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Exactly, and while it would be great if things were standardized to make this job easier, we have to live in reality and do what is necessary for our users.

One thing that I struggle with to always keep in mind is that our users are not stupid people. I keep the image of my father in my head -- an incredibly brilliant man who taught me everything I know about arithmetic by the time I was 5, algebra by the time I was 8, then stepped back as I voraciously consumed all of the math books he bought for me, thereby basically ensuring my current success in my current field -- and he can't remember how to send links to websites to his friends. Actually, it's not that he can't remember, it's that he can't decide on the best way, between IMing, or posting on Facebook, or emailing (and if he emails, will he email the link or the HTML itself, and then will it be just the HTML, or a web archive, and will the web archive work for his brother who has always ran Apple hardware, etc. etc.).

Our users aren't dumb, for the most part. It's absolutely our failure as an industry to hold each other to a standard of professionalism (and I mean professionalism in the sense of Engineers, not MBAs) to ensure that things are actually usable and adhering to standards. We were cursed by our early adoption by counter culturalists.
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Mass-market sea salt and kosher salt are the same thing. Buy whichever is cheaper. You're right that it's better for cooking than table salt (except in baking, where you cannot use it). This is otherwise not worth arguing about.
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Spreedly is storing data [ http://blog.spreedly.com/2010/2/10/three-new-gateways ]. Others may only be transmitting, but I think PCI applies even if data is only transmitted?
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Know rich people? They'll help you get rich too.

What you may not realize is that everyone is knowable if you put enough effort into it. If you have no drive and no talent, rich people won't be able to help you. There aren't that many driven and talented people out there, so if you're one of them, and you make an effort to meet rich people, they'll help you too.
Ping me in email, and I'll track down the $300 part I'm thinking of.

I've seen (IRL) the sous vide supreme appliance, and have a peer who got to use one for a couple weeks, and if you've got the ghetto rig, the SVS doesn't add anything. Hacker News types are better off with the PID controller.
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Not a very interesting post... curious what people are finding of interest in here? Seems like the same old stuff re-hashed, with a "minimalist" label slapped on top.
Should I jump on learning OO PHP or try the old school PHP?
I am a web designer, not that great but still a designer nevertheless. I have been hoping to create some web apps for some time and since I can't really afford to get them made from some developer I thought I should start learning some development of my own. As I already know the dead-simple basics of PHP I am thinking of exploring that further. What'd you hackers think?

Try not to make it a war between ROR, Java and PHP here.
When the steak in front of me is labelled "USDA Choice", it's choice. I would be surprised to find out that any of the steaks at Whole Foods are "select". I think you're just wrong about this.

Yep, you can probably get "prime skirt" at Schaub's. Someone fedex me a Fred Steak, please. I'll send italian beef back in reply.
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Let me absolutely clear: you can’t take this path if you’re lazy.
If you're in WA, OR, or AZ:

www.lifewise-insurance.com

Balance that with $50/mo at www.qliance.com and you have everything you need.
If "lab tests" show game theory to not work as a predictor, then the scientists performing the test made incorrect assumptions. This does not however mean that game theory does not work or is not useful.

As far as I know, estimating player's ability to reason is part of game theory. The less rational the player, the more variance in outcomes. Game theory is still useful with less rational players because you can still exclude dominated strategies.
Too simple. The banks will never adopt it.
As far as population goes, we are not close to the carrying capacity of the planet.

There is space available!? Well what other option could there be other than to fill it with people? I mean, clearly, the human race can't shout 'we win!' until we are unable to physically fit another person on the streets, right?
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It's also at our expense that Google is adding yet another shiny distraction so close to an application that so many of us are already too distracted to empty, our inbox.

At least we can disable Buzz.
this thread of comments is laughably naive.
Something that can be very easy to forget until you concretize the question is that "children" is not a monolithic category.

I have no particular intention of locking down my 15-year old (in 13 years) with serious parental controls. But not all children are 15. Letting a 4-year-old run around loose on the Internet with no protection sounds like a bad idea to me. Which do you prefer, simply telling a 6-year-old "No internet access for you!", or drawing some boundaries but letting them roam within them freely?

"Someday, your children will need to be able to live without Mommy and Daddy saving them from everything!" is not an argument for throwing your 5-year-old out on the street.
Well, I guess that means that I won't upgrade to win7.

Way to make money fuckers.
There are also some really good private schools, for example The Internation Computer High School of Bucharest. Here's a list of the medals taken by some of pupils: http://www.ichb.ro/legend-of-informatics.html
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So when is one too considered too old to begin a startup company? Do most folks consider a 30-year old to be a bad fit for his first startup job?
This makes sense. As a user who expects to have control over the interface of my primary mail client, my first impulse was to hide the Buzz menu by dragging it into the "more" dropdown.

But I don't think a lot of users expect to have control over websites they use -- Facebook changes its interface every other month. Most users probably just ignore most of the page and focus on the two or three features they actually use.
Someone isn't a longtime user of Logic Pro, which had one of the most obtuse and disruptive mechanisms to security that I ever experienced. Heaven forbid you lose your dongle...
This will create wealth. Wealth will mean that art, health and relaxation will be in high demand.

100 years ago over 90% of people were farmers. Now 2% of people work on farms, does that mean we have 88% unemployment?

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No we don't. Instead we have Yoga instructors who charge $80 an hour for a private lesson. We have artists who charge $500 for a hand made bowl.

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The more we have robots automate the more wealth we will have, the more wealth we have the the greater the number musicians, artists and yoga instructors we will have.

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Creating wealth doesn't destroy jobs long term, "A rising tide raises all boats", however short term many people will be displaced and have no jobs during the transition. (Short term could be many years).

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In the long run this is better. Do you think UPS sorting employees would rather be doing this http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/a_different_sort_of_as... or creating art work?
Lauren is a he. That is a picture of him on the bike. And a very interesting fellow.
Alamar admits that a successful running game contributes to the success of the passing game, since you want the defensive backs to have to worry about the possibility of a run. But he isn't convinced that coaches need to run the ball quite so often.

And I'm not convinced that he fully understands the implications of how the game would change if running plays were much less frequent. I know I don't.

For example, if running plays were extremely rare, then defenses would change accordingly. But then there's an obvious exploit. It's possible that a much lower number of running plays is not an evolutionary stable strategy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strategy).

It's an interesting column with interesting research. I just think the problem is more complicated than even what was presented.
At the time I was trying to personify the ambulance chaser - I had two choices, John Edwards and Lionel Hutz (a Simpson's character). I chose the real one.

However, your comment has convinced that it probably would have been better not to personify at all, since it wasn't strictly necessary and is distracting.
Hah! My wife was the one who told me about <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=March+14th>March 14th</a>. This will make it even better.
The map part seems like an easily switchable component, and the bulk of Yelp is the community and the reviews themselves. Also, I think other parts of Yelp use Bing and Yahoo maps.
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This is not entirely true, if you treat iPhone applications like a software
what does this has to do with the Balkans?
On the other hand: we've had 3D in various forms, on and off, for over 50 years. It's always been interesting; it's never persisted as the main way of viewing.

Perhaps this is the reason why.

Pesce is not making things up; he's got real experience with a real system that didn't come to market, and the same effects have been covered in other news outlets:

"The Problem With 3-D: It hurts your eyes. Always has, always will."

http://www.slate.com/id/2215265/pagenum/all/
> As far as population goes, we are not close to the carrying capacity of the planet.

Very debatable and, according to my definition of "carrying capacity", not true. As far as I know the planet can't even take the hit of every Chinese starting to eat as much meat and fish as his American counterpart.

And even at the current rate of consumption our non-replenishable resources are disappearing: starting from oil and going all the way to forests, fisheries and clean water. Seems like we have already exceeded the carrying capacity of Earth.
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So, this person apparently thinks that the way to keep the economy healthy is for the population to keep growing without limit.

I fail to see why an unsustainable population bubble should be any better than an unsustainable housing / tech-stocks / tulip / South Sea bubble.

(Perhaps he believes that a population bubble would not be unsustainable because in the not-very-distant future God will step in and call a halt? Such predictions have been commonplace for a long time and their track record is not very good.)
For example, a major PC game manufacturer has apparently announced that their games will soon no longer run at all if you don't have an Internet connection to allow them to authenticate at each run.

Which "major PC game manufacturer"? I don't doubt there is one -- BioWare attempted that once -- but I really dislike weasel phrasing. If you know which one, spell it out. If you don't know, research it first. Just don't write it like that.
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Canada refused to join the coalition of willing for Iraq and we are the US largest trading partner.
It's not just limited to your friends. I have a fairly small network on vark (~8 people I think), but I think only 1 time have I actually gotten a question from one of my friends. It extends to friends of friends and even just random people if it doesn't think your friends know or they choose not to answer.

I've also never actually gotten a question from a friend.
Sous vide cooking (what I just described) is effectively pasteurization. At 131f, by the time a steak is cooked through, you'll have a better than 10D reduction in botulism --- in the fantastically unlikely event that your meat is infected with it (botulism is extremely rare).

The sous vide guide (Google for it) will give you the math for this, but their numbers are keyed on salmonella, which is what you really need to look out for; botulism appears to be easier to kill.

As far as aromatics go, cooking sous vide works on the same principal as cooking in a pouch. It amplifies most flavors, which is a good thing with few exceptions (garlic, notably, doesn't work SV).
I am italian and actually living in Italy and I can tell you this: Italy is in a very bad historical period, with corruption and organized crime spread in the government. I am one of the italians thinking that this country has no future and this is why I'm leaving.

Like me many italians (good and smart ones that are not part of the actual clientelistic system and are not able to get a good job) are leaving my country. I also have a lot of friends that are deluded and do not plan to have children, also because they can't get a decent salary to build a family.

I cannot tell if there is a casual link, though. Actually Italy is engulfed in a media regime, where the prime minister own three major TV channels and controls the three public ones. 80% of the people only get news form TV, and TV is not telling the bad news. So there may be a link and I think that hope for the future plays a big part, but I also think it's more than that.

I think that many things in the actual system contribute on the low birth rate. About vatican I can tell you that they primarily look at italian society and are very biased by their religion.
Sure, but my point is that Yelp's core tech of storing venue information, ratings and reviews is not "hard" -- Google and Yahoo both have services that do this. But it beats the pants off of them because its user interface and social dynamics encourage better data.
if you're going to all the effort of writing blogs and posting here etc etc, why not make at least a couple of the "scrumpad"s link to the actual product?!

edit: ffs - even the http://www.code71.com in the "about" isn't clickable.
Aside from the popup on first launch, there's no help screen, so I can't figure out how to arrange things properly. I tried visiting the gallery and it's not sized for an iPhone screen, so I have to scroll around to see the entire picture.

I think in the process of developing this, you may have used it too much to see any usability problems. I'd suggest finding someone who's never used your app before and physically watch them use it for the first time. Most importantly: don't say a word to help them! You want to see what it's like for first-time users of your application. After they're done, get their feedback on whether they'd use it again or not. This should only take a couple minutes. If you do this with 2-3 people, you'll realize a few things you could do to make the first use more compelling.
In todays time there is no guarantee anywhere so why not pursue your dream.If your dream is to work in a startup, create something that is used by millions then there is no point holding back.last year has shown that even elephants can collapse.False sense of security that was provided by bigger companies is no longer there.
I do agree though that for many people money is a driving factor and there is nothing wrong with that.One thing is there atleast in a startup there is hope that you can make big some time.Also based on your skills if the startup collapses you can always get a new job if you want to shift back then why not try.
There are objects in the modern day Squeak image that were created when Smalltalk-80 was released. In fact, if you explore around Squeak's image, you can find all sorts of disconnected bits and pieces that nobody uses anymore, that are just along for the ride because they are in the image. Sort of Smalltalk pseudogenes. It's organic, very different, and to me as a biologist who likes to program, quite fascinating.
Because it's unusual, and don't pretend you don't know this. It's already reasonably uncommon for any American to read books, and it's even rarer among Americans in their 20s and 30s, also known as the ages of NBA players. Classic novels and philosophy? Forget about it.

So these mostly foreign players stand out because they read.
Certainly agreed, it's amazing what they've accomplished on such limited machines, just it shouldn't be held as a pinnacle of engineering or computer science (else, why would the people who built it be at working on plan9 and go?)
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Adobe was started by their founders when they were in their fiftees. KFC was founded by the founder when he had retired.
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For anyone trying this at home, please note the "take the pan off heat" part of the instructions...

Being able to make a good pan-sauce is a skill that provides one of the best returns on the time investment for a home cook (second only to making your own stocks and glaces.)
Agreed. This is one of the reasons a sufficiently large (non-3D) IMAX screen provides an incredibly immersive experience for all kinds of long distance "big" shows like "Everest" or my childhood favorite "The Dream is Alive". You get all the right visual cues to feel as though you're looking out an airplane window zooming over terrain or standing on a mountain peak. In my experience, the IMAX shows that have been less impressive have been the ones relying on lots of close-up work. Undersea ones in particular don't feel as immersive because the camera needs to be too close to the subject in order to have sufficient detail.

I would argue though that just because you don't see in 3D at a long distance, doesn't mean that the little area at 3-4m away isn't important for traditional movies. Most personal interaction is at that distance. In fact, a lot of the dialog scenes in movies are shot as though you're standing right there looking the actors in the face. I think good 3D in that range is also what pulls you into the scene and really makes you feel like you are there. There were a couple of scenes in Avatar where this was really well done, most notably when they were in the thick of the jungle and insects were buzzing around your head. That little detail really made me feel like I was standing there.
That's rather the point: are humans rational agents in circumstances where there are objectively better strategies? If you're interested in more on that question, check out "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely.
For a small forum with not much traction, only something like 3000 questions posted a day, it seems slightly insane to me...

Sometimes I guess acquisitions are just random, and likely more about the people involved than anything else.
Updated: it was for chinese new year.

Regardless of that, Palm should be shut down and sued into oblivion by everyone who was conned into buying a Palm Pre. I've been holding back a post that suggests Palm was building the Pre up as a way to flip the entire company, with no real plans or intentions of expanding the company. That didn't work out and they're WTFing.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/debunk-palm-not-halting-p... Chinese New Year.
Assuming VC's got 30% of the company that's a payout of $15 million from an investment of $6 million giving a little more than 100% a return on investment. These numbers are educated guesses of course, but it doesn't seem like the VC's got a lot out of this. Normally it's expected that the homeruns give a 1000% return on investment.
I'd argue that game theory could be tremendously more useful if its practitioners made a better habit of questioning their own assumptions about the situations they model.

In the study cited in the article, the authors (seemingly) assume that pitch and play selection have constant or near constant marginal returns. That is, they assume that if pitchers just threw fewer fastballs, they'd be more successful. There is really no reason from the data presented to assume that. Perhaps pitchers need the fastballs to set up better pitches (they do), and perhaps other pitches wear their arms out faster (curve balls tend to). The author of the main article hints at this possibility in the context of NFL plays, but doesn't address it very seriously.

In general it's dangerous to look at data without a solid understanding of the theory behind that data and then claim to have a better understanding of that field than those who operate in it vocationally.
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I do not see any problem at all with this.

Its a completely valid thing for Microsoft to do. If you do not buy the software then you cannot use it. It's not a free OS. If you want a free OS go download some flavor of linux. Otherwise if you want windows you buy it. Why wouldn't they try to keep out people who have pirated their software?

They could have made it auto forward all of ones information to the police, since technically they stole the software. I think annoying you with some pop-ups is a much more friendly way.

The downvotes tell me we have some pirated versions out there ;)
I completely disagree. Sure it's easy to take pot shots at companies like Google as soon as they get a little too big/powerful for their britches however to really understand Google's importance, at least one crucial aspect, look at what's going on in China, and now Iran, and somewhat unbelievably now Australia (who apparently are trying to emulate China.)

Systems of real-time communication are critical infrastructure and the ongoing debate over freedom and privacy serves the lesson that there are no easy answers. We do know however that there is an especially interesting, if complex, relationship between technological systems and political freedom and that this is an issue of growing importance.

In short, while Buzz may compete with Twitter (or Facebook) and while a certain number will still use it to tell you what they had for lunch or forward the 2010 equivalent of an email chain letter meme, the reality is that it is just another piece of the puzzle in the emerging web of global communications infrastructure, and has much more far-reaching implications.
Someone still needs to build and maintain the robots. How we avoid turning this into some sort of aristocracy is the interesting question.
I'm a bit confused, as this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K5SycZjGhI is his TED talk, and the dancing guy was just a really good video that Derek posted, right?
It is Ubisoft.

See this http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/62098 (random article from google) for example.
You can use FireFox with the FireBug extension to get what part is slower. You can do it by using the "Net" table or add-in the YSlow.
Just tried it - it works!! best steak I've ever cooked for myself. picture (that adds nothing, but I took it anyway): http://i48.tinypic.com/2nkulfn.jpg

boneless beef ribeye 3/4in thick - I used a grill pan since it's too cold to grill outside. maybe 2 minutes a side, and another 2 to finish. I added some garlic powder an that was it (no additional salt). I let it rest for a good 10 min. One end was a little too salty, which was probably my fault for not washing it better. But overall, it fantastic. I've always tried to salt generously when cooking meat, but it never really worked like this. Great tip.
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Ubisoft, for one.

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Part of the effect of dry-aging is the enzymatic breakdown of the proteins and fats (not really "fermentation") and the other part is the reduction in the moisture content of a particular cut. The loss of water weight is one of the reasons a dry-aged cut costs more.

You can replicate a similar process at home by putting your cut of beef in an open container in your refrigerator (be sure to put a small rack under it to get air circulation on the bottom) and letting it sit for 3-4 days. For something like a rib roast the improvement in taste and texture can be quite significant.