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No they pay now. At the time the fees were billed as a way of expiring unused domains, if you didn't pay, after a while they'd delete the domain.

It didn't work out that way exactly once the company realized how much money they could make.

I'm still kicking myself for not registering some names. But at the time it was all ethical and you were not supposed to register something unless you actually needed it.
1800 people attended Le Web 08. If SwissCom charged E100,000 total, that makes 55 euro per person to provide 2 days of Internet connectivity! That costs more than 2 months of residential DSL per person. Ridiculous, even if it had worked.
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I don't really have an opinion one way or another, simply because I'm not multi-cultural enough (haven't seen much of European office life).

All I can look at is what has been done over the years on both continents. First of all, not much, we all appear to be living off achievements of previous generations mostly funded by the military in fear of WWIII. "Internet revolution" actually started in the 60s and was pretty much complete by the end of the 80s when I, as many of you, was still in middle school. Operating systems, compilers, protocols, all these basic building blocks all belong to that era and nobody contributed anything significant on top of them. "5th generation computing" was supposed to be The Shit but it didn't happen. AI didn't happen. So... fundamentally, I don't see anything significant coming out of either culture: yes, computers got smaller and cheaper, not a big deal - they were supposed to.

Now, looking at lesser degree improvements in the past 10-15 years, US has produced nothing (well... RMS being a human is not a program, be he can be considered a product of the US), but Europe did real-world-start the open source movement saving UINX in process and producing a free alternative to expensive RDBMS (MySQL). Europe, don't forget, was also responsible for WWW itself. Paul likes to talk about "how much cheaper it is to start a company these days". Yes cheaper indeed, - mostly because of those three developments (Linux/MySQL/Web). They are nice additions on top of the fundamentals delivered by Americans in the 60-70s, but hey - they have nothing to do with entrepreneurs.

Call me a skeptic or even an asshole but the picture I am seeing isn't pretty: there are thousands of smart and involved folks who love computers and who's been the real force behind all these wonderful improvements we've seen, they are the people who make the difference. On the other hand we have "entrepreneurs" who's done nothing but milking that other group, producing largely irrelevant, secondary BS of questionable value (which gets duplicated by Chinese and Russian companies in a matter of weeks). Yes, SV offers a very favorable climate for this kind of individuals to strive, but I doubt this has anything to do with economic prosperity of a nation or with any metric of "awesomeness" worth arguing about: 99.95% of the time, the code running on an average CPU of an average server of an average SV startup has been written for free by someone from US/Europe/whatever. Entrepreneurs don't make anything. They only find ways to deliver results of other people's work/research to mass markets. Hardly a noble role, yet not completely useless.

Le Webs, TechCrunch 50s don't matter. These drunk assholes on stage don't matter. They don't code, don't know shit about computers and Internet and their main function there is to promote their personal brands/blogs. Entrepreneurial spirit of Silicon Valley doesn't matter. That's just a thin buildup on top of something significantly bigger and more important: millions of true computer lovers firing up vim/emacs/visual studio every day, coding for free, for that "Internet Love" that got featured on YouTube earlier today.
I have this basic test that I apply before I add a feed to my RSS reader.

I arrive at some site by way of a link. If the story is good enough that I think I want to read more by the author, that's exactly what I do. I click the 'previous' link. If the author is good enough that I want them to show up in my feed reader, chances are I'll keep a tab open for days while I read through their old posts.

When I reach the start and I still want more, that's when I click the 'add' button.

I don't know how well this applies to news blogs, but that's what things like Hacker News are for.
"... bbn.com: BBN made BBN Lisp for the PDP-1 ..."

bbn have been making a lot of things first ~ http://www.bbn.com/about/timeline/
Anybody can find the text of the response?

Here's the text of lawsuit (08-CV-9595) [PDF] http://people.bakersfield.com/file/document/339038/2/0/
"And once again, financial innovation is moving faster than rules can keep up with it..."
More like the rules are being written out of the way to allow for "financial innovation" to break free of order and bring chaos.
The letter at the end by "Sten Kreuger" suggests that the spirit of the "world's greatest swindler" continues to run in the family.
He's swindling me?
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I'm a native English speaker and make mistakes writing my own language sometimes. I speak and write other languages and make more mistakes there.

Most people who are getting things done judge you by what you are getting done, not by whether you can spell the word clientele without looking it up on Google.
Well, I'm up-modding, not for the emo main point, but for all the interesting tidbits about European e-businesses. I never knew that Vente-privee existed. I always suspected that there must be successful web businesses and unexploited markets in other parts of the world, but it is hard to learn about them. Which is why I guess the organizer started the conference in the first place.
Nice writing. Here's a very clever turn of phrase that both summarizes the article while tying in the opening:

"If you invest with anyone who claims never to lose money, reports amazingly smooth returns, will not explain his strategy, refuses to disclose basic information or discuss potential risks, you're not sophisticated. You're an oxymoron."
How about, "Given the choice between only having sex for procreation, or only using the Internet for productive activities, which would you choose?"
That is true but to sell a product you need to be solving a problem, and the people having the problem I need Unix on a laptop already have pretty good solutions available.

If you're willing to use Solaris/Linux in VirtualBox on Windows (just run it fullscreen) then all the wireless/power management stuff is already solved too for less money upfront that buying a MacBook, you can just use a cheap Dell.
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"The costly myth of dollar-cost averaging"

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P104966.asp

"When the market is studied over long periods, dollar-cost averaging almost always produces lower returns than investing lump sums in diversified portfolios, and almost never reduces risk meaningfully."

I think the best advice I have heard is to think of stocks as buying companies. On the other hand, if one is putting in X dollars in a stock on a regular schedule, then that person is clearly not thinking strategically about stocks, but just sees the stock as a monthly expense that is better than spending it outright because you'll likely have at least something in the future remaining. This type of logic is used by financial professionals to get you to do business with them.
Great post! I don't understand the paragraph about the cost of the PUTs and GETs though. The saving you get by batching writes seems marginal. Can you give some numbers?
No, we treat many immigrants like shit, even the ones who come to do things, like, say, Y Combinator. There have been a number of stories here about the hassles people have gone through to participate in Y Combinator. H1B visas are another nasty piece of work. Instead of simply trying to ensure that immigrants have some sort of job, we tie them to one employer, which makes it harder for them to bargain for better wages, change jobs as opportunities arise and so on.
Well, Daniel and electromagnetic, since I feel I'm beginning to repeat my arguments, I will say something general and then leave it there.

What seems odd to me is the role that history plays in your arguments. You are using it not just as something we can observe and use to inform our judgement about the likelyhood of things. You promote history to a normative force, something fateful that tells us how things must always be, something we must obey, something with a causal logic. Kind of similar to Karl Marx' ideas how capitalism would logically have to fail.

History is seen almost like a living conscious being with it's own objectives that makes you commit atrocities because for all time everybody will commit them and you must hit hardest to prevail.

I think this view disregards that complex systems can change in unpredictable ways and that mankind has reached a level of global interconnection of economies, information and, to some degree, values, that may change the whole game. At the same time, the power of individuals to create things of global impact is infinitely greater than ever before. This works in technology, in influencing opinions as well as in terrorism unfortunately.

It may just be that the rules of the past are obsolete, that no two great powers will ever wage war against each other again. Not just because of some ethic argument, but because it is no longer in anyone's interest. War, in the past, has always been seen as a means to gain economic strength. I think this kind of imperialist logic is starting to break down. All the geostrategic thinking is becoming ineffective.

And for myself I can say this. I refuse to follow the logic of you either fight the evil people or you have already made a decsion to help them. That's not logical in all cases (sometimes it is though). If I go and torture someone, I know what the immediate consequences are. If I don't do it, I cannot be sure what the consequences are, so this is not the kind of binary decision between two knowns that it's made out to be.

Sometimes I feel that it would help to solve many conflicts in this world if people just individually decided to step back for a while and do something useful instead of fighting. The northern ireland conflict ended partly because the Republic of Ireland had become economically incredibly successful. Some people had been doing something useful for a while, like writing software and building stuff, and that changed the game.

Thanks for the debate
It's important to note the distinction between small businesses/startups and businesses. Everyone is "business friendly" when it comes to their Peugots, Fiats, Mercedes, GM's, Toyotas and so on. Where you really notice the difference is in small businesses.
I lived in the east coast (Boston), and have many friends that live in NYC, and the culture is very different over there. If you are not in by 9 am., it looks bad. Even if you are done with your work, and more, or can't be any more productive, you still have to stay in to put your hours.

You feel extra guilty just for asking a couple of hours off to go to the dentist or fix your car. etc. etc. Management doesn't trust you for sure, and half of the sites or the internet are blocked.

If you work in the financial industry, you can't use any external/personal email, im, or whatever.

The email firewall is there for security reasons, or so it's said.

I don't know that what you're describing is a "New York" phenomenon, but it's certainly true on Wall Street. I worked at a hedge fund where I ran into exactly what you're talking about. I developed substantial health problems for a period of about 2 months. Having a strong work ethic, and not wanting to call in sick needlessly (it wasn't contagious) I showed up to work whenever I could-- sometimes arriving late or leaving early, or taking a midday break, but still putting in the 45-50 hours that was expected.

I found out the hard way that it's worse to show up a half-hour late because of illness than to call in sick and throw out a day-- this is obviously stupid, inefficient, and bizarre. I had a new boss who gave me a ration of shit for showing up 8 minutes late (I was puking during that 8 minutes; thanks) and threatened to fire me. I sent him an email basically telling him that I worked for the company, not him, and that it was unfair both to me, but "more importantly" unfair to the company, to destroy a day's worth of my productivity over 8 minutes in the morning.

I don't work there any more.
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Maybe. Maybe death isn't such a bad thing. We only dislike it due to our grief response, but outside of that it performs lots of useful functions.

Also, I'm still highly skeptical cryonics will ever be reversible to the point where I can truly be brought back. My body may be reanimated, maybe, but without my memories, it's not much different than birthing a fully formed adult.

I'm not opposed to cryonics in general, but the author said he thought it should be done by the state to everyone unidentified, which I find ludicrous.
Chris Anderson on increasing global IQ at Le Web
I don't have the slightest clue what this guy is talking about. Guy Savoy has a restaurant in the United States too, and it's just as packed. Americans are clearly able to appreciate it. And the wait there is a joke compared to The French Laundry.

Also, Thomas Keller is almost certainly the world's greatest. He has 2 restaurants in Restaurant Magazine's top 50 (numbers 5 and 6).
It must be the weekend. Nothing but drama on TC again.
He left out Dave Winer! He's the Gieant Douche to Scoble's Turd Sandwich.
The Big Mac index shows the Euro as significantly overvalued when purchasing price parity is brought into effect, which means that in addition to earning less in USD, the French can buy less with the same money as well.

That being said, they have much better and much cheaper health care. That saves each person the equivalent of thousands of USD per year. And coupled with other social insurance programs makes the gap not as high as it appears otherwise.
My experience traveling around France this summer was quite eye-opening. At the first household I stayed at, they had no connectivity when I was there. Tech support put them on hold for half an hour, then said they'd send someone to fix it within two weeks.

Two weeks! Things happen on a different time-scale there. This wasn't rural France, it was in the University area of one of the major cities. The longest I've been without Internet in the U.S in the last 3 years with roadrunner is overnight, during a thunderstorm. And things always get fixed promptly.

That wasn't an isolated experience either. Many French cities, always the same story. Even when the connection did work, half the time it was so slow as to be unusable.

I'm totally with Arrington on the overall coverage of LeWeb. The amount of hanging out, drinking beer and chatting about politics that goes on is pretty absurd (not just in France, other European countries as well). That's actually great if you have a normal job, but definitely a problem if you're trying to do a startup. Europeans need to get real before they can catch up with Silicon Valley.
Are you a US taxpayer?
Very interesting. Do you have an estimate of how tarsnap compares to rsync in terms of bandwidth in the typical case that only a few files have been modified?
The post is referencing:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.lispworks.general/8783/
Damn, I could get the whole Internet if I could just pick "have sex for procreation" but procreating would almost certainly be worse than losing the "fun" Internet.

You've created the impossible question.
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"... A different tack has been taken by the entrepreneur Patrick W. Grady. He has put together a technology team at Rearden Commerce that has already begun to reach a business audience with an “intelligent” personal assistant oriented toward travel and entertainment. It will be available early next year for nonbusiness customers as well.

Rearden is one of Silicon Valley’s most significantly financed but least known start-ups. ..."

Reads like a sub ~ http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html you can read about it (the placement in the NYT tech section) before you can demo it.

"... I set out to deliver on the longstanding ‘holy grail of user-centric computing,’ a ‘personal Internet assistant.’ ... Have Mr. Grady or CALO or Siri cracked the code in the half-decade-long quest for a software personal assistant? Ordinary computer users will soon have a chance to find out ..."

Better than say Stikkit (folded into Twitter) or RTM ~ http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ ?
I presume that, like most journalists - just because he was at a show, it didn't mean he was just writing about the show. I was a tech journalist/edit for many years. When I was at a show I spent my time talk to people at the show, yes - but also had commitments - to edit copy, handle other stories that the office was sending me and deal with other administrivia remotely.

Combine that with the fact that half the demos you had booked in advance to see would not have been working and yes... I can imagine having to bail from the hall. Of course, that's why we gave all the journalists cellular data cards for emergencies.
So what happened next? How did he do at the Olympics?
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In the U.S., Charles Murray has been advocating a similar policy. He wrote a book called In Our Hands on it.
What utter nonsense! The problem was not that no-one knew what the Nazis were up to; everyone in Germany knew! The Nazis were elected, they didn't seize power in a revolution!

But as I always say in such discussions, you cannot evaluate history out of context. In the 20s and 30s it was perfectly normal to be what we would now consider a political extremist. It was fashionable be a Fascist or a Communist. Everyone gets swept up in the zeitgeist in any era. I guarantee that the next generation will look back at us over some issue and say, WTF were they thinking?!
There has been a discussion about this in Germany, too. One of the most prominent supporters of it is the boss of Germanys biggest drugstore/pharmacy chain. You'd normally expect such things to come from "leftists".

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedingungsloses_Grundeinkommen (there are translations)

Personal opinion: I like it.
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it describes the european cliche of the US. That is all what counts in internet discussions ;)
It doesn't seem that taxes have much to do with innovation, because people will innovate no matter what country they live in. I agree that SV is a unique place that attracts talent, and it is probably easier to find investors there.

But you also have to think about all the legal costs of doing business in the US. The risk of lawsuits and patent trolls are much greater than in Europe. The benefits of low tax is probably not as important for a startup as the legal bills that they may have to pay if they are unlucky enough to be noticed by an unfriendly lawyer

I have read statistics that show that the number of lawyers per US citizen is many times greater than the number for most European countries. In Germany there are 593 people for each lawyer, while in the US there are only 265 people for each lawyer.

Source: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_country_in_the_world_has_most...
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Most things can be found on the Mercurial repository:

http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/ForestExtens...

Not sure why there are no docs in the hgforest repository though - that seems like a pretty big oversight.
His slide said 0 stock.
nice. can't wait to the see the next version.
Accounting stuff could be VERY interesting for 3rd parties if they're your competitors
Horrible quality video - borderline unwatchable (basically a slideshow of photos with audio), I guess the live stream was acting up, it's a shame.
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Just for future reference the actual address is http://legalpad.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/12/08/a-no-fly-zo...
The problem seems to be that rationality is not common knwowledge.
Here you go:
http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=show...

The issue is that STMs have a lot of book-keeping overhead in addition to the locking.
I would personally like to nominate The Netherlands: good universities, internationally oriented, business friendly.
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Yes, but we're talking about the long term. Americans interacting with Europeans are going to wonder why everyone scoffs about associating 'red' with militarism and low taxes. It's not sustainable.
How exactly do you batch writes? Do you save 2 blobs in 1 file? Or some kind of keep-alive that Amazon counts as a single request?
That's 0 public stock.
The tutorial site happstutorial.com is a demo. Of a job board. Check it out.
interesting read until i came to the part where douglas photo is displayed... is it just me or does he look like jake gyllenhaal?..
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I'll be more impressed when Gmail supports RFC'd headers like Resent-From and Resent-To. They were in RFC 822 (1982) and are still in RFC 2822 (2001). How can an email client be written that doesn't handle these basic headers? It suggests the RFCs weren't read.
I totally agree.

It's not really a "minor detail."

There's a "getting organized" thread on the happs googlegroup about this at the moment, and I really hope it bears fruit.

This should be done via haddock of course, but haddock won't build HAppS documentation at the moment because it doesn't work with template haskell (as discussed in the googlegroup). Optimistically, this should be working again after ghc 6.10.2, which also targets a haddock fix.

Even without working haddock though, the api should be better documented in the source. If haddock suddenly started working there still would be a lot of undocumented functions.
> No, eurisko nobody has :)

So why is that? Does Lenat not want anyone to see it? Or was the code lost?

BTW am I right in presuming that the original AM was written in Lisp?
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I agree completely. It may be inconvenient to navigate to a web page to input this information, but that's a problem that can be solved by writing an app for less than $45. I don't even know Objective-C, but I bet I could do it in a few hours.

For bonus points, there could be a generic "web form" application that scrapes web forms and allows easy POST access to them with a native GUI.

I almost want to do this, but I don't have Apple's permission. Too bad.