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We will NEVER win the FREE software war, no matter how many battles we have won or will win. It will all be irrelevant, as long as the current economic, Geo-political paradigms (central banking model) are in place, then Free/Open Software will never grew to its' maximum effectiveness.

In smaller countries like Scandinavia centralization works VERY well. That is due to their homogeneous nature. In US, we may require something decentralized and more resilient model to have the Free/Open Source software movement. Something where people have incentive to work on good software without wanting to get bought out by the next google or facebook.

toseraccount, I know what you mean by 'barely usable'. I often find it hard to find programming related (as well as other things) on DDG. However, I do mostly use DDG. That shall give you some idea on how important privacy is to some people. They would rather have what you consider

'barely usable'

results than compromise privacy.

It is not so much that I am not willing to share stuff (even with the government). I used to run a small SaaS for a specific legal industry, and I was subpoenas by the attorney general's office. So I am well aware of the process and I do think in some cases, government do need access to our data to ensure security.

The difference is to ask for permission (court order and transparent due procedure) and have transparency. Maybe the big difference is the exercise of Power instead of Force.

And power is a word with many means, so to be rigorous, this is what I meant by power:

"Power means pretty much the same thing as freedom. Power is a thing that everybody wants the most they can possibly have of. That is, skiing is power, sex appeal is power, the ability to make yourself heard by your congressman is power. Anything that comes out of you and goes out into the world is power and in addition to that, the ablity to be open, to appreciate, to receive love, to respond to others, to listen to music, to understand literature, all of that is power. By "power" I mean human faculties exercised to the largest possible degree. So, in a way, in a large sense, by power I mean individual intelligence. Now when you reach out to another person through the energy or creativity that is in you and that other person responds, you are exercising power. When you make somebody else do something against their will, to me that is not power at all, that is force, and force to me is the negation of power." - Charles Reich

And Free Software (Free as in freedom) is a good real world exercise in power.

I guess you are right, because it has NEVER being done and it is really hard to do, we shouldn't do it.

I love simple. I just wish they would address concern related to how they invest my money. For example, I would prefer that they give their customer the options to invest our money for things that that we approve. For example, I want my money to be invest in local communities instead of building nuclear power plants.

Of course, if you want your money to build nuclear power plant and move large scale jobs abroad, then I support that as well. The point is to give us option on where our money get invested. I have called simple.com a few times, and it looks like it is something that they are not thinking about right now. I hope with the new investment they would start thinking about the larger pictures of how the money they collect is invested.

thank you everyone for correcting my ignorance.

that more diverse the people are the more perspective we can look at a problem:

collective indulgence >= individual common sense

Thanks HN

I started building a SaaS for the legal industry around 2004. It was very small targeted at specific industry. Back then it was very hard to get everyone on board to use Credit Card. I ended up automating everything (including the monthly billing sent directly the user's inbox), but because of difficulty of payment gateway processing (getting a merchant account, parsing the authorize gateway code)

And since I was a one man shop, I just had my users to send me checks at end of the month. I was not the best organized person back then. So let's just say there were quite few uncashed checks. Really wish Stripe was around them.

good to know. I guess the best thing is to NOT store password at all in the the code? Rather in encrypted databases?

ah ok, so what is the recommendation for storing password in a scripting language like

Ruby, Python, RingoJS, NodeJS, PHP, etc? Don't think they have fancy function to determine to store the variables in CPU register or encrypted memory?

I got the feeling that all these should have being taken care of on the hardware level, but someone just got too lazy during the design process and forgot to patch up the security flaw.

Kinda like how everyone was still using telnet to get into their *nix servers in the 90's.

that would mean you would have access to the source code. Or do you mean the software is stored in the memory as well?

yes a slippery slop indeed. The bigger problem is the current economic system/context that we are all operating in. I for one would prefer a NPM non-profit (maybe with a for-profit branch for consulting).

How does the Python and Django non-profits work right now?

Another recommendation that I learned from an old boss is the following.

1. Store password in a function and return the password. 2. Whenever the password is needed call the function.

Example in JS.

function getPassword(){ return 'I am a password'; }

if(req.data.password == getPassword()){ passwordIsCorrect(); }else{ passwordIsNotCorrect(); }

This is not for sure. Core dump and debug dump usually dumps variables, but not the source code of program.

I have enzyme issue with Alcohol, but I believe that is a nice trick.

From personal experience, and from someone who had tremendous problem with public speaking to someone who performed very well at a toast master event in NYC without any preparation. I can say quite a few things on the subject.

One thing is for sure. We are all afraid of other people. No matter who we are. It is just that fear get expressed in different ways. Some people are being shy and passive, while some are being aggressive and over-confident. Until we discover who we really are. Using tricks (power point) and strategies (drink alcohol/weed) will not take us far.

What made the most difference in my process is some ontological training like this leadership course. The course doesn't really say that it will help you with public speaking. Just that you will leave the course

"Being a Leader and Exercise Leadership Effectively as your own natural Self-Expression"

Nothing more, nothing less.

However, the course has nice side-effects, like public speaking.

The course is NOT cheap, but I consider it worth more than my college degree. Next one is at Singapore. FYI, I have no financial tight to the course or University.

http://beingaleader-singapore.com

Short version. They don't really know.

"Although it is unknown why 60 was chosen, it is notably convenient for expressing fractions, since 60 is the smallest number divisible by the first six counting numbers as well as by 10, 12, 15, 20 and 30."

by looking at the video I know some of the people in Spain who are involved. They are in Bilbao. We did a consulting project with them in 2009. They are more in the creative educational industry.

I am not sure about the technology, however from look of the video I can say it is mostly aim at non-technology experts, with nice fancy design.

Can I ask what kind of people do we need to design all the chips hardware such as baseband processor, using open source design?

And what are HN opinion on Silent Circle?

FYI, check out

http://openrtms.org

for more open source alternative for this. Many of these products are nothing innovating in technology.

However, I do think the maker should be rewarded for design, packing (meaning putting everything together).

Very nice, however unless all the hardware and software are open sourced. I will not use it in my real life.

sure, agreed. Sex exist on a continuum,

then also include, Transsexuals. Before/after operation.

It would be good to have sex to be a slider meter, or between scale of 1 to 10. M ---> F.

Paper_ziggurat, I get your concerns about children. When I say "Verbal abuse" I am referring to it in the context of matured adults, which sometimes can be hard to find due to the idiosyncratic nature how all of human are raised. We are often matured in one area like professional life or career, and significantly immature in another like sex and personal/relationship.

Sometimes truth said to us in those "armatured" area of our may occurs as Verbl abuse.

I think any one who has had a good acting course will know this.

The simple point may be best explain by this proverb:

"sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me."

Oh and I don't read reddit.

I don't think it is inappropriate. I think it is stupid and inefficient to euphemize ANYTHING!

Say it like how it is.

Black girls are black girls!

Have SEX on the registration form, we don't need to change to GENDER.

I also think no joke is inappropriate given the right context. However, as a human race (one who has developed advance language as a tool) we need to education our young on becoming aware of our own interpretation of the meaning of words. Mainly, we are responsible for making up the meaning of the word we hear/read, not the person who is saying the words. And it should human-being's number one priority to listen to what others are saying.

Just listen.

People who take offense to any verbal/written communication are just NOT emotionally matured, and they may want to take offense, and that is ok. It is certainly their rights and choice to do so.

Verbal abuse doesn't exist, it is just a figment of imagination.

oh chestnut-tree, I love you! I will look to make this in Denmark at some point.

Now can someone PLEASE post the recipe for KFC batter.

I walked into a KFC and ask to buy a bag of batter, it is how funny they turned very serious all the sudden and asked me to leave to store.

I mean I just want to use it on real organic chicken. Anyone???

here is more detail. It is called a

OSE Microhouse

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/OSE_Microhouse

If you guys like this, then make sure to look at an interview with Marcin Jakubowski the founder of Open Source Ecology.

He said that you can build your own house for $2000 dollar.

I can't find that report now, but here is a link to their discussion form.

http://forum.opensourceecology.org/discussion/903/building-a...

they even open source the design to build your own brick presser.

I am not big fan of US imperialism. However, if one examine the facts, it is unlikely that China and Russia/Europe will be the dominant force anytime soon. US still can dominates EVERYTHING if they really wanted to with their military, political and economic power.

If you read

The Oil Card: Global Economic Warfare in the 21st Century

Jim Norman

http://www.amazon.com/The-Oil-Card-Economic-Warfare/dp/09777...

A high oil price checkmates China (with its large population) but puts money in Putin’s coffers. Going back to the cold war one will see the fall of Soviet Union is engineered by suppression of Oil Prices during the cold war. After 1989 the Soviet reexamine, they agrees that it is cheap oil price that checkmated them.

The trick now has a lot to do with strategy and game theory. I find that to be a bit depressing. As Dave Logan who wrote Tribal Leadership says:

"Culture eats strategy for breakfast."

It would be nice to see the countries foster a kind of culture that will generate wealth for all, instead of devising game theory and strategy to out compete each other or different corporate factions.

Healthy competition is a great instrument on small individual scale, it is idiosyncratic/inefficient on the country scale.

still less expensive then the Ivy League MBA Education. Provided yes, you will get more connections. However, MBA graduate of Ive League has terrible reputation on horning their words.

This Harvard Professor even wrote many paper on the benefit of horning one's word:

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6331.html

If all things are equal, personally I would rather hire this guy than anyone who graduated Harvard or Wharton.

"I learned many things from inmates that I never learned in my prior life. I learned that you should go straight to the person you're upset with rather than go to authorities. I learned that giving and keeping your word is the ultimate measurement of character. I learned that loyalty is easy to promise, but few really deliver. Don't be that guy. Prison is really a learning crucible since the reactions are so quick and amplified. If you have annoying habits, you'll find out fast. If you are not respectful to others, you'll hear about it and you may get a "tune up" to teach you respect."

Sounds like a better and less expensive education than Harvard and Wharton.

let me know what kind of developer you are. Can you PM me on Hacker News.

I stop using facebook. Why don't people just stop talking about facebook and just use diaspora.

personally, I won't use for anything important to my software business on license that is non open source.

Intel, I won't be using it for my money making business. This corporate license thing is so 1990's.

Get with GPL alfaro. You will create way more wealth for the planet that way.

thanks. I also know people who work at Google who are hired straight of college just like described in the article. Can you or anyone provide us with

1. actual % of people in different age group working at google.

2. Please let me know what department you are working in. That might provide some insights.

Occasional Perks is great. However, if the company rely on that to retain its' employees than something rotten.

Google is just a new IBM, Dupon of our time.

I have heard that google will pay employee's family member $2000 every month after their death for 10, 20 years. I think that is great way to make people have great programming skills to stay with the company even if they are not doing anything exciting or creating values for humanities.