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Nobody has to pay for B2C software directly as long as it is monetizeable. Charging users directly isn't the only way to make money.

In this case the music industry reduces the possible monetization options and limits prospects even further with threats of lawsuits. That is what the issue is here.
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It's confusing alright. When the guy in the lead gets off the conveyor belt the distance between them will close. But the second guy won't catch up. The distance between them will vary according to speed but the time between them will stay the same.
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I'd be interested in reading this if it was easier to read. It's like one of those blogs where they're like "TOP 100 THINGIES!!!" and it's 100 pages, each page with 1 thingy. Thanks, but no thanks.
Suppose there is one conveyor belt that goes all the way from A to B. You could pause the whole time on the belt and arrive at the destination, whereas if you pause off the belt all the time you'll never get there. So pausing has to make a difference ;-)
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Yeah, it's that thing with the segfault that I worried about. "Highly interconnected." Thanks for the graph, which I may be able to use for my own purposes even if I can't show it.

There's got to be standard graphing tools for things that are highly connected...
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"Mountaineering is for fun; it's not worth dying or leaving others there to die. Appropriate caution is the hallmark of the elite mountaineer – the mountain will always be there next year."

I don't like those sort of comments. I think one of the reasons people go mountain climbing is because they want to take the risk. The fear of maybe not coming back alive is part of the fun. But people say stuff like that, like every single thing should be safe. I might say that people are getting paranoid over safety.

For me the bottom line is: I surely don't want to get killed doing some boring job, but I hope to die doing something awesome and exciting.
I think Squeezed Books is a cool idea. I'm less certain that it will ever be a business that generates a lot of money, but I still put some effort into it, and would like to see it grow. Getting critical mass, though, is a bitch!
They put smashed bananas into the cats' brains to record the signals.

(It's less ridiculous than it sounds: Bananas contain a certain enzyme that helps to capture the neurons signals. The porridge they put around the sensors in the cats' brains contained many more things besides the bananas. My fiancee was studying that stuff in university.)
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Unfortunately, 'public good' is just as difficult to grasp as 'will of the people'.
How about creating an experiment and designing it right on turk? You create a rough sketch and then you auto-correct it using people?
Aren't government pensions inflation indexed?
What's "horse to barn" psychological factor?
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In the technical sense of game theory: Everyone knows that everyone knows (and so one) that everyone is rational. That is different from everyone being rational individually, but not knowing that the others are.
Our university even has its own lab for 'experimental economics', where they do nothing else but run such games.
I don't think it is paranoid to worry if the probability for death is 3%.
ADA? I know it's a problem.. and I do have to get it fixed. But it's all a bad habit thing. and I am weak like that.

It is getting to the point I have to do something though.
But if you're looking to do something dangerous, wouldn't you expect the probability of death to be above 0? And if you aren't looking for danger, why are you climbing everest?
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People have spent so much time talking themselves into schemes to motivate to do what is very simple: exercise, eat, drink, play. In moderation. It doesn't matter if you like bacon, it matters if you eat 6 strips every morning. It won't make you smarter to run 3k every day for a month, then quit in frustration. Just find a variety of physical hobbies you LIKE doing, and you won't need to psyche yourself into doing it. In disclosure, I (on a regular basis) bicycle, walk, run, climb, and dance. It doesn't feel like work, because they are all make me feel good. If you don't like doing anything physical, I don't know what to say to you but that you need to accept that you are your body. It is not just a thing that connects your hands to the keyboard.
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Supposedly if you're out riding a horse for a long time and you point him toward his barn, he'll rush home and not listen to you b/c he wants to rest.

It's a common problem among mountaineers that once the "goal" has been reached they rush home and make careless mistakes. They rush down "like a horse to a barn"

I've seen this problems in many different expedition sports. Once the perceived danger is past, people let their guard down and get hurt. More often than not people train for the hardest part of an expedition. They put so much effort into getting through that part, that when it's over their brain says, "I've done the hard part, the rest is a foregone conclusion." They forget that the uncertainty of their goal made them fearful which in turn made them concentrate. Once people feel more certain, the fear subsides and takes their concentration with it.
GNOME and Xfree86 are huge git repositories. They "solved" the problem by using git submodules and their project has already been broken down into modules already.

I'm not entirely satisfied with this approach, since it means a brand new developer has to figure out how to pull all the submodules down when setting up his dev environment.
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Distribution in the marketing sense doesn't mean strictly physical distribution of a product. It's the place where you sell it. For most SaaS products the product can only be bought from the company website.

If you sold your SaaS as a white label product or OEM through partners or affiliates, that would be another way of distributing it.

But the traditional marketing concepts, like the four Ps (distribution being the Place), fit better with physical products IMHO.
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I am not climbing Mount Everest. Honestly, I was hoping the article would provide insights on why people try to do it. Death wish? I suspect people just don't believe the 3% number, they probably think their own number is much lower. Maybe they think the number only applies to other climbers who are not as fit and well prepared.

Sure there are some risky activities that would interest me, but at the end of the day, there are more than enough interesting alternatives that are a lot less risky.
How much is a "little" faster? Is that guaranteed? It seems like letting Wal-Mart control the toll booth on the turnpike. It's a dangerous first step.
Is there some selection bias in my data set that I'm unaware of?

Yes. You are looking for a Java Contract Developer, who happens to have a H1B visa. There is a very high chance the majority of people you would get to interview would be ones who are below average programmers, and are in to this profession only for the money bit and not for the love of it.

As mentioned in this thread, majority of H1Bs are lapped up by the big services firms and body shoppers. Not many would be willing to leave a permanent job in a big firm and apply for contractor position. But yes those who went through body shoppers and are just looking for a better pay package would queue up to interview for you. Sad but true.

So your selection set really is "mostly" bottom of the pile programmers, and hence such hard luck for you.

On your observation about general lack of creativity, these people are probably not the best ones to form an opinion, but yes our education system is to partly blame for it.
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Google has a good PageRank implementation, though it isn't open source.
"The idea" being the core protocol. I can't wait until you criticise Tim Berners-Lee for creating a poor web browser compared to Netscape.

I agree on the business side though - it was always going to be an uphill struggle, and they seriously missed a trick by being beaten to market by Kontiki and seem to be struggling to find a decent business plan.
Good article, with some interesting ideas and insights. I particularly liked the point about building a framework within which your customers can network with each other.
And donated it all to good causes on his death.
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At NewsCred, we got covered on ALL the big technology blogs (Techrunch etc) as well as a lot of mainstream press (NYT, Boston Globe, Reuters, BW etc). That was not the difficult part, although I still owe this community a blog post about how we did it (soon, I promise!).

The hardest part is getting your community engaged, and loving the site so much they will tell their friends. Its getting AdWords users converting into real, long-term members. It's about getting your users to love your site so much that they couldn't live without it.

My takeaway: the media coverage/PR feels great and seems important, but it has nothing to do with the long term success or sustainability of your site. Build something people want and love - that's more important. Get a small, but rabid user base. Get them to spread the love.
I'd love to see a prisoner's dilemma experiment via MTurk. These tend to be financial in nature, though; can you set variable payment rates per task, depending on external factors?
What was your previous experience?
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It's about the complexity of the problem, not the implementation.

At least I found it interesting. I had no idea it would be this much work to get these seemingly basic routes worked out.
The problem is one of scope. Democracy directly manifests the "will of the people" only at the ballot.

While there are second-order effects, politicians are largely free to ignore aforementioned "will" during their day-to-day routine. Thus they generally spend time manuvering and manipulating for an increase in personal power - which is what we call "politics".

"Politics" exits even without "democracy". It exists in dictatorships, in offices, even within families.

It is therefore completely correct to enshrine democracy while denouncing politics. Does this make sense? :-)

EDIT: When I say families - I am referring to "joint families" (large family groups consisting of a matriach/patriach and multiple sons/daughters/uncles/aunts and sundry). While this is not un-common in India - I felt I'd better explain it to everyone else.
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Tell me about it, my social site relies on heavy user participation (in fact requires it) to be useful to other users. And unlike Digg, my content is worthless 24 hours later meaning I can't 'seed' the site with my own content effectively.
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The beauty of AdWords is you can track conversions and exclude domains/sites that don't convert well. Most AdWords advertisers will welcome an increase like this in inventory.
I've mentioned this before, but I've bitched about Comcast on Twitter and had them reach out to me to help solve my problem all through Twitter. They then followed up with a phone call to make sure it got resolved. I have no interest in talking with Comcast in the future but this use of Tweets to appease me was smart on their part.
Lame linkbait title. Twitter is great and all, but so is RSS, they can and will both survive (well maybe not Twitter).
While this is an old link, it's still very handy.

Two others in terms of Vim colorschemes are, the Scheme Editor:
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Here's a tip. Build it without paying anyone. Make it yourself, or find a team who are willing to work on your word--that is if you're an extremely reliable person. Objective-C is a pretty simple language and Cocoa touch makes everything a whole lot easier when thinking up and building applications.

Give it a go, I find it hard to be depressed when writing a good and creative Cocoa application.
I thought that too until I made up a simple example and worked through the numbers. Lets say you have a

100 ft non-walkway

400 ft walkway

you walk at 10 ft/s and the walkway moves at 10ft/s

it takes 10 s to tie your shoes.

Case 1

tie your shoes 10s

walk 100ft 10s

walkway 400 ft (400/(10+10)) 20s

Total 40s

Case 2

Walk 100 ft 10s

Tie shoes on walkway 10s (in which time you travel 100ft)

Rest of Walkway 300/(10+10) 15s

Total 35s
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Just how much time DO you spend on Twitter?
"Actually, it's pretty tough to rationalize why someone should learn C."

Maybe because most people really shouldn't bother to learn it???
A friend last week told me about a business he's working with. They do Natural Language Processing to scan thousands of articles about a specific topic/product to see if they are positive, negative or neutral. They are then hoping to turn around and sell the business intelligence.

I was wondering how it would compare on a cost/effectiveness basis with the Turk.

Let us know what your experiment is and how you fared.
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1. its better to rest on the walkway - not seeing any disagreement about this one.

2. its better to run off the walkway. Why? Walking normally is more expensive (in terms of time required to cover N distance) than walking on the walkway. The question can be rephrased as, all things considered, "would you rather spend less time on the walkway or the ground?" You would rather spend less time on the ground, because it takes you more time to cross it.

Naive proof: your normal speed is 1m/s, run speed is 2m/s (can be done for 1s), walkway moves at 1m/s. Track is: 2m of ground, 6m of walkway.

Running on walkway: 2s to cover ground, 1s to cover first 3 meters of walkway running, 1.5s to cover last three meters = 4.5s.
Running on ground: 1s to cover ground, 3s to cover walkway = 4s.

Look at it this way: the normal (no-run) time is 5s. Running on the ground chops off an entire second; running off the walkway chops off only half a second.
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here's some thoughts after usage (i've been using it on/off for quite a while)

: I don't LOVE the UI. I don't hate it, it just feels a little too white?

: I do quite a lot of finance searching - I'd love google finance integration.

: could you look up tags on delicious and display those links? I always find delicious superb for nifty content

: can you make the URL a little more obvious? maybe bold or indented -- thats the primary method I use to sort the crap from the non crap results.

: Maybe the related images could go horizontally below the search box? I think that sidebar is awfully cramped.
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You are amazing.

I’m stunned.

Bowled over.

Amazed.

And optimistic about our future (and yours).

The applications I received were astonishingly good. Thorough and honest and clear and direct. They were motivating and demonstrated just how much people can do when they put their minds to it. I read every word of every application and I learned a lot.

If I had 60 seats, I still would have had too many people awe-inspiring applying. Unfortunately, I have nowhere near that, and so I had to make difficult, irrational and not particularly fair choices. Alas, I’m going to be unable to work with you in 2009. There are still interviews and such to go through, so I don’t have the final group selected, but I thought the fairest thing to do was let you know as soon as possible.

The good news, and I hope you think it’s good news, is that you don’t need me. As I said before, I have no magic wand, no secret recipe. Your decision to just make it happen, to push forward, to change... that was the hard part.

Go. Do that. Blow them away. I fully expect it will happen.

Thanks for taking the time and thanks for understanding.

Seth

PS I’m going to post on my blog about how stellar each of you are... and I’m linking to a Google listing of applications (all of them, accepted and not). If you don’t want to be seen by others, you should delete your lens (if you made one). But I think you should be extraordinarily proud of what you’ve built and what you’ve done... and you might even get a new gig because of it.
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When Daniel J. Bernstein made his DAGs of standard crypto algorithms (http://cr.yp.to/cipherdag/cipherdag-20070630.pdf) he mentioned that they'd crashed every standard drawing tool he tried. He makes a reference to "...my own drawing tools, which are much more careful in their use of memory." Unfortunately, I'm not sure where to obtain DJB's drawing tools.
I for one knew the WSJ had become a PR dumpster when they published the favorable article on cutco knives. I haven't had respect for it since; I guess the buyout was fatal.

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This is very true. To see this firsthand, try hiking a steep trail of any significant distance (a few miles). Going up isn't so bad. Its like climbing stairs. Coming down is terrible, though. It is very taxing on the joints and much easier to slip over loose gravel.
We need more articles talking about how there's no money to be made on iPhone apps so developers will give the market a little room to breathe.
"I'm just trying to nail down precisely what you are trying to say."

He's trying to say he doesn't like Gordon Brown.

re: your original point, I think in this context, by 'Democracy' people mean "honest politicians working towards ends they think their constituents would approve" and by 'Politics' people mean "politicians doing (probably dirty) work, driven by all kinds of pressures, often self-interested ones".

It's a difference in intent. To some extent it's the difference between murder and manslaughter. Or perhaps between murder and execution.
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I don't know why this is being downmodded. In 1908 the US population was roughly 90 million. Part of the huge economic growth experienced over the 20th century had to do with population growth and consolidation as the world's global superpower. Even though the rest of the world also had economic growth, other economies didn't fare so well over the same period of time.

In a way, looking at the past century and assuming that the next one will be similar in terms of return rates is like expecting Google's stock to grow spectacularly over the next decade. Once you are #1 there is not as much room for explosive growth.
"The idea" is not the protocol. The protocol itself is nothing special, it's the idea that is special. I consciously decided not to praise the actual protocol, as there is nothing unusual about it.
If you want to look at an interesting example of a successful independent game designer, look at ZUN, the developer of the wildly popular Touhou Project shmup series. You'll notice a few things:

1. He's stuck to a genre that, while still quite popular, does not require an enormous development team. The place for gaming startups is not in the business of the "big players", but working on games whose main attraction is creative content and enjoyable gameplay, not high-end graphics and enormous amounts of hand-crafted content. Because of this, ZUN can develop roughly one game a year for the most popular amateur (doujin) game series in Japan in his spare time... and still have time to work full-time at Taito corporation! See Braid for another example of a relatively low-budget game that made it big.

2. The primary attraction of his games is probably the incredibly well-made musical scores: each game has a full soundtrack, with tracks for every level and boss fight. This serves as a "grab": the easiest way to get someone's attention is a case of "that looks cool" or "that sounds cool." His games certainly do the latter. If you can get a talented artist, music is not something that inherently takes a great deal of time to produce, unlike enormous amounts of 3D modeling or other forms of content. Most importantly, people simply like listening to good music while playing a game: if you find people are turning off the music to play their own during a game, you have done it wrong.

3. In the end, remember that enormous resources and marketing are not necessary to create a game. ZUN has certainly proven this true: he has gone from making hobby games in college to being the sole developer of a game series so popular that the fanbase has its own concert, its own convention so large it rents out the Tokyo Big Sight convention center, and makes up almost 5% of Comiket. Yet he never did any significant marketing--his fans marketed the game for him. And he still outright refuses to sign any rights over to a major corporation for any sort of higher-budget game or non-game adaptation.

Now, perhaps ZUN was lucky. Or perhaps in one of his drunken moments (he's notorious for his love of beer), he struck a goldmine of brilliance that allowed him to become so successful. But he's certainly not unique: the way to success for a small games developer is to make niche games and acquire a dedicated fanbase, not to aim at the Halo market.
Erlang and CouchDB (which is written mostly in Erlang) are both very interesting technologies.

I've only briefly looked at Nitrogen, but I'm not sure I like the concept of a server-side framework that generates highly dependent client-side code. It seems like it makes it pretty easy to simple things, but very hard (if not impossible) to do complicated things. I could be totally wrong, but that's my first impression.
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