TFrancis

Why can't you remember any voting during the primaries?

I never buy meat at Wal-mart. They don't have any local butchers. The story I heard was that one store's meat cutters were attempting to unionize so Wal-mart fired all of it's meat cutters nationwide and consolidated it's meat cutting and now ships cuts of meat to individual stores.

Maybe it's because I live in the Midwest United States but, I like knowing there's a professional handling meat and someone I can speak with if I need a special cut or something that's not available.

It has other uses like verifying file integrity.

Right. It's almost as if F5 forgot that the infrastructure isn't a means to it's own end for application owners.

"The fake bogeyman lets people avoid talking about the real issues."

Oh good. I'm glad we can avoid addressing who we actually are and can instead continue pretending the world works the way we like. Don't get me wrong. I think the science (there is a hypothesis) is interesting I just think honestly discussing these kind of issues is a much better way of dealing with the real dangers.

Make sure to read up on Robert Anton Wilson, the guy who defined it as such. His books are especially enlightening. Prometheus Rising and Quantum Psychology are my favorites.

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

Wow, AdBlock makes Google better. I didn't know this was going on.

What if higher education were free?

Practicing yoga is the only requirement to be a yogi. Hacking is much the same way. We all share similar goals but our practices are always intensely personal. If you're practiced enough you know that what you consider important and what you consider progress continuously changes. Thus we don't judge someone else or their practice but appreciate the opportunity to practice with them. Without question both Zed Shaw and _why have hacked. I think it's important to appreciate many qualities of both without needing to apply labels to either.

Namaste

Whoa whoa... The solvency issues of Social Security are primarily due to the Government of my parents "borrowing" money from the system that they paid into it. There are of course the exacerbating burden of of longer life expectancy that they have failed to address as well. I believe it was Al Gore who spoke about the idea of a "lock-box."

All this and generations want to call me entitled? Look you spent the money you were supposed to save. I can appreciate the social programs that result (I'm a bleeding heart) but, don't shit every where and then blame my generation for stepping in it.

How about using GUID as another namespace on top of registry's key value?

Start with Wubi http://wubi-installer.org/

I think that the benefits of price (free) and availability (theater comes to you) are only likely to increase movies watched via YouTube. Once a movie does have 165M page views in an opening weekend (and one will), which will be a better measure of movie performance: the box office or Google?

I like Bill Hicks take on Marijuana: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSH6ofHbeUw

Hmm...I think eating five or six times a day is generally considered good advice because it assumes you've selected food that are whole grain/have a low glycemic index so that your insulin levels remain level throughout the day.

I haven't had a chance to use this library but I have used boto: http://code.google.com/p/boto/wiki/SimpleDbIntro I had some unicode issues the last time I used it and since replaced SimpleDB with something else.

I'll post the same comment here as I did at the article:

Excusing reporting sources (newspaper or otherwise) from taxes isn't the right thing to do. Non-profit organizations are already gearing up and filling the void that for-profit organizations will leave. I look squarely at NPR and PBS. Maybe the print writers should seek to create something as well known and respected as these organizations. They would be tax free and have more respect.

Agreed. Additionally, I found meditation was useful for increasing my self-control. Many types of yoga are focused on meditative practices but not all. I think these are just mind tricks (hacks?) and this jives with the research the article presented.

Jef doesn't think you should have to save. It should be automatic. I've been thinking about a system that version controlled a file after every keystroke. It would be a little heavy but, consider that you could undo anything forever.

Everyone should read Jef Raskin's The Humane Interface. He expresses many of his interface ideas used with the Canon Cat and Archy in the book. I now consider thoughtful interface design a moral decision.

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

I have found few things more pleasurable than learning only for my personal enlightenment

Is this the first swipe at Wolfram Alpha?

Does it include the Trac hosting as well? I couldn't tell with certainty.

If it has/can use a pressure sensitive pen, it's the end of the road for Wacom tablets.

If your architecture is designed such that changing the web layer is hell, you probably should reconsider the architecture. Your other points stand. The channels of communication around nginx are not as clear and robust as Apache.

I think you and I are in agreement. The feedback mechanism of the republic is broken because there is no punishment. You are correct when you say, "most people over the age of 30 know better." However, I believe that people under 30 understand that too. The difference with making data publicly available is that we can _quantify_ how systemic the problem is. Punishment to our representatives is difficult the same way it is difficult to punish most white collar crimes--it's easy to perform complected book cooking in ways that most can't follow. Making the data available will allow people with those abilities to monitor activity in the public. Or put another way, "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."

I think once the hard evidence is in we'll see less and less of the party support mechanisms because the corruption can be so easily proven that congress critters will scatter once a little light is shown on their dirty deeds. Then new (possibly younger) data-driven representation will take their place. In my rough back-of-no-envelope estimation, this will take at least a generation.

I don't think that's fair. Exposing government data in general will allow people (citizens, consumers, whatever...) to see _systemic_ corruption. Often when we hear of corruption, it is represented as a single point (politician X, company y, etc...) of failure in the democratic system.

Exposing data like thins allows the citizenry to be data driven instead of anecdotal and emotional. I think that's the important break from past governmental practices.

I began taking a daily multivitamin and fish oil (sometimes flax seed) because I felt that my diet wasn't healthy during my college years. Placebo effect or not, I felt better and in general my life improved. Even if it isn't a direct effect of the contents of the multivitamin, the price is so insignificant and the benefit so great that it easily passes cost/benefit analysis.

Seriously Robert Anton Wilson's books changed the way I look at the world. I started with "Prometheus Rising" and followed that with "Quantum Psychology." Honestly the two best books I've ever read (Ishmael by Daniel Quinn is close).

I think making forking cheap and easy is a good idea. Sure, bad forks will be made but, Git would make it easy to merge the fork's changes into a trusted stream.