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Animals do not represent the only viable food source for humans.

The global implications are less meat in everyone's diet, which is hardly a dire outcome. The majority of humanity is likely capable of subsisting on a completely plant-based diet. (Please note I am not a Vegan or Vegetarian, I'm just pointing out what should be obvious.)

I'm reminded of Asimov's Sci-Fi books where he included the idea of "Yeast vats and algae farms [which] produced basic nutrients, which were then processed with artificial flavors into palatable food."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trantor
Question: If I don't charge for an app, can I still be sued by a patent troll?
Just to clarify: The (iPhone) app is not commercial in any way, shape or form. I don't make money off of ads, I don't make money off of selling information to other companies. Nothing. It's just something I made in my spare time.

Like, can I be sued for my user base or something like that?
It's not a matter of sacredness, but rather "problems with making a constitution a more mutable document subject to political fashions."

People argue endlessly about Constitutionality not because they view the document as sacred, but because just about the only thing our society agrees on is that the Constitution is one of the few legitimate restrictions on majoritarian democracy. As a result, we fight about exactly what those restrictions are.
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Makes sense. If you spend enough time it can become second nature, like musical sheets. Still, I find that musical notations is way more limited, so it makes sense to have it concise. But let say people were naming some parts of the songs, and referring to it, and you had to jump and "get into the mind" of the person who wrote it.. than maybe it'd be a different story and more verbosity would be better.
I have trouble understanding the position of OpenZFS.

My understanding is that Oracle ZFS, which can not be integrated in mainline Linux, can still be distributed as a separate project (zfsonlinux.org).

On the other hand, Linux kernel developers have started btrfs, which is inspired by, but incompatible with, ZFS.

So, what is this project? I can only imagine that this is either a white room reimplementation of ZFS, or a fork before the license changed (but I think it was CDDL from the start).

A more interesting question would be: who should use or develop this? IMHO this will never be on par with "the" ZFS, so btrfs is where everyone's energy should go.

(Also, by reimplementing a ZFS product you're supporting them in a way.)
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How does this and ZFS on Linux compare? How are they related? As a casual bystander, this is all very confusing.
I think this will help out consumers overall, but I don't want customers posting negative reviews of my app because the old version they downloaded crashes due to a Facebook or Twitter API change that I patched the app for months ago. Considering that folks post reviews from to-be-released versions of the OS, I assume Apple will let these folks post reviews as well?
Is there a way to do this in ghci? I know the :t command, but I don't know how to say that I want a specific instance.
This is interesting and contradicts a bit of "disrupt" meme:

"You can't trust your intuitions. I'm going to give you a set of rules here that will get you through this process if anything will. At certain moments you'll be tempted to ignore them. So rule number zero is: these rules exist for a reason. You wouldn't need a rule to keep you going in one direction if there weren't powerful forces pushing you in another."

What this seems to be saying (to young people) is "it's ok to ignore what other older more experienced people say (or what established practices are) and try to disrupt in those situations because the guidelines and experience they have is bogus but I am telling you that my rules are right so just trust me".
Yes, which is precisely why you need 64-bit/32-bit fat binaries. Problem is that the current SDK can only generate 64-bit/32-bit fat binaries for iOS7 alone.
Love this one "...you need to have that long-term willingness to be misunderstood. It's a key part of invention."
years later, I'm still waiting for the supposedly better algorithmic underpinning of btrfs to pay off. I also understand the conceptual benefits of technology layering as done in linux (RAID, and/or LVM, FS), but ZFS's vertical integration and monolithic set off tools are SO nice and consistent.
This couldn't have come at a better time.

For the first time we have an investable business (revenue, growth, profits, big market, happy customers).

Just as we were thinking: how do we go about this? Do we even have the time?

Then such an informative article comes along.

Thanks a lot PG.
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This comment is so broken. It begins by saying why Gabe has come to care about Linux (it is a solution to MS lock in). Then you say that he doesn't care about Linux.

Whether he's taken his sweet time coming around, he HAS come around. He now obviously cares about linux.

Some people like a sports team because of the way they play the game. Some like the same sports team because they're the local team. Others like them because of the color of their uniforms, or they find one of the players very attractive, or any number of reasons. Some started liking them only after they did well last season, others got team related tattoos 10 years ago.

They're all fans.
And aren't there a bunch of newer ZFS features that Oracle has implemented that are not OSS? So, those are known only in documentation?
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Well that was in a time when Apps were self-contained software, before they started talking to the Internet and require a wide array of specific webservices to be online and functional. As developer you don't want to keep old services running forever, because you want to evolve the app and eventually change something that breaks older versions.
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'Bloat' is 'any feature I'm not using right now'.

We expect more out of our software, so we write more code to do it, and we complain about bloat because no individual person uses, or expects to use, every feature in every piece of software. However, when anyone comes along to remove features, people complain even worse because, of course, nobody can agree about which features to axe! Everyone is using different subsets!
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Does it talk in other language than english ?
but phage evolve along with the pathogen.

How do you prevent the phage from evolving to target the human cells?
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All my apps have compiled without an issue into 64bit on XCode 5 GM. Now that's not the actual hardware, however I don't anticipate any 64Bit transition related issues.
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When you build your iOS app, you specify the minimum system version. If you use iOS 6 (or 5) as a minimum, it will only build the 32-bit binary. If you specify iOS 7 as the minimum, it will build a fat 32-bit/64-bit binary.
Thank you for posting this advice in a clear cut manner. As someone looking to raise money, but not currently residing in the valley, a thorough map to guide my thoughts and presentation development before venturing out into the West Coast VC waters is amazingly helpful.
ZFS on Linux is OpenZFS ported to Linux. As various OpenZFS users (FreeBSD, Nexenta, etc) add features to OpenZFS the code will be merged upstream then adopted downstream by the other OpenZFS users (including ZFS on Linux).
I don't think I've ever heard Growth Hacking used in the sense you described. I'm sure someone has, but I nearly always see it in the sense of "tricks to increase user acquisition or conversion."
Really? They tend to work pretty well for me.

I use Sudoku to exercise my memory.
I don't like your comment. You use the same words to directly counter the parent, but these words don't match the case. What do you mean by "viable option" here? Some "options" for non-technical users are in this thread's first comment.
There's no debate. The CDDL has never been compatible with the GPL... and CDDL'd code will never be a part of the kernel.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#CDDL

http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20041205023636...

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050205022937327

In this link Linus talks about loadable module licensing.. gives an example of AFS, which he says he did not think counted as a derived work (and therefore did not need to be licensed under the GPL).. very similar to the ZFS case.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2003/12/3/228
I figured it would just bring a whole lot of crabs, lobsters, and fishy bottom-feeders who would make short work of it, get fat, and breed a little more than usual.
I agree with your logic, Jon.

For what it's worth, the base assumption of the (materialist) atheist worldview is that the natural world is a closed system (i.e. no supernatural), from which it follows that science can (at least in theory) describe all of reality. This is a very lightweight assumption, and an easy one to make, but I would point out that it is also not scientifically verifiable, as all scientific data has to be interpreted as being the result of some natural law.
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It's too bad that the definition of 'won' in these cases is usually 'spent thousands of dollars on lawyers, that you will never get back because the troll is a shell company with no actual assets'.
What if your backend APIs have changed and you never expected to support that older version? I can see a lot of the older apps not working at all in that case.
Or, if rents in your area go up, your landlord might ask you for hundreds more per month in rent when it's time to renew your contract.

I was renting a place for $950/month starting in 2011, then for 2012 it went up to $1,050, then for 2013 the landlord wanted $1,350/month to renew. Meanwhile home prices were still low (30% of inventory still short sales in my area) and mortgage interest rates were under 4%. No-brainer. I now pay less in principal and interest than I paid in rent, for a much larger, nicer house compared to the apartment I lived in. And my mortgage payment is never going to go up. (My property tax bill might go up, but that just means my investment is appreciating.)
> Antibiotics are now so widespread in use that you can detect them in the ground water and in the oceans.

"Detectability" is a silly metric which tells you nothing about this issue. Molecules are really, really, ridiculously small. Most of the breaths you take contain atoms from Caesar's last gasp, but that doesn't tell you anything useful about the prevalence of Caesar.
Oh wow, you wrote it all by hand? That's really impressive! :)

If the standalone asm.js validator isn't yelling about that and Firefox 25 is, you should let the people who maintain the validator know. They're supposed to be in sync.
"Ultimately, I’m in this for the long-game. And the decision to put in the hard work now comes down to the fact that it’s a gateway to a new kind of freedom. A freedom I never had before. Knowing how to code will allow me to be able to act on ideas whenever inspiration strikes, to execute my own visions without having to find someone (and pay someone) to do it for me."

This is so great. I think a lot of people easily get sucked into the moment and keep their head down task to task. They come out of it months or years later and realize they've been making a huge mistake.

It may not feel like there are instant payoffs at this point, but if you stay focused and work hard, there is no way it won't pay off 1, 2, 3+ years from now. Good work :-)
looks like they died after 55-60 days, instead of dying after <30 days.

Source Fig 7B :
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/1/8/8ra19/F7.large.jpg

For those without access to science:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2872791/figure/F...

(Note the figure quality on pubmed central is really crappy for some reason, but you should get the point, survival from 2 vaccinations is 47% (7/15 mice) shown by the blue line, black dotted line is blank injections)
From my experience, one of the most important realizations of fundraising is that it's an enormous mind game.

The hardest part of fundraising was getting the startup to a point where I actually believed in it. When I looked at our projections and where the company could go, I was no longer thinking, "Yeah, if a miracle happens," but rather, "It'll be hard, but I really, really think we can do that. We just need some help to get there."

Fundraising was a relative cakewalk when I was no longer selling investors on our company; I was explaining to investors that we were taking off, and asking them if they'd like to jump on board.
I think a guest post by your spouse would be a really interesting read.

My wife and I are about 10 years behind you[1] and I have changed industries a few times now based on a similar itch. It's good to see the perspective of someone who has already gone down the path we're treading.

Your "skillz" also seem to greatly exceed my own[2] even with a 10 year head start. So I'm not sure how transferable your advice/viewpoint are to my family's life journey. Even so, I think it a pretty valuable read.

Please consider having your spouse and/or children give their perspective on this nomadic lifestyle.

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[1] Age-wise. I'm not sure about where our kids are in relation to yours. Our oldest is approaching 10. Are yours older?

[2] Or maybe you filter out your failures preferring to post positive-only articles?
I don't think it's our place to determine what is best for OP's children. Nobody has a monopoly on what it takes to be a good parent.
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You are embarassed? as a Brazillian citizen im proud!
Brazil was the only country until now that took the correct mesures and stood against this

the time to be embarassed now its for them, not for us.. they do it wrong, we are doing right! whats wrong about what we are doing now?

what are you saying about the astronaut, etc,etc.. has nothing to do to what is happening and the news right now..
and whatever its wrong with my country has to do with pessimistic and living in the past joes like you..
dont like something? try to make it better.. the time to expect for the other to do it for you its over.. we are grown ups now! grow up with it!
> We also have a cronic underdog syndrome perpetuated by countless broad opinions such as this.

You not noticing my acknowledgement of the pockets of excellence further demonstrates this point. I am not perpetuating this underdog syndrome, but I am pointing out several failures brought by a systemic attitude of politeness over correctness. Academic research thrives on correctness alone.
Trulia has published a great analysis on this that really contradicts what the author claims: That you can get better homes for the same price by renting.

http://trends.truliablog.com/2013/06/mortgage-rates-rent-vs-...

Moreover he claims you can get as nice of house in the same good neighborhood cheaper by renting. That's only true if you assume home prices will fall. Even if you just assume they will stay constant, backing out the principal you pay from your payment, the remainder most certainly does not buy a home of the same quality in area's I have a first hand knowledge of. Often homes that make it to the rental market are less desirable IME even if just because they are not cared for to the same standards.
Maybe not, but it is exactly how software has worked since approximately the dawn of time, and it is exactly what the grandparent comment was proposing should be allowed.
Oh, I'm not missing that scenario. My point still applies in full. Too expensive is too expensive, not just in cost but in risk and lost opportunity. Better maybe to talk the extended family into moving somewhere far less costly.
It works well when we're in a bubble, as we are now. Instagram and tumblr sold for billions, neither company was even remotely profitable.
> This is an excellent article, but may I suggest an alternative theory: the lack of emphasis on education in the U.S., at least historically, has been a sign of the strength of the U.S. economy, not a weakness of the culture.

A better theory might be a synthesis of those: it has been a sign of a weakness of the culture produced by the long-term strength of the economy (and which, itself, produces a prospective long-term weakness that threatens to counteract the long-term strength that produced it.)
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No one who has commented so far seems to have read the article, let alone the more technical ones the author talks about.
Yup. Totally. It's really hard to do the things that don't pay off now - especially when you're struggling to get started growing a business. But if you're able to carve out at least some of your time for longer-term goals I think the payoff is going to be huge.
The Zappos methodology is the best I've heard so far:

Every new hire spends at least 2 weeks answering phone calls. That's how they get everybody in the company to actually care about their customers.
> 2. the tipping point theory as a whole is a bit dodgy (see below).
> (#) Good article on Debunking of tipping point theory - http://www.fastcompany.com/641124/tipping-point-toast

It seems to me that the article doesn't debunk at all the existence of a tipping point in social networks phenomenons.

In fact, it clearly states that it is the law of the fews, "that rare, highly connected people shape the world", that seem to be inexistent in Watts experiments.

If trends are really like forest fires, then there is a tipping point ; it is just not required to have these highly connected people on board to reach it.
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> Let's assume that the startup offers a service the Brazilian populace are keen for. In that case it may be worth it for the startup to invest in Brazilian data centers.

I don't think that scales very well.
OpenZFS is a fork from before Oracle took ZFS closed again. It still has the CDDL license. OpenZFS is directly used by the people who maintain ZFS on various platforms (such as ZFS on Linux).

The end ZFS implementation can be used many places and ways. For instance, my employer believes that ZFS on Linux is safer and more reliable than btrfs is. Likewise, it is used on FreeBSD and various illumos (open source fork of Solaris) systems as the default file system.

While Oracle has presumably added new features to their ZFS, numerous companies have been working on OpenZFS for some time now and adding their own sets of new features that Oracle doesn't have, such as LZ4 compression.
Valve made it big because they released portions of their code along with the tools to create mods and total conversions of their games. They then hired the most talented people who were using these tools, either pulling them in to work on half-life or to create commercial versions of their own projects.

Then then made it bigger by making it easier for outside devs to publish on steam. Over the course of a decade they worked to turn steam from something that everyone hated into something that nearly everyone loves. The turn around has been incredible; from a hindrance no one wanted to a platform no one wants to do with out.

I believe that Gabe is more interested in Linux because it is an "open platform" rather than it being "open source". Valve were quite happy working on Windows when it was an "open platform" that they could release games onto with out having to jump through hoops. As MS moves to force everything through their own app store, Valve are looking elsewhere.
>Of course it would never enter into my head to discuss these plans ahead of times with those involved and people are being dragged screaming and kicking to the furthest corners of the earth. And I pick the spot, every time.

From the article:

>So on average every 5 years I pick up those that are dear to me and some stuff and move and/or shift into a new line of business.

I'm sure you can forgive him for thinking that, considering the way it was phrased in the post.

Especially when you follow that line up by saying how hard it is on others in your life, but it's natural to you. And on top of that, the major reason for all of this is simply that you apparently get bored.

I'm sure things are not as one-sided as your blog post suggests, but the way it was written lends itself to misinterpretation.
This is awesome, it's like an open source CodeSchool. I'm already learning a ton from the "Stream Adventure" lesson.
Dont worry, if you use gmail, youtube, or android you already have a profile ready for you.

This idea of shoving everyone into G+ as your default google sign-on and identity is pretty controversial. Most everyone I talk to about it finds it annoying. So they went from being exclusionary to being almost mandatory. Not sure what the long term plan is here. Google probably doesn't know either. They rushed a facebook clone for their own reasons and now here it is, a virtual ghost town.
> Being proud of how well you did at fundraising is like being proud of your college grades.

What a great line.
More like writer started writing, got lazy, bumped it down to 20 and changed the title, but their CMS didn't update the permalink :)
You should read the link, it answers many of your questions here. For example, it's not a reimplementation of ZFS, it's an organization to coordinate between the many different groups that are actively using ZFS in their products.

Parts of btrfs may be inspired by ZFS, but btrfs doesn't even aspire to some of ZFS's niceties like zraid3. And if you're looking at ever using 4TB disks, a third parity bit should be a requirement.

I'm a fan of btrfs, but I'm a much much bigger fan of ZFS. ZFS will almost certainly be at the base of our next storage buildout, and btrfs probably will not. The only thing keeping btrfs relevant is that the GPL and CDDL interact poorly. But when there's a great, well tested, and higher tech code base, why should people abandon it? ZFS is used by many many people in production, btrfs by very few, and even if btrfs hits all its development roadmap it won't be the equal of ZFS.
If a company doesn't want to hire me (or my wife or my daughters) because I'm not a Stanford grad from the right demographic, that's absolutely fine because I don't want to work for a company run by idiots.

In fact, the louder and more explicit they are about their dumbass culture the better, because it makes it easier for me to avoid wasting my time with them.
That's badly wrong. It's true that you currently have to choose between 64-bit and supporting older OSes. But apps built for older OSes still run on the iPhone 5S. There's no "iOS 6 only".
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They're not to be taken seriously: you have just been introduced to the rabid Brazilian right-wing.
A widowmaker, in the medical sense, is a highly stenotic left main coronary artery. In other words, a heart attack by clogging the arteries that feed the heart blood (not the main pump supply).

That's how my dad died last year.
It makes an interesting case for Facebook's paid messaging service. Combined with some well crafted / personalized messaging, you could probably get a large number to click through. Even if the seed group is a million users, at a dollar per user that's only a million dollars. Large marketers spend that much on advertising without even blinking. If it gave them a reasonable chance at going viral, no doubt many would consider it well worth the investment. The only problem would be the potential backlash when people noticed that it had started in such an artificial way.
Microryza employee here. The majority of us were friends from before Microryza, so there was a lot of trust already going into it.