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That sounds realistic for a nascent platform. Even a super awesome OS will take time to displace the incumbents. You're disappointed that you didn't get BS marketing speak that it would defeat Apple and Google in 2 weeks or what?
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Is spell checking in IE9 now, or is this feature that's been standard in other browsers for about 5 years now not considered cool enough to even mention its glaring absence from IE in this (admittedly non-comprehensive) list?
Does it also drive you nuts that you have to write FF-specific CSS and Chrome-specific CSS.

If not, why not?

There are still lots of browsers out there, and they all work in slightly different ways. It's been this way since Netscape came out and was different from Mosaic. It'll continue to be this way until one browser dominates to the point where others go away.

Personally, I'm rooting for Chrome. Like you, I get tired of having to cross-tweak my code. But realistically I find I spend more of my time these days working around FF issues than IE ones.
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Not really. Uranium price has very little, if any, effect on operational costs at a power plant.
The interface seems decent, much better than a run of the mill forum interface. That already would be a plus for me.
>no financial incentive for anyone to fix it.

What? What is the financial incentive of fixing ANY of the classical open source software?
Thanks giu. I guess you are based in Zurich as well. Up for a coffee some time?
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on a similar note (and because there's some great links being posted here), this video by walter lewin covers the physics of sound and how it relates to music, it could be good secondary material for someone learning about music theory:

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/168

what's great is that it's a serious physics lecture, but designed for kids, and there's plenty of funky experiments within the one hour.
Those things are true for 99% of IT recruiters that I've encountered. What makes you different?
I wrote a book. I took the time, worked at it, and there it is. So I feel good about that.

Now, I know that there were many factors that made it possible for me to do that. Most of them pure luck. The place I was born. Etc. But I still did it.

Also, it's not the greatest book ever. If I did it again, I'd do it much better. If I would review it, I'd give it, perhaps, 5 out of 10. It's not written very well, and the content could be better too. There are things in there I'd cringe about now.

But I still wrote it. That's not bad :)
I live within 5 miles of two nuclear power plants and over 10 navy nuclear reactors. It doesn't bother me one bit. I'm actually thinking of moving closer to one of the power plants because rent is a little cheaper because people like you are irrationally afraid of it.

Look at Japan, right now 10,000 people are dead from a tsunamai/earthquake double punch and you are worried about the nuclear reactor? The one person killed in the reactor was killed by a crane falling, that could have happened at any industrial complex in an earthquake. There have been a few cases of radiation exposure, but I gaurentee you there where also some guys killed in the refineries that blew up. Not to mention only a few months ago we had a dozen guys die when an oil rig blew up. You need to put it in perspective and get a sense of scale.
Well, "relatively" maxed out before they are starting to starve. Silly argument.
Occam's razor. Keeps things simple and beautiful.
Why don't you try the experimental Qt port? It's easy to install.

ftp://ftp.texmacs.org/pub/TeXmacs/macosx/qt/TeXmacs.dmg
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I'll add favorite colors support in the future.

What browser/OS where you using when you had the download issue?
There are many ways do divide an octave.

Steve Vai created a scale called the Xavian scale wich is dividing the octave by 10.

He used in on Deep Down Into The Pain

http://www.guitarflame.com/2008/xavian-scale-steve-vais-own-...
Well the Linux project has demonstrated that many companies who use Linux internally have financial incentive to keep the kernel working well.
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We (http://www.josekibold.ro/jobs ) are hiring a part-time junior researcher/student to work purely on Javascript type inference.

It is designed to be a remote job, but the pay isn't great since it's basically a sponsorship for students doing their University thesis. After the work/thesis is done, a full-time job offer might follow depending on results.
FWIW, I and my coauthors are writing "Clojure Programming" for O'Reilly using asciidoc[1]. Our source ends up being converted to a beautiful PDF using a post-commit hook that performs a translation from asciidoc -> docbook -> PDF.

I've enjoyed it so much that I'm now using asciidoc for my github readme's and such, and will likely use it for future documentation-generation requirements (e.g. generating PDF and HTML versions of library developer guides and such). For those that need mathematical notation, it appears that asciidoc just uses passthrough blocks of LaTeX math notation (or direct MathML if you're so inclined)[2].

[1] http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc

[2] http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#X78
> Speaking of jumping to conclusions: Germany just started to shut down 7 nuclear power plants because of Fukushima...

100% pure green hysteria.
~10.000 died because of the tsunami.
Who died because of Fukushima? None so far.
"... Ubuntu 4? ..."

Early adopter for a lot of things, so yeah 4 which is easily verifiable.

I've been using Ubuntu since at least 2005DEC31 ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/79685287/ and "... the first release was Ubuntu 4.10 as it was released on 20 October 2004 ..." ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29#R...
Summary: someone is too lazy to do some studying in order to take advantage of (La)Tex's awesomeness.

I have written a few books using LaTex: in my experience way nicer than using a word processor.
Forums/websites I've studied: Linkedin, ryze, freelancer, elance, twitter and facebook.

This is essentially a platform to share micro-level experiences of people involved in professional activity such as job, business etc.
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I'm sure its possible and useful for specialty cases but would you want to write TAOCP in it?

My experience of using LaTeX compared to WYSIWYG is that it's easier to focus on the text in the editor instead of fighting with the UI interface but it then requires some chasing around package bugs and compile errors. In total it's clearly a net positive for me.

Writing pure TeX would seem to push the tradeoff quite a bit, having so much distracting stuff around the text that requires a totally different mindset than the text being written. It was probably designed for a world where typesetting was done as a final step before publication, potentially by someone else.
How can you say they "clearly were not"? I think the opposite is quite clear - the main components survived the earthquake just fine.

The problem right now is the lack of power. The pumps are run on electric power, and as soon as the earthquake came the power plant itself shut down. So now you need external power to run the pumps. The power infrastructure failed and no other power plants could power these pumps. So they switched to backup generators, which were then wiped out by a tsunami. Then they switched to batteries (which worked fine, until they ran out). Then they brought in backup generators, which failed. Now we're onto pumping seawater in.

If sea wall had been 50' high instead of 30' high (estimates), the generators would have survived and we wouldn't be hearing about this. If the batteries were more than 8 hours we probably wouldn't be hearing about this. If the external generators worked, we wouldn't be hearing about this. Those are the only mistakes.

Compare that to Gen 4 reactors being designed today - no pumps required to circulate fluid. If anything we should be building new plants because if this had happened to a Gen 4 the fluid would be cooling the reactor even without power and none of this would have been a problem.
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Covalent Software, Taunton, England (near Bristol)

Java developers wanting a great working environment, in Taunton. We've an expanding thick client app, we're already market leading in the UK for public sector and currently looking to expand into other markets and product areas. We hired the last guy who responded to a who's hiring post on HN and now need another excellent dev wanting to work in Taunton.

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That's probably because Linux has more utility for its audience than TeX does. Which is sad, as TeX's original goal was to provide typesetting for the masses, who are unlikely to ever use it for their typesetting purposes.
> Crowds are dumb. The only time you want to follow the "wisdom of the crowd" is when the crowd is your marketable commodity.

We're settled, then, because this is where we disagree :)
I believe in the power of the people of taking decisions for themselves (even if the decisions are dumb), while you suggest than an informed elite should have the upper hand (if I read you correctly). I could go on and on about why I believe in what I said above (maybe the fact that I grew up under an authoritarian regime), but that doesn't belong in here, and I'm pretty sure you have your good reasons for believing in what you said.

I guess history will decide.
The problem with these statistics is that you don't really know how many people died of seemingly unrelated diseases while exposure to (increased) radiation has triggered or magnified its development.

I'm not trying to blame radiation for everything. Just pointing out it's likely that these statistics do not convey the complete picture.
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Looks like a great place to work...
Differentiate between the building around the nuclear reactor, and the nucleaer reactor.

It's the difference between your house being blow away in a tornado while you are in a tornado shelter, and your tornado shelter being blown away in a tornado while you are in it. The first is bad news, but not a catastrophy. The latter is a catstrophy.
FYI, asciidoc is great, provides a pipeline to docbook (and thence on to PDF), and is a joy to edit (not quite as concise as, say, markdown, but not ambiguously-defined, either). See my other comment on this thread about it.
Three things

1. Send him this presentation: http://fury.com/2010/02/jesse-shells-mindblowing-talk-on-the...

2. Tell him to do it for the iphone and ipad where people can also practice on the ipad.

3. Set up achievement levels

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Doesn't this contradict your previous comment? How exactly do they "undercut everyone and go for long-term market share domination"?

I actually think AWS is profitable and while they might not have recuperated their initial datacenter investments, they do cover the accounting depreciation (which is all that matters).
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Is that $100,000 per year or $100,000 over the lifetime of the business?
Finally an article that puts the right perspective to the reports from world nuclear news and the MIT NSE blog.

India is planning to go ahead with Thorium based reactors and some dickheads in the Indian media are writing reports that India's reactor plans will be put on hold owing to the latest accidents in Fukushima. Are journalists really this jobless in India. I don't mean to be a hater of my own countrymen but such juvenile reporting deserves nothing better than hatred.
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It really is. I've been working at Sofa for almost 2 years with some of the most talented people I've ever met. I can't recommend it enough.
I had an experience with the same. In frustration, I even mailed the guy who purchased it.
Would you like to explain that?
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But those aren't really problems with Java - they are problems with the idioms common amongst Java developers.
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If you want to go beyond the basics, I found this book invaluable:

http://www.maths.abdn.ac.uk/~bensondj/html/maths-music.html
we have no idea what we are talking about

1st in Software Development from a leading tech institute. A few years practical experience as a developer. An active, ongoing interest in new technology coupled with a semi-impressive github profile.

we are only interested in squeezing candidates for leads

If you offer me a lead, I'll take it. I don't however, speak to candidates with the intention of simply farming them for market info. I will only ever speak to a candidate if I legitimately think I can help them. Your time is just as valuable as mine and I've no interest in wasting either.

we like to pigeon-hole everyone we speak to into a specific role

Key-word matching is what bad recruiters do. They also happen to be the same people who can't differentiate between Java & javascript. How am I meant to know what your perfect job is if I have never spoken to you? That's why I don't ring people with the intention of shoe-horning them into a generic job spec that's sitting on my desk.
You can do Lua scripting a the user level (\directlua{...}). But you have to know the Lua interface. What purpose is having Lua inside your document? Do some calculations? Yes, that's easy. Do complex algorithms for placing floats? Then you need to replace a lot of TeX/LaTeX code anyway and then I wouldn't speak of user level. What you can do easily from inside Lua: shuffle nodes (nodelists) around. Everything you see on a page is represented by a node. So you can reposition anything. That requires a lot of knowledge of the internal representation of nodes and the LuaTeX API, but once you grok it, it is much fun to do these things.

And no, Knuth is definitely not the only one using plain TeX. Yes, it is a niche.
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I don't think comparing yourself to others really helps.
If you were really determined or needed extra features in regard to the PDF generation (as I did with a similarish workflow) you could use something like PrinceXML rather than a browser.
Do you have an example PDF for that? For the average use, TeX is overkill (sometimes OK), but if you need the finest possible typography, TeX yields its power. And then the XSL-FO formatters are pretty fast disappointing.
Upvoted and I agree, we're offering equity (common stock) too (and have a pretty high valuation). We have four interviews lined up now for the next two weeks, it's not been easy though you're right. We ARE a startup (3 months old) though and bootstrapping still from the angel round, however, we're now in talks with a couple of VCs atm. Would be a good time to get in tbh. The job description and required skills is way too optimistic and we haven't used the one on the site for some time, I should update that to 'good developer who can learn on the job' :)
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The very fact that he is here talking to us tech-types puts him outside the realm of all of the tech recruiters I've ever known. I think that's enough to at the very least give him the benefit of the doubt.
This doesn't really tell us how it's different than LinkedIn though. Just because you've studied these other services doesn't mean you have a differentiator.

There's so little information to go on based on what you've provided that I find it hard to believe anyone would take you up on your request for assistance.
I wonder, is the glass just holding the phone at the right angle for the polarity of the phone's antenna and the available signal to match up? If so, this trick wouldn't likely work places other than that restaurant.
Banks? They have a pretty simple API, as I understand, and it's incredibly easy and convenient to use. (You can even use it on iOS devices, if you use the USB adapter.)
I've lived in Chile 8 years and haven't seen any racism first hand. I see it all the time in Michigan even within my own family. The racism that does exist is concentrated towards Peruvian immigrants and Mapuche.

The much larger problems are class and sex discrimination. There is definitely a "nanny" class that the middle/upper income people view differently and vice versa. You would be largely exempt from this as a foreigner and would have no problems interacting with both groups. For women, the sexism is an obstacle although not a huge one. Offhand I can think of five female entrepreneurs I know personally in the tourism industry. They are from Chile, Cuba, Austria, US, and Argentina.

Chileans are overall very respectful of foreigners. They are self conscious due to Chile's small population and are open with foreigners and appreciate what they bring to the table.

There are very few black people. I have talked to a few that are US basketball players on contract to local teams for a year or two. They generally seem to enjoy the experience. Brazil has more blacks but it also has more corruption, more crime, and a higher cost of living.

Whatever you decide, I highly recommend living abroad as there are few better learning experiences.
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Nope, TeX's original (and only) goal was to help Knuth typesetting his books (TAOCP specifically) and he didn't think anyone but his secretary will use it.
I suppose we can all have differing opinions on what an acceptable level of risk is, but leaking radiation, fuel storage ponds on fire, and a situation volatile enough to warrant a 30km exclusion zone says to me that the plant clearly was not designed to handle this kind of situation.

If the problem is the lack of power, then so be it - even more of a preventable problem that wasn't properly assured against.

I'm hopeful for the Gen 4 reactors (don't know much about them, but what I've read gives me the impression that they are a significant leap in the right direction in terms of safety.) But I don't think that this particular article is right in holding Fukushima up as some shining example of nuclear safety, especially so early.
I don't know about the "they" - I don't know if anything happened after the creator(s) sold it. As I recall, the original creator resigned quite vociferously.

Maybe some services should just be replaced every five years.
a perfect mix of great design and vision and programming :) i smiled when i realized what the title really meant!
Pardon? [1]

Are you sure? [2]

How about no? [3]

Perhaps you prefer Vim over Emacs? [4]

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picolisp my favorite

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_(programming_language) probably the best known

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_(programming_language) this bloody website runs on it

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs_Lisp the good, the bad and the ugly, all in one package
They undercut everyone offering the same product. Rock-bottom hosting that might stay up and might have customer service available sometimes is not the same product.
As always, test test test. I tried this for BCC, repeatedly, and never got it to work.

Also as always: do not assume that you're seeing the result of any one element unless you are testing that element in isolation. You might think the lightbox element is the most prominent aspect, but the call to action also changed from "Start Optimizing Your Website" to "Create A/B Test ->"

You see that arrow there? That arrow, tested in isolation, has been worth 10% to me before in some circumstances. Yeah, it blows my mind, too. And there were many other things that changed.
We can control whether we use nuclear power or not.
Controlling nature is a little harder.

(Though I agree that shutting down power plants in Germany right now is illogical.)
If you have patches for VLC on OSX, please share, we need help on the OSX version of VLC.

It's complicated, but I'll try to talk with you out-of-band on this soon. Lately it seems like I have out of date patches just piling up all over my system for every project under the sun.
Thanks a lot for these. I was looking for things just like this the other day - something like usesthis.com, but for other fields. And the fact that dailyroutines starts of with Simone de Beauvoir, one of my favourite authors, gives me great confidence in the site.
I've seen lots of those "We need a phone to save us from our phones" ads and I've never in my life seen an Android or an iPhone ad. So saying that Microsoft didn't advertise seems weird.
> Call it a personal failing.

Some would say that you give love a bad name.
Not that I can post publicly. It should be available as an O'Reilly Rough Cut soon; if you snag it (or any PDF ebook version of it), you're looking at an asciidoc-sourced PDF.

AFAIK, the vast majority of O'Reilly books pass through docbook at some point (many authors write in docbook directly, some portion of them use asciidoc like us), so if you look at any O'Reilly PDF ebook, chances are good it was generated from docbook (at least as an intermediate format).
And for years strawberries, mushrooms and deer were off limits on the food table. Sure maybe that pales compared to actual deaths, but it didn't help to endear nuclear power to my heart.

Of course other power sources pollute the environment, too, but they can be improved as well, for example by installing better filters.
The hysterics don't turn green until they're actually exposed to toxic waste. I think this is plain old hysteria; many environmentalists are all about nuclear power because the alternatives are coal, oil, or hunter/gatherer at 1/1000th the world's current population.
DocBook is not really a TeX alternative, since it is merely a markup language and does no typesetting of its own. There are actually many DocBook workflows that do the final typesetting in TeX.
(Co-founder butting in here!) Also, we're generally always interested in people into data visualization and the UX around it - come and chat to us <jobs@timetric.com> if that's your sort of thing!
Well there is cheap living space available around Fukushima right now. Would you care to move there?
What do you propose to replace copyright? I agree that it's been abused but I know a lot of people that depend on selling copyrighted works to feed themselves and their families.
What's a "micro-level experience"? Also, have you seen Quora? http://quora.com
If I remember correctly, Network Solutions does this as well.

Edit: Apparently there's a name for this practice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_front_running