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"Holding the bus". I like the phrase, everybody has their bad days and should get some slack when they need it in exchange for giving their best when it really counts.

However, I have to take issue with manic coders. I've seen the results of "heroic" coding. It sucks. Sure, it does the job, meets the deadline or whatever but the problem is that quick work is typically nothing more than a "rush job" that becomes a maintenance nightmare in the future.

The thing is no one wants to work with someone who is unstable or difficult. If the success of your enterprise depends on sporadic bursts of mania from individual workers, I'm sorry, that just isn't going to be sustainable.
My question: How well will this work on a device like an iPhone where hovering isn't useful.

Although I think the the problem with repetitive buttons does need a solution, I also think it's too hard to assume that users will figure out that hovering over something may allow them to see additional choices.
Inc.com covers a lot of general industry news.

I'm thinking more like the "Show HN: Please Rate My Startup/Web App..." type of posts that reveal tech products, or a local business that just opened, or a new, tangible product that just launched (and is ready to be purchased and shipped).
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I see you're just making a joke, but to treat what you said seriously, I think that the main complaint against Kuhn is that in practice actual science works quite differently from how he describes it. So yes, Kuhn's ideas represent an idealized view of what science (perhaps) should be, and as such are interesting to the same small group of people as find Plato's notion of shadows on the cave to be interesting. I.e. theory of knowledge or theory of science people, as compared to say actual scientists.
I don't know about bipolar disorder or the grandparent's boss specifically, but I've learned never to discuss mental disorders with bosses or coworkers. There simply is no upside and every imaginable downside. Best case: you get labeled as someone who uses a mental disorder as an excuse for not doing your job. Worst case: you become "that crazy person" that nobody wants to associate with.
Also "Big Science, Little Science" - as far as texts on philosophy of science go this one is enormously much more accessible than either Popper or Kuhn.
I don't think the advice here is suitable for touchscreen devices. In those cases you might consider having a single button that, once clicked, will reveal additional functionality.

On another note, it looks as though these guys guys have come up with a way to detect hovering for touchscreens:

http://developer.practicalecommerce.com/articles/1900-Maybe-...

Apparently it can detect the user's finger while actually hover above the surface of the screen.
If you read further down, it seems to show that the banking system as a whole can expand $100 into $1000 with a 10% reserve requirement:

"Reserve requirements affect the potential of the banking system to create transaction deposits. If the reserve requirement is 10%, for example, a bank that receives a $100 deposit may lend out $90 of that deposit. If the borrower then writes a check to someone who deposits the $90, the bank receiving that deposit can lend out $81. As the process continues, the banking system can expand the change in excess reserves of $90 into a maximum of $1,000 of money ($100+$90+81+$72.90+...=$1,000), e.g.$100/0.10=$1,000."

- from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_requirement
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I just need a sloppy python math library, now.
This question crossed my mind too. Anyone have a solution?

On the other hand, I just learned the technique of using psuedo-classes early in the css selector chain. Sweet!
In New Zealand: NZ$10.22 to reserve the name (a necessary prerequisite), NZ$153.33 to register the company (total cost ~ US$126.50). There are no fees or taxes due for companies with no income.

Companies are legally required to file an annual return to the companies office (there are no fees for online filings). Annual returns can be as simple as confirming company details, stating the date of the AGM, and indicating a resolution not to appoint an auditor was passed.

Tax returns (and company tax payments as a percentage of before-tax profit) are required by a separate government department if any income is earned, but not if no income is earned.

Name changes cost $10.22. Changes to the company addresses, director details / addresses, or shareholder details / addresses must be notified by law (changing the details online is free).
There's another issue at play too, I feel. That is, Reddit doesn't change. Or, rather, it doesn't appear to. They add things (like subreddits or "gold") but the core mechanism rarely changes. The cost of changing people's muscle and visual memories is strongly underestimated.
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Twelve years ago or so, I was reformatting my home desktop (then a Linux machine) and I decided to try to change things up a little, so I installed FreeBSD to try it out. I figured that there wouldn't be any superficial differences, but I knew that there were architectural ones that I'd run into eventually and maybe I could learn a little more about how different OSes worked.

One thing I did notice right away was that the console felt different. It felt like it was maybe more responsive somehow, and not just when it was scrolling a wall of text. It even felt different when I was typing. Somehow, typing at a console (not in X, not via SSH) felt better in FreeBSD than it did in Linux. I couldn't tell you why, and I didn't really understand it myself. It wasn't something I could measure, or even describe, but it left me feeling like FreeBSD was more than 'just like Linux'.

I only used it for a day or so before I realized that I'd screwed up the partitioning and wiped out my Windows partition, and so had to re-reformat, but it left a profound impression.

I feel like iOS is the same way. All the Android phones I've tried (including a friend's Nexus One) have been, theoretically, the same as an iPhone in terms of features and capabilities and even hardware, but even before I got into using them in depth there was just something that felt a little off about tapping on icons or scrolling lists, and I could never put my finger on it, so to speak. Perhaps it's just design decisions or usage patterns that I'd internalized already, but I've always felt like it was something more. Maybe the scrolling behaviour is something I picked up on unconsciously, because while I don't remember it being slow or jerky, I do remember it didn't feel right.

Perhaps the numbers-oriented engineers at Google can't quantify it and so don't prioritize it, or maybe they just don't think it's worth wasting time on, but I think consumers, in the end, will notice. The real question is how many will actually care, and how many will shrug it off because of the benefits (perceived or real) that Android provides them over the iPhone?
The "I" that doubts one's own existence itself is a product of thought. As is said, it was flawed at several levels.
Not an engineer, but I don't think the sodium/water heat exchangers are a fatal setback -- for one thing, there's an intermediate sodium loop between the core sodium coolant and the turbine loop, so any sodium/water interaction* isn't near the reactor core. I'm pretty sure all SFRs to date have had steam turbines.

* euphemism

>but also the fact that the steam turbines are H-U-G-E.

That's not enough of a setback to stop most power plants in the world from using the Rankine cycle. You should ask an engineer why this is, I am not one.
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http://thinkstartups.com/ covers weekend projects, hackdays, and other "hacker culture" such things. It is not updated daily, more like weekly, but still good to have in an rss reader somewhere.
Conclusions: deflation is good, and you should put all your money in the stock market for a short period of time.
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Here's an idea
(1) Look at past spending plans.

(2) Throw out all plans that would result in more spending than 95% of the current revenue.

(3) Pick the best of the remainder.

(4) If you want to spend money on something that wasn't in the "best" plan, you have to pay for it by throwing out things that were in said plan.

(5) Monitor short-term. If spending exceeds revenue, eliminate spending in newest-started first order until it doesn't. If you want to keep a new spending item, keep going down the list and eliminating items until revenue exceeds spending.

(6) Monitor long term. If at the end of the year you don't have 5% more revenue than spending, start over with 94% as the goal and so on. If, on the other hand, you have more than the goal, congrats, you get to narrow the margin by 0.5%.

Note that the above is not "painful" unless you think that CA was painful several years ago.
Assuming we would have driverless cars, you don't have to worry about a gigantic shell of metal that is expensive, will break down at inopportune times, requires constant maintenance, copious parking space at any destination of your choosing, insurance, contributes to crappy air quality (thankfully reduced/solved by using electric power), and for which you have to spend hours shoveling snow if you are in a colder climate. There are tons of other problems if you focus on human-driven cars: drunk drivers, the need for designated drivers, comparatively high risk of being killed or maimed, having your kids nag you or someone else if they want to experience the world outside of their neighborhood, driving course costs (oh wait, in America we don't have to pay... in Europe, well, I hope you have several thousand euros). There are so many issues that they greatly outweigh the ones in a properly-made public transit system. I see cars as being useful for out-of-city excursions (but not inter-city, just take the train) or for hauling things, but these situations are not common enough that every single adult needs to own a car.

We don't actually have to tear down and start over, and I think you underestimate the North American will to destroy old buildings. We just need to use existing buildings more intelligently, turn asphalt seas into courtyards, allocate green spaces and keep residental and commercial buildings close together. I don't expect people to actually do any of this, particularly in the US where it would be seen as a communist plot, but I'm happy there are many places in the world where there is no need for urban replanning/reorganization on a grand scale.
Your job IS to deal with them

Your job isn't to deal with them, its to extract from them. Once you can no longer extract value beyond their cost, "poof, be gone".

Once T.O. isn't a great player, who's gonna put up with him? No one. With that said, when you look at most of the greats, think Gretsky, Jordan, Tiger, Magic, Bird, etc... they are the model player. The only major exception I can think of is Bonds, and with him, steroids I think I helped a lot. If not for the roids, I think Griffey and A-Rod look a lot better.
> Furthermore, do you see parents sticking their 6 year olds on the subway just because they can? No. A very few do it and get ostracized by society.

Yes, all the time in Japan. Also commonly seen in Europe.

And as a bonus tidbit---in small town America, people still hitchhike.
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The alternative to following one's reason is not following someone else's doctrine or religion. We can, for example, investigate our conditioning and concepts through questioning. We may find that our reasoning is itself based on concepts that are relative, or believed due to social conditioning.
Questioning brings about a silence, that silence in time reveals that even things such as the "I" or person was a concept. Now that's a huge discovery and is not specific to some church or belief.
I don't think Kuhn was trying to show what ideal science "should be". His project was first and foremost descriptive. He was reacting against the likes of Popper's view on what science is (and should be): namely, falsificationism. Kuhn argued that falsification is not how science normally works, despite the fact that actual scientists think it does. (He actually spends a whole chapter discussing why he thinks scientists make this mistake.) Kuhn's work inspired the Edinburgh school of sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK), which until recently has remained quite heavy on the descriptive side.
I believed in that method, but in the end I'm still happier with my redirect. Signal to Noise ratio is WAY better. : )
As long as these instruments don't introduce systematic risks, why does it matter where wealthy investors are investing their private assets? I trust that they'll do their due diligence before wiring their cash.

Besides, there are thousands of closed derivatives around, this just happens to be a high profile one.
On blip.tv, I've been getting ONLY Chrome ads for a few days. Nothing else. It would be great if they could auto-detect that I'm already running Chrome and run something else (if they have anything else in the inventory)...
BTW, it's Joshua.

The point of being a literal marketmaker is someone who stands ready to buy or sell at a published price at all times. The implication is that it is an ongoing position - they do so over time.

There's a bunch of things that a marketmaker has to do to do his job, but then there are the things he does that defines the job. Does that make sense?

The simple fact is that Goldman is not publishing a price in it right this second, and you can't call them up and buy or sell shares right now.

The marketmaker's job is to literally make a market. They aren't doing that. Just providing some liqudity.

Re: FIX and order routing: Do you know what a hidden quantity is? No fair googling. I concede on FIX, though.
You should check out the message boards on Freenet, it does work (though Freenet is a bit heavy on the encryption and light on speed for some things...)
This is probably OT and maybe even rude... but that lead-in with the Kanye lyrics is just strange.

My reading of the lyrics snippet (and I'm certainly no expert in these things) suggests that the character is telling a girl to run away from him because he knows he's a dick. Specifically, he's a dick that's especially good at criticism and spreading negativity and of the list of targets, one group happens to be people who work a lot which implies to me that the character's less-than-hardworking nature looks bad by comparison.

So not only is the character a dick, he's a self-professed underachieving one and perhaps even proud of it. He might even be worried that the girl is one of those kinds of people he hates, or maybe he kinda cares for her and knows his personality is toxic on some level, or he just can't have nice things, or there happens to be a hotter girl one table over so this one has to go...

Anyway, it's just odd because it seems like the character that is "speaking" in the song is exactly the sort of guy who might bitch about how troublesome smart people are because he's always got to be the smartest guy in the room but refuses to put in the work required to remain the smartest guy in the room when there's other actual smart guys in the room. So the best solution in that case is to get rid of the others by telling them to "run away as fast as you can."

In summary, it seems to me like the lyrics are actually speaking more as a person who hates over-achievers and/or smart people than as a person who is one of those troublesome smart persons who hates average folk and therefore would appear to, well, not really support the author's actual argument. Or something?

I don't know. I'm probably not one of the smart ones. so... :P
As I mentioned above I am mainly interested in it from the perspective of a polygot/language pervert as I have been developing an APL -> PHP interpreter in my spare time (obviously for fun not production). I got into J and Q to see what the different ASCII approaches were to moving beyond the APL special characters. Thus far I am pretty impressed after having worked my way through a good portion of "Q for Mortals".

My current "client base" is mainly interested in out-of-the-box lamp/ror/foss which has thus far held me back from introducing it into current projects. However I have a client who is currently trying to use php/mssql for really complex and massive historical data analysis and Q/KDB more accurately fit the job description so we'll see what happens.

Sorry if you were hoping for someone w/ more real world experience!
Sure, but that's not what an actual marketmaker is. They're just brokering/dealing/trading/underwriting, etc.
Chris Wickham's recent book "The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000" shines a light on this oft misunderstood period, showing ways in which it was darker and ways in which it was lighter.
This was not my experience. After a few months of Vim use, I was reasonably proficient. I timed myself doing basic editing tasks in both Vim (using keyboard motions) and Gedit (using the mouse). I was significantly faster in Gedit.

Double-click to select a word, triple-click to select a line. Just start typing to replace selected text. No conflation of cutting a string in to the clipboard and deleting it. Click-and-type editing is nice. I only use Vim when I want to reformat text with its macros.
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I'm not so sure it's that different than he described. It's certainly messier, but he didn't have access to the same volume of data we do now. On a grand, generation scale, I think he got it exactly right. You see it in the published record if you know a field well - the slow shifts with the seminal works standing out and pushing the field along...and still taking a decade or more to be widely received. Science is slow. My area - neuroimaging - has been around for 20 years and yet we're still struggling to make sense of the data. The major changes take 5 to 10 years to sink in. Not surprisingly, that's also how it takes to train a new generation.
I actually came to PON after finding the silence and I-am ness through a process of questioning beliefs. I was glad to find someone who could explain simply what was happening.

Tolle was great for me because he asks us to stay in this I-am'ness or Nowness and not just dispel it. And that has led to a huge "fundamental shift" as you say.

Just because some of these things have been known for thousands of years and have been talked of by Christians, Buddhists, Hindus etc, does not mean they are a set of beliefs (as some are suggesting).
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The better opportunities tend to have higher valuations. Most things are at $3-4mm pre at the very least (and I tend to pass on lower-end stuff than that.) Divide it out :)
I'd like them to just have a site to report SEO scammers, where you could just copy and paste the URL. This would make FF/Chrome extensions trivial. Google could rank each submitter in a similar way to how they rank reCaptcha submissions as a way of discouraging abuse.

Still, I think it's becoming apparent that SEO has broken PageRank, and we really are in need of something else. Whether that something else is algorithmic, social, or, most likely, a combination of the two, remains to be seen. Still, I don't think we'll ever have a system that can't be gamed.
Font is wrong, app names are in the wrong case, "slide to unlock" bar/text is way wrong, icons are wrong...

Why would you simulate some things (search, SpringBoard animations) with a very high level of detail, but completely neglect others?
Valuation is always a dicey territory to be in, especially when done by an investment bank. Their interests are not exactly in line with putting the actual picture out there.

One of the companies I had worked for once had its valuation done by a pretty big i-bank at $1 billion. We were flabbergasted, but they were also going to be underwriters for the issue.
Right, but if the movie is to be believed, then Zuckerberg and several others have non-diluting shares. I'm wondering how much that restriction on the circulating share pool affects the valuation.
Has anyone tried the ruby editor (previously called ver) by Michael Fellinger. It now uses Ruby Tk. I cannot recall the name. (Just tried searching, but could not find it).
In case you're wondering how uniquely identifiable your browser is: https://panopticlick.eff.org/. "Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,328,173 tested so far."

Of course, this is regardless of Google.
6502 assembly was the first language after Apple Basic that I learned. I found it to be a very enjoyable experience. These days it would be tedious, but back then it was fun making the limited hardware do something and the only thing you used is what the hardware gave you. Today we have it lucky... with all the frameworks, libraries, and such only a small percentage of the end result is your original work. That's great for efficiency, though the downside is you can't point to a program and say that you wrote 100% of it.

I imagine this is similar to how someone who likes to tinker with engines might prefer an old motorcycle they can take apart and put back together themselves even though there are many advantages in terms of reliability, efficiency, comfort, and so on to driving a Prius.
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Since you think that will be the case, what hedges are you taking to prepare for the lean times?
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I am currently working on something which is roughly a "knowledge/document/media relation" database based upon treating Michel Foucaults "Archeology of Knowledge" as a specification for software. If it's workable and interesting I will get a domain for it and show it off, if not it's a good project to learn on.
One good thing came from letting Lehman die: the creators of Despicable Me were able to label their Bank of Evil as "formerly Lehman Brothers."
If you don't have time to actually be active in your research and investments, why bother? Its like playing poker and not knowing anything about the game.

Luckily I have an uncle whose an investment advisor and handles my money. He's done well for me and has had growth in the double digits. Its nice to leave it in the hands of a professional.
I don't think Stallman would be particularly keen on your mistaken impression that he has anything at all to do with advocating Open Source.
"She" probably came from some attempt at political correctness. There's been a rise in recent decades to use "she" when speaking about an unspecified person. Historically, it was common to use "he" for that task. Unfortunately english doesn't have a gender-neutral pronoun and until/if one becomes accepted this will probably continue to be a confusing issue...

edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun
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Well, that's kind of hard. We are aggregating those on our site at http://www.socialdealmap.com/ but at this moment, besides Restaurant.com, Groupon is way ahead of others.
I beg to differ that HU limit has 'very little strategy'. The game tree is vast and well beyond computational power to solve by brute force.

TV pros may appear to 'tend to play' tournament NL as this is where they get the most exposure, but cash games are certainly where most make their money. HU limit may not get the action of NL/PLO these days, but it's still a popular game.

Nosebleeds games of 1k/2k and 2k/4k has been running a bunch recently, including action from PI, durrr and Antonius.