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Does anyone bother to even look up the most basic facts before making proclamations any more? Oil prices were prety much flat through 2003. The rise of oil certainly helped, but you can't explain eight years of growth starting in 1999 with four years of oil price rises starting in 2003.
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Understandable. So you learned to program on your job?
this is the sort of thing that always happens when someone sufficiently unprincipled realizes just how superficial the majority of people are, and decides to exploit it.

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How nice of you to sort your idealism in order of plausibility:

1. Desktop Notifications: Terrific idea, and going to take a longass time to happen in a unified way. Already getting implemented via XMPP, perhaps browsers will just end up including an XMPP client where you can add to the roster from the DOM (pending confirmation). If this ends up happening via Twitter instead, there is no hope for this world.

2. Native Menus: a thoroughly mediocre idea -- for starters your webapps should not have fucking desktop-style menus! Furthermore how would you implement File-Edit-View on a mac? If you really need a dropdown, <select> is right fucking there. The only redeeming native-ui feature I can think of would be the ability to add to the browser's context menu, but that would be ripe for abuse if it was even close to useful enough.

3. MICROPAYMENTS: The single shittiest idea in the history of the web, and it's never going to fucking go away. Fucklers will continue to tilt at this windmill forever, and will always fail. There is far more terrific content available that I want to peruse than I will ever have time for, and I'm a guy that spends every waking moment reading. I'm serious, I often read well over 1M words a week (though I haven't instrumented in over a year), almost exclusively on the web, though in college I got 100+ books a year through ILL. There is just too much out there to be nickel & dimed.
I think you made a mistake here. Twitter names are not the same as domain names because the amount of info they contain will always be limited by design. But you've elevated them into the main namespace and diluted your core offering, in a manner that is unclear to new users.

It's a good idea to have twitter names, I just think that the position on the page of the names is bad - they should have been on a different page. I also think you should have gone with long domains also like I suggested last time.
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And:

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

As an added plus the quote is badly taken out of context for this use.
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How about just trying not honesty, but exagerated blame-taking? Taking blame means taking control.
Oh, stupid me, didn't take into that into the calculation.

The things is that I wrote a school paper years ago on the UAE and back then it wasn't exactly a hidden fact that many workers on the massive construction projects were treated badly.

But then I forgot that not everyone has access to the internet and/or reads human rights reports.

Shame on me.
It's even worse with the Scrum crap -- your "Scrum Master" certificate literally represents a payment to a "Certified Scrum Trainer", whose certificate represents $7500/year to the Scrum Alliance.

Is it any surprise that there is management douchebaggery behind courses about same?
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Does this clown have any idea what differentiates XP from his cash cow?
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At $250k? I don't think so. Disrupting, and potentially bankrupting, hundreds of businesses... that sounds more like somewhere in the hundreds of millions, or potentially low billions.

Importantly, the US govt now needs to convince the rest of the world that this will never happen again. We've got servers hosted in the US. Should we move them? Are we safe from this kind of indiscriminate abuse of force?
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I'm not sure what you are referring to, but if it is to my assertion that 'capitalism is a force of nature', then I advise you to read Marx. He already understood that capitalism is almost unavoidable in trading systems. It is an emergent phenomenon, like avalanches are emergent phenomena of the combination of snowfall, mountains and gravity.
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Would the gentoo way (ie distribution of source packages, gets compiled automatically) be lawful?
Hi Litewulf,

Thanks for the insider view.

My previous post was wondering whether Google is trying to set the entry bar so very high in order to attract some talent that would otherwise go to Goldmans, Bain.

Google need not exploit them, rather hire them in the first place.

--

To your point about affirmation... the non-Googles are accused of not giving any affirmation but the 'reward' of climbing the ladder to become one of the money-earning Partners. On the outside that may seem cruel, but for the successful they must feel rewarded adequately.
"A cron job will invoke a URL at a given time of day. A URL invoked by cron is subject to the same limits and quotas as a normal HTTP request, including the request time limit."

So you can't do cron tasks which last more than 30 seconds. Too bad.

I'm looking foward to "Offline processing on App Engine: a look ahead" presentation during the Google I/O (http://code.google.com/intl/en-US/events/io/sessions.html).
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We generally go more for the reasoned discussion here then for the swearing.

I agree, micropayments are fundamentally flawed. The reasons have been the same since Clay Shirky said so in 2000: users hate them.

http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/12/19/micropayments.ht...

However, I am in favor of absolutely anything that makes it easier for macro-payments to go through. The Apps Store cited is one way to accomplish macropayments with just a click or two, but I am skeptical that that works for the general case.

Honestly I think we're probably going to just get iterative improvements on Paypal at this point -- that is a great leap from the status quo circa 2000 but it leaves me feeling a little annoyed in 2009. There's still a 10x improvement out there... except it would have to decouple e-commerce from credit cards and have instant penetration higher than Paypal. Tough order there.
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They don't have to proselytize.
Did the same thing to me.

I went back to the front page console and there was a link at the top of the page.
A silent XBMC box in a small form factor.

Think "Apple TV", but without having to worry about hacks, and with built in keyboard/mouse support.
People will probably still have sentimental attachements to souveniers. But apart from that, you may be right --- taking the current the lifestyle of some rich people as an indicator.

Of course we'd have to dramatically lower the transaction costs for short term rents of various goods that you may want to us.
I'd pay $10 a month for a service that finds podcasts and videos about specific subjects.

I don't have the time to scour TV listings or subscribe to busy podcasts/RSS feeds in the hope of finding something to listen to at work/when I'm out and about. What I'm doing now is going to the BBC iPlayer website every week, putting in my keywords and hoping something comes up.

I'd pay a monthly subscription to a reliable service that could bring me high quality content from universities, YouTube Edu, Authors@Google, iTunes store, the BBC iPlayer, NPR, PBS, Fora.tv, etc. about the subjects/keywords I enter. What I don't want is homemade slideshows from YouTube or micro-segments of news. I shouldn't have to sit in Google's search box and now be able to drill down to find this interesting stuff.
In the West we think of the gender roles as male and female but in the Middle East (and in Ancient Greece in our own cultural heritage) the gender roles are "penetrator" and "penetrated". An adult (or older) male penetrator is not considered homosexual in this culture, nor is an adolescent (or younger) male penetrated. They would say that a homosexual is an adult male penetrated, and only that is taboo.
"Google isn't looking for the next Bill Gates .... they are looking for brilliant brilliant hackers who can be successful at the problems thrown at them"

the point being made was that being a "brilliant hacker" has nothing to do with doing well at school either.
Yeah, the standards seem to be lower in general. Probably because the barriers to entry are lower. (-: As an oldie, I try to be humble by remembering the Flynn effect. :-)

And then...

Be happy kid, it gets worse. :-)

Exercise, take vacations and make certain you relax enough (a meditation-course is good; there are non-religious ones). Also, be careful with your teeth; an infection I had no other effects of, made me chronically tired for a long time and really destroyed my life (I thought I had burned out).

And work with stuff you care about, otherwise you'll probably hate yourself and everyone else.

Most other stuff you seem to know.

Sorry for that, but a 20-something trying to sound world weary needs a pat on the head. :-)
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I'd like to be notified when authors have new book coming out. You get this from some publishers, but what if the author jumps to another publisher?
What is a Scrum Master?...
"Learning physics is actually not so different a process as learning a foreign language."

Uh, no.
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AFAIK and IANAL you're not completely right.

It depends on the type of DVD you use. If for instance it's a movie DVD using something like CSS (remember DVD Jon?) and you access it's content by breaking the CSS "protection" then you're right. Basically if you need specific codecs or circumvent certain "protection" layers it would probably be something that you might want to check with a legal expert. In any other case where you want to access a plain DVD, AFAIK this is completely legal anywhere in the world.
Wow ... that is an attitude you should re-examine.
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I don't quite understand the legalities this being entirely reposted. Isn't there like copyright on the article itself. Can someone explain?
"What is a Scrum Master?"

It is a name for someone who sits through a 2 day seminar conducted by someone who doesn't know how to develop software but presumes to teach other people how to. ;-)

Seriously though becoimng a "scrum master" is only about attending a 2 day seminar! The guys who dreamed up this marketing scheme (that is all it is) made millions off it so you have to give them due credit.
There was a rate my startup type post a few months back of a site that checked the availability of user names on all those sites with a single click. If you can find it, it's probably as close as you're going to get (since it'd be very hard with all the CAPTCHAs to automate the name registration). Mechanical Turk, anyone?
First page: Are you going to tell us anything about the machines? Nope, I'm trying to be objective. Does the OS affect anything? Nope, but I'm a realist, so yup.

Second page: These machines are basically the same hardware-wise, but lets say their names a few times. Since they're the same hardware-wise, lets discuss things that don't affect the computer, hardware or software wise! Also, be sure to bold their names no more then 3/4 the time though!

Third page: Lets reprint the same information from the previous page, again! This time, using ugly colors that don't go well together. Then we discuss what most consumers care about; the price. And recommend other notebooks that we didn't even discuss!
It's easy to take anything you already have knowledge that it is successful and then try to find elements you think are good. It's much harder to look at unknown things and say - this will be a hit.
Two things. Developing economies generally have higher rates of growth than more advanced ones, so the fact that Russia had higher rates of growth than the seven most advanced economies in the world is fairly meaningless. In fact, there was debate at the time about whether the G7 should expand to include Russia, since Russia's profile didn't match the others'.

And second, how much of the cumulative growth from 1999-2007 was due to astronomical energy prices? I don't think it's absurd to point out that for half of the period you mention, energy prices made Russia's economy appear much stronger than it was in reality. The same happened in the late 1970s and the early 1980s with the USSR. Many attribute the USSR's implosion in large part to the collapse in energy prices in the late 1980s/early 1990s, since the failings of their centrally planned economy couldn't be concealed any longer.
Thanks. You'd be amazed at how quickly the names are going. When I went back right before this launch, I checked a few of the names to see if they were still available and was blown away by how many were registered in such a short period of time. If you're thinking about registering a name on Twitter, you'd be wise not to procrastinate :)
I found this even more useful: http://www.boxuk.com/blog/the-ultimate-website-launch-checkl...
China grapples with new world role
With their economy still expanding and banks still awash with cash &ndash; and the government holding $2 trillion in foreign currency reserves, more than half of which is invested in debt that supports the United States &ndash; the Chinese are generally taking pride in their unprecedented new clout in world affairs.
Given Twitter's popularity and current growth rate, I think it'd be a mistake NOT to elevate it the front page.

And anyway, visitors can always filter by domain names only or Twitter names only, allowing them to explore only what they're interested in.

I'm still considering the long names. One thing at a time :)
"treated badly" does not even approximate the meaning of "indentured servitude". Having slaves is unforgivable. Oddly enough, isn't the UEA in the Human Rights Commission that wanted to ban free speech if it offends a religion?
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1) Chatterous.com (YC W08) now has an API that can reach user's IM clients. That's exciting. I'm watching out for that one.

2) wince I used to design UI for desktop apps. Menu items have been a dead concept for quite some time, and with good reason. They disconnect the user from the task or object at hand. There's no obvious mental mapping between a menu item and what's on the screen. The web is better off without these.

3) Tipjoy.com =)
Thanks, I'm glad you like it! Checking Twitter name availability was relatively easy compared to redoing a large chunk of the site to accomodate more than just domain names.

What do you mean by "Just wish they were a bit more active in responding?"
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I suspect it is too late to 'fix' the system.

"People who were driving a school bus blindfolded (and crashed it) should never be given a new bus."

Unfortunately for us the bus driver is the gatekeeper to the garage and he decides who gets to drive.
How old is this? It is dated December 2000, but at one point it refers to 1995 as being in the future.
Thanks. Next time I have to debate with a crazy libertarian that quotes the Mises folks, I will use these.
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Well I guess you could automate everything except the captchas. Just ask the user for a name. After that check availability on serviceX, display captcha, repeat.
I hope not. I know the founders of iMafia and I hope they've built enough of a first mover's advantage of the iPhone to survive this. They managed to beat out Mafia R&R by SGN but the "Mafia Wars" brand name may be too overwhelming.
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No, I'm speaking of the text in the about page.
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Aside from the usual disappointments that this case brings if the StockArt's side is true, is that in the future, if there are designers/programmers/freelancers actually ripped off by a large corporation, the Internet is going to be much more reluctant to help them out.
Just to clarify on my comment (and the journalist's writing): "neo-liberal" is here meant (clearly by both of us) in the European sense. I.e., as in Classical Liberalism. Pro-free markets and individual liberty and individual rights. Rather different (in many cases, not always) from Modern Liberalism.
I get an empty page.
I'd replace item #2 (dropdown menus) with Combo boxes and List Controls. Two items which are very useful in native apps and difficult to get right in HTML.
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The point is, at some point your application can touch the data, and a bug in the application can easily ruin it... regardless of the underlying database topology.

Additionally, it's easier to create rich type constraints in object systems than it is in SQL.

(Note: Java and C++ do not count as OO languages. They are missing too many features.)
Interesting, it's a botnet! From the FAQ: "How can the prices be so low?" "Plura pays developers to embed lightweight widgets in their desktop applications or websites. These widgets harness the idle and excess bandwidth and computing power on the computers of people using the applications and websites."
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This fits with what I'm now sensing about YC: that they're not as interested in innovation as with what sounds good. Personally speaking, CouchDB is better than a lot of the companies that they have funded, and it's truly innovative.

If Steve Jobs didn't have Woz, he would be a used-car salesman right now. Woz essentially invented the PC. He could find a thousand people like Jobs in any MBA program. Sure marketing is important, but it's frosting on the technology cake. If you get the technology right, the marketing will follow.
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Are you using a flash blocker (like I am)? The entire page is flash
I have a cron job set to run once a minute (which I am impressed they allow).

Also, I am currently using the remote-api to create tasks that I run on my laptop or another server. I imagine the offline processing is pretty similar.
Wow, this is amazing stuff. On par with Spotify in ease of use.

After a while it gets a bit too "flashy" though.

Would like to see some social/discussion functionalities.
You all got it wrong. Here's what I said:

- There is no correlation between a good idea and how hard or easy it is to pitch. Some great ideas are easy to pitch, others are not. No correlation.

- There is a direct correlation between a mediocre idea and ease in pitching it. Every mediocre idea is easy to pitch.
Why are you re-posting? This isn't a craigslist post that will be flagged for removal...
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I prefer shady botnets being used for stuff like this rather than sending and posting spam, but I'd guess that most of the 50k users who have installed this have no idea that they have and what it does.

I didn't look very hard to find it, but is there a list of places/apps that install this?
"In this case however the comments are gone too"
There might have simply been a bug that they fixed between now and the time you first noticed comments lingering after a logo was deleted.
Thank you for the explanation.

Life is too short for Flash pages (without graceful alt's degrading to html).
There may not actually be a Gang of Plagiarists, because Stock Art may as well have made all those people up. Seems like a smart thing to do if your intention is fraud on this scale. I have no reason to assume it is the case, because from leaning towards 'Jon may be right', I'm not suddenly going to switch to an extrem 'Jon is a liar'.
I looked at the Plura website, and it seems they mostly target institutions (Schools and such) that want to make money off of their spare cycles. So it's not like they're directly installing stuff on the machines of unwitting fools; they pay for processor time.

EDIT: wow, never mind, I totally misunderstood their model:

http://www.pluraprocessing.com/technology.html