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Yes I am a senior in college and some people don't like the way I type. That is one of my fears that I will get a grammer nazi who cares how things are typed or a boss at a startup thats a jerk. Without a degree it would be difficult to find someone else. I'm not sure how a degree would make my grammar any more align with ideal north american lexicon, but it would give me better flexibility to quit a company.
Sure so for the load monitoring they had a set of tools that where required to generate a new access solution, what this did was two things it set up logging and it would link the access front end to a Oracle backend, so they where really solutioning their data in a centralized DB as opposed to the Access database, but for the most part the users did not know or care.

I don't remember the exact load volume but once the logging hit a specific load volume that was when they app would be sent to development for an enterprise solution. monitoring the load happens via tracking the users that connected to the oracle instance and the application id that they where connecting with, also the amount of time used was tracked. Once the app passed the load tripwire we would look at the functionality of the app, turn each discreet piece of functionality into a service on our ESB and wire the access UI to the services, also views would be created in the DB to isolate the data structure that the users created away from the services being created. from here we delivered 1.0, which is basically the same app but now the all of the functionality is delivered via services and available to the wider enterprise, what would happen after this is that the developers would start to refine the data structure and clean it up, refining out duplicate data constructs and utilizing existing functionality where available. As well, a web UI would be developed an eventually the whole solution would be delivered via web technologies.

Now as for the revenue tripwire that was more of a mix of accounting and other variables they measured the amount of people that used the system to the revenue it generated, and based on a formula they would deem it critical, then same process would take place. If a system tracked the revenue that it generated, which most did, we would simply wire their Access solution to the revenue reporting service on the ESB and it would be automated, for systems that did not track their revenue, we would either try to develop a way in solution to track it, or the group would be responsible for reporting it. IF it was a pure cost center, they generally waited for the load tripwire.
But Puerto Rico has been given the chance to become a state, and they always vote it down. So it's not like they entirely don't have a say.
One of the suggestions that was worthy of a reply was that it's some derivative of Mosquito Lisp.
Whoa, that's awesome. I really appreciate the sentiment, thank you so much.
Things like this already happen.

If you own a Nissan GT-R and bring it to Japan, it's capped at a top speed of 111mph. Using GPS, the car knows if you're at a racetrack, and then the speed limiter is bumped (or removed, I forget).

Also, if you "own" a Ferrari FXX you truly have no say over it. You're essentially paying to drive it. Ferrari holds onto the car for you and you can only drive it at approved race tracks.
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>these points make him appear as an avaricious 10 year old who deserves anything he wants.

Pretty much exactly what I was thinking. I give him credit for his honesty, but holy cow man.

Starting off with the car rental analogy was strange. If he wanted to prove his point, he should have said "every time I need a rental car I steal one".

But after starting off with "I called the rental company to voice my displeasure" (paraphrased), he then goes on to describe completely different behavior for online property where he just steals it instead of calling and complaining.

To me this comes off as the ranting of a lunatic who can't see how his own argument fails the sniff test right off the bat.

There is simply no reason to steal this stuff anymore. All the music you want is $10 a month. All the movies are $8 a month. Both are available on just about any device you own. It's not the year 2000 anymore.

All that said, I have no love for how these industries are lobbing to impose more draconian laws to combat a problem that is already illegal. Their IP is protected without new laws. They should work with the tools they have.
Read the articles. Studies were done double blind. There is no placebo effect.
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Why? Because Google maps is no longer in a position of inertia. Now if you require mapping functionality you'll perform some kind of due diligence based on requirements and constraints.
The app looks very neat... A pity I use more my iTouch than my iPad for calendaring (which is not very often), and that it's a 2nd Gen iPod: no iOS5, no downloading. Maybe when I buy a new one...
> When he sees albums from bands he liked, he buys those.

There's a wrinkle here, though. He talks about downloading three albums from an artist he never heard of before, and finding that he liked them. Then when he sees a fourth album on Amazon, he buys it. But he never went back and bought the three albums he had downloaded.

To me, that's where he crosses the line. I'm willing to accept the general idea that he ought to be able to preview content for free. But if he likes it, and it's for sale, he's on his honor to go back and buy what he likes.

And not just because it's the right thing to do; failing to do this is also stupid, by the author's own criteria. Look at it from the point of view of the artist: there's a customer out there who likes four of his albums but who has only paid for one. So the artist is only getting one-fourth of the economic feedback he should be getting to create more content. In other words, in his haste to make sure he doesn't reward content distributors who do things he doesn't like, this author is missing opportunities to reward content creators who do things he likes.
Awesome that someone is doing this however I have to say the parts involved are only worth about $10 so $99 is a bit nuts. Someone should just post the plans and the parts list with instructions and anyone can build one of these safely in a couple hours.
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I agree, fairness over politeness. I would say honesty over politeness as well. That isn't to say you shouldn't be polite; just realize that sometimes your decisions are going to hurt people no matter how nicely you put it.
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> If it was such a terrible deal then why would content creators sign up for it in the first place?

For the same reasons a lot of people sign up for terrible deals. E.g.:

* They believe they have no choice,
* The dealmaker says: no, it's really a great deal,
* They are naive,
* They are desperate,
* They believe they'll be the 1 in 100 who does better,
* The dealmaker promises more than is delivered,
* Information asymmetry,
* Etc, etc, etc.

It's different than VC investment, and especially different than regular investment, in that publishers control much more of the playing field. Also, to get VC money you generally have to have a reasonable understanding of business. That's definitely not true of writers and musicians, which would make them much easier to take advantage of.
Interesting article, and there's a lot to think about here for people involved in media creation (like me).

Two minor but related points, however:

1) It's important to realise that when you say "here's how you get me to give you money: do X, Y and Z thing and sell at price P", you are in fact offering the content industries a choice.

You are not saying "if you don't, no-one will buy your product." You're saying "If you don't, people like me won't buy your product - so do you want to make movies/books/games for people like me?"

Speaking as a content creator in both text and video, one of the major aspects I consider when planning a project is the target audience, and how much money they feel comfortable spending. An audience that is willing to spend a lot of money (say, partner-level accountants) is, all else being equal, a lot more likely to get the green light than an audience that isn't (free culture anarchists).

That means if you're not willing to pay much money for a product, and no-one else like you is either, stuff that's of interest to you is less likely to get made. Making a product for an audience that might love it, but won't pay, is a rookie mistake, and most producers learn from it the first time and don't do it again.

So if you want stuff that speaks to you, features characters like you in sympathetic roles, and talks about how you experience the world, being willing to spend more money on it actively increases the chances it'll get made.

(Why do you think there are so many "family-friendly" movies made every year? Because that's a demographic that buys.)

2) When you say "A DVD / game / book should cost X", you either a:

a) are able to describe in detail the target audience, including demographic information, likely points of contact and awareness routes, and of course size, purchasing budget and likely penetration for the media product in question, and also produce a line-item budget for creating the entire piece of work, including marketing budget, professional fees, and so on, that an expert in the field would find plausible,

or

b) Are talking out of your arse.

Media pricing is more complicated than "Well, I'm only willing to pay $5 for a game, so game developers should just make them cheaper." or even "Well, paperback books cost $7 and most of that must be printing and distribution costs."
Only if you're primed by your culture to blanch at transhumanism.

I think they meant the stigma of "cheating" or somehow getting something without working for it. I think you're right though.
That would have made this utterly brilliant and changed the entire meaning of the clip. Or maybe it was subtly implied.
1. yes, although that gave us some advantages as well.

2. not for our core loopt app.

3. i think in general location services have lost some luster over the last 12/18 months, but i also think a lot of the things that we've been doing--real-time deals, loyalty offers, etc are generating a lot of interest among users and we'll hopefully be able to take that to the next level at green dot.
I think a lot is happening with startups that service businesses. Stripe and Recurly in the payment processing space for example.

I'm sure there are thousands of startups trying to disrupt industries that aren't consumer facing so you might not be aware of them.

Also, the term startup is thrown around here a lot. There are a lot of startups outside of the web space. (Of course I prefer the term small company to the term startup.)
some backstory..beware personal opinion

I had the opportunity to interview with Loopt sometime ago, right when they in fact did the name change to Loopt.

My read than was that they in long term terms were going to fail as certain constraints to do things were not in their best interests...at that time it was Mobile Operator limits..tie-=ups

Its a sad thing as current deal looks to be only based on patents values..not what Sam's team put into it..
The demo (http://webdesignerwall.com/demo/css-social-buttons/) looks great but a button is pretty useless without an :active (pressed) state. Would be nice if it was built-in.

There are some pressed classes defined but I don't think you can dynamically add them when the button is :active through CSS only.
Let's say that there are many wealthy buyers who can easily afford to buy a Porsche. However, Porsche sets up a dozen dealerships in remote corners of the desert, each separated by miles of dirt road. Each dealership has a couple of models, but does not readily publish what you'll find at each dealership. If you manage to find the dealership carrying the Porsche you want, you have to use Western Union to wire transfer money to the company before you can take possession of the car. Finally, if the dealership you bought the car from goes out of business or loses their contract with Porsche, your car disappears overnight without notice.

I can't afford to buy a Porsche, but I am both willing and able to buy content. However, I often spend 15-20 minutes looking at the various online outlets for a particular movie or television show, credit card in hand, and find that Amazon (or Ebay if it's out of print) is my only option. I know Hulu, Netflix, iTunes, and Amazon Instant would love to sell me that media - it's the content owners who prevent me from giving them money.
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Without. I think the current increased beyond what I measured while testing because I started to sweat. v0.02 will have some substantial design changes.
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I'm still on the fence about sync. There are a lot of good reasons not to; besides intentionally not including it for the sake of compartmentalizing functionality, it would be a pain in the ass to make it work with the UI and UX of the app. Exporting events would be simple (in fact, data exporting will be coming soon, just to an email or text file if nothing else - data portability!), but importing existing events would be a disaster. I'd have to massacre any overlapping events.

But, I'm intentionally leaving that door open, simply because I'm willing to at least consider any user requests. Maybe there's a place for it, we'll see how things grow.
It's a bit long, why not just write "I pirate because I can get away with it"?
Why the intro about car rentals - did you start joyriding their cars instead of taking your business elsewhere? I highly doubt this. You would not do this because there is a chance you'll get caught and punished.
> I have to assume that if DARPA is using it to train snipers, they know it works

This keeps getting thrown around but I'm having a hard time identifying a good source (other than a bunch of blogs repeating the same 'fact'). The best I can do is this set of slides which claim 'a 2.1x improvement' [1], but no confirmation that it's actually in use.

The brain is very poorly understood, and throwing random electrical fields across it "because I saw it on extremetech" is a terrible idea.

[1] http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2008intell/kruse.pdf
All is Full of Love is probably the most amazing music video I have ever seen. The lens flares in the end of Kara leave no doubt that this is a huge nod to Björk.
Someone as entitled as this fellow, who thinks he should basically be able to pay whatever he wants without taking into account development costs, market factors, desired profits from the people that actually did the work, etc... will probably never provide you much of a profit.

Disclaimer: Not arguing 'for' DRM or copyright or anything of that nature, just don't like this guy or his flimsy arguments.
Absolutely. Once the device has been tested to our satisfaction, a full schematic and parts list will be published for the solder junkies out there. Free of charge.

The $99 kit is a solderless, and no tools necessary setup.

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Looking to setup a happy hour either tonight or tomorrow for hackers and entrepreneurs. Reply here or email at adam (a)t socialfortress com if you're interested.
Oh lord! I remember these unibody terminals. I had to use the Volker-Craig VC4404 . That thing was built like a tank. You had to hammer at the keys with great force. Soon one got into the habit of hammering on the keys all the time.

And then one day I walked into the lab with shiny new VT-100 terminals with their soft keys; but started hammering on them by habit. And everybody turned around and looked at me as if I was possessed..... :-D
"They found that, paradoxically, low self-esteem participants' moods fared better when they were allowed to have negative thoughts than when they were asked to focus exclusively on affirmative thoughts."

Seems like a pretty big flaw in that experiment - being forced to think one way or another is bound to make you feel like crap.

The motivational videos/speeches I linked didn't force anyone into anything. They tell you stuff in an ever more passionate way, so that it scoops you up and makes your passions run high.

It's actually a trick used by a lot of speeches where the aim is to rile up a crowd. King's "I have a dream" speech is very similar in this regard.
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You don't sell enough e-goods then or you would have gotten them.
Another idea: log which windows are open and whitch one is active:

http://darcs.nomeata.de/arbtt/doc/users_guide/
And what about using font-face with an icon-based font?
Regulator is a must. Be careful man, skin grafts es no bueno. A simple timer that shuts the current off after a set time is smart as well.

Good luck though!
Linus is very consistent when it comes to these things. A similar thread from a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2372096
I'm excited about the chance to get in on secondary markets as a way to get started into the start up investing game. So I hope that it does.
I like it. Solving Project Management pains is hard. There are way too many tools that don't work. I like your approach - having a very fast interface to add and move items makes a significant different.

That being said, how do you intend to be different from Trello?
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Chartbeat looks awesome! Definitely going to give it a look.
The tech is over 40 years old actually. Tons of research out there if you've got some free time.
Wow, thanks for sharing this. I really thought it was for efficiency. (Well, it is also, obviously).
raising debt to pay a dividend back to investors is more common than not amongst the LBO funds. it makes sense if you have a steady and decent income stream, it is a bit like drawing down on equity in your house in order to take a holiday, except the rates are much better (when people complain about this, I am not really sure what they want to be done about it)

the VCs of silicon valley are very far away from the Wall St type of private equity (although they are becoming closer with the secondary markets now opened up - it used to be that your vc investors were in all the way until the exit)

as for Sequoia, it is pretty well known that the top tier VCs look after their own. Look through the Sequoia history and you won't find very many outright failures, it is a reason why entrepreneurs choose to work with them. I very much doubt Moritz can 'make' Green Dot do the deal, but I am pretty sure he put it all together - it is more a testament to his/their dealmaking abilities than any leverage he would have as a minority shareholder and director in a public company.
> Any C/C++ application built with Visual Studio 2010 won't run on Windows 2000 or XP prior to SP3.

By default you can't but you can adjust the build settings and it works fine.
I vote subtly implied. The disassembly stopped at the exact point she expressed she was frightened. The "My God" at the end I interpreted as "we've done it", as in created self-aware AI with a survival instinct.

The other explanation, that a single operator has the authority to release a one-off self-aware super-being into the wild without considering the implications of such a decision and without oversight feels harder to swallow.
The gun shop analogy is totally flawed. It's more like a newsletter about how to get away with murder. Except instead of a newsletter it's a website. And instead of murder it's copying things and giving them away for free.
Here's some related issues:

- I can download a videogame from a private torrent tracker faster than I can download it from most download services even like steam.

- I usually know what movie I want to watch from the overhyped commercials. Given that I can find and download it, transfer it to my PS3 and watch it faster than I can find it, purchase it, download it, figure out how to play it on my TV via copyright protection which entails either some sort of encryption or inability to copy the file. Basically the pirate way is EASIER, more convenient, and no-risk. God help me if I buy a movie (for a ton of cash mind you) and don't like it. Return? HA!

- My TV is huge, ok I had it for 5 years now, and with all that I don't think 13/person going to the movies + popcorn and BS is worth it. I get the same experience at home, but FASTER and more convenient via piracy. Takeaway: Movies are ridiculously overpriced at this point.

- Using piracy, I am able to play games with ZERO DRM HEADACHES. No CDs in my drive. I don't have to be online to play. I don't have to install security holes into my computer. Piracy is safer than legitimate purchases.

- On the video game note: Video games are now going for 60 bucks!!! That's a commitment. If the game sucks, I'm out 60 f-ing bucks. Oh and downloading a demo takes as much time as pirating the whole damn game, more time actually. Worse are the freaken' sales. I feel like the game was hyped up to me, I want to play it, but in 10 days the price will drop by 20 bucks, ugh dilemma... piracy is easier.
Works now.
Interesting. Are there any hotkeys? I think it would be nice to move an item via Ctrl + left. Also some colors for priorities..?
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>there's no marginal cost to the producer of a digital good when somebody pirates.

The factory loses nothing either if I'm giving them money for some parts that they happened to buy. I don't feel the time they spent manufacturing these materials is worth anything, just like how this guy thinks the time a movie studio spent editing their films or audio isn't worth anything.

When the movie studio filmed a bunch of scenes, the raw film is useless alone until it was edited. Likewise, the parts are useless until they were machined and assembled together.

Both have overhead in the processes. One may be more than the other, but the underlying principle is the same.
I was at least waiting them to imply it somehow too, but she was obviously different from others when she was in the box. idk