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2 apple laptops, previous gen(late 2007 / early 08), same software everybody runs: leopard, WinXP, FreeBSD, openBSd, ubuntu 8.04, openSUSE 10.3, vim, textmate, komodo;

- current-gen apple, matias keyboards

- whiteboard (me too)

- moleskine notebooks, postit notes, Bic 4-color pen

- cheap Ibanez-clone guitar; Duncan , diMarzio pickups;

- m-audio MIDI controller, garage band, ProTools, digidesign mBox

- looking to get piccolo, flute or alto sax

- yoga mat and props from Iyengar studio
He comes across as arrogant and full of himself. The redesign is nice, but not ground-breaking brilliant, and I can already hear him shrug and say, "well, that's stupid" when he's told that a certain change has to be made for a certain reason.
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>* I just switched from Vista while recovering from a hard drive failure, and I could talk your ear off despite it being a very solid OS.*

Go on. I'm curious what you dislike about it. I've been using it for so long i'm probably accustomed to the faults.
"Think small. Think cheap. Think fast."

I’d like to add "Fail fast." because that’s what you likely will do thinking "cheap" and "small". Enough of this "it’s so easy"-posts already.

He seems to be an intelligent guy but this post has just no content. (Except those 25 occurrences of "ship it").
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Another interesting development in the Danish language is the rise of 'multietnolekt' (multiethnolect) - a type of ethnolect that's emerged among multicultural communities.

It's gramatically different from Danish, and has words from Kurdish, Turkish and Arabic. As far as I know it's confined to immigrant communities, but that might change.

Not sure how this fits in with the idea that Danish is dying.

More info here http://dialekt.dk/multietnolekt/ (article in Danish)
My MacBookPro is the heart of everything. Usually running are: Eclipse, Mail, Adium, Safari, iTunes, OmniFocus.

When I'm at my desk, that's usually hooked up to a 30" display, wireless keyboard and mouse, and SoundSticks.

I'm actually about to build a custom desk and shelving in my home office to make things perfect. I use an Aeron chair which has saved my back.
> I could never figure out how to make money out of my love of producing quirky and interesting sounds

The thing that immediately came to mind while listening to these SuperCollider examples is sounds and music for computer games.
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Amazon shouldn't need to warn people of general good business practices. Anytime someone builds a business around a single entity in this case Amazon WS, they are prone for obsolescence when the entity includes "their" functionality into the core offering.

There are many cloud providers now. Startup should be diversifying their offerings to work with all cloud providers this will give their business the best chance for success.
Furthermore, there are very diminishing returns in obsessing about your tools themselves. Sometimes, tinkering with your emacs config (or whatever) is just procrastinating.
I couldn't agree more, they are one of the only airlines which understand that simplicity can actually be an advantage.

They fly only a single aircraft type (737), only have general seating (no first class), don't have in-flight entertainment, and the list goes on. They focus on simply getting you from point A to point B in a cheap and efficient manner.

While I'll concede that they're not always the best, they are nearly always better than most.
There's Jelly Chicago in Lincoln Park: http://jellychicago.com/

Would be great to do a meetup!
Like the president would've said back in his campaign days: Hello, Chicago!

We should definitely organize some kind of meetup.
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I am jahan_26. I'm really sad that you're gone. I'm gonna to follow your way and make your name big. R.I.P
I am jahan_26. I'm really sad that you're gone. I'm gonna to follow your way and make your name big. R.I.P
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The ironic thing to me is that they spend a bajillion dollars every few years redesigning their stewardess' outfits and making sure they get tons of pub for it, but the web site gets nowhere near the same amount of attention.
If anyone has worked out what his point is, please let us know.
One year ago, I visited Portland with the intention of scouting it out for a relocation. I had fallen in love with the city before even stepping foot in it - from blogs, travel articles, Chuck Palahniuk's excellent quirky guide/book to his hometown, stories from friends.

Portland is one of the friendliest vibes cities I can recall. Walking through the Alberta arts district, you literally can walk into impromptu parties in strangers' backyards. I enjoy riding bicycles and Portland's bike culture isn't just bike culture - it's culture. There, it is disturbingly normal to not just ride a bike but a high-wheeled double bike contraption. The food scene is top-notch - I had one of my best Latin meals at Nuestra Cocina. There is live music playing every day of the week. The tech scene is crazy - lots of interesting people doing stuff (I even met the guy who does all of the BART web stuff - he doesn't live in SF, go figure)

I never made it to the Pearl District (the hip/trendy part of town and where I thought I'd rent). I did make it to the extraordinary Powells Book Store on the edge of the Pearl, but I felt more at home in Alberta and elsewhere.

The negatives I noticed. The job market (in May 2008) was such that I probably would only have a tech job if I could convince my current employer to let me work remote (which would have required an all-in type of negotiation - e.g. ask and if I didn't get it - go anyway otherwise credibility destroyed)

Agh the weather - it really does drizzle a lot there. And it's cold.

I can understand the draw of Portland. As an author once said, "everyone in Portland has three lives." They're a waitress, a mother, a watercolor artist. No matter how unique you feel you are, you'll feel at home in Portland - it allows people to live their multiple lives. Yes, you can do that anywhere but Portland is a catalyst.

I resisted it and am finding that you can make the best of where you currently are - from friends to being involved in your local tech community to volunteering to beyond.

high-wheeled double bike: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ashleyblodgett/2442644672/
Ever worked for a company of that size? I'm willing to bet their designers are as frustrated as you.
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Wolfram Alpha - Am I doing it wrong?
Everyone seems to be doing these cool searches but everytime I try it it says it doesn't understand my input. Here are some things I figured it should be able to tell me: 1.) How much interest do you pay in 3 days at 30% APR? 2.) Inflation USD may 2008 to may 2009

Any thoughts?
Semi-reputable?

I get 50 of these "get rich" guides by e-mail every day.

If you ever need more "semi-reputable" information like that then just drop me note. For a small fee of only $7 dollars I'll send you a tarball of my spam folder.
<For years, rags like the NYT bitched and moaned about banks not giving credit to minorities. So, the government forces banks to do just that. When the inevitable occurs, the same rags bitch and moan about an excess of foreclosures for the protected groups.>

You are confusing the issues of 'redlining' black neighborhoods with the recent sub-prime mortgage failures. They are not related, obviously, and the confusion is dishonest, and most likely deliberate.

I'm here for news on hacking and entrepreneurship - not to be subjected to astroturfing by fringe groups.

Perhaps the authors could bring it back into the community theme with a note about hate entrepreneurship - green-themed sheet washing services, lo-carbon crossburnings and the like.
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Myopic article. "Hey, I only use Google, so nobody else must be using something else." Yahoo has a marketshare of 10-20%, depending on who you ask [1][2][3]. I wish I had 10% market share in my market...

Furthermore, Yahoo has over 50% marketshare in Japan [4], Baidu is the dominant search engine in China [5][6], and none of the Western search engine get any foot in the door in South Korea [7]. Furthermore, these three countries combined have about 27% of all Internet users worldwide[8][9]

Research, it works.

[1] http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=4

[2] http://www.seoconsultants.com/search-engines/

[3] http://www.submitawebsite.com/blog/search-engine-stats.html

[4] http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2008/11/...

[5] http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-losing-market-shar...

[6] http://www.rockyfu.com/blog/china-search-engine-200809/

[7] http://www.altsearchengines.com/2009/04/25/korean-search-eng...

[8] http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

[9] http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats3.htm
I have long hoped for a Process Explorer clone for linux

It's called 'top'.
Example of an interest calculation:

http://www43.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=monthly+payment+for+a...
I think there was a South Park episode on this ..
On that note, does anyone have any good experience with building a good desk? Any tips or tricks? Grommet plugs you love, great cable management techniques, etc..?

My current plan is to use pre-finished maple plywood as the surface, and I haven't figured out exactly how I'm going to handle cables, power, etc...
Not quite sure why you lump ARM in with Qualcomm and Broadcom. I would think it would be great to be ARM right now with more than 10 billion ARM processors on the planet.
Not so popular..? I was trying to argue the point that this isn't necessarily good PR for him.
I've been able to make do without a whiteboard at my current job by keeping tons of scratch paper around. I'm given lots of 1-sided printouts I never need, so I just throw them in a drawer for when I need to sketch something.
no way. Never had more issues with a software (v1) - Now they tried to charge again for v2. And it was still unreliable :/
Sometimes, though, this procrastination does wonders. Like bonzai tree gardening, or a Zen gravel garden.

As someone who uses Gentoo, Xmonad, Zshell, and Emacs, there's more than enough config code to tweak than there are hours in the day. The happy result is that if I'm stumped, I always know I can pop open a buffer and hack something a bit.

Hell, the alternative to wasting your time in a fully hackable environment is wasting your time on the interwebs.

If you're going to procrastinate, you could do worse than by hacking .emacs. Like Runescape.
Fail fast, for sure. Give yourself one year to prove it. If you can't prove it in a year, move on. There are plenty of other interesting problems to solve.
After a thorough reading, I think his point is that he has a short story he'd like us to read, elsewhere. ;)
1. Universal translator *
2. Scale
3. way to measure calories
4. Always listening so I can ask it questions and have it google them for me and read out the answers. All without taking it out of my pocket.

* Honestly I'd be happy with a good enough approach here. Just recognize whatever words it can (even 10% or less) and show the google translate translations scrolling down my screen. If I can just discern the subject of a conversation once in a while, I'm still way better off than understanding nothing.
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I should have said, "If you have to rely on patents to protect your start-up, you're doing it wrong" (valid for 99% of start-ups).
I like the Tango Theme: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/color-theme-tango.el
Can I get that for 3 days?
I think what's missing here is that it can take a long time post-launch for your app (or any other product) to take off and this is where the independent developer with a day-job has the advantage over the VC (or otherwise funded) start-up with full-time employees.

If you have the means to support yourself, you can fine-tune your app and it's marketing over the course of years (as someone else mentioned, tuning internet marketing takes more "calendar time" than clock-time) and hone it until you get it right. I know we all think time moves faster on the internet, but look at how much time elapsed between Twitter's first public beta and it's breach into the public eye (only a month or so ago?).

On the other hand, if you are working on your project full-time, you have a fuse burning that is your funding and generally it's limited. From some of the conversations I've had recently, this fuse is as short as six months (and that's counting dev time before launch) and in my experience that's not enough, even if you get really lucky with media coverage.

I don't think there is a right or wrong answer here. You have to continually evaluate your current position and decide if you need to go full-time to make it to the next level, and there is no prescription for this as every project (and developer) is different. My only advice is that you put off making the jump as long as possible because when you do, you've given up one of the major advantages you have over companies that need to satisfy shareholders/employees and the cost is going to change the dynamics of your project dramatically.
r.e. your second query. "Inflation USD" produces the same issue, so it seems it cant handle the idea of inflation :P

(indeed it seems not to understand USD as $'s, I had to use "dollars" to get info on the currency)
EDIT: scratch that last bit :) I had a typo ;)
I would want a translator to be offline though (or someone else to pay the roaming data charges for me).
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Check out the marketing language for RightScale:

http://www.rightscale.com/

Their "Key Features": (1) Auto-Scaling, (2) Monitoring & Alerting, (3) Load Balancing. Ouch.

But you're right -- the opportunity to provide unique value is in harnessing EC2 for specific purposes and applications.
This most likely has to do with social status in sexual selection. That is, the more "up the ladder" one is in a social group, the more attractive one is to potential mates. In early society, a female who mated with someone high up the social food chain would have her children more likely to be protected, to survive. But to be high up the social food chain, it takes smarts. So the children would inherit smarts and get the protections social status affords, and be more likely to survive. Also, from the male perspective, he would choose the healthier females he could (which translate to the "hot" females).

So, between the females going for the apes with the high social status (the beginning of today's "sugar daddy" concept) for the sake of increasing the selective advantage of their children and the males wanting to choose the healthiest females (or in current parlance, "hottest" females) for the sake of having the best survival chance for the carriers of their DNA, their children, the result is that the offspring are more likely to survive as a result of healthy genes from Mom and social status protections from Dad, inheriting Dad's smarts as well because Dad had to be smart to get the social status he got. Consequently, today, we have evidently a gene set that is both healthy and smart so that more intelligent people may be generally more healthy. (The downside is that more intelligent people are more likely to self-destruct into drugs, alcohol, and generally unstable behavior, but that is another story, ha!)
Research shows the environment overrides the kernel: http://lesswrong.com/lw/4e/cached_selves/
I have the smaller version of that couch (Ikea) and I can attest to the fact that it is a uncomfortable piece of shit. But it was cheap.
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Using it for a while now. Essentially it’s this bookmarklet:

javascript:(function(){readStyle='style-newspaper';readSize='size-large';readMargin='margin-wide';_readability_script=document.createElement('SCRIPT');_readability_script.type='text/javascript';_readability_script.src='http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/js/readability.js?x='+(Math.random());document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_readability_script);_readability_css=document.createElement('LINK');_readability_css.rel='stylesheet';_readability_css.href='http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/css/readability.css';_readability_css.type='text/css';_readability_css.media='screen';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_readability_css);_readability_print_css=document.createElement('LINK');_readability_print_css.rel='stylesheet';_readability_print_css.href='http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/css/readability-print.css';_readability_print_css.media='print';_readability_print_css.type='text/css';document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(_readability_print_css);})();
No harm, no foul. What I wrote was pretty off the cuff and thus I can't vigorously defend it. For the most part, you are correct though. There are new things springing into creation all the time, for some definition of new.
This would be the editor of the incredibly awesome Princeton Guide to Mathematics. If you don't have a copy I would strongly recommend getting one.
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> Don't bother reading the article.

I suggest flagging it.
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OMG, they killed Kenny!!!

You bastards!!!
I use the AA site fairly often and am far from in love with it but I don't care at all for the re-design. AA for me is work, sometimes painful work if I need a booking for a bad family issue. A pretty island that I'll never get to visit will often annoy. I want all the functionality immediately at hand, lots of dense information is useful. They have, over the years, improved the date handling so it's usually two clicks. Clicking through a few pages of options gets to the information needed, it's often a long list of possible flights, but I'd really be unhappy if it was filtered and niced up so I missed an option. Now his design for AAHappyBubbleVaca.com would be just right.... (oh, sorry for the snark)
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It's easy to see that most nutriton specialists aren't very scientific: they refer to meat as "proteins" and measure everything in "calories" (which are really kilocalories) instead of joules.
I agree-- they're probably pulled in lots of different crazy directions by marketing and branding teams who dictate how the site should look.

Firing that web design team shouldn't even be on the list-- it should be more about firing the exec who didn't push hard enough internally to focus on usability over all of the zillions of other priorities the front page of aa.com would have.
Between work and home I interact directly with more than one hundred machines, from IBM Risc 6000 running AIX to Ubuntu laptops to WinXP drones under corporate lock-down. These machines are not even speaking to each other. My most important piece of kit is my thumb drive, which I keep chained to my car keys.

I'm not big on aliases or scripts to do simple things. Better to make a one-liner or throw-away script to do exactly what I need now, something that will work on many machines. Automation is only useful if it can significantly reduce repetitive effort.

I'm no master or hacker, I just get on with my projects without much frosting. I'm partial to a cheap (dropable?) Ubuntu laptop with emacs, gdb, wireshark, k3b, and lots of medium-length cables and adapters.
Any response from AA.com may be his point and would serve well in drawing more attention to his rant/redesign.

I agree that I'd like to see less rudeness overall, but I suspect that's the marketing gimmick here to gain attention.
Hey Steve, don't give up the day j... oh, no, wait, your day job is prattling bollocks too.
Doesn't the NYT have the silliest approach of them all? I mean the random selection of "login required" or "login not required".

What happened to that plugin for sharing logins, would it work on the NYT?
Once again, a dying industry cries "The internet will destroy us!"

Why not embrace the internet, change your model and MAKE IT WORK. Have we learned nothing from the music industry? If the customer demands that the books be $9.99, you don't tell the customer to shove off, you make it work at $9.99.
I don't want to register before downloading
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As much as people are willing to pay for it? The price sends a signal, and a higher price signals "THIS IS WORTH SOMETHING." Nearly all the internet is free so people assume it's worth $0.00.

My advice to Kindle writers and App Store devs, don't fall for the $9.99 or $4.99 "caps". Charge what it's worth, charge where you make the profit and sales you're comfortable with, and don't worry about the whiners.
I would say about $2 provided that the piracy issue is solved in one way or another. Essentially 75 cents to author, 25 cents to overhead and editing, 25 cents to distribution/billing costs, plus 75 cents profit.
Sorry for bugging, but how did you come around this gem? I thought I had a half of mathematical blogosphere on my radar already, yet no one seem to mention this, including Gowers himself. Or maybe you just happened to check Cambridge course table?
Yes! Forget the tone and focus on the quality of the customers feedback AA get from this site, any company can only imagine the feedback like this, and AA gets it right now and for free.
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In my experience, any differences between simple key/value lookups from Memcache and those from cache in a decent DB are easily lost in the network round-trip noise (i.e. solidly sub-millisecond).

(of course more complex queries will be slower, but I covered that in my second point)
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I was told that (or, rather, read that) when I was young, but this is incorrect.

http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/german.asp

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

The United States has had a lot of German-speaking residents since colonial times, who became United States citizens when the country was founded, but there was never, ever a serious attempt to designate German the national language. Theodore Roosevelt campaigned for the presidency with German-language public speeches (and also French-language public speeches), and my two maternal grandparents, both born in the United States, were educated solely in the German language, but English has always been the main interlanguage among the various ethnic communities living on United States territory.