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>Depends, if you mean to say that it's going to be replaced by things like the BSD or Apache license, then that's plausible.

That is precisely what I meant.

>But a full-on death for OSS is not going to happen.

That's ludicrous, not what I said, and not what I want. I would carry the torch all by my lonesome if that actually happened.

>The Creative Commons / Free Culture movement is fairly recent and only growing in popularity

I don't care about either/or. I care about software.

>People (and very large corporations alike) are clearly still seeing the value in liberally licensing their works so that lots of people can enjoy them.

Mostly as a means of marketing/promotion in the hopes that people will pay for the stuff that they can't steal outright. Don't kid yourself otherwise.
I'm running a small business with several developers, and we all use Gmail right now to communicate. I really think Google Wave can really help us out. Thanks in advance!

scoota@gmail.com
I don't know that being freed by X windows is necessarily something to be happy about. Have you seen that monstrosity lately?
I'm running a small business with several developers, and we all use Gmail right now to communicate. I really think Google Wave can really help us out. Thanks in advance!
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In haste, I guess we didn't read the fine print. Lesson learned.

I'll remove it from the site tonight and figure out a better way of displaying that content directly.
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Thanks!
Touché.

I won't grant you that first comma in the second sentence, however. Superfluous, really.
I don't think greasemonkey is as easy for my grandmother as a plugin - yeah I know my grandmother might not care about seeing the long url (or know what one is) but the premise is the same FF plugins are easier than greasemonkey... for the average user
At times I feel my "behaviour" is limited by the interface - I'd like to read both comments and the article side by side so I can reference comments to particular sections in the article / site.

At other times I wished a side-by-side option was available on the front page - think of the front page as a table-of-contents, then have a frame on the right where the article (or comments) can be displayed - would save a lot of reloads, as I tend to do a session of (look at items -> look at article 1 -> back to items -> article 4 etc etc)
Thanks for the comments; both spot on.

I have to say that I've put screencasts in the category of "easier said than done". What I thought would be a simple exercise turned into a grueling marathon one night trying to get 2 minutes worth of video recorded.
>BSD/MIT/Apache is much more freely and liberally given and embody a generosity of spirit ("My charity recipients do not need to follow my religion"). My philosophical preference is the latter.

Said in much more succinct terms than I could have mustered.
me too please! :)
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I don't agree.

Imagine two paths for a developer:

- learn a lot of languages, like everyone else does... a lot of this learning will be useless with time

- learn, for example, a lot about computer vision... the road for this is not "pretty finite" and as you learn more about this, you can work on more and more impressive projects every time (making your value bigger)

This is how I see it, and I don't think the first path is worthwhile. (Yes, I learned a lot of languages and frameworks too... but at a point I started asking to myself: why care about most of it? the real stuff is not this)

I think the Linus Torvalds example was a good one. Or John Carmack. Do you see them talking about a lot of languages and frameworks or do you see them learning and doing new stuff?
Thanks, we'll get it in the next update. FWIW, the url it is supposed to go to is:

http://www.boomtango.com/plugins.shtml
Well, ad-hoc querying can be implemented in Hypertable with HQL, it's just not a priority at the moment, so features are a bit lacking. I mean, it's not an inherent 'darkside' of distributed database. OTOH, I've done cap shell with HQL and grep/sort/whatnot a few times on a few TB of data and not exactly painful :)
How anyone makes money on parked websites is way boyond me. Does anyone ever spend anything based on parked websites? I am sure google won't put ads on those sites. And really any ad service worth its salt should not pay anything for displaying ads on parked websites. (As those sites merely serve to annoy ppl). Yet somehow they make money.
That long-tail you mention is fairly modern. The average size of a physical bookstore has increased dramatically in the past two decades -- I wish I could find a good cite for that, but I recall the bookstores of my youth as being 1/4 the size or less of the typical Barnes & Noble today. Anything that didn't fit into that space had to be ordered from the publisher (though the bookstores were happy to facilitate that process).

Amazon just accelerated the trend; the super-sized bookstores were clearly taking over the market before the Internet hit the mainstream.
You should know that a startup does not mean you do all the time only the things you like. Besides writing code (which is the best part :) ) sometimes you need to do customer support, boring paper-work, leave the best party to restart your servers, even clean your office by yourself. And may other things I can not remember right know...
Parsing Roman Numbers Beautifully
I'm pleasantly surprised by this article. TC generally doesn't write nice things about dreamers.

Because we all know that the first public release of Wave is going to be fraught with problems. Come on, we all know that. Even Google has acknowledged it with their myriad disclaimers on disclosing it early.

But we also know that it has the potential to be really, really cool. Using XMPP (an existing standard) to add federation (which is very hard) and promising to open source their own implementation (not just the specs) shows me that Google is serious about making a better open ecosystem.

Wave has the potential to change things like SMTP, FTP, IRC, HTTP/HTML did. Useful, decentralized and open.

I'll cut them some slack while they're working the kinks out.
Why are you keeping your company secret?
Just out of curiosity, what's your site? (Or are you in stealth-mode?)
IMDB uses a similar system for retrieving/resizing their images (not wholly surprising as they are owned by Amazon)...

IMDB's format for resizing images:
[server hostname]/images/M/[image identifier]._V1._SX[width]_SY[HEIGHT]_.[format]

eg: http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BNzEwNzQ1NjczM15BMl5Ban...

Unfortunately I didn't have any luck wringing meaning out of their image identification strings...

I also found out rather late in the game that they use an interesting cookie based scheme for defeating people trying to link to their images from external sites...
you know, sometimes i wonder if my votes are being aggregated, too....it seems unlikely, but everysooften i feel the urge to look over my shoulder... (ok i admit it! i voted up hristov for being candid and having good intentions.)
Uh huh. So
sich erinerren ≡ zu sich erinneren?

I'm guessing that it's a historical accident that "to" is demed part of the infinitive in English and "zu" isn't in German. Wart, meinst du die getrennte Verben?

[Pedant] Mann braucht kein "do" in "We do split" [/Pedant]
In the past 2 to 3 months I've heard from 4 different people who have had terrible experiences with ordering Dell hardware. Servers misconfigured, laptops taking almost 4 months to be delivered, etc.

Who is the new PC company to go to if you want a decent product?
Well, you can get both with Hypertable, where you can alter table to add/drop column families in O(1) time, while still have schema free benefits with column qualifiers.
Saturns must really suck if Nissan's entry-level car had standard power steering almost 10 years before they did.
Don't even try.

Find a name that isn't taken and then register all the variations.

That's a fraction of the price and none of the hassle.
Just because you can't get a domain name you want doesn't make the owner a squatter. I bet everyone who's commented here, probably everyone who's read this, has more than one domain they own that they aren't using at the moment. Are they squatters?

Maybe the reason you didn't get an answer is that they weren't interested in selling - you don't respond to every random email you get do you?
Interesting idea, here is my feedback:

1) Whois information is basically worthless to me so I wouldn't lead with it. Lead with the SEO information as that seems the most interesting.

2) Emphasis the benefits of having the data, not just what the data is. How can I make more money or build a better site knowing this information?

3) Hire a designer, if your serious about the application spend $1,000 and get something that looks nicer (the buttons really need work).

4) Your pricing seems way off, how many people have more than 10 sites? I would give away 1 site for free and then charge for anything more. I feel like I have a large number of sites and I think I only have 11.
To atone, instead of throwing up an invite sharing site, you should be forced to write an iphone app.
Google Wave: There will be Noise
When i click a link I would love to see a digg style frame or bar on top (for voting) and another one at the bottom with the comments (for reading and commenting). And the website in the middle. This way you can prevent going back and forth or trying to vote on a story and seeing the noprocrast page because you left the tab open for too long.

Maybe i should just do a gresemonkey script or something that behaves this way ...
The Doers Club
Actually, I don't think it's fair to include the word "Macbook" in the title. It wasn't in the original title.

This just looks like a nice new notebook computer.

Dell sells them already: http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/lap... (specs also here)

From my point of view, interesting points in the specs include:

- SU9400 or SU9600 processors, 10W TDP - not bad
- GS45 Express Chipset
- WLED Display
- SSD drive in default configuration

the above points show good potential for this laptop not sucking battery perfomance-wise

The chart of Intel's Core 2 CPU's, with TDP:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_2_microproce...

Also an interesting point in the spec is "Integrated Memory" - as I understand, it means that the memory is not upgradeable, soldered to the motherboard to achieve minimum weight and volume.
Charting the Final Frontier--Google Maps for Indoors
Mr Trig
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thanks
The State of User Tracking and the Impossibility of Anonymizing Data
"... In 2002, I built my first of several windmills to provide my family with electricity and irrigation. This was in Malawi, where a terrible drought and famine had destroyed our maize crops and killed thousands of people. The famine also forced me to drop out of secondary school because my father could no longer afford my fees. Determined to continue my education, I began visiting a local library, funded by the Americans, where I quickly fell in love with science. As the hunger clawed its way across our country, the library was where I escaped and became lost in discussions of electromagnetism, simple motors and electricity — my favorite topic ..."

William has a blog here ~ http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/williamkamkwamba/ & twit account ~ http://twitter.com/wkamkwamba and a couple of Ted talks here ~ http://socialentrepreneurship.change.org/blog/view/moving_wi...
That's because the correct meaning of "begging the question" is completely non-intuitive. I challenge anyone to give me a good explanation of how the meaning of the term is in any way related to the meaning of the English words "begging the question", other than "well, that's what the Latin term translates to."

I'm bothered by people who say "could care less", but I'm bothered even more by people who insist on "correcting" use of the phrase "begging the question". This begs the question, am I a hypocrite?
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Please?
I guess it's a good sign that you're no longer struggling :)

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:FdNycnEnwhsJ:news.ycomb...

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=old-gregg
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awesome! Thanks guys!
My grandmom categorically refused to undress in rooms with the TV on, the theory being that if she could see them, they might be able to see her.

We never did manage to convince her...
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So putting effort into the application now can mean more time to focus on the product later if I'm accepted.

True, but remember you're riding on the "if I'm accepted" part. It's highly unlikely that you will be, especially if your application lacks the knowledge you're likely to gain during the process of developing your product. I'm not saying that it doesn't make sense for you to apply. Just keep in mind that every second you spend doing A is time that you could have spent doing B.

While I won't say I hated college, I was eager to get out and start my own company from day one. I seriously considered it a few times, but I'm glad I didn't go through with it. College has a lot of resources that are harder to come by on the outside. (I just graduated a few months ago, so it could be that I'm wrong and the resources are just as easy to tap into, but I haven't figured it out yet.)

Take advantage of the fact that other people are taking care of your finances, and spend your time improving yourself. Take advantage of the fact that you're surrounded by students who are quite possibly as ambitious as you, and make some connections with promising people. It could pay off in the future. I really recommend working on small projects during college, instead of trying to create an actual startup.

Sure you probably won't make money from doing this, but there are other benefits. Small projects don't have to be time-intensive, so you can still pass your classes and enjoy college life. They also provide a really good excuse for you to sit down and work alongside one of those promising classmates I mentioned earlier. Plus, taking a project from the initial phases through completion is bound to be a great learning experience. The phrase "learning experience" is a bit cliche and overused, but trust me, this is truly a field where learning pays off.

Also, consider the fact that all these talented people starting companies are really just out to make money. This limits their choices, consequently creating a large space out there for apps that aren't designed to make money. If you do a good enough job on the right project, you stand to gain a lot of attention, respect, experience, and opportunities.
To answer both questions:

Yes, we are in stealth mode and our site is running in a rack 10 feet away from me. This may sound a little unusual but that's determined by the market/niche we are in.
There is an interesting table at http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Insurance/InsureYourCar...

"Highway safety then and now"

Registered vehicles:
1959 - 71.5 million
2008 - 255 million

Miles driven:
1959 - 700 billion
2008 - 2.9 trillion

Fatalities:
1959 - 37,910
2008 - 37,261
The people have spoken, and the downvotes have changed my mind. We should instead sanction comments like the great-grandparent. Thanks to everyone who voted!
Anything where you can send a message is vulnerable to spam.
Ignoring that it's not actually a sentence:

3. Use a pair of commas in the middle of a sentence to set off clauses, phrases, and words that are not essential to the meaning of the sentence. Use one comma before to indicate the beginning of the pause and one at the end to indicate the end of the pause.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/607/02/
Replication != backup, if you/someone accidentally/maliciously screw up your data with the API, the screw ups are replicated as well, especially with Cassandra, where there is no builtin data versioning.

Backups are essential when you're doing major upgrades or data migrations/mangling that can fail.

OTOH, data export is not an inherent problem of distributed database either. If enough people want the feature, they can be built without too much fuss.
I think to say the book has a heavy focus on frequentist statistics is a little misleading. Jaynes discusses a lot of frequentist methods but the emphasis is on doing so from a very Bayesian point of view.
According to the Google Australia team, they won't be releasing the invites until tonight so that they will be up to handle the influx of users.
http://twitter.com/twephanie

Also, here's my email, if the nominations/invites exist: johngunderman[at]gmail.com Thanks :)
Mercury probe snaps pictures but suffers glitch
They had a link to the EMI generated music, but no link to music by Emily Howell, even though he started this second phase of the project in 2003. I searched google and youtube and found nothing. Does anyone know where to find examples of the Emily Howell work?
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I'll share the love with whoever wants!
Also, I want to write some plugins and extensions, to learn about xmpp + Wave + python.

Once again, thanks.
Facebook connect is horrible. It effectively causes a page reload so once the page has loaded and you start to read; everything gets redrawn with a hovering banner at the bottom and you lose your place.

However, it's not as bad as that drag to twitter, facebook etc. thing techcrunch used.
Thanks for your reply!

1) You are probably correct. By the feedback of beta testers Whois info is relatively interesting in two bits. Expiration date and registrar. I Agree SEO is much much more hotter topic. Will fix this.

2) Ok, thanks good point.

3) Will think about it.. I romantically think that content and message is more important at the end, but you are probably right. But I don't want yet another BaseCamp-ish front page.

4) The service is made for webmasters/webstudios with many websites. Most beta testers had 30 and more websites. I want to give a substantial / useful amount of cake for free too :). I rather have free users than less users :)

Really thanks for your 4 points. I need to digest them some more.. this is just the initial reaction reply :)
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thank you!!
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I realize most people here are in the Internet generation, but nothing says Serious Business Proposal like having FedEx put a letter in his hand that says "I paid $15 so that you could read this TODAY" on the outside of it.
The guy who introduced me to Python originally had that kinda dickish attitude, and for some dumb reason I assumed the whole Python developer community was like that. It really biased me against using the language for quite some time, which is a shame because now I've come to really like it.

The moral of the story: some people have Asperger's, and you shouldn't let their (pathologically?) contemptuous attitudes affect you.
Yes, I think so. Wave gives you comments and even StackOverflow-style editing for free; perhaps this would let the developer concentrate on turning out more crackpot ideas per day.
I love this comment. It gets to the heart of a scientific inquiry. Many experiments are just like this. You try to control for as many variables as you can, then you test variations on the remaining variables. Observing the effects you can start to see how the two are correlated, which would be impossible to isolate from real-world data.

Of course, the post is not necessarily applicable to the real world because the original assumption may be incorrect.
More quibbling:

The period inside the quotation marks isn't clear-cut. Standard American usage is punctuation inside the quotations and is a hold-over from practical considerations of typesetting. Standard British usage is punctuation inside only if part of the quotation itself, outside otherwise. The British style also sees some use in scientific and technical contexts even in the USA, due to being regarded as more logical.

run4yourlives being a programmer as well as, apparently, Canadian, is perfectly entitled to use the more logical British style without regret or hesitation.
Looks like the already insanely good Org-mode has got a bit better. I'm always amazed at the incredible pace of Org-mode development.

The link to MobileOrg (http://mobileorg.ncogni.to/) is what really got my attention though, Org-mode on the iPhone!! But no mention of how to get it and I don't see it on the App Store? Anyone know anything about when it might be out and if it'll be available to non-jailbroken phones?

EDIT: This answers my question http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/17862 It's in Beta test right now, I've just emailed to ask if I can join the Beta...
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This reads like it was written by a marketing major...you need to be able to tell someone what this does in one sentence. Not a sentence of list items chopped up with commas.
It's unethical for you to use your affiliate link without telling us.

I bought my copy of Steve Blank's book through cafepress.com, and it was $10 cheaper: $29.99 instead of Amazon's $39.99. Get it for cheaper here: http://www.cafepress.com/kandsranch.58024175
I think the major passive safety features of this decade are better crumple zones and side-impact airbags. IIRC Euro NCAP made their crash tests much tougher recently to adapt to the improved safety across the board.
A 75% reduction in fatalities per million-miles-driven in 50 years. That's very good to see.

Thank you for bringing in the numbers.
Female chess player competes to be queen of kings
That might be overly simplistic. The three issues I see are:

1) Company hardware. Don't use theirs since it's unethical without permission, and even with permission, your employment contract might give them rights to your work.

2) Time. Just because you're in the office doesn't mean you are on their time, but if you are, then that's unethical too.

3) Space. If you've satisfied the first two conditions, it seems like little harm is done and little risk assumed by working on your own laptop on your own time while in the office.

Lastly, I'd worry more about network monitoring than keystroke loggers. If you attach your laptop to their network, you're still using their company resources to do your work.
You need to allow all TDLs. My websites mostly use .me and .mn, I cannot enter them.
You mean, they would have to write a simple JavaScript function. No Erlang involved in writing CouchDB views.
Same goes for the Ordnance Survey. Luckily, they’re in the process of being taken apart online by OpenStreetMap. Having said that, their paper maps are wonderful.
I don't know if invites can actually be shared or not, but I'll throw my name in the hat anyway. I'd appreciate an invite if they are available.

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My definitions:

business: success = maximization of long term owners equity

personal: success = sum(gifts to others) (This has nothing to do with money or things.)
It was. How do we write this in one sentence? That is the question of the day. Coding it; that is the primary issue.
this grammar error always amuses me - people that say I could care less generally not only could but SHOULD care less...
Also, I find it inconvenient to switch between edit mode and non edit-mode.

When the user log in for the first time, it would be nice to have a wizard to easily add one site. it doesn't make sense to have to click on "Enable edit" because I cannot do any other action at this stage.
So A/B testing has proved that the US is inferior to the UK in these two ways?
Let me guess: high-frequency trading?
Some really exciting features in here, I really need to use org-mode more. Is org-babel a kind of literate programming environment?
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