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Pok Pok is expensive, but I have never in my life had better buffalo wings. I am salivating just thinking of them.

Speaking of buffalo wings, for a so-so but still tasty/fun experience (lots of sauces to choose from!) hittup fire on the mountain. Two locations so it's easy to get to.

Watch out for the gorge hikes mentioned - don't bother if it's a weekend and not raining - the amount of people on the trails is unenjoyable. Swing a weekday to avoid the crowds, or hike when it's rainy (still cool, but I am an oregonian...)
Yeah I screwed that up, what I meant to refer to is this:

>It is not contradictory however, to say that the worst-case
>running time of insertion sort is [Big Omega](n^2),
>since there exists an input that causes the algorithm
>to take [Big Omega](n^2) time.
>Introduction to Algorithms, 2nd Edition, p 46
Street food!! And if you like Thai, hit up Pok Pok in SE then hit the Mcmeniman's pubs in the area.
I think you should double check that.

http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070p.htm

http://law.justia.com/arizona/codes/2010/title13/13-702.html

http://law.justia.com/arizona/codes/2010/title13/13-703.html

http://law.justia.com/arizona/codes/2010/title13/13-707.html
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I was just thinking that mention of strip clubs was noticeably absent. Beer is nearly unavoidable. Strippers, less so.
Consider that a lot of web sec scanners exists and are free (like Skipfish).
godaddy says it's taken :-/
To be fair, it was changed to "Free Rail Zone" after the addition of two new rail lines, and the buses now pass through downtown noticeably faster without the free passengers (or I may be imagining things).
My favourite locals story was hearing how a guy got rolled by two large prostitutes outside Mary's. He walked out, was offered a deal, declined and walked away. Next thing he knows he's on the ground - one of the two cold clocked him in the head with a rock and the other stole his wallet. Go strip clubs!
Also, to be Fair - Dell is optimized for supporting the poweredge line with a support contract, which it offers in 4 Hours turnaround time. Since 1999 I've had roughly 600 Dell Servers under active support at three companies in the Bay Area, and have probably called dell about 20-30 times. They've never missed their support window of 4 hours (come close several times, but by the 240th minute, I've always had part and a body on site). Ironically, Apple still doesn't make it easy to purchase that type of support for their product. The typical answer is "Take it to the genius bar" - Apple is optimized for consumers, Dell is optimized for corporations.

Also - None of the people who come on site, for parts or labor, are actual "Dell Employees" - they are subcontractors that are typically certified on a number of platforms - Dell is just one of them.
Ask HN: Business events planning?
I am organizing a conference with speakers in April for my company. I'm fairly new at this, so I was wondering if anyone else has experience in this sort of thing they can offer advice about.
How impressively obnoxious. Were I singled out, I think I'd start agitating to have my fellow students revoke their pledges, cancel their checks, etc.
James MacArthur Died &#8211; Played Danno in &#8221;Hawaii Five-O&#8221;
Its a cool idea! since days i've been thinking of talking to you guys, here i find you. :-)
Why it Rocks to be a Web Developer
Huh... was sort of hoping that the article would answer the question that it asked... "it'll be around for a while" isn't a great answer considering Microsoft's history with some of it's service platforms.
Yes, better to get a proper mortgage or similar when you need money for the longer term.
I was really excited for an article about the merits of clojure or LISP for a problem the author was solving.

Instead we get hand waving and some elegant, but abstract analogies.
How to Test Everything
Retaliate by the same natural right to your own person that forbids you to initiate force against others.
That's the idea, it shouldn't be in the same class as replacing roofing, it should be in the same class as repainting your shutters, or cleaning your gutters.
Very encouraging to hear so many positive stories coming out from the usage of this site. Good for you folks!

I am single for the first time since my early 20s (28 now) and completely overwhelmed by trying it all over again.

I have had a few dates thorough OKc but nothing long term.
> How do you mend a broken heart? ... You help a friend keep their health insurance from lapsing. http://chucklorre.com/index-2hm.php?p=108

I've never noticed these "vanity cards" in two and a half men - do they cut them for Australia, or am I just not paying attention?
YouTube CEO Chad Hurley Leaving Position To Take Advisory Role
I believe the "platitude" is in all senses practical in that assigning worth is only easy and fully accurate posthumously. Also, no person is so one-dimensional that they can be accurately summed up by the singular adjectives "stupid", "talentless", or "lazy" -- that's just not a realistic situation. A lot of famous people throughout history were in fact poor bums on the street, and are now held in very high regard by all social classes (perhaps it can even be argued that the elite place more worth on them than the lower classes, ironically).
Ah ok. My bad -- instantdomainsearch said it was free, which is odd. Maybe someone jumped on it quickly. :P

Few other suggestions:

crazephrase.com

completethisline.com

linecompleter.com
Yes, but the real cost might affect your choice. E.g. two fridges in the store, one costs more initially, but uses less power. Knowing the real cost can be a win-win situation for you and the store here. They get more revenue and you get a smaller total cost of ownership.

The incentives for stuff apart from energy efficencies may be different, though.
SafeB4Sorry - http://www.safeb4sorry.com

Any thoughts? We are a Life Insurance Agency!
The next step would be to have the solar cell also be an automatic shade: more light --> less electricity, and vice versa.
I'm very sympathetic to your overall stance on this and greatly appreciate that you named a specific type of spending to cut: corn subsidies.

That said, I'd be grateful for backup/citations that corn subsidies are bad for the U.S. in economic terms. Two common complaints about corn subsidies -- that the U.S. is cheating on NAFTA, or that overconsumption of corn products lead to health problems -- seem legitimate, but they don't seem to have inflicted any economic damage to the U.S. Further, although there's both redistribution and waste associated with the tax revenues that pay for the subsidies, corn is an infrastructural element of U.S. food production, and presumably corn's cheapness and relative consistency of supply lead to many multiples of downstream ROI.

I do, by the way, think economic harm is the right standard here, as it seems to be the main consideration in Carmack's essay. (Carmack and many commenters here do make reference to more abstract ideas of fairness and legitimacy, but that analysis seems irretrievably subjective and unproductive.)
Thankfully I don't have cats :~)... however, that does bring up a good point about some of the sunlight being converted to electricity instead of heating your house passively.
I bought a Dell laptop a few years ago, and the main battery went flakey. I still had a service agreement in place, so I called them up. After a few minutes dancing around the "I don't have Windows installed" prelude I explained the behavior and was all set.

Had a new battery show up at my house either the next day or the day after, with postage-paid packaging to send back the old one. Pretty sweet.
Google, by far.
I've been struggling with scaling web apps like forever, your offer is just incredible.

I'll appreciate some help on scaling Django web application, any experience there?

I hope you dont mind me asking few questions on scabality in general.
Microsoft Runs Worst Internet Startup Ever. 1 Year, Over $2 Billion In Losses
I really like the author's assertion that writing the test feels like proving mathematics. I have always been fascinated by this connection. When you look at the history of mathematics w/r/t the discovery of calculus there was a 150+ year period in which people could use it to do work but nobody could prove calculus. It wasn't until the early 1800s and the technique involved bounding errors. I'm referring to the delta-epsilon proofs from analysis. To me this is exactly like what is happening in computer programming right now. In my opinion automated testing is some of the most cutting edge stuff going on right now.
>And that's where we disagree.

I'm sure there are plenty of examples of the type of page preserved by the likes of archive.org.

>Those are gone forever, I wished someone had broken copyright law to preserve them.

Issue all your stuff PD and then people won't need to break the law to do what you appear to want them to do.
Study suggests WiFi can cause sperm damage
we're a startup with a lot on our plate and this was a fun side project. we didn't spend weeks planning this, just a night.
HP's Envy line, essentially MacBook Pro clones, has the exact same design. One latch removes the metal panel covering the battery and hard drive. They actually paid attention to the details of the MBP, not just the aesthetics, when creating their own premium line.
Thanks! Rentrak looks like a cool company - I'll try to get in touch.
"3 pages. 3 screws.
That's progress."

I wanted poke around inside my new Thinkpad X100e. Might be four screws I had to twist, and they were designed to not fall out; they loosen up but stay in the cover hole, so no more concerns over lost screws. Very nice touch.
Let's look at spoken language.

As humans move from a type 0 to a type 1 civilization [borrowing terminology from Michio Kaku], English is becoming the global language. It's certainly possible to never learn another language after English and be well off in a global economy.

Advantages of English [paraphrased from "ESB" on antimoon]:

-Germanic base has been mixed with the Roman vocabulary, giving it the best of both worlds

-English is succinct. Sentenced translated from English into other languages take up at least 30% more space. English words are concise and so are its sentences.

-Absence of sophisticated grammar systems. A noun can be easily turned into an adjective or a verb and vice versa. [ LISPy, eh? ]

-It's spoken by the most influential and powerful countries on earth. This is not accidental, but perhaps an important underlying cause for their success.

Just as English is dominating and will far outlive anyone's lifespan, the same could happen with a programming language as our languages continue to mature. Python is incredibly close to Psuedocode and LISP\LISP-variants are extremely flexible. It could be quite possible to get by without learning a new language until you either A) die or B) a paradigm shift occurs.
Either you'll do a great job getting people out of debt, or you'll be profitable. You can't do both.
mixameme.com

onemorememe.com

thatswhatimeme.com

meme2meme.com

You might want to make it easier by setting the first half of the phrase. It's too much work to think of a complete meme. Look at thathigh.com.
The thing is, your replacement doesn't instill excitement or curiosity, it's a bit 'boring' if you know what I mean? But you're right, the coders are vetted, and there are guarantees! So I guess it's saying something.
TextMate IS the all-in-one champ.

The question should be which language-specific IDEs are so good they're worth deviating for.
We do not agree and have people using the site today that claim the visibility (interest rates, payment history, credit score, etc.) and automatic planning gave them exactly the edge they needed to start making significant progress. These products (credit cards) were designed to be opaque and difficult to manage.
The Web+Internet, by far. If you stop and think for a sec, temporarily absolve the ubiquitous aspect we all take for granted, it can blow your mind.
Sustained motivation is the only problem.

Many people can only be motivated (over the long term) to do hard things if doing that hard thing is the easiest of the available choices.
I had guessed this was about clojure before I followed the link, somehow, I think because in part, I feel the same way. Is this common? Anyone else feel like clojure is, or is on the path to becoming, the perfect language?

I won't say I'll never need anything else or will stop learning new languages, but it feels...complete. I still use C for algorithmically simple, memory- and time-sensitive tasks, and I still use perl and awk for line-oriented text munging, but I feel like all the other languages I used to use for less specific tasks have fallen by the wayside. Java, C++, Python, Ruby...I don't really have a reason to touch these anymore. Am I the only one?

(all this aside, I swear, one of these days I am going to get my f*ing head around type systems and get a workable understanding of haskell and scala)
The guy who came to fix my current laptop was a contractor. Also very concerned about my giving a nice service rating. (Which I did, because he was good.)
The big problem I have with Apple is that they sometimes have the tendency to be a bit too restrictive for apparently no good reason. Their most recent MacBooks have no door which allows you to quickly replace the battery which is fair enough (it’s a feature I personally don’t really need anyway).

The battery, however, is still pretty much the same as before. There is not much you can do wrong replacing it all on your own when it stops holding a charge (which will happen sooner or later). It’s not harder than replacing the hard drive or RAM, really. Yet, contrary to the hard drive or the RAM, you lose your warranty replacing it.

Were my battery to stop working I would have to drive 400km (two times 100km to the nearest place Apple deems worthy and back) and be unable to use my MacBook for a few days. When the same thing happens to my current 2007 MacBook Pro (this actually happened to me a few times but that is another story) I just have to call Apple and they send me the battery. All I have to do is hand the UPS guy my old battery.

Apple, don’t treat me like an infant. You are selling me a product called MacBook Pro, trust me with disconnecting a freaking cable! I like your small cars (iPad, iPhone) but it would be very nice if I could continue to buy nice trucks from you.
Irritating. If you want to mandate a contribution, create a structure that does so and implement your own internal taxation. It's weak to nominate something as a donation, inferring it is optional, and then try to enforce it. Complete lack of backbone somewhere in the chain of command.
Droid Incredible, but you have to root it. Does 720p with the froyo update, and has the same touch sensor chip as the EVO, etc. (not the crappy one on the original Droid)
So, kill them?

How do you decide if that is justified? If you have evidence that a man robbed you, are you allowed to seek him out and steal back what was taken from you? What if he ate it? To kill him? How does the society know that you found the right man? What if you got it wrong?

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Well, you've done the Ayn Randian thing here, and distilled a very complex issue into two different polarizing viewpoints.

Saying that I, or the previous commenter whom I mostly agree with, "would gladly have [our] opinions and preferences imposed [our] neighbours with the threat of force" is wrong, and not very conducive to debate. To say that we "want the gun to solve society's ills" is even more so.

Democracy is supposed to be a grand discussion. I can't have my opinions forced on others, we all have to talk and come to an agreement on how things should be done. So, thinks like jury duty and social security were put into place to attempt to solve problems like "how can we best determine if someone is guilty of a crime?" and "what can we do about old people who have worked their whole lives but are reduced to eating cat food because they have no money and no real ability to make more?"

Now, ideally, these decisions could be made by consensus. Every single person in the country could agree on the right way to do things. But, having participated in a consensus based community for a number of years, I can tell you that it does not scale. So instead, majority rules (with checks and balances, in the US). My understanding is that your viewpoint would be that, while we can all discuss possible solutions to these problems and work on making our country a better place together, no individual should be coerced into supporting the solutions. I certainly see a lot of merit in this view. It seems fundamentally fair and respectful of personal freedoms in a way that our current democracy perhaps doesn't. However, I see it as less fair than our current system in other, important, ways.

Mainly, it is difficult to separate out the ways in which governmental programs benefit you in a useful way that would allow people to not receive some of those benefits. We are all benefited by not having poor people, young and old, dying in our streets. It seems fair to me to say "if you want to be a part of our community, you have to play by our rules" What should be great about democracy as compared to many other forms of government, is that by becoming a part of a community, you are given a path to be a part of shaping those rules.

This is long, so I will stop. I'm still very much in the process of working out what I think about all of this, in fact, writing it here was helpful for me. I'd love to hear what you think.
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Aside from (A) rooting never being supported, (B) some phones not having a hacking community around them, and (C) the lack of a vanilla ROM even for those that do have hacking communities, it's just a hassle.
> People who are very busy with various projects tend to also be more introspective.

Interesting, I have always believed the opposite to be true just as often. I'm not sure if I would make the connection that they are more introspective. Introspection requires time alone for oneself to ponder life, not necessarily so busy with external things to never leave room to ponder the inner.

Though I would agree that people like that are generally successful, however whether they are truly happy is another thing completely. My experience is that often they live to meet the expectations of others, which can never bring happiness or lasting satisfaction.
Argentina is in no way a good comparison to Java. Argentina is a beautiful country.

A better comparison (without the sarcasm) would be that you heard someone talk about how fun it is to visit Niger, Chechnya, or Iraq, and you just knew you'd have no fun there. I'd say the same thing happens with Visual Basic, Php and - of course - Java... In that particular order.

(bonus points if you get the associations!)
I think the only option is to set up a C-Corp in Delaware, if you want to be a fast-growing venture business (rather than privately-held small business).

Paperwork is not a big issues because you can find attorneys easily.
Out of curiosity, what does "Japan Night" entail?

I'm flying into PDX right around then to do some on-site work, and one of my Bachelor degrees is in Japanese (though not from PSU).
It may well be progress, but as this guy describes Thinkpads are unreasonably friendly to disassembly. They have little graphics on the underside to show you what size screw goes in what hole on my X61, and the hard drive comes out with just one screw
The point is, where do you draw the line? If you're comfortable with government spending money on private goods that are intermediate goods for military protection, then why not with government spending money on social programs that can be seen as intermediate goods for other kinds of public goods?
I don't know how true this is. Many of the biggest companies are ... I don't know how to describe it so I'll call it quasi private.

Telecommunications companies: use public air waves, depend on cable run all over the country that a startup can't duplicate, etc

Large media companies: public air waves again.

Natural resource exploiters: oil companies, logging companies, etc depend on extracting resources from a lot of public lands.

Anything related to defense.

And the final point, no matter how hard we wish there were a level playing field in the markets, big companies will always lobby for laws that favor them over smaller companies. Even if we have a minimal government we will still have things like contract law, patents, trademarks, etc. Large corporations will influence these laws.
This is absolutely spot on, you will need to trust us like a good friend. We plan to lay out all the details in a transparent way and clearly explain everything as much as possible.
We (RescueTime) did TONS of A/B testing on pricing/plans, to very good effect. People seem really hesitant to do this for fear of pissing off customers, but we didn't get any complaints. A few folks noticed, and we'd always honor the lowest price they saw if they were part of the experiment.
With this new extension to the C# language you can do the same in C#, it's the whole point of this extension. Actually the C# way of doing it seems to be a bit nicer than F# even.
Yeh there are lots of sites like that. Fml, texts from last night. I though about constraint it more but hoping users will be creative. Plus I can't think of a god one.
There is a taqueria adjacent to Mary's Club and I noticed two signs on the back wall of the taqueria, "Restrooms" and "No Minors Allowed". I had to use the restroom mid-meal, and I suddenly found myself surrounded by strippers in Mary's Club.

Pro Tip: I also noticed that the 1337 Mary's Club patrons just walk through the taqueria to avoid the door fee.
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"Double your price, you'll roughly halve your (new) customers"

Absolutely not true. I've experimented with dropping prices by half and got a barely noticable uptick in customers. I've also bumped prices by 20% and had conversion actually increase slightly. Pricing psychology is way more complex than that.
IE or Gecko on mobiles don't have any real significant in usage, despite IE having a board deployment. Users of less capable devices with less capable browsers will less likely use highly interactive websites because their crappy browsers can't simply handle them.

However, everyone here is constantly ignoring Opera. Opera's Presto competes head-on with Webkit in standards support and performance and has higher market share. And Opera Mobile has the best mobile UI in the market (although that's debatable due to personal preferences) and biggest feature set.

What's really a disservice and plan stupid is to outright ignore Opera and even worse not mentioning it entirely when discussing mobile app or mobile web app development.
Several theories:

1. The less dominant personality emulates the dominant personality.
2. People that spend a lot of time together form similar habits and interests. Ever noticed how many guys in corporate america like the same thing?
3. People that spend a lot of time together engage in common consumption. For example, one person with bad eating habits will cause others to gain weight.
This could be true for humans in general, if humans weren't products of evolution. Ever notice that anyone who writes blog posts about babies on HN are absurdly pro-baby? It's because we wouldn't pass on our genes if we weren't.

It's possible for a father, perhaps, to consider the wife more important (after all, she can produce more babies!) but I doubt most mothers would agree that the husband is more important than the child, especially since a growing number of them don't even have one.

Re: 3, thinking that your child is the most important thing in your life has little bearing on how you raise them, except perhaps on the tail end where parents do not care at all and the child ends up being taken away by the DSS.
so powells technical moved up 2 blocks (just across the main store on 10th and Couch) and is now called powells 2. as of last month.