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>the goal would be to create a reserve currency “that is disconnected from individual nations and is able to remain stable in the long run, thus removing the inherent deficiencies caused by using credit-based national currencies”.

Gold exists already.
When I clicked someone to follow, then came back to your page (on too), I had to log in again. I was away for only moments.

I selected don't touch my stream* because I had already tweeted.
Retrofit would be more pricey, but not because of the materials, mostly because of the electrical appliances you have to move.

There is an online magazine called "Design Build Magazine" that had an article on soundproofing/fireproofing. You are right though. Maybe I should do some research into soundproofing and write a "How to Soundproof Your Apartment or House for Cheap, Guaranteed ebook" I'll even give you a free copy as your cut.
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The KillerStartups requires a ton of information, so you have to be comfortable giving all of that away.

It's more of an experiment though, since our traffic is already seeing a steady uptick.
Exactly, I remember these arguments then, the bottom line is the open source "movement" was all about promoting the superior development model. RMS, Eben Moglen, and others warned against this. I also recall thinking this was just some folks looking to monetize their GNU/Linux work.

The arguments about scale are interesting. For an IBM the GPL is just fine, they have the size to compete against anyone with value added services on top of Linux. For smaller, open source projects I've seen them prefer apache 2.0, I speculate because it encourages commercial growth. When you're IBM someone has to grow pretty big to pose a threat. For their other closed products they continue to enjoy great revenues. They can put the resources into keeping them best of breed.

At the end of the day I believe the GPL best serves the rights of individual programmers and a moral argument can be made that software, just like mathematics, should be free. Notice that mathematics is also largely a collaborative effort, it's very seldom done well by isolated individuals.
The idea is that, instead of using cold water to mix with your boiler water, you use cold water that has been slightly heated by the heat-exchanger. This allows you to use less water from your boiler.
I'll explain something about this blog, because it's not something that I wrote specifically on the page and so it's not seen by a lot of the people that haven't been reading this daily.

I don't use this blog like other people use blogs. I essentially write down every thought that comes to me, without planning it out or revising it. So there's a ramble about Valve on the front page right now, and not a particularly interesting one, and I'm aware of the fact that it's not interesting. I'm fine with that, because my blog isn't a marketing tool. It's simply a place where I store my thoughts.

So this post was conceived of pretty much instantaneously, written in 5 minutes, and posted without a double check. I didn't even bother to go back and look at the spelling.

It's all about intent. My blog is not a masterpiece in any sense other than the fact that I attempt not to filter myself in any way. But at the same time, this post was interesting enough to provoke a nice little discussion, and it was interesting enough for somebody to think it merited posting.
Extreme Tech has a detailed (annoying multipage) writeup on the offering and the overview of technology involved.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2343703,00.asp

Onlive's offering will be a combination of service and/or device with all the rendering happening on the servers. One key stumbling block for adoption will be ISP's, in an era where they're capping downloads.
Yeah! On IRC somebody read this and disagreed with me: something to the effect of "I've seen amateurs revise and they still churn out shit."

But you can't just sit down and revise something. You've got to develop the ability to be self-critical, and that means learning what to be self-critical of. So in my case of an amateur writing a symphony, he'd have to be willing to learn just what makes symphonies suck, and if he's not willing to do that, chances are he won't be so successful after all.
"Ugh, I'm too tired to learn Haskell. Maybe another day."

That kind of laziness? (I kid, I kid, we all know it's "I'll learn Haskell only when I have to compute something which requires me to know it. I mean, I thunk I know it.")
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That does sound pretty impressive - given the apparent importance of low lag in multiplayer FPS to the hardcore gaming community (of which I'm not part, so this is just hearsay), I'm not sure how easy it would be to convince hardcore gamers to move to the platform though. But then maybe they're not the target audience?
I take issue with his argument that the free market punishes those who take code close sourced. The fundamental problem with open-source development is that it's always designed by committee. In most cases, this produces cleaner, faster, more robust code, but it's not true in every case. Open-source code has this tendency to get the basics right before improving the user experience, but if the standards and basics are fuzzy, the product never gets polished. Take OpenOffice - by trying to both copy MS and improve MS, it's no wonder the entire thing is a big bloated mess.

Some others have mentioned Apple as a counter-example, and I think they're dead on. By allowing BSD to be close-source forked, the market provided the economic incentive to allow Apple to run with it. They could then close a lot of the difficulties in an OS (arbitrary hardware setups, unwillingness to couple strongly to applications, etc.), and they've made an incredible product out of it. Philosophically, open-source would never make anything like OS X, because of the amount of vertical integration.

There isn't always incentive to move a project back to closed-source, and it's hard to argue that it's a long term strategy, but you can't say that the market universally crushes projects that aren't open-source.
Java - check

"Enterprise" in the binary's name - check

:)
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I'd like to qualify this with some additional advice.

Advertising, on SU, a site that's not build for the SU audience, is likely to fail exactly as you've described.

If you're going to advertise on SU, you should craft the page that you do advertise to be instantly attention-grabbing, short, and tuned to give you whatever result it is that you want.

http://www.christmasbingocards.com/ , for example, is clear and immediately obvious, but not very attention grabbing. If I'm stumbling around looking for interesting stuff, I will not be grabbed by this page, no matter how well targeted to my demographics it might be, because it's not targeted to my frame of mind.

On the other hand, if you'd published a cartoon instead, for example, something obviously funny, chances are most stumblers would have read it. Then, your job would have been to create a cartoon that's funny and also encourages the reader to click around the site.

That's no easy feat, I'll grant you, but the point is, if you want to get useful traffic out of StumbleUpon, you have to tailor the content to the channel-surfing frame of mind.
OCW has a list of courses available on video (http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/av/index.htm). 6.041 isn't one of them.
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Very good comments :)

Patience is a virtue.

From my experience running xp-dev.com - I do get a good handful of users submitting support tickets that sounds really really arcanely simple, but my approach is to reply and solve their issue and immediately put it in on the wiki.

Even then, there are some users who don't read the wiki and help documentation at all, and rather than loosing patience, I just point them towards the docs and most are happy to read it and say thank you.

Only once did I have a really long conversation with a user, but he/she? was really new to the world of bug tracking and version control systems, and just needed a little hand-holding. The whole conversation is going up on the wiki as well.
The name for this in HCI-experiments is wizard-of-oz method

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_of_Oz_experiment
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Cathedral and the Bazaar was, originally, just an article on his web site. And it was quite well written.
how does directed-edge compare to LinkedIn's OSS Project Voldemort (<http://project-voldemort.com/ >) ?
Yeah, using a set language could be unattractive, but I am building a release product right now and its already underway. There is always room for input on what technologies we choose its just that PHP/MySQL was the most affordable and available at the time I started the project.
Hey Ajay,

We did meet at a HN meetup, I believe you said you were developing an iphone app last time we met.
I don't find his argument particularly convincing. He's assuming that the market can see that something that was open is now closed. And while that might be true for an end user application, it's not at all true for libraries and frameworks that are folded into closed applications.

I'm the author of an LGPL-ed library. It sees a modest amount of use and my goal in choosing that license is that any changes made to that library be shared back with the rest of the community. It's not GPL-ed, so you don't have to share your application code, but if you change my library, you do have to share your changes/improvements. If you don't want to share, then don't use my library. Simple, right?

Well, every few months I get a note from someone who has noticed an application that doesn't meet this simple test. And I have to send them a dunning notice about the license violation. How many applications are there that I don't get notes about? And absent a license, does anyone seriously think that the mass market would give up "desirable application X" because its creators were bad actors vis-a-vis some embedded library?
It's because Flash is often vector art, and you can zoom to see details in some cases (without degradation etc).

I know of a fashion industry website where this functionality is expected. Makes me shudder!
I'll comment on this as I wrote the post...

Coming outside the box is a great thing. If you're in a startup versus a big corporation, you're already enabled to work outside the box versus typically being stifled. My issue is that I've met entire teams who had, upon further conversation, skewed or incorrect impressions on how an industry worked. I think this is dangerous and will cause extra "bobbing and weaving" in their strategy, which costs them in time and money: money that an early stage startup doesn't have much of.

So I look at this as a probability game: you don't want to lower the odds of success by not really knowing how an industry works but raise it. Some possible solutions are having advisors and being open to research, but I've also seen teams who didn't have resident founders not really act on advice or research. It's much better to have a founder who has direct experience with that industry to be a daily, trusted member of the team pushing in the right direction constantly BUT you have to not be discouraged by the way an industry currently operates; you must have belief, focus, and drive to push disruption to change the rules of the industry you're attacking. What often happens with resident industry experts is that the team gets discouraged by all the barriers - to me this is the killer of an idea, not the knowledge.

Can you be a success without having a founder from the industry? Sure - look at Paypal who defied normal conventions of banking, amongst other really big examples of disruption. Let's just say there are many factors that drive success and that being disruptive is only one. Again, it's a probability game and you want to load the odds in your favor for success, not lower them...
Water restrictions are commonplace in Australia

A big part of Australia's long-term viability problem is too much water. Your farmers over-water their fields, washing out the nitrates into the sea, leaving the fields useless for growing crops and killing coral. Farming in Australia is more like mining, strip the resource then move on. Australia's problem is that it's bad at managing water, not that it has too little (as you later say).

In the UK our problem is that our water infrastructure was built by the Victorians, who were excellent engineers, but what they built has been badly maintained (to the extent that it was maintained at all) and we lose >25% of our water through leaks.
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There's nothing wrong with enlightened self-interest. History shows that the systems that work work by aligning the interests of the individual with the community, economics, politics, society, it's all the same.
Exactly. The choices are a) company housing b) a landlord class, or c) government-run "people's barracks". A combination of those is what we have now.
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If something just "cannot not work" then it will broke unexpectedly and will take you by surprise.
It's real easy to see how a negative hit to someone like Bernie Madoff ruins his career...

Yeah, about $65 billion too late.

It's not even a question about reputation scaling -- which (as you say) it does not do, which it hasn't ever done, since even in 10,000 BC you could travel to a place beyond the range of your reputation. (Maybe the Internet will change that. The jury is still out on whether it can, as well as on whether the negative consequences of that are too great and we'll have to take steps to ensure that the Internet can't destroy your reputation worldwide. Reputation isn't all smiles and balloons. You can destroy innocent lives with reputation. Happens all the time.)

Reputation just doesn't work in all sorts of situations. Madoff is a prime example, but anyone who uses Twitter, reads The Four Hour Workweek or spends twenty minutes watching TV commercials can find thousands of additional examples. Reputation is easily faked. It is easily bought. It is too readily extrapolated from one narrow field of endeavor to another. It is biased toward members of your family, and toward people who resemble members of your family. It relies on past results to predict future results, and thereby mispredicts events that occur on a longer time scale than the acquisition of a reputation. It works by implicitly assuming its own effectiveness and breaks down in edge cases. ("Why would Mr. Jones feed me Kool-Aid laced with poison? Just think what that would do to his reputation!")

Most importantly, reputation is just a predictive tool. When it fails, it leaves you with no recourse: That is not its job. I can use my accountant's reputation to predict whether he will steal my money. But if he does steal my money, reputation is now useless as a tool for getting my money back. That's what a contract is for. The primary purpose of a contract isn't promoting trust; it promotes trust because its primary purpose is to give me recourse after trust breaks down. I can try to take my money back from my account -- and if that doesn't work I can attempt to take it out of his insurance company, his auditors, or even people he has previously paid (look up clawback in the dictionary -- my accountant just explained it to me).
My suspicion is that there's some prototype of the product and they need a code ninja to take it to the next level.
If I understand his argument correctly, esr is claiming that companies can't profit from grabbing a handful of open source software and building their own product around it. The open source development model is so superior that said company will be left in the dust with their handful of code, while the open project will maintain dominance.

So why scare anyone away with restrictive licenses when open source will naturally prevail anyway.

But what about the advantage Microsoft gained from basically grabbing a BSD-licensed TCP stack for WinNT? Apparently they recoded most of that stuff since then, but it was probably a great help at the time. All you need to defeat esr's argument is one or two cases where it was proven wrong.

In my opinion, the GPL is not just a legal document but a cultural artifact. When you see a GPL notice, you can feel warm fuzzy feelings of sharing certain beliefs with the authors about freedom and sharing. You can feel the peace that comes with source code.

To paraphrase you, why should I invest my own free time in a project that could be subverted from bringing freedom to its users?

Market- and mind-share are not everyone's measure of success. And I'm not prepared to have you redefine software freedom in the name of RMS today, alright? :)
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You are complaining that America got to buy real physical products for a little paper money?

Production is not an end in itself. Consumption is.
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No game waits for the server to process movement commands before showing the player moving locally because the lag is unacceptable and that's just raw movement and game state data. With extra time for the compressed 'image' data you'd have a completely unacceptable experience. I think casual gamers would hate the experience just as much. The only game I can think of that would want good graphics but crap response would be a golf game.
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That'd give the companies a higher valuation, which would (in turn) preclude small exits, so it's a mixed bag.
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You absolutely have the freedom to control your data. What you can't control is their data about you. You shouldn't be able to control someone else's data, no matter what it's about.
If all you're going to end up with at the end of uni are some good stories, you can condense the partying to 1 year of backpacking far more efficiently and cheaply. I personally believe the experience is far superior, and the lessons learnt more valuable. Depending on how you travel of course.

So imho if you're basing uni's value purely on the social aspect then it comes up way short. Instead, go travel for a year or three, figure out who you are and what you're passionate about, then get to it. You're forced to be social in both atmosphere's.

Compare a four year degree to two years of travel and two years work experience in your chosen field. Which do you think has the edge?
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"ie. to allow web surfing, a firewall will allow port 80, but most of the time it will allow both outbound and inbound 80"? outbound http traffic uses ephemeral ports, not 80.
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Bokonist, thanks for the recommendation and the link. Interestingly, that is exactly how Kaplan works with their GRE, GMAT online study programs. You've described it exactly in your description. The technical term for that is self-efficacy. The idea is that it is challenging enough, but not too challenging. Another field that nails this, and is consequently very addictive, is video games. We love to feel like we can master something and learning is no different.

Would you consider working with us in approaching Exeter? I've found that having a connection always helps.

Regarding the approach you've described, I think that works particularly well for math problems/courses. Did Exeter do anything innovative with content related courses (biology, psychology, literature) that stood out to you?
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It looks pretty enough, but what's so subversive about it? It's not just another block puzzle game?
Well, for all those developers outside US it's more like 0,01% works, because unicode is always used in templates. But hopefully it'll soon be resolved.
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I'm in the same boat. And to be honest, this problem of asking for a degree is not really our problem. I personally consider it part of the filter on potential employers. If, as an employer you're not knowledgeable enough to realize this for such an important position then I don't want to work for you anyways. It means I'll be surrounded by peers that aren't in it for the same reasons, and I probably won't have any chance to move up based on merit.

Not because I believe having a degree means you aren't a good programmer. Degree or not, I just don't trust it as an indicator of skill either way. 90% of the headhunter's I've run into in the past have no coding background themselves... so why would you entrust them with something so important to your business? You could be scaring off some really great candidates. To me it says your company really doesn't know how important the position is.

Granted it's often difficult for very small companies with limited technical resources to make the right hires, but if it's an attractive business and / or great environment we'll find you. Just don't turn us down because we do or don't have a degree. It doesn't mean anything.

Granted I'm not a superstar coder, but I'm very passionate about it and work very hard. I can figure out how to do most anything I'd need to for a job. A degree wouldn't change this in the slightest.

If I thought a degree would truly would benefit me as a programmer, then I'd probably go get a degree for higher learning purposes... and not because the job market supposedly requires it.
Great post! I specifically like how it is written non-regionalised :) so the advice applies pretty much anywhere.

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