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Wikipedia may have a political agenda, but here it is simply fighting for survival. It may indeed go away, but its editors are willing to fight to prevent it.

Jimbo Wales did a wide editor survey on his talk page. The few opposing voices (that I remember of) were about Wikipedia's neutrality. They were missing the fact that, while Wikipedia articles must be written from a neutral point of view, the existence of Wikipedia relies on non-neutral things like the right to freedom of expression and not being taken down on a whim because someone, somewhere, reported for some reason to some authority that some page was infringing some copyright.
If war was imminent, and forcing nuclear disarmament by a simple protest was possible, then we could have such protest on Wikipedia.
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One year can also be extremely low w.r.t. a privacy viewpoint. Even assuming that anonymization is possible, a) who would pay for it? and b) it could make it impossible to verify the research (there are a lot of 'describe one patient' papers out there)
You don't need a printer, online only is fully acceptable.

However, what you do need is an "impact rating" calculated by Web of Science(TM). That rating is based on the number of citations articles in your journal gets from other rated journals.

Since your journal is new, it won't have an impact rating, meaning scientists won't publish in it, meaning you won't get an impact rating.

But the alternatives exists, e.g. Bentham and Hindawi are both running spamtastic marketing campaigns for 100s of open access journals, most with none or negligible impact ratings.

There are good and successful ones too. PLoS have very high quality open access journals. Expensive, though.
1. What about entering a military JAG program? I believe they'll pay back a large part of your loans at some point. I honestly don't know much about this option, just throwing it out there.

2. If you're interested in startups there's very serious demand for people that really know how to do startup marketing. Things like this: http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pir...

There are 100 great programmers for every great marketer. If it's something that resonates with you you could certainly build a lucrative career out of it, either highly paid consulting for startups or to your own benefit as a founder.

3. If those too-many-years in school have made you good at writing you might try your hand at blogging. Arrington was a somewhat middling lawyer if I have my history right, but he had the perfect personality to cover startups effectively.

You can make real money if you have the right set of networking and writing skills.
I'm helping out with a Kickstarter project (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/studentrnd/plasma-speake...) which is already 2 months behind the delivery date, and I just wanted to offer a view from the other side.

Shipping a product is hard. Our initial prototype used some components we had in our parts organizer, and a $100k variable DC power supply Boeing donated. It was pretty cool, so we put it online, and it picked up $20k in donations.

As soon as we put it online, we started working on improvements to the design, and when it was to a point we considered done, we made a board design and ordered parts.

And of course, nothing worked.

We've been working on it for as much time as possible since then (as mentioned in our Kickstarter, the lead designer is a high school student), and even with the help of some local EEs, it's taken forever to get it to even start. The flybacks and PSUs took forever to get to the US, customs held up the package, and FedEx refused to deliver them. Our laser cutter, which we ordered to make the enclosures, was a week late, and took a few days to set up.

Now we're at the point where we're balancing sound quality and time. We can redesign the entire project so it sounds better, but that means another few weeks to get the new boards and parts, or we can just ship what we have.

If we do any Kickstarters in the future, we're obviously going to have a totally more realistic timeframe. But it's apparent that anyone who hasn't shipped a product is going to have no idea of how involved trying to reproduce something in a mass scale is.

That said, it looks like these people took an AWFUL approach to customer support. We've tried to keep people as up-to-date as we were, we've refunded anyone who asked for it and offered to ship laser cut cards to anyone who was planning on giving the plasma speakers as a Christmas gift.

tl;dr: Kickstarter is hard. As usual, the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
> I agree C is hardly used anymore

Ehh what? From the top of my head I can think of these things written in C:

linux
bsd
windows nt kernel
python
php
perl
sqlite
gcc
glibc
gtk+
apache
nginx
gimp
blender
mplayer
wine
x264
ffmpeg
libjpeg
curl/libcurl
zlib
rsync

And there's obviously tons more I could think of if I spend some more time, then we have basically the entire embedded industry.
Can you ask? I'm curious to learn what these background checks entail. Also, if they actually do prevent bad apple's from joining, why not do them to programmers as well (given that they have the power to program backdoors etc into systems).
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0. Spend way way way too much time thinking of a project name.
> For me, the worst thing about working for Google is
> how much I know about the future.

I'm assuming you're talking about the future as it relates to Google (future Google projects, future directions for current projects, what Google's end-game is for the self-driving cars, etc). No Google Time Machines in the works or Google Future Viewer for Android? ;-)
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> Aggregating that info upwards whenever a file is created or renamed (let alone deleted) cannot come for free, can it?

Not free, but it's not asymptotically significant.
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The author (pierrefar) also commented in the HN thread of that post about JavaScript suggestions he'd come across.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3470396
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I am a huge Sonic the Hedgehog 2 fan and I remember being on SimonWai's site back in the day (~10 years ago?) and Sonic Retro.

Anyways, it's a small world. I definitely recognized your nickname from the Sonic forum and I think you helped unearthed a prototype(s). I can't tell you how much I appreciated your work!
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There’s an interesting comment from Tom Hughes:

“As the person who (in my role as an OpenStreetMap system administrator) first discovered this `incident' let me start by saying that I consider this post to be grossly irresponsible and wholly inappropriate.

[ … ]

It seems to me that this is just an attempt to get some cheap publicity by trying to like the project to the Mocality incident, and I cannot support such behaviour.”
I'm saying somebody who blithely asserts that Google is just "about how I can get people to click more ads or make more money for some trendy corporation" is a troll and not a comment worth responding to.
The founder of OSM and author of this blog post runs Bing Maps.

I hesitate to bring this up and add to the melodrama -- but people should be aware of the interests of the parties involved.
Well, I have barely worked with Drupal/Joomla/other or Magento/Prestashop or even PHP in general, and I've always thought it would be quite boring after the first CRM/e-Commerce site, as you said, to put together some plugins and glue-code, some customizations and few more...

On the other side, I've worked extensively with Java, and on a lesser extent with Scala, C++, C# and other languages, Unity3D, etc on projects which have little to do with CRMs.

Perhaps you're not bored of working with computer, just worked of the reiteration of the same project with little variations and the technology you're using...

Try something different!
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According to ReadWriteWeb [1] Google PR responded

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[1] http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_osm_vandalism.ph...
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So; the blackout will work something like this:

https://test.wikipedia.org/?banner=SOPA_blackout_alt

The exact text is being figured out here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Propo...

(I think the current draft isn't very informative; it doesn't actually explain anything, just that there is a protest of SOPA/PIPA & link to some blogs).

My personal take is that as of last weekend we are now on the back foot - and going through with a protest right now plays into the hands of the politicians. What will happen is that SOPA/PIPA are effectively dead anyway (and were when the Whitehouse didn't outright support them), the press will cover this protest until it bores them and then, after the election, a lot of it will be slipped through under another name.

A mass blackout has the most impact, from a media perspective, the first time. I worry that WP and others have essentially been goaded into misfiring. (I also note that Issa has backed off going after SOPA this week; which I suspect is the right way to play against a delaying tactic).

I hope I'm wrong, but I am a little worried :(
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Well, no real progress has been made in parallel programming in the decades of research (apart from the embarrassingly parallelizable), so we're probably going to have to give up something in our concept of the problem.
But I really like determinism. If the proposal works out, future computer geeks will have a very different cognitive style.

Another approach might be to recast every problem as finding a solution in a search-space - and then have as many cores as you like trying out solutions. Ideally, a search-space enables some hill-climbing (i.e. if you hit on a good solution, there's a greater than average probability that other good solutions will be nearby), and for this, it is very helpful to know the result of previous searches and thus sequential computation is ideal. But, if the hills aren't that great as predictors, and if you do feed-in other results as they become available, the many-cores would easily overcome this inefficiency.

An appealing thing about a search-space approach is that it may lend itself to mathematically described problems, i.e. declare the qualities that a solution must have, rather than how to compute it.
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The other legislation he mentions is probably also important, so I hope people will pay attention and block or attempt to modify it if that is necessary.

I thought he was going to say something about NDAA, because although protecting the internet is very important to our freedom, the new NDAA legislation with regards to indefinite detention of American citizens without trial is a direct attack that has already been successful and needs to be repealed.

http://www.salon.com/2011/12/16/three_myths_about_the_detent...

http://www.lawfareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/NDAA-C...
To be completely fair, the post is signed by three people. The other two are an OSM Sysadmin and an OSMF board member.

I'm not saying that there may not be a conflict of interest, but this post has some support from the board of the foundation.
It could also just be a broken bot. You'd think Google would be smart enough to know not to POST 100k times to an outside service, but it's possible there's someone in the ranks who just doesn't know what they are doing.
Work in the same physical space. Setup a nice place where you can both work together, if at all possible. That's probably the only way you're going to really sync up on effort. It builds empathy and camaraderie that remote work can't. It's worth whatever it costs.

Realize that there's probably no startup in the history of man where work was truly 50/50. I bet Brin/Page have their own little bitter grudges with each other about the amount of effort they put in at various times. I know that was the case for Gates/Allen and Jobs/Woz. Some level of resentment may be unavoidable. If you can succeed in spite this you won't care. If you fail you'll blame it on this (but you'll probably be wrong).

It may be hard, but for the success of your company it's important that you learn to overcome things like this. If you have to do 75% of the work to be successful so what? You probably couldn't have done 100% of the work, so that 25% was necessary. Even if you gave up 50% equity it was still a good deal.

The most important thing is that you succeed -- not that everyone contributes the same amount of effort. Startups are all about facing reality as it is and this is part of reality.
But that is chicken and egg. I would rather see a world where we worked on solving those problems, instead of giving up on them. On the good side, they are dropping support for 8.3 filenames (but it will be interesting to see how they solve the 'copy from this new file system to FAT' problem)
Why not focus on writing your own (lightweight) framework or looking for a more long-term project? Maybe try using something like Symfony to mix things up? Try to create an ecosystem where you can spend time creating new code instead of trying to mush and mash different pieces together.
When I was in college and working for a bootstrapped startup I was handed an unprotected thumb drive with an excel spreadsheet containing all the credit card numbers, expiration dates, address, social security numbers, etc of all the clients (thousands) and told to take it home for when I was working out of the office. I was too ignorant to realize how terrible, and I'm sure illegal this was. Of course I never abused it but it definitely makes me wary of my data these days. I imagine this happens much more than people think. Don't worry, the company I speak of was localized and failed now I think. It's prudent to cancel your cards once or twice a year and be careful who you trust. Some companies value convenience over security and put way too much trust in the employees.
If there was, we wouldn't be able to tell you about it. ;-)

Although, chances are, if Google (or anyone else) ever invent time travel, you'd already know about it.
Phoronix is infamous for its broken benchmarks. I'm sure the disk performance numbers would look completely different if they used paravirtualized disks (like EC2 does) rather than emulated disks. The compute numbers are just plain weird; on something as cache-resident as ripper it should be impossible for the virtualization system to cause any significant real effect, so I'm sure there's a problem with their benchmark or their test setup somewhere.
Sorry to nitpick, but Warren Buffett did not start Berkshire Hathaway, he bought an ailing textile manufacturing company in 1960s thinking he could turn it around. He could not, but Berkshire eventually became a holding company for most of his investments.

Warren Buffett is more of an example of meta-enterepreneur, that is he is great at investing in companies with great entrepreneurs (and managers).

Your original point still stands.
Minor correction: Elsevier's headquarters are in Amsterdam for historical reasons, not for tax reasons.
2 and 3 are interesting, thanks.

As to 1 (JAG) I've looked into it extensively. Every branch except Army is insanely competitive and Army is just super-competitive. I might have a decent shot at Army though, but decided that it wasn't for me.
Most "accuracy" issues that crop up with floats have nothing to do with either accuracy or precision, but simply with wrong expectations about decimal behaviour.
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And you are quoting this from?
Well said. I think offering a constructive and meaningful response to your potential customers goes a long way.
my wife used to work as a tax attorney for Elsevier in Amsterdam and while it is true the company was founded in the Netherlands (Haarlem actually), the main reason they are still there are the excellent "tax facilities" (euphemism for a great deal with the tax man).
Kept adventure gaming alive? There have been plenty of great adventure games since 2001, but this article was mostly about life support...

(It's also always worth mentioning the continuing interactive fiction, the precursor for adventure games. http://pr-if.org/play/ is a good starting place.)
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Well, in fairness, that couldn't happen to Wikipedia directly because of provisions in the SOPA legislation.

The concern (which no one at WP is doing a good job of explaining...) is that we might be defined under SOPA as a "search engine" and therefore forced to stop linking to sites that, on a whim, are considered copyright infringing.
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But the fact that you even know the SAT scores of people around you is weird. I'm not in the US, so I haven't done SAT's, but I couldn't tell you a single test score or grade average of anyone I know or went to school with. Why? Because it's just not interesting.
To begin, donations are not in exchange for a particular service or benefit. That is why these are donations and not membership fees. When you donate money to the Red Cross, you are not mandating that they provide fresh water to somebody in Thailand. Instead you are donating the money with the expectation that it is used in a way consistent with mission. So, Carr's claim that they are somehow "making a mockery" of those who donated money "to keep wikipedia live" fails to hold water. This argument is a strawman. They are upholding their mission to provide a knowledge repository by protecting their ability to do that. Again, donations are not membership fees and they are being used at the discretion of the organization.

Second, the neutrality argument is equally weak. This is even addressed in the official Wikipedia release. Providing an objective and balanced knowledge repository does not require that they as an organizations behave in a neutral manner. The Wikimedia Foundation clearly feels the passage of this bill into law would negatively affect their ability to serve the community. Thus, they are expressing their position against the bill. Is that not proper? How personal must the attack be before it is okay for Wikimedia to take a stand and "lose their objectiveness".

His final argument is extremely naive and simply not true. By his account, if you have a stance on a public topic and publicly declare it, you are now and forever inherently stating your approval of any subject you fail to discuss. If you think this is an exaggeration, here is his statement, "The trouble with taking a political stance on one issue is that your silence on every issue becomes a stance...Everything else that’s happened in the world until now, and everything that will ever happen from this day forward..."

By this logic, a group like the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation must be in support of the Rape of Nanjing. PETA must be completely okay with the fraud committed by Enron. I could certainly create an unending list but the point is clear. It is impossible and unnecessary to publicly (or privately for that matter) hold informed positions about every topic.

On a final note, I think it is actually very logical that different services should show support in different manners. Twitter, Facebook, G+, etc. are social networks and as such, can make the most impact by members creating an echo chamber of dissent. Wikipedia on the other hand is a resource. And, just like the physical world, we feel the greatest impact of a resource when it is no longer available.
'And if you'd wanted to use a hash table, if you even knew what a hash table was, you'd have to write your own.'

And just for the record, Common Lisp had hash tables since 1984 (and I guess Maclisp had them before that), but earlier lisp dialects had things like plists and alists.
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Here are relevant project pages of the stack:

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- http://neo4j.org/ (Graph database)

- http://flask.pocoo.org/ (web framework)
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