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It can be dangerous to do path-not-taken analysis like that. If he sold it to idiots who ran it into the ground, he might now be saying, "I can't believe I sold my company to those assholes. Worst decision I ever made."

Some years back, The Economist covered a study that showed that half of all mergers destroyed value. And that was in pure dollar terms. A lot of acquirers do things that are financially profitable but still horrific to entrepreneurs.

I was recently talking to somebody who now suspects their company was bought mainly for negotiating leverage with some other companies who wanted the startup destroyed. I'm sure the acquirer came out ahead, but no matter how much I got paid it would have made me sad to see 5 years' labor destroyed. It might be economically more rational to sell my sick dog to a lab, but I'd still rather have it put down and bury it myself.
People use technology to cope, if they need. As we speak, I have 38 tabs open - and that's just on this computer. As you said, this helps me remember various chores online - email tabs open, still need to reply to them - news article open, still want to read that when I have a chance - etc..

I am a visual person and that's why tabs help me, they are queues. Perhaps what I need is to learn some discipline in opening a 'TODO' task list daily, though then I find that overwhelming; Maybe I need to try to give that a bit more of a chance, and maybe I just haven't found the right tool(s) that work for me?

I imagine if I found a way to be more organized then my creative flow and potentially creative capacity would be diminished. I would potentially become too fixed on organization as the main importance, and that would take away from fluidity that creativity needs; Perhaps I need this, I don't know.

If a service that tracked my behaviours was used to suggest better tools for me to use based on my patterns, then that'd be neat - however because they are a business and want to make profits - I can see it being used in less-than-pure ways.
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Strap an x37 to a saturn v and lets go back to the moon. Lets prove what we have been doing since his death was not in vain.

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seems i cant ind a post w/o a political agenda* with this great mans quote

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4EHwMTyWxI
Here's a different way to look at it: Is it our environment (including the scope of the web) that makes us depressed?
The main problem is that if you own the majority of the hashing power, you can rewrite history. You can make all the bitcoin ever mined owned by you.
Seconding this

One thing about facebook most people don't notice is it is highly customizable

Want everything by email? Doable. Want to not use the site and have most of the important things go by email (where "important things" is set by you)? Doable
Pay $100.000 if you link to Saygent's website
Just stumbled across some TOS craziness on Saygent's website. Can't link to it directly because according to their TOS I would be liable to pay them $100.000 in damages.

Here is a workaround:
- google Saygent (hope that Google got their permission)
- visit their site and click on Legal at the bottom to open the TOS
- check out the "HYPERLINKING TO SITE, CO-BRANDING, "FRAMING" AND REFERENCING SITE PROHIBITED" paragraph

C'mon guys, you're a SV startup, not Associated Press!!!
I looked at bitcoin a while back when the hype was at its peak. Sadly though by then mining using normal equipment was impractical, so i just ignored it.

Do people actually use bitcoins nowadays, or is it more of a speculative market?
That assumes BitCoin takes off and becomes popular. Which has not been the case yet.
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I agree wholeheartedly

And exactly, if you don't know how to socialize, fb won't help you with that! (in the same way MS Excel can't really help you if you don't know math)

And of course, as in the real world, there's vanity, being ignored by people, etc

But I think fb (and twitter) often provide a very good service. Just for a start, fb chat 'killed' MSN messenger
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There's really no value in doing that though as the bitcoins you steal will suddenly have no value as everybody exits the network and stops accepting them. unless your goal is to destroy the network of course.
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"write"? You mean type?

There's money to be made by owning a domain like amazon.net. You would be amazed at how many people type searches and erroneous strings (e.g., .net when they mean .com) into the Address Bar.

Just because we can't imagine anyone doing this does not mean they don't. They do. That's why numerous domainers are millionaires, some of them a hundred times over, and that's why they are salivating at the thought of running a registry.
Zappo's had shoes.com. Now it belongs to Amazon. Amazon knows the power of domain names. Users do type in the Address Bar. We might not know who these users are, but they exist. They have made a number of domainers very wealthy. And Amazon has paid millions to acquire domain names, no matter how ridiculous we may think domain names are, e.g., they paid a premium to acquire a.co
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Tcl is a bloody good language+ but seems to have languished in obscurity. I can't count the number of times I've heard people in the Python and Ruby (and Lua and Processing, and node.js, for that matter) communities announce some wizzy new thing that Tcl had 5 or 10 years earlier. I've never understood why that is. The problem with the computing community in general is that it can't see over its own shoulder. Every few years, we reinvent the wheel.

+ By this I mean you can get a lot done, in not very much code, and maintain it afterwards, and read and modify other people's code easily.
I also hated to have all my windows flying around when I would (un)plug my MacBook Pro from external devices... Some time ago I discovered Stay (http://cordlessdog.com/stay/) and now I have no more problems with that. It is great, you can define position of windows for all your different setups (profiles). In my case I mostly have two setups, at office (where I work most of my time) I plug my MacBook Pro to an external display and when I am at home I work directly on the MacBook and sometimes I connect it to another external display.

I am a big fan of being able to just work whenever I want on my computer... but I also am extremely big fan of plugging it to external displays and use ergonomic devices, and I try to use them as much as I can. At my office I use a Kinesis Freestyle and a trackball, and am very happy since I started using it. We spend so much time in these "positions" that we should minimize possibilities of having problems and be confortable... at the end we want to keep doing this for long time ;)
Assuming the manufacturer has produced 12 of these beasts already, they already possess the power to rewrite bitcoin history.

Instead of selling the machines for $30k a piece, could they not just use the machines themselves to transfer all bitcoins in the world to their own wallet? The total amount of bitcoins mined to this date should value much more than 12*$30k?

Does that mean that the entire bitcoin network should as of today be considered compromised, game over, pack up and go home?
Lots of sub-personalities involved with that behaviour. Focusing on helping people determine why their sub-personalities exist, why they formed, is the key. And you need to become aware of those behaviour patterns, and learn how to better organize when you need to; Get things sorted immediately, so there's not just a big pile + learn how to prioritize it.

I feel we all give our brains far too much to try to comprehend, list size wise, when it comes to tasks to do. People that become really good at it find their own very unique way, from what I have read and where I see my own endeavours leading me.
What's with the constant hums... Has PG always talked like that? Truly curious. No means of disrespect.
Hi Joe, Couple points:

- The current level of accuracy glucose meters are required to provide is quite poor. The current standard is +-20% of a lab standard 95% of the time in concentrations above 75 mg/dL. The strip technology used by the iBGStar a pretty big improvement. Not sure if Sanofi has any whitepapers on their site, But worth a look.

- I'm one of the designers of the iBGStar and we considered Bluetooth. We actually have another FDA cleared product that uses Bluetooth, but cost, battery life, and a bunch of technical issues led us to favor the 30 pin.

Feel free to email me if you have any other questions, or ideas!
There are bigger issues to consider when crossing platforms than wireless vs. 30 pin. One huge drawback for Android is device/os fragmentation which makes proper, medical grade, testing very difficult, time consuming, and expensive.
I would rather not. As it turns out, I haven't even finished reading "Making Software", not for lack of the quality of the essays but because my interest in this area isn't as high as I thought it would be.

I can be convinced otherwise for this one case. Could you elaborate for me on why my critique on these points is unjustified? Why is sufficient scientific evidence for to Bossavit? Why does the Internet necessarily discard older studies, and how does Bossavit establish that that's the case?
Productivity is highly valued. It's easier to be highly productive at reinventing wheels than it is to figure out which existing wheel fits a given problem.
He was extremely clear that anything less than a multibillion dollar IPO was a pathetic failure, and he’d resign before he’d let such an abomination happen. So his startup is not actually for sale.

An IPO is essentially a partial sale. But, really, if someone came and offered him $30bn right now, would he sell? If so, it's for sale (and, yep, there are certainly people who would never sell certain things at any price so it's not just an academic exercise).

There's an old joke along these lines:

"If I gave you a million dollars, would you sleep with me?" .. "A million dollars is a lot of money, and you don’t look that bad, so I guess I would consider it." .. "Ok, since I don’t have a million dollars, would you sleep with me for $100?" .. "What kind of woman/guy do you think I am?!" .. "We’ve already established the answer to that question. Now we’re just negotiating the price."
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This shows how well browsers handle bad HTML.

It always surprises me when I make a mistake in my code and I don't notice it until I next few the source because the browser has understood what I was meant to do.

I guess although this is good for the end user it isn't always a great thing for developers learning HTML if they're able to write bad HTML without ever knowing they're doing something wrong.
There is actually a quiet revolution going on in glucose monitoring technology/accuracy right now. The current standard of +-20% of a lab standard is being challenged and a host of data is being presented at scientific conferences that show better performance.
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That is a fine device, but not really portable. The challenge we had designing the iBGStar was making a credible glucose meter that was affordable and also tiny. It was a real team effort between our ID, UI, and HW engineering teams to make a fully functional, medical grade tool that also fit nicely with the portable phone form.
Anybody else think its a little absurd that `alt` on img tags are still required for valid HTML?
We've found the real time nature of transfer is very helpful. For instance, now doctors don't need to waste time downloading a meter, they just look at their patient's phone. A small technical difference, but makes a huge difference in the way the tool is used.
The morale is that everything is for sale. Of course you would not sell a person, a pet, or something you LOVE - and some people are passionate about their startup but the bottom line is that it is just a business. But the story does not say what happened next? Did the company receive an offer? Did some people leave because they heard a rumor and were afraid of their jobs or perhaps lost some passion for the startup?
It is definitely available in Germany, and most of Europe, I can't speak to the specifics about how to get strips, but perhaps this will help: http://www.bgstar.de/ibgstar
How do we determine 'popular', though? According to http://bitcoincharts.com/bitcoin/ there were 3.5M Bitcoins sent in the last 24 hours. MtGox has them at $6.50 each at the moment.

I wouldn't consider $22M worth of transactions in the last 24 hours 'unpopular'...
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The two most popular are a crock:

* Required attribute alt missing: Most images are decorative, having alt is pointless in most cases. Should be optional.

* & didn't start a character reference: proving this was a bad choice for an escape character to begin with
interesting study.
would be very interesting if internet surfung/computer usage and which elements increase the propability of developing depression.
Domain names are just not that important anymore.

Do you really think that not being able to register in a .book will hamper the sales of your new book? Or not being able to own yourname.blog reduce your readers in a significant way?

As long as .com, .net, .org and local country registrars keep working as they always have worked, I hardly see this as damaging.
That is quite a bit of sound advice.

Two of the items there hit on a favorite theme: closing feedback loops. A) understanding your customers through direct interaction, and B) hiring people with P&L focus.

Large companies tend to hire for obedience, willingness to conform to a plan, and ability to please one's boss. All of those things are dangerous in startup. Startups don't have a sustainable income stream, and just can't afford to carry too many people who don't pay attention to the essentials.
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In HTML5, the `alt`-attribute can be left out there is no way to provide an appropriate alternative text. The spec provides the example of "a blind photographer sharing an image on his blog".

In general though, the `alt`-attribute should be present. If the image is purely decorative, the value should be an empty string (although CSS rather than `img`-tags are recommended for purely decorative images anyway).

The purpose of the alt-text is some text to replace the image if you are browsing without images (e.g. using lynx or a screen-reader). Empty string means no replacement text, while a missing alt-attribute could be replaced with a text saying eg. "[unknown image]".

It makes sense.
Interesting company / "press release". So their CTO is named "Nasser G", their contact is named "Nick W". They have venture capital funding by an unnamed "private equity group". According to their website, they are based in Kansas City, Missouri but if you search the states business register there is no "Butterfly inc." The trademarks “Butterfly Labs” and “BitForce SC” do not exist in the USPTO database either...

Doesn't this seem a bit unusual for a company promising to deliver a $29,899 product?
>> e.g. consider primes, infinite but become less frequent as you go.
Here is an alternative model:

Consider you have a container of numbers, starting with a single number inside, 1. Each turn, you can add any number of pairs of two numbers inside it (with replacement, so you can add two 1's), to discover more numbers.

The first turn you can add two 1's to discover 2. The next turn (with 1, 2) you can discover 3, 4, the turn after that (1, 2, 3, 4) you can discover (5, 6, 7, 8). The number of numbers you can discover in any single turn will continue to increase as you increase your number of discoveries.

I am thinking the density increases because with more discoveries you can form more permutations of existing knowledge.
What games does Valve have that have virtual economies?
It's absolutely ridiculous, especially since you can get away with alt="".
This sucks, also VeriSign Sarl has applied for '.कॉम' which is hindi for '.com' and '.नेट' which is hindi for '.net'
My back hurts just to look at those "notebook workspaces" :( . I've worked on 10" netbook 6 hours a day for a year, on 15" notebook for two years. It is just soo bad for eyes, hands, back. Ugh...
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In the UK, .ac.uk is reserved to colleges and universities, .gov.uk to local and national government &c.

What happens about .books.uk &c? Should be fun.

http://icannwiki.com/index.php/Kieren_McCarthy

McCarthy worked for ICANN for a bit, and now he appears to be running some conferences and a web site

http://news.dot-nxt.com/author/Kieren%20McCarthy
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NEC EA231WMi on ccfl, or its successor on LEDs.
It is even cheaper than Dell 24" but for a reson - it is 23" 16:9. But it has comparable quality and being 25% cheaper I bought it.
You can get a usb based, digital glucose meter from Bayer called the Contour USB. It even has a display built in.

It's potentially free after coupons if you are buying strips.

But the glucose meter market is a huge scam, with what is essentially 1 cent litmus strips being sold for $1 each - manufacturers are milking insurance for all it's worth and the people without insurance have to spend a small fortune.

I'm sure it's extracting many millions from the economy that could be far better used.

Now that's a racket I'd like to see a startup disrupt someday.
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So, if i move my funds between bank accounts a few times a day i can create a popular multi million euro economy? I don't think 3,5m * $6,50 is the correct measurement of popularity.
Amen to this and I think the title is a little misleading no? This looks like it is really about testing blood sugar with a regular meter that has a nice connection to upload the data to an iphone. I'm glad there are smart people working on this, but I'm waiting on the quantum leap in this field
yeah I too agree that the "alt" attribute should not be considered an error. Maybe just a warning.

There's a separate chart for the top 100 warnings:

http://w3clove.com/charts/warnings
Yes, very much so. This post was about the cards that Automattic hold in their hands and really is just one idea about how they could play them.
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i think the gaming sector with its virtual economies is a very good representive for "real" economies.
in both economies it's all about feeling, very irrational.
many panics and hypes.
it's a bold move by valve to hire an economist-in-residence.
they are going for the big shot
That's incorrect. Having >50% of the hashing power gives you a good chance to double-spend your own coins, but you will never be able to steal money from someone else's wallet without doing a transaction with them.

Edit: Let me clarify, to actually steal coins from someone, you would have to forge a transaction, which takes the same effort as mining say an SSL certificate for google.com.
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You reeaallly don't know what you're talking about.
The idea that your choice is between a "clunky Dell" and an "elegant Apple" (a false dichotomy) shows an Apple bias to me. Sort of like the way that Free Software advocates have spent a decade or so referring to Microsoft as M$ (or Windows as WinBlows).
http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=141

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=53530.0

Doesn't look like the Bitcoin community ever received their first gen of products.
There are fundamental limits on the capacity of a radio channel [1], but I understand we're not really near them yet. I haven't read the linked paper in detail, but I have attended a seminar by the lead author, where he gave a summary in plain English. I gather the limit is related to the surface area of the volume that the antenna occupies, measured in wavelengths.

I think it's a fascinating result, as in my mind such results are closely linked with some very fundamental physics and maybe even an ultimate information theoretic description of the universe. I'm probably overstepping the mark with that unsupported comment, but it is nice to think about.

[1] http://www.itr.unisa.edu.au/~alex/papers/HanlenGrant04.pdf
Who cares. This is just another way to fleece idiots.

How are those non-standard .cc addresses working out for everyone.
This one time I saw a mother and a child maybe three years old entering a bus I was riding. The child behaved nicely until the bus took of, and then he begun crying and fooling around. The mother tried to invent every kind of amusement for the boy, so that he would not bother other passengers.

I so don't want this when I have kids. The boy was so obviously using the situation to get attention. I thought that the best way is to ignore him. But maybe the best way would have been to tell him why it's so annoying that he cries in a bus. So this text definitely had something to consider.
It's interesting to see the validation for Hacker News:

http://w3clove.com/sitemaps/check?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycom...

You wouldn't tell there were so many images, would you? Should they have an "alt" attribute?
It seems to be trivial productivity. People like to say they've contributed and it's easier to port trivial libraries to new frameworks. I'm amazed everytime I see XYZ ported to framework de jour so celebrated.
If one looks at the EDA industry you will have to appreciate the breadth of applications Tcl is used in. Usually there is a Tcl interpreter with custom commands written in C for optimization.

The ease with which one can quickly create interfaces between different tools I think is one of the contributing factors to its success. That and of course, the legacy codebase.
You don't need a laptop as your main dev computer to do that. Especially with *nix/BSD where you can ssh, and even port forward, all your applications from your main box through your notebook.
That's an interesting post. It can be read two completely different ways.
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EDIT: Sorry, this sounds unduly negative. It isn't meant to!

It's cool and everything, but I can't help thinking that dragging an electrical output from after the real reel-to-reel head would have been better.

Is that just me?

Anyway, now you've done it you can make neat echo / loop effects by splicing tape around some reels.