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Musicians have always made a majority of their money from playing live shows(with some large exceptions, obviously). Do you need this backed up with facts? It's pretty well known. Albums are a great way to advertise your live music. It used to cost a ton of money to make a crappy recording. Now it's practically free to create a good recording.

I don't see the point of the recording industry, frankly. I'm not willing to give up my right to share with people in order to ensure that the record companies exist. Sorry. Listen to the crap that is put out by record companies. They control the radio stations. You here the same thing all day, from DJs who don't even know what they are playing. Most of the quality stuff is made without their help, they merely act as a distribution channel.

I see music as being much more home grown in the future. Maybe DJs will once again play what they like instead of what corporations force down our throats. One thing is for sure, if people love music they will continue to make it. We will be left with a lot less crap once the record companies are gone.
The answer to this question can be found here:

http://forums.projektgerman.com/showthread.php?p=83238
A one-man-show sustained on advertisement and pay-per-post?
Right now I have a 9-5 as well as my own business on the side. Until I launch full-time (end of March) my current working schedule is 4-7:30 a.m. at home, 9-5 @ dayjob, 7:30 - 10ish p.m. at home. Rinse. Repeat.

Thank god this doesn't go on in perpetuity.

Now all I have to do is hope that once I can work 9-5 for myself, I don't slack off and spend all day refreshing HN.
I still like Firebug better too. Unfortunately its debugger has massive stability issues (at least on larger files). I can kind of get it to work if I talk really nicely to it. Not clear to me what the source of the problem really is, but the last few releases have been mostly bug fixes, and they seem to introduce as many bugs as they fix. That's a bad sign.
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yes, welcome to the Nanny State...

Much along the same idea, coming out of the Ferry Building in San Francisco a few days back when it was pouring with rain, someone had helpfully put out cones to warn me that I was entering the outside and that it was wet. The black sky, and cats and dogs falling from it might have also tipped me off, but thankfully I had the cones as confirmation :)
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It's just as true now as it was then, perfect is the enemy of good enough.
I chose 3-4. Definition of work: time in Vim, actually programming. Not work: Time looking up, checking email, dicking around here, reading news, selecting my music.

Chair time: 8-9 hours.
Thanks Ekpyrotic. Good food for thought.

Regarding 1), I would be certainly interested in what X can be shown to be true within Objectivism such that its establishment would undermine the system or cause a contradiction. As it is based on the Law of Identity I think one would be hard pressed to find an X that poses a problem, but hey, I'm all ears! :-)

Regarding the bridge between what-is --> what-ought. Certainly a hard problem prima facia. I'm not a trained philosopher, but I would say that, starting with "(A) != (!A)", one can say A "ought" to do action x if x preserves or enhances A's identity, that is to say, A's existence. So a black hole "ought" to accrete matter, because that is what black holes do, and accreting matter preserves and enhances the black hole's identity as a black hole, that is to say, it's existence, since, for Rand, identity is tantamount to existence. So man "ought" to be selfish because man IS by identity a selfish being. Acting selfishly preserves an individual's identity as a selfish being, i.e., preserves that individual's very existence. To "live for others" is to lose one's identity, and by declension, one's existence. "What-ought" it seems to me can have no meaning apart from the preservation of its subject or its actor. I "ought" to do that which preserves my genes, just like a black hole "ought" to accrue matter. There is no "ought" it seems to me divorced from preservation of existence, or preservation of identity. Thus:

1) Man is by identity selfish. 2) Man does not exist without his identity. 3) Man does not exist outside being selfish. 4) There is not "what-ought" beyond "what is needed to preserve existence of the actor, for all other meanings are subjective. 5) Man ought to preserve his existence. 6) By 2) existence is identity, so man "ought" to be selfish.

Admittedly a tough one, but that is my "stab" at it for the moment, ha!

Again, I would be interested in what X could be proved true within Objectivism such that Objectivism becomes inconsistent. :-)
I love that Google still has lots of references to Writely. It's only been Google Docs for a good 3ish? years now.
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Averaged out over a week, I probably come in under 2 hours a day of good productive work.

I tend to work in bursts of up to 6 hours at a time, maybe twice a week if I'm lucky. Those bursts account for pretty much everything good that I've put out over the last few years, and I've learned not to try to tackle anything important when I'm not in that mode.

Other, normal days, I start out by checking the surf report. If there's no swell (and I don't feel like climbing that day), I'll just wade through low priority bug reports and other mindless things like text changes and layout tweaks.

This approach works surprisingly well, since it means that I get maybe 4 days of "Weekend" scattered throughout the week, and am thus usually pretty fresh in the morning. It doesn't quite fly at an office job though (I usually limit myself to one day off for surfing when working an on-site contract), but frankly I find that to be a competitive advantage.
Thanks, I know it makes sense from an employer perspective, I just wanted to point out that there are exceptions so while I can understand reluctance in the interview I personally wouldn't set the resume aside and not give an interview at all.

To answer your question, no I wouldn't quit. I actually took a pay cut to work where I currently am because I thought I would enjoy the job more. (And I do.) I don't ever "expect" a bonus. Banking on a bonus I think is a really bad idea. You should get what you consider is a fair wage rather than expect a bonus to make up for whatever you think is lacking. People should be wary of companies that offer a salary that is below market average but promise bonuses or "quick pay raises". They often don't materialize.
cool, but painful.
I was thinking "functioning" java when I saw the title :)
I'm similar; I have a day job that I do 7-4ish (usually 6-7 solid hours of "work", occasionally 8-9) and then 1-2 hours consulting and 2+ hours on my bootstrapping startup. About 10-12 hours total work.
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Noticed this too, but I think grammatically he used "are" in the inclusive sense that everyone at techcrunch
_is_ full of sh*t. therefore, if you work their... it must be so.
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That probably makes 5-10 million year in revenue.
So, what's webymnd's take on this?
Da Vinci was a true Renaissance Man.
It might not be native, but it works really well.

To be fair, Firefox has never used native controls. Not on Mac at least. So if thats your best comparison, there's not much to miss (from some peoples POV at least.)
Download the latest 3.2a with TraceMonkey (Mozilla's answer to Chrome's V8 javascript engine) - it makes a world of difference.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates...
> I use a keyboard shortcut to search

Out of curiosity, what do you mean?
Check out the :include parameter to find method calls in the ActiveRecord documentation.

Say you have 30 blog posts, and your views reference associations to the blog post's owners. Well, views are dumb and if you call post.user on each one within a loop, you end up calling User.find 30 times.

But if you do Post.find(..., :include => [:user]), Rails will know to eager load all users -- and User.find never gets called 10 times.
I just Googled around for objects in the mirror may appear closer than they are and objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear. Two totally different things. Thousands of results.

Which one is actually true? Surely if objects are further away than they appear, it's pointless to note that since it's safe. So it has to be "Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear" right?
Actually, my family lived in Germany for three years before moving to the US. The decision to move was mostly because of funding - my dad made a lot more money in the US, with more opportunities to advance, and more leeway in what he got to research than he did in Germany.

This isn't to say that the US is the only place to do good research - there is tons of great work being done at top universities around the world. However, the US seems like the single country with the most research opportunities. In the end, I'd imagine it's about money - I don't have time to find specific figures, but I imagine in the US more money is spent on basic research than other countries.
Best point for me: more screen space because what used to be the tab bar has been reduced to 0px.

Worst point for me: Progress indicator is gone/almost invisible. I now have to check twice whether or not I properly clicked a link.
According to http://www.apple.com/safari/features.html,

"Enhanced Keyboard Navigation

Thanks to the enhanced keyboard navigation options in Safari, you can navigate the web without a mouse. Press the Tab key, and Safari jumps to the next password field, pop-up menu, or input field."

This is innovation !
Perhaps I picked a bad example, but for most of his art he was, in fact, paid for it. And it is hard for me to imagine that he would have had the resources to create, say, the Sistine Chapel ceiling if he were doing it for free.

Of course, nowadays our idea of art is a mashup, so maybe that can mix fine with an anti-market ideology.
Partially true: It's hard for your style to shine through on an industry standard resume template. So don't use one of those.

You have a blank sheet of paper in front of you, and the only required element is your name up top. Write something that will explain who you are and why every company in the industry should be fighting to retain you. You can get that message across easily in a single page.

But yeah, if you have a resume that starts with "Career Objective", followed into bulleted work experience with the word "liased" appearing 20 times, then you are in fact sending a message. That message is "I'm a cog."
Through some discussions elsewhere, I'm currently of the opinion that if you spend more than 60% of your "chair time" straight writing code (i.e. "pure work", assuming you are a developer) then you are a productivity god. I spend about 13 hours a day in front of the computer after factoring out sleep and gym time and on a productive day I'll be writing code roughly 6-7 of those hours. Some days 12 hours, some two.

Now, if you merely define "work" as "doing something related to one's job" then it would probably be 12 hours. I consider reading HN to be relevant education, if I am watching TV or a movie on the computer I am usually running some idea in the background (easier to think with mindless entertainment going on than while reading an article on particle physics), etc. Outside of my work I have nothing, so by definition everything must be related to work.
The definition of "work" is certainly a weak point in this question - especially with an audience with a disproportionate number of entrepreneurs. I'd be curious to see how this relates to where people work - 9 to 5 job, startup-as-founder, and startup-as-hired-coder.

Could this be a useful feature - combining two polls and showing the cross-product of votes under addition?
I clicked on it, read some of the docs, and thought "cool, this will make it easier for me to use S3 in my CL code". It looks like seriously good stuff, and having written CL-SQS I know it isn't obvious.

And then I remembered that I'm learning Clojure and in Clojure I can just load an existing Java library and use it :-)
How does it look in the Classic view? I'm curious how they fit all the widgetry into the smaller frame
Real artists occasionally ship?

Steve Jobs tried to motivate people by saying "Real artists ship." This is a fine sentence, but unfortunately not true. Many famous works of art are unfinished. It's true in fields that have hard deadlines, like architecture and filmmaking, but even there people tend to be tweaking stuff till it's yanked out of their hands.

http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
Was it a new interview (Buffet was on a couple of months ago)?

Rose does some really good interviews. Can be content heavy. And he also is friends to varying degree with quite a few people. He doesn't appear to deliberately skew interviews on this basis, but one should be aware that his personal connection may at times influence the trust he places in the messages being conveyed.

Still, one of the best interview format news sources around. He used to be a lawyer, IIRC, and it shows in his interrogatory.

Added: Those personal connections, plus the long format that really gives interviewees a chance to communicate what is of interest to them in a thorough fashion, also mean he gets interviews you won't find anywhere else.
But would you rather have good enough or Leonardo?
I'd also love to know what's defined as 'work'. If it's doing a task explicitly for money, I work under an hour or two each day.

But if you also count the time I spend reading, learning new languages/tips/tricks/etc then I work 12+ hours/day. Yesterday I spent the majority of my day playing with CodeIgniter and jQuery for a project I'm working on which may earn me money in the future. Does that count as work?
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My first inclination would have been to solve this sort of stuff by digital manipulation.

But on second thought, once built, it's a static piece of hardware that essential does a single compose-able image transformation that requires no processing power--almost like a pre-processor. It just doesn't handle the requirement if the transformation has to change from moment to moment.
CL-SQS looks cool. If you're using Drakma, you're already pulling in one or more portable string-to-octets conversion routine (via flexi-streams or babel), so there's no real need to use SBCL- or AllegroCL-specific routines.
My solution to procrastination:

1. Identify the activities you procrastinate (for me, writing scientific papers);

2. Rearrange your life so you don't have to do them any more. (I just left academia to do a startup.)
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Its the government. Making idiotic useless (or on a more moderate note: shortsighted) regulation is its purpose in life.
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50,000 for the first. $2 for the thousandth? This is where the economies of scale really shine.
We use pen, which can be configured to avoid this issue as well. Just specify the maximum number of connections to be the same as the number of backend servers (via the -x option), and it will queue connections beyond that number and hand them to the first backend that frees up.

We've had zero issues with pen, it's been rock solid, but we're still looking at moving to Passenger at some point: seems like it will be more flexible and efficient than our current pack of mongrels.
Leonardo was the ultimate hyperbrain at work (see http://www.inter-sections.net/2008/08/28/hyperbrain-owners-m...).
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The guy who designed these has a webpage here: http://www.math.drexel.edu/~ahicks/. One of the links on the page lead to more information on the design of the mirrors.
The reality is that is usually the marketing force behind an artist that generates his revenue, not actually the art itself. I have met so many extraordinary musicians that can shred the guitar and who write very clever music on a daily basis but will never make any money at it unless someone better looking than them takes their music and performs it. Since Meatloaf, I cannot think of any fat pop musicians. Art driven by profits is not always the best art. Coming from eastern Canada, Friday nights and weekends we have caleighs where anyone can pick up an instrument, sing or clap along, and nobody ever holds out for more money to perform. I do agree with your first sentence though, more time spent on art produces better art. But in the case of Carl Sagan who was a scientist, got his inspiration from his day job, which in turn helped him to produce his art (I include his Cosmos series as part of his art, I don't think we need to get into the debate of what is and isn't art). Its more of a sad reality that most art needs money to exist. I'm not calling for an art revolution or anything, I just wanted to point this out as some food for thought. Inspiration can come from anywhere.
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Good enough, because masses will be able to afford it and benefit from it. Bring in Leo and the cost goes from nearly free to extremely expensive. Think bicycle against Ferrari, when all you need is a way to make the 3 mile commute between home and the plant.
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Michael-Angelo (one of the greatest artists of all time) is as good an example as any. But I think that he was commissioned to do the Sistine Chapel, he didn't paint the Chapel and then charge admission to it (I think the church took care of that).
I dont think TC's value went down this year. They had another successful conference and they got some more distribution deals. They have done fairly well even while Arrington is gone this month. I think they maybe have only lost a few million if anything. They also seem to have no problems selling their ad spaces either.
It is pretty fast with respect javascript. Here are some results from my tests comparing it with Opera.

OS X: It way fater on every test except for 3D Mesh Transformation. (Safari:http://dromaeo.com/?id=60726, Opera:http://dromaeo.com/?id=60727). Safari was slower to respond compared to Opera during the tests and did consume more memory.

Windows XP:
It way fater on every test except for 3D Mesh Transformation. (Safari:http://dromaeo.com/?id=60707, Opera:http://dromaeo.com/?id=60712). Safari wasn't responsive at all compared to Opera during the tests and did consume more memory.

Looks like my favourite browser, Opera, needs new javascript engine.
On a day to day basis Leonardo would allocate his time between customer projects and his own. He would balance client commitments with his natural energy for creativity - and according to this article, his natural energy often won that battle.

It could be argued that it was the vision and taste of the Medici family in Florence that actually launched the renaissance. Their customer dollars enabled a new class of Italian artists and scientists to pursue creativity and innovation. Leonardo took this to a whole new level - if you had the opportunity to see the recent exhibit in the San Jose Tech Museum, it is clear the he was standing on the shoulder of other intellectual giants at the time.. all spurred by customers with a taste for art and technology.

However, when the vision of the creator exceeds the vision of customer, what is the result? A starving artist, a 'self-sabatoger', a practitioner of 'sinful laziness' and 'self-abuse'?

The author points out that academia has no place for the passionate creative. I would argue that similarly the a customer driven market is also no place for the passionate creative. So, where do they belong? Are we content as a society to witness that occasional, rare intersection of the visionary customer with the passionate creative? As entrepreneurs, is it our place to find a solution?
I think a better question would how many hours do you work for yourself vs your employer?

40 hours for self-40 hours for employer

40-20

40-10

60-05 etc...
I'm guessing from the other comments it's not just "use clojure"? Site isn't responding at the moment.
"objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear"

If you think about it, it is a concave mirror giving wider field of vision. Concave mirrors give virtual smaller images.
Wasn't my intention - just trying to save the newbie some massive downvoting in the future :)
I want delicious syncing. I like that in firefox on my linux box.
I wrote it as a comment on MetaFilter when the bullshit was making the rounds back in July: http://www.metafilter.com/73484/Virtual-Thinking#2191757
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It doesn't look good. But not for the reason you're expecting.

http://i41.tinypic.com/33mpwus.png

Notice anything missing?
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Catchy title. Diagnosing "procrastination" seems to be all the rage nowadays, people will almost always identify with it.
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I am disturbed that I found this blog post useful, but despite the jargon it has some ring of truth. I do think that people who contribute content are also very likely to be distributing it as well though, and I don't really think that the distributors are an entirely different segment. I guess there are some die hard distributors out there, but I'm not sure what their motivation is.. thoughts?
Maybe it's just me, but every time I see a new common lisp library and I try and get ASDF to give it to me, at least 3 dependencies are inexplicably broken and refuse to work.

I was excited about this, but a fresh install of SBCL on Mac OS X 10.5 simply couldn't complete.
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The day I gave up on TV news: Driving around flipping channels on my radio, I heard that O.J. Simpson was suspected of murder and detectives were trying to find him. "Hmm, great." I thought, "Here comes another Hollywood scandal." I listened a couple minutes, then switched to music.

I got home to find my husband sitting on the carpet, leaning his face toward the TV, mere inches away, and blurting, "O.J. Simpson is getting arrested!" There on the TV was live helicopter coverage of a van surrounded by several cop cars very calmly making their way on an LA freeway devoid of traffic. The scene looked rather like a head of state with security cortège, yet this was the chasing of a suspected criminal. A very odd sight, quite the photo op, even if the van occupant were not a sports and movie celebrity.

I looked at the TV and my husband, and then it hit me: the purpose of TV news is not to inform you but to glue your eyeballs to your TV. This hit me so hard that I ran into my office and spent the next twenty minutes sobbing!
jQuery is JavaScript in approximately the same way CLOS is Common Lisp. Sure, jQuery is implemented in and uses JavaScript, but idiomatic jQuery differs enough from idiomatic JavaScript that it might be considered another language.

...And, if that handwaving fails to convince you, jQuery's selector string format is at least as much a language as the pager formatting string that merits its own language in the article. :)
Sorry to hear that. As a test, I just did a from-scratch ASDF-Install of ZS3 (Drakma has updated since the last ZS3 release) and everything just worked. I'm using Linux.

What broke for you? Maybe it's something I can help fix.
You mean "The Importance of Writing Good"?