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Do you have a caffeine addiction already? If so, I'd say keep up drinking some caffeine just so you don't have withdrawal problems on top of being tired.

I don't drink caffeine, but here's what's worked for me:
1) Nap several times during the day, if you can, even 20 mins is enough.
2) Drink lots of water, eat some food- I hear bananas are good.
3) Avoid making any important decisions today
4) Keep moving around and listen to some music

And most importantly, get to sleep early enough tonight to account for the fact that you've now got 5 or so hours of sleep debt. I doubt you're going to go to bed and sleep 13 hrs, but even planning to sleep 10 or 11 hours tonight will help your schedule a lot through the rest of the week.
Holy crap, this article is amazingly interesting. Please repost it or something. I'd vote for it again.
It is definitely not chasing IE for speed. AFAIK firefox is faster than IE in JS and rendering and is also more standards compliant
Every silver lining has its cloud, don't forgot - I predict a massive productivity-killing Brass Eye binge in the near future!
Listen to me, because I'm tired of saying it and getting downmodded: It is a SOLVED FUCKING PROBLEM.

Use an encrypted drive, use freenet, and the government will not be able to prosecute you unless they happen to have many trillions of years of CPU time on their hands.

Seriously. Not one person has even approached refuting me. Just downmods. That's how I know I'm right.
An interesting point not emphasized in the article: each plane can require a significant amount of training time to be able to fly safely.

Getting behind the controls of a $10 Million plane that you've never flown before and having to take it somewhere has got to have a higher pucker factor than the guys with guns, if you ask me.
Glad to see I'm not the only that finds it ironic how Firefox only took 2 versions to abandon the original reasoning (lightweight, fast, better UI) that made them so much better than anything else. It's not like in the last few years people have suddenly wanted heavier, slower, harder.
I only hope this might nudge Google to re-open their API.
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"The point is that literature and art is a commodity"

No, they are not commodities. Using the Wikipedia definition: "A commodity is something for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market. It is a product that is the same no matter who produces it, such as petroleum, notebook paper, or milk."

"because of the low cost of producing and the almost zero cost of distribution"

Literature and art do not have a low cost of production for the writer or artist. They use their time in the creation of those works and are entitled to compensation if they choose to ask for it. Copyright law gives them a framework in which to ask for compensation; an artist can also choose to ask for nothing or some combination. I have done both with different 'works'.

I agree that the cost of reproduction and distribution is low for digital media. Shouldn't the artist be able to benefit from this situation? Surely, copyright law plus Internet actually helps an artist here.

"Further more you can skip the middle man which means that you need to make less money to make money."

I did this with my first book. Self-published, available for purchase on the web. What you miss there is marketing, that's hard and costs real money. Just because it's on the web doesn't mean that people know about it."

The product is a book. Once you enter it into the market it's not art anymore it just a product. If you want to call it anything but a product then you should sell it for 10 million. I know a lot of creators really believe they are doing more than just products but if they want to make money on it that is what they are doing and then that's a commodity the commodity of music, books whatever.

"Literature and art do not have a low cost of production for the writer or artist."

Of course they do which is why there have never been so many books today. If you are writing something truly extrodinary then you will make money on it but it's your choice. The world doesn't owe you anything. If you don't want it to be copied then don't try and sell it or sell it for an insane amount of money.

Furthermore the artist IS benefitting from that namely that it cost the artist 0,- to copy the book digitally.

"What you miss there is marketing, that's hard and costs real money."

No I don't miss that that is the point. It's not a right to get your book sold. It's a right to not have other people sell your book without your agreement but getting your marketing costs is not a right.
Just because you scream it does not make it more true.
Class action lawsuits are the legal equivalent of software patents, if you ask me. They're just a nuisance and have little benefit to the consumer or society in general.
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I'm preparing for a postmortem tomorrow and found this article while searching for a good checklist. Anybody else want to add anything?
Exactly. The situation today is exactly what freaked Microsoft out back in the 90s, so much that they went all-out to murder Netscape: Continuously improving standards-based browsers. We've got Firefox to thank for that.

Say what you will about the Mozilla project, over the past decade it's been the single largest force for making our lives as web developers better. It's good to see that they're keeping up the tradition, and pushing forward. The feature list for 3.5 is damned exciting.
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"The fact that Bing displays video content without redirecting users to the original source could expose Microsoft to copyright suits. Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo have been sued in the past by publishers of adult-themed products over image search results that display still photos from their products."

P.S. The link came up on my default Google News main page.
It is very difficult to make money by SELLING a book - whether you can monetarize the reputation you gain from writing a book is another matter. But I am pretty sure monetary gain from book sales is not the main motivation for most authors (at least for non-fiction books).
Hmm, looks like the intifada did technically peter out[1], but that hasn't stopped palestinian violent resistance.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Intifada#End_of_the_Inti...
Hear, hear!

The sooner we can ditch elaborate long-polling hacks, the happier I'll be. We've got a lot of features on the drawing board that would be enormously simplified by WebSockets.
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Are you saying that, without laws, people would never get out of bed in the morning? Some people are self-motivated to do crime, some to do more productive things.
Yeah 500 people? Come on. I have lunch with more than 500 people most days. Unless you're following 100,000+ you're a nobody with no friends, and nobody likes you. And unless you tweet at least every 10 minutes of your life (including sleep - set your alarm - I do), you're letting yourself, and humanity down. Now go up to your bedroom, and think long+hard about what sort of person you want to be. A nobody? or a twelebrity!!!1!1£
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Depending on the local law the bank might not own it anymore. If the plane owes landing/storage fees the local law might give the airport a lien on the plane. If it has been used in a crime it might now belong to the local police.
So legally the repo man might be stealing the plane form the local government.
1. The issue of sentences is different from whether the law is worth having or not. It seems silly to me to decide that since current sentencing is harsh we should get rid of the law.

2. I do agree that the RIAA have been acting like idiots. I don't think they've even been acting in their own best interests.
One of the only times each year when I actually look forward to getting up at 5am.
Crime is a zero sum game. That is enough to need disincentives for crime. No one is really worse off if Dylan decides to stop recording.
No publicity is bad publicity... Bing is killing it.
I think top level copyright laws are essential... ie duplication of this material either without purchase or for monetary gain is strictly prohibited.

But that's where it should stop. Leave it up to individual companies and their products to handle how they prevent unwanted distribution.

That leads to better DRM (although ppl hate it, it should still be explored), more efficient or direct methods of transferring their projects to a consumer, and new innovations to protect their works.

Its the same argument they had when VHS tapes arrived. Then came macrovision and other creative ways to either lower copy quality or distort it completely.
I'm not going to spend a lot of time researching this, but I know Beethoven had a publisher for his sheet music, and I'm guessing that it was protected like anything else.

Not the point. The business model back then was based around patronage, whether by the church or aristocrats. I'll also guess that the people who voted for the pirate party don't want a move in that direction.
They still have TV ads (for now). And from what I understand, they pulled out of print and audio because they couldn't create a feedback loop on those formats. I'd bet anything they'll be back to audio and print when those formats become truly measurable.
It doesn't even matter if you're doing it for the money, at the end of the day you need money to eat, have a roof over your head, blah blah. I'm not sure society benefits if the only people who can create intellectual assets are independently wealthy dilletantes.
Why is this interesting? I'm obviously missing something...

Any context/description/commentary?

From what I can understand, it could be useful in launching a DoS :/
You are not entitled to a life of your own choosing.
The "Statute of Anne" (original establishment of something like copyright in British law) dates to 1709 and established exclusive rights on works for a period of IIRC 21 years.

Bach died in 1750; Mozart was born in 1756; Beethoven was born in 1770.
Cool, but a pain for most (existing) commercial usage:

“On any page in which you display Bing results, you will only display advertising that we serve or provide.”

Not sure how most sites could do that-- you could even read this jerkily as saying you'd be restricted from even advertising your own products on a page with Bing results.
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The Open Rights Group (like an UK EFF) sent a survey to all British MEP candidates to find out their opinions on copyright extension, data protection, etc:

http://euelection.openrightsgroup.org/

They found the Green party did very well.
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As a pilot, I know that many of the airplanes are not locked when they are sitting on the tarmac. The keys are usually generic, so you can probably use a key to a similar aircraft to start the engines.

I never really thought about it before, but stealing a jet would probably be easier than stealing a car (minus, of course, the crazy militia who might kill you for repossessing the airplane).
Hmmm. I don't quite understand how one could appreciate Bloom County (or its spiritual ancestor, Pogo) and not Calvin and Hobbes. Liking one is usually a strong indicator of liking the other in my experience (and while discussing comic strips has never been one of my primary passtimes, it has been the genesis of a couple of wonderful friendships over the years).
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OP here. I completely agree.

When I said I had done them before, I was referring back to college before I had learned time management.

This late night was not my fault. Our dev server went down and so I could not begin work on the project until IT had it back up later on Sunday. We were shooting to get this project into QA today but that unfortunately didn't happen.
The "API Basics" PDF doc states that you must a) have an API ID and b) limit your Queries Per Second (QPS) to 7/second.

'b)' sounds like a usage quota to me.
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> Who invented spam filtering as we know it?

Not to be facetious but who invented them, depends on your definition of "spam filter". I know you mean email filter, but when you put it that way, it makes me think of the generalized problem of filtering.

Put that way, I don't think a who invented it. It was more like it was discovered by a what.
I hate single-dimension comment voting.
I am both disturbed and scared by the tone of this article. This user seems to possess both a sense of entitlement to using Twitter in a manner that the developers did not intend, and an expectation that his usage patterns (and even his worldview regarding social behavior) are somehow either "normal" or "ideal." People with this level of gregariousness in real life terrify me, because they inevitably try to get over-involved in your life or disregard the entire concept of privacy.

People like should them just go away. Some of us like to keep to ourselves, and choose who we associate with, thank you very much!
That's just a part of it for many of the rest of us; people also use it for serious business, for research, for alerting the public at large about important news

I can tell you right now, whatever those people think they're doing on Twitter, it is neither serious nor important.
His firm earns in the "low-to-mid seven figures".

Call me crazy, but I think starting a tech consulting firm might be a happier way to get at that kind of money than facing down shotgun-wielding militiamen and flying off in a strange jet.

The numbers in this post kind of don't add up:

* His first repo gig got him $145k.

* Recovering a string of badly-maintained helicopters got him a "tidy six figures".

* A good year is 10 planes.

* He employs 65 "super repos" --- if these people, who actually fly dangerous aircraft out of dangerous situations --- take a desk worker's salary and have so much as high-deductable health insurance, the company's payroll overhead alone is high 7 figures.
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Well I wrote it because I needed a way for programs to announce what they were doing and have other subscribing programs react accordingly. The closest solution I found to this was http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html, but that didn't seem implemented yet so I wrote the simplest thing that could work.
"Running a start-up is like being punched in the face repeatedly," he says. "But working for a large company is like being waterboarded."
classic quote indeed. and true of course.
football is only a sport if we didnt had sience we would be like chimps.
I think they are referring to html5 web workers http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/
Windows 7 hasn't officially shipped yet.
sience
"So, what's the motivation for me the author of a book or software to actually write a book or software. Believe me that monetary gain is part of the motivation."

So you never lent a friend a book? Never borrowed a movie from someone? Have you ever burned a CD for a friend or received one? I would bet you answered "yes" to one of those questions. How is that any different?
>Some think Garfield is witty,

And lo, they were called morons.

>others think Hobbes is witty,

And they were the chosen people, taken into the folds of HN.

>some think neither of the two are witty.

And were cast down into endless darkness and forced to read MSDN.
is much more important
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I've been using Windows 7 for a month now as my primary OS. Works fine.
This article borders on ridiculous.

I unfollowed the so-called 'power users' a long time ago. People like Chris Brogan, Scoble, Guy Kawasaki, etc. There was too much noise and not enough signal.

For my own uses, I couldn't possibly follow 1000 people. I would much prefer to follow a smaller number of people and be able to read all their tweets. I currently follow around 300, most of whom tweet a handful of times each day. Following 1000 people who update dozens of times each day doesn't seem like it's scalable. You would either have to ignore 90% of what you saw, or spend the majority of your day watching Twitter.

The fact that Twitter employees use Twitter in the same way that most of their users use Twitter is not worth complaining about. It's exactly what you would expect. The fact that a handful of people (ab)use Twitter and take it to extremes doesn't mean that anyone else needs to.

This sort of article is exactly why tech reporting gets a bad rap.
I want the the movie rights.
The main problem with coffee and other stimulants is that, if I really need them, I have a powerful aversion to them, and it's rare to be able to overcome it, even when I know I'd be better off if I grabbed a cuppa.
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I was wondering how they were going to handle backwards compatibility on the Pre.

Turns out they left it to a third party; see the last paragraph. Quite sensible if you ask me. Supporting the crufty old Palm OS with it's ancient APIs and 68000 segmented memory space is someone else's problem.
I think you're misreading the article. They're not claiming I invented spam filtering, just one particular algorithm that worked.

There were effective spam filters before "A Plan for Spam," most notably CRM114, but that worked differently. And there were a couple papers published that had the words "Bayesian" and "spam filter" in the title, but the algorithms they described were different, and in fact quite useless.
The point is not being productive, but looking busy. Honestly, if the OP had the option, he should take a 2 hour nap, a shower a late brunch and start working about noon. If he cannot, it is probably because he has to be there at the office.

So, how do you waste the day in the least damaging way?
I think the key issue is - Find chores you can do with minimum thinking. When I have been in this situation (yes, yes... I should have not... been there, done that) I found myself unable to make anything creative, but still pretty able to knock off tasks that I had previously planned and prioritized. Write those emails you were planning (and triple read them, don't want to embarrass yourself or offend anyone), perform that refactoring you had identified but you were much in a hurry to actually code, start filling the TPS reports due next Friday.

Also, you might want to take a 20 minute nap after lunch. You will still feel crappy, but it will boost your attention span for the rest of the afternoon.

And please avoid driving altogether!
Take a caffeine nap, drink something with caffeine and then take a 20 minute nap. Works wonders.
Cool. Seems like there should be some security to prevent abuse though, otherwise surely I could just add a ton of subscriptions to pages on a target site, and start getting your server to DoS them?

Perhaps have it look for an 'allow' file on the destination first, and if it's not there, don't send any further messages?
---and yet we don't all think we're wizards.

Speak for yourself. I didnt believe in that "hogwash magick stuff"... well at first. I have a fiancé who I've been with for quite some time. We both met through our local Catholic church (no reformed church of satan here).

She's kept this little journal which she showed me a little while back. It has a list of dates and notes. The notes are about future events. Some happened years ago when she first wrote them down. Others happened differently because she changed them, and others have not happened yet. She accurately predicted a friend's ex-husband would get cancer (being treated for now), and other things.

Honestly, how many events would it take for you to believe in something like that? Personally, it would take 1 major event. There's been ~15 (major events) of them correct. (There's been about 100 minor predictions correct.)

Some would say that she has precognition. Older words for what gift she has is more accurately a Seer.

*edited for clarity, in parentheses
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"Maybe you should ask one of the three well renowned Swedish authors who publicly supports The Pirate Party. (Linda Skugge, Uni Drougge or Lars Gustafsson)."

It amuses me when wealthy people support ideas that they find appealing after they have become wealthy from the opposite of those ideas.

I'd rather ask an unknown Swedish author.
It depends entirely on what your goal is. If you want to create a billion dollar company it's probably essential. If you want to sleep well at night it's a mistake.
What happens if some the subscriber can't be reached? What if delivering takes to long? Why should the server do the distribution? A "post message" could return a list of subscribers, instead. More work for the client, but more transparency, too.
As a consequence of The Pirate Party very narrow focus, and decision not to take a stand in any other issues, it would be hard to introduce other issues.

Currently I only know of two people who work for the party full-time. The party founder Rick Falkvinge, an former entrepreneur who quit his job to devote himself to the party. When his money ran out he asked the members for contributions and gets a small amount from a large number of members each month. The other person who works full-time with the party is Christian Engström, also an entrepreneur who sold his company for a profit and spent five years as unpaid activist at the FFII lobbying against software patents. He is the party's first pick for the European Parliament. The party also gets founding from several other sources. Some of Sweden's "Internet Icons" publicly supports the party.

It would be really interesting to see what all the great American entrepreneurs could do if there was a chance for a smaller party to actually get seats.
A bit of schadenfreude never hurt anybody :)
Thanks for the clarification. Since you are probably not as clearheaded as you'd like to be, here is a simple task: Print out this page, cut out the note below and give it to your boss, then go home and go to bed.

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| To: trickjarrett's boss |
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| Please excuse trickjarrett for the rest of the day. |
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I haven't read all comments yet, but some commenters seem to make the presumption that copyright is about artists. It is not. It is about the rightsholder which may in- or exclude artists. I'm writing this on my commute so I don't have the research to back it up at the moment, but I remember research has been done on the rightsholders and if I remember correctly only a small percentage were creators and thus actively contributed to culture. The larger percentage of the rightsholders were merely parasiting on ip rights created by creators already dead or who (had to) sold their ip-rights off for a meager sum.
Copyright is therefor also less about incentive since it mostly benefits those holding on the 'old' creations and milking it instead of creating new works. I recommend reading the essays of Dutch professor Joost Smiers. He makes some interesting (and some wacky) points and is an interesting read.
From the long title of the Statute of Anne, "Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or purchasers of such Copies".

In other words, the Statute of Anne protected publishers of books. Not musicians.
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