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They could just throw the mined metals to the moon. Refine it, and manufacture stuff there. Where energy is cheaper. Then just ship the moonphones back to earth, with a lower cost of reentry shipment per value sent.

Now that would be cool.
And I thought it would be about robotic cars :)
"This keylogger program can be legitimately purchased and used, ostensibly for monitoring your kids’ or employees’ browsing habits, etc. As you can imagine, PK can also be used for badness."

Is this person suggesting that using a keylogger to spy on your employees/children without their knowledge is not 'badness'?!
WebViews are great for content presentation. Especially true when what you are presenting is static content. But beyond that you are just going to struggle a lot to make it interactive.

And were we complaining a few years ago about how the web was a bad application platform? Just seems silly to try and port broken shit... what do I know...

But seriously write-once-run-everywhere is bullshit guys. Just like it was for Java. There is a reason write-once-debug-everywhere was the silly comeback. I just don't trust a technology (trigger.io) that claims "dead simple" when they haven't told me how this is better than the "dead simple" easy cross platform stuff Sun spit out in the 90s. (great for servers terrible for clients)

Also this is a native app in the demo? The navigation bar scrolls off the screen. Are you fucking kidding me. This is one of the most basic stock components in an iOS app. IT DOESN'T SCROLL OFF THE SCREEN.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/126589/sharepicts/Screen%20Shot%2020...

Now I know that "fixed" in a UIWebView is kind of a pain in the ass. Because it doesn't work as you'd expect. But, you kind of have to solve that problem to make the UX native.

By using these tools for multiplatform development you give up the opportunity to get featured. Apple and Google like to show off glitzy apps that look good and show off the power of the platform. Not something that has been reduced to the lowest common denominator: Android 2.2 running on some POS LG Optimus V from Virgin Mobile.
It's cool bc you don't have to install thrift (and boost and libevt and co) and you can generate thrift bindings with a single http request.
Quite well done. I think his tone and when he signals his strategy also helps how he plays the game.
So the things Google Drive has that Dropbox doesn't:

* 2-factor authentication!

* Comments on files (unclear if it's only for Google Docs or all files)

* OCR - like Evernote, you can search against text in images (e.g. newspaper article)

* Image recognition - if you upload a pic of the Eiffel Tower, you can find it with the search term "eiffel tower"

* Web-based file viewer - 30 file types including HD video, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.

The OCR and image recognition are going to be killer features for "normal" people. And I imagine it's something Dropbox can't easily duplicate (unlike the other features).

Then again, as a more privacy-minded technical person, the image recognition feature scares the beejezus out of me. Tagging faces on Facebook is one thing, but being able to semantically identify all contents of my images is really stepping up the creepiness quotient.

Should be interesting to see how Dropbox responds.
They only mention the two Samsung Android models, but I'm pretty sure that the N900 will work with this as well. I'll have to give it a try, maybe this weekend.
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Haha I didn't read Rework yet but I read Getting Things Done which is by Jason Fried & DHH as well, amazing book.

[sometimes, try to solve problems people don't even know exist yet.]

This is an amazing and interesting advice, thanks for pointing it out!

[No, not really. I've been working at night on projects for about 9 months and I'm just ...ready.]

This is where I'm heading, it's been 6 crazy months working at night, with the software engineer job I currently have on the day. But the time is coming soon, I feel more and more ready everyday, I have faith in me and my peers are pushing me to it as well, timing seems excellent I really can't wait! Focusing on my day job is becoming really, really hard hehe.

Thanks a lot, this is very helpful and I'll sure email you soon! Thanks again!
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I'm hoping that $4/m/20GB is wrong. I pay $20/YEAR for 80GB of storage in docs.
I have the same problem. Although I fully expect to see this page (even though I click on those music e-mails every time hoping they suddenly unlocked it for us Canucks)

I get those e-mails because I signed up for Google Music via a US proxy and now have access to it but I imagine I'd need to go through a proxy every time if I wanted access to the Play Music store. Needless to say it would make me feel a little better if they'd announce some date as to when we can expect it.
You're right. They should use terajoules. :)
Have we run out of things to say?
That true. My bro, a doctor, actually said that mortality rates dramatically increase during a short time (3yr) after retirement. Rapidly removing stress can be as bad for your health as prolonged exposure to it.
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An article that mentions the put options scheme: http://venturebeat.com/2012/04/23/planetary-resources-astero...

It says that Diamandis (the founder of Planetary Resources) may have been joking when he made these plans to buy options.
Very tempting but I want to wait for the SGS3 before committing to a new phone.
This is the best example of someone who fixed a problem at the right time. There was this gap to fill, he filled it and has been living from it since then.

Thanks for sharing!
I'm familiar with building and hosting deps in general. The problem I had was that I tried to build debs for every single dependency which turned out to be really hard to automate. That's why I'm really interested in seeing an approach with the virtualenv embedded into the package.
Also, could you tone down the site theme? The scrolling sidebar/topbar etc is really buggy and keeps getting in the way of your text. I'd suggest just using jekyll or something with Github pages or maybe just run your own HTTP server to serve it up.
One of the big differences is just the size of the schools. I was in Ireland for 8th and 9th grade. The school I went to consisted of grades 6th-12th with a total of around 300 students, with 48 kids in my grade. My graduation class from high school back in the US was around 600. My high school consisted of 10th-12th grade with around 1800 students total. This difference in size makes a huge impact in the different cultures that have evolved in the different school systems.
Some of the quotes are interesting on their own. All of them are interesting in that so many people found them significant.

Also, if you read too many of them at once you start to think in one or two sentence snippets.
There is a really fascinating discussion about this on Bruce Schneier's blog (http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/04/amazing_round_...).

Btw, if you're interested in security and encryption, Bruce's blog is a must read
Here's a link using a web proxy for those outside the US: http://www.uswebproxy.com/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly9wbGF5Lmdvb2...
It's also cool bc there are multiple thrift versions on thriftify.org so you can choose the version you want. You don't have to install multiple versions locally, just shoot an http request.

There's also a nice ui that lets you see the result gen files right on the web page with syntax highlighting.
I'm from Switzerland and the reality that you miss is that a lot of students will be thrown into the Realschule (lowest tier of secondary education in Switzerland) for a variety of reasons, including spiteful teachers or foreign parents who fail to understand the magnitude of this decision. Often the path is already being set at the Kindergarten age with inept teachers who are unable to properly educate foreign speaking pupils. From then on it's a direct path to the Realschule and later a string of two or three failed attempts at getting a professional education (as a semi-skilled cook, hair stylist, whatever)

My brother was sent to the Realschule because of a primary teacher who habitually hit the pupils he hated - he was a sadistic tyrant.

Roughly a decade later, My brother graduated in law and is now on path of becoming a very successful (and rich) international arbitration specialist.

Now obviously, not everyone will be able to turn the tide.

Another reality you seem to ignore is the fact that even intelligent people can be rowdy assholes.

My Gymnasium (high school) class was filled with them. They smoked blunts all day, lighted up books in front of the teachers, even brought some teachers to tears, they bullied kids and so on. They were very excellent students and didn't have to learn for exams.

As an introverted nerd this had the following effect on me: In order to fit in I started to smoke joints myself and missed 50% of the last year. I didn't have problems getting good grades so I didn't prepare for the Matura. In hindsight it was also dumb luck, not just my ingenuity that made me pass the Matura with good grades still. While I was still introverted, it helped ease tensions and I made a couple of good friends in the process.

In conclusion, from personal experience the Swiss education system has deep flaws.
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Recording your employees' use of company computers, given proper disclosure, is an employers prerogative. It's also legal (in some locales) for parents to do this to their children. I find it immoral, personally (the latter), but this is not the point of the story at all and the story was interesting and highly relevant, so I'm really disappointed to see this is the top comment.
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Yes, the Galaxy Nexus is gigantic.

I'm also pondering getting an HTC One S.
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Here's the error handling I teach for C:

http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/learn-c-the-hard-waych...

It's using the gotos, but I make macros that hide the actual word "goto" away so that idiots (who think goto is bad because of a ranting "paper" written decades past) will not notice it.

That and I print out error diagnostics, the location of the error at the time, and the errno. These macros probably saved me a good decade of time finding errors in C.
This question seems like it might get some good answers on Stack Overflow. http://www.stackoverflow.com
I was home schooled, and I believe it did hinder me socially. What you say about social interaction outside the home is true, but it's still not all that much.
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I agree. I love their current pricing strategy for extra storage. I'm hoping that those prices are for Apps customers only (possibly as shared storage?) as the doc mentions administrators:

"When a user reaches the limit, administrators can purchase the necessary space of 20GB for $ 4 per month to 16TB (Google Docs are not counted in the quota of storage space)."
I made this a while ago, but thought I'd share it here in case anyone is interested. Technically it can support any language but it would require a header set server side with the encoded data to be logged.
yeah but then all you have to do is get hit by a virus specifically designed for that one password manager and you lose everything
You make it sound like if you do one then you can do 100. Not the case.
Does Amazon publish the data from which these lists are prepared? I'd love to make some other (better?) lists that produce more balanced results.
Yup, Planetary Resources is all about asteroid mining
Here's the problem from the company's perspective:

You get thousands of resumes, and you can't possibly call every one of them. So you try to find ways to build a funnel, hoping that your heuristics are weeding out the majority of those who are unsuitable for the position and keeping the majority of those who are suitable.

It's not that the company is being a dick, or that they don't value the candidate's time; it's simply that they can't possibly find each and every needle in the haystack, or find any at all unless they start filtering on SOMETHING.

So unless you have something compelling on your resume and cover letter that makes you stand out (not saying it has to be source code; just saying it has to be compelling), you're a lot more likely to be filtered out of the first funnel and never make it to the phone screen to have a dialog.
You're describing someone who's lazy, not a 21 year old. The point is to give that person more time to do whatever they want. If you hire the right people they wouldn't be the type that play video games and drink all day.
Yep, that's it. But why wouldn't it work? There are orders of magnitude more platinum-group resources out there than there are down here.
Libraries exist. I just didn't link one in out of laziness.
Your persistence is admirable. Suggestion: Tell us more about your current success and future plans. Also,

I started this business in 2011 and never stopped.

did you mean to say that you started in 2001 rather than 2011?
There is no conditional, and without a conditional you can't get a conditional.

However modifying it to support conditionals is easy. Just add a built-in function if(condition, expr1, expr2). Now you can build if's. Since the language already properly supports recursive function calls, now it is possible to implement loops through recursion, and you're off and running.
Hi, idea of 'Who paid you', is for people that do work then invoice later, say you have a regular client. I've just tried to replicate that error and can't - can you drop me a mail on peter at bullethq.com.

Yep we're 100% with you but it's tricky to build but on our list. What you see now it the MVP for saying good bye to your accountant.

We have GetItKeep it on our list but I think they're changed direction and are working in the US.

Pete
But the dichotomy here is specifically the thought that venture capitalists require portfolio companies to work 6-7 day weeks.
Now I feel much better about paying $17 to see Avatar in 3D.
time to buy some annual storage and be grandfathered in?
We're taking a run at tech news agg. We are breaking news faster than Techmeme and we try to provide some useful insights from the data we aggregate - http://techfiltered.com/funding-index
An HTTP _NOT_ S proxy, for those of you going too quickly on the sign-up page... ;)
Can the web app be used on a smart phone? If so, port it over. You will be able to charge for it once you build an audience. Starting free and getting these 1st users to chat about it then later initiate a fee. Or set a decent price for it and go all out with targeted marketing.
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Hi muxxa,

The site will let you get to the "Who paid you" money in page, but it won't record any of the details unless you select which invoices the payment is for - that's why the details appear to be missing when you go back to that screen after having created the invoices.

Stay tuned for our iPhone app (and email service) which will be able to suck in your invoices and they are entered automatically for you, so you won't have to do any of the tedious typing.
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Why does every post on here need someone coming in explaining how it's wrong in some way.

It's not only disingenuous, but outright wrong to assume the author was saying "be weird for the sake of being weird." He's saying he is weird, and that's OK, just he won't see a lot of good in it in high school.

You're acting like he's advocating becoming a hipster, a straw man you invented.
Heh - OK. Yeah, I like the 3 Stooges AND Spalding Gray, so you can get as arrogant as you want to about that.

Some of the other style/substance mavens here agree with you, but this one doesn't. That's all... I think you should be a little more gracious in your dialogue when you start it with "It might just be me...".
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But don't you need to spend a lot of money to prepare the material for reentry without losing most of it?
Is this being sold at a loss? An unlocked 16GB iPhone 4S is costs $650. If not, I'm impressed at the price point Samsung is able to achieve given the Galaxy Nexus's feature parity with the iPhone 4S. Which begs the question, why not spend an extra ~$150 per unit to really blow it out of the water, specs wise?
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Nous sommes désolés, le document que vous avez demandé n'est pas disponible dans votre pays.

Thanks Google & France -.-
Then I have a great business proposition for you! It's easy... for the past month we hung around a street corner and for everybody who paid us $1 we gave them $1 back with a SMILE! We've done this with 10K paying customers so far! We also sold a packet of sweets worth $1 to my aunt for $2; she's always had a soft spot for me. We're profitable! :D I believe in my product so much I haven't even taken a salary, amazing huh?! And I believe with a $10 million investment we can scale this to 10 million paying customers within 1 year! Wanna invest?! [Oh and in year 2 I'm taking a $10 million salary.]

I'm obviously being facetious and while I don't want to be "that guy" dismissing what appears to be a very respectable business, mentioning revenue & customer numbers without mentioning profit values or percentages irks me.

This is probably because of 8 seasons of Dragon's Den and 3 seasons of Shark Tank that have impressed upon me just how few people understand that a large turnover means nothing; "turnover is vanity; profit is sanity". It's not easy to achieve a large turnover, sure, but it's also meaningless unless it is associated with a reasonable net profit.

Having read through a few more comments I suspect the author's business is probably turning a decent net profit, but, nevertheless, the post seems incomplete without this data or at least some form of confirmation (e.g. "our net profit is between 10-20%").
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Having an "S" wouldn't add much unless you really trust uswebproxy.com
That's true -- entrepreneurs are faster to adapt than VCs. I guess because VCs don't have good metrics for intermediate stages toward success, and "how long are you in the office each week" is something they use.
Yeah, that's true. Maybe it will work if they keep their plans secretive until right before they are able deliver large amounts of platinum-group elements? They're only going to make a significant amount on these options if very few people buy these options, otherwise a large rush would shift the market prematurely.
I'm not sure if it can still be described as 'super secret' if we're reading about it on the official DARPA blog.
I'd challenge with "so why don't you do 6 days work in 5 days?"

I can imagine a few good answers:

* We need to keep the team: A four day week is a major reason they don't get poached. It's a benevolent lock in. Almost nobody else does this. Just reducing team churn to practically zero probably pays for the extra day in of itself (recruiting is time consuming and expensive).

* We need to grow the team: We need to get more people in a very competitive hiring market. Having three days of your own each week is a major USP for the company. It lets us attract and recruit the best.

* In my experience productivity actually drops if a team works longer hours. I've had teams produce more after moved from about 50 hours coding to about 30 hours coding a week. People suck at estimating how productive they are.
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One of the most well-adjusted 'kids' I ever met was 18, starting college, and came from a home-school environment. I, on the other hand, went to 'normal' school and was a fairly typical 'weirdo'. By the end of high school I had no friends left at the school and couldn't wait to join the navy and get the hell out of there. It was the navy that finally got the social akwardness out of me, not school. If anything, high school seemed to make it worse - the longer I was away, the better I got.

Different things work for different people. Some people work very well under a homeschooled routine. Others do not. Do not tie your kid to one or the other for the sake of your ideology - go with what works for them. Experiment if need be.
Right I agree, defaulting to you don't know what you are doing and when you do, you will know how to shut this off is a good thing. A key part of Apple's success has to do with something Microsoft knew and did well back in the day, and that is he who has the development mind share wins. A lot of developers use Apple and if they lock it down entirely they will lose developers because most of us rely on some form of open tools which will not be available in the app store.
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>> "There are many ways to expand this technology so that it becomes far more complex to defeat."

There are not that many ways, unless you're willing to go the whole hog and install a rootkit on the recipients machine before he's allowed to view a mail. Obviously that would be bad. Like any DRM scheme the ultimate consequence ends at a bad place.

>> "companies and government organizations, where clear policies and penalties already provide effective deterrents. This service would just supplement these policy-instruments with additional automated protection, auditing and watermarking"

If you're forced to deal with security restricted information dissemination, then email is pretty much the wrong kind of tool.

>> "Answering by quoting email works great, if you're alright with quoting everything"

That kinda defeats the purpose of quoting mostly.

>> "Accessibility vs data protection tradeoffs. These are fine:"

Sure, they're fine for you. You're not disabled.

>> "NOFWD keeps an archive of the messages you send through it (which you can choose to delete or disable if you wish.) You can search this."

I use my email clients search box to search emails in my inbox, I think pretty much everybody does. This also doesn't cover the UX issues of a large image blob that renders unreadable on devices with other screen sizes than the desktop average.
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The article specifically eliminates this possibility. The mice in the study had no choice as to what group they would be in, so there was no self-selection effect.
Autovivification through a rvalue (for clarity: the magic here is that x[a][b]=c works to create x[a] despite that index never seeing an assignment) has a long history in perl. The C++ feature is more limited in scope and AFAIK accidental -- it works because the automatic construction is a side effect of reading the value, which is often considered an undesired feature of STL (you can't use an expression that contains x[a] to test if x contains a, like you can in many languages).

And you may be less cynical, but I've had to explain this sort of thing to a huge number of C++ programmers, most of whom write STL code that looks like Java, with explicit initialization of all the intermediate containers.
Don't know if it's the same definition, but their GigaOM post defines light as: “light” AWS users — those with fewer than 8 instances
http://gigaom.com/cloud/newvem-pulls-back-the-curtain-on-ama...

Obviously it wouldn't make sense for people who only use micro instances, but then again people who only use one micro instance don't use a third party cost management tool.