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I bet he could look it up pretty easily by trying to date the experience but it's not important to the story. When Apple names every iteration the same flippin name it would get blurry in my head as well. iPad, iPad 2, New iPad, iPad 4?? I don't even think I got the names correct myself now from memory.

I don't think it's a bonus rather a not-getting-yelled-at perk (or pat on the back bonus perhaps). They can track it rather easily since every employee's ID is tied to the little iPad or iPod they are completing the sales with.

Brutal dictator ends up with a rebellion, who'd have thought? Unfortunately the byproduct of any measure of success of a rebellion in the middle east is credited to piousness. If it weren't the case, would you really have a problem with the people overthrowing this guy?

Depending on what your project is, there are plenty of coders to be found overseas. If you want to be a programmer, be a programmer and put in the time to learn what you need from the beginning. If you want to build your idea now, hire a team and manage them best you can. With your money, I personally would have already hired a few teams to work on different projects. None of my ideas I would outsource are exactly super-ambitious or groundbreaking but are things I would like to have as sources of passive income that would give me a bit more freedom. I've got to say Trello makes it so easy to handle projects like this, from the few small projects I have managed with outsourcers.

My advice would be do something seriously FUN as a first project. Do you have a hobby that could be a springboard? For example, I love Radio-Controlled stuff. So a project could be arduino controlled R/C car/drone. A little coding and a little wiring with real results. It's not trivial, but it's not over the top difficult either. That's my example, but try to get a concrete project to tackle. You will learn what you need to learn in the journey to finish it.

I disagree. Let me quote Cutts: "I’ve said it before, but SEO is in many ways about change. The best SEOs recognize, adapt, and even flourish when changes happen."

There's a saying that goes something like "A computer will only do what you tell it to do". That said, merit is important, but you have to show Google merit with code. That's by on page content and structure and appropriate tags, etc or by off-page, with links. That's it. There's no other way. There's no black magic. Cutts speaks to SEOs but he calls he channel GoogleWebmasterHelp . That's the clue to website owners, but many times the owner is not a webmaster. So they can hire an SEO that knows a bit about ranking websites, or they can hire a web programmer. Not all web programmers have ideas on what to do. They likely will want to make a new site for the customer that is not even necessarily any better than the existing, as far as Google cares.

That got a bit preachy but it's not as black and white as you make it out to be. There's a niche for SEOs that involves improving existing websites that a web programmer might not be suited for, might not want to do, or might be too expensive for.

I can see what you are saying but I see SEO a bit differently than being simply good web programming. It's about content organization as well as information flow. Some of the time that comes naturally to a webmaster, but there are so many content rich sites with poor web programming and poor organization. SEO is a niche side of web programming that fixes that specific problem. The skills of an SEO sometimes don't even cross the mind of a "good" web programmer because of the unknown unknowns factor. They just haven't thought about even attempting to rank a website on Google. They aren't investigating the competition to see where they fit, and how to be better.

Musk probably isn't screwing around. I've been reading comments but no one has mentioned it: Who's to say he doesn't have access to one of the grounded 787s? He could have flown his MIT friend over to take a look with him and torn one of the batteries apart. He's the type of guy who could personally know the owner of a 787. Without schematics, he can tell a lot from the work Tesla has done. He could probably even see a near exact configuration they already tried.

This is what I am trying to say, but a good point to the parent commenter. To clarify I would say that I was referring to how we got to where we are today. The current power structure of our society. As I said even without direct participation in religion there is a power structure evident in society vis a vis a teacher and a pupil, a slave and a master, a husband and a wife, to name a few controversial examples.

Not all of these are bad inherently, but some things about the world are changing. A hacker wields mystical power of mythical proportions that literally(don't we hate that word) scares the bejeesus out of the Power Elite. They respond with prejudice and who can blame them. Those in power will never willingly give it up.

Ethical or white hat hacking is just a foreign concept. They only see potential abuses, and threats to their power.

Your comment had just resurfaced in my brain and I saw this new headline and came here and was pleasantly surprised to find exactly what I was looking for.

The original tribal shaman(plural) who used sleight of hand or small chemical reactions cultivated society and truly invented ritual and religion, creating a separation of power. Fear of the unknown and fear of power is precisely what our culture is based on.

It underpins our entire society and government. Ritualistic religion goes hand in hand with our culture, even if some of us are not part of it directly.

We can't escape it, and hacker culture will always be counterculture until some great cataclysmic event occurs in our society. Those in power fear the hacker, and the hacker (as we have tragically seen) fears those in power.

He's the most concise when it comes to explaining complicated ideas. Einstein said something about simple explanations but not too simple. The biggest point Chomsky made to me was that no real explanation or discussion can be had when you are limited to 2 minute soundbites on TV. I won't give his example but he said "You can't say <extremely flammatory counterculture yet objectively true statement> and not take the time to explain why."

I think he was saying the coup mentality is a destructive trait. Instead of focusing on what he is good at, masterminding, he was focusing on how to undermine the guy who assumed charge. By definition that's counter-productive. It's difficult to earn your (potentially invaluable) spot in the group when you "don't play nice with others".

Since you're being quite candid, how did Slicehost make it in the beginning? How do any hosting companies achieve the social proof? Every hosting company has to be hosting some people otherwise they likely wouldn't exist. But maybe there's just that many customers in the world so that you haven't heard of a particular company because their customers are spread out?

Please don't take that as confrontational, I would just like to hear your opinion since you really are the authority here.

Even if it's not faster than light I'm hoping for teleportation that means no line of sight required and distance boundless wireless transmission. I could totally settle for that.

What device? I love Netflix on my Logitech Revue. Heads and shoulders above any other platform I've tried.

I use a Revue as well and like you said it does pass the wife test so I appreciate that. We both love the keyboard. YouTube could be a bit faster but works fine. Netflix app is the best bar-none. Puts my PS3 and XBoX versions to shame. I still long for a slightly higher powered device. HD streams from my media server seem to choke the Revue a bit using TVersity but I probably could use a different transcoder. Suggestions welcome! Maybe even a replacement device?

I really think it would be hard for anyone to notice you and glorify you with a reputation as the "guy who never checks email before 9am". That old quote .. 'no one thinks about you as much as you do' comes to mind. He just said give it an hour, not forever.

Too true. He did write about suits or other methods that appeal to the other senses. That seems much farther off. Though, once environments have been created for this headset, I would imagine quite a few people spending a large portion of time "plugged in".

I also think a controller gives a bit of touch sense to the experience. Using your hands and feet for full controls of a plane stick and rudder or car wheel and pedals lacks only the feedback from acceleration and weather. Looking down to see the pedals and "feeling" your vehicle react to your foot pressing could be more psychosomatic than we really know yet.

Cue transhumanist/Ray Kurzweil checklist watchers. You can mark off 'fully immersive virtual reality available to the masses' at the end of this kickstarter.

Regardless of singularity thoughts, I really enjoy watching new tech become possible due to price drops in components. This would not have been possible just a few short years ago as the price(and size/weight) of LCDs and sensors have fallen significantly. I'd say the smartphone boom has been responsible for most of this advancement. This device is not much more than two phone-sized LCDs strapped to your head. Of course it's the code that makes the magic happen with low latency head tracking.

Commoditization of hardware components will continue to open new doors for developers. "No one would have bought a $10,000 iPod" - as the saying goes.