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Actually, studying etymology (which probably doesn't stand for icons yet) is fun because of that reason.

Even our letters are left overs from old icons. Alpha for the ox, Beta for the house. I am just suggesting that the floppy probably won't have its letter someday.

I saw one that had a free for commercial use only licence. That was different.

We use the floppy disk for the save icon, but we don't use floppies anymore. Just something that has been bothering me.

Sometimes willpower is the only thing you have when others say you don't.

I don't think I am really in 'tune' (by your definition) as I would like to be, but to be in harmony with your surroundings and environment, I think you need to observe them first and then decide on advantages and disadvantages and how you can change them.

For me, the realization was couple of things. After years of work in a small company that declared the biggest growth in Turkey, I joined up a startup only to see how it can fail in this country. After that, I have been freelancing for the last year, with the long term hopes of getting myself in the SF area. So I think hopes do help. I told the three employer offers I got last month that I would like to work remote from home office, two of which accepted. I took one of the jobs, subletted my house in the busiest part of Istanbul and moved south to the Mediterranean coast. I practiced Aikido three days a week while I was in Istanbul. Now they are asking me to teach it here, since I seem to be the highest level in the region. I like swimming, and I can do it here for free instead of paying lots of cash to a gym with a pool in Istanbul.

So in order to 'retune', I chose the way to change things drastically. Everything is not settled yet, and moving things around has not made me productive at all, and I should really be coding instead of responding to this but how did this happen:

- I realized I had to change somethings completely. Turkey is becoming a one city (Istanbul) country and I started to hate that fact. I started to hate the fact that everyone feels like they can only make money in that one city in the country. Like the rest of the country is just a hinterland serving that city. I like the city, but I think it is now at the edge of madness.

- I am now 36, and all those ideas are going to die if I don't do something about it.

- I don't enjoy working for other people's ideas anymore when I don't believe in them.

- Noticing that even my U.S. Computer Science education wasn't up to par, and I had to retrain myself, which is an ongoing effort.

- I get paid 3 times less than a U.S. programmer. Though it also means I can find programmers cheap here in case I need to hire them, I have trouble finding capable programmers that also get things done.

- There are no programmers my age that I know of. Well OK, I know one, and I am currently working for him.

- The need to start my own company and projects some time.

- If the programmer minds are meeting in the SF area, I should be there as well.

- I felt like I had to get rid of some of the strange loops in my life. My girlfriend (with whom I ended up leaving each other) warned that the loops are in the mind and I'll take them along to anywhere I go. This also has truth in it.

- The realization that I don't hack anymore. Even my hobby projects have turned into dull events.

So I decided I will make my own bay area first, however fake, and work from there. Thus I moved.

- I made a "field test" first to see if it would actually work. Basically. on my off month, I came here and worked on my hobby projects. I found that I was less stressful and more productive. What I didn't figure out was that this project was something different, and hobby projects always are fun. Boring projects can be harder to do on the country side.

- I have no proper networking to be really freelancing. Basically it is just that previous people that I worked with that like to give me work. This might not work since I won't be meeting anyone in the industry from here. But that is ok. I think I can build up my network from the net. Or move somewhere else. Or die trying.

So basically now I got my own view of a bay, looking west from my rented house. Hopefully I will get some work done today. So I changed it all. And I am all out of tune, because starts are a delicate points in time.

Another thing, before I did this, I was telling everyone that I was going to do it. Move south, work freelance from home. I told it to so many people, so often, and it became a reality. Basically writing it here also is a step in that direction.

I made some success by showing off git-svn in the environments/places where they were still using svn. I would show off by using many local branches, by doing things like fixing bugs in another branch right away, test other developers' commits in other branches to see if they really work, or basically things that are hard to do with svn. They still get to use their svn repos as the "origin" but they meet the flexibility of git.

It is an example of bad online journalism.

Apparently the writer is quoting an official, but to find who he is quoting you have to click on the link "today". So you naturally think "today" is probably a link to the event, so it ends up being an article with an unnamed quote.

I think one of the big mistakes is the assumption that one can get away from symbols and language by using gadgets, windows, or flowcharts. Even if you succeed at some level, you end up with a different language, which still requires programming and abstraction skills, but the language usually ends up being inefficient.

I find that written symbols are very efficient. At least, as long as I have this keyboard in front of me.

As a counter argument, from the wikipedia article on Richard Feynman:

Feynman gained a reputation for taking great care when giving explanations to his students and for making it a moral duty to make the topic accessible. His guiding principle was that if a topic could not be explained in a freshman lecture, it was not yet fully understood.

I understand that you are implying, that as an ISP owner you have received no instructions from the government to further impose IP level restrictions on YouTube. That is how you would know.

Now, as an ISP owner, if you only use Turk Telekom (current "Ma Bell" of Turkey) as your backbone, then you also did nothing to improve your own backbone. Then you would also be guilty of the same flaw you mentioned.

But on the off chance that you actually do have your own fast backbone and the most likely chance that there are no restrictions on Google's sites other than YouTube... Today is the day, you should be advertising, by word of mouth, by _anything_ that how we can reach all the sites if we use your ISP.

If not, it is not really _your_ job.

If you are indeed an ISP as your profile says, your job would be to reroute the wrongly banned traffic so that it does not get dropped by Turk Telekom. Advertise it here, and I would switch to your services. The law doesn't prevent you from laying the cable.

There is a tension before something breaks or action happens (spannungsbogen?). So I am glad that this is a major fuckup, with possible commercial backlash.

The previous YouTube ban was a DNS deletion from the Turkish DNSes. This was naturally avoided by people using Google's DNS anyway. Most people I know either use Google's DNS or some other open dns even if somebody set it up for them and they don't know about it.

And now there is a "deny all Google IPs, allow search and few other things like Maps, Reader and Picasa" ban across all Google domains.

This is funny and quite serious at the same time.

Ah, it cannot possibly have an effect on me, I think. I pay for servers in UK, Germany and USA. I can reroute myself however I want. But what about my friends... This is not a ban they can avoid easily. Oh wait... Check out my Nexus One. Bingo, all those sites don't mention it, but now I cannot enter Android Market or use any of Google's apps. The thing is almost bricked.

This is why things like Cynogenmod are a "Good Thing (TM)". Hey, YouTube on the Android works, which is most probably what the ban is trying to nuke. Ironic as always.

The reason is probably the way Google handles DNS and how it tricked the censors into banning everything while they were trying to "actually" ban YouTube IP block.

Now you got companies that are complaining because they cannot get into their docs.google.com. Most sites have their loading spinners stuck on spinning because you cannot reach analytics. Guess what, Google isn't just providing search anymore.

It maybe that it is time to react for most people now. The People. Oh wait, that includes me. Hmmmmmm.....

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