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>This would make it even less consistent, wouldn't it?

Microsoft Word does not have a back button. What operation should a back button perform in Google Docs?

>"Back" and "Up" are virtually indistinguishable for an average user.

Sometimes you want to go "back" to the main page of a domain. Other times you just want go to the previous page. Other times you want to leave the website entirely. Other times you want to "undo". It simply makes no sense for a web browser to try to support all these features based on a simplistic web browser history based on URLs. It's an ancient way of thinking about the web.
You're focusing too much on what your users aren't doing. Find out what they are doing and retarget the app based on that.
Agree. In particular, with native client and webgl (and I hope some, at least, half decent thought given to audio), something the under the ground is moving.
I always mean to wash my hands, but I'm usually distracted with thoughts about what ingredients I forgot to put in your meal. Shame on my forgetfulness.
http://webglsamples.googlecode.com/
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"There's no credible evidence to support that claim."

My experience supports it. Can you point to credible evidence to support your claim?
The biggest difference I find is that the designer who doesn't understand the guts of layout ends up with a site that is literally inflexible: it doesn't resize well and is really hard to modify later. The general outdated-ness of many corporate sites can be tracked to the difficulty of getting a flexible layout in place that lets you add a new item to the site without a total redesign.
No that explains it. I guess I was assuming they were drawing them in color to begin with and that they were scanned into b&w.
I have friends who fell into the gray area. Forgetting a condom can be easy in the heat of the moment, especially if there was a long 'wait' before hand. However, my friends had good self control... until we got one excessively drunk and sent her home. She ended up at her boyfriends who'd been out at a party himself. 9 months later they had a kid, literally from a 1 time mistake.

I've always had strong self-control. Even when I'm excessively drunk (and I tolerate alcohol well) I am in control. I've never behaved far from the norm when intoxicated, I've had the piece of mind to ensure my wife takes her birth control pill when I've been acting like the ball in a game of pong whilst going down a corridor.

Self-control is certainly a strong factor in the gray areas. I would bet money that most rapists don't have a problem with self-control, I would say the ability to wait until an opportune time shows a high degree of self-control; a self-control issue would be an old man on a train squeezing a school girls ass. I would say rapists have an impulse-control disorder, they're willing to gamble a minor short-term gain for a huge long-term loss. Someone with self-control issue tends to gamble a small short-term gain with an normal long-term loss.

Having children isn't a life-ending consequence of having sex. In fact, it's down right average. Going to jail is a life-ending consequence for the majority of people.

A 15 year old having unprotected sex is more an impulse control disorder than a 25 year old. A 25 year old having unprotected sex and having a child is normal, if not expected in the majority of circumstances.
And Google has answered that question. See http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/14/google-engineer-spying-fire... for the following passage:

We dismissed David Barksdale for breaking Google’s strict internal privacy policies. We carefully control the number of employees who have access to our systems, and we regularly upgrade our security controls–for example, we are significantly increasing the amount of time we spend auditing our logs to ensure those controls are effective. That said, a limited number of people will always need to access these systems if we are to operate them properly–which is why we take any breach so seriously.

I would assume that the logs he is talking about are logs of accesses made by Google employees to data covered by the privacy policy.

(Disclaimer, I am an SRE at Google. I do not speak for Google.)
You should consider changing your IM habits, if you expect to ever be in a situation where someone somewhere wants to sue you.
Your model of how the world works seems contradictory to the parent's model. In order to decide which model works better in the real world, we can see which more accurately reflects things today.

Netherlands: cheapest rates, entrenched incumbents, good service, unlocked phones, number portability

US: more expensive, entrenched incumbents, middling service, locked phones, number portability

Parent's model more closely matches reality! We have a winner!

This particular market has never been free in the way you seem to think, and the "disruption" you are hypothesizing has some extremely high barriers to entry (first rollout a national infrastructure, second ...), which have prevented it from occurring at all.
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Well. We can get into a silly discussion about what 'authorization' means, I just don't understand why you find this so obviously criminal. Remember these idiots -

http://www.pcworld.com/article/154392/snoopy_verizon_employe...

Didn't get charged, let alone arrested, either.
I'm not sure ESR codes much.
I'm guilty of ridiculous analogies, but some of these are just beyond making sense.

The one that annoyed me the most here that I saw (twice) was the parallel between layers taking you down to understanding TCP/IP and socket programming. I'm quite certain I'm not the only person who's ever designed a (fairly rich) web site that does not in any way use networks. An attempt at such an analogy will only show your own lack of understanding of the layers.

I've had web designers who do great design and UX work and would deliver it to me in a basic HTML format with at least basic CSS that I could apply in the product. These were successful designers that enabled the team to build high quality products.

If I'm going to implement a web design I received in .psd format, you might as well just come over and describe what you're envisioning. You are simply "an idea guy" (though hopefully with really good ideas that I couldn't've thought of myself) at that point and photoshop is a tool you use to communicate that idea. If you work in a sufficiently large organization, that's probably just fine.

I communicate a lot of my ideas in .org when I can. Most of the time, my ideas come out in .py, .c, .cc, .erlang, .java, .js, .html, .sass, or whatever else feels like a fit.

The fewer people you have between the problem and the solution, the faster things move.
Allow me to be pedantic right back. I did not say "sarcasm is". I said "we call that sarcasm". It's not really to label a description of how a word is used as "incorrect" and use a proscription as evidence. My fourth sentence was a bit regrettably absolutely phrased but the context of my statement should be set by then.

I don't even care if that's true of all of us Americans, it's true of enough. (The idea that Americans don't get "sarcasm" is very foreign to me; oh, I certainly know people who don't get it but we seem a fairly sarcastic culture to me.)
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For part II follow this link http://bit.ly/cTyOa0

and

For part III follow this link http://bit.ly/cvnLuZ
Since we don't have slavery it is literally true that you can't buy talent; but renting seems to work perfectly well for most companies.
"US has the best players at every position in basketball, hands down."

I'd take Pau Gasol over any U.S. big man. That's probably it, though.
Evan Williams from the keynote today about Twitter.com:

"Today we’re going to talk about twitter.com — this often gets missed among the tech set — it’s the biggest Twitter client.

More people log on to Twitter.com on a monthly basis than almost all the other Twitter clients combined."
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They form stacks of things that haven't been finished with yet. If I bookmark something in that state, it just falls off the end of my brain. In a tab it remains in my periphery.

I shall attempt to document what I am presently filling all those tabs with:

* Personal Gmail and Google Reader, along with a dozen or so links opened from them
* Several work-related OWA mailboxes and Google Apps mail and docs accounts
* 10 Hacker News discussions, including the one I'm making this comment in.
Normally there would be two for this discussion as I open the 'reply' link
in a new tab to not lose my place, but this tab was from a Notifo growl
* A couple dozen tabs are for music, TV, games, and films to investigate/pirate
* A dozen profiles of people to get in contact with on social networking sites
* Another dozen active threads on several phpBB forums I am a member of
* Several dozen tabs of product pages from manufacturers, alibaba, and ecommerce
sites for several physical projects I'm working on.
* A dozen tabs of research for software projects I'm working on

Depending on what I'm doing at any one time, any one of the things counted in dozens could dominate. If you'd caught me during a RSS binge, there'd also ba a whole bunch of extra small windows each containing a single flash video embed, generated by the "Popout" functionality in Google Reader.

Of the tabs presently open, about half are new in the last 24 hours. Chrome's chrome://history/ page only lets me page back through 450 items chronologically, which is about a third of my average daily usage.

I've tried a number of tools to collect links in — bookmarks, social bookmarks, Google Docs, Google Wave, etc., but I always end up falling back to tabs because I'm already using them anyway! I'm currently giving the Chrome/GDocs bookmark syncing a shot for things that are 'out of mind'.
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python

has, RPy2 so you can still access R's statistics libraries http://scikits.appspot.com/statsmodels, and http://pandas.sourceforge.net/ (dataframes)

plus, scipy has a decent stats library as well (random variables, etc)

still rough around the edges, but a good solution in my opinion
I am in two minds over this.

On one hand, this is awesome.

On the other hand, this seems to have been so deliberately designed to make people like me say "This is awesome" that I feel compelled to say something snarky about it. I hate the thought that I'm part of some market segment.
Joel is the BizSpark evangelist for the Bay Area. We had coffee a few weeks ago, and I was thoroughly impressed before he saved my hiney today.

He's a great guy. Well worth taking the time to get to know. He'll be at the Dev House this Saturday in MV.
lol - believe me the startup-russia team is not doing any PR :)! I know them very well. They want to motivate the Russian innovation scene and create a valuable knowledge transfer.
Cyber begging at its best
You're conflating brand with technology. Yes, the back end is the same, but the point is that the Bing-branded site is now ahead of the Yahoo!-branded site.
First off, have you measured the time it takes to load your site? It seems awfully slow to me (maybe it's the HN posting that's slowing it down) and could be a reason people are not spending more time on the site.

Before you change your vision, have you considered reducing the friction to use the site? Having to email photos and put in the name of the restaurant is cumbersome compared to opening a phone app and taking a picture that automatically gets posted to the site with your location from the phone's gps.

What sets this site apart from the other food photo based sites?
What better way than to link you to google? :) http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

And specifically http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/01/google-making-extraordinary...

More generally, this is common knowledge around the valley.
Sometimes it seems like your hands will just get dirtier after washing.
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Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Zynga, etc.
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I'm also a huge fan of the show...For the interested who want nonfiction but also want a compelling narrative arc, there's a great documentary by Stacy Peralta ("Lords of Dogtown," "Riding Giants") on gangs in LA, "Crips and Bloods: Made in America." It's part history, part interviews with current and former hardcore gangbangers.

Two great nonfiction books on similar subjects that are highly readable:

A Hope in the Unseen, Ron Suskind (based on Suskind's Pulitzer-winning newspaper series)

Makes Me Wanna Holler, Nathan McCall (an ex-hood turned WaPost reporter)
If we're going to be nitpicky and irrelevant, "Great Britain" != "The British Isles".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_the_British_Isle...
Sad you would exploit someone like this. You could be a good mentor and advice him on what his real asking rate should be and also pay him better, if he really performed at a much higher level.
Wow. I was actually just looking for something like this as a way to brush up on my basics... I feel like I've learned a lot about certain things through trial and error and a background with actual structure might be worth looking into.
The iPod Touch is a pocket pc with the OS done right. With that said 6+ years ago there were plenty of devices similar to the iPod Touch. I had a Dell Axim but I ended up selling it when the iPod Touch came out because I like the iOS more.
Why not talk on Skype? How does someone set about recording or listening in to a call made on Skype?
Vox was Six Apart's social web 2.0 blogging entrant a few years back. I don't know the details, but I'm guessing the following were factors:

* Six Apart already owns/maintains Typepad and Movable Type. So there may have been some product overlap/redundancy (I believe Vox accounts can be migrated to free Typepad accounts)

* Six Apart has already sold off another of their properties, LiveJournal. So Vox may be another attempt to shed and streamline their overall business. In this case they are closing down the service unlike LJ (maybe they couldn't find a buyer?)

* Tumblr and Posterous as well as Twitter have largely "won" the social blogging war (microblogging in the case of Twitter). I don't think Vox ever had the traction of either of those products and in the economic downturn it may be time to cut their losses.

Just my $.02
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Rate my startup: MarksMenus.com
MarksMenus is "IMDb for restaurant menus".

We got tired of enduring out-of-date info, pdf downloads, blurry scans or long flash intros just to find a restaurant's menu.

Our goal is to create a reliable, comprehensive database of restaurant menus that allows for easy search and discovery of great places to eat.

We do this by allowing anyone (regular users or the restaurants themselves) to create and curate menu content.

We also enable the foodies in an area to recommend restaurants and dishes to make it super easy for others to quickly find something good.

Please check it out and let me know what you think. I'm linking you to our Memphis site (our company location), because that has the most interesting content at the moment.

http://marksmenus.com/cities/memphis
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College essay guidelines are essential for students who lack the knowledge to write good application essays. As getting into a good college is of utmost importance, knowing how to write this type of essay will be very useful. With the use of the guidelines writing will be made an easier task.
They're a non-profit tutoring organization focusing on creative writing skills. This is one of their fundraising methods.

http://www.826la.org/about/
You can materialize the source on an EC2 instance by simply typing one command, which is fully documented in the User Guide.
Using NoScript is probably best. It actually blocks Flash content properly, and protects against most other browsing-related vulnerabilities. Plus, if you don't allow scripts to run from advertiser's domains, most ads can't load.
The article makes a false distinction--'raw intelligence' is not necessary different that 'self-control.' Like emotional intelligence, 'self-control' is a necessary but not sufficient part of any useful meaning of 'intelligence.'
For some reason I can't explain... the idea of 10 hours of coding without interruption ,just cranking stuff, and loosing track of time excites me :)
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I didn't come up with that rate...that's what he charges all of his clients. It is double what I pay my team in the Philippines, and considering that the average monthly wage in Belarus is under $150/month, it is quite generous (I paid him a month's wage for 3 days' work).

Would you react the same way if a Silicon Valley company hired a developer in rural Mississippi (the state with the lowest median salary) for $35,000 (the median salary there) instead of hiring locally for $150,000? Is that exploitation? Remember that the cost of living there is much lower, so he will enjoy a much better standard of living on a lower salary.
I've never heard (or rather, read) anyone using the term "800 pound guerilla".

But now you've inspired me to look it up, and apparently the average male gorilla is in the 300-400 lb range, but obese gorillas in captivity have got up to the 600 lb range. The heaviest gorilla on record was N'Gagi from San Diego Zoo, who died in 1944 and weighed in at 638 lb. So an 800 lb gorilla is certainly the weight range of any observed gorilla, though I assume a really overfed gorilla could easily reach 800lb since even humans can do so (http://www.dimensionsmagazine.com/dimtext/kjn/people/heavies...)
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This will sound silly, but it's not that hard to make $1k per month playing online poker... if you're moderately mathy and have good self-control, you can make a bunch of money.

If you don't have good self-control, then yeah, pick something else.
Frankly, either will do you some good. The key thing to take away from this is not the course matter itself, but the implicit, generalizable lessons from it.

In both, you learn how to put words in their best order. It is just that each genre has its own conventions (multiple sets of conventions, in fact) regarding what "best order" actually is.
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I see that you had tried a lot of things. why didn't you stick to it till you make it a success? how long had you been working on each before you decided moved on? to get from a beginner to novice is a short trip but from novice to expert is a long way, and the money is in the expert's pocket.
This place is in my hood and is great. My buddy Eli Stonberg shot these performances there, and I think they nicely spotlight the uniqueness of the place: http://dublab.com/labnotes/tune-yards-visionversion-2/
And not just physical output of code, but he also seems extremely friendly & helpful and interested in fostering productive communities. Which is IMO just as important to the long-term health of open-source projects.
In California there is a minimum $800 per year tax on all LLCs regardless of whether or not you made any money from the venture, so that kind of nullifies the potential benefits for most people, IMO.

$800 is a very real cost and the chances of anyone suing you over a side project are so incredibly remote that a $800/yr insurance policy versus being sued is severely -EV.

YMMV in other states.
Stands for Eric S. Raymond.
Jonah Lehrer: Are Distractible People More Creative?
Not exactly correct, afaik, email to your lawyer is considered privileged and can't be subpoenaed.
Complexity can Kill your Startup, and how it cost me more than $35,000 USD
private events/parties are and still bring quite a bit of money, and it dun take much to get started. you just need to be a bit of the social animal, fairly good at writing todo list and able to use software like eventbrite.com and wepay.com i dun see why you can't make $1k per month. just get started and perfect your skills. this may take time... :-)
Consumer Reports continues to savage iPhone 4
This appears to be heavily geared towards guitar music. I'd like to be able to write out piano music (or perhaps just any music in general).
The words of someone who obviously never paid for a cellular data connection before the iPhone came along. For approximately the same cost as my previous usb dongle and data plan I get to unplug the dongle from my computer and use it to make phone calls and play games.
Thanks for this. I first came across Bill Buxton's writings on UX back in April while doing research on multitouch technology for my senior project, and his collection of thoughts ended up having a huge influence on the outcome of the project. (http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html)

My two other lab partners and I ended up hacking together an interactive game cube of sorts. You can read about the project here, if you're interested: http://bit.ly/9Zm7ds
This is a really big deal guys, it means nothing at all how comfy we feel knowing google peeps personally. The fact is there is no regulation or oversight dictating how seriously google needs to take our privacy other than random - easily ignored - blips like this. We need government intervention/oversight to make this stuff go away. The gov is already there unofficially anyway, let's not kid ourselves about that. Google gave that little piece away years ago. No us company with that much personal data would be allowed to exist otherwise. I would know, did gigs at bellatlantic long before "it" happened and uncle sam was and always has been there just the same. More about what they're allowed to officially charge you with in court - don't think they couldn't know either way at some level..though probably what they were doing really was in our national best interest. Not judging, just saying..we need offiial public oversight or be left at the mercy of what the corporation decides to do with our data. The same data that provides the overwhelming majority of revenue via advertisers. It's just sick is all.
What's interesting is that stories like this have been around for decades but never deterred young ivy league grads from joining Goldman when the industry is popular.

If you look, I'm sure you can find stories about how any possible profession or industry sucks to work in. And most of those other professions and industries don't pay $500K+.

With a PhD in physics I could have just as easily gone into quant-land as academia. And while academia is great, it has its own set of sucky problems. Is it really worth the 400+ thousand dollars a year I'm effectively "paying" in order to work there instead of GS? It's a helluva luxury good.
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