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"Well, unless AOL messes up my email inbox again:" I thought that was a joke at first, but apparently they are owned by AOL.

Are techcrunch employees required to use AOL Desktop? It looks the same as it did in 1998 http://daol.aol.com/software/aoldesktop97/

AOL badly needs to rebrand themselves. It seems like the company has changed and is very profitable in recent years.

They could offer, "the greatest thing in the world, by AOL", but it's not a company I would ever do business with, I don't have a logical reason for this.

Fun fact: "at one point, half of the CDs manufactured worldwide had AOL logos on them" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/27/aol-discs-90s/
SpaceX only has one launcher at present, the difference between re-use and expendable use is a matter of how that hardware is used, not how it's built. Every Falcon 9 v1.1 launch to date has made use of the same, fundamentally reusable first stage core. To actually reuse the core requires bolting on some additional hardware (which has flown on 2 flights already) such as landing legs and then flying the stage back to land. In software terms this is like hiding new functionality behind a "feature flag" so that you can let the code bake in production for a while.
It might actually be a legal issue too. At least here in Holland there are strict rules as to the naming of product.

That's why we call peanut butter 'pindakaas', for example, which means 'peanut cheese'; producers were not allowed to use 'butter' in the name if the product did not contain actual butter.
Power = Current * Voltage so just giving the voltage doesn't help either. I believe the voltage is unchanged so stating a decrease in amperage would suffice.
Telecom service is by its very nature a high-churn business: you lose approximately 20% of your customers every year. Churn happens for a lot of reasons: people move, competitors offer better deals, or people simply get rid of the service (but the "people move" one is actually probably the biggest). But because it's a high-churn business, you have to do brand marketing so that when people say "I need TV service. Who offers that?" your name is the first one they think of. Since so many of your customers leave you (and your competitors) every year, you have to be constantly acquiring new customers through a variety of means. If you don't, you'll be out of business in 5 years flat.

The huge marketing budgets don't go away if you suddenly split the market between a dozen or so providers. In fact, overall marketing spend across the industry would probably go up substantially because there would be more competition for limited consumer mindshare.
Wrapping around an API > Modifying/maintaining OSS in-house, especially if you have to maintain your own fork.

This has been my personal experience. YMMV.
That's true for this scale, and probably up to 32GB or so. But bitly is running at much larger scale and he is talking about hundreds of GBs, which is a totally different game.
I guess I don't understand how the title and subtitle are linked. The synopsis and trailers don't talk about algorithms at all.

Also, a lot of the trailers focus on cracking, it appears, and not hacking as in doing creative things and using things in ways not expected? Why would someone aiming at the tech community use a word so wrongly, and in a way that riles some of us up?

While I understand that mono uses the .exe suffix, not many other things do in the *nix ecosystem, but the screen shot they use shows what appears to be ls -l output and all the files have a .exe suffix.

EDIT: Fair enough, I'm being a bit too critical of the exe files. (I don't think there is a strike-out markup supported?)
Please see the NYT article I linked. The per-subscriber capital investment into FiOS is almost $4,000, assuming that 40% of potential subscribers actually sign-up (Verizon is almost there, but still below that benchmark). Now, you're cutting a $100 check to Verizon every month, but how much of that goes to: advertising,[1] maintenance, paying for video content, etc? FiOS is about 70% of Verizon's wireline business, and Verizon's operating margin in that segment is about 22%, so let's assume the margin in FiOS alone is 25%. What's the value of a $25 payment discounted by 5% over 15 years? About $3,200.

As the author of the article above concluded, Verizon might not even come out ahead on each customer with FiOS.

[1] You can ask "why spend so much on advertising?" and the reason is that you want to maximize uptake, otherwise you spend a lot of money running fiber past houses that don't actually subscribe.
For something that is 4 months on the market - break even is fine for me.
Better starting point: https://medium.com/@thechriskiehl/parallelism-in-one-line-40...
> But I really don't think newspapers are going to go extinct, really ever. They are one of the only permanent records of history. Digital publications disappear like yesterday's rainclouds.

According to the totalitarian's guide (aka "1984"), malleability of the past is a feature, not a bug.
I bet such headlines are good for business in the short term. They are slowly selling their credibility for page views.
OP here - thanks for the fantastic resource. I plan on incorporating some of those recipes into the fold.
Don't be so quick to write it off as just debt collection that could get ugly for your clients.

It's also equivalent to a payday loan with an APR of ~38.7%!

Still, though, for chronically late clients that you want to fire anyway, it might be a great alternative to waiting.
Ok, interesting. I eat paleo, and I seem to unintentionally eat low fodmap. Sauerkraut and some onions are the only ones I eat regularly. I checked the wikipedia list.

But not much rice. I eat a lot of local, pastured meats, sweet potatoes, much coconut oil for cooking and seasonings, so it doesn't seem bland. I find chicken very bland and would have trouble eating it more than a few times per week.

Used to have digestive upset, though in my case I'm not convinced FODMAPS had anything to do with it (like I said, unintentionally low fodmap). Nightshades seemed to have the greatest correlation for me.
Shoot me an email - I have a long-term client I need to hand over. Email in profile.

Also - in general I've found craigslist to return the best leads. Typically takes at least one meeting in person though.

You can also work through recruiting firms - they often get temp jobs they're happy to intro you too. If you do good on your first job, they'll keep sending you to more.
is it on YouTube? Maybe I just have to many search results

Edit: There is a short pitch and some teasers on YT (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI8rbvoMOnw)
They're not as bad as the loan sharks at pay day money shops, but 4% commission is still a substantial chunk.
"ElasticSales is currently booked out for the rest of the year and therefore not able to accept any new clients at the moment."

Any alternative Sales as a Service recommendations?
Action Cams are expendable. I wouldn't strap my iPhone to a helmet and risk smashing it to pieces.
Now if only I wasn't at work right now...

The premise of the movie seems pretty interesting I love the profit-share model, and the motivation behind creating the film:

"At the core of ALGORITHM’s plot are the questions that are shaking up the tech world to it’s very core, and the nations of the world right along with them: privacy, human rights, the place of government in the lives of citizens, the value and power of technology."
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I don't know that that applies anymore. I mean I used to remember using javascript and other hacks to wrap emails so the spam bots wouldn't get them, but that was ages ago and spam sorters have gotten a lot better. Gmails is nearly perfect.

It may be one of those things that we all assume we know for sure that just ain't so.
Looking at the cupboard inventory, it does not appear that he is eating "garbage".

It might, perhaps, border on being an exercise in asceticism, but there is nothing shockingly absent from what he is eating. Nothing weird about it just labor (cooking), savvy shopping, and will-power.
Was it any good?
May I offer a free piece of advice? Hire a proofreader. There are so many grammar mistakes, like run-ons and sentence fragments, that it's a little hard to follow. It looks amateurish, and I think you've worked too hard to make people question your professionalism?
I find it extremely funny that there's actually a market at the intersection of "anonymous conversation" and "Facebook integration", although in retrospect maybe it shouldn't be that surprising that people would like to talk to their real-life friends while maintaining anonymity.
I helped admin a site in 2001 that did tens of thousands of hps to dynamic content on a mod_perl app. And Bitly's doing static content (301's) of what, a 500 byte payload? Our static site layer did hundreds of thousands of hps with minimum a half meg of payload.

The guy's got a valid point. Bitly's using way overcomplicated tech and employs way more engineers than you need to host a trivial amount of traffic for a large scale site. This is a textbook case of over-engineering.
Thats his total contents, which is like 20 or so meals. Maybe not good meals, but 20 or so things.

I probably have $300-$400 bucks of "stuff" in my cupboard but I don't eat all of it every week. I do "too much" amazon subscribe and save and I like spices so maybe a "normal" cupboard only has $200 or so of stuff.

I think the idea is to promote creative thinking. So I'd fry up about a 1/10 of a bag of frozen broccoli and cook the mac n cheese and then add a can of tuna and mix all that stuff up into a tuna casserole and bake it, maybe broil it to brown the top which is WAY more than one meal for one single dude even accounting for the long term effects of food inflation (like mac n chee used to be a pound in the 90s, now its only like one cup in the 2010s). Maybe the day after tomorrow when the casserole is finally eaten up, a dash of oil in the wok with a bag of mixed veg and those meatballs and then some kind of homemade sauce, I bet you get two meals outta that at least.

Dude needs to buy more fruits and veg and more spicy stuff. I see vegetarian burritos and tacos and spring rolls in his future.
That's awesome. Few questions:

40k revenue or profit? If it was rev then what was your profit (and vice versa)? And are you worried that the sort of initial wave of traffic will die down and you'll be left only selling a couple dozen shirts a week? I mean this sort of thing (to me) seems like it is an awesome effort at capitalizing on something that went viral, but how do you plan on sustaining (or even growing) these numbers?
I'm not arguing the science. It may be 100% correct. My issue the fact that a corporation with a very big upside is funding the research. That's all.

Think about it.
Who said anything about jelly?
I think this article was written by one of those general-thinking people whom I can never understand.
If I might give a bit of advice about finding some better talent. Your listing doesn't list any reasons why someone might choose to work with you. You have the listed requirements that they must have, but there isn't anything in there that would convince me to send you a resume.

Are you working on interesting problems? Do you have a great benefits program? Do you have flexible scheduling? Do your client relationships provide your employees interesting perks? Is there an awesome culture of learning and professional development?

If you are looking for quality developers, they likely already have a job, so try to give them reasons why working with you would improve their current situation. They will likely have the "get a job" problem already taken care of.
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Most TechCrunch writers gave their email freely if you asked. This list is the inevitable conclusion.
I'd also expect a very detailed hardware specifications - open-hardware level of details. Hardware simulators level of details. After all they talk about transparency - so both hardware and software should be up for the scrutiny.
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Most email addresses of these guys are easily inferred. Some even have them in their Twitter bio like Anthony Ha. Not a big deal.
This is research? I'd summarize the results as: "People who actually know answer to an objective question are less likely to change their mind when presented with an alternative than those who don't. Thus one should value their opinions over those of people guessing."
While reading people talking about writing data to permanent store, I got an interesting (well at least for me!) question.

My initial idea was that it would be possible to store data to be written at RAM at first, and periodically flush to hard drive / DB. But then on other hand, OS does that already by using cache and flushing it, just at much lower level. Some DBs are probably doing it too.

So the question is, is it worth implementing strategies like that (home made cache), or it is a better idea to trust OS/DB by default?
Actually, NOT THAT MUCH has changed since 1996 as far as PRACTICAL knowledge about nutrition goes.

AFAIK, it has just been fad after fad.

The reality is that people can and do thrive on a wide variety of diets.
I have actually never had problems with Eclipse. It's still my preferred IDE for JAVA but it doesn't have the same support for Groovy and Grails as IntelliJ. I personally feel the concept of IntelliJ being the superior IDE developed years ago when maybe Eclipse was still heavily being developed. At this point, I feel both are on par for Java development but not so much for other languages.
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SEEKING WORK - remote, or Edinburgh.

As a skilled Unix and Linux system administrator I'm interested in working in an environment where I can take part in the management, maintenance, and growth of an Unix or Linux based network.

Although I'm a primarily a system administrator I have an extensive programming background, having written Kernel modules, mail clients, scalable monitoring solutions and custom filesystems using FUSE.

I'm based in Edinburgh, but I've worked remotely for several years and wouldn't object to doing so again.
Congrats, I love the idea of asking the market for feedback on demand early on.

Are there one or two shirts that generate the majority of the revenue, or is it all pretty evenly spread?
What are you shirt printing costs? I know the amount of colors and things used factor in as well as the amount of shirts ordered.

also how many shirts to you print for your first run?
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At $10/IP, I'd say "shortage" is pretty well defensible.

We'll never run out of IPv4 addresses. We'll just reach a point where each one has a mortgage-sized pricetag. (Well, we would if we were stuck with IPv4, anyway.)
Thanks for the advice, I'll get someone to proofread it however at this price I can assure you that we have to dedicate the majority of our budget to technicalities.
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Also, I'm interested in the different prices of the shirts. Are they adjusted for demand or just based purely on printing costs?
> Are you suggesting, based on zero evidence, that their findings were somehow fabricated - a claim that if true would ruin the careers and lives of the scientists at hand?

It's usually more that if a researcher is trying to research something they really want to believe, it is extremely difficult to stay objective. Subconsciously, they can easily miss or overlook things that appear insignificant at first glance, but are actually very important.

Making note that there's a conflict of interest is very important, and when there is one, it's not unreasonable to wait for the experiment to be reproduced before really believing it.
If you set up gmail filters correctly, there's really no reason why you shouldn't make your email address readily available.
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With internet access, everyone (should) get the same bandwidth (per-dollar).

Similarly, with electricity you're not looking for SPECIFIC electrons.
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Hi John, OP here.

I've been eating like this for over 3 months. I'm about ~10 percent body fat. I've lowered my cholesterol from 223 to 171.
I was a independent contractor for about 12 years - I never did fantastically, but always scraped by reasonably well and had enough free time to keep the stress levels down. Then I got a contract working on a website that somehow turned into a enterprise B2B company and I got sucked into burnout for 4 years, due to my not paying attention, excessive psychological ownership (I was the ONLY IT person on staff, it was a 2 founder, 2 salesguys, and me company), and the founders turned out to be a) a slimy manipulative asshole and B) a full blown sociopath who couldn't understand why customers he'd lied to got upset and threaten to sue....

Yeah, excessive sense of responsibly.... A lesson in the dangers of not paying attention and getting hooked on work and not understanding the bottom line of some businesspeople is to screw everyone else over

Anyhow, after my nervous breakdown was over, I got a job working at a largish startup-ish mobile app company. It's a nice place, the co-workers are fine, but god almighty, the English are lazy fucks. Half the day seems to be spent chatting. I do not remember this atmosphere when I was working full time 20 years ago (I'm American) and open office plans just plain suck. I really hate being distracted. Perhaps it is my still-a-contractor mentality, but I was hired to do some work and churn out code, or write a document and pointless stories about the latest traffic jam are slightly annoying. I can't imagine this is a atypical UK company - there is a saying about "tea-breaks every 20 minutes" that I now understand...

My co-workers know what they are doing, I don't want to seem like I'm disparaging them. But the idea the English are going to create IT companies on the order of Apple or Microsoft is pretty laughable. My only other exposure to the quality of IT in the UK is cleaning up other idiots' messes. OTOH, I am an American and Americans have an excessive work ethic...

So yes, when you are a contractor, you learn how to think of yourself as a corporation unto yourself. Thus you get into that mindset, which being a salaried employee is diametrically opposed to. Until you grasp the enlightenment that any company these days is going to treat you like trash when it becomes profitable to do so. I'm not advocating screwing a customer over, because my alliance is primarily to the profession and not to any employer, and most clients are not malicious. But you always have to look out for number one - there is no such thing as loyalty anymore like they had 30, 40 years ago

I'm still making sure to be productive because I'm a professional. But 5pm comes and I do not worry about anything else, unlike when I was younger. No one else really is going to care and unless you are keeping the profit from the surplus labor you generate (yeah, Marx does have some useful things to day), you are only one of the Clueless
Just looked at TINhouse's twitter and, well, I have no words. I would pay to not be featured with these people...
This. This phone is a joke. I appreciate the effort in trying to patch up that raging security disaster we call Android, but the real problem in any phone is the propietary baseband running on some RTOS with little in the way of process isolation (or security conscious programming, for that) connected to a high bandwidth, always on wireless communication interface speaking complex protocols designed by a committee with an endpoint run by companies that have been happily complying with mass-scale surveillance, mere packets away from direct access to the microphone and GPS chip, possibly a DMA directly into the application processor.

Oh, and that neat little micro SIM you put into it? It runs fucking Java and has carrier push support for new "applications" builtin, in the meantime it stores and generates the crypto keys used by the baseband.

This is the state of mobile security. Unless you are running osmocomBB on a crusty old Motorola brick with a logger between the phone and SIM to check for anomalous activity, don't touch it with a 3m pole.
Eating well is going to differ, but you have to have a little bit of common sense. How 'well' do you expect to eat for $35 a week?

How much further beyond PB&J do you expect to go? How much further CAN you go?

It's also going to be relative... What's the best you can do for $35? It sure as ___ won't be steak (unless you go hungry the rest of the week)...
How does this differ from taking a shot with a tripod?
Glad you like it. I was thinking of adding a couple of examples to the about page as it might not be clear enough what the benefit is. I find it particularly helpful when dealing with a kiosk, lab PC, or quickly making a URL accessible on my phone as I'm walking out of the office.
>Also, a lot of the trailers focus on cracking, it appears, and not hacking as in doing creative things and using things in ways not expected? Why would someone aiming at the tech community use a word so wrongly, and in a way that riles some of us up?

Because most of 'us' stopped complaining about that ten years ago. The meaning of words change.
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If you have a lot of tooling targeting AWS, but want some reassurance for the tools (i.e. not speaking to the data, merely the APIs) then Eucalyptus (https://www.eucalyptus.com/) which is Open Source (https://github.com/eucalyptus) under the GPLv3 might be a way out of that lock-in.

I haven't yet taken the time to provision a local Eucalyptus cluster to test the actual versus the marketing, but it certainly seems like they have a lot of momentum which I wouldn't expect if it didn't do as advertised.
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Replying to your paleo comment.

Yeah, I think for those of us with "Generic IBS" we need to be aggressive in trying out different approaches to try and heal our gut issues.

I went paleo once I realized wheat was causing me all sorts of stomach issues, and over the years I drifted more and more towards a "natural and whole food" diet, and as my intake of veggies grew, I realized that asparagus and brussel sprouts seemed to do a number of me. When I went to the gastroenterologist to try and figure out what was going on there, he first recommended drugs, which I declined, but he then suggested looking into the FODMAP diet, and it turned out that most fructans were triggers, as well as some polyols.

When I ate wheat, I suffered from tenesmus, depression, back acne, short-term memory loss, alternating constipation/diarrhea, migraines, etc. Now my only symptoms are diarrhea and some stomach pain when eating fructans. I'm hoping going FODMAP only will solve the remaining issues I have.

All that said, I'm just advocating that we try whatever we can so collectively we can get data on what works and what doesn't. If we just accept the doctors diagnosis of IBS and treat it with drugs, we'll never collectively solve the underlying problem.
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As another mentioned, a ton of people want to do the shirt business. It's not about follow-through on this one though, because shirt business isn't as profitable as you might think. I would guess he/she is lucky if 1/3 is profit, and that's with massive quantity. It's a lot of work for 'little' return. Getting them printed, shipping, returns, etc...
Maybe I've met 100 people in my life who've wanted to make t-shirts for a living. It's not always about the ideas, but the execution. Congrats.