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Probably it is very hard to create a company around an open source project without disrupting part of the open source ecosystem around it... on the other hand it is important to create some kind of structure to pay the developers to continue working on the project. I'm not sure what I would do without VMware helping Redis... but I guess that some decent compromise should exist, like creating a support company for the software but leaving the project itself as an open source effort with it's own separated site, mailing list, and so forth.

There is also an ethical problem IMHO. For instance is Redis mine? I guess it is not: VMware is funding the development so I can write code thanks to Vmware. Pieter is contributing a lot of code. The community is helping a lot the project: with talks spreading the word, helping on the mailing list, helping to fix bugs, and so forth.

My guess is that the developers really conceptually "own" a very small piece of the pie, and when they create business around an open source software, they should take this in mind otherwise it is simple to involuntarily use work/efforts that other people did in the past and turn it into your business.

It's not easy however... as: the end users should be happy and well served, and the software should not just be "open source" but an open process, with an open community, and so forth. At the same time the developers should pay their bills without issues and earn enough to avoid being tempted to joined company XYZ instead of working to their project. It's not trivial to have all this together I guess, and I feel very lucky that there is VMware making this simple for me, but not all the open source developers are equally fortunate so I guess it is crucial that the open source community keeps working on different ideas to find viable solutions.
A hash would be better, it's decentralised, somewhat prevents someone reselling someone else's work, and can be used to check the book is as it was. Downsides - Different versions don't appear related by the hash.
Looking to be an early employee. Looking to do remote work (I'm in London)

HTML5, Javascript, jQuery mobile ... mobile web apps are my specialty :)

Currently doing consulting work, for a very large search engine company, you probably have used 50 times already today ;)
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It probably is a cultural difference. I think in the last year or so we have maybe lost a couple of potential customers because we use a distributed team, but it's not been a major problem.

For us, our specific geography is also a factor; my business partner, who also runs 95% of our sales activity, is based in London, and his sales activity is centred around there. Our developers (myself included) are based on the north-west, where developer salaries are lower than in the south. I know that we have used that fact in sales pitches, and it has helped us win work based on that lower total cost of a project.
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Those are Natural rights, also called "nonsense upon stilts" by Jeremy Bentham and "imaginary, like the Bogeyman" by George Carlin ;)
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Yes, he is merely being complete.
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Wasn't Windows just an unnecessary layer on top of DOS?

Isn't X just an unnecessary layer of abstraction over the commandline?

etc
This is why I think Apple is more or less behaving the same as the movie institutions.
I think it's strange because Apple can be innovative. But lately they try to sue everyone to preserve there dominant position.

Maybe large companies do this because they fear change because change is much harder for large companies.
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You ask for a lot of personal data, what is it used for? I would rather be able to give you only basic details and upload my contact book/befriend strangers, or connect to facebook where you get all you need behind the scenes.

There was Celebdaq, which was popular because it was celebrities not companies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebdaq
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Another take: in this huge supermarket two random people talk about drugs, and a police officer overhears their ramblings, so the supermarket gets shut down.
Eh, I just have two bank accounts and only keep a few hundred in the one I use for debit card payments/withdrawals. If I need more, my smartphone app is right there.
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Yup!
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Thought I’d get the word out early. Internet Explorer 7’s support schedule is goverered by the release schedule of Windows Vista [1]. Standard (non-extended) support for this finishes on the 10th April [2].

What this means is that by supporting IE7 with your sites and apps beyond this date you’re implicitly suggesting to your users that it’s OK to stay on a browser that’s no longer receiving security updates, which I think we’d all agree is a bad idea.

You all looking forwards to this date too? :)

[1] http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=8722
[2] http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?c2=11732
ditto in New Zealand.
does code review need to be tied to your scm? i can see how it means slightly less work, but what's the minimum infrastructure you need to make it independent of the scm? i would guess it's little more than some bash and procmail scripts (assuming unix).
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Some English police stations have signs saying that they investigate all reports of stolen mobile (cell) phones, and if you make a false report of having your phone stolen you can expect them to find out and that they will prosecute you for it.

Apparently telling the telco that you had your phone stolen in an effort to get out of the contract was so popular the telcos started needing police incident numbers.
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The bit about Emacs being updated so often that it's hard to keep up with its features confirms that it wasn't a version that RMS had anything to do with...
Yes, a good programmer.
We use pull requests to review code before it gets merged into master, works really nicely.
I'm running a small startup with employees all around Greece (yes, Greece). We've always been this way. We work with Skype for communication, SVN to synchronize code and specific weekly targets to keep everyone on track. So far it was a very positive experience and certainly comes with less overhead.

However, as the company grows I can see that there are certain shortcomings on distant working. The previous comments did a good job describing many of them. You certainly need self-motivated, oriented people - otherwise you will spend too much time on project management. Knowing them from previous projects is a must otherwise it might be a good thing to pay them a visit for some friendly talk (and a few beers) every few months.

As a side note: isn't a unique privilege to work from wherever you want, at your own hours and without constant meetings? I really love technology...
> We need to protect something. So what is it?

Due process? Checks and balances? Oversight, probably judicial?
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In some countries in Europe it is already obligatory to sell an unlocked version, usually a locked version is also sold. If you examine the pricing closely, it does not really matter which one you get, you end up paying the same amount, either directly (unlocked), or monthly (locked).

I expect that in Chile all contracts will either rise in price, or phones will become a lot more expensive to buy.

While it sounds like a nice idea, as a consumer you don't really gain that much.
You need to learn how to learn, read the article on page 22 of this HN Magazine, When I read it my life changed.

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"Freedom of the press" presumes the right to build, buy, or borrow a press. Of course the framers of the constitution referenced physical presses as part of that right.

Insofar as the government providing Internet access under a logical expansion of the postal service, that is an enumerated obligated power of government, not a right. The government is required to provide it (albeit ill-defined), which is different from you having a right to it.
Yeah, I loved the feeling of bluring the lines and developing everything as one whole than piping bits from one box into another.
Ask HN: any hierarchical checklist software?
I need, for my day job, to be able to track the very same work breakdown for 5 to 10 different projects in parallel. The work breakdown is very structured, hierarchical.

But I cannot find a way to track to do items in a structured/hierarchical way.

Does anybody know a (good) hierarchical checklist software ?

------
Example of what I am looking for (it's really a simple thing, but I cannot find it):

[ ] is a checkbox
Using the car work breakdown example here:http://www.expertprogrammanagement.com/2010/03/wbs-work-breakdown-structures-everything-you-need-to-know/

Make a car [ ]
-- Make the engine [ ]
---- Make the cylinder [ ]
---- Make the cam shaft [ ]
etc.
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I like the idea, but I would really prefer not having to mess with my commit messages for every other system. Its okay for issue trackers (because the commit is definitely referring to an issue/task now and in the future), but it gets really messy once you use the issue text as a notifier.

We usually ask for review using comments and by addressing users directly, but AFAIK, github does not allow you to hook into that... :/
I wonder how this relates to the "entrepreneurial selection process".

According to PG [1]:

- hard work is necessary but insufficient

- entrepreneurs either have a very high probability of success or "epsilon".

- it is easy to know (or find out) what group you are in.

PG makes a strong argument...but then, so does this guy from MIT. Maybe they are talking about different things? Is intelligence more important for a startup founder then it is for a kid at MIT?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3392049
You need to focus on and cultivate your tenacity, listen to this video.

Video about how our educational system produces (or doesn't) entrepreneurs, the keyword is tenacity.

http://fora.tv/2010/04/14/Developing_the_Next_Generation_of_...
There's research behind this too. The book NurtureShock has a chapter on telling kids "you're smart" vs. "you worked hard." There was even some HN discussion on it. Basically, when you attribute your kids accomplishments to their being smart, they kind of freeze up when they get a problem they can't handle. But when you attribute it to hard work, they work harder to figure it out. There are a series of fascinating experiments that bare this out.

For people into parenting books, I highly recommend NurtureShock. It's about the only parenting book I've found based on actual scientific research, as opposed to being somebody's opinion.
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The exact "work you need to do" is pretty much given to you when you do a degree. If you work hard on it and complete it all then it is hard not to succeed.

When doing a start-up or in the "real world" you can easily fill up time with work which is not actually directing you towards your ultimate goal(s).
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Learn by heart and be able to name all of the fallacies used in conversation, there are about 200 of them used every day. Practice spotting them on tv, radio and in conversation. Humans are remarkably illogical, knowing the names of every fallacy helps, commit all of these to memory:

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
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Nice - always interested in hearing what the old geniuses are up to now.
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If you liked that, then check out this ESA project, Space Trajectory Analysis: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sta/

It really needs a better UI but the possibilites are endless - you can design your own space missions, flybys, moonshots, anything really.
It should do with the event API: http://developer.github.com/v3/events/types/ (IssueCommentEvent and/or CommitComment)

For GitHub usernames you don't need that, but I could see that being useful for email addresses.
Owning the only watering hole, historically, is actually a pretty decent source of power: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_empire
This is interesting but GitHub already has a fine code review system. A coworker put together a script named pullme[1] that automates GitHub's push-to-topic-branch-and-issue-pull-request workflow. I've been using it for a week or two and it has made my workflow so much better.

[1]: https://github.com/AndrewLorente/Pullme
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That makes no sense: here they sell unlocked phones but you still have to keep contract for two years if you want it subsidized.

So there's no reason to rise phone prices: you still have to pay full contact subscription even if you change the phone.
It's all about game theory. Nothing is really absolute - freedom of speech will always have limits. But it's important to tell the people that they do have absolute freedom of speech, otherwise what they have will be gradually eroded by seemingly reasonable steps.

For example - you can't speak in favor of terrorist attacks, then a violent protest becomes classed as a terrorist attack, then a protest in which some participants are violent is a violent protest, then any protest might turn violent, then any public meeting which disparages the government becomes classed as a protest. Suddenly, you can't criticize the government, or you're a terrorist.

It's far better to say you have absolute freedom of speech, and hope everyone turns a bit of a blind eye when the really crazy stuff gets silenced. That way, if too much stuff is getting banned, people will push back.
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Would it be more appropriate to use git notes?
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I changed the language to illustrate that whether the originally copy still existed makes no difference.

> From the perspective of the person whose work was infringed via parody, they care only their work was used without their permission.

No, they care that that are being made fun of. People who attack parodies aren't concerned that someone would buy the parody instead of the original work - very few people would.
Will power is a muscle, like your forearm, if it is atrophied then you are not taking time out to purposefully exercise it.

Philip Zimbardo talked about the formation of will-power in children, it has a direct influence on the success later in life. Improve your own cognitive toolkit by getting another child off on the right foot.

From the video, children who are predisposed to deny themselves pleasure by holding out for a future reward differentiate the rich from the poor.

http://fora.tv/2008/11/12/Philip_Zimbardo_The_Time_Paradox
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What are some takeaways that us people in the industry can have from this? Should we be working harder? Should we be working smarter?
Pretty exciting, particularly for doing command/control via speech recognition. I wish they would support BNF-style grammars the way Sphinx does.
What is joy-factor?
That's not how rights work. For instance, there's an inalienable right not to be locked in a cage, but if you violate other people's rights not to have their car radios stolen, you can still be locked in a cage.
> that you (as employee) need to force feed status to your employer

That's what I experienced also. Make yourself heard: a simple mail at the end of the day to your team/manager will do. Ask for feedback. This is important when you are remotely attached to an otherwise locally working team, prevents ending up as "the guy who breaks CI once a month".

When you feel stuck or have the idea you feel disconnected from the flow of the team (or something stalled there) it's easy to ask for a skype/chat meeting with the group. In general I find communication not to be the problem, but it shows that bad or lacking communication locally gets somewhat amplified if you're passive because you don't share water cooler/bathroom with the team.
Have you considered a language like OCaml or Haskell? You can still get many of the benefits from Erlang while having near-C performance.
Thank you. I skimmed the documentation, but I only found the event timelines. I didn't know that the v3 API had such fine-grained control for hooks.
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Coffee, Espresso, monster energy, redbulls and certain Chocolates are drugs that can put your body into panic, fight or flight mode, use too many of these drugs and your overall output is greatly diminished.

Understand the power of the drugs in these drinks, and respect them, only use these drugs on things where you are growing yourself in a positive way. Use them while you are in a self destructing situation and your brain orients itself to optimize for that.

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Yes, I also thought of giving multi-dimensional feedback, instead of just a single number, when writing the comment.
Thank you. Though I have a PC at work :/
I had a quick look at the site, but it did not look like a checlist software, more like a tool to take notes.
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Can't agree on number 4 that invented captcha's. I saw that talk and he talks how annoying captcha was and how re-captcha would be so much better because it is actually used for a purpose. There is one word they know the meaning of and they use your translation of the word that they don't know the meaning of.

It's just horrible that in a time of great motivation that they still try to push a security issue to the end user. And for me they made it even worse with re-captcha because now you have to type 2 words.

A solution would be to know which is a computer and which is a real user, it's not impossible to do so.
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Collaboration. I've noticed over the past weeks that most of the job postings on various sites require on-site working, and it's because of the (mostly justified) need to be able to have a more personal connection to the worker. It has it's great merits, of course, but an employee would usually prefer remote work due to its perks, such as being able to fart where you sit, and not commute to work in what you foresaw from your childhood as a Ferrari.
Fantastic. Is there a way to create a link to a given viewpoint location/direction/zoomlevel? That would make it possible to share views of the world, always nice.

When zoomed into an area for which there is 3D building coverage, it feels almost game-like. And I say that from a vantage point of some relevance. :)
Develop your ability to create complete silence in your mind. Subconscious control over the inner workings of your subconscious mind is what Richard Feynman was working on.

Thought is about clearing the table, placing the tools on the table, moving the tools around, isolating the product, removing it, then starting over by clearing the table. Most humans never take anything off the table. Learn to clear your mind's table.

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8mb of ram reminds me of this thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGq0jGrJS6U
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Why not take a more radical approach, and deny that there is a copyright problem. The supposed losses of the entertainment industry are all based on the argument that whatever is downloaded is lost revenue. In fact revenue should be compared to sampling - you try out a lot of stuff, and only buy the best. But you do buy. I download hundreds of e-books that are not locally available in bookstores, I browse through them, and purchase the best ones through Amazon. I do a lot more buying than if I did no downloading, so it's a net gain for the publishing industry.

Now, the evidence points to the fact that downloaders are also the biggest buyers of CDs and DVDs. If you look at it that way, there have been no lost revenues, and in fact the entertainment industry has benefited immensely from free downloading, which has helped it to reach a much broader market.
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Definitely: I've seen an article turn 'dead' the instant I flagged it. This was on the 'new' page, mind you.
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