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One thing I've learned is that you have the power of mind control. And the more you use it, the better you are at it.

So, in the case of trying to commit yourself to new goals, first decide on a goal. Then decide when you want to apply time to the goal. And then, most importantly, when you're not working on your goal, use mind control to not negatively think about the goal and the efforts involved to accomplish that goal.

Here's a dumb example, but it can be applied to many cases. Unloading the dishwasher. If, ahead of time, you think about the steps that you're going to have to take to unload the dishwasher, you won't do it. But if you use mind control, and don't think about the steps it's going to take to unload the dishwasher, but just think about the fact you need to unload the dishwasher, you will do it.

In other words, procrastinators over think things, to the point they overwhelm themselves. But you have to constantly use mind control, and understand that the more you use it, the easier it is to use.

I used to be a huge procrastinator, but using mind control, I've literally transformed myself into a person that can't stop working. I've been successful at this transformation for the last two years, so it's definitely working.
That's exactly what I thought of when I read the headline.
Go to business and/or developer meetings and announce what you are looking for.

I went the first time to work abroad about 7 years ago. Got the initial contact and contract by reading job postings on a small unkown website, this was pure luck. After that, I had multiple trips to different countries and even convinced my girl to live with me for 18 month in Africa.

For me it was like a chain reaction: You go to a new country and you will sooner or later meet the other foreigners. New friends, new connections, new countries, new job offers. Repeat until homesick. :)

Do you know where the guys from the Netherlands embassy do party in your country? I bet there are some more people from the Netherlands as well. Go, find some new friends. From my experiences most foreigners are happy to have friends among the locals.

You will know how important this is soon. I wish you good luck.

(German in Angola)
> 2. Not shipping foo.py does not change the answer to #1; you still depend on it, thus your work still counts as a derivative.

I don't know whether your answers are correct but you should not use the term "derivative" or "derivative work". It's a rather clear legal term. The GPL3 does not use that term, anymore.

In fact, if we would be arguing about a derivative work in the copyright sense, your answer to 2 and 3 (and depending on the circumstances also 1) would be wrong (with the usual disclaimer IANAL).

A software B that uses a library A by "loose" linking does not constitute a derivative work. Courts in the US have develop a test for that: First, B is a complement to A. Second, it doesn't distribute any of A's code when distributing B. Third, thinking otherwise would chill the market, since no library would be used by anyone anymore, for this would make using a library an infringement of the library owner's copyright.

For further information, see:

http://www.law.washington.edu/lct/swp/Law/derivative.html
Water is the very reason of the Kashmir issue between Pakistan and India and why they will keep fighting over it - land has very little to do with it, its all about the water and who controls the flow.

I visited the Himalayan region just about this time last year and the glaciers have melted away at a very alarming rate. Our driver, who's been taking tourists to the region for over 30 years told us that he has never seen the snow pack and glaciers gone at such elevations. His taxi driver estimation was 50% less snow pack over the last 3-4 years.
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I wished sun would have set MySQL free before going up in to the great almighty Oracle.
As cheesy as his implementation suggestion sounds (Don't break the chain!) I found it actually works quite well.
Ask HN: Have you ever had one of your sites get hacked?
How did it happen? How did you recover? What did you change so it wouldn't happen to you again?
If a lot of users make the same error, then a fix in the code is required.
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Office has not just millions of users but also, I suspect, thousands of developers.
You can make your Twitter updates private too.
I was was thinking some kind of small electromagnetic pulse, not a nuclear powered one.
I think it's just because there are not as many teenage social media gurus.
So I decided to rewrite it from scratch, using the awesome Treetop parser for ruby. The implementation is now much more robust, and should handle change and new features much more smoothly! Mixins can now be namespaced, and you can access arbitrary properties in the style-sheet, through hash-like syntax.

Treetop, being a PEG parser isn't as fast as regexes, as you'll notice, but it sure is worth it. Work is being done though, (in particular by Jason Garber) on speeding things up—and LESS comes bundled with an optimized version of Treetop, so fear not!

Last but not least, 'refresh your browsers!' cause we got ourselves a tasty new website, courtesy of Dmitry from usabilitypost.com
I'm curious what relief will look like. When the population increases at alarming rates I'm wondering if there is any sustainable solution other than relocation places to areas with more water. Are there any clever ways to permanently increase the water supply?
>Ambiguities in copyright precedent

Fortunately there are no ambiguities anywhere else in the law, which is why all civil lawsuits are decided in 10mins by a secretary and an intern
it's one of the older models - I used to live in Afghanistan and you could get the very old models of cellphones still in mint condition (case in point, I still have one with me) - I remember being in a hotel when all my signal went away - it turned out that President Karzai was having a meeting next door! :)
Nice article.

One note:

> ... [The new National Library] has at its centre what looks like a vast opencast mine, hundreds of feet deep, with scholars and readers at rows of desks on every level, hemmed in by walls of volumes.

That sounded incredibly impressive, until I found pictures:

http://images2.sina.com/english/china/2008/0909/U99P200T1D18...

http://www.architecture-page.com/assets/images/content/prj_k...

I think he exaggerates a bit.
Yes perhaps I should have not assumed that. What I meant is that search is not so good as to worry about such abstract and pointless things as where are my keys.

Search should focus on giving relevant results to queries we actually search.
The west is still ahead of China in both Science and Technology, but they're moving fast and we're slowing down.

I would not be surprised if in another four or five decades the situation is going to be reversed.

China has it's problems, but it has one thing that the west does not have, which is the power to make very bold decisions and to realize them. No such thing as turf wars between parties or coalition building to dilute any plans.
I've never used that term for it, but I know exactly what you're taking about. When I was trying to build up a habit of going to the gym every day after work, there would often be a part of my mind saying things like I'm too tired, I won't be able to get a machine, or I have more important ways to spend the next hour.

When this happens, I've started to develop a habit where another part of my brain keeps "yelling" just get off your ass and go, and listen to that one. So while one "half" is thinking about all the reasons I shouldn't go to the gym, I'm making the other "half" focus on going - and I find myself packing up my stuff and walking to the gym.

It sounds crazy (especially re-reading my description), but concentrate on the high-level idea of doing something (as opposed to how and why/why not), and you might find it easier to get it done.
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you can actually differentiate between your MBTI type (i.e. ENTP etc.) vs. your DiSC behavioral pattern - your personality might be the same but depending on the context (home, work, leisure) - your behavior can change from a Di to an IS or even an SC
I only hope you'll be able to share documents (at least for viewing) with people that don't have a Microsoft account.

I really don't want to start getting emails from people asking me to log into MS Office 2010 so I can view their "MUST SEE" power point presentation. It was so convenient (and fun) to just tell them I don't have Office.
"Lisp doesn't look any deader than usual to me."
- David Thornley
editline is intended to be API compatible, and has weakened the argument that linking implies work-derivation at least somewhat. As far as I know, nobody has ever been willing to test that theory in court since they'd lose so much political face in the process.

Sometime last year, I saw an article claiming that because of libedit's existence, we could all link against readline from whatever we wanted (or at least that this showed that the dynamic-linking-is-deriving was crap), but I can't find the article now.
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Here's where the warrant will first be served:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
Speaking of failure, my mantra on a personal entrepreneurial level has always been "build to fail" seriously. 0 risk = 0 reward. Don't have the guts to fail, and fail terribly... stick to a 9-5.

Be ruthless, and whatever you do, make sure it passes the deer-stuck-in-the-headlights-of-an-oncoming-car test. If it doesn't stir emotions to spread life, stick it out until you get that polished diamond in the ruff.

iPhone wasn't an overnight success, there's no such thing. Plan accordingly.

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And there's one thing missing from that comic strip. "I see... well laugh as you may. Eventually I'll be laughing all the way to the bank."
Apparently specially hardened vacuum tubes aren't that susceptible to EMP pulses
I don't think there is anything clear about #6. Is bar.js a derivative work of foo.js? Probably not, but nobody knows for sure.
'how to win friends and influence people' isn't specifically about negotiation, but its a classic and the principles found in there can easily be applied.
That reminds me of a podcast by The Economist called "The Week Ahead", where each Friday they try to guess what the major news stories in the next week will be.

I agree with you that they could have found a story that would have been harder to guess.

http://video.economist.com/index.jsp?fr_chl=157a3251a697e23e...
With a co-lo, there are well defined demarcation points between customer and provider with regards to access privileges and security responsibilities. In the cloud, those points are vague to non-existent, depending on the category of cloud service in question.
+1 here too. Living abroad and especially learning another language changed me, and a positive way. Not exactly practical for everyone, but if more people did this the world would be a more understanding place.

Did it make me procrastinate less? I'll tell you the day after tomorrow =\ (not really).

What did get me out of the procrastination habit though, was the Getting Things Done book, I'm not ashamed to say. I'm not an adherent of everything in that book, but I followed the basic system it outlines until it became second nature.

The system allowed me to clear my plate enough for me to realize that the cause of my procrastination was a sort of paralyzing fear of all the 'stuff' I needed and wanted to do. The amorphous blob of stuff was completely overwhelming. It can be a very scary thing. And that fear gets converted into inaction. But when you have a reliable framework like GTD to break the stuff down into concrete action steps, that fear is evaporates, and you can actually DO.

I'm an armchair psychologist over here, but this was the case for me. YMMV.

Also, to echo the point of the post above, my girlfriend at the time (now wife) also was totally not supportive of the GTD thing...but later became very impressed with the transformation. Just because people aren't supportive of you changing, doesn't mean they don't love you, and that they won't come around. I catch myself behaving this way towards other people all the time.
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I have a solution that costs no money that makes the organ shortage situation much better. It involves enacting one rule:

A person may only receive an organ if that person is a registered organ donor.
I made a big graph of time spent on my business:

http://files.dangrover.com/timechart061509.png

never thought of doing that for just normal life stuff, though.

At some point, I want to run some sort of statistics software on my time tracking data, sales, customer support volume, etc.
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Yeah, I had someone alter the HTML on a static webpage at some point to make it link out to some sites in China.

It was a simple site, so I just scanned all the pages to ensure the rest weren't tampered with (it was just index.html).

Then I switched webhosts (from iPowerWeb to NSFN+WebFaction) because iPowerWeb was incompetent. (And not just because of this incident; they had 3 hour wait times when I called, weekly unplanned downtime with both their web and email servers (which they wouldn't even admit), lost a valuable business domain which was snapped up by some fellow in India 2 minutes before I found out about it, and billing problems on top of it all...)
Yes, things like kindling and wrapping fish.

Very high-brow humor :/

Plus... they won't even give you a list but require you to click through them.

Methinks that Businessinsider.com wants to go the way of newspapers.
Not so sure this warrants the negative comments. I mean, I'd rather see them go this route than not go this route.

There's some indirect implications of this that I like, too--

By Microsoft's account, Office web is probably the largest javascript/ajax app ever written (or at least really big). They also support Firefox, Safari, and (maybe) Chrome.

I can't fathom how this won't put Microsoft into the javascript performance arms race with IE. How can they not invest heavily in making their own browser lightning fast with complicated ajax apps when all the browsers they support will perform better with Office web than IE?

Just seems to me that with every browser competing to have incredible web performance and compatibility, we're all going to win a bit in this case.
yes.

I run a filedump as part of all the stuff we do, one day some smart alec figured out that I had forgotten that if somebody uploaded a .php file that it would execute instead of being downloaded... Very very stupid of me.

The next step was to upload a nice little backdoor filemanager package written in php and run it from the download directory (this must have been harsh because the url switches after every download). Eventually they got access to the password hashes, but since I found out about the hack within 24 hours I just changed the passwords on the system after plugging the hole.

Obviously the way to handle that was to refuse files whose exension is .php.

I still can't believe that it was that easy to get in, and I feel totally stupid for not having foreseen that.
If this is true, Google Docs can be declared a strategic success. Microsoft will be sacrificing significant revenue by offering a free version on the web. Figuring out how to distribute features between the free and paid versions will be tricky, too. If people can't figure out whether they are supposed to use the free web version or the paid version, they will be confused and upset just like Vista customers who couldn't figure out which version to buy.

A lot of risks for Microsoft, with little upside. Eric Schmidt must be smiling right now.
I had to view the source to figure out what he was talking about. There are Google Ads; I didn't see them either (are you using Adblock Plus, also?).
i did the left-right wallet thingy too; however, i often forgot where i put my keys (left/right?), ending up poking my pockets

those habits were gone once i employ belly-bag
It's not about safety, it's about privacy. Teenagers define themselves by who they talk to even more than what they talk about.
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Wow! So even a woman enjoys reading this stuff? I'm glad to hear that. I was afraid my male orientation would make that harder.
I'm not affiliated with this, but if you want to contribute, consider a donation to this charity: http://www.wateraid.org/
Daimler sells 4% of Tesla to Middle East investment fund
Will donating a kidney significantly shorten my lifespan?
I'm a developer (specifically, a web developer), but I try to occasionally stop by some of the larger graphic design sites to get ideas from time to time.

Here's a few of my favorites:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com
http://www.sixrevisions.com
http://logopond.com

Also, here's a good article with a list of social news sites for designers:
http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/12-excellent-social-news-...
Yes. Many years ago a server was gotten into by a brute force ssh script. The cracker then used a local exploit to gain root access and run all sorts of unpleasant software, downloaded my databases, etc...

I ended up just getting a new server, as I couldn't track down all the things he'd done. I started learning about server security. I reduced the number of people who had ssh accounts, and installed stronger password rules. I use iptables to block brute force SSH attempts. I use logcheck, chkrootkit, and other tools to constantly monitor my server.
When I was 17 at my first job developing web sites, I set up a PHPBB forum for a customer. Brazillian script kiddies used a security flaw to gain access to one of our entire servers and ruined a bunch of sites.

Great beginners lesson. Keep your mainstream opensource apps up to date.
No, she now alerts me to the new episodes :)

Seriously, you have no idea how much effect your writing has had.

The simple fact that you've been so open about this makes it discussable for other people, and that in turn can help them to help themselves.

The funny thing is that the day before I found your 10th day installment I actually had a little 'assignment' worked out where I wanted her to go out and have a conversation with some random stranger. Then the next day - the day it was supposed to happen - I found your writings and instead of asking her to go out and connect with someone I let her read your writing.

I'm quite sure that that was much more effective than one more of my 'harebrained' plans :)
I'm not using Adblock or anything similar (I'm on Safari 4.0.2 on Mac, btw).

I see some code related to google ads in the source but they're not showing on the page.

Maybe the code is just a placeholder.
Computer Engineer vs. Computer Scientist
So you're saying we should switch all the electronics that the military has on the ground over to vacuum tubes?
There's a lot of excellent forward looking advice here - I particularly agree with those suggesting you set some bigger goals to motivate yourself, and commit for the 4 weeks / 30 days it takes to build a habit.

I have also found benefit working on my past with a personal coach (therapist, shrink, good friend - whatever works for you). A lot of my procrastination came from feeling guilty relaxing and doing casual things just for me - if I did that task right now I'd be able to relax, but because I felt guilty about that outcome I would drag out the task in front of me.

There were some other root causes I needed to work through, but in the last 3 months I've seen a massive turnaround in my personal energy and productivity. Results may vary, but I was ready to change and found dealing with past stuff helped me stick to the future goals and planning.
If there is no water you have to pipe it in. The only other thing I can think of is to suck it out of the air.
Is your personality type 'INTP', perchance?

INTPs have these constant internal battles. We're good at concentrating and love working in the realm of ideas. However, we're often an impractical lot and procrastination is pretty rampant among the other INTPs I know. The biggest problem, I think, is that we just really suck at perceiving the passage of time, and the daydreaming, writing, or discussion of ideas is often rewarding enough just to stop there.

INTJs are supposed to have many of the same qualities of INTPs but tend to be more sure of themselves, and therefore, more productive (or more capable of delivering 'products' within 'deadlines'). They seem to live in the moment a bit more, and I would venture to guess that they make better entrepreneurs.

As an INTP, I feel I can relate to your situation. I too often wonder if my problem relates to a personality temperament, and truly can be changed. It really bothers me that I have little to show for all the work I do in my head, and this frustration has helped motivate me, but I still don't feel like I've been truly 'unlocked'.

To compound the problem, INTPs make up about 1% to 3% of the population, which means not many people can relate to the INTP mindset and are more likely just to call you a whiner without attempting to appreciate where you are strong, and why that strength makes you weaker in other areas.

Any INTPs out there who feel they've overcome their temperament's negative traits? How did you do it?
But what if the bold decisions are idiotic and destructive?

Turf wars and parties seem to be what gave Europe its advantage, as the grandparent states the rise of freedom was concurrent with the rise in technology. So perhaps more distributed competitive decision making results in better outcomes, and the reason you stated will be precisely the reason China will not achieve its potential.

[EDIT: Corrected incongruent verb tenses in last sentence.]
I think someone is reading their tweets. And it's their parents. That is why teens avoid it, it is way easy for their parents to know everything. With Facebook you don't need to share everything with your parents, and the world, even if your parents are your friends.

To me that has to be the main difference.
So perhapse the GPL shouldn't be used outside of the pure-C environment. Or the FSF should be forced to make the definitions for new environments.
I think there's something to be said about the indication users of the site will get from knowing that profit-maximizing will never be a goal of the software. It may pay some salaries (as wikipedia does) but it will never sell out its purpose first and foremost as a collaborative tool.
It does seem like something that only works once. As soon as a warrant is served and they stop updating the file, when can they start updating it again? When the warrant is made public?
I would put half of every penny I owned into that company at the valuation of 6.5B$. At least that's my opinion, after 30 seconds of consideration, about what I'd do with half of my wealth.
It shows up for me.
(OS X 10.5.7, FF 3.5)
c) Does not matter.

The FSF does not get to write copyright law and decide what is or is not a derivative work.
I'm seeing the same pics over and over; any idea what that's from?