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Upvoted. But there's a difference - the arsonist is only allowed to get an insurance policy on buildings he owns.

It's more like an arsonist taking out insurance policies on other people's buildings, THEN burning them down.

Except we don't allow crazy antics like that with insurance. And the insurance companies have to keep money reserved to pay out claims. And it has to go on their balance books.

So what we have here is "a building just burned! Oh crap, who has insurance on that? Who sold it? Who's going to go broke? Who shouldn't we lend money to? Nobody knows!"
Can you provide a link or citation for the thing about the Turing machines? Sounds interesting.
"Need to make a new branch? Try git branch--er... I mean 4 seemingly random Git commands that don't include the word branch. "

'git branch <branchname> [start-point]' creates a new branch....

Maybe he is referring to the fact that git branch wont change change branches? You have to use git checkout to actually switch branches.

"Not only is documentation for some important features sparse, the documentation that does exist is rarely ever of the best quality."

I am curious what specifically he was referring to. The docs on git-scm are pretty extensive. Between the docs, books, cheatsheets, videos there is a ton out there. Even the man pages include example usage where many man pages for command line tools do not.

Something I can't help but ponder is that in switching to the second system they already had a grasp of some dvc concepts making it easier and if trying git second would have been easier.
Maybe you meant this:

First they came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

Pastor Martin Niemöller
This "non-technical user" seems to be a beast similar to the boing-boing quote of William Gibson: "something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth... no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote."
see: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/04/02/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-...

This non-technical user does nothing and understands nothing. They have no fear of tenotinus since they won't be using any functionality for more than ten minutes.
EITHER flat touchscreen devices are inherently unusable OR designers don't have to make major compromises to provide accessibility. One or the other — not both. This article spends half its time bashing touchscreens and the other half brushing aside designers' objections that they'll have to make sacrifices to achieve the kind of accessibility he's looking for. Not even arguing against the objections, just saying that it's not really a problem and the real issue is those darn lazy designers who "don’t prioritise the effort."

It would have been really cool and useful and might have actually changed some minds if he'd included practical advice into his post rather than just gripes and platitudes. Brushing aside the objections of the people you're trying to convince is pretty much the worst argumentation tactic imaginable.
Cells in an SSD have a finite number of writes. But some brief Googling convinced me that with current drives, the number of writes a cell can take is not a concern even for heavy use.
What everybody here is forgetting, is that this is a civil suit. Why not charge them criminally?

Bottom line, this has been staged to defang them in front of next weeks house hearings on banking reform. It's theater. That's not to say it might not be true, but if you really think the administration wants to clean things up, ask why this is a civil action.
You also have to remember that the guidelines for what is considered obese was changed in 1998. It changed 30 million people from being considered normal weight to obese.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/guideposts/fitnes...
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I wonder if these could survive on Titan unmodified? Maybe we should plant some there so that life can survive after the sun goes super nova?
Great little MVP.

Any way of keeping track of invoice numbers? Will require a login or maybe just cookies.
Accessibility is much about understanding what can be perceived and understood. Yes, non-tactile buttons aren't great for people who rely on touch - but that doesn't matter if there's a better interface that is accessible.

A visual person looks at an iphone and sees the touch screen as a series of hotspots, something akin to a button. But, it's a flat surface, it doesn't have to be interpreted as non-tactile buttons.

Look at an iphone touchscreen when the phone is switched off. Now look at a Macbook touchpad. If the touchpad - with no 'screen' behind it, or no display at all - how would you use that to navigate around the various features of an iPhone like OS?

Very quickly you'd land on the idea of gestures with spoken output. You'd create a navigation of gestures. Swipe left to move to the next application. Swipe right for the previous application. Double tap to activate the selected application. That's just for starters.

As the iphone demonstrates, there's a rich language for interacting with the device that seems to be enough to navigate around the various features of the phone.

Accessibility is about providing the equivalent functionality. No-one ever said the way of using it had to be the same, just equivalent. A different interaction allows access to the same functionality.

I remain deeply impressed with Apple for producing a mobile device that for the blind community absolutely rocks. It's a pity that Google's equivalent device is not as well thought out or implemented, sure it works for TV Raman, but others I've spoken to have concluded that Google's attempts are nowhere near iPhone quality.
Netcat: a couple of useful examples
All those "500 lb mom", "the 1000 pound man" show on the discover channel (and similar), not to mention the Biggest Loser tell me otherwise.
Great article from Evan Miller. Golden Football [http://www.evanmiller.org/golden-football.html] is another good read about Groupon.

"Groupon is onto something big, and I think in a few years we can expect them to break into some large and unexpected markets." Namely: Small-business financing, Popular music concerts, Popular music recordings, and Online dating.
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When an SSD modifies a page, it has to erase & rewrite the entire block. SSDs try to avoid this by marking the block as “free” and writing data to an entirely different block, if one is available.

The point here is that in order to write a tiny bit of data, SSDs have to write to a larger portion of the drive (usually).

So reducing the # of tiny writes should lengthen the lifetime of the drive. It's theory, but the theory is sound enough to me to optimize for it if there's little or no downside to the optimizations.

Edit: though, as noted elsewhere, these drives will generally last more than long enough, so the effort is probably unnecessary.
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If companies were to actually reward people in proportion to the time and skill they brought to the success of a company, then you wouldn't see "Just a programmer," because the top programmers (at least at technology companies, where the product is mostly or entirely software) would be making more than the CEO.

But it's typically the CEO and board who determine salaries, so who ACTUALLY gets rewarded? The people who determine the salaries and their closest friends (the management), of course. Does merit take part in these decisions? Sometimes, but all too often, not.

Since there's a natural desire to understand where you rank relative to others, and that ranking is frequently done based on how much money you make..."just a programmer" is about how low in the money (and influence) spectrum you are when you're programming for someone else.
Does this exist, or is it just a late April Fools' joke? Because it seems awfully quick to come up with a real competitor to the iPad...
Really? I mean he is usually just asking for suggestions on how to improve his interviewing skills from the interviewees.

It seems poor to compare him to George Stephanopoulos when one has had a long professional career of interviewing people and the other does not.
I am not sure what you are referring to, but the case where EPIPE is useful is incase you do something like:

grep foo *.txt|head -n10

Here head will close its stdin after having read 10 lines. If grep writes more it will get the EPIPE error on write (which may indirectly be called by fflush).

This will also send the SIGPIPE signal which by default will kill the process, so grep is automatically terminated when no more output will be read from it.
"Imagine, if you will, what society would look like if 100 years from now if what passed as spectacularly obese today would not even turn heads at the mall."

I don't have to imagine it -- I saw WALL-E
Nice MVP.

I second the email option. Ideally I would be able to send the invoice to my client and myself (for my records).
I use Binary Canary to alert me for down-time, which is about the same thing that Pingdom does.

Just do whatever it takes for you to fall asleep at night. I recently bought a smartphone (N900) that allows me to ssh into my server from anywhere, so if a small fix is needed, I can do that quickly. Before I had that, I actually took my laptop camping with me during a busy period last year and drove to a nearby coffee shop periodically to check for any important issues.

Other than that, I'd say to scale up your architecture as your site gets more popular. If you later need some dual-DB setup with a heartbeat monitoring system then you can add that when the time comes.

Have good backups too. That might be more important than just uptime.
I think it's not getting a buzz anymore (just people no longer talk and write about it). Actually, the domain industry is still alive and many people are making some decent money with it.

However, it won't make you a millionaire; the domain rage has ended. You can monetize your domain (rank high, place ads, make money) while waiting for an interesting buyer.
Wow that blue bar looks like a mistake the way it follows the screen in Google Chrome. Probably isn't, but it is disconcerting.
I'm guessing most users will upgrade their hard drives & laptops before you run out of write cycles on it. Silicon typically drops in price per gig faster than magnetic platter discs do...
One pattern that comes to mind:

while (true) {
if (testState()) return valueOfState();
}
moreStateChangingStuff()

as opposed to:

var flag = false, result = null;
loop(function() {
if (testState()) {
flag = true
result = valueOfState()
}
})
if (flag) return result
moreStateChangingStuff()
I recently tried 99designs for the first time. They have an unusual model, but every time I was about to get confused, I noticed that their UI cleared up my issue.

I couldn't figure out how they made their site so intuitive.

Then, after I paid for my design, I got an email from them asking me to fill out a Wufoo survey.

That's when I realized how they know their customers well because they keep asking for feedback.

That's why I keep asking for feedback. I could do it off camera, after the interview is over, but I'd much rather be open about my process than hide it.
Sure, nor the others (except maybe Flickr), Yahoo's problem is that they seem to acquire and then do nothing but rarely have they run acquisitions into the ground as such.
it's a part of the theme. We might just integrate the blog into the Cloudomatic.com layout, but we think it makes sense to separate the two out.
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Agreed. My site went from 0-3 in about 6 months and I did absolutely nothing (and I mean nothing, I just wanted to write so I haven't considered SEO even a little) except write some blog articles.
The iPad browser share is 0.03%.

iPhone has 0.51%, BlackBerry 0.04% and Android 0.07%.

The graphic in the article doesn't have any percentages (!) and the article is kinda hard to skim down, so here's the raw numbers.
Incidentally, in the specific case of colorblindness, I think the abovementioned type of awareness is starting to permeate the industry. You can especially see the results in games, which sometime include a colorblind-friendly display mode.
You also should point out what you use the data for.

I know I'd be hesitant to type my customers' addresses into such a system.
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Just goes to highlight why electoral reform is important. When we start talking about more expressive ballots (i.e. expressing more than just a tactical first preference), your options aren't nearly as limited.
open standard is not open just because there are no loyalties. a standard is open when it's managed by a consortium or task force. OpenGL is one, for example.
Andrew gets a lot of criticism for how he interviews but I have to say, interviewing people -- especially when you are new at it is hard.

You really have to strike a balance in the questions you ask and the small talk you make to get a good flow going and make the person being interviewed willing to talk.

I have a feeling that some people on here would rather him simply read a list of 10 questions, but the problem with that is you often end up with really mechanical answers. Some people will argue he is too nice with the people he interviews, but if you press too hard you will sever relationships and reduce future prospects for interviewing the same individual or people from their network. Good interviewing is really an art.

So before you criticize, try doing interviews yourself.

And I don't quite understand all the hate Mixergy attracts. I mean all he is doing is providing extra information for the benefit of everyone else via his interviews. You might not find it useful, but I am sure other people do.

For the record, I don't watch most of Andrew's videos. I mostly skim the transcripts. Some people complain about transcript quality but I know that good transcription services cost money and what Andrew's interviews are free... You get what you pay for.
If I understand git right, it's designed to allow different front ends - the "porcelain." I wonder if an alternative "porcelain" could be made which would be more intuitive to some?
Not actually that impressive, as Page Rank is an exponential scale.

http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/2007/07/24/climbing-page-...
Deals also exist when the parties have different risk tolerances or time preferences for money. If I sell you my car because I need a down payment for a condo, that doesn't mean I think the car isn't actually worth what you're paying. If I know it isn't worth what you're paying because evil mechanics swapped all the working parts with bad ones, and I hide that from you, that's fraud.
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Apps have to deliberately provide space for iAds, and Apple certainly knows the identity of an app that is asking for ads. So the argument here must be that the presence of "mature content" anywhere on the platform discourages ads. But Safari can access vast amounts of "mature content". So I don't quite get it.
My X25-m died after 3 months of use, and I had the hd nearly full.. And I thought I would have never have to make backups again ;)
The Sketch is nice with Sketchbook Pro but I've been a bit disappointed with it as far as writing text goes. The tip of it is roughly the same width as the body of the stylus and it's blunt so it's a bit hard to tell exactly where you're going to be touching the screen. You also have to apply more pressure to it for the screen to pick up the press but it's not much more than you'd expect. I'd love to see a new version with more of a pointed tip for finer control over it for writing, though.

Take that with a grain of salt though. I haven't done any kind of excessive testing with it for writing, just enough to see if I could get used to it if I found the right note-taking app. I think I could get used to it but I'd prefer the type I mentioned above.

To directly answer your question, I'd say it feels more like a brush than a pen.
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Agreed, and using a standard logging library like log4* that gives your users a nice way to analyze their logs along with a timestamp of when they happened.
They were developing before the iPad came out, of course. I saw news about them in March, anyway.

They've been marketing to newspapers in Germany, but with the advent of the iPad it would appear they've seen a larger market. I wish they'd get more specific, though. If they're already on the market this summer in Europe, I'm probably going to pick one up.
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Certainly a lot better than in Italy (it's easy to guess that the bureaucracy elsewhere is not so bad), but I think the 'minimum capital' thing is still sort of weird. 2500 Euro isn't so bad to come up with, and even the small, light startup could easily spend that for a couple of laptops. However, it's a really arbitrary number in that if you make a major mistake and cause a lot of damage, it's not going to cover much at all. At that point, why require it at all...
Very sound advice. +1
As a long time perl developer, I'm dabbling in python and a little bit of ruby.
It's more like a doctor being able to take out a $M life insurance policy on a patient before he operates!
If you get your link included in a number of directories and that number is greater than the number of outgoing links you should be able to at least get up to PR3 without much difficulty. If not, use google webmaster to see if your site is being flagged for doing something wrong.
more informative: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO0XHMoylZ4
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This got me to check our stats and I'm surprised to see that of all our Safari visits, only 50% come from the Mac, with iPhone making up 25% and Android 14%. iPad is .4% right now.
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Well; you have to start somewhere, and it's pretty easy to point out, even to people who are not really concerned much with the world of business, that it's absurd to charge so much before a company has even made a cent.
I think those were USB ports I saw in the back.
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What, exactly, are you implying is the "as I do" part here?

Are you saying that the employees that make up Pixar are, on the whole, frequent and regular customers of the fast food industry?

I would expect that living in/near the bay area would give them good odds of being in a different demographic.
Can this post be pointed to the original WSJ article?

http://www.thebigmoney.com/features/todays-business-press/20...
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Great, just a little more work and you can get PR4 with not much problem!
You don't have a personal preference, you're just ignorant.

Okay, now no one has to comment anymore; I've taken care of all of it.
Rc shell right now, although I don't think there's much left to learn. Certainly far less than Bourne shell. Go, Lisp, and ARM assembler are vying for my attention next.

Go offers the most interesting possibilities but also looks the strangest to me. Lisp I'd be re-learning and expanding on my knowledge. ARM assembler for purposes of porting things but also I can't quite resist the low-level.
I agree with your point about picking a problem you understand but would add that I would pick a problem you are passionate about as well. Because during the tough times the passion is what carries you through. In building an organic startup you should hopefully be attacking a problem that you both understand well and are passionate about.
Why is a glossy screen considered a "good thing" in the first place? Is there any situation in which a glossy screen is desirable?
I had a feeling it was, it just felt like that CSS float bug you get sometimes which mimics that behavior.
I'm sorry to hear that you went through something like, this but I'll be glad to learn from your experience.
You're conflating "beneficial to an individual" and "reproduce more." Reproducing and successfully raising young requires time and energy that an individual could use towards personal survival.

Evolution is a game of balance. On the face of it, a predator being faster and stronger so that it can catch more prey seems like an obvious benefit that would catch on. But the time, energy and resources to do that might draw from what's needed to reproduce and raise young.