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What's wrong with a mac?
Build it, share it, profit: Can open source hardware work?
This demonstrates that opportunities open up when established businesses close down or abandon a market. Well worth remembering as recession bites - there are profitable niches opening up in the wake of many a business failure.
Clever. :-)
Just a new "member" posting an advertisement - Spam.
My estimation may be biased because I am Chinese, 2 years sounds like a more reasonably good figure, which is still a lot better then the 5 years Moser claims. Also there must exist at least one language genius who can do it in 6 month :)

Indeed as you say the Chinese language is hard at the start and gets easier. In my case when I moved to Australia I forgot a lot of my Chinese even after 1 year of not reading. 4 years later I could barely read, over the holidays I was forced to study Chinese, I did nothing but read a novel, some 10 pages a day which initially made next to no sense and took almost the whole day. But after two weeks of continuous reading, I could understand a lot more, and was reading much much faster(managed to finish a 400 page book). The trick to learning to read Chinese is to get going and not stop, and skip most of what you can't understand, and gradually you will pick it up.

I would also add that if you're not seriously committed to learning Chinese, why bother? Your progress would be so painstakingly slow it would seem you're forgetting as much as you learn - I'm trying to say don't do what Moser is claiming, tackle Chinese with less than 100% with slow progress and find out it is hard after 5 years.

It is also my view that much of the difficulty is a inherently negative mental illusion that the language is hard, and that also hinders learning. If people learned Chinese as if it were playing their favorite game, instead of something inherently dry and boring (which is another argument) this will speed up the learning process.
This has got to be the coolest iPhone app yet.
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I would think that Tridge would also have to be in the running for top Australian geek.
Online advertising is dead. FreeBSD is dead. Lisp is dead. Linux is dead. Windows is dead.

yawn
USB over Network 3.6 released and is ready for download
A friend of mine is working in a research project about integrating and contextualising web and desktop applications. He's building their system using Firefox, PyXPCOM and SproutCore. I have an email address on my profile page.
I'm saving my $75 for HotGirlInYourShirt.
really cool!! , but dependent on Wi-Fi network :(
I'm at a stage where I'm hacking most of the time (yay!), but I've learned that I can get really stubborn about solving problems, and don't know when to just take the loss, and do something in a way that is less robust but at least works.

In fact, I'd say I waste several hours a week being stubborn about problems, and I'm not a particularly stubborn person.

I would pay good money for a solution that always gave me insight into when I've been spending too much time on a task...but I'd be surprised if that could be pulled off.
Who is forcing you? Also, doesn't doing a PhD come with lots of opportunities to do interesting stuff? What are you working on? Maybe we could exchange places, I always wanted to do a PhD...
The Monkeys Behind the Scenes
Another Spam ad. It's just lazy marketing. It would be perfectly valid to post a link here to a reasoned article on (say, in this instance) using a service to locate pre-built or custom icons. Just dumping an ad is just lazy and a waste of time (and probably money).
The startups that take advantage of this are clearly going to be the cream of the crop.
Definitely innovative. Within days we're going to see immediate knockoffs. Similar thing with milliondollarhomepage.
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Um, I think I can put on a shirt that reads 'the perceptron' and save myself $75.
"... Any book that's worth reading will be scanned, run through OCR, and distributed for free. Google IS the catalogue. End of story. ..."

You are right, replacing one monopoly with another is one way to end the story. What is wrong with an open alternative?
> Definitely innovative.

Yeah. Bonus points for innovation -- Hopefully that will get rewarded before said knockoffs come along.
I do not agree advertising is dead but it has changed from a impressions and click based model to new performance basis cost per action model
Microsoft Plans a More Trusted Internet
I thought we were in their light-cone, if we can see them.
If one were to read only this site, one would have the feeling that Clojure were taking over the programming language world. Clojure is the skinny jeans of the programming world - it may be cool right now, but in 5 years you'll be feeling slightly ashamed that you jumped on the fashion train.
I'm not getting the argument for talent being overrated. Two bright slackers become much more successful than all their driven, but less bright, co workers?
Plenty of Fish Says Scaling for Free Doesn't Pay
What's the difference between naive realism and this?

"All sentences of the form 'A is B' should be re-written 'A seems B to frame X' (or observer x)."
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people, duh.

I meet smart developers everyday, and have lots of hacker types friends.
As the expression goes: You can't swing a dead cat on the bay area without hitting a good engineer/startupper in the head

Try that in any other place. You have to swing that a lot harder.

If you are trying to build a great startup you live by the talent, and die if you don't have it. Execution is key. Being frugal and cheap is second.
can't get my head around ruby on rails..
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You know what all these articles remind me of? They remind me of how they used to hype the technology boom of the 2000s. You would see the same articles by the same people talking of how the situation would continue forever, and how great everything was and so on.

Right now, they are doing the exact same thing, but in reverse. I'll go with my instincts on this one instead of acting based of articles - when prices change in my supermarket, when clients stop calling, when my friends start getting laid off - then I will worry.

Worrying because of newspaper articles is like digging a bunker for the Y2K crisis.
It's still wrong. The point wasn't about individual perspective, but about what proportion of programmers' population does the hard work.
Didn't expect the article to be as interesting as it was. Good read. I guess it was because I haven't heard of those examples before.
You laugh now, but that avian flu pandemic is right around the corner, if the terrorists don't kill us first.
'Nerd Values' help propel tiny Craigslist into classifieds threat (2004)
>ultimately we will get hyperinflation as the govt prints literally trillions to monetize the various debts of the govt.

Someone's been reading too many Austrian economists.

Monetary and fiscal stimulus do cause inflation in the long run, but not every bit of stimulus is doomed to lead to hyperinflation. Our government was extremely profligate with monetary and fiscal policy from 2001-2005 or so, and we saw a gentle decline in the dollar's foreign exchange value and a gentle increase in domestic inflation. Hyperinflation was never in the cards.
The one that really grabbed me was 'The Internet of Arduino' ~ http://arduino.cc/blog/?p=117 An Ethernet shield for Arduino from the blog, where I got the link. You can get wireless boards ~ http://www.ladyada.net/make/xbee/arduino.html but the cost. Now you have the possibility of really wiring in lots of very cheap programmable Internet sensors using cheap Cat5.
There are a lot of people who would like to use Lisp if only some variant became sufficiently practical (by which I mean: ran on enough platforms, had enough libraries, and grew a big enough community around itself).

If Clojure turns out to be that Lisp I don't think anyone will need to feel ashamed.
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It's more expensive.
I can't do that, but how about SlightlyOverweightGuyInYourShirt?
The video has no personality, and since that's all that she's really selling, she may have a tough time.
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Anyone have experience with this theft-protection system?
The Mother of the MP3 comes to the home of the MP3
It sounds just like what I would build for myself if I had the time, but does it meet what it claims to do?
Let's be honest, she's selling more than her "personality".
Controllers Cheer as Data Arrive from NASA’s Spirit Rover
[Insert joke about how I'm saving my $75 for HotGirlNotWearingAnyShirt]
Based on the ship-to info, she is in Jackson, OH. Population 6184.

$75 is pretty cheap, but the in-person exposure is worth $0, so what she is really selling is her ability to promote you online.

It's a novel idea, but really not terribly innovative, although I give her credit for making herself a business in a town that probably doesn't have a ton of employment opportunities for her. The hardest thing for her to overcome will be the fact that people tend to tune out paid shills like this.

She would be better off building up an online persona and name and then more gradually easing into this. OR, make the site "gangofgirlsinyourshirt.com". Sign up franchisees at top colleges across the US, and for $1000/day 50 hot girls promote your brand for the day.
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No, no, not poor people's debt.

Our debt.

Because:

* we own the debt now

* we're all gonna be poor anyway

:-)
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That doesn't stop me, but boy is it a pain in the ass (I'm currently building our payment system).
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Raising awareness of Australia's soon-to-be mandatory internet filtering and the lies and evasion around the proposed scheme. "If you touch spiders, then you must hate children. (you don't hate children.. do you?)"
Raising awareness of Australia's soon-to-be mandatory internet filtering and the lies and evasion around the proposed scheme.

"If you touch spiders, then you must hate children. (you don't hate children.. do you?)"
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I jumped on ruby at the end of 2003. Wasn't that bad a choice either. Clojure seems a nice next thing to learn.
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I believe what you're referring to is yak shaving:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Y/yak-shaving.html
You didn't have to pay. I want a supercar, but I don't have to pay the price for one.

And I wonder about "an inflated price". All prices are "inflated" because all companies make profit. That's what companies do...

Yes, I would like prices to come down and products to get better, and it is annoying (and perhaps illegal) when companies force that not to happen.

But really, if they kept prices high, and people still bought their product ... why should we legally twist companies arms to force their prices down?

Especially when there are other LCD manufacturers in the world who (presumably) couldn't introduce significant competition?

OK, in a caring society we have government intervention in food and water supplies, heating subsidies and medicine. But government forced cheaper consumer electronics? What?
Those experiencing visa problems may benefit from getting a lawyer involved (if they don't already). I can recommend mine (in SF): Richard Kolomejec.

I have nothing to gain from making this recommendation.
Is it an argument? Isn't it more an observation to which many can attest? Musical ability (for instance) is one area where it's completely clear cut. Even if you fingered fugues on the piano reaching out from your cot at age 18 months, you'll never get very far in the extraordinarily demanding world of classical music unless you're prepared to work like a dog. Ask Evgeny Kissin, one of the most prodigiously talented pianists alive today.
> customer support chores

This may sound trite: That's not a bad problem to have..
Horrible Business Idea?
Keeping your Poster Collection Up to Date.
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VMware Brings Virtualization to Mobile Phones
We do not have pictures of stars rotating around dense stuff. All the pictures of galaxies could be stars rotating around each other. Add in dark matter and you really have no idea what they are rotating around.

What we do have is pictures of gravitational lensing, and jets, and some other evidence, but certainly not stars rotating around dense stuff. And you are quite overestimating our ability to measure the size of the object - it could be very dense, but large, so not a black hole, but something else.

You quite missed the point - the whole point was that loop quantum gravity says that you can not get infinity dense, so even if neutron degeneracy can not hold it up, the loop quantum degeneracy will.

Perhaps quark degeneracy exists?

There is no evidence that black holes (as infinitely dense singularities) exists. There is only evidence of very big things, and our current theories don't know what else it could be. But that is NOT the same as evidence of a black hole.
Too complicated and really no reason to use it.
Microsoft Live Search Cashback yet to pay off in market share
It's incredibly stable. And a polished, supported, user-friendly end product.
Serial Port Redirector goes 2.0.7
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Extracting parallelism from rendering code is well-understood and has been for a decade or more. Intel is hyping all this as if it's something new but really it's well-understood stuff being implemented inside one box instead of being spread across many.
Not only that but, at least on GSM, it's practically free for the cellular companies.

They are sent over the same signalling protocol as other network control messages. They are only delivered in empty frames, and the networks make no guarantees about delivery. Thus, SMS messages may be delayed indefinitely when the air is busy or, under some conditions, dropped entirely. One SMS message, plus headers, takes up one GSM frame (this is the reason for the length limit).

It's actually quite the interesting scam they have going. My understanding is that SMS was a last-minute addition, kind of a "hey, no one will probably use this, but let's throw it in just for the hell of it" feature. Then it turned into a huge money-maker.
You should take a look at ddd. I've never used CodeWarrior, but from your description it sounds a lot like ddd.
maybe it feels more fun? (just to start a discussion..)
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If it weren't for the fact that it sounds like it's human powered, I'd say they may have a market for people with bad knees, or the elderly in winter. A treadmill can provide some degree of shock absorption that pavement can't, not to mention a stable base.
This is incredible. If astronomers analyse the spectra of the planets they can now image and find oxygen, methane and CO2 in certain proportions, the only conclusion will be life. Imagine if they find the spectral lines from chemicals produced by an industrial, polluting society!
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I don't fold mine.
Tim O'Reilly interviews Shai Agassi of Better Place at Web 2.0 Summit
Noob Adventures in Machine Vision, Part 1
Analyst nails the current crisis in 2006
Voting up for interest, but not at all convinced that all of those are "exceptional". Many are just "gradient + shadows + reflections" versions of their former selves, which may be considered an improvement, but hardly exceptional. For instance, the HP one is particularly unimpressive - I prefer the former logo.
After optical cloaking comes Matter-Wave cloaking
It doesn't look like it's steerable. A slight oversight?
Switzerland to go the way of Iceland?
You get the benefit of inertia, if nothing else. Then again, I can't imagine how difficult this thing would be to take uphill.
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Jeremy Schoemaker called, he wants his schtick back.
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Oh yes, these will sell like hotcakes. It's a logical certainty:

1) Many people run on threadmills indoors

2) Most of those would love to have an outdoor scenery scroll by while they run on the threadmill

3) Therefore, put the threadmill on wheels and you have a huge market!

I can see millions of these being sold.

NOT.
This is why people no longer believe the republicans to be better handlers of the economy.
Where it went wrong for Jerry Yang
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Attention, Startups: Move to New England. Your Gay Employees Will Thank You.
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Do You Scrunch or Fold?

http://www.josefresco.com/tp/

Currently 'fold' is winning (153 votes)

And yes I set this page up months ago as a joke (for friends and family) and have forgotten about it until ... just now.
Pretty nice.

Hate to be a nitpicker but it's one of my pet peeves:

What the slides describe isn't scaling but performance tweaking. Scalability != performance.

A lot of people get that wrong, still annoys me, silly me... :D
Damn. 600 gigs of course.
If current technology had enough resolution, scientists would have scanned the planets already for oxygen, methane and water (which mixed together don't quite exist unless there's a continuous force, like life, unbalancing the physical reaction).
Wow, so you need to have 1 thousand million dollars to be considered ultra rich? I'll take 'only' 500 million and slum it then.
http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/costofliving/costofliving.htm... has been around for a while.
Ultrarich is a dumb word and means nothing. Sort of like a college kid saying everything is 'epic'. Ultrakill means more to me than ultrarich, at least I can define it.
I know, if only there was some sort of network where 'instant' messages could be sent for free without relying on the phone network. We could call it "instant messaging" and people could have 'buddy lists' that allow them to easily converse with their friends. I think I'll start one and call it "I Seek You"
I'd say how the crisis started is more relevant to understanding the crisis than the way governments are attempting to fix it.
I'm going to argue FOR keeping prices at least somewhat high. Look at what Dell did to themselves and the PC market, they marginalized themselves out of a profitable business by becoming so efficient and competing on price alone. Walmart another good example, low prices good for them, but not good for the markets/manufacturers and ultimately the consumers (jobs go overseas, pay goes down domestically)
Former Goldman Sachs Chairman says "Worse than Great Depression"
Deserves a place in the inventors hall of fame, right next to the ropeless jump rope: http://jumpsnap.com/
Thanks, I really enjoyed that piece. For those of us who don't work in startups... I think the five whys often founder on political reefs. People learn to stop asking questions that will embarrass their superiors. (This is one of the reasons startups can be so much more effective.)
Hear, hear!

But seriously folks, swombat is right, some of them changed just for the sake of changing, and the result is no better than the original. Just more of the me-too web 2.0 style bandwagon.
That's a relatively recent thing. Back in the day, engineers like Brunel were rock stars.
Me too, but look ... 37 comments including mine. Sad.
If you are struggling with RoR, I would recommend doing a 1-5 day online tutorial on Ruby (the length depends on how quickly you can pick it up). I skipped pure Ruby and went straight to RoR. In retrospect this was a mistake as a grounding in Ruby would have saved me a lot of pain.
Or paperback polemics for evolutionary theory, eh?
They can live someplace nearby and commute.

According to google maps, it takes 34 minutes to get from Compton (a cheap area, if rap songs are accurate) to Beverly Hills. There are probably other cheap areas not legendary for breeding hard soldiers, I just don't know the west coast at all.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&s...

On the east coast, Jersey/Brooklyn/LI to Manhattan is equally reasonable.
There's a reason these yo-yos don't go into science. Although, I do believe Ben Stein has his name on a Phys Rev Letter.
I realise they would have done this already if they could. I was thinking more in the medium term - the next 3-5 years?
Ask YC: Are you more likely to use an online service if sign up is optional?
If I had two versions of an online service - one with limited features that doesn't require signing up and one with slightly more features but requiring a sign up, which are you likely to opt for? The no-sign up service could be completed in under 30 seconds. With sign-up you are looking at the first transaction taking ~ 5 minutes with email confirmation etc
Ingenious way to get free clothes.
Sun announcing up to 6000 (18%) layoffs
I don't find these articles that interesting. Look hard enough, and you can find a broken clock that was telling the correct time at a given point in time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schiff

> On October 28th 2008, Schiff stated in an interview on Bloomberg TV that the investment strategies outlined in both books currently "are NOT working" due to the collapse of foreign currencies, foreign stocks and the failure of gold prices to go up significantly as most of the world entered an economic recession and foreign investors flee to cash. Schiff, however, remained optimistic on his theories and stated this was a good opportunity to buy foreign stocks trading at yearly lows.

So I guess he called the dollar wrong, at least for the time being; it's been strengthening a lot, lately.
2 1/2 years old. Much changed since then?
Thanks, I'll give it a try. The last solution I found for that didn't work on Leopard.
All of these examples appear to have been swiped from the rather excellent

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/
Artificially Repositioning Vs. Evolving
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Oh come on.

I'm all for gay rights, but this article's premise is completely ridiculous.
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I didn't watch it and maybe it says, but the real question is whether he invested his own money in what he thought.