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I don't understand why Tout has the feature to send emails later. You say you can send your emails so they only arrive at a time convenient for the recipient, but isn't receiving an email always convenient? The recipient doesn’t have to do anything when they receive it, it just goes into their inbox for them to read whenever they decide it is convenient. That’s one advantage of email vs. instant messaging: the conversation can be delayed until the other person has time to continue. Or are most people so bad at reading their email that the only way to get them to read it is to email them at a time when they will hear their smartphone or computer chiming, if they have that set up?
My only wish is that you could blacklist (or whitelist) people from whom you recieve notifications, rather than have to disable the feature entirely. Otherwise this may turn into an extremely effective way to spam high-value developers.
Don't forget to clearly mention what you're willing to give in return.
Sorry - I accidentally downvoted you.
color's cold start issue reminds me of the zune's wi-fi sharing feature, even before it got neutered by the recording industry.
Al knows exactly where everything is in that pile :) There is a subset of the population that has both very good spatial memory, and has the ability to "tune out" messes that they create -- they become part of the landscape.

I'm in this subset, and I'm count myself lucky that my girlfriend understands that even though my place looks messy to her, I can find anything in a heartbeat so long as no-one has moved it since I last placed it somewhere. She has an innate urge to organize so I don't know how she resists :)
Not really. Let's say you walk in a club at 1AM, you get to see what the party was like before you. Also clubs are usually concentrated in the same area, so you may also see what happening in the other establishments.
I don't pay for television, and I've never seen Jersey Shore. I literally only view NYT articles online when I'm linked to them from a site like Hacker News or reddit.
Andale is gone, sorry to say.

It's different, that's for sure. Different isn't necessarily equal to better, though.
As the ad states, Florida is the place for news. I've heard more than one editor advise reporters to go there early in their careers. Drug smugglers, immigration, presidential electoral swings, real estate boom and crash, jungle panthers, large reptiles capable of eating men, Cuba, etc. I don't like the place. But damn if it doesn't have news. You'll never file a story on a neighborhood watch meeting because there's always something better.
If they want to establish the fact that their content is worth money, they should actually require a payment to view their content.
Hmmm.. first thing that comes to mind? Consultant KT (Knowledge Transfer). To be honest, I didn't look into your idea, but I recall all of the lost Knowledge whenever a consultant left; especially Dev consultants.
I was looking for something like this last week then decided to build leanthingy.com.
My problem isn't a reliance on tools, it's being forced to use tools. IDEs, job queues, things that make me wait a thousand times a day. I wish I could drop java and eclipse down a deep deep well.

It's just a different kind of excuse.
Hi, that behavior doesn't seem related to the plugin. Would you like to share your link anyhow?
When I want emacs to be fast & light I just do emacs -Q.
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Try growing some carrots of your own. Way cheaper than buying them, gives you a sense of pride in your own work, really easy to grow, basically just requires sprinkling seeds in the spring and pulling them out of the ground and washing them off when they get big enough.
they want both SEO juice and to impose a limit on how many free articles you can read. They're going to be forced to come up with a more sophisticated solution to enforce their paywall instead of the half-baked one they have right now.
That bugged me too. Turns out you can swipe to delete the photo in one of the views. The photo still shows up in some other views so I'm not entirely sure it did anything.
12 Year old mildly autistic boy working to disprove big band theory
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He'd probably do well in the auto industry.
Same way the best engineers "prepare" for a job interview - by largely ignoring it. Instead of studying Java certification books they hack in Python, C, and Haskell and read about interesting algorithms in their spare time. When it's time for a job interview, all they have to do is show up.

If you talk to one of your target customers and one startup founder in a similar field a day, in three months you will have spoken to ~180 people that are intimately related to your business. You'll know more about your domain than you ever wanted to, and when the YC interview comes, there is nothing to prepare for.
Offtopic:

I never thought about this until I read your comment and think I would have always chosen "morning, noon and night" as the correct version, but now that I've thought about it, I like "morning, noon, and night" better because I've found the other variant clumsy in certain situations. Sure, those situations are probably signs of badly constructed sentences (eg, nested lists or lists as an aside[1]), but still! The difference is that if I have a list "a,b and c" which is itself followed by a comma "(a,b and c),d" - to me, it looks like "a,(b and c),d" - but if there is a comma before the "and" it doesn't: "(a,b,and c), d" - the "and" now implies that c is the last item of the list, making the nesting obvious.

Just something that popped into my mind just now.

[1] Example: "I find lists which are followed by a comma, such as morning, noon and night, look awkward" vs "I find lists which are followed by a comma, such as morning, noon, and night, look awkward" - the first one reads as if "noon and night" is one item in the list, the second one as two (with night as the final item).
I think it is probably imitating Instruments, which imitates iTunes.
Actually, my understanding of Microsoft Research is that their main focus is on promoting and sharing innovative ideas. A MSR researcher's performance is reviewed based on academic publications and the amount of impact that their work has on the communities in which their work lies. If their work happens to help one of MS's products, then that is a bonus.

That's what I've been told at least by someone who works for MSR in Seattle. In fact, some of the most passionate people in my field of study (I'm a graduate student in electrical/computer engineering) work for MSR.
I stand corrected. Looks like I was projecting my own thinking on to their system. The closest to what I'm doing was Contenture, since shut down.

If they don't have one already, I expect an opt-out feature before too long. It's the first objection raised to my system whenever I talk to people about it.
I think the problem is more that they change the design too often. Maybe this is because they get a new interface designer who has new ideas.

But then they end up doing things like throwing out a working documentation viewer and replacing it with a new design that doesn't work.
Penis was the first 'happy thought' that came up... it seems when we give people absolute freedom and anonymity, penis will always appear in some form.
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So awesome that the first image on that page is of a marquee for a band from Shitsville McNowhere (i.e. Sacramento.) Makes me so proud.

Just kidding. The heart of rock and roll (and r&b and techno and hip hop, etc) is in ... yadda yadda ... DETROIT!
Fiber slows digestion, which (according to my limited understanding) mitigates the blood insulin spike which is the main fault of fructose - but I wouldn't really call that mitigation an "antidote".
Why not just make the check on the back end, if the article content never gets sent then this kind of stuff doesn't need to be an issue.
I love the NY Times, but I'm angry at both the subscription options and their price points. As has been pointed out elsewhere, they make no sense:

$x = NYtimes.com (website) + smartphone app
$y = NYtimes.com (website) + tablet app
$(x+y) = NYtimes.com (website) + smartphone app + tablet app

So you can effectively cancel out the website access, even though that's all that many of us want. The value of the website is $0? (Also worth noting that there is absolutely no conceivable reason that a tablet app should require an additional subscription. If you're going to make everything à la carte, then price it that way and let me pick. But there's no way I'm going to accept that the website would be priced at $0.)

Do I think the Times spends oodles of money to report on tons of topics nobody else wants to cover? Yes, and I want to support that. But what they've done with these subscription options is convince me that they don't understand how the industry is actually changing. For $23/month (which is just a little over the cost of $y above), I could get M-F delivery of the paper and the complete $(x+y) digital package -- and throw out all the papers I receive. This makes no sense.
It's a warning sign when startups have the cash to invest in a domain name before they have traction. Talk about putting the cart before the horse.
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This will become the Chatroulette of mobile photo sharing apps.
Apparently having a clear desk opens up a lot of time and energy to indulge in on-line self-praise.

If you need to clean your desk to think straight, go do it, but it doesn't follow that everyone needs to clean their desk to have a clear mind while working; Einstein being the most famous counterexample.

As long as we're making wild generalizations, perhaps needing a clean desk to achieve focus is a sign of a basic weakness in the power of concentration?
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Unless you're in Canada.
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They started in New York City instead of Silicon Valley.
:-)

Isn't this a classic case of someone else executing better. Google, Intel, Amazon, and Facebook are all followers, for example. Microsoft was a big follower. The didn't invent spreadsheets, word processors, or OS's with a GUI.
Diapers.com went for a fortune. I'm sure they weren't the first guys with that idea.
> This attitude strikes me as naive. Much of "what you have" is only valuable relative to what others have.

Not at all. The pleasure that I get from a trip to Mexico is not affected by whether someone else can go Fiji. The benefit that I get from owning a house in San Jose has nothing to do with the cost of Bill Gates' mansion. The fun that I have driving my car isn't affected by the amount of money that Larry Ellison spends on boats.

> This is especially true of cash

Actually, it's the least true of cash.

> but also true of illiquid goods that you value at least partly for their social function or status.

There's your problem - you're assuming that I care about what other people have after I explicitly said that I don't.

As Feynman said, why do you care what other people think?

Or rather, if you do, isn't that your problem? Why should that problem justify doing anything to other people?

> Would driving a Porsche (say) be exactly as valuable to you whether or not everyone else had one?

Absolutely, Except that I want a Jaguar, not a Porsche.
I'm not the most qualified to comment on this but I'll offer what I can:

In the city proper, I don't know that the 'old folks' thing will work well. The old folks still in Detroit in decent neighborhoods will not be areas with the cheap houses you are looking for (yes, there are some really nice areas in the city). The others probably left for nice areas outside of the city.

You'll probably want to look where the current wave of young people are moving to. I really don't know what these areas are but I'm sure you can look some up.

Midtown, with Wayne State University and the Detroit Medical Center, is probably a good area. Don't know too much about it but Tech Town[1] is at WSU. They are offering incentives to get employees to move and live in Midtown. I don't know that you'll find any super cheap housing there.

You could also look somewhere like Ferndale. It's just on the other side of 8 mile and maybe a 10-15 minute drive from downtown. You won't find the super-cheap $300 houses but you can find a really good deal. It's a nice, young, liberal town just on the border. It's also next to Royal Oak, a little more expensive area where you'll find a lot of young professionals. So that covers centrally located, safe and cheap, not super-cheap, but also not in Detroit proper, which also means lower taxes (as far as I understand).

I guess it all depends on your motivation. Finding something super cheap, centrally located and safe will probably be difficult.

[1] http://techtownwsu.org/
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I disagree. Some people want to sell to consumers, not corporations. Corporations will buy non-GPL licenses so they can redistribute on their own terms, but consumers won't because they don't intend to redistribute in the first place. It's hard to sell GPL software to consumers because as soon as someone sees it's going well, they'll rush in to sell cheaper versions of the same product, and soon it will devolve into something that's not really worth the time. I would love to see a GPL-like license that kept the code accessible and modifiable, but restricted distribution to a subset of persons approved by the copyright owner (i.e., licensed). This would actually make it viable to sell OSS to consumers. While the real GPL may be better and freer, I think that such a license would be a net benefit as it could result in much wider availability of code for programs that people run, which would be a win even if the distribution conditions were more stringent.
Thanks - that is excellent advice. I particularly appreciate the warning about salesmen being better at selling themselves than the product.

I have sold related systems quite successfully in the past and will likely continue to do so. My view of the sales-person's role is to get an initial meeting in the door and to close the sale - I certainly expect to be involved at some point. The main problem for me is the time and effort in chasing potential sales leads from the other side of the Pacfic.
I always use set -o vi. It's in all my .bashrc files. Wish every CLI had it.
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And by you, you mean I.
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They have made it quite clear that they want readers to pay for the content they access. I know, you said "require," which implies that you think they should make it nigh-impossible for you to read without paying. But this is not a legal distinction. They want you to pay. You know this.
Particularly for a mobile-app - surely the site barely matters when it just links to the relevant app-store / Android marketplace.
As of now, just searching "color" puts this at the first result.
How about a list of reasons why thingist is awesome, or a list of what it can do that will solve or fill some need, promoted to the front page?
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I dont know, the Big Bands were really really good back in the 30's and 40's -- not just some theory for some 12 year old kid to disprove.
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It is not quite the same thing, but close enough that someone might be able to make a legal leap...

There are/were services that would make edits of existing films to take out the "naughty bits" and repackage them for sale as a family friendly edit of the original film. These derivative works were not authorized by any of the original copyright holders and the censoring services lost the case (Clean Flicks of Colorado, LLC, et al. v. Steven Soderbergh, et al.) This particular case probably hinged more on how the first sale doctrine worked for digital works, but there were copyright issues raised and the judge did find that the edits were not protected by any fair use claims.

From censoring out tits to skipping commercials is a jump, and this would probably only be applicable to making and distributing copies of dvds that cut out any of the annoying warnings/ads/"coming attractions" (e.g. adding this ability to players or distributing the edits and jumps via an additional channel would not be covered) but it is a precedent to consider...
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Seems to be good now, it's showing up as the first result for 'Color' here on the Australian App Store.
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Though I like what their doing from the perspective of trying to find a filter for which friends you're most often physically around, you point to what I think might be a big flaw.

Not only are people in the immediate vicinity less likely to need/want to view a copy of your photo, but will they take out their phone and launch the app to do that?

I can see wanting to see the photos you took when we were together, but I don't think I want to see them at the time the photo was taken, rather I'd want to see them at a later time.

I'm sure the photo aspect was just a foot-in-the-door thing to get them known and work out some of the more impressive tech on the back-end.
I fully expect an api to your elastic network in the near future.
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Those are in a whole different class than I was thinking of. Those are with the express intent to further a crime. Although I guess the Fire example can fit there too, although I was thinking more of someone who thought it would be funny, but not necessarily anticipate the full breadth of consequences.

The issue though isn't a link between speech and action (PE coaches don't violate this although their barks usually directly create action). It's the link between speech and furthering a specific crime.
When first stumbling my way around the shell, after learning about tab completion I discovered the magic wizardry that is command reverse/history lookup (cntrl-r start typing command ... see last command you entered that matches)
"Contrary to your assertion about Taubes "first making a name for himself" back in 2003, he's been a science writer for something like 30 years."

I'll quote the wikipedia article you linked to: "Taubes gained prominence in the low-carb diet debate following the publication of his 2002 New York Times Magazine piece "What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?"."

That's how I know his name. If he was well-known before that, I was not aware of it.

I think there's a lot more to be said on the subject than a comparison of the degrees of Taubes and Fumento (and, really, since when is a masters degree in engineering and journalism qualification to tell people how to eat any more than a law degree?).

I'm not qualified to argue about whether Taubes is completely wrong about everything (which seems unlikely; even a broken clock is right twice a day) But, I do know that he is distinctly at odds with the majority of scientists who work in the dietary field. I'm talking about real scientists, with real science degrees. Doing real controlled scientific studies. Most of them consider Atkins a disaster for public health.

I'm willing to believe that the food industry has an unhealthy effect on the debate and the corn and cereal grain industries have a vested interest in seeing grains elevated to a holy position in the food pyramid. There may be a vasty wrongness about huge swaths of what we know about how we should be eating for maximum health. But, just like I have a hard time believing every scientist working in climate science is under the thumb of some great conspiracy to foist a global warming lie on the world...I can't really believe that every dietary scientist working would participate in a great scam, which is what you have to believe to believe that Taubes is mostly right.

"I think his main point is that the post WW2 infatuation with low-fat diets has been a disaster."

And the scientists he quoted have said repeatedly that the disaster is that we eat 20% more calories per day, in general, than we did before WW2, and that increased fat consumption also occurred during that time. The belief that "low-fat = healthy" is certainly a dangerous belief to have. But, the belief that a diet of almost exclusively animal proteins and fats is healthy is also pretty dangerous, as far as I can tell.

I started reading Taubes work after reading 4 Hour Body, since some of the theories in 4HB come directly from Taubes, and some of the bonus materials on the website are written by Taubes. But, the more I read up on him the less confidence I had in his scientific integrity.

In short: I don't know all the answers. But I'm pretty confident Taubes doesn't know either.
the Tyler Durden in me wonders how they are going to stop people broadcasting cock shots to every person within 150 feet
Not sure why you would have been down-voted for that question.

In theory, If you've got multiple people taking photos at the same place with a short period of time, you can get sound media as well.

Though some may suspect they are trying to put together conversations, I doubt that is the case (but maybe if you want to go for a conspiracy theory).

-------------update apparently they are capturing your conversations --------------------

from their homepage "capture photos, videos, and conversations into a group album".
Would have loved more if I could download it as PDF.
A conversation between two chatbots and how one found out the other is an AI.
Especially in cities, where sharing photos with the people within 100 feet of you can include anyone in your 20 story apartment building. Even if the rate of obscene photos is low, just one could ruin the user experience.
first thing that I thought to myself when I saw the name - half the world spells it different, so they may want to also buy and brand the colour.com domain
When the house next door is also $300, I can quickly become my own neighbour... ;)
I was born and raised in the Bay Area and here's what is magical: incredible weather, unbelievably diverse set of cultures, one of the world's most beautiful cities, easy access to beaches, mountains, Monterey/Carmel, active lifestyle of residents, open minded communities, world class universities, unbridled enthusiasm for tech and startup culture, tons of success around you which acts as a great motivator. The not so magical part - after slaving away for a few years, bouncing from startup to startup, you come to the realization that being employee number seven at the next Google is kind of like winning the lottery. You're approaching 30 (or a bit past it), are getting ready to settle down and start a family and need job stability and health insurance - so you go get a stuffy corporate job with Apple or Cisco or HP or Oracle or EA or Netflix or Google or Salesforce or ... you get the point. But then you notice something; while you may not be wealthy beyond your wildest dreams, the magic is still there for you and your family to enjoy - and, although you are now an upstanding member of society with real mortgage payments, you wouldn't trade your hacker startup years for anything.