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Absolutely. Labels shouldn't be reduced to the large majors everyone has in mind when talking about the evil music industry. There are a lot more niche labels that focus on very specific genres and audiences.

A lot of them are very passionate about what they are doing and are as music loving as their listeners. They act as a curator by selecting and developing artists, a ability that becomes increasingly underrated in times of services like EchoNest - while I really like what those guys are doing, as a user of various music services I tend to notice that all those discovery features provide very similar results - probably due to the fact that they are using the same APIs by EchoNest. That makes it hard to find new quality music.

Therefor it's good to have a curated selection like the catalogs of small and caring labels that give a human touch to a selection process that is a refreshing equivalent to the popular "You might also like..."-feature. Of course I can only speak for my personal interest, but being on the release schedule of labels like Morr Music, Kranky, Secretly Canadian, Domino, 4AD or Sub Pop is usually a very good indicator for music I might enjoy. Surely there are examples from other genres too.

Nevertheless things can also work out without labels: I'm a big fan of bandcamp which has a lot of talent to showcase and does almost everything right for listeners and artists alike. From the wide range of lossless formats to the flawless iOS audio player or the flexible pricing configurations - if you want to offer your music without a label, bandcamp is the way to go.

Both approaches offer benefits and I'd like them to co-exist.
Erik was a jerk who ruined comp.lang.lisp for years. I can't believe people still praise him.
Top of mind brand awareness is coming soon. Youre awesome!
"resume" is the VisualBASIC version. In an exception handler, you can use 'Resume Next' to jump back to the line following the error, or jump to a label, etc. Many people would only be familiar with the 'On Error Resume Next' version, which ignores errors.

This link has a good description, half-way down;
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/errorhandling.htm
You're correct, but book publishers aren't used to thinking in those terms. Traditionally, the job results in a static lump of ink on paper. Game over: you sell it, you're done.

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they also need to do internal process-related things -- like set up a CMS, in-source their typesetting, and modify their workflow to allow updates to existing-and-out-there books, rather than viewing the books as a terminal state at the end of a production process.

I think there's a 3-way non zero-sum opportunity (win-win-win) lurking here if one can get away from the idea that the unit of production is a book as a lump of dead-tree or even as a particular string of bits or even as a stream of versions of a particular string of bits. Instead of focusing on curating individual books, wouldn't everyone win by developing CMS for curating collections of things, like author bibliographies?

In a way, this is what disparate parts of the industry already do. (Like this book by C. Stross? Why not try this other book by C. Stross? Like this book that's supposed to be "Hard Sci-Fi?" Why not read this other book...?) They're already trying to get customers to think of their brand as a good source of [some classification]. They're also motivated to get customers to think of an author as a brand as a good source of [some classification]. This is also how publishers and editors approach the brand represented by anthology series. Really, publishing at its core is the curation of a bibliographies. Customers and authors would benefit from such directed curation. (On the other hand, this might also perpetuate restrictive terms between authors and publishers.)
Completely agree. I wanted to work out any issues before introducing any viral invite functionality.
> Law schools didn't exist until the turn of the century.

IIRC, in the UK there were all kinds of private tutors who'd prepare students for bar / medicine exams.

But most degrees are more about attainment than accreditation. A degree doesn't let you do anything, it's just a line in a resume, and possibly some skills and connections you picked up along the way.

The question is, if it's simply a glorified 3 year intelligence / work ethics test, why can't private providers create something equivalent?

The US has some messed up law about intelligence tests being racist (for good reasons at the time - IQ tests were being used to block poorly educated blacks from doing jobs which didn't require any real IQ), but all kinds of skills tests could be managed by private providers. It could also be packaged with some kind of value added analysis. HR tends to suck at analysis, so it could be made to compliment what they do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect at play.
There's no economic incentive to hire anyone below the top decile. Assuming you believe the "10x" rule (which says that there is a 10x productivity delta between the best and worse developers), I get the best bang-for-the-buck by hiring the best developer I can find.

Even if compensation did scale linearly with productivity, two programmers with productivity X are still worse than one programmer with productivity 2X since communication costs grow as the team size grows.

I wouldn't be a prudent businessman if I didn't fight relentlessly for the best developers...
Google is also a registrar (I think just for .com/.net domains). I guess they don't want to deal with dozens of ccTLDs.
If you somehow started from this state, how long would it take the wave to reach the opposite side of the planet?
Does it include all the water trapped in material of the mantle?
As far as credentials, it seems to me like an "online" degree is worse than no degree at all. There is a horrible stigma regarding the quality of online degrees and doubt regarding the judgement of those who pursue them. This perception can definitely change in the future, but I suspect it won't be for a very long time.
Either you think the Necessary and Proper clause refers only to the enumerated powers of article 1, section 8, or that the power to execute law is not in fact a government power.

The constitution literally makes reference to the "foregoing powers, and all other Powers" being the province of Congressional law. All other powers, man. All of them. Including the executive's power to, quote, "execute law."

I'm not even sure what to do here. Neither of these are correct. But quoting the bare text of the Constitution doesn't even work. Next you'll assert that black is white.
>Urs countered that “according to Florian Breuer’s computations the University of Stellenbosch, South-Africa pays roughly the same than the University of Muenster, Germany.

wow. Given that Stellenbosch is substantially smaller and in a 3rd world country one would expect that they'd pay less.
The commit that introduced the PHP CGI bug
"Perfectly illustrating the utility of well-chosen comments in code." Nail struck directly on head.
Stuff like this happens all the time in a community at this scale.
The iPhone attacking the iPod before Android did so is IMO a great example of The Innovator's Dilemma. Many companies would have tried to charge more for iPod capability's on the first generation iPhone. Instead Apple realized cellphones would never be great MP3 players so even if they cannibalized some sales early on trying to maintain an artificial distinction would not be useful in the long run.

In some ways I think they even helped keep the iPod concept alive longer by giving the impression that using a phone for an MP3 player was a compromise not a replacement. Yea, your phone can do this, but why waste the battery life?
You're missing the whole point. Anyone has an entree into the startup scene if you work and follow up. It was a sequence of success and increasing access, not randomly granted, monolithic privilege.

The process begins with opening the level editor in Doom II.

Or in my case, Warcraft.
What did you live on prior to taking revenue (in 2010)?
I'm a Romanian and I'm still living in Romania, working remotely for U.S. companies.

First of all, I do not agree with what you're saying. A lot of people do not leave the country, simply because of our culture. We are used to live close to our families, we are used to live close to our place of birth. We are not as disconnected as other nations.

I have ex-colleagues that were hired by Google. At least one of them preferred their Zurich office to be closer, even though he is so capable that he could have chosen any of their locations. I also have ex-colleagues and friends that refused to work for Google or Facebook and that are still in Romania. Including myself.

There's something often not said whenever people talk about outsourcing to Eastern European countries: foreigners often come with high expectations, in exchange for peanuts. This article says that you can find a great developer for 2000 EUR. That's true, but that's also peanuts and those developers getting paid with 2000 EUR won't stay interested for long and if they do for the long term, they'll just put the minimum effort into it, while doing their own thing.

I very often get invitations from U.S. companies to join their projects. Because I like to stay up to date with the pulse of the market, I accept to participate in many interviews. However, because I don't want my time wasted, I talk about salary expectations early on. And I can't tell you how disappointed I get, as companies that have quite the reputation come to me with salaries that are somewhere between 1000 EUR and 2000 EUR ... which really, is downright insulting.

Also, companies that have a large development team in the U.S. tend to outsource the throwaways. This is another thing that's often not mentioned, and I'm sorry, but you won't get the best developers here with this attitude.

Now, do not get me wrong. I love working for U.S. companies, but do not offer peanuts or throwaways, otherwise you will get monkeys. And when reading pieces like the above, remember that context is everything.
This passage clearly requires that all federal powers be explicitly granted in the Constitution, though they need not only come from Article 1.

Yup. The federal power I'm talking about is in article II, section 3, the power of the President to "faithfully execute" the law. Federal police is normally understood to be "necessary and proper" w.r.t. this, just as local police is an agent of execution for local law.
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http://slacksite.com/humour/whois.html

That's been around for more than 10 years, the reason is that whois is doing subtring matches.

Blackhat SEO stuff. Easy to fool google suggest also.
Tim Wu wrote a book about this, The Master Switch; essentially the big conglomerates have a good thing going and would rather bury their new technology, since they already have a good thing going, than take a risk on new tech. Wu calls it "the Kronos effect"; essentially they try and kill their children for fear that their children will dominate them.
This helps a lot with that, as well: http://mosh.mit.edu/
Part of what makes it awkward is that it appeals to me in the sense that it takes the b.s. factor out of telling people what your good at, while at the same time requires requiring you to ask others what they think you're good at.

I think part of what would make it less awkward is being able to prepopulate the page. If I send a blank page to friends and are like "gloat about me" they'll think I'm an egotistical asshole and I don't really want to be an egotistical asshole.

Of course, I sort of felt this way about personal landing pages and LinkedIn at first too.

I think a more passive way of sharing it would help too. Maybe integrations with about.me, flavors.me, LinkedIn, and the major blogging platforms. Actually, this is probably the top feature request if I had to pick one. Just let this thing float in a widget on LinkedIn.
Eh, as XML rants go I prefer this one from Graydon Hoare (lead designer of Mozilla's Rust): http://www.rdb.com/demo/XML/

It colorfully beats around the bush a bit, but its primary points are:

1. any lossless coding of bits can be cajoled into representing anything, the important question is whether it's a convenient coding.

2. the fact that so many XML formats have sub-languages embedded into strings means that nearly all XML processing requires another, higher level of software to fully parse the document. (it also is evidence that XML wasn't that convenient of an encoding to begin with).

3. just because you can write a document of XML expressing some logical idea doesn't mean that the idea is implementable. For example, the "Spacecraft Markup Language" (which is a real thing, or was).
at the Sigma Nu fraternity

Crucial detail, that.
This is close to how Go handles exceptions. The 'defer' statement schedules a function to be executed at the end of the current function, no matter now the current function is exited. The recover() call returns an active panic (panic being Go for exception)---it is only useful inside a deferred function.

See a fuller and better explanation at http://blog.golang.org/2010/08/defer-panic-and-recover.html
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"You're wrong, jackass" is not ad hominem, because no one is saying you're wrong because you're a jackass, they're first saying that you're wrong and then concluding based on that that you're a jackass. Ad hominem is dismissing an argument based on the characteristics of the one making it, and no one has done that.
I suppose one has to strike a balance between wages and quality. For this reason I suspect Poland might be a better option right now; it is now the 7th largest EU economy and one of the fastest growing in Europe (in no small part due to a good deal of foreign investment). Practically, on the ground, that means people are not as keen to leave for the West as they once were, leading to an increasing number of quality developers.

I suspect Romania's time has not come just yet, though it's definitely one to watch in the coming years as this effect of investment travels progressively eastward.
> Websites that do exist that are making a lot of revenue and employing a lot of people

I dont fall for this reasoning. Same way you could tell a cop to leave that cocaine dealer alone because selling drugs is his only "job" and he has a family of four and uses his profits to buy diapers.

If you bought a good domain, regardless if it was $10 or $500, AND obtain a copyrights to use the trademark, you are in a different category - your success is not based on cheap domain, but rather the fact copyright owners cannot go legally after you.

I still stand behind my point. If you truly believe in your startup, then you would shovel camel shit for six months just to get that $500 to make your startup come true.
I can't believe the discussion about this article has devolved into a discussion about whether a particular writing style, which has been a witty and entertaining vehicle for argument for thousands of years, should be expunged from the programming community as if it were a pathology. A preference for civility is one thing, but an inability to distinguish between different pieces of writing according to their intent, effect, and value is another thing entirely. Naggum's target here is XML (a juggernaut) and the entire community behind it (another juggernaut,) not an individual poster. He isn't bullying anyone or singling anyone out personally. He also writes with a great deal of experience and insight into this particular problem, and his tone is very well-suited to communicate his experience and insight.

The programming community has its share, and maybe more than its share, of people who hurt the community more than help it because of how they treat other people, and also people who could learn to participate in a much more constructive way. The matter can't be oversimplified, though. There are no simple rules that can be applied. Sure, you could describe the post as aggressive, intolerant, and irritable. Most writing that can be described as aggressive, intolerant, and irritable could be improved by making it less so. Then again, most things described as "pungent" -- rotting garbage, my feet -- could be improved by making them less so, but not Camembert.
I view TC as a parallel to HN, but on the user side. While this forum gives the best value for time in terms of startup operations, TC readers would be people who have heard of similar products, seen companies getting Dead Pooled in that category etc (though not always genuine end users, like that women's fashion example).

Just on a lark, is "BioInformatics" with a strong Semantic Web angle to it, of particular interest to anyone among your group?
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According to computations sounds to me like it's a cost of living adjusted comparison.
Based on the anecdotal comments below the original post, it seems like there's a very high correlation between posts that get flagged as inappropriate by Facebook and those that mention Google+ or link to it. Which seems absurd, on the face of it, but I am going to have to experiment.
We use this with our office SDSL connection to prioritize normal traffic and deprioritize things like backups (which used to steal all the bandwidth and drive pings up to 1+ seconds). Works swell, highly recommended.
XSD is not part of XML, it's a totally separate specification. JSON likewise has schema specifications like JSON Schema.

Also, Protocol Buffers are by far better a better schema language than XSD.
> that would not be in the position they are now (living off their websites)

could you possibly name a few? perhaps I can learn new things...
This is a great example of machine learning gone wrong. Facebook turns the knob on their "positivity" algorithm a little too far to the right.

Machine learning is one of this things that works great until it doesn't, and you get misguided decisions like this that had zero human involvement.
Ouch. You'd think that with a name like that, a little SEO could triple that #.
>in the end, the main question for the court will be whether or not Samsung has used all of these elements in a way that's likely to confuse consumers about what they're buying.

I don't believe design patents hinge on whether the consumer would be confused; that's for trademarks. Design patents are for protecting the aesthetic idea, just like regular patents are for protecting a technological idea.
Yes. Spending money on domains is a waste.
Last year, I started a company called codeincloud, but the domain cost around around $5000.
I just changed our company's name into kodeincloud :) (It's more sexy than codeincloud and and cost $12)

Recently I just purchased another domain for one of new product. Actually I named the product just after I got a domain. It's Dokeeno (http://dokeeno.com)

The point here is don't spend on domains and name of your company, Just build the brand & product
Based on the anecdotal comments, it seems like there's a very high correlation between posts that get flagged as inappropriate by Facebook and those that mention Google+ or link to it. Which seems absurd, on the face of it, but I am going to have to experiment.
Completely ridiculous. The next step is Facebook hellbanning people for "inappropriate comments".
if it wasn't for my Romanian developers, i would've never been able to build SlickFlick without any money or being able to code.
May be. And AppSumo which is similar to Startups.com is doing a great Job and they are doing it correct.
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The thing I really regret the most about Kurt Cobain dying is that he was only a couple of years away from the Internet taking off.

If any musician would have taken the Internet and ran with it, I truly believe it would have been him. He really didn't give a rat's ass about the music industry, and I think he probably would have started releasing music for free and circumvented the record labels. And since he was the biggest star at the time, circa 1994/1995, in typical fashion, other bands would have copied him and it would have changed things forever. I really do believe he would have been the catalyst for change in the music industry.

Instead, we had Metallica that wanted to keep the status quo, and instead of having a music revolution, we had an emboldened RIAA suing people for hundreds of thousands of dollars for downloading MP3s.

My understanding, but far from any form of authority on the subject, is that the artists get very little from music sales these days, and most of their money comes from touring, which is why ticket prices are so high these days. I would understand a Red Hat-like model where the artists distribute their music for free, but charge a lot for performances, this would be fair. But since we're paying $1/song, and the artists aren't getting much of that, what it means is that everyone is getting screwed except for the middleman, ie. the record label.
What stops someone creating a lot of fake accounts to vouch for them?

Also, how would people show this to prospective employers? Would they post the URL on their resume?
It's obviously an amazing domain and to say it's a waste, might be a little drastic. It does seem about on point or even a little high as far as its value on its own but I think that he could at least recoup that initial investment.
I agree with the authors complaints (I'm not in the same field, but the general complaint holds across disciplines). However the solution really is trivial. The machine learning community solved this problem a decade ago when the editorial board (40 of them) resigned en-mass from the Machine Learning Journal: http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/statement.html JMLR (http://jmlr.org) is now the premier venue for machine learning publications, and you can visit their home page to see the (non-)restrictions they place on access. They are also very cheap to subscribe to if you prefer dead trees. Any other discipline that really cared about open access could do the same in a heart-beat. The research produced by a discipline is largely consumed by that discipline. If they want to know who is keeping the academic publishing racket alive they just need to look at themselves.
Exception models have been analyzed extensively for about 40 years, what you're referring to is the "resumption model". I know PL/I supported it, circa 1980. There are problem domains where it makes sense, think about hardware exceptions for example where you generally can resume.
Somebody please make a physical simulation of this and animate it.
I think there's a potential problem when development and curation is attached too closely to marketing. It's analogous to what can happen in big software companies when development becomes sales/marketing driven.

Separating these functions might be the big thing the Internet does/is doing for music. Why not separate out marketing, and have artists come to and pay music marketing companies? In a way, this is what already happens, with major labels getting signed artists into debt. This would eliminate conflicts of interest with artist development and curation. For that matter, separate out artist development, so big companies aren't motivated to turn everyone into a machine for producing mainstream genre music. Also, by separating out the function of curation, tastemakers can concentrate on being great tastemakers and be free of pressures from the marketing department.
> If they made text-messaging free—or just counted its data use against your data plan—but raised the price of your data plan by $15/mo, how would you feel?

If it meant I could use my own system instead of being firewalled to their weird broken service? And everything acted like a dumb pipe? I'd feel pretty great actually.
Some of my favourite artists are on those labels you mentioned. Bandcamp is great too. I love it because it's simple.