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You clearly never used EtherPad or SubEthaEdit.
There is a lot of banality in SL, but there are some really talented and creative people in there too; it's a matter of knowing where to look.
In this case, I think, that it was replaced even though it wasn't covered by the extended warranty.
"Why does doing that require owning just one nice apartment in NYC a nice laptop, a brand new prius"

Partly because owning a lot of crap tends to distract you and create a kind of gravitational pull that keeps you near the crap you own.

I thought he made it pretty clear that not owning much stuff made sense even for purely selfish reasons.
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Why Web Designers Should Know Code
Maybe a little basic, but I keep coming across arguments from designers who feel that they shouldn't pay attention to code lest they limit themselves creatively.
I'm wondering if I get counted as part of the officially unemployed as the little checkbox that asks you to give details of your job search contacts for the past weeks has never been checked on any of the UI claim forms I received. This is in CA.
Why Firewire, specifically?
Thank you, you just described what's bugged me about wave for a long time, I never really could put it into words why I liked EtherPad more, I just knew that I did.
No! Interface Builder produces the HTML of Cocoa development.

When Shaun Inman does some whizbang fancy rich web development, does he insist that the body of the HTTP Response contain nothing but code:

<!doctype html><html><head><script> ... </script></head><body></body></html>

Of course he doesn't write a ton of shitty procedural client-side code to slowly build up the DOM programatically -- the browser gets a clean independent serialization, with bindings to code for events on elements. This is exactly how Cocoa works.

Interface Builder doesn't generate bolierplate code like nearly every other GUI designer ever to exist -- it instantiates objects and serializes them.
He does say explicitly that he's not being altruistic.

My take is that this is a tip for startup owners who are planning to give some of their wealth to charitable causes after their death. He suggests a way to do this (financial hack, if you will) that improves the efficiency of the operation, maximizing both the money that goes to the charitable cause and to the donor.

Regarding the payout, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=976759.
Yeah, as someone who used Etherpad every week or two (as well as Wave), I'm really annoyed that Google has shut this down. Shame on Google and Etherpad.
Three Ways to Sell Your Home Creatively in a Down Market
At Arktan, we do the following,
1. Write a blog post describing the new feature.
2. Send a message using our internal messaging feature with a link to the blog post.
3. Send out a tweet with a link to the blog post.

We have built a notification system, we are not using it yet, but we are going to use it for announcements.

Srikanth
http://www.arktan.com/user/srikanth
Being proud, egotistical, or a braggart are all human characteristics. I mention this for two reasons. First, without the benefit of direct contact, you really have no idea what kind of person sivers is, or what his intention was when posting. Second, even if he is an egotistical bastard, so what?

Few people are in a position to donate $20 M to charity. Fewer still who are willing to give up what they worked so hard to make. This puts sivers in the top (some small number) percent of human population in important objectively measurable criteria.

Personally, I enjoy learning more about people I admire, flaws and all.
The U3 official rate is based on a household survey, not any unemployment insurance claims. So whether you're collecting unemployment insurance, whatever you report on the forms, and even whether your unemployment insurance runs out has no bearing on the rate.

Instead, it's a statistical projection based on the surveyed households self-reported employment/looking-for-employment status.

(So you weren't literally counted unless the survey contacted you, but you were statistically counted as long as their sample was representative.)
Google Now Personalizes Everyone’s Search Results (Even Logged Out)
agreed... while I don't condone malicious attempts to throw off other teams, being able to filter through false info seems like an important component of the competition
For someone who has never played; how does SL allow one to be creative?
I suppose this is what should have been submitted, because the slides are pretty dense...
The thing that excites me most is that Rails is moving to jQuery with "unobtrusive javascript" for all of the ajax helpers. Currently, its Prototype with inline spaghetti code.
‘Three Cups of Tea’ advice for Obama
Mac OS X has an excellent dictionary app, highlight any word, and from the app menu select Services -> Look Up in Dictionary. Even works when you're offline :-)

Seems to me this used to be bound to a keyboard shortcut back in the NEXTSTEP OS, though it's possible to add one in the current Mac OS.
Erm.... Where do you live? Cuz I could probably buy two or three decent dinners for one and plenty of drinks by the glass for that much.
"From the age of zero we [Israelis] are educated to challenge the obvious, ask questions, debate everything"

Why do you think they don't question their religion?
It is hardly an Australian problem, it is a cancer polluting through humanities future. Fuck global warming, we can fix that - but without science we might as well hang ourself.
I hate video, and don't mind slides. I prefer the submitted form.
I'm sure that if you sent them an email telling them what you were doing they would allow it. (Either that or they would say "Hey! Good Idea!" and a few months later they would come out with Google Sports Courts, able to find basketball courts, tennis courts, football and soccer fields, etc.)

It would be worth a try at the very least.
Sorry, I was using "desktop" to mean web-based development in browsers that are typically running on PCs, Macs, laptops, etc. It might be nice to do some additional testing against some of the desktop app environments (Titanium, Air, etc.) but we don't currently have that slated.
What do you mean 'their' religion? Israel is made up of people from all different religions, and on average people over there are much less religious than in the US.
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Off topic but point your Transhumanist friends to Eclipse Phase if they haven't heard of it already.
"Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. From 1976-2004, Israel was the largest annual recipient of U.S. foreign assistance, having recently been supplanted by Iraq. Since 1985, the United States has provided nearly $3 billion in grants annually to Israel."

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33222.pdf

I can imagine that has some trick-down effects on the "financing of ideas"-side of the equation. Smart people are one thing, smart people with a lot of resources, another.
This is somewhat misleading on several points:

- They're working with some other definition of startup than we're accustomed to. CrunchBase, for example, has 581 listings within 20 miles of London, and 35 within 20 miles of Tel Aviv.

- The Israeli tech startup world seems to kind of be in the shitter right now relative to its heyday in the first web boom. There's a shift of VC out of Israel and into China at this point.

- The whole blah, blah military -- there are lots of countries with compulsory conscription that don't have a lot of startups.

I think the only thing I really agree with is the general sentiment: national culture greatly affects people's inclination towards opportunism. No culture of opportunism, not many startups.
More than you'd think. It's especially bad with Digitally Imported. I've seen them add and remove new servers to the same station twice in one week.
Most excited about the new router - doing subdomain and custom domain support is a hack in Rails 2.3
RubyConf 2009 Recap
This is exactly the reason why most folks will never program; not because they don't have the capability to be competent, but because we have this odd culture around programming. There's this belief that CS is something that you have to start when you're young and be obsessed with your whole life to even do.

In any field- math, bio, art, music, the people who are best at it are those types- the start-early would-do-it-for-free types. But there's a whole lot of people milling around who could be second best. In other fields, being second best or not that into it is acceptable.

In computer science it's not. And more importantly, because programming and computer science are often equated, this prevents a whole lot of people from programming.

And who needs to program? I'd argue that the time is past where only computer scientists need to program. Everyone needs to program; biologists, mathematicians, linguists, social scientists... (maybe not the English majors, but w/e) and this idea that programming can only be done by people that started when they were 5 year old boys is a huge loss.
Does anyone know of a similar tool that provides the "replay" feature for text editing? I don't actually need collaboration, just screencast-like replay.
>They're working with some other definition of startup than we're accustomed to.

Or CrunchBase isn't a definitive listing. Isn't it feasible that an English-language site will have less complete information from countries where the main language isn't English?
We flagged out a post by Phil Greenspun with the same content. I don't think MSNBC is more Hacker-centric.
The vast majority of that has been military aid, at least 76% of which has been required to be spent in the US, IIRC.
Living Freestyle; Life Without a Template
Best Places To List Your Websites For Sale
Listing your flipped website can be time-consuming but it certainly pays off in profit if you do it the right way. For some, buying and selling websites is their business and others, it can be their hobby. Either way, you need to know the best places online to list your website for sale.
Most Jewish* Israelis live secular lives. Not sure where you get the idea that they don't question religion.

*1.5 million Israelis are Arab Muslims.
We Need Vanity in the Cloud and Your Data Center
Why? That hasn't been my experience at all.
So do you use vi to write your Cocoa project as well to avoid the Xcode "magic"?
Agreed, it looks like the breakdown for '49-07 is $53B military $30B economic. I have no idea how that was committed etc., but it shouldn't be discounted the unique position Israel has been on the US Aid side, and what affect that could have on spurring economic (and start-up) growth for a nation of 7MM people. That shouldn't take away anything from the qualitative characteristics mentioned in the article, just another data point.
Congratulations, Appjets
Looks like an awesome web framework. Rails blew my mind when I first learned it, but over the course of the last two years the various warts and inconsistencies have become apparent.

I look forward to learning this new web framework that is also called ruby on rails ;-)
"... How does that article evaluate after these are place? ..."

Ask pjf yourself is one way to find out. If I get the chance I'll ask.
OpenDNS does return NXDOMAIN for random names - just not by default. Here's one simple test on my Nexenta box:

~$ nslookup - 208.67.222.222
> aorckhaosreckh.com
Server: 208.67.222.222
Address: 208.67.222.222#53

** server can't find aorckhaosreckh.com: NXDOMAIN

OpenDNS is configurable - by default it does a search, which I believe is part of how it funds itself.
I don't understand all the negativity about etherpad being killed in this thread. Sounds like an opportunity to me...if you reckon it's so useful, and google are going to kill it, then go build etherpadv2 and charge for it. :)
It's probable, in fact, but even so, Tel Aviv is also way behind Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Munich, Barcelona, ...

Note that most Israeli tech businesses have to be international players. The Israeli market itself is tiny.
"The reason they decided to go with Google was that they were literally overwhelmed by Wave: after meeting the Wave guys, they were so impressed that they (a) wanted to work on Wave themselves, and (b) didn't want to compete with it. "

This sounds pretty cool to me.
I sincerely dig the word processor in Google Docs. It's quite good at handling multiple concurrent editors, and you can post to other platforms like WordPress from there.

The recently added Folders feature is killer, and my Google Docs "list view" has started to become like an Inbox for me in the beginning of my day, as it neatly displays newly edited, and newly added docs.
Good Looks and Physical Success?
I think that the Python moratorium has a very good chance of being Python's Perl 6 moment. It's just to easy to lose mindshare. People complain about new being unstable, whether strategically or technically, but a lot of them still like new.

I just like to feel like something is alive.

This is Python we're talking about, not ADA. Both have their place.
Intel's Larrabee GPU put on ice
..until a big company acquires this new startup and kills their product again.

This is one more problem with the cloud computing era.

In the 90's, you could continue to use a product even after it was discontinued. I remember reading that Steve Wozniack is still an Eudora mail user. The last time I heard about Eudora was maybe 15 years ago. You can't say the same about the last startup product.
Way to represent the S07 there Aaron and David. Grats!
Good analysis of why the UE rate went down today even though jobs were lost:

http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/12/if-economy-lost-jo...

Quick summary: Rate was probably overestimated in October and underestimated in November. But read it, it's a very informative article with scatter plots, etc.
Open source project R may be disruptor in billion-dollar market
What problem does this solve that RSS doesn't already?
What is genius?
I wouldn't be surprised if re-building etherpad would be a weekend project for a talented hacker, now that Wave is open source. The Wave protocol would allow you to replicate EtherPad pretty easily, you'd just need to build the appropriate UI on top.
What's the point in shutting it down? Will Google buy every company that creates an editor like that? That can't work well forever.
Hrm, I stand corrected. There's a case of my own experience creating a bias. I don't ever remember seeing HTC products before the iPhone, and now I see them everywhere.

Shouldn't assume I suppose.
This is very broken default behavior. It has real security problems (it violates an assumption of the same-origin policy that scopes your browser cookies), it disrupts email, it breaks any application that needs NXDOMAIN (whether you know it does or not), and it's part of an arms race to fuck up^H^H^H^H^H^H "monetize" the infrastructure.

Google doesn't redirect NXDOMAINs. That's worth several milliseconds of response time for me.
Hope I didn't give the wrong impression -- my doc rocks. He's just a busy guy, and the drug companies are making pitches all day long about how the new and patent-protected stuff is so much better than the other stuff. He's just playing it safe. He's always open to a conversation, however, and most times once we talk we arrive at a better place than the one he first recommends.

And I'm not being a "proactive patient" out of any kind of charity on my part. My money rides on all of this stuff, and every little bit is very important. I'm just trying to make very certain that each little thing we do is priced at exactly the least amount is has to be.

[There might be a lesson here, but I refuse to spell it out.]
You can design and sell objects. The objects can consist of a 3d model and some programming to give it functionality. Example include clothing and body modifications; furniture and buildings; vehicles like planes, boats and dragons; and all sorts of other stuff.

There's a lot of possibility in SL, it's a shame that interacting with it is so clunky and awkward.
And efficiencies are what make you big and profitable. El Bulli may be the #1 restaurant in the world, but it runs in the red every year. In contrast, the predictable, efficient, and unquirky McDonalds does $4bn in the black every year.
Between the Folds - Documentary on origami
I don't know which university the parent is referring to, but I can confirm that this was also the situation at the University of York, a top-10 UK university, at least at the time. (90%+ were people who hadn't quite made it into the top 2 - hence nicknames of "University of Dork" and "University of Oxford/Cambridge Rejects")

The problem existed not only mathematics, where I ended up giving extra programming classes to friends because the teaching was practically non-existant. Also physics along with the computer simulation and theoretical branches of physics, which I happened to be studying. In fact, we were only taught rudimentary Fortran (!) syntax, and laughably, OpenMP and MPI later on. Nobody who made it through the course alive did so without having either learned to program earlier or investing a large amount of time in self-study and then "winging it" - after all, the final project depended on being able to deliver a simulation of whatever physical system was being investigated.

I started programming when I was 10, so I had no trouble; together with a colleague who had a similar programming history as I, we introduced the rest of our year to basic good programming practices and workflows (split your functionality into stand-alone functions and files; use version control; avoid global variables; the merits of code reviews; etc.). A lot of people had already switched to experimental physics before we started doing this. Obviously, expecting people to understand concurrent programming at that level is pretty dangerous. In my experience, this sort of attitude breeds a view that computer programs are magical things, and once they compile and don't crash or hang, you can trust their results. This exact attitude is what I'm reminded of when I read about this CRU incident.

I don't think any of the staff ever took the issue seriously, though. Even if they weren't prepared to teach it, they should have told everyone to teach themselves over the holidays and provide exercises or whatever. At no point did anyone point out that programming was a difficult craft, and that mastery of it would be expected.

For context to those unfamiliar with the majority of UK science degree programmes: they are typically not as modular or flexible as in other countries. If you failed a module, you had one chance to re-sit the exam a few weeks later. There was no option of re-taking the module including lectures during the next term/semester; each term had a pre-assigned set of modules, there was no flexibility in when they could be taken, so you couldn't defer your concurrency project until you'd taken some more programming classes or so.
which is, all due respect, some bullsht right there.*

So turn that off if you're running us on a server.

Most of our users are consumers and don't mind (or even prefer) that experience.

Let me know if you need help doing that.
Yeah. What's strange is that I'm getting really good ping times of ~40 ms as an average. So strange. Oh well, I'm happy with OpenDNS (which is bearable once the OpenDNS guide is disabled).
Eureqa
Online porn often leads high-tech way
But I am wondering if this is really the thing to test: Unfortunately, this is extremely difficult, if not impossible, for us to independently test. It is a bit like looking for your lost car keys under the lamppost even though you lost them down the alley. We measured what we could measure, but that isn't what Google says is better.

Also, this does not test proper standard behavior, which is the response to a non-existing domain. And the fact that OpenDNS seems to do something goofy when you search google for things.
Because there could be value in reimplementing a similar idea in a different way. Whether it's an RSS redo or not, it looks like it could be valuable. People in the comments argued the "notifications" idea can already be done by Gmail folders. But his idea may be the better implementation.
Persistence of Poverty, and Increasing Marginal Utility
I have to admit, I hate anyone who says something like:

"That means $5 million more going to music education instead of another tank in Iraq or a banker's bailout bonus."

Because that is where all tax money goes. I'd say >90% of tax dollars go to something way more important than music education, though I guess if I had cashed out of a music startup I might be selfish enough to convince myself that is untrue.
How is this different from Bacon? http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&...
This is somewhat possible if your needs are basic. There's a syntax highlighting bot called Syntaxy and of course Wave supports the collaborative editing part of it. It's the layout of Wave that prevents me from using it, though. It doesn't seem like it was structured to be something like EtherPad. Rather, it looks like it was structured to be the next email or forum or something.
Good article. But... while the article states that Farmville spreads itself "throughout your social network innocently" ... I don't know. It seems that there is a lot of (for lack of a better work) begging related to this game. "Does anyone need a horse?" "Can someone look after my crops?" I can't say I understand how this might help one's social network, and therefore, how "innocent" this might be.
Also what about fiddling with the google search . . .
Reread the statement about "enough".
I agree there is no easy solution, but, still, you have to set your limits somewhere.

When you are a small outfit, you cannot afford to work for free and you must make it perfectly clear to your prospects. If they can't respect that, you shouldn't try to serve them.

It's very easy to win a contract and then be completely crushed by your client. Believe me: I have seen it happen a couple times.
Most people aren't willing to talk about financial details at all. I find it fascinating myself. Thanks a lot for sharing.
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How to Know If You're Being Boring
Unfortunately... I have seen this happen more than once, and even the big fish can get taken for this ride.
As happy as I am with jQuery, I'm really excited to see the following:

-append, prepend, etc. have been heavily optimized

-find, empty, remove, addClass, removeClass, hasClass, attr, and css have been heavily optimized
If you cut me a large enough check I'll install my cloud app in your data center, or sell you an off line version.

/notajoke
Yahoo cancels its Christmas party
Don't forget animated thumbnails.
no japanese? curious to know why.
The windows installer seems to work well in Wine.

(But open source would be nicer.)
Looks really cool. It's definitely not cool though that Yehuda's keeps saying things like "Sinatra has failed because...", and "because Prototype sucks..." and so on. I'm only half way through the video, but it really bothers me when smart software developers disparage other open source projects that came before the latest shiny framework or tool. Especially when it's to brag about whatever project it is that they're currently working on. It's childish, rude, and basically makes you look like a dick no matter how whiz bang cool or better what you're currently working on actually is.

Some day, Rails 3.0 will be old news and I'm sure he won't appreciate it when some young kid gets on stage saying "Rails 3.0 sucked, how could they have been so stupid?! Look how much better my code is!"

Give credit where credit is due -- and remember we all stand on the shoulders of giants, show a little respect, eh?
Word Problems in Russia and America
Or at least focused on avoiding taxes for personal profit if not outright illegal.