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Windows NT also supported PowerPC (the CPU was switched to little-endian mode on boot).

I'm sure they could support ARM for the base Windows OS, but lack of application compatibility would mean a lot of user confusion that would only damage the brand. ("It's called Windows, it looks like Windows, so why doesn't anything happen when I insert the install CD for FooApp from 1999?")

Emulating x86 on ARM wouldn't do much good either. Apple was able to pull it off for their PPC->x86 transition because the new CPUs were substantially faster and memory had become abundant. ARM-based netbooks don't have either of those benefits (if the budget for these machines allowed big CPUs and lots of memory, they would just use x86).
I'm sorry but if every programming language out there uses ?: then that's not ambiguous at all.
How much of your due diligence is making you more resourceful with what you want to do?

I really can't agree enough with the earlier comment about discussing this with your wife. It's just as much her decision about where you guys want to live as it is yours.
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The point I'm attempting to make is that the landscape of success can change really fast and what worked in the past might not work again in the future. I've experienced this and I've seen others go through it. I'm talking about millionaires who tried doing the EXACT same thing and floundered for years before they admitted to losing everything.

I am definitely advocating that you develop yourself further and grow in ways you have not. But do it from a position of power, not because circumstances are such that it becomes an act of urgency, or worse, desperation.
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You missed my meaning. I was saying there are things microsoft won't do for security. For example adding a repository would get people out of the habit of downloading random software.

But it might be interesting to find out how much companies spend on security in the linux kernel. IBM, for example, is supposed to have spent billions on linux.
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Well, taking your dedicated work machine off the internet - or maybe at least blocking it on the router with a script every hour or so, forcing you to make a conscious decision about going online seems to work for lots of people.

Then again - reading tech news, for example, isn't all that bad, so how about just mapping Youtube and similar time-sinks to 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file?
You're probably right, but what about Joe Everybody
Handyman who decides that the possible payout isn't worth the risk of starting a business. Sure he could do it, if he really wanted to try, but the prospect of starting a business is already a pretty daunting one without removing more of the incentive. Why take on the added risk to get paid about the same salary as you could when you're just an employee?

For some people, though, the financials aren't even considered. Some people just want their freedom and they want to create, and taxes aren't going to dissuade them.

Others, like VCs, do get into this game with the express goal of making a pile of money. If the payout is less, the risk they're going to be willing to take on is less, and that means less development. With companies that bootstrap, this may not be as big a concern, but many companies simply wouldn't exist without the VCs willing to take on the risk. It's not an ego thing for them, it's all about the Benjamins.
steve jobs and bill gates are only one part of the picture. you have to look at the behavior of everyone involved with the early success of a company. Investors, early large customers, even the family urging them on or telling them its pointless.
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There is something to be said for the fact that Google went after GvR and not YM.
1 is the number of web site authors in evidence with way too much time on their hands.
It's been since August that i dont listen TV. It's clear for me that having no TV really forces me to go out more often, think about creative ways of spending my time. I surely have more time for personal hacking projects.
'baseline intelligent labor', 'the quality of people who are part of the network is very low'

Some mighty elitist assumptions there.

Don't assume anything. Do the actual work of checking it out for yourself. You could be surprised.
FWIW, Google was using Python internally long before GvR came on board.
Please do at least a cursory review of the US Budget if you're going to make claims like this. There is a ton of freely available information from places like the tax foundation and many many other sources with which to corroborate. Knee jerk morality is not economic analysis.

It isn't a fallacy that the poor don't pay taxes. If a poor person pays X to the government and gets Y in social services and Y>X then they are a net tax eater.

Your assertion that the poor pay more taxes as a percentage of income is so ludicrous that I don't even know how to respond.
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For icons that require attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), what is the general practice for providing that? On each web page they're used, or do you put it on an 'About' page?
We're preparing to launch our private alpha in a week and a half at a local conference. Starting with friends and collegues is a good idea, we strongly believe. At least we're thinking this way because we're in an incubator, and launching at a conference for innovators and entrepreneurs.
The financial differences are irrelevant. A slave is one who works for another without choice, under threat of force.

The (American) slaves were given basic provisions for life, even some leisure time. Their fundamental problem wasn't the money or their lifestyle, it was the lack of choice. They didn't have the right to say "no, I refuse to serve you."
The closest thing there is to a debate in the industry about DES is whether it's OK to keep using Triple DES --- which is irrelevant to you, because you're just going to use AES in all your non-legacy non-Java non-mainframe-integrated startup code.

DES has pretty much been eliminated from the mainstream, which is a rare win for security.
part of the point is that these "super rich" that everyone likes to point fingers at are such statistical outliers that formulating economic policy around them is ridiculous. In essence you wind up with special rules for .01% of the population. How egalitarian is that?
MySpace is.
Why not post a link here on Hacker News?
Adding a repository wouldn't alter security even a little. If as many people used Linux as use Windows today, we'd have just as much of a problem with Linux malware as we do with Windows malware.
you can't create equal access to education without a police state. what are you going to do? make laws that the rich aren't allowed to hire private tutors for their kids?

what you're actually saying is that a certain minimum level of education should be publicly funded. Who decides what metrics we use to judge education? It would seem that we're currently doing a terrible job at this.
He's probably referring to the UserInterfaceIcons. If someone can provide a direct download link, please do. I want to use them but you will have to kill me before I install Zango.
Google mainly uses Perforce internally. They do use git for their external Android repository (with automatic imports from their internal Perforce branches).
I'd imagine either is legally correct.
class struggle is a fallacious concept. everyone is looking out for themselves.
"I think Google is making some bad choices with the technologies that they are choosing to support (Python/Java over Ruby, Mercurial over Git)."

I remember a large portion of Google's codebase has been based on Python/Java when Ruby was not popular back then. How could you say they made a bad choice to support their own infrastructure? As the reason of choosing Mercurial for Google Code, consider the following facts in addition:

0. Mercurial is written in Python (well, some critical parts in C)

1. Google App Engine supports Python first (then Java)

2. GvR works in Google

3. Python adopts Mercurial this year for version control
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Well, a lot of people here think that their web-delivered software as a service offering is going to be an instant mega-success and they will need to scale up to meet 100k requests per second in the first day.

The truth is a much more pedestrian than that. For one thing, outages can be good publicity; I'm willing to bet many more people heard about twitter because of people bitching about it being than any other reason. For another, you should never look further than one order of magnitude ahead when scaling a web app because the load profile changes too unpredictably as you climb the curve; you can't tell what 100k visits/hr looks like from 1k visits/hr but at 1k v/h you probably have a good idea of what will kill you at 10k.
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If your scared, try cutting the AC power cord.

Be sure to unplug it first :)
The following is not a personal attack?

"call a turd a turd"

The guy sounds like an 8 year old. It's just incredibly unbecoming. Anyway, if you like his blog, good for you.
You don't have to eliminate inequality, but if society gave people a better foundation to work with (health care, care in old age and education), I think people would be more willing to take risks AND would be less prone to corruption.
The post office has a similar system, except they charge customers differently to get information to the recipient faster. Overnight costs more than first class for example.

If DPI were used to allow customers to pay based on priority, would that be acceptable? For example, if you only want to pay 1 cent per GB for a torrent download that gets packets to you at 1/3 the rate of HTTP packets, which cost 2 cents per GB, would something like that work?

I am not proposing it, just continuing the post office analogy.
In the immediate, yes there's a very finite number of jobs. If there was an unlimited supply of jobs, not a single person in the world would be unemployed.

Jobs are tied to the economy, until the economy grows there can't be more jobs. The system might handle a flux of 10% new workers (either from a bizarre immigration mistake or a ton of people working over time or double full-time jobs) however, resources are finite. All 300 million people in the USA can't overnight get a second job.

In certain sectors there's probably great ease in getting a second job. However, there's not 300 million minimum wage jobs going.
"69 has the property that n2 and n3 together contain each digit once."

Indeed.
I think the real part of regret comes in the last quote: "Sometimes, I’ll be sitting around on a weekend and think, it’d be fun if I could just write up a software app really quickly."

I doubt it was the school that he misses. It was probably the free time to build whatever he wanted.
Given that I currently still have to deal with SVN and, god help us, CVS, I can't say I'm particularly afraid of Hg. Should I be?
Then you need to rebrand your program. Anything that even slightly has the smell o "lifestyle" is tacky these days. It is not cool to be aspirational these days.

As I mentioned a do-it-yourself or travel/luxury on the cheap program would be fantastic right now. Sell it as such.

Keeping up with the jones' is over for at least a decade.
You must not have read the forums. Some newer features of god require a linux kernel module that is not included in Ubuntu by default. You should probably have read the forums sometime during hour 1 of your experience.
Arrested, but not convicted, the only way to talk to my brother in law in jail was to pay a few $ per minute when he called us collect. I have read descriptions of why the jails should limit calls thusly, with contracts to providers that pay a lot of money to the jails to give them the monopoly telephone service, and they are BS!

I'd love to see how much problem jails had with contraband cellphones if they provided monitored telecom to any prisoner on a fairly abundant schedule for free. I bet most of that contraband cell phone is there at all because the "legal" communication is so onerous.
numbs my brain quicker than exercise

Sounds like you're not running fast enough. =)
Hi ahoyhere,

Thanks for the great feedback - and great blog entries. I see where you're coming from especially if the guilt makes you avoid working on your startup.

For me, it's not so much as guilt. It's more about a question of focus. How does one consider an open-ended task done? Is it when it is at a quality we are satisfied with?

If my startup has 100 bugs, can I say it is finished? I guess it'll depend on the bugs, priority, importance of these bugs and what type of product it is. Early adopters are probably also more forgiving of using a buggy system, so it's probably ok to ship with known bugs.

The problem with time boxing is we allocate fixed amount of time to work on something, but if the time elapses and the task isn't finished, we're likely to schedule more time at it. The problem is without proper focus (maybe being conscious of some reward or penalty) if we're late, we might continue the blow out.

You're right though, as everyone around us is on our back, we don't need us to get on our own backs too! So perhaps, it isn't a black/white situation, but case-by-case instead.

Thoughts?

dave
Pearltrees works with flex so if you have a flash/flex blocker it may explain the issues to read it.

The big advantages of Pearltrees is that it makes it very easy for me a) to keep all the contents as I come across them, b) to organize them in a certain order and c) to share them with one link so as to guide others through those contents in the order I think subjectively is the one that makes most sense. As jessep points out, it does allow to organize these contents in a structured way which a list cannot do. Finally, I can discover other related contents done by other pearltrees' users on the same topic, (i.e., users that cross my map on a same web page notified by a yellow circle), and hence discover other point of views on the topic.

Of course the tool can be improved and simplified. The team is working hard on it and I'm sure it will get better. But it is already a very powerful tool for my everyday web usage.
http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Secrets-Encryption-Research-P...

Deep Crack was big news some ten years ago, but this is just a random link to wikipedia, with no other commentary about why it might be relevant now.

On a related (but just as irrelevant) note, a friend of mine had one of the production-defective CPUs from that machine that she wore on a pendant for several years.
in theory lots of things can 'cause scalability problems. I like to write a lot of my code in the database, and I would never be able to move to mysql from postgres, since mysql just doesn't support half the stuff postgres does. I might be able to migrate to sql server, db2, or oracle, but not the other way.
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And their family and their friends and their colleagues and their neighbours... Somewhat in that order.
2 is the only even prime?

Objection! This amounts to "2 is the only prime not divisible by 2"! How about 2 is the highest solution for N in any equation X^N + Y^N = Z^N?

3 is the number of spatial dimensions we live in?

Objection! This is a mere contingent empirical fact! This is a fact about our universe, not the number 3! You might as well say that your car has three seats in the back. How about "3 is the first number whose factorial does not equal itself"?
For those interested in Stoicism, Epictetus' Enchiridion (The Handbook) is an excellent short introduction.

http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html
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Microsoft sponsoring an open source project?
And the CIA is an investor in facebook.

(Hey, where did my tin foil hat go!)
The "turd" here was god, not the author thereof. You seem to be confusing the two. Or anthropomorphizing god. Or something.

I like Brad as a person, but I don't think I've read his blog before. And he usually acts on par with an 11 year old, so take that into account.
Perhaps he meant the ambiguity of parsing?
uh it says right in the fuzed README that it may not run on your system.

Would you rather that tom had just kept all the code to himself until he got around to polishing it to the point where it ran on most systems?

I think releasing it to the community where others can work with it is the best approach, particularly if the main developer doesn't have the time to make it a top priority.
Model 1 is just FOMO (fear-of-missing-out), which I think is an oversimplification.
Um, perhaps actually enumerating what X and Y are would be a start? Or defining what "poor" means?

A lot of people conveniently forget about sales tax (and potentially other sorts of government fees, like vehicle registration fees) when saying "poor people don't pay taxes." Sales tax is an incredibly regressive form of taxation, as are gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, etc.
The answer in my opinion lies with you. I'd try to answer these questions:

What are your priorities ?
What is most important to you ?
What if you fail, especially considering you have 3 kids and a wife to support - do you have enough savings to support the family if things dont work out ?

There's nothing stupid with what you're wanting to do. As long as you can take a calculated risk, you might just want to go for it.
Your post reads like a red herring (in the stock sense). A "story stock" has to have a good story, it doesn't have to have numbers behind it.

Anything's reproductive "goal", in any times, is to show up a lot in later generations. Promiscuity and particularity both show up as strategies in humans and broadly beyond. Anybody studying reporductive strategies many generations later will have a strong survivorship bias in their results.

A woman who selects a man who isn't very promiscuous is unlikely to get her genes spread very far by her son(s). This trades off against the part of the story you tell.
Strongly agree with the second part: The problem here is not wealth, but corruption

Kind of confused by the first part. Was that about progressive tax rates or communism?

I don't know anyone who has ever declined an opportunity to make money just because the tax on the profit was too high. Does anyone have specific examples?
sounds like they got a boatload of stimulus money :)
Good points, but as pointed out elsewhere in this thread:

* Mercurial support at Google started before the discussion to move Python (I don't know details, but someone said it here so it must be true)

* Google was using Python long before GvR was hired.

[edit: s/hg/Mercurial/, I guess it's the proper thing to say]
It's tough to separate the creator from the product of the creative act. Why would Tom have created God if not because he was inspired to write something cool and useful.

To then sit around calling it names is an insult not just to Tom but to anyone who is engaged in productive, creative work. Also, this kind of thing will only discourage others from releasing their code to the community...
Yep. I'm not sure if any other kids games white list (instead of black list) chat, but as I mentioned, kids are clever little buggers. They do things like "SHe Is very Tall" or "on to tree for" -- you get the idea -- so the white list alone is not nearly enough. :)
sigh

okay let's say we have a consumption tax of 10%. By definition your tax rate can not exceed 10% (it will be 10% if you spend all your money).

this is peanuts. the tax rates for the top 2 quintiles range from 25% to 32%, and that's straight income before paying all those same consumption taxes.

frankly, your argument is flawed from the get go. if we're going to assume a decreasing marginal utility of money (which is what theft from the highly productive is usually justified with) we can't use straight up percentages of income as our metric since the whole thing relies on the idea that taking 10% from a poor person is worse than taking 10% from a rich person.

But if we do that we have a whole new problem on our hands. How do we determine the rate at which the utility of money decreases?
Pretty, but too dark to easily read.
On the other hand, some people watch TV because they just want to relax and not work every waking hour.

I use the computer for that rather than TV, but still, killing time is killing time.
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Can someone parse that for me please? I'm having trouble making sense of it, and I suspect my English simply isn't up to it.

Thanks.
The key with the economist is to read between the lines.

Why do you have to read between the lines? Maybe economists don't say things in plain English so they can always deny that they were wrong.

On the other hand, I like economists like Mike Shedlock, who crystal-clearly explains himself (Google his blog). He has been right about the coming deflation for a long time.
Making $30k/year, you are taxed at 15% for social security, another 6% for medicare, 13% federal income taxes, and then depending where you live you pay state income taxes and city income taxes as well. Then you pay 10% sales tax. You get no write offs for a mortgage, because you can't afford a house.

The total easily comes to 40% (15% + 6% + 13% + 10% sales tax, not even including state taxes), well exceeding the 25-32% paid at the top. Because the top earners spend a much lower percentage of their income, they are far less effected by sales tax proportionally. Medicare and social security top out at 100k income. So the top earners pay 32%, and that's it (actually less when you include the tax breaks a good accountant can find you).

And that's how you can say that the poor pay more taxes than the rich.
If you're a scientist and a reporter presses you to speculate on how your research could be useful, are you going to just refuse? Mainstream science journalism taints everything it touches. The scientists who did the research aren't necessarily at fault for this.
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