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How dare you? I'll defend my humour till the death. :-)

On the contrary, I can certainly appreciate humour, including augmented forms in which swearwords are used for effect. I love jokes and humour in general, and I indulge in humour myself, in one form or another, most of the time. You place me in the awkward position of having to claim my own qualities, but most people who know me consider me a hilarious person. I also find no basis in your assumption about my self-importance (my humour is often self-deprecating) or my attracting undesired jokes. I don't believe in fact, that I get hassled more than most other prolific bloggers.

Your own comment made me laugh for its gross misrepresentation of who I am. And I wonder how much this is due to you reading too much into my post, without knowing me, and how much I accidentally came across as a uptight person with my "serious" post.

To help counterbalance this skewed perception I invite you to read a couple of other articles of mine: http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/04/01/announcing-ruby-on-cra... and
http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/09/09/a-status-update/.

PS: The Adobe UI blog is hilarious, but I feel it's cheapened by trying too hard. I think it would have much more comedic value if it took the sarcastic "Dear Richard" (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/4344890/Virgin-...) approach, but that's just me. This wasn't the focal point of my article of course, but rather a, perhaps weak, incipit.
Sports is a very broad topic, maybe you should specify a little more what the site will be about: active sports? Spectator sports? Maybe a list of sports? Be a little less secretive.
There really isn't a response to what you wrote other than to concede that I believe that I can't provide a reasonable response to what you wrote.
I never thought I'd say this, but... the President seems kinda cool.
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1- Always trying to start something as soon as possible ensuring others that it would be improved in next iteration. even things like buying clothes, shoes and eating

2- using too much technical jargons in my discussions (switch, multitask, exception, stack etc)

3- finding bugs in almost everything. tv shows, movies, direction, games, house architecture, roads, street lamps you name it

4- getting frustrated in social gatherings, thinking "Why are all these people talking about so stupid things?" or "why dont they just get to the point?"

5- guessing what people are gonna say or do and preempt them in their discussions/actions
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I have a startup idea, we take interns on for a small fee and then bid for the scummiest jobs on elance. Then we get the slaves^H^H^H^H^H^Hinterns to deliver the goods and pocket the extra cash.

Do you think I could get some funding for this? Who's with me?
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>> Damn, why didn't I realize this was happening?

We're not really encouraged to be introspective--we're pushed from one experience to the next, without stopping to think how the experience affects us.

Moreover, unless you put in the time to assimilate your experiences (why did I behave this way? why did I react this way? why did this trigger emotion X? etc), you're unlikely to have these self-reflective a-ha moments.
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you bastard
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No, we mine it. We may discover more of it. But in ground reserve quantities are generally factored into the price of the stock of gold mining companies. So it is rather finite, and the more we explore and mine, the less likely we would be to discover more of it. Until someone invents the Philosopher's Stone.
"The environment is much more geared towards the hotheaded youth. It's not that you have a few outliers that act immature that get kept in check: everybody is immature, and the outliers are the people who act mature."

My experience being a part of Y Combinator is that everyone is precisely the opposite, though my experience is limited them the people I've met directly a indirectly because of Y Combinator.
erm, Air apps are basically flash apps with a slightly more powerful api and framework to run them offline.
It's not a web app it's a desktop app.

You are creating a pseudo problem. You mother wouldn't even know it was an air app most probably.

I don't know what makes you think that those two paradigmes shouldn't merge. Nothing at all dictates that that shouldn't happen.
Since many infected people never display any symptoms, I was too expecting a much larger number of carriers.
Good post. I feel like I put one in the failbox by using the word "hipster", which is vague and poorly defined. It's obvious that we're talking about different phenomena.

In New York, hipster has a pejorative connotation that goes beyond a fashion movement. It often describes jobless, parentally-funded young people who indulge in copious drugs and casual sex, usually "colonizing" formerly ethnic, working-class neighborhoods and displacing the locals with their trust funds.

I'm find with hipster fashion and music tastes. I'm actually much more "hipster" than most people my age in this regard. I just don't like the decadence that I've come to associate with the word having lived in New York. If you live on your own steam and contribute to society, I've no problem with you.
I'm going to have to disagree, an AIR application is no less a native application than a java program. There is no need for a network connection for it to run.
That's par for the course. See this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzJmTCYmo9g
"With positive feedback caused by our greed and fear, in this case, fear, we end up in a deflationary spiral, where everything just shuts down, and the more it shuts down, the more people lose their jobs, and the more they hoard money and goods, and things shut down even tighter."

Are there real world examples of such deflationary spirals getting out of control? Would be interested to read about them.

I am still not really buying it, to be honest. People can't ignore their needs forever. And what if the deflation is just the correction of the previous inflation? I suppose the housing bubble is an example, while the prices for houses where rising it was inflation, and now it is deflation?
I think developing idiot-only contraceptives would be a major step in the right direction.
I always wonder if Linus might integrate his projects more. Note:

* Git - a filesystem based revision control system by Linux

* BtrFS - a filesystem with writable snapshots, integrated into a kernel controled by Linus

Might ever integrate themselves more. Ie, SVN commands actually using the underlying filesystem to store the data.

Git would therefore:

* Be compeletely transparent to applications and users, storing updates and comments in the filesystem as snapshots and extended attributes

* Be able to revision control binary objects without needless storage of duplicated data.
Holy crap it sounds like he really wants to get things done around there!

I hope that's a good thing.
Wouldn't it be easier to simply learn by doing some project over the summer?

I am thinking "paying for internship" == "loser for life", to put it bluntly :-( With that attitude, people are always going to be sucking up to the big guys, waiting for their turn that will never arrive.
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We had a pretty big change with JFK, who made hats seem stodgy. What's next to fall? Jackets? Ties?
The original article: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/2009/01/niall-ferg...
OK Thanks. Couple comments:

Our bulk storage disk sees very little in the way of IOPS-requested. (An entire Gbps pipe couldn't fill the IO capacity of 4U of the 1TB SATA drives we use for bulk upload storage, and we have way more than that. ;) ) DB and hosts disks are another story entirely, and I have to admit that we don't really account for all those costs as "upload related" (by and large, they are not upload-driven) so we have some model inaccuracy there as well, but for every 2MB file we have on SATA, we probably have 20-40K in thumbnails on faster disk and well under 1K in fairly narrow, and not heavily indexed DB rows on 2 tables.

As for listening to a bozo on website...well, HN is by and large not bozo-filled, it was pretty clear you weren't one, had given some thought to this problem, and I'm more than ready to admit when I'm potentially able to learn from someone else something that might save me/my company money.

It does sound like your app has substantial sub-linear cost components, and I admit ours has some smaller ones as well but that we just don't model them tightly enough to see those components.

Thanks for the info, and I wish you the best in your endeavor(s).
What is the speed of light? - I felt a simple enough question.

Why didn't you try a non-simple question? Google is basically an almanac. When I have an almanac question, I don't hire a professional researcher. I consult an almanac.
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I think there is definitely room - in niche markets like traditional advertising where photos and other artwork comes from multiple sources, and where automation can really save money for your clients.
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I've been experimenting with gmail and tags but it's not much better than just using a spreadsheet at the moment.
Firefox is at 800 million, but I'd say at least 40 of those were me!
That was actually oddly satisfying, for a Seth Godin piece. Not exactly substantial, but his main point is a good one, and probably worth repeating.
Ask HN: good books about military strategy?
The only books in that vein I know are "The Art Of War" by Sun Tzu and Clausewitz' "Vom Kriege". I suspect german book shops don't tend to stock as many books on war as some other countries (I remember seeing the "military" section of a bookstore for the first time in London).

Anyway, I would be interested in more detailed stuff, like how to use tanks, planes and so on. Maybe analysis of historical battles would be good, too.

I guess it won't help with a startup, but for some reason I have wondered about this (maybe for strategy game development...).
Yup. And who tells me that the manufacturer doesn't keep a master key to himself?

When I go so far as to encrypt my drive then I'd rather use an open source product that I can download and compile myself. Not that I'd ever actually audit the source code myself - but at least I can be reasonably sure that multiple independent third parties have done it for me.
In short - no. That only works if you're doing something that can be learned by yourself. Not everything can, and some things are much, much slower. The insights you get from other people's ways of working and code can be incredibly valuable.

It's for this reason that graduates are advised to change institution to do post-grad work. You need the breadth that comes from working with other people.

This all assumes it's a good internship. In practice, that's not a given.
The increased value for advertisers only holds true if the advertisers are paying a fixed rate per month regardless of impressions/clicks.

As for marginal revenue of the startup:

- Fixed rate = MR falls with increasing users.

- CPM = MR falls as the more the pageviews you get, the better a price advertisers will demand from you.

- Per click = MR remains relatively stationary but as with CPM, at some point demand and supply kicks in and when you supply more clicks than advertisers want (for a certain price), they will pay less /per click/.

To get increasing MR in advertising would require changing the rate of 'more likely to buy' users relative to users in general. On the internet it's the other way around, more users == less likely to buy, and with things like Adblock becoming more and more mainstream, it hinders it even more.
It seems the technique could be used to stop the virus from spreading from cell to cell inside the patient, so, pretty much, it appears very close to a cure.
As someone from the UK, I really hope that Obama really is "the man" to make change stick. I watched his inauguration speech and I hope that the talk about more sustainable energy really does happen. He does seem a kinda cool guy though and from my perspective it sure looks like the right guy got into office there. Good luck
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yeah, i haven't tried that myself, but I don't think it would improve my current situation that much...
They left it out for a very good reason.

Basically, you have only two ways to notify device on the cellular network about some event: OTA-Push and SMS.

OTA-Push is quite nice in it's capabilities, except that you need gateway with your cellular provider (for a fee, of course). The thing with OTA-Push is, that most cell providers didn't implement it since its specification in 2001.

The another way to notify the device is sending SMS. They are not exactly cheap either and this may be well the reason, why OTA-Push is not implemented - why to kill the golden goose?

There are hacks, that avoid OTA-Push and SMS. You can go ActiveSync route and keep long lived TCP connection open, but look what it will do to your battery.

You cannot connect from server to the device. You know only IMSI, but not IP address (that's what OTA-Push is doing: translating IMSI to IP), or the device may even not have IP address or if it has one, it will be behind NAT.

So today, you have two choices: killing your battery fast or do with SMS. That is not acceptable to Apple and the networks are not going to change. You better get to live with this situation.
I would have kept the gist of the original headline: "1981 TV Report On Birth Of Internet News".

Some choice quotes:

"Of the estimated 2-3 thousand home computer owners in the Bay Area, the Chronicle reports over 500 have responded back by sending in coupons."

"It takes over 2 hours to receive the entire text of the newspaper over the phone, and with an hourly use charge of $5, the new tele-paper won't be much competition for the 20-cent street edition."
These NYT articles requiring registration that have been popping up on here every day are getting annoying.
I like the Defense News periodical, and have heard good things about Jane's Defence Weekly.

There are a lot of Field manuals available (e.g., see http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/f...), but those are (in my experience) more about tactics than strategy.
she cites psychological research -- except that it's the Gladwell/Surowiecki affirmative self-help for New Yorker readers kind of research.

She is certainly nowhere near as bad as Scoble: only Winer can keep him company in the innermost circle of blog hell.

I had totally erased that damn Head First Design Patterns book from my memory, maybe she does belong in an inner circle of hell...
My favorite (copied from Wikipedia):

The Unfettered Mind (Japanese: 不動智神妙録 Fudōchi Shinmyōroku) is a three-part treatise on Buddhist philosophy and martial arts written by Takuan Soho, a Japanese monk of the Rinzai sect. The title translates roughly to "The Mysterious Records of Immovable Wisdom". The treatise was written as correspondence to Yagyū Munenori, inheritor to the Yagyū Shinkage-ryū school of swordsmanship. Written for the laity, the book makes little use of Buddhist terminology, but instead focuses on describing situations followed by an interpretation. Its contents make an effort to apply Zen Buddhism to martial arts.

Available in PDF form here:

http://www.daikonforge.com/downloads/TheUnfetteredMind.pdf
Men can sleep around without ill effect, but it destroys a woman emotionally.

It destroys a lot of men emotionally, as well. It's just not healthy for anyone. The detached "alpha male" is an anachronism in civilized society, and the terms for those with strong alpha tendencies are "psychopath", "narcissist", and (for women) "nymphomaniac". Psychopaths (of both genders) can do it without emotional harm to themselves, and there's a much wider pool of people who are in denial about the emotional consequences... but the rest of us aren't built for that type of "relationship".

So, in truth, there are people who can have casual sex without being "destroyed", but they're rare and usually not very likeable. Most men I know who have had one-night stands regret them.

The broader issue with casual sex has nothing to do with the immediate emotional effects, but with the long-term consequences. It establishes bad emotional and physical habits, but it also makes people less desirable as marriage partners, and most people want the option, at least, to get settle down and get married one day. Most people are fine with "premarital" sex, given that we're a generation that tends to marry very late, but casual sex is an unspoken divide among young people today. We have about 40% of the population-- a relatively stable proportion across levels of socioeconomic status and education-- going off and doing this in their teens and 20s, expecting there to be no consequences because birth control "solved that". (Riiight.) Then we have a "silent majority" of about 60% who have never had casual sex, see no reason to respect it, and consider such experiences distasteful and extremely undesirable in future marriage partners. My observation is that nearly all of the marriageable women are in the latter category, and that men who have lots of casual sex in their 20s end up settling down with second-rate women when they're looking to get married. True ladies don't want to have anything to do with them. (Sorry, but it has to be said.) These are the later-in-life consequences for men who have casual sex; for women, they're probably worse.
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Remind me not to move to the Bay Area unless I have a girlfriend at the time.

Sex and the City bitches are disgusting. I hate to admit this, but I take pleasure in the thought of them spending their middle-aged years sobbing every time a school bus passes by.
This is where it really get's odd, banks pretend to have money but they don't. When the big banks lend 1 billion they did not create 1 Billion even if it looks like they did. The secret is there is more money in circulation than there is cash. So when you write a check, it just get's deposited in another account somewhere. So your bank can then borrow that money back if it needs to.

In the end there is more debt than there is money. So there is a lot of people who are constantly looking for money and they can't all get it at the same time. The actual amount of money is less important than the amount of debt out there. If Debt > money then there is demand.

PS: It's far less harmful for society to mess with the value of pretend money, than to take a useful thing like gold, and prevent people from using it for useful things. And because people don't have gold debt it's value is far more flexible. I don't think gold is worth much, and I don't own any, but I don't want to get into gold trading because guessing when the bubble pops is risk I don't need.
Nonsense. When I was your age I was killing Nazis for a living.

Kids these days...
The meat:

the robots, which look like massive orange Roombas, [...] locate the stack of shelves with the needed product on it, slide beneath the stack to pick it up and then find their own routes from the stacks of stuff to human operators. And they manage to find just the right time to get themselves recharged for five minutes out of every hour. [...]

Any worker (sometimes called "pickers" in the industry jargon) can ask for anything from anywhere in the warehouse and ship it out.

"Every worker has random access to every product in the warehouse," Wurman said. [...]

As the robots pick up loads of products and put them back, they adjust the warehouse for greater efficiency. [...]

"We find that it's two to four times more efficient [than the average warehouse]," said Wurman. [...]

they know where they are by using a simple and cheap grid system that's stuck onto the floor of the warehouse.

That allows warehouse operators to switch off the lights and climate controls in the large areas of the warehouse that are patrolled solely by robots, cutting energy costs by as much as 50 percent over a standard warehouse. One marketing trick the company uses is to bring people out to the center of a warehouse and switch out the lights: The robots keep working around the people, cruising around in the dark.
I think it's more about paying for that line on the resume, and possibly the networking opportunity.
Probably as close to a startup White House we will ever see.
He thinks Obama will ease the polarization that leads to so many vehement disagreements, which he thinks bleed over to the online world.

I think a lot of the nastiness will fade away, and we'll have a lot more pragmatic disagreements, and fewer mean-spirited, petty ones.

Disagreement over bailout plans and solutions to economic problems is healthy. Impeaching a president over personal behavior (as caddish and comdemnable as that personal behavior was) is not good for the country.
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You can try downloading some of the army manuals that you can find on the net. I know there are some for the soldier level, so there is probably some for the general level too.

Then you can go back and try finding books written by generals or about them. i.e. I figure something written about Patton would have tank tactics there too.
Google gears , Mozilla Prism are all a different genre. If you are planning to build an "occasionally connected app" that lives within the browser, Gears is a good choice. AIR is for building desktop apps.

If you are a web developer and knows Javascript (and/or Flash), you can build great apps that works nicely on desktop with Adobe AIR. AIR doesn't force developers to build custom chrome for apps. By default AIR renders the app in OS's native chrome. But if a developer chooses to, he can go for custom chrome .Thats it.

AIR is a runtime (more like Java ) for running AIR apps. You needn't "open an Adobe Air" at any point. Just install the apps you really want and use it.
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I was under a lot of stress some time back. I started exploring meditation, and other related stuff to solve my problem. But the actual problem turned out to be something else. I was not sleeping enough. I had a shitload of debt. I was traveling every weekend for about 1400 kilometers to be with my family. I wasn't meeting my friends. I ignored my back problem.

In the last months, I cleared a major portion of my debts, relocated to my home town, started doing yoga/exercise regularly took care of my back problem... I am solving each of my problems one by one. The stress levels are slowly coming down.