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True, but you're really dodging the issue here which is the current dysfunctional Congress. There have been a record number of filibusters this past year; Congress hasn't been so divided since the Civil War. Requiring 60 votes (the number required to prevent a filibuster) to pass a bill is against the intentions of the founders. In all cases where more than a majority is required, the founders explicitly noted the ratio (ex: the confirmation of treaties). No ratio is specified for the passage of bills or the confirmation of appointments. Whatever it going on in Congress today, it's not something that was intended by the founders. Hell, filibusters weren't even put into the Senate rules until the early 1900s.

Personally I think the Dems should exercise the nuclear option and amend the constitution to require 3/5 for appointments to the Supreme Court. They used to be confirmed by that much anyway; it's most been under GW Bush that we've had Court appointees pass by narrow margins. Cliton had over 90 votes for all of his and most of Reagan's were unanimous. GW never broke 60.
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His pmarca vs TBL point is way off, IMHO. <img> vs <a rel="embed, present"> is a matter of syntax, not semantics; for Mosaic to have changed their IMG support to use A instead need only have affected their parser (depending on how far they retained the specific DOM nodes into the presentation graph).

It wasn't a case of pragmatic engineering trumping academic idealism. TBL's suggestion actually makes more engineering sense to me than an IMG tag, as it wouldn't necessarily be limited to images, would be more future-proof for e.g. automated downloaders trying to discover everything needed for a cached copy of a document (all A with REL including EMBED) etc.

Finally, I find this bit incredibly disingenuous:

"I don’t know anything about this masinter guy, but he sounds like a normal, non-dick, reasonable engineer:

"'I think progress of HTML5 in W3C could be faster if the subsections on graphics and metadata could (if not now, then eventually) be moved to separate subgroups [...]'"

The crucial bit being that "this masinter guy" works for Adobe. If it were up to me to try and sabotage HTML5's graphics support, suggesting that moving it out to somewhere else would "speed things up" would be exactly how I'd go about it.
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Yes a non-IFoR is a problem but then then pretty much every point we'd want to choose is accelerating relative to us. I'd dispute that for the majority of people the sun's gravity is the dominating force - seems Earth's gravity is pretty dominant to me.

But I think I must have had my trolling hat on for this one, sorry.
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My interest in this instance is twofold:

1. I simply don't understand this 180;
2. I am concerned about how this will impact what is an otherwise successful formula by any metric except perhaps its ability to generate its owners wads of cash.

For the record, the main thing I've criticized to date is Stackoverflow Careers because it comes across as snake oil.

On the other side, I support their efforts at monetizing that included things others criticized such as adding Adobe logos (sponsored) to the flash and flex tags.

See http://www.cforcoding.com/2009/10/stackoverflow-advertising-...
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I dunno about you, but I can always remember <img>, whereas anything more complex than the basic <a href=""> completely fails to stick in my head.

From a simple usability point of view <img> wins.
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Nice job, man. I discovered YC/HN a couple of weeks ago... Guess I have a lot ahead of me :)
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I'll take an Ariel Atom over both of those.

Doesn't even need body panels.
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I was wondering the same thing until I saw it linked from his account on Twitter.

http://twitter.com/OpenJonathan/status/8972790094
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You should add a "2003" to the title - I was wondering why it looked familiar.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=878039
For anyone not versed in ASP.NET, that's incomprehensible.

I think what it's saying is that in ASP.NET, it's possible for the code responsible for rendering a section of the UI to directly cause an HTTP response to be issued.

Assuming I'm correct, and leaving aside the statement that it's a bad idea to do this, I've got to say WTF, ASP.NET? Why is this possible?
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It needs to be talked about one day, and if HN, one of the smartest communities around, can't do it - who can?
I just "launched" my first Ruby on Rails application last night. It creates a random playlist of songs from Pitchfork.com's best new albums area. Up to now I've primarily worked with PHP.

A little backstory: Just a little over a month ago I saw Zach Klein (now working at Boxee) tweet this: http://twitter.com/zachklein/status/7770633908

I had been reading through the new railstutorial.org, but I always learn more quickly working on a real project. So I took a stab at the app and here I am.

I'd love to hear any feedback or comments/questions.

Thanks!
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I think it's actually the most objective measurement there is. How else do you get paid other than by people voluntarily assigning your services or product a certain monetary value they would like to pay you?
That's not to say they were not once a startup. Every 'startup' should have the objective of becoming a sustainable business. Eventually the startup tag will go away, but that's not to say they were not once there. Microsoft was once a startup. Apple was once a startup. It makes me laugh here on HN where some guys weekend project can be considered a startup when it really has no potential to ever be a business.
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Syntax familiarity is proportional to usage. IOW, I'm pretty sure that if you had to use a different form to insert images, you would remember it just as easily now. Even with IMG as it is now, you have to remember to use src, rather than href as used with A.
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Yes, it was a bit inflammatory, but I see your point now and I agree.
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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

-- Edward de Bono

When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity.

-- Linda Naiman

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

-- Eric Hoffer

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.

--Carl Sagan

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

-- Teilhard de Chardin

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

-- Vernon Howard

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Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

-- Henry David Thoreau

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Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

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But this is just the start of something much bigger.

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Bringhurst's advice about vertical motion doesn't really apply to web pages.

Bringhurst was writing about bound books with text on facing pages. That advice is specifically aimed towards aligning the bottoms of facing pages, aligning lines of text on facing pages, and aligning lines of text on pages printed back-to-back. If you don't have multiple columns of body text (margin text uses different rules), and you aren't having your text printed back-to-back on semi-translucent paper, then the vertical motion rule doesn't apply.

People try so hard to follow this rule in web pages, but they just end up creating web pages that have way too much unnecessary spacing between things. This article is a good example; it has way too much spacing between headings and the paragraphs they introduce. It's easy to find more extreme cases on other sites.

This is section 2.2.2 of "The Elements of Typographic Style" (page 37 in version 3.1 of the book).
Headline writers really like to create eye grabbing titles: I'd hardly call me sending them a friendly email "making them admit" :-)
Is that advice or a warning? :)
The BBC understands that Buzz was only tested internally and bypassed more extensive trials with external testers - used for many other Google services.

If true, this is really surprising, considering the tens of millions of gmail users who would be affected and the well-known problems faced by Facebook whenever it has opened up user information in new ways.
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I believe the hardest logic test ever actually goes more like this:

There are four gods:

One always tells the truth.

One always lies.

One always chooses a random answer.

One always stabs people for trying to be clever or asking tricky questions.
I agree. One problem with the analogy is that Starbucks is all about coffee. StackOverflow is about a Q&A platform. It'd be like Starbucks using their store model to be a donut shop, a hamburger stand, and a BBQ joint. In my opinion, the 37 signals post nails it with the problems.
I don't know if that was the intention, but the picture with the mountain said beautifully how it feels sometimes. So lonely... and yet there you are, you guys, who I don't even know but give me strength.. I can't wait for the day I will post a "review my startup" entry!

That was really nice, Max - Thank you.
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Great comic. I'm now suddenly interested in the possibilities of xkcd remix comics.
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I was gong to comment "Did you skip the part about doing the work of trying to scientifically reproduce the results with the same data?" after down-voting.

I read your username after the vote. I would take it back, if I could, since it's your right to either be modest on the matter or if you really feel that all you did was "send them a friendly email". My apologies; I felt I owe an explanation since I was likely the first vote.
They're "snubbing" 7 for Vista? Whose brilliant idea was that?

[there is] "no earthly excuse of going to Vista now" ~Clive Longbottom, in the article.

Nice quote!
rant on.....

Apart from the inconsistency in the article: the headline talks about moving from XP to Vista but then they refer to windows 2000 support as the rationale....

These are the people who are meant to be running the country and the short term, muddy, cart before the horse thinking sadly typifies a great deal of policy making as well.

Not only that but we have a huge deficit and we are walking eyes wide open into the more costly of two scenarios: Vista support won't last as long as XPs because it has a much smaller user base, it requires more resources and so either machines are more expensive or people are less efficient but hey spending a little money up front to speed the PICT testing through would just be stupid wouldn't it?

Ok. So it's not massive in the scheme of things - but its so typical and irritating.

rant off...
as long as there is enough energy left to start the printing presses

Intuitively this makes sense but in reality it is not practical. As soon as investors hear the presses crank up (metaphorically speaking) they can predict what's coming and will dump all their US debt, driving up interest rates and forcing a deep[-er] US recession. Politics will then correct this before the USA becomes Northern Zimbabwe.
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Anyone else use the cooliris image viewer add-on? Looks similar to what he was using in the photos. 'Minority report' is exactly how I describe it.
I suspect it was rushed out when someone actually paniced about "the competition". There's rumors Facebook is starting it's own e-mail service and the social network just scaled back it's ad relationship with Microsoft. It is clearly growing competition and has 400 million+ users compared to Gmail's 120 million+ (I believe those figures are roughly right).

It is feasible Google did this on purpose too. I can't remember where I read the article, but it suggested this was an expected reaction to Buzz and the fallout was worth dealing with due to the free promotion Buzz got from it. Kind of like the car recall offset against potential deaths/lawsuits caused by faulty parts scenarios. Put simply: it was worth the bad press to get Buzz integrated into millions of accounts now.

Buzz is here to stay whether we like it or not. What's worrying is Google were prepared to push this out to millions based on the feedback of 20,000 Google staff.
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Instead of Minority Report, I'm more interested in the "piece of paper" computer that is featured in the Caprica show.

From what I've seen, we have the technology already.
I was recently looking into this in the DC area, and while it may work for some (I'm still giving it serious thought), for many, the cons will far outweigh the cons.

The biggest hardship for me living on water would be that I likely couldn't keep my guitars. Houseboat living means, in a nutshell, that everything you own will get wet, whether from incidental contact with water, or just the humidity in the air. I'm perfectly willing to buy vacuum containers for foods (salt, sugar, coffee) to keep them safe, but to my knowledge, no such animal exists to keep my Les Paul safe from harm.

The best workaround I have come up with thus far is to store my nicer guitars in climate controlled storage, and just keep a cheapish acoustic guitar on board with me, which I suspect I would have to replace at given intervals... hopefully no more than once per year.

Aside from that, at least in this area, it isn't dirt cheap to live on a boat. I've seen mooring costs that range between $20-$40 per foot per month, which equates to $800-$1600 for a 40' boat. Compared to DC real estate, it's a bargain, for sure, but it's also not the last respite for the homeless either.

I haven't gotten around to pricing, but I suspect that boat insurance is going to be considerably more than home or auto insurance.

I have absolutely no idea how to estimate utilities on a boat. I understand that power is supplied by the mooring facilities, but I have heard that it is expensive, and highly unreliable.

I'd love to hear feedback from anybody who has or is currently living aboard, as I'm still eager to try it, even if it means maintaining a landlocked residence until I've figured it all out.
John, with a more technical audience here, can you describe what kind of inconsistencies you found, and how your code was built to detect them? (I mean, building consistency checks into code is easy; the art is in knowing what kind of inconsistency those checks should be looking for)
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I hope the book will be available for my Kindle.

More seriously, I've read his Franklin and Einstein biographies and they are great.
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The average temperature between 1961 and 1990 (which is the critical baseline for the anomaly charts that are drawn showing global warming) was incorrectly calculated for a large number of stations (observing points) in Australia, New Zealand and other parts of Oceania.

Each of the station files contains the observations from the station per year and per month, as well as the calculated average (called the normal) and standard deviation.

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Because sealing the thing would cost a lot more money. Containerised shipping is all about reducing overall expense.
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Very good advice. I started a social blog this weekend (www.financialpreparedness.com) to spread the notion that, while it's not a bad idea to prepare, the world is not going to end.
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Well, as a Canadian living in Russia for the past 13 years I have the following to say about the US...

Seriously, the parent post is so full of old clichés, it's not even funny. I lived outside of Russia for the past 20 years and I've moved back half a year ago, and I'm not even located in Moscow now. I live in a large industrial city in Ural region.

Russia has changed a lot in past 10 years and 90% of what I see in my daily private and business life is not much different from what I'm accustomed to in the UK. Some things are positively better (for example communal services are great though I can judge by my apartment block only).

Let me say something about bribes and corruption. I never gave a single bribe in my life in Russia then or now, with a possible exception of a small fine to a traffic cop paid on the spot in cash (to save myself time going to a nearby bank).

I know there are people who pay bribes, but plenty of businesspeople don't. Those businesspeople who don't pay bribes CAN be successful and quite often are. And those who do quite often get caught together with corrupt officials. The key point is -- today corruption is much less than it was in the 90s and it's falling year by year.

The image of organised crime driving around with armed body guards in SUVs is total bullshit nowadays. Most of SUVs you see on the streets in my city is driven by beautiful blond girls with artificial sun tan on their way to a gym.

I am walking the streets at night (admittedly, not in the depressed areas) without fear of being mugged, since the last fight I saw in this city was when bouncers kicked some rich guy out of a club for being too drunk.

The key is to look at the dynamics. Russia is getting better, cleaner, wealthier. Lawlessness that happened in the 90s is quickly being replaced by the rule of law. It's not perfect, but the progress is amazing.

When author of the parent post implies that somebody (like me) cannot make an honest living in Russia today, I take it quite personally. The irony is -- he is not Russian, he has not lived in Russia for years, his friends are emigrant Russians -- but he has a long list of clichés that earn upvotes on HN.
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Considering how slow Google has rolled out products in the past, and how pervasive and invasive Buzz is, the way this was rolled out is really, truly surprising.

I'm glad that Google is at least apologetic about it all. It doesn't fix the problem, but not being assholes about a bad roll-out (Sony) is worth quite a lot to me.

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