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I always am running the VM anyway (Linux guest on Windows host); it's not like I started it just to browse. Just saying if you feel the need to block yourself programmatically you probably need to do so on all routes by which you can reasonably access the sites, e.g., various browsers and various VMs.
And a slightly earlier submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=716818
I'm currently in my final 30 days of my development license contract and I'm still wondering if I should renew. I haven't had the problems a lot of people are complaining about (my apps have been accepted or rejected with a valid reason which I fixed easily).

It's been a fun year learning the cocoa language and getting applications out there that lots of people find useful (my most popular app was #1 on the free app store for a week within a week of it going online).

I'm just unsure if I should continue. I'm working on a game, but it's hard to find motivation to continue when there's so many others out there getting rejected with no reason after all their hard work. I'm still in the "it hasn't happened to me so who cares?" camp, but I could easily get burnt after spending 3 months of spare time developing.
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Joe Rogan is aggressively trying to make the fanny pack cool.

Places your bets on the successfulness of it :)
I like to order a curried scotch and soda and then do the uncurrying at the table.
Most probably think it's nice, but:

- I can't ride it up an 80 degree slope covered in ice with unreasonably intense instrumental metal playing in the background.

- It cannot carry the enormous frozen mammal I just picked up at Sam's Club, let alone the metric ton of salsa that was on offer.

- People would laugh and call me Mall Cop, and I'd feel like a twat.

- I would be broke after buying this, and being broke, mocked, hungry, and unable to go off-road is just too frustrating.

.. on the other hand, it's really neat.
Even if this happened (which I very much doubt it will because Japan, China etc. don't want to write off 40% of their holdings or get into a vicious economic war with the US), that's a long way from hyperinflation and general fiscal Armageddon.

US business would love the dollar to fall by 30%, our exports would soar and those companies that depend heavily on manufacturing in China could probably use other hard currency like the Euro. It would crimp our military operations overseas, but when you get down to it a lot of countries still want to be under the American nuclear umbrella and we paid for the nukes a long time ago.
Any reason why? By all looks it has almost no traffic (not a slam at all, just an estimation). Unless you have a lot of back end processing it could almost certainly be run easily off of a small VPS or even a shared hosting account.
100 years might be an overstatement: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/07/barefoot/
Does it matter if a company that was founded in the U.S. and that does employ mostly Americans was founded by an American or by a non-American??

I can understand the argument against visas for foreign engineers... but I don't see any trouble with a founder visa.
I see tourists doing Segway tours all the time here in SF. Personally, I prefer the Go Car tour. Instead of having to wear a lime green vest for protection and tool around a few blocks, you get to ride in a GPS-navigated car. You can take it where ever you please as well, but I digress.

I would buy a Segway if it looked like something from Mad Max.
I would like to give a completely different reason why the Segway sucks.

Great public transit blows it out of the water.

Consider a trip to a city like Berlin and then travel from there to Munich, with lots of travel in the city. Renting a Segway isn't adequate because you commonly want to travel long distances. You also don't want to deal with theft, break downs, weather patterns, etc.

Now consider your habits in your local city - travel is prohibitive based on how far you can walk or with driving parking is commonly a problem.

Selling a bunch of expensive single person transportation units is solving the wrong problem. Making great public transit for cities solves transportation needs.
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No way. The majority of people going to zoos/disneyland are families. What are you going to do with your 5, 3 and 1 year old children?
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Agreed; I block sites from myself, and my increase in productivity (and morale) is amazing.

I use this plugin instead:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3145

You can turn on password protection, so that you can't turn off the plugin.
Dorks are counter culture. It's just that nobody has any desire to emulate their bad taste.
Think of it more as a drug. Goto this site and get a little hit, you probably already have a browser running.
What was the name of your most popular app?
Exactly--20" rims and spinners got popular because of the people who initially bought them. If you started seeing rappers riding Segways, things would be a bit different.

Case in point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geIsWq5xOSE

Scraper bikes are all over Oakland. Do they look cool? Nope.
It is a state of mind. I just don't like the idea that people write off things to luck, talent, miracles, and gifts from God.

Please note I don't discount these things, and those metaphysical wonders surely do exist (imo), but rather, it is a better builder of character to believe that everything is the result of personal decision and action.

As an aside, this is why I always stay away from the Tim Ferris bickering. Everyone wants to believe he's a fraud. Whether he is or not is not important to me or you. Tim Ferris does things. That's it.

Probably a bit too romantic, but I like movie script endings.
I think over the next 10 years alot of people will be moving themselves out of the US because of this. I thought the bush years were over?
A startup is just a venture where the goal is to make a company that can manufacture masses of license plates cheaply.

Google manufactures search, Microsoft operating systems, etc.

Once you make the switch from developing better and cheaper license plates to churning them out at a high rate you're no longer a startup but just another company.
Wait, none of these comments are actually made by the people you say they are.
Thus offering a competitor the perfect opportunity to eat Google's lunch in the mobile market.
that would be awesome if their big launch on August 1st turned into a huge 404.
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That's 10:00am to 3:30pm (just making sure you didn't think it was 10pm-3am).
I would point out that the userland in BSDs that would update with the kernel would be the CORE utilities and programs. Say, like GNU utils on a linux distro. kdesu is part of KDE, which is an application installed on top of the OS, not something maintained as part of the OS. Would you say there wouldn't be any issue with a BSD kernel update breaking an extremely widely used application such as, say, Apache?
Charlie Rose is such a drooling moron. It's no wonder he's a popular talkshow host, as he must make the idiots that watch him feel they're not so stupid after all.
> It'll be an order of magnitude higher in two years.

By the time market forces have gathered to encourage this shift, the landscape will be radically different.

The platform can only be locked down for so long. Most, if not all, mobile devices will be doing what the iPhone can do now in about five years. High-jend phones already do, and just like with camera phones, it will take time for the features to trickle down to the budget market.

With an expanded market, mobile software will be pirated just as desktop software is today. Because the usability of the device implies connectivity, this piracy will be more user-friendly, sophisticated, and streamlined. This will absolutely clobber the $0.99 app market.

The author of this article is really trapped in the Apple Bubble, and while his grievances are legitimate and well-argued, they'll be irrelevant very soon: Price controls like Apple's can't legally exist throughout an industry.
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Exactly, almost like you need the endorphin so you rush to the easiest source of satisfaction. Probably similar to a smoking or eating habit, you just need an easy win so you click on the site. Same here.
I really question the productivity measures used in this article. All time in front of a monitor is not equal. Sure they tripled the amount of time they were at their desk -- how did it impact the quality of the code, the abstractions used, the overall design, etc.

I know that after some really long days, I look back at what I wrote and am like WTF did I do.
I'm fascinated by how few of you agree that it failed because it looks smug. It seems so obvious! People on Segways look like they feel entitled to coast around standing at a podium, a mobile soapbox. That's it, plain and simple. Price: irrelevant. Utility: irrelevant. Inspiring instinctual revulsion in onlookers: relevant. It's the vehicular embodiment of Comic Book Guy's voice.

Edit: This is probably why a lot of geeks have a blind spot here.

Edit2: And it's not the laziness or uncoolness of it that's the problem either. Take the goddam Hoverround -- if anything's worthy of scorn, it is. And yet it sells like crazy. No, the exact, specific problem with the Segway is you look like you're standing at a podium.
Up .07 percent.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ief
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Bernhard is my favorite author. I would recommend "Yes" and "Extinction".
I found the only time this was remotely rewarding was when I noticed I hadn't checked HN for an entire day because I was just too wrapped up in work.

Plus, I have way too many browsers installed for a Firefox addon to ever stop me. I don't even use Firefox as my primary browser.
True....to a degree. Our agriculture exports would soar. But alot of other things we produce are complex/advanced products, which depends on cheap parts/oil from....other countries.

As for the military, well, China will pick a good time to crash the dollar (when they've liquidated most of their dollar reserves). Then they'll be able to bring US to its knees without firing a single bullet. Why shouldn't they? it's their turn to be the empire.
Thanks for that link - that looks incredibly cool!
Arguably, putting money into robots is putting money into space. Along with a lot of other things, too. Robots have already long since passed through the hype cycle and now we're firmly sitting at the end of the cycle in "ho-hum", but it's worth taking a moment to realize just what this all means, and that the old sci-fi predictions may not have happened on schedule but are about to start popping up.

While everyone's busy moaning about the economy and how terrible everything is, I've been looking down the road five or ten years and I see amazing things coming at us, fast.
> In all honesty, for how many people do you think "how I look while riding it" is the single factor stopping them from buying a Segway?

Many people, especially those in the market for a new form of walking (people with serious dough), will spend money on impulse, not based on practical utility. Image is a huge selling point for most consumers, though they may not acknowledge it.
People do consider other people's reactions. Since people riding a Segway are seen as "uncool", many people won't even consider buying one. They don't get to the point where they're looking at pros and cons; buying one isn't even a consideration.
I don't think anyone would have that thought process. However, if it was released initially without a pole and ridden sideways it would have been taken up by a young early adopter base who would have made it seem cool. People aren't immune from cultural effects, and for most people the thing the segway has over walking is being fun, cool and futuristic.
http://www.tilestack.com/

That said, TileStack is what made me realize I don't want HC as it was; I want HC as it was, plus networking functionality. It just doesn't feel anymore like there's much point to writing apps that can't connect people to one another.
Every single three laws story is a story about how bad an idea the three laws are. I am always amazed and amused at how many people miss this.

And Asimov was right. Alas, it will not be that easy.
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Sometimes I run PHP on windoze, with Apache and MySql, no problems at all.

M$ from time to time tries to remove Apache from the startup services but that's a minor annoyance.

Who in his dubious sanity would run PHP on IIS and sql server?

What kind of twisted mind can do that?

M$ has done nothing as far as I know.
"This brings us back to Twitter."

Nice one.
Yup...Germany has savings, while we have a negative savings rate (think it was -5% in 2008....might be better now)
Thanks, I needed a laugh.
The high-speed footage was most interesting to me. In terms of the "uncanny valley" and my personal reaction to the robot's movement, I find that it's still not human to me... but I think it's starting to crawl up the side towards human-looking. In terms of the traditional graphic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mori_Uncanny_Valley.svg ), I think this thing is somewhere between the prosthetic hand and the bunraku puppet, on the higher end of that range.

YMMV.
I renewed a little while ago. I'm having a blast developing apps. I've had three in the store... lately I've been taking my time making a game. What's nice is I receive some money from Apple every month from sales of an app that I've thought about for maybe an hour over the past year. Also ad revenue from free apps is great!
Hard liquor is never advertised on TV?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanqueray
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahl%C3%BAa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacardi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Morgan

"Got a little Cap'n in you?"

These are all off-the-top of my head examples of commercials I've seen on TV... maybe you meant broadcast vs cable television? Or are you outside of the US? (I assumed you were in the USA b/c of the no cigarette commercials comment... I think that's only in the US...)
Regarding the currency crash, actually you just need one country (i.e Russia) or a hedge fund dumping a large amount of dollars, forcing others to dump theirs as well in a speedy fashion (kinda like everybody rushing toward the fire exit when someone triggered an alarm)
A blog criticism of the study based on the paper that appeared in JAMA. Or at least, the summary thereof.

http://scienceblogs.com/corpuscallosum/2009/03/effect_of_mod...
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It's not necessarily grown by violent drug gangs. There are federally registered legal growers in some places where it's legal (I know that there was such people in the US for a limited run before it was shut down), but it's not like any university researcher that gets their hands on some for an experiment gets it from gangs... let alone the medical marijuana community and the businesses that have arisen around that.
Actually he drank his own urine (after going through his water purifier).
Wait- can someone answer this for me? Why exactly does it claim Apple doesn't do market research? Because it wants to be innovative?
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I am sure home cooked food by a cook is way healthier than ramen noodles or rice and beans, which is the diet PG suggests (and that Ive lived on for quite a while)

UPDATE: I found a picture of their meals...
http://letmego.com/to/141440/gallery#http://hal.bz/i//l14144...
What about 'pot chew' for chewing tobacco users?
The Asimov stories illustrate exploits on his own 3 laws.
But how can you fix that? Embedding a full robotic-oriented legal system in their little brains does not seem to be the answer neither.
I think we have to admit that robots will be far from perfect. They will make mistakes. They will stumble and fall. They mill misjudge situations. Like we humans do.
This was on Wired last April:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/04/data-centers-ra/
The Organic milk I buy is both Vitamin A and D fortified, so that's real not an issue.
The study, headed by Steven Collins at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, says we should give the thumb's-up to arm swinging.

In our easy-calorie society, shouldn't we now give the thumbs-down to arm swinging? (And start telling people to run in corridors)
I like it a lot. When I first heard of it that was my first thought. They had a ustream, but it was not as exciting as I thought.
I hope everyone gets their mortgages under 5.5% because we're going to get to 7% faster than the baby bullet CalTrain.
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Interesting I might get it.

You can read some pretty nice reviews on Amazon ;p

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Ya think? Seems like they'll need to keep printing money further devaluing the dollar and/or raise rates to get foreign buyers interested. I think there has been a lot of attention as of late on the strength (weakness) of the dollar & wouldn't be surprised to see rates tick up after next FOMC meeting.
OK, I'll bite, what's a few of the most amazing things we'll see in the next five years?
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Depends on _where_ you are hosted overseas. I'm sure a host in Iran wouldn't be so eager to comply with the FBI.
He makes a few good points about how App Store can be improved (rating and ranking of apps) but mostly it is whining.

e.g iPhone OS 3.0 already allows the developer to charge for in-app content via StoreKit. http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/navigation/Framewo...

So it seems the iPhone model really seems to favor a shareware-style development and deployment environment. "Pay for 5 more levels" or something to that effect.
There would be issues, but the BSDs tend to break the ABIs on the development branches only, not the stable branches (e.g. CURRENT vs STABLE in FreeBSD). This usually gives port maintainers enough time to patch their ports appropriately or to send their patches upstream. Users should never see any breakage unless they choose to use the development branches.
Maybe I have been misinformed. I had it in mind that monocultures were only good for the first couple of years, then they failed miserably due to too much soil depletion for that specific crop, insect over-predation as insects exploited an abundant food source and overpopulated, and too disease prone, as there is less diversity to keep unwanted organisms out of the system...

I have been taking the easy (read lazy) way out with my two acres: I have been telling my neighbors that having many types of ground cover keeps my ground cover healthier by promoting a healthy ecosystem of insects (and birds), in addition to the plants themselves. While the neighbors keep the RoundUp nearby for the "undesirables"and reach for Scotts TurfBuilder every year, I just mow once in awhile... :)

Come to think of it, I water a whole lot less then they do, as well.

And as to the last sentence in your previous paragraph, I have the distinct feeling that the FDA (we are talking the USA's Food and Drug Administration, right?) might have been helpful in its early years, but it is now not only a hindrance but an outright danger. Similar to the human tendency to assume the existence of traffic lights means they do not have to examine a road intersection for themselves, the idea that the FDA is a good watchdog seems to me to be luring people into yet another false sense of security about their food and drugs.

I seem to recall (pun intended) increasing news stories about how little I can trust our current food system in providing safe items for my table if I am not mimicking a Consumer Reports-style monitoring of FDA alerts about bad food in the delivery system. Oops, that was shipped how many months ago? What alert color are we at now for spinach, orange? :)

Maybe I am assuming too much, but isn't the FDA overwhelmed with the job it is currently doing, and only spot sampling at that? Aren't we suffering from too many companies taking advantage of low to no oversight and shipping whatever they need to keep their bottom line healthy?

Charles Murray had an interesting idea about allowing a second market to arise that was caveat emptor, in return for lower costs to introduce food and drugs into the marketplace. Of course, it requires more responsibility on the part of the consumer, so we leave the existing FDA market in place beside it for those who desire their safety "government approved"...
The accelerometer on the iPhone updates far too slowly. You'd be much better off using rate gyros.
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There's very little discussion of the privacy risks associated not only with cloud computing but with online services of any kind.

Most people seem only too happy to give these corporations information about their interests, their friends, their preferences, etc.

Users think they're getting all these great services for free, but in fact the cost of these services is information about yourself, information that will be collected, sold, correlated, aggregated, and used in ways most people now can not even imagine.

There needs to be more awareness and discussion of the implications.
The US Savings Rate briefly fell into negative territory in Q2/Q3 of 2005. It has been positive in all other quarters. In 2008 it was well above 2%. People quote the low US savings rate like it's a doomsday scenario but in reality, it's a rational decision when your interest rates have been below 5% for a decade or more. Saving money when you make 1% on it is actually losing money due to inflation.

Why the Germans save as much as they do with such a low interest rate is a topic for another discussion.

http://www.bea.gov/briefrm/saving.htm
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I dislike the Segway because they're dangerous to pedestrians on sidewalks. On a sidewalk there are no rules. Want to toss your candy wrapper? Just head straight for the trash can over there. There are no lanes, though people generally keep to the right. Don't want to keep to the right? OK, walk on the left. We pedestrians are conditioned to listen for possible collisions (runners, faster walkers, bikes), but it's just not possible with the Segway. It's too quiet. Several times I've been very startled by a Segway brushing past me on the sidewalk, leaving feeling relieved that I didn't get hit. The only good thing about them is there are so few out there, that it's not a common problem. If there were a lot of them, there would be frequent collisions with pedestrians.
Memo to Microsoft: assiduously cultivating the "Do no evil" PR means people will actively fantasize about your anti-competitive behavior.
Cannondale bad boy > segway
I like the concept, but zero creativity with that name. A domain name with a dash in it is like a username ending with a 2, IMO.
So are you depressed by Facebook doing a deal with MS? MS is enormous. This deal is just collaborating on search - I don't understand why people are taking it like it's the end of Yahoo as an independent entity.
"The American cultural thing you're missing is ... there's a stereotype of "goody-two-shoes" people who go out of their way to avoid watching TV and brag about it repeatedly to anyone who will listen."

Thanks. very enlightening.
Thanks. very enlightening. Hereabouts "I don't have a/watch TV" is neutral statement, not bragging.
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