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You exactly see my argument correctly as "when does it end?" If this becomes standard practice, you'll have a selected number of entrenched sites able to be inside the network. That then gives the telco provider more power than they have as mere dumb pipes, replicating the carriage issue I raise with my cable precedent. There's no reason to believe that the telcos will take everyone willing to pay a certain amount; these will all be negotiated, bundles will be introduced, and you'll kill the promise of a free and unfettered internet where we all have equal footing.

I'd be OK with licensed CDNs, but not with content and/or web application providers. Again, this is me with my antennae at attention, looking at a worst possible case scenario, but I play the red pieces. (Yes, I coined that phrase, which is why you haven't heard of it. Yes, I'm mixing chess and war games metaphors. Yes, damn straight I think it's a cool phrase.)
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OK, the post below made it easier to me to explain: You can NOT add miles per hour to miles per hour. So you can not add the speed to walking to the speed of the belt.

You need to do hours per mile + hours per mile.

So the conveyor takes a certain number of hours for each mile, and you walking takes a certain number of hours for each mile.

The length of the conveyor is fixed. So the number of hours the conveyor supplies is fixed - nothing you can do will change that. You can add in your hours per mile on it or off of it, it doesn't matter - it's exactly the same in total.
I think that was the first time I saw you write the word "pwned."

Hopefully the WSJ fixes this article (they considers edge caching as a violation to network neutrality, clearly it isn't because it doesn't slow any other sites down).
I think that largely depends on what product is being sold and what market you're in.

Cloud9 sells software to tour operators and other travel suppliers and, unfortunately, our potential customers are not very internet savvy, making it rather difficult for us to reach potential customers.
Government "monopolized" these functions? Does it mean there is an established mechanism that discourages innovation in private sector, i.e. punishes innovators with higher taxes or imprisonment or what?

Hey, Microsoft and Apple have tons of cash and do nothing interesting with it. The reason behind 'sudden' GM's death isn't shitty cars, they've been shitty for a long time. GM is dying because instead of trying to build a decent car business it essentially transformed itself into a bank (GM Financial) which found nothing better to do with their cash than "invest" them in guess what.

Now look at startups: have you ever seen a TechCrunch announcement that was in any way memorable? I see nothing but a never-ending conversion of MySQL tables into HTML pages, or wrapping OSS projects into HTML/JS UIs hoping to get rich quick: the distance of their "R&D trajectories" are measured in months and working prototypes are expected within weeks from the first napkin drawing.

Now look at Google, a poster child for "SV magic". Google is a creation of two Stanford students, i.e. an academia project turned into business (just like Symbolics and DEC had grown out of MIT). Entrepreneurship or corporate R&D had nothing to do with Google's success what-so-ever.

Businesses don't give a shit about innovation, technology and science. Their goal has always been quick profits, for which there always seems be some kind of a scheme to take a ride on. Look what IBM, HP, AT&T and Xerox, former think tanks, transformed themselves into. IBM especially grosses me out with their "we're a services company" bullshit. So is my pet sitter.

It is corporate never-ending search for increased efficiency that essentially kills innovation because the process of inventing is terribly inefficient by its nature: it's unpredictable, cannot be put on schedule, you can't budget for it and the outcome isn't guaranteed: find me one MBA who'll like any of the above.

I've never been especially smooth with my writing, given that English isn't my first tongue, but Phillip Greenspun has:
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg
Let me give you an example. In the UK Gordon Brown was the Chancellor. The will of the people was that he managed the economy and that's all. The will of Gordon Brown however was to be Prime Minister, so he used his role as Chancellor to take power over unrelated departments by manipulating their budgets. That strategy worked pretty well for him. It's not working so well for we the people right now.
The article states that most deaths seem to happen in the decent, rather than the ascent. This shows that the risk is climbers pushing themselves too hard. This just, well, seems obvious. There is ego on the line, if not other factors. The problem of pushing past your limit, such as mountain climbing, past your reserve capability and capacity doesn't clearly manifest itself at the point you've exceeded your capability, it is when you are trying to move back from the edge to a safe point that this becomes clear. The climbers are so focused on reaching the goal it is easy to forget about measuring the capability to get back down.

I've heard that rescue aircraft keep a reserve of fuel on board and once the craft reach this point, they turn back.
It seems that at least some of the climbers don't gauge this properly. Some are lucky. They survive. Others are not as lucky, they are the 1-2 percent statistic of dying on the way down, having pushed too hard.
Nice, I'm in Santa Cruz but scored pretty decent OB the other day (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bporterfield/3087430163/)

Interestingly enough I was planning on emailing your company already! Don't see an email in the profile but you can reach me @ benporterfield on gmail. I'll try to send a mail to the contact us page and maybe I'll reach you - we should go surf!
I was just finishing my post on the topic of GOOG and net neutrality when I refreshed HN and saw this as the top link. When taken in the context of how GOOG arbitrates access to businesses via Ad Words, it makes it even more nefarious.

http://www.manyniches.com/entrepreneurs/google-net-neutralit...
Back in high school tried doing this by printing out the alphabet with a font I liked, and could be written without too much hassle. Then I tried to imitate this, with success for a few month but it didn't last as my style changed.
I got an econ degree from Mason (mini Chicago). The econ department was fun, a little ivory tower but fun. I started out as CS and found the department unimpressive, maybe I was just young and not into it, but I didn't meet many hackers there.

Most of the student body was unimpressive. The school is very much wrapped up in the DC/Northern VA environment. Its hard to explain, but I'll try, the really good students dreamed of working for Booz Allen. That's probably the best I can do.
Well like the airplane on the conveyor belt thing, there really is a right answer to this and you don't have it. This is a similar explanation to one of the comments on the blog: imagine one section of ground followed by one section of conveyor belt. Two people going exactly the same speed walk along the ground section and one stops just before the conveyor belt and one stops on the conveyor belt. They both stop for the same time. When they resume walking the one who stopped on the conveyor belt is ahead. No matter how many section of belt and ground follow this, the one behind will never catch up.
What is this 'pension' thing he speaks of? It sounds much like my IRA, except it can somehow be lost.
Getting web page visitors past the 1st page, and to return - conversions.

Until you solve this, there is little point in trying to get featured on high profile media.

The key might lie in providing social proof (that people actually use your services).
If there is none, visitors following links from features won't be very useful. They might be interested enough to check out your landing page (content skimming), but getting the user to slow down and really get familiar with you requires more.
It's like channel hopping with tv. You skim through a number of options and see if anything interesting comes up. But the scale of options is different. You might be able to skim through hundreds of websites in one sitting with tabbed browsing. That's not a lot of time per site.
I'm still not sure what "will of the people" means or how one determines it. Again, it helps to speak in terms of observable phenomena rather than ambiguous concepts. Let me attempt to phrase your sentence a bit more precisely:

"A majority of British voters cast votes for Gordon Brown under the expectation that he would manage the economy, and that's all. Instead he used his role to grab power, at the expense of the people"

Is this a fair paraphrasing?

I can then rephrase your original sentence:

"Democracy is when elected officials act in a way that voters approve of. Politics is when elected officials act in their own self interest, in a way contrary to what voters want"

Is that it? Or let me try a second, different, way of paraphrasing:

"Democracy is when elected officials act in a way that benefits the public good ( whether the public realizes it or not). Politics is when an elected official acts in a way the benefits himself, regardless of the public good"

Is one of these summaries fair? I'm not trying to be difficult, I'm just trying to nail down precisely what you are trying to say.
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hey brian this is erik... I went to LHS we used to play tennis and stuff. anyway yeah I'm in cs at cu now also and I definitely agree with everything you're saying!
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In his list of "Books Most Programmers Have Actually Read", I miss a book that I'm convinced that every self-respecting Mac OS X programmer read: Aaron Hillegass' "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X"
Interesting. What sort of period of time? Years seems like the best way to cover a decent range of the market. Got any links?
BitTorrent has never displayed any sign that they are in any way good at business. The only good thing to come out of bittorrent is the idea - even the best implementation of this idea was not done by bittorrent, but by utorrent.

Till there are people will real business ideas at the top, the company will not be able to be a significant player.
I've worked at a government job and it was one of the worst experiences of my professional career. As a summer student, I outperformed the guy who had that job the other 10.5 months of the year. And still I have never been paid so much for doing so little.

But I've also seen exactly how meaningless the private sector can be. While it may satisfy my desire for fast-paced, stimulating work, ultimately a lot of it is, well, stupid. The fact that you can get to work with some exciting new tech obscures the fact that 50% of projects will fail, and of those, even fewer will ever matter to anyone or even bring a smile to anyone's face. And many of the ones that do succeed are often patently immoral, or at best amoral.

Meanwhile, capitalism today is run for the benefit of managers. Even if you're lucky enough to work for a successful company, expect the CEO and VPs to reap the lion's share of the rewards, and fire you (or your friends) at Wall Street's whim.

I guess I'm saying that I can see this guy's point of view. Gee-whiz tech is one thing, but stability does matter, and some parts of the government are doing good work. I know a woman who makes a good, stable living generating stats out of the census, and also creating web tools for people to do the same. Consequently she's doing something good for Americans of all kinds, the scale creates interesting challenges, and there's even something to look forward to after it's all over. Can you imagine it?

Right now I have a great job, but even we can't completely escape the relentless stupidity that is the software business today.
Here's an idea: think of a related useful free product or web utility that can draw target users to your site?
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You need to invert your answers, the first is then better...
I wrote a chapter in a book on blogging on how to approach this subject (getting bloggers to link to your project). Here's the short version.

* You'll have a better luck pitching things to people who you have a pre-existing relationship for. Your business has a blog. That blog's purpose in life is to generate pre-existing relationships with people similarly situated to your customers (and, relatedly, to talk about what your customers care about). Talk about what they are talking about and link to their posts. Comment on their blogs. Then, when you email them about your project, you don't get sent straight to the spam box.

* Pitch your product as something their readers will be interested in, with a specifically tuned pitch that reminds them that you are a) already trusted by them and b) know what they want. People almost always end up getting links out of me when they send me an email that demonstrates they really have been reading for as long as they say they have.

* Free licenses are the best money you've never had to spend. Give them out liberally.

* Focus on blogs one step up the social pecking order from you. TechCrunch gets probably a thousand emails a day. Bob's File Format Blog probably gets one every three weeks. Guess which one of these is absolutely dying for anyone to pay attention to them? That's right. This gets you a bit of exposure. Gradually work your way up the exposure chain -- after you get X level of renown, start mailing bloggers at X+1 rather than 10 * X. Get mentioned on the blogs that are read by the bloggers you want to influence and you might not even need to mail them at all.
Looks like an interesting article, but 11 tiny pages and no print link that I can find? As much as I hate to be the guy saying it... FAIL.
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In the first case, you go faster when you pause on the treadmill, and the time required does not change if you run on or off the treadmill.

Those seem like the intuitive solutions to me.
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After our experience using the mechanical turk we've become a bit obsessed with trying to find a really awesome use case for the service - even if its just experimental.

We have some downtime right now and we are narrowing down the experiment between the following:

1. Some sort of cooperative art project - inspired by http://www.tenthousandcents.com
2. A massive chess game that forks every time a move is made (probably a poor idea)
3. Some implementation of the Prisoner's dilemma game.
4. Any time of game to get a sense of how risk seeking or risk averse the Turks are - possibly a tie in with the Monty Hall Problem.

Most of these ideas are centered around game theory but we are pretty much open to anything (within reason). Any votes or opinions on what would be the most interesting/entertaining?

-Thanks
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One of the weaknesses in the arguments pro-net neutrality is that it prescribes what the network should be like in too much detail. Net Neutrality advocates don't allow for the possibility that significant and unanticipated improvement could come in the future from innovations in network technology.

When internet access is provided "like a utility" (one of their catch phrases), your network providers will be every bit as innovative as your water and sewer company.
> Innovation is so expensive that the private sector can't even dream of achieving anything of those magnitudes.

Keep in mind that all the money of the public sector comes from the private sector... and ultimately ends up in some pockets in the private sector as well.
All right, this has to be the first time I've seen someone vocally complain that they visited a web page and didn't see enough large, visually distracting, bandwidth-sucking graphical advertisements.

I think these ads on Image Search are great—they stay out of the way, they don't slow down my web browsing, and they're generally relevant to the search query. As for whether or not this will generate an extra $200 million in revenue, I trust Google's calculated and informed estimation on that account far more than I trust this random blogger's gut feeling to the contrary.
The way I see this, Google wants to put servers in the edge ISPs, aka the telcos, in an effort to save everyone money including those telcos. Google becomes a paying customer, the ISP in question uses a lot less Internet bandwidth and a lot more internal bandwidth, for which Google will pay. This is probably a power play by the ISPs to try to get the highest price from Google that they can.

I doubt it's a latency play, if you were already colo'd at the right places you're talking about sub millisecond benefits here. This is about money, and lowering the load on the Internet's backbone, which translates to time and money to upgrade it, which leads us back to money.

So I agree, the telcos used the WSJ here. But not to block Google, to command a higher price.
Implying that people who gross $20K with their iPhone application are probably not happy sounds quite bitter. You could give it a more positive spin by changing the 'probably's to 'if's or 'might's.
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Apparently Lessig is less than happy about their reporting too - http://lessig.org/blog/2008/12/the_madeup_dramas_of_the_wall...
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Oops! Yes, .0666 hours is less time than .075 hours.

Thanks.
Now the next argument is going to be what exactly is "Caching" and when exactly does "caching" intrude on "net neutrality"?
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Yeah, I worked as well for goverment, or more specifically for military. Even most people that worked in the same department were civilans as well, they still weren't that qualified for the job(or cared).

I took like 5 years of meetings or committees to actually launch a website, and you were tied to vendors that were selected for the job like 10years before, and even it was clear that they didn't do a very good job, no-one cared or wanted to change. I only lasted a year there, I was too horrified to actually becoming one of them.

So I would guess that you can't say that goverment job is always better than private, or other way around. In both cases you might want to check out the environment beforehand. There actually are some interesting jobs that only exist in public sector and some of them are quite highly competative.
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No, that's not correct.

You forgot that they both have to get off the conveyor belt at some point.

The guy who got on first will then walk slowly, and the guy who got on second meanwhile will be both walking and being pulled forward by the conveyor belt, while the first guy is walking slowly. This will catch him up to the first guy.

And if you tell me that the first guy is already walking so of course he's ahead, then you forgot that, for both of them to stop at the same time, and yet one be on the belt and one on the ground, the first guy must have had a head start.

Better have two belts, one placed one meter ahead of the other. So, one guy will be walking for that meter, while the other will be riding the belt and walking, and both will reach the end at exactly the same time.
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Ian Bicking's long reply:
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Down climbing is inherently more difficult than climbing. When you're "up"-climbing you can see your next steps more easily b/c they are closer to your eyes and the slope is at a better angle for watching your steps. You also have your ice axe held like a cane in front of you to arrest any fall, and the distance of the fall from feet to hands is shorter than on the way down.

On the way down, your eyes are much further away from your steps and the slope is angled away from you. Each step is longer, more dynamic and more likely to dislodge some rock / ice / snow. You are also putting a lot more force on each step so your legs can actually get more tired on the way down. When you fall you mostly go to your butt, slide and you need to roll over on your belly to self arrest. By that time you have often picked up so much speed that it's too late.

All these physical factors plus many well documented "horse to barn" psychological factors make down climbing the most dangerous part of the day.
what are these pop-ups? where do i get a bitter rent client ? i type in the google my songs, but i get all these pages.. how do i download from google with the bitter rent client? okay, okay, i did what you told me. now, it says downloaded. where did it go? i have a downloads folder? i dont want it on my desktop so i deleted it. how do i get it on my ipod?

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A nice example, and probably its purpose is to look at Erlang/Nitrogen/etc rather than to actually create a blog, but if you're actually creating a blog nowadays, I'd stick with either Wordpress (or one of the other big boys), or, if you want to be guaranteed to survive the slashdot effect, generate a static html blog with something like Webby, with comment support from Disqus or the like.
Add some CSS to make it look better - possibly some bigger margins and make it narrower.
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