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Just because a product can be replicated by a single person doesn't make them competitive in any way. I don't think that is a valid concern.

Also, by your very argument, Google might not have wanted to get into search either. But of course, anyone would laugh at such a statement.
thanks interesting, this is what I used to think too but they are using more aluminum with the new design, and that looked strange without taking into account the marketing stuff.
No, it does not require a plugin.

The other solutions to this problem that I have found _do_ require a plugin in the form of Firefox addons.

This was my main motivation for creating the site; making it accessible from wherever I happen to be, regardless of my current browser and browser plugins.
I wonder how irritating it would be to actually use that bottle to drink out of.

One of the reasons that I tend to avoid Fiji water is because of the shape of the bottle (although, the environmental impact of the bottle and high price per bottle come ahead of the shape).
Hmmm, you are right, it isn't working for http://inclojure.com/ (now with a www).

I will look in to it right now, thanks for the feedback!
nice Tom, 3 musketeers meets the social web.
try crecord ( http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/CrecordExtension ) for granularity
Ain't gonna happen. The shape of the Coke bottle is one of their key recognisable brands - to the point where they've sued people over it.

Would probably have been better to target a different soft drink, like Pepsi, Sprite, Seven Up, or Fanta, and go from there.
I think this is a great idea for an app.

If I could make one suggestion, it would be to ignore some common CSS reset and CSS framework stylesheets to lower the number of false positives; when I scan my site I get a lot of unused selectors from these files, and you would detect them reasonably reliably just by looking at their filenames.
I disagree, I think the most important step is to finish/release.

I disagree.

The most important thing is to keep trying to iterate. If that mean starting 20 projects and seeing 19 of them fail, then so be it.

I got a lot of dead projects, but there is a few project that I stick, to rain or shine. It took me years to finally start programming.(Granted, I was 14-15 years old when I started programming)

Persistence is more important than finishing anything. Eventually, finishing will take care of itself as you develop pain tolerance.
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"People thought Apple will revolutionize tablets, but they got an iPad. But to make a revolutionary tablet Apple just needed to increase the size of the iPhone."
I don't remember where I read it but that line is awesome.
Disqus should pull in the reactions. Unfortunately I don't think they give the blog author tools to highlight select favorites, or to weight them by community votes
Looks pretty awesome, but I would think it would feel weird holding due to the edges. I would make the middle part of it a bit rounder for better grip and hold.
I thought economics is often regarded as a dismal science.
However, I'm also less and less convinced that the one really killer feature that Lisp allows, macros, really makes up for the downsides of the s-expr syntax.

Sorry, what is the downside?
(foo x) vs. foo(x) doesn't make a difference to me.

Is this an implied downside that amounts to not having used the language very much?
Thanks for the feedback!

Of the following, what would you prefer?

* Ability to enter a sitemap that would be scanned
* Abililty to enter multiple, representative URLs directly
* Or your idea to automatically follow links N layers deep
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I have been digging juggernaut for a while now. It can be a bitch occasionally, but is a great solution! I use it for real-time monitoring of traffic on the site. It's working great still with 20 online users, broadcasting their clicks to an admin panel so I can see how users are interacting with the site in real-time. I am interested to see how it scales to 100+ users - my guess is in my particular example, the flash socket will give up much sooner than juggernaut itself!
I hadn't considered the absence of capital as a potential benefit before. Interesting inverse thesis. I think it depends heavily on the form of startup, and how much investment it takes to become a profitable business entity.

By the way your kind of (in)famous on Fred Wilson's blog today. I still never heard back from you (beyond the initial Mark Pincus TC buzz) why you thought Fred was such a villain.
It's cute but I think the ramifications for left over CSS are pretty insignificant except in some very rare edge cases.

It would be cooler if you could feed it a CSS file and have it return a better version of it, well and concisely formatted without redundant declarations, using shorthand etc.

That would take this from something that doesn't really need doing - like css minification in a world where gzip exists, such as our world - to something that would show people a better way to produce CSS and still retain that original functionality if you're convinced there's a need for that.
Is there ever any point in a world subject to the laws of Thermodynamics?

Is there a point to leaving the world intact for your grandchildren?

The problem with your question, is that the consequences are far off in the future. So the likelihood of affecting policy decisions is just about nil.
Things like Yahoo's CSS reset?

Right now you can click on the arrow next to a stylesheet's name to hide it. Would you want to be able to completely remove it from the results, rather than just hide it?
On my site, following N layers would take you to a lot of identical pages. If you site could recognize that they are identical with respect to their CSS, it would save it a lot of energy.
'Depends on the person. I hate to say it but in many cases a less "opinionated about OO" language, like (gasp!) PHP, might be a better fit.'

PHP is equally opinionated about OO, as is Java, C++, Smalltalk, et al. It's just that not all opinions are equal.
Work all day and all night works for me. It's not always necessary, but sometimes it is, especially when you are first starting a company.
Did you later have to unlearn any bad habits, or did you have trouble picking up this or that concept or practice in other languages?
100 zillion car cup holders would be useless. You could argue they are useless now I guess since they never seem to hold any thing I put in them now though.
"Practical Foundations of Programming Languages", available online:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/plbook/book.pdf
It's easy to criticize these guys, but I'm thankful, for one, for a company that's trying to show us alternatives to the aristocrat-themed corporate management structures that dominate commerce.
Assuming a certain ideology(personal freedom) increases total societal happiness is just an assumption. if you don't measure it , you can't tell if it's helping or harming the happiness target.

Bhutan at least tries to measure happiness when trying to improve it.

And for example , in the Satisfaction with Life Index , Bhutan is in 8 place , u.s. is 23 place[1].

So Bhutan ain't doing so bad.
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Can we please, please, please stop trying to redesign everything under the sun, especially in the name of eco-friendliness or usability or some other such thing?

That is not to say that designs and decisions and concepts should not be questioned, but that they should not be questioned for questioning's sake. A lot of thought, time and effort goes into the design of recognizable brands and widely used things. Just because they are designed by behemoths does not necessarily mean that they don't know what they are doing. On the contrary I would think they have put a lot of thought into it and the designs work quite well given the constraints.

So if you are going to challenge it, please have something substantial that operates in the constraints that apply to the product, not just something that looks pretty.

</rant>
Identical from a CSS styling point of view or just multiple links to the same URL?
Maybe other intelligent beings in the universe didn't learn how to live with out fossil fuels, they overloaded the carrying capacity of their planets, global warming destroyed their environments and intelligent people stopped having children? The result would be that their complex civilizations crashed.

I think we have more important stuff to invest our intellects in than space exploration. All our current technology depends almost exclusively on cheap energy derived from fossil fuels. Human actions are damaging the complex processes that maintain live.

If we don't fix this problems I still think hedonistic technology is a better investment than space exploration. Well at least for the average folk it's not like we can send every human in to space.
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It would be helpful if you could create a CSS file with only the used CSSed and allow the user to download and save it.

Maybe even optimize the file by removing all spaces, tabs, line breaks.
Lots to love about this design, but it does have two significant flaws that could likely easily be fixed with a single change.

the problems are as swombat and Zev pointed out

1) missing cokes iconic shape

2) uncomfortable to hold square bottles.

So why not give the bottle some of that iconic shape in the middle?
Go from square to a round with a wave through it?

I'm sure that geometrically this isn't a huge problem with modern manufacturing techniques.

I'm unsure how difficult it would be to get a shape like that to crush easily, but maybe it's possible.

I suspect the offset of the cap may cause problems with packability, as it seems the bottles need to be stacked in a proper order.
You might need a nightly of Firefox http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates...
Can't see much revolution there.

So they now have a plugin-repository and allow you to directly reference those scripts from your pages. That's great and all, except I don't want to embed external code that may change silently (or not so silently..) at any time.

Here's a tip: People flock to jQuery not because of some bells & whistles like a plugin-repo, but rather because it makes one hell of a lot of sense at the very core. It just feels right™ and allows for very short and elegant code. YUI? Not so much.

YUI feels more like someone took the "Java" in Javascript way too seriously.
I am patiently waiting for YUI3 to finally reach the feature level of YUI2. I've used version 2 on a few projects and it was a pleasant experience all-in-all.

The only downsides were it was too heavy and too verbose.

I often resort to JQuery when i need DOM manipulation because its nowhere near as verbose as YUI2.

As for the too-heavy thing, it was a compromise because it provides one of the richest widgets in all JS libs out there.(plus YUI3's module system is supposed to help)
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It'd be fine as long as the maximum width of the bottle isn't wider than traditional bottles. Cupholders were designed to handle small variations in bottle width.
Nice, but am I the only one who is getting tired of people using lousy languages to draw stuff? Isn't that example one more proof that the web needs a decent expression language.

On my Apple II, I could do plot 10,10. This was in the early 80s. We are slowly getting there...
There are two downsides. First, lisp syntax requires a lot more parentheses because every expression must be parenthesized. Infix languages eliminate most of these. Admittedly this also occasionally introduces some problems with operator precedence but in practice these aren't that big of a deal. S-expr syntax just isn't as readable.

Second, prefix notation is terrible for complex arithmetic. Even the most ardent admirers of s-expr syntax will concede this.

I certainly haven't done as much lisp hacking as some people but I've written a complete html-mail archiver:
http://github.com/cageface/macho

a standalone xml parser:
http://github.com/cageface/xmls

and an s-expr syntax for python:
http://github.com/cageface/lython

So I think I'm entitled to an opinion.
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It would be nice if you could link to the results or query a URL with param so you can send it to someone else (like the designer who created the css).
magit does have that feature (automatically reload files etc after changing branches.) What I want is that feature outside of magit (or other VCS integration) somehow.
I think there are 2 main benefits:

1.) Maintainability. Promote re-use of selectors and organization of your css files. I find that CSS gets sloppy very quickly and there will be lots of non-DRY, redundant selectors, as well as legacy selectors that no one will ever remove because "what if something is still using it?" Your css files will slowly get larger and larger, and never smaller. This leads to the next point.

2.) Smaller file size. Less bandwidth used, faster requests. Yahoo has done a ton of research on the benefits of performant web apps: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
Will do, Thanks!
Scott Adam's syllogistic analysis is only true if his items form an exhaustive set of possibilities. One thing time does tell us about human nature is that it is easy to overlook causes for other's behavior.

In this case, as an advocate of Objectivism, I would like to point out two things. First, the definition of "crook" seems to vary widely: some people would like to call former Pres. Clinton a crook because he had an affair. In my book, an affair may be immoral, but it should not be illegal. Second, if the 'game' in politics, as it seems to be today, is not protection of rights but allocation of loot, who do you attract? People who like to dictate allocations, not people who like to create more pie.
I am the same

I would prefer it to work along the same lines as http://validator.w3.org/checklink
where it just automatically spiders
Right, but few people have reputation worries regarding that which is objectively bad (e.g. criminal records for serious crimes). Most of it comes down to subjective preferences and events that are open to interpretation.

An example: most of us would agree that there's nothing wrong with being gay, but most gay people wouldn't put it on a resume, knowing that there's still 1 out of 10 people who will have a problem with it. There's also nothing to gain, in a job search, by being public about heterosexuality. So sexual preference is (like politics and religion) just an area that many people choose to keep professionally private. One's political views could be beneficial-- most people would agree with my posts where I call Bush a fucking moron-- but generally people prefer to hold these cards close to their chests and be judged on their professional merits alone.

Privacy is necessary not only for the few who have objectively bad (drunken slut, chronic liar) things to hide but also for the much greater pool of us who have things that they might be proud of (political activism, religious views) but wouldn't want to inject into their professional lives.

Also, as with small towns in the past, there's the problem of reliability. Old-style small communities may have done a good job of policing some "indiscretions", but many have witch-burnings on their hands too... and we know those accusations weren't based in any reality whatsoever.
That's a great idea! Thanks!
just hangs forever on some sites.. Tried far too many times.
I am not really an Apple hater or fan and the only thing I would miss if Apple went down would be Mac OS X. I know Darwin is open source but what makes Mac OS X awesome is the GUI + Darwin.
and the other guy is completely anon online? I'll take the non-anon guy who has gotten smeared.

I'm extremely unlikely to hire a person who I can't find online somewhere, unless I know them personally. I don't trust anonymous, and in this world, without that online identity, that's what you are.
I've only read Pierce, and it's good. As an alternative, you could look at dependent types if you want to know more about types. Dependent types are like GADTs on steroids. A good place to start is Agda (http://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/agda/) or Idris (http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~eb/Idris/).
What about all the generic containers for coke, such as the 12 oz can or the 2 liter bottle? They're the same as most of the other mainstream soft drinks, at least in the USA.
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Can you give me an example or two of the sites that made the app hang?

Thanks.
> Do you really want to work with someone that would let their decisions be swayed by something like this?

Absolutely not. This is why I have forearm tattoos and stretched ears.

But many other people absolutely do care. My mom was incredibly upset when I got my first visible tattoo. "You're never going to find a job."

Those of us here are of a different breed than out in the greater world.
I would hide the feedback form with a display:none instead of JS. It looks odd when loading, when half the homepage hides once the JS loads (even with Chrome).
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Further, the package system is missing certain kinds of inheritance capabilities I've often wished for, but I recently sat down and did the work of writing my own versions of defpackage for my own use, adding the capabilities I wanted in a way that my own tools can use, and I had no difficulty.

A tendency of all Lisp gurus is to shrug off the lack of any facility that they can easily write themselves. Where is this new defpackage? Is it documented? Does it work for anybody else's needs, or just his? Is it even available? The fact that he considered these issues to be not worth mentioning in the context of the question is really frustrating.

For the most part, I've found the limitations of Common Lisp's abstraction capabilites to be incidental, and not deep, and I've found its syntactic reorganization capabilities more than capable of making up for it.

For most development there's no level of language power that makes up for being able to build 95% of your environment and 90% of your code by downloading tools and libraries used by thousands of other people, instead of (say) 80% and 70%.
Just one percent of C is awfully fast, but a crawl on interstellar scales. Still, it would be possible to colonize other stars even at such a pace. We can certainly envision accelerating a mass up to that velocity along with a spacecraft in its wake.
carma != reputation. Carma is built by saying what others on the form believe. if a job applicant has a high carma, I assume 1. they waste a lot of time on forms, and 2. they side with the herd on issues where there are strong feelings.
Having your product look like a can of oil probably isn't a desirable feature, either.
They've started making 2 liter bottles in that same shape, too.
It's interesting that we generally suppose either we'll achieve some super-greatness as a species or die out in some horrible cataclysm.
How species-centric.
As the author notes, a long, slow, fizzle into nothingness seems much more highly probable than some dramatic ending.

On cosmic timescales, is there that much of a difference? Let's say it took us 10,000 years for humans to become a decadent machine-coddled idiocracy that one day forgets to turn off the sexbots long enough to reproduce. That would still be just a blip on cosmic timescales.

Seeing that as being dramatically different than blowing ourselves up Dr. Strangelove style is also taking a very human-centric viewpoint.
I will have to think about how to do this in a nice way. Right now everything is progressively enhanced, so even if you turn off JS, you can still use everything. That's why it hides it after-the-fact. Ideas?
would it still roll properly down the chutes of vending machines?
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As a person whose had this stuff all his life (delicious!) I should mention that salep has a dual purpose: it also adds flavor to the ice cream. There is also a hot drink that contains salep that has the same characteristic flavor, often accompanied by cinnamon.
Society underestimates the executive's powers.

This is not helped by your use of misinformation. Again, you were factually wrong in your prior assessment, and made at least one glaring oversight in your last comment. Only now have you changed the subject from X to "what society thinks about X", as if to say facts don't matter if somebody out there doesn't know them. I can't think of a more abhorrent attitude towards truth than that.
It looks like a perfume bottle to me.
I like this idea. I am sure anonymous can make this happen in a very short time if this site becomes popular.
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Yes, lots of fundamentalists are unhappy when others have the freedom to blaspheme their god or have sex in ways that they don't approve of. To them I say: tough.
This sparked my interest into learning how pencils are made, here are some short videos:

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NoSQL is the duck-billed platypus in the evolution of databases. Absolutely fascinating, provides great material for PhD students, but a total dead end. Might survive in some isolated corners of the world; not one to bet on to be the next dominant species.
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If you are not doing data migration, after n revisions to the data management code, each record can be in any of 2^n states, depending on which code revisions did or did not modify it. How many revisions can you make before your code can no longer handle some of your older data? I'd say days' worth, not months, because you're trying to iterate a lot faster than we did. And the odds of a complete rewrite understanding all your old data are even worse.

If you are doing data migration, you necessarily have an old and new schema in your head. At that point you're just refusing to write it down and let the tools tell you whether the code agrees with you.
At least we know game AI techniques are up to the level required to simulate the main characters.
I wish the current bottles would do this.
I don't really think reputation is dead. Sure if you publish all your live to the internet it can be found sooner or later. But if they don't have enough info about you how are they going to know which is your real self. You can web search my name and I bet you won't easily find(if you find it that is) where I live or how I look.
As one of the founders of Opscode, and of Chef, it's crazy to say that the reason we started Chef was because we didn't want to buy a support contract.

We have no beef with Puppet - from our experience building fully automated infrastructures at scale, it wasn't the tool we wanted (and it still isn't,) so we built Chef - the tool we wanted. It turns out it's also the tool lots of other people wanted, and we're incredibly proud of it.

There is nothing dirty here, no matter how much the internet wishes it to be so.
What is it with Americans and cup holders? :)
Am I the only one that finds certain aspects of NoSQL databases easier to use than SQL? Despite having used different SQL ORMs and writing two on my own, I'm a big fan of MongoDB. It's fun using it for small projects, too, even if I know scalability and speed won't be an issue.