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They should apply the same rules to reporting all the money they take from lobbyists. Doctors are not allowed to receive even a pen from a drug company any longer but our politicians are in the pocket of all the large multinational companies including the drug companies. What a bunch of hypocrites.
Have you ever seen the process transforming a set of lecture notes to a textbook? That process is almost inconceivable for the professor (who has teaching and research engagements) to complete alone. Often they have a lot of help from graduate students, but not always.

Worse, I've read a great deal of math books that were unedited. Arguments end up in the wrong orders, sections are missing, notation changes without notification or regard for readability, numbering fails to match up (not even LaTeX can help if you change your labels midway), figues go missing, indices are wrong, exercises are mislabeled (or accidentally impossible!).

Even with an editorial team there's often a hefty and vital errata for most major textbooks. It's just a lot of organization.

I don't think editors are going anywhere for a long time. The role they serve is crucial. I do totally agree that they don't need to be tied to publishing-as-a-process though.
You've both made the classic fallacy of assuming that writing some code is all there is to do. For example, perhaps a lot of that money went on paying a photographer and his entourage to fly around the world.
If ReFS is really in the Server version of 8, and if it really doesn't support sparse files, consider the implication of built-in deduplication. It does sparse files at a layer above the filesystem, along with dedupe and compression. Or, as mappu points out, ReFS could assume it's running on VHD/CSV, punting those features to a lower level.

Perhaps Microsoft is making a decision to focus the filesystem on being a simple storage engine and moving features into other modules (primarily) above or even below it?
I think so. You don't need to focus on all your ideas at the same time, you can take turns with them. The more important take-away is to test multiple ideas until you find one that actually works, before committing to it.
This is exactly it. Not to mention all of the "internal" resources/time they put into that number. I also imagine they did an overhaul of their internal booking system, and possibly increased full-time staff (project managers, support, and sales staff) to handle the new demand.
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Judging by the URL structure, this is built on Adobe (formerly Day)'s Communique 5.x platform.

The CQ Platform gives you a ton of these graphical widgets and social interaction out of the box, though there is still plenty of development to write a full reservation system. It also handle mobile rendering, site templating, and multiple languages quite well.

So while it sounds like people are seeing "a single website for $18m", I'd be willing to wager that was the cost for the entire content platform (CMS/Social/Mailings/Reservation system. So now they would have access to very advanced templating design, multi-lingual components.

The amount of time it would take them to roll out multiple country and language sites would be dwarfed in comparison to any other platform. That $18m may be a big upfront costs, but might well pay for itself if they intend to use for other properties and across multiple regions/languages.
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Reminds me of the Anti-dog-eat-dog rule.

Use laws to eliminate competition and create a monopoly, with the help of politicians any companies can be saved...
Well, it's probably more like the company charging themselves too much by having a ridiculously mismanaged process for getting the work done.

Incoherent, produced-by-committee specs that don't actually have any explanation about how the soup of buttons and buzzwords is supposed to work, ridiculous management overhead.. it's probably not even the developers getting paid that much. Nobody walked off with that money, it was pissed away in 6-hour meetings.
This.

I own an iPad and a kindle and use the kindle far, far more often because of its non-backlit screen. This argument has absolutely nothing to do with resolution, it's just far easier to read an eink screen for long periods of time.
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For raw storage Hadoop beats an RDBMS, sure I'll buy that argument. It's not the same thing though and it doesn't do the same job.

Hadoop excels at data processing, trawling vast quantities of unstructured or semi structured data and extracting information from it. It's a poor platform for random access to specific elements of that data though.

RDBMS are great in exactly the places Hadoop isn't, getting access to random elements of data in a structured manner. Executing structured queries on that data. Things you know you'll do a lot of and can optimise.

There are column and table data stores built on top of Hadoop, and it can be argued that they could be used as an alternative to an RDBMS but they aren't drop in replacements and for the most part they're not meant to do the same job.

The most interesting uses of Hadoop aren't going to come from replacing existing RDBMS infrastructure with a Hadoop cluster. They're going to come from pushing data into a Hadoop cluster to process it. Collecting data that would otherwise be impossible to collect because it's either unstructured or there is simply too much to put in a RDBMS at a cost effective scale.

Hadoop and the NoSQL movement is exciting when you start to think about processing that data and pulling what's useful back out into your existing infrastructure.
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I like that analogy. The path to upgrade is also effortless and free.
Do you hear that sound? It's the sound of your buddies charging appropriately for their skills while you consistently undercharge.
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The 30% cut Apple takes is a minuscule part of their business, you can pretty much round it off as irrelevant. Look at any of their financial reports for this presented in black and white. From their perspective that cut is just a way to not lose money on their digital deliverables.

For Apple, it's all about the hardware. Their business is stupid simple to understand, and yet analysts and laymen alike confuse the hell out of it. Their software, services, and their ecosystem are only important in so far as it helps them sell more hardware.
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That 30% has to be paid without getting anything in return (bandwidth and storage only cost a fraction). Textbook publishers on the other hand provide value (advertising/lectoring...), which still has to be paid for. So prices will rise. I hope the Fire and especially Android tablets can give Apple a run for their money and get some competition going.
Academia is mostly about signalling, not entirely, but mostly (see Robin Hanson's http://www.overcomingbias.com posts on academia). Making it difficult and expensive to publish increases the signalling effect and helps keep out the riff-raff.
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It depends what institution you are at and how much research funding you have. If you are a professor at a small teaching university (even in the US), a few publications per year in open access journals is the same cost as supporting a student for a year. Depending on the field and how established you, obtaining research funding can take a lot of time that might be better spent doing actual science. (This is true at all levels, but in high-profile fields, the grant sizes are large enough that publishing costs are almost negligible.)

Although I am friends with David (the author of this blog post), I do not agree that open access is fundamentally the wrong model, but his argument is not without merit.
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"Alcatel aired an ad with an excerpt of “I Have a Dream,” which it licensed from the King family for an undisclosed sum."

They made money off of that one.
To be frank, I always thought that our profession was being flushed down a toilet because some guys were cheating themselves by charging too little for too much. Go figure.
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You say that, but consider what it takes to build a web site for an organisation like Four Seasons.

You’d probably spend 6 months alone on producing the various specifications and plans, and deal with governance (reviews and revisions, sign-off, acceptance and so on). You’d build out a proper information architecture (a little more than the average SharePoint TeamSite taxonomy).

To show you how realistic that number is, consider the scale of documentation Four Seasons would require you produce. Those docs would probably include, but not be limited to:

Project/team structure

Risk assessment

Vision/Scope

Business requirements

User requirements

System requirements

Operational requirements

Usage scenarios

Conceptual design

Logical design

Physical design

Availability plan

Backup and recovery plan

Budget plan

Capacity plan

Communications plan

Deployment plan

Development plan

End user support plan

Project plan

Project schedule

Pilot plan

Purchasing and facilities plan

Security plan

Support plan

Test plan

Training plan

And after all that you haven’t even written a line of code (other than the inevitable throw-away proofs of concept and demonstrators).

Imagine having to estimate the effort required to produce that set. The analysis alone will take a herd of business analysts months.

Like Steve Sinofsky said – new businesses (start-ups), or even new markets, simply cannot solve the class of problems that is addressed by larger and more established firms.

[Edit] That list up there excludes systems integration (hotel reservations, customer care, etc) and data migration - both of which can add orders of magnitude to a project.
ok, point taken, thanks :)

any advice for an alternative registrar with free DNS hosting? Preferably one with native IPv6 reachable DNS servers (which is not the case at godaddy)
The 100,000 hits by 17 accounts took place over a year could be 99.9% valid contributions. They mentioned that number because they have recently noted 2 accounts vandalising and so it's probably wise to check the other interactions in case they are subtle vandalism by the same person/people that went unnoticed at the time but that it'll take time to confirm either way.
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>I do know that FreeBSD's handling of network activity appears to be second to none

It is certainly second to OpenBSD. Probably third behind NetBSD even.
I'll bet fox news will never post one article on the first global protest blackout action. If it does, the message will be completely fabricated internally.
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A year ago I made a task manager, even had a some people pay for it. Eventually it turned into a slow bloated mess and I stopped working on it and using it. This month I remade it with backbone.js. It's much much faster. I'm going to keep it very simple but how could I improve it?

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Personal question: Do you believe that this speech not being in the public domain promotes the progress of science and useful arts?
same here. Something I've been wanting to learn in a while being fascinated by computational linguistics.
Is there room for another social search site?
http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/17/cliqsearch-releases-new-social-search-app-in-beta-raises-840000
You really don't need a pre-made license, like one of the Creative Commons licenses. Just grant the use of the speech and recordings of the speech for any purpose. Or make the text of the speech free for noncommercial use.
I think this is actually a good idea. Your "Degree" is always your highest degree. So lets say you went to Harvard, you are always going to be a Harvard grad, the community college degree is not going to affect that. But if you take say a CS path at the community college you would be a Harvard grad with an IT focus. I think there is some merit to this. What I don't believe that you need to do though is now go to MIT to get a CS degree, it's just too much debt for what you can realistically command in salary.

You will have to forgive me but I don't know much about the Law profession from an employment perspective. Is their not a way to join a top law firm at an entry level. Below where the good GPA candidates enter and work your way up. It is a foreign concept to me because in the development industry you ascend the ladder by proving yourself. If you are good people will notice in my industry.

As well, what about organizations like the EFF or the ACLU do they have programs where if you join them they help with the debt. I would like to think that they do, but again I don't know much about law employment.
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But that is irrelevant to the person who has to pay this added middleman.
> So prices will rise.

You mean just like it happened for apps?
It's not an added middleman, it's replacing one or more other middlemen with Apple.
The GRUB update in May 2011 added support for booting both ZFS and btrfs. If your having issue all you need to do is update grub to get proper support.
The website itself is just be the tip of the iceberg - it would need to talk to multiple back-end systems. $18m wouldn't be unreasonable if the project required complex legacy integration and/or re-design of underlying infrastructure.
swombat, what mental framework would you apply when looking at a project and wondering if it is "the one"?

Or perhaps I should be taking from your post that unless you really are tackling a problem that takes full time over several years, then your plan probably should include running multiple businesses/sites at a time.
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It strikes me that the FDA is powerless in the face of the corporate lobby. While allowing CAFOs (among others) to "police themselves," the FDA aggressively pursues raw milk producers and farm-to-table organizations [http://farmtoconsumer.org/quail-hollow-farm-dinner.htm] because no one with deep pockets is protecting these folks politically.
My opinion isn't the one that matters. And of course the law would have to apply equally to everyone. We can't make exceptions for speeches we would really like to have in the public domain vs. boring speeches. I don't think the Berne convention is perfect, but generally, I like the idea that "As soon as a work is 'fixed', that is, written or recorded on some physical medium, its author is automatically entitled to all copyrights in the work, and to any derivative works unless and until the author explicitly disclaims them, or until the copyright expires." (wikipedia)
Two problems:

1. Money is an extremely effective campaign tool, so effective that it is almost impossible for a candidate with no money to get elected, no matter how popular their views are. Since quite few constituents contribute money, and individual people don't speak with sufficiently organized objectives, politicians are only very weakly accountable to their constituents.

2. The promise of a high-paying job after congress, along with other benefits, influences the decisions of our elected officials.

To make politicians accountable to their constituents, we have to solve the first problem. Since advertising costs money and seems to be necessary for a campaign, this suggests finance reform along the lines that Lessig suggests (http://rootstrikers.org), whereby constituents control campaign funding, all in small-dollar amounts.
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I made an additional donation to Wikipedia because of their stand on this issue.

Seth Godin was right when he said "If the user supports it, she owns it. If support comes from anonymous government money, or some corporate sponsorship, then the interactions don't matter so much, and it's more distant from you."
I have never felt closer to Wikipedia than today.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/12/who-owns-wik....
Two of those citations were in the public domain -- I don't know Carey, but does cribbing means wholesale copying or similar sentiment? If he says the "same thing" as Carey but in his own words, then it's a new work.
As far as I can tell K&R is still the best. Its reputation is entirely deserved.
Why would it have to already exist? Anyone can create a license. Pretty sure some lawyer would've done it for free.
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I experienced jaggy scrolling too. I realized that scrolling with the cursor keys or clicking to page down in the scroll bar looks that way, yet if you select and drag the scroll bar then it is smooth.
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[IANAL either] My understanding is that the difference between general and limited publication was important under the Copyright Act of 1909, and that to a great extent it required registration of works in order for the work to enjoy protection. The Copyright Act of 1976, changed the requirements for protection and essentially works are automatically protected when they are published.
Quick answer as I'm on my phone!

The framework is simple: each of those projects is basically throwing something on the wall to see if it sticks. Your definition of "it sticks" may vary, but basically, if you're seeing enthusiastic responses from target potential customers, in a tangible way that means you're fairly confident that money will be forthcoming, or even better, if you're seeing money coming in, then it probably counts as "sticking".

The exact definition depends on the type of business... I'll write a follow up post to explore that in more detail.
With copyright, he/his heirs get to decide how it can be used, such as selling Coke. (They didn't have to decide "sell Coke".)

> Some things are too important to lock down and copyright, at least not until 2038.

And the copyright law language embodying that principle is?
You mentioned the biggest offending platform, facebook. I look at my feed and see people, my age and older, go into minute detail about their everyday lives. I look at reddit and see young men and women expose themselves for no reason in particular. Then you have people who act surprised when their very public actions are used against them or in ways that they didnt expect.

I have no problem with people choosing to share their name, build their brand, and use it to network because they are typically aware of the potential downsides to doing such things. It is the lax actions of the kids that bother me the most. That picture of yourself you posted is now on the internet where it will most likely live forever. That [rac|sex|age|etc.]ist post you put on twitter/facebook will live with you. Shit, wasnt there a post a few weeks back about banks scouring your facebook situation to determine your credit worthiness? There was an npr story about how a guy developed an iphone app that could take your picture, scan fb, find your page, find other pics of you online, and guess your social -- just from a single picture.

I just need to get with the times in a lot of cases, but oversharing is something that I'm not cool with.
Bullshit. If they really wanted to vandalize your project, they'd use a chain of anonymous proxies.
Those are nice. The biggest portable spotlight I've seen was IR, but visible light is a lot more useful usually. Too bad there isnt an hn discount!
Not odd - it closed down a while back: http://www.fourseasons.com/dubaigolf/message0609/
>It's amazing how the majority of our history is downright whitewashed. The more you look into something, the more you see a completly different story.

No you don't.

People are complicated. Everyone thinks and says things they would never say to lots of other people. That does not make you a different person. It just makes you normal. Like everyone he could be angry, emotional, etc. But as long as you act consistently, you are what you do. The stupid shit you occasionally say in private does not make you "different".
But, at least you can have a secondary market or communal books with the current middleman. Once it's Apple's way, you can't get your books without paying for the middleman.
Definitely CQ - pretty impressive in that regard. Having worked with the platform, I can tell you -good- CQ5 developers are very expensive and hard to acquire. Conde Nast is learning this the hard way after they committed to converting all their properties over to CQ.
> It strikes me that the FDA is powerless in the face of the corporate lobby.

The term that you're looking for is "regulatory capture".

RC is like gravity. Any plan which ignores it or tries to legislate it away is wrong, no matter how well-intentioned.
Well - I'm sure some projects fail because of stuff like this...
Http://www.getapp.com/blog/review-grepsr-data-extraction-tool/
It's quite refreshing to see a new language that doesn't have garbage collection. Memory leaks have always been less of a problem for me than the kind of performance hit GC can cause (particularly in games).
What would these employees even have to gain?

Should we apply this logic to all open source contributions, and view with suspicion everything that doesn't have a price tag attached?
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Agreed. Not like a wordpress blog and design cost that much.
It's worth noting that the people hosting on Heroku have been lumped into the AWS stats. Which is even more expensive performance wise, but has added benefits over self maintained servers.
I can address two of those points (one for my company and another for YC companies in general):

- SSL: We're on that list as HireHive.com, which had a login and used to have an SSL cert, however, we shut it down (i.e., it just redirects now) and now run Hackruiter.com and HackerSchool.com, where our cert is now. We never had logins online without a proper cert. The data from OP is wrong.

- So many YC companies use Amazon because Amazon gives large cash credits to YC companies meaning it's effectively free to use for the first couple years. Also, many of us are built on services built on AWS (e.g., we use Dotcloud).

EDIT: Typo.
If it's of any consolation, I'm in medical school, hating every second of it, and will likely be in your position very soon. I regret not getting into engineering almost every day of my life. Not much help, I know, but know there are others who can empathize. Good luck.
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True enough, but with a total cost of $18m, I'd guess they went full consultancy -- not done in house.

Completely unrelated, does MJK mean anything to you?
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This is a really good point and something that the anti-SOPA movement should address better (or at least publicize better). I imagine phoning into the American consulate or embassy tomorrow couldn't hurt! They will say "we don't control that" but you can just let them know you are upset about WP being out, upset about SOPA, and liable to stop using US 'net services if becomes clear that the US market is "unsafe" for 'net business. I'll edit if I find more specific information for how non-US people can oppose SOPA.
Have you looked at the transcript of his conversation? Would he be using an '@gmail.com' address instead of an '@google.com' address if he was doing it on Google's behalf?
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