cmars232

So it begins...

Anyone try this? I would, but my media's on a Linux box.

Reminds me a bit of IBM Global Services in the late 90s.

I wonder if such an undertaking could be crowd-sourced somehow? Something like a wiki-fallout?

Have to use McAfee at big corporate day job. It's amazing how much faster a full-blown development environment runs on the same hardware when dual-booted into Linux.

Censored information can be distributed anonymously in the small, but in practice, in the large, censorship still works to marginalize content to a medium that is not readily accessible, save to a technically savvy few (Tor, freenet, I2C). For 99% of the intended audience, it can still be effectively censored.

Is it possible to have anonymity, security and generally-usable accessibility? Not necessarily speed -- latency can be acceptable when the user isn't stuck waiting in real time on a spinning circular icon.

I was also recruited via LinkedIn for my current job.

This reminds me of an old legend from a semiconductor company where I used to work. You used to have to test your ESD protection (grounding heel/wrist straps) with an ohmmeter and log it to a notebook before going out to the factory floor to be sure that you wouldn't zap anything.

Engineers being engineers, someone analyzed the log data and discovered that the skin resistance of female workers tended to vary on a monthly cycle, and you could predict these cycles based on empirical data. This soon spread around the office.

At some point HR got involved and shut it down. The ohmmeter was replaced with a red/green light.

Is there a quick, painless alternative though? Can't really decapitate or bleed out a heavily armored invertebrate. Maybe drown them in wine or spirits?

Vitamin D also seems to improve my mood. So does lying in the sun all afternoon, but Vit D is safer and more practical :)

node.js needs UDP.

Nah, usnet is overrated, themnet is where it's at!

If I were BPs execs, I'd be worried about more than my job.

Speculative market based on interest, relevance and attention is an interesting idea. Does it need to be tied to a social news website?

Installer wouldn't run on my XP 64 laptop:

This application has failed to start because MSVCR100.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

Update: Couldn't figure out how to use it on my 64-bit Ubuntu VM.

I'm curious about this, because I develop Eclipse RCP apps, and I've wondered before about making a stripped down ultralight JDT.

I love Eclipse, but I understand it's overkill for many, and it forces a lot of strange jargon on you all at once (working sets? perspectives? wtf?). The concepts make sense once you bend your mind to the Eclipse model, but is there an easier, more natural model?

Eclipse reminds me of the old Mozilla kitchen sink -- we need a Firefox, I mean a Chrome.

I wonder if you could successfully apply an onion routing protocol to the distribution of physical objects, with an economy built-in around risk tolerance. Mundane shipping could then be subsidized by the more expensive contraband.

Distance yourself by connecting client & courier directly with a distributed P2P app (like Tor), and sell the authenticity and financial escrow services. Keep no knowledge or record of the actual transactions.

I will if there is a better place to go. Or even a place that isn't better yet but could be made better by the early adopters.

“Is it realistic to predict that knowledge accumulation is so powerful as to outweigh the physical limits of physical capital services and the limited substitution possibilities for natural resources?”

Yes, unless we figure out the knowledge required to synthesize these elements, recapture them, or develop substitutes.

Knowledge has a habit of disrupting what otherwise looks like a zero-sum game.

If independence and economic autonomy work well at the state level, I wonder what it could do at the local level in resilient communities.

IDEs are a special case, and not necessarily representative of the platform -- they're trading memory for speed on purpose. Cross-referencing and API lookups have to be fast, memory footprint is far less important.

Something like the Eclipse RCP mail app demo could provide a more representative baseline memory footprint of the platform (http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-RCP-3/tutorial3.html). The Eclipse platform can be quite compact without the IDE features, JDT & online help indexing, etc.

> Skilled computer scientists with some management responsibilities, for instance, often make base salaries of $180,000 to $210,000.

Really? Where? Is that in USD?

Maybe they're looking to get into the parked domain business?

Wow, this could also ban iPhone apps from using Scheme (http://jlongster.com/blog/2009/06/17/write-apps-iphone-schem...) or maybe even model-driven tools (http://code.google.com/p/iphonical/).

Telling developers which languages to use? Might as well stick with enterprise software development, more innovation going on over there Apple!

A heavy-handed IP process does not necessarily help user experience and product quality. In fact, in the Eclipse community, it can demonstrate the opposite effect.

Because of licensing issues, Eclipse.org won't host the plugins you need to install Subversion support in the IDE. Recent releases of Subversive try to remedy this with a pop-up dialog to download & install the connector plugin when you first try to connect to a repository, but it's a different process, it looks and feels different to the user than normal feature installation, and if it fails for some reason, you'll have to start googling.

The smaller members of the Eclipse community should be able to manage their own IP risk without having to adopt the extremely conservative risk tolerance of IBM, government agencies, very large companies, etc. I think there is definitely a need to support the conservatives, but it shouldn't be at the expense of innovators and early adopters.

How can a community strike this kind of balance?

I like Calibri, it's a refreshing font.

I've been struggling with this issue of empathy myself. I'm constantly bugged about being very capable of building things for an employer, but having no idea how to make something people want.

How does one cultivate this empathy?

SF should just figure out a way to keep homeless off public transit. Perhaps they could charge nominal access fees that could be waived by a DL, passport or other proof of residence, and use the extra revenue to fund improved security.

I've heard of Time Warner infected subscribers asked to allow a service rep to install some basic firewall/AV software. I guess they had too many grandmas with zombie PCs connected direct to the modem & got proactive.

No, the USPTO is imploding.

Mad max references aside, I wonder if anyone has seriously considered just processing the waste into something useful. If they prevented some of of the careless inorganic stuff from getting in there (batteries, wtf?) couldn't this be an excellent source of fuel & fertilizer?