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> "the author can't know that until the future comes"

Yes, Capt. Obvious, we cannot know the future. However, we can think about it, and try to forecast.

Maybe you believe the author is wrong — I personally find the text overly optimistic. But please do not blame them for trying to forecast the future.
Congratulations! Any tips on what worked the best for you to grow your product?

(I have a product with 4-digit monthly RR and I would like to take it to 5.)
Yes, this works. You don't even need to sign up for 5 accounts - just get one business one and never add any additional users to it.
I think that this is the paper http://psych.stanford.edu/~michael/papers/Ramscaretal_age.pd...

I didn’t have time to reed it completely but I really really really don’t like Fig. 12.
Yeah. It could be problematic. Then again, 6to4/6in4 tunneling is fairly straightforward: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IPv6_tunnelbrokers. Binding to a backup IPv4 port is another option.
I created and sold Stickonspy (http://stickonspy.com) just after mid last year. The initial month I launched it did pretty well as the NSA news was still a pretty big deal. All in all it's made me < £1k but it's been great fun to build and ship a product from scratch. I've shipped to around 12 countries too which is cool. I also spent no money on marketing.

I'd say my time - which was evenings after work - investment was around 3-4 days initially and then fulfilling orders is simply writing a customers address and posting the stickers - which if the demand was bigger I'd probably outsource.

It's been great. I've learnt a shit tonne & the conversations it started has given me an idea for a similar product which I'll be focusing on very soon!
I like the design and the idea is smart, but are you planning to monetize this?
Seems to violate the premise of "the dumber the app, the more popular it will be." Awesome.
I think the commenter was referring to the literary device of allusion, where one poem could make a reference to another poem or other literary work by quoting it directly or paraphrasing, maybe even subverting the original context to create a different kind of effect. However, citations could become difficult, as the language associated with them could harm the poem's flow and make it more awkward.

One solution I have seen to this though, is various annotated editions of poems which add footnotes to explain various references, things specific to that author's culture or time period etc. However, while these are certainly informative, they can be a bit distracting from the poem itself.
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Sorry for accidentally downvoting you. I meant to upvote :(
High-end flats in Oslo rent out pretty well IIRC. Just have to front some cash to buy the pad.
The goal is to have something that any programmer can use regardless of the the operating system.

Libraries in C and C++ are a pain to use, because they are only available for specific operating systems, specific compiler versions and tend to lack compatibility among themselves.

This pain also tends to be part of C culture, as other system programming languages already had the tradition to provide a proper set of libraries on their runtimes.

I think the main cause is that UNIX is actually C's set of libraries, but those libraries do not exist in all operating systems.

However having a set of libraries as default, is great for the guarantee to be able to write OS agnostic code.

No one is forced to use them, if they required more advanced use cases.
I made this PHP library about 5 years ago:

http://zervaas.biz/escapianet/

Probably make 2-3 sales/yr which is always a nice surprise. It comes up first when you Google "escapianet php"

I also wrote a PHP book in 2007. I still get royalty cheques, although they've almost approached 0 - the last quarter was about $30 ;)

Most of my income now is from app sales.
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That's because IBM-the-company has always been a multi-headed beast with a lot of other -- and far more successful -- businesses both before and after the IBM PC business existed. crusso is not talking about the company, but the business, which IBM got out of in 2004/2005 after years of losing money on it.
Apparently the poetry field may rely on more rudimentary detection methods and so there's probably still a lot of low-hanging fruit

http://rochfordstreetreview.com/2013/09/20/f-for-fake-poetry...

> According to media reports one of the judges, Anthony Lawrence, became suspicious and, with the help of another judge (M T C Cronin) started googling lines from Slattery’s poem. They discovered that about four-fifths of the lines appeared to be the work of other poets.
At least in the case of Python, "batteries included" decidedly works badly when it comes to graphics. The really usable and used GUI and graphics libraries for Python are all third-party.

It is indeed helpful in other areas, though.
TinEye would be happy to service them, I think. http://services.tineye.com
A standard library is a guarantee that all packages are supported in the target environments for the language.

Can you provide the same guarantee with a package system?

I don't what to target operating system XYZ only to find out the package does not exist.
I am not convinced that a more powerful architecture is as interesting as a less constrained architecture. I'd rather have and independent USB and Ethernet port, a better analog sound output and a VGA port. A better motherboard might hold more value for hobbyist. Not sure if it can be done in the same price range though.
King's foes were not the US intelligence service.
Think of all of the interviews and articles that he's written since the release of the first batch of materials. If he had been captured.. then been kept naked in solitary confinement for all this time (Manning), certainly not allowed within a mile of a pen or microphone, how much more of the story would the US government have been able to keep quiet?
> Since its launch in 2004, Rosetta has made three flybys of Earth and one of Mars to help it on course to its rendezvous with 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, encountering asteroids Steins and Lutetia along the way.

This is quite a feat of engineering. How did they compute the trajectories? Most things if you throw them into space will never be seen or heard from again.
I am not a systems programmer myself, but if you are looking for resources, I can recommend the book "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective". We used this textbook in some systems classes I took in school, and I thought it was pretty helpful and informative.
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I come from a third world country. We are far from adopting digital currencies, let alone understand it.
On the same topic, we thought about btsync as well. But ubiquity won out, there's a lot of convenience in being in a meeting and being able to check your phone and pulling up the latest copy of a document.
Thanks - you've been today's lesson for me: http://blogs.cisco.com/news/cisco_and_apple_agreement_on_ios...
Oh all right, that makes more sense.
Which country/area would that be?
I had created http://notationtraining.com in 2010 when I was learning how to play piano. I did update this project few times, but otherwise it is completely on its own. It makes only about 300 USD/month but I am quite happy with it as I am not doing anything to promote it or anything else.
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I am not suggesting current monetary system works. I am only saying Bitcoin is not the solution. Digital currencies? Yes. Bitcoin - nope. There is a clear unfair advantage for early adopters - very much like how the English came into the America and laid out property laws and took swarms of land. How is this any different?
can you post a php example with sanitized params? https://github.com/earonesty/liteapi ... easy enough to pull the change.
Node works because JavaScript is operating system agnostic. The packages work were there is a VM.

C++ is usually compiled to native code.

A portable package system needs to provide support for all compilers and operating systems targeted by C++ compilers.

I want to be able to write code that does not depend on the convenience from some hobby developers to support AS/400 systems, for example.
Post your question to the "Embedded" section of the FreeBSD forums; someone there can likely answer whatever you want to know about RPi support in FreeBSD.

http://forums.freebsd.org/viewforum.php?f=11
Manually blocking known bad exits won't really hurt your anonymity but it's also not really necessary as the Tor Project does that for you.

I was actually objecting to stuff like this: ExitNodes {us}. By interfering with your path selection algorithm in such a strong way, you make it easier for attackers to narrow down your path over time (which gives them an idea of which exit relays to monitor) and intersection attacks also become easier. Then again, you might have good reasons to do exactly that. It depends on your threat model, of course.
Probably not, but that document viewer is the product of the DocumentCloud project, which was at one point headed by Jeremy Ashkenas, and from which Underscore and Backbone.js are derived: http://www.documentcloud.org/opensource

However, like most viewers, the DC viewer is best in its standard view, not its embedded view: http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/338833-cover-letter.h...

edit: Ttough yes, the thumbnail nav to go between different documents is not great, though that's more an issue of the site implementation...probably this is a landing page for the docs that would presumably be direct-linked to elsewhere
Bejeweled is a polished version of an earlier game. Peggle's graphics aren't exactly polished for a 2007 game. But I guess I really meant that King's strength is their polish. It's certainly not their game design originality.
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> King's foes were not ONLY the US intelligence service.

ftfy
My book "Mastering Modern Payments: Using Stripe with Rails" continues to sell well, in the $2k range per month. It's not exactly passive, though, as I write blog posts and develop other related content in the same theme.

https://www.petekeen.net/mastering-modern-payments
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I have a quite simple web site with some calculators for taxes and stuff, that I originally built in 2007. The Google AdSense and affiliate income has grown from about $1000 per year to almost $1000 per month.

It is "passive" in the sense that I respond to the occasional e-mail (once a month), update the data once a year, and add another calculator when I feel like it.

A few years back, I was in the same position with another (online casual gaming) website, that I sold for 2.5x the yearly revenue. Looking back, I should probably have kept that site as well.

Pro tip: quality content beats SEO in the long run. Be the tortoise.
Why Elixir?
Here is some pragmatic advice about when to talk with police from someone who has been stopped by police when they could have legitimately arrested him.

If you have done something wrong where someone got hurt - don't talk to them. Otherwise, it depends:

http://tuckermax.me/how-to-deal-with-cops-2/
1) Selling Elon Musk t-shirts: http://www.zazzle.com/elonmuskspaceman
Did not make that much but was great fun.

2) Helping my artistic friends selling their products. If you want to sell designer products, you can sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1dmyfzRwBbpcKAyRplHs0i2RMqsC...
A lot of people inherited flats from after soviet union times (where you lived in, you now owned after filling some papers) plus some people bought them when prices were affordable (if you had influx of hard cash) plus people tend to buy flats because rent market is unreasonable.
re: bread patent. See here: http://www.google.com/patents/US6080436

The claims are that the heating element is set between 2500F and 4500F (claim 1b). The bread itself is held away from the element (sheets 2, 3), separated by air (which is not a great heat conductor), for between 3 and 90 seconds (claim 1c). Sheet 4 indicates that the 'cut fuzz & peaks' of the exposed face of the bread becomes toasted.

This patent describes a method of toasting bread using an electronically-controlled fast toaster.
Currently by hand but literally every single aspect of that site is entirely outsourcable to college students who would cost me much less than the cash that an affiliate site with even relatively low traffic would expect to make organically.

Once I have 200 or so products up there I will do some much more interesting stuff with it.
It is really a question of which group is most naive. Is the threat from terrorism larger than the threat of un-patched vulnerabilities in vital software. At the moment the response to these "issues" is mutually exclusive. Only time will tell.
> Marketing covers more than this. It isn't just how the pie is divided up, it is also about increasing the size of the pie.

Yes, but the size of pie is bounded, and at some point you hit the limit of customers you can reach (most companies service local population) and/or limit of the market (there are only so many people with enough discretionary income to afford whatever you're selling). Then you're back to fighting for division of pie.
Get to the top of the mountain you just hiked up, catch up on your (e)book there, hike down.
Only makes money via Amazon affiliate links which aren't a horrible gig if you get even semi decent traffic.
Maybe I'm missing some information, but how can that not be sponsored by the NSA? Will foreign companies still trust such a service? It's still excellent service, though, but I'm wondering how it will become a good deal for clients.
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And with good reason.

Bill Gates didn't do that as some sort of goodwill gesture, he did it because he felt it was right for MS.
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Like I said before, nobody is going to use an OS-agnostic UI library because UIs imply necessary integration and a level of specificity that can't be generalized.

There's half a dozen blitting models with difference performance optimizations. You have at least 4 or 5 popular widget toolkits. Do you support 2D drawing? 3D?

There are some things that just can't be abstracted away without massive engineering costs. No portable standard UI toolkit would be complete and compatible enough to be used for serious applications unless they're willing to stoop to levels as low as Java's so-called "multiplatform" UIs, which honestly look like crap.

A UI toolkit that's low-level enough is useless in desktop and modern mobile platforms. At higher levels they're too OS and device-specific. If they're too device-specific they have no place in a standard library. Thus, no UI toolkit is apt for this space unless you're willing to settle for mediocre, second-class toolkits.
Just beware that there are very few binary ports packages out there.

NetBSD CURRENT also supports rpi, but it too has the problem of very few pkgsrc binary packages.
Or use Crashplan for $5 a month (paying yearly) and store a TB anyways ;)
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many thanks
Same here, since the Snowden revelations we have absolutely no interest in storing ANYTHING in the US.

Dropbox is a great Tool, no question, but if you're a company (outside of the US) you should think about what you store where.

I'm fine with Dropbox, but there's my Boss, you know.
That being said, I don’t think we are going to get OpenBSD on the rpi any time soon.

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=132788027403910&w=2
My app and side project "lolipop". An "instagram for gifs and funny images"-niche app. 100k + downloads.

Gotten hugely popular in Norway. Released a revamped iOS 7 version to the US last week (?). Things are going slow over there. Not even reached 1000 downloads.

Traffic always spike during 23:00 - 03:00 when kids should be sleeping... 99% of users lurk and browse reddit/9gag/imgur some contribute (no account needed for browsing).

Link for the lazy:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lolipop-funny-images-gifs/id...
Picket outside Apple stores until there's a movie?
Diesel in the UK and France, in my own experience, is more expensive per litre than petrol. Diesel is more expensive partly because all the tight regulations on emissions, low sulfur and all nonsense.
To add to that: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/scaling-instagram
How does this generate income?
Convert natural resources into commons trusts and industrial concerns into workers' cooperatives.
I suspect they're just piggy-backing on Amazon's certifications. Notice how they say "Dropbox storage", not the entire service.
Raspberry Pi is weak only by very modern standards, Linux and the BSDs were first implemented on much weaker hardware. And NetBSD famously runs on a toaster.

The embedded world has seen a massive performance boost in the last decade, the raspberry pi would've looked like a supercomputer in the 90s...

My point is that while the raspberry is not very powerful by today's standards it still has all the features of a modern "desktop" system: an MMU, SIMD, USB, graphic acceleration to cite a few. The line between embedded and desktop architectures is getting blurrier by the year.
Do not forget the threat of high-level corruption in an all-seeing, secretive agency. Even if they are basically honest today, they may not remain so.
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Paperless Office? screw it
Sniffing off the air NRF24L01+ and Bluetooth LE packets for under $30
First thing I did is to check the directory, there are 6 nodes that i've checked so far (starting from the bottom) that are still listed :

http://82.94.251.203/tor/status-vote/current/consensus

I see no problem with running this automated test and adding these nodes yourself once you find them since BadExiting is a non-transparent process that appears to have delays in it.

edit: as an aside, using country codes as I listed "ExitNodes {us}" is nothing more than an example to express the syntax options.

It is good to know incase you need to get a particular exit point for geo-restrictions, etc. and your adversary isn't the NSA.
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The moment citizens decide that rent-a-cops have greater rights than they do, civilized society ends. Either you keep these people in check by reminding them of your rights to investigate them to the full extent of the law, or you live in a vassal state.
Thank you. I will definitely have a look at that book.

This is what I have on my list so far:

The C Programming Language

C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software

Expert C Programming

Algorithms in C, Parts 1-5 (Bundle): Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching, and Graph Algorithms

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Introduction to Algorithms

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

Hacker's Delight

Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
Can you tell me which site it is?
For $40, or whatever it costs now, it's pretty damn powerful. The beauty of the rPi seems to be its a nice middle ground between a media-capable mini-PC and a I/O port laden project boards like the Arduino or Beaglebone Black.
http://pressbulgaria.com - it is a SaaS for sending press release to the media. This tool gives the citizens a lot of power to ring the alarm on certain problems. Also my customers use it as channel for promoting books, exhibition, events, etc

We have a tor hidden service for anonymous submissions. We offer free service for whistleblowers, that want to stay anonymous (and can't pay us).
Constructing Truth: the FBI's (non)recording policy
I started wcfstorm (http://www.wcfstorm.com) about 4 years ago. I started out with just 1 product and has now added 2 more. The income is pretty nice. It usually exceeds my monthly salary. I love it when some stackoverflow users recommend it to others when a question gets posted about WCF testing.
Because people voted for it, use the service, and are interested in discussing it. You can see the discussion this brought forward in this very page.

Now, why was your comment even made again?
I know this isn't entirely passive, but I occasionally rent my spare room on AirBnB. I'm quite clear that it's a basic room and if they use the kitchen etc. they need to clean up after themselves - this isn't a hotel I'm running... So there's basically no work to do other than cleaning the bedsheets, which I do as part of cleaning my bedsheets anyway... I do this for a maximum of 1week/month, which gets me roughly £4000/year and since it's tax exempt in Scotland (under lodger laws), it's the easiest money I've ever made.
I'm pretty sure cops would LOVE this feature.
Or worse like where I live (Switzerland), people rent flats, then subrent them for a lot more and go live in Thailand (or somewhere else). And then we all complain because the prices for (renting or buying) flats is insane here.
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If this were the movie Brazil, I'd have a fresnel lens over my screen to help read that liliputian typeface.
Users get a "pro account", much like the Twitter Verified badge (called lolipop AWESOME) for a week if they "Download a free app". Those pays everything from 20 cent to couple of bucks per download.

App runs barely any hosting cost, and this generates a nice little passive income. I have an admin panel to turn on more ads, but as of now I would rather grow with as little intrusive ads as possible. When, and if I turn on more intrusive ads, users can purchase a "pro badge" to get rid of ads. (turned off now).

Best side effect is that I have gotten a LOT better at obj-c development since I started playing with it, and now run a small mobile development company that actually pays the bills. Learn while you play :)
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What's all the fuss about? I for one welcome our skynet overlords. Privacy is obsolete. All knowing omniscient corporations are the future!
Incorrect, for the reasons the video linked numerous times throughout this stated. By proclaiming your innocence, even if true, you could be found liable for an increased sentence for lying to an officer if dodgy evidence incorrectly 'proves' you guilty later down the track. This exact circumstance is covered.

Your 1 and only word is always 'lawyer'. Nothing else.
Ephemeral has to rank up there as one of the more irritating buzzwords of recent times.

Can we stick it in the bin, along with skeuomorphic and Artisanal?
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You have to think bigger man.

Outsource the outsourcement...
Interact with top-level outsourcer once per week... he interacts with low-level outsourcer daily.

Profit.
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As I was watching that interview clip, for a moment I forgot it was 1984. It feels pretty relevant now.
So I'll put forward a controversial, but hopefully true point: If you believe in the Rule of Law, then Snowden should be tried, and probably will be found guilty, for a fairly clear breach of the law. The US President is bound by the constitution to use every means available to go after him.

Presidential pardons, although they are part of the US consitution and therefore strictly speaking part of the Rule of Law, are very capricious tools and not really in the spirit of it.

Of course this is why we shouldn't have secret laws or secret parts of government, and national parliaments weren't doing their job to get us into this situation in the first place. And we weren't doing our job either, by not holding politicians to account and being apathetic about voting.
Yeah, think about all these sluts that get raped. clearly their fault for wearing provocative outfit.
(just in case : sarcasm)