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if you want anonymous payments, just use hawala :)

I'll bite.

I am putting together a product for doing simple administration of multi-server configurations, allowing a quickie conversion from in-house servers to the cloud (ec2 or others).

The emphasis is on configuration and management and not dashboard functionality like rightscale, cloudkick, and the aws panel itself. Because why reinvent the wheel? If you're interested ping me and I'll send you more information. I would also be open to shares-for-housing. thomashartman1 at gmail.

you are almost certainly right about that.

See Alex3917's comments.

I am relieved to see that David Brooks has finally gotten off the pro-iraq war bandwagon and is now boosting school programs that teach harlem schoolkids... "how to look at the person who is talking, how to shake hands."

Sigh. The program actually sounds pretty cool, but I really dislike something about the tone of the article. But yeah, if I was a broke-ass welfare mom in harlem I'd probably try to get my kid sent to this school. It would be a bit like winning the lottery though... hey... why is that?

Neoconservative answer to social injustic: We have this special school that proves we can solve these deep social programs, we just have to get off our butts and do it! Yuppy jobs for all, even black people!

Socialibertarian answer to social injustice: Uh. Are you sure? Why does it keep only working for a tiny minority of the fucked population? Why are things not necessarily getting better? Don't people ultimately have to solve their own problems? And isn't this what you're proposing more of an illusion of that?

If you rely on a team of academics from harvard to boost your solution, your broke ass welfare moms are not... solving... their own problems!

This idea was suggested by the four hour workweek (tim ferriss), that's probably why it's getting a lot of play.

I was thinking of trying it out for myself sometime soon, but I see from the other comments on this thread that it's probably not as much of a slam dunk idea as it sounds.

The haskell ghci debugger does.

Check out the books he co-authored:

Interface

The Cobweb

I actually like these better than all his single-authorships. They do feel lighter.

Hire them first for a short intense miniproject.

If you decide not to partner, pay them cash for their time.

If you decide to partner, pay them with equity.

Great advice but... so? What do you use?

This would be slightly more impressive if it actually had a... demo.

This just goes to show how important is to be nice ALLLL the time on the internet.

The one time JS is a douche, he gets called on it big time, and there's nothing he can say to make himself seem like less of a douche.

I am sure JS and GW are both perfectly fine people if you sit down with them for a cup of coffee, and if they randomly sat next to each other on a plane they'd probably get along fine too.

Stuff you write stays on the internet forever.

I had to think about this for a while, but finally: no.

It worked for something awful but it pisses me off that if I have something valuable to contribute to a thread I have to cough up ten bucks. Just feels wrong. I'm doing the work right? Something awful still gets paid when someone reads my post and clicks on an ad. So, I have a negative feeling about something awful and never go there.

I might pay $5 for something that was truly value added for me, such as a secret list of "best of" content or something, or the ability to join a community of meta-moderators, or like that.

An alternative explanation:

http://www.whereisthemoney.org

You shouldn't just print money if it supports theft via nontransparent government accounting, impoverishes the many, and enriches the few.

Then you are just Zimbabwe 2.0.

Fix the accounting systems first, please.

That sucks, but that's life.

Give yourself 48 hours to feel bad about this, and think about why you are feeling bad about this... and then move onto the next thing.

Rejection is part of business, and having the competition scoop you is part of rejection.

alta vista vs google

I agree, but I actually liked this campaign.

The only thing I would point out is that adults do this texting shit too.

This article made me want to throttle the author, and I don't even belong to gen y. Where's the bloody downvote button?!?!

Yeah. Ubuntu marketing says, We make Linux Easy. And mostly this is true. But here, they opted for using the latest and greatest technology (pulse) rather than old and known to work everywhere (alsa) because of developer pressure, in a supposedly LTS version that huge numbers of people are going to use.

I view this is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, ubuntu screwup.

sum ys = foldl' (+) 0 ys

I actually thought this was an opinion piece for the onion.

If you're doing this, there are some operational risks.

People make money off intransparency. Billions.

If they perceive transparency efforts as a thread, they may simply invest some of their winnings in having you and your transparency efforts destroyed.

Doesn't mean it shouldn't be done. But you need to need to be aware that this kind of stuff does go on.

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/09.05.02/fitts-0236...

solari.com

whereisthemoney.com

from the metroactive article:

"Starting in 1994, Hamilton Securities Group began building an easy-to-operate computer software system to track the money flows in any given region. The program, Community Wizard, provided the kind of transparency needed to expose cooked books. Former Hamilton employee Carolyn Betts remembers the power of Community Wizard, even in its infancy.

"It was in the beta stage, so it was not complete, but with each piece of information it became more and more powerful," recalls Betts. "The HUD field office people went absolutely crazy when they saw it. You could go in with a pointer on a map and get to information on expenditures by each HUD program. It was a pretty beautiful program and would have become unbelievably powerful."

Community wizard was dismantled in 1997 as part of a legal hatchet job, the servers confiscated, and the backups with source code wiped.

Yeah, I moved to poland for four months for basically this reasons.

It seemed kind of bizarre, but it did make my money last a lot longer, even with the travel cost of getting there and back.

However, I had a friend to move in with so I wouldn't get lonely in an environment where I didn't know the language or culture. Without this, it probably would have been impossible. (I would likely have gotten depressed and unable to get any work done.)

If you are on ubuntu hardy I feel your pain. It completely blows. Perhaps this will help, the result of many many painful hours combing the forums. It seems to do the trick for me, anyway. I programmed this as a bash shortcut so I wouldn't forget.

  I don't really know what the fix is when things crap out, I have just kind of tried things blindly.
  http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-968697.html

  (?) sudo alsa reload
  sudo alsa force-reload
    also: look for a dialog that pops up, possibly in task bar, if it asks if reload is ok, it is. beh.

  also related
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/294859
  also suggested:
    sudo killall pulseaudio
    sudo alsa force-reload

  also:
    rm /var/lib/alsa/asound.state (don't include the rm if googling for this post)
    sudo force alsa-reload
      http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:faaeSQtYS4cJ:pennsylvania.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php%3Fp%3D6242032+gvfs+alsa&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=pl

perl, javascript, haskell.

perl: practicality + fanatically helpful community, and it's in unix's dna javascript: nice skill, something you can make money in if you're good, immediate gratification on web pages haskell (or lisp): get some theory in there. i'd vote haskell because of the community

The pro is, if you are an insider, your ass is subsidized by everyone else.

So, it is cost effective to lobby, bribe, and generally deal underhandedly to get that subsidy. Times like the recent bailout is when your investment in underhandedness pays back handsomely.

There is a flaw here too though.

Regulators could game this system by taking their lump sum and not doing the work involved with sniffing out fraud. If there's no fraud, they win, and didn't have to do any work.

If there is fraud, maybe they can squirrel some of that bounty into an offshore bank account and sneak out the back door like bernie madoff was hoping to do.

Darn.

This is a hard problem.

Follow up at the ripplepay list, where non-government based currencies are discussed:

http://groups.google.com/group/rippleusers/browse_thread/thr...

This is very interesting for me, a non-iphone owner.

Could you be more specific about the apps you use and the caching features?

I'm interested in moving my music into the cloud as well.

Thanks.

Edit: were you referring to a theoretical service or a real one?

3c per visit sounds excessively high. How often do you click on advertisement?

That's a really interesting idea.

Did you come up with that yourself or has this been discussed elsewhere in more depth?