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It's not just poor sites that use annoying and intrusive ads. Many newspapers and otherwise high quality sites have intrusive ads. It isn't easy to simply drop all of those sites and remain informed.
To demonstrate cool shit you can do with CSS.
Why are you interested in hacks? What's wrong with using better tech such as OpenGL?
Thanks for the links! (also, thanks for the link to the parent post)
The 30" without question. You get 4 megapixels (2560x1600) on one screen instead of spread across two (2 x 1920x1080) - great for side by side columns of code (I can fit 3 on one of my screens). Its also very nice for gaming, although be prepared to experience some vertigo.

Of course the real way to go is dual 30's =)
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What would be a better way to measure performance? (It's a sincere question and one that I've long been wondering about). Or is there even a cost effective measure?

I realize that many teachers unions are against standardized testing and any form of performance testing in general, but what's the alternative?

Could the problem instead be how the tests are structured or how cheating gets controlled? I note that at least with respect to SAT's the SAT is only one measure, albeit a significant high stakes benchmark that can change a student's life depending on their admissions. Given limited spots and limited resources, how else should universities be choosing who gets in?
My perspective is that the problem with this IS seo.

The article talks about buying 1,000 domains. One big seo factor is domain authority/trust. With 1,000 new domains, you have to build up 1,000 separate properties with authority/trust, that's no small feat as anyone who's tried building up 100 domains at the same time will tell you. The common tactic here is going after the long tail, which is the only way I can see this working and still staying within a sane budget.

Beyond seo the article talks about marketing in general, and how great it will be to market laser targeted niche stores, all 1,000 of them.

So if I've spent a couple of hours finding a great Japanese music site that is PERFECT for listing my Japanese niche music store/domain, then I've just spent a couple of hours on 1 domain, only 999 more domains to start marketing! Yay!

That's horrific.

If you take the approach of a niche property within the same domain, all of your seo and marketing efforts for 1 niche store will transfer over to the rest of your properties, since, of course, you'll inner link them all from within the same domain. This also works great from a long tail perspective.

The marketing/seo execution of 1,000 separate domains is the challenge...
I cant help but feel the point is somewhat disingenuous.
We see newton style graffiti as a serious alternative to qwerty.
Well, other than the occasional pregnancy. :P

It does bring up the question: did anyone ever get prosecuted for underage sex based on a pregnancy? I mean, there isn't much better evidence of said sex...
Single page link- http://www.slate.com/id/2242081/pagenum/all/
I'm really surprised that those here don't seem to be placing much importance on the numerous security holes that Flash has brought to all platforms. The first serious one I'd heard of wasn't fixed for like a year and a half? How do people get the notion that a vulnerability that isn't see use in mass-scale exploits doesn't matter? The holes exploited selectively can certainly be a serious threat to industry or government.

To the developers that feel no choice but to use Flash, I suggest you make sure your sites use Javascript from a minimal number of domains because cautious users aren't going to enable them in NoScript when a dozen show up.
It might also help that any domains needed beyond that of the site have names which give away their function.

Surfing as securely as possible includes enabling added functionality very selectively. Make sure that when you test your sites they're usable to people running Firefox with NoScript, with little or no granting of permissions.
You bring up some interesting points, but I must disagree with what you seem to be implying.

While it is true that there are many 20 year olds with very impressive tech resumes, many more impressive than mine (I went in the Army and did some other things before entering the tech industry, so I came in older than average). But they are the exception, not the rule. When I interview young programmers, most come as the post described with a CS degree and I hope to work 9-5 having done little-to-no programming that was required. At least from what I see in interviews, those are more common than the impressive resumes.

Next is, All of your experience becomes a hindrance when you start to follow your old steps to the "right solution" every time. This can be true in some cases, but again I think those are the exception, not the rule. Remember that most mid-career people, especially the successful ones and especially in technology, can be quite adaptable.

Also, remember that most disruptive thoughts are older ideas that are just now coming into their own. Lisp has been around for a very long time, but it is starting to take off now (at least more so than it was in the past). Thin clients are a very cyclic idea that once were the norm in an extreme with dumb terminals to mainframes, then gave way to desktops, then were talked about without much success, and now are seeing some success in netbooks/smartphones/etc.

Most of the time the more experienced and seasoned person can adapt and then leverage their experience with similar things even in a new, disruptive idea.
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dude.. save the earth.

Choose the config with the lesser power consumption.
It's the integration with existing systems that's the real problem. Industry standards in that area are still incomplete and not fully implemented by all vendors, so usually integration requires a lot of custom work. Hosting EHR software in the cloud doesn't solve this.
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I love the content on this website; hate the horrible design.
Before I discovered Readability, I always ended up using "View Source" to read the interviews.

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
I've got two monitors. But take this with a grain of salt because I'm not a PC gamer. I use a console, but I do have the console hooked up via HDMI to one of my monitors.

I've got a 24" Dell rotated 90 degrees to portrait. I have this one front and center so no moving of the of head. This is where I do all my coding. Lots and lots of vertical space (which is more important to me than horizontal). That's the only thing on that monitor.

To the left, I have a 27" Dell that has my e-mail, Yammer, and a couple of other "all day" windows open. I've got the Windows arranged from right to left - most important to least important. E-Mail is on the far left as I get a lot of e-mail and most of it not important :)

I scan that monitor maybe once or twice an hour. If I'm doing a lot of work on that monitor, I'll swivel my chair towards it and move the keyboard and mouse in front of it (both are wireless).

It works for me because it allows me to compartmentalize my day. The setup cost me about 1300 at the time (900 for the 27" - no sale; 400 for the 24" - cheaper now).
I don't think OP meant in page views, rather in the level or requirements. For example, The Economist has a lot more writers/editors/designers/etc who all have different needs from the system, many not necessarily very computer literate etc.

Page views alone aren't that big a deal in a content website like TC/Econ - you can do plenty of caching, buy more servers etc. Serving the needs of all the various people involved in an Economist-type publication is where the challenge is.
It was always a dream of mine to have a little company that designed small gadgets, party favor type toys, doodads and so on. The problem comes down to tooling. It would be much more fun to just send off a cad file to some place and set up a contract with some logistics company, and bam! New product.

A similar idea, and its ramifications, is the central theme of Cory Doctrow's newest work: Makers.
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When I was in high school I was informed (and I remember because it was relevant at the time) that our councilors were legally obligated to report sexual activity only if any participant was 15 or under or if one was a minor and another was not.

It was rather silly that a lot of students had a window of a few months during their senior year when their relationship could result in criminal charges, but before or after that it was fine.
This essay is a weird conflation of two issues: copyright and government censorship. Yes, I suppose they're both "enemies" of the free flow of information, but I think it's an unfair comparison.

There's nothing special about the Internet from the perspective of copyright. I don't really understand why so many people have such a problem with the concept of copyright, but it seems especially acute with regard to the web crowd. I suspect it's because the ease with which copyright can be violated online makes people feel that it can hardly be doing any damage, so what's the big deal. The ironic thing is that people on HN cry bloody murder when someone rips off a webpage design or posts blogspam instead of linking to the original source. Please explain how this is different?
I didn't apply for the job; they just called me one day and offered me a trip. I think they're just trying to take advantage of lazy (college) seniors like me who haven't found a job yet.

They scream 'big corporation' - they didn't even phone interview me before inviting me down, and their website calls Twitter "haiku-like streams of content". I am really wary of this company. Can you confirm or deny this?

The job I'd want would be in a fairly high-level language like Python; the manager would have done my job before. I also hope for smart version control and smart employee evaluations (like not how long you work/how many LoC).

I'd love to talk with you when I get down there. My email address is ebisumaru@gmail.com. Please send me a message so we can correspond!
Neither Apple nor Google will ever comment about this on the record. You have to look at what has happened and read between the lines.
Even in cases where the law states that it's illegal for a 18yo to have sex with a 17yo, it's still up to the prosecutor to be sane about it. That doesn't always happen.

When the girl is pregnant, she still has to give up the father for them to know who to prosecute (traditionally the boy is prosecuted in these cases; sometimes they go for the girl if she is the older one, but if she is pregnant they may view her as the 'victim'). I guess she may give that information up when declaring who the father is to the hospital though, so I don't know. Maybe it just depends on how vindictive the parents are.
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But it's a log plot. Adding a factor of 20 just moves the Netherlands up by 1.3 units on the graph, which means it's still landing below the median even without including the private contributions of the other nations.

Sorry, but the Dutch dropped the ball on this one, at least relative to other EU governments. As other folks have pointed out, simple proximity makes the much higher US contribution sensible and sane. But really, the Netherlands, Italy and (especially) Germany need to be up near the UK and France.
Tell it to the Tank Man.

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

This is a Godwin's Law-type situation. Economic growth and improving standards of living are all very well, but at root China still maintains a brutal and repressive apparatus for controlling its population.

Using that fact to make a point about copyright seems shallow, even if it is an intellectually interesting argument.
Works for me. (v3.0.195.38 windows)
And they will go downhill from now on...
It seems to be back now...
The difference between the first example and the second is the difference between the defensive use of force and the initiation of force.

Disney has a monopoly on the use of Mickey Mouse because they created it and because the spent billions building the brand. That brand is their property, just like a house or a car might be.

The Chinese government arbitrarily declares ownership of other people's minds, and insists they have the right to determine what kinds of thoughts they should be allowed to have.

It's the difference between me shooting a burglar who breaks into my house, versus me walking into someone elses house and shooting them. Yeah both involve violence, but it's not hard to see why one is wrong, while the other is at least understandable.
Other companies I (personally) like: https://www.recyclebank.com/, http://opower.com/, http://www.weatherbill.com/
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback. By company information do you mean a mailing address?

We have an About Us page, but it's more about what we do than who we are as a company.
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Counterpoint: http://www.cuil.com/

Embarrassment ruined them and few will ever give Cuil an honest second look, regardless of their future additions/improvements.
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I guess it's indeed true that the definition of "indecent" is "whatever arouses a judge"... Or a District Attorney in the cases pointed by the article.
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I think Twitter has actually done a poor job of communicating what they are.

They got pigeonholed as being about "what I had for lunch" and they haven't totally broken out of that in the mind of the broader public.

Their internal documents that leaked to TechCrunch indicated that they have a much clearer and more ambitious vision internally, they really need to get that across to the general public.

It feels like there's some internal conflict about their commercialism vs their desire to be hip. That's a hunch, though.
someone should make an app that just calls this page and submit it to apple.
I think you are missing the point. Why is copyright a valid protection? Why aren't those reasons valid outside of the case of copyright?
Summary: Previous administrations left government technology in terrible shape from a deployment and internal policy standpoint so it's really hard to get anything done. Also, as much as people cry for transparency, nobody actually combs through all that stuff online because it's much less exciting than just repeating feel-good talking head assertions from whichever side of the aisle.
> But really, the Netherlands, Italy and (especially) Germany need to be up near the UK and France.

In the end, it's their choice based on their values, means, and priorities. The extent to which Americans turn out for private charity is one thing I'm particularly proud of about the USA, but in the end it's everyone's choice individually.
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It's not a conflation at all. You really should have a reason why Disney movies should be censored from the internet, but Chinese dissident materials should not be. Clearly there could be such a reason, but there is a parallel.

Obviously there's nothing special about the internet from the perspective of copyright; but there's nothing special about the internet from the perspective of Chinese government censorship either. So once again, the two are parallel.

If you want to distinguish between them, come up with a reason why they're not parallel.
Thank you. I forgot to add that the touch pad stinks. Putting a strip of scotch tape along the bottom where the "buttons" are helps things considerably.

Wireless mouse helps more.
Actually, we've been running for about a year with a small number of online marketing agencies, so the service is very polished on the backend with a tested API. Allowing the public to join is what's new about us.

It's true, saying "leading" is pretty boastful. We're proud of the service we built, and we set out to be the leading service from day 1. I agree it should be removed until we can quote a reputable source.
If it's really the case that "no publicity is better than bad publicity", they can ditch the brand and relaunch under a different name.
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54K is still a lot. I understand that she is guilty(of downloading) but 54K is still a lot for some unproven(in my view) distribution.
I understand that it helps separate colours from their neighbours, but I don't understand why that helps this particular visualisation. Particularly if there's no obvious way to determine at a glance whether the colour is 'higher' or 'lower' than the one next to it.

For the sorting diagrams these colours start out random and end up sorted, in neither case, nor in the transition period in-between, do I see an obvious benefit to this method of choosing colors.
True, but is much more important for "20-year-old-whizzes" to learn than to senior people, at least if you want to accomplish more than those people.

As a 1-year junior with crushed dreams by a proto-startup project and now working in a technology conservative environment I can say there is so much to learn in the first years (from bad or good examples, with or without mentorship) that everyone should review his attitude. Of course always keeping the ambition and with the goal of accomplishing the most.

To have success while young and without experience you must be allowed to fail, and to fail a lot of times. Out of frustation of course, I'm starting to believe it's really hard to have success in the early times. Of course close mentoring as in Y Combinator should help a lot!
Just a note: There is no clear-type for vertically oriented monitors under Windows.
I doubt many people have a problem with the concept of copyright. There are a huge number, though, who have a problem with the implementation of copyright, especially when they're well aware of its original intent. (See: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a1_8_8s12....)
I think the Chinese government only arbitrarily declares that as they own the internet connections in their country, they can decide what information is allowed to flow through them, and they decide such which is in their best interest.

That's still a tad short from declaring ownership of other people's minds.

Sidetracking: Say you are Bose, and use commercials and tech-speak extensively to convince people that your speakers sound heavenly. Is that trying to control people's minds? Brand building, especially when it is more than just making people aware of your product, is a form of mind control.
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Can we please stop giving out this bullshit piece of advice?

People expect polished applications that are better than what they already have. If you're not proud of your product wait until you are to release it. Believe me, it will make standing in front of a room full of investors or potential users a much more pleasant experience and you'll be able to sleep at night.
> Why are you interested in hacks?

Did you notice the name of this site? (And yes, for practical purposes OpenGL can be better.)
The key word there is content. It has only been in the past half-decade that tens of millions of children have had ready access to the means to produce and distribute pornography of themselves. The law enshrines certain assumptions that are no longer true due to the proliferation of technology. Undoubtedly that will be an increasingly common occurrence.
I actually work as a director of medical informatics at a large, well known, medical institution that field tested and uses patientkeeper. Sanj's assertions are spot on. I won't adress all of them individually, but they all speak to real problems in the "digitization" of healthcare.

For those of you who think any singular device will be the electronic panacea people are waiting for in healthcare you are out of your minds and have no clue about the current state of medical informatics. Getting medical records systems into the healthcare environment with entrenched users is probably harder than getting the us legal system to use them.

As I have said in other forums, it is not any singular device or platform that will make this work. The current landscape is that of a patchwork of systems silos, none of whom talk to one another. There is practically zero integration at a platform level and any integration that is done is ad-hoc and custom.

If I were advising Obama, et al, I would Incentivise (with a capital I) data interchange over any specific data format or platform. Do not pick winners and losers, in my opinion it is kind of un-American. Let everyone have a fair shake in the market but encourage them to open their systems to integration from third parties through open read/write (bidirectional) api's. This would go a long way to getting new innovative systems into institutions with entrenched legacy systems.

Speaking to integration costs, point 2, I could not agree more. Working at any institution other than a small sized private practice requires an untold amount of training, education and ongoing maintenance to get the users to use any system of even minimal complexity.

"Wishlist" 1, again spot on. Doctors do not monitor vitals in real time. They just do not have the time, nor is it pertinent to quality of care. What doctors do want are intelligent alerts. But how do you get an intelligent, dynamic, real-time monitoring system that needs access to raw data? See my point above re open api's.
Are there even statistics for how many people downloaded songs from her? Was an entire song even distributed to any one individual or is it just that it could have been? I really don't grasp these outrageous dollar amounts and judges pretending that it makes sense to ruin someone's life over the use of a computer that wasn't even used maliciously.
This is great feedback. As always, the price point is really tough to settle upon. I thought of analytics suites such as Clicky when setting the price and tried to keep the end user in mind. We also work directly with marketing agencies, and in those cases the prices are set in bulk. I always go back to this article by 37signals when trying to determine a proper price: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1287-ask-37signals-how-did-yo...

Looking at the design again, I can see how the icons stand out too much. The original concept was to keep the design very flat and without too much eye candy.

Again, thank you for taking the time and giving advice.
I think several of you are missing the point of Mr. Buchheit's writing. If we remove some information from the Internet because of reasons A and B, why isn't it valid for another entity to remove information for reasons A, B and even reason C which is potentially more important?
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Why? So they can have a 'score' that's on par with other nations?

Isn't it entirely possible that the actual aid physically deliverable in the short term has been maximized?

That is, that the Dutch might be better off waiting and raising/sending targeted expertise and funds during the inevitable, but not starting any time soon, reconstruction phase? (Where much of their expertise is something that very few other nations could even offer)

I suppose it wouldn't hurt to pledge that they'll do that now, but any amounts tied to unspecified quantities of work would be fiction anyway. So the number would only be moved for the sake of making it move.
Is anyone else tired of this aphorism plus wild generalization format?
They are not parallel because most countries respect copyright. Enforcing copyright is not censorship in those countries. Putting (unexpired) copyrighted material on the public internet violates copyright. Ensuring that this does not happen is not censorship as commonly understood.

Censorship by government presumably violates its citizens' right to free speech. If this is not the case, then this is not censorship as commonly understood.
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