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> There is a difference between a machine that is ready to help a client and one that has all my favorite xmonad hot-keys setup.

Only if you don't take the few minutes to prepare. I have a Dropbox hosted bash profile that keeps all my favorites synced across machines, there's no reason why your hot-keys couldn't be stored similarly.

(I have a real .profile for each machine, but its first line is `source ~/Dropbox/conf/bash_profile` which lets me override if necessary and apply machine specific instructions.)
I pass by this machine all the time, so hopefully I can offer some insight:

* It's pretty much just a Makerbot in a enclosure. There is an Android tablet that you enter your information into which allows you to retrieve your object.

* The machine is surprisingly busy, even though a lot of people I talk to on campus don't know about it. I suppose that's one of the perks of having a lot of people in one area.

* It's great for people to make 3D models without the hassle of setting up and maintaining a printer of their own.

I'm curious to hear the metrics to see if it's in line with my casual observations.
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I haven't checked, but I assume the OMGPOP deal was stock. If your CEO was selling stock like mad and your stock is currently worth a fraction of what it was valued at when you did the deal that is a strong piece of evidence that you never believed you "spent" $200MM. If you recast it as a $40MM deal (based on current valuations, iirc) it puts it in a different light. The instagram deal was similarly artificially inflated.
sounds about right, also really really depends on the scope of the role, size of the org, and what kinds of specialist/domain knowledge related to the tech/biz are needed.
There's plenty resources, (people, money, schools, tech, etc) in DFW/Austin for startups. Mark Cuban made his beans here almost two decades ago. It's just that the majority of the vultures and technically hip decided that the Valley was place to be. The main issues with North Texas are lack of decent climate/geology, political and cultural issues.
1. Take whatever you can take and fast.

2. Do something (if it's not too late) so client will have to come back to you for more technical help.

3. After clearing check - inform your client that you're now working on a retainer-only basis (like lawyers do).

4. When client requests your help - trigger "retainer required for further assistance" reply.
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TC can do full disk encryption, but unfortunately not on Mac.
Amazon's margins are also thin. They generate a lot of their revenue by volume.
In the (hopefully) unlikely case one founder has to be fired by the others, this keeps incentives properly aligned.

Few things are as demoralizing as needing to fire a co-founder in the first place, but if they keep the same equity stake as the founders who remain it's worlds worse.
You mean on real property or on gov't invented property created through government "interference" and "regulation" over free markets?

I don't see how having gov't create a right around "patents" (non-tangible "property") is any different than any other gov't regulation that libertarians rail against. (Taxes? Those are just GP "government property".)
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And if they used TDD, this wouldn't have happened.
Same here (only on github)

My next machine will be Mac or Ubuntu 13.04. (and last time 10.10 -> 12.10 took 1 day).
One of the hidden perks is that you can also get same day shipping on non some grocery items like batteries and such, they're just dropped off by the Amazon Fresh truck.

As for produce, I'd rather just go to one of Seattle's many neighborhood farmers' markets whenever possible ;)
Thanks for the reminder...now to passpharse my mainframe's ssh keys.

Doesn't help that I have the rsas floating around on my iphone, ipad, putty,...hmmm I need to do a check like this on every device now.
> But, if I were to treat Commands as resource and perhaps make it my only resource, isn't that essentially RPC?

If you have a root URL for the API, and all the endpoints are located via links from the document at the root URL, and submitting commands gives back a results resource that either is or provides a URL for the output, and all the different resources have media types that define what is needed to understand/process them without requiring out-of-band information beyond that describing the media types and the root URL of the API, then it can still be REST.

I think its probably fairly common that there are situations where the "active" side of a REST API will largely look that way, even if there is a read-only component that looks like of the collection-resources-as-tables, individual-resources-as-table-rows business data view.

That being said, its probably not really good REST if things being modelled as abstract commands with side effect of changes on multiple entities really could be modeled as changes to some particular business entity that also had side effects on other business entities. But whether that applies to the commands you are using will depend on your use case.
I saw a museum exhibition a few years back of a famous Japanese war photographer in Vietnam (who was killed there).

In addition to the usual blown up prints of his most famous images, they had contact sheets from his film rolls, and they really showed how incredibly skilled he was.

From looking at the contact sheets, and comparing with the blown-up images, you could see that 95% of his shots were perfectly composed, well exposed, in focus, and there were almost no wasted shots at all—none of this "take multiple exposures and choose the best one" business, he just got it right the first time and moved on.

While being shot at.

I liked his work before seeing that exhibition, but I was in awe after it...

[and of course while the equipment of the time (from the contact sheets, you could see it was 35mm film) wasn't all that bad, it was a bit primitive compared to what we have now....]
Sure, and that's why I can see putting a portion of the founder equity under a clause like this. But if the founder has, for example, 2 or 3 years already served building the company when the investment occurs, they have already earned some portion of their equity and it should be considered vested immediately.
I made the mistake of donating a car I didn't want and was too lazy to sell, never again.

I was told all the way "oh, you'll get KBB value for your car!" and the reality was never that, I would only get the auction value. I got less than half of what the car was actually worth...
I am not defending Parker. I saw 'excess' in the headline, I was expecting to see some form of immoderate indulgence. What I saw, was in line with my expectations, unfortunately. The guy's sense of perspective is probably long gone.

Disregard for the conventions (and laws) is a different matter though. I hope this goes beyond simple fines.
This was my thought exactly. Even with seed funds and angel investors, the number seems small (AngelList for example shows about 18K investor accounts).

Perhaps the amount of money they have (and you can charge them) offsets this a bit.
who cares, being ultimately right trumps all. I would hire him over Dan Porter any day.
The term "startup" does have the connotation of aspiring to high levels of growth rather than steady, possibly mediocre profitability.
I would feel more comfortable using a service like this if there were some sort of "About" page, describing who's running the show and why we should trust you. (Maybe there is, but it's not easily found?)

Also: More information about process.

For instance, where will these letters be postmarked from? For many developers, that's kind of important. Some might want the cache of a large city. Others may simply be concerned about the time it will take to reach the recipient.
Can you explain the workflow a little ?

- How does the document get stuffed in an envelope

- How does the envelope get stamped along with the From/To addresses ?

- Who drops it at the Post office/USPS box etc ?
The Carmack Reverse is an easy example software developers can understand. Paraphrased: "How can something that can be solved by a week of work by a professional in the field be something that can be patented?" Sure it's novel, but it only took an expert a week to re-invent by following a causal chain of reasoning about the problem.
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It seems that, one by one, the MBaaS players are realizing that in order to be "complete" solutions they need to offer the ability to execute arbitrary code on the server. You can see examples of this for Kinvey [1], Azure Mobile Services [2] and Cloudmine [3].

Of course, they all do is slightly differently, and there is generally more sandboxing than what you would expect from a traditional PaaS like Heroku. The danger is that by being more complete, they lose focus on their original mission: to bring powerful app-centric functionality to traditional client-side developers.

[1]:http://devcenter.kinvey.com/nodejs/guides/business-logic

[2]:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/jj55422...

[3]:https://cloudmine.me/docs/servercode/javascript
I spent about 2 years creating Snailmailr.com (not online anymore) which ultimately sent about 15,000 letters, several hundred regular users at one point, had a nascent affiliate program, and appeared on the NYTimes, Lifehacker, and 50+ other blogs and online newspapers.

http://gigaom.com/2009/11/17/snailmailr-send-mail-from-the-w...

Further proof -- to give you an idea of the flavor of Snailmailr, I put a ZIP of Snailmailr marketing materials online here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37621685/snailmailr.zip

I made many mistakes along the way, but ultimately it was super educational. If you want to pick my brain, I know a great deal about this market and I would LOVE to put this knowledge to some good use. Send me a DM and we can setup a phone call.

Good luck!
This is absolutely disgusting.

I wonder if it had been a more prominent natural area, such as Yosemite Valley or Muir Woods or Yellowstone where he decided to build his castle. Surely he could afford whatever fines would be levied anywhere, but the public outcry would have been far more prominent, the beauty of the areas well-known and understood and agreed-upon.

These are places we have mutually determined to protest and hold sacred in our country. The National Parks and Forests, especially in the West, where there is some notion that the natural land—the wilderness—is above the petty desires of human folly. The green that grows trumps that which is printed, and no man can override it.

I grew up summers in Yosemite, in the high country, where in two days you can hike to places that perhaps no man has ever set foot. There is something sacred about that, not in a religious way but in a sense of truth and place and knowing the world which produced you by whatever means.

I know a grove of trees and a stream there. They is as nondescript and unremarkable as this one, except that they are absolutely remarkable for their beauty. If anyone built a castle there, I'd personally assist in bringing them to justice, and personally assist in restoring the land to its natural state. I'm thankful that the protection of the National Park and surrounding wilderness areas are present to prevent this sort of destruction in at least certain regions.

I'm not saying this is the ultimate slight against nature; far from it. It's a small thing. But it shows a lack of respect and carelessness that need not be rewarded, and in this case, I think the punishment and disrespect directed toward this event is entirely valid. We cannot prevent every use of the land, but we can encourage respect and understanding. In this case there was no respect and no understanding—especially not of riparian habitats and stream management—those regulations are there for good reasons and you can't pick and choose haphazardly whether you follow them.

If you've ever been to Big Sur, you know it's a special place, regardless of the imaginary borders we may or may not choose to lay down in symbolic protection. I'm happy that however small this infraction might have been, it will be met with fines and public humiliation. Silicon valley excess? That's up for debate, but who cares? It was dumb and disgusting.
I usually just view the website for GitHub specifics. Can anyone who uses a GitHub CLI application in their workflow explain how this compares to "hub" and the other applications? The only "extension" to git I've gotten comfortable with is Git Flow since that just makes what I would already do easier. Is there really some big improvement to be had by incorporating a tool like this into my workflow?
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I'm absolutely not downplaying what happened in Tlatelolco but I'd wager that in addition to the Olympics aspects, there are other things at play:

October 1968 was the height of the Vietnam War and a US Presidential election was less than a month away, US (and much of the world's) news coverage would have been focused on those. The Soviet Union was still the big ugly monster in the room which means most world history classes focused on that period would talk Cold War and detente.

On the other hand, June 1989 was a time of relative peace in the western world. The Soviet Union was around but waning as the Berlin Wall would fall just months later.. which makes Tiananmen stand out that much more.

I think most importantly is that cable news and the 24 hour news cycle had been born in the interim. It meant that we saw footage from Tiananmen Square practically as it was happening.
Amazon loves razor thin margins.

It's also a good way to start cutting out their biggest expense--shipping. If Amazon is already going to be in your neighborhood every day dropping off food, I don't see why they can't also drop off other Amazon products.
The patent system badly needs fixing, but hasty solutions lead to new problems.

1. If you can't sell a patent, but lack capital or the desire to exploit it (perhaps you have invented something more interesting in the meantime, or alternatively you've developed a serious health condition that prevents you from working), the there's a net economic loss to society because the invention languishes undeveloped for 20 years.

2. You are already required to be able to demonstrate as far as I know. Enforcing this more strictly would allow a different kind of patent trolling by large firms that wanted to grab the inventions of smaller firms/individuals for cheap or nothing by arguing that they weren't sufficiently well resourced to develop the product.

3. If you make patent infringement into an affordable cost of doing business then you're just encouraging people to infringe and pass the minimal costs along to the consumer.
Huge commercial machines. They print, pack documents in envelopes, pre-stamp, and then put in a container which USPS picks up. All automated.
If you accept that the number of people Wall Street employs is bounded, and if you accept that someone else would have this kids' job and probably do comparably at it, then he is not taking from workers pension funds. He's taking from Wall Street money that would have remained in Wall Street (or gone to buy a fancy car or house) and sending it to Africa.
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>> The whole premise rests on the assumption that the benefit of his donations outweigh his share of any (likely indirect) harm done by his firm or the industry as a whole to those same areas.

> Nor can you claim that this assumption is false, given that you suggest a utilitarian analysis is impossible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle

If the net harm of participating in a certain system for the sake of philanthropy is unknown but potentially significant, I think we ought to be a little careful about it.

Beyond that, even if one cannot prove that working at a hedge fund helps to propagate a system that may be resulting in the very same poverty that one's charitable contributions are meant to mitigate (and I'm not saying this is necessarily the case), we should try to be aware of the potential indirect outcomes of our actions, rather than assuming there is no downside whatsoever.
Very nice.

More documentation about payment processes, some discussion of bulk rates, etc. would be good.

Seeing photos of samples would also be great. I'd love to make a job request for some sort of template, get photos to verify that it looks like what I want, then execute orders in bulk.
TC on OS X is still crappy. :(

I'd love to have fully working TC on the laptop
If you're good at inventing, but not at manufacturing/bringing a product to market, you're out of luck if patents cannot be sold/delegated.
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This has positive synergies with Amazon's long-term plans: near-instant availability.

One of Amazon's largest costs right now is shipping, and their volume is approaching the scale where running their own last-mile transportation, in some cities, starts to make a lot of sense.

These are also, coincidentally, the cities that are dense enough to support a delivery grocery business.

So basically:

- Freedom from the tyranny of UPS, FedEx, and shitty last-mile delivery companies like OnTrac.

- Lower cost and higher efficiency of a shipping infrastructure that is tailor-made for their product variety and delivery timing.

- A convenient way to build said infrastructure in a way that does not involve Amazon going all-in with their core business, and instead allows them to slowly attach the main Amazon.com experience as the delivery infrastructure grows.

- Domination of yet another vertical.

I'm excited. I used Amazon Fresh in Seattle when I lived there, and nowadays in NYC even the vaunted FreshDirect simply does not compare. New Yorkers think they've seen the end-all-be-all of grocery deliveries, but they ain't seen squat yet.
Currently, "Ariane 5 Flight 501" redirects to this article. There is a category for launch failures (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Satellite_launch_failu...), and looking at that I guess the Wikipedia convention is to name launch failure articles after the satellite that would have been launched.
Isn't prey possibly illegal in some states due to wiretapping issues?

I don't want to escalate a lost laptop to a felony charge.
If you want to make notable money jump to mobile. You don't even have to know Objective-C, Java etc. You may hire somebody to code and make decent money even for basic applications. You can also learn mobile concepts by yourself which basics are very much same with front-end tech. You can also built apps with PhoneGap like technologies which I assume you may find yourself more comfortable with.
You can choose the address from which it is sent from. Time to recipient (TTR) is actually faster as we print the collateral closest to the destination city. Think edge print centers very similar to how CDN works.
> There is a 1x liquidation preference, but I’m willing to forgo even that and buy common shares (and sometimes do, although it has implications on the strike price for employee options so most founders don’t want it).

+1 for that - common shares mean non-founding employees have to pay through the nose if they want to exercise early.
All in the works. Would love your input send me a DM.
> IP rights arise as natural rights the same way that rights in real estate or personal property arise, and so should be protected by government to the same extent as any other natural property right.

That's ridiculous. Real estate and personal property has natural scarcity, but for "IP" the gov't is enforcing scarcity to make it profitable. A fair comparison would be someone discovering an ocean and then "owning" all oceans around the world. IP rights would arise as natural rights if you never shared your idea with anyone else.
I lost respect for them when they began blatantly duplicating the hard work and ingenuity of indie developers just to make a few extra bucks. Why bother thinking when someone else has done it for them?

I uninstalled all Zynga games and blocked all FB entries as soon as I found out this was a common pattern for them. I also shared that knowledge with my largely non-techie social network so they could see the kind of company they were supporting.
I worked for an online grocery app and most customers were elderly, handicapped, had 8 kids or were small institutions (like group homes) - people with a lot of time at home, but difficulty getting out. From what I saw, online shopping will probably never expand beyond these types of customers for several reasons.

Grocery shopping in a browser UI can be a decent experience but will probably never be as clear and convenient as seeing the actual item, especially for non-prepackaged (meat, fish, produce, floral, etc.)

Convenience - online shopping requires planning ahead and being home in a time window to receive delivery. For the homebound it is no issue, but for most working people it's easier to just stop by the store on the way home.
The built-in guest account runs on a separate copy of the OS, booted from the recovery partition. It is a limited OS image that only runs Safari.

A normal account would require unlocking the disk, which would expose everything.

Last time I looked at Prey (over a year ago) it didn't support installation to the recovery partition. But they may have added support since then.
I agree. I should have posted a fair criticism and a plan to change it.

I think what I believe is unfair is how executives are unfairly rewarded regardless of company performance in a lot of cases because the company has signed a contract that basically indemnifies them of all responsibility. Now don't get me wrong, these contracts are necessary to protect all involved, but I feel that there should be no reward for failure. Yes, let the executive walk with something, because they stepped up and took a chance. But do not give them so much it's practically a reward for failure.

I'll have to think over how to fix the rest and try to provide some insights in the future. My goal would be to make the situation more fair to all involved and acknowledge that even though employees haven't put millions up they have in fact put their livelihood on the line.
| But it's the law in California that you can't cut off public access to the coastline or alter it willy-nilly, and has been for a long time.

Really? What a great law!
As an SF resident and hyper-avid grocery delivery user, I welcome our new, Amazonian overlords.

I tend to get 1-3 deliveries from Amazon a week, so tacking on groceries to that list would not be a major problem. There's still a question of how you handle perishables like milk though. Plus, I've found that most delivery services tend to be incredibly variable in their produce quality.

For those curious about the startups in this area, I did a bit of a writeup where I raced three services head-to-head against each other. http://teejm.com/the-great-grocery-game
Out of curiosity, could you explain why creating a guest account as a honeypot is the recommended technique? My first guess would be to help identify who has the machine.
This is called hybrid mail: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_mail

In Germany, this has been available for some time now: http://epost.de/ (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Postbrief)
Amazon referrals are too good that there is no reason to use referly. If anyone clicks on an Amazon referral link, and ends up buying something else on the site -- not just the item you blogged about -- you still get the money and leave the hard part to what amazon is best at -- suggesting things you might like and getting people to checkout.