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The one which helped me the most was a moderately technical tutorial entitled GIT for computer scientists.

http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/
I understand that but why do we believe Sean C's side of the story? He could a bigger loon than she is, it takes two to make a fight.
"IIRC, it's illegal to be Muslim in China and all new Tibetan Buddhist monks are required to become Party members."

Dude, the Muslim part is plain false. I lived in Xi'an, a city with a large population of Hui Muslims.

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

I don't know where you heard about the Tibetan Buddhist required to join the communist party, but it just doesn't sound right. Joining the party is considered a privilege in China, you get all kinds of benefits, but mainly the ability to vote. I kinda doubt they would give this kind of political privilege to Tibetan monks.
This will never fly, in the current config. Too much danger from the propellers which are level with your HEAD.
It's in the same section.

"if it was known or used by others in this country before the date that the applicant made his/her invention, a patent cannot be obtained".

Mind you, they don't seem to apply this very consistently.
most of the url shortening services are banned here. i'm sure this one will be too, eventually.
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Master, sure; that takes a (long) while. But one: you've got to start somewhere, and two: Chapter 8 (http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/book.htm...) covers this.

I understand Git's internals well enough, but I don't, nor have I tried to understand the actual packing heuristics, nor do I believe that I need to, to be good at git. (Recent HN posting on the packing heuristics: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1058204)
How the hell do you get a single digit as a domain name?
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making an invention != disclosure != filing != obtaining a patent.

I was originally pointing out a fact lest others be led astray, but I'm not going to reply further.
They do make those but they are "rugged" pc's you can spill your whole water on it while running and it won't stutter.

The downside is that they are expensive as all get out for a lobotomized laptop. http://www.ruggednotebooks.com/
All of that looks like a good investment if you have sufficient stability (including cooperation from fellow kleptocrats) to have a serious chance at harvesting what you sowed.

It's probably simply too unstable to do so right now, and a lot of that comes from the top.

And that would be a lot of the difference between Cameroon and a poor-ish but more culturally Western country.
Yeah, I liked this one too! See also gitcore-tutorial (7)
Not the same man. Front running needs insider knowledge, usually the brokerage firm or the market maker that sees your hand first, and places their orders against you before placing yours.
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You may apply for a US patent within the first year after the invention was made publicly known (e.g., published). If you intend to file foreign patents, the invention must not be made publicly known before filing abroad. You have one year from the date of filing your US patent to file your foreign application(s). So public disclosure prior to filing will only stop foreign applications.
Well this is just plain wrong. She has two positions available to her; her choosing the $60k one does not wink the $120k position out of existence, and there will certainly be someone else trying for that. Perhaps one of the many people who do not fall in the narrow description of "parent with a mortgage, two kids, one in college" that would make it such a seemingly terrible deal.
I don't understand packing heuristics either, and no, you don't need to understand it to be good at Git. What you do need to understand: what commit objects really are, and how they're connected to each other. This should cover branches, tags, rewriting history. There's no point describing porcelain commands in great detail: that's what manpages are for.

About starting somewhere, I agree. There are plenty of "cookbook tutorials" to take you through some everyday scenarios. In my opinion, it's much easier to screw up with Git than with SVN: so when this does happen, it's time to move onto understanding the internals.
If you're co-located, a whiteboard does wonders. I haven't seen a webapp that even comes close.
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I heart all javascript developers who write OSS lightboxes for the rest of us, because a) they're really surprisingly difficult to do right in exactly the way you need it done (an edge case I've seen: does the content stay fixed while the grey overlay moves with the window when scrolled with the mousewheel on Google Chrome?) and b) proper integration of them with your site practically prints money.

You can look at the obvious one on my site for an example -- I've been through a dozen or so iterations of that, from starting with a simple HTML link to an image file (don't do this -- just don't) to a simple Lightbox for the image to the iBox for the image and call-to-action buttons that I'm using right now. Those improvements move the needle for my business.
Exactly. The very sad reality is that humans really just were not meant to fly; we're too heavy. Luckily for us, we're smart enough to burn some hydrocarbons and lift our heave bodies off of the ground. Artificially limiting this ability using batteries is just silly.

If the tech was practical (it isn't right now) or if this project was about developing batteries (it doesn't sound like it is) then fine, but can we pretty please see a gas version?
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Why? Consulting conglomerates churn out a lot of code. Line for line, I would expect Infosys and Wipro to out produce Microsoft in code, but those guys are writing custom in-house enterprise apps. Not shrinkwrap software.
I don't think anyone would doubt your inequation.

However, 10ren's statement seems to be backed up pretty well by the USPTO site - if you have already gone public or sold your invention, no patent for you. I'm not sure why you think it is incorrect.

Cheers
you use the word insofar a lot.
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Why? A is a murderer.
The other control key is in a completely inaccessible position.
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you also seem to suggest that they are directly competing with each other. i use both tumblr and posterous, but i would venture a guess that many many posterous users would never ever consider using tumblr, while many tumblr users would never ever consider any form of transportation other than the fixed gear bike or any type of pants other than the skinny jeans.
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What I've never understood about this situation is the fact that the list, apparently, only contains names to identify people. Someone would have thought that in a country of 300m and a world of 6b, there would be multiple people with the same name.

Atleast the last 4 digits in the SSN or the passport/visa number should be used to identify people when needed.
Pouet.net is an excellent source of demos

One group's demos are especially impressive - http://www.theprodukkt.com/demoscene

Just watch their fr-08 or play that 64 KB FPS
An article about a report from the "International Boys' Schools Coalition" suggesting that all boys schools are advantageous to mixed sex schools. This is on the front page of HN?

So long and thanks for all the fish.
Well someone thought she should go for a mental health evaluation. Do they do that for everyone who gets into a fight?
I had a friend who went into labor while watching Avatar. True story. Not sure what possessed her to go to a 3 hour long movie when she was past her due date.
Another reason would be (self-)education. There's no better way to gain a deeper understanding of a subject or learn the ins-and-outs of optimization than writing some code and then possibly trying to improve it. If you always blindly depend on third party libraries, you will remain ignorant and dumb.

Then, you can go on and use third party libraries in production while feeling satisfied that you know what's going on inside the library.
It's not something you have to play. Some of the dominant behaviors such as disinterest etc. are a result of your current state - I'm preoccupied with an important problem and not interested in other people, for example. Mirroring also happens naturally under certain circumstances. There are certainly subconscious things like this that come out- but the minute you decide to "play" status and deliberately take an action because of your status game and you get caught, whoever you are playing loses absolutely all respect for you. You've also got a much higher chance for failure with the people you really need (as they will be competent). I don't care to be manipulated whatsoever and I don't care about hierarchical power structures or power games that dominate many lives. All I (and many other people) care about is advancing our goals - if I work for someone, I am going to behave differently because I am working towards their goals, not mine - but I expect all my professional interactions to be goal oriented or problem oriented.
I would have thought google wave might be a good fit for this. Or even a wave plugin if you require something more specific, like the 'accept/reject' feature?

Concept Draw Office also offers something like it.. integrating brainstorming, mindmapping and project management in one suite.
If you are the Chinese kid making Barbie dolls all day long, wanting one but you can't afford one on your .10cent an hour salary you might hate the people who are going to enjoy those Barbie dolls too.
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Check your assumptions. From the article you linked:

"Velocity of money is often assumed to be constant, and the real value of output is determined in the long run by the productive capacity of the economy. Under these assumptions, the primary driver of the change in the general price level is changes in the quantity of money."

Monetarists never claim that inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomena unless they're dumbing things down for the press. They claim that in the long run it's a monetary phenomena. There's still room in the monetarist model for short-term supply spikes like the OPEC oil crises of 1973 and 1979 that the grandparent poster alludes to.

I'd also take issue with your statement that "you should be listening more to the Monetarists like Friedman, rather than to Keynes." They are not diametrically opposed. Friedman accepted Keynes; in fact, one of the reasons that monetarism was successful was because Friedman was one of the first people to accept Keynes on his own terms and then point out situations where Keynesian economics was unable to explain the observed data. Monetarism should be viewed as a refinement of Keynesianism, not a replacement.
And also not to mention getting spending data on transactions outside of amazon.com to help build up customer profiles :)
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To be honest I found this post pretty annoyingly reductive.

The essential thesis seems to be: 'I personally speculate that the design of Tumblr's signup page is better, ERGO Tumblr is kicking Posterous' ass.'

There are a lot of words in there, but none of them actually help link premise -> conclusion.
Here's a good presentation from mid-2008 by 4D Systems, a company that makes integrated display modules http://data.4dsystems.com.au/downloads/micro-OLED/Docs/4D_AM... . I don't think they manufacture the panels themselves, but they still probably have a good idea what they're talking about. Slides 15-18 are most pertinent.

Basically, it looks like AMOLED uses 3x the power of an LCD for an all-white screen, and about 1/10 the power of an LCD for an almost all-black screen. The LCD power stays the same, the AMOLED power varies by 20-30x.
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Essentially every sentence in this article includes some ungrounded, sweeping claim (parroted from a single "report") about boys in general. Unbelievable that this has gained so much traction here without comment.
I don't really see what the title has to do with the article - it said that these are for "demos", i.e. no size limits, and the #1 entry came in at about 60 MB. It'd be a lot more impressive if they fit that into 4K.
I read just fine for long periods on my iPhone, especially in apps like Instapaper, Stanza, or the Kindle app. It's hit or miss with web content, however, but is overall a good experience.
Assuming colonial 'occupiers' had the best interests of the colony in mind is patently ridiculous. I don't see why cakesy's response to parent is 'dead' - it makes a good point.
Did you ever wonder if taxation without representation was cheaper?

A rational exploiter might try to revenue maximize. Someone trying to do good/to be fair/to "encourage good behavior" is likely to do economically stupid things.
> Assuming colonial 'occupiers' had the best interests of the colony in mind is patently ridiculous.

Irrelevant because that wasn't the assumption.

There's a reason why "he meant well" is an insult....
This is exactly why I wrote my tutorial:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=531517

It's pretty sad that this one not only assumes that knowledge of the internals is unnecessary, it in fact praises such ignorance ("newbies can ignore its inner workings and view Git as a gizmo that can amaze friends and infuriate enemies with its wondrous abilities"). This is particularly true considering that the relevant parts of the Git internals are actually quite simple.
I think I'm pretty much in the same boat. I don't stick to any particular sleep schedule except I religiously sleep for two hours in the early afternoon.. just can't help it. I find my most productive time is between 6am and 10am .. by noon I'm tapped, then after a siesta I'm back into productive mode again.
I don't think my neck can withstand that cruising position for very long. I always thought if it wasn't for Clark Kent's super strength, he would have developed neck problems.

Maybe hang glider pilots could provide more insight.
So if a startup is generating $4k a month, is it assumed for tax purposes that all of it is paid to the owner with no money left to grow the business? Or is there a better formula such as MAX(fair salary, 50% of business profits) ?
I don't necessarily agree with that statement but there may well be a relationship with colonial rule ie countries like Cameroon being ruled by foreigners who then leave.

The first govt of independent Cameroon presumably inherited reasonable infrastructure, law and order, functioning courts etc. (maybe. I dont know much about Cameroon) That first government, having inherited all of this stuff they didn't organize and having zero previous experience with running a country, may well rest on its laurels and assume that this stuff just happens and requires little or no effort to maintain/enhance. If they're really (un)lucky they may well inherent a well functioning society that also produces abundant tax revenue which is surely more than is really required so no one will miss a bit...

It would only be years later that it would become apparent that effective courts, safe streets etc do in fact require organized effort applied in specific ways. And that all of that tax revenue was needed.
Let's see. If I have a job in NYC and I work on my startup on the side, then when I try to leave my job once my startup is making progress I discover that my employer owns everything I did for my startup and I'm out in the cold.

Do the same thing in California and state law makes the startup I've been working on in my time with my money, mine.

To me this simple fact gives California a huge advantage in maintaining a startup culture.
So long and thanks for all the fish.

Clicking flag is also an option.
Did you mean backend developers? I struggle to see what fun a frontend guy might see in building a URL shortener.
I tend to rebase branches rather than merge. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
The technical overview of direct to video is very interesting. It's sort of funny, it is the modern day pixel-draw-image effect. With GPU's the old demoscene of low level hw hacking is still alive.

Not only that but you're seeing some serious artistic effort put into these things. Not just 3ds shows which were a problem in the late 90's early 00's. Wonder when we'll start seeing demo's at moma.
Your life is too short to learn and understand the internals of everything. The less I have to know about the internals, the more leverage a library or framework provides me.

Secondly, what is 'quite simple' to you may be incomprehensible to someone else. However, I still have to collaborate with these people on a project. If git is ruled out, because only the top 1% of people in software engineering can gain a sufficient understanding of the internals to use it, then it is utterly worthless to me.
S-Corp will pay payroll taxes on "fair salary" even if none of the profits are distributed and all of it is reinvested back into the business. That's unfair too, isn't it? And it's very typical for a bootstrapped company - I keep burning through my savings and reinvest all company profits back into the business. Why should I pay payroll taxes on that? That money was never paid out to anyone and shouldn't be taxed as anything more than income tax.
You seem to be arguing that you think China's third world status and cultural history are completely irrelevant, and that just because the US has recently accomplished an arbitrarily chosen level of morality it is appropriate to harass and berate China over it.

It would be a far better use of one's time (in America) to focus on the atrocities that exist in our current system. Throwing stones at China is absurd, unless you're a neocon who wants to send the US naval fleet into the waters near China and perhaps launch targeted strikes intended at getting China to change its official policy (or, more likely, making China's leaders look bad and causing social instability).

Some modern US atrocities are:

- The prison system. Inmates are routinely, predictably raped, yet inmate safety is not improved. This is an awful situation in 2010 America that rivals what has occurred in any labor camp or gulag anywhere and in any time.

- Immigration policy. The US is an apartheid state in which the haves (aka citizens) and have-nots (aka non-citizens) are given drastically different rights. Illegals live in constant fear of deportation and are thus afraid to seek basic healthcare, law enforcement, etc., which makes them victim to untold suffering and anguish.

- Don't forget Gitmo and Abu Ghraib... two examples of severe human rights violations by the US. Unlike with US prisoners (ironically) there would be more outrage over these issues if the facts weren't censored from public view.

These are just a few. Worrying about China is a big waste of time.
Corruption is the degree to which a government prioritizes its needs over its people's needs.

An early example of an anti-corruption measure would be the Magna Carta, which established limits on what an English monarch could do to his subjects. Anglo / American history is essentially one long struggle against corruption. It eventually manifested itself in the form of a government that by definition serves it's people rather than a group of subjects who serve a monarch. Hundreds of years of war, revolution, writings, beheadings and torture eventually eroded the power of government to where it is today. There are very few shortcuts around that. In order to stop corruption people need to be willing to risk their lives, freedom or well being.
That doesn't make too much sense. I live in India and there are a lot of poor people here, (poorer than the people in China). They don't really hate the west. They aspire to the West's living standards, sure.

I guess what I am trying to say is relative poverty can be a source of envy. But hate? Enough to delight in attacking the West?
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This is exactly why you should never use your personal experience as an indicator of what the norm is. Instead you should observe the world — and in it designers design and programmers program, only rarely does one person enjoy both.
Well, it used to be just 4K of executable code. Perhaps the code used to produce the video was still extremely small?
my primary barrier is maven (I'm coming from Ruby and gems).

I wonder why the sbaz (Scala-Bazaar package manager) is not the default, rather than maven.
> I find it hard to believe that anyone who has worked with CSS on a regular basis would be intimidated by Sass.

Would it be hard to believe still if person after person told you so flat out? Because this is the primary reason people say "no thanks" to Sass (and all other html/css empowering macro languages, etc).

Well, except they don't use the word "intimidated", they say that they don't need html/css to get any more complicated, it's fine as it is.