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Music is a terrible choice for a voting system. The homogeny of opinion for sites like Hacker News or even Digg is way higher than any sector of music listeners, and it's this homogeny that aggregators depend upon to remain useful. To put it another way: without curators, you need to all think alike.

The only way I can see this site working is for rankings to be calculated on a per-user basis, based upon the votes accrued from the user's neighbours. This would go some way towards the mental filter I use for music recommendations from friends: do I trust this person's music taste?
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It would certainly be evil, but not be unconstitutional, for the government to require government-funded researchers to publish their government-owned ideas wherever the government prefers.

If I develop cold fusion 'using university resources', then it's theirs, according to my contract.
I do, nearly every day.

I don't drink caffeine (nor alcohol or any other types of drugs/stimulants).

It does a few things for me, chief among them is that it calms my ADHD and makes it easier to focus on things, specifically the mundane boilerplate shit.

My best designs/architecture have come from work sessions where I've been burning the midnight oil, to make a poor pun. I can't tell you why, other than the abstraction is infinitely easier to grok.

It does make me lazy though, but in someways there are benefits to that. For instance, I work hard to find easier ways to write code.

I wouldn't recommend it for anyone, but I grew up smoking weed. Also, quality plays a HUGE factor.

Moderation is key.
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I think it's all about the start. If you make the first step in implementing whatever you want, then it will be easier to continue.
Nope. A glass or two of 'vino rosso' with dinner, or a 'spritz' with friends once in a while.
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Where will all the billions that are being poured into advertising go if there is no advertising anymore?

Why wouldn't the market regulate itself? If all web applications become premium now, there will be no space left for ads. The few remaining places might be able to receive higher prices for their ads. Higher prices for ads will mean freemium becomes interesting again. And so on...

Or there will always be freemium apps that compete with the premium apps, and the premium apps are doomed.
I think that says more about caffeine than anything, though. It's hard to generalize about drugs as a whole in a meaningful way. While marijuana probably has a neutral-to-slightly-negative effect on programming, and alcohol and opiates certainly do, piracetam/aniracetam/oxiracetam (for example) can has a pretty positive effect.

Besides, none of us are spiders. (Right?)
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The FT called it the Great Unwinding, on the basis that the unsustainable debt/trade/current account imbalances would start to reverse their direction.

It seems the only thing anyone can agree on is that we're experiencing something really 'Great'.
Would appreciate some input on my back-of-an-envelope calculations.
I created this account for privacy reasons, and I'm one of the more active/karmic people in this community. Yes, this is an oppressive culture (in the US).

I'm a somewhat heavy bud smoker and a full-time developer. #define HEAVY? That's subjective, but I can comfortably go through a quarter ounce in a week, and my ideal consumption is probably 1.5 grams per day. I've known people who think a bowl a day is heavy and that an ounce a week is normal, so like I said, subjective.

I oscillate between stretches of daily smoking and stretches of sobriety. Clearly, there are advantages to being sober, and I wouldn't appreciate the benefits that ganja brings if it became too regular a habit.

I'm full of it, right? It's a pitiful escape, and an intoxicant couldn't possibly have any benefits, right? So allow me to enumerate them:

1. Ganja truly opens your mind. Now, we all have open minds, but there's a further degree of relaxation and openness that it helps one to achieve. This allows me to grasp very abstract concepts quickly because there are fewer preconceptions and other obstacles to learning. It would've taken me far longer to grasp functional programming, I believe, without this benefit.

2. Morale: After a night of boozin', you will feel like crap the next day. After a night of smoking, I feel like a million bucks in the morning. Granted, I've been an insomniac all my life, and ganja is prescribed in many places for this malady. I come in to work the next day refreshed and ready to dive into my work, and I'm undoubtedly more productive when this well-rested.

3. Energy/endurance: I don't always have the patience or energy for prolonged hackage, especially when it comes to things that once frustrated me, like setting up a dedicated server. When high, I can easily wade through the tasks at hand, and next thing I know, they're done. I often come home from work feeling drained, fire up a little bowl, and am re-energized. What just a minute ago seemed unthinkable (fatigued, firing up my computer to hack on something) becomes irresistable because it's one of my true passions.

So, ganja is very good for me. It may be terrible for others, so I don't offer any advice here. I have yet to encounter any ill effects thus far concerning my health, and it does _not_ at all affect my stamina in physical activity as would tobacco.

I never show up at work blazed, and only partake in my free time. And if you think that stoners are lazy, on top of this full-time job I run a web development business with three employees.

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If he's writing an open letter, I suggest he makes it possible to read without having to highlight, copy, open a text editor that supports wordwrap, paste, enable wordwrap. Otherwise few people will read it.
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I used to, but its been just over a decade now. For me the creative effects were never realized. It just made me dumb. After my first year at university my average mark was 2.9. Then I quit pot and got 4.0 for 9 nine quarters in a row. Your mileage may vary.
"403 Error - Forbidden" speaks to the realities of selling iPhone apps as much as any other article I've read recently.
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It seems to me that this is exactly the type of application that needs to be reviewed the closest. The author is right that we live in a depraved world. One where plenty of people would not think twice about taking advantage of others who want to do a good thing by installing this application.

While I'm not defending apple's review policy because I'm sure its as terrible as everyone believes, I would prefer if all such applications got a lengthy review to ensure they're not doing anything they shouldn't be.

Personally I'm just waiting for a better variety of Android phones though, so if iphone users want to be bombarded by poorly reviewed applications I have no problem with it.
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That's the conclusion I came to. It's not that I don't have the time, it's that I apparently value spending time with my kids more than the rapid progress of my startup. It's still dissatisfying from my startup's point of view, but rather than rail against the universe about it, I look it as a manifestation of my priorities.
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Look for the orange hands -- classic sign of the Cheeto maniac. Or someone who uses too much tan-in-a-bottle.

Oh, and Ooompa Loompas. Not sure how good they are at programming, but damn do they make good chocolate.
"Lacking a program manager, your garden-variety super-smart programmer is going to come up with a completely baffling user interface that makes perfect sense IF YOU’RE A VULCAN (cf. git)."

Glad I'm not the only one who isn't a Vulcan.
I do have issues with the smoke myself, and I indulge maybe once in a few months, so I never get used to it. Although I find the effects of marijuana to be far, far superior to alcohol or most other drugs, for me anyway.

Anyone tried vaporators? Supposedly they heat the bud to the point of releasing essential oils into the air, but not to the point of ignition.

I wonder if any hardware hackers here have applied their skills to drug consumption? For instance, I know a guy who has produced ingenious contraptions for nitrous oxide delivery.
The article's dated 1996 and the average company has not only made no progress in this area, but actually gone backwards.
I agree with this. Certain businesses simply wouldn't exist today had they attempted to charge from the start. Although personally, I wouldn't want attempt to start a business like that. As the original article said, there are only 100 sites in the Alexa 100.

Since this articles was basically agreeing with the original 37Signals article, I'll comment on that as well. 37Signals tends to sensationalize their thoughts and try make any model that isn't theirs sound tired or thoughtless. It's fine for driving traffic to their blog and they are successful at what they do. They aren't billionaires either nor have they run a large scale company where their "getting real" concepts aren't quite so easy. You can't analyze every problem down to a simple solution.

They should be looked at as leaders for companies who have early revenues and profitability but their credibility for commenting on other models is extremely questionable and needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
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There seems to be a deliberate ignorance of recent history regarding the iPhone as a development platform, to the point that a lot of people are developing a sense of entitlement regarding access to the device. Apple didn't originally announce application support at all for the iPhone in the first place. (Remember Steve Jobs pushing Safari as a web app host for the iPhone, with no mention of a possible SDK just 2 years ago?) The iPhone/iPod touch is probably the most quickly successful product that Apple has ever produced, much more so than the original iPod or the iMac. Yet, people expect Apple to have the resources to bend over backwards for every individual developer for the platform, regardless of good intentions.

I was once a shareware/freeware developer for the Mac platform back in the 68k era. The simple fact of the matter is that despite Apple's "big" size, in comparison with most of the computer industry, they are small potatoes. For over a decade, the primary development tools for Apple hardware were provided by third-parties even. (First Symantec, then Metrowerks.) This, combined with Apple's reluctance to take on debt (partly out of self-defense), means that Apple will never have the responsiveness towards developers that the open source community or even Microsoft has. Compared to back then, Apple is much more developer friendly, but the company has always been more focused on user experience, even if this leads them to try to shackle developers with overly limited or complicated APIs or UI conventions.

If the letter writer really thinks Apple is being that incompetent, he should give up on the iPhone as a platform and focus on the rest more accessible platforms. Yes, I know the goal is the maximize visibility for your cause, but the problem with any and all outreach efforts is that people naturally avoid information channels like this. Just as web readers migrated from SlashDot to Digg to Reddit to Hacker News, and social networking drifted from MySpace to FaceBook, the "popularity for its own sake" principle and the people it attracts alienate the very people you try to reach.

Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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I've been an avid smoker longer than a programmer; although, these days I get high as means for keeping my left-hemisphere in check, which helps new ideas breathe, but the biggest reason I keep smoking is to forget. Forgetting is good if tend to worry to much, while psychologists typically have an entire lexicon for the word anxiety, which is more or less a state invoked from worry. Getting high helps me forget all those nouns/pronouns for a brief period and just sort of float around.

These days I can make an 1/8th (~3.4 grams) last a good +2 weeks.

Believe it or not though, my life long dream is to move to India, get in contact with a spiritual guru, and live in the now for as long as I can.
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"High volume, ad-supported web businesses will always exist, because in certain areas (search for instance) they just make sense"

I wasn't saying it would disappear, just that it would become less common. If we can figure out a way to measure, I'll take you up on that.
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The comments here are interesting. Weed seems to have different effects on different people(not enough data to make definite conclusions though). I've experimented with it when i was 15-16, then i stopped, and its been 3 years now and i've had maybe 4-5 joints since then. I don't know what the effects it has on programming would be, but i could guess that i would be in a more relaxed/lazy mood, and in that mood im usually very creative, but not concentrated enough to actually be productive. Im usually relaxed/lazy, so i probably wont be less productive if i start smoking again.
This one needs to be voted and submitted as much as possible to any and every news reading site.
Jeff Atwood apparently doesn't:

http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1305109744
moderation is key?

But you you smoke nearly every day.....
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I hope that this article might serve as a counter-point to the articles that seem to go around the web about devs making hundreds of thousands of dollars off an iPhone app. Everyone within the dev community understands that the odds of that happening are very slim, yet those are the stories that people like to hear. ... My hope is that we’ll start seeing more developers putting out quality titles in the hopes of gradually growing a sustainable business.
Sounds like they could be using it to meditate.

Cannabis has been used for thousands of years as an aid to meditation in various Eastern cultures, e.g The Saddhu tradition in India.

Meditation has not only made me a better coder, but has really helped with my anxiety and depression.

I found this book most interesting:-

http://headstuffbooks.com/titles/cannabis_and_meditation
Are you high? The only class of individuals that don't freely admit facts about their life in a public forum are politicians. . .are you a politician? Otherwise, getting that paranoid over some form of punishment is beyond rational.
You can consume alcohol nearly every day and still drink in moderation.
I like free things.
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The complete system defrags in about 3 seconds.

This part impressed me most.
Our dealings with China is really not what has created the mess we're in right now. I hope Thomas Friedman didn't actually blame the crisis on our trade imbalance with China.

This video [ http://vimeo.com/3261363?pg=embed&sec= ] does a pretty decent job explaining the basics of the current crisis (~10 min).
Did you create this account just to post that? Or is this honestly your first time making a contribution here?
Vaporizers are the premium delivery device for marijuana. Virtually all the harmful components of smoke are simply not produced, and virtually all the desirable components of the herb are released. I never owned one, but my time near a Volcano ($500, Teutonic engineering at its finest) was well spent.

Or so I heard. Drug use is illegal and immoral. Or so I heard.

(In reality, I have not smoked for some time; it started to give me problems with muscle tension, so I laid off. Hooray for a total lack of physical addictiveness!)
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CDSs work like this: Imagine you buy a house, and then you take out fire insurance with AIG in case it burns down. You pay AIG a premium for the fire insurance. They pay you a large lump sum if the house burns down. Now imagine that AIG felt the risk of the house burning down was so low that they sold insurance policies on the same house to 100 people. They're making tons of money on premiums. And now imagine they did this for 100 different houses. They're raking in the profits, investors are loving it and AIG is doing well. And now imagine all the houses burned down at the same time...
Those are some of the nicest looking offices I've seen - there's a classic dark-wood paneling look with lots of glass and light. They have stairs up to a loft, desks, and tables made out of cardboard so it has to be pretty sturdy.
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I'd say it does affect your coding, to the worse. However, it makes your creative thinking and problem-solving more enjoyable, which is a good thing, and positively gives you a boost.

So when I actually sit down to code something I designed prior to this, I won't use it, it makes me slow and narrows the attention scope, which makes me paranoid, which makes me go through my code a couple more times, and definitely more than needed to catch all the trivial bugs.
"a lot of people are developing a sense of entitlement regarding access to the device"

Yeah, it's funny how people get these notions of fairness and equal treatment from somewhere.
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The same way an Ivy League degree doesn't guarantee success, a top tier VC doesn't either. With the economy as it is now and general investor sentiment; one needs to highlight the sheer value of determination, experimentation, the art of minimizing and of course resourcefulness. I think the article does a great job of pointing out that the "lack of" time had more to do with one's self comforting through excuses rather than the actual tasks at hand. I sincerely believe that the next 18 months will result in amazing, cost effective innovations not only in tech but healthcare, the consumer world, finance etc. Should be extremely exciting; and it's up to us to encourage those that our there hustling and trying to launch their dreams.
Yes, you can smoke everyday moderately. About a bowl will do it.

Blunts, bongs are overdoing it.
DNW: This is mostly a rehash of previous things the guy has said.
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Congratulations to Chuck, EJ and team. Love the concept, business model (I believe it's still in the works) and in general the branding behind the company. Still preferred GAYmes as a decent alternative (courtesy Jason Oliver) ;)
The author needs to get over himself and copyediting.

Also, the first and second paragraphs are in the wrong order.

IIRC, the iPhone doesn't allow background applications. If that's true, how will an Amber alert application work for folks who have something else to do with their time (and iPhone)?
My brain is the organ that keeps the lights on, writes the codes, designs the presentations and pays the bills.

I have no interest in messing with it.

I actively avoid caffeine when the going gets tough.
We should be realistic about two things:

1. Saying that Boston is the center of ideas is lacking. Ideas aren't an industry, the way movies, finance, or tech is. Also, ideas are cheap. It's the vetting and execution of ideas that is valuable.

2. The quality of life issues need to be addressed. It's embarrassing that MIT students leave for Google, Facebook, etc., but I can also understand why. Aside from Kendall, the Boston area feels old, expensive, somewhat dilapidated, miserable in the winter. That's going to turn off a lot of people.
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This is a great interview that really underlines a lot of the issues we face in Austin too — not Boston. Coupled with an regional investment community that doesn't quite get it, makes the web movement here that much more difficult to ignite. And, I think a lot of people don't realize how important community is in this regard:

Another difference is that because the Valley cares so much about startups, people here are always half a step ahead. All the lawyers know what the latest standard terms are for various types of deals. The investors are less frightened by new ideas, because the ideas are less new to them. The founders feel less lonely, because there are three other groups of guys in the same building starting startups.

Last week a group of us re-launched Startup District to help foster a community online and bring the guys out of the woodwork in Austin.

http://startupdistrict.com

Also, Capital Factory was recently announced. A ycom-like accelerator in Austin ran by Josh Baer, who's also at the founder of OtherInbox - a really smart web startup that I've been a fanboy of the past 6 months.

http://capitalfactory.com

If you're going to be at SXSW, would love to meet up and catch a drink. Follow us: @startupdistrict, @capitalfactory, @pxlpshr, @johnerik
Programming is not a dirty job for most (maybe if you are a plant PLC programmer)... the shows name is quiet literal, as figurative as you may want this to sound it just doesn't work talking about Mike Rowe. Unless you regularly arrive home showered in feces and tape your pants to your boots before heading into work.
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Cool take on it. It's true that small paid apps require you to be more service oriented than code oriented. I kinda like that sometimes - I like interacting with people - but I can see how some wouldn't.

Beyond that, popularity might be an issue. Just like avoiding certain work can be a driver, so can the want to be popular. Free things are going to be more popular and I think most of us would like to help as many people as possible and we'd at least like to think that our programming helps people (whether it's fun or makes their work easier or whatever).

If you can pull off free, it's a wonderful thing. Being able to help people at no cost is great. However, it isn't always the best or most practical thing. Often times it means that you'll have a lot of users who you can't give any support to and lackluster resources for improvement.
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