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Does anyone really make much money doing the amazon affiliate thing? I'm genuinely curious -- anyone have any numbers they can share?

As a taxpayer, I'd just like to say, "screw you".

John Boyd would be proud. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop

One important reason is that you can't be good at everything. Having someone else who can focus on skills A & B while you focus on skills C & D is nice, if you can trust the other person to be competent. Especially consider that skills A & B might be things you hate, eg paying taxes and doing bookkeeping.

Another big reason is that if I put a lot of work into a new design or a feature, I'm in the worst position to critique it. You need someone else who can provide objective feedback. Customers can do this to some extent, but it is very easy to dismiss their suggestions.

Related to that 2nd point, it is often tempting to say, "this is good enough" when you have to do all the work yourself. Having someone to push you to do better can really improve the quality of your output.

I'm sure they are working hard. I don't think anyone is resting on their laurels. But I'm not seeing any results. I'm guessing that they keep running into problems shipping an overly designed new thing, but since it will be ready any day now, they aren't putting any resources into patching up the old thing that I have to deal with.

I'm guessing he means "raise the age when folks begin collecting social security benefits"

It is, for the first time in history, a garden of pure ideology.

Heh, these guys could probably get a grant from the same folks funding the EATR [1] research. Sounds like a great combination to me.

1: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10287597-71.html

UFC is a lot less violent than boxing (and you simply haven't watched both if you claim otherwise), a sport that it is a rapidly displacing.

Darfur, from wikipedia: "Sudanese authorities claim a death toll of roughly 19,500 civilians [72] while certain non-governmental organizations, such as the Coalition for International Justice, controversially claim that over 400,000 people have been killed.[73]"

Compare that to WWII: "Most suggest that some 60 million people died in the war, including about 20 million soldiers and 40 million civilian"

Looking at North Korea and Iraq, every single person in those countries could die and that still wouldn't exceed the body count from WWII, not to mention WWI or any of the truly pointless European conflicts before that.

Even comparing Iraq to Vietnam, do you know what that war did to that country? Millions and millions of civilians were killed, an order of magnitude worse than even the extreme estimates of Iraqi civilian deaths.

Forced labor worldwide? Slavery was legal in the US 150 years ago. Now it is not -- in fact, we just elected a black president.

Try reading about Ixtoc I a little bit.

"[over 9 months] Approximately an average of ten thousand to thirty thousand barrels per day were discharged into the Gulf until it was finally capped on March 23, 1980"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixtoc_I

And somehow, we are all still here.

Please study some history before you make claims like that. Have you seen any witches burned recently? Have 100K Japanese people on the west coast been put into camps recently?

After estimating the height I needed to raise my desk, I bought some cinder blocks and pavers from Home Depot for about $10 and just put them under my desk legs. I used some old books to prop up my monitors, but blocks of printer paper work well too.

An anti-fatigue mat is an excellent investment, but even with that be prepared for a few weeks of achy feet/legs. You get used to it eventually, but man, it feels nice to crash on the couch in the evening.

Hm, you are probably right - I'm used to thinking about things from a civil suit perspective.

http://volokh.com/posts/1197670606.shtml

What is your plan for when the judge tells you to supply the decryption key?

As a University of Texas graduate, I always smile when I see the tower when I mistype a domain.

Wow, that sounds nice. Easy screenshots makes the quality of bug reports go up so much.

I've using alt-printScreen then ctrl-v to do this for years. Does insert screenshot do something differently?

Now if only I could paste screenshots in.

Maybe we are part of a test to see if female bloggers get more upvotes on social news sites.

Ars Technica has a few:

"Chen twice wrote that 80 percent of user traffic depended on pirated videos. He opposed removing infringing videos on the ground that 'if you remove the potential copyright infringements... site traffic and virality will drop to maybe 20 percent of what it is.' Karim proposed they 'just remove the obviously copyright infringing stuff.' But Chen again insisted that even if they removed only such obviously infringing clips, site traffic would drop at least 80 percent. ('if [we] remove all that content[,] we go from 100,000 views a day down to about 20,000 views or maybe even lower')."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/smoking-guns...

Why can't he just be a crazy person who did something crazy?

So you could write a mobile app in F#? Neat.

A company that lets crashing bugs accidentally slip through the cracks like that isn't taking security very seriously yet. That's pretty scary, considering Flash's market share.

If someone else on your LAN gets infected because they opened an email virus, your router isn't going to help you.

To prevent incoming connections you don't want.

I wonder if dropping in a few SSDs would have fixed all their perf problems without having to spend that much time investigating it.

Is the combination of Parkinson's Law with Maes-Garreau Law the reason we don't have AI yet?

Sounds like a great opportunity to feed some false information to the insurgents.

Wouldn't it be funny if this was exactly what google intended when they shut it down? Surely it helps Wave and future products if a bunch of engineers start building expertise with this type of tech.