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As one of the participants, I remember this well. It was the first time there was a major action from pretty much all large web sites on the internet.

iWorld (later known as internet.com) became part of the blackout and, at the time, we were one of the most trafficked sites so it was a big deal to convince the company that owned us (the company was Mecklermedia and was publicly traded) that this was a good move and that it made sense.

The blackout the web day was not the end but the beginning of the fight over the CDA. It eventually took some work but the challenge made it to the Supreme Court (the case was called ACLU vs. Reno) and it helped expand first amendment speech protection to the internet.
would be a great opportunity for someone to write a wrapper script that downloads updates, etc... sucks that oracle can't just let distros figure it out for their respective systems... i guess apple takes the tack of being slow on java, so whatever.
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The Clipper Chip fiasco was mandatory key escrow.
I don't disagree with copyright in general. I do disagree with the idea that it should extend beyond death.

You write something it should be protected for life, but thats it. Anything else is unreasonable.
I hate to break it to you, but there is no Santa Claus, corporations are heavily involved in politics, and Google using their logo for political advocacy does not open up the gates to a new era of corporate political activism.

If anything, internet corporations are showing up late to the game.
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You underestimate just how unhospitable space is and how little we are adapted to living there.

It may appear to be that way from one post. I don't.

The health of astronauts coming back from the ISS has deteriorated.

The short-term affects of micro-gravity appear to be un-good, I agree.

Please note I was speaking of settling places with gravity. About that we simply don't know, yet.

Psychologically, they aren't topfit either.

If you spent six months living in an industrial facility the size of a winnebago you'd be a little off, too.

My expectations of 'the future' are that people will live in bodies with gravity - the moon, Mars. Off-planet facilities will be what off-shore oil platforms are today: a place to work, and live short-term, for high pay. Then you go home to the wife and kids.
Part of the reason it passed is that it was an amendment to the Telecommunications Reform Act, the biggest change in telecommunication regulation in the last 1/2 century so no matter what we did, it was bound to pass then.

Being involved in fighting it was a whole education in how Washington works and part of the reason I suspect we're going to have to continue fighting SOPA/PIPA for a long time to come, even if it's on the back burner right now.
To answer the question about Salt Lake City's bike market, I live in Park City, and mountain bike with a bunch of SLC guys, and I know the bike market there pretty well. It's about demographics. SLC doesn't have many more urban commuter/transportation bikers than any similar-sized city, and in fact I think that the per-capita rate of casual cyclists is actually below the national average. But it does have a lot of serious cyclists who spend major money on high end mountain and road bikes. So that skews the average.
Where in Europe are you? Were your startups focusing in Europe (markets are fragmented and unprofitable in most but the northwest)? Have you considered more conventional ideas? Creating something that goes with the flow (facebook apps/mobile / blogging etc)? 7 failed ideas doesn't sound much, esp. given that in the internet business ideas cost very little (I have many more failed projects myself). Educated, married and well traveled and you 're whining? I 'd say "buck up" in a friendly way.
Thanks! I've never been particularly good at spelling. All fixed.
I'm sorry to be the one to break it to you, but corporations are the leading driving force behind almost all of USA's politics. I can count on one hand the number of Representatives and Senators combined that have NOT been bought and paid for by giant corporations. The same goes for non-trivial pieces of legislation passing through either the House or Senate with corporate sponsorship.
"For too long in this debate, those that seek to preserve and profit from the status quo have moved to obstruct reasonable legislation." --MPAA
I worked at a company which tried to push agile process upon us in a 'top-down' fashion. I believe this is a cargo cult behaviour caused by a lack of understanding of underling development issues.

Late-running projects that don't meet requirements are often a result of poor communication and a lack of concrete requirements. This is clear to most business people. What isn't so noticeable to many is that software development looks a lot like an iceberg. The business domain decisions are visible above the water while the architecture and implementation decisions are below the water line. The fundamental point I am asserting is that software projects grow in implementation complexity at a greater rate than the complexity of the business domain does. Software projects run into scalability issues far earlier than non-software projects.

At low-scale, increased centralisation of decision-making and communication increases quality and timeliness. However, at high-scale most companies make the mistake of continuing to increase centralisation on the business-domain and let this centralisation of project decisions be imposed upon the more complex implementation-domain. Doing so can backfire for the following reasons:

(1) There are too many decisions which need to be communicated and specced out by one person.

(2) Increasing the vertical height of an organisation creates 'chinese-whispers' type communication problems.

(3) Business-domain knowledge held by project managers is often not enough to make informed decisions that require specialist technical knowledge.

Now I have to be blunt. If your employees aren't high quality enough to make decisions or communicate on their own then there is very little you can do to improve your process. You can try to create mini-hierarchies of lead developers smart enough to make informed decisions and communicate in between groups of drones but this which will not solve implementation problems and yet again the centralisation will create similar issues as before. However, if you've hired smart employees you will have much better luck since you can: (1) scale decision-making and communication completely horizontally -- be careful to avoid coupling problems, (2) help people to form an iterative process that takes into consideration long-term goals, and (3) implement social interfaces (stand-up meetings being the classic example) to simplify and increase the quality of communication.

The reason this should be done from the 'bottom-up' is that people aren't so much as following a process but instead are iteratively learning their process. You need to step away to let this happen.
100 doesn't represent a physical number. It's just an indication of the relative frequencies. If, for example, Manhattan had typically two fixies for sale per person (this is completely made up), then Brooklyn would have 1.25.

Yes, per capita literally does mean "per person", but the purpose it serves here is to allow meaningful comparison of more than just raw numbers. Manhattan might have 1,000,000 fixies, and Brooklyn might only have 100,000 fixies. This by itself doesn't really tell you much, since what if Manhattan had 1,000,000 people and Brooklyn only had 50,000 (again completely theoretical); then, the "per capita" fixie bike index would be twice as high in Brooklyn.
That's not entirely accurate. There are plenty of carbon fiber or titanium bikes that completely change your understanding of what is light with regard to a bike.

[edit: missed a word]
http://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/entry/moving_to_openjdk_as_th...
Note that the RI has a very specific purpose (eg, to serve as the RI) and is generally not updated except when/if the specification is revised.

So OpenJDK may be adequate as a RI, but will be unstable to use in a production environment.
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Required reading: “We tried Baseball and it didn’t work.”

http://xprogramming.com/articles/jatbaseball/
Ah, very cool!
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I don't think the majority here advocates abolishing copyright (although a poll would clear that up). Many of us make their living due in part to copyright protections, nor do I think a sane person would think it could be abolished unless society changes radically.

I think many of us object to copyright extremism, as you point out. Dr. King certainly would never have guessed that someone could be extradited from another country to face jail time for publishing a link to an unauthorized copy of his speech. Yet here we are.
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Thanks Gordon :).

I'm pretty excited to be working in this area and with this team and investors. It has taken us a year of iterating with our early customers to get to this point and it's really just the start. There's so much to fix to make cross-platform app development simpler.
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This is great news, but does anyone have any idea how to get IPv4-over-IPv6 tunnels to work? I'm in an all-IPv6 network, but unless all websites automatically work flawlessly after Jun 6, 2012, I still need to access IPv4 resources.

I have an IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack server which I can access from home via IPv6. I want to setup an IPv4-over-IPv6 tunnel to connect to the server so that all devices in my home network can still operate in a private IPv4 network (for compatibility), and access to public IPv4 network is routed through the IPv4-over-IPv6 tunnel to the dual-stack server.

The only solution that seems feasible right now is DS-Lite, but I couldn't find any helpful tutorial on how to setup it.

Right now I use DNS64/NAT64 on another server to access IPv4-only resources, but this combination doesn't work all the time. For example, Dropbox client doesn't work because (I suspect) it hard-coded the IPv4 addresses of remote servers. DNS64 cannot intercept direct IPv4 addressing so there is no way to translate it into fake IPv6 addresses to be routable via NAT64. In addition, DNS64/NAT64 requires a full /64 subnet on the remote server, which might not always be possible.

What is the general and practical strategy during the transition from IPv4 to IPv6?

Edited: here is the relavent link on serverfault.com where I posted the original question http://serverfault.com/questions/326132/ipv6-only-client-to-...
Internet Archive goes Dark to Protest SOPA
What about people in the US without medical insurance?
They have a problem but want to consult online first to see if they can justify the cost of a doctors visit.

I'm sure this happens.
of course, you could have done tons of research to support this, I'm not sure

Not tons, but some, in support of work for a prior employer.

But it turns out one of the ordinary byproducts of ordinary rockets is water, which is why all space food is dehydrated.

More like 'a particular fuel that can be used in a rocket is ..'

But actually I'm not sure what you're talking about, sorry. Can you expand and correct my knowledge?

Rocket fuel goes out the back end, pushes the rocket forward, right? The water is stored in tanks which astronauts draw out to rehydrate their tang?
Most popular music is not written by the person who performed it. Even prolific singer/songwriters have performed works that were written by other people that have gone on to become smash hits.

For theater, part of the reason may be that most theatrical productions are performed by numerous actors. Just think of how many Hamlets there have been over the years. Even modern theater is usually performed by numerous groups. Given this, it's pretty easy to say that the "definitive" work is the actual written play. However, when it comes to movies the "definitive" work is seen as the performance by the one actor that was in the movie.
protecting American jobs is important too, particularly in these difficult economic times for our nation

Bullshit. The film industry is boasting record profits, piracy has had a negligible effect on American jobs.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/piracy-once-...
Yes, Google Will Protest SOPA on its Homepage
This is a good way of approaching the situation. Thanks.
Try searching for [poison control] or [suicide]. Both of those bring up one boxes with phone numbers to call. Those probably help save a couple lives per day. Sure, you could call 911 and have them give you the poison control number, but now you've tied up 911 resources.
The landing page is nice. Nice enough for me to click on the button to try it and then find out it's invite only. If you were going to launch tomorrow, why not let us try it today?

And of course I'm going to want to know how this is better/different than pingdom?
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Notice the stealth loaded question: censoring the internet is cool, just all this backlash is because dns blocking. They are thinking hmm, how can we get dns blocking without all this backlash?
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I stand at least partially corrected. Sorry and thank you.
I was going to say. I think Chicago is the first place I remember being struck by the number of bike messengers, and sort of distinct hipster style of the bikers.
Watching my karma on this conversation has been interesting. It's gone from +10 above to -2 below what it was before. Must be a touchy subject.
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We've been full-time nomads for 4 years, and are in the middle of our second year of travel outside the USA. This article is a good overview for a particular type of travel, which I tend to perceive as vacation travel.

Its great to take a year off, and see all those countries on $22k, and if you're considering doing that, I highly recommend doing something like what he's doing!

For us, we chose to make international living more of a lifestyle. We are running our startup this way. When we added our third co-founder, it became three of us traveling this way. It is working out pretty well. We use AirBnB or local real estate agents to book accommodations. We stay in a country for 3-6 months depending on their visa length.

We work a sort of regular schedule, so we're not out seeing tourist sites every day. But that's what we do on the weekends.

At the end of the day, living like this, all over the world, is cheaper than it would have been if we'd just stayed on the West Coast of the USA. Well, cheaper financially.

One way we keep things cheap is by trying to focus on inexpensive countries. Our time in europe was great, but even there we stayed in berlin (which since the wall came down still has reasonably priced rents), and a small UK town. Mostly we're focusing on less developed / expensive countries which is also the more interesting ones.

We book maybe 1-2 flights a year. We are careful about this. We got a nice 7 day "vacation" in Venice when we were able to save $300 by booking a layover thru that part of Italy on our repositioning trip. Taking your time on your flights lets you maximize flexibility and gives you great opportunities like Venice. Keeping major international flights to a minimum keeps our expenses low.

All three of us live out of big suitcases. We were trying the "one bag one world" thing and living out of a 55 Liter backpack. This was ok in terms of size, but airlines have decided that refusing to take bags, even if they're carryon size, is a revenue opportunity, so rather than fight them, or deal with the hassle, we've switched to a 2 bag solution- one carry on for the expensive electronics and one checked bag for the clothes etc. (so 2 bags each, though the carry ons tend to be rather small.)

I really need to do a blog post about this. Actually, I have a dozen blog posts, but I need the blog first. And the blog is not coming until the MVP is done.

Anyway, traveling around the world for a year-- totally good idea, not that unreasonably expensive, and if you want to make a lifestyle out of it, you can do it, by increasing the amount of time you spend in each country to bring the costs down.

Only downside of living this way: there's some impact on productivity due to the travel. So, we lose probably 4-6 weeks a year of productive time because of it. For instance, we didn't get a damn thing done in Venice. Some of those "lost" weeks are the most fun too.
There is always room for someone to do it better.

But I would say part of the appeal of mobile development is the joy of using frameworks designed for applications, instead of relying on document frameworks. I wonder why all these cross platform toolkits all hinge on web technologies?

Where are the toolkits in the OpenStep-vein of mobile cross platform software development?
Exactly. A well-rounded developer should be able to work well with others. Most projects require people to work together to finish them successfully and on time.
You are basically asking "Why aren't they trying to fool us anymore?". Just look at opensecrets.org - it's all there, at least the visible part - donations and revolving doors (no blackmail, threats, assassinations etc.). People still discussing any other problem than money in politics are under a strong, remotely-induced hypnosis. You know, the hypnotists that can make people not see other people, seeing right through them. That explanation is the only thing keeping me sane these days.
This analysis is interesting but deeply flawed, as you're just using one variable. I don't think anyone would refer to OC as the most hipster place in America.

Weather is a huge missing component. Another is hilliness/other bike-friendliness (bike lanes, etc). The top 12 cities in the analysis are warm-weather cities (mostly California/Hawaii).

For example, no-one is buying bikes in Chicago at the moment, because it's freaking cold. But there are likely many more fixed-gear bikes here than almost anywhere else (flat, bike-friendly city with lots of hipsters). Portland is capital of hipsterdom - well atleast until Pittsburgh takes over (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/portlandi...) but it's cold there right now so people aren't selling their bikes.
How to travel around the world for a year
Sorry, but that is way to complicated.

I remembered there was an unofficial repository for Mandrake once upon a time (about Mandrake 8 or so) which had a bunch of software that allowed you to watch DVDs, play MP3s, etc. (They also had hotgirl). It was hosted by a bunch of crazy people (I seem to recall them being French).

So what I just really want to know is if anybody knows of an alternative repository?
Wetware has life-support requirements. Even minimal wetware, though in spore form it may travel well. Depending on your definition of wetware, so long as you've got an ambient solar flux, power isn't hard to arrange, and it's possible that thermal sources (similar to existing deep-space power units) might work as well given what we've learned about deep sea vents and subterranean microbes.

Sentient wetware tends to bring along baggage of requesting rights and such, which can be expensive to provision.

Hardware can both survive and function in a wide range of extreme environments.
Chicago has been a main hub of the fixie/track scene for years, way before the big fixie boom.
I suspect GP was referring to microbial or other simpler forms of life.
Never in twenty years have I had the opportunity to do CI with a team, mostly because nobody I've ever worked for invested in such comprehensive automated testing that manual regression tests could be abandoned. Where I'm at now, we literally schedule integrations and releases around what QA has had time to test, and they're guided by project priorities rather than whatever got finished earliest.
Assuming facts not in evidence error at line 1: Presumption that Agile ever ascended.

The basic problem with the Agile movement is that it took a few proven helpful practices -- almost all of which were well known and often used by experienced software developers before the buzzwords were attached, even if managers didn't realise -- and instead of promoting those, it wrote a "manifesto" so vague that it would make a political speechwriter proud, which didn't actually say anything at all about the practical steps that were useful.

Then concrete examples of "Agile" processes started to appear, and a few less proven or even discredited practices were added to the basically good ideas. Suddenly, despite valuing people over processes or some such vacuous claim, it's all about The Process again.

The predictable result was something non-technical managers thought sounded good but didn't really understand, and technical people who didn't drink the Kool-Aid looked at sceptically while asking where the evidence was that it was better than what they had been doing already.

And the only answer the Agile community has collectively agreed on in the ten years since then seems to be that people aren't doing Agile properly in most cases, but look at the successes where smart people have made it work! Of course, those smart people probably could have run a successful project starting from any other process, too, because if it didn't help they would have thrown it out in favour of things that did, just as they always had. And if most of the case studies of your supposedly superior process don't show significant benefits, you start to lose credibility after a while by claiming that they're all doing it wrong.

And now, we're doing the same thing all over again with the not-at-all-pretentiously-titled Software Craftsmanship movement, and the result will be the same: lots of people selling books and charging consultancy fees to peddle snake oil mixed with just enough actually proven ideas to be credible for a while until the results come in, by which time they will have moved on to the new hotness.

I am not normally a fan of Zed Shaw's style, but in this case, I sympathise with his point of view:

http://programming-motherfucker.com/
They are not in the business of producing quality, they are in the business of producing content that is consumed. Big difference.
They usually only provide security upgrades.
Doesn't matter. What matters is that they mentioned a keyword (jobs) and that means they're a job-creator and everyone who opposes the bill hates jobs.
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Provide a link to an alternative directory, or at the very least a script.
Looking at their API docs, why would you use this instead of PhoneGap?

For instance, with PhoneGap, I can easily add native Objective-C or Java classes to my project to do things you just can't do with a native UIWebView.

I solved some really interesting enterprise-y integration problems on PhoneGap by writing some Objective-C. Looks like forge makes you modify the authentication server to return a forge://url which is nice, but could be tough to get some IT environments to do. (http://docs.trigger.io/en/v1.2/features/modal.html#external-...)

I do see that you can build browser extensions, which is a nice feature.
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It actually works :)

In theory it shouldn't matter which JVM interprent the code.
In practice those that are not OracleJDK crash.
4 hours 20 mins to go to the 18th (Here in the land of GMT at least!) a little late in the day for announcements like this isn't it? Not that I'm in any way upset they're taking action, I truly believe it should be 'all hands on deck' when it comes to defending against internet censorship!