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I haven't been this jealous of a High-School curriculum since one of my friends told me of his "School Without Walls" course. Keeping the boredom out of learning seems so pivotal.
... It will be some police/military with guns vs citizens/police/military with guns

I agree that it won't get to that. but if it did, barring massive police/military mutiny, who do you think is going to win that one? If both sides have guns, I'd say it will likely be the side with more training, experience, body armour, huge ammo stock piles and armoured vehicles. Unless the majority of the police/military mutiny I don't think even the US civilian population with your ridiculous amount of guns could prevail.
Very happy about seeing a Cappuccino app. I can see myself using this. I'm concerned about the lack of an "export" mechanism. Being able to export to html would be ideal. At the very least, having a PDF or other universal format file that I can email around is probably a must.

I wonder what "Try it now" implies? It would be nice to know if this is planned to become a paid service once out of beta.

Side note: Looks like 280 Atlas is finally rolling out. I don't know what the $20 fee is all about. It feels disrespectful. I thought it was hard enough to find developers to test out a new beta platform/service in the first place.
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Fisher and Ury's "Getting to Yes" is the most authoritative text on negotiation and very accessible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_to_YES
I create original art. When I have to work on distributing, I'm hampered by copyright law. I don't benefit from it. It harms me. Directly.

I've seen artists have their work infringed by others working for large corporations, and their ability to have something done about it quashed by a corporation wielding copyright law (see, for example, Timbaland vs. tempest)

Addendum: it looks like someone (someones?) is going around in this thread blanketing it in votes in favor of stricter copyright. Slightly creepy.
Getting to Yes is a pretty classic negotiation book:

http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Yes-Negotiating-Agreement-With...
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Or maybe they'll just do what Russia and China do and ignore the fuck out of any and all copyright shit.
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Show an example of a startup benefiting from the kind of copyright law that is deliberately biased in favor of established players?
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Interesting to look at their pricing for jira vs fogbugz - Clearly each of their pricing (for anything but the smallest companies) is almost the same - basically they discount the software and profit off the maintenance contracts):

Fog Creek: $10,000 + $5000/year
Atlassian: $8,000 + $4000/year

http://fogcreek.com/FogBugz/PriceList.html
http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/licensing.jsp

But, Atlassian is smart, and gets you when you are small:

50 Person Software Shop:
Atlassian: $2200 + $1100/year
FogCreek: $8000 + $1825/year

And, what if you are a small startup - Where FogCreek/Atlassian were 2 Years after they were founded,

10 Person Software Shop:
Atlassian: $10
FogCreek: $1899 + $365/year.

Given that the products are _roughly_ equivalent, and the customer has decided for some reason not to just use Bugzilla or Trac , which product do you think your typical 10 Person Small Software Shop will install.

Or, if you are using Bugzilla, but you are a cranky release engineer, and you want to replace it with something with a little more horsepower (not to mention benefiting from the QA/Regression of all those customers of Atlassian/FogCreek) - which product do you think you might be able to get away with expensing.

Now, finally - You have grown from 7 engineers to 20 Engineers - there is a CLOSE TO ZERO chance that you will EVER switch from FogBugz to Jira (Or Vice Versa) - But, Jira is starting out with a lot more customers, so they experience a profit wave.

Basically by the time the companies grow to 100 Users (where FogCreek/Atlassian are making profits off of the Maintenance, as it's been 3+ years since anyone has called for support) - Atlassian has a much bigger slice of the pie. This does NOT bode well for fogcreek in the coming years, as all of that Atlassian market share finally starts to pay dividends, further accelerating their growth, allowing them to invest more in their product, and further gaining market share...

And that, is one major reason why Atlassian is growing faster, and eating Joel's lunch.

Ironic, given the essays that Joel has written on pricing. I realize that he probably doesn't want to price his product at $10 and make it sound "cheap" - Atlassian was brilliant, and they did the following:

"Get started for $10 All proceeds go to charity" - "www.roomtoread.org" - it's like they READ Joel's article and said to themselves "Well, we can't cheapen our product to gain market share, but we _can_ raise money for charity"
a dearth of innovative features

I assume you don't mean dearth here as that would mean a lack of innovative features.

Personally I found Opera to be too much of a walled garden, they never really had a cohesive extensions story. Sure you could configure it to a very great degree but you are still interfacing with it only at points and ways the developers were able to foresee. Still I used it for years it's a good piece of software.

I think my next browser will be one of the minimalist webkits uzbl or surf as soon as they can support a decent vi mode.
I second this, pick up work when you absolutely have to and no more. I usually tell everyone I'm always open to contract work but then set my hourly high enough that it creates a nice filter.
It's pretty good. Definitely better than Adobe's tools for code. The art still has to be made in Flash though.

Unless there is some compelling reason to use Flash though, open tech (like AJAX) wins every time.
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Anyone who has driven across the US with an iPhone (or, hell, tried to use on in San Francisco) knows AT&T's 3G network is total crap. I don't think they win by fighting this characterization.
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I disagree. They're free to put ads on their printer friendly pages (which you'll notice The Economist has done), or add referer checking. I don't use printer friendly pages to avoid ads, I use them for their reading-friendly layout without enormous headers, footers, and sidebars taking up 3/4 of the page.
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I started doing that when I ran out of all my previous savings. If you are confident that you can always make money, wait and give all the time to your startup before it runs out.
We are planning to charge once we iron out all the bugs and we add a few more features, though there will probably be a free version. We'll have more details on that later. Export is definitely a feature we plan to implement, but for now, E-mailing the share link is the way to get others to see your mockups.
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I used to use Firebug exclusively, but since developing a WebKit oriented web app, I had to use the web inspector. At first I hated it, but after I got used to it, I never go back to Firebug.
Silly, unsubstantiated remarks aren't as interesting as they sound in your dorm room.

Snarky, wildly inaccurate drivel doesn't lend you any much-needed credibility. If you're unaware of Apple's obsession with lock-in, I'm impressed you can get an internet connection from whatever planet you live on.

Apple doesn't need to make any money at all from the AppStore

Oh really? They just take a 30% cut because they're kind-hearted? True, it's not a huge chunk of their revenue, but it's a very high margin business and you can be damn sure they will fight to grow it as much as possible.

Moreover, your comment about a "pile of gold" is naive. Most companies in the tech sector, Apple included, are expected by investors to maintain a "growth" attitude. If you don't believe me, look at the incidence of dividend payments in high-tech companies versus the market as a whole. Sitting on a huge pile of gold does little to nothing for your stock price[1]; investors want to see up-and-to-the-right. This is a simple, if unfortunate, fact: Apple is on the prowl for every new revenue stream they can find, especially those that print margin dollars, because they must always appear to be a growth company, even though you and I know this is a noble lie at best.

[1] other than establish the "ground floor" valuation for your stock; point is, it does relatively little to drive investment when, by comparison, your peers are shoveling their cash hordes into idiotic buybacks and low-return R&D just to keep the illusion that they're taking over the world. I have substantial experience with this phenomenon at the company I work for.
Umm - this link shows that IE6 just has 10.6% market share. Not 23%...

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
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Well, sooner or later the Internet will go the way of radio and TV: megacorps only. Once there's a critical mass of people using a medium who don't really care about it, and just consume what's available, it is only a matter of time.

The question is, what comes next. Maybe it's mesh networks, maybe private satellites, maybe something else entirely. Of course, the new network will initially be slow, and for geeks only. Then there will be explosive growth. Then it will be regulated into oblivion. And the cycle will repeat itself.
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Thank Biden for this.

Seriously, he has been a long time friend of the content industries. Ever since he was nominated I've been looking for something like this to happen.
Very nice. I like the simplicity of the syntax you've created for editing elements. Seems to work quite smoothly for me in Safari, OS 10.6
Atlassian goes head-head with FogCreek in terms of features and pricing. <$10K for 100+ Users. AxoSoft _starts_ at $43K for 100 Users.
GFC = "Great Fucking Crash?" :-)
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Jobs didn't return to be CEO. He was an advisor for a while, then was appointed interim CEO (which he apparently was only expected to be for a few months).
http://www.apple.com/ca/press/1997/09/InterimCEO.html
that's for the visitors of w3schools, which are more technical people. my mom, who would use IE if it wasn't for me tricking her into using firefox, would never be a w3schools visitor.

from the bottom of the page:
W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes preinstalled with Windows. Most do not seek out other browsers.
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"... The idea of a state machine, and most of the command set, is adopted from Processing, an open project initiated by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. ..."

Processing boxed up as an app. I would like to give it a try but I'm ✸nix, ✸bsd and at last resort Win. What I do like about it is it makes doing the same thing with processing, easier. So for that reason alone the product is worth learning from.

- http://processing.org/ & http://mobile.processing.org/

- http://processingjs.org (javascript)
I don't think you've been acquainted with the business end of a large rifle. Shoot whatever ray you want at a large crowd of people, if it comes to treason I'll be with my brother and cousin at night in the woods with some high power rifles and shotguns. Considering both have been military trained I don't think we're too far behind the curve. I'm not the kind of person who believes in conspiracies or has a bomb shelter, but the patriot act made me think that maybe I'd use the gun in my house against the government just as easily as I would against someone breaking and entering. I'm not talking about carrying a gun to a rally, I'm talking about defending myself. Look at that nut job in Buffalo who took out a bunch of swat team members last year. He was crazy and it certainly was a terrible tragedy, but it shows that it IS possible.

Sometimes engineers forget not every problem has a technological solution. Picking the right out cropping of rocks to defend yourself from has more value than millions of dollars in tech if you can extract the right price from the people attacking you.

But if you are going down that road, it is just a matter of how many people you take out before they get you. I won't be getting that enraged about copyright law, ever. If they start infringing on my right to complain about the copyright law, then we're getting warmer but even then not so much. People over react to the problems we have today, when you start infringing on the average person's rights a lot more than this people like me who are generally calm and don't freak out about small infractions will start getting mad, and thats when it will boil over and either a political or violent adjustment to the direction of the country will happen.
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Highly recommended, and no one has mentioned yet:

Getting To Yes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_to_YES

And anything by Cialdini:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini
It doesn't matter what they negotiate, treaties do not become US law.

Your link does not support that claim. What the link says is that some treaties are self-executing. Those are automatically US law. Others are not self-executing, and require legislation to be passed. The ruling is that the Vienna convention is not self-executing, and therefore needs legislation to come into effect.

Whether this particular copyright treaty would be self-executing depends on a court ruling on the details of the treaty. Given that lawyers are involved in drawing it up, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see them design it to be self-executing in the USA. As for the Constitution, I'm so used to seeing attempted and actual end runs around it that I wouldn't be confident that it will stop them from enacting the copyright rules they want.
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Thanks for the reference -- I hadn't heard that story. Definitely the nightmare of the small company selling kit planes or plans.

(Edit: Aside from the nightmare of someone getting hurt and it actually being your fault. (I've written too many defects recently.))
And ironically, the phrase "droid you're looking for" only has one Star Wars page in the top 10, with the rest being articles about Verizon's phone.
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Separating them (or just tagging the ones that can be pasted into the code window) would be nice.

The real issue is that everything useful (the tutorial, reference, and library) is indexed by command name. The graphviz and matplotlib galleries index the commands by pictures. That's a lot more discoverable and visual.
You should be multiplying the diesel price/joule numbers by roughly 5x to make them comparable to electrics.

When you buy metered electricity, you're paying for the end product. Internal combustion engines are roughly 20% efficient on average, going from chemical energy to kinetic. Electric motors are 90%+ from electricity to kinetic.

"Electric locomotives benefit from the high efficiency of electric motors, often above 90%. Additional efficiency can be gained from regenerative braking, which allows kinetic energy to be recovered during braking to put some power back on the line."

(From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_combustion_engine#Ener... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_locomotive )
That coverage looks like it is from an earlier leak of the same negotiations. Look at the date.
"Let me reiterate that all three of the above uses put me in direct violation of my corporate IT policies."

Not to mention several state and federal regulations depending on the data being uploaded...
In equal numbers the military prevails.

I'm not worried about the police force. They have shotguns and pistols just like everybody else, and in most cases the enthusiasts have just as much skill as the police.

And the military is tiny, less than 1% of the population. About 50% of the population owns at least 1 gun, and most who own at least 1 own several. If they can barely secure Iraq, there is no way they will secure the USA.
"... Who can recommend good books/articles on negotiation? ..."

Negotiation is as much about non-verbal as it is verbal. So what's a good way to learn negotiation aside from watching "Lie to me" ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_to_Me or "Hustle" ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustle_(TV_series) ? What about playing and learning poker?

In any sort of negotiation it helps if you can understand a) where the person you are negotiating with is coming from and b) what they are really thinking.This is where playing poker can help. To win you sometimes have to bluff (or lie) about your hand. People who are superior at understand and reading what others are thinking can use this to their advantage so try some books on psychology. A good start is understanding "cognitive bias" (how individual psychology can influence individual decisions) ~ http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Cognitive_bias

Another good reference ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ekman
And if you do have to freelance, make a portfolio online with samples of your work. If you don't have any good samples, make them up for dummy companies. Print business cards that have your contact info and what you do written in plain English. Don't spend money on advertising (especially if you don't have any to start with), rather send messages to everyone you know notifying them of your new offerings and pass out business cards at every opportunity. Use Facebook, Twitter and other social networks to your advantage in spreading the word about what you offer.

I've also heard offering commissions for referrals works but I have yet to get any leads like that (maybe it's just my friends?).
While your analysis of why we're doing the $10 deal is spot on, we only introduced it a couple of months ago so any benefit we might see is still in the future. Previously the cheapest edition of JIRA was (if I recall correctly) $1200.
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I don't think you guys get that this law affects how you provide access to a communications network. It doesn't matter if you have your own service provider or network, you are still going to have to comply with the laws. The entire point of this treaty is to hold the provider accountable for how people use their services.
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It did, sort of, about a year ago
A couple additional points that aren't readily available:

1) Fogbugz has an integrated wiki, but I don't know how it compares to Confluence and you can't get it separate from Fobgugz.

2) Fog Creek has a code review and hosted Mercurial source control product that's in beta called Kiln.

3) You can get FogBugz on Demand for free with the student and startup edition, but that's only for 2 users.
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same here, I got used to just typing and then clicking outside of the control for the changes to take effect.
I have a Nokia N800, in terms of hardware is half the performance of the iPhone, and flash runs fine and I've never measured battery life, but seemed fine to me. I have to question the validity of this. Anybody else have the n800 or even the n700
In some cases, the shift to digital content has shaken business models in a way that is not recoverable and has nothing to do with the enforcement of copyright. Newspapers are mostly examples of this.

The old world of media had a price for each viewer/reader of various mediums. The new world of media also has a price too and the old price doesn't apply. Readers are now usually worth substantially less then they were. An online news impression is worth less than a print one. In parallel, the democratisation of the web has created additional competition that has taken away some eyeballs, especially in the juicy parts of the business (eg classifieds). The effect of aggregators as competitors is an example of the type of effect that hurts them and is related to copyright somehow. This last is a very small & insignificant part of why they are failing.

In some cases, copyright enforcement might theoretically recover some or all of their revenues. Music is an example of this. If people couldn't pirate music, they would probably buy more of it. The move to digital probably affects sales somehow, but it is not necessarily negative. Film, TV, Books etc. are also examples of these cases.

The first type of company has business models made obsolete by technological & cultural changes. The second kind have business models that fail because the lost the ability to enforce copyright. Companies of the first kind usually think that they are of the second. Both types of companies would be happy if the Internet just went away.
The future is not necessarily just video games. If we can get education to be intrinsically motivated, rather than motivated with external stimuli like grades, then that would be so much more efficient.

Frankly I don't even think video games would work for all types of people, just as the current system doesn't work for all types of people.

As long as we can get people to have fun while learning, or learn the things they like, however they do it would be fine.
excellent potential as an educational tool.