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Hmm, okay that makes sense. $800/yr (if that is what he is paying) sounds totally worth it. Looking around a bit on google (daydreaming) it looks like it could cost anywhere from $1000-2000/yr depending on the size of the boat.

Internet would be pretty easy to solve, 500ft out isn't that far at all for a PTP wifi link (although the boat moving around might cause some problems with that if you're doing directional stuff). There's also 3G stuff although I once had to spend a couple of weeks working over my AT&T 3g modem and it was almost completely worthless...

/someday
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This is in the uk: in the RAF you obviously sign up fir at least X years. But at a certain point you can buy out you remaining years. I'd have to ask how it works.
Richard Stallman? Like Gandhi? Really?

It's computer software, folks. One can make very strong claims that free software is better or preferable to proprietary software without putting it in the manichaean terms that Stallman does.

As far as injustices in the world goes, proprietary software is pretty damn far down. A friend of mine was called "evil" to his face by Richard Stallman because he once worked at Microsoft. "Evil" is a (bit of a) loaded term and not appropriate for someone who also has contributed a great deal to the open-source community. I can't imagine how incidents like this, and Stallman's absolutely-no-compromise attitude in general, do more good than harm to the free software movement.

People need to keep things in perspective.
When you die, your programming abilities have expired. So, I'm sorry to say, the answer to your question is YES!

If anyone can convince you that you are too old to do anything while you are still breathing, then it's YOU who is being programmed, and if that happens then you aren't going to be worth much for anything.
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being ordered to block someone from part of the internet strikes me the same as being ordered to dam niagra falls with some toothpicks and elmers glue.
Start with Tim Bunce's "Perl Myths 2009":

http://www.slideshare.net/Tim.Bunce/perl-myths-200909
Is it sad that you assume all capitalist people here are repeating views from PG, rather than explaining their own independent views?
I used to play a text-based MUD called Creeping Death.
I would say yes, based on my personal experience with a fairly successful Indian startup stealing my logo and 3/4 of my name: http://img.skitch.com/20091014-b93ddncw2197542p9triy9397x.jp...

I might be biased though! :)
The age limit is you can't learn to program when you're -0.5 years old. You need to be at least 1. Also if you're over 80 you should worry about RSI.
from a quick glance (only), and not being terribly proficient in either scala or ml, i would say:

- yeti appears to be quite a faithful port of sml to the jvm, while scala is perhaps best thought of as the bastard offspring of java and haskell.

- as a consequence, yeti is simpler and intended for programming in a functional style. while scala is much more complex and "object functional" (is that a recognised description these days?).

- the integration between java and scala appears to be somewhat cleaner than that between java and yeti (although both are fairly good).

- scala's type system is significantly more powerful. someone better educated than me can explain the difference in detail, but yeti seems to have just "simple" polymorphism, while scala has bounded types etc(1).

- scala also has a whole pile of tricks related to getting the type system to do things "implicitly" that is, well, i guess you either love it or hate it.

- yeti appears to be better than scala at getting optimised (ie not broken) tail calls to work.

- scala is baroque; yeti minimal.

- scala may be the future of java programming (which is good). yeti certainly isn't (which is a pity, imho).

- a lot of the above parallels the difference between ml and haskell (if you ignore the laziness part). these days, haskell is a bit of a monster; ml is significantly simpler (even ocaml).

(1) what happens with yeti when you have polymorphism and mutable containers? i have no idea. perhaps runtime type errors?
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This is great advice! I had never considered creating raw HTML tables of data on my websites for the express purpose of having end users connect to them with Excel.
If memory serves me, the operating hypothesis for ADHD is actually that it's due to reduced activity in a portion of the brain that regulates and directs the rest, the theory behind most ADHD drugs being to increase activity in that portion of the brain in order to let it better regulate the rest of the brain.

Hence, the seemingly paradoxical effect of a stimulant making someone calmer. Someone with ADHD, unable to relax because of too much distracting, chaotic activity in their brain, may thus find that the drugs help them relax.

By crude analogy, it's the inverse of the way moderate doses of ethanol (a depressant) can make someone seem more active due to reduced activity in parts of the brain that provide inhibitions and impulse control.
Without hearing both sides of the story, an instructional video came to mind:

Chris Rock's: How not to get your a$$ kicked by police
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8

Hope this situation gets worked out amicably though.
It is coded in the ethical principle of autonomy, which some would say is more important than either the fear of lawsuits or the laws of any particular country.
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Warrick looks like exactly what he needs.
To be fair, almost everything that happens in the brain has to do with dopamine one way or another.
Not the most insightful article in the world, but I think it raises a valid point. The way the wind is blowing in silicon valley is all towards ever-increasing openness with user data. This generates both a lot of utility for users and a lot of long-term risk. For the reality TV generation this has a powerful narcissistic allure, and it seems most young people are slow to recognize the risks which often only bite them years or decades later.

However I think we're in for a sea change here. Making data public has become the conventional wisdom (witness Blippy) in the valley. Facebook saw the dollar signs gleaming in their pupils leading them to push everyone to go public with their data. Corporate marketing drones everywhere are sharpening their pencils to see how they can creatively extract a few more billion from their customer data.

All of this is going to lead to massive disillusionment with an open online lifestyle. Privacy is going to make a major comeback in the decade to come.
The doughnut version http://newyork.seriouseats.com/2009/12/even-cooler-the-mobiu...
He does have a point though. If your business model relies on getting new clients to visit you in your "office" I would not work on a boat at all. First, some people will not get on a boat no matter what. Second, you may have to cancel a lot of meetings due to weather even if the weather on land is perfectly fine or only slightly windy. And third some clients will think that you are not trustworthy and that you are on a boat simply so that you can get away at a moment's notice.
I'm curious how he gets internet access out there. Seems like that could be an issue.
I have no idea what the any of that has to do with the discussion at hand. My point is that it's what you do and how you behave that makes you an entitled jerk or not, not whether you have introspection or not.
I like the idea of using a second mike to eliminate background noise.
I doubt that. There are enough agitators in the open source world that turns it into an "us versus them" issue – thereby alienating almost all of the potential OSS users.

I would personally see a lot more level headed and rational programmers.
It's been considered, but nobody has come up with a really good implementation which doesn't mangle the markup on existing pages when you hit "edit". There is a FCKEditor extension (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:FCKeditor_%28Officia...), but I'm not sure if it fully satisfies this requirement yet.
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> Too lazy to subscribe

If you don't have an account to read the NY Times I don't know whether I should laugh at you or pity you. Maybe both.
You definitely have partners in the room as well—but I would say the closer the VC's office are to the Demo Day location, the more likely you will have a partner present. The further, the more likely it will be an associate. Agreed?
In London you have to rent a place for your boat.
I was recently listening to one of the podcast of Ruby on Rails creator, DHH and he said, he started programming in the early 20's and he has certainly made a small dent in the universe.

I understand that, we are surrounded by successful stories of Programmers or Entrepreneurs who started programming at an early age but that shouldn't stop you from learning Programming. "It's better late than never".
Wow, this takes me back... I remember reading this ten years ago or so. Still basically holds true for modern MMOs, I think, and they often do a better job of accommodating the different types of players than the old MUDs did as a result.
For us Americans, note that 260° C = 500° F. I haven't tried the experiment, but given how quickly various foods (including fresh rosemary sprigs and other live plant matter) blacken in an oven that temperature, I wouldn't be surprised at all if it set leaves and small branches on fire in less than 20 minutes. The smaller branches could then act as kindling for larger ones. Good points about water and ice, though. I'm curious now to see the assumptions in the old models. How much fiery molten rock raining from the sky does it take to melt and evaporate a heavy layer of snow?
Help yourself out. If you were paid what you're really worth, you wouldn't have any desire to say that. I'm sure there are programmers out there reading HN who make over 200 grand (or are wealthy from other means) who are not trying to say "fuck you" to me, because they are in the class of professionals who are actually paid what they're worth.

Don't shoot the messenger, my friend.

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Is this you? Wonder why you're based in Chile.... something to do with the cost of living, perhaps? Wage arbitrage means you don't disagree with me at all, in fact you seem to be in vehement concurrence.
How come the researchers don't research the possibility that the soot coughed up by the asteroid impact blocked light from reaching Earth and led to drastic cooling? Temperatures in the dinosaur days were pretty high relative to now, so it doesn't seem far fetched to me that they died of cold, and not heat. This theory also explains why smaller animals survived, especially mammals (hair is a good insulator).
anything else?

what sort of information would you find useful on the landing page?
But it's a totally different font!
If enough people think like you do, the terrorists won

Al Qaeda spent $20,000 or so on September 11. The US spent $1 trillion and counting. They "won" the minute we opened our checkbook; turning the country into a police state was just dancing in the end zone.
If you think deflation is good for liquidity, you are missing econ 101 knowledge. You only have to look to Japan in the 90's for proof or the great depression!

When deflation rises, businesses start feeling uncertain about the amount of money they can pull in regularly and start laying off workers. Individuals start to save more and spend less. Instead of hiring workers to do their lawns or buying meals, they will try to do everything themselves. In this manner, the "monetary" value of "wealth" from lawn mowers and processed food producers approaches 0.

This is another fundamental difference between the wealth pool and the currency pool.
It's one of those head-smacking why-didn't-anyone-think-of-this-before kinda ideas.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_%28programming_language%29#F...
I'm still guessing that this is just another developer device, like the Android Dev Phone 1 and Android Dev Phone 2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Dev_Phone

Just like the current mystery device, both of those handsets:

- are made by HTC,

- are unlocked GSM handsets,

- are sold directly to individuals by Google,

- and have been given out to Google employees at all-hands meetings.

And Google was directly involved in the design of the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1 / Android Dev Phone 1). For example, they pushed for the debut Android phone to have a five-row keyboard: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10387677-265.html

So none of the concrete facts here (even the rumored ones) are unprecedented. I don't see how Google selling a yet another unlocked handset is a big deal. It certainly won't have a noticeable impact on the US market, competing with subsidized hardware sold by carriers. Just like the ADP1 (T-Mobile G1) and ADP2 (T-Mobile myTouch 3G), carriers will probably have locked version of the exact same phone but at subsidized prices. The ADP is nice for some techies, but for most mainstream US consumers it doesn't make sense to pay for an unlocked phone.
Selling the phone unlocked will likely lead to a high upfront cost.

IF the carriers come up with a reasonable data only plan for it, we can save by not paying for less used voice plan.
Actually, the results won't "surprise" a lot of people. For most ADHD sufferers: Exercise and therapy are somewhat effective, medication is even more effective, and combining the two approaches is the most effective. Big surprise.

The results are not "just starting to come in", though that's a common claim for folks who aren't actually familiar with the field. Ritalin has been studied for over 70 years. People have been taking it for decades on end. The long term results are that people with ADHD lead better lives. How horrible.
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It's not a reduction in activity, but rather disinhibition. The PFC fails to inhibit activity that is regularly controlled in normal brains.
Agreed, kindling would easily set on fire, and assuming a heavy density it could certainly start a forest fire. However, the effect would be no different than dropping a cigarette. When you get to that hair-trigger it's going to happen anyway. I assume the disaster is in the 'global' forest fire that would have ensued, keeping temperatures higher than habitable in major areas of the planet and then producing a cooling effect due to the soot emitted.

However, from my experience soot is emitted more by poor burning not good burning, so could the soot layer that was laid down have been made by a big poor-burn of fuel, rather than a major forest fire. I've seen people burning damp leaves and it emits huge plumes of soot.
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For the same reason there are dozens of NSAIDS and pain killers. Humans are complex systems, and complex systems exhibit complex behaviors including differing reactions to similar inputs.
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Um... Zoho??? Or maybe it's too big to be considered a startup anymore???
Stallman, despite all his rhetoric, is just a moderate liberal.

If you want extremist, you would look at ESR, not RMS. ESR is an actually a hardcore anarcho-capitalist, and I happen to confirm for myself that ESR studied Austrian economics(Hayek at the very least) from a little chat on freenode. Of course, I have no transcript that this happens so you have to ask ESR himself.
What I've never understood is why those who have complained bitterly about Mono being included in distributions seem to keep their mouths shut when it comes to Samba and multimedia - both arguably worse in terms of "patent minefields", and yet a core part of most distributions.
I second that. As I recall, it's a very enjoyable 700-page brain dump by someone who's really into his subject. The writing has a personal voice; there are lots of asides, dry wit, and typos that suggest restrained editing. The discussion is intelligent and often theoretical (and Bartle is not scared to use mathematical metaphors), but the tone is not academic.
Is it possible you need business founders more when building something people have to pay for, and tech founders more when building 'consumer web' stuff?

If so, that explains several observations: the anecdote-based disagreements that keep coming up about the need for business folks, the general bias of YC for consumer web startups in the early years (I think they tended to fund all-programmer teams more so than they do now)

It also seems incredibly useful for figuring out what your startup should do, far more useful than whatever idea you have this week. The skills of the initial team are perhaps the most immutable of resource constraints you have. If you don't have a business/sales guy, don't get into selling software just because "37signals told you to." If you are a business guy, don't waste your time on a twitter app or social network.

Like Dijkstra said, "Do what only you can do."

And yes, I'm aware of Mark Zuckerberg, patio11 et al. Are they counter-examples or exceptions?
In addition to that you don't really know what the market it going to look like 2 to 3 months from now when this ships. Apple, Asus, Dell and others could very well have a tablet in the market by then. So even if you were willing to chance losing your money entirely it wouldn't make sense to buy one of these.
It's computer software, folks.

Computer software runs just about everything in the world. It is a multi-billion dollar industry that employees many many people. It isn't just anything.

His no-compromises method has done far more for the movement than anything. If you want some comprimes, look to the Open Source movement and the BSD license.
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Is there even a single other country where the iPhone has the problems it does on AT&T? I've been using my 3G on Rogers here in Canada since it was released. I've never seen a dropped call and Rogers' network is consistently faster than the phone.
If he was going back to Canada he was not passing through US customs, you just go through and stop at Canadian customs. He was pulled over by the US border police so this could not have been a customs matter. Unless they had tip that he was doing something illegal or he broke a law like speeding, I don't know why they would have pulled him over.

Also I have crossed the border plenty of times, what I have issues with is that customs officials are given too much discretion it seems in what they can do. If an officer has a bad day they can pretty much do what they wanted.

The worst I saw was when my brother was renewing his TN1 visa. I was driving him to the airport in Buffalo. We waited for close to two hours at the customs office. The whole time the customs officers were just talking about their weekend, what their plans were, on one was actually doing their job.

Two girls that were there before us finally asked, and they were were courteous while do so, when their case would be handled. They said they had waited for 3 hours and were on their way to a funeral. The customs officer blew up at them right away, told them to shut up, used allot of swear words directed at them and threatened to throw them in jail.

Nothing the girls did warranted that behavior. After his tirade he had everyone that was waiting come over and denied them entry right on the spot without hearing them out. The whole time all the other officers were just laughing.

Usually everyone has always been professional when I crossed the border and that was the only time I have seen someone on a power trip. But it does happen, and when it happens you are pretty much screwed if you are caught in the cross fire.
Cost ($0.50 over 10 million phones adds up) and CPU/DSP power to perform the cancellation.
All of this is going to lead to massive disillusionment with an open online lifestyle. Privacy is going to make a major comeback in the decade to come.

Or, alternatively, it's going to lead to an entire generation's total acceptance of human foibles as it becomes clear just how universally human our failings truly are.
I think you're right. This seems to be what Google calls its "mobile lab":

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/12/android-dogfood-die...
I'm not sure it's a particularly faithful port of ML, and particularly not SML. It doesn't really look anything like ML. It looks like a bit of a mishmash of syntaxes, if anything, so I'm really not sure what makes it "ML derived" any more than it is Python-derived or Algol-derived.
And this post is what seems to have sparked the "divergent interests" discussion: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.foundation.general/...

As I read it? It's just Stallman ranting again, a little. It usually gets someone's back up till they remember to ignore stuff like this ;)
My point is that you're calling people jerks for something they probably have very little control over and are helplessly unaware of. If you're walking behind someone with a broken leg, do you complain that they should be walking faster?

Perhaps you don't intend the term "jerk" to carry overtones of moral responsibility or social judgement, but that's a fairly common connotation.
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It's a fairly common feature, for example there are several bluetooth headsets on the market with dual mics for noise reduction.
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I said people who are middle aged and not paid what they are worth are pathetic.

So what you're saying is that you work for less than you are worth.

Can I ask you why you feel the desire to go work at a job where you are paid LESS than you are worth? There are plenty of programming jobs available for smart people in the 200k+/year category, which is what a real professional in any other industry makes.

You are either fundamentally misunderstanding my message, or are a complete and utter tool.
My obsession with programming started when I was 14 (I'm 46 now) and it's still going strong. I've noticed that it takes me longer to code stuff than when I was in my 20's & 30's but the quality of my code has improved dramatically over that time and as a result, I spend a lot less time debugging than I used to. I think that as long as you can look back at your old code and realize just how bad it was, then you're still learning and there's hope for you.
Sorry hristov. I meant to upmod but my giant thumb hit the down arrow on my mobile by mistake. Unfortunately there is no way to undo my erroneous vote.
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