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I'd argue the exact opposite. Case in point #1: I bought a license for Sublime Text 2 from the developer. I'm free to use it on all of my Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. (Meaning, when I'm forced to use Windows, I actually have a decent text editor I like!)

Case in point #2: I'm trying to buy 15 copies of OS X 10.8 for our older (>1 month old) Macs. I have two options: create 15 Apple IDs, or buy 20 Volume Licenses from Apple, 5 of which I will never need as we don't buy used computers.

Don't get me wrong; I love that I paid for Aperture and can effortlessly install it on multiple systems. (Photoshop, on the other hand...) But it's not everything to everyone.
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Why own a game system?

Ping.

You may have a point with the rest, but response time is a really big deal with many games and a large amount of bandwidth doesn't actually mean a super amazing ping. And actually the speed of light presents ping issues that are meaningful to games so you will never ever be able to just locate computers anywhere and connect to them to play.
they don't really save anything on the connectivity, as everything would still be routed through Google, thus it would use exactly the same amount of bandwidth as if the storage was sitting inside a data center.

As for electricity, the cost of packaging up and sending drive units to the customer + upkeep would dwarf the costs of electricity for the total lifetime of the drives.

I don't think this really makes sense.
Who are you targeting? Are you targeting hackers and devs from Southeast Asia only?

If you are targeting developers from US or Canada, you are going to have issues with passports and all other travel complications like shots (vaccines), visa's etc. Unless, if you do it in Hawaii you will not have any of the above issues.

Great idea nonetheless. Good luck with everything.
Paying these mentors would bring up the cost though. Travelling to a remote island and renting a villa doesn't sound cheap to start with.
If this pans out it'll be a huge boost for civilization for one reason:

The distributed internet. Today the internet as a transport layer is a multiply redundant mesh, to some degree, but the content of the internet is still highly centralized.

Now imagine a world 25 years from now where everyone has >100 mbit/s internet connections and multi-terabyte SSD (or memristor) drives are commonplace and cheap. Now the idea of caching huge chunks of the internet starts not only making sense but becomes imminently practical. Web sites will be viewed less like applications and more like git repos with front-ends.
It is a market failure if people want to sell editing and people want to buy editing and no transactions take place. If no one wants to buy editing, no sales of editing is a market success. For example, it informs people wondering if they should learn editing or nursing that nursing is the socially and personally optimal choice. One could argue gl that government subsidies for editing misinform participants about what society wants and, simultaneously, redirect societal resources from things people want to things they do not want, like editing.
Isn't the more obvious conclusion that Google Fiber is just a bargaining chip for Google to use against traditional ISPs and cell phone networks? It won't even serve all of Kansas City for the foreseeable future, much less the rest of the country. What it does do is demonstrate that Google has the will to play the carriers' game, without actually committing the capital necessary to build out a competitive network.

Remember how gung-ho Google was about network neutrality, before it became necessary to choose between net neutrality and Verizon's support with Android. I find it hard to believe that Google's shareholders would appreciate the company devoting the massive amounts of capital necessary to build out a fiber network across the US, unless it was an existential question. And even then it will only be built out to the degree necessary to punish the carriers.
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in reply to csel: We're planning to do it in Southeast Asia indeed, and target people from worldwide. Many countries around here have very decent visa policies, and vaccinations are not that hard to get either.
This is part of why temp agencies and "talent resource" companies can exist. Trying to filter the ton of resumes and hire the right candidate off of craigslist.com can be quite the pain.

I do wonder though what jobs bright people without hard skills should pursue. This guide is interesting: http://www.slideshare.net/choehn/recessionproof-graduate-172...

I think people in that position should try to learn a valuable skill. Of course easier said than done but there are a number of skills that should lead to a middle class life that can be learned relatively quickly.

Programming could be a good choice. See: http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/10/dev-boot-camp-is-a-ruby-suc... DevBootcamp seemed to produce quality developers in 3 months.

Though also PR, online advertising, some focus in marketing, web design, sales...whatever.
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My grandmother had a phone that she was renting for decades. That phone cost thousands of dollars by the time my mom explained to her that she was allowed to replace it with a purchased phone. AT&T forced people to get their phones from AT&T for decades, until regulation forced them to stop that practice, and even after that they continued to bill people for those phones...often older folks who didn't understand their bills or their rights. That's not poor support, that's evil. Of course, AT&T had a state-sponsored monopoly, so it wasn't all their fault...something about state+corporate cooperation makes everybody involved behave in the worst possible way.
Yeah, well, that's where things get interesting. These villa's are pretty decently priced, for 500USD/person/month you have something very nice.
The second point is technically accurate – but does it really count if it’s a delusional movement by a few crazies that is in no way comparable to to the women’s movement and mostly based on a completely weird worldview (all the while many of the legitimate goals of the women’s movement are far from reached)?
_everyone_ is invited, as long as you can make it clear that you won't be slacking off, and you are a nice person :)
Wow. Bit of an anti-union, anti-government agenda there?

1) Solar panel installation is a highly non-unionized field. Almost all is done by independent contractors.

2) The technology behind these robot installations was developed because of government programs to increase solar use. Germany: Robotic help could be a plus given Germany's ambitious plans to get a third of its electricity from renewable sources within eight years and 80 percent by 2050 and Japan: The government of Japan commissioned PV Kraftwerker to develop a version of its robot that could install a solar power plant largely on its own in radioactive areas near the site of the Fukushima nuclear-plant disaster. Gattenlöhner says the Japanese government wants the robot within six months.

Based on that evidence, it might appear that the problem in the US might be not unionism, but a lack of government intervention in funding applications for new technologies. I'm not going to say I fully agree with that claim, but it's something worth considering....
It only "sucks"(causes problems rarely, and can be quite useful regardless) in dynamic languages. Languages like Go, Rust, and Haskell provide the same flexibility with static guarantees. All you must do is define type specific implementations to satisfy the interface(or typeclass). For example in Haskell, I can so something like:

class Stream s where
read :: s -> (a, s)
write :: a -> s -> s

and extend it to any type:

instance Stream [Int] where
read s = ...
write a s = ...

instance Stream File where
...

and so on, and I can now pass any type that is a member of Stream, to a function that expects one.
Penang is an option for sure.
Is this only for singles and those who are willing to be apart from spouses for 2 months? I'd love to go to some remote location to work for few months, but I need to take my better half with me.
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Your own comment explains why: Google has built an empire upon the ability to efficiently compile information about people.

I've worked for a small ISP. They are not nearly as competent in that regard. Most of the time, they're just hoping they can finish the day with fewer tech support tickets than they started the day with.

I trust Comcast / SBC / others less -- especially since they voluntarily opted to cooperate with the RIAA/MPAA against their users' interests (http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ISP-Six-Strikes-Plan-Arri...) ... but I trust Google least of all, speaking just from a privacy standpoint.

I realize that it's a little irrational, especially since, as you pointed out, the information is anonymous. (We think.) However, it's not so much that I'm concerned with what Google is doing with that information now; I'm concerned with what they might do with it later. Once the data has been collected, it's impossible to ever know for certain that it's been removed. Data collected about customers will survive middle management and CEOs and entire company boards. It may be sold at any time to anyone for any reason -- or given away freely. It may be used for purposes which I am not imaginative enough to conjure up.

That probably sounds a little paranoid, but then again, when I was dialing in to eWorld in 1995, I could not have imagined that 17 years later the cable company would be my ISP and they'd be snitching on me if I downloaded unauthorized content. 17 years is not beyond the life time of current storage methods; who knows what will come next?

Finally, Google can't survive forever on advertising. I frankly expected the online advertising market to be having greater problems by now than it is. Still, AdBlock Plus is popular and I've seen a few articles recently that are tentatively suggesting that buying advertising on Facebook probably isn't worth it. Google's building some actual consumer hardware now, which is super neat, but their core competency is in data mining. I think it would be foolish to believe that if the online advertising market started to really struggle, Google would just drop the thing that they're best at and move on to something else.

So I don't think it's such a bad idea to treat Google with a little mistrust.

(But their fiber project is really damn cool.)
Would you be willing to provide just a general overview of your experiences in Costa Rica?

Any negatives or things you have to give up by being there? I've heard great things about it from several people.
I'm pretty sure Apple has some form on introspection they run on binaries - that's how they find out who is using non-public APIs for example.
We'll see. I did a three month thing like this, and was sad when it ended. That was all about the people we were with though, that made the world of difference. And we had time during the weekends to get away.
Google already has a massive nationwide network to serve as a CDN for stuff like youtube. They are peered with every ISP of any significant size, and have data centers and points of presence in every major city. Not to mention they have bought up almost all the "dark fiber" they could get their hands on for the last 10 years. Their network already exists, and its everywhere, the only thing remaining is rolling it out to residential areas.

There is a large upfront free that customers have to pay for the installation. If the economics have been worked out correctly by Google, the customers themselves will pay almost all of the roll out costs.

Edit: I should clarify, a large upfront fee, or a reasonably large monthly fee.
Personally, I hate the hurdle of the .txt only, or pasted in resume.

I put a lot of effort into the layout and style of my resume, and wrote it in TeX. My knee-jerk response when people won't glance at my .pdf resume is that they are lazy, don't respect the effort that goes into design and layout, and only wish to keyword search.

This may not be true of your case, just saying what my emotional response is in that situation. I agree that minor hurdles to weed out the insincere are valuable.
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If he/she can make themselves useful, you're welcome to sign up both of you. But rest assured that competition for this will be tough, so it might not be easy. Just that it's not excluded from being an option, that's all :)
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Post in on pastebin, claim anonymous hacked them. Just kidding. Email them again in a week, if there's no reply blog about it.
to the general/non-techie public PC means Windows machine. IBM PC -> MS-DOS -> Windows

so yeah, Macs don't get (Windows) viruses is a reasonably accurate claim.
I successfully used my X31 for the entire week at OSCON. With so many Mac Pros and T430s around, I got a lot of stares when I whipped out this 12" 4:3 piece of history.
I want to try to stay away from the incubator model. Find a way to get there, hack, go home with good memories.
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I am in SE Asia at the moment (Chris Travers-- signed up on the site). If you need ideas regarding places let me know. I have contacts around, and there are great places like Lombok. The question becomes though how remote is remote.

There are nice islands near Padang, Sumatra too (and Padang is famous for its food). In terms of SE Asia, Indonesia and Malaysia both have lots of tropical islands, but there is always the Maldives and the Philippines too.
It seems that the major pass-time among people who read time capsule predictions is to count the most idiot things as "hits" as hail the people with the most bizarre ideas as prophets.

In that spirit, here's a few "hits" for everyone here:

"A new world order will emerge from famine, disease, and social dislocation: the re-tribalization of Africa, the destruction of the illusion of Islamic unity, the struggle between aristocracy and proletariat in Latin America—without the financial support of the industrialized nations, the old order will be gone." -- Orson Scott Card

"America and the U.S.S.R. preserve an uneasy accord, each testing the other's will within well-defined limits. [snip]Vestiges of reading, writing, and spelling remain in the curricula of the public schools. Those who can read a few hundred common words are counted literate. The schools train their students for employment—how to report to computers and follow instructions. [snip] There is little sex outside marriage, which normally includes a legal contract. A single instance of infidelity is amply sufficient to terminate a marriage, with damages to the aggrieved party [snip] The population of the planet is below six billion." -- Gene Wolfe

"Most Americans are barely literate, think in images rather than symbols [snip] Berkeley, California will have a theme park devoted to its high period—the 1960s. [snip] There will have been major "diebacks" in overcrowded Third World countries, all across southern Asia and through Africa. This will be a major effect keeping population from reaching 10 billion." -- Gregory Benford
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For this use case, I'd rather take a picture of the restaurant name rather than handwriting the kanji.
> Bases on the moon, an expedition to Mars…all done.

How badly we underperformed.
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> Python is single-OS-thread-only, and PyPy doesn't change that.

Python uses native multi-threads, but the GIL restriction means only one thread can run at a time regardless of number of cores or processors you have.

> If you write a lot of tests for your Python app, you might not have variable typos or function argument type mismatches, but in Go the compiler catches these things.

Use pylint and/or syntastic(for vim).

> Go is compiled to machine code. This means that, barring a miracle in JIT/VM research, Go will probably always be faster than PyPy for most tasks.

Go is slower than Java.

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...

They removed lua-jit from the benchmarks. lua-jit will smoke go in most scenarios. Here is a comparison between lua-jit and lua.

http://luajit.org/performance_x86.html

Native code doesn't mean "always faster than JIT/VM". A good JIT can do optimizations which a static compiler can't. For a long running process with hotspots(same code hit multiple times), a JIT can be as good as(or better) than native code.
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I'm currently Yale's free online course, Listening to Music. Should be a great complement.

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> Most Americans are barely literate, think in images rather than symbols

Any comments on this?
A coroutine is not the same as an Actor, though actors can be implemented with coroutines.
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Also regarding the electricity, would that not be considered theft, if nothing else.
Most Americans are barely literate, think in images rather than symbols

This rubbed me the wrong way. Thinking that way does not make a person stupid or illiterate.
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Musicnovatory.com presents quite a few interesting music theory concepts, though it is quite opaque and off-putting in parts. For example, they present a generative binary theory of rhythm, a 'tetrad' theory of chords (by fifths and 'metamorphoses'), and a whole array of binary open/close 'entities' (rhythm, harmony, and 'melolines' (the chord tones of the melody)).
I think GHC does something like that. At the very least, it exposes an API that lets you do all sorts of fun things. There are projects like Scion[1] that let you integrate that into an editor.

[1]: https://github.com/nominolo/scion/

However, there is simply less drive to develop tooling like that for Haskell than there is for Java. Haskell is a much easier language to use given just a moderately intelligent text editor and a REPL than most others. Java, on the other hand, it verbose and annoying even with a very good IDE.

So Haskell can have good support, but since it isn't terribly necessary it isn't anything like a top priority.
What fee? The only requirements are a 2-year contract, or a $300 upfront fee for the free option. And they give you a free Nexus 7 tablet with the contract. At $70-120/month, the money they're collecting on a 2-year contract isn't remotely enough to cover construction of the network and the end-user electronics.
Thanks for the feedback jmspring. I think you're right, deeper understanding takes a lot more time than 8 weeks, even at the pace that our students go.

However for people that want to get into coding for the first time, nothing is more gratifying than having a project in your pocket that you can point to and say "I did that". That is why our courses are project-oriented.

I hope that our courses pique student interest enough to pursue deeper theoretical knowledge, but as a first foray into coding, we've found projects are really the way to go.
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I can see where you're coming from but for a programmer who is beyond "programming puberty" it is a great plus to be in love with their programming languages. Even better if he/she is unfaithful, and has massive orgies (oh wait did I just take this analogy too far?)
Or you might just be hurting business of bad people. Not every owner of the restaurant is a nice and smart person who can accept negative feedback (aka. bad review) as a sing that he/she needs to change something.
It's human nature to see the future in a bleak manner. I don't know why this is - it obviously leads to doomsday cults.

Perhaps it's an ego thing - people can't believe that they aren't the crowning generation of the human race. They want to believe that their life is as good as anyones will get, because future people just won't be as fortunate/gifted/special as they are.

The truth of the matter is that each generation has led a better quality of life than the last for a long time going back. This is both technology related but also, as slow as it happens, lessons do get learned.

It's funny to see all the doom and gloom about resources running out, when that's no closer now than it was in 1987. This should be a lesson for the rank pessimists around us now.

It's actually very difficult to predict the future, because of unexpected events that change history. Everyone in this group thinks Japan is going to take over the world - they were 2 years away from the bursting of their bubble, which has never re-inflated. They also think that Russia is going to continue to be the foe, when itself was only 3 or so years away from falling apart as the USSR. Nobody could see the rise of Islamic terrorism and the massive pivot that it would create.
It rubbed me the wrong way too. I'm a visual thinker myself, and I don't consider myself barely literate :p

Then again, I guess it could be interpreted in a different way...
I wouldn't say that (1) is very correct. Economic cycles are worse than ever because the same mistakes keep getting made. But the part about exporting work to third-world countries and less starvation is dead-on.
I really don't see how.
Why was this "no" before? Seems trivial, I'm surprised this is just showing up now.
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Excuse me. That picture comes from Bidong Island, Malaysia. I know that because I took that picture during my last diving trip. We also have beautiful tropical islands in this part of the world :-)
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