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I can relate.

I have no problem working till 2 or 3am (regardless of travel - I adjust very quickly), but if I have to get up before 8am, I feel miserable all day. I can still function, but then I have zero creativity and people annoy me. It's like the bottom part of bipolar. Let me sleep late, and I kick ass.
When I say "joke" I just mean that the whole concept appears to be firmly tongue-in-cheek (or pizza-in-cheek, maybe). Though I haven't used the app I suspect that the tech behind it is pretty sound. I feel you on the hyperbolic marketing though, when every new app is a "revolutionary take on _____" those words begin to lose meaning. I have no connection to the app's creators or any actual knowledge about their intentions but I would assume that this is meant to be a jab at that kind of marketing.
"in order to achieve a particular layout, we had to delete the doctype"

Hmm... must have been trying to invoke quirks mode.
"The block transaction cap is just a hardcoded value in the client"

Why is these even a value? Why does the protocol limit how many transactions can be performed in a given period of time? This seems like an extreme deficiency to me...
Exactly. Gold is a universal currency, you can use it for barter pretty much anywhere on the planet.

Gold coins (British Sovereigns) were supposedly part of the emergency survival kit given to US and British fighter pilots during the first Iraq war.
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I feel the same way, that researchers should stop trying to mimic the brain, but not because we don't understand the brain. While I think there are still several decades before we'll be able to have mind uploads, I also think a lot of people underestimate the quality of modern brain science. In any case, I have the same reason as Dijkstra for why I think mimicking the brain isn't that great an idea.
In http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036... (really a great read to branch all sorts of thoughts off of) Dijkstra said, "The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly: I'd rather use them to mimic something better."

It's probably a harder problem, creating smarter-than-human intelligence on a machine, but research isn't as constrained by laws and ethics (they don't have to bemoan not being able to experiment with living human brains). I wish more people were active in the area.
I dislike gold as an investment vehicle, but it is a sensible investment during a localized civil war that does not impact the global economy.

During a civil war, the local economy will be destabilized. This means that local production will drop off, and most things you want you will have to import (this includes the service of fleeing the country). In addition, your local currency will have become destabilized (possibly permanently), so outsiders won't find it desirable. Gold has a market outside your country, so outsiders would be willing to accept it as currency.

Basically, what you want is a currency with a global value, because it won't be affected by local conditions. Gold satisfies this criterion, as does USD in many cases.

I think most of the debate upthread can be summarized thusly: This criterion depends on a separation between local economic conditions, and global ones. In the US there is not such a distinction. If we suffer an economic collapse (whatever the cause), we're taking the world with us. As such, there is no currency with the properties that people are looking for.
It has worked for me on every system I've ever had, most of which have been laptops. Nowadays, I use Ubuntu, and nearly everything works out of the box on every system I have. Currently, the only issue is the backlight on a very new gaming laptop. I had to download and compile a third-party kernel module for that, which while not a big hassle for me is clearly unacceptable from a usability perspective.

I suggest that some of the problems people are having stem from using distros that either don't care about or have the resources to support desktop use.
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Of course the same can be said for morning people, we never know when you arrived !
The worst part about these extensions is that Disney's valuable characters are all (perpetually) protected by trademark. Extending the copyright on hundred year old movies only prevents them from being widely enjoyed.
Before mobile apps can really become a model for enterprise software, their level of sophistication is going to have to go up: Plug-ins, sync rather than CRUD-over-IP, better use of Android modularity tools including ContentProvider components, bound services, more intent filters, etc.

Right aspiration, but not enough great examples yet.
Yep. It's a 2009 article. I can vouch for the quality of the camera though. Mine's still going strong. :)
yeah, but if the copyright holder were, say, disney, then they would just perpetually renew it, because even if it isn't making them money now doesn't mean that wouldn't want to make it into a line of merchandise and its associated movie sometime down the line.
dress code ? do you have a farting and ball scratching package too ?
Only if they're not enjoying it.
I disagree somewhat.. I'm a hobbyist at best when it comes to programming. Like I've never actually shipped anything in my life. I recently decided to put an end to that to solve a problem for a family member's business.

They just wanted a simple web form, where the sales people could add notes throughout the day and then automatically email those notes to the owner at the end of the day.

I first tried Django and was quickly overwhelmed.. I switched to Flask and with the help of flask-login, flask-wtforms, and flask-mail, it only took me a long weekend to get it up and running.

Just a personal anecdote, but Flask was much easier for me.
Rather than cutting your ring into small pieces, check out this credit card sized gold bar which you can tear off into 1 gram pieces.

http://www.combibar.com/products/50g-combibar-gold/
I don't know if the word "complaintbrag" exists (a la humblebrag) but it should, to describe someone who brags about how cool they are via complaining about something trivial.
"If you're a thief who doesn't have access to any computer skills or the above sums of money, have no fear, it is likely that the Bitcoin economy still has multiple options for you to get in on the ground floor of exciting new ways to steal things."

Exactly. Low-tech ways of stealing bitcoins is precisely what we are seeing the most in the community right now. Thieves who merely sweet-talk people on the forum and convince them to invest in their "businesses" (ponzi schemes, fake ASIC preorders, etc), then receiving the money, and running away.

Cost for the thief: at most $100 (setting up a website to advertise the fake business).

For example just 2 months ago, a fraudster advertised his company selling Bitcoin ASIC mining hardware (www.labsnovo.com, now taken down) by posting a comment to my blog... This is very sad to see because every freaking time, some people fall for it. You may have 4 out of 5 posts on the forums reporting one of these scheme as a "LIKELY FRAUD" in all caps, yet there are always a few people who ignore these warnings and just try to invest anyway. sigh
Those interaction methods we can play with
"If you want to lead the largest exchange for a decentralized, anonymous currency, you better have an NSA quality-type security team that can address the intricate mathematics of the problems they will certainly face"

Their first question would be, "What is the formal definition of Bitcoin's security?" Then they would notice that polynomial time attackers can double spend Bitcoin currency and stop bothering with the entire system.

This is the sort of work in this field that top-notch crypto people create:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.44.8...

http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F11889663_20

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5443458
Many reasons are outlined in the link of the grandparent's post. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability (Check out the rest of the wiki, it's quite informative.)

To summarize: It helps reduce some DoS attack vectors and helps encourage the use of transaction fees early on.
I've been feeling like Google has become the thing I'm tied to. Unlike US carriers, where I could move my number from one service to another, I don't think I can do this with Google voice. I feel a little stuck now.
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> a honest conversation with their employer

Sucker.
Great! Is it possible you could let me know when the features go live?
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I've never used an alarm clock. Until I was about 24 I could be up till 2 and still get up by 5 easily. Around that time, I started having more and more trouble getting up early. I would still get up around 8-9, but not before. Also, around that time I started drinking coffee.

So... I have zero clue how or why, but I recently stopped drinking coffee and I'm back to 7 being late for me. It is a good feeling. More than a bit of a shame, though, as I do like the taste of coffee.
You could do things like consultants, and ask a binary "Do you have budget of at least $XXX,000" up front, particularly if you have the flexibility to not worry about chasing away marginal prospects.
Isn't this nowadays re-framed as "growth hacking"? Not quite sure, but to me both concepts seemed always kinda familiar.
Sounds beautiful, can't wait to see it!
I took a quick crack at the correlation implied by table 5 in that paper you linked. Assuming wealth was constant across the ranges specified, I came up with a correlation of 0.45. So meaningful but not high. I personally suspect that it's actually much more highly correlated and that fact would come out if I didn't have to assume wealth was constant for 0-50 and 50-90, but it would be conclusory for me to incorporate that into my numbers.
SHA256 underpins Bitcoin. Break SHA256, and you win.
Marcaria.com stores them in plaintext, too.

I told them about it multiple times.

"We'll have our engineers look into it"
-- Two Days Later --
"This ticket has been closed."
Sorry my bad. I was under that assumption since I saw that the hard deadline for review questions were today, so I thought that must hold for the programming assignment.
> Copyright exists for the benefit of society

Let us be honest, it hasn't existed for this purpose for 30+ years. It now exists to protect corporate profit centers and main franchises that big business doesn't want to enter public domain so other people could distribute their work for free and create derivatives without getting sued into oblivion.
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I get the feeling the quiz isn't really tuned to Canadian dialect differences. I would have guessed I would be classified as something around the Pennsylvania, Ohio or New York state area. I certainly don't sound like someone from Fargo, although some Canadian accents do.
When I first heard that VCs were putting money into Bitcoin companies, frankly, I balked. Then I realized that I felt the exact same way years ago when I first saw one of those companies selling gold at inflated prices to people.

There is clearly a market for Bitcoin. Between the large black markets, the anti-government libertarians/anarchists and the speculative traders, there is little doubt there are fortunes to be made.

I just don't know if I'd care to be in such a business.
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Great short and concise article.

I'm in the process of writing a pet project using Django and would really appreciate your insights on what packages you find useful (as mentioned at the bottom of your post).
>Founders have never had more power relative to investors than they do now.

Easy to say coming from the new middleman getting between start-ups and funding.

If you really believe this prove it. Accept me into YC (or anyone who was not invited into YC but has a launched product), I/they will not receive YC funding but be a "mole" and go through YC and present at demo day - I promise I/they can secure funding - which means the power is not relative to Founders but shifted to YC.
Vanity metrics: what's wrong with motivating the team with them?
Then again, no cockroach has ever jumped out of the water and pulled someone under, to drown and then get all soft and rotted and delicious.
I agree that America is doing many things wrong, and has many challenges facing it now and likely well into the future. However, I would also like to remind you that America is as a nation, 237 years old. It is a country that was founded by rebels and is often in some sort of crisis and or revolution at any given time. Despite(because of?) this, great things and great people consistently grow from here, and I have no doubt that will continue well into the future.

I am surprised when I hear people talk of our current issues as if they will be what does us in. Think of the big picture here, do you really think America is going to get "overtaken" in the 21st century when in many ways we are leading it? And I do agree we are behind in some ways as well, but we don't have to be number 1 at everything to be successful, or at the least survive and progress as a nation.
They dont? And shouldnt? Why not? The point someone here is trying to make is that what was once simple is potentially going to become inordinately difficult. Not impossible but very difficult.

And by who's determination is my business "not real" if I do my own taxes??? At least I do my taxes more accurately than Geithner does or did AND HE got to sign our dollar bills! Was his business "not real"?

Once again, thanks to GovCo, life is getting worse, harder not easier, asinine not smart. There is absolutely NO THOUGHT WHATSOEVER put into anything coming from DC lately. None.
The going rate for a (superb) lunchtruck sandwich in Philadelphia is <$5. The standard non-deluxe hoagies are usually <$3. Breakfast style hoagies (egg based, not meat) are usually $2.50.

Same sandwich from a corner deli (cheapest brick and mortar place that you will find a sandwich) is $5-$8. The competitive advantage that corner shops have is that they will, if they are clever enough to make themselves a "restaurant", sell beer.

Lunch trucks are not "cheap for NYC of SV", they are just cheap.

Furthermore, lunchtrucks do great business in Philadelphia during the brutally hot summers and icy winters because they are cleaver enough to part places where where they are the option that involves the lease amount of time walking outside.
I agree that the over-friendly "hey, let's engage!" style is annoying. It feels like a sales tactic hidden under a patronising wrapper. But I do like that the emails provide a human touch. Someone has put a bit of thought into them and there seems to be a real person at the other end. In that respect, I think a middle ground is probably best - a short, friendly welcome with maybe a confirmation that we won't email you again unless you ask.

Incidentally I also like adding [Non-urgent] in subject lines for mails that can safely be ignored, but that's just my personal preference.
Cool idea, looks well-executed, and definitely serving a worthy cause. Do you have any evidence that this is better than the current way of doing things, which I guess would be candy drives and magazine subscriptions and all that?
> About $200 billion annual output between Iran & Qatar. That's about $360,000 per SECOND

That's $360,000 per MINUTE (not second).

200*10^9/365/24/60/60 = 6342
I think criley's point is that if your activities closely resemble international warfare, they probably aren't "legitimate" by any reasonable standards.
Sorry, wasn't keeping an eye on replies - I just kind of threw my original comment out into the ether.

I'd like to ask you though. What are the other 4 (5? 3? you said roughly) cash cows do you reckon, and in all seriousness are any of them even close in scale to Windows/Office? Honestly, I mean :)
"As the market moves more and more to mobile, talking up your app on an Internet based forum is not going to work. Plus, I don't think that relying on getting a buzz going on Reddit is a very repeatable marketing strategy."

If I understand you correctly, you seem to be implying that people will do most of their app discovery directly through the App Store in the future, not via other sources like forums, word of mouth, blogs, podcasts, review sites, etc. Why do you think this is going to change? It's not like people are going to stop browsing the web just because they get their software directly from Apple. As I see it, the App Store is nothing more than a glorified download manager.

(CAVEAT: Yes, Angry Birds is going to get thousands of downloads when it shows up in the top 10, and if your app is even remotely similar it probably won't compete. Similarly, if there's an app in the listings that fixes a common problem -- text editing, calculator, whatever -- your similar app will probably get less hits. But if you make software to solve new problems or provide new experiences, then I don't see how the listings would detract from your sales.)
Oh absolutely - but both parties need to work this out. They need to work out that I'm suitable, and I (already knowing this, or at least thinking it) need to work out whether they're suitable for me.

The best interviews are two-way streets.
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I think its in the public domain in other countries (i.e. australia)...silly that you could get it for free down there and schlep it back here.
People, and particularly this article, love to throw around "industry terms" to get clicks and create buzz. You can't fathom how many times "entrepreneurs" making the latest Instagram throw out the "change the world" line. It's fashionable. And I also hope it goes away real fast.
Regardless of OP's actual intent it definitely is a first world problem. I'm sure OP is smart and a capable programmer but I also wonder, he did say he's 10 years into programming. If it's not that he's a bad programmer, or that his social skills are not lacking, maybe ageism could be an issue?
They'll reverse engineer the infrastructure, change it around, re-patent it, and call it "Chinese Innovation".

For those who are updated with international news you know they love using that term. They used it a lot after they copied and re-patented German and French high speed rail technology then started selling it off as their own.
It's the same crap as in Germany's housing. Basically, if you're in one of the big cities, no way of getting rent unless you can prove contracts of regular income.
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You can't take a static view of the situation. More and more mechanical linkages are moving to microcontrollers, software and actuators.

The point is that software is an ever-increasing percentage of the most common items around us and as a result, its impact on our lives grows every day.

mechanical failure will most often be the more serious issue
When the software is so tightly interlinked with the sensors and mechanisms that they are otherwise useless, you can no longer make that statement.
OT but i can't help commenting. Watching IAWLife is something I look forward to every Christmas. It's a rare Holiday movie that doesn't mention Santa or Religion (at least not directly). As I've gotten older, though, I have to say its a pretty dark movie. Only the final few scenes pull you back from the slow decent of man driven to suicide over money and regret over life's missed opportunities. The scene with the disgraced pharmacist (Mr. Gower!) haunts me; considering those moments in my own life that could have destroyed the "future" I know.
Good question. The Engineering profession holds certain code of ethics for the public at large. For instance when you step into a high-rise building, board a cruise ship, or travel across highways they are required to have rigorous testing and design protocol to ensure public safety. I believe NSPE says it best http://www.nspe.org/Ethics/CodeofEthics/index.html
Is...is that a joke? Am I going insane? Is it a product?

I can't tell anymore. I just can't. So many smiling faces on their team/about page...what the christ.

EDIT: Some minor looking around... maybe it isn't?
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Australia has an author's death plus fifty years copyright expiration for books where the author died in or before 1954. Unfortunately, I think we're "catching up" to the US with our copyright laws.

There's http://gutenberg.net.au/ (no formal relationship with Project Gutenberg) which makes works available that are public domain in Australia (but not the US), and this has The Great Gatsby.
"if you've chosen to use an electronic cryptocurrency dependent on things like robust network and electrical infrastructure to function as your primary value store, you're going to have a bad time."

Apparently you are unaware of the tools to build offline transactions. Or of the ability to store bitcoins in your head (brain wallet).

Want to send bitcoins to someone without Internet? Just communicate to him/her the brain wallet passphrase (http://brainwallet.org). Or sign an offline transaction on your computer, and send him the raw TX (~300 bytes) printed on paper.

That's the beauty of Bitcoin! The sender still has options to transmit bitcoins despite being offline. Sure these mechanisms are clunky; communicating a brain wallet passphrase gives access to the whole amount associated to the private key, but I imagine in such dire situations (civil war, no internet) you are more concerned with abilities to for example send money to your son in another country, and you would trust him with the brain wallet. Also, nothing prevents you from splitting different amounts of bitcoins in different brain wallets (eg. 3 wallets containing 10, 50, and 250 BTC).

Also, a country under civil war typically destroys the value of their government currency via huge inflation. This is actually a perfect example to demonstrate why Bitcoin is superior to inflated fiat money!