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Are you kidding?! I watched an anti-evolution video about a decade ago, and it was so creatively wrong it has been an endless source of mirth for me since. "You see, there was a giant ice shield around the Earth in the early days, and that messed up carbon dating. Then God melted it to create the flood!"
The problem is that nobody wants to present their users with a gigantic list of contacts on first login and ask them to sort and organise them into groups. Instead, everybody just lumps all the contacts together so that the user is least inconvenienced at first, only to later experience problems. Google is in a pretty good position to tackle this, since a fair number of people who already have Google contacts probably also have their contacts sorted into groups for email, and that's a good representation of their real-life social network.
That may be true. Even some politicians I heard at home where quite reasonable.
Practical? Yes. Desirable? Depends on who is going to maintain it.
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One queue adds an overhead for the time it takes for the person at the front of the queue to notice a cashier is free and walk to that cashier. I have watched this system in action at the Post Office, Rail stations, and one supermarket and this overhead can be significant. One supermarket actually employs somebody at the head of the queue just to tell them which cashier to go to and when.

jfb - It also doesn't have any negative effect on "the geegaws sold in line" as they just put the "geegaw" displays along the side of the one queue. In fact it is better for the store in that respect as they can show more variety.

The best way I can think of to get rid of this overhead is to have a rule where each cashier has a queue depth 2 that is fed from a single queue. But how would you get people to stick to just 2 people? And it would be very annoying to be just behind a slow person.

In theory people should naturaly start moving forward when they notice that somebody is finishing up but at least in the Rail station and Post office the counter staff have a tendency to shut their counter without warning or start processing some other task before they are ready to serve the next person.
It would be nice to tell the bank to just pay anything in your account above a certain balance.
I still think that traditional shorthand with error correction is the fastest way to go without keyboard. Any system can be used, e.g. Gregg, Pittman, Merlin, or a new system can be invented. Of course the learning curve is substantial, though.
It's about time! All three specs of MySQL have been OP for too long.
Well in my experience that assumption often holds - most people aren't rational, don't understand the issues and will proceed to try and beat you down with "talking points".

I have a two part test to figure out whether someone's a skeptic or a denier:

1. Ask them some sort of question about their position - "Why do you think X", or "How do you explain this weakpoint in your argument?" Basically try and put them on the spot a bit.

2. If they're evasive, then ask them what sort of evidence it would take for them to change their mind.

If they can't give a good response to either of these questions, then they're a denier - if you can't defend your position, and you're not going to admit to any possibility of error, there's not much point in arguing.
I commute by bike (2x30 min/day), go running 1h30 once a week and have a rowing machine (1h/week). I don't want to live without these highs. It also helped me in productivity and mental illness.
All the POS card readers that I've seen (UK maybe it's different in US?) don't display insert card until the cashier has finished scanning the items and pressed total. On the occasions that I have tried putting the card in before the machine asks for it, the transaction usually ends up having to be redone.
Build in whatever the people who are going to maintain it after you've moved on are comfortable with .... if you still bear some responsibility at that point.
For the two comments that account for 75% of your traffic, you should have included the text of the comments themselves. I'm interested to read them.
It's already there and has grown 700% in 3 years: http://www.techhub.com/magazine/read/tech-cluster-around-lon...

They are just adding fuel to the fire.
Isn't this the opposite of "pick the right tool for the job"? Building with whatever you're most comfortable seems to be a superficial reason. Different platforms/languages have real diversity in their strengths and weaknesses.
A definite plus move and the canny thing is locating it near the existing "Tech Triangle" - Shoreditch and moving Eastwards towards Stratford.

That part of London is cheap, well connected and has a large immigrant population. It will be interesting to see how this pans out in reality , but all the good signs are there.
Denver rent is insanely cheap! I pay something like 30% of what I'd pay in SF to live downtown, within walking distance of Coors Field + tons of great bars and restaurants.
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Safeway experimented with that here (UK) about fifteen years ago. I used it. It worked, but I don't think it saved that much time, since shoppers are much slower at doing the scanning.

For enforcement they used sampling: at payment time, you were sometimes required to have your items scanned by a cashier anyway. The theory was that the more reliable you showed yourself to be, the less likely you were to be selected.

I haven't seen back to the store that they trialled it in recently, but I guess that it didn't work for some reason since it has not become widespread.
I didn't want to show specific comments that publicly. I'm sending you an email with links to them in a moment.
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Did you work on any titles I might know?
On PC, that is, I never played games on anything earlier.
Get up off your ass, get out there and just do it!
So it's market research as a product rather than a service, so to speak?
I've seen the two level queue in use at some airports for security and immigration. But they do have a person splitting the head of the long queue into the short queues immediately in front of each x-ray machine/agent.

It works pretty well, but can still be a little frustrating when you see a person who was behind you in the main queue get through first because your sub-queue took longer.

People usually won't act to optimize for the best throughput, just minimize their relative wait times. The behaviour of drivers on congested roads tends to confirm this.
P always has stood for Perl/PHP/Python (in that order.. it came about back when Perl was more popular than PHP)
Great title, but the rant itself is fairly incoherent. What's the main beef? That designers mimic Apple? Good shit always get copied and, on occasion, improved upon. That's how it all evolves.
It can and does apply to both sides. I have some "greenie" friends who are pathologically opposed to any sort of development, as well as a couple who are full-bore climate deniers. Neither group are particularly well informed on the issues.

However, it does seem that in most issues like this, and with climate change and evolution in particular, the non-science side seems to be particularly stubborn and bloody minded (perhaps because they don't have any evidence, and have to fall back on rhetoric).

Even asking one pretty simple question gets you posts and posts of chatbot-esqe evasion and denial: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1867623
I'm in webdevelopment many years now and switching from php to ruby was a step I'll never regret. About the sysadmin perspective, I manage all my servers myself, used debian on my workdesk long enough to do this, and in the last year with all the stuff like bundler and the new rubygems.org it got so much easier. If you need it even more easier then Heroku is something you won't get elsewhere.
Debbie's problem is exactly what makes me use the Friend Lists feature of Facebook. It might not protect your data that well, but at least it is able to keep things semi-private from the (less tech-savvy) friends of yours from other social circles.

But, of course, Facebook screws you in the end. Even you choose exactly what friends see that photo of yours, and what friends see that wall post, you happen to comment on a friend's photo and then everybody sees it.

And it also does nothing about friends of yours from some circle deliberately accessing the profiles of the people from other circle and seeing everything you didn't want them to see (like tagged photos of yours that they couldn't see on your profile because you forbidden them to).
No. You, sir, are not normal. I'd love to know what sort of evil hackery you're cooking with that setup, though.
What do you mean "grows up?" If you're a 35 year-old single woman looking to not be single any more then you'll probably wear some sexy clothing once in awhile, especially when you're out in public.

Also, if you're 35 and single of either gender, there are plenty of reasons to want to live with roommates rather than by yourself. It's much cheaper and more efficient, plus you have friendship, company, sharing of responsibility, and someone to call the ambulance if you ever have an emergency.

One of the worst reason of all to live by yourself is out of some vague idea that you're supposed to because that's what adults do. If you are single, living alone gets lonely really fast. At least, it sure as hell did when I lived on my own in my 20s. And is NYC really any different in this regard? Boston certainly isn't.
Same here. People don't know how high one can get just with running.
Yes but Silicon Ditch definitely evokes the grimey feel of Old Street. A founder of Huddle described Silicon Valley as Reading (UK) but with sun and palm trees. Even if you filled Old Street with sun and palm trees - it would still be grime - central (though I love working there).
Has anybody tried giving a contribution to some senator? seems to be the way things gets done.
It's also surprisingly difficult and annoying to add and switch people around to Friend Lists.
Nitpick^2: I don't think the Seattle beer scene is actually that good (granted, I live in Denver).

Red Hook, Mac & Jacks and Pyramid are all decent.
Ranier Beer is some of the most foul stuff I've ever tasted.
Am I missing places? I think most of the good beer in Seattle comes from Portland or elsewhere.
Thanks for the feedback! Second time someone has mentioned doing a FB app. I had not considered that previously. I can see how doing that would give us a deep reach. Tying the data back to the site is also interesting. Thanks again for the feedback!
Are Yodle & Yodlee the 2 most successful co's with almost identical names ever?
Neat riddle, thought HN readers could offer up more answers.
Another common example would be airport check-in. You have economy and first-class.

Often the first-class line is empty - do you let 'the rabble' check-in there and risk a first class passenger having to (gasp) wait a couple of minutes behind them; or make the long line of economy passengers stare at the unused desk and mutter about the airline.

(Though given that airports are really just a series of queues feeding each other the different in practice is pretty minimal.)
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InnoDB is basically an ACID storage engine, whereas MyISAM is a storage engine that gives no guarantees about anything.
Pretentious, maybe, but it hosts a world-class company (ARM).
> Netherlands + France say no to european constitution

Why is that a bad thing? The constitution would be a major setback for democratic process in EU, where the actual governance is already too far removed from voter.
>and capitalism, for that matter

Do you mean they choose Capitalism over Science (i.e. make money on the "green" wave) or ideology over Capitalism?
I think we're in the minority here, but I would also be into ChucK. there are so many resources on C already (though, and python) but I found ChucK hard to delve into.
It reminds me of the False programming language (http://strlen.com/false-language), versions of which I've implemented on small micros I've worked on for similar purposes. False is a tiny but fairly powerful stack-based language the author originally implemented a compiler for in 1024 bytes of 68k machine code. False pulls some great ideas from Forth and (anachronistically) Factor.

Perhaps it's because of the AT90USB162's RAM restrictions (512 bytes), but it seems having a "stack" of just one item and non-nestable loops is pretty restrictive. Oh, and no + - * / operators.

I don't think adding nestable loops and a stack of say 5 items (10 bytes of RAM) and math operators would hurt much, and it'd certainly add to the power of a language like this -- perhaps changing it from a tiny debugging tool to a useful "scripting" language.
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Great presentation but his claims about IM are not solid IMO.

IM is personal messaging i.e. we communicate directly with people in the way that's appropriate. Nothing get's broadcasted out. If anything IM is a perfect list.

I have friends, groups of friends, colleagues, clients etc. on my list but they don't bleed into each other.

Also in most IM you can decide to be invisible for selected people and not for others.
If you say that to someone successful, it's very rarely true. It's only really applicable to those who aren't successful.
In answer to your second point. There's scientific evidence to support both assertions. There's a really good infographic floating around that sums up the case for and against and what the scientists behind each side believe. However I can't find it.

If I remember correctly, much of the pro climate change case is based on core samples, tree rings and satellite recordings of air temperatures. The case against is centred on actual drops in temperature recorded and the absorption of CO2, so there's science for both sides and evidence for both sides.

For your final point and link I'm not sure what you're trying to show me. You seem like a pretty rational guy in our discussion, but come across as fairly irrational (perhaps unstructured would be better) in the other sub-thread. It's clear lzw responded because of your style of argument, I think in his first comment his first point leads to the last and he's pretty much spot on, but in his last point he falls into the very same trap you did.
So you are surprised that a title like, "Google UX Researcher Explains the Social Networking Gay Bar Problem" gets more votes/views than one with this title, "The Real Life Social Network v2"? And four months ago - wasn't that around the time of the Facebook movie w/ a similar title?
I work in digital marketing as well as media buying, so from the perspective of 'somebody who you're looking for', I'd definitely recommend that you put together a good list of features that your ad network has, the functionality it offers, any USP's that other ad networks don't have, the (vaguely if need be) type of networks you'd want to operate in.

Also, are you looking for a sales guy to actually get agencies or brands to buy ads on your network, or are you looking for a person with a deep understanding of online marketing that would be doing business development and acquiring publishing channels for your network for advertisers to advertise on?
I can remember explaining evolution one Sunday morning to a pair of Jehovah's Witnesses who were very confused about how it all worked ("No, no, evolution isn't random. How it works is that you have this population of animals who are all slightly different..."). They lasted maybe half an hour or 45 minutes before they fled. I figured it was a public service - every minute they spend with me is one less minute that they're sinking their hooks into weaker prey :)

I think I still have their little blue book of "How life began" somewhere. They lent it to me, but never came back to collect it.
The exchange needs ot come clean about what happened. There is too much speculation.
Follow up on the reverse job application.
One being anti-gay-marriage (or Nazi, Christian, HR manager) does not automatically disqualify one's every opinion in the same manner as being pro-gay-marriage does not make me an authority on quantum mechanics.
Yes, it's practical. I'd use Postgres rather than MySQL if possible.
This year I joined a cycling club and starting riding time trials. I'm now training hard to improve my times for next season.

Having something to aim for works for me. It doesn't have to be competitive either, setting yourself personal goals works too.
Originally AdSense too was Python/MySQL. Nowadays I don't know.
Of course its just basics, its a good start for beginners. It reminds me of the stuff I used to teach to junior programmers wanting to explore Linux.. Im already an advanced Linux user, but there's always something you haven't come accross yet... Thats one of the things I like best about Linux in general and bash.
About a year ago I got $37.50 from Apple for my wife's iPod Nano (1st gen) which for whatever reason was made out of really soft plastic. It got scratched almost immediately. The lawsuit took on the order of three years IIRC, from start to payout. In other words, all the iPhone 3G owners there: even if this lawsuit against Apple is won, you won't get a cent for your next upgrade.
Silicon Muskeg? According to wiki: Muskeg is an acidic soil type common in Arctic and boreal areas, although it is found in other northern climates as well. Muskeg is more-or-less synonymous with bogland but muskeg is the standard term in Western Canada and Alaska (while bog is more common elsewhere).

That would be better for the tech hub near Cambridge, UK - Silicon Fen - not Shoreditch, East London

I still prefer Silicon Ditch - where we already have the pure essence of innovation permeating the landscape. Its just a grimey landscape, with fewer palms.
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Pick a simple message, stay focused, and compromise (co-opt) your potential opponents. That is, find some people who would naturally take the other side and convince them that your plan is the best. Potential opponents will do much more for your argument than echo-chamber cheerleaders will. In fact, many times you want to shut up the cheerleaders because their enthusiasm and over-the-top rhetoric can easily polarize the undecided.

This has been the way of politics for thousands of years. On all kinds of issues.

It sounds like Prop 19 failed in all of these areas. I'm not a smoker, but I'm a libertarian, and I was rooting for it. It's a shame it didn't work out the way many folks wanted.
Without unleashing the market upon pot, criminals could still make large amounts of money on the black market.

More to the point though - as the article says, the burden of proof is on the side advocating restriction! We don't require governments to allow us to do every little thing - the basic assumption is we can do anything we like, except for a few restrictions needed to prevent reducing others' freedoms.
It's not a huge funk, you just drop back to your non-exercise level of health and happiness. It's more an indicator of the positive impact it can have than something negative.
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"why didn't you spend your unemployment working on a project to flesh out your portfolio?"

Could the real answer be that you are just the kind of person who considers spending time on a reverse job application and then advertising it to be time better and more efficiently spent than working on a portfolio? And that is at least one of the reasons that you were probably hired by hopefully one of the better employers that were able to recognize that.
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The article mentioned he used Python, which is a language I really enjoy working with, but not a framework. Does anyone know what framework D'Angelo is using?

Edit: to note that I used Quora to answer my own question:
http://www.quora.com/What-languages-and-frameworks-were-used...
Am I the only one that gives some credence to the possibility these things are rigged?

I guess exit polls were in line so it's not likely at all; but I am surprised people don't give that serious consideration.

If things haven't changed since I voted there in 02, there isn't even a paper trail in California (at least in some districts). So I am not sure if a real audit is even possible considering they are allowed to keep their source closed.

Prop 19 didn't pass it seems because the kids just didn't get out and vote. It was a generational gap more than anything, and the less-voting generation didn't increase their voting, thus they lost.
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Trying to classify this problem under the same umbrella as the Android fragmentation problem only obscures the causes and possible solutions to both.
MMGW: Man made Global Warming.

>It's about a problem that should be taken seriously, because it is _global_ and it will affect future generations!

And you do it again.

Look, when you run out here screaming "We have to do something now! No time to discuss it and the other side are spewing nonsense anyway" you have the opposite effect. If time really is of the essence then all efforts should be in (a) proving that we fully understand the nature/cause of the problem, (b) coming up with real solutions/timelines/etc. and (c) addressing all skeptics concerns (over and over, as much as is required).

It's not an easy battle but what MMGW proponents [1] are asking for isn't a simple flip of a switch.

[1] Just for completeness: I'm not purposely taking sides. I've seen both good arguments and scandalous rubbish from both sides. I personally believe that something is happening to the environment and am open to be convinced that we are the culprit. But for me personally, I don't need to be convinced of either of these things. I think green technology is a good thing and should be perused regardless. Even if we aren't causing a green house effect that will melt the world and kill everyone we are poisoning our oceans (and the yummy creatures that live in them), destroying our forests, ecosystems and wild life (some of which I want to be saved for the selfish reason that I want to continue eating them and can't if they don't exist anymore).

I also think we're moving in the right direction and have optimism that humanity will find a way like it always has so far.
Do you have any sort of physical or fitness-related goals you could set for yourself for your exercise? Working towards a goal makes all the difference.

A goal could be anything from training to run a 5K, a marathon, being able to squat your body weight, be able to do five pull-ups, lose 10 pounds etc...
This is not quite right:
1. In the UK you are not required to work three months after giving notice unless it is a provision of your contract of employment. If you don't have a written contract - then you will be entitled to a statutory notice period that roughly accrues in weekly units depending on years worked - but with cap. However,you can be paid in lieu of notice. It is fine to employ someone on one months notice - and less if they have worked for you for less than twelve months.
2. Restrictive covenants are unenforceable in the UK if they are unreasonably wide. ie you may be restricted for a year from hopping into a company that does the same thing in the same area. But not from using you transferable skills in a different company or different area.
If someone tries to get you to sign to a two year, 200 mile radius, transferable skill / different business restriction - sign it and don't worry as it will not be enforceable.
No, the MySQL Workbench Community Edition is still GPL and free.