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I think this is what Yahoo! wanted that YSlow firebug add-on to be. I'm quite enjoying Speed Tracer but it's giving me a warning about Google Analytics embed code. Those two teams need to have a meeting..
The thing that's different from China and the West in this case is that China is doing this before its economy has matured. Growth of a labor force and economic expansion tend to go hand in hand, often through immigration if not birth rate.
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Coffee has an LD50, whereas they haven't found one for marijuana.

I was speaking with that scope in mind.

The specific drugs I had in mind were psychedelics.
This app was demo'd at Google IO this past spring. It was incredibly cool back then, and it's only gotten better since. It's going to be an amazing tool for web developers.
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"The way I look at it is if all these services were free, EC2 would win based upon features. So, the question is, does cost matter?"

I think this is the important part of the debate. Many people don't use these features, but with EC2 you are paying for them regardless. For example, you pay for the ability to pay by the hour (in terms of increased costs), even if you never plan on doing so. Yes, reserved instances can help, but they don't fully cover the cost difference.

So it really does come down to what features you need. If you do use all the features, I'd imagine that EC2 is a great deal, because everyone else is subsidizing your use of them. If you don't want any of the features, well, then you're subsidizing everyone else.

I think the "cost shouldn't matter" argument isn't relevant. If cost doesn't matter, it is hard to make a case for EC2 vs spending the money to develop your own infrastructure + hiring lots of people + vastly overprovisioning your own datacenters.
But these changes should happen when the time is right. People need to be open enough to an idea and then change can occur. If everything comes out in the open at once, people may learn about things society isn't ready for yet.

The example that comes to mind is one my high school history teacher taught us. He said Martin Luther (from the 15th century) made an impact by being the kind of guy to question things but also by being alive at the right time for these questions to make an impact.

Not to mention that there are probably a lot of things that go on that most people (including all of us here) don't know about. Having all that come out at once might be a strain on society.
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If you speak spanish very well, I would suggest Chile. Though not the cheapest place in S. America, cheaper than the U.S. and Europe, most of Asia, and rent could be ~$220-$300 month, you could live well with <$800 (single, no kids), $15/day food (eating out)

Its safe, more organized than most of the US cities ive been to, and it has a thriving and friendly tech community if you dont want to completely remove yourself from it.

If you seriously want to pursue this, let me know, I lived there for some time and have very good contacts w/ the startup/tech community and in education.

I suggest you read this article: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/10/chile-wants-your-poor-y...

(I'm not Chilean, no agenda here)
They still have intentions on making money, though I　think it will come from their recent partnerships with search engines google and bing.
By monazite, do you mean the phosphate mineral containing rare earth metals?
I did follow the guide it just didn't do anything afterwards. Oh well.
Wouldn't the consumption of marijuana increase the tendency to consume food, resulting in faster metabolism, and hence in faster decay of cells in the longer term?
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Yeah I'm thinking this is basically a spam site. Everything I tried either gave me nothing or a bunch of spam links. Maybe I don't listen to the right sort of music?
read up on caffeine then.
In case you'd like to play it offline: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/223699/slime.flv.zip
Well, they have other choices besides homosexuality. There's pedophilia, xenophilia, prostitution, masturbation.
If you look closely at the launch page (top left), they've actually snuck in a look-alike rocket.
You have the time to watch a full length movie every day?
Having the editor working locally might be a more responsive and "native" setup. I think this was intended more as a demo of possibilities though more than anything.
It would be great if I could read something like this without running into a comment in which someone describes it in terms of "sides".

This is not a debate. There are no sides.

There are just studies: one that found that particular chemicals assisted new cell growth in some parts of rat brains, and another that found that a different set of chemicals did not assist new cell growth in the brains of different rats.

It's interesting stuff. Trying to frame it in the limited context of a social debate really diminishes its value.
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Very nice. Search is well done, though it's not immediately obvious there are more categories than shown.

Explorer didn't seem to really show me things I liked, I think that's going to be really tough with art, as each piece is unique and things that may seem similar evoke quite different reactions.

Still, the site has me seriously considering buying something. So there you go.
This may be a bit off topic from the actual post, but, I just looked at Tarsnap and think it is awesome (you got a customer out of this).

Have you done any/many blog posts on the technology behind your service? It is put together very well and the copy on your website is professional, clear, and abundant. Great job.
While I disagree to some extent with your parent's point(that legality of drug use isn't strongly correlated with the danger of said drug use), one data point(not illegal, mostly non-harmful) is hardly enough to refute it. To refute it, it is better to point out that relatively few controlled substances in the US have any significant controversy over their criminalization(marijuana and ecstasy are the only two that I recall).
Attention downvoters:

You are apparently not familiar with analogy syntax.

Daemmerung is simply asking if there is a similar plugin, but using emacs syntax.
iPhone 3Gs is around $70/mo, not $100.
I don't think that moving servers is at all realistic option for google. I am much more worried about traffic logging at the isp than I am of what google records. However I will concede that because of the shear volume of data that google collects and retains it is a much is a worrying if they decide that it is ok for them to go dredging.
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Well, you cant beat that logic. Spend away sheeple.
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Yeah, there are lots of anecdotal stories that at the least suggest that the effects of marijuana seem to vary from user to user.

I knew one guy that had habitually smoked a bowl pretty much every single day ever since the 70s. He was a brilliant programmer, had a much better short-term and long-term memory than I do, and was well-versed in numerous other topics.

I also knew another person that was mostly average, and then started smoking marijuana, and lost all drive to do anything or the ability to recall conversations from the previous day.

And I knew yet another person that wanted to get something done in life, so he quit smoking marijuana and felt a lot better, much sharper, started studying again, etc.

It depends. The important part is that you spend enough time in introspection to understand what's good for you and what isn't.

There's nothing intrinsically good or bad about marijuana.
"in our case we’re building the platform that will allow the content people to do more targeted content."

Telling us what 'personalized' is about. Not doing better searching, doing better selling. Find the people with a little extra money, 24/7, and offer them something they might go for, 24/7, whether they need it or don't. Helping them stay one paycheck away from broke.
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Interestingly, I find Gmail's client an absolute pain to work with. It's the best browser-based client, but that really isn't saying much.
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I'm really curious about what sort of error in the telescope would lead to this sort of effect. I suspect some sort of error in the postprocessing?
Not quite but it's an interesting term to know.
I realized yesterday, DVDs take the piss. A hand-span of plastic to store less data than you could fit on a micro-SD the size of your fingernail. This is an obsolete medium.

I wonder how soon the general public will see it?
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Yes, but there is still no bookmark manager. Try to create (on OS X) a bookmarks folder in the bookmarks bar. Proceed to add two bookmarks into that folder. Now... How do you edit/delete/rearrange the bookmarks that reside in the folder? I can't figure it out.
Try taking a look at the "View All Results" tab to view all of the lyric results!
Looks very good. I'm supposed to be working, but I've just spent far too long looking through the art

I notice if I choose a large picture, and then view it in a virtual room the picture overlaps the furniture instead of hanging behind it.
I could have written my sentence better. If I used illegal-ness as my main qualifier instead of harm, that might fix some confusion.

And, it is amazing that the most illegal drugs are the least physically harmful. Still not perfect, but an improvement.

I'm no expert on this, so I admit that this might not always be the case. I went out looking for something to illustrate my point. Didn't need to go any further than wikipedia: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Rat...
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* any future increase in demand for labor will only be supplied by increasing wages *

Heavens, not that! Look, less available labor means higher wages. That's good.
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The title is "Does Netflix Know Javascript?" (i.e. implying they don't), then he writes:

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...
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Actually it was just trying to tell me to upgrade to the new Google Analytics code: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2009/12/google-analytics-launc...
Oh even better. Then we have the effectiveness of a totalitarian free-market regime, a perversion of the Soviet communist model, vs. a social-bureaucratic regime, a perversion of the Western republican model. I can't wait for the fireworks and popcorn on this one.
if it was for price people wouldn't go at a restaurant, but just buy the cooked food and eat it home.

Most non-cheap restaurant ($12 per meal and over) will just not automate. Think about it, you can get your coke/cola from a vending machine and it has been like that for ages, but you are still not able to get the beer/fancy drink. Even if sometimes they can be rude, a bartender is part of the experience.
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When the company I work for recently needed a number of us to undergo drug testing to land a big contract, I discovered that my boss and a number of folks on my team were regular MJ smokers. The company we were contracting with didn't specify the testing methodology that was to be used, so my boss picked the one with the shortest detection window -- two days for the saliva test.

I really would not have suspected that any of these folks were pot smokers, they're all very professional and do not fall into any of the stereotypes you might expect. I myself smoke 3-4 times a week, usually on the weekends.
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Unmarriageable men = rise is prostitution, gangs. Also suicide rate is higher for unmarried men. For middle-case men who cannot marry, China would be wise not to over-regulate MMRPGs like WoW lest create more unease. Think about it.

Rise in prostitution = rise in STDs. Investing in China's medical services sounds like a long term growth prospect.

Also less women means that women will be more likely to marry into families with the most disposable income. Therefore it is likely that spendthrift wives will expand the fashion and cosmetics markets for some time.
I know a lot of professionals who use drugs responsibly and recreationally. Even the ones who use hard drugs or abuse alcohol heavily tend to walk the fine line between functional addict and basket-case. Of course, there's a survivorship bias to my anecdotal evidence.

I don't smoke pot, but I think it's one of the least harmful drugs if someone enjoys getting high regularly. Physical and psychological dependance are rare, the effects are mild for most people, and it isn't especially harmful to the body (at least if you vaporize or eat it).
For hundreds of years, Britain (a country of now only 70 million people, smaller than New Zealand) has been world economic power, an empire building nation, involved in the winning side of wars and world wars, been at the front line of progress in politics, democracy, exploration, classical, electrical and electronic engineering and has produced one of the top five most used languages in the world by native speakers, or top two by total speakers.

What's one of the main things you associate with British character aside from queueing? A good dollop of grumpy negativity.

"For the English, Weiner claims, happiness is an American import based on silly, infantile drivel. What the British like to be is grumpy, and they derive a perverse pleasure from their grumpiness. British life is not about happiness; it’s about getting by, he says." - http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertai...

Stay grumpy! ;)
Even if I didn't subscribe to the taboos of my culture (which I do, at least in this case), there are lots of excellent reasons to use a facility meant to handle human waste.

Because of that, this is a bad example.

Instead, we should be using an example of something which doesn't require any special facility, we have no cultural taboos against displaying[1], and isn't illegal, but which people want to hide, anyway. I'm not sure I can think of anything.

[1] As someone who was raised fundamentalist Christian, I can assure you that habits learned in childhood can still have lots of force in adulthood, even if you no longer agree with the reasons for them.
He missed NewSpeak, IMO the most interesting new language

http://newspeaklanguage.org/
The Droid phone was rooted, not Android. There are a lot of Android devices out there that have been rooted, hackers can check out the XDA forum (pick a device, the G1 is the Dream and the Magic (MyTouch/Google Ion) is the Sapphire) - http://forum.xda-developers.com/

For many of you who are unfamiliar with "rooting" (as I was before I went from iphone->android) it's essentially the same as jailbreaking an iPhone. Somewhat obvious, you gain root access and therefore access to all of the filesystem and more. This is what lets you do things like flash a replacement OS like CyanogenMod or use things like WiFi tether.

For those more interested, it generally involves an finding exploit and flashing a replacement "recovery" system. Once you've flashed over the recovery system (basically a bootloader) you can boot into the recovery system and flash your desired ROM.
Or pay for it.

I'm reminding of some Hitchhikers Guide quote about a product targeted at those who by definition don't have any money.
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Your comment can be boiled down to "You made a guess, and guesses are totally useless." Not very helpful.
The Ruby Best Practices blog (blog.rubybestpractices.com ) uses a a git-based system that's quite nice.

http://github.com/sandal/korma

I wrote up some background on it here: http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/posts/jamesbritt/2009-04-1...
Or install kubuntu-desktop, switch to it for login (kdm), and select the Gnome environment there. I find this provides me with a nicer login screen, and a nicer set of pointers (for some reason), without starting any other KDE stuff when I actually login, so it doesn't slow down my system.

When I buy a new machine, I may actually have the spare power to run KDE entirely. :/
So then the problem is exported to other countries. Two of those countries you just named have fundamentalist Islamist elements.
New problem: Firefox gets slower and slower... but I don't have the original problem, since Firefox actually closes for me, much of the time.
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I'm more curious why psychedelics are (or were) viewed as something that can cause social problems. It's more clear with drugs that create physical dependence, like opioids or dopamine reuptake inhibitors (cocaine, amphetamines). However, drugs in those classes, along with other addictive drugs like benzodiazepines, are legal with a doctor's prescription.

Why can't people take LSD once a year in a safe, supervised setting?
Thanks, Walter.

I've tried using XKeymacs (http://www.cam.hi-ho.ne.jp/oishi/indexen.html) to this end, but had problems with the previous Thunderbird. Perhaps I should try again with 3.0.
Slime allows you to code live on one machine while using another completely. Like Mac OS X controls better? fine, use a native Emacs and just tunnel to a remote Lisp session on NetBSD or Win32 :-)
I don't have a good answer, but I do know that LSD came around when there was a lot of change going on in the world. That might have had something to do with it.

I'm actually pretty curious now, so I'll look into it.
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Have you done any/many blog posts on the technology behind your service?

I've written lots of blog posts which touch on various aspects of Tarsnap, but the two which fall most closely into the category "technology behind Tarsnap" are

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-12-14-how-tarsnap-uses-...
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-05-09-scrypt-key-deriva...

A few others which sort of fall into that category are
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-06-29-high-performance-...
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-11-10-tarsnap-public-be...
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-04-18-tarsnap-prepaid-b...
That's true, and a much better reason than data loss.
I know the guys that make it, and they're solid. Check it out: http://venmo.com

It has been done before, but it hasn't caught on yet in the US. I'm not sure why. It does fine elsewhere - but the configuration is usually through the carrier.
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I have been fascinated with stories of really clever hacks into systems. I've also been told to setup a scheduled database backup and when I opened the first backup to check it was going to work, found unencrypted credit card and billing details (only a year or two ago). Only a few weeks ago I found a small company system which ships with a default admin password (a dictionary word, no less) which the end user cannot change. Weird.

Putting two and two together, I suspect that some extremely clever hacks happened (and still happen, I guess), but many many more were probably fortuitous stumbling on horrible or utterly absent security in some overlooked corner; as per dnsworks comment, except - is logging into a password-less account really 'hacking'?
Is this a lot? Dell has a $25B market cap.

The brand relationship management on twitter is a bit overhyped, in my opinion. CRM tools don't scale well. This becomes (as others here have mentioned) just another channel. Facebook pages are another. Email is another. The company blog is another.
I beg to differ. Learning a new language[1] also means learning to know a different paradigm & culture & ecosystem. You learn to know novel ways of doing things that you can transfer to your main programming language---or not.

Tinkering on a project in a different domain most likely means learning to know new libraries and maybe new tools. But those are most often just more of the same and don't help you to get a new perspective on what you're doing.

Instead of just learning a new language, I'd also suggest to read related CS papers.

[1] With "new language" I mean a language that puts emphasis on a paradigm you are not familiar with yet. E.g. if you're a ruby programmer, I wouldn't consider python a "new language"---and vice verse.
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Thunderbird, Firefox and Emacs. Seriously, the three pieces of software my life would be meaningless without. Greasemonkey and Lisp are the crack cocaine of software, that is, if crack allowed you to realize an innate higher potential in yourself.

I have never scripted it myself, but I have paid someone else to do it and my thunderbird add-ons account for at least 20% of my income. If you're doing a lot of marketing and lead generation, you owe it to yourself to tame this beast to your advantage. Specially for one-person shops, you can bypass the whole CRM shenanigans with a well kept TB strategy. Good luck!
I couldn't agree more. What would be sadistically amusing in the context of this problem is if another "black swan" event occurred, like a famine caused altered global weather patterns. All the countries with shrinking populations ought to fare a lot better if some such thing were to happen.

Who knows what the future will bring? It's arguable that they should probably turn around that one-child policy now, but China's had far too many people anyway. 1 billion is far too many for a space that small. China's hinterland ain't no American dream. The actual habitable land in China is only about a third to a quarter of what you see on the map.
Well, my anecdote's better than your anecdote and it says the opposite, so take that!
I find the list slightly disappointing. Those languages are listed in almost every other list of that kind. Checking out new entries in the language shootout is more informative.
If you're seeing a lot of email traffic, you need to move the indexing to an actual external search engine and write your own 'search' plugin; both Lucene and Sphinx would rape native TB search in performance. And the index can be shared across a team as well, say, in a sales force.
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