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> Being too direct is a huge turn off so

Yes, and no. Being "too direct" can be fantastically effective if you can back it up with sufficient confidence, and can manage to make it look natural rather than creepy.

It works exactly because the confidence and making it look natural thing is rare enough to make you stand out in a way that often produces very rapid and strong attraction. E.g. in a bar, it shocked me years ago when I realised how easy it is to get random women to make out with you just by going up to them and telling them you want to, and start to lean in slowly but surely (slowly, because unless you want things to end badly you want to make sure it is easy for her to leave/tell you to fuck off or similar if she doesn't want to). And often your best bet is actually when you get rejected initially. That is when you really prove whether you're just confident and having fun vs. being a creepy: if you laugh it off and seem to not care, it amps attraction; if you act as if you were caught doing something bad, she will treat you as if you were caught doing something bad.

But the fundamental difference is end-goal: It is "easy" to create quick, strong rushes of attraction (e.g. lifting a woman up on the dance floor and swirl her around out of the blue; or help an old lady across the road in front of her or any number of simple things can amp attraction massively), but the quick rushes of attraction subside equally quickly if you can't keep up the tempo (and most of us have no hope in hell of that).

The systematic, incremental approach on the other hand is much easier to make last: You don't just amp up attraction, which can be very fleeting, but you get her (or him) used to acting a certain way around you, and you around her/him, and you get the person used to complying, and used to acting a certain way around you, and our desire for consistency is intensely strong and helps reinforce our willingness (or desire) to act the same way. People also tend to mirror the strongest "frame": If the person with the most confident demeanour acts as if someone is totally natural, people will tend to "fall in line" and accept it as natural too (and then rationalise why to themselves even if they are totally unaware of any reason). Couple that with innate desires to please and for attention etc. and it becomes scarily powerful in the wrong hands...
Currently I am reading this book in Safari Books Online and it looks excellent. I was not a fan of PacktPub but Lately they are releasing excellent books like Mastering Web development with AngularJS and Learning IPython for interactive computing besides this Machine Learning book. The only grunge against this book is it used Iris database for its "Hello World" and some how i could not wrap around that data, rest seems to be approachable to me (Disclaimer: I have not completed the book).
Plus, if it was an a devise that captured all of your attention and made you more present, wouldn't the call it iMmersive?
Platform-independence is a big advantage. XPCOM forces you to write and test for each platform you want to support.
For anyone who's interested, Scott Hanselman recently interviewed one of the Python tools team, well worth a listen:

http://www.hanselminutes.com/384/python-tools-for-visual-stu...
Is it possible that if one flags a post, a reason is posted in the comments?
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Extrapolating that you could imagine a society where every material need is provided for but you need money to get other people to interact with you....

Maybe that's why Culture citizens are genofixed to be sociable and use a language, Marain, that "places much less structural emphasis on (or even lacks) concepts like possession and ownership, dominance and submission, and especially aggression".
I do have giant projects (which is what I'm referring to) unfortunately.
You're right: Xcode includes its own set of CLTs namespaced under /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.9.sdk/, but that's useless for anything expecting FHS.

What xcode-select --install will do is the same thing as downloading and installing the standalone CLT package manually, but in a manner similar to how X11 used to be distributed: OS X will request permission to download the standalone CLT package and install it: http://i.imgur.com/O1CIGCP.png

It also doesn't currently work (it'll error out saying it's not available on the Software Update Server). Assuming that's fixed by release, it will save a trip to the web browser to download it manually.
Wired's Chris Anderson wrote a great book called "Free: The Future of a Radical Price" and is relevant to this "post-scarcity" future.

He has a speech here and the book is on Amazon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8l64NpaCnE
Specs are supposed to make things simple. I'd rather have DRM vendors struggle with the problem individually at every step (and that includes browser integration)

For one, because they'll fail in the most hilarious ways (and each one separately), so there will be backdoors, or at least a good laugh or two. But also because it drives up the cost of DRM, hopefully making it less attractive.

Should DRM manage to get hold even despite such problems and Amazon notices that they can reduce the price of their media package by 1$/month if they drop the DRM, the resulting massacre will be great to watch.
So you choose convenience over freedom for yourself, but want Mozilla to not cater to people like you?
How about iOS, Android, WinPho? Mobile web use _is_ on the rise you know ;-)

Would it be possible to run those virtual machines there as well?
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Energy will be soon, too (within a few decades), once solar panels are wide-spread, much more efficient, and very cheap, and once we'll solve fusion.

Once we can make "replicators" like in Star Trek, food will probably become free, too, but that's probably going to take another 100 years until nanotechnology is mature and cheap enough.
I'm a single founder. Even though I know I must delegate, I still have difficulty putting it in practice.

I'm told that I must focus on the business side of things, and outsource (some parts of) development. Being a programmer myself, I always think that "good programmers are expensive, and cheap programmers are not good", so it hinders me from hiring my peers.

How do you guys handle this situation? Esp. if you're perfectionist (I believe many programmers are).
I guess the thing to take from this is dont waste energy on shit thay doesbt really matter
Python is one of the few open source languages that offered decent first class support for windows from very early on. Its windows api bindings and official windows installer has always been miles ahead of for example Perl, PHP or Ruby. This led to a lot of windows devs (both inside and outside of MS) looking for a good cross platform language to flock to Python.
NPR is very pro-government and pro-war.
To be fair, I think Mac OS 7 had multiple monitor support.
if you are aiming for perfection you are moving to slow. there is no time for perfection in a startup
I switched back to Firefox from Chrome a few months ago (I still use Chrome for Gmail) because I found that the resource consumption issue has been turned on its head.
I generally agree with this. It's trying to make a living off of handing in lost wallets or purses full of money then expecting a cut just for doing what any civilised person should do. Personally, I'm happy with a thank you, a t-shirt would have been a bonus.
It is quite ridiculous that in a very capitalist oriented society the consumers end up owning nothing. Not even the movies they payed to watch, or the smart-phones in their pockets are really their property.

Well, "the intellectual property" which prevents me from selling a copy of movie or book I bought, seems to supersede private property.

I miss the old days when my money could actually buy things and I could trade with the goods and services that I bought.

Now they want to take ownership of my user agent, my browser, they want to impose their intellectual rights on it, instead of mine.
Probably legacy infrastructure.
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Very cool science fair experiment. I'd have liked to have seen them measure the distance of those effects. For instance, does it matter if a seed is 6ft away vs. 10ft.

I know I can do the experiment myself, but I don't know that I will.
What is your purpose? And your budget?
I'd rather have problems like DRM well-contained. Flash sounds like a good isolating barrier for that purpose.
DRM can't be properly implemented in free (as in freedom) software. Either you will not be able to run any modified version not signed by the vendor on your device, or any version you build yourself will lack DRM support. DRM is all about restricting the user control over their devices.

DRM-enabled Firefox would be effectively non-free software: you could not modify it and rebuild it from source while retaining the DRM functionality.
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Funny, I can turn it off just by turning the brightness way down.
>Only if you assume that controlling the paying users is not the real purpose. It's much easier to get suckers to pay three or four times for the same content if you lock'em up with platform-specific DRM.

When has charging $15-25 for a DVD/BluRay become a suckers bet? Sure most of us here like all digital platforms, but many don't, and happily shell out that amount of money. Also because it is easy to pirate a digital copy of a BluRay (if you are technically inclined), doesn't mean that somehow all digital copies of BluRay releases should somehow approach $0.
I came across this discussion and finds it very helpful. I do have some questions as I am working on similar leases with yearly rent increases and lease incentives.

The situation is:
The 1st six months are free, the 7th to 12th month, there is a partial rent abatement. We also receive moving and tenant improvement allowances.

Lease is for 7 years and I straight lined lease expense over the life of the lease.
Monthly lease expense excluding Amortized lease incentive is $35,640.

Minimum lease payment in year 1 is $38,800
Total lease incentive approx. $271,000 which is amortized over the life of the lease and equals To $2,988 per month.

Since my 1st 6 months are free, what would be my entry in the first 6 months?
Also, would my recurring entry be:

Dr. Rent expense $35,640
Dr. Deferred asset/lease Incentive $2,988
Dr. Deferred asset. $672 ( excess payment over expense)
Cr cash. $38,800

To record the incentive:
Dr. Other receivable. $271k
Dr. ST/ LT deferred liability $271k

I need your help to get some perspective on these entries.

Tnx
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It's like playing Sim Earth on my dad SE30 as a kid.
I could never get it right and always ended up with a desert or icy planet :(
Thanks for your post. It's refreshing to hear more realistic opinions on this situation.

I opened up the Hacker News homepage to see if anyone was discussing the US debt crisis. (I'm not American, and I find HN a fairly good source of commentary on US events). There's a non-negligible possibility that the world is about to be plunged into another round of financial crises. I guess from one point of view the current state of the world economy is just a temporary downswing in our epic quest from the caves to the stars. But I'm becoming more inclined to believe that industrial civilisation has already passed its apex, and is now growing increasingly unstable as it attempts to continue infinite growth on a finite world.

What's the no #2 article on HN? How our biggest problems are dealing with too much abundance!
That's a solid advice. It's all about MVP + fast release cycle these days.
Fresh clean water may only happen along sources of water, not likely to happen in the desert. But along those sources of water, it should happen pretty fast. If electricity becomes free, desalination follows basically the next day.
The relaxed lifestyle is part of a greater picture I think. But first, have a look at the website setup by Jaime Clarke, a US writer who has written a book due to be published in 2014.
http://pleasedontbuymybookonamazon.com/
The name of the site says it all and he explains his reasons.
The french bill has the same goal actually as what is said by this US writer: to allow a more diverse books, authors, bookstores and publishers ecosystem. The previous french fixed price Lang's law had the same goal again: to protect independent bookstores, as they can't offer the same volume price cuts as Amazon could do. Those bookstores do not offer the same service as Amazon either, so it has been decided to favor the quality of the book ecosystem instead of the final book price only. Therefore, books, authors, publishers have a possibility to exist, even if they are not in the top 10 selling list. This is not a law against Amazon, because Amazon is actually a great bookstore in its own way, but the goal is to have the choice, even if it has a cost. There's a US saying that God helps those who help themselves: here, the french are just doing that, because that's what the way of life they want, where the country culture uses tools (legal, economic) to establish and develop, and not where economy defines what the culture should be, even if it has a price and leads to the heavier handed management you mention compared to English speaking countries.
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I'm very worried this is just a "pivot" for MobileWorks to offer VAs at much higher prices.
It sounds awfully like hiring overseas "talent" (cheap labor) to SPAM people into buying/trying/testing.
They are actively emailing their database looking for people to actually do the service. http://d.pr/i/qn17
I highly doubt the interests of LeadGeni.us align with your company's interest.
If you want to do things that do not scale fine. Just do it by yourself. Do not expect you can hire people to do it.
Your crazy if you think you can't get a flat-share in london including bills for £6.6k. Literally hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people are spending less than that.

Council tax doesn't increase with the number of people in a flat (>1), so when you're sharing the price for that goes down dramatically. You could easily reduce your spending in other categories as well if you wanted to spend more on rental (i.e use busses rather than the tube).

Gumtree currently lists 19k flatshares below the £125/week mark:

http://www.gumtree.com/search?property_room_type=&property_t...
Looks pretty spammy to me.
IMO, the best political solution there is to maximally decouple it from "government". Obviously this would be hard to do given the current organization of society and technology since tax revenue is the only sufficient source of money, and anything that relies on taxes is necessarily influenced by politics, but there are examples; Georgist systems like Alaska's oil dividend combined with endowment funds would be best, although we would need to actually create these institutions somehow. In the medium term, technological advances to make food, housing and medicine cheaper are probably the best bet.
Nitpick:

Send us back to ancient Greece... and startled peasants would worship at our feet.

Ancient Greece was not so much about peasants as about citizens. People with some capital and some position in their world. They aren't going to worship you, they would try to figure you out.
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This article, and some of the comments, seems to suggest that stimulating demand is the solution. It fails however to address if continuously increasing demand is realistic in a finite world.

Increasing demand and thus supply, requires increasing use of energy, land, raw material, etc. Which is at some point limited by the physical realities of our world.

There is a limit to growth. Have we reached it?
And if it's the actual hardware, rather than the software/firmware, I guess they'll offer free replacements in the Apple Stores for anyone who has the problem? Sure, it's a hassle for the customer and expensive for Apple, but hardly the impossible problem to solve the author seems to want to make it out to be.
"From a UX perspective this seems no different from Netflix putting their content behind a login."

That depends on where you think UX ends. That login will work fine from within an open source browser and/or OS you compiled (and possibly wrote or tweaked) yourself.

I haven't read the article, but if that DRM works, it wouldn't run in your browser on your OS, as content providers would not trust them. Chances are that your Chrome, Firefox, or Safari extensions wouldn't even work with the DRM (at best, they would get disabled on protected (from you) pages.)
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> But I'm becoming more inclined to believe that industrial civilisation has already passed its apex, and is now growing increasingly unstable as it attempts to continue infinite growth on a finite world.

I think both are true. Kind of like how monarchy and colonialism had already passed their apices and were becoming increasingly unstable in the 19th century.
Here in Berlin that's what it's like as well. We have a big lunch, at least those of us who work in an office.
It says quite literally that it is the Golden Master, I don't know how you literally read all that other stuff into it.
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You can now have the developer tools installed without XCode by using "xcode-select --install".
Procuses - goo.gl/AhXRkX

Medium Post about it - goo.gl/5e9Ohe
Props to you lads for the hard work.
Don't let the naysayers drag you down.
> Education is (see coursera), but the "educational reputation" industry isn't. Technology isn't killing off the rep of a harvard degree.

Coursera is not disrupting the reputation of a Harvard degree. Github is disrupting the reputation of a Harvard degree. There are plenty of businesses today that have absolutely no concern for your education of you have alternative proof that you can put out solid, high-quality results, and it's the internet's high information density that's making that possible.
There is a limit to growth. Have we reached it?

Depends. Growth of what?

There are aspects of life I see as having unlimited growth. Evolution has a way of crashing through barriers and trampling anything that stands in its way. If humans somehow exhaust a resource, we'll evolve a new one, as we always have. Perhaps painfully, but it'll happen.
Interestingly, when I was growing up my dad was involved with the "explorer" program of the BSA. They had an "explorer post" which was similar to a scout troop except that it was focused on all things computer/electronic (explorers could focus on whatever trades they wanted--there were a lot of fire and police explorer posts). It sounds really similar to what this is all about.

A couple examples of the cool stuff they did:

In the late 70s before cable TV, an over-the-air pay TV service launched called "OnTV" [1]. The Post got together the night it came out and had the NTSC scrambling (think analog DRM) broken in a couple hours, with the scouts going home with their own descramblers.

They pooled money and ought a bunch of bootleg Apple II circuit boards and put together their own computers. I was lucky enough to participate in that.

Other alumni went on to do interesting things [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontv

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Rose_Bowl#Scoreboard_pran...
I can't help myself, but Twitter seems to me like a subset of Facebook. Something like ICQ, AIM, or Yahoo Messenger is to Facebook Chat or Skype.

It came at the right time in the US, but it takes some time for these things to get abroad. While it arrived to Central Europe, Facebook had enough users and introduced features like Followers etc. Today, Twitter is solely used by a marginal tech/hip/geek community here.

And advertising goes where people go. The question is, whether this evidence suggests that the Twitter of today can't compete directly with Facebook, and it's success is based on acquiring users before FB matched it in functionality. How stable this user base is? Is it a similar case as with the chat applications?

Anecdotal evidence - a friend of mine just asked, whether one should invest in Twitter... on Facebook.
My pet theory of today's economic problems (by 'todays' i mean approximately: since mid-1970s) is different. I think the problem is that approximately by that point, the pace of technological and therefore, economic and social changes exceeded the limits of average people's adaptibility. In part that was because of limits imposed by 'slow' institutions (like education), but mostly, simply mental.

Therefore, GDP growth have slowed (because most people are underperforming or doing wrong jobs as their view of the worls is lagging behind). Therefore, there is a redistribution of income to the top 1% because to all previously existing factors of success, a new a huge one added being the ability to adapt to change quickly.

Bad thing about this is that it is a permanent condition and is only likely to get worse. And, we don't want that to stop because there is little growth factors except technology left out (all free and good soil is taken 100 years ago, cheap labor is also gone, capital is abundant and cheap, too - we can't make it any better). Even change in how we grow children is unlikely and undesirable (imagine telling your child 'you don't need to be loyal or do a good job, just look where the money goes and follow'). So, this is here to stay.
> Remember what happened to html5 video

What did happen exactly? The desktop is still not playing Html5 video, Flash is still used. I still can't go fully with Html5 on YouTube.

On Android mobile phones, Firefox had a rough time not because of Html5 video, but because they were slow to develop a usable version. The first versions I tried were very unstable and ate too much memory compared to the stock browser. But you know, it's evolving and on Android right now I think it's better than Chrome, minus one or two annoyances. Plus, they took the pragmatic approach, as they fall-back on the operating system's support for H.264 - remember open-source projects cannot bundle H.264 by themselves. Chrome is not open-source, while Chromium is and Chromium does not come with H.264 (although you can make it work on Ubuntu at least by installing the necessary code packages).

How is Html5 video related in any way with Firefox's marketshare?

> Years later, Webkit-based browsers are ubiquitous, and Mozilla is developing a phone OS nobody will care about

You're probably speaking about mobile web browsers. People here forget how big the desktop is and it's not going anywhere. And the WebKit browsers you're talking about are incompatible with each other. As for Firefox OS - personally I care about it, because it's tackling a market that has been ignored by both iOS and Android and because it leads the way to new Web APIs. So there you have it - you can't say that nobody cares about it, when clearly I do.

> Mozilla ought to spare itself another embarrassment by being the only guys in the room with the contrarian opinion

Maybe you should spare yourself the embarrassment of not recognizing that Mozilla made the web better precisely because of its contrarian opinion.
And it already hurts things enough.
Looks more like support content for the book than the source code itself, or am I missing something here?
Were you thinking of the children who hate your freedom before or after you wrote that false dichotomy?
You're right about DRM implementations in general, but note that the W3C standard isn't actually a DRM implementation, it's (afaict) a common API that allows web pages to supply their own DRM implementations.

An open source browser can conform to the W3C DRM standard ("Encrypted Media Extensions") and remain open source.
If you want to go back to last century: I think System 4.1 (shipping with the Macintosh II in 1987) had multiple-monitor support.