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> Regardless of salary, I was arguing that you get less for more money ... and I won't throw money on a product just because it has the cool factor.

I guess this is where we are at a disagreement, although I can understand where you are coming from (6 years ago I lived on $500 a month - today I'll probably have to pinch some pennies to live on less than $2000 a month).

My most recent mac purchase (a mac mini) probably cost about $300 more than a pc with a similar configuration (cpu, ram, hdd).

In return I get a computer that is much smaller, totally quiet, looks nicer and runs an os I like. For me that's worth the extra money.

After suffering from a lot of hardware problems with my last 2 pc laptops (acer & dell) I've decided buying the cheapest thing out there isn't worth my time & frustration.

It's too early to tell how relaible the mac mini will be, but if it would be as reliable as the previous 3 macs I've owned (all lived >=8 years) it'd definitively be worth the higher cost.
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Facebook does this now, so you can keep chatting while surfing through its pages. But used like that, it does feel like a bit of a hack somehow.
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The big solution I was thinking of would have to go a bit further than Python/C. Basically you should be able to write a description of the actual essential functionality of a program without going into data structure and algorithm implementation that isn't relevant to the problem domain. Something like Prolog or Haskell here, Python isn't all that declarative compared to them. Then you could write the bits that need tweaking in a lower level language, but you should be able to automatically verify that the low-level implementation matches the high-level description, at least through extensive QuickCheck-style automated testing if a full automatic proof isn't feasible. You don't get anything like this with a Python/C style solution.
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I've used Flotr for prototype, and I have to say that I really like the overview pane and the slider. Very nice touch.
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It's a problem that I can no longer find the 'save' link on HN stories - where is it? That's one of my favorite HN features, even though I use it rarely. I'd like to see someone bring it back.
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The sad thing is that almost all of the points are still valid.
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For live sound this is mostly true, but for recorded music there can be artistic reasons to pan low frequencies to one side or another. (Just like there could be artistic reasons to do just about anything.) It seems to be more common in electronic music rather than rock, and there certainly are jazz records where the upright bass isn't dead in the middle.
Linux/BSD are clearly polytheistic, but I'd argue they're not even developed to the hinduism level yet. More like pagan.
You can blame the electronics all you like but the truth is cars can have faults, both mechanical and software I once drove a Vauxhall Cavalier were a small wire had got in the way of the throttle input lever causing it to have a very high idle. If this wire had got in the way any further it would have caused the throttle to stay near wide open. If it had I'd have either put the clutch in (plenty of brake assist and power steering but the engine running unloaded at the rev limiter) or turned the ignition off (no power steering or assisted breaks) depending on whether I had a good straight bit of road to stop on or not.
This is a true statement, yet incomplete. Part of the problem is that you're setting up a false dichotomy between Christian and Deist.

It wasn't as religious as time as other times in United States history. But Christianity was the backdrop for most all deism at that time. Deists picked the parts of the story they liked and left the other parts. Jefferson, for instance, edited his own bible.

John Adams is a good example of the general type of thinking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Adams#Religious_views

Thomas Paine was probably the poster child for atheists among the famous people of that time. He was a real firecracker. Most of the founders, however, were just men of their age, and people of that age attended church and used Christian ideas and imagery extensively.
If cameras were on you, and people were writing down your every utterance essentially 24/7, wouldn't they be able to get at least a few pages of idiotic or 'mentally unstable' comments over the course of a few years?

Every candidate enters into that world by choice, but we have to remember that these are people, not just political philosophies (or lack thereof) made manifest.
Sudden acceleration is more likely to result in a (deadly?) crash for drivers with little experience. Young, especially teen-age, drivers have little experience.

Young drivers kill and injure far more people than elderly drivers.
If you don't have kids then a scooter is a very good option. I used to travel a 10mile commute once a week including winter (in the UK) - I couldn't afford special clothing except the warm "lobster claw" gloves. My wife and I shared the scooter and with a back box it could do our weekly shop in a single trip; 125cc was essential to be able to get up some of the hills here with 2up and a back box full of goodies.
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Keyboard macros are a killer feature. I recently got a 10 page spec for a data file format. I didn't want to type all that stuff in. I used an OCR program to scan the text (~80% correct), then used Emacs to clean it up into a table. Then I copied a rectangle of all field names and used a keyboard macro to convert it into the XML format I required. Then I wrote a script to convert each type specifier into the type I needed. I was able to get everything working in a day.
ccollins,

Very much appreciate the feedback!

- I add the external links to the product incase voters arent quite sure what each product is. For things like the iPad that are "well known" I agree, its extra and may be distracting, but if the question was about two different motherboards, as a voter I would probably need to look at a product page to make a informed vote.

- I was hoping the "Optionally, explain why you voted the way you did" would let folks know it optional, but you do have a point in that many people dont "read" when on a page. I was hoping putting the comment box under the buttons and the arrow would help people realize its an option, but not required.

- I have the just view results because I would (as a question asker) have people that don't have insight on the answer not vote rather than toss up a "bogus" vote just to see the results.

That being said, i think you have some valid points in around optimizing the page. I really appreciate the feedback.
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For those who find this comment cryptic: Clarkson is one of a trio of presenters on BBC TV show "Top Gear". They do various challenges on their show. Once, in a special where they drove across America, the challenge was to get each other "shot or arrested" by painting slogans on each others' cars. While they were driving across Alabama.

The slogan that attracted most ire was not "Hilary for president" or "manlove rules OK" but "NASCAR sucks!"

And so a mob ran them out of one particular town. Apparently. Incidents on the show have been known to be staged from time to time, so I can't say with complete confidence whether this actually occurred.
Well, you can learn the syntax but the problem is when someone says they "know java" usually you care about them not just knowing java syntax, but the pitfalls, many frameworks that exist, general approach to problems, etc.

Just because I know Java + Ruby Syntax + Some stuff on RoR does not mean I am a good RoR programmer, there's just so much more to RoR than the syntax.

I want to see someone completely grok pointer logic in 24 hrs from knowing nothing.
I'm sorry but your argument is simply stupid and wrong.

Well spoken. You're eloquence is overwhelming.

If someone mentally ill, there is a higher chance what they write is not reflective of reality.

I acknowledged that possibility in my previous reply. I don't necessarily agree with it, but I wont discuss that here.

I wasn't attempting to 'disprove' anything in the letter using his mental illness.

Whether you intended to or not, you used his mental illness as a piece of evidence. Your intent doesn't really factor in to the meaning your words convey.

The letter is obviously overblown and inaccurate on its face. The guy hadn't even seen the movie!

This is a valid piece of evidence and the correct way to argue that a piece of writing is incorrect.

The mental health of the author is a useful piece of information when evaluating [the correctness] a piece of writing. Saying that it isn't is bonkers.

Saying that is very, very wrong. Once upon a time we claimed the author's gender and skin color were "useful" pieces of information when evaluating the correctness of the writing of women and black people. This was used as an excuse to not publish the work of these disadvantaged groups. Why do you think we have double blind submissions to scientific journals? The correct and only way to evaluate the correctness of a piece of writing in on the words alone.

My stance is not a controversial one, it is an accepted fact. When correctness is the primary concern, only the writing is examined. Information about the author can be used as a filter (example: submitting an OpEd to the NYTimes), but never as a factor in determining correctness. I've done my best to convince you, but if I have failed at this point we're both just wasting time.
eric,

thanks - fixed that .. There are still relatively few questions since this is the first real public exposure outside friends/family.
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This is a statistical correlation. You might as well say that eating ice cream causes drowning. Why? People eat more ice cream on hot days. People swim more on hot days. Increase in swimming means increase in drowning, therefore when people eat ice cream they are more likely to drown.

When old people drive cars they are more likely to crash therefore when old people drive a Prius they are more likely to crash.
"I then built a middleware layer that would either decorate the content with a layout template..."

Methinks you might have a somewhat non-standard definition of the term middleware. Please have your buzzword generator re-calibrated ;)
Great idea, and nicely done!

One thing that really bugs me about it: it's yet another site built on the flawed assumption that popularity equates to quality. I would love to see the site emphasize pro/con points for each product more, and completely de-emphasize the voting or popularity ranking feature.

The best products usually are not the most popular. I prefer to pay $50 more for better shoes, or $20 more for a better flashlight, or $200 more for a laptop that has features the other laptop does not have, like a magsafe power cord. But the majority of people instead choose mediocre products, and you end up with the votes actually detracting from the solution (because people tend to claim they chose the best product for the money, even when they didn't).

Great start though.
They also drive significantly more often.
Has there every been a good writer who wasn't suffering from mental health issues? Why would anyone choose to be a writer if all was well?
Speaking as someone who has had to maintain code written by someone who "learned" from these books, I completely agree. What was there was certainly C++ in a purely linguistic sense, but as code it was complete gibberish.
Electroputas "3" is the record I was thinking of. There's basically no high end on it. It was so noticeable that I actually emailed the label about it, thinking I got a bad press or something, but to their credit they admitted that the bass panning made it impossible to master the vinyl cleanly. (Electroputas are a really good band, by the way. Not sure if they're still around.)

Stories like this abound. The more bass you want on a record, the wider the grooves need to be, which gives you less time per side; the more playing time you want on each side, the narrower the grooves need to be, and you don't get as much dynamic range, loudness, or frequency bandwidth.

Another example: there's some Yo La Tengo record, I forget the name (it's been a while), but it's a one sided 12". The running time on that one side was extreme for a rock record - something like 28 minutes or so - and as a result, it sounds terrible.
I'm just curious, is there a particular reason that you suggest another browser to people using IE? Other than your personal opinion?

I don't really think that's adding anything, and if anything it will have people using IE bouncing without giving it a try. I only took a quick look with IE and everything seemed to work fine, so I don't really get it.

That being said I think this is a nice, simple idea that's pretty valuable. I like it.
fnid - thanks - anyone else of this opinion?

I can see where youre coming from on some of the smaller grey fonts.
This might not be possible if Toyota doesn't own all of the code. If they're using any third party code they might not have the rights to release it.
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Similar in Ireland. Although 1 month notice is the figure. Usually the notice is specified in the contract. There is a legal minimum of 2 weeks (or more depending on how long the employment has lasted).

Although it's in the contract, you are always free to re-negotiate a contract, and if both sides agree, then you have a new contract
I like the design.

A couple thoughts:

What is the incentive for people to provide recommendations (votes, comments)?

Why would I get better recommendations from here vs. Amazon reviews or any other review site specific to the items I'm considering vs. a knowledgeable friend?
I was just trying to be cute which has clearly backfired ;)
The site does look a little nicer in Webkit/Mozilla browsers but should work across everything.

I'll take it off since it appears to be quite distracting to IE users.
I understand that there isn't a commonly accepted term for "I'm creeped out by how much information about me is available", but we need to stop using "privacy". If we keep throwing the word around it will lose all meaning.

Someone taking a picture of your street and putting it on the internet doesn't violate your privacy. Someone making use of information that you volunteered to a social networking site doesn't violate your privacy, either. Online advertising relates to privacy in only the most extreme of cases - where somehow spyware is installed on your computer that records what software you use and how you use it. Tracking cookies do not violate your privacy.

If you legitimately have something to hide, you won't be found out by online advertising, facebook or even google. There is very little online that can gather information about you that you don't volunteer in some way. Can anyone think of a case where someone's life was significantly impacted by the exposure of private information online?
Won't a stuck accelerator pedal also be remedied by simply pressing the brakes or shifting into neutral?
I agree - the color and top bar you chose for IE8 (which is a conscious decision - use the tools your audience uses!) distracted me to the point that I didn't get much further.
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Ah the fun of post engineering! Fact 1 your users are unreliable. Fact 2 whatever you made has bugs. Which one is this?
In the context of the author's comments, you're scaling to meet demand, and delaying experiments with profit. Unless you're serving the bot community, it's hard to imagine how you would scale without demand.
Not sure what the anti Mahalo campaign is all about. Why is there no anti expert-exchange campaign. That paywall shouldn't be anywhere near the top of a single google search.
The Man in the High Castle is.the best thing of his I've read. A Scanner Darkly is quite funny once you get the joke. Hope you enjoy the read. :)
Just because iTunes is the most popular music store in the USA does not mean that most of the music on iPods in the USA comes from iTunes.
I think these books feed off the fact that most new programmers are doubly ignorant. They don't even know how much they don't know.
Do watch it again as the movie is rather different but good nonetheless. But I must say the book is far better and up on my list of favorites.
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Haha! Good comparison of a company who considers their use cases vs. one who doesn't.
Why is search behind a link? It seems to me that that might be one of the main things people want to do on the site first-- see if anyone's already asked about what they're looking for.
Agreed. If you're serious about a business, this kind of ideology doesn't have a place. And it's not just the suggestion, it's the wording, it's condescending.

IMO, given the choice, you should opt for graceful degradation. But past that, for any browser that will simply not work on your site, keep that bar and rework the language.

What you're doing here... it seems the same to me as saying _"McCain? Really? Maybe you should vote for a good candidate like _Barack Obama_... And don't worry, he's not a terrorist."_ Save it for your personal blog. It doesn't belong on a business website.
> The movie was nearly incomprehensible and the acting was terrible. It was too terrible and bizarre to even really be a disappointment.

Go on.
I guess, because as their prospective investor states: "Their likelihood of success in the Netherlands is close to zero".

But to further parse your snarky bait: Maybe they're not so smart; or, maybe their estimation of "highest quality of life in the world" differs from yours; or, maybe it's because the U.S. is a wonderful place to start and grow businesses and families.
A better online shopping experience.

One area especially is customer reviews and feedbacks. I don't want to read a review by anyone who buys the products.. that doesn't help me. I want to know if that someone is like me. has the same taste in music, or food or whatever variable that is closest to my interests.

This will help me speed up the decision making on the purchase in question.
Thanks - any thoughts on how to rank pro/cons? It seems like it would be a manual process. Is the ranking or pro/cons something you think users could "vote" on?

Interesting observations.
The shallowness, the lack of seriousness of modern presidential candidates is almost unbelievable.

No, it's totally believable. And perfectly predictable.

Why? Because these are people who, for the most part, are totally out of touch with reality. Why? Because they've never actually had to work for a living.

The classic case was an adult Ted Kennedy not able to figure out how to pull shopping carts apart because he had never seen them before. Sometimes I wonder how many D.C. office holders, if left alone in the woods without a cell phone, would actually live.

We have this community here at hn where we beat technical and business issues to death as we strive to improve ourselves and that which we produce. Most of those running for office are 180 degrees away from that. Most political office seekers commenting on this board would be laughed off as "posers" in nanoseconds.

Political candidates, like startup founders, would do everyone a big favor if they first joined the real world and produced something of value for someone else. Until then, "unbelievable" will remain the norm.
Good point .. its behind a link because it was an easy place to put it :)

I think ill make a search field in the interim that appears in the right sidebar on pages, and look for a more permanent spot in the header for it later.
Some of this is fine, if a bit dogmatic (but what do you expect from a manifesto). However the section on SEO is a potentially bad idea. It seems borderline black-hat and very similar to cloaking.
Yes, in the "Checkout these recent questions" section. All the gray text there is difficult to read. Right now it's blatant form over function.

The darker near-black gray text you have seems fine to me.
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Didn't even bother reading because I couldn't get to the content. An iterstitial ad decided to take over and there was no way to remove it on the iPhone. Enjoy the half-penny or so you made from that, website marketing guru.
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“we’ll launch a bunch of products and see what works.” That is the old “throw spaghetti against the wall and see what sticks” approach. It’s intellectually lazy and I doubt many great companies are born this way.

Sony and HP were born this way.

But he makes a great point about commitments. When you pivot, what happens to users who are reliant on your old product?

In my case, I felt committed to my customers, even after I really wanted to close it down. Support was far from a full-time commitment, but it's also not a clean end; the dangling commitment takes some of your attention, and this is a real cost to account for. (On the plus side, I ended up getting an extra $20,000 sale that I couldn't have imagined - maybe that would have happened anyway, or maybe it was karma).
An interesting idea, but this seems more like something intended for the author's personal use. Pretty much anybody else is going to want different libraries, especially for Python, which has many GUI and web dev packages. So you'll end up installing your own stuff anyway...
>I think that the convenience (and for some the prestige) of driving is why people drive rather than it being a cost point or service issue.

FWIW as an anecdotal point - if I were richer I'd take the bus. If I were a lot richer I'd ditch the car and use the bus day-to-day, use a taxi for the weekly shop, hire cars for long journeys (or take the train). Basically I'd consider this the best balance of environmental impact, utility (we're a family of 4) and cost.
I believe economics largely obviates environmentalism. To the degree people value clean water, clear air and all things green (even a mild climate), a good economy will provide them.
There are exceptional cases of, "you poured your motor oil on my lawn" but I'm not as concerned as many are about systemic environmental problems. Systemic economic problems do concern me so I found the article interesting.

My theory is that if all of the recyclable resources are so scarce, why don't they pay me for it instead of taxing me? Or why is isn't landfilling more cost prohibitive if that space is so scarce?
Considering there was very little time between them reporting the issue and Mozilla changing the offending post, I don't think they had time to "work with MetaLab."