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> Who can help to build that?

I would love to. But it's difficult to justify when there is no payoff for it.
# Can I use derived works?

Yeah, super awesome!!
So you think while loops are unnecessary in python?
Thanks for doing a post-mortem on the launch, they're always great to read. Good luck with the new project.
Actually, most of the FDA costs are created during the effectiveness phases. If FDA went back to it's original mission of safety, the estimates are drug approval costs would be 25% of current costs.

Of course the market (doctors and healthcare customers) would have to determine the effectiveness of the new drugs. So the cost is not eliminated, just shifted to the more efficient and moral option.
"...What do any of these educated and skilled people need with programming?..."

Have you looked at want ads lately? Chef: must be able to work the mixomatic programmable mixer. Electrician: must have knowledge of microcontrollers. Fashion designer: must be able to create digital mock-ups of new designs and work out how to automatically share them with our manufacturers. Pilots: must be able to work and program so many systems it would make your head spin. Musicians: must have knowledge of MIDI and be able to use a sequencer. Firefighters: must be able to program the engine and help with the local 911 modernization. Psychiatrist: must participate in the machine learning diagnostic project the hospital is undergoing. Must be able to work with data mining to determine non-current patients in need of intervention. And so on.

These criteria are just made-up examples, but I could go on. We could easily pull down real ads. Let's try the most fuzzy one you have up there: artist. Know a writer who doesn't use a word-processor? They exist, sure, but not as many as before. In fact, most of them are now learning html and mixed media formats in order to eliminate publishers and broaden their base. It used to be the "traditional" writers didn't use software. Now they use software but don't configure and program it. The "new generation" of writers do that. What was optional is now becoming a necessity. What was "computer literate" is now looking more and more like programming. This trend will continue.

Perhaps there is some exception. If so, I haven't thought of it. And you haven't listed it here. Yes, in some abstract, perfect way plumbing has nothing to do with computers. But that's the hell of the thing: the plumber in our imagination isn't the one in the real world. In the real world being a plumber means managing your scheduling system, your A/R, working with CAD drawings for a new construction site, buying mechanical devices that require configuration and programming, looking more into robotics for some types of work, and so it goes. The mental picture we have of these jobs and the actual way they are evolving are two different things entirely. You might be able to argue that one or the other jobs has more or less computers and programming in it, but that's a moot point. You're fighting a losing battle. They had zero ten years ago, they have some now, and they'll be mostly automated in just a decade or two. In some very real sense we are all becoming painters, just with a lot of technology to use instead of paints and brushes.
It could be high, but if no-one's accessing it, then you have no bandwidth costs. Just turn off the machines, and take out the harddrives, and store them somewhere safe. You now don't have to pay for bandwidth, power or cooling. Could be much cheaper than when they were left on and used.
Hi jmsduran,
your comment absolutely makes sense. Actually we are working to make the main shell (front page) default (no login required), and to also have a log in section integrated with FB, Twitter for optional added (settings customization) benefits.

Thanks so much for commenting on it. Maybe you can try it out again once we have the changes in place.
I'm never tired of seeing new MVC js framework. I feel like there are still lots of improvement to be made. About serenade, I appreciate the simple object/arrays for models and also the innovative templating with bindings. (Instead of writing them in the html).
So how can you overcome all the common obstacles
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I've been waiting for Mathias to write something like this, and I'm glad he didn't waste any time diving in. For those who don't know him, he has more breadth in the area of emerging datastores than anyone I know; he literally wrote the book on Riak[1].

I've also been acquainting myself with the DynamoDB API over the past week, and am building a node.js binding that I hope will abstract away most of the esoteric aspects of interacting with it. It has full API coverage currently and is tested in Travis[3], so now I'm writing the high-level interface. So far I've covered about half of the operations DynamoDB offers, but would love to hear any ideas/feedback.

[1] http://riakhandbook.com/
[2] https://github.com/jed/dynamo
[3] http://travis-ci.org/jed/dynamo
That is exactly why I run my own mail server.

Also Google Apps broke on me and their support is absolutely utterly useless.

And when something gets blacklisted, TSHTF. It's much easier to sort it out yourself.
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I don't know why the video was so small... I had to re-write the page just to see it at a reasonable size.

http://jsfiddle.net/8Zhas/embedded/result/
If that's the source, it ought to link to a recording of the interview. What is this, 1995? Link a torrent if you don't have the bandwidth, Wired.
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So you're saying that a german national and convicted white collar criminal may have intentionally had his hundred million dollar plus company shuttered and himself and his employees held without bail so that he could force a legal showdown with the US government over whether or not he was adequately exploiting loopholes in the DMCA?
I was pointing out that your statement "programming seems so easy compared to some other jobs" is incorrect. Programming (really, the whole pipeline of formal modeling, followed by algorithm and system devlepment) can get immensely difficult, and attracts some of the brightest minds on some of the most difficult problems that can be conceived. I couldn't let that statement go unchallenged.

If you have said something like "developing CRUD web apps is so easy compared to some other jobs", I would have had nothing to say to you, because you're probably right.

Maybe if you had gone to work at IBM on Watson, or for a NASA research center on spaceflight communication networks, or work for something like Certicom producing the next public key cryptosystem over elliptic curves, you'd really be flexing your math muscle and programming. I can imaging there are a small subset of startups as well that would extremely value your math capabilities. So you feel your degree was wasted modulo the way your career panned out.

And a final note about code being crap: Many dental and medical tourists come back to the US with extremely poor workmanship on their knee replacements, fillings, or root canals, and have to have much of it re-done here. Also, due to the nature of medicine and software development, the comparison isn't really apples-to-apples. An oral surgeon might do 10 wisdom-tooth removals a week, granted everyone's mouth is different and there are a huge number of complications, but many software developers are working on something entirely novel on each project. In my experience, crap code is a function of changing requirements + iterated attempts at refactoring.
I like the tips of the author. If I may add, the writer should always have a pen/pencil and notebook on his side so that when an idea came in, he is ready to write it down. Sometimes, the idea should be written immediately so that it will not escape, because if it does, you may not able to recall it.
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That's a rational, measured assessment. You bring up an excellent point at the end: if all of their evidence is from the emails, how did they get the warrant to obtain the emails?

I submitted it, but it looks like you already did so last week, and it didn't get much attention. I hope more people can see it from this thread.
You're also legally liable for everyone you share with. A usenet client does not redistribute.
If you want to be part of the e-mail pipeline, your application should use SMTP for both sending and recieving.

Use a spam service such as spamhero.com or google postini as the MX for your domain so you do not have to do spam filtering yourself, have the spam filter service deliver the mail to your application (over SMTP). Your app can do whatever processing it needs to do, and then deliver the mail to the MX server of the ISP you're using to host your mail.

This way you can use your app without any changes as a local smtp filter as well (e.g. if you're using something like amavis).
It's bad everywhere I've been. Europe has basically the same security measures. I was just through Schipul and Zurich.
I think that if you had phrased your comment as something like "Shouldn't we try to avoid ranking systems that penalize countries that happen to be having a lot of political protests in a given year?" It wasn't at all obvious to me that the point of your comment was the ranking methodology, as opposed to trying to blame the protesters for the decrease in ranking or just trolling.
Everything about usability (plus anything you can add)
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Thanks, never heard of them before but after a quick look they don't support any countries other than the US at the moment :-(
No problem! I wish more folks did this too especially the ones that don't do well.
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Most of your examples are how computers and software are used in these professions. They don't justify most of these people needing to know how to program computers.

A pilot is only "programming" an autopilot in the most rudimentary sense, by supplying parameters. He's not implementing the operating system for one.

The plumber will need to know little else about your flow microcontroller than how to install it and possibly some settings to input. He needs about as much programming ability for this as he needs for his soldering iron.
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You really want this current congress to set it's eyes on something?

You honestly believe that will make something BETTER?

They blocked something as basic as consumer protection for over a year and would have kept doing it for years more if they could have.

It's an election year, forget it. Try again in 2013 maybe.
I've been using ArpNetworks for a year now and I am very pleased with their service. $10 a month minimum, lightly loaded servers, and they also support OpenBSD and FreeBSD on KVM (beside linux) which is great (and rare). Very responsive support too.

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I advise all who pontificate about what _SHOULD_ be taught in schools to take a look at what _IS_ actually taught in schools (high-school/college-prep) today.

That last thing students is need is yet another hot topic on top of all the other crap they're supposed to be learning.

There is far too much specialization going on. What the students need more than ever right now is increased focus on the basics of reading, writing and mathematics. Everything else, including future vocational training, follows from the basic skills of the "three r's".
Ha! When I saw the headline I did think "MVC Frameworks are the new Todo List app". I knew someone would say something to that effect. :)

That said, the amount of effort in these frameworks is admirable and pushes ideas and best practices forward.
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Creating “digital mock-ups of new designs” isn't programming. Programmers make programs, which the designers can then use to create their mock-ups.

Unless I misunderstand what programmable mixers are, it's not really programming so much as defining preset profiles or sequences. I don't mean to imply it's easy, but it's not what programmers consider programming. (Again, some programmer created the software that the sound engineer uses).

Writers use word processors. Yes. I'm sorry, but are you just trolling?

If your argument is that everybody needs software, that's true. There's no need for everybody to write their own, though. Diluting the term programming is downright dangerous.
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Agreed. It would be useful to see Apple's r&d spending in absolute and historic terms.
Aha, that helps explain the discrepancy of OS X 10.7:

$ ls -la /usr/bin/true /usr/bin/false
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 34240 Jul 20 2011 /usr/bin/false
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 34240 Jul 20 2011 /usr/bin/true
$ cmp -l /usr/bin/true /usr/bin/false |wc
8194 24582 114716

and CentOS 6:

$ ls -la /bin/true /bin/false
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 25144 Dec 7 14:51 /bin/false
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 25144 Dec 7 14:51 /bin/true
$ cmp -l /bin/true /bin/false |wc
355 1065 4970

The signature size explains (part of) the larger delta on OS X, but left me wondering, so:

~/coreutils/src]$ ls -alrth true.c false.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 dvd staff 2.2K Jan 30 09:31 true.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 dvd staff 51B Jan 30 09:31 false.c

Curious!

~/coreutils/src]$ cat false.c
#define EXIT_STATUS EXIT_FAILURE
#include "true.c"

And figuring out why that still results in such a large binary delta is over my head.
This debate brings to mind this: http://lesswrong.com/lw/372/defecting_by_accident_a_flaw_com...

Interesting read, thanks for that.

Brings to mind forum flamewars and the like. I wonder how a community would evolve if the default post were a private reply, instead of a public one, or if public replies were throttled in some manner?

Also, sometimes I feel that working in a stack-ranked group encourages defecting behaviour.
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Learn to use text objects¹ – they are what makes Vim much more powerful than Vi. You can even add custom text objects² such as function argument³ or camel case word⁴.

Text objects let you operate on logical units of text. E.g. “change inner word” (ciw), “delete a sentence” (das), change inner double quotes (ci"), ...

[1] http://blog.carbonfive.com/2011/10/17/vim-text-objects-the-d...

[2] http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Creating_new_text_objects

[3] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2699

[4] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1905
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Thanks for the data, pretty interesting. I was thinking of doing one myself here in a few for Freelancify
Interesting recap and I was glad that you mentioned Mixpanel since I didn't think Google Analytics was capable of capture stats like Avg. Searches per User.

Feedback:

* The green on black is very harsh to my eyes. Have you considered alternate color schemes?

* Add social network profile availability to the results. This isn't something that other domain name search services offer, and could attract people wanting to know if their startup name is available on Twitter, Facebook, etc.

* Add search traffic from the Google Adwords API for my favorited search terms.
I think your first sentence is really interesting & insightful, kind of treating "true" freedom as a sort of absolute zero -- that is, a never-actually-reachable ideal.

I feel like free will doesn't have much to do with the kind of freedom we're talking about, though. If some other human being (or group) has the ability to make you do something you don't want to do, that's a problem of freedom, not free will. (After all, you could decide not to do that thing and suffer the consequences).

Free will is much more about things that you have no ability whatsoever to actually make that decision in the first place, whether because of the manipulative hand of some supernatural force, or via some radical rationalist explanation of decision making.
Well, there's already https://www.popvox.com/. They show bills currently in Congress, organized by category or what's most popular on the site. They also send alerts that recommend bills based on your interests, although it seems to be in the alpha stage right now.

I'm not sure if Popvox has all the features you have in mind. Rather than starting a new web service from scratch, you might find it easier to request certain features from an existing one.
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The reason you can(maybe) pick programming up so fast, is because you re-use pre-built systems. given the best pre-built systems, how complex medicine is really ? In india you see shortly trained staff doing doctor's work, doing psychiatrist's work, doing an optician's work, etc.

Given pre built systems, everything is simple. And since "software is eating the world", maybe everything can be simple.
You are presupposing that the general social interest is well aligned with those of government/bureaucrats/legislators.
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I sure hope not. The most dangerous guys at work are the product managers who had a few programming classes in college and think software engineering is "easy". Programming is, like many disciplines, easy to pick up but hard work to truly understand and master.
As an East Coasters I get the feeling there are two distinct groups in Silicon Alley (NYC). One group is represented by people like the author of this article, who has a limited knowledge of Silicon Alley, and write articles based on their limited experience. The other group are highly involved in SA activities like these :

http://www.betabeat.com/2012/01/30/the-best-tech-events-this...

http://generalassemb.ly/events-page

http://www.betabeat.com/2012/01/29/art-hack-day-brooklyn-319...

http://www.wixlounge.com/#!calender

There are plenty of smart people who spend think about tech night and day, and disagree that the best and brightest are primarily in fiance. To many people fiance are causing more harm to the country then good.
its not that strange, Microsoft has its own cloud.
its nice to support others, but why keep bug fixing for their faults ?

That ofcourse is like throwing mud to each party; which this article is all about. Anyway good cloud solutions dont rely on VMware or hyperV,
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Wanna hack the system? These guys do, without breaking it. Like and share. A lot.
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From the Features page:
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Yeah don't pay too much attention to everything you read online. I mean it's all true--as well as annoying and frightening--but such politics and invasions of privacy are confined to a small aspect of a much, much larger, diverse, and interesting society. It's not like TSA agents are raiding our private homes, or quizzing us on the way to and from work (well, unless your work is of the traveling variety).
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This should go without saying - but please don't use the petition to populate Wefunder's mailing list.
"I wouldn't go as far as to say that the Sun makes stuff up…"

The Leveson enquiry has already shown that they have done, regularly.
> 4. But really, it won't work. People will lose money. There will be lawsuits and complaints.

I think this will be a common result. When these investments fail (as most of them will) the investors will cry "fraud" and "scam". The cost of defending against these lawsuits will end up overwhelming many of these fledgling start-ups. In the end, the "cost" of raising this money will be higher than it appears on the surface.
Don't forget Ron Paul as one of Obama's serious opponents that still advocates liberty.
I think their real goal was to destroy MU. If the case happened to go away in the process, that might even be better, since you wouldn't have to worry about pesky precedence being set. If the government can blame the case going away on somebody else, they might be able to duck any civil consequences in the process (IANAL). They may have thought this through very well.

One reason this may be patently false is that I'm sure Hollywood would love to see people put in jail for copyright infringement.
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I know you have your reasons to leave, but it makes me sad when the good people, the ones who could do something because they can see what's wrong, leave.

The US may be far from perfect, but it's important as a country founded upon the right ideas. If it crumbles, we all lose, regardless of where we live.
They are coming, they have shown up in nightlies of chrome.[1]

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No sir we at the DHS do not have a sense of humor we're aware of.
The scams highlighted by the scamville series of articles pale in comparison to some of the offers being promoted and the deceptive ways they are being promoted everyday by affiliate marketers and people in the performance marketing space. Not saying that everyone is a bad apple, but it's a mess out there.
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"Why does Guinness taste just so? There's a lot of science behind that, science and stats."

Guinness was a pioneer in this area, actually. William Sealy Gosset, the discoverer of the Student's t distribution, worked for Guinness (he published his work under the name "Student" because Guinness had a rule against employee publications).
the US was extremely late amongst developed countries to grant universal suffrage

I'll agree with you that the civil rights movement beginning in the 1960s was necessary for the United States to extend the benefits of freedom to all its citizens. But universal suffrage for women came significantly earlier in the United States than it did in Switzerland, for example, and black people in my state (Minnesota) have always been able to vote and to own property and to marry whomever of whatever race and so on since before Minnesota became a state (which, indeed, was one of the points of the Dred Scott case, in which a slave tried to become free by claiming that his passage through the free territory of Minnesota should end his condition of slavery). The Civil War was a necessary reaction to totalitarian denial of basic human rights by the Confederate states, and the civil rights movement after World War II was a necessary response to the deplorable segregation that still occurred in those states long after the Civil War, but everyone in some regions of the United States has long recognized that slavery and Jim Crow segregation were both aberrations, gone in some states from the beginning, and always contrary to the basic principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights (and the bills of rights in various state constitutions).