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I personally use a pretty similar (though less formalized) approach at prgmr.com, more out of laziness and cheapness than anything else. 1. I don't want to pay for an office, and 2. people will work for less money if you let them work whenever. (and you can often get a good deal hiring people who get fired from regular jobs for not showing up on time.)

The thing in my case is that support stuff needs to be answered. Most people are cool waiting 12 hours for non-urgent stuff, so that's fine. Then the monitoring system needs to page, which it doesn't right now, which is a pretty big hole,but one that should be able to be solved automatically.
That's true, but I think that users would probably be confused if they can't chose the card type...
The goal of every startup is to capture an asset. Spend as much money as you need to capture that asset, and act as if you have no money for everything else.

For example, if you're Gary Vaynerchuck then the asset you're trying to capture is the audience of people who want to learn about wine via video. Figure out how much that asset is worth, and then raise the minimum amount of money you need to capture that asset before anyone else.
Would you be willing to be a test-case? Send me an email, tony@tonystubblebine.com and include some habits you want to change. I'm doing testing with a small group right now and hope to branch out next month.
It's far more likely that a group of well-meaning people who initially set out to protect Wikipedia from the influence of various elitist minorities have failed to realise that they have become one themselves. Beware of true believers -- there will always be a crusade in the offing eventually.
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Hmm interesting...
Very interesting, though I'll take more of a look later on. The speed test does seem a little contrived, as it's for one case, and it looks [briefly] like some of the gains are due to greater specificity of primitive types.
Are retrospective criminal laws even allowed in the US? They're generally considered dicey from a human-rights point of view.
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Nerf? It sounds like a sensible safety device to me. Who wouldn't want to keep all their fingers?
Haha thanks :) — It was great fun on stage. I don't think you can judge the whole thing from the audio, but that's just me cutting you off I guess ;)
Agreed, @pengwynn did a great job!
I would want to know that my card type will be accepted before entering the digits.

You don't need a drop-down for that, but the list needs to be someplace, and if it's part of the form it can be a sort of a CRC for user intent if the CC number doesn't pan out. Might make it easier to prompt the user to make a correction.
With apologies to Bismarck, Wikipedia is like a sausage - it's better not to see it being made.
They're the first that I heard actually formalize it. It was several years ago. While I'm sure that it's been done for decades (if not longer) you still have to give them credit for recognizing it as a great idea.
I think this proves that our notion of "ultra high performance" is severely distorted.
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One the other hand, the discussion is punctuated with the audience yelling "Louder!" and "We can't hear you!" on top of a lot of background noise (including various interruptions from the audience). I got the sense you almost had to be loud and aggressive to be heard. It got kind of stressful to listen to.
Grocery store websites tend to show very, very little of inventory. The typical grocery store considers the data a trade secret, and are unlikely to tell you if you ask. You could walk around the store with a camera mounted to your hat (seriously) and then work from the images. You are more likely to get data from smaller stores than from big chains, but they tend to have less accurate data (weekly inventory rather than real-time). But I don't know if you will get far without the big stores. If they notice you gathering data they may get suspicious.

One trick would be to ask people to upload receipts from stores. Then you work from the product listing on the receipt. This will tell you where people are buying things also, in the sense of "Store X is where most people in this area buy product Y." Think about it, this might be the easiest way.
Thank you. My phone is the last place I want to get such notifications.

I occasionally read HN on my G1, but doing much of any sort of reading or replying on a phone is a half-assed experience.

I'd much prefer to get E-mail (which, surprise! I can read on my phone if I so choose) or perhaps an RSS feed (which, again, I can read on my phone, if I so choose).

About the only reason I can see for making such things an "app" of some kind is to restrict how the user can use it and hack the results.
Well, that was his decision. Sorry to be so cold.

If they want to force manufacturers to include this technology, legislate it.
really? especially in technical jobs, often the best people don't have the skills /or the desire/ to obtain a management position, but they can still be extremely valuable. I know at some of the larger server farms I've worked in, there was often one guy who built a disproportionate amount of our infrastructure. The rest of us, in many cases, spent most of our time running scripts written by that guy.

Personally, I think having those sorts around as a script writer/mentor/troubleshooter is probably vastly more valuable than promoting another really excellent technical person to become a mediocre manager.
Thanks very much. Those sound very good. I've bookmarked this thread so I can come back to it.
It's really tough if you aren't one (probably akin to the often-mentioned difficulty non-technical folks have evaluating programmers).

But there are a few places to start. First, Martindale-Hubbell is a respected reviewer of legal talent and provides ratings.

Second, if your lawyer happens to be a "SuperLawyer" you're probably in good hands. SuperLawyers represent the top 5% of a given field as voted by their peers.

Hope that gets you started.
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Most programmers would probably prefer an explanation which focus on how monads work and what they are useful for, rather than just an allegory illustrating the type signature.

For a typical developer with some experience in OO programming, a more useful analogy is with the command pattern.

In the command pattern, a "command" is an object which wraps a method call or some other statement or operation. The "invoker" is a client which can execute the command object. Command objects can be composed, so a compound command may consist of a sequence (or tree) of other command objects.

Hence a compound command is basically a small program, just with a lot of overhead since each statement is wrapped in a separate object. The benefit of the pattern is that the invoker can add some additional logic to the execution. For example the invoker could log state between each command execution, it could allow a client to single step through the command-chain, backtrack, replay and so on.

The command pattern could be used to e.g. implement exceptions in a language which didn't support exceptions natively. You just wrap all statements in command objects, and then have the invoker check the return value after each command execution - if the return value indicates an error, the invoker does not continue with the next command, but backtracks to the last "try" command.

In the same way it would also be possible to simulate continuations, parallel executions or other advanced language features using the appropriate invoker-logic. The pattern could be used to create all kinds of sublanguages with different semantics than the host language.

Monads is the equivalent of this in a functional language. Rather than wrapping operations in objects they are wrapped in closures.

The talk about apples trapped in boxes, burritos and so on, is just an attempt to explain the rather obvious fact that command objects are not interchangeable with ordinary values and statements. For example a command might calculate and return a number. But you can't add that command object to a ordinary number. You have to execute the command first and get the resulting number before it can be added to an ordinary number. Conversely you cannot insert an ordinary number or expression onto a chain of command objects. You have to wrap it in a command object first, before it can be composed with other commands.
As far as iPad alternatives go, I feel that the Notion Ink Adam deserves more attention than it's getting. 3G and Wifi, camera, and innovative back side trackpad in addition to a touchscreen. And it runs Android. Nothing on a price yet, but in my opinion, it's definitely worth keeping an eye on. http://www.notionink.in/adamoverview.php
The date on the article is 2008-04-29, so it's likely you came across it soon after it was first posted.
Crowd-sourcing receipts is an interesting approach, thanks for suggesting. The rest your comment makes a lot of sense.
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The grin on that image is legendary. I was wondering, why didn't the guru refuse on moral or legal grounds (if his tricks were effective, he would be committing murder)?
This is about as realistic as choosing Microsoft over Linux because there is 'someone to sue if something goes wrong' - The chances of successfully suing your contractor and recovering anything after lawyer fees are almost zero.

The advantage of the contractor is that most companies have policies that make it more difficult to fire full time people than to fire contractors. Sure, in an at-will state, if you hire an employee, you can technically fire them the next day, but most companies don't work that way. Most companies do, however, have the ability to fire contractors the next day.

The advantage of hiring a contractor is that it's easier to cut your losses if you are stuck with policies that make it hard to fire your regular employees at the drop of a hat. We're expecting to get let go when the job is done, or if you don't like us, so generally we aren't as offended either.
Many, many kinds. A typical photo is quite sparse. Oh sure, there is a lot of variation in the individual pixels etc., but it's usually a picture of something with shape and fairly strongly defined visual characteristics (which is what made it interesting enough to record in the first place). Random chroma noise, by contrast, is not sparse at all. In that sense, it has a much higher information content than a picture.

That Terry Tao blog linked above is by far the best entry point I've found into the subject but I'm really not qualified to explain or simplify it well, I'm afraid.
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I thought his point was quite clear: Mercurial (and distributed vcs in general) make it easier to merge changes than svn.
I think we should stop this discussion. You don't seem to have any interest in discussing how this hypothetical society would actually work, only in nit-picking mostly irrelevant points (and in response: given that people would be free to eat if they wished, why should they not want refrigerators).

Thanks.
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What you are talking about in the married scene is the emotional context of the way she said "you". I guess in the movie she probably said "anata"? But this is not a very good example, as regardless of emotional context, simply using the word "anata" instead of his name is a solid contextual message that they are married. Otherwise she would say his name, or his "role" (father, older- brother, younger-brother, etc).

I'm sure there are some sentences that require clarification, but this is true in english as well. But generally speaking, it is not an issue. Only very rarely do japanese people end up needing to disambiguate through pantomiming the strokes of kanji in the air or saying "you know, the first character from such and such, not the character from that other word" (except when discussing the writing of names, which is totally insane and is the real life version of the old monty python Throatwarbler Mangrove sketch).
They would be what you paid for. Cheap ones might be dirty, more expensive ones fancier. Unlike taxis, where your choices are "take the first one you see" or "wait a long time for a called one to come" the rule would be "the closest one to you that meets the standards of the company you asked to send one" comes. Or if you are in a real hurry and did not plan ahead even a few minutes, you take the first one that might be dirty.
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Disclosure: I own a competitor to Mint.

I agree that most of the article is FUD, though the author does have some valid points in the “Security Posture” section (e.g. Mint ought to validate your email address before they depend on it for recovering an account).

The author suggests the use of challenge questions; I think on the surface that sounds like a great idea, but most challenge questions can be guessed based on what friends/family know or what a person writes online, and the testing I did with user-provided questions showed that users will write obvious questions or even write a question with an answer that is the question itself.

I’m surprised that the author didn’t write more about who has access to the information. I think that’s a very valid question regarding their security and privacy. Additionally, while their data-retention policies seem reasonable (backups and aggregate data), some guidance as to how long those backups are kept and what aggregate data is collected would be informative.

In short: the article is a good attempt to review Mint’s security policies, but I think the author should have done a little bit more investigation.
>With the method this conference requires, it's always revision A

While I was about to type "bullshit", think that's a little strong.

Slides were long ridiculed as an ineffective form of presentation before they were accepted across corporate America.

As someone who's presented in academic situations before with nothing more than a white board or chalkboard, you can use the same presentation again without slides. You can refine jokes, explanations, etc, and give "the same talk", and never involve a slide. Many lawyers actually are famous for doing that sort of thing in legal circles.

Sure, you can't put as much information on the screen, but in general, powerpoint presentations have way too much.

One of the strengths though of not allowing prepared slides: It's damn hard to do a presentation if you don't know the materials. So even if they want to send the marketing guy, he's gotta know his stuff.
Let's dump the metaphor and look at what actually happened. They knew Madoff's operation was a scam. they went to him and threatened to blow the whistle on him to the SEC. They got pay raises to keep quiet...although by comparison tot he overall size of the fraud, the amount they settled for was a pathetic joke.

This was discussed here some months ago when they were arrested - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=940214
How far does radical inclusionism go? I mean, you don't want to see every document on the web migrated to wikipedia, do you? What belongs there?
The intent of my message was not to state that all witnessable acts of good must be viewed with suspicion. Rather, my goal was to express how acts of good could also be in one's (or in this case a companies) self-interest. I commend what apple did with their homepage.
That doesn't really make sense. Having a transition period is the same as changing the expiration date.
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This is, however, a limit on Congress.
What will happen when a law expires? The easiest thing to do—the thing that takes the least thinking, writing and arguing—would be to simply re-instate it. This means that this system, when the principles of efficiency are inevitably applied to it, will actually encourage the permanence of silly laws—laws will simply be made as monolithic as possible, so they only have to re-instate one thing, that everyone can pretend they read already.

Now, instead, imagine a boundary on the space the law may take up. If set near (or below!) the current size of the law, this would encourage something lawmakers never, ever currently do for its own sake: refactoring. It would also encourage clarity, strict and manifold definition of terms (to allow later reuse), and many other strange and exciting (though not necessarily ethically sound) ideas.
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Reading the whole first page I was wondering how PDF or whatever was going to somehow solve their problem...

In my experience it's usually only non-technical people who use power point as a generic term.
Naw, it's all about method. You have to get fast at doing different things, especially "non-billable" things that don't cause revenue.

Many people are just crappy at maintaining self control, so throw hours at problems they don't need to. Little companies doing accrual based account then putting a high value employee on bookeeping, spending too much type discussing (or if it is just 1 guy, too much time thinking about it) what to do rather than doing it, spending too much time on clients who aren't high enough probability to land are three errors I see over and over in small companies.
If you're getting the Java thing it means your browser doesn't have native Theora support. You should upgrade or install an appropriate plugin.

(They've also done a lot of work to improve the Java fallback but it's not gone live yet).
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You need opencl-enabled drivers, SDL library and OpenGL.

I suppose this is my first open source project. hurray for me (:
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I think he means that the way you work is the same as in SVN but the way the system works is like Git etc.: the branches are editable and accessible like directories but with the advantages and changeset-construction of Git behind it.

Am I right?
So, if someone invents a whole new kind of evil—say, simulating a universe composed purely of vingtillions of minds being tortured—they go free, even after a law is purpose-made to stop them—but the next guy to do it gets the wrap?
I wrote about this a few months ago: http://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/23/node/ - it's exciting because it's asynchronous (like Ruby's EventMachine and Python's Twisted) but makes it almost impossible to screw up your event loop. JavaScript is an excellent fit for asynchronous programming.

http://transloadit.com/ is one startup that's using Node.js - it's particularly good for handling large file uploads since it can handle tens of thousands of them in parallel on a single server.
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But because of the network effect, they'll always be in the care of one something.
Yes, of course they should, but this will be exactly as meaningless as the other tools in your "democracy" toolkit.

I see what you're getting at, but you are waaaaay late to the party.....the democracy thing has already been figured out.

But, it's always good to hear from citizens. The government likes people to feel they have a voice in the way their country is run!
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Rtm's strategy for security is to install nothing.

I approve. :-)

That said, installing qmail is probably not going to open you up to very many attacks...
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I think banning powerpoints is going a bit too far. Not everyone is natural born presenter and many can be struggling. Presenting without slides is going to be a major hurdle for these people.

What I would propose is that people are not allowed to have any text (besides the title and presenter) on the slides at all. Or maybe a dozen words throughout the presentation.
I think it is incredibly insulting to the audience to make slides and then read them literally to the audience (bonus points for title-casing all your bulletpoints and cramming so much text into a slide that it's barely legible).
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I don't understand why JSON would get faster for larger types. Anyway a 524 byte type is already fairly large.
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Why does their graph show the JSON bar as twice as tall as protocol buffers when it's not even 50% slower.