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Fashion is one of those things (like etiquette, social norms and maybe religion) that you need to understand to willfully ignore. You're making just as much of a statement by wearing jeans and a t-shirt as someone wearing a suit. For me a truly relaxed view on fashion is when, while other peoples view of you might change with your appearance, your view of yourself never does. Insight over ignorance.
I pretty sure he was being sarcastic.

YC has always had a penchant for poppy, Hanson-esque startups, but this one is flat-out embarrassing. They turned down CouchDB but picked up a gift card exchange? When did Dr. Paul Graham, author of On Lisp, turn into pg?
Errrm. Sorta.

It's still relatively trivial to infect a Linux machine - especially if you have an end user on there :)
I know of a company that makes a living for about two dozen people selling (or better developing) ideas.

Maybe you find some inspiration on their website:
http://www.brainstore.com
Fair point, the word "redistribution" probably isn't the right one. As you say, it is the generation of additional copies that pass to others that is against the spirit of copyright, not merely transferring the original copy in its entirety.
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Link Fail. This is just the headline, and then more headlines, none of which link to anything resembling an article.
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As someone who is also overweight, I feel your pain. But you just have to suck it up, grow up, and get out there and try on lots of clothes.

This is where if you have some extra money it can be worth going to higher end stores. Their sales people are usually willing to spend time with you to find the clothes your looking for.

For me, my legs are thick, so I simply cannot wear slim or regular fit jeans. So I have to look for relaxed jeans but without being too baggy. I usually run about a 15:1 try-to-buy ratio, even though I avoid slim/regular fit jeans.

I also have wide shoulders and so I cannot wear untucked button-up shirts. Any casual button-up shirt that I wear untucked, and which fits my shoulders, ends up hanging to my knees. This is true even of shirts that are made short in order to be untucked. I just accept that I cannot wear that style and move on.

You'll just have to find your way by trying on clothes and buying only the ones that fit well.

Let me say that, even if you are not a clothes person, once you find a few nice pieces, it will feel good to wear them.
I agree. I played Red Faction Guerrilla for a bit before realizing I needed a Windows Live account to save, so I had to restart. Never mind that it took me forever to even sign up to windows live because of some issue with it updating (and a good fifteen minutes of googling why it wouldn't update in the first place) - I felt really frustrated and cheated and would have scrapped playing the game because of it, except I'd already paid for it. I will never ever buy a windows live game again, though.

What annoys me is that DRM does NOT (and never will) stop piracy, yet the paying customers get screwed over while the pirates get a nice DRM and hassle free game to play for free.
How much do you find effective? The standard dosage, or more? I should have been sleeping 6 hours ago.
Sad, there disappeared my native Sweden's single major contribution to philosophy... :-)
What's wrong with 3 cars? 1 for daily use, 1 to go out on a date and one for business!
Stick with it - its a couple of clicks down:

http://steveblank.com/2010/02/11/it-must-be-a-marketing-prob...

its a good article
Yea, I became a fan of FB engineering hoping to talk about their distributed systems and what not. Turns out well over 99% of the fans are simply there to complain about something on facebook thinking an engineer will fix it. None of them know anything about technology and are often complaining about apps that facebook has nothing to do with.

It's a shame. Could have been a cool group.
There is an email address visible in your HN profile, so there's an outside chance it could be through here.
Yes, but while it's easy to see that, in spirit emailing an mp3 to a friend (and deleting mine)is "giving my copy", note that it looks a lot like "making a new copy".

That's why I think the distinction is quite important for digital media - giving your copy looks very similar to making a new one.
also http://www.throughtherye.com/flusser/index_current.html

for one of Alan Flusser's excellent books on the matter
Is Apple's iPhone more 'open' than Android?
I recently switched to a HTC Hero on the Three(UK) network. I was excited to use Google's new tools/toys on the phone like Goggles, Turn-by-turn directions, and Buzz.

When those applications didn't show up in the android app market, I found out it was because I had Android 1.5 running on my phone and all the cool stuff is for 2.0. 'No problem, I'll update,' says me.

About that. You can download the latest Three branded software from HTC. I borrowed a friends Windows PC to do the update, since that's the only platform supported (ironic, since Android unix based). I allowed HTC Sync to erase my data (the only option) and update, only to find I'd updated to the version I already had. Version numbers are tricky; the phone's software have three different numbers and I had no idea which one referred to the Android firmware.

'OK maybe I'll try a less conventional route.' Lots of looking around helped me find out that although people used to be able to update these phones by rooting them, my phone's software had closed that door with a patch. I'm not one to give up easily when it comes to winning with technology, but I only have so many days to live on this Earth...

I have found a recent blog post suggesting that HTC will provide an update for my phone (for a different carrier, but who knows?) in March. Oh well, I'm still enjoying the phone. I guess the Lord is teaching me patience.

As for the tricksy title of this post, I know that Android is more open from a developer perspective, but on the iPhone, everyone has access to OS and application updates at once, which can be installed from two different platforms.
I'm more of a "Beautiful GUI" type of guy
It's good to make things faster, but their method of fixing it by "writing a library" instead of just rewriting the same functions over and over again is really, really basic. It really took them that long to do that?

And once again, Facebook creates a completely custom solution for no real reason. They don't see any advantage in basing this off of jQuery or similar if they're rewriting the JavaScript anyway?

Are we supposed to be impressed here?
hmmm. it completely misses the possibility that there's a point when "ooo different" stops becoming fun / interesting and starts being a drag.

living in a foreign country means you never feel completely right. if you're on vacation, that's a pleasant change. for a lifetime it's not quite as much fun.
Churchill was overweight and he wasn't too bad of a dresser. If you want to see more realistic examples than on the sartoralist then checkout the styleforums thread "what are you wearing today", mentioned elsewhere. Suits work best on someone who is around 5'9". I am quite tall, which means I can look a bit goofy if I wear the wrong things, but just like with being overweight, it is possible to put together a combination that looks good.
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50kbps - good luck if you're on GPRS.
What about dial-up, some people still use that don't they ?
For immediate action check his hosting provider and see if they have a policy against copyright violation. If they do, mail them and ask them to take the site down. Don't know how that works but it's a start.
Interesting. Here is a list of some other resources:

http://www.innovationtools.com/Products/ideamanagement.asp

I looked through a bunch of these when I was approached to make an enterprise level IMS for a large chemical company (30,000+ employees). The software is not complicated, but because of the use of the word "innovation" it becomes rather pricey, very quickly especially when you charge by the seat. I put together a prototype for them, but lost the tender in the end. But its this prototype which I am adapting to put on my website.
For those interested in learning, Epic now provide the UDK (Unreal Development Kit) for free to those who wish to use it in non-commercial capacity. This means that whilst you can't sell anything you make with it, you can get your hands on the full Unreal 3.0 engine that powers many modern games (eg. Gears of War, Bioshock 2), and do whatever you like with it. Great for prototyping, experimenting and generally learning about game development.
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That would be you taking on more responsibility? Reason for a raise if you ask me.
Not a single "Stack overflow" pun?
I feel like submissions that fit the template "N <something> for your <something>" are generally spammy these days. I ignore them.
Nah, this was to my personal address.
Sorry that is what I meant.
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Would you mind expanding on this? I thought the role of the arbiter is to decide who's the master at one point in time. And while this is helpful for the whole coordination process, (by the way I think a similar effect could be achieved with smart clients) this impacts availability on not durability per se.
This definitely seems capricious, and it certainly must have some chilling effect on anyone considering building an app for the iPhone. From my limited perspective as a lefty computer geek, this seems like a real blunder.

On the other hand, half the country lives in "fly over" America, and doesn't want to see smut or have their children subjected to smut on the iPod. So, I can see how this decision was made.
Here's a somewhat easier approach that worked for me: marry an Italian woman and carefully follow all her advice about buying clothes.
They mentioned everything apart from the fact that its a web server. Also, have I got this wrong or did they just hint that it doesn't run on linux?
Alas, typography is one of those fields where most people only ever notice when you get it wrong.

A document presented with good typography might be easier to read for lengthy periods without losing concentration. There might be fewer distractions, like rivers of space running through the text, hard-to-read shapes due to poor kerning, or chunky CAPITALS and long numbers where small caps and old-style figures would not have disrupted the flow. There might be subtle visual cues to help the reader understand the material more quickly, like moving captions and headings closer to the subject material or spacing out bullet lists a little so their items are clearly separated.

But in a world where most people using word processors don't know what a stylesheet is and emphasis tends to consist of centring text, setting it in bold, capitals, and double-underlined, and then hitting enter a few times either side to space it out a bit, I think we can safely assume that most people either don't know about the subtleties of good typography or just don't care. The world might be a slightly better place if leading word processors all adopted better typographical conventions by default, and a few of us would appreciate the ability to produce better quality results, but I'm afraid it's never going to be a selling point for most people.
That includes equipment - 6 items for paddling, 2 sets of weapons and a guitar. The rest is just electronics, travel bags, books (around 20 items, so it makes ~30 in total).... can't think of anything else.
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I haven't tried the other MPM plugins extensively, but it seems like the default should be "Don't use a ton of ram, don't fail if there's more than like 10 concurrent connections". Especially these days when people are ajax and cometting to their hearts content.

I guess one of the issues is that if you're using it with PHP/Python/etc, those expect to be in their own thread/process, so using more of a scalable async approach in apache isn't always possible.

I agree @ architecture + misconfiguration.
If I hadn't read the comments here, I would have given up because it wouldn't scroll. I did not look for the instructions and did not notice them.

I thought good design is meant to make instructions superfluous...
Sure it scales, but completely vertically. Talk about an expensive server.
This definitely seems capricious, and it certainly must have some chilling effect on anyone considering building an app for the iPhone.

It'll have a chilling effect on people who want to build an application with wobbling tits in it, but I don't see that as a bad thing. It's not just people in the mid-West who don't want smut in the App Store.

I can easily find smut on the Internet via my iPhone if I want it. I don't need it to be in the App Store.
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Easier? Depends on who you marry, I suppose.
A bit like an old chestnut I remember: the woman says that her son is smarter than Lincoln: the boy could recite the Gettysburg address at age 8, while it took Lincoln until he was over 40.
On the subject of PowerPoint humor, quite possibly my favorite complaint letter of all time: Yours Is A Very Bad Hotel.

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Survivor bias?
I was about 12 and had learned some BASIC from copying programs from magazines when my dad got a Pascal ROM. I just couldn't understand how a program could work without line numbers!

Computers were really an invitation to learn programming because they booted instantly and you could try out commands even without actually writing a program. And there wasn't much more you could do: there were no browsers and messengers and other things to take your attention. It's hard for a 12 year old to take up programming on today's machines.
Sorry, but this reads to me like: 'If you hire me, I will backdoor my code! Do not trust me!'
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Why is anyone surprised? Anyone choosing to develop for the AppStore is in the position of a sharecropper iin APple's Orchard. (Reg Brathwaite wrote an awsome article on this at http://weblog.raganwald.com/2004/11/sharecropping-in-orchard...) The owner reserves the right to be as much of a dick as he wants to be, wrt how his land is used by the sharecroppers. That's how sharecropping works.

There is nothing in wrong in being a sharecropper if that is what someone wants to do, but I don't get the angst. When the owner says "jump" the correct response from a sharecropper is "How high"?
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One of the problems with adjusting inter-letter spacing is that it completely breaks certain types of font: think of calligraphic scripts, or non-western writing systems such as Devanagari where the rendered glyphs touch to give the continuous appearance of the text.

Another problem is ligatures. Where adjusting inter-letter spacing is possible, it usually needs to be applied uniformly across at least a whole word to work well. If you are writing the word "difficult", and the "ffi" is rendered using a ligature to avoid awkward clashes, then how do you adjust the spacing for that? You could keep the ligature, but then the inter-letter spacing isn't uniform across the whole word. Alternatively, you could break the ligature, but that could restore the undesirable clashes between the "f", "f" and "i" that the ligature was designed to prevent. To avoid that, you would have to open up the inter-letter spacing so much that the letters no longer clash, which is probably far too obvious in most fonts to be a useful effect.
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but do you need it not to be in the app store?

i don't need anything to be in the app store myself, but luckily for you "i don't need anything to be in the app store" is not the same as "i need the app store to be empty".

is that clear? there's a difference between not caring and forcing your opinions on others.
I'm not being nasty or anything, but if you're aiming for speed, using a general purpose library like jQuery isn't what you should be doing.

Writing the js properly optimized to the specific use case is what should be done.
I've had readability bookmarked for a few weeks and have occasionally used it to combat bad design. Thing that bugs me is in FF I can't access the bookmarklet without using the bookmark menu or a bookmark bar. Just to clarify I access my bookmarks mainly through the awesome bar. I don't have the file menu displayed nor a bookmark bar visible - this makes it a bit of a pain.

I guess it's a FF bug that javascript bookmarks are not listed by awesomebar? Any suggestions?
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I guess that's very country-specific. In my country (Uruguay), as a professional, I'm EXPECTED to wear a suit, and I own far more than 3 (it helps that they're about U$ 100 each as opposed to whatever price they are in the US).
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"Attack code for sale, says malware author" is probably a more accurate headline. I'm not sure why the register feels giving them free PR is responsible.
Like the infinitely deep rubbish bin (trash can), the piano staircase and the bottle sorting recycling game. Good idea if it makes him happier about getting to an upload point.
Do they have 10,000 users? (Genuine question). Quantcast says they get under 2k users a month.
What did Aardvark do?
and since I write some thousand lines of code every day I don't need anyone to review it.

Also, I'm writting code for a crucial part of the project, so it would be obvious if it don't work. So no silly unit test or anything.
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it angers me our society makes it fashionable for women to hurt themselves with really painfully uncomfortable shoes.

Me too. Unfortunately, I also tend to like how women look in high heels.

I have a lot of cognitive dissonance about fashion in general. It disgusts me that people buy new clothes even though they have old ones that are still perfectly functional, but despite this disgust, I am sometimes one of those people. When I'm dressed well (which includes, among other things, being not too far out of date), I feel better about myself, but then I feel stupid for letting myself be manipulated for profit by the fashion industry.

I know a couple of women who have such a strong aesthetic sense that they can look good without being trendy. I have a lot of respect for that.
yep. The mentality is that we are in a war against terrorism, most people understand you cannot actually attack terrorism so when you say "war against terror" most people really think "war against angry foreign influenced Muslims". If someone who isn't a angry Muslim commits a crime that invokes Terror (flying planes into buildings) it isn't terrorism.
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Earlier you argued that people are not saving too much. However, your article says that people are in fact saving so much that the Fed is trying to turn them away. According to the article, the Fed first dissuaded savers by lowering the interest rate to zero, and when that proved ineffective they bought back the treasuries they had previously issued. I assume you have withdrawn your earlier argument.

I think your point now is that the government should not have bailed out the financial sector. That's a different discussion that should have its own thread. Perhaps your point is that the Fed and the Treasury are working against each other? I don't distinguish between the two and believe Bernanke/Geithner work hand in hand, but again that's a different discussion.

Also, for accuracy's sake, treasuries are not paying anything close to 4%, unless you're looking at very long term rates which are neither here nor there.

You jump around a lot, which makes it difficult to see the point you are trying to make. Unless you want to revive your "society can never save too much" argument, I would like to end this discussion.
Yes. The only illumination would come from bio-luminescence or artificial light. Though a lot people have been in enclosed areas that are dark, very few people have completely turned off every source of illumination in such situations.
I had a very similar reaction as I scrolled down, somewhere between creepy and despair.
Ask HN: founders wants me to join for just equity, how much should I ask for?
3 founders (one of them is techie) wants me to join as a first employee to do coding, no salary, just equity. How much should I ask for?

Some say since I don't get a salary I should get the same share they take, or very close. Is this realistic?
I agree. I have no interest in fashion as defined by the article, and I'm okay with that. And my co-workers are, too.

It's been interesting watching my father's fashion change over the years. He has worked, varying capacities, as a manager or executive at a mechanical engineering and construction firm for his entire life. In the 1970s and 1980s, he wore a suit to work every day. In the mid 1990s (coinciding, I should add, with his promotion to president), the dress at the office changed to business casual, even when lunching with clients, and now, jeans are normal around the office unless meeting with clients.
Flagged, in the vein of "They did it to me so I'm going to do it to you". :)

(I concluded 'they' were right.)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=669741
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Well, at least you have no distractions there, and what he or she can do is just work. The bad char might be a god incentive to take breaks and do some recreation activity. Maybe it's not that bad from a productivity viewpoint.
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