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well, they should solve the chicken and egg problem of getting customers, tech problems are easy enough to solve, business problems are hard!

building your own social networking site that does everything facebook does and better is easy, get user's to sign up is not. trying to mine facebook for customers and data to jump start your site, well, that's not going to fly.
What would be the serious ramifications of vanishing corporate law and private equity?
I cant speak of rules but you might be able to bypass that filter by modifying the URL in some way, add some non-existent query variable or something...

Still, if months have passed, it's more relevant now and you think the discussion about it can be improved I don't see nothing wrong in posting it again.
Swapsy - A smarter way to game
Exceptions don't make rules, it's the other way around
The plants aren't being engineered to be released into the wild to grow unsupervised. They will be sold to farmers along with a program that probably includes fertilizer and pesticide, and maybe even an herbicide in the case of Roundup (glyphosphate) resistant varieties. I'm not sure what consideration is given to the fact that these crops will make hybrid crosses with wild crops and propagate some of their traits, which could be a disaster.
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google for "hf mobile" or just ask at a nearby club meeting, there's enough people doing HF mobile that surely someone will give you a demonstration.

I have a "trailer hitch mount". So I can install or remove whatever I want, relatively easily and quickly. Its a slight step up from the magnet mount technique. Using the quick disconnect on the antenna I can stick a 5/8th wave 2M vertical on if I want, or a shortened 20M hamstick-alike, or whatever I want.

My favorite part is my neighborhood has enough RF smog to make HF operation basically impossible (even weak signal 6M sometimes), but a RF silent park parking lot is only a short drive away. This tends to make up for the inherent disadvantages of a small mobile HF installation.

You don't need to start with a $500 all weather autotuner or $700 screwdriver antenna and elaborate mounting plans... a simple $20 stick-type on a temporary magnet is good enough to see what its like, or basically "free" if a local will loan you some gear to see what its like (weaksignal VHF+ rovers are like that, but some HFers are like that too).

Also its a lot harder and more expensive to build an installation that will survive snow and thunderstorms at 85 MPH down the interstate and survive for years outside 24x365 than to park somewhere and slap a magnet mount on the roof and run the cable thru an open window... you'd never drive around like that, but you don't have to, so .. don't. It also cures the ignition noise puzzle... shutting off the engine in a parking lot tends to eliminate ignition noise pretty effectively LOL. Only operating while parked tends to eliminate the "distracted driving" problem too.

Like all things in ham radio, if motivated and knowledgeable you can do quite a bit quickly for free, or you can spend years and thousands if you want. Both are fun.

I found this all very entertaining when I was living in the apartment building.

The other advice I have is keep everything in a big plastic bin, so you don't forget the radio 12 volt power cable at home, or forget your logbook, or whatever else you need. And when you come home, throw the full bin in a corner of the apartment until next time.
I am not sure... is this even legal?
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Not everyone is comfortable with the command line, so this is great for people like them. Also, and it may be isolated to me, but my brew formulae get screwed up all the time, and it's a decent sized challenge to get back to working if you're only a git novice. And sometimes, all you need is Postgres, and not the overhead of brew. No sense introducing stuff you don't need.
To simplify & clarify:

- If you have more than $1 million, go for the EB-5.

- If not, ask a lawyer if the EB-1C and L-1A can be used to move to the US in the manner you described. I don't know if it's possible. My hunch is that it's not.
This is absolutely true, but none of the (few) companies I've worked for were interested in a fresh perspective (with the exception of the company I was hired to bring a fresh perspective to). Entrenched mindsets dominated, unfortunately.
Right on! Or as Seth Godin puts it:[0]

> Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.

[0]- http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/07/paying-atten...
For prototyping, I go with SciPy. So I can deploy at least a demonstration without the need to reprogram the algorithm in a new language.

Specially useful when the algorithm is actually a tool which can be used several times, changing the parameters. I put it on a web server and share it wit my colleagues.
Business development, management and relaxing.
I liked the article but there is no conundrum here:

> the very fact that tube workers can paralyse London shows that their work is actually necessary, but this seems to be precisely what annoys people

Yes, people are not paid in accordance to the direct tangible benefit their work brings. Salaries are broadly determined by the same laws of supply and demand that determine prices for other stuff.

Tube workers are not seen as worthy of high compensation, or high-status in general, because people believe, correctly or not, that it's easy to do the job. On the other hand, programmers usually command high wages, despite being viewed as nerds and rather low-status, because it's hard to replace one.

Some professions may have an artificially constricted supply, through regulations for example, which throws those observations off a bit.

> It’s even clearer in the US, where Republicans have had remarkable success mobilizing resentment against school teachers

I'd argue that if you replaced school teachers with babysitters, the only catastrophe would be all those damaged egos.
I can't find any current information about Disqus using PyPY. Do you have a link you can provide?

What I did find is current Disqus adventures in Go due to Python not being performant enough:

http://blog.disqus.com/post/51155103801/trying-out-this-go-t...
The sun generates nearly 400 trillion trillion watts per second but don't let that fool you into thinking there's such a thing as a free lunch for more than a few billion years.
More thoughts on the idea here:

http://i.imgur.com/6B3hgaX.png
GOG opens up it's indie games portal
Have you not heard about the levenson inquiry about the decades of abuse and corruption in the UK.

Yes that is the General perception of Journalists in the UK.
well... you have a nice logo but I don't think I have ever seen a page that gives less details, why would I want to give you my email?
Happy _why day
Do you have any info about what Swapsy actually is? At the moment the page title is the only bit of useful information about it.
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I think the difference between go slices and java ArrayLists is that go allows you direct access to the underlying array.
Well, if you find it worthwhile, feel free to submit a merge request that adds the authentication method of your choice, right?
I've been researching similar options myself:

You might look into E-1 or E-2 type of visa (in your case I guess it would be E-2) which is by far the easiest way to work in the US but also the most restrictive as it is a non-imigration type of visa.

It requires a substantial investment (always check with an immigration lawyer for advice) to start a business. It is restrictive in the sense that if you go out of business or stop the business you'll have to leave the country. Your spouse can get a work permit, but your children can't.

Another route is possible if you have a business in your own country that has been operating for a few years. You can open a subsidiary in the US and apply for an L-1A visa (for managers and executives) and from there petition for an EB-1C Green Card.

Whatever you try, consult an immigration lawyer and have them assist you and let them file paperwork. It will cost some money but this is something too complex and tricky to do yourself.
Send me an e-mail, it's in my profile. I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have, and help in any way I can.

Sounds like a great project!
He is interested in programming though, he does several Lundem Dares a year.

He's just never been interested in seeing projects through to the end (unless it can be finished in an afternoon). He's never actually completed a project. Minecraft is half finished and filled with little steps in every directions never quite doing any step properly.
Or a super-injunction
"Weed" has no botanical meaning. That's a clue that there's something other than straight up science occurring in the article.
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Exceptions are just glorified gotos. The longest single time in my life chasing a bug was because an exception was firing somehere down udner and nobody noticed, because it was kind of part of the logic but a fringe case.
> I assume you are an academic - therefore, I imagine you have heard of cases where a peer reviewer killed an article just because it contradicted the reviewer's own work?

Thats why you have the reviewers declare no conflict of interest, have more than one peer reviewer and an editor who makes the final decision and assigns further peer reviewers if necessary.

I agree with your last two points.
This info should really be on that page... Still if you want to enter this market I hope you will do better because I am afraid that those features and way more are already implemented in sites that do that.
Chess.com. They have a nice iOS app too for playing the games on the go.
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Well, you are right that I do not have any evidence, and I am basically just spreading a rumor. However, the rumor originated from my former line manager back when I worked in the fund management industry, so it is not totally implausible for it to have some basis in truth. Also, Google does make investments beyond it's Google Ventures operation: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a7cZr...
"It's as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working. And here, precisely, lies the mystery. In capitalism, this is precisely what is not supposed to happen"

Which is fitting, as America hasn't been a Capitalist nation in nearly a century.
This looks incredibly fun to play! Great :)
That was the case before automation. Right now, though, humans are

1. under-bidding automation (this will be decreasingly successful)

2. politically suppressing automation (AKA "creating jobs")

…because nobody wants to abandon the "work = eat" rule.
Sounds like communist countries used to be.
Speculative and inaccurate. Notch loves to program and design games, he released a new game a couple of days ago. He's worth hundreds of millions of dollars, sure, but that doesn't change that he built Minecraft out of a love for games, not for money. He'll be programming until the day he dies.

"I should write a post about the type of games I want to make in the future." 2 hours ago: https://twitter.com/notch/status/369423842155843585

"My #7dfps is done, after 8 days of work. http://shambles.notch.net/" 4 days ago: https://twitter.com/notch/status/368058518365949953
Evolution, to explain conscious life, must be more than a physical theory
Once the police get past the first order effects where cameras encourage both the cops and the people they deal with to de-escalate confrontations, I think they will keep wearing body cams in order to study safety and effectiveness, even though you could say much the same about confidentiality in some situations.

For that matter, if I'm in a hospital I would want a camera recording my room 24/7 to record, for example, whether a nurse washed their hands before handling something that could get me a nasty infection, especially if I am incapacitated.
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I find it funny that the author states that "the ruling class" essentially decides to keep people busy. Let's not forget that there are other factors at play here: unions are the first one that come to mind. Any union shop is going to have a major problem on their hands the day they decide to cut one job (not saying it's right or wrong, just that unions defend their jobs rigorously, as they should). Unions typically aren't what I think of when I think "ruling class".

However, I do tend to think of politicians as that "ruling class". And for better or for worse, people love to hear the phrase "job creation". Politicians can't "create" jobs in the same way that private companies can. They can certainly foster an environment wherein companies can flourish (and ruin it). But any politically-created job is either an oversight job (finance industry is littered with jobs that should be automated but in the interest of being able to point fingers at people, exist) or a bureaucratic job (in my opinion).
If it's any consolation, I've been playing chess for 40 years and I've never heard the expression "pinned to"; we just say a piece is pinned (it cannot or shouldn't move) or that an attacking piece pins another one. I've never heard of "absolute" pin either, imho it seems like the wording could be simplified.
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Gratis isn't enough. Free software requires free tools:

http://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html

A great example of truly free code hosting, in the only sense of "free" that actually matters, is Rhodecode. Have them host it for you:

https://rhodecode.com/

Or host it yourself, no possibility of vendor lock-in:

https://rhodecode.com/docs/

And it does both git and hg. We need more of this.
Everybody does not need to learn to code.
The mere existence of your land imposes a burden on local resources. Unless it's completely paved over (unlikely) it may start on fire, which may spread to nearby property. Paved over or not, it may be used by people without your permission as a base for criminal activity, necessitating a police response whether you want it or not.

Let's say it was paved, and a solid steel structure built with a roof so steep it was of no practical use to humans. You've eliminated the fire and criminal issues, but now rainwater runoff is flooding the road and your neighbors' property, you're causing ecological damage by eliminating vegetation and animal habitats, and you're blocking sunlight from your neighbors' yards.

And since you're not consuming local resources, that means you have no way to get to or from your property, so really, what good is it to you anyway?

There is no practical way for you to go about your life that has zero impact on those around you. So yes, you must always, to some extent, deal with the reality that there are other humans on this planet.
> "inverted totalitarianism" describes this phenomenon.

I believe it doesn't. Inverted totalitarianism supposes that a master class keeps the plebeian one controlled through apathy and deception, rather than open brute force as in classical totalitarian states. But it fundamentally frames the struggle as one group of humans against another.

My point is that it's not humans versus humans, it's humans versus bureaucracies, a bureaucracy being an autonomous agent without any human mastermind thinking on its behalf, i.e. much more than the sum of its employees, the way a human being is much more than the sum of its cells.

We're treating bureaucracies (as per the definition above, "entities that consume a lot of human workforce and produce little human-enjoyable wealth") as allies helping us producing wealth, because we think salaries still are a good way to create and distribute wealth. Even entrepreneurs are often primarily incensed as "job creators", although when you think about it, it would be better for them to create wealth out of thin air rather than out of sweat and tears. We ought to treat them (bureaucracies, not entrepreneurs!) as a parasitic species instead.
FWIW, it seems as though he was returning from Berlin having been there in some capacity for The Guardian, and not just on personal or non-related matters:

"While in Berlin, Miranda had visited Laura Poitras, the US film-maker who has also been working on the Snowden files with Greenwald and the Guardian. The Guardian paid for Miranda's flights."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/18/glenn-greenwald...
* Because you can only run one patch at a time.

* Because your patches only work against one version of the game.

* Because you are directly updating files, so both of the previous restrictions can easily be violated, which tends to cause a crash on startup.

The front-ends work around this lunacy by keeping multiple clean copies of the entire install, at multiple version levels, so that each mod can trash it on its own or use the version it needs.
I will be adding this content to the page tomorrow, I just wanted to get something up tonight.

I've had a good look around and am still yet to find a good end to end experience that allows you to easily swap used games.
I agree with your remarks and extend them such that bugs and keyers usually are not built to operate slowly enough for folks starting out to use them.

Start with the straight key, and at some point you'll be able to hear faster than you can comfortably send for long periods, and start wondering what technology would allow you to send quicker... that's the time to start looking at bugs and paddles and electronic keyers and memory keyers and morse keyboards and all that kind of stuff.

Maybe bad analogy time is learn to type on a classic traditional keyboard (model M?), then start looking at the infinite array of ergonomic keyboards.
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What counts as a wildly challenging idea in applied computer science? A new programming paradigm? I actually can't think of anything I would drop everything to pursue right now, and I suspect most people are the same way. I think it's naive to assume everyone would do something wonderful if only they were unfettered by corporate shackles. For most people writing a good ORM or programming language would be an achievement.
Try running a company or doing a start up with out a supply of capital.
Google patents 'pay-per-gaze' eye-tracking.
Serious shades of Douglas Adams's Telphone Cleaners in this... That's the result when the BS job class fully decides that anyone who does "menial tasks" should just be discarded.
Actually even "Buffalo buffalo." is a complete sentence.
I don't know about that. A month long vacation, a year long vacation? Maybe. But it wouldn't feel right. Who am I if I don't create something?
Doesn't seem to address the elephant in the room: that Apple, Nokia and Microsoft rejected Theora as a lowest common denominator fallback codec, and failed in their efforts to convince the relevant patent-holders to make Baseline H.264 available for use on the web and now are stonewalling WebM just because it doesn't suit their business interests.

I'm fairly certain the other stuff would have fallen into place if a codec was widely supported.

edit: actually I suppose this is covered by "browsers failed to support WebM as well as they support GIF." but it's confusingly worded since Microsoft and Apple basically don't support WebM at all, and the widespread usage that leads to a better interface (in the browser and in forum software) depends on that.
While a pithy thing to say with some truth in it, I have experienced people asserting things of the order of 2 + 2 = 5, and given the right situation it can have the potential to make people pretty mad.
> Not quite. POSIX

Nitpicking without measure is a man's greatest pleasure ;)

You are not implementing POSIX. You are providing a hook for the library users and your library will call this hook with (ptr, 0) when it wants to free a memory block. You just declare that your library works that way. Also, if your library wants, it can test provided hook to see if it complies with library's expected behavior and assert/fail if it doesn't.

Think about it this way - if you are exposing a way to override realloc() calls in your library, then you will have to specify what your library means when it issues realloc(ptr, 0). So it's perfectly fine to declare that it expects such call to do what free() does, in which case a single realloc hook is sufficient to override all memory operations.
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One of the things that repeatedly bothers me about this entire situation is the continuous use of the words "foreign" and "foreigner", from all camps discussing this.

Since when did it become acceptable to be so outright xenophobic? I mean, it's tantamount to the way that "Ausländer" ended up being used.

This "us and them" balkanisation of the entire American mindset is dangerous. It is wrong to think of America as "all of the world that matters", and everything outside of America as simply "foreign", and therefore unimportant and to be treated as America sees fit.
But the cost of "luxury" items has declined a lot since the 30's how much did a TV or a Car cost in the 30's compared to today.
Ulrich Drepper wrote a good guide on shared objects a long time ago and it is more in depth and focused on linux.

http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf
Agreed. I've always experienced pressure to conform, too. But I know some of my best contributions came when I didn't do things the standard way. Of course, going at things differently is risky, since you have no cover if things fail; however, if you find the right solution, it's very satisfying and can elevate your status quickly.
The implication of cross-pollination on genetic patents is quite far reaching. Sooner or later, more lawsuits will pop up, and the Supreme Court is going to have to decide again. The narrow scope of Bowman v. Monsanto Co. is unlikely to be enough if farmers use plants of different species.

I wonder slightly at what point an plant still inhabits the "invention". 99% genetic similarity to the patent? 10%? 1%? At what point does it losses the attribute of being the property of Monsanto?
We need to distinguish between two separate, tangentially related issues: bullshit jobs and bullshit hours.

Most of the classes of jobs mentioned in this piece are not, in and of themselves, entirely bullshit. Rather, the idea that each of these people actually needs to be in the office, pretending to be continually and evenly busy, for 50+ hours a week -- that's bullshit. Work ebbs and flows in a very different way for each type of job; it is not evenly distributed across the day or week. The belief that it is leads us to create busywork, the dread and bane of all office workers.

We are struggling to unshackle ourselves from the remnants of the old, industrial workweek, which was developed around assembly lines at automobile factories. Most of us aren't building Model T's anymore. And yet, we have laws and/or employment contracts charting mandatory minimum workweeks, mandatory minimum hours per day, etc.

Some jobs really do require 40, 50, or even more hours per week. Many, and I'd dare say most, do not. Especially the white-collar administrative and "paper pushing" positions mentioned in this article. The jobs themselves aren't unnecessary (at least not in reasonable quantity), but the idea that all jobs are normalized around the same schedule is absolute lunacy.