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> If there was an idea that could be summarized in a few words, by which people could be made rich, then everyone would be rich.

What I meant was, in your life there must be things you do or a habit you have developed over time that contributes to your monetary success in life

> But rich people as a class aren't happy

I don't understand why you think so. My assumption that rich == happy (returns True) was to not fret over the thought (on this thread) that being rich doesn't make you happy.

Your feedback is appreciated. Thanks :)
Don't engage police in any circumstance except when your life is absolutely in danger. It's simply not worth the risk.
they also get the same shit done, and they've hooked in a reward mechanism that makes it seem less like an unending grind. win/win.

there has somehow spread the attitude that "being an adult" means that you have to do life's unpleasant-but-necessary chores, and make no attempt to alleviate their unpleasantness. i've also seen complaints about companies that offer things like on-site laundry services, that they are somehow infantalising their employees, or shielding them from having to grow up and live in the real, adult world where people do their own shit. no. if something is unpleasant and there is a legitimate way that you can do all three of not do it, still have it get done, and hurt no one in the process, that is clearly a better way!
A pretty serious issue when you're talking about raising kids.
A bit more clarification. Miranda isn't ever required, however anything you say to them before having been read you rights cannot be used against you in court, nor can evidence acquired as a result of what you said (with exceptions for both cases).
Well, every relationship is about give and take.

This is just the first one I've heard of where there's a frigging ledger.
> vim

Plan 9 has acme and sam. There's also a vim port, but give Rob Pike's editors a chance. The relation between Unix and Plan 9 is the same as the relation between vim and sam.

> shell history

There's terminal (not shell) history, check out the " and "" scripts. Again, things are different in Plan 9. There's no point in doing the same stuff again. The Plan 9 mechanism is an emergent property of its design (it doesn't require special code in shells), and it's scriptable (again, see " and "").

> symlinks

This makes no sense, Plan 9 have private namespaces which can do many things, including everything symlinks do.

> decent browser

The browser is probably the biggest gripe for more people. You can run a semi-recent Opera in linuxemu. I believe it wouldn't be too hard to update linuxemu so you could run a recent firefox or chromium, however nobody did the work so far. Personally, when I use Plan 9, I use it to do things I can't do in Unix, so I don't spend any effort that would enable me to do things I do in Unix. For browsing I use a mac.
Red Hat already does what Amazon does

No, they don't. You can't pay RedHat money and run software on their infrastructure.

Instead, Redhat is building a set of open source platforms, which they will sell support to you for.

Their IAAS platform is based on OpenStack, and their PAAS is OpenShift[1].

The problem isn't the software, it's that they are relying on support revenue for these too. As Levine points out, that isn't as profitable source of revenue as running your own cloud service, or selling a SaaS app.

I don't know if Peter Levine knows that

Levine was the the CEO of XenSource (who wrote the Xen hypervisor). Pretty sure he knows the cloud space fairly well.

[1] https://www.openshift.com/
In a public general-interest Internet conversation, when you reach the limit of your willingness to productively engage, it may be prudent to cease engaging.
I don't speak for all "libertarians," but the way I envision it is that it's precisely like restaurants. In other words, anyone can start a restaurant anywhere they choose that offers any services they choose with any restrictions (geographical, etc.), and any individuals can choose whether to pay for any services that are made available to them.

Certainly some restaurants will only be available in certain regions, either because physical distance makes providing the service impractical, or the restaurant chooses to only serve customers in one region.

It's also very possible that one region won't have any restaurants of a certain type which you like (there weren't any Indian restaurants where I grew up in rural Missouri). If that is sufficiently important to make you move to another region, then you are free to. Of course, you are also free to open an Indian restaurant in that area.

But there is no restriction (other than economical) on the number of restaurants that can simultaneously offer services to one particular region.
> Even the most staunch of minarchists wouldn't generally repeal the 'base' laws, which are those laws that, if violated, infringe upon the rights of others. Libertarians do not, for example, suggest that murder should be legal -- everyone has the right to life.

The set of laws is not really the problem then. Literally everyone agrees that "government should be as small as possible", the problem is that no one ever agrees as to how small that can possibly be.

As soon as you're accepted the state, the "men with guns" whom the libertarians trot out as their boogeyman, the existence of a judicial system and police, etc. then the libertarians are suddenly not that far different in practice from many other parties and are even closer in theory (since apparently everyone agrees that courts and police are OK now...)
This comes from personal experience in the USA.

Never talk to/Interact with cops unless asked directly.

Never call 911 unless there is a threat to life, risk of serious imminent injury to you or to family. If you have to do it for a bystander, call 911 ANON & LEAVE. The chances of tracking you down if you are truly uninvolved are remote - OTOH if you hang around and expect a pat on the back....

The cops are generally working under totally different incentives than your well-being. A surprisingly large number are also Bullies and Thugs on a power trip.

The best outcome is that you are left alone - the worst is ...well you can imagine many, many horrible things including loss of life.
Communication is hard.

Any system that works well for everyone in the relationship is a good one.

Married 26 years with four kids :)
Yes, because "providing service and support for software running on someone else's hardware" is the same as "maintaining large datacenters, including hardware, power and cooling costs," and therefore let's just compare revenues without looking at costs.
There's a ton of law around 'lawful orders' by the police, and how a citizen is supposed to respond to them. Ignoring everything else (please), George Zimmerman was accused of not following a 911 operator's "lawful order" to leave the scene. While I think most of America would have been happy for him to have heeded that device, it is not necessarily a 'lawful order', unless there was a reason for him not to have been there.

A lot of Americans presume "not unlawful orders" or "reasonable orders" to be presumed legal, if those orders come from a law enforcement officer, but in actuality, most lawful orders that are given are not lawful as they are not predicated on authority. If an officer tells you to leave your home, for example, that is not a lawful order unless you're under arrest, or if you're interfering with their effecting a warranted search. As such, people see orders like "Go stand over there" as being followed on television shows, and assume that the state (or its officers) have the authority to tell you where to stand. Generally speaking, they do not, usually.

The problem is in the myriad of exceptions -- we have the freedom to assemble, generally, but that assembly must be lawful. It's pretty obvious to say that we don't have the freedom to assemble on a trafficked highway, for example. Similarly, many 'free speech zones' require permits for use. That may seem unlawful, where those permitted places are common areas, but their issuance is predicated on the idea that if a 'pro' group and an 'anti' group are attempting to protest in the same space, then violence might reasonably ensue. The fix for that is to permit the space, and permit issuance is done on a first-come basis. The contra-position there is that the opposing protestors are effectively allowed to protest _anywhere but within the permitted space_, so, across the street is generally fine, and is also generally does not require a permit. A police officer at a protest may well be making a lawful order if you're in the wrong assembly area.

So yeah, it's interesting, and it's completely convoluted, and while I generally scoff at people who don't know even the basics, it's pretty near impossible to understand the intricacies of what does or doesn't comprise a lawful order depending on a myriad of circumstances. To be sure though, I think it's safe to say that most lawful orders are in fact not predicated on any actual authority, and are hence unlawful.
You have no idea how hard you just nailed it. :) Exhibit B: Beeminder itself, which is an almost hilariously elaborate way for us to force our lazy asses to actually get shit done.
Until you get to this point:

"Daddy, why don't you want to put me to bed?" and "Daddy, why do you pay Mommy more to put me to bed than Timmy?"

Edit: to address your subsequent update...
"there has somehow spread the attitude that "being an adult" means that you have to do life's unpleasant-but-necessary chores, and make no attempt to alleviate their unpleasantness."

There is NOTHING that can alleviate the unpleasantness of changing a blow-out diaper or dealing with a feverish, vomiting child at 3am.
Why should the opposite be any truer? Without any evidence to prove otherwise, calling the cops is equally wrong.
The money aspect of this seems more of an honesty check than anything else.

It's not like a... wait. I just had an idea. Could a roommate of theirs live off of yootling? Bidding well, a person could more or less do their busy work for them, get "paid" for it, and use those payments to subsidize their costs of living!

Anyway, what I was going to say was that the money aspect of this seems mostly as a way to keep the bets honest. You don't really want wild bets of, say, $1,000,000 or whatever, because then fair market value for the activity becomes impossible to assess.

Or something like that. The person with the PhD should probably explain it.
I went to a Czech computers science college for a year (on Saturdays only), and people here usually use the English terms. Oftentimes there's both a Czech term and an English one and people will just use the English one because everyone saw it like that in the documentation. Sometimes they would pronounce things in a very funny way--like one of my professors would always say `eunich` instead of `unique`, or `byten` instead of `python`. It took some additional mental energy on my part to process that. (I'm actually Czech, but I'm used to native English much more than I am to Czech English).
If you program in OCaml be sure to checkout Batteries [1], it is an extension (which also replaces some stuff) to the standard library which eliminate most of the criticisms I had against OCaml. Also, don't try to avoid opam [2], I didn't really want to use it at first because I always prefer to use my system's package manager (using Debian), but it makes your life so much easier.

[1] http://batteries.forge.ocamlcore.org/

[2] https://opam.ocaml.org/
This is Your "Growth Hacking"
The assumptions, the arrogance, the blame passing, the lack of understanding of contexts not your own... You are basically impling all non-english speakers should be so very ashamed that they are holding back broad human progress with their stupid insistency in continuing to use their native tongue. Which I find absurd. (Btw, I only speak English).

As technologists, maybe we could find solutions that, ya know, don't force massive, life altering requirements on billions of people?
This looks pretty interesting. Until Stormpath, I never thought of offloading the users to a service. Sounds like a really nice shortcut for building things fast and securely.

If I were going to levy a complaint, it would be that https://github.com/stormpath/stormpath-sdk-python's README is so much better than the terse and nigh useless https://pypi.python.org/pypi/stormpath. A lot of people use PyPI for discovery, and on PyPI it's not clear what Stormpath does or how to use it.
And users can't do anything about that.

Actual users want products that just work.

You're twisting "users" to mean "programmers that have the time and interest in spending it on hacking their gadgets."

There is a huge difference here: the vast majority of people don't mess with their routers (heck - I'm a programmer, and I code at home and at work, and I don't mess with my router). So the people you're talking about are a very, very small group.

I'm not saying that this is a group of zero size. All I mean is: compare the total number of people that are into their wrt54g routers with the total number of routers out there. Users aren't idiots; they just have other things they'd rather be doing than messing with their wireless routers.

You imply that they're paying too much for their routers, given the features they have. Who are you to say what a feature (of a product you don't have to support) is worth to another person? If you think you can do better, no one is stopping you from making and distributing routers that you'd like, either for sale or for gratis.
They don't want a multitude of smaller governments they want corporations. corporations with no regulation or oversight other then "If you don't like them don't buy from them! they'll go away really!"
That's all well and good, and I wish you luck in your ambitions, but you're still making a category error.
Nice! I was just reevaluating the django cms world and happened to stumble on this post.

Any support for multiple languages, yet?
Do you people really think there is an epidemic of people being thrown in solitary confinement for calling 911 to report accidents? REALLY?

What the fuck is going on here? Is one of my office mates pranking me with a man-in-the-middle attack and then trolling me hard? Or are there really that many retards on this forum?
But is your living room a public place, if you leave your front door open? I don't think so.
I have very fond memories of OCaml. It was OCaml that introduced me to functional programming, way back in 2000 in my freshman year at the uni. I'm a Lisper/Clojurian these days, but I think warmly of OCaml's type system, the speed, the self-containedness of the distribution, and the fact that getting the code to compile tends to mean getting it to actually work.

My #1 gripe with OCaml is the fact that its strings are composed of single-byte characters. I know there's Camomile, but not having it as part of the language core creates a sense of disintegration akin to PHP and Python 2.

There's also this: http://www.podval.org/~sds/ocaml-sucks.html which I mostly agree with.

But, all in all, OCaml rocks.
Anyone in San Francisco looking for a co-founder?
Because I am.

You can learn a bit about me on my personal site: JesseAldridge.com

Here are some ideas I'm interested in working on: https://t.co/xSWy0zDGup

Email me at JesseAldridge@gmail.com if you'd like to grab lunch or coffee sometime.
A Grunt-based Rails Asset Pipeline
To illustrate a concept? Fictional media are ideal, as they can have the facts go however they want. What difference are you hallucinating between citing a philosophical paper discussing a thought experiment, and citing a television show?
Hi Jeremy, if you'll please pardon the the somewhat flame-y tone above -- and the Coffeescript language is 'done' so these subjects are mostly moot anyway -- my experience has suggested that:

- optional braces cause more ambiguity (manifesting as either strange parse error messages on the front side, or bugs on the back side) than is warranted by the need to write:

rectangle { x: 10, y: 15, width: 500, height: 500 }

- newlines separating elements of a list is good, but it's really confusing to me why the following program would/should work with no comma after the "a":

foo = (a, b, c) -> console.log a, b, c
foo "b",
"a"
"r"

Plainly, it _does_ work, but to me it feels like using a hole in my sweater to scratch an itch on my elbow.
I really can't stand how often this view is repeated. Of course their power can be abused, but once you know how to avoid the abuse, regular expressions are a great and easy to use tool.
Apples to Oranges. You're asking why there aren't as many ChromeBook vendors as there are Android vendors? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that consumers are buying less traditional computers and buying more phones and tablets.

No one is wishing anything is a big deal. I am not attacking Android or the bogus Ars Technica articles which keep pushing the line that AOSP isn't open. I'm criticizing this weird claim that ChromeOS is more of a walled garden, which it most decidedly is not.

Chromium is "more" open source than Android because it is developed continuously in the open, there's no "code bomb" that publishes the entire Next version once a year. Secondly, the surface area of Chrome-specific APIs or services are tiny and insignificant compared to native devices. Those two features limit platform lockin and increase portability.

The Chrome Web Store/Chrome Apps are simply a red herring. The vast vast majority of ChromeOS "apps" are links to hosted sites, the majority of which work on any browser. That's been the major problem getting people to pay for stuff in the CWS as you can cut/paste the URL and avoid the store entirely for many apps.

Leaving aside Chromium, many people have taken WebKit and made desktops based on it. WebOS, the new SteamBox uses a frontend built with WebKit, the PlayStation UI has various parts built with a browser. There was also Jolicloud.

It is not hard to take a Linux distribution and slap a browser on it as the desktop launcher. Sorry, it's just not. Whether people are interested in doing that and think it is something they could sell for a profit is a different story that has nothing to do with the technical difficulty of doing it.
A TrueCrypt volume holds sensitive files. One of the files contains a file with all other logins/passwords. Another tiny TC volume contains only a text file containing the first TC volume's password, its physical location and DropBox location (login/password). The 2nd volume's password is sent to multiple friends, who are instructed to give it to selected family members upon proof of my death or incapacitation. The selected family members are given those friends' contact info and physical locations of the 2nd TC volume. (Now that I think about this, I'll also email the 2nd TC volume to the selected family members.)
I don't necessarily disagree. It wasn't an attempt to assert that libertarianism is or isn't great, just that if Zed genuinely thinks that most libertarians don't consider 'theft' a crime, then he is badly mistaken.

How close or far away Libertarianism is from more statist methodologies is outside the scope of the point I was trying to make, but if I were making a point, it's that yes, they are closer together than his lawless society (which couldn't be further apart) suggests.
the underlying problem there, then, is that putting the kids to bed is a chore rather than a chance to spend time with them. the basic principle is still sound.
I've always wondered about this with traffic tickets: How can officers have discretion on how to prosecute and still satisfy "equal protection under the law"? Or does equal protection only apply to federal statutes?

[Edit: Thank you to OP for sharing, and my heart goes out for your exp]
Plus that ignores ad revenue, more Android apps are ad supported
ah the Frank Zappa method..

for those that do not know the story..

Frank Zappa disarmed someone that tried to shoot him and than refused to call the cops
RedHat contributes ~10% of total development:

https://lwn.net/Articles/451243/

so from the point of view of RedHat a large part of kernel development is actually free. Not actually 90% though since they don't care about all changes.

Getting unrelated and often competing companies to cooperate in creating the infrastructure layer of software is a huge success case of open source.
Your need to dismissively laugh at views that you do not agree with is highly obnoxious
Everything that I put into cloud storage gets encrypted first, on my computer before it gets uploaded.
Poor people getting what seems like a lot of money to them -> bloody revolution? When? It seems like bloody revolution normally follows poor people NOT seeing improvement in their standard of living.
And I think that's rational. A pleasant experience with a cop should be the absolute norm and should be unremarkable. Having a friend who is murdered by a cop is so far in the negative tally column that I don't think there's any recovering from that.
Hasn't the "oh I didn't write or read or approve of those newsletters" been debunked?
OCaml looks really good, I've heard good things about it for awhile now. I'd like to learn more but and currently learning Haskell and want to focus on learning that for awhile.

Does anyone know why OCaml gets compared to Haskell so often? It sounds like OCaml doesn't force a purely functional paradigm on you, so how is it any more functional that a number of good scripting languages (Python, Ruby, Peal, etc)?
Customers are scared to buy online. What can convince them? Suggestions?
We sell to consumers and I want a good script to explain "how selling online is much more secure that purchasing in say Target or at a restaurant".

Here's what I've got so far and would love suggestions.

"You should not be afraid to buy from online merchants. Typically buying online is going to be very low risk. If you go to a restaurant and give your card to a waiter there is practically no protection because they physically have the card. They are able to capture your information in seconds with skimming devices. Conversely buying online is typically much more secure because your purchase is secured and encrypted at every step in the transaction. Employees of online merchants won't have access to your credit card information and there are security procedures in place which makes it very difficult for an employee to steal your information."

While I recognize that there are a lot of assumptions this statement makes, the intended audience is a non-technical person who probably writes passwords on sticky notes. :)
To any reader, this is a perfect example of the Just World bias and victim blaming. See how Gorbzel makes it clear that the fault of the encounter lies on the victim, not the perpetrator.
Except that "checks and balances" as designed into systems like the U.S. has worked better at mitigating this than the tribes-and-warlords systems that libertarians would want.

It's one thing to complain about the government; I mean, you'd practically not be a red-blooded American if you didn't bitch and moan about the government. But providing options that are actually better should be a precondition for a switch to something else.