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> You would see it justified to cash in on someone else's work after she "sold some copies"?

If I wanted to pay for her books at all, I would make sure to buy them from her, not some other random dude, who might have "improved" the story.

A lot of the people who buy Nike, Fila, Adidas etc. Would never wear a fake product, regardless of the quality. They want the real deal beacuse it is expensive. Even if the copy is made in the same factory.
Nothing is impossible about it. It just takes time. It also means downtime, which I suppose is unavoidable at this point.

Honestly it has more to do with how much time I want to spend on the site, how much it returns, and whether or not I should spend my nights and weekends transferring it to another host.

The last time I backed up all the data from GAE it took 4 days to download all of it to a VPS. 4 days to download all of it. Migrating means 4 days of downtime, or alternatively some complex solution involving posting all new data to BOTH places while the migration takes place.

That takes time and energy, and quite frankly I'd rather see someone with the resources do it right instead of trying to hack it.
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Trello is awesome, it's one of the few products that we use at work, but doesn't feel like work to use :)

I'm not a process guy, because I usually can't justify the time it takes to 'maintain the process' except with trello since it's effortless to use, it's almost always a win to jot thoughts down whenever something remember-worthy appears in your head :)
There was a lot of hand waving in that article to arrive at that conclusion. The "80/20 rule" is a good estimate for some situations, but it may not apply in this case. For example, Netflix probably doesn't follow the 80/20 rule since most subscribers pay the same price for one of a couple different plans.
It's still crazy to me how exhausting swimming can be. It probably doesn't help that I tend to sink like a rock so I have to work harder; even so, it's such a simple motion one would think it isn't that great of a workout, but it definitely is. And it just goes to show that people don't need all these fancy workouts, machines, ranges of motion (like yoga) to get in great shape. Just do what feels natural, like your body's meant to do.

I've been thinking about finding a nearby place to swim regularly but the only place nearby is the YMCA, and from what I recall as a kid, the pool isn't exactly clean.

As for yoga, I've done P90X a couple of times and for those that don't know, according to Tony Horton, yoga's an essential part of working out. But something about it never really sat right with me, and reading the other comments here has helped me pinpoint why. When I would do yoga, the first few times I'd make it through the entire hour and a half (first 45 minutes were various Ashtanga Vinyasa sequences; last 45 minutes were balances/stretches) and the last half always made me really uncomfortable. I told myself it would get better once I got used to it, but after a few weeks it didn't get any less uncomfortable so I just stopped doing the stretches/balances; and if anything, I'd bet this this actually helped with my overall fitness. When I was balancing on my neck/shoulders and putting my legs behind me, I remember thinking every time, "How can this possibly be good for me?" Lo and behold, I wasn't alone. These days when I do yoga, I just do my own thing (whatever feels natural) and it seems to work pretty well because I usually have sweat dripping off of me by the end.

Listen to your body, folks!
it's not bribe, it's ownership.
I think you're going to have the best luck with the 100 at $450, but you need to be focused on the selling like all get out. Small businesses, IMHO, are going to be in constant need, and you might find your 1 out of 20 would be a $4500 contract, but watch the opening to Glengarry Glen Ross like every day, and best of luck, stay focused.
I agree. In many areas of pop-culture we seem to have a lot of people trying to convince us that "We don't know what we know", often with hilarious results. Like the EU officials who ruled that "drinking water has not been shown to reduce dehydration."

The more I see this trend, the more stubbornly I find myself clinging to "What I know"
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It may well be a nice little library, but the next level of improvement in geo-localization is going to come from the data source. Another API is only going to be as good as the data source, and the quality ones are in limited supply.

Given the expected benefits for the cost (any cost, really), it's not a library I would use.
Wow.. NO NO NO, DO NOT do it on your own at first. The second tip however, find a good teacher is a MUST..

Doing yoga by yourself with no experience and just a book and no one to help you understand proper alignment in your foundation poses at first is a great way to hurt yourself at worst, or get nothing out of the effort at best.
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At high numbers of concurrent connections, your thread stacks consume a non-trivial amount of ram, too.
Our site, NoSweaters (http://nosweaters.com) started marketing on Stumbleupon's lowest click rate ($0.05/click) right after the Black Friday weekend. The start was slow. We garnered essentially the clicks we paid for and nothing more. Further, there were a lot of hiccups in the process, as we waited for approval for the campaign, which seemed to take much, much longer than other venues (read: Adwords).

Our target market, we decided, was women aged 15-30. From our exhaustive studies (aka, friends and family cajoling) we gathered they were the most enthusiastic users. We set up a custom front page for Stumble users to introduce them to the site.

We did this for Monday, Nov. 28th, Tues. the 29th and on Wednesday, we got caught up again in an approval issue, yelled at SU on Twitter, and all of a sudden we got blasted with organic traffic late Wednesday night (the 30th). Our daily visits went from 100 paid to ~20k unpaid hits a day for a solid week. After that, the traffic dropped off like a stone.

In that time, however, our bounce rate was only about 48%. We believe several factors account for this:

1) The main page was little more than an enticement with easy click through to the meat of the site.

2) The site was very appropriate for the time of year (a gift help site in the holiday buying months)

3) Our target happened to be spot on (we think).

We were also running a contest at the time to help drum up users and usage. Top users would receive Amazon gift cards.

All of these efforts yielded over 300 new users and more than 2,500 new "questions" (our site is a Q&A site for gift ideas; "asking a question" currently requires nothing but an email address).

From a purely return-on-investment perspective, we can say we were quite happy with the results we got from Stumbleupon. We're definitely suspicious of their methods of how they deliver organic vs. paid traffic (seems they've got their hands on spigots). We paid about $40 for the equivalent of 160K visits, and we got a ton of new content, and some very focused and dedicated users.

We've got a ton of test and usage data that we can now mine through to figure out what our next changes should be. We have very active involved, non-friend-or-family users that have given us very valuable feedback on what they want to see from the site. All in all, it's a great utility for a site trying to build itself, but I question its value for an established site (vs. blog posts or other SEO efforts).

If you have any questions about our experience, please don't hesitate to chuck them my way.
Thanks! What kind of product do you have in mind?
If I understand correctly, one advantage of il2js should be that all the core .NET libraries won't have to be ported to JS, as the needed library methods get expanded into IL.
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SOPA doesn't require sites to monitor their users. The complaints I've heard:

1. It requires sites to be removed from DNS if a copyright complaint is made against them. Specifically, the removal avoids due process. The copyright holder doesn't need a court order to have the offending site taken down.

2. Sites are held responsible for content their users upload. So e.g. Mediafire would be taken down because of content the users uploaded.
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I guess I don't really blame them for valuing profit over customer satisfaction, per se.
And both those statements are true. If there's a third party that you can pay to do your photoshopping, and they deliver high-quality product, damn right I'm going to hand my photoshop jobs off to them rather than do it myself. Likewise if there were a third party development shop _that delivered higher quality than doing it in house_. Concentrate on your USP; for anything else, if you can get it done competently externally, hand it off.
You could also run Windows Management Instrumentation Command (WMIC) to the same effect.
Exactly. I have interviewed many candidates and later fired several too. Some people who look good on paper are so desperate that they lie about everything! In fact, I had to fire the first person I ever hired, because he claimed to be expert at X and Y (lies and lies), but weak at Z (truth). So ok, didn't seem like a huge problem until I realized that he didn't know how to program... at all. In any language. My mistake was that I didn't test ACTUAL coding skills at all, because why would anyone lie about it? LOL!

FizzBuzz style questions are really important (eg. create an array with 4 numbers: 1, 2, 3 and 4 and output the values. Oh a "Java and Python 'expert'?". Please in both languages then!). Although I agree that home tasks and trick-algorithm questions are useless.
I defended my dissertation in December 2010, and I started at IBM Research in January of 2011. Within weeks of being at IBM Research, I found myself having fantastically productive, ad-hoc research discussions with my colleagues that lead to real work being done - code being written, experiments being run and papers written. Things moved much, much faster than they could have when I was working alone as a graduate student. Three highly motivated people working together on the same problem are more than just three times more productive than a single person working on the problem.

I heartily endorse the author's advice to collaborate. I didn't do it much as I should have as a grad student. But, in some ways, doing so is not encouraged. My last two years, I had one goal: to graduate. I knew what I had to do to get that done, so I plowed through and did it. Because you need to come up with a dissertation that is yours, you have many students who will rationally work on their own projects without much collaboration.
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This is too expensive for such a service. It's not something like Google Analytics, it just gives some information about current session. It may not even have a dashboard.
Why bash a toy brand that is immensely popular and loved... to promote a product that isn't comparable in the least.
Here's a list that i think was on HN a while back.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava...
Which is why I said get a good book. As I said earlier Yoga was designed with a fail-safe (although I cannot cite references right now). Unless you just trudge through the discomfort in your body, you will not get hurt doing it on your own.
But there won't be desktop Windows 8 ARM users, so you'll have to re-engineer it twice? Unless there's some quick and easy way to write code that compiles to both architectures without fuss. But even then you essentially have to build two UIs.

I wonder to what extent any under-the-covers code is shared between apps that run both on iOS and OS X (like Pages, for instance) and whether there's any economy of coding scale there.
Oh I guess I was thinking that you could just do general web design and programming, at that order of magnitude, seems to be the larger market.
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With this implementation, there's a chance Atwood's Law actually enters a recursive loop, since C# can actually write itself as Javascript.

Boggles the mind.
DJB has done quite a bit of research on what crypto could look like if large quantum computers ever become a reality. http://pqcrypto.org/
You might want to try HashWM: https://github.com/ZaneA/HashTWM. Might not be perfect, but you have the source so can fix it up/enhance it.
You spend it to increase your net worth and hiring price in whatever field you wish to work within.

Not for me. I could have probably made just as much money by now had I left with a Master's in CS back in 2005. I got a PhD because I thought research was more fun than straight development, and a PhD is the research merit badge.
I'm sorry Joel, but Trello, is still bitch work... I still use pen and paper, and works great!
Evidence of absence is always a tough one but one could point to the absence of significant troop presence there as of 2012.

Any "control" that the US has over the oil in Iraq is in the form of contracts that US firms have to develop the oilfields, which are currently being bid against by chinese, russian and dutch firms:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/258812/20111130/exxonmobil-i...

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-11/12/c_131...

I'd note that politically, from this point forwards it's a big win for Iraqi politicians to support non-US interests as far as the oil, so the only special treatment we'll be able to get is the same as in Nigeria, etc: Bribe the right people and hope you did a better job than the Chinese.
The "Jaws is very much work in progress, so expect big changes within the first months of 2011." is outdated or has a typo. https://github.com/ippa/jaws/commits/master appears to have active development.
If a Quantum computer can factor a 4096 bit number, but not a 8192 bit number then you can just use larger key's. So the real question is how much harder does it become to factor ever larger numbers and from what I read that's still an exponential problem for Quantum computers.
Interesting, though the first thing I looked for the was the source for the compiler. Meh, call me when it's ready.
The Qubits Kickstarter page doesn't mention Lego as far as I can tell- seems like just a poor choice of words by the journalist.
I'm now eagerly awaiting NY Times' revelational "why jogging or any other physical activity can hurt you if you are not in adequate physical condition for it" article.
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Not strictly related, but I've been thinking over a clojure+SWT emacsalike editor for a while now. It just might work.
Yoga can be harmful, but not as harmful as sitting on your couch all day, but not as harmful as sitting on your couch all day and then thinking an hour of magic postures will fix it.
This is the version due officially next month, but you can install and run it immediately via the Developer Registration form at: https://bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com/native/beta/register.

Playbooks are currently GBP 165 in the UK - exceptionally good for web developers and users (PB has the only decent Flash too).
I dunno if I'd call that brainwashed so much as a completely rational "well here's what happened last time".

I agree though, although I'd note that the same held true for Egypt right up until the second that it didn't.
It's fairly easy: run a webserver and upload the jad/jar to it. Host a page linking to the jad. Visit page from phone, and select that link.

The downside is you pay for the data on your cell plan.

Alternatively blasting the jar at the device over bluetooth is also likely to work.
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My biggest issue with Trello has been that if you have two windows open, the changes don't sync between them. Pivotal tracker does this extremely well making it a team collaboration tool
Not nearly the same, and nowhere near as cool as Lego. More comparable to Meccano.
If you use the new WinRT runtime to build a Metro style app, you get both architectures without any extra work.
I agree that democrats can be just as bad but regarding hate for "liberalism", sometimes you have to take people at their word when they say they hate something. Saying the words "I don't necessarily hate all liberalism" would sink any of the Republican presidential candidates. It's gotten so bad with the Republican party that all you have to do is call an idea they support "liberal" and they'll do a 180 and hate it.
Well this has been good motivation for me to install NoScript
So don't use MRI.

Events are not a substitute for Threads, and Threads are really not as hard as people would like to claim when you're working at the level of an application developer.

Keep in mind that hundreds of thousands (wild guess) .NET developers have worked with both Threads and Events for years in WinForms and WebForms without much trouble. Because 99% of the time as long as you follow a few simple rules about what you're passing to an event, and you use built-in thread-safe collections along with the occasional custom double-lock, you're going to be safe. The framework takes care of most of it for you.

Disclaimer: Having little experience with Node.js and some of the other new-ish evented frameworks, the following observation is probably at least somewhat off-base. But it occurred to me the other day that in a lot of ways many OSS projects are trending towards popularizing a model Microsoft mainstreamed (at least in my limited decade-plus experience). ie: "Delegate All The Things!"

Wasn't really a fan of it then (there are definitely advantages, but I think you can make the claim it went entirely too far) and I guess that's what left a sour taste in my mouth when anyone brings up Evented programming as some sort of silver bullet.

In addition to that, considering my experience with Thread Pooling and Events, it always strikes me as odd when they're presented as competing solutions. They work best together IMO, as they're complementary techniques, not competing. If you need shared state, brokers and/or IPC are a poor substitute for the performance of Threads (IME). Plus they're much more complex if you have a robust set of Thread Safe libraries to draw on.
I haven't used Trello but I think it's geared towards a team rather than a single person with pen and paper.
I can't speak to your points 2 or 3, but section 103 (which governs ad and payment processors) applies to domestic sites as well. If I've understood correctly, Youtube couldn't be blocked, but could be forbidden to host advertisements - which would kill it just as surely.
From the TC article:

"Bridge, a technology that enables real-time communication between any server, any device, on any platform. Bridge is essentially an API that developers can use to avoid the complexity of building real-time messaging into their applications, and help push more data faster between servers, web browsers, mobile phones and other devices."

Sounds very similar to Amazon SNS, which Amazon describes as

"...a web service that makes it easy to set up, operate, and send notifications from the cloud. It provides developers with a highly scalable, flexible, and cost-effective capability to publish messages from an application and immediately deliver them to subscribers or other applications. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers."

Right now their website doesn't have much information so it's difficult to determine how they plan to differentiate themselves from existing platforms that (appear to) solve the same problem.
I agree with being at the point where I'd happily pay for it (I'd actually pay for a mobile and faster desktop version that sync, as it's a bit sluggish on my netbook). What Joel said about it being a list of lists (a very simple idea), is what I like so much about it. Currently I'm using it for standard simple use cases (keeping track of stuff I need to do), non-standard use cases (tracking my weightlifting progress, between each set), and collaboration (my landlord and I keep a list of things to do). Oddly enough, I don't use it for software at all (what I investigated it for in the first place).

I introduced my (non-technical) girlfriend to it, and after a short explanation of how I used it, she took to it immediately, and uses it daily to keep track of her to-do list.
This is going to sound n00bish, but why doesn't he just backup to the cloud instead of dealing with all the external HDDs?
Thanks for the info - can someone please explain why these comments are being downvoted? Is it because they could be fake or that people just dislike Joel's company?
You will find 85 Watt MagSafe laptop power adapters (sometime two) pre-installed everywhere we frequent in my house: the couch (x 2), the kitchen desk, the home office (x 2), the rocking chair and the bed.

How are current power adapters in terms of energy wasted when not being used, but connected to the plug? I use to keep them all unplugged because I remember they used to waste a lot of watt-hours doing nothing.
This article reminded me of the computer-assisted proof of the Four-colour Theorem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem#Proof_by_com...
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It's interesting that we are reaching an era where we can prove things through computational brute force before coming up with an elegant proof, even if it means running computers for 12 months.

I wonder what implications this has for other mathematical complexities. Obviously it helps that Sudoku involves concepts that are very discrete... you can't really do brute force regarding the number line... but there have to be other discrete issues. (For example, every now and then I have the occasional fleeting terror that a sudden technology breakthrough will instantly render all pre-existing SSL encryption worthless.)

Back to the Sudoku, I'm also now interested in how many 17-clue solutions there are, and how many 18-clue, and if there's any sort of pattern.
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I use Trello do manage my personal to do list at work and find that it works far better than pen and paper. I have no idea what it's geared towards but for me it works great as a single person tool.
I have no idea. My comment is being downvoted. I just really like Trello. Look at my comment history on HN - I'm definitely not faking.