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Are you getting this from economists, or news article about economists?

Both. It's tempting to gloss over uncertainties sometimes.

The entire foundation of economics is variable preferences, after all. (Well, the sensible, measurable bits, anyhow.)

I agree, especially with your parenthetical.
I am not concerned about AAPL or any cool products it makes. To me, Jobs is a visionary, and embodies what the company preaches "Think Different"! And agree with someone said here, his medical condition is his private matter, and we should respect that.
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They want people to either pay or not listen. Not listen & pay if you can. They want music to be the same as milk or shoes. You either buy it, or you don't have it.

They want the laws, which are on their side, to be enforced to the point where the great majority of people do not break them. That means harsher penalties, more penalties or both.

They don't want to send the message that they are ruthless bastards, necessarily. They want to send the message that the it is not in people's best interests to download free stuff. Doing this by making it risky in the way that speeding past a cop shop is risky (very likely to be caught), is too hard. So they opt for making it like not having fire insurance a one-in-a-lot chance of being ruined.

I don't agree with the law, with the ruling or their morals. I think that this kind of enforcement is immoral. Deterence is not the only thing behind enforcement of laws. Punishment/deterrence should not be concentrated in one person. It's like saving money on police patrols by catching only 1/4 of burglars we currently do but shooting them to make up the difference.

I'm just arguing that the RIAA are rational. Her capacity to pay doesn't interest them.
That's a good point. But defining equality your way (relatively) also creates problems.
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Microsoft doesn't want IE to render the same as its contemporaries because then you don't need to test on IE anymore, which means you don't need Windows anymore.

Are you implying MS are purposely breaking IE in order to sell Windows licences to web developers? How many licenses exactly do you think are on the line here?
Quit downmodding this guy. Jesus, I hate the downmod arrow. Here's some elucidation:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north670.html

Read it. Time is the great equalizer. Warren Buffett is worth ten thousand times more than you are, assuming you are worth $5 million. But he is 78 years old. Not many people would want to trade places with him, one for one.

Steve Jobs is a better man than I'll ever be, but I'd rather be me than him, Is that strange? No! Because time treats humans like call options--decay is priced in, and hits zero at the set date. Steve Jobs is very, very close to zero, no matter his accomplishments.
There's no: you broke the law, but factor X and Y should increase our leniency.

Actually you're completely wrong. The legal system is there to look at factors X and Y and determine if and how they should affect the ensuing penalties or awards.
Somedays issues with the compiler/development environment/meetings/business analysts/the feeling that I'm stuck on a problem are potential source(s) of frustration -sometimes I get somewhat frustrated. The salesman deals with customers all day, we deal with software issues. We both can get frustrated, blow things out of proportion on a bad day. But on a good day, we can make things happen without effort, deal with issues without issue. Work frustration is a dynamic constant. Sometimes it affects us, other times it motivates us.
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Could be! I've only seen the one chapter (because it used a couple suggestions I'd made for the original article linked above).
Another paper that gets repeatedly mentioned as being influential in Clojure's design is ["Out of the Tar Pit" by Moseley and Marks]

Repeatedly mentioned by whom? I've looked at these guys' stuff a few times. While the idea of functional-relational programming is appealing, it is also obvious, and as far as I can tell they're not providing much more than fluff.
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this is a private matter for steve jobs, and it felt like the community was supportive of giving him his privacy. i'm surprised this is still alive tbh.
I haven't tried it but I think you get the same effect by setting the width and height of the image and using a spinner for the background of an enclosing div.
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Repeatedly mentioned by whom?

Rich Hickey.
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Well thanks for clearing that up. I appreciate both of the comments of feedback. You are right about the IMG tag. I'm not old enough to remember if there was actually a community with positions or if Netscape was single-handedly deciding how HTML should look like.
That's interesting. I guess I'm missing the value there. I'd give it another look, except I just did.
Jobs is a figure of mythic proportions who is of keen interest to technologists, entrepreneurs, and the general public. He's been featured in movies; books have been written about him; he's granted the media many levels of access, from photos through interviews, to boost his products.

That attention can't be turned off like a spigot. Even if Jobs weren't still actively involved in Apple, people would be deeply interested (and concerned!) about his health, making it a legitimate area for reporters (and biographers!) to report about, as long as the information is obtained in a honest manner.

I believe it's a valid story (for both the WSJ and here) because we care about Jobs, we care about his creative output (including Apple), and we often best learn about things in life -- including dealing with health challenges -- by seeing how they affect prominent people.
That's all part of being a public company and a negative DavidSJ accepted.
That perl script is about 100x longer than it needs to be (even disregarding the embedded docs and ASCII graphics). This is a super-simple (and old) attack; many DoS attacks based on large amounts of traffic first cause problems by depleting this same limited pool of threads/connections.
A number of neurological conditions such as Tourette's, Schizophrenia, and their friends seem to gravitate towards (and feedback on) inappropriate commentary and action. It's probably related to malfunctioning disinhibitionary mechanisms in the brain. The more you don't want to do them and the more inappropriate you know they are, the more frequently they occur and the stronger the urges become.

Ever see a disturbing image or hear a highly inappropriate joke or comment and then try to put it out of your mind, only to find that the harder you try to ignore it, the harder it becomes to ignore? The experience is similar.
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I don't believe conditions like this are often sudden so much as a long time coming. Even folks with young adult onset bipolar disorder often have hints throughout their lives. That would suggest that it's not necessarily being afflicted that determines whether you develop a career.
It wasn't very clear... the fact that they cited an Apple spokeperson made me think there was some official disclosure, because they usually just not comment at all on something they haven't released.

Whether or not it was official, I don't think we need to know the exact condition. What would that change? I can't help him, and the one who can have probably been working on it for some time now.
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It highlights a flawed business model that misleads unsuspecting users to pay for a one-way communication tool through sugar coated TV ads.
This is either deliberate FUD or an accidental misconstruing of what they said.

I'm not a freenode staffer, but I was in the channel while this discussion was ongoing. What they did say was that:

1) the WEBIRC protocol, which mibbit pushes heavily, is fundamentally not trustable unless you know exactly what code is running

2) there are additional incentives for a commercial enterprise to potentially abuse any level of trust given to it

3) that this discussion was a tangent from the actual issue, which was that mibbit has not been, for over a year, open to discussion and working with freenode.

Their own client is not less capable of preventing abuse, because they can integrate it into their network better (which I take to mean things like actually presenting a guaranteed IP address and similar things), which means that they can then reliably block abusive users using the standard IRC techniques.
mod_limitipconn doesn't work, because there is no completed request for a connection. There was a handshake and part of the request is sent, but does Apache see that as a connection? I think not.

Apache (and any other server) should expect a full request within a time frame. A headerset should not take long to load over a normal network. If the header is not completed after a while, disconnect the request. This also helps for requests that have not been setup for a DOS too.

I'm not an expert, but for me, I would look in to the headercompletion part and not into limiting connections or whatever. If I would have the knowledge, I would try to hack it in the Apache sourcecode, but I can't.

- Unomi -
Sorry, not 64-bit integers but you get my drift.
Well, as the saying goes: "If you invite the press for the wedding they will also cover the divorce"

Steve Jobs invited the press to the wedding.
The clear physical cause is something of a misleading question. What matters more in this context is that whatever multiple causes most likely result in a similar systemic behavior (or failure). With ADD that seems to be pre-frontal cortex impairment and is backed up by statistical analysis of various types of neural imaging studies.

In short, though the causes may be as varied as genetic in origin to pre-frontal cortex injury in a collision (injuries sustained in front-end crashes which significantly damage the PFC can lead to ADHD-like symptoms), they all lead to similar systemic failures. These similar failures appear to respond quite similarly to stimulant treatment. The key here is that we're treating a systemic problem rather than addressing a specific origin.
He seems to use it to deflect the TDD crowd. Personally, I found it boring.
You should probably point out here that nenolod was one of the non-freenode-staff members in #freenode at that point, presenting his personal opinion. It's about as germane to this discussion as me pulling up random person B's comment about how mibbit is <insert sleazy thing here>.
I am guessing it would also be reasonable to say it has a material affect on Apple as a publicly traded company, at least in the short term. And certainly the stock price.

But I wish him the best, it seems too soon for him to be leaving this, and I am sure he has more he wants to do.
Old scenario - people are using mibbit to very easily banevade - crap.

Scenario #1 + #2 - the proxy will be banned or the user refused connection. There is no distinction because they can trust the code they're running to report the IP correctly.
Scenario #3 - "ah crap, you mean I have to reset my router instead of just refreshing mibbit?"

From freenode.net/policy.shtml : freenode may block access to users whose IRC clients run on hosts with open proxies, IIS servers or other categories of software determined to present special risk to our server environment.
Re: sensitivity

After a lifetime of facing judgment, criticism, self-doubt, anxiety, depression, and most importantly denial that our condition is even valid, many of us have learned to be sensitive about this matter. We've struggled without much societal support, and defended ourselves against wave after wave of attacks on the very existence of our condition, even since childhood.

It's hard to live a childhood with accusations of willful laziness (at best) and trouble-making (at worst) looming over your head. It's even harder to eventually mature, and see children around you suffering the same fate. So you get a little bit angry, a measure defensive, and very sensitive.

It's obvious upon rereading that this is not what you where saying though, and for that I apologize.
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You can't, just roll over limp and let the bear have its way with you :-)
It's not a question of "they don't trust Mibbit", it's just basic security practice. Anyone, even a freenode staffer running his personal project, would not have that trust extended to them.
You really do think the worst of everyone don't you. I wonder what that says about you?

That he's someone I'd hire to deal with network security.
A bit heavy with religion, but the message was sound: "Failure will come, and you'd better be prepared to make use of it".

Unfortunately this doesn't apply very well for startups. Failure will come, but all too often because you're in the wrong market at the wrong time, or because your appraisal of what will sell is simply not good enough. In other words, what you learn from one failure doesn't help you very much in the next attempt.
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Are you airing a legitimate complaint, or are you now simply embarking on a smear campaign to make them look bad and rally folks to your cause?
I sat on the same channel you did, and I came away with a fundamentally different impression. The "make mibbit OS" were either jokes or a precursor to explaining why they prefer their client.

There seems to be a bit of miscommunication between mibbit and freenode here, where freenode believes that they tried extensively over at least a year to resolve this with mibbit and mibbit says they had no clue. I'd certainly be suspicious and not necessarily feel welcome to forgiving immediately if something like that happened.

And as for trust - I don't know either group. But from the patient way in which the freenode staffers explained what was happening and their rationale to everyone who entered #freenode to demand their mibbit back for (I think) the better part of twelve hours, that leaves me with far more respect for them than for axod at the moment, assuming certain things about his actions fit together like it seems.
I've written and deleted about 3 attempts at answering that question, not happy with any of them and obviously I have to get my thoughts in order. It's quite the "question for the ages" : D

I'll get back to you ...
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nenolod is not a freenode staffer. The impression I got was that freenode felt they were going above and beyond in offering an alternative webchat to mibbit users, which they didn't need nor particularly want to do.
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35 lines in Java actually, the other one is a poor implementation.

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I'm confused, does it ask you to type in your email address and password for your email provider? I can't believe anybody would be stupid enough to fall for that.

If it doesn't, where did it get all of his contact info? Did he enter it in himself. If this is the case, what does the website say that prompts you to enter in your contact lists?
I partially agree with much of what he is saying. As a hiring manager looking over resumes, I cared nothing at all for things that were not at all connected with the job. But I was very interested in things that were tangentially related.

For instance, I hired mostly MS Sql Server/C# developers, but having python on the resume indicated they had a broader base within programming (and also that they probably learned on their own beyond what was needed just for the job.) The same with having Oracle or MySql on the resume along with SQL Server, it showed a broader base in related technologies.

Also, I was very interested in someone with good face to face communication skills. Most of our software was used in-house so the primary users often spoke with the primary developers face to face and a lack of ability to interact that way was awkward at the best.
Typically, this means you have an pre-conceived opinion, and are looking for a rationalization.
While I certainly agree that most, if not all, of the best hackers hack as a hobby, and would continue to do so whether or not they were being paid for it, I have found, from experience, that most (not all) also are "well rounded" people who have a variety of interests.

I am pretty fluent in electronic communications. This doesn't mean that face to face communication is not also essential to a good working relationship. There are some things which are just impossible to sort out via text chat - the potential for misunderstandings is just too great.

Personally, I would hesitate to hire someone who is not a "well-rounded" person. I may still do so, but I'd hesitate.
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Interesting, but the back button in Safari 4 goes back through all the futureboxes that were popped up and closed previously, as if each were its own page. Really annoyed me...
This article says that since 1965 the return on assets for US corporations has dropped by 75% while the biggest additions to the asset base over the same period have been hardware and software. The first question this seems to raise is what are we actually measuring when we look at return on assets - does it take into account the fact that your customers view your brand more positively because your IT has made your company more responsive to the customer? Because that change could actually reduce your advertising costs and not end up in any metric. And the second question is whether most companies are just investing in technology to automate existing processes or are really reorganizing the way they do business around their IT so that they can fully leverage all of the potential benefits of their IT. Of course that takes a degree of understanding of IT that many older executives simply do not have.
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Steve Jobs is a better man than I'll ever be,

Why? Because he is famous? Because he is rich? Because he, debatably, has 'made the world a better place'? Screw all those default judgements based on cultural indoctrination. Why is it Good to be famous, rich, innovative, an effective leader, ...? As far as I'm concerned, Steve Jobs and Warren Buffett are no better than you or me when I consider what I think is important in life. Stop pressing culturally correct expectations and judgements on others. Develop your own code of ethics.
It's also not that difficult to counter. The easiest way is to just do packet inspection - if something looks wrong (repeated bad/incomplete headers), just blacklist the IP for however many minutes. Repeat ad nauseam. Any IDS worth its salt shouldn't even hiccup at this.
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Thanks - as you say the split is something Im not worried about. The income generated will be about £1500 a month for me (based on the current work lined up - should be sustainable) which is about a third of my current salary. The idea is this will be my savings money so it's not "on the line" in terms of need. I have nothing invested (and am very easy going anyway) so I cant see the downsides.

I could probably get a 60/40 split but the other guy would be a bit miffed (it's his baby and he is all enthusiastic). The money I get seems pretty fair for my time (even if it seems extremely generous to him) so.... :D

I think the impression I got is he is looking for this to be the start of his "something big". Essentially I am helping him get that off the ground - the deal is if it is "big" and turns into an actual company employing more programmers I will be leaving with a pay off for my initial "investment of time" (that figure is still to be agreed on - but will be) as I have a career to pursue anyway.

I cant see the downside to a couple of years doing this for income on the side - it's all good experience :D

Thanks for your comments! You've made me confident I am doign the right thing :D
We have decided to pass on e-commerce work to another company (despite some of it being in the 10's of thousands) who have signed an agreement to pay 15% commission. So I think that is fairly standard all round.
heh. Yeah, hiring managers like you are why I make a lot more than friends who are several standard deviations more intelligent than i am, who show up on time more often, and who get more work done.

But I'm tall, blond, confident and can be fairly friendly in person, so I get more money. It's stupid, because I'm not getting more done. I'm not providing more value. In fact, the confidence is a major negative, when it comes to real value. I take on tasks I can't handle, and routinely underestimate how long a particular task will take.

If you can't communicate your ideas in writing, you are unfit for management. You are unfit to write specifications, and you are probably unfit to implement those specifications.

I'm in business for myself now precisely because I can't stand to work for semi-literate morons who choose me over people who are clearly superior to me just because I wasn't looking at my shoes during the interview.
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