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About 1/3 of our city's population is students as well.

I have heard nightmare stories about 'Turn' taking weeks to complete because of the high turnover rates in our city.. As well as managers being at whits end 1/2 the time because of workload. We really tried to develop our software to ease these tensions. In some of the companies we have studied, we were able to reduce the workload of the company and reduce the stress.

And in doing so, hopefully we make a happier rental env for everyone :)
Dawkins and most others here are missing the primary issue: evidence. What qualifies as [evidence](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence) for scientific purposes is limited. It excludes (or minimizes) evidence the human beings accept in most other areas. You would no more cite your neighbor's belief in the shape of the earth for a scientific paper than cite the number of flowers you bought your wife as proof that you love her. There are many reasons people believe Bible accounts for rational reasons outside of scientific evidence.

Also implicit in most of the posts here and Dawkin's piece is to assume there is zero scientific evidence for a young earth or any other Biblical story. As Feynman was fond of saying, it isn't up to science to determine truth all the time, but rather what is more or less likely based on what we currently know. It is most likely our universe is X years old based on what we know now, but even those ages have changed by wide margins in the last century. We don't know how much more it will change in the next century. But we are as sure about the current age as astronomers were 100 years ago.

For the record, based on our present scientific knowledge, it is more likely our earth is 4.5 billions years old than 5000. But we don't know for sure, do we?
That's excellent! We can pair that with the other prevention cheat sheet:

1) Never trust what the client sends you.

AKA "How to prevent SQL injection and other such nasties"
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By technical audience, do you mean technical people who are also property owners? If yes, then the headline is great.

Though my guess would be that majority of your customers will be non technical. If the technical audience refers your website to non-technical people, you want your page understandable to them.
Hmm. This would be perfect for a project I'm doing involving Amazon, except that they rewrite my amazon affiliate tag with their own... :-/
Cool stuff, got Golden in second attempt.
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Yes, but you can't get a refund once you've purchased it, a la Android Market.
I'm working on a android game start-up, would you mind emailing me? I'd love to ask you a few questions, or at least see what you've put out. Thanks!
I think you need to distinguish between different kinds of "using a theory." Investigating something you don't believe in is not the same thing as using (perhaps with reservation) a model you believe to be imperfect, and that in turn is different from claiming as true things that you believe to be totally false.
I would shy away from doing this. The bank has no obligation to uphold the post-date that you write. I once sent in a post-dated rent check that was dependent on a deposit clearing, and the landlord (accidentally) brought it in earlier and it was accepted by the bank. Luckily, the bank covered it for me, but I still had to deal with overdraft fees and such. The bank manager explained to me that post-dating is typically honored by a bank.
I agree that science and faith are theoretically compatible, but you intentionally omit that they have been compatible in practice for hundreds of years.

I would say that the evidence that they are compatible is overwhelming:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_thinkers_in_s...
I just wanted to say thanks for not demanding permission to post to my wall when I linked my facebook account.
"It is amazingly arrogant to say that someone could be convinced to 'buy crap that they didn't need or that was even harmful to them.'

What possibly makes you think you have a better idea of what goods and services I need than you do?"

You've never heard anyone complain about buying crap that they didn't need? You never seen someone's house chock full of crap that they never use (sometimes never even taken out of the box)? You don't know anyone with a shopping (or eating) addiction?

Or perhaps you're not aware that corporations spend billions on trying to figure out people's psychology so that products could be marketed more effectively (by, say, doing something so important to utility of the product as changing the color of the box its sold in or the font on the front of the box, or the music played in stores as people shop, not to mention slimy marketing techniques such as getting paid stooges to pretend to be consumers while singing praises of the product and company).

Of course, maybe the consumer really does need to be, say, poisoned by cigarettes, or have a burning need to enlarge their male member, and the valiant marketers are just providing a valuable service by making the consumer aware of this great, hitherto unknown need.

"As for 'lied, bribed, cheated, stolen, or killed' - those are all already illegal and prosecuted."

I'm not sure what your point is there. So these means are (sometimes) illegal. And (sometimes) prosecuted. Many people still continue to use them (just open any newspaper on any day of the year).

"Would you disagree with my hypothesis that in, say the last 30 years, less than 10% of millionaires are minted through those means?"

Unless they were caught (or you were personally involved), how would you know? That's not to say that some haven't been caught. But, like roaches, you can bet that the ones that you see are just a tiny minority compared to the ones you don't see.
I've heard more anti-union sentiment from people who had to be in unions to to get a particular job and then were forced to go on strike for a settlement that really only benefited the union leaders or from people who lost their jobs because going on strike caused the company go out of business. Maybe unions do some good, but it's not just the rich who don't like unions.
Ask HN: Selling Android apps for devs who cannot?
Any thoughts on if it is a good idea to sell the apps on Android Marketplace for those who cannot? Essentially a small LLC middleman service that just takes a small % of sales/ad revenue for the app? Of course when the Marketplace opens up, this service would die pretty much instantly.

I am sure there would be caveats with ensuring the apps are safe and some potential legal problems. How would the LLC be able to legally serve/sell the service.
I see no problem with this, the original submission is 3.5 years old. That's quite a long time to be complaining of reposts.
And, with this article, the Bubble Bubble continues to expand...
John's Phone: matches your fixie bike.
I think Greg is trying to say "why the hell do we even need macros for this"?
Young-Earth creationism is ignorance of physics, not biology.

And you'll find a lot less objection to YEC physicians than to stork-theorist physicians (remember, the example Dawkins started with, and the one you quoted).
Hmm... Industry = "Group Buying", Location = "Chicago", Valuation = ">$10B"

I'd say Groupon pays pretty darn well, huh?
I don't use SMS at all. I do use email a lot, so for me what would be ideal is an e-ink Android device. Right now I'm getting about 3 hrs of battery when I use the phone non-stop for data-related things. Very annoying.
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BlackBerry PlayBook to possibly use Android's Dalvik virtual machine
Great idea! I'm already signed up :-)
"I remember like 10 yrs ago rendering would take forever... we would say is it done yet? ... now it's like instant render."
Why do I need a website to connect with my tenants? They have my phone number and email. Assuming I signed up because they would prefer to contact me through this service, then if I were the type to ignore them by phone and email, I'd probably ignore them through this as well.
> how does the strategy pattern differ from just passing a function pointer?

It's just a verbose way to perform the same abstraction. Use it only if function pointers are unavailable or considered unsafe in your programming language.
Oooh there's this company that starts with an F and ends with a k. Ah but the valuation's too high. Fuck!
Is It Time For Your CEO To Go? (Part 1)
Designers, turn your copy machines on :-)
General rule: If your "web app" changes the behavior of the back and forward buttons, you are doing it wrong.
You're right, it's not even valid C99. My mistake.
We had been knocking back and forth about how prominent to make the public search box ... but of course, you're right. I'll see about fitting it in more centrally.
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How are people grouped together? Are people able to screen the other people that they'll be eating with? Maybe that would take some of the serendipity out of it, but it could also help curb some of the superficial conversation that occurs upon meeting someone for the first time.
I don't agree with that, a lot of underground bands and artists use online only advertisement like last.fm and deviantart.com and still are underground.

It's just about the way you market it... you can narrowcast your marketing to only the people you wanna hit, so you keep the underground feeling but get more customers.
Can you think of a better way to explain it? Serious question.
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"Faith is, fundamentally, the process of maintaining beliefs in the face of 1) absent evidence and 2) conflicting evidence."

That's your definition. There are multiple different definitions, even in a dictionary. It is an error to choose one and insist that it applies to all things that get the word "faith" applied to them. Definitions do not have that power. It's a common error, but an error nonetheless.

A definition I find much more useful, the relevant metric of a definition, is that faith in a statement is acting as if the statement is true. I sit in a chair and by doing so demonstrate faith that it will hold my weight. I have in the past sat in chairs where my faith was misplaced, so this isn't even a faked up academic point, I really do have less than 100% confidence in this statement from either a Bayesian or a frequentist point of view, but nevertheless I have this faith and act on it.

In my opinion, this is a much more useful way of understanding it, and in particular as my example shows actually reaches well beyond the "merely religious"; matters of this sort of faith come up in all sorts of places, including science and engineering. I readily agree in advance that scientific faith and religious faith are not the same thing, but they are points on a continuum, not binary opposites, and ultimately we must all have some sort of faith in the things that are beyond the purview of science, which, regrettably, includes rather a lot of very important things.

Push comes to shove I don't have enough evidence to accept any cosmology as 100% likely to be true. Per that article about archilects a few days ago, some form of Intelligent Design is a lot lot less "stupid" than people think; strict atheism is nowhere near as casually obvious as it was forty years ago. (We have a tentative-but-developing recipe for building gods, things that would make the Greek gods look like children by comparison. You may have faith that no such entity anywhere ever been created (by any means), but you really can't prove it, nor can you prove that no such entity lies somewhere in our history or possibly at the root of the current universe.) Yet by my actions I demonstrate faith in some belief. So do you. Neither of us have 100% confidence in the strict mathematical sense. If there's some way to get to 100% confidence, I don't know what it is.

The definition of faith as "choosing to believe things you know are false" is not a useful definition in describing or learning about the world. It's a rhetorical beating stick that allows you to dismiss claims without having to examine them. And you have not done the real work necessary to make your point relevant, which is to establish that your particular definition applies to the person in question with evidence beyond mere assertion.
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Science and faith are not inherently incompatible, but it's quite possible for specific instances (e.g. young-Earth creationism vs. everything science has discovered about the universe) to be wildly incompatible.
I once visited a colleague at ebay when we was working late and nobody was around. I thought his work would be interesting to encourage him to go and work even late hours but one glance at his workstation and he was grappling with a monstrous xml file. I asked him what he thought of ebay and he said they have great facilities like a gym, a nice campus etc but didnt say a word about "interesting work". Red flags.
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They don't currently use pro, that's why they weren't mentioned.
Personally, I much prefer this way. I never noticed it on smaller projects but now I have to work on a large codebase where some functions become hundreds of lines long. Having variable declarations and assignments structured this way makes it much easier to parse while scanning the code.
Awesome suggestions!

We haven't thought of the 2nd concept at all. I'll have to bring this one up to the guys.

thanks :)
Excellent idea! Read the introductions of any of the past 20 years Best American Short Stories books and they always ask the question "Is the short story dead" and lament the decrease in the number of magazines that exclusively publish short fiction. I think there was an experiment in the UK where people could buy single stories printed in map-like format at tube stations.

Editors don't like short stories because you have to have a lot, e.g. at least 5-6, to publish as a decent book, and coming up with that many good short stories is not within everybody's capability (same thing with having to have ~10 songs for a CD). This new medium may just be the thing to spur story writers.
Thanks for all the notes -- this is incredibly helpful. I clearly won't be able to address all of these today ... but I'm definitely printing this list out and taping it on the wall.
might need a way to rate other people you dine with to address this, kind of how airbnb works
The hardest part about these suggestion tools are how can you be unobtrusive. So many times I go to websites and these little kiss insights box just pops at me on the side. I hate it, like for real. So, if you can find a way to avoid that annoyance, it would be great. I signed up and would love to check when it is available.

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shameless plug: I actually launched shapea.com yesterday where you can get feedback on your startup ideas by fellow entrepreneurs and beta users. Everyone there would love to provide you with some feedback.
Definitely a lot of eye surgeons out there that believe in the stork theory of reproduction, it's much more common than people are lead to believe. Good example.

Last month we turned down a developer candidate because his weblog said he was a Discordian who believed in a flying spaghetti monster. He was the best candidate by far, but flying spaghetti is an irrational belief which indicates profound mental illness.
I am also very curious about this. My primary concerns are transaction costs and international issues.
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I am not convinced that Dawkins would agree with you.
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I think my real problem with all this really comes out when he mentions the Kurt Wise case:

"Although there are scientific reasons for accepting a young earth, I am a young-age creationist because that is my understanding of the Scripture. As I shared with my professors years ago when I was in college, if all the evidence in the universe turns against creationism, I would be the first to admit it, but I would still be a creationist because that is what the Word of God seems to indicate. Here I must stand."

The problem with this line of thinking is not with the conclusion - his conclusion is soundly derived from his body of evidence. But I take issue with what he chooses to admit into the corpus of evidence to be considered.

If you read the Scripture as the word of God, I have no problem with that. If you take that as a guide for what determines a good life, that's totally groovy. But the Bible cannot and should not be used as a piece of evidence in determining scientific fact.

A text that considers calling something a "miracle" adequate explanation is, by definition, non-scientific. If you believe in such miracles, that doesn't bother me one bit, but if you accept a miracle as evidence without explanation, you are not practicing science.
These kinds of resets often seem like overkill. Are there any reset libraries out there that do the bare minimum by normalizing against user agent defaults?

I.e., those described here: http://css-class.com/test/css/defaults/UA-style-sheet-defaul...
Sorry, that's a bug. If the tag is there we should leave it and not add our own.

We will work on fixing that.
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>Faith is, fundamentally, the process of maintaining beliefs in the face of 1) absent evidence and 2) conflicting evidence.

This is the tired beaten horse of atheistic criticism, taking the general principle that one must make a leap out of indecision and doubt in order to achieve any sort of meaningful viewpoint and twisting it, torturing it into the statement "Faith is explicitly about not making sense."

Faith _is also_ the means by which we escape such boring philosophical questions as "Is the sun going to rise the next day?" or "How do you _know_???" Whether or not you believe that the word "faith" applies to your acceptance of the precepts of science ("I believe the world is consistent.") does not change the fact that the mechanism by which you escape a possibly infinite amount of doubt is by taking the leap outside of it. "Doubt does me nothing; faith gives me something to work with."
Um, not really. Dynamic languages have duck typing (look it up on wikipedia); they get used to writing for the now and letting the what-ifs wait, as in some cases, changes can be accomodated with little tear-down of existing code.
:) you're the best!
Is there a demo/example page? Can't seem to find on on http://pro.embed.ly
I don't disagree and I'm not trying to argue with the article or anything. I was just hoping to point people interested in the topic towards things that took me a while to realize/run across.

As for Io's efficiency, I think that's more about the implementation than in the language. Javascript (prototypal inheritance) and Smalltalk (message passing) aren't that far off and both have decent performance. I know Steve Dekorte was working on getting Io running in javascript in December but I don't think it's a high priority project for him.
Well that was odd.
One of my favorite video games as a child ended with the realization that the entire game took place inside the dream of sleeping whale (the game ends when you wake up the whale). I always think it’s important to consider (although not too seriously) that perhaps we are just acting in the dream of a giant, sleep whale.

The point is that reason and logic always only exist within a specific framework of axioms and assumptions. There is no universal set of axioms and assumptions that apply to all situations, if there where we would have a set of truths that could describe the age of the earth accurately both in the case that the world is as it immediately appears to be and the case where we exist in the dream of a whale. We can only reason within contexts, and in all the examples given in Dawkin’s post, individuals are reasoning excellently within the specific context.

The problem, whether it involves religion or not, is when people start to believe that they do have access to a universal set of axioms and assumptions, that they have presented themselves with an absolute truth. Which is why I always think it’s important to consider, at least for a moment, what if we are inside the dream of a giant, sleeping whale.
With regard to your last example, I think the most important is to be consistent within a project where you put the '+'.
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Nope. We answer the phone the same for everyone. And we already have a web portal that does all of this. But none of our customers use it. They want to complain in person or over the phone.
You can check out http://labs.embed.ly for now. It is built on pro. In the coming week will be releasing and blogging about some more demo apps.
Very interesting, thanks for the link :)
Search Engines, IBM's Watson, and Wolfram Alpha
Heh, input received.

+1 for you :P
This page was incredibly frustrating.. I read, and read, and it never quite clearly explained what the product is.

Landing pages need to convey information clearly and quickly, not tell a friggin story.
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Also, if the ISP is answering every DNS query with "yes this is a valid domain" it breaks Chrome's domain discovery feature, described a bit further down the SANS article.
A few people have actually dated after meeting on Grubwithus. Job offers too. These things happen semi-serendipitously, which makes it better, because everyone goes to the meal with the context of meeting new friends, not some awkward dating context.
sorry, but these are just excuses. disrupting process is the entire goal, so start thinking outside the box and figure it out, not avoiding it because its "hard"
This is great, but the phone market can't seem to keep up with these new versions.

I was just at a wireless store last night and their one in-store device would only run 1.6.

Their sold out device was only 2.1

The next device was still 2.1, "hopefully" 2.2

I asked if I could update, they said it wasn't possible and they didn't know for sure when it would be.

As a developer, what am I supposed to do here? Develop for 2.2 and 3.0 and just wait it out? Nope. I still have to make my games compatible with 1.6 if I want to reach the majority of the market.
If he still believes in what he said in this article, he probably likes it but does not think it will be the "Next Big Language".
Depends how you define underground, as long as it is not popular in the mainstream I think you can consider it underground.
I think your second paragraph hits the nail on the head.
What's the point of writing an architecture that's extensible if it requires the user to know all of your code in-depth to use it?

Now, if the code was packaged as an API with very good documentation, then this might be a moot point. In my personal experience, this has rarely been the case.
I don't think that DNS wildcarding has anything to do with it. They just set up their DNS server to return their own address instead of NXDOMAIN when the domain doesn't exist:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking
I gotta echo this, I live in Halifax Canada and wish there were some meet ups here !