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The best overall study of Boyd and Boydism is Robert Coram's book Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed The Art Of War: http://www.amazon.com/Boyd-The-Fighter-Pilot-Changed/dp/0316...

The best general-audiences intro to Boyd-as-philosophy is probably Chet Richards' book Certain to Win: http://www.amazon.com/Certain-Win-Strategy-Applied-Business/...

Wikipedia has some brief descriptions of Boyd's work and thinking in his page on him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Boyd_%28military_strategis...

Fast Company magazine did a decent article on Boyd-for-business back in 2002: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/59/pilot.html

Many of Boyd's original writings have been preserved and made available for download here: http://dnipogo.org/john-r-boyd/ (Warning, though, these were not written for a general audience and can be quite dense.)
I do not drive recklessly, get in trouble with the law, or change jobs like gloves. I am, by most accounts I would think, a normal, decent citizen. My credit is still pretty shot because I hurt my leg before I had health insurance or a job.

Life isn't so easy to summarize. Bad things happen to good people (whether I am one or not is another question).

Time and chance happeneth to them all, in short.
That was an issue I had with the post: how can "non-relational" be a good thing about CouchDB? If you have relational data, then there's an entire theory (relational algebra) behind ways to interact with it that have clearly defined semantics. I can see that one may decide they don't need that, but I don't see how it's absence can be a good thing. Being non-relational frees CouchDB to provide different kinds of capabilities, but it's those capabilities that are a good thing, not the lack of being relational itself.

Rather, I think the author has confused "relational" with a lot of other properties of relational databased management systems - such as transactions and data integrity guarantees.
Sony Xperia U Review and Price in UK.
Every religion objects to killing folk.

Every religion has exceptions to the rule.

This is a rational accommodation. Religions that don't make those exceptions run out of followers real quick.
> Honestly, I think most of the hard real world software problem tend to deal with legacy systems and the near organic mess that builds up over time.

Have you read papers like:

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp...

http://research.google.com/archive/bigtable-osdi06.pdf

http://kowshik.github.com/JPregel/pregel_paper.pdf

http://www.research.ibm.com/people/m/michael/ieeetpds-2004.p...

These papers all describe solutions to "hard real world software problems" and have nothing to do with legacy systems. If you think there aren't hard problems in software, you're probably not working on one.
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Yes, I disagree. Again: employers know that each employer who stops paying any wages reinforces the non-paying equilibrium by increasing the price-point-zero oligopsony.

Market dynamics work as you described when buyers are required to actually pay something.
That would be clever way to quickly fund his Square account, although it wouldn't avoid the overdraft fee after the ECH was initiated.
The problem is that:

- The safety standards for getting new drugs approved are incredibly lax. All you need to show is that it helps the person in some measurable way for the first six weeks. You don't need to show that the drug is safe or effective for longterm use, even if the drug is designed for longterm use. And you don't need to show that the person's overall health and wellbeing is improved, just the one condition the drug is designed to treat. So if an acne drug causes liver failure it will still get approved as long as it's effective at treating acne.

- The government has been caught many times injecting political dissidents and others with fake vaccines, most recently in the case of the Bin Laden family.

- Most academics believe that the US government was responsible for starting the AIDS epidemic by running vaccination programs in Africa. [1] [2]

- The government has repeatedly shown that they don't take evidence of safety and quality problems seriously at best, and actively prosecute whistleblowers at worst.

[1] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/health...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/The-River-Journey-Source-AIDS/dp/03163...
I'd like to try it, but you have to sign up for a newsletter to do so. That doesn't make sense.
I read about this years ago in The Eudaemonic Pie, I believe.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Eudaemonic-Pie-Thomas-Bass/dp/0595...
Nice and low price mobile.
Please see the following salary survey:

http://www.clearancejobs.com/files/CompensationSurvey2012.pd...

It is:

> A comprehensive earnings survey of security-cleared professionals, with 11,436 respondents from November 2011 to January 2012

> Key Findings: Earnings for professionals with an active federal security clearance increased over two percent since the 2011 ClearanceJobs Compensation Report, with an average total compensation of $90,865.

Based on this empirical evidence, it is clear you are a bullshitter who doesn't know what he is talking about as your stated numbers are not even remotely close enough to the real numbers to have the least bit of credibility. Or perhaps you would care to provide a citation to your own 11,436 person survey of those with clearances.

The survey cited here includes low skill stuff like IT support. Breaking out actual developers in one of the report's table we have the following total compensations:

IT - Engineering (Software or System) $113,098

IT - Software (Programming or Web Dev) $101,809
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The chat room is the perfect tool for organizing the team communication. It completely change the way you interact with your teammates. Asynchronous communication is powerful and should be done the right way (not emails for saying we are having lunch!!). We use HipChat too (and Trello). We were so convinced that working with the right tools and the right workflow was indispensable that we wrote a book showcasing the needs we had as a team and the tools we used to fulfill these needs http://leanpub.com/startupflow.
Code reviews are just opportunities for institutionalized bike-shedding.

And in cases like this ensures further humiliation.

Instruction can work, but it requires a smart programmer who can do it right. Collaboration can work but it reduces the speed you can think at to how fast two people can communicate instead of how fast one person can think.

And no, I don't have good solution (other than to ensure you only hire the best people).
Way to cherry pick words to make your argument. You didn't just pluck a sentence out of context, you plucked a small part of a sentence that ends with precisely what you are trying to argue for.

For those whose reading comprehension skills are not blinded by anger, here is the full sentence:

We wanted to increase the likelihood of attendees seeing people who they share something in common with, provide some new people with the opportunity to speak at a conference, and (most importantly) have great people give presentations that inspire others.

(italics mine)
A missing feature, even an important one, is part of the initial purchase consideration. It's not comparable to a severe defect found months after purchase.
The majority of patients have ZERO ability to evaluate the risks and benefits with pharmaceutical intervention. The best example I can provide is patient compliance (do they take their drug as prescribed?). You'd be hard pressed to find a rate higher than 50% for any disease (other than the immediately life-threatening ones).
The article tells us that lives in the US were valued at $4.85 billion. So what was the payoff for victims in China that permits the conclusion that 'American lives are quite cheap unlike those in China'?
Yes, an internship is a job. You work for an employer. That makes it a job. Pay the hell up.
On google ads (at least Display ads), there's this little triangle in the corner with plenty of opt-out options. More info here:

http://support.google.com/adsense/bin/static.py?hl=en&gl...
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No, Microsoft, I will not give you my email address to try out your new search service. You still refuse to respect my email preferences for several other services. Your new design seems like a neat idea. If it was halfway decent, I'd have sent other people to go try it, but instead, I'll ignore you like usual.
In talent war, 'brogrammers' lose
Im all about frugality (when warranted) in a startup situation, but $150 a month? That's a cell phone family plan bill, man.
I've been mad at Google every since they took away easy access to cached pages.
Especially when a lot of today's 65+ year olds are more useful to society than most teenagers...
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A couple of months ago, I searched for online stock brokerages and visited a couple of sites. For next few weeks, ALL is saw was online brokerage ads whichever site I went, from my home machine and laptop to my office machine. It was really irritating.
But it's probably easier to find out than if Amazon was not publicly traded. I am no expert on this, but I am sure that major stockholders have means to find out everything they want about Amazon's Kindles sales.
After just superficially skimming through the FreeBSD handbook, it seems similar to Red Hat's Deployment Guide [0]. Red Hat has lots of other useful documentation on topics like storage and virtualization administration [1].

[0] http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6...

[1] http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/i...
All popular software-synthesizer knob controls adjust the value by dragging vertically. Including the really well-designed ones like Ableton Live.

Which is why this piece of UI is rather counter-intuitive, and it's obvious the author hasn't ever really used any other software with knob controls.

But even then, I kinda think knob controls aren't very user-friendly either way. I can sort of understand their usage in software synths as a skeuomorph, but that's about it.
Bjarne did it all for us. http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/I_did_it_for_you_all
> such technology will never be released.

What was the reason given?
>> It's that Adobe wants you to pirate the crap out of CS6, because they know they won't get money from you anyway.

Interesting. I've heard this thing before, with Photoshop and Windows too. Is there any evidence for this?
Checked exceptions are great, but unchecked exceptions are a huge disaster only mitigated by failsafe features such as RAII or garbage collection with finalizers. Sometimes like in highly dynamic languages the failsafes are enough that it's ok to just use unchecked exceptions, but in a language like C++ you really can't afford to make mistakes in the first place.

The process of adding an exception in Java:

1. throw TheException

2. compile

3. add "catch(TheException e)" to fix errors or "throws TheException" to signature

4. repeat 2 until no more errors

Compare to C++:

1. throw TheException

2. examine all functions to determine if they might need to handle TheException or consult intuition about program structure

3. repeat 2 until 'done'

So the real problem with exceptions in C++ is the compiler can't tell you where to look next and what you forgot about. Step 2, magically find all the places that should catch the exception, is both time consuming and error prone.

I find it strange that C++ has all kinds of strictness with types (have to cast void*, const virus, etc) but with exceptions they just throw caution to the wind.
This is the first place I remember seeing it, still very much a bit of satire at the time:

http://www.quora.com/Brogramming/How-does-a-programmer-becom...
I wish I could track down the source for this, I think I heard it once at a conference. In regards to Coke vs. Pepsi, Pepsi is sweeter so when tasted in a small amount people tended to choose the sweeter drink. However when people have a full can the extra sweetness was a turn off.
This is similar to what FriendFeed did in 2009 - storing schema less data into MySQL: http://backchannel.org/blog/friendfeed-schemaless-mysql
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Oh, if the employer can provide a liveable income in 20 hours/week, I've got no problem with that!

But yes, it simply shouldn't exist. Well, maybe we can allow an exemption based on age or legal dependency status for teenage kids earning extra money at a movie theater. In that case, though, the parents are basically subsidizing the movie theater.
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Shit. I hope he's okay, it's difficult to tell what happened through the lens of Google Translate. Anyone have more information?
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No... no he wasn't...
All of the points apply equally well to IRC or any other groupchat you may want to use (satisfied paying HipChat customer here, just sayin').
It's the wrong UX for sound related apps because in that industry people expect to adjust knob controls by dragging on them up or down so they're going to be confused and decide these knob controls are "wrong".
Just remembered, Cloudera has some nice tutorials & videos on Hadoop, Map Reduce, etc

http://www.cloudera.com/resources/training/
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This isn't true. When the FDA held their hearing about Vioxx, they also evaluated Celebrex as well.

Vioxx was found to have serious CV risks associated with it at ALL recommended doses. Celebrex was found to have CV risks associated with only the highest dose.

The FDA made the call that Vioxx should be gone and that Celebrex can stay (with an updated label that describes the risks). Same with Naproxen.
Given that, Ahn Chul-soo, one of the two candidates with most public support in the upcoming Presidential election is founder of an anti-virus software company, I think days of 'Paying the Price' will end soon and abruptly.

I don't think it matters if he wins or loses. He can catapult this issue up high enough to trigger another governmental [over-re]action to undo the damage done.
> Getting money quickly from a merchant account is a privilege, not a right.

What is this, a forum for dads of teenagers? "Getting money quickly from a merchant account" is a feature that services like Square can either try to provide insofar as the law allows, or not. I really don't see the point of making this a moral issue.
Sort of. But I would have expected Square Support to be a bit more sympathetic, especially if it is true that the customer had been a long time Square user with a good amount of transaction volume.

Square defenders seem to think that Square was going to automatically lose the money when the reality in a case like this where the customer has a good track record is that 1) the chargeback may have been won and 2) Square may have been able to collect from the merchant had the chargeback stuck.
That doesn't seem like a very large number. Are you sure?
Facebook plans to have more than 500 "investors", which means that they will have to disclose their financial results anyways, regardless of whether they remain private or not[1]. Given this situation with respect to financial regulation, you might as well become public since you don't gain anything by remaining private. You could say that Facebook is "forced" to go public against their ideal wishes. Little wonder why they wouldn't be coming to Wall Street begging for money.

[1]Facebook revealed in a document sent to potential investors in early 2011 that it was planning to increase its number of shareholders to more than 500. This will force the social networking site to either disclose a lot of financial information or go public by April 2012 -- which is 120 days after the end of Facebook's last fiscal year[2]. Typically the forced disclosure of financials triggers companies to go public, listing their shares on an exchange and, hopefully, cashing in. - http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-01/31/facebook-ipo-...

[2]The 500 shareholder threshold forces companies that have more than 499 investors to divulge information about their financial performance. Although the company may still remain private, it must file similar documents to those of public companies. If the number of investors falls back below 500, then the disclosures can be omitted. - http://www.investopedia.com/terms/5/500-shareholder-threshol...
Limitations of our universe, such as time, brain capacity and sanity?
I often wonder if people such a yourself realize that the people who conduct the so-called serious medical research will be out of a job if their studies turned out against the interests of Big Pharma. People also used to die from hospital acquired infections until doctors realized it may be a good idea to wash their hands between patients.

Oh wait, herd immunity? Right, so I'm supposed to inject my kids with chemicals for the greater good of other people? How about those people first breastfeed their own kids to protect mine from getting flu (we all know breastfed babies are healthier) and stop killing 50,000 people from second-hand smoke every year? People are scared of terrorism yet they kill themselves with the nasty $1 burgers government makes available thanks to subsidies.

People are so scared to lose their kids to Polio and measles but they're more likely to lose them to a drunk 16 year old or a driver busy facebooking. Or their own aunt chain smoking around their kids. Or give them cancer and diabetes by recklessly feeding them food dyes and artificial sweeteners. Fucking retards. Cigarettes, Coke and 80% of the crap you find in your local grocery store kill more people than whooping cough ever will, and they do so legally and with great pride.
Carrying on two jobs is technically possible but it would still be remarkably difficult and I think unrealistic to do this.

Difficult? Yes. Unrealistic? I don't think so, based on my own experiences and those of people I've known. You'd be surprised what people can do when they're sufficiently motivated.

Hell, I had a friend in college who would walk / hitchhike the 12-14 miles or so from his home to school, and back, while simultaneously working a graveyard shift job. I also worked the same graveyard shift job and while slogging my way through college. Don't underestimate people who are truly unhappy with their circumstances and who are really committed to changing them.

The argument that the system overly benefits the wealthy is still valid.

OK, life is easier if you "come from money." I don't think this is any newsbreak, nor is the internship situation particularly special in this regard.

Try this as a thought experiment though... some kid who comes from a poor family, who has little or no wealth, who is trying to bootstrap / self-fund a startup. If he/she had the opportunity to engage some help from an unpaid intern, and the combination results in a company that ultimately raises the standard of living for the entrepreneur, and creates more paying jobs in the future (possibly including the intern in question), then isn't that a Good Thing?
[Disclosure: I work at fb]

There is no dress code for people who come to interview for a job at Facebook. I am curious, was something vaguely worded in an email you've received? Please let me know.

I came in in jeans, t-shirt, and a sweat-shirt. This applies to all Silicon Valley companies: wear whatever you're comfortable interviewing in.

One of the previous I worked for used to say "dress casually" (meaning "you don't need to wear a suit"), but we noticed that people have began to interpret it as "wear business casual" and have been reacting strangely.
I'm from a huge Catholic family and my life is full of people who (a) go to church and (b) are horrified at discrimination over sexual orientation. I'm sure there are plenty of Muslims who are equally frustrated over being automatically judged by the standards of the worst members of their community.

Similarly: I know plenty of people with moral dietary restrictions --- and the hipster-friendly vegan mentality is surely more common than Kosher and Halal/Haraam --- who don't make a giant stink over pork being served at conferences. I don't keep vegan, Kosher, or Halal, but I'm not enough of a close-minded idiot to literally be offended that those people exist.

Incidentally: accused of harassment just for getting in an elevator with someone of the opposite sex? Huh?
"They don't exist, if you don't construct SQL queries by concatenating strings and variables."

My point is, people still do this. You never hear about REST-injection or memcached-injection attacks, even though those are possible in principle, because those protocols don't encourage this mistake the way using SQL as a database API does.
http://crashplan.com - Easy unlimited backup. For all those things that don't fit in my dropbox folder. Also, it's the only service I found that had few bad reviews (unlike Mozy).

http://linode.com - Good and reliable VPS.

Does it count if you only need to pay once for the service? If yes:

http://pinboard.in - The cleanest bookmarking service around.
Facebook is going to launch Facebook App Center in this month
Is it just me, or does this rumor come up every 4 months?

It just doesn't make sense for Apple. The $250 price point really pollutes their offerings, because it overlaps the pricerange for a brand new iPod Touch. Given that they're both non-phone iOS devices, the only products that Apple can cut into is their own sales. Also, Kindle Fire sales have cooled pretty considerably lately, which is making me suspect that there really isn't that much of a market for the smaller form factor tablet. That's a shame, because I really do like my Fire's form factor, and consider the iPad to be a bit too big and unwieldy.
His bio, check it.

Also I didn't know (before that) that he refused to pay his daughter's tuition and some friends of his wife had to do it instead.

Awkward at the least...
We used Campfire previously and there were a lot of things we couldn't do (1:1 chats, ad-hoc rooms, etc). So while in general I'd agree there are a lot of things which only worked once we moved to HipChat.
You can't try it as soon as you sign up. If you sign up, you'll "be notified." That being said, I was once signed up for a Bing Newsletter, and they weren't too spammy. Still, wish I could try it without having to sign up.
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I wouldn't say absurd. Certainly you can use C functions in C++. But if you want to eliminate the use of most or all C++-only features, the only way to guarantee that is to not use C++. White or blacklists can be circumvented, intentionally or inadvertently.
The “Bicycle for Our Minds” Needs Gears: Restrictive Interfaces
I'm imagining the massive problem of youth unemployment in France because employers aren't willing to take the risk of a bad hire. How's that for empathy?
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>likely pose a huge problem for both Amazon and Barnes & Noble, each of which offers a low-cost tablet

That kind of makes the iPad Mini sound like a reaction-ist move from Apple, which is largely regarded as a leader in this space rather than a follower. If so... interesting.