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To generalize what you are saying, society will always consider those things as "property" that add value. Songs, movies, software all add value (for some definition of value) to their users.

If, hypothetically, all software is open source, but differs in its data input, then the data will be considered "property". It is already happening with social networking sites, wherein there is reluctance to share in an open way user data, comments, photos, "likes" etc.

That being said, I think content, being a product of human creativity and imagination, will always have some value in the "property" sense.
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Minefold looks awesome and we are very excited to see such a promising model for multiserver Minecraft.
Do you have plans to work with any server plugins?
We are working on bright idea how to increase profit and playability of multiserver Minecraft instances.

In short words: how about to make portals from one instance to another? Looks like we have really deep understanding how to make this stuff works, at least from gamedesign side. Are you ready for cooperation?
It was very distracting. It takes quite a bit of training to eliminate pauses from speech but it takes significantly less effort to replace 'um' with a pause.
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The problem is, like the FedEx arrow, once you see (hear) it, you can't avoid doing so in the future.
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Not always Tor, which is safe as far as I know IF you can get a Tor connection.

Plenty have been caught and killed or tortured thanks to US tech sold to their governments (and not using Tor level security) so I'm not sure about them being more savvy. The consequences are certainly higher, so they probably are more careful.

It's the domestic people who confuse me, no encryption, from a cell phone account in their name and then thinking "Twitter will break the law to protect me!"
I was there for his pycon talk, and it seemed to me (they stood out for me as well) that he was using disfluencies to express disbelief or punctuate something extraordinary or unexpected with humor. I do this too? But instead of uhm, I'll end a statement on a rising tone as in an interrogative?
This is a wonderful business and I really think they will go places. Minecraft servers are a huge part of the game, looking at our statistics for the servers section on the Minecraft forum it's clear there are millions of people trying to find a place to play every month, if Minefold can convert 10% of those to paying players they're going to do extremely well.

I was at Minecon (Minecraft Convention, Vegas November 2011) and while sat at a table with one of the Mojang employees I listened to a father and his son explain how managing a Minecraft server was hard work and they wish that Minecraft would have some sort of "simple" system for it; login and play. No screwing around with finding a company then managing a server and dealing with issues, just pay -> play. Minefold is what he described.

congrats on the (full) launch, marketed properly this service could easily capture 90% of the casual Minecraft players market. There will always be people who want full control over their Multiplayer experience and they are catered to by (quite literally) hundreds of companies, Minefold is the first company I've seen that that properly caters to casual players.
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Maybe this one speech was an outlier; I haven't noticed this in previous pg speeches (in front of 300+ people, and some televised things like the NY event).

Peter Thiel, on the other hand, has consistently technically-bad speech patterns, but the content is compelling enough to make up for it.

Tracking the same speaker in multiple venues/contexts vs. comparing different speakers seems a lot more interesting.
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Are you under the impression that Apple (or Ubuntu or whatever) generally changes their interfaces less that Microsoft? I'm not clear how Microsoft's changes are inherently an issue while, say, Apple's are not. Or are you of the opinion that no one would ever choose Windows except for the sake of familiarity (which if true would mean Windows is doomed anyway).
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It's easy to miss and it's been getting lost in all the noise, I fear. You don't appeal subpoenas, you try to quash them and prevent the information from being disclosed to begin with. I mean, you can't very well have them un-share your identity or personal information after the fact any more than you can un-ring a bell.

Here's one nice little article about how they work in practice:

http://privacysos.org/admin_subpoenas

You will note that they commend Twitter for giving the user notice of the subpoena, even though Twitter is not required to. That's an important point, too: companies may go above and beyond what they're required to. So, assuming you use services that do that, you might get notice even when the company wasn't legally required to provide it.

Finally, here's the Justice Department's own report to Congress on the use of administrative subpoenas:

http://www.justice.gov/archive/olp/rpt_to_congress.htm

Appendix A1 is probably the most relevant part of that, specifically the column labelled "Notification Req. and Privacy Protections."
I did something quite similar to this in [1] and [2] some time ago.

[1] https://github.com/Incubaid/crakoon/blob/master/src/arakoon....
[2] https://github.com/Incubaid/crakoon/blob/master/src/arakoon....
I think that many people don't consciously note a thing, but it still has an effect upon them.

This does not apply to PG, but sometimes I find myself disliking a speaker but not quite realizing why until hours after the discussion when I can freely introspect and disentangle my emotions.

Simply understanding your own biases, and emotional peeves doesn't make you elitist which is what you seem to be implying by mentioning the "Toastmaster types".
Here's my original paper on the topic in case folks are interested:

http://tomlee.co/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/python-language-...
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iAP is a great way to allow users to try before they buy. Don't confuse iAP with games that fundamentally handicap the game experience unless you continue paying money.
> I wanted to send this to a girl I know for the addiction topic, except you can't send junk like this to girls.

If she's 12 years old, I agree. Otherwise, she's a big girl and doesn't need your paternalistic coddling.
Nonetheless, it's impressive he can even public speak at all given the fact he's a hacker by nature.
Pauses aren't even bad. Pauses give your audience an opportunity to process what you're saying. I've had pauses encouraged to me.
What used to be on desktops, now reappears on smartphones. I remember download managers being all the rage in the age of slow, unreliable connections - which incidentally repeats on smartphones with 3G. If there's a accelerator backend as well, I wouldn't find the claims over-inflated: just don't expect an average speedup of 500%.

IOW, I don't see anything actually looking "spammy" about this.
The 'um's are not the parts that matter.
You are over generalizing by blaming an entire medium. There is very appropriate content for children on iPad and on TV and there is very inappropriate content for children in some books.

Granted, the nature of the medium plays a role, there is probably a much higher likelihood of bad / non-stimulating content on TV than in books. However, given that the iPad can act as a book, it logically follows it should have good content as well.
This is dumb. The fact that one pixel subtends a particular visual angle does not imply that N pixels subtend N times that angle. It should be very plain to anybody implementing or using a rendering engine that pixels are intended to be linearly additive. This implies that N pixels will subtend less than N times the angle one pixel subtends. On a flat screen, this is normal and expected, because a pixel further from the eye will subtend less angle than a pixel closer to the eye.
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So MetricFire has designed their marketing around the "Will It Blend" school? Taking recent hot topics and trying to apply their product to it.
I disagree with the idea that startups are inherently riskier. Sure you may only have 12-18 months of funding, but you also have much greater knowledge of the funding situation going in. Big companies have layoffs all the time, and as an employee you are much more likely to be kept in the dark about the circumstances leading up to them.
I find the ownership of the right to produce food by eg Monsanto way more terrifying.
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This is _not_ how you do this! I stopped reading once I read that line. I can't take anyone serious who does this.
Paying by the hour was proving to be too confusing. We'd rather get people to pay for features and added value, so we moved to a much simpler pricing model!
I am someone who says UM a LOT.

I think and speak very fast - but when I speak in front of others, my physical speaking ability doesnt keep up with my thinking and I end up saying UM a lot.

I watched others speak and never say UM and I just don't know how they do it.
I didn't think he was nervous. That just sounded like his speech pattern. I found it refreshing that he didn't sound like a salesman.
Very distinctive 'Um' indeed. No kidding, I actually Googled 'paul graham um' after about two minutes. However the talk was great and the ways in which pg expressed his ideas was particularly interesting.
I'm trying it out, but I can't seem to get past the "Please type the date and time:". Does anybody know the format that it expects to keep from dropping into the debugger?

I'm assuming that it should be getting the date and time from the network but that doesn't seem to be working either, although I'm not using a dedicated host like in the article. I'll do further exploration on a dedicated machine at a later date.
> We will guess your competitors’ keywords.

Sounds great - but how can I check if it works, before opening a real account?
Exactly. I wrote this as a top level post and then read your post, so decided to post it as a reply here instead:

Imagine your server based app suddenly become instantly copyable and deployable by anyone visiting your site, at no charge to them or you. You launch your latest startup and within 6 hours there are thousands of clones around the world competing with you. This new reality applies to any new web or mobile app you build. That would terrify me.

I agree the method of enforcement and level of influence the industry has on our legislative process is extremely problematic. I don't agree that how industry execs are compensated is relevant.

Intellectual property like the movie Avatar cost money to make and have real value. As consumers we are prepared to exchange money for that value, money which is worth less to us than the value we extract from the product. It's just that the laws of physics have changed and it's no longer possible to exchange one unit of Avatar for X dollars because once the first customer consumes it, it is free for everyone else, in a perfectly efficient piracy market.

I want to live in a world where people spend hundreds of millions of dollars on making movies like Avatar. So rather than telling the industry to just "get with the program, your goods are free like smells now", I'd like to see our community come up with a solution to this very very hard problem. Any takers?
That includes me. Making a pixel not be a pixel is surely one of the great pooch-screws of modern standards. 'pt' existed to be resolution-independent.
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Interested, but contact info not visible by default.

Email at 1stdraft at google's mail service dot com.

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Scarcity (smells on the moon) or lack thereof doesn't alter the principle of value, it varies the scale of value.
This is a common habit for PG. I've seen him speak in person 2-3 times and watched a handful of videos of him, and each time I noticed the amount that he said "um". Obviously the content is valuable and worth listening to, but it is naive to say that these sort of distractions by any speaker are worth overlooking.

Unfortunately, these are distractions from the content, which is what matters. Simple exercises could could help fix the habit with only a few hours of practice.

A trick that helped me in college was to say "uh" or "um" every other word while practicing a speech. This mental trick causes you to be hyper-aware of the habit, thus helping you to subconsciously stop inserting the words into speech. Try it out sometime.
What is wrong with people here? In app purchase doens't have to be gimmicky, and rating with 1 star just because it has iAP is ridiculous. What about kids games that can be expanded on with modules. Do you really want to buy 5 different apps, one for color minigames, one for shapes, etc? Especially when they can all be linked together in one app, holding the child's attention better and providing a better experience?
So you're forming an opinion of a group based on what one source claims that group thinks without having neither evidence nor quotes? Sounds brilliant.
Just like anything else, public speaking is a skill. To do it well requires focused practice. Learn to keep your mind and your mouth at the same pace and be willing to have silence while you think, rather than um, or have something more substantial to come out of your mouth than um.

It isn't easy of course, but any skill worth learning isn't.
It is an error to assume people who pay attention to trees don't understand forests.
The pricing not showing up appears to be a Chrome issue (at least for me).
The fact that artists are getting screwed by publishers is not a justification to screw them harder. I wish people spent more time imagining ways to pay for the arts rather than just coming up with arguments for why it's OK to download a song without paying for it.
So that's two on the list. Any others?
At first I frowned a bit at the no Bukkit support, until I remembered that all of those guys have recently been hired by Mojang :) Eventually the stock server should be just as awesome with super modding support.

Until then, I'm way too tweak-happy and authoritarian to give up my own server.

Looks like a great service for people who just want click and go simplicity though.
Socialist or Libertarian we should just look at the point being made..

Developers don't HAVE to develop for any specific platform.
Corporations don't HAVE to distribute software they don't want.

If you want your applications to be truly 'open' then develop them for the web and don't append a licence.

The reason people are developing for platforms like iOS, is because companies like Apple provide an easy entrance to a massive market. If you want to tread on their turf, you have to play by their rules. And that is fair enough.

If the big corporations are really getting it wrong, then users and developers alike will eventually abandon their platforms for a better one; and life goes on.

If we want to make a change.. then manufacture better espresso machines, design more appealing pods or grow better beans.
Apparently you're not familiar with the signal to noise ratio.
A man is caught speeding by a speed camera; he is sent a picture of the car with his license plate visible, the speed measured and the ticket to pay.

He sends back the police a picture of the money to pay for the ticket.

The police send back a picture again -- this time of handcuffs.

This time, he pays.
> is the browser really the right place for games like Mass Effect?

It's not now, but it will be soon.

The browser is the right place for games where the benefits (arguably: low friction, ease of installation, cross-platform development, everyone knows javascript) justify the costs (arguably: worse performance, lack of client-side storage for large assets, users like owning things, rapidly shifting platform, lack of peripheral access, less sophisticated audio, no UDP).

So in practice, the browser is the right place for games with low enough CPU, graphics, data, and I/O requirements. But that target is moving really fast -- partly because computers keep getting better, and partly because Google et al. are working really hard to squeeze the layers between Javascript and bare metal as thin as possible.

So you could imagine a wavefront following about ten years behind us: the browser is currently the right place for games that would have been state-of-the-art in [2002] or before. Plus or minus ten years.

You might ask, why would we put Mass Effect in the browser even when we could? If I can get really wild-eyed for a minute, I think the answer is that the browser is trying to become Neil Stephenson's Metaverse. It's the place where everyone and everything comes together in one geography. Do apps run on the server or the client? Is content user-generated or developer-generated? Is this a file system or a database? Is the API the product? Is the mobile web just the regular web? We're putting more and more complicated apps on the web because that's where they're linkable, hackable, bookmarkable, tweetable, mashable -- because if you ask me to download your thing and install it on one particular device, it's like asking me to leave the whole world and join you in your private copy, where you guard the entrances and exits and the only stuff is the stuff that you built.

OK, that was pretty nuts. But see if you can make it less nuts rather than shoot it down -- is there something fundamental we're trying to do when we put anything and everything within the frame of the browser?
> I wondered if he was a little nervous, but that didn’t seem likely for someone in his position.

All sorts of people can get nervous speaking in public, including people that are thought of as being 'natural' public speakers like Steve Jobs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzDBiUemCSY) and Sam Harris (http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/the-silent-crowd-overcomi...), as well as billionaires (http://www.quora.com/Peter-Thiel/How-is-Peter-Thiel-so-amazi...) and CEOs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3hu3iG8B2g).
We already treat smells as extremely valuable on earth.

The fragrance industry is worth tens of billions for that reason.
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Music too, if someone in a train has loud headphones. Or, you could hear a band playing a show outside the venue. In a very resourceful world, you could always find a public place where you can overhear the track you want to listen.
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We are working actively on this right now, and should have some updates in the next couple of weeks.

If you can bear with us I am sure you won't be disappointed :)

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When I'm in the office (75-80% of my year), i'm a heavy user of Windows. I cycle between five core apps (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Outlook+Lookout, VMware/VirtualBox) working on RFPs, Technical Architectures, Transition Documents, Reference Designs, etc...

My "travel system" has changed three times in the last 9 years (Macbook Pro, Macbook Pro, MacBook Air) - but my productivity desktop has remained the same - a Dell Precision 650 running windows XP. I'm _already_ looking forward to my fourth laptop (picking up a 2012 thunderbolt MacBookAir - local backups over a thunderbolt connection to a high-speed NAS will make local backups both more likely to happen as well as more painless) On the flip side- my circa Q1 2004 productivity desktop _still_ does pretty much everything I need of it - I don't have any real incentive to request a new machine, or upgrade off of Windows XP.

I'm picking up a new iPad on Friday, but I don't really see how Windows 8/Metro is going to be a useful replacement for my fairly optimized Windows XP experience. Eventually the Precision 650 is going to break - and I'll probably upgrade to Windows 7 + whatever dell desktop will last me another 10 years, but I agree 100% with the parent - Mobile/Tablets/Laptops still have 2.5-3.5 year lifespan, desktops have moved into the 4-6 year rotation in the enterprise (And, in my case, even longer)

As the world becomes more mobile, and desktops continue to extend their life, we'll see even more transition of leadership (and profit) to those vendors who focus on the "Mobile Experience" - that's what's driving Microsoft to Metro - not because they believe it will enhance our desktop experience (it really, really won't) - but because it's where the market is moving.
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So like it doesn't matter if your writing or speaking skills aren't so great because content matters more than having really polished structure and delivery people can see the forest for the trees.

Personally I don't understand y some peopl get all uppity if there's an occasional spelling error or grammatical problem, I mean, they know what I want to say, so that's all that matters am i right? I think those "toastmasters types" who spend a little time practicing their techniques are just the equivalent of grammarnazis and they're just idiots who can't see the forest for the trees.

If I'm sayingsmart things it doesn't matter how I say them.
I have an uncle who is a scientist. He speaks very slowly. And he leaves long pauses between his sentences. The reason for that is that he actually thinks through what he says. There is relatively little 'signal', but the value of what he says is large enough to make up for the low bitrate.
The $99 is not so much the limiting reagent... South Africa doesn't mean poor BTW :) its just the barrier to entry that is a tad high for an income-less High School student.
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You're arguing on semantics. Anarchy has been split up into sub groups specifically because it can be taken to mean multiple things. Now there are Anarcho-capitalists (American Libertarians), Anarcho-socialists, Anarcho-syndicalism, etc.
As someone who's not a great speaker, it's always disconcerted me a bit about the disproportionate weight we (myself included) place on the manner in which a message is presented.

PG's a great thinker about the subjects he discusses, and his essays have a very high signal to noise ratio. But when this video was first posted the 'umms' was one of the top comment, and probably detracted quite a bit from the core message he was conveying. Had this been an essay, I suspect the reception would have been more positive.

Conversely, if you re-read the TSA blog response which we all ridiculed, it was actually an EXCELLENT response for a TV news journal format (think O'Reilly or Anderson Cooper). He dodged the issue, obfuscated a bit, threw in a few quips, and ended the blog post addressing a completely different issue. If the TSA rep had gave that response on TV, many people would have perceived the TSA to have 'won' the argument. But because it was in written format, we were all free to dissect for the actual content, and we came away underwhelmed.

REALLY good speakers have an almost magical ability to enchant audiences even if they're not saying anything of importance. Probably the best public speaker I've ever seen was a preacher who when I parsed for content wasn't saying much. A close second was a Yale undergrad years ago doing a debate competition about some trivial topic I can't even recall. I do remember the impression he left though, and thinking this guy was good enough to temporarily convince me that the sun revolved around the earth.
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