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Now turn it into 3D (spheres), add an Oculus Rift and get William Gibson's cyberspace (aka Neal Stepenson's metaverse)

None of them are built but they are all for free :-)

http://mvalente.eu/2014/03/31/some-random-wild-ideas/

Here's a Grooveshark playlist http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Music+For+Coding/66934126

I'm usually a metal/hardrock guy, but coding to that is impossible. Major le me singing and playing air guitar and air drums.

Ulrich Schnauss, System 7, Man With No Name, Art of Trance, Dimension 5, Jean Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Astral Projection, Kraftwerk, VNV Nation...

Lisbon, the West Coast of Europe.

Better beaches, better food and better wines than the other West Coast.

Plus: better trams and a better bridge.

Perfect geographic location, halfway between Europe and US.

-- MV

"Equalization of Opportunity Act" anyone? The "Anti-dog-eat-Dog Rule"? Socialism FTW.

You know there's a bubble going on when expensive chairs are being discussed and voted on.

Guess its time to drop Dropbox, so to speak, and move definitely to UbuntuOne

Reasons: "The difference between the two societies is that in the society which performs poorly:

a) the stupid members of the society are allowed by the other members to become more active and take more actions; b) there is a change in the composition of the non-stupid section with a relative decline of populations of areas I, H1 and B1 and a proportionate increase of populations H2 and B2."

http://www.searchlores.org/realicra/basiclawsofhumanstupidit...

Solutions: "1.) If you were going to build a piece of social software to support large and long-lived groups, what would you design for? The first thing you would design for is handles the user can invest in. 2.) Second, you have to design a way for there to be members in good standing. Have to design some way in which good works get recognized. The minimal way is, posts appear with identity. You can do more sophisticated things like having formal karma or "member since." 3.) Three, you need barriers to participation. This is one of the things that killed Usenet. You have to have some cost to either join or participate, if not at the lowest level, then at higher levels. There needs to be some kind of segmentation of capabilities. 4.) And, finally, you have to find a way to spare the group from scale."

http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html

Try out http://gobolinux.org/

-- MV

Maybe they should change the name and replace Z with a D.

Python on Dope sounds fierce. Snakes and drugs are cooler than jewels and trains.

The alternative to RoR is not Python, but some framework using Python as the underlying language.

Python on Zope would be my choice. It kicks RoR ass since 1999.

Think about:

- potential customers: businesses or consumers? If you're targetting businesses be aware of a large sales cycle; that means you'll need more working capital. Lots of customers or just a few? If there are lots you have more power, but it also means a certain type of business model. If there are few, they will have more power, namely to negotiate prices. The worst situation: you have one customer, government.

- potential suppliers: businesses or consumers (eg user generated content)? These mean different business models. Lots of them or just a few? If there are lots of them you'll have more power (eg. price negotiation). If there are just a few (or worse, just one), you might have problems down the line.

- potential competitors: are there any (if none, perfect!). Are there just a few or lots of them? Just a few might mean that its an available market but it might mean that it's a difficult market to get into, namely in terms of initial investment. Lots of competitors means that its easy to enter that market, competition his big and that means a constant price fight.

-- MV

Early adoption was due to it being an extension to the IM Away messages. After that, especially after users started to use @x as a form of addressing, it basically became IRC 2.0, without the problems of installing IRC clients, having netsplits, being kicked, etc, etc.

-- MV

Between 500€ and 1000€

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Some important projects have decided to be located in Portugal http://living-planit.com/aboutus.htm

-- MV

Lisboa, Portugal, Europe

http://seedcapital.pt/2009/11/18/lisbon-by-the-sea/

-- MV

Buy and read "A Random Walk Down Wall Street"

-- MV

When you use Apache/Nginx/etc, you're using a webserver. Usually you will also use a serverside programming language like Python, Ruby, PHP, etc. The webserver is usually programmed using C/C++ and the serverside language is "bolted" on.

With Node.js you have Javascript as a serverside language (like PHP, Python, etc). But included with it you have a library that allows you to create a webserver.

Instead of having a webserver and couple a serverside language to it, you have a serverside language that is able to spawn its own webserver (although you can choose to use Apache or others).

The biggest advantage though, comes from the fact that JS is a functional language with a focus on event based programming. And so Node.js follows that paradigm: you use JS functions that are binded to certain events and run when one event happens, instead of running continously and doing some kind of loop waiting on I/O,CPU, database, etc. This allows for better performance.

Plus there's the advantage of being able to program websites using the same language both client-side and serverside. But thats another matter.

-- MV

To make money with stocks you want to buy cheap/low and sell for more/higher. It doesnt have to be in that order.

If you expect a stock value to go down lower than X dollars, you commit to sell them stock at >X$ (without owning) and, when the time comes and your expectations (about the stock going down) become true, you buy for <X$ and sell the stock for >X$.

-- MV

Pretty similar to what some of us did nearly 2 years ago:

http://projects.mvalente.eu/TwitTV/

-- MV

Hack a walkie talkie ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkie-talkie ) ?

Use one as the base and get the audio in/out connected to your home PC audio in/out.

Hacking in a tone dialer ( http://is.gd/5EjWA ) might also be necessary.

-- MV

Seeing as how you already know Java, I would say Javascript is the next big thing, especially because it's also something that you can use server side.

http://commonjs.org/ http://nodejs.org/

-- MV

Check out http://commonjs.org/

-- MV

Starting a startup with 2 founders is probably the worst mistake startups make. Voting is split 50/50 and decisions become impossible.

The team should have 3 or 5 members (not 4, its even and can also lead to 50/50). Get another founder or get a coach/advisor/friend who you both trust and that can make a rational decision when you 2 are of different opinions.

-- MV

http://friendfeed.com/

-- MV

I just use 2 shell scripts, cat.cgi and index.cgi, at my blog

http://mv.asterisco.pt/cat.cgi?cat.cgi http://mv.asterisco.pt/cat.cgi?index.cgi

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Javascript