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Even if we accept that this is undesirable, surely it is within the ken of mankind to devise a system that hits these wealthy tax evaders without placing unreasonable burdens on every single overseas national, regardless of their circumstances.
"I tweeted about my problem an hour ago, where the fuck is my answer?".

Can anybody else verify this? To me, it seems ridiculous that anybody would expect to get support by posting something to a random website. Personally, I go to twitter.com about four times a year and type in the names of my products to do a quick vanity search about what people are saying about them. I've never seen anything like a support request (or even a complete coherent thought) in there. It just doesn't seem like something worth monitoring.

My product sites all have a contact page with an email address on it. If you want to contact me, that's how you do it.

Amazon has forums with dedicated representatives monitoring them. That's how you get in touch with them. I've never gone more than a few hours without a response from somebody who knows what they're talking about in there.
Sure you can run the VHD in VirtualBox. Then you run into driver problems (the VM drivers are set up for VirtualPC) and activation problems (see comment on other thread). And you get to do everything again in three months and hope nothing else has changed.

The VMs are free if your time is free.
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Yes, but there's a critical difference. In this case there's a clear recipient - someone asked to do something/reply. In the case of the Genovese effect, no-one is specifically asked to do anything, and no-one does.
SOAP is the cause: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charsets

Fortunately it looks like AWS is starting to use JSON for newer APIs: http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/amazondynamodb/latest/deve...
"Problem #2 is oversized queues everywhere else on the Internet. The truth is, for almost everyone reading this, you don't care even a little bit about problem #2"

Apenwarr is misreading Van Jacobson here. What VJ says is "data piles up wherever there's a fast-to-slow transition, and nowhere else". That's in your router upstream, but it's also in your ISP's router nearest to you, downstream. You can only fix one of these on your own, which is the reason for the 'alarmist' articles: to get ISPs to pay attention.
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I don't know how big the opportunity is, but from the interest in my Linux laptop store so far [1], it appears a lot of people do want these machines. Dell's entry into the market is a surprising and welcome change too.

It feels a bit weird to be entering into the laptop market just as the world is moving to tablets. Linux on the desktop is perhaps the most tragic case of too little too late.

But, as a hacker I want to try and push the world in a direction I like and not just accept the status quo.

[1] If you're interested in buying a machine, please sign up here - http://giniji.com. We're currently trying to cut a deal with Lenovo, so things are moving a bit slowly, but we should have it sorted soon.
The US actually reminds me of the relationship between the British Empire and the East India Company

This is the key! It is the all-pervasive, highest priority plutocracy aspect that is causing the most damage to the US and its image.

When your prime concern is to treat your citizens as a tax fund and then on-top of that misappropriate those precious resources in mainly multi-decade long and continuous militaristic campaigns and development instead of socially cohesive and constructive policies that protect the long-term interests of your citizen base, then it is hardly surprisingly the amount of dissatisfaction caused, especially how citizenry itself is becoming globalised by communication and technology.

Of particular concern is:

* why banks are allowed free reign to cause so much damage without penalty or preventative regulation (e.g. now, subprime is starting all over again except in structured finance commmodity markets),

* why large corporates and high wealth individuals are so permitted to abuse accounting principles to avoid taxation even compared to the rest of the West (where do you think this tax revenue will now be sourced from?) and bypass social or environmental responsibilities,

* why political campaign funding is allowed to be so corruptingly privatised particularly at the non-federal level,

* why (highly funded) private lobbies, even of foreign governments, are permitted to be so powerful against the political system,

* why politicians are so protected in office even when they behave in ways that would be illegal in any other situation (e.g. trading based on inside information),

* the extreme lengths the "multicultural experiment" has been allowed to segregate and ghettoize their citizenry,

* the extreme punishment and lack of tolerance for even the most minor of crimes in the legal system, etc. etc.

Given the above, it is hardly surprising that US citizens are both turning to and incidentally discovering the many benefits of living elsewhere and dissociating themselves from their parent country's government.
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I don't think it's such a good idea, because I'm a firm believer in a free market and government regulations only hinder competition. [...] Also under our law, you can always interrupt a contract, the only penalty being that you have to give back the subsidized amount for the remaining period

So much for believing in a free market...

Also you can not really expect ordinary people to care about stuff like this. They will gladly pay more for getting rid of net neutrality only realizing their mistake when it is too late.
That's unfortunate. :( - I almost went with them, but decided I didn't want a Clevo built system. My T420 has served me well, at least until a current odd bug that has me in Windows again until I can figure it out.
Netherlands isn't a nordic country.
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I'm trying to bring this to market, first in the form of Thinkpads, but possibly other models too (including our own in the future). If anyone's interested, please sign up here - http://giniji.com
I've been written a summary about all bubble theories here: http://blog.trejdify.com/2012/05/summary-do-we-have-new-tech...
My trick for more control on a Mac trackpad (the "magic" one at least) is to use the thumb for the click action, allowing you to hold it down whilst having full control of the pointer with a light touch of the index finger.
For correctness: I think you mean 'Gil Evans'?
Broadly I see what you're saying and agree with you. When it is more efficient to produce a new thing on an assembly line than fix it, we actually all benefit. But knowing where that crossover is is tough. You can't use the same rule for everything.

The worst case of throwaway was the 'cash for clunkers' scheme. That saw wholesale destruction of large amounts of serviceable vehicles, with replacements being created on production lines. It was wealth destruction all around and benefited nobody but a couple of car salesmen who got better comission checks that month.
US tax practice incents every permanent expatriate to drop their citizenship, regardless of net worth.

Every year around this time I stare at a stack of tax paperwork and contemplate the hours out of my life I'm about to lose to end up with a tax return that ends with "0" on the bottom line and I get sorely tempted.

Every year I also wonder if it's going to be the last with "0" on the bottom line. The foreign earned income exclusion this year is $95,100. My salary's higher than that. So far I'm always managed to make up the difference on the foreign housing exclusion, but sooner or later I'm probably going to end up being expected to cut a check to Uncle Sam.

Renouncing costs $450. Once my American tax bill hits that amount, that's probably me making an appointment at the embassy.

Let's be clear: I haven't set foot in the United States for ten years, and I will never move back. I hold an EU passport. I receive absolutely nothing from the United States. Being forced to file intrusive, time-consuming paperwork every year is bad enough, but having to actually pay taxes would be simply unacceptable.
On mac I use Clipmenu[1]. While dragondrop is certainly intuitive and clever, I personally dislike the move away from keyboard interaction. Of course we super-users (not my mother) can be more productive with 102 interactionspoints than we can wit 2.

Any ways - congrats; but not for me :-)

[1]: http://www.clipmenu.com/
foldl and foldr are sequential, but Clojure's fold is potentially parallel.
When I read http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-2-0-implementation-work-begin... I can't help but interpret it as Ruby having a similar track to Python. Future Ruby 2.0 code will support keyword arguments and refinements.

Ruby 1.9 had various changes over 1.8, like those listed at http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/getting_code_ready_... .

Some of the new things in 1.8 include allocate, respond_to, fully qualified names, Array#zip, and "In Ruby 1.8.0, both break and return exit the scope of the proc, but do not exit the scope of the caller."

That reads like Ruby of 1.6 (about 10 years ago) would be stylistically different from modern Ruby, in about the same way that Python is stylistically different.

Going back further, early Ruby had a lot more influence from Perl, like magic variable names and the "discouraged" flip-flop operator. The plan is to remove these in some still hypothetical Ruby 3.
Amen. I can't see the right page because I have two monitors and the magazine is centered across the entire desktop, while fullscreen only fills the (primary) left monitor.

How I loathe programmers who try to redo everything inside flash; and their inevitably failure.
Thanks. After reading the other comments, it's apparent Apple users simply drag and drop a lot more. I think there a many more common use cases for dragging and dropping than on Windows - perhaps from the days of designing for single mouse button user experience.

Anyway, extremely interesting to see, so thanks for not all downvoting my ignorance immediately!

Well done as well to the OP for battling and getting his app released. Seems as though the hard work is paying off!
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I'm curious, what's the average email of those 17? Like, what's the subject and/or value to the recipient and you?
I get very annoyed by clothes and shoes that do not last. I'm lucky to get a couple of years out of shirts and shorts. The only thing that seems to last is levis jeans - I've been faithfully buying them for decades and the style goes before the fabric does.

As for disposable furniture - it's frustrating as it deterioates quickly if moved around. I learnt to make my own furniture. Very rewarding but painstakingly slow. But then, if you plan to keep something for 50 years, what's a couple of months to build it? Everything I have built myself (with help from my Dad, who hands down the knowledge and tools) is still in perfect condition. That's because it's made properly in the first place, from quality materials.

I've also taken up my own car maintenance. Cars are big complex devices, and debugging one can be fun if you know where to start. Modern mechanics can't possibly keep up with all the various models and if they can't diagnose something in 30 minutes they won't, and just start replacing parts at random. Armed with a home data port program, an analytical eye and plenty of internet research, it's possible to track down problems yourself for a fraction of the cost.
Interesting article, Mr. Stross. I think it's great to see so many people hungry for the next new thing, out hustling and working hard to try to make it happen.

As awareness of startup culture grows, it is necessarily going to attract some goofiness. That's OK. Not every idea is a good one, and not every good idea is going to work. We need these stories to make the successes stand out so much brighter.

You may be right, but I hope you're not. I see things like Pebble's success on Kickstarter, Amanda Palmer bringing more attention to the idea of crowdsourcing funding for something that is every bit today's poetry, and see the spread of the paradigm shift we all already value (or else we wouldn't be here). I think it's right to be nervous, but I am cautiously optimistic that hacker/maker/startup culture is an attractive alternative to the existing production model.

I always appreciate your thoughts, but nowhere near as much as I would appreciate a new Laundry novel. Thanks for the good times.
Germany has a very restrictive dual nationality policy. Though technically their rules do permit an immigrant to apply to be permitted to keep his original nationality, this is not something you can expect.
Then why is BREIN allowed to force Ziggo to block access to TPB?

I'm glad Dutch ISPs are not allowed to throttle my traffic to specific websites. But apparently blackholing it is still allowed.
I like the format of a magazine. I have to dedicate myself to reading it, rather than being distracted.
Wrt to building new apps: are these apps your main income or is it something you do on the side?
No; Bill Evans and Gil Evans are two different people (and both collaborated with Miles.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Evans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Evans
"likely to cause death or serious injury"

No

You don't know what parts they were, but I'm sure the repairer evaluated the situation.

This is an extreme sheltering mentality

An old product certainly does not conform to modern standarts, but it's reasonably safe (given you don't do anything stupid to it)
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I was procastinating to the max the other day and instead of doing any real work, I was furiously scrippling moustaches onto pictures in a magazine. Then I had brainwave that there has to be a better way! Alas, facetache was born! :-)
I don't agree that governments should force warranties on anything. You might think it's going to fix it, but it's just going to create an unexpected consequence somewhere else, like a feeble progress of innovation, risk averse manufacturers or probably something like an oligopoly of a handful of manufacturers who have the financial resources to run such long warranties. We wouldn't have an iPhone 4S if Apple was still spending time and money repairing Gen 1 iPods.

It's not a broken economic system. Forcing people to keep things for longer won't make anyone better off.
He's said something pretty similar about J: "I highly recommend that all programmers learn J. I doubt most will end up using it for daily work, but the process of learning it will stick with you. J is so completely different from everything else out there, and all your knowledge of C++ and Python and Scheme goes right out the window, leaving you an abject, confused beginner. In short, J will make you cry." (http://prog21.dadgum.com/48.html)

While I think multiparadigms are very practical, the easy availability of familiar approaches is a weakness when using them for studying programming.
I'm pissed when things brake. But:
Repairing things is an opportunity to save your own money. And to save your own planet. And possibly explore and learn something new, or at least harvest some spare parts. And just enjoy the fun of disassembling stuff.
Telecoms are such a highly regulated market already (just to start with, you have to have paid a few hundred million for a bit of spectrum, if there's some available at all), that I don't see this extra regulation breaking it even more.

On the other hand, it's an essential bit of regulation to ensure that the market for services running over those networks works more like a free market. That is, I think you should favour this one ;)
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Depends entirely on what the job was. If I'm hiring a programmer who is expected to write C for an embedded platform, then I probably wouldn't hire them. If I'm hiring a 3D artist whom is expected to write mel scripts, then I wouldn't care about those things and wouldn't even be asking those questions.
I've done this. I even wrote a blog post just like this. But I found out this doesn't work very well and in fact can easily leave you with a corrupted repository, specially if you try and push to the repository from a second machine. The problem is aggravated because git creates a lot of files and Dropbox doesn't have rollback by directory, only file by file. There are many blog posts and answers over the net by people that realized this just doesn't work so well. I currently use bitbucket for free private git hosting. I also have a script that uses git bundle to create an archive inside my Dropbox folder, just for redundancy.
Would you:

* sleep on a heavily soiled mattress made of highly flammable material

* dress your baby in highly flammable second-hand sleepwear

* consume unsanitary meat that has been sitting out in the heat for too long

* feed your family a diet of donated junk food including chocolate, biscuits, chips and frozen pizzas

* give your teenage daughter a second hand hair dryer with a frayed electrical lead exposing live wires

* wear bright fluorescent green clown-like clothing that has been collecting dust in someone's attic for 20 years

* allow your children to play with lead-painted toys that pose a choke/suffocation hazard

What makes it acceptable to purchase a brand new electrical appliance and dispose of the old, worn and unsafe one to the less fortunate? What message does it send?

Charities are forced at great expense to dispose of huge amounts of junk similar to the items listed above. It's not just a case of charities looking out for everyone's safety and well-being. To a large extent it's also a desire not to insult those in need by offering junk that the rest of the world wouldn't want to purchase and use.

The rule of thumb that charities use is: donate items that you would purchase yourself or gift to your friends and family.
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"but nowhere near as much as I would appreciate a new Laundry novel"

So very soon, July last time I looked on Amazon.
Alex is a good name for this, as it's gender-nonspecific. I tend to assume Alex's are female unless I know otherwise (like Lesley's or Hillary's).
In those mails not replied to, mails WITH someone in Cc and mails WITHOUT anyone in Cc are in ratio of ~2/11.

Am I missing something, or does this have no statistical relationship to the number of replies received?

Mails replied to could have all had a CC, or none had a CC and the CC ration for unreplied mails still be the same, no?
Sending stuff for approval and approving stuff done. This is a busy day, though.
+1, although we use "git fetch origin && git rebase -p origin/branchname" to avoid the nasty behaviour of 'git pull --rebase' where it rewrite all commits of a merged branch on the current branch instead of just redoing the merge commit. Looking back at a 18 month old part of the history and seeing (feature branch x was merged here) is far more helpful than finding a bunch of duplicate commits IMHO
Unfortunately I'm starting to agree with the bubble 2.0.

Last year I didn't believe it that much, but this year I'm starting to see crazy company evaluations, highly inflated that don't generate any revenue at all, so I don't know how can they be worth billions of dollars, but I know math and little about economics.

But if bursts, it's a good thing. It brings perspective, a thing that's missing a lot these days, where every social app or thingy that's the hottie of the week is evaluated on > $400M.
Well, let's hope useless eaters like yourself get vasectomies or just euthanize yourselves for the Sake of Humanity, in which you are having great trouble assimilating. That's why you're just a figment of the imagination and should remain that way.
Looks nice!

I wonder (judging from other comments) if people know the hack whereby you can start a d'n'd and then use command-tab to switch apps while dragging. Saves a lot of grief.
Saying that something is going to happen is easy, as in astrology easy. The meat of any prediction is in the timeframe. If you know for sure that the bubble is gonna burst in n months, you should bet against it in the stock/future market.
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The main point was the "from Amazon" part. It really seems like the largest online retailer would have some company, no matter how big or small, selling Linux laptops.
> and there's no parallel fold.

When working up from the bottom it might seem that this is just manual stream/list fusion. But the parallelism is the key prize. We need to stop defining map/filter etc in terms of lists/sequences, and, once we do, there is nothing to fuse, no streams/thunks to avoid allocating etc, because they were never essential in the first place, just an artifact of the history of FP and its early emphasis on lists and recursion.
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This is the site. The story is about solving the PvNP problem. http://www.travellingsalesmanmovie.com/
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Am I missing something? The example of a "poetry startup" is obviously meant to be an extreme case, but doesn't prove anything about a bubble -- rejected from YC, miles from funding, no product, no customers. If this idea just closed a $500K seed round, it would be a different story. But people have been coming up with silly business plans forever... What makes this one a particularly convincing bellwether of the imminent pop of the 2.0 bubble?
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Absolutely all manor of injury could be lessened or avoided by self-driving cars. And improvements made in property damage, absence from work, enforcing traffic laws, parking infrastructure, driver training, accident forensics, and on and on.

My point was just to defend humans from the hyperbole that we drive all horribly today. We have cumulatively driven trillions of kilometers. Our cities and entire economies function because for the most part when you get into a car, you can expect to arrive at your destination. This is no small feat. But yes I look forward to self-driving cars vastly improving on "okay".
Hmm, just looking at your homepage there I can't say I'm entirely sure what you do. What do I gain by buying a Thinkpad from you instead of buying it from Lenovo and installing my own distro? Do I save money by not having to pay for a Windows license?
Why not just place the entire repository in Dropbox, and still use something like GitHub or BitBucket for remote tracking?

I have all my repositories in Dropbox (or it's equivalent), regardless of them being in a version control system or not.