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I'm glad I wasn't the only person affected by this. I couldn't finish the article. At first I thought it must be some sort of commentary related to the article (i.e. web 2.0 and social clutter) but no.

You can minimize the "no spam" widget but apparently are held hostage by the other box until (I assume) you click one of the social +1's.

Assuming the rest of the article's content is well thought out, perhaps they should forward it to their own designer.
Really? Invoking the U.N is "intellectual hipsterism"? So what is considered a valid political argument in your parts of the world? FOX News?

Also, regarding the "go back to reddit" insult. Funny that it comes from an account created just 10 hours ago just to reply to my comment --and that was downvoted to gray-death at that.
This is just another brick in the wall to make Internet look like it is a source of danger for all of us.

But we know who it is an actual danger for.
Ummm... why wouldn't you? Rich web clients and all that?
I'm just saying that it's entirely possible to fulfill all economics perquisites for the purchase and still not make the purchase because we just plain don't like the price and won't feel good after paying it.
Did you convert? :)
Automatic keyboard sharing is just a small step away from that, but that seems really annoying to me. I'd rather control when I want to share.

Why not just have a proper shared clipboard plus keyboard/mouse sharing in a multi-computer, multi-monitor setup?

Because if you don't need keyboard/mouse sharing that's just bloat running on your machine, because you become dependent on yet another utility that may be discontinued or receive a crappy update at any time, because it's less flexible (can I share only on demand?), less portable and it costs $50 that would be better spent on blackjack and hookers (or whatever you do for relaxing).
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Drinking from an open container in microgravity (video)
Are you talking about science in general? There's enough science left to do on the macroscale, too.
> Ogilvy found that, on average, headlines placed below an image are read by 10% more people than headlines above. Since reading the headline is a prerequisite of reading the body copy, you’re losing a potential 10% of your audience if you’re distracting them with an image in the wrong place.

Actually, you'd be losing at most about 9% of your audience. I know that's a bit of a nitpick, but it bugs me when people equate "not X% more" with "X% less".

Also, to actually lose 9% of your readers to your headline position, you have to make the very optimistic assumption that you're not losing readers to any other factor.
Honest question: Whats Coke and whats Coca-Cola. In some countries they sell it as "Coke". Here in Turkmenistan it's Coca-Cola. Is it a branding stuff? Or something different?
And a direct link to the original flight: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE236/history/20120209/2...
I think it is.

Israel has a harsh dilemma. They want to keep their state (which is reasonable at this point), but on the other hand they don't want to share the power with Palestinians (which is not). They are also afraid that the Palestinian birth rate would have them outnumbered, and then what?. They use lots of tactics to ensure that the Palestinian population is confined --from import/export restrictions, to destroying their land for cultivation, to steadily expanding into other areas, etc. It's not genocide on the Hitler scale, but it's sure as hell, Ethnocide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_genocide

(That they "invested" into the area is laughable. What they did was they build companies to exploit cheap labour under very strict conditions. It's not like they enpowered any palestinians to become entrepreneurs. So it's investing in the same way Nike invested in building factories in Africa, etc.)
I have watched this more than a dozen times, I'm still awe-struck every time I watch it, and it barely scratches the surface of all that was created at such a magical place:

http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/innovations_song/
To support your point: Last week I attended a talk about how they are turning the technology behind Watson from winning Jeopardy to advising your GP.
It may be a solution, superficially, but only to the problem that you have outlined. If you make it your goal to eliminate "all paper thrown on the floor", why not go for 100% and get rid of the paper towels in the first place?

The question is not how to get rid of people throwing paper on the ground, or how to guilt the remaining careless ones into throwing theirs in the bin. The question is actually - what is the most cost-effective solution to manage the problem: Having to spend energy on peoples carelessness.

If putting a bin there catches 95% of the paper towels that were thrown on the ground before, that's as perfect as you could wish it to be. Those further 5% (or 4.99%) will cost you so much time, money and effort that once they do achieve your goal, you will surely ask yourself whether you would have been just as OK with 95%.
Back when I had a look at box.net, they provided a WebDAV interface to the storage, so it should be easily to integrate with most devices and configurations.
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Don't you think KissMetrics provides a valuable service? A startup doesn't need to be focused on saving baby seals to improve people's lives.
Nice site. I would use this more for Windows ALT key codes—I have a few like the em dash or ALT+0151 memorized—but maybe this isn't something you want to add.
>>How did we get from Palestine to the Muslim world?

I answered what uce0054 wrote about in the comment tree above, mainly demonizing and double standards.

Edit: If you don't really think it is relevant that the main critics of Israel mistreat the Palestinians much more than Israel, it is funny... but not surprising. I've never seen that from an Israel-critic.
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I think of somewhere like DEKA as a small scale modern bell labs.
hijacked by hasbara? please... your entire post is propoganda!
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Actually, a sizable number of kanji have been simplified (look up shinjitai vs. kyuujitai). You would be best off waiting for a Traditional Hanzi version of this app to come out.
You can mount your account with WebDav for free and bypass the web interface on the desktop. https://www.box.net/dav
Might still be, that one wouldn't be able to distinguish corn syrup Coke from corn syrup Pepsi. And similar for a comparison between the sugared versions.
This is pretty vague, what kind of help are you looking for? You can learn everything you need to know (and by everything, I mean just that) via online resources if you're willing to spend the time and can exercise some patience. I'd recommend deciding on a starting point for "learning computer skills" and working through some credible tutorials focussing on one area at a time. Whenever you come across a concept/term that is not clear or makes absolutely no sense to you, keep track of where you were in the tutorial and consult Wikipedia for clarification. Perhaps you'll find another concept/term on a Wikipedia page that you are unfamiliar with. Veer off and check out that resource as well. Once you've grasped all of the associated concepts and terms, return to the tutorial. You'll be amazed at how much you've learned. I think this is a much more satisfying approach than paying someone to teach you computer skills!
I'm not sure knowing what's most "important" classifies as procrastination. How can one possibly put a value on spending time with ones family?

To me it sounds like a problem with stress, but I'm no expert.
The idea of selling copies of information is very basically broken. Half the time stuff is made but undersells copies because the producer did not find out no-one wanted it, and the other half, people are prevented from realising value that could actually be freely available.

Such a structure consumes a scarce resource -- creative effort -- wastefully, and restricts an abundant resource -- communicability of information -- unnecessarily. That seems very much the opposite of economically efficient.

Information goods should be more like better kinds of software production. But the current copyright-based system makes it all more like a 'waterfall economy'

http://www.hxa.name/notes/note-hxa7241-20120103T1008Z.html
But if you really want to discuss the "worse" part, why should the Israeli question be treated differently than all other land areas?

This is a wrong framing of the question. I don't think anyone wants to treat it differently than all other land areas in similar circumstances. ALL of those are wrong. Now, mention any other specific "land area" similar, and we can talk.

But if you insist, I can think of some reasons this is to be treated differently: because Israel, despite being as abusive as other countries, is a favorite child of the West powers, and receives much more military, diplomatic and media support.

Just an example: we hear for the persecution of gays, or twitter users, or women's right in Arab countries repeteadly. How many times do you hear about things such as this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehadrin_bus_lines
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/...

or this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078771/Israel-brace...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/27/naama-margolese_n_1...
You could also describe water as 8 parts oxygen to 1 part hydrogen, mass wise.
While it's a fun turn-the-tables idea, because government is so much bigger, with more power and resources, this would still be incredibly unequal. You might be able to track a dozen government officials; the FBI could track every member of a political minority group (eg. the persecution of MLK).
I am shocked at entrepreneurs that can't instinctively understand this without the need for a blog post from Chris. While experience as an entrepreneur will teach these things, I've always chalked this up to plain common sense.
I clicked reply so that I could tell you that for a moment I envied you. Taking pride in your work while not being too concerned with the clock sounds to me like a perfectly balanced life to pursue.

I take extreme pride in my work and I am always aware of the clock ticking. Every. Second. A wise and accomplished person once said to me that in the end nothing remains but personal relationships. Take good care my friend, lest you lose in the process much more important things in life that you are now enjoying.
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Reading the first paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca_cola will enlighten you.
I agree, you definitely want to keep some sort of free tier. There are a lot of apps out there that claim to do this, or something similar. After trying a bunch of them I found one or two that I liked, but for the most part they weren't very good. I would not have wanted to pay to find that out.

I think you wouldn't want to offer less that one full alphabet, so people can get a good idea of what it will be like to learn using your app. If it's just a few characters that they can practice with, then they won't spend enough time with your app to make them feel like they should purchase it over trying another one out.
That's right. For now it's only for the Japanese versions which in many cases are different, so it's not useful for anyone learning Chinese. I'd like to release a version (or several, both simplified and traditional) for that as well, but right now it's quite low on the priority list so don't expect it to be ready anytime soon.
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That's the important element in the "Moral" vs "Prgamatic" scenario - how much are we spending in time, energy, collateral damage in trying to be "right." In the case of the bathroom (war on drugs, anti-piracy, etc..) - not only are we now spending money on a camera, monitoring it, following-up, firing people - we are also invading people's privacy, impacting employee morale. Yes - it's true, taken to the logical conclusion - all of these moral victories can be one, should we be willing to go to extremes to demonstrate we are "right" - but at the end of the day, what did it that moral victory end up costing us?

So - in Portgual, and British Columbia - Heroin Addiction is now treated as a health issue. Government actually supports safe injection sites in Vancouver. They might have lost the "Moral" victory, but drug overdoses have effectively ceased. Giving in to all those employees in the bathroom who are lazy, might have been ceding the moral victory, but for the price of a move of the garbage can, the paper issue was handled.

We are, of course, actually talking about intellectual property, and the mechanism by which the media industry can extract maximal profits, without regard to their own moral position - iTunes Match is a nice first step - recognize that yes, their may be some people with illegitimately acquired content - so, give them the highest quality version of it, and charge them $25/year for the service.

Once you realize the actual goal is not moral superiority, but the pragmatic end-game, all sorts of opportunities open up.
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It is interesting that people describe their state of mind when placed under very stressful physical conditions as "clear". They go to great lengths to distort their perception of reality, and then extol the "clarity" with which they understand the world.

In truth, this is no different from the perceptual alteration afforded by psychotropic drugs, but then again, people ascribe "spiritual clarity" to those experiences as well.
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This has been my point for years about piracy and things like the app store.
"There's no way to use price to increase or decrease the size of your business."

I'd love to see the data backing this claim up. That really intrigues me.
Huh? The time I've invested in open-source contributions has had payoffs massively greater than any work I've ever done for a paycheck. It's just not necessarily that I get paid for the work, rather, I get paid because of the work.

Maybe your experience with open-source is different. I think most contributors do it for joy, anyway.
I would be extremely curious if this holds for content as well as app. We've trained users that content is free, while apps can occasionally cost money. This has led to all kinds of price distortions in music and, most especially, ebooks.

As a content producer who works closely with engineers, I can vouch that good content requires no less training and effort than good apps. A novel-length ebook probably takes more time and effort to produce (for any level of quality) than an app. I'd imagine an album of music requires even more. Yet we we never hear stories about perfect price elasticity in content.

I'm genuinely curious if price elasticity holds true in content and, if so, why we haven't heard as much about it.
"If competition is using 'lingua obscura' for dev (why) should I be worried?"
All my notes, like this one:
http://notes.ceondo.com/mongrel2-zmq-paas/
are both available as HTML and PDF thanks to Pandoc. I really really recommend it. It is robust and extremely fast.
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Anyone know if there is a pen mouse like the one he shows, where you tilt it up/down/left/right instead of using a wheel motion? That wheel motion can't be good for your finger over long periods of time.
Preferably I'd like to not host it myself, considering the amount of work and the problem of letting people know of updates etc.

How come you don't want to use the market? Do you have a device without market or is it just a personal preference?
Are you referring to stable business model dropbox whovery recently had a retarded grade A fuck up where anyone can access your data. If you stick to the reassuringly expensive theme you better grab another Stella Artois.
If you rent an apartment, you're expected to comply with your rental agreement.

Sure, because the property is still theirs.

If you buy a house, you're expected to comply with your homeowner's association bylaws.

That's not the previous owner telling me what to do. And not if they're considered abusive: banning families with minors, for example, is illegal. I consider their conditions abusive too, even if the law doesn't.

If you use your house for criminal activities, you may forfeit it if a judge agrees.

If you're a convicted sex offender, you're required to register your address with the government.

Completely different. And that's still not the previous owner telling me what to do.

Life is full of compromises, tradeoffs, and other restrictions to what you may consider your "rights."

Yes. And some of them I consider legitimate, and others I don't. Is != ought. Just because a restriction exists doesn't mean it should.

The purpose of copyright is to ensure new works continue to be produced. In my opinion, copyright is not needed - nay, it's harmful to that goal and therefore it has not justification to exist.
Haha 田 is actually a character whose stroke order differs between China and Japan. I'm so used to the Chinese order of the horizontal middle stroke and then the vertical one that I'd probably deliberately use the "wrong order" for Japanese. But yeah, I'd be really interested to see the effectiveness of your handwriting recognition against self-reported scores. If its innaccuracy is worse than a human's judgment of his or her performance, then it's just a gimmick that will hook people who are too lazy to learn how to use an SRS that doesn't hide its implementation details. But if it really works better than self-reporting, your app would be a real advancement to Japanese and Chinese literacy acquisition.

Also, I agree that handwriting on top of Anki would be more work than its worth, especially if you're trying to market your product as a standalone Japanese-specific program.
Thanks for the article: useful. Until recently almost all of my writing has been plain text (really plain text, and plain text with bits of Latex for documentation and writing books).

I have reverted recently to using RTF a lot for writing work notes, not feeling great about it, but there is a real convenience factor because OS X plays nicely with RTF for Finder instant view and using TextEdit. The bulk of my day to day (non-programming) writing is simply writing out copious daily work notes documenting everything that I do for my customers. I have found that being able to lightly style especially important notes is a large enough advantage to forgo the simplicity of plain text. Also, RTF pastes well into GMail if I want to send a styled text email (which I seldom do).

Based on reading this article, I may try the experiment of keeping my work notes for a single customer in plain text + markdown. The Marked OS X app looks pretty nice, but I am concerned that having two windows open (for editing and for viewing) might slow down what is now a very low ceremony activity.
I don't in general disagree, except to say that the consumerization of IT departments means that enterprises are using consumer-oriented stuff, so you get the best of both headaches these days.

And if you think the neterprise is bad, just try selling into the government channel. Jeebus frak, those guys are hideously cheap and supremely demanding. If it weren't for scandalously longterm lock-in due to high switching costs -- when everything is reviewed forever, almost nothing ever changes, including product selections -- no one would sell to the public sector EVER.
I cannot verify/ negate the comment about the movie. However neither can the fact that you're unfamiliar with it.

I do however see a problem with your eagerness to find an excuse to discredit the posts contents... If you've never heard of any of it and you consider yourself well educated on the subject, you've been clearly fed some of the abundant propaganda...
For the 18 guys living in the mountains, I guess water might have been less of a problem - other than hauling and storing. For the rest of the world, more of a problem.

In America, all rivers and streams are not safe to drink without sterilizing. Even in the mountains.

"Like free"? Sounds like a guy that doesn't garden or farm. Produce isn't ever free. It takes an infrastructure of manure, land, water, labor and sanitation to exist at all. And nobody that gardens comes away without blisters.

As a kid it may have seemed pretty ubiquitous, I'll imagine. The memories of youth are not to be trusted though.
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The wheel is only a scroll wheel. To move the cursor, you move the whole pen, just like you move a regular mouse.
Nice how you left off part of my sentence. Targeting ads is good for (some) advertisers (whether it's good for customers is debatable) but I said "good for the ad industry".

If a/b testing increases conversions all that demonstrates is you can get more revenue per ad dollar. Whether any "good" occurs is an entirely different matter. You might be selling penis enlargement pills.
>>Now, mention any other specific "land area" similar, and we can talk.

I did. See Karelia above. Or choose a few others of the dozen (more?) of land area changes after the WWs.

So a country should be hated and double standards are ok, if some west countries accept it more than brutal dictatorships!? Sigh...

And sure, the othodox jews have extreme subgroups that are as crazy as e.g. the Saudi government. But what the Hell does that prove? You know full well that you can find similar in any democracy.

You must be trolling.
Zionism was a secular movement. I'm not a jew, and I'm an atheist. I believe in religion being removed from the public sphere. And I'm also a zionist.
If you carry a cell phone while on, remote tracking is possible too. It's even easier since usually the wireless signal is better than the multiple satellite signals that need to reach the gps under (or wherever they put it) the car and might even be more precise in city environments due to the closer spacing of cell towers.

I find it odd that people are so concerned about this while they carry a tracking device with their person all or most of the time...

EDIT: not only that, can be instructed as a real time listening device, if you are that paranoid :)
I didn't see any mention of this on your website - is there support for memorizing the included vocab as well, or is it just there for reference? This feature would be useful for someone who'd like to learn vocab while they're learning the kanji (although this obviously isn't the traditional RtK method).
20 years ago, when I worked at CompUSA, we used to have this bin of budget software. In it, you'd find things like "3D Home Design" software, game clones, and Pagemaker wannabes. People used to ask all the time, why do I need to pay $200 for X when I can buy this one in the bin. They'd of course be cheapos, buy the one in the bin for $9.99, and then one of two things would happen, either they'd realize, wow, this is crap, and come back and buy the $199 "real" software, or they'd come back and ask a thousand annoying support questions on how to make the crap software do what they need. Some things never change.
Even the top ranked essay on exploitation of the free software industry[1] disagrees with you:

"I do not believe that engineers creating software for other engineers results in exploitation."

Squeaky wheel driven development is not slavery. Users are "free" to demand features, and developers are "free" to ignore the requests. Your premise is absurd.

1. http://www.bearcave.com/software/btp/freesoft.html