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Whatever happened to Mz: I am currently homeless and have been since December 31st. So I haven't been posting much. I am trying to declare bankruptcy and trying to figure out some means to support myself that won't help keep me sick. It has long been my goal to develop an online income but that never panned out. Working full time in an industrial park and battling my health issues left too little time, energy and mental focus for working that out on the side. Plus it appears to me that no one takes my current sites seriously. I have been repeatedly told by people on HN that they "aren't commercial" and cannot be monetized.

I do have a posterous account. I am not aware of any means to monetize a posterous site. I would like to ultimately figure out a means to make money online. I am seriously considering not bothering to back up my current sites and trying to make a fresh start online. The CF community mostly is not interested in knowing what I did and basically thinks I am an egomaniac, charlatan and snake oil salesman. I don't mind helping people but it has helped very few people, left me feeling abused and is not making money. Without an audience, I do not know what to write about. Without new content going up, there is nothing to attract traffic. I do not know how to overcome that issue given the open hostility with which the CF community has long treated me. Now that I am homeless, I can no longer afford my self sacrificing idealism. I need to sort out my financial problems. I wish it weren't so. But I just cannot do this anymore.

Thanks for the info. I will follow up on it and see if I can get some new project(s) launched and maybe even figure out how to make money online.

Peace.
Smashing Magazine ran an article in 2009 exploring a Craigslist redesign. The author focuses on improving aspects like the login process, account management, nagation, and visual appeal. It's an interesting read from a UX designer who has considered the usability aspects of the site and suggests more than style tweaks. While I appreciate Craigslist's uncompromising text-heavy approach, the ease of use sometimes leaves much to be desired.

http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/11/redesigning-...
Who said they want to add those things? The website hasn't been changed in a long time, and it does resemble designs more common several years ago.

I think there are lots of ways an update could worsen craig's list, but there are also a lot of ways an update could make it better.
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The proposed bulleted list has its merits, BUT I think that AWS' current selling line (about lower TCO) is quite good at gathering support from those that might (still) judge things in the traditional terms of ROI. SO, the choice might be deliberate?
If ARPANET failed then some other network would have evolved into the internet. Its not like networking technology was unknown outside of the military, heck most advances in networking and CS happen in universities, not via defense contracts.

Heck, the French had Minitel in the 80s while we had a loose network of BBS's and to be frank it wasn't the lack of network technologies that was the problem back then, it was the lack of a killer app. TBL delivered that in the form of the WWW. The WWW is network agnostic. There wasn't a day when people went "Whoa, T1s are now affordable for my LEC to sell to my ISP, I better get a shell account pronto!" It was "Whoa, there's email and colors and pictures and text and even video on my computer's modem via this thing called the web I'm seeing advertised on movie trailers and on product packaging?!?!"
I locked the question because it was deleted by community vote. If I hadn't undeleted and locked, it wouldn't be visible at all. Just proves you don't know what you're talking about. I haven't attacked anyone here.
Fortunately, Libertarianism is far more mainstream now, even if the Ron Paul movement has managed to dilute it to some extent.

I think that may be inherent to making anything more mainstream. It's useful to have people who remain attached to the core ideology of a movement, but getting things done generally requires working with other people. If the Ron Paul movement brings a bunch of people to libertarianism then other libertarians should support it, even if Ron Paul is pretty far from their idea of the ideal libertarian candidate.

I'm the creator and moderator of /r/ronpaul. In my observation, the idea of voting based on quality rather than agreement is entirely absent from larger political subreddits. People vote to promote their side and are particularly likely to vote that way in a fight that has degenerated in to name calling when the ideal situation would be downvotes for all involved.
Great! Would gladly test it!
I like to take advantage of a coincidence in units to visualize interstellar distances.

1 mile is 63,360 inches.
1 light year is almost 63,250 Astronomical Units.

So if you scale everything down by a factor of 6 trillion, Terra would be an inch from Sol and Alpha Centauri would be 4 miles away. Voyager 1 would be 120 inches away, travelling at 3.5 inches per year.
What I don't understand about U of F's decision is that computing is like mathematics in that it's a basic competency necessary for competence in many other disciplines. Shouldn't the graduates of the school's "Design, Construction, and Planning" school know something about programming so that they are not entirely intimidated by the idea of customizing the behavior of AutoCAD? The Education school -- how will it produce graduates capable of teaching high school computer science courses? One can easily come up with other examples.

Perhaps it is sufficient to hire a cadre of instructors to teach basic courses? Such a decision historically has been vilified by faculty unions intent on ensuring that research professors with PhD's are not replaced by "lesser" means of instruction. Never mind that many faculty despise teaching introductory courses where much of the workload is administrative and their specialized knowledge is barely put to use.

What I don't understand is how U of F seemingly thinks it acceptable to imply to the public that it taking steps which eventually will make it incapable of teaching basic computer science to any of its students. Surely, U of F's PR department would be horrified to convey parallel messages regarding its math department. Maybe we are all missing some important facts?
At some schools the athletics program gets considerable tuition revenue as well (in the form of a tacked-on "athletics fee"). UF seems to have one of the lower fees ($57/yr), though when multiplied by 50,000 students, that still works out to a bit under $3m/yr. It appears (see sibling comment) that athletics contributes back some surplus to academics, though, so may be a net positive at UF. Not true at all schools, some of which have much higher than $57/yr charges (e.g. UVA's $650).
However, if WM8 flops on tablets as badly as Android did

Millions, upon millions, upon millions of tablets.

Seriously, while it looks pretty miserable compared to Apple's astonishing success, by historic metrics that is a huge userbase.
I really didn't like the new Analytics interface when they first rolled out the optional beta. I switched a few months ago to gain access to real-time measuring, and now I love it. For me at least, it just took some time to adjust.
They can mostly be handled, as I discovered when creating a Chrome plug-in with a similar interface:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beoobakjmicjpifdpc...

It's sites like github, which use X-Frame-Options, that can't be displayed in a iframe.
It is possible to live with a baby in 1br apartment, a lot of people do it in Manhattan. The real problems start later, with preschools, kindergartens etc.
And, conversely, an unreadable Game of Life in one line of APL (with explanation): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4
You do not need roommates at $100k in Manhattan. You might get one if you feel lonely though.
So you definitely need someone with 'hustle' to go find a market, and you definitely need a coder to build the product. I'd argue that having the same person do both of these things means that there is (a) a higher probability that the solution can actually be implemented as software and (b) that the software will actually work as expected by the customers. (Zed, I suspect that the Product Management role you mentioned might encapsulate these skills.)
Why was the (originally edited) title of this submission changed just recently? It was "Light Table - My goal" until it had 100 points, which made it completely obvious what it was about. Now it's been changed to the author's original title which explains absolutely nothing.
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I'm curious myself... I didn't do it.
I was recently talking with an Erlang developer working on the Battlestar Galactica MMO
Hopefully a DB backend other then MySQL will be added in the near future.
It seems to me that UF is starting to focus more on its business school and on engineering anyway.
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Does people getting downvoted on /r/politics really have a strong impact on what technologies are being built to advance freedom? Somehow I would guess that absolutely anything could happen in /r/politics and it would be irrelevant to changing that outcome; the question of downvotes on reddit, in any direction, feels more like a sideshow debate than where real action is likely to be found. I'm not sure it's even much of a tech crowd, since reddit is pretty mainstream (among young people) these days, not limited to techies like 90s internet discussion boards were.

Around here I see a lot of libertarians, unless my perception is somehow skewed. I certainly feel left of the HN mainstream, anyway, though it's not a monolithic community. (My own take on crypto-anarchism and cypherpunk is more a skepticism of organized power in general, whether it's a state, corporation, or religion, which is a bit different from libertarianism per se.)
Beautiful Keith. This should help me transition back to Ubuntu. Thanks!
There's a big range between "no money for the present" and some salary at or below 150k a year. The point is that the CEO shouldn't be "getting rich" from their salary. They should be able to live comfortably, but not necessarily extravagantly (anything over 75k a year in SF or NYC should really suffice). If the CEO has aspirations of some day living extravagantly, she needs to have a successful exit.

It sounds like you're arguing that an "under paid" CEO might push for an exit quicker and at lower value than they might otherwise, if they had a higher salary. Almost every exit is successful, and not at all a guarantee. A CEO so short sighted that they take a much smaller early exit, probably is short sighted enough to fail at running a business and will likely end up with no exit at all.

As long as the CEO can pay for rent, food, family expenses and has at least 1k left over for whatever each month, that's more than enough. If a startup CEO is making a million a year, there's not as much incentive to get to a successful exit. Instead, there's more incentive to keep things going as long as possible to milk that salary. Reducing salary to a reasonable rate (I don't think anyone here is advocating ramen and a sleeping bag under the desk) and keeping incentives tied to a successful exit keeps the motivation where it needs to be.
Bravo on making it work with WebGL! It's super smooth.

I see we both went with variable names like 'up' and 'left' for the subscripts in the "neighbor count" code. I'm always looking for ways to sidestep numerical array indexing because it's such a fertile ground for bugs. For example, I find it really hard to look at:

var up = i-1>0 ? -1 + i : -1 + h;

...and tell if it's correct. I used a mod_wrap function instead, which is an implementation of Python-like modulo, which 'wraps' negative numbers to the top of the range.
Any you can share? :)
Hey guys, UF student here.

Here's what was actually sent out to UF students about the decision. The link goes to the budget cut proposal. Currently the president of the University (Bernie Machen) is petitioning the state government to allow for tuition hikes above the already annual limit of 15%.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwzZsds2XcGnMWFpcnFiNEhvQkk/...
Some more info:

This is from Last.fm developers, esp. RJ (Richard Jones), mxcl (Max Howell; the guy behind Homebrew) and others.

The current source is written in Erlang. https://github.com/RJ/playdar-core

There is some old abandoned source written in C++:
https://github.com/RJ/playdar

I found this while searching for the Boffin source code. Something about Boffin:

* http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/11/introducing-boffin-lastfms-mu...

* http://www.last.fm/group/Audioscrobbler+Beta/forum/30705/_/5...

And in the abandoned C++ repo, there is something about Boffin (haven't really looked much into it yet):
https://github.com/RJ/playdar/tree/master/resolvers/boffin
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great work, just what I need. +1
He states that the Erlang server only needed a single box vs. the 80-200 for the Ruby; I'd wager the Erlang is dramatically lower in terms of resources consumed (or at least much more efficient)
While that's true I don't think it is actually as compelling of an argument as it sounds on first blush.

I went to UF and I used to receive weekly emails asking for donations to the athletic program that I wasn't able to unsubscribe from without telling them that it was illegal to spam without any way of unsubscribing. I never to my memory got email asking for donations for anything educational.

A significant portion of alum just want to donate $X and it goes to the athletics department because of how the university is choosing to allocate it's fundraising, not because that is how individuals actually care to donate.
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Current design works great, and it is beautiful in its straight-to-the-point, bs-free nature. The term redesign generally refers to a major overhaul, including the ux and the visuals. The term is loaded with commitment to change things, and this is what I am afraid of - a change for the sake of change.
My criticism is with people who say 150k is too little. I think it's a fair ceiling.
Ten or fifteen years ago, they actually built a scale model of the Solar System up in up in northern Maine. As you drive north on Rt 1A, there's a particular rest stop with a shadowbox on the wall. Inside is a very small small sphere (size of a large marble). The label says "Pluto", with no further details. Keep driving until you get to Caribou or Limestone (I forget which) and you'll pass all the other planets. Some are inside (where there is a convenient building at the right distance), some are on purpose-built display poles by the roadside. When you get to the end, you can find the Sun painted on a wall -- or, at least, the very small arc of it that fits on a wall that size.

The planets are all carefully painted to look as accurate as possible and quite attractive. There's no explanation anywhere, you just have to be "in the know". It's an awesome treasure hunt to find them all.
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Native speaker here. I think you're correct that it's somewhat contradictory. Gabriel says two things: 1) They were off by a factor of 100 in predicting the shock wave disturbances, and 2) The vehicle was able to recover.

I think his comment about advancing understanding is more referring to (2) than (1), although now that you point it out, it's hard to say you understand something well if you're off by two orders of magnitude...
I use the current tax system, because that's what I have to compare it to. The only other significant alternative is the Flat Tax, which is more regressive than the current system. Also, you say it is unattractive, but offer no alternative or rebuttal.

Yes, the top wage earners could pay less % in tax to their income than they do today, because there are more tax-deferred investment opportunities available. But again, tax-deferred investments, are simply that... deferred. The rental income would be spent unless it is re-invested, but again, no one saves into infinity and you have that same opportunity today if you really wanted to. Now, I haven't seen evidence of a income snowballing effect as you say though, but I would like to see it. In fact there is little debate on the overall economic impact, like one study that showed a 10% increase in GDP, real wages, and total employment plus a doubling of domestic investment after 5 years.

Again I ask for examples and data to discuss and look at. Studies using the Gini coefficient for example which is the most popular statistic of progressivity, show the FairTax as highly progressive. That number also rises even more if you raise the prebate base. We can certainly debate the merits of such a progressive system, but calling the FairTax "fairly" regressive because you believe it so based on your impression of sales tax systems shows that you are not well informed. There is study after study that shows that it is the most progressive tax system proposal.

BTW, an influx in rental home speculation will only drive rental prices down as more rental supply enters the market. Which is good for the lower income brackets.
I wish I could find videos like this but with J.
It's a genuinely interesting read, even if it does lean on the Astonishing Particular Items Of Proof trope more than a little heavily, but the moment it got to the words "in my opinion, the answer is ..." my eyes glazeth over and skim mode began.

Once an author has weighed in with their personal interpretation, the only refutations available will be ad hominem. "I'm not calling you a liar, but I can't think of a way to end this sentence."
So, you're saying that we should just give up and trust big publishers who know best?? Kickstarter is inherently risky and pointing it out with a big hoopla is kinda silly. It's as "buyer beware" as it gets. Out of all successfully funded projects that I backed on kickstarter - most came through... Only very few didn't.
I genuinely think that those who reject science (about space, evolution, etc) are largely unable to grasp these vast quantities. The idea of evolution over "millions of years" is unimaginable to them because they don't understand how 100 year lifespan of a human is nothing compared to a million years or a hundred million years.
The logical simplicity of the rules makes it impossible to resist implementation, it seems :) I love being able to draw on your version - I missed out on implementing drag events.

I notice that you separate your "views" (this.cells) from your "models" (this.grid). This seems like a good idea from an MVC perspective, but I would worry that I'm forgetting to keep them in-sync in all cases.
The backends can be written in any language that has support for TCP and JSON. :) Forcing people to write parsers/analyzers/etc in a language other than the host is bound for failure in the long run.

That, however, is a subject for a later post.
Here's the email that Georgia Tech College of Computing dean Zvi Galil sent to the president of UF:

http://saveufcise.wordpress.com/letter-from-dean-of-college-...
Via the referenced article on the athletics budget, the athletics side ("Athletic Association") returns $6 million to the university in profit.
Whoa! $1.7M for a computer science department and $90M+ for football? Whatever the funding sources may be, the comparison of the figures alone shows the general spending priorities pretty clearly. I bet the football team has no shortage of applicants either.

Could it be that such priorities are a contributing factor to the high unemployment rate?
If they really want to cut spending, just leave CS alone and just cut football team. :)
All that seems to indicate, to me, is that the entire college is run terribly.
UF's football program's 'budget' is a red herring. It's a profit center for the university. It doesn't "cost" 90M. It pays for itself, and a great bit more.
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While this sounds nice, the truth is that most people do not need — or, in most cases, want — to code, or even to know how their computers work. As time goes on, the levels of abstraction increase, not decrease. And with things like the iPad and Windows 8, we can see that moving ahead for us right now. Computer science is not a "basic competency" — it's an extremely complex,

So I don't think it's weird at all for computer science to be thought of as less important, and certainly less popular. And I also don't think that's a bad thing; while I'd certainly think computers are cool, a computer science degree/programming knowledge is already unnecessary for almost all professions. As time goes on, the need to, say, customize AutoCAD, is only going to decrease: the computer itself will make the task easier.
I think Georgia Institute of Technology only being a few hours away would be the bigger issue. GIT has a pretty significant ranking usually popping in and out of the bottom of the top 10 slot. Being from FL I know a lot of people that want to remain somewhat close to home and that are looking for a good program tend to apply there over UF. What is strange is that UF was generally in the upper ranks of Florida CS programs after FIT fell off the map in the early 90's. As well UCF's program has been getting better and better over the years. I don't know where they rank but I do know they have been improving maybe UCF siphoned off a bit of their Central Florida recruits, which I would imagine contributed quite a few in head count. USF did not have a great program when I was in Tampa but things could have changed, as that has been over 15 years ago.
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What you've just laid out is what I guess people call a "straw man". No one is arguing assembler over C here, just like no one is arguing the virtues of vacuum tubes over the transistor.

I'll say it again: the benefits of the concurrency model described in the original article can probably be achieved in peoples' existing/preferred dev env. It's easier and faster to look into that then to throw what you have under the bus for erlang.
Damn - just what I had in mind for the upcoming NYC Mongo hackathon... http://www.10gen.com/events/NYC-MongoDB-Hackathon

Nicely done. It would be cool to come up with some way to gather collection characteristics, so that some fieldnames and/or value sets could by dynamically autocompleted. Perhaps that's a revised idea for this weekend's project.
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Not so fast. UF has something like 3 or 4 departments that, to an outside observer, would appear to be CS. The College of Engineering has a couple, which appear to differ depending on whether they enphasize hardware or software, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has one, and I think there's another one out there somewhere.

The one they are cutting seems to be the only one that does non-hardware research and offers graduate degrees, so losing it is a loss. The other (or others) that deal with the non-hardware side of CS seem to be only teaching, not research, and aimed at undergraduates.
Great PR move by the University to draw attention to the cuts. I hope.
As a guess, any of the universities associated with a National Lab would likely be startup friendly. This might be part of what makes Berkeley startup friendly. National Labs develop a lot of tech which then gets used to start new businesses. They also do internships, or did at one time. I applied and got as far as the initial interview. Last I checked, I had the impression they still do internships but the name of the program had changed.