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Yes, I've tried a few for her, and they all don't work as advertised. She always wants the ringer on max, so I figured that I would see if there was a simple way to disable the buttons. Did it on my phone in about 5 minutes as a test (mine is rooted) so I went about to try it on hers. No root, no dice (can't remount /system as rw to edit the file).

So then I thought, how about an app for that. Listen for keypresses, set the volume to max, easy peasy. Ha. Services can't listen for keypresses. Apps only listen when they are in focus. All apps are run as their own user and group and the /dev/input devices are not readable by anybody but root or those in the input group. 3 ideas on a simple app, no way to do it without rooting the phone.
Lamson makes email processing easy - it is a very modern framework for writing email applications. I have used it for a while now (almost a year) and have not had huge problems.
I have written about it here (including code samples): http://amix.dk/blog/post/19608
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This is starting to go offtopic but, I'd like to see data that shows that gun related death excluding accident are more linked to business criminals or gangs.

My current belief is most gun death are due to smaller things like family issues, neighboors getting in fights etc.
Similar to the problem Octopress has. The default font is great, but it's also a dead give-away.
But the whole point of Bootstrap is for _non_ designers to be able to make decent looking sites with minimal effort. Give them control over things like spacing and font sizes, and most of them will get it very, very, wrong.
What strategy are people taking on this?

Perhaps it is time to revive the java-package debian package:

http://wiki.debian.org/JavaPackage
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/java-package

I forked it here and will be looking into it later today:
https://github.com/philips/java-package
What about doing corporate law at a company like IBM or Oracle? Dealing with contracts and corporate agreements and what-not; is that stuff an option for you in any way?
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There are a subset of applications that imo could rely exclusively on email as the platform.

A few months ago I built such an app, a small side-project called betabrokers(email trade@betabrokers.com with subject:about to signup and learn more).
The simplicity of the signup process for this type of app (simply sending an email) is a huge benefit.

Email-based apps especially make sense in a mobile context, which is somewhat ironic because the transactional nature of applications built on them would suggest that they are slower, therefore less likely to be used. In our case however, users keep coming back to it, probably because the email client is the single most used app on their phone, and receiving replies to your actions via email becomes addictive.
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Urgh... Couldn't they have phrased this any differently? The only thing that's missing is "Please hold. Your call is important to us."
Why nginx AND varnish? I thought varnish could proxy as well? Or maybe could you explain your setup.
You are correct, of course. Nothing stops you from doing this yourself. The basic functionality in SaaS is always easy to accomplish (hosting, email sending, dropbox, etc). Its the little things that get you and eventually drive you to the bottle.
Cheap? I guess you don't have kids. There is a huge time investment getting an 8 lbs eat-sleep-crap infant to something that can operate simple machines.
This is a bit late but there seems to be a market for: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&...

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I think you may have accidentally nailed the crux of it in your first sentence. Most enterprises are not software shops and nearly everything represented in this blog post is not talking about product development... and if you're not selling it you're probably not going to be inclined to care about best practices or be passionate about quality or timeliness.
Just to be clear, when talking about selling or licensing copyrights, I'm really talking about deals where someone other than the original artist has either permanent or temporary control of those rights.

I would agree that if you can't at least grant temporary rights to make copies for the purposes of accessing the work, copyright is of limited usefulness in the Internet age. (Of course, this in itself is a relatively modern concern as well. If you go back far enough, it really would have been the copyright holder who was physically making all the copies anyway, and no licensing at all would have been necessary).

I think a lot of the trouble with copyright in practice today comes down to precisely that disconnect between the original artist and the long-term copyright holder. If copyrights could not be transferred, only delegated for a relatively short period, then all the middleman industries that tend to take the lion's share of the profits today at the expense of both artist and public would necessarily become subservient to the artists again, which I think would fix a lot of problems. If you are only going to get your contract as a distributor/marketer/whatever renewed after six months if you've been getting good returns for the artist for a fair price, and the artist can take their best-selling book or platinum-selling album to another distributor next week if they aren't happy with the deal, then a lot of inequalities get balanced out.

Then again, the Internet will probably render most middleman distributors irrelevant soon anyway. The process has already started, it's just that for now it remains the preserve of the technically knowledgeable and the trailblazers. Hopefully, as self-publishing becomes more mainstream, the result will be a rise of a new class of companies who provide actually useful/valuable services to artists, such as editorial/design work for authors or effective promotion that generates measurable returns for musicians.

Moreover, if transfers of rights could only be temporary, then an estate could only benefit for a genuinely limited time from the work of a deceased artist, instead of several generations receiving income in return for doing nothing effectively in perpetuity. It would be enough that an artist who had invested hard work in creating something valuable that should support his or her family could know that their family really would be supported for a while in the event of their untimely death, which seems reasonably fair, but that would be it.
You need to first remove any civil service position from being in the presidents gift as a bribe for contributions no jollies as an ambassador ETC and NO presidential pardons for anything Scooter Libby ought to be in the cell next to Manning or more properly have been taken out and shot.

Oh and move to a fully professional Judiciary elections to Judgeship are far more corrupting.

Oh and you didn't answer my point about other actors do you want to have an internet where telcos and ISP can't lobby for common carrier status welcome to the church and other interest groups deciding what is allowed on the internet

Or would you care live a society like China or Russia where your employer and your job and sweat equity can be expropriated.
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They offer a solution for the transition: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes/Java6Transiti...
SOPA was shelved in its current form. And DNS filtering was one mechanism to enforce the provisions of SOPA. That doesn't mean that the industry and congress have given up the basic premise of SOPA: the idea that all content on the internet should be pre-screened thoroughly for any hint of IP infringement, that standards of evidence and due process should be thrown out the window and the mere act of accusation should be sufficient to warrant adjudication of a punishment on the site owners.
It's about as in the spirit of the site guidelines as saying that you flagged the post ;)
Google is diversifying because they've already tapped out their first revenue stream.

Early on, as a developing firm, Google focused on that single revenue stream to great success.
If anyone still needs convincing that these are superior to, say, Word: http://nitens.org/taraborelli/latex
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Sell the skills you have, e.g. do small business internet marketing consulting. Get six clients to pay you $500 a month. Work out the minimum you need to live, so you have max time to work on something else.

I would guess, your main problems might be:
1) making stuff people don't want, ideas suck, make stuff people want. All the lead gen and marketing in the world can't help if people don't want it.
2) not committing to something (probably because people don't want it and you are not sure about it).

Strongly agree with comments about working out, spend 20 mins every day doing it and thinking positive.

Keep going, don't turn back.
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No, uWSGI has nothing to do with performance. Its strength is in the features and operational modes. Each application is diferent from the others and (could) requires specific tuning.
This is the spirit of the project, that is at the opposite of solutions like gunicorn. There is no "best choice", it depends on how you approach to system administration/development. Saying uWSGI is better than gunicorn (or the opposite) is like comparing bananas with oranges.
Take a job at a large company that won't fail for a while until you build up again? Most startups fail; it's like playing the lottery. You can always still do Startup Weekend and the like, teams there usually don't work for pay, so it's a cheap way to continue failing (and learning with each) while still not being limited to only working alone.

Re rent, see if you can move back home or in with a friend. I know lots of people who crash on a couch of a friend or two for a while in between places. Landlords I've talked to are pretty forgiving if you have to break a lease, as long as you move out immediately. They often have to deal with tenants who can't pay, but won't leave either (and thus have to be evicted). So they are often happy to just get the room free to rent to someone who actually can pay.
Print rights, historically, were generally granted on a territorial basis because it made sense --- the operations of the publishing companies were also confined that way. And until recently, ebook revenue hasn't been a large enough fraction of the print sales to give anyone an immediate financial motive to renegotiate.

(This in an industry where, like most of the world, "we've always done it that way" is taken to be a sensible argument for continuing to do it that way, and people generally don't believe that the best way to predict the future is to invent it. The limits of this strategy are becoming more apparent as they find themselves living in a world that was invented by Jeff Bezos, and not liking it much --- but what they're learning so far from that mistake is that Jeff Bezos is a bad, bad man. Which may not be the right lesson...)
Just want to say how awesome it is that so many people reached out here with offers of personal contact!! If you still need additional support I am also offering. I am an educated professional counselor and may be able to offer a coaching perspective. My email too, is in my profile.

My immediate advice is to follow the previous advice about eating, sleeping, and activity. In addition, list your strengths (you are willing to take risks, you are educated, you are smart, you have expertise, you are well traveled, etc.....) and focus on them.
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It can seem like an endless road and a thankless career. Focus on a simpler, basic life of the happy wanderer. Less computer time is probably a good step too. Too much stimuli of success images making you feel insignificant, and that is not true. email if you'd like to chat.
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The per-thread counts are a step in the right direction, but OpenMP will take care of this itself if you use the 'reduction' clause.
If this catches on it'll have a big impact on web site analytics.
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Google going dark would have been the most dramatic protest, of course, but I applaud them for this action.

I can't imagine Google taking the financial hit that would come from going dark for 24 hours, and I'm not certain how much more impactful that would have been, anyway.

I wonder, though, if they plan to include the SOPA message on their results pages as well? The Google home page is only seen by people who begin their searches at Google.com instead of using a browser toolbar or one of the myriad affiliate search boxes out there.
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My first thought: How would this service handle 100k forged emails sent from china? The recurring payments is okay if you set maybe a daily max, example: charge me indefinitely but no more than a dollar a day. If my daily quota is hit then cut that email address off until the next day.

Do they (or a similar provider) already offer a better solution? I didn't find anything in their docs but I might have overlooked it.
Figuring out ways to mine and extract the frozen water in such dark and cold conditions might be a lot more expensive and technically difficult than simply bringing along water from home.

Best guess [1] for cost to lift a kilo/liter to orbit is $20,000 per.

Have to be real expensive to mine water to make it more expensive than shipping the stuff from the Pacific.

[1] It is surprisingly hard to tease out data on this value: government accounting is partly to blame. Also: FedEx does not (yet) list their rates for 'delivery to LEO'
Varnish is just a proxy, or webcache, as I believe they like to call it. Nginx is needed because Varnish won't talk directly to the uwsgi processes, Varnish only understands http. The data that Varnish need to cache has to be supplied by a webserver somewhere and nginx is pretty nice and easily configurable. So I would assume that the idea is to use nginx as the webserver, not the cache/proxy.
I think his point is that not every company can get to $1 billion valuation or wait ten years before going public. Like you said, there is a big void to fill, and one that could be very productive for the startup ecosystem.

Think of all the tech companies that can get to $150 M. in a couple of years and still need sensible capital to grow before they are ready for the big time.
I'd be much happier with a replacement for the social buttons that don't tell Facebook/Google/whatever every website I go to until I click the button.
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Keep trying to freelance. Don't give up. If you can write good ad copy, you can make good money freelancing. It takes a little while to get started, but if you network well you can start making a decent income in a few months. You won't get rich, but you'll stay busy and make contacts. I freelance in another industry, but I know that good freelance copywriters are highly valued.

Regarding happiness, I'll be blunt and say I was never truly happy until I met my wife and had kids. I did the global traveling thing for several years, and it was fun, but I was lacking fulfillment until I started a family. I know that's not for everyone, but some people really would benefit from starting a family. If you don't have a family, it's something to at least consider.
What a great term! I, too, am scared of yak-shaving although I recently switched to Vim which you could argue is the mother of all yak-shaving exercises (I don't regret it though).
First, how old are you? I'm curious.
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His point was that even in the best case scenario, there's still a full six months of white-knuckling.

That said, I would've enjoyed seein some examples of folks with 1, 2, and 3+ years of fog before they hit liftoff.
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No amount of "Agile" or "Lean", no consultant or trainer, no Kanban or Scrum board can really ever hope to change this for them if these organizations cannot self reflect and see that they are standing in their own way.

You neglect the larger scale life cycle of such companies. Over time, in a large and varied environment, some group manages to do the right things. The real value of such group is recognized for a time, but then is lost to time and attrition. The project ages and becomes another outdated and sclerotic barrier to further progress.

The concepts and learning that has come from the agile and lean software movements are still valuable...But they are absolutely snake oil and worthless for those who are unwilling to put in this basic effort.

Basically, you want good people and a team culture that actually works.
No, they're not quite the same thing. "Drafted with assistance" is a coy, euphemistic way to say "written by."

Here's Jones' own recollection of the process (http://nexoscapital.com/articles_pdf/TheManWho_06-04.pdf). With some cuts:

When King headed to Atlanta just days before the march, Jones and Levison stayed in New York to craft the speech. They titled it "Normalcy -- Never Again." After three drafts, they got a copy to King, who made crucial substantive changes. Then, on the evening before the event, they all rendezvoused in the Willard Hotel, in Washington, DC. King, in essence, held court in the lobby and listened to all his key advisers' suggestions. "Martin kept saying, 'Clarence, are you taking notes?' Jones recalls. And I said, 'Yes.' We both kinda rolled our eyes at each other. The other leaders were determined to tell Martin what to say and how to say it.'

"I visited Martin in his hotel suite that evening," Andrew Young remembers. "Martin was working away, editing the speech text, desperate to find the exact right word for every sentence. Clarence was coming and going, giving Martin encouragement and ideas."

By five A.M., King's speech had been mimeographed and was being passed out to the press. When informed two hours later of the document's dissemination, Jones put an immediate halt to it. "I called Martin in his room and said, 'You know, this could be a major speech, and I'm concerned that you are protective of the ownership of this. So we've got to be sure it's not published... don't give up the copyright.' Little did I anticipate that my act of moderate wisdom would be deemed as the most prescient service I rendered for King."

Jones roots around his office and eventually produces the original 1963 copyright application for the "I Have a Dream" address. Jones had ensured that the speech would not become part of the public domain but would instead belong to King and, eventually, his heirs. "Whenever oral recordings or republications of the speech are sold without permission from the King Estate," Jones boasts, "a lawsuit occurs."

When King finished the speech, he came over and shook his cohort's hand. "You was smoking," a euphoric Jones told him. "The words was so hot they was just burning off the page!"
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Talking about FreshBooks: "As an aside, they mention that "we didn’t have our first paying customers until month 2." How do you think they felt before then? Or even in the six months after?"

I don't get it. I mean getting a customer in the first month would be ideal but having revenue in month 2 doesn't sound all that torturous to me. That one of the fastest examples of revenue traction I've ever heard.

If he was trying to make the valid point that many startups that on the surface appeared to have overnight success were in fact trucking away for years filled with uncertainty of getting traction it was unmade by the examples presented.
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One way would be that it would help identify individuals better since giant NATs will not be as popular. For example, I believe some IBM campuses are often all behind a single IP address.
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Getting things done is not that hard. I don't need a burn down chart and some dude with a Dilbertesque PHB role to do my job effectively. I view anyone waxing on about so-called agile in the same light as those who speak of synergistic paradigm shifts in innovation etc.
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in both gunicorn and php you have to choose the number of workers/processes. Most of the time (unless you use php-fastcgi) the number of php processes is choosen by the sysadmin as it maps 1:1 with apache processes. The same is true for mod_wsgi. There is always some form of configuration independently by the load. One of the reasons for some users blaming at apache+mod_wsgi is because they maintain the default (bloated) apache configuration like php users/sysadmin tend to do.
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Kurzweil is a smart guy, but he's wrong on this point.

Space is just a place.

Taking a real long-term view, it's no more ridiculous to live in the Moon, or Mars, than it was for early man to move out of Africa and settle Europe, Australia, the Himalayas, California.

Every place man has lived has been radically different from an African savannah. We get along by adapting, improvising, inventing, using technology.

This is not to discount the hazards, dangers, and exceptionally different environment found outside our atmosphere.

But it's time for a real, actual Space Age. We'll make it up as we go along, same as we always have.
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If you start treating them as system administrators and software engineers they will be frustrated users.

After that they will be users of a competing product.
Thank you for reaching out. The whole value yourself thing got to me, I think I've been judging myself to harsh lately.

I'll get in touch.
I just finished reading the Jobs biography, and I believe you're correct. Isaacson writes about Steve personally calling the editor in chief of Time Inc to get the famous picture of Gandhi which isn't available for commercial use, and meeting with Yoko Ono to get the pic of Lennon.
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you can directly link uWSGI with varnish using http protocol instead of the uwsgi one: http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/wiki/Example#varnish
could it be that you give up easily? i'm just trying to figure out why your last 6 startups failed? what was the reason? having 6 startup failurs in 7 years means you only allowed 1 year for each product before jumping ship.

maybe the problem is that you haven't found the product or startup that you passionate about to make it go to the next level without giving up.

so what were the reasons for the startup failures?
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