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Almost all of this is solid. One small quibble:

"Black tie" means tuxedo. If your host doesn't really mean black tie, that's their mistake, not yours. Don't get a black suit. Everything a black suit can do, a charcoal suit does better.

I only bring this up because people seem to think black suits are essential. They aren't. You won't get funny looks, but you won't look as good as you would in charcoal.

BONUS TIP: Match your socks to your pants, not your shoes. You want to draw attention to the shoes/leg boundary, not the sock/trouser boundary.

BONUS LINK: http://www.styleforum.net is where I learned what I wanted to know about tailored men's clothing. Scour the stickies; dip into the daily threadpiles only with caution.
How can you tell it's not an African sports coupé?
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With a key and encryption method which you have, you just have to find it.
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I'm fine with the decision. The Lifestyle section of the App store was tough to navigate without being inundated with smut apps, drowning out anything interesting.

On the other hand, why not just create an 18+ category in the App store, push everything there and if you don't want to see it, don't go looking.
I think The Wave is actually a perfect counter example. People in crowds don't tend do do the Wave because they have lost their agency. I think most of them, acting rationally, think it's a very cool phenomenon and take advantage as a group of a setting that lets large amounts of people coordinate their efforts together.
I don't think I can take this seriously. The store ( https://www.blingh2o.com/store/index.php ) uses a self-signed certificate ... that expired last September.
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I just have to say that actually, no, this doesn't sound like that at all. And thank goodness.
Technically aren't gift cards non-transferable?
When I was a teen my poor sleeping was because I had to be in homeroom at 7:15. In the winter we had already left homeroom by the time the sun was up. Just insane.
> Also, if friends and relatives believe you are less than seriously employed they will start adding you to their lists of People Who Can Easily Host a Last-Minute Book-Club Meeting or Pick Up My Child After School.

I can completely relate to this. When you tell people you are working from home today, they say "Oh, you're (using hand quotes) 'working from home' wink wink ", are you free to help me take my blah to the foozbar?
I would rate myself as a 3, and one way I can tell is that I click on too many of the links at HN each day. Much time spent, not a lot done, other than... learning!
I beg to differ. I just found this little gem and asked out every single latent crush I have. All yeses every single one of them, I'm telling you guys it can't fail guys. Now this is going to a crazy formal :-/. I didn't really think about that while I was asking.
Does this darling girl know that you did this?

And was it an issue?
Personally, if I'm going to go to the hassle of pirating the game then I don't need a legit copy.

Sure, I'd like to support the creators but not if they're only offering to sell me an inferior version of the product.
Considering they are gifts, I'd hope not ;)

However, since they are gifts, you can always argue it was given to you.
If you can't live with the IRS or other parts of the US system, there are 194 other countries out there. Many of them are good places for English speakers to live and work. Vote with your feet, not with violence against helpless government workers.
I happily signed up on coder.io because I knew enough about the site to sign up.

In this case, they're promising more than they're actually delivering right now but present you with a way to potentially get better access.

That is it. I need to know a little more to sign up. I don't mind participating in their registration game if I can look forward to getting access.
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If this completely keeps out all piracy then it's a good move on their part.

Sure. And if this gives every member of the development team a magical unicorn they can ride to work it's a good move on their part as well.
I believe that hn's vaksel runs a site close to that - http://styleguidance.com/

Although it does seem geared slightly more at women than men, I think it gets pretty close to what you're looking for. Perhaps vaksel can work with you to round out the rough spots.
Gotcha. I actually teach presenting to people, and I am a big fan of the "Beyond Bullet Points" method of creating a story format and centering it around the audience.
But I wanted to cut through any "tricks* so to say, and just put the pertinent info out there, because I wanted to get peoples gut reactions.
You are right, maybe if I had taken the time to make people connect to my issue, I may have gotten more responses.
I'd add a few more things. Make sure your shirt and jacket fit. The most common things I see are men with collars too big for them so there's this huge gap between the front of the neck and the knot of the tie. Make sure your shirt fits snug, along with the suit jacket. The suit jacket should follow the contour of your sides, not hang straight down. It should look tailor-made for your body shape, and those with jackets that drop straight down on the sides look as if they purchased a one-size-fits-all suit. Also, ties should reach mid-buckle, and the knot should be appropriate for the occasion. I see lots of guys at weddings who tie their knot using the simplest method and it looks too casual. Look up various tie knots like the half-windsor, etc. And as he said, your pants should reach the floor, but they should also drape nicely around your shoes. I see lots of guys with bulky dress shoes that cause scrunching of the pant leg at the ankle because there's not enough room for the pants to fit over the shoe and drape; so pick slim fitting shoes.

I disagree with him on the shinier the shoe the dressier and that they should be made of leather. I've got slip-on black suede shoes that work really well when dressing up.
Ask HN: How would you spend $25 on barnesandnoble.com?
I trust this community a lot and I just got a $25 gift card. I am not a very savvy or well read reader. I really enjoyed superfreakenomics and Founders at Work.

What reading does HN recommend these days?
I have not read Hackers and Painters.

p.s. I am a college freshman.
Good advice; I'd like to add rule 0: Lose some weight, and wear clothes that fit.
Not really, because the server isn't serving anything that's integral to the game experience. All of the content is on the machine or loaded into memory at some point in time.

The only way this really works is if you're continually releasing new content on the server side.
There's still the microphone...

But this sort of thing makes me glad Apple at least hardwires an LED which turns on when the camera is in use on all Macs.
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I did this with X-Plane. I bought the DVDs, and while waiting for them in the mail, I just installed the "NoDVD crack" so I could play without the DVD.

I don't think I did anything wrong. The author of the software got his money, I got a DVD drive to use while I use the program. Everyone wins.
I can agree with your first point, sometimes I do wonder if I am slightly schizoid. But as I responded to someone below, I actually have a slightly more disciplined approach to my idea making. What you refer to as an idea, is the first of 7 stages an idea goes through with me. I call them sparks, or seeds. Some of these make it through all the stages, ending up as a physical prototype, or even a piece of beta software, some of them get shot down early in the process due to them being crap, or due to the fact that I don't have enough knowledge of the specific field to take it any further without knowing if I'm heading into "complete bunk" territory. That's why I have a few ideas which are math based that are stuck in limbo: I am currently trying to research what work had been done on the problems, and then how to teach myself the relevant skills to see if I can move with the ideas themselves. (But it's such a huge field I lose faith as I wade through the texts available)
But math is just one of many areas I work in.
Though not quite what you're looking for, StyleForum (mentioned in another comment) has a "What are you Wearing Right Now" thread in the Men's Clothing section... you can actually try out different combos and receive (mostly) constructive feedback.
Seconded.

If you're in gamedev(as I am), you're essentially going into it as your lifestyle. You can make it a reasonably sane, healthy one if you can find a niche and make it as an indie, but good money won't ever be the motivating factor, and working in the studio environment is harsh and essentially requires migrating to find new work every time you're taken off a project. When new segments take off, like casual gaming did a few years ago, or social gaming more recently, you have a better chance of money and stable employment, but it'll fade away when the market saturates.

That said, the bar to make it is really high. It's not as impossibly high as making it as a musician, I think, because the variety of situations and skillsets is exponentially larger in the interactive multimedia context - so you always have less competition for your particular skillset - but it's definitely harder than "business programming" because you can add as many technical challenges as you want(soft real-time simulations, physics, graphics, audio, world persistence, networking, tools+scaffolding....) and still have only scratched the surface on what the computer is potentially capable of as an entertainment device.

If you take pains to avoid technical challenges you can make games more quickly, but you have to take on at least one or two to have a game, and adding more usually helps quality. Plus, the code alone doesn't make a game. The final game is the result of code+assets+design+player feedback - and lots of meticulous details. Game design isn't terribly different from business in that you have to make tons of hard decisions with little information immediately available. And like in business, you can get more info, but you have to work at it.
Your absolutely right that they shouldn't have treated the kid that way. But, to ignore the possibility that terrorist group will follow tactics of other organisations isn't very sensible.

But, to exclude any section of the population from security checks is inane (that assuming the security checks are worth the trouble in the first place).

The only reason the IRA stopped "proxy bombings" is because of the public outcry. Do you think someone on a jihad will have any qualms at the public outcry of using a 4-year handicapped child's family hostage and forcing the kid to do something pretty nasty.

Read some of the quotes here:
http://www.palacebarracksmemorialgarden.org/Royal%20Irish%20...

"A man was told to drive where the soldiers would be and if he did not comply his two sons would be shot. He was to tell the soldiers they had forty minutes to get clear but within seconds of reaching the check point the bomb exploded."

And this is in nice civilised Ireland. Don't think it could happen here?
> The first for all the social networking sites to change their URL patterns by randomizing them so that point 4 above (predictable URL identifying that you belong to a group) is no longer true

Wouldn't this break one of the fundamentally nice things about the web? Being able to refer to a page by a known fixed identity that can be bookmarked and passed around?

Wouldn't it be a far better solution to fix the history sniffing issue at the browser level, even if it means that css\javascript that relies on being able to read a:visited (or whatever else) no longer work?
It's funny that they go to the trouble of making the SDK available to paid developers early, yet it's still unclear to us if the iPad will actually have a physical GPS chip or not. The tech specs are vague.
The passive voice, like any literary tool, is just that -- a tool. Apple wanted to sound cold, lifeless, mechanical, uncaring, and exploitative, and the passive voice captures that perfectly without requiring Apple to say "we fucking hate our developers". Theoretically this saves them face, but unfortunately the developers they hate aren't that stupid. Are they?
I work from home frequently and love the casual dressing part. At least do not have to be in formal suit all the time. It make everyone looks the same... that my POV, people might differ.
At least we now know why Apple didn't allow for removable storage:

http://xkcd.com/691/
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This is all good if you intend to either impress people you're sure you want to impress or you're sure you actually to want to dress like this even if you were the only person on this planet.

Not really objecting to good-looking clothes selected with class but do it for the right reasons.
It would be very interesting to know how Avancept LLC found IV's 1000+ shell companies -- their reports cost money though: http://avancept.com/Publications.html
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Opera used to be the only mobile browser that would decently render sites and support ajax (before webkit became the standard). Even now, I think, on Microsoft-based PDAs Opera offers the best available browsing experience
I'd also add the askandyaboutclothes.com forums.
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On the contrary, zoom back so you can see November 25th when they announced giveaway day. Better yet, pull back to "max".

Would one not expect a lull afterward? It was announced far enough in advance that people could choose to get their upcoming stuff on giveaway day. Maybe some of the free-getters were new customers who might repeat, but the value was in the press on November 25th.
Clever tactics failure: I'm pretty sure I won't visit Forrst again; I don't know why would I want to.

All I got was a notice of some time window when you actually might see what it is for real. You obviously need a good reason to see what's in there before you land on their front page, in order to let this sample of exclusivity grab you along.
tl;dr, use both hands, and feet. Reminds me of pipe organ.
_Brown_ Islamist soldier who kills 13 soldiers and wounds 30 at Fort Hood: _not_ a terrorist!
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Why don't they just broadcast it live and then again later? They repeat it again at about midnight anyway.
GConf files aren't binary; they're XML. It may not be the greatest format, but it's editable and rgrep-able, and gconf-editor documents many of the keys. Sometimes it's good to declare One True way of doing things just so you know what to expect, and if GConf really doesn't work for your app, you don't have to use it; there are still plenty of GNOME config files outside .gconf/.
That's not my point, my point is just that the logical structure attributed to the definition is not accurate.

The definition does not state that all of the clauses must be satisfied for something to qualify as terrorism, and as I showed above, satisfying a single clause is trivial (and clearly not terrorism).
One more reason I'm glad I just bought a Nexus One this week.

No, I'm not going to say Google is god and they've done everything right. And I don't hate Apple: last year I just replaced my PowerBook with a shiny new MacBook Pro. But Apple's mobile story is about control. At least Google seems to be a bit more laissez faire about all this, and it's a lot easier to get apps on people's devices if you don't want to go through Android Market.
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I just wonder that if they're not savvy enough to use a RCS what other types of battles will you have to fight in the future?

If I was in your shoes, I'd start looking for another job with a company with a bit more technical sophistication. Somewhere that the battles you fight aren't over trivial technology problems and practices and issues that already have solutions.

Now that doesn't solve your problem, so probably the best thing is start using an RCS yourself, then create a build system that will push changes out to the server. You could initially sell this as a time-saver in updating the server. Then start selling the whole history part of using an RCS to go back to previous versions of a file.

But, if they're not using an RCS in the 21st century, what else are they doing wrong, and should you really stay there? :)
Something like this works for existing sites rolling out new features/products...but for a new site? it's more or less suicide.

The one thing that might help them, is if some blogger finds it interesting enough to post it. But I don't see that happening unless there is something special about the founders.(i.e. Blah Blah's(invented Gmail at Google) new site)
That's actually exactly the kind of thing that prints beautifully though. That would be much easier to read if printed than it is on a computer screen.
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What do you think this even has to do with my original statement? People are in better situations in other countries because they support more of a welfare/legislative based system? Do you live there? Why not?

"Of course a conservative policy center will tell me that poor people are wasteful and/or lazy."

An excellent way to write off an opinion without consideration. Come back when you have a valid reason to write their numbers off (not that there isn't one, just don't parrot "conservative" or "republican" at me because that puts you in the majority of people who cite the same BS over-generalizations).
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This is why I like the tech industry and the west coast so much. Because I can wear jeans and a geeky t-shirt to a 6 figure salary office job and nobody thinks there's a damned thing wrong with that.

I have a suit, I wear it extremely rarely and only because I want to, not because I feel forced to do so by society or office culture. I disagree that I am thus not a "grown-up" by some absurd definition. Some people take fashion seriously, others take a more relaxed attitude, that doesn't make either better or more mature than the other.
I don't know how accurate these are for people who dress this way, but I would guess that very few people on this site do dress this way. The style he's describing is as formal as that of a New York City investment banker when he's at his office (http://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/investment-banking-war...).
Interesting point. I approached the idea of suggestibility a little differently, from the perspective of peer pressure and following the crowd. I don't think I could think of a counterexample other than my own thoughts (which say it would be awkward to sit down while everyone else is doing the wave).
I really do try not to ask but... why the downvotes. I linked the paper. Noted an error or two jovially and discussed the need for further research.

Certainly useful. Succinct, enquiring, on topic. I'm at a loss on this one. Oh well.
Perhaps I'm being dim, but I can't see even a single instance in which your rewrite uses the active voice and the original uses the passive. Nor (though this is a more subjective matter) in which your rewrite "exposes intent" that was hidden in the original.
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This is why the government doesn't want attention drawn to it.
For those of you in NYC - take a peak at mysuitny.com. Design your suit, pick the fabric, then go into the store to get measured. Suit arrives later in the mail.

It's where I'm going for my next suit, at least..
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Huh? I didn't get it... his whole technique is creating a one-key shortcut?
3 Suits?!

That's like asking me to own three cars.
I really can't recommend The Long Tail enough. It is overrated and overstated and still the single most important book I've ever read about marketing on the Internet.
Perhaps put a business case forward with the benefits of transferring to a version control system?

For example:
* Easy rollbacks
* Easily work on separate branches
* etc
Because it seems to use up a lot of bandwidth and slows the client.

I just looked at the JS in Firebug, and it's over 100kb for the static portion.
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This is "Fashion tips, as long as by fashion you mean what 19th-century British aristocracy wore".

If you asked a woman to wear an uncomfortable and restrictive item of clothing designed in the 1800s you would be a crazy sexist. But apparently men are supposed to do just that.
Do software trial periods generate much buzz? Because that's what this is, only it's a website, it's free and I have to wait on average 12 hours to actually see it without registering. I fail to see any logic, sorry.
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Amazing design.
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Yeah, right. That is an incredibly hard judgment to make, and you want them to do that on 150,000 apps? Sure, no problem.

Be reasonable, this stuff was getting out of hand. If you have a problem, simply reply to the email they sent you, and they will have a look at it. Make your case to Apple.
I think that you should ask a lawyer about that before jumping to those conclusions. This may be some sort of gap between legal-speak and plain English. There are a lot of terms that diverge in meaning between common usage (even 'traditional' definition) and legal definition.

Logic would dictate that the meaning of that is "if A and (B[1] or B[2] or B[3]) and C", but it's not explicitly there.
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VCs, despite what they might claim, are not about innovation or even venture. They function merely as a bank that buys equity, this is identical to the type of banking setup that would finance railroads in the 1800s.

I propose a start-up test, if a VC is willing to fund you, you do not need them, you are better off taking debt financing, you are already a sure thing.
I wish this was true, but they have sat on this for a long time.