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I'd like to create a market for a "wish-based" currency. (Stop laughing).

As dumb as that sounds, I was struck by the idea of what a currency market would look like in some sci-fi techno-utopia (one where nanites or molecular printers can basically provide all utilitarian needs).

Presumably there would still be a need for currency, even if people didn't have to buy things. If I squint, I can almost see Kickstarter as a general example of a very specific "wish-based" market (one where someone has a thing that they want to exist, and other people collectively fund it).

So what could a system look like that was designed to facilitate wishes. Presumably there's some underlying crypto-currency, and a reputation system (which I'd also like to work on).

Anyway, it's at the bottom of my todo list.
... on the other hand, the ISPs wouldn't be complaining about their own video-streaming offerings expanding exponentially. The conflict-of-interest in this whole back-and-forth between Netflix and large ISPs is so palpable that you can almost taste it (very bitter :P).
Generally speaking, the devices that are sending GPS signals tend to be in space.
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Calling recv one byte at a time is high performance? Nope.
I'm in almost the same boat. If I had six months off, I would spend the whole time writing fiction. So, while I've never done any playwriting (my particular poison is the novel), I understand how you feel.

Good luck - I hope you get to write!
> Example of who did: Metro apps in Windows 8 no longer use ClearType (RGB subpixel rendering), but plain greyscale antialiasing.

That's a victim of mobile-optimized toolkits. RGB subpixel rendering doesn't work on GPU-accelerated UIs that are on devices that are rotated. As in, it's expected to have the subpixel ordering change semi-frequently, and that change needs to happen as fast as possible. Since all the text is cached in GPU textures, that would require tearing down the font caches and re-building them every time the user rotates. That's prohibitively expensive, which means no RGB-subpixel rendering.

On mobile devices this hasn't been an issue because raw density saves the day. Your average phone's pixels are smaller than your typical desktop/laptop's subpixels. Maybe some day desktop/laptop will get a density boost, maybe...
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You could mention in which ways you tried it, because helm (https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm ) does all the things you mention as far as i know.
Just last night I watched a really, really great documentary on crow intelligence called "A Murder of Crows". I highly, highly recommend it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s472GjbLKQ4
Interesting, thanks.

It seems to me that, in that original design, the JSP servlet acting as a Controller was a multi-use object that would serve many requests?

To me, one of the weirdest things about Rails-style MVC is that a controller is reinstantiated for every request and then promptly thrown away. I'm used to thinking of controllers in desktop apps as rarely-destroyed objects which do a lot of communication with each other.

The Rails-style controller could just be called "RequestHandler" or something like that, IMO.
Stoffel the honey badger is pretty innovative as well, (especially considering he was never trained): http://www.wimp.com/badgerhoudini/
That first article is really good (the second reads like the breathless ranting of a conspiracy theorist).

If other major companies are doing the same thing as IBM (seems likely), then it's the best explanation I've seen for the stock market boom over the last couple years. There has to be a way to incentivise these companies to create real, long-term value over short-term stock price manipulation.
But vaccination is a public health issue. You endanger others by not getting vaccinated, which is why for instance kids have to be vaccinated before they are allowed to go to school. I am much in agreement with personal liberty but part of the social contract is to take these preventative steps to improve the quality of life in our society.
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https://www.gocelery.com

Frontend is Backbone, compass and a bunch of other stuff.
Backend is python/appengine and some node thrown in.

Would love to hear some feedback -- positive or constructive.
That's pretty common in churches. Each Sunday school group will submit a number, and someone will count attendance during the main joined service. The totals will be published in the next week's bulletin, along with total contributions from the week and perhaps year-to-date contributions. Some churches even announce those attendance numbers and compare them to the same week one year ago.
I suddently feel very very old. I do that a lot these days...
Why author choose to make it look like this?

For instance, I prefer Menlo font and find it much better looking than Hermit.
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Didn't you get the New Media Strategy Memo? You kick up controversy and write as aggressively / polarized as possible and you gain page-views (i.e. money) as people on both sides come to read the article before running off to social media sites to argue endlessly about it.
Hey, I'm the dad from that blog post, feel free to ask questions :)
This is cool.

Seeing the examples rendered is nice, but changing the code doesn't work in Firefox. Seems like that might confuse a lot of people.
Thanks Bryant! I appreciate the support!
I sometime wonder if wild crows and ravens can understand a lot of human language, but have a cultural ban on revealing this too often due to how much trouble it tends to cause.
You gave me an example of someone with a bank account on both sides. What I'm saying is most remittances where price is an issue don't have that benefit.

> I already said Bitcoin ATMs have fees lower than the worldwide remittance average of 8.5%

And you were wrong since most bitcoin atms charge 5% per side.

>I am showing you it does. I gave you hard evidence.

Where? You haven't shown any evidence of a comparable service that is actually cheaper.

>No they are not. Do you not understand the market dynamics?

Do you not understand economies of poor towns or that the country receiving the remittances would be a buyers market because of the high sell pressure and low buy pressure causing the spread to be huge?

>A WU competitor who installs a network of Bitcoin ATMs has lower operational costs and overhead than WU

No they don't. They still need someone to watch the ATM and help people use it and it is almost certainly stuck in a store somewhere like every other bitcoin ATM. Hell even the one in Vancouver has to pay someone to sit next to it all day to help people use it and scare off people trying to undercut them.

>Overstock

No we really don't. Bitcoin sales have negatively diverged from their real sales and the divergence is continuing. Even 2 months ago the CEO said on Reddit that bitcoin sales were nothing and he's a huge bitcoin supporter.

Anyhow it's clear we'll never agree and I'm getting bored of going back and forth on the same 2 or 3 points. So I'm going to stop now. Good luck with your investment.
Well, if they have such shitty people to sign such a one-sided contract... I doubt they could get their thumb out of their ass to try your worthy piece.

Seriously, to include "no parallel service" in a contract but also not to include "contract is invalid when or if telco does not keep up the speed, availability and reliability to the following requirements X and Y and Blah". Requirements such as "to provide a stable connectin with throughput X% of latest wifi standard after at least 6 months and latency Y to Z*1.2 amount of rooms.".

Sure, a hotel can mess it up, and us as guests can mess up as well and happen upon a 4 or 5 star hotel that costs a leg and doesnt have wifi. This website/application we will mess up less.
I am a big fan of this comment - nice summary of the issue.
Hello from Malaysia! Thanks for the amazing effort and perseverance! We shall see if my church is interested!
Definitely. Only thing I wish is being able to use logic other than regex to handle which urls get cached and which don't.
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Government doesn't have the right to tell people what to eat, but it does have the right to decide what it pays for! As a taxpayer and someone who has been on food stamps (briefly) I see no problem with this.
DO promises A LOT of features they do not deliver.
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I help administrate an instance of The City for my church, and it definitely is expensive and cumbersome. This FOSS solution looks like an awesome alternative, but is missing a few features of The City that would be hard to replace, like online giving, and childcare security (check-in, nametags, etc).
Google Go is a popular way to do it.
Synthesize the knowledge from hundreds of books I've read into short chunks of consumable advice, similar to The Personal MBA.

That or write several fiction books.
I would try to make a simplified version of http://ampache.org/ using Node.js instead of PHP.

I like the project and the centralization of the media files, but the current form seems to include too many secondary features while still missing a few things on the UX front.
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I have 3 kids and about to have one more in a month... people in the tech world act like its so amazing and different... get over it... no matter if you work in retail or work in a shitty work/life balance startup, its the same thing...

Just be thankful we make a bit more then most in the workforce...
I think I'll actually give Twitter a shot now. This looks much more convenient than the web interface.
my dad was always fond of the word for someone who works under the main bookkeeper: subbookkeeper
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Few people work until they die of old age.
The difference is that lots of ISPs have invested in IPTV networks, and those are designed not to eat your bandwidth and clog the network.
Hah, I'm using the same admin template for a project that I'm working on right now. :)
Another researcher thinks effects like this are due to language in humans. (Maybe not directly linked, but somewhat related)

Basically the experiment was to have a rectangular room with 4 white walls, and then another box with one blue wall.

Researchers put some food in the room to the left of the blue wall, showed it to a rat, then spun the rat around, and the rat got it right 50% of the time. (IE random chance.)

Researchers did the same experiment with kids, and kids under 6 failed every time. Though after age 6, kids start using spacial language and can say the phrase "left of the blue wall", which implies to the researcher we use language to connect different disparate parts of the brain.

More on this during this radiolab episode:
http://www.radiolab.org/story/91725-words/
I'm not sure we drive any slower in the UK. A residential road is 30mph (very rarely 20mph), country roads are 60mph and arterial and motorways are 70 mph. That seems comparable with speeds in the US.
I'm curious about this as well – for the most part you usually hear about people having moved to the other way, from Chef to Ansible (personally, still using both).

Ansible also (currently) seems a bit more suited for the Docker workflow, so I'd be interested to hear about the developer's experiences with this.
It's the norm when writing about someone in a group that is socially acceptable to openly deride.

The only bit unique to Businessweek is that their editorial voice serves a market that accepts this flavor of derision. The difference between your standards and theirs is the only reason this stood out at all.
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Netflix has offered to setup devices within the ISP network that will cache the videos so that the ISP's users will stream from the cache rather than directly from Netflix. The ISPs have refused (presumably because it competes with their own offerings).

Everyone pretty much agrees that traffic over the ISP's internal networks aren't really an issue; the big issue is the traffic over the network connection points. There are solutions to alleviate this, but the ISPs aren't really interested in these solutions. They feel that their monopoly position gives them the power to dictate terms to everyone else, effectively holding their (paying) customers hostage for ransom.
What field and speciality are you studying and writing a thesis on?
oh please yes
Great work Tim! Can you elaborate more on some things and see if I can use your app to replace some of our current tools?

My church as a whole is actually using http://www.churchcommunitybuilder.com/ as a directory and it's not that fun to use, although some ministries within the church are more effective with it than others.

I lead the digital video & post production team at my church and we are using a mix mash of Church Community Builder, Facebook group, Google mass email thread and an ugly spreadsheet to keep track of our volunteers attendance, schedule them and communicate the serving opportunities each week. How does the attendance tracking work in your app and would it work for something like this to track volunteers and schedule them to serve?

One reason we have not moved off the CCB platform yet is they have a built in way for the church body to easily send online tithes & donations. Do you have any plans to work that in to your app?

On a side note - I know Hillsong NYC is using this site http://get.planningcenteronline.com/ for scheduling & announcements, and https://pushpay.com/ for payments.

Thanks and again, great job with this!
Is an improvement from people having these disparate opinions and not discussing them at all I hope.
sarcasm is always upvoted... Thanks bro!!!
Because the "uninhabitable for a long time" part is actually desired. Bomb Russia into the Middle Age and make sure it will never be a threat again basically was what fueled the Cold War. It will be a problem again when Ukraine finally blows up.
I wonder if the TerraPower or other small scale nuclear startups are thinking about this as a market. It seems a traveling wave reactor would be a good candidate given its fuel usage profile.
I was going to do this, but it turns out someone made a great blog post already!

http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/11/a-solar-powered-...

(I couldn't make Wolfram Alpha decode "energy to move 4800 pound car one mile and I can't remember the physics off the top of my head)
I don't think anyone claims you get too performance, merely great performance while retaining high level coding. I don't think syntax is that important, it's about a 3/10 while semantics are a 15/10. For your tradeshow example I can personally attest to the ability to hack together a script in IO on the fly under pressure. It's not a huge problem, and if you're worried about typing IO then just use inference.

Your problem with primitive types is valid, but I've always seen this easily handled by optimizing inner loops. It's ugly, but so is all low-level optimized code.

And many languages trade off between uniform access, byte-string representation, and Unicode. Haskell just splits each use case into its own type.
In Tolkein's universe, the ravens of Erebor could understand and speak Westron. As with the rest of his works, Tolkein drew from Norse mythology, in which Odin's messenger ravens brought him news from around the world.
Votecoin. Just as bitcoin makes it hard to post fraudulent transactions despite the lack of a central authority, votecoin would do the same for elections. The protocol would have to (1) make it extremely difficult to cast a fraudulent vote and (2) avoid relying on a central authority.

Such a protocol is possible if you think about it, but you have to be creative ;-)
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I bet Satoshi lost his private key
It it bowing at the altar of Mammon to have a career? (An honest question, as I'm not sure what your or Tim's take on that is.) I believe that there's room for being able to make a comfortable income out of something like this, without making the money the priority.

Tim could choose look at it not as "I'm getting rich!", and instead as "This is a way for me to sustainably build something I love and ensure that my users can get reliable updates, because I can do this for my career instead of working at {CompanyX}."

One could likely even charter it as a business where outside a regular salary, the remainder of any profits get donated back (or costs reduced).

It's __certainly__ more trouble than giving it away for free, as you'd need an accountant and worry about taxes. On the other hand, if this is a service that you feel every church deserves good access to if they want it, being able to work full-time on it might make it happen more easily.

As for the churches, I'm sure that many of them pay for services that they feel are worth it. Landscaping, maintenance, etc, are not always something that every church can do in-house, and this service sounds like it falls into the bin of "things people would pay for".
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Heh, in 2005 I was in the audience at PUC - Porto Alegre at FISL and watched it live.. =)

I asked DHH, "So where's the Brazilian Ruby community?" and he kinda mentioned it didn't exist yet. FISL back then was mostly python and java. Damn, it's almost 10 years since I moved to Brazil...
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While it is impossible to reduce chaotic systems to individual factors, and it is likewise impossible to predict the effect of an individual factor upon the system as a whole, it is certainly possible for one factor with a global effect to move the entire system towards or away from a probable outcome.

If we postulate that, now absent the selection pressures that have shaped human intelligence over the last few million years or so, human intelligence is likely to decline, then we can ask ourselves where this decline might be likely to first show up in the chaotic system of human endeavour.

One possible answer is that it will appear first at the boundary layers: the places where a critical level of human intelligence is required to keep a complicated task operating.

I propose that flying passenger aircraft is such a task. A critical level of intelligence must be maintained by a very large number of people in order to keep passenger aircraft in the air. Everyone, from designers to manufacturers, to QC, to maintenance to pilots to airline management has to function above a certain critical level to perpetuate the activity.

It is possible that clusters of aircraft accidents are purely random and part of the complex system that is air travel. However, it is possible that clusters of aviation accidents represent crossings of the boundary layer resulting from the change in a global factor, like human intelligence, that has moved the entire system probabilistically.

The details of some recent accidents should give us pause. The series of over-control/mis-control accidents including AF447, Colgan Air and others defy reasonable explanation, and they appear to have no precedent in recent passenger aviation. MH370 and MH17, so far as we can see, have no reasonable explanation other than unaccountable human behaviour (failing to communicate over the course of seven hours flying in the case of MH370, and navigating over a war zone in the case of MH17).

It is possible, although certainly not provable at this point, that we are simply becoming too stupid (in general) to fly passenger aircraft safely. It may be time to switch to fully automated aircraft systems.
I'm US citizen living in Canada. Americans are usually so programmed with Exceptionalism that it takes months for the brightest expats to clear the brainwashing. I was lucky enough to have very patient friends who politely explained why my "America is obviously better" was wrong.

Americans rarely pay attention to all the USA flags in all their television programming, so you must forgive them for the militant nationalism. They really don't know any better until they've lived outside their borders.
Sorry, it was a slip of tongue and has to do with the meaning of equivalent words in my native language---what I meant to say was closer to "exchange them for a form of money you can buy a yacht with." Not sure why the hostility, though, we are all wrong sometimes.
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ah I see. Thanks andrewryno.
Personally I feel most Haskellers wish that Haskell had ML style modules—there just needs to be a way to make them play with Typeclasses properly. It's being actively worked on at this moment, actually!

I think there's a good argument, albeit one I'm not qualified to make, about whether Ml modules or Scala objects are better.
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Yeah, I think we can definitely agree on that point. The offerings available for the average tech worker in a Nashville obviously aren't going to be as good as for SV.

But it wouldn't take too many companies hiring in these places either to create a reasonable ecosystem of high quality jobs. Airbnb, Getaround, Aerohive, Prosper and Palantir are all trying to fill hundreds of positions.

A "startup park" in Nashville and Austin, offering low rent or favorable taxes to SV and local startups would allow these companies to setup 10-50 person dev shops very quickly. People get to stay where they want to, companies fill their positions and local economies get to attract/retain high-end tech workers. Repeat for growth and eventually you'll hit a self-sustaining critical mass and now you have "the SV of Texas" or "the SV of Cumberland River" or whatever.

My point is not that there are sexy cool jobs in these areas, but there is a sufficiently trained labor pool that it's not hard for your sexy cool company to setup an office and hire a group of 10 developers and a manager and offload some of your CRUD work to be developed at 60-70% the original cost.

The problem is that SV startups keep acting like this is some kind of intractable problem, but it's honestly not all that hard (source: I've set up 3 remote offices in the past for just this kind of work).
VOD probably uses just as much bandwidth per stream as Netflix and trying to compete with Netflix using linear IPTV is like trying to turn back time.
It's actually kind of funny when you tell Java/C++ guys about how each time PHP receives a request, fires everything up from scratch, does the work, and then throws it all away. A fresh start each time.

Jaw, meet floor.
This is great, but there's no where for me to put an email or something to stay in the loop :-(
I remember going to RubyConf 2004 in Reston. DHH was there talking about Rails. I was sitting there with like 30 other people listening to him and thinking "I dunno man, cgi.rb pretty much does the job for me". If I had been thinking straight I would have rewritten RubyForge in Rails and never looked back... oh well!