So it's been a very positive experience for me so far, especially since if I didn't work remotely, my only two choices would be A) move to the US (which I can't) or B) work only for French companies (which I don't want to ;).

And the only tools I use are Skype and email, I like keeping things simple, and I like that both tools force you to only talk to one person at a time, it makes things a lot easier.

I also use CloudApp (http://getcloudapp.com) for easy file sharing, it's especially useful combined with Skype to quickly share my progress since it lets you upload images straight from Photoshop and copies the URL to the clipboard automatically.
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Well, that's like, your opinion, man. Rights are an abstract concept, and people have different definitions of them. For example, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights include such as:

Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of
himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and
necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment,
sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances
beyond his control.

And

Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary
and fundamental stages.

These are definitively rights that have to be paid for by other people, and yet many consider them perfectly valid.
>add quality content

Ouch. I don't think that is even remotely possible.
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