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I get my blog content via RSS. All that fancy formatting and layout never reaches my eyes. That plus consideration of the average half-life of a blog post makes additional effort...well...kind of pointless. (Unless the point is to make art, which is different.)
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That is exactly right:

http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/msg/7477fbf2f855c516
A lot of suggestions would tell you how to write secure sites, but if you really want the guts, learn how to break the site.

Go to the library and pick up some network security books, and focus on the website security sections (sql injections, exploiting the parameters sent to a website, trying to learn the sites using their error messages to ssl to domain spoofing). For one, this is actually a lot of fun, but more importantly, now you'll always be thinking how to exploit the code you write, and doing so will allow you to realize mistakes very quickly.
> Similarly they attempt to patent strains that have existed for centuries in order to become sole providers.

Oh really?

Since you didn't understand the article that you cited, I'll quote it "It should be perfectly clear that what RiceTec patented was not the genome of basmati rice or a genetically developed variety (RiceTec makes the point that all its products are natural). It was simply a hybrid of basmati obtained from cross-breeding with an US long rice variety."

RiceTec has a patent for its hybrid. That patent does not cover anything else, such as pre-existing strains of Basmati.

The whole argument that what RiceTec has done is somehow wrong is "By including basmati name into the patent definition, RiceTec could claim wide-ranging rights over a traditional name, for which it did not acknowledge the origin or the originality, let alone the copyright."

That's factually incorrect. Patents don't grant any protection for names. Copyright and trademarks do.

I've got a patent for a method of branch prediction. No one thinks that said patent gave me any rights over the term "branch prediction" (or even "programmable branch prediction", a term which was arguably novel when I filed the patent.)
Did you check those monsters from Azul Systems? They are doing some interesting Java stuff on more or less bare hardware
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Bummer that Creately needs all the personal info before letting me try it.
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They could have protected it by offering a royalty free license for a specific use.

I'm no fan of IP law but too often companies hide behind the law when the actual root cause is themselves.
From what I read about "the Game" a common play seems to be to make the girl feel insecure, though. Maybe other factors than just self-confidence are sometimes at play. (I have not read "The Game" itself, though, only blog articles mentioning it).
Another system worth looking at is Symbol.

Its compiler was implemented in hardware....

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=633642.803976

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/MAHC.200...
This is some sort of radical fad of eating less and exercising?

Perhaps they will make a pill for this?
I found Hacker's Diet (http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/) by John Walker (Autodesk founder) to be entertaining reading by itself, it also has some useful advice.

The Abs Diet (http://www.amazon.com/Abs-Diet-Six-Week-Flatten-Stomach/dp/1...) is written in a bit over-patronizing language for my taste, but has a lot of useful info about different nutrients, how to read food labels, how to structure meals to keep blood sugar level constant, etc. Exercises in the book are not bad too.

By combining these two approaches I was able to steadily loose weight and feel better for more than a year. Recent change it lifestyle changed that, I'm looking into reworking my routine to get back on track again.
For many it's easier said than done.
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Building up muscle tissue also helps you burn calories faster when not working out. Cool little details I learned at the gym.

This is a very common myth.

To their surprise, the researchers found that none of the groups, including the athletes, experienced “afterburn.” They did not use additional body fat on the day when they exercised. In fact, most of the subjects burned slightly less fat over the 24-hour study period when they exercised than when they did not.[1]

[1]http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/phys-ed-why-doesnt-...
I did this same technique myself starting about a year before my wedding. I lost a lot of weight and became a lot stronger and it was pretty awesome. I didn't pay for a gym, but got some weights and a bench at home and did things that way.

Several years and one kid later, I'm back to being fat. Somewhere along the line the calorie counting became less disciplined and then faded away entirely - I don't even know when or why that happened. It just did. The weight lifting time got shorter and shorter to make room for other aspects of life and schedule changes, etc. And eventually, it was gone too. So now I'm back where I started.

Sigh.
He uses the guilt of owning a gym membership to make himself more disciplined. I think if he did better on being disciplined and super-disciplined, the gym membership wouldn't be necessary.
I'm not sure there is any good answer to your question but I noticed something about how you phrased it. You DID NOT say "a killer opportunity to get filthy rich". You DID say "a killer opportunity to buck the cog-in-a-wheel machine".

Doesn't that answer your question? If you accept too small a stake, you will have no power of strategic influence over the firm - you will be a cog in a high-risk firm's machine.

Why isn't your "ask" here "parity with the founders"?
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If you only you could expand that into a book or expensive program... darn it all.
Except that adding lean body mass increases your Basal Metabolic Rate, which increases the amount of calories you burn when you are not exercising.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_rate
I haven't tried to implement this yet, so i have no question so far. But i'd like to compliment you for this incredible useful module. Keep it up :)
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The NYT has yet to report on the significant conflicts of interests that are commonplace in the news industry.

A significant fraction of "big name" reporters are married to/involved with folks with relevant interests, such as govt officials and the like.

Given this, the NYT's real objection appears to be that journalists aren't gettting a cut.
I'm not sure they are talking about the same kind of exercise. One is about building muscle mass, the other is cardio. Increased muscle mass does increase resting metabolism.
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I can't recommend this book highly enough: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1583870067. Get an exercise ball (duraball is the best) and you can do a ton of work outs from your house. The dieting recommendations in the book are a bit out-dated but it's really a great book.
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The problem is that the incentives are all wrong.

The air traffic controllers represent a significant problem. The original union (since busted by Reagan) had an incentive to reduce work and increase pay, so they established conservative air separation rules, frequently made them even more conservative, and had regular slow-works. The union had an obvious incentive to fight against automation, too. (The current union isn't quite as bad. The incentives are the same, though.)

The USGOV has no obvious incentive to make the skies better. When flights go bad the people rail against the airlines, not the Feds. They also have the incentive to poorly fund the ATC system and use the money on other things that will give them more visible wins.

The airlines would like to upgrade their fleet but that's useless without ATC systems that can handle the new tech (like GPS). UPS finally bit the bullet and upgraded its planes and then paid for its main airport (in Kentucky) to be upgraded. I believe FedEx did the same (but in Tennessee).

A for-profit ATC system that was funded by mandated-minimum contributions from both general aviation and the airlines (both are already dinged to partially pay for the current ATC) would align the incentives properly. The airlines would be able to get more planes in the sky, packed tighter, and in more lanes. As new technology became available, they would use it. People would have much better flight experiences with fewer delays. USGOV would get to stop funding obsolete programs. And above all, the ATC company would have its incentives aligned with both the airlines and the people, since they'd get paid more if more flights were on time, etc. And the contract could be re-bid out every few years to ensure that the ATC firm doesn't let complacency reign.
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As much as I despise Microsoft and everything they stand for, I'm having trouble faulting them for things like this. The patent system in our country is so insane and out-of-control, it's unwise for a corporation to act as if it isn't.

There are lawsuits flying every which way over absurd things the patent office has granted patents for - so if you hold the patent for something ridiculous and widespread, you not only prevent someone else from getting it and suing you, but it's a bargaining chip when someone comes at you with another patent violation. They say "we'll sue you because we hold the patent on 'an electronic way to display text'" and you say "if you do that, we'll sue you because we hold a patent on 'a tactile alphanumeric input device.'" And so instead of a costly legal battle, you've won yourself a stalemate, with only the price of a few patent applications.

Not to say that this is an appropriate way for the system to function, and not that big companies shouldn't be lobbying to fix the patent system (I believe some of them are), but I feel like M$ is just playing the hardball they need to play to protect themselves.
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So, you are saying that a woman weighing 100 pounds with 20% bodyfat will burn the same amount of calories as a male weighing 200 pounds with 10% bodyfat? Do you realize how little sense that makes?
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=950751
The Shangri-La diet is the lifehack of the century (not a diet in the traditional sense):

http://www.sethroberts.net/

Seriously. You simply won't want to eat, and if you think you want to eat, you'll be surprised at how untasty that delicious looking candy bar or pasta is once it hits your lips. It's almost as if your body conspires against your best efforts to gain weight, which is a nice reversal for once.

In conjunction, take a high-quality multivitamin like SuperNutrition or Alive and you'll also find yourself with enough energy that you'll go crazy if you don't exercise. Yeah, it helps you want to exercise. That is key for me.

It's so much easier to take your daily olive oil and find yourself automatically disgusted at the sight of heavy food than to rely on sheer discipline, which is probably why you're overweight to begin with. And besides, olive oil is good for preventing disease.

It also helps that you'll feel the effects working on the same day you start, and you should see an encouraging difference on the scale a week later (I lost 5 pounds on the first week with no exercise - almost scary).

You win, like, 3 times on Shangri-La + high-quality multivitamin, and you don't have to have much discipline to get started.
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When I submitted this, the story was half-told. Apparently, Gears will still be allowed to store some things locally. But all data will be synched to the cloud automatically at all times.
The point of exercise is so that when you do lose weight you don't still look like crap.

Losing weight is all about diet.

Looking good is about diet and exercise.
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I have read some of his papers. I should have been more clear: I like him a lot.

And I do agree with you that it makes him unforgettable. I personally think it is done with deliberation. To a certain degree, he is going to be treated as a quack. He even says so often. By dressing the part of Gandalf the Gray he's almost openly mocking them.
“The iPod, of course, is successful because of iTunes.”

Really?! Now maybe. But five years ago? I have a very hard time believing that.
1. While I agree with most developers that Apple has room for improvement, I think we should take a step back and realize how much of an improvement the iPhone has made mobile developers from a couple of years ago when the carriers were in charge of mobile applications.

2. I think the solution to the iPhone fiasco should be for Apple to hire more reviewers and allow developers to pay more money so that they can buy a faster turnaround time. It doesn't make sense for me to wait 2-3 weeks for another shot at the review process because I placed a bad keyword in the description.
They may be ignored, but they can still do a lot of damage. Consider all the folks languishing in prison for possession of small amounts of the wrong neurotransmitter agonist.

This mess -- if it goes through -- will do for your ability to keep information private what the war on drugs did for your ability to keep your home life private: that is, it'll give the cops not merely the power (which they already have) but the incentive to carry out intrusive searches.
If you are a 90lb girl then yes. Everyone else can eat a lot more calories than that and lose weight
A good way of rephrasing it, thank you. I've never dealt with the hurdles involved in working for an early stage startup... You are correct, too small a stake and I still have no influence (I suppose this would be a case to branch out into the Do It Yourself ethos of founding your own company).

They are offering 1-2% equity share, per developer on the team... I suppose, in your words, that is less than parity.
I'm not trying to make a value judgement based on lifestyle, I'm just saying that not all the men on okcupid are there because they can't find a girl another way.
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also, don't put "by PG" in the title. People who care will find out, or already have it in their feed readers. People who don't care, don't care.
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The App Store is only viable because Apple is protecting it as a crown jewel loss-leader. If the Store were spun off into a separate company (not a subsidiary) that had to be profitable on its own, I can imagine the policies changing for the better rather quickly.
I need to lose weight (I'm about 320lbs now, his maximum, though I'm 5' 9", and somehow I never, ever hear anyone say anything insulting about my weight), but I'm not sure the personality and attitude problem that appears to go with it is worth it. ;)
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I'm not familiar with USF's program. You might be able to contact their people and see though.
Paul captured my whole feeling about the App Store matter, especially about buying Apple products. Now I feel like I'm doing something wrong. I still like the products but I no longer like the company.

Today my small team of developers submitted the first "toy" we released just to test how the approval process works. Let's see if we'll have some bad experience as well.
My vote for a truly free hand-held platform is the n900[1].

It's beautiful, clean and comes with with Debian based distro, Maemo.

My opinions about apple were never positive, probably because I'm only 25 and did not program in the 80's.
I've only saw apple as a manufacturer of shiny, well designed rich boy toys, but that is probably because I live in Brazil, where only rich people have it and they think they are 'computer people' because of it.

I was always more influenced by the open source community, and apple's record is far from shiny on that aspect.

My 2 cents.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900
Has anyone done a dissection of what ended up being the point of failure for OpenMoko?

It seems like they would have been well positioned for exactly this sort of thing. I'm not sure if they had problems with the hardware or whether they just couldn't get traction.
I strongly disagree with your conclusion. Both smack of 'religious' thinking. Your point 1 is essentially 'be thankful to the merciful god who has ended the drought'. Your point 2 doesn't solve the problem, it just throws more priests at it.

The solution is to open the platform to all developers. Imagine if Microsoft had vetted every DOS and Windows app, or if we had to submit Linux apps to Linus for review.
You know on BlackBerry AppWorld each submission of an update costs you $20 AND goes through a lengthy approval process. (you need to purchase 10 submissions for $200 at a time). Oh there's a bug in my app? I could fix it in 5 minutes, but too bad..
My biggest problem is that it's a half-assed review process. Neither is it an open platform nor is it a relatively clear and thorough review process like you get on the gaming device platforms (Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony).

I made three applications (only one that was popular - WiFinder) for the AppStore. Every time I interacted with reviewers, either by e-mail or phone, I got the feeling they had no idea what they had signed up for, and had not thought out beforehand how to deliver on the promise of only having quality applications in the AppStore. Which is a shame because it's an old problem.
Y Combinator RFS 5: Development on Handhelds, mentioned in the submitted article:

http://ycombinator.com/rfs5.html
Also at the same time, there seems to be live blogging sessions happening on the "Google Chrome OS" Event:

* Live Webcast: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/20091119_chrome_os_...

* Looks like TechCrunch is covering the event, best: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/19/chrome-os-event/

* Matt Cutts:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-os/

* Danny Sullivan: http://searchengineland.com/liveblogging-the-google-chrome-o...
A customer recently asked me to look into a program that used to run in 5 minutes but now took 1 to 4 hours. It's used by thousands of people all over the world all day long.

It iterated through an array doing 3 SQL SELECTs against non-indexed files for each element. There used to be about 50 elements in the array; now there were more than 5000. I rewrote the whole thing in one day to do a total of 4 SELECTs and run in 12 seconds.

But it took 6 days to get through QA (while the users continued to suffer). QA's biggest complaint? I indented 4 spaces instead of the (unpublished) standard of 5 spaces.

Of all the things I have to deal with, nothing pisses me off more. Software QA is becoming more and more like TSA security at the airport: illogical, and obviously so. Last year, flagrantly unacceptable code was promoted without question while its replacement was held up on a meaningless detail.

I got the feeling from the programmer's quotes in this essay that the same thing is happening at the app store.

We programmers are a funny lot. Make us struggle for business or technical reasons and we adapt beautifully. Make us struggle for something stupid and we just get pissed off and do something else. What a pity.
I'd switch from olive oil to coconut oil if possible -- much healthier. Olive oil still has about 10% pufa in it. Check out http://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail?pid=27477 for more info.
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A separate company would probably want a higher percentage of sales too though.
Youtube's GoogleChrome Channel has 5 new videos on the Chrome OS.

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Your first point is a bit like saying we should take a step back and be glad we're only being imprisoned instead of being imprisoned and beaten. Perhaps we should be happy about any improvements, but the situation still isn't very good. Android and Maemo both treat developers much better, and while I suspect Maemo will remain a niche platform, Android most certainly will not.
Not only that, having used both, RedLaser is by far better at scanning.
1. I'eve mixed feelings about that. The idea of a store was great because it was a great marketplace without tricks to get inside, as it's just a simple as paying 100$ (and lose two weeks understanding how the whole process works...).

But the review process is not the part of the App Store that made it successful, nor the fact the applications are so limited and can't use APIs outside a strict list.

2. This is not something you can fix with more reviewers... it's not just a matter of time, but there no way to create an objective review system, at least if you don't limit the review process to macroscopic stuff like "the app does not work" or "there is a huge disney logo", but in big companies you can't do things like this. If you have got the review process then even a 3 pixel logo of something remotely copyrighted will stop the process.

Also, the more reviewers you need, the less qualified you get, and it requires to be very sensible to handle well the review process. I don't think this can work. Jeff FooBar will simply read all the rules and apply them without the ability to figure if it's really applicable in this particular case. So like it happened recently if there is a program to connect to your mac, and it shows an icon accordingly to the model of mac detected, and there is a 10x20 pixel mac os x default aurora background, he will stop the application.
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As Moore's law marches on, it's inevitable that the computing power needed by Joe Sixpack will fit into smaller and smaller packages. The rise of the desktop, then laptop, now netbook. Each iteration takes less time than the previous one. That asymptote will soon - a few years at the outside - hit the iPhone/PDA form factor

Apple must understand this, and they can't possibly believe they'll be allowed to maintain this sort of dictatorial control over people's primary general computing platform
Just to add: Apple must break their current marketing / announcement strategy and take direct action to resolve this issue.

Otherwise we won't see or hear of any solutions until June 2010 @ WWDC. (Apple is not involved with Macworld this year.)
Yes, PG makes the point very well. Apple thinks of themselves as ensuring quality, when in reality they are having the exact opposite effect.

What they need to do is just let all apps through, and make it easy for customers to report problems, and then Apple can proactively pull apps that have too many problems. They could do that at half the cost and have much better overall quality, to say nothing of the developer good will.
Five spaces?! Ludicrous.
So, this raises the question of why you're running a desktop-oriented OS on a server.

As a staging area. The main reason for not using Fedora as a production server is not that it is desktop oriented but that it updates too frequently. Some of us (well, at least one of us) run(s) servers on our desktops as well.
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