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As a matter of fact, so did I, how interesting! I started web development a few years back running a little site providing anime, however, I had to close it down because it got too popular and there were a lot of DMCA complaints and such, I was one of the main competitors of Crunchyroll, but I guess Shinji took the legal initiative before I did.
Lol :-) I didn't say umms are bad. I said cutting them out can be good. If you're looking to improve then that's one something (one of many) you might seek to address.

Another might be how you make a statement. The one you made here is positional. It's positional in that I feel you're trying to push me into telling you you're right.

I may well be wrong, but that's what I feel when I read your comment above.

So another something one might improve, in addition to eliminating umms, is to move from a positional stance to a principled stance. [START Starship Trooper voice] Would you like to know more?[END Starship Trooper voice] :-)
I guess design things happen on dribbble before HN.

http://dribbble.com/shots/423934-This-Means-Markdown
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What a pity. I wonder if they'll return to publishing when it becomes cheaper to print iPad-like devices in the near future?

I personally believe that EB had a place in the world. For example, I'd happily pay a few thousand Euro's/$/Pounds for "the complete, historical Encyclopaedia Britannica" that contains every single release of EB back to the beginning. The context of historical discovery that would provide would be amazing.

Of course, it'd have to be digital.

(Disclaimer: I collect old dictionaries for the same reason: culture context as things change over the decades..)
Obtainable but challenging products I would pay for:

Transportation:

1. A two-seat, 80+ mi/charge, <= $5,000, autonomous EV. Should be simple and modular enough for self-assembly (basically Ikea for EVs). Insurance for this would be next to nothing.

The following should be franchises in every city that matters:

2. Co-working space, learning space, and living space franchises for <= $5/day each per customer.

3. A vertical, autonomous farm franchise for <= $5/day per customer.

4. An autonomous, scalable manufacturer-as-a-service with a simple API (like Heroku for manufacturing).

Web services, Hardware, and Software:

5. Email will change, but not on a deep technical level. The winning service will just let its users do everything they wish they could with email now but can't. If such an email service were created, it would replace most social apps/services and affect the rest profoundly.

6. I don't think we need another Steve Jobs--but a few more PGs wouldn't hurt.

7. A way to prevent talent acquisitions and to encourage entrepreneurship in a broader population outside of tech. The economy could definitely be more distributed and diversified than it is today.

8. An inexpensive OS and accompanying tablet tested and proven to work for old people. If any demographic needs the power and grace of the internet, it's old people. The interface and functionality should adapt automagically as you get older.

9. A subscription based service for the EV I mentioned earlier.

10. A web service that creates DRM/copyright free songs based on songs you like.

11. Every time I say this I get down-voted but I would like a search engine as good as Google, but lets you explore a realtime graph of anonymous or aliased queries passively or actively; collaborative searching would definitely be a feature. This solves "A New Search Engine" and "Internet Drama" at the same time.

12. Replace the FDA.
Perhaps more interesting:

http://dribbble.com/shots/423934-This-Means-Markdown/rebound...
Maybe I'm getting old but reading this preaching for the choir is getting me frustrated. Like all groups of engineers you put in a room will make a disruptive technology. Maybe it just burns corporate money without reaching anything.

What disruptive technology came from google's 20%? Companies make a shift from some hackers to a big corporation where you have to report to shareholders: Hey shareholders we are going to burn a lot of money and we hope to invent the next ipod, facebook, … Or maybe not. But’s not our money so let’s do it.
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Why is that? High density living is inherently FAR MORE environmentally friendly than low density suburban living.

No daily commuting. Small rooms, relatively efficient hvac. The only downsides are generating power/water locally (using diesels) and fuel for boats to/from (I really doubt they'll use helicopters much; they're really expensive, especially to operate over water). So probably somewhat more environmentally friendly than a similar number of people distributed across the Bay Area, but less efficient than everyone living in a Yscraper.
> However allow me to share some of the Go authors' thoughts about generics:

While forgetting Go has blessed in-runtime generic types because it turns out you really need generics.
In fact, I only made this a more serious project because of the response I received on Dribbble.
> Some of your points are not really fair:

Go also has generics, they just are not available to lowly peons writing new Go types.
>What disruptive technology came from google's 20%?

gmail, it disrupted the entire email market (both free and for pay email hosting).
This is just marketing.

Any language with modules is equally fast, only languages the use the C #includes mechanism are slow, because each #include needs to be imported and processed each time it is seen.

Turbo Pascal, Modula and Ada compilers were already running circles around C compilers back in the day.
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So he complains about advertising and then he complains when they try to make a more honest living with app engine. At the end of the article you would conclude that this guy has had enough of rampant commercialism and was off to joing something like MSF. But it turns out to be MSFT. I know its harsh to say it but the guy comes across as a spoiled child.
I'm not sure i'd want to be on a boat full of programmers and entrepreneurs. Just imagine the sort of arguments one could get yourself into.

Also how will order be enforced? One cannot assume everyone will be nice and benevolent. What happens in a medical emergency, can you get to the nearest hospital in time (assuming the onboard facilities are insufficient)? The lead programmer just fell overboard during a storm, what happens?
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Shades of Stephenson'ian dystopic vision pierce my subconscious. I hope nobody ends up "listening to Reason" out there on those woolly waves.

Seriously though, wouldn't this be considered "economic terrorism" by the US Gov't, eventually, if it does well?
This is really like the movie Good Morning England: http://www.imdb.fr/title/tt1131729/ in theory as well as in execution.

It seems the timeframe is very optimistic (1 year to find a boat and adapt it??) but if it works it will change the world.
"My" book isn't particularly resilient, it's just the oldest one I've got at home. It was covered in mud, maybe that's why it was the only one not stolen from a very old family house of ours. After all that abuse, it still works, and as a passive device, has needed no energy to keep its contents for 370 years without any change in format or computing platform able to read it every other decade or so. Try any decent library, very old books use to be in the basement, you'd be amazed.
It's a bit embarrassing having to remind you that at least before the 1990s people used old books. Most of the Archives have survived without any special care for centuries (this one is a great example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo_de_Indias). Of course, they didn't use toner neither chlorine bleached paper.

> We all know that paper is sensible (...)

"My point exactly".
First of all, this certainly sounds like an interesting idea, regardless of whether or not it comes to fruition.

However, I don't know him personally, but everything I've ever read that was written by Peter Thiel had a really obnoxious tone. Assuming he's like that in real life (and it's possible he isn't), I can't imagine people wanting to be stuck on a boat with him. I'm dead serious. If he's just backing the project financially, I could really see it working. But if he's making appearances, his writing really makes him sound like the most arrogant SOB you could ever meet. I really could see this project failing if one too many stressed out entrepreneurs living in close quarters got into a yelling match with him.
Although it is true there are security problems, it is silly to think that is something unique for flash. WebGl is probably the most insecure plugin right now, largely because there is no one company responsible for upgrading it. Although there are problems with flash, Adobe seem to have high priority on patching it. canvas/webGl/SVG can't deliver yet.
Perfect. What is there more to say, really?
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Heck, why not just have a graudate scheme.
So, the big sale here is the 30 minutes to... the shore of Santa Cruz? From there to Palo Alto is another hour (or more)? Unless they mean the Ano Nuevo Bay, which you'd have to drive even longer to get into the valley.

The real cultural wins they talk about in this slide deck don't come from the formal interactions planned ahead, but the random ones. The other day I was having an americano while doing some research in a cafe I'd never been to, and I accidentally got into a conversation with someone I'd never met before about writing compilers, changing python syntax for domain specific VM performance, and our favorite keyboards. The conversation has sparked at least a week of creativity and thought.

Anyone who's worked in technology outside of Silicon Valley (RTP, what up!) knows just how amazingly drastic the difference is. You're not going to be able to co-opt it on a boat 1.5-2 hours away.

But maybe they will. I'm going to bet against this, but I hope I lose my money. Success being a function of birthplace and parental wealth/race is a tragedy.
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Fully virtualized payment processing exists: Bitcoin. In fact, the decentralized and independent currency fits very well the philosophy of micronations like Sealand: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=8475.0
"M" could stand for almost anything, and the bold style reminds me more of a "Metro is that way" than "Markdown below". On the other hand this one http://dribbble.com/shots/424394-Markdown looks much more self-explaining.
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If everyone earns a living wage by default, the consequence might be too many people living off the work of others. It may not be sustainable.

Maybe in practice, it will, but it's bound to generate animosity by those who do sell their labor.
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But I think at some point the operating committee at Google looked at monetization of all the things Google has done and if you included search advertising the in the bar graph everything else looked like zero. And you ask yourself "We've got all these smart people doing all these projects and not a single one even comes CLOSE to the income that search advertising does? Give me one good reason I shouldn't just fire all of them?"

Funny nobody mentioned until now, but from what I've read, that's what happened to Yahoo. Apparently years ago they were so successful with the ads on their "portal" that not much more could matter. Maybe somebody has good links at hand? The similarities seem to be really big.
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You can upload all your pics from your phone to facebook with a couple of clicks from the Android Gallery app. A lock in would be if you were not allowed to, or at least if they went out of their way to make that harder for you. But instead they go out of their way to put the share button and inter-app communication (intents) to allow you to easily share your pics with third parties.

I understand your frustration, and I too would like some kind of API to let us better control auto-upload. But "lock in" seems a bit of a stretch. You're asking to go out of their way, again, to better support competitors. When there's already a lot of support for them in place.
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Project looks really exciting, Dcurtis.

My question is on the adoption on text based interfaces, like HN input. Using html entities &hellip; ...

Html entities save a better explicit defination in web.
Image rendering will get you there, building another context will definitely ease adoption.
What do you think?
re: the iPhone and iPad trademark disputes; they arose because Apple launched their product without bothering to secure the trademarks first. In the Cisco case, they were a legitimate competitor (producing and marketing telephones in the United States) and Apple really didn't have any right to the name. The other one is a dispute over how Apple can market the iPad in China; no change in US law is going to affect that.

Making people pay taxes on the value of their reputation, which is what this sort of trademark tax would be, doesn't sit right with me. Economically, it probably works fine.

For patent litigation, one problem is that legal costs can drive most small companies out of business before they ever get a judgement. Even if they would have won the case, they don't have the resources to make it to the finish. This is a problem for all kinds of civil cases, but I haven't thought about it enough to have a viable stance.

The problem with submarine patents is that even with a good-faith patent search, you're likely to miss some relevant ones. They are deliberately written to be as broad and hard-to-understand as possible; the only way to be reasonably sure that you're not infringing is to be an expert on all the patents that are currently in force.
There are a few lessons in there for a few tech companies as well I think. If your customers don't trust you then they will leave. OR not begin using you in the first place.

However big you are supporting your customers and being contactable when there are problems is an essential cost of business.
And that is a problem?
Half Moon Bay to Palo Alto is about 30 minutes (without traffic). The whole trip would be a little longer than from SF.
This is really sad.

No, no the whole idea about building a floating incubator. It's the fact that immigrant & visa laws are so ridiculously outlandish that it's perfectly conceivable to devise an elaborate and expensive "hacks" to circumvent them. Along with IP, this is probably the most visible area where U.S. law is stiffing innovation rather than fostering it.
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How is being able to personalise a web page innovative? It's just basic common sense. You've been able to "personalise" the desktop on your computer for decades. How does moving things to the web suddenly make it innovative. It's just like all the silly patents that have been filed that take an existing patent and just add "on a mobile device" to the end.

The patent system is broken, these are not the reasons it was created!
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I need attach a few hard drives from another machine which are SATA and my question is, while the computer is powered from molex, can I also plug my SATA PSU into the hard drive, with a SATA cable to my motherboard, and power it that way?
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Digital data has the potential, yes, but unless you take continuous action, it suffers from many of the same environmental factors that affects storage of paper, and it is far more prone to losing content from minor errors.

On another forum I follow, someone has spent weeks trying to piece together data from a single 880KB Amiga formatted floppy from 20 years ago...

The reality is that we are notoriously bad at safeguarding digital data. Tons of data has no real backups.

The potential doesn't help us when it doesn't match reality.
This was a interesting read! Thanks for sharing!
I wonder if there is something like this that speaks to manga.
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I'd rephrase this: "Social is the more general form of PageRank". If you think about PageRank in it's original form, it harnessed a social signal (linking to a site) to provide better search results. Degrees of pages in the graph-of-all-pages are easily-machine-readable manifestations of social signals.
I am having trouble with the specification: it is defined in terms of "the M glyph", but a glyph is not a graphic. Does the specification fix a particular font?
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I don't understand these guys (and girls?). The language sounds like Oracle or SAP talking about migrating WalMart to a new inventory management system. If "porting code is relatively straightforward" it would be a good idea to get that port done and let people decide for themselves when to use the new version.

I don't understand what makes phraseology like this useful to anyone but a corporate lawyer: "the Django project is and will remain committed to achieving Python 3 compatibility"

Yes, I know, I'm not supposed to talk like this about work being done by volunteers free of charge. It's of course their right to do whatever they like. My anger is more about the Python 3 migration going off the rails in a way that poses an existential threat to my favorite programming language. Django isn't helping at all to say the least.
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It's also been pushed to App Engine: http://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts/browse_thread/thr...
Django's conservatism in this regard doesn't really impact on application developers building on top of Django.

Usual practice is to use virtualenv which allows for an up to date python on OSes with an ancient system python.
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I know a lot of people who have left Goldman, etc. in the past few months, specifically for tech jobs. It's because 2011 bonuses were utter crap. (and it is toxic I'm sure, but the $ was the main thing)
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It is perfectly possible to use a deployment-specific version of Python, just like it is with Ruby. But there are organizations where using old technology is (unfortunately) the status quo. This means Django gives you the possibility of still running it in these environments. Hell, there's loads of companies using older versions of Windows and IE. Is it optimal? No, but that's something bureaucracy tends to do.

I am not trying to say Django is a better framework better for making this decision, but it is a decision that makes sense in the Python context, which is careful about breaking backwards compatibility. There's no reason to stop a developer who has that choice to work with Python 2.7 though (this is actually recommended in the FAQ). There is no need to touch the system's Python to do that.
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You can do this in Python with virtualenv. Which makes you wonder why Django doesn't use say "Always use virtualenv"?!
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Python 2.4 seem to still be a version you can find on "recent" system, like CentOS 5. So it made sense to be compatible with it, don't you think ? And RoR was conservatively still working with ruby 1.8 too...
I know not of any equivalent of rbenv for python, but I've not looked after, so here we are.
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At first glance, the second one might appear to be a better mark. However, if you don't know what it stands for, or that the top part of it is an M, the graphic is just an ordinary arrow. It doesn't accomplish the primary goal of the design.

It definitely looks nice, though.
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