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It can apply to journalism, but as easily as programming? It's hard to say, this is an interesting question. I think it boils down to this: how easily can a person from the outside gain experience in a field?

There's a wide spectrum here. In software, it has become (especially in recent years) extremely easy to write and release an application to the world. Web sites, wireless apps, and so forth. So if you're going to work "for free", you really don't need to join a big organization to get that experience. I'm not saying there couldn't be benefits, but you could almost look at a startup as an unpaid internship working for yourself with massive upside.

On the other side of the spectrum you might find something like surgery. I heard about a man who knew how perform a procedure on infants, who was later discovered to not possess the right credentials and licensing. He had "learned by doing." I guess you could view much of medical school and residency as a non-paid (or low paid) internship in a field where many people believe it would be unconscionable to sidestep the normal training.

How hard is it to just launch your own fashion line, create your own "journalism" experience by starting a blog, and so forth? The world is opening up - certainly it's getting easier and easier to create, market, and distribute without the permission or help of a large organization. I think software is at the forefront, but certainly other fields are opening up as well.
Those were the top domains used by spammers:
16514 gmail.com
7300 hotmail.com
3267 yahoo.com

How come gmail is so popular with spammers?
All they'd have to do to differentiate themselves in this market is:

Create a clean, easy-to-use, app-store-enabled experience, without lots of cables, multiple boxes, and ugly UIs.
This is an excellent point! "Make things as simple as possible but not any simpler" The solution is not try to keep the current situation and try to simplify (or translate into simple English) the legal contracts, which is pretty much impossible, but change, to the extent possible, the need for complexity.

"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it" In the OP, rms is taking the pragmatist approach and is willing to suffer the complexity, i.e. reading the huge binder if it could've been found. The solution is to reduce the need for doctors to hide behind such high legal walls.
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Which is a bit sad because it's really the fastest freely available BLAS style library. Quite competitive with Intel MKL and much faster than ATLAS.
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Port of Chrome would be rejected for completely different reason: Apple disallows downloading and executing dynamic code from internet unless they're executed by Safari's JavaScript engine. This is not the case with Map. There's already a lot of GPS apps with different map data than the one in Maps app.
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By all means read the documents that are actually contracts.

But those are only a few pages. The rest of the documents you have to sign when closing a real estate purchase are mostly boilerplate disclosures about mold, asbestos, flood zones, penalties for fraud, etc ad nauseum. Anything that's actually important in the disclosures you'll already know about if you did your pre-purchase investigation properly. So there's no point in wasting time reading those disclosures in detail during the closing.
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But other comments reflected a view that today’s young adults should just grow up.

Hmmmm. Bullshit alert going off.

Every generation needs to come of age, get their education, look around in the world, and fit in. Many times this involves a lot of protesting and asking for change, complaining about the way things currently are, and experimenting with various alternative lifestyles. This is good for everybody.

What some observers see -- probably because of the way the press reports it -- is a lot of kids who are ass-deep in debt, lack the education (even though they've graduated from a nice college) to be employable, and instead of adapting to the world as they see it, are stuck in a mode of complaining and waiting around until something comes their way. This is by no means all of them, but kids like that make for a good newspaper story: "Still living in his parent's basement at 35, Joe Smith emails out 100 resumes per day before going to the Starbucks and playing MMORPGs all day. 'I'm just not sure where the management jobs are,' the Art History major says...."

To a story like that, sure, people will say something like "perhaps instead of insisting the world conform to your ideas, you should learn to like the world as it is and adapt. Many have found that this leads to a happier life." or the shorter form, "grow the hell up, kid!"

People who offer this advice are not trying to be callous, cruel, or insensitive to the plight of the young. Nobody is saying to give up on your dreams. It's just that big goals like being an astronaut often begin with flipping burgers down at the Mickey D's, even for people with 4-year degrees.

Like I said, I blame the press for setting up this "fight". If you ask me, most college grads already have this figured out.
How about the microcode on the CPU running the pacemaker's code?
Nit-pick: pacemakers don't shock you, internal cardioverter defibrillators do.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/pacemakersandimplantabled...
All of it can be achieved with a set-top-box and a TV as long as you ignore half of its electronics and use it as a dumb monitor.
The TLB optimizations that he started from are fairly generic. But the kernels themselves are hand-optimized assembly, so they obviously don't port. No need to rewrite for correctness, only for speed.
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In Germany, the stronghold of bureaucracy? You wish.
That's a similar direction I'm headed in for http://www.iwaat.com. I think you'll see more sites like http://thetoolbox.cc being created since searching for web apps from google.com is painful. And I can confirm from experience that most web apps have a miniscule amount of content to index, especially compared to blogs and other sites where content-centric sites. However, when you combine a web app's on site content with relevant content from the rest of the web (social media, news, etc), there's enough data to build a halfway decent search engine.

The tough part of your vision is the store. Every web app has their own way of processing payments that would be tough to tie into a single site for an experience similar to Apple's App Store. Chrome Web Store would probably be best positioned to tackle this.
They've discussed this from the very beginning of the project -- third party hosting.

The goal of diaspora is to make it so that you can run it on your own server, but they assume most folk won't want to do that.
I have been on Diaspora for a while. At first it was interesting. A mixture of tumblr facebook and twitter. I really enjoyed having a facebook style community with GIFs.

Then nothing happened. The user base stagnated. I am unsure if it was because the site was glitch ridden. Or people just do not care about privacy. Words are one thing, but actions speak. Many of my facebook friends will post anti-facebook privacy news links. Yet, they have not joined Diaspora or have left facebook.

It is interesting that they are in YC though.
Know some of them, but others were brand new - thanks. Wonder if I should do a follow-up blog post with more details than just a list of links.
The tax reporting implications and liabilities of becoming US citizen are a clear turnoff for many people. Cash is king.
For what it's worth I do agree with you that there will be another Cold War and it may in fact take place on a cyber-battlefield. I would argue though that the Cold War never ended (maybe somebody just hit a pause button).

But while technology might be used for purposes of conflict, I think that the digital age also has the potential to break the barriers of distrust and xenophobia between people of different nations. It's sort of happening on a small scale already. You are able to have a conversation with a person in China (when their internet is not being blocked) and realize that they are not a DVD-copying, cat-eating, environment-hating communist that your society might suggest they are. Governments often use the lack of knowledge about different nations to justify going to war or blocking trade. Maybe with the new age of global digital awareness we will not have such an easy time cultivating distrust and hate. Or maybe it's gotten to the point where we all distrust and hate each other on an individual level.. in which case we're all fucked
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From: t.cook@apple.com

To: gou.t@foxconn.com.cn

Subject: Re: leak

No worries. I understand how sneaky the press can be. Why, just now I accidentally let slip to a WSJ journalist about what really happened to your Chengdu workers. But no-one in China reads the American press, so no problem, right?

===

From: t.cook@apple.com

To: leekh@samsung.kr

Subject: Re: Masterplan

It's all going well. As we suspected, Foxconn can't be trusted; it looks you're our only true Asian manufacturing partner. Good thing we only gave them the plans for the fake prototypes -- can't believe the fools think a better TV is our next revolutionary advance.

PS: Love the latest prototypes you sent us. Not sure about the name though. iBrain? Also we'll have to go back to using monkeys as test subjects -- only thing I'll miss about our Chinese ex-partners is their supply of expendable humans. And lemme know when the new chips are done; Johnny's itching to finally test his iTelepathy app.
28 galaxies' worth of water all in one place is still impressive

Sure, if you want to use bullshit mathematics to get that "28 galaxies" number I guess you can make it sound impressive.

The amount of water in all the Earth's oceans is a miniscule proportion of the amount of water in the solar system, though. The Kuiper Belt, the Oort Cloud, the moons of the outer planets -- all these solid bodies are made up largely of water ice (mixed with ammonia and methane, plus a bunch of rock). The real wet spots of the solar system, though, are the giant planets themselves -- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Uranus and Neptune are ice giants, made up mostly of the water-ammonia-methane mixture that we lazy scientists just call "ice". Let's estimate it at something like five Earth masses worth of water in each planet. Jupiter and Saturn consist basically of huge seas of hydrogen-helium which accreted around an initial ice-rock core; a much lower share of their mass is water, but a good handwavey estimate would be something on the order of five Earth masses' worth of water in each of those, too. [Left out: a bunch of details and caveats.]

So we're talking roughly 20 times the mass of the Earth of water in the solar system. (The Oort Cloud, Kuiper Belt, all the icy moons, and the Earth's oceans themselves are a rounding error.)

Now, let's recompute. Total amount of water in this particular object is 140 trillion times the amount of water in all the Earth's oceans, which comes down to about 28 billion Earth masses' worth of water, or enough to form about five billion Neptunes. Latest estimates suggest that Neptune-like planets are extremely common, so there is almost certainly far more water in Neptunes just in our own galaxy than in this big cloud.

Still, quite a lot of water.
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> Young people and parents need to seriously consider forgoing college entirely

What a political football: As this gets worse, can you imagine everything politicians will have to argue about as regards "Getting our children back into college so they can remain competitive in the New Global Economy"? And would you want to be the only person at a podium questioning whether college is necessary after all?
The European custom is to ask the other party to sign on the border of the lines where changes have been made, so they cannot claim that they did not notice a change made to a canned form.

Yet, this allow the signing person to add _other_ changes once the signatures are made, but this custom is useful in the classic 80% of the times (maybe 99% in this case).
It is the information that is (in a sense) being teleported. The photons are the transporter rooms not the people being beamed aboard (to make a tortured, lossy analogy).
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This fits my experience as well--long distances are fine, but closer in it's unreliable. No doubt this is not an easy task and I have to agree that Apple faces an uphill fight here.
Yeah, and I think for most of here, there will be a "what's the big deal" factor when it comes out.

Those of us who have no problem containing our video setup inside our head, who have a Harmony remote, who have a mental picture of what goes where -- we're not really going to care that much. I think we'll appreciate a fully integrated TV experience, but I don't think we're the people who will get excited about it.

But let's put it this way, if you're staying at someone's house (i.e. babysitting or housesitting), the one thing you must hold a debriefing session on is how the TV, boxes and remote(s) work. That's kind of messed up. That's where the big advantage is for an Apple TV set.
Agreed, also the phrase "Teleportation turns out to be extremely useful. Because teleported information does not travel through the intervening space, it cannot be secretly accessed by an eavesdropper. " confused the heck out of me.
Honestly, the utility of 3D maps is way overblown. Even satellite map tiles are too- way too much extra, unimportant information.
> big goals like being an astronaut often begin with flipping burgers down at the Mickey D's

And end there, because you can't pay down your debt load with that kind of a job.

Remember: Student loans can't be discharged through bankruptcy.
Not true, as the other apps already have a very, very similar mapping function (MotionX especially, if you don't spring for the turn-by-turn option)
Except he's donating it to charity.

I have to say he's handled the attention and criticism really well. His updated posts have addressed a lot of the points I bought up in my original comment.
Originally, I didn't see an argument for Apple getting into the TV set business, when they could just continue to ship the stand-alone box. [1]

But the longer they go, being able to deliver eye-popping margins while simultaneously being untouchable on price-performance with competing tablets and PMP devices, the more it makes sense.

The AppleTV as-is, is price-bound by willingness to pay for add-on set-top boxes. There's not much room for Apple-style profit there. [2] But consumer willingness to spend on TVs themselves is much higher.

If Apple brings their supply chain magic direct to displays, there's far more profit to be had. And given the longer upgrade cycle on living-room gadgets, the larger up-front margin is almost necessary to make it worth Apple's time in the long run. [3]

It just falls into place when you think about it in terms of Apple doing to the TV market, what it did to mobile devices: they define a new set of expectations at the mid-to-high price points that their competitors just can't compete with. Their competitors still dominate the lower price-points with notably lesser offerings, but there's not much profit there, so Apple just won't care.

In short: it wouldn't be able Apple selling $1000 sets to compete with Samsung's $400 sets. It'll be about Apple redefining the $1000 segment with quality, integration and services that Samsung and Sony will be unable to match for $1000, even on thinner margins.

[1] People don't upgrade their TVs like they do mobile devices or other gadgets. It was possible they might upgrade a set-top box that way though.

[2] You can make Apple-level money selling $100 MP3 players with a 30% margin because they get lost/damaged/upgraded/given as gifts/etc. But $100 set-top boxes? Normal people (Apple's target market) barely buy them. And if they do get one and it works, they go out of their way to not change things to avoid angering the vengeful spirits of living room electronics.

[3] The opportunity cost for Apple to pursue any middling business would be massive. And at this point I'm sure they have plenty of evidence on whether people buy and upgrade set-top boxes. If the early adopters aren't really doing it, there's no hope the normals would.
Liberal arts education is both useful and costs relatively little compared to technical education. My history degree isn't making anyone's CS tuition rise.

Tuitions have been rising primarily because state governments have been reducing subsidies to higher education -- thanks to pressures elsewhere in the budget, like pension obligations. Generous federal loan policies and capital expenditures on non-essentials like swanky 'luxury dorms' haven't helped.
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Generations will always have their differences. Generation X v Generation Y etc etc

It is easy to compare income/costs however what about non-financial value?

Health and life expectancy

Globalization and travel

Academic and learning

Technology

etc

At least these can apply in the first world [1] and even second world. Maybe these are all correlated to money?

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/firstworldproblems/
it's things like this that remind me how sucky my "skills" actually are
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Ryan - how do you conduct meetings with the people you need to during the week? Is it via Skype or chat?

Also, what are the challenges of managing others via distance?

Lastly, how do you compare Asana with Basecamp?
And now that it's working I can't edit the title anymore to remove "under maintenance".

Oh well, you can't win them all I guess…
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I find arguing with the functionaries at the desk is ineffective, however since they are simply 'doing what they are told' they will often do what you tell them too. I signed a privacy policy where it stipulated the company would pay me $5,000 for each occurrence that it shared any of my information.

It went like this:

Receptionist: "You need to sign this privacy consent form."

Me: "I don't agree with that form so I won't sign it."

Receptionist: "Well if you don't sign it we can't help you."

Me: "Ok, how about this, give me another copy, I'll just mark it up a bit and we can both sign it, ok?"

Receptionist: "Uh, I guess so."

...I take the form, add various and sundry financial obligations, and restrictions on what they can do with my data, add a line at the bottom "representative date"....

Take it back to the receptionist.

Me: "Ok put your initials here, here, and here and sign at the bottom."

Receptionist: "Uh, ok."

Me: "Both copies, thanks."

I then asked on the way out where their legal office was. And and gave them one of the signed copies. The last I saw was that receptionist looking at their marked up form with a very puzzled look. :-)
I agree with you whole-heartedly. In your 20s, the best investment you can make is in your career. These days, that often means moving. Staying light on your feet and going for the best job for your career is more important than optimizing cashflow. A couple good experiences in the first 2-10 years of your career really can set you apart, especially when other people are floundering in this economy.
I like QuickBase for prototyping and departmental applications but it does have it's idiosyncrasies. Unfortunately, I don't get to use it much anymore because I am bootstrapping a startup and it is too expensive (not free enough) for us. If we start scaling I will use QuickBase to automate as much as possible.

I have a working DBAPI compliant Python module that is about 40% complete. It really needs a method to translate SQL to QuickBase's clunky xml query format. The Ruby API has one and it would be trivial to port it to Python.

Would you (or anyone else?) be interested in contributing if I put it up on GitHub?
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Unless the CPU is a one-off pacemaker-only design, the arguments for open-source here are stronger because orders of magnitude more people would have a reason to look at the code and possibly improve it.
You have a duty to read before you sign a contract. In this case, they can claim you tricked them into thinking you'd signed the form contract, and that they relied on that agreement when they provided you care. IANAL, but I suspect you will lose this unless you can show that the staffer accepted your changes knowingly.
Isn't the worst case that the contract is just invalid? If you made a change which they didn't see, then there's no meeting of the minds, and thus no contract. As long as you didn't need the contract anyway (it sounds like it's purely for their benefit), it's all the same.
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I've been in a situation where a server was temporarily pulled by feds. They almost certainly just duplicated the drives with legally-sound forensic software.
Now I get it. Wikipedia to the rescue:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation

An entangled qubit is created and half of it is stored at location A, and half of it is stored at location B. That's the insecure part, but once A and B have two halves of the qubit, the rest of the communication is guaranteed secure.

It's amazing that you can make a change to the half at A, and its reflected in the half at B, because they are quantum entangled. Now B has no idea how to interpret the change since it seems random, but A sends a kind of "public key to unlock the data" over the air to B, and B can use that to measure his half and extract the data.

The data is "teleported", but the public key used to read the data is open. The public key itself tells you nothing about the data. It's brilliant.

Mind = blown.
The problem I had with that sentence is that even if we find places with lots of stuff, it's still true that space is still mostly space.
The problem is that some of these documents try to intimidate patients by adding statements that the patient cannot sue even-though they are un-enforceable. I have also seen cases where doctors have sued patients who leave bad comments about them on websites that allow you to rate a doctor. Bogus malpractice suits are bad, but suing a patient for leaving a bad review is unbelievable.
I think that you've taken this too far. We can't make blanket statements about peoples rights and expect them to be applicable in every situation.

In this case, a legal authority made the decision to interrupt a service for a small period of time in order to investigate a terrorist act that was disrupting the lives of thousands of people daily. If this was, say, a service that was providing medical assistance to elderly people, I don't think the same decision would have been made.
"It is our pleasure to inform you that this inquiry has been preliminarily closed in your favor"

Sorry I used the word "rule" instead. I was just quickly summarizing.

Yes you should understand the legal stuff BEFORE, but there's no reason that square couldn't explain it when they were doing something too.

This guy was happily following all the rules. Square was breaking promises (getting back to him in less than 24 hours).