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The dead and forgotten code issue will affect BSD or GPL in the same way. When people lose interest, it will disappear except for maybe some archives. I would say the BSD license might last longer given that a company might pay more attention to it since it can live in their code.

The GPL provides no protection from disinterest and (given the article) ticked off companies. If MySQL were BSD, it wouldn't really matter what Oracle did, there would be no commercial license problems and it could thrive in a different home more easily. Drizzle is still GPL with no possibility of a commercial license unless they rewrite all the code. https://answers.launchpad.net/drizzle/+faq/135
Hmm, I wonder how that statistic was made. My first thought is, wouldn't that probably be the top three countries caught spying on the US?
It's not crap. It's expensive. But it's not crap.
I googled it and i didn't see calacanis's post anywhere in the first ten on any major search engine.
TCP's slow-start and exponential backoff algorithms are absolute murder when your pipe has a large bandwidth-delay product. There are a whole slew of UDP-based implementations (and a couple TCP variants) targeted at large data transfers over such pipes.

The underlying problem is trying to achieve fairness not only between instances of the new protocol itself (which this implementation and many others claim), but also fairness with instances of the legacy TCP protocol (this protocol's claim seems to be a little weaker here).
Looks like they ran out of steam? The last post is from early July. Before that there were several per month.

Not that it devalues the content already there. There's some real classics, and the summaries are pretty readable. But it's too bad there won't be more trickling in.
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> this would make the Nook a 10X better device for browsing reference material and other kinds of not-purely-linear reading.

Sure, but it seems pretty useless for just plain regular reading.
While they've got a really great opportunity to beat Amazon by being more open with their content, something tells me they're going to screw it up royally with DRM.
Pandora actually uses a mix of human and algorithm for the Music Genome. They have a whole team of musicians just cataloguing and categorizing music based on various metrics. That's why they're usually very accurate.
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Sure, but it also means that people routinely shell out 5x more for a fancy new phone than we do.

And it's not just competing frequency bands, it's competing technologies. AT&T has WCDMA, but Sprint and Verizon do CDMA2000. T-Mobile has HSDPA. These things don't work together. Compare that to Europe and Asia where WCDMA will get you quite far. It's entirely the FCC's fault for letting the "market decide" what 3G standard we should use instead of just mandating one like every other country. But I digress.
IMO it should, but right now I use a SQLite database as a permanent cache, so the video will never change. As soon as I get the urge to slack off some more, I'll just plug in Django's memcached support and set the expiration to a day or two.
Other parties have more of an impact on your reputation either way.
I've noticed recently that Google re-orders results for different people. Not sure if it's Google account, cookie, or IP-address-based (I'm guessing the first two).

In my case, I see Calacanis's post at #10.
I think what SwellJoe is getting at is that different software won't address misunderstandings and assumptions. Eg: There's a lot of folks out there who aren't aware that they should incrementally drop a records TTL prior to changing it's data so as to control the amount of time the record is in flux. See http://search.twitter.com/search?q=dns+waiting+OR+propagate or similar.
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they just need to stop teaching useless shit.

Take math for example, why are we teaching kids how to do calculus using a piece of paper, when in the real world they'll be using an Excel spreadsheet?

Math, Chemistry, Physics, Finance, pretty much any course that requires calculations wastes 90% of the course, teaching the kids how to do the calculations by hand, in most cases without even a calculator.

Excel is being widely used in the real world, yet you never see it taught in the classroom. Why? Excel is what the kids will be using in their jobs, shouldn't you be teaching them the skills they'll actually need? Instead of teaching them outdated concepts? Why don't you teach them how to do calculus using an abacus?
Alan Kay with the Viewpoints Research Institute is doing some interesting work. If you have a chance, you should check out their released papers:

"STEPS Toward The Reinvention of Programming"
http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2007008_steps.pdf

"STEPS Toward The Reinvention of Programming, 2008 Progress Report Submitted to the National Science Foundation (NSF), October 2008"
http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2008004_steps08.pdf

The idea here is to rebuild the existing software infrastructure that goes into a fully-functioning system such that the source code is at a minimum an order of magnitude smaller than systems are today. To do so, they claim, requires building the software stack on top of the right abstractions. So far, it seems they've made some excellent progress.
LED also provides a much more consistent brightness across the backplane. Combine that with no 10 minute warm-up time and better lifetime performance, it's hard to whine about them advertising it.

Unless you really hate Earth, I guess.
I suppose this is the academic equivalent of http://classnamer.com/.
He doesn't actually argue that the type system isn't useful. He assumes it derisively.

Another example of "Argument by Snark."
Government. It has a high barrier to entry (win an election/revolution) and a high consumer switching cost (move far away, get a new job, learn a new language). If the governing industry were more competitive, I think its quality of service would be better.

The Peter Thiel-funded Seasteading Institute is trying to decrease the start-up cost and the consumer switching cost. Paul Romer has another approach with the Charter City proposal he's advocating.
"execution"? I doubt that but life in prison is more likely.
How would "word get out"? Vague insinuations?

I haven't seen them publish any hard statistics, so how can a group know if it's just them that got rejected for funding, or if it's pretty much everyone who applies?
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Sort of agree with you - actually, I completely agree with you, just I was originally making a slightly different point.

The point was that this interaction wasn't a feature of "capitalism" - it wasn't a free and honest exchange. The seller here was pretty clearly trying to deceive and cheat people. This happens under all sorts of economic and political systems.

But here's some examples - it wasn't just selling something for more than the market rate. The seller is clearly trying to deceive/misinformative/cheat people. If you look in depth at the screenshots, it wasn't "borderline", it was pretty egregious:

The URLs and advertisements all list free download and don't make it clear that they're not officially with Firefox.

They change and mix up the pricing right next to each other, it's designed to look confusing:

"Get 3 years... only £9.98 per year"

"Get 2 years... only £0.99 per month"

Then there's this doozy:

"Signup now and join the millions of users that download files on the internet"

The order page (second to last image) says on the header, "Download FireFox 3.5 Instantly!" without explaining that the 76 pounds they're charging isn't for Firefox, it's for some membership support something-or-other.

It's like when people put ads for fake things on Craigslist. This particular instance probably isn't criminal, but it's really toeing the line on fraud - I'm pretty sure if anyone was refused their money back and went to small claims, they'd get their money back plus damages.

But again, this isn't a "capitalism" thing. Under theocracy, churches used to take money to help get your dead relatives into heaven faster. People pay large money in Africa and Eastern Europe to be smuggled across borders. Lots of bribery necessary to get things done in corrupt countries, or to have a shot to get into a Communist/Central run business or education system, where it becomes all about who you know instead of the more objective free enterprise exchanges.

Is what's going on here bad? Yes, definitely. Is it "capitalism"? Oh hell no. It's corruption and fraud. Humans sometimes try to cheat each other, again regardless of the economic and political system in place.
Why, oh why, do any websites need to be able to reverse an encrypted password to the plaintext? 99.99% of the time, simply resetting the password to something different is a much better way to go (in the case the user forgets).

I'm sure there are exceptions to this rule, but we shouldn't encourage a design that has the potential to hurt users (if the database + password encryption key are compromised), when the solution (seeded hashing) takes just about the same amount of work (probably less).
That is where the problem comes in. Something like that needs to surface. If it is a huge bank, people would know. If it a little 'broker' people might not. What Jason is trying to do is bring this to the surface. He attempts to be part of the process by which 'people realised that no more loans were being given out" so that they stop applying for loans, except with investment.
Software is only "technology" as painting once was. Much contemporary software is reminiscent of Medieval mosaics: big representations of highly conservative traditional models and crude depictions of people, built by a legion of anonymous workers, from monotonous fragile pieces. They feel like they were approached as engineering problems.

In Renaissance art, the new non-church wealthy elite still commissioned religious imagery, but they seem to've been after beauty more than direct reinforcement of their authority. This dynamic seems mirrored in the current divide between the products of startups and internal projects of enterprises.
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It seems to me the largest industries -- the ones bound by regulation or the way it's always been done are the ones most ripe for change.

News, real estate, health care, automotive and agriculture come to mind. We're seeing some of these change because of technology. Hopefully, the ones that survive will be stronger for it.
It looks that the author actually was accepted into Graduate School and is probably too busy now :)
If he mentioned how long he'd owned the Kindle before he broke it, I didn't catch it. But, assuming it was a while, I can imagine over time it becoming less fall-proof as it gets knocked around. The Kindles dropped in the videos were presumably brand new.
Is this the same uDP that was in bittorrent mainline blog post recently?
I mean Keiretsu has an incentive to listen to as many applications as possible. Your right about startups having incentives too. However, Keiretsu have all the information. hey have an incentive to keep it that way.

Investors, on the other hand, play the game more regularly. It's impossible to keep the information from them long term. If they had to pay to come, they would need to be finding good investments. Startups don't have this feedback, at least not without things like public complaints.
The screen quality on the Macbook has always been terrible. Maybe the new model is better, but the previous versions have had awful off-angle viewing. The screen alone justified the move up to a MBP for me.
I seriously doubt that 16:9 panels would be cheaper because of TVs. First of all, TVs are usually somewhat larger. Secondly TVs have a lot worse resolution. Because of these factors, I don't believe that manufacturing panels for TVs affects the manufacture of computer display panels directly.

On a unrelated note, most people refer the other dimension as height, not depth.
Word is getting out. This forum, that blog. That is word getting out. I'm sure fewer startups are applying.
May be this has to be first done in a country where it is possible (lax codes; not enforced; with corrupt officials etc - there are plenty of those) and made it a great success. May be after that the First World will catch up. You just have to make sure it doesn't get branded as Third World crap.
Successful businesses have been built in this space. Netli worked this angle and got acquired by Akamai.
if it was done right and thoughtfully and thoroughly

These really sound like a "No True Scotsman" arguments. I, and I'm sure several others here, have completed lots of different systems in less than 5 or 6 months. If you use the right tools and you are highly skilled in your trade, you can do lots of things really quickly.

To brush off expedient work by "it wasn't done right" or "it wasn't thoughtfully or thoroughly done" is a logical fallacy.

All of the projects I have completed in 3-4 week time frames were loved by the clients and they are still fully functional and operating smoothly to this day.

I'm including website and web application in my definition, including content management, inventory management, custom CRM with lots of reports, excel download, custom queries, messaging, drop down menus, email notifications, online stores and more. Sites driven by databases with 20+ tables, thousands of items of inventory, multiple warehouses, order management, the whole shebang.

Yes, it can be done and the client can be happy and it can be thoughtful and thoroughly completed.
You might want to try out the Wacom Bamboo multitouch trackpad. Seems to do everything the Apple notebook trackpads do, plus you have the option of using a pen.
Anyone find it irritating when a company advertises the [insert niche technical spec here] of a product?

It's sort of like putting words into your mouth, making assumptions about your workflow.
I bought a refurb Kindle 2 29 days ago and am a click away from returning it and pre-ordering a Nook. I haven't bought any books on the Kindle yet (I'm working through a copy of Atlas Shrugged I downloaded, a book I own and isn't available in Kindle format), but it struck me that if I had, those books would be completely useless on the new reader and not only that, I can't sell them or give them away.

The publishers are going to go through the same process the music industry went through for 7-10 years and hopefully we'll eventually have DRM free books. The difference between books and music is that while someone might want to listen to a particular song out of their thousand song library at any given time, it's much more unlikely that someone would like that kind of random access to their books. I just hope DRM will only be an annoyance and won't sabotage eBook reader adoption.
I am very much not a left winger, but I have no real problem with any company that advertises how easily recyclable their products are. I simply look at it as a selling point, because (eventually) I will need to dispose of the item and being easily recyclable will make it cheaper on me.

I think a reasonable philosophy is "clean up after yourself". I see no problem with advertising a product being able to easily meet that goal.
I don't see a lot of Barnes and Nobles in my neighbourhood.. so I'm guessing that would be a "yes".
Both Amazon and B&N are distributors. That means publishers are their customers too, and they're a hell of a lot more fickle about DRM/no-DRM than those who buy books... hence, B&N has a lot of publishers to lose by including weaker DRM than the Kindle.
I think he means Blackboard, Inc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Inc.

They have probably the worst UX I've seen in a web-app; their discussion board software I've had to use for a few classes- and it's abysmally pathetic. phpBB beats it by light-years. But apparently they have a monopoly thanks to some dubious patents.
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Thanks again hyyypr.
Right, but so's the keyboard on the Kindle, which takes up about the same amount of space.
Yes, turns out it was just a Comcast issue (I'm in New Haven, Connecticut, USA). Was back up about 1/2 an hour after I submitted this.
I second education. Not just the software for teaching, but the software that the teachers use to manage schedules and grades. And the software that the school uses to manage student information. And the software that the school library uses... something that doesn't need to be rebooted every Saturday. I won't even mention the ugly, slow software that the school nurse uses. It's all slow and insecure, the UIs are never intuitive. This is why educators have trouble adopting new software: their days are broken up into finite slices of time. They have only a few short minutes to get ready for the next class, and an even shorter number of minutes to capture the attention of the students... there's just no time to be struggling with fussy, unfriendly software. This is equally true for the smartboards -- half the time they don't play nice with whatever is being plugged into them, and you have to believe that the students lose respect for a teacher they see cursing at a machine.
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Yes they even sell this as an advantage over the Kindle - you can connect anywhere in the world that has wifi.

It doesn't seem to do WEP/WPA so you are a bit limited to connect everywhere
Knowing intimately the underlying principles of a field is important to creating sophisticated manipulations of existing theorems and ideas. Yes, we could teach them how to change what we know sooner, but they wouldn't understand exactly what they're doing.

Also, the mental processes engaged by writing by hand are different than those used when computing. I think there's room for both when teaching people things.
True - if only the internet was international.
It seems a little strange/unintuitive that the play/pause button isn't in the middle anymore. The body also seems strangely long. Maybe I'm missing the point of this redesign? Apple usually has good reasons for what it does; can someone explain why this new design is an improvement in usability?
They wouldn't need to. In simple cases like facebook, they would use some CA signed certificate (which basically says that they are who they claim to be) to sign in to facebook via ssl/https (this could be easily automatized in browser).
Bob Crimmins left some very insightful comments on a Keiretsu Forum member's website at http://startuptrek.net/sequoia-backed-blogger-jason-calacani...

Here are some key quotes but the whole set of his comments are worth reading.

"While I don’t fully understand the inner workings of Keiretsu, what I think I have learned thus far is 40%- 50% (huge numbers) of the startups that pay significant fees to Keiretsu get no funding."

"In fact, I believe that Keiretsu’s incentives would be more properly aligned if they did have a stake in the outcome of the startups they represent. As it is, they have no incentive to ensure that every startup they put in front of their cadre of investors has a better chance than a coin flip of getting funded. [..] For example, Keiretsu could only take fees from startups who actually get funding, i.e., a success fee."

"I would support a pay for performance model where the angel aggregator group only gets paid if they are successful in making a good match between their investors and the companies they charge fees to--no funding, no fees. Charging, say, a 2% - 4% success fee is utterly reasonable and in this scenario, the angel group has it’s incentives aligned with the startups and the investors, i.e., to make successful matches between entrepreneurs and investors."
An abacus is a better idea than you think. Most people struggle with mathematics because it's not presented in a way that people who are not mathematicians will understand. Read the biography for any $FAMOUS_SCIENTIST and you shouldn't be surprised to find "read Euclid's elements at age [5-12]"
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