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Gaytes Information Systems Pvt Ltd – Product and Services
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(corporate head office)

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Website : http://www.gaytescorp.com
Another quality one..

"Son, people will always try and fuck you. Don't waste your life planning for a fucking, just be alert when your pants are down."
Money is just a medium of exchange. If I'm most productive as a fisherman, and currently I want a new wooden table more than anything else, I'm much better off if I can spend three hours fishing in exchange for enough money to buy a table, rather than spend 10 hours trying to come up with something I can trade the table-maker directly, or spending 20 hours trying to make a table myself.

The author made the association between working for money and dissociation from the actual value of the products your using. So he might say that since you didn't spend so much time making the table yourself, you would be too distanced from the impact of throwing that table out or from the amount of resources and labor that are going to be needed for making a new table.

I don't think that makes sense, whether it costs you a week of labor to build a table, or a day to go fishing for a table, the cost to you isn't any less precise. All you really get by doing away with money is inefficiency and less free time. If that's how you enjoy spending your time, so be it, but that doesn't have anything to do with the way millions of other people prefer to spend their time.

The real factor that leads to dissociation from the actual cost/impact of stuff in consumers' minds isn't money, it's any of the costs/expenses that for political reasons are prevented from influencing the price of the final product. So for example if farmers are given subsidies and are protected by tariffs against competing goods, people are going to be a lot more wasteful with their food than they should be, or if people are allowed to spread pollution without having to pay for it, the environmental costs are not going to be accurately reflected in the price of their products.

But I guess trying to crack that problem is a lot harder than living in a trailer and making your own bread.
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I'm pretty sure that bullying in general isn't something you do to make someone behave properly, it's something you do to scratch an itch. Forcing everyone to dress the same won't scratch that itch for the bully, but it will definitely make a lot of students who are used to dress the way they like upset. I'm not sure that the benefits are bigger than the drawbacks.

(And the mobile phone and jewelry were just examples, I'm sure you can visit any school with a dress code and ask the students how to tell the rich from the poor by some physical property and get a quick answer)
How does wearing a skirt raise safety issues?
I agree, the number of views is less important than the number of answers. The font for both of them is too large.

To be honest I think Stack Overflow needs a bit of a redesign. The fonts are all a bit too large, and it's the same on this new site. The size of the font for the questions titles is too large for me to read the titles comfortably.
Programming languages shouldn't be concerned about multi-cores IMHO. That should be some magic sauce that goes on without anyone knowing/caring. (Also, 5 years ago people were hyping it up saying we'll all have 20 CPUs. Most still have 2 at most. The need for CPU power on desktops is going down).

Would Charles Dickens stories been any less had he written them in French rather than English? :/
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I want to share my views on this issue, because they're somewhat different from the typical arguments I hear against software patents. I'd like feedback from anyone willing to provide it.

I agree with you and PG that there's nothing fundamentally different about software that should make it unpatentable, but I think that the policy should be decided based on what will best stimulate innovation. For whatever reason, right now patents are more of a hinderance. Innovation in software is happening often despite patents, and rarely because of them.

Even though the industry is around a half-century old now, we still seem to be in a sort of "exploratory phase" where there's no consensus on how software should best be developed, or what the "best practices" and core techniques of the industry are. I'm trying to come up with a good analogy, but I don't think this has ever happened with another technology for such a long period of time.

Those of us in the industry try to pretend this is not the case by wrapping what we do in lingo and titles from more developed fields, like engineering, in order to appear more respectable. I, myself, have held the title of "software engineer" before, but I'd be lying to say that what I do is anywhere near as well understood as designing a bridge, a car, or a building's electrical system.

The current problems with software patents, such as poor enforcement of the obviousness test, all stem from this. There's no clear understanding right now of what is "obvious".

While this exploratory phase lasts, software patents are a form of premature optimization. Presumably, at some point, we'll enter a sort of "exploitation phase" where the techniques and methods for developing software stabilize. The spontaneous innovation we currently see will begin to slow, and it will make sense to try to foster innovation with patents.

When that happens, the issue of software patents should be revisited, but for the time being, I think that society would be better off without them.
> This shouldn't automatically be considered a positive...

Huh, interesting. I was going to write that I think it's straightup awesome, but maybe there are some downsides. Are you thinking of any specifically?
A thesis of "Against Intellectual Monopoly" is that patents, of all kinds (software, hardware, pharmaceutical…), are at best inefficient, and at worst detrimental to innovation. The reason is that in all domains, research is incremental, at least to some extent.

Suppose this thesis is accurate.

If US constitution just cares about innovation without stating that patents are an effective way to achieve them, no need for an amendment. Just ditch the patents (and smooth the transition as much as you can).

The true, unresolved, question is whether patents enhance innovation at all in any domain. My personal opinion is that they probably don't. If they do, whether the relevant domains can be clearly and legally delimited. My personal opinion is that very few or no domain can.

The problem is, this is my personal, partially informed opinion. I bet about 99% of the western population don't have an opinion at all. So, I think a good start would be to gather data, and inform the population. While they may not care about patents, I bet they care about having better and cheaper goods, saving the planet… When enough citizen have an informed opinion, they could back up a proper political debate (which I feel we need).
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UK Politician starts "Gamers' Voice" in response to Daily Mail article
I don't think they have too much to worry about from Sony. The last PSP had a cassette loading mechanism for god sake.
Nintendo is the one.
If it's a planned disappearance then his computer might well yield some information. Use a tool to extract web history from deleted file space (and live space) and have a go through it - if you have access.

If he visits forums, blogs etc. ask for their help in obtaining the last IP address they have for him - this would track him to a rough geographical location.
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I was with you up until the last sentence. I think the Nintendo DS probably has a billion percent more.
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What's unintuitive about easy_install, in your opinion? In general, all I have to do to install a Python package is:

$ easy_install «package name»
More likely reason is that he has 700,000 followers to promote the show to. I'm guessing that his creative control will be almost nil.
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To be fair to the chap he did do without money more than most. If his ideal is to absolutely avoid the use of money then he was significantly closer to that ideal than most.
Requires windows, apparently.
Is there a directory of StackOverflow-like sites?
I've seen MathOverflow and ScienceStack. Others?
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Please, I've seen this website a number of times, doesn't work on Mac and Linux, the two OSs that need this the most.
Use a VM or for layout only: http://adobe.com/browserlab
Sorry for the clanging. As I indicated, I think that the correct anchor for this pricing is "HR expenditures" (like payroll) not "cheap web services anybody in the organization can start using on their own initiative as long as they have a credit card". (Why do I think that? Because I think you need HR buy-in to sell any plan costing more than $20 / month, so you might as well charge them through the nose to let them know you're serious.) However, I was focusing on the need for simplification in that point, so I picked price points that they demonstrated they'd be more or less comfortable with charging for my example.

I would be interested in hearing your reasons why the CALL option is "not right". Here are my reasons why it is:

As it stands currently, they will not sell any plans whatsoever to companies with 100+ users. Not a single one. The reason is that when you get to 100+ users you have just won yourself a ticket aboard the USS Enterprise Sales. There are now a few hundred obstacles standing in front of the sale where there weren't when you were selling to a man who routinely invites all his employees over for dinner. If you haven't done Enterprise Sales before, you don't know what these obstacles are yet. So, let the prospective customers who you're going to crash and burn trying to sell to tell you what their objections are.

For example, hypothetically suppose one of my day job's customers was looking for a solution to this, and you took my advice and had them call you. Here's the first question they're going to ask: "What is your policy for compliance with the Personal Information Protection Act?" And the answer presumably sounds like "Umm... let me Google that." Now, let's be honest: you're going to totally crash and burn with that sales call. But you've learned something useful: a) there is a Personal Information Protection Act and b) somebody who was interested enough in my software to pick up the phone/send an email/etc asked about it first, which means that presumably my answer was important in making a buying decision. So, presumably, if you got it into your head "I really want to sell to Japanese universities" you'd a) research the law b) implement the technical and legal measures you'd need to comply with it and c) prominently say so on your website. Then, the next time someone called you and (having totally failed to read your site in a manner typical of all customers everywhere) asked about the Personal Information Protection Act, you'd have an answer ready to go, so you could get totally humbled by their second question this time.

Repeat a few dozen times and you might actually succeed in making Enterprise Sales.

(Edit: I had misremembered the English name of the law I cited.)
Reading old SF without a nostalgia factor is weird. There are all sorts of things just off with the unspoken assumptions of the author, and the extrapolations built on those make the whole story seem skewed. This one looks like it was meant to work as a literal story as well as an allegorical one. Now that it's too dated for that, the allegorical part gets bogged down in the detailed explanations of arithmetic by hand and is a bit vague on exactly what the people who don't bother are missing.
To save you the annoyance of having to click through to a new page for every single title:

1. Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis
2. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
3. Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen
4. Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
5. The Peter Principle by Laurence Peter
6. Dubliners by James Joyce
7. Lorna Doone by Richard Doddridge Blackmore
8. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
9. M*A*S*H by Richard Hooker
10. Carrie by Stephen King
11. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
12. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
13. Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison by Charles Shaw
14. Dune by Frank Herbert

And direct links if you want to read more about an individual title:

1. http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/14-best-selling-books...

2. http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/14-best-selling-books...

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Actually ... spending money is a lot different from barter. If you're producing honey, you can't directly change that for guns.

The fundamental concepts are really different ... previously owning $10 bill would mean that your bank stores an equivalent quantity in gold for you. Now $10 just means someone owes the bank $10 ... and it's really a useless piece of paper with an unrealistic value. That's really the reason behind an economic crisis.

I wouldn't ever go and live cashless simply because it's like swimming against the tide, but it's true that money disconnects people from the goods they are buying, from the real cost of manufacturing, and ultimately ... from other people.
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yeah, doesnt seem to do much on mac, just keeps sending you round in circles: home - create - launch - nothing - [repeat]

Maybe something a bit clearer indicating what os etc this works on; at least a message explaining why nothing is happening ..
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About the porting and the pain: I believe the hard parts are defining the metadata, and refining the actual program logic. In my experience over the last decade, 'synaptic' has been the most trouble-free system to use.

I think it would be less work to clone/port the needed logic bits to Windows/whatever, and share most of the metadata defined for Debian/Ubuntu/etc, instead of redoing (and debugging) everything from scratch.
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That's how you do it =P
What if he gets sick or old and can't work at the farm anymore or barter away his skills? Some saved cash might come in handy then.

I think it is good to try to reduce waste, but what does it have to do with money?
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Would definitely use if I could easily test IE6 etc. over the web on my mac without installing some VMs. Note, screenshots don't count. I want to be able to login and click around.
That's some amazing traffic. I take it that the rise in iPhone sales makes it worth giving away the app for free[1]? How many people got a free license for the desktop app through MacHeist?

I also want to chime in with the fact that ShoveBox is one of my favorite apps and was installed the day I bought a Mac for the first time. I press Control+Option+Z to open Quick Jot probably 10 times a day. Thanks!

[1] I have no clue how MacHeist gets these apps, so excuse my ignorance if there is some compensation.
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The wire telegraph and the rotary printing press killed storytelling some time in the 19th century with these newfangled "papers" that everybody is still moaning about. No, wait, that moaning now is about these papers disappearing again because a new, stronger narrative medium has come along.

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=572887

In other news, culture is in a process of steady decline at least since the invention of the written word.
I rejected Dune. Sorry. I thought, "Sand! Who wants to read about a big ball of sand? With worms? Ew!"

My bad.
You can downvote me down. I have a little karma to burn. Going to bed now.
If this actually happened with key web properties (e.g. ALL NewsCorp papers, or Twitter, or NASCAR/NFL/etc exclusively on one search engine), I predict it would turn into a land grab which would ultimately just lead to segregation. However, the key question in my mind is:

Would users follow the sites they trust OR find new sites via the search engine they trust?

I'm guessing people would use the search engine they trust to source new information and then visit the sites they love (which have been excluded from their search) as a destination (i.e. going to WSJ.com direct and then searching content there)...

Google would still remain the No 1 search engine but WSJ etc would then have to rely more on their active user base. Not a smart decision for Mr Murdoch in my opinion.
There's no goddamn reason for any non-system software to be frozen ever

You may want to re-think this, from a perspective other than the single-user system.

Consider an organization that uses its own software, which may not be very good but does the job productively. Imagine that one piece produces output that a browser must present. The tested and supposedly stable system is updated. With a major new version of the browser. Which now renders the output as a blank page.

Hilarity ensues. Or perhaps not.
> (IE, yes, we're sorry about Perl's built-in object model, but really, we fixed that in libraries years ago, seriously guys, years.)

Can you be more specific? The tutorials (perlboot, perltoot, perlbot) still have the decade-old examples of rolling your own by blessing references. It's not at all clear which library has been made part of the language, and if there isn't one, what happens when your dependencies disagree about which version of, e.g., method dispatch should be used.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=921409

it didn't work last time, why do you think it will work this time ?
It's not unexpected:
- more releases
- open source code

exploits and bugs are easier to find. It doesn't really say much about the safety of FireFox (provided your up to date :))

With all that said it does raise a few questions about Mozilla's code auditing and security procedures. Surely this is something they should take note of to increase the amount of time spent testing new and old code in releases.
This article reads like an april fools joke. In one code block, he shows the most complex, incomprehensible haskell code (with special characters sprinkled in all over the place), then the next paragraph he confidently explains how it's so readable and straightforward to understand.

Haskell is cool, but it's one of those languages I'm going to have to accept that I'm not smart enough to program in.
rubygems and easy_install/.egg packages are more or less the same thing.
The scientists he's talking about are smart people, but aren't really into computers and (what's more) have no patience at all for the amount of pain it takes to compile the dependencies Python packages need.

It's not the Python side of things that's the problem. Numpy and Scipy (which nearly all Python scientific software depend on) is based on both bindings to C and to Fortran, and getting those library ducks in a row - especially on Windows or MacOS X, on Linux your package manager does it for you - is a pain for someone who knows what they're doing and almost impossible for someone who doesn't.

Plus, well, most scientists outside physics use Windows. If you need a command-line tool you've already lost in that respect. What you're competing against is often Excel.

The battle over Numpy being in core Python has been fought and lost, but short of that level of integration, I don't see that there's going to be much effective to do about this.
A hilarious example from the post:

p_term :: Parser Term
p_term = t <* spaces
where
t = IntTerm <$> p_num (readSigned readDec)
<|> FloatTerm <$> p_num (readSigned readFloat)
<|> AtomTerm <$> p_atom
<|> TupleTerm <$> p_tuple
<|> BytelistTerm . C.pack <$> p_string
<|> ListTerm <$> p_list
<|> BinaryTerm . B.pack <$> p_binary

"Again, reading very naturally"
I could not get it to work. Simply shows me links which take me to various browser pages. I use FF 3.0 on Mac.
What's with the vendetta John ?

Your Alan Turing efforts put you in a class of your own, this ESR bashing is detrimental.

Let him stew, outcode him or ignore him, it's not worth it.
Babbel dumps freemium for language learning: “it just doesn’t work”
Common Lisp needs something well structured like CPAN too. The situation with clbuild, mudballs (deceased?), asdf-install etc. is rather confusing IMHO.
Reposting my comment from TC:

I’m not convinced that Premium (or even Freemium) works all that well for most consumer products. Sure, there’s a few home runs, but on the whole, the numbers are just very hard to squeeze any money out of.

10% is a very high conversion rate. Typically, any Freemium (or plain Premium) product will have somewhere around 1% conversion rate. Let’s say you do really well and bring in 100′000 new potential users every single month (quite an achievement for any website, I’d say). With a 1% conversion rate, that’s 1′000 new paying users a month.

Consumers, however, typically aren’t very keen on paying much more than a few dollars a month (when they’re willing to pay a subscription at all, which is rarely) – let’s say they’re ok with paying $60 a year. That’s $5 a month.

So with that insanely high amount of incoming users, you’ll have a cumulative income adding $5k a month. That’s assuming there’s no attrition (good luck with that). Not much to celebrate. At that rate, assuming no attrition, it would take you 20 months before you even make $100k/m. With attrition, it’s fair to assume that consumers won’t stay for even that long, so actually you’ll stabilise around $25-50k/m. This is not too shabby for a lifestyle business, but if you’ve taken €1m of funding, that’s not really an option. Then again, the funding wasn’t from VCs, so maybe that’s ok.

There are always exceptions, things that hit a sweet spot and make crazy amounts of money from consumers. But those are very few and very far between. Can you think of any?
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