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But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

That I always assumed meant he left for something else, but rereading I can see that he does specifically say fired. Huh! I don't know where I got the impression that he left voluntarily, though it's one that I've had for a while now.
>> the economy will continue to tank despite (or because of) attempts to "stimulate" it

Perhaps you should make up your mind about basic economic causality before hectoring Krugman for having actually read the original texts. The General Theory is a difficult and dense book and Krugman offers a decent summary of Keynes' paradox of thrift.

If you are interested in economics, the problem with your suggestion is that by the time he gets around to discussing the paradox of thrift, Keynes has already broken claims that Say's Law forces supply and demand into equilibrium through changes to the wage level. If I remember correctly, he did this with the empirical observation that while additional wages may induce labor to enter the workforce, declines in real wages don't generally cause a decline in demand for employment.
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So what's the fix? Upgrade every machine to 64-bit?

Did/do/will 16-bit machines have a similar problem?
Just to be pedantic, this is normally against the ToS of the hosting company, and violates the license that comes with Outlook.

If you're going to pirate it, so be it, no one is going to stop you, but going through the 1 month registration doesn't really change the moral or legal issues involved.

For instance- https://www.mailstreet.net/exchange/outlook_order_1.asp?SOUR...

"As a MailStreet account holder in good-standing you may download or order Outlook 2007 media for use with the MailStreet service. You may install the software on each computer that you have MailStreet service with. If you do leave the MailStreet service you must uninstall the Outlook software or purchase a retail version from your regular software vendor. If you have multiple computers, you only need to order one copy of the software. "
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1. There were no rules on what the 'plane' was supposed to look like. Creativity was encouraged and normally rewarded in this class (I liked the teacher a lot, actually, and was irked also because it was out of character for her to forbid thinking outside the box).

2. It wasn't during a unit on aerodynamics, and in any case, "the motion of air, particularly when it interacts with a moving object" is quite relevant to wads of paper, meteorites, missiles, arrows, helicopters, and various other objects that are not airplanes. It might have been a good opportunity to explore why something like my wad of paper would go farther than most planes, as well as the relative real world advantages of different things.
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Install RescueTime and you might be surprised how much it changes your attitude. They have this nice productivity score that really makes you want to improve, just to see that little number go up and feel proud of yourself. It's almost like karma! Ooh better stop writing or that score will go down.
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This sentence made me laugh out loud:

"These Web 2.0 companies are surfing on the old wave. They're not creating the next one," says analyst Navi Radjou of Forrester Research

I'm not old enough to know either way, but I wonder if attitudes are always similar to this during a recession.
I feel a bit more secure and confidant than I did 5 minutes ago.
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The WuFoo's desing is good. But, I wonder how color blind people can actually differentiate the colors in the signup page.
Android and OpenSocial were platforms, and needed to attract developers to realize their full potential. Google leverages user data to improve their searches (and most of their other products), but there's not really a network effect in play: more users do not necessarily create a better user experience.

But with platforms, there's a real question of the chicken and the egg, and you have no choice but to drum up as much excitement you can, the earlier the better. Without the artificial momentum, it might not go anywhere.
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It's like saying Macs don't have a virus problem.
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I thought tape backup had died out (good riddance 40MB QIC tapes).

This article: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=267 from 2 years ago calculated that tape becomes practical when you have more than 10TB to backup, I imagine it is even worse now, that is you need to backup even more data before tape becomes the economy option.

Maybe there is some recent advance in tape technology?
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This is fun. When you are done solving it. Try separating the answers into words. You should end up with an interesting sentence.
While your points are perfectly valid, your tone is distasteful. Do you talk like this in person?
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Maybe the dart style planes can handle a bit more thrust?
That's true on digg, but in my experience, it's not true on:

1) Hacker News

2) Reddit

3) Stumble Upon
I like this part:

"Once they determined that nobody could make money from videotext and the technology posed no threat to the newsprint model, they were happy to shuttered their ventures."

This sounds remarkably similar to their current infatuation with Twitter. If Twitter were to suddenly lose cache, they'd be out of there lickety split, confident that it wasn't going to end them.
I'm living in Tokyo area since summer. And in more than 4 months I have been to google engine event only. Havent heard about any english-speaking groups meetups.. There're some Japanese-speaking groups though.
I'm in the Tokyo area and interested, but am a mere wannabe hacker. jon at kurami dot com
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I'll write a longer reply later and put it on my web site. For now, as a quick response:

I started with a filing system. I've always had trouble knowing whether to file the car insurance under "Car" or "insurance". My filing system is now undifferentiated. Every item gets a (mostly) unique number, usually YYYMMDD where the date is vaguely relevant. Then I put in a file a line for that item, starting with the ID, and then loads of keywords - anything relevant. Now I can find anything I want quickly by grepping that file.

* Update - that file is now on my home wiki so my wife can also put entries on it and search (using F3).

* Thought - the keywords turn the single mass into implicit "files", each item belonging to as many "files" as it has keywords, and each keyword giving a different "file".

* I do still have a separate filing system for things that have an obvious designation, and are frequently referenced or searched - like CC and bank statements.

Then I implemented the 43 folders idea, and put into that things like bills that needed paying, statements to check, etc.

Thirdly came the single "In box", and everything went into that. From there I try to apply the processing that GTD defines, although I still have some trouble. But now most things have destinations: Bin, Filing, Folders, "Other".

"Other" consists of two places at the moment. One is "Projects to Create" the other is "Read and File/bin". The "Projects to Create" folder is what I yet need to define and make more rigorous.

Next, I have a collection of lists in my PDA: On-line, Off-line, Email, House, Phone, Work, Today. On these go classic "To-Do" style notes. I don't adhere too rigorously to the "Next Action" mantra, but I do keep it in mind, and my work-style is mutating towards it. Thinking about it is helping, even though I haven't implemented it in its full glory.

Finally, ideas, results of on-line browsing, results from work, etc, all get a separate piece of A6 paper (scrap A4 cut into four) and put in the "In box", and so the cycle begins again.

The hardest part is forcing myself to use the lists as my guide, but the rewards from doing so are reinforcing the action. I am starting to get things done, and I can see that one or two of my projects are being turned into items on my lists, that become actions that happen, which progress the projects. My work-flow is mutating towards GTD, although it may settle on something different that suits me better.

I ought to write this up, but I've been reluctant to create yet another GTD zealot/derivative page.

Comments and questions welcome.
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Uh, no, chances are not that. Unless you are very stupid (and I don't think he is....) you can get what you need with just about any diet.
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I thought he lost muscle, not fat. (Otherwise why would he say ..rob protein...)
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"Hint: consider what would happen in a real economy with hard currency by allowing the price of baby-sitting to fluctuate..."

You are confusing two different types of analysis. If you had taken a (more rigorous) macroeconomics course you would have learned that there are two types of analysis: long-run and short-run. In the short-run prices are inflexible due to unions, preexisting contracts, menu costs, etc. In the long-run prices can fluctuate and recessions are impossible (we don't worry about some recession that happened in 120 A.D. for example). Keynesian economics only deals with the short run, and only in the short run can the economy be trapped in a temporary disequilibrium. Even though the economy should eventually recover on its own in the long run it can cause a lot of pain in the process, which is why Keynesian economics advocates government intervention.

"I've long had a hobby interest in economics... The inmates are running the asylum."

Maybe a hobbyist shouldn't be suggesting that Nobel prize winners be put in an asylum ;).
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No, unfortunaly I haven’t been able to find anything else beside that article, I gave up shortly after that. If someone is familiar with the UK law and politic system they could look for further info on that side, as it seems it is something brought up (and affecting?) only the UK (beside the fact it’s the EU financing this project).
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I'm actually on Linux, except that it's x86_64. WinXP was in VirtualBox.
Mine took like 10 min to make. Flies forward and upward almost for 5-8 meters(indoors) and takes a rebound and lands. It is quite a sight and worth the time !

The heavy head and longish tail are key to this plane which distinguishes from most common ones. In my case, I guess the not so perfect tail and slightly tilted wings made it rebound.

PS: I checked this post and did not have the time or excitement to make one right then. But I have to tell you, you better pick a rectangular sheet of paper right away and try this one. Mindblowing.
Wait. What certificate? There were no https connections. Of course, cookies would expire, but what does it have to do with not being able to login again?
I'll be honest. I don't like their site (http://git-scm.com/) at all.

There is a lot of good information on that page, but it just feels too busy. I think github is a far better trial of git than setting up git on your local machine (via the download link.)

I think its important to stress why git is /better/ than the alternatives.

The quickstart stuff is really cool. But does it need to be on the homepage? Couldn't there be a slightly more detailed (but simple) Quick Start page?
Sounds like the teacher should have set a limit on the number of paperclips, the amount of tape, and the size of the paper. In real life, there's no such thing as an infinite resource. :)

That said, I'm just being silly. It's school. All of its rules are arbitrary.
None. The poster's point stands: all of the above successful companies built themselves within the ecosystem of yet another product. There's no need to own everything end-to-end, Outlook is a popular enough product that relying on it is not too bad a bet in the short to mid term.
I had some good laughs at the linked article, which had some "insights" on my favorite whipping boy, digg. Quoting Kevin Rose, - '"Things change in the shower in the morning," he says.'

Business week seems generally shoddy to me. This article seems a classic example - throw some random punditry together (aim for big, publicly identifiable names though settle for companies with big PR budgets) that's semi-relevant to current news, add some overdramatic narrative, and don't forget the obligatory call for new tax incentives to further advance innovation. It's a big mishmash of junk.

Watch out for the auto-starting video that further proves my point.
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I work on a project for a Japanese university which is of comparable complexity, at least in kloc size, to the Space Shuttle.

It most definitively does not have only one bug in it per release.

However, and this is a pretty key concept: we don't bill them half a billion a year for it. (Not everybody, after all, has access to a virtually unlimited slush fund whose primary purpose is to line the pockets of defense contractors in a PR-friendly way.)
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This seems like kept woman money, like a mash note. I can't imagine what they need with this much money, so it seems to me to just further inflate their evaluation to make them unacquirable by anyone else.

Except MS, of course, with more money than god, but...

Xobni could be reproduced by Microsoft for less than their alleged $20m offer, too. Even with their lumbering corporate inefficiencies.

I don't know about you, but I don't look at massive funding rounds as success. They're not exactly debt, but they're not exactly your money, either.
.. unless you've got honest-to-god spare time as a researcher (which is a trap -- you never have spare time as a researcher), may I suggest that you're learning Python more for your sanity?
Programming Frustration Rants
I was originally going to post one specific rant, but to make this thread more constructive, how about we all share some programming frustrations we've run into? It could be interesting. Feel free to be as technical, and as inflammatory, as you want. Use this thread as an outlet for your frustration with other people's technical fumbles.

Here's mine. Apparently you can't use the C file interface (fopen, etc) with large (4GB or greater) files on Windows, because of a bug in the way Microsoft implemented the C standard library ( http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vclanguage/thread/2204ecc0-d2ad-476c-8b20-362948da8c2c/ ). Quoth Microsoft:

"The problem is caused by an internal check in fopen, which attempts to seek one byte prior of the end of the file, and read the last byte. To do this seek, fopen uses _lseek_nolock, which in turn calls SetFilePointer with a lDistanceToMove = -1, lpDistanceToMoveHigh = NULL and dwMoveMethod = FILE_END. That appears not to work with 64bit file pointers, so I'm inclined to call it a bug in the standard library."

The Microsoft rep then pastes the line of code that breaks large file support -- and also shows how it could have been fixed. In other words, rather than fixing the bug, he shows how the bug could have been fixed.

In my opinion, that is bullshit. The C file interface is designed to work with large files. That's the point of the "fpos_t" type, right? It's 64 bits wide, at least on Windows. But because of the bug, the largest file the C standard interface can work with is (4GB - 1) bytes.

The C functions "ftell" and "fseek" use 32-bit file position values, so they can't work with large files. But so what? "fgetpos" and "fsetpos" do the same thing, and they use 64-bit position values. There's no reason not to implement those functions correctly.

This is 2009. It is an epic fail for any operating system to not properly implement large file support for the standard C file API. I'm a game developer, so I'm stuck on Windows. If it weren't for that, I'd have moved on to greener pastures (OS X?) long ago.

Oh well, I'll use the CreateFile/SetFilePointer/etc functions on Windows.
Actually, I take that back. I was trying to be funny.

I think the people that work with such a goal are heroes.
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I'm not quite sure what you're trying to imply here. I bet there are substantially more people using outlook today than IBM PCs in the early 80s, or web users in 1998. There are viable alternatives to outlook of course, but I suspect it'll be around for some time. At the time the IBM PC was released there were also plenty of viable alternatives, and I suspect it wasn't so obvious which one would win at the time.
There has always been a "get rich quick" vein to the Bay Area, ever since the gold rush. I think that's one of the reasons that it's not the most pleasant place to live. When everyone's thinking "ok, get in, make money, get out", no one's thinking much about stuff like schools, parks, infrastructure.
The article lacks focus in a big way.

Freescale introduces new low-power cpu for netbooks ... signals the death of x86 architecture... ... love my full size keyboard... personalized hardware (for my dad)... gestures... so in fact freescale cpu may not succeed for netbook but might for (reaching for hat to pull rabbit out of) tablet for inventory management...

By the end, I'm left feeling that x86 computing is looking pretty damn healthy.
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newspace what?

more thoughtful comments wouldn't hurt anyone because otherwise it feels I am reading some fantasy or something.
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The end of the x86 architecture has been announced a couple of times now, even by intel itself. (keyword: IA-64) I'd be surprised to see non-x86 chips succeed in the netbook arena. There's a MIPS netbook you can already buy, I don't even know of anyone who has one. (Richard Stallman is rumoured to use a MIPS laptop of some kind though)

To be honest, I suspect a lot of the netbooks sold with Linux today actually end up running Windows. I think current Linux Netbooks are actually damaging the reputation of Linux, because the manufacturers install shitty niche distros. Why they can't just band together and pay Canonical some money to optimise Ubuntu to small resolutions I will never know. (or do that for any other mainstream desktop distro)

If there's no way to install Windows, then I suspect they're going to be a tough sale. Also, no flash player and therefore no YouTube. Fail. (don't talk to me about the YouTube apps on the various Apple devices. Apple "get it" a lot more than ASUS, MSI, etc ever will)
WxCL is quite old and doesn't seem to be maintained. A better GUI library for CL is cells-gtk. It also offers a more declarative approach compared with mainstream GUI toolkits.
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Why would a game developer need to process 4GB in one file? Why not split it in more files?

Also, assuming you don't have experience with OS X why should I believe OS X wouldn't cause you other kind of frustrating problems?
Neither did online search in 1999.
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