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I agree, it can be tricky - I imagine it's especially true for non CS-ish subjects, where the lecturers may be a little less open to trying out new technologies.

Sounds good - I've sent you an email.
> You think that the lack of middle-class housing is because of commie leftists? Really? This makes no economic sense

Of course it makes economic sense. Commie leftists empowered by the legislature brought you rent control. Rent control means onerous limitations on what the property-owner can do with the property, directly reducing his ability to earn money off it and reducing the incentives to build new apartments. It's a wealth transfer from landlords to tenants, and no one invests in anything with the goal of having their wealth transferred away. Granted, it's certainly not the only thing that stands in the way of new development (but I already mentioned that). Impeding new development means less housing overall, which in turn means more-expensive housing for everyone.
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But you live in New York. New York City's own flirtations with rent control under the War Emergency Tenant Protection Act of 1943 are even better studied. Yes, the war emergency is WWII. Yes, that law still governs rent control in New York. (Yes, the DeBlasio would like to see more rent control in more places in practice, as well). And yes, it was destructive. Hell, it's the textbook case -- literally, dozens of Intro-to-Econ textbooks. At one point in the 1970s the Department of Buildings noted that over one-third of the buildings in Harlem had abandoned by their landlords. You may also be familiar with the Bronx, burning.

If the first paragraph by itself is too tendentious for you, I can also offer you information on the consensus of economists. If you think Milton Friedman and Fredrick Hayek are too capitalist, maybe I could quote Gunnar Myrdal -- a chief architect of Sweden's welfare state. "Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by governments lacking courage and vision." Or Assar Lindbeck, noted socialist: "In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing."

I will also refer you to papers like Alson, Kearl and Vaughn's "Is There a Consensus Among Economists in the 1990’s?" and Block and Walker's "Entropy in the Canadian Economics Profession: Sampling Consensus on the Major Issues". 93% of the American economists and 95% of Canadian economists endorsed the statement that "a ceiling on rents reduces the quantity and quality of housing available."

IN SUMMARY. To deny that rent control is destructive is as intelligent and scientific a statement as endorsing homeopathy, saying vaccines cause autism, and that global warming is caused primarily by sunspots: It's a false statement that is at odds with the scientific consensus, and it leads to destructive public policies.
Can you post more info about this?
and i went right into yours, sweetie!
Very bad advice. Pioneers get slaughtered. Also, some niches are unfilled for a reason. Let someone else figure that out (eg waste lots of time and money going nowhere) and instead copy what works (SaaS apps that have recurrent monthly charges, ad-supported mobile games).
Gumby already said it but it's worth repeating: there is economics research out there that shows that as density increases, a bunch of things you mention (roads, sewage, water) actually become more efficient, and that the gain in efficiency outpaces the growth in density.
Exit strategy for sputtering startups: Get acqui-hired
You will laugh, but that's why we have Bitcoin now.

Someone took on all banks and all currencies ($100T/year industry). In 5 years, everybody will think that Bitcoin is normal, but it was just 1 big thinker that it took.

But that's how human history works.
| For start Ukraine treaty does not handle subsidies. So France and other countries would be able to 'dump' their subsidized agricaltural product on Ukranien market. Ukraine farmers do not get subsidy, they have higher prices and would eventually bankrupt.

That's great news! It means cheaper products and new entrepreneurs (with better ideas and better funding) taking control of the horribly outdated agriculture industry.
Tools of the Trade: iOS Development
A quick list of a modern iOS development tools. Hope someone will find this useful!
FreeBSD, OS X, and Solaris monitoring tools using DTrace
Oh, it will definitely change, and I think that a lot of people will view the changes as negative. It means that more lower-class people will live there.

I think that these same people who are conducting protests toward Google would throw a fit if it was suggested. They want affordable housing and the exclusivity that comes with living in an affluent city. They don't want to live in Oakland; they want to live in San Francisco.
I don't think this is accurate, in British english at least. Dictionary.com shows the etymology as unknown in the sense of to scold or to tease, but it gives the date as 1790 to 1800.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rag?s=t

It's usage as a synonym for tampon is show in word usage as dating from the 1930s.

I don't think it's remotely fair to assume it could be taking in the above context as derogatory towards women.

So how do you plan to repent? ;)
There are a lot of authors on the list which are from the same time period. Mao, Marx, Freud, Orwell, Norbert Wiener, Kafka.
There are two different stresses. In terms of long-term maintenance of infrastructure, it's generally cheaper in denser areas. However, if you try to build up a medium density area to high density, then it can take tremendous capital costs to re-scale the infrastructure, since a) You're not just paying for the new one, you have to tear the old one out b) The old one is probably full of nasty surprises that'll drive your cost and time up in unpredictable ways c) Since it's already fairly built up, it's going to really disruptive.
On average one new currency becomes wildly popular every year or so. The returns for investing in a new currency early that later succeeds are around 100,000%. The returns for investing in a new currency that fails are -100%. However, there are maybe only three or four credible new currencies launched each year. So I think the rewards for investing in, say, Dogecoin, vastly outweigh the risks, even though the risks are extremely high.
The solution to this problem is somewhat clear: No private buses at public stops, and enforcement now of violations through ticketing and collection. The city council of SF can handle this if they wanted.
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged . One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.”
Cheeky answer:

100,000 = price × customers (× months)

Sell at high price or to a large customer base - or both. Base it on market analysis.

See which of the two foci suits your skills the best. Definitely don't start out with a free product.
SalesForce vs Siebel: Lessons from the death of a tech giant
I wrote application software for a CM-1. It was a SIMD machine. Later models were MIMD. The programming language I used Lisp* (star lisp) was pretty neat.
What's your favourite grammar to correct?
The US also doesn't have nearly the problem with paramilitary groups that the Weimar Republic had. Their official control over even the capital was so tenuous that they in effect resorted to setting up their own "pro-government" paramilitary group to counter the left- and right-wing anti-government groups: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsbanner_Schwarz-Rot-Gold
Currently I don't have an internet connection at home, not even a cellular plan with data. Which is pretty much an intentional cold turkey strategy.

One summer my computer died and I thought I would be bored and miserable but it was excellent from the first day. Since then, I've understood that constant internet access just doesn't really function for me at this point in my life. It could, perhaps, but I'm very prone to using the internet as a kind of soothing, stupefying, time-wasting refuge. The internet is my comfort zone, I guess.

At home I read a lot, Kindle books and stuff I've loaded on Instapaper while at work. And I listen to podcasts and watch movies. This stuff all comes from the internet, but I have to gather stuff consciously for future offline use, which I find peaceful and constructive.

"Okay, I guess these are the things I have available right now, so I'll engage with them, instead of looking for something else."

What a lot of us are having trouble with isn't computers or the internet, per se, but the constant presence of "infinite jest."

I also do meditation, play guitar, go for walks and runs, cook, and so on. On weekends sometimes I'll go out to a coffee shop and do some internetting. And I'm posting this on Sunday, because I'm actually at the office, playing around with a hobby programming project and surfing the web, so...
I wasn't completely joking ;)
OK, I see why a downvoter downvoted it. I meant to write:

"Yep, I know why the Mac's text looks blurrier" i.e., I meant to agree with 'coldtea' and add to the discussion.

The way I've written it now makes it sound like I'm disagreeing. Anyway, the link above should be useful to future readers.
I spent the last two weeks completely disconnected from technology, with the exception of my Canon 5D camera. It was incredibly liberating. I actually found I was remembering people's names better.

Well, I do have to admit, the location helped quite a bit. I was in the Galapagos Islands </brag>

Coming home, I've noticed an immediate reversion back to my old ways, with the addition of a low, simmering anger and slightly less patience towards these things. However, while I used to be angry and impatient when things would work slowly, I find now that I have this low level anger and impatience at the entire concept of the computer.

Bleh.
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The coming war on general computation [2011]
Yeah—Houston and Dallas, today. See also Matt Yglesias's The Rent is Too Damn High.

More generally, if you get more supply in the face of increasing demand, but not enough to lead to actual decreases, you still get smaller increases, per basic micro econ.
Are...are you Satoshi Nakamoto? :)
Moving to the BA is a win for anything tech because cash flows freely, but the cost of living is murder. If possible, buy some land somewhere cheaper like Oregon and work remotely as much as possible.

Options after about 10 employees are worthless paper. The real cash is being an early founder and owning meaningful equity.
Languages live or die on their libraries.

This is great. I sat down to write a quick api in go about three weeks ago but couldn't find a framework that I wanted to use. This looks like it has a decent abstraction and libraries like this really help language adoption.

Much thanks to the author of the library.
If they do not own where they live (and chose to rent) then they don't OWN their home and in turn have no right to live there

This is not quite the view of the law. This is why there are quite involved and drawn out eviction proceedings in California and the Bay Area. Under the law, even people who do not own their home have some right to live somewhere and not be made homeless arbitrarily.

In fact, in Texas and other states, the fact of living somewhere can magically establish your ownership of a neglected property without your paying money for it.
1. Really ? Build a such computer is really trivial and cheap (the 100$ GTX 650 has 300 CUDA cores whereas the 700$ GTX 780ti has 3000 cores).

I don't understand the motivation will be for someone to use a such service instead of building it by himself ...
To play devil's advocate, do you think in an alternative universe where Apple products have built-in easy to use native support for jailbreaking with the push of a button that some large malware outbreak that only affects those devices jailbroken devices won't be blamed on them anyway?

Apple has other motivations to maintain their walled garden, but their goals of controlling the whole experience also extend to things like that. They want there to be no question that any Apple device is "safe", regardless of legitimate user configuration.

And as long as users at large aren't demanding general purpose computers who can really blame them?
He comes on stage later (Jobs says that Woz had just flown in from Seattle) and answers an audience member question about "The future of the Apple II" at 1:10:45."
How does someone start software/technology consulting ? I'd like to make some extra dineros also, and I thought this could be a good way...
I miss BYTE. My dad had a subscription in the 80s and 90s and I would read every issue, especially Jerry Pournelle’s column. Helped get me into the industry I’m sure.
One thing that helps me with hacker news is using an external aggregator (like hckrnews.com) that only shows the top 20 or so news stories. Keeps me focused on the most relevant news without the front page rabbit hole problem.
Crotal - A static blog & site generator written in Python.
The Russian mail "sucks" because there was a sudden horrifying jump in mail packages volume. Russian Postal Service wasn't prepared to that. It is doing progressively better as time goes.

If you want to talk about cleptocracy, let's talk about US a little bit. Let's start from yellow light duration scandals (from the top of my head): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdD5fvYHtKQ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_light_camera#United_States_...
The networks have the problem of having everything they make have to have broad appeal. There's censorship rules they have to abide by. Subscription services don't have this problem, they can make anything.
Sounds like it was really expensive for a startup that should have been going for fit and then traction before monetization.
Actually that's what I meant, indeed, so he was spot on. Anarchy means no rulers. It doesn't mean absence of law and order and violent gangs of rapists running on the streets with molotov cocktails and baseball bats. Law and order are provided not by a violent monopolist (government), but instead by the free market.
If you are looking for a more neutral definition, I think anti-sexism is acceptable.
Twitter, Box, and Dropbox attracting hordes of employees away from tech giants
> You compare SFO wit Chicago. But I am guessing the high
> earners living in the city also work there, unlike SFO
> where they commute OUT to work.

If all the tech workers living in SF were forced to actually work in SF, that would only make the problem worse. The city is undergoing a crisis because the voters refuse to build enough residential capacity to house its population; what would be fixed by adding more demand for office buildings?
> They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

- Benjamin Franklin

With a population lacking this mindset, no wonder this country is going to the dogs.
The $100 Startup book addresses this kind of questions quite well. It's essentially a list of study cases of people that built side businesses (some of them becoming their main sources of income or even small very profitable companies) using their skills and interests. Might not give you silver bullet answer, but it's certainly inspirational and it does point out to certain patterns of how to do that... http://www.amazon.com/100-Startup-Reinvent-Living-Create/dp/...
I have actually now asked Ernest, and that was basically the reason. Familiarity. He did most of the work and was more familiar so it enabled him to complete the work quicker. We still do use Chef on the python.org infra, just not for PyPI itself.
you sure you are not looking for a wingman to help you with women? :)
It's probably more of a marketing angle.

I don't know/care that it's a gtx 650. Just a device that fits my needs. Apple abstracts/demphasises certain details to great effect.
My girlfriend's experience is that rental prices have been rising sharply in Houston for Montrose and the Heights. There are bargains to be had in East End district, but that's too edgy for her. There are cheaper places to live, but you end up driving everywhere.
Plot twist : OP is building the next generation social network using a damn lot of machine learning.
You should ask not only your friends and relatives, but all people all around, forming the proper representation. For example, you haven't asked farmers about changes that came to them. Or industrial workers. I almost certain about that.
I was not supporting the protesters. That was not my intention. I was trying to point out what was wrong in the parent comment. i.e. comparing SFO to Chicago is wrong for the reasons he mentioned. From your comment and others I have seen, it looks like the problem is the lack of sufficient supply of housing rather than that of high demand.
pidstat from the sysstat package seems to be excellent for what I was looking to do. Thanks a lot, both tools are keepers!
I think you're speaking of the original AGPL, AGPLv1, which said:

"If the Program as you received it is intended to interact with users through a computer network and if, in the version you received, any user interacting with the Program was given the opportunity to request transmission to that user of the Program's complete source code, you must not remove that facility from your modified version of the Program or work based on the Program, and must offer an equivalent opportunity for all users interacting with your Program through a computer network to request immediate transmission by HTTP of the complete source code of your modified version or other derivative work."

This formulation was criticized even by some who were otherwise sympathetic to the broader policy goal. AGPLv3, which is the AGPL that people generally understand to be 'the AGPL' today, says:

"[I]f you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge, through some standard or customary means of facilitating copying of software."

Note the absence of any sort of 'nonremovability of features' implementation of the policy.

EDIT:

Just an additional point: The current view of RMS and by extension the FSF is that a mere distributor of a version which the distributor has modified must make an effort to have the distributed version comply with that requirement if it did not do so previously (for example, by ensuring that the web application presents some sort of customary offer for source code, though that might not be best practice). There's still no 'feature nonremovability' requirement though.

This ended (if not resolved) an argument that had developed last year between me and Bradley Kuhn over whether AGPLv3's special requirement imposed any conditions on mere distributors (my view had been that it did not). For context, I was a lawyer for the FSF when the GPLv3 license family was being drafted and among other things worked on the drafting of AGPLv3 (as did RMS and Bradley).

(slight further edit)
Eat oatmeal and live in a van. That'll cut expenses and give you more runway to keep failing fast (the character building kind).

Also, sell your apps (make shopping carts, ads, website) before you build product. That'll save you tons of blood, sweat, tears, time and cash of building shit no one wants.

Finally, what people like is funny. It can takes time for things to hit so let them simmer. Don't give up or close down an app right away.
I can very much relate to the feeling of being "bullied" by "politically correct sorts" as you put it -- it's taken me a while to become confident enough in my own positions on the matter to not let the people who (in my opinion) go too far get to me (like some of the things mentioned in your link, which was a great read; thanks for that).

But that said, I think this argument (paraphrased: "This conversation excludes me, how is that better?") ultimately boils down to the same kind of protest that an anti-gay person often makes as a last resort: "you preach tolerance, why can't you be tolerant to my anti-gay point of view?" (Just to be clear, I am not calling anyone here anti-gay or anti-woman, it's just an analogy, which I will explain).

The overriding concern is that we take seriously people's experiences about what makes them feel excluded or unwelcome (and not just women). In other words, it's important that we are not dismissive of people's feelings or experiences. But the one thing we must be dismissive of is people's efforts to justify dismissiveness.

For anyone who thinks that being exclusive is no big deal, it is important that we stand up and be clear that it is important, because that's the only way for the group as a whole to truly be welcoming to the out-groups. Just as we must stand up to overt anti-gay intolerance, we must stand up to more subtle signaling when it is common and pervasive.

I don't believe that the people who made this program had any bad intentions, and I'm not meaning in any way to criticize or judge them. If they are made aware of the issue and don't think it matters at first, I can still find compassion because it can take a while to really become aware of why this is important. But even in feeling compassionate, it is still important that those of us who have come to appreciate this issue stand up and say why we think actions like this are harmful.

One final thought: communication "in the large" has different standards than communication with close friends or family. There would be nothing wrong with a joke like this between good friends or family, for several reasons:

1. within a close friend/family group, everyone is already part of the in-group

2. within a close friend/family group, mutual concern for each other is already established, and a person who has concerns has ways of voicing them and a reasonable expectation that those concerns will be taken seriously.

3. people within a close friend/family group know each other well enough to know how certain comments are intended; the potential for misinterpreting things is much lower.

Some of the things my close friends joke around about could sound horrifying and totally inappropriate to people outside our group, but all of us know what we mean by it and are cool with it. As long as we keep that to ourselves it doesn't matter. But with messaging that will reach a large group of people, it's a totally different story.

This is much longer than I intended or anticipated, sorry about that.
could start a bounty like http://groundswell.io/bounty-for/6-a-self-hosted-gmail
I would feel more safe buying second hand iPhone than I would feel when buying an Android. Sure, the iPhone can also be compromised, but it is less likely.

In any case, it's not Apple's responsibility to make open hardware, since there already are open alternatives. It's not economically viable for a company to support non-inteded purposes of use.
> I think you're playing yourself down here. You can build websites, so you have the perfect skill set to solve (almost) any problems.

The unsolved problem space that is solved by building a website is shrinking year over year. It would seem obvious that you need a larger skill set to solve problems no one has attempted yet.
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> Exactly in a same way that GPL "violates" freedom of those not willing to provide a source for a binary blob.

The compatibility of licences seems to be where most of the issues occur.

I've never heard a high-court judge mull this over, have you?

BTW Wow, another self-confessed code-monkey. Nice to meet you drdaeman.