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I've done a bit of work recently for some small scale alternative energy projects. Various combinations of catalyzed electrolysis, wave energy, natural heat differential, and more. I've learned two main lessons:

1. The second law of thermodynamics is a beast.

2. Nuclear energy is amazingly clean, safe, and reliable compared to the alternatives and slightly more expensive than necessary because of political pressures.
"Then it must be good !!!"
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very cool, reminds me of that car commercial on vimeo that dimmed the lights :)
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>But I'm not someone that you like 5 mins after meeting.

Change your attitude and youll be a better friend, and rather than spending time on the computer pulling the woe is me story just go out and meet people, someones bound to like you as a friend.
I can't recommend "High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars" by Charles Ferguson highly enough. He basically had the idea for the internet then, after Netscape launched just as he was creating a startup, morphed into making the first set of dev tools for the web -- Frontpage. Microsoft ended up buying them. He writes an utterly fascinating look at Microsoft, Gates, Netscape, Clarksdale, and the people who built the internet. He illustrates the strategies you use to build a platform and begs Netscape to follow them in the face of Microsoft "getting" the internet. In any case, it's well worth your time if you like startups; he also writes at length about the problems with non technical CEOs, etc.

http://www.amazon.com/High-Stakes-No-Prisoners-Internet/dp/1...
The really strange thing is that reviews of wolf shirts have been a meme on Reddit for months (years?)... then a few days back I saw it on Digg with something like 6000 diggs. As far as I was concerned it was an old and tired meme which had reached its peak who knows how long ago, but it looks like it somehow got revived and amplified.
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I've been thinking this since before this case. It's not just the isolated cases that make me think it, but also:

- The NDA that lasted way too long and frustrated a lot of people working on articles, books, or projects they wanted to open-source.

- The fact that these app store rejection stories have been happening for a long time now and Apple has apparently done little to address them.

- The fact that there is evidently no good appeal process.

- That small developers get shafted while big developers get there apps in. Why was the Kindle accepted and Eucalyptus not? Maybe it was that Kindle got sent to a lenient reviewer and Eucalyptus to a strict one, but the fact that Amazon is a large company and Eucalyptus appears to have a single developer seems more likely.
LOVED this book! I wouldn't consider myself a reader, but I literally could not put it down once I started.
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That's been common slang in the US, too... perhaps it's faded in use a bit (and wouldn't be used in commercial contexts) due to political correctness?
Did they, or did the press take that on all by themselves? I mostly avoided the hype about it so I could well have missed something, but the only article I saw quoting Wolfram as having said anything about search was miss-attributed. Most of the direct quotes seemed to downplay any comparisons to Google.
You're thinking of Joe Kraus, who says him reading Accidental Empires lead to Excite succeeding.

Book -> Cringely -> Digitizing job -> VC -> VC -> funding or something like that.
More expensive than necessary? It's my understanding that the nuclear industry has been the recipient of some massive subsidies, not the least of which is the liability cap for a major disaster after which the taxpayers will foot the bill.

I'm not dogmatic either way about nuclear. Do I think it's better than burning coal? Yes. Do I think that we should focus resources on developing truly renewable energy sources? Yes.

Nuclear energy is not so clean at the uranium mining sites, either.
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I'm not sure how good an indicator the overall count is. For one thing, you might not even find everyone you know on Facebook.

I figure there are two ways to use these sites. One, you could connect with everyone you've ever known, regardless of how well you know them (and end up with 300 "friends", most of whom are really just "acquaintances"). Or two, judiciously invite the people you actually care about and/or are likely to see anytime soon. I choose the latter, whether it's Facebook or other sites like LinkedIn.

With a short list, it's easier to find the people you're likely to want to talk to in the near future. Plus, you then receive only limited spam about the mundane details of other people's lives. :)
Most difficult problems I've tackled, the most complex algorithms, the most elegant code, took less than 30 minutes to type. They took several weeks of working on other things, of pondering the ways to approach it, several false starts and then a spark of genius. Honestly, you can't measure development time in hours spent typing, or even hours in the office. Measure by output.
Solar and wind is nowhere near price-competitive with nuclear plants. Nuclear is the only real alternative to coal-fired plants (which are much worse than nuclear in pretty much every way, including the amount of radioactive waste generated)

Solar and wind cannot provide base-load power. Nuclear and coal plants can. Which should we build then if wind / solar is not practical?
diff the EU Council text on sw patents, with NOKIA's patent, and give it some thought...

http://www.ffii.se/erik/NBF/NBF050426-new.pdf
How the Web Was Won: How Bill Gates and His Internet Idealists Transformed the Microsoft Empire

It portrays what I'd call "an idealized" version of events in that it's a fairly positive account of Microsoft's battle to beat Netscape. But it's a great story. What most people don't realize is there's a whole group of Softies inside Microsoft who were and still are fighting for the ideals that the Internet represents. The early days of IE and IIS represents a time when that group was allowed to shine and they produced great things.

It's actually very inspiring especially if you're a person whose found himself arguing for those same values in whatever company you work for.
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So what happens when you graduate? is it proper form to go through and un-friend everyone? Or do you just let the connections sit around stale?

And then to add to the confusion my LinkedIn social graph is wildly disconnected from my Facebook social graph. When do I de-friend? When do I only network "professionally"? Why am I even on a social network?

</drunk>
Besides himself, of course.
The second two are quite common in Hungarian (i.e. any lecture given from a pedestal/"cathedra").
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She almost twilled you.. Or you got twinjured.. Or she could have been sent to penetweetuary.

Ugh I am not a fan of tw* terms.
Yes, there have been subsidies but there are also huge costs associated with licensing and permitting (not to mention lawsuits of all sorts) to build a nuclear power plant. On the whole the costs are more than the subsidies.

Uranium mining sites are not so clean compared to where I live but are clean compared to a coal mine. The real question is whether they are cleaner than the alternatives.

My main point isn't that nuclear energy is perfect, just that it is an amazingly good choice to have.
I use TreePadLite[1] on Windows (and JreePad[2] everywhere else) whenever I need to make a simple hierarchical document to serve as input to a template engine or code generator. It's not open source but the interface is intuitive and the document format is trivial to parse and transform.

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2 - http://jreepad.sourceforge.net/
yeah thats what I'm asking...was this their idea, their PR company's, or just the press chasing a story
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Been on here a couple times:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=471469

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=466315
I suggest a new meme: Showing banned content on iPhones and blogging photos of the iPhone showing it loud and clear. Or something like that. I mean, come on, is that what they are afraid of?!??

Note the difference between Apple and Craigslist. Craigslist goes out on a limb based on their strongly stated belief structure; Apple actively fights those very same principles, preferring that nothing muck with the pristine image.

I think you know which CEO I want in a foxhole with me. Hell, I think Craig should run for public office.

Back to the problem at hand, it seems everyone and their brother wants to print cash through some new walled garden, and the apologists will trot out the familiar stinky logic, things like, "well they've got a lot of buyers don't they, how could THAT be wrong?!?"

But the computer industry grew with tinkering, hell it grew with HACKING, and even that old devil of a heel, Microsoft, had a big part in the growth of open hardware systems. Don't bother to trot out the exceptions, there will always be exceptions, but big picture is the PC exists and is the mad playground today that it was the instant IBM flew with MS-DOS way back when.

Sure the iPhone is a great design, sure the Mac has their beautiful craftmanship. But they are as closed systems as Apple can conceivably get away with, and the fan boys and girls who are also hackers are letting us all down by trying to drown out the calls for more openness. Let's call a spade a spade: the hardware engineering is cool, but the wall-in garden attitude sucks like hell and is harmful to hackers, to consumer, to freedom-lovers of all stripes.

You can't argue with profits...unless you think that there are things more important than money.
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@optimizing why not do something like a fresh fruit/vegetable cart that rolls through every morning at say 8am. The cart is actually backed/financed/supported by some bigger "rich folk" store (Shaws/Krugers/whatever) and is only available from 8am to 10am.

This, theoretically reduces the "cost of doing business" since the likely hood that you get mugged for vegetables and fruit in broad daylight is probably pretty low.

Following from the article, low cost of doing business should mean lower costs - even if you factor in gas and such you should still be able to beat the corner market and cut a profit since you are selling "big box" product at a markup...
Yes, I also think he seems too much egocentric.
I dont think I saw wolfram (the company) hyping alpha as a google killer anywhere, but all their material about it definitely over-hypes it for what it does right now.

Alpha definitely does some interesting things, but all the material I've seen from them is either complete fluff (we don't just index, we compute knowledge) or not anywhere near production ready (natural language processing). Also the part about having reviewed information becomes completely useless when they refuse to cite where specific information came from and instead cite a cloud of fuzzy sources.
There are probably two cycles to memes - one for the tech crowd / early adopters and one for everybody else. I frequently hear about stuff from my non-geek friends that I had heard about 1-2 years earlier.
I don't think it began with reddit or digg. I do know that I had an irrational degree of anger when the real deal "born to roam" wasn't mentioned in these stupid MSM pieces

http://www.birkoph.com/Wolf_tshirt.htm

"Born to Bone" more like it.
might want to switch to decaf, there...
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Except that the WAAS geostationary satellites are so widely separated that you can't see both at the same time, and in most locations the one visible is also very low in the sky and easily obstructed.

Edit: apparently my info is out of date, the two new WAAS satellites have better positioning.
I look for places my target demographic congregates and ask the most thoughtful contributors to help me.
I interned at a large company - there's a good chance you have one of their products in your pocket right now - a few summers ago, and a had a really great experience. I ended up being able to do much more than my initial position promised, and the other members of my team were all about mentoring and helping me grow. Like many things we do, it's somewhat of a crapshoot - but if you work hard, act like you're a full-time employee (and demand to be treated like one), and contribute, you should hopefully end up with a good experience.

Something to look out for is also the number of interns that the company has; I would say that more is better. Not only will you have a peer group of fellow young ambitious people to network with, but if there's a large intern population then it's likely that the company has spent some time and effort devising programs for internship mentors, giving them time to do that in their plans, etc. - whereas if they're not used to having interns, they may just throw you at shitty work and hope you figure things out and be the squeaky wheel as needed.

Also +1 to wmf about connections. If you have a successful internship (and this is especially the case with large companies), you're very likely to be offered a position to come back when you graduate, or at least have a serious leg up on the competition. They know you, you're trained in company procedures, and you're in the system already, so it's cheaper to hire and on-board you as opposed to some random they picked up. Even if you don't want to, you'll make some good connections to the managers in your area (as well as others, if you make an effort) who will provide valuable references for future employment, as well as networking jump-off points.
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All the paperwork seems pretty hi-fi, but it turns out that the glade interface written in python calls up little 4-liner shell scripts to change from powersaver mode to performance mode... the sad part is, the person didn't know about CPU Scaling Frequency Monitor applet (http://twitpic.com/5od6h/full) in gnome that is there since 2004. And who could complain more about the Power History graph (http://twitpic.com/5odjg/full)

I wonder if there is a way to make such people aware that what they're are going gaga over is already implemented and what is made there is something insignificant to be included in any repo. That's why maybe this little overdo is getting hosted on Microsoft's open source initiative/crap - codeplex
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Understandable.

Next time, though, check http://newyork.garysguide.org/ to see if other events are taking place. However, there are so many events taking place that it's hard not to have an overlap. :)
I guess any photo viewer or something users can add content to should be banned also... ridiculous stuff.
Good advice. Make sure you recoupe your costs - unless you are prepared to carry some of the cost as a strategic decision for your company.

I am wary of the fact you say 'promising new startup'. I would err on the side of caution and assume it isn't the giant success they(/you) hope it will be.

As a result, I would spread the risk:
- Ask for a 'normal' payment, within their budget, trying to cover at least 50% of your cost estimate.
- Then be as daring as you may negotiating your transaction cut on the gross.

So, I would reduce my risk as much as possible - who knows if it will take off?
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including the amount of radioactive waste generated

That's the fact that absolutely blows the mind of the anti-nuclear types. And those that doesn't, it reveals that it was never about radioactivity at all; their objection to it is purely political (dig a little deeper and find that they object to all capitalist/industrial economy).
Free as in Freedom, a story about Stallman. I liked the unusual story of rms driving a car and freaking out as he had to follow someone taking the "scenic route".

My least favorite was The Google Story - I couldn't stomach more than a chapter or two of it. It read like the sort of ass-kissing "He's a hero" crap that I encounter from living in an oil dictatorship.
I gather that he employs lots of people to manually enter rules and factual information. If cellular automata are the foundation of all higher level complexity and even of the human mind, as he claims, why does he not build a learning algorithm instead?

My hunch is that his approach to knowledge engineering doesn't scale very well in terms of breadth and depth of knowledge and its rate of change. Not even considering very far reaching inferencing capabilities. Of course it's difficult to know that without knowing how exactly he does it. It's just a hunch.
Yes, it is a good read. Also, it was a good insight for me in to South Indian living/culture of those days.
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if he just wanted to get rich, there are easier ways...

Al Gore married into his money. He's motivated by an urge to remain in the public eye and wield political power despite being rejected by the voters.
"Done" is overrated. It just gives you false/fake sense of control, which can be addictive.

Give it up. "Doing" instead.
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I think you might have the order backwards. Instead, it goes something like this, for Apple:

1. Design a printer interface that works.

2. Write the back-end, or to the extent that it's possible, adopt an existing back-end, and fit its features to the designed interface; add any required features to the backend that it doesn't already include.

This is an extremely different approach than the method Gruber is criticizing:

1. Make a super awesome printer framework that does everything anyone could ever want it to do.

2. Figure out how to expose all those features in a user interface.

Empirically, the former method works much better than the latter. And it's basically the same method Apple used with Safari and iTunes as well, or for that matter OS X as a whole.
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Wow, they should hire you to do their press releases.

Infosys is a bodyshop that is largely responsible for the bad reputation of outsourcing to India, is an alternate perspective.
Does anyone know if HEMA is related to IKEA? The ones I've been to seem to borrow the design of IKEA, but focus on housewares instead of furniture.

The similarity seems too close to be unintentional.
Both your comment and the article assume that CEOs function in similar capacities as Steve Jobs. This may be appropriate for Apple for the last 5 years, but the same may not apply for CEOs for different companies, different times, and different situations.

As the article pointed out, CEOs taking a PR role will follow the same rules as PR, which justifies the stock dip. Others will steer towards management, optimization, or new-venture roles - but this isn't saying they replace all management, optimization or new venture initiatives. CEOs merely approach things on a larger scale and must balance the relationships between each component of the business.

So, Yes we need CEOs and No, CEOs don't need shouldn't require more compensation and definitely not adoration. There are CEOs as equally successful whom are loathed.
I'm fairly confident that the author meant the opening line to be taken as humor, not actual advice about maintaining peak on-the-job performance. Yeah, I'm fairly confident about that.
Very interesting point about how the current seniority rules result in the more inexperienced pilots flying tired.

Does it have to be done this way? No. NetJets and many other corporate jet operators have the same schedule for all of their pilots. In the case of NetJets, it is 7 days on and 7 days off.

I suspect that for people not used to the current system (and therefore not smarting at the perceived loss of a privilege), this would work much better in the long term. In my experience the most critical part of any kind of shift work is to make it predictable; this not only allows the person to make sure they are in a decent state when they turn up for work, but it decreases family tension, especially in patterns like 7-on/7-off, which makes it very easy for the family to predict ahead of time when the shift working parent will be around.

The problem with 7-on/7-off is what happens when your on pilot gets sick; you either need to be overstaffed, or you have to be able to contract in short-term labour, or you have to call in one of your off workers, which then starts to mess things up.
Dupe from 450 days ago.
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Wolfram Alpha's relationship with Mathematica is pretty obvious, would he care to explain its relationship with NKS (he says W|A it's an offspring of both projects)?
With the size of most airlines, you could count on some pilots being unwell, and come up with a model for it. The worst case would be that the occasional pilot would be being paid to do nothing because everyone turned up well and on time. This overbooking of pilots would probably cost less and have less disruption than breaking other peoples schedules.

The model is one where Game Theory is suited to modelling the outcomes. The senior pilots don't want to lose their priveleges, the airlines don't want to lose their senior pilots. Yet the airlines also want to attract the best up-and-coming pilots, so having a predictable schedule would probably work as a recruiting draw.
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HEMA is Dutch, IKEA is Swedish. Although they share a similar clean design and they both provide quality products for low prices, I don't think they're related at all.
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The bug is an example of a problem associated with inductive inference. Relying on induction is tempting, and in most cases sufficient.
However, this case proves that one should always be aware of the potential fallacy that is inherent in induction.