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From my color letter email:
"I'm extremely creative and have privately studied a number of unrelated and interesting subject-matter like design, studio art, analog film development, piano, robotics, life-process/self improvement, martial arts, yoga, mountain biking, and racquetball. As a result of mentally wondering around over the past 29 years, I've since endeavored to become a modern renaissance man and want to carpe diem with the best of them."

From my blog: http://nobulb.com/personas/

I put a LARGE amount of my life online. I realize this goes against what a lot of people feel is appropriate, but my line of work (web engineer...but that title lacks) requires a strong online presence. It just so happens that I'm working on a project which will help online identity management and could solve a lot of the problems that people have with exposing themselves online (and not THAT sort of exposing either).

As far as out-of-the-norm mannerisms and and personality traits:
I'm rather blunt. Many people are caught off guard, but I make this work for me because I am constructive and not condescending. I pay a LOT of attention to how people interact and take a lot of effort to use my actions to support my statements and not give off the impression of disinterest and holier-than-thou. Most of the time this works well, but it has gotten me into trouble on occasion. This is a risk I'm very willing to accept given the many opportunities it has yielded.

I'm very much of the mentality to "Ask for forgiveness, not for permission." This goes hand-in-hand with the previous point and allows me to do the things I wouldn't normally and "Poke the Box" (as Seth Godin would put it).

I wasn't always this way and made an effort to be more extroverted. I'm not suggesting that you try to be something you're not. I'm suggesting that you mold yourself into the person you aspire to be. So these traits are tools that I've developed after watching how successful people interact and execute.
I was really annoyed in high school that there was no way to fit in wood & metal shop and programming classes. I even took 'early bird' classes and took PE at the local community college, but still couldn't fit in metal working. It was disappointing to be restricted to a particular skill path at such a young age.
All of them are inspired by Sinatra. But does Klein do templating, like Silex and ExpressJS both can?
If that school was in CA, we've been increasing spending for decades without any benefit. Since increasing spending didn't help, any harm from cutting spending is sabotage or incompetence by the public school folk.

We're spending enough money, so if you're not getting what you want, you need to talk to the folks who are in charge of turning that money into decent education.
You'll find that in most cases you have to be physically present to file a police report as was the case in this story.
Umm GE sells pharmaceuticals and has a large healthcare division.

Apple tried and failed to enter B2B, recently.
I've been working with Protovis for about 9 months now and it is a pleasure. It took a while to get my head around its data model, but once you do it is incredibly powerful. (IE is not an issue in my environments)
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Have you any information published by the folks who are working on this task?
I'd say it's an improvement; unlike the original, I am able to parse your version.
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Yeah, I guess I don't see how destroying the Victorian Internet is a bad thing.
Composable methods and coding philosophy, set to the rhythm of Dr. Suess
Why will it take two months to randomly select entries from a list?
PROTECT IP Act Would Gut Parts Of The DMCA's Safe Harbors
Thanks for the motivation. I definitely haven't given up and am seeking employment in the Boulder, CO area.

As far as my history with this voicing in my emails: For my first Hack and Tell event.... where no one knew who I was, or what Hack and Tell was, in a location that is arguably in a poorer/seedier part of town.... I got sponsored with all-you-can-eat organic pizza from Pizza Fusion, 45+ person turnout, and enough presentations to host two events instead of just one. We just did our fourth event last weekend and our audience is still 30+ strong and had 6 presentations (far too many, but it's a work in progress). This is just one recent example.
I'd like to see a quieter shutter (and mirror). There are a number of situations where I have to put away the DSLR and shoot with a good point-and-shoot just to avoid disturbing other audience members. I guess I need to try a mirrorless micro 4/3rds.

I'm excited about a possible future of curved sensors, transparent sensors, full-resolution stills from video (especially shooting kids and sports), etc. But a lot of times all I really want added to my DSLR is more software options. I love how my old Canon S3 IS has a "Custom" setting that I can configure. I want about 5 "Custom" settings on my DSLR so I can quickly flip to my own set of preferences - ISO, metering mode, resolution, etc. - depending on the situation.
I apologize if my original replay came off a bit snarky.

I agree with you that it's really a shades of grey issue. I certainly don't think nuclear is the end all be all of solving our long term energy problems, but it's also not the boogeyman so many people try to make it out to be.

As far as pollution goes, my opinion is that modern nuclear is the best thing we have right now to bridge the gap to true clean energy (fusion, thermal, whatever). To connect this with your original comment, burning coal is like smoking cigarettes. 1 certainly will not kill you, but the aggregate effects of many plants (China was building 1/week at some point!) over many years is the real problem.

The biggest advantage of nuclear that I see is that it mostly concentrates and contains the waste. If we fully reprocess (something the US can't do now b/c of laws) there will still be some nasty stuff to deal with. Even then, I would much rather have it that way instead of just spewing the nasty all into the environment the way many coal plants do now.
It feels ridiculous that I can easily send any pdf or jpeg files to Canada or nearly any place connected to the Internet, and no one would interfere. But somehow the exact same pictures printed or drawn on paper are subject to the border inspections and potential seizure.
It's a shitty and awkward sentence to begin with (with which to begin), primarily because it unnecessarily uses the passive voice to entangle two ideas that are clearer when approached one at a time in the active voice:

I didn't want anyone to read out of that book to me. Why did you want to bring it up?

See? Contrary to what is suggested above, the whole thing is MUCH better with the active voice. Note that in the case of "bring up," "up" is an adverb, not a preposition, so I am not ending the second sentence with a preposition.
Interesting, but what purpose does that serve? Wouldn't it be possible to formulate a rule for an organization, where you deny this as well.
Couldn't agree more. This all falls into the "stuff I'd do without getting paid" category which brings a lot of weight, especially to an initial, entry-level job interview.
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Growing up in a small oil town, it's a scary business to be in. Things are boom and bust, and unless you are essential you can get dropped right off. Everything in the town was so dependent on oil, and it was booming in the late 80s and started going bust when the price of oil dropped in the early 90s, then back up and back down again around 97, then back up.
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See also d3, a newer visualization framework from the same primary author. Similar to protovis but with a greater focus on updating and animation.

http://mbostock.github.com/d3/
> And even if it weren't, Apple has the legal manpower and the money vault to lawyer them into the ground.

In some areas of litigation, it might be possible for one side to draw out the case, and to do other things that raise the cost, so that it is possible to force the other side to abandon their case due to budget constraints.

Generally, patent infringement litigation is not one of those areas. A patent infringement case can be expensive for the plaintiff but the costs are reasonably predictable, and a pretty good upper bound can be estimated going in.

There are large, experienced, patent litigation firms that will take cases like this on contingency. They have more than enough set aside for these kinds of cases to cover anything that defendant can do to run up costs.

As far as legal manpower goes, Apple would have to hire an outside firm. Yes, like all large companies Apple has a good and competent legal staff, including IP lawyers. However, they won't have the experience of those at outside firms that specialize in IP litigation. When it comes to legal manpower, the case would come down to lawyers from a top IP firm working for plaintiff (probably on contingency) vs. lawyers from a top IP firm working for defendant (getting paid by the hour).

You can see a series of examples of this if you look at patent suits against Microsoft. Microsoft often uses Weil, Gotshal & Manges, which is one of the top law firms in the world. Plaintiffs against Microsoft are often represented by McKool Smith which is one of the top 3 or 4 patent litigation firms in the US. The net result here is that it doesn't matter how big Apple is compared to the patent owner, they are not going to out manpower them--both are likely to be represented by top 10 IP firms of about equal power.
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Great read -- and didn't know the origins of EFF before this. Thanks for posting!
If ever there were a better argument for eschewing app development in favor of the mobile web, this must be it.
I had both problems--blur, and a noticeable lag between pressing the button and taking the picture. As a layman, I am confused on the focus issue. Can't it just keep the image it is showing me on the display at the second I press the shutter? Doesn't it keep things in focus continually?

When I went to buy a new camera, I couldn't find a single inexpensive digital camera that advertised itself as solving these problems. While I certainly don't even know enough to know what I'm looking for, it seems like a marketing lapse that no inexpensive cameras sell on speed as a feature.
I feel like I know a lot about social media, but I wouldn't call myself a Social Media Expert. I think there is a strong correlation with applying that label for yourself and being ineffective.

I also think value is relative. 90%+ of social media experts can probably make a local mechanic have a better online presence.
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A closing parenthesis would never be moved inside quotation marks in any system I know of.
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I recently printed some 15 mega-pixel images in 36"x24" and they quality was quite good. The number of people in the world who need > 24 mega-pixel images is very very small.

Only [5%](http://www.canonrumors.com/forum/index.php/topic,818.0.html) of photographers want a mega-pixel bump in the new 5D MK III.
It occurred to me that I had become disconnected from a lot of things that used to fascinate me. I no longer thought about where my food came from, or how my electricity worked, or who fixed my pipes, or who made my clothes. There was no reason to. I had become less interested in how things got made, and more interested in how things got bought.

Can a modern civilization really be considered "civilized" when things like these salt-of-the-Earth basics are so far removed from the general population?

In Alabama, a third of all skilled tradesmen are over 55. They're retiring fast, and no one is there to replace them.

Indeed, this is another thing. My dad was a construction worker -- he hung drywall for a subcontractor, so you can imagine what his benefits were: zilch. And he worked until about 3 months before he passed away at age 53. These jobs aren't the kinds of jobs people can do until they hit what the rest of society considers a respectable retirement age.
> Can someone who actually saw comics in question comment on whether they are of an objectionable nature?

Of course they're objectionable. Everything is objectionable to someone.

Oh, you meant whether you'd object, or maybe "good people would object". That's different....
Thank you Mike Rowe for putting this on the record!

The trend away from skill-based learning to the ivory tower is contributing to a deterioration in both. University education is moving towards the average at an alarming rate. The value of an undergraduate degree is diminishing by the day, which is further exacerbated by the skyrocketing cost of education. It seems to me that high schools should promote vocational education just as much as they promote four year universities. The current system of trying to get every high schooler into college is asinine, not everyone is cut out for it. It seems to me that students, parents, teachers, and guidance counselors should work better together to identify the strengths and weaknesses of a given individual to determine what that student finds most interesting, and foster that feeling. Instead, schools receive more prestige for graduating more students into university and universities receive more funding for accepting more students. Ridiculous.
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I'm looking through the source, specifically the jsDoc comments. Does anybody know what "[v]" means in this context:

* @param {function} f function to execute on each value in the array.
* @param [v] object to use as the first argument to the first call of

As I understand it, the parameter type is specified with curly brackets, like, "{function}" in the line above.
We used active_scaffold for an internal project. Its awesome to get a basic CRUD app going. https://github.com/vhochstein/active_scaffold
It took me three tries to fix the wax gasket under my toilet (symptom of a worn-out wax gasket: water leaks out from the bottom of the toilet whenever you flush), but I did it out of curiosity, wanting to be more like my dad who fixed everything in our house, and because I didn't want to be the guy who called the landlord to fix every little thing... I think more than anything, the feeling of control over my surroundings is what pushes me to do as much handywork as I can.
This is an XSS; it's not something that Facebook put out.
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That's definitely been my experience. Even some of the more credentialed "experts" (not naming names) have a considerably shallow understanding of social networking, especially the potential political, social and economic implications.
Isn't it awesome that the "democracy" can be bought by bribing a small number of politicians in charge. Whoever set that system up, didn't think it through.
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I think that safety is only one issue when it comes to kids using the internet. The other is their ability to find credible sources. A lot of kids struggle with being able to tell what's fact and fiction. (Think of that teacher who asked his students to write a report on the pacific northwest tree octopus and later couldn't convince them it was a hoax). I think if there was a way to ensure that you only provide really credible information, it's a great idea.

But I really like what you're saying though about making it more interactive and unique and adding a community.
Experience and availability. You wouldn't be paying $170 for 20 minutes of their time (closer to an hour or more, really, given driving & whatnot) if you had to wait a month for them to fit you into their schedule, because they'd be outrageously rich if they were that busy. The prices go up because they need to eat during slow periods.
Thanks! But I can't find which browsers it supports, or which features it supports per browser.
Can anyone suggest a JS library that allows u to plot semilog graphs and log log graphs please... Do any of the above support it? At least it is not shown in the galleries...
If I had to just choose one thing to stop the discord, it would simply be communication.

As a dev, interesting to see it from the designers side.
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Awesome, thanks for posting. I didn't know about this lib.
And of course, those robots will need to be repaired which means jobs for welders,electricians and machinists
I like YYYY-MM-DD for two reasons:

1) Sorting the string representations sorts in time order.

2) It eliminates ambiguity almost completely, because extremely few places use YYYY-DD-MM. The ambiguity of most ##/##/## dates is irritating.
I don't think there was any need for that tone or the three questions. There is a local Chinese takeaway near me. Walking distant. Before, the only way they could communicate with me is through leaflets in the door. Now I can see their updates in my newsfeed. This _is_ revolutionary.

Just because people abuse a phrase doesn't mean it is not relevant.
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I'd be surprised if anyone that has built a few significant rails applications with devise would continue to use it. Unless you're going to have the most vanilla session/user/authentication management ever, fighting against devise gets downright nasty.

Have had moderate success with https://github.com/NoamB/sorcery lately, however I'm not yet confident in calling this a solved problem.

edit: Devise is great for getting up and running quickly. For that matter though, so is Joomla.
I'm currently reading a set of 10 blogs that revolve around design/branding/user experience, as I want to improve my skills there. I wrote up a post with links to them here: http://blog.pamelafox.org/2011/05/reading-my-way-to-better-d...

(And to be meta about it, I based that list of blogs on a previous hackernews thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1103578)
> approximation of downloads/users/market share

do such metrics exist?
Haha Doha. I was just about to submit this.
Once, an employer hired me because he liked the fact that I play the piano. (100% true story)
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I disagree. I think things like "Apple can change the rules on you", "Apple has to approve your app", "Apple makes you pay the 30%", etc are much better arguments against it. This is just about patent trolling. It could just have easily been a troll on some (surely hypothetical) patent for "Payment-Accepting Web Site That Delivers Alternative Experience for Mobile Users". In fact, an iOS dev may be in a better position than if the corresponding thing happened to a mobile web dev, in that there's a decent chance Apple's going to step in and smack down this nonsense.
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No, sorry. Aside from Kurzweil, I read an article a year or two ago about someone who'd made a bit of a breakthrough, figuring out how to break a large computation into a lot of smaller reversible chunks. But I don't have the link.

Edit: I seemed to remember that IBM had done some work on it, and found this paper: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/b/bennetc/bennettc19734c5...

Then I remembered the name Fredkin, and found this:
http://www.aicit.org/jdcta/ppl/18.%20JDCTA4-440054.pdf

Fredkin invented the Fredkin Gate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredkin_gate
The best version of this concept is The Week magazine in my opinion (see http://theweek.com/, though I the print version is really higher quality than the site). It includes all the major stories of the week with references and then covers all the columnists and editorials from both sides of the aisle and from around the world. For me, it is the perfect balance of brevity and comprehensiveness without feeling superficial.

AFAIK, it started in the UK and was "ported" to a US edition a few of years ago.

It is pretty easy to read in an hour or so and fills in all the gaps I missed from my sporadic news reading the previous week.
This is a well known result of public choice theory.

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/PublicChoice.html

Well, maybe this is not well known enough, because school civics lessons usually don't teach this. I'll refrain from speculating about what interest groups might be influencing the school curriculum.

As Winston Churchill said, "Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill

Or as James Madison put it, "But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions."

http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa51.htm

If it really becomes impossible for people to operate legitimate, opinion-promoting websites (as contrasted with copyright-infringing websites, which I don't operate), then the way out of the problem is the same as it has always been, people power.

http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations98ce.html
Far worse. As defined, you can't write a parser for "tagged netstrings" without:

* Infinite lookahead - the type for a tagged netstring doesn't appear until the END of up to 100 MB of contents.

* Large intermediate memory usage - a string of the form 9990:9985:9980:9975: <...> ]]]] may consume a very large amount of memory for substrings during parsing.

* An int() implementation which exactly matches Python's.

* Ambiguity.

Bencode (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bencode) has been around much longer, and is considerably better thought out. There's no reason to not just use that instead.
What a bizarre piece - no examination whatsoever of what the implications of the success of ChromeOS might be - just a self-referential exhortation to blindly put your personal energy into it "because it will be successful".
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They probably want to make extra sure that there are no errors this time.
Yeah, all 4 of the examples are reaching, really. There hasn't been anything like Chrome. Chrome doesn't offer any non web apps. Even the FileManager is html/js.
You don't need to be an electrician to repair computers. I would also think the guy who can wire your house to the code is not necessarily able to replace a burnt motherboard and clean out hordes of viruses (because that's what "repairing computers" often means), or to assemble a working machine out of bunch of components and install OS and a basic set of programs. This kind of computer work is mostly software, with elementary hardware troubleshooting skills, so you'll need more an admin than an electrician.
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Thanks for the reference! But actually it doesn't appear to be a visualization framework, it's a transformation framework: "D3 does not provide a new graphical representation—unlike Processing, Raphaël, or Protovis, there is no new vocabulary of marks to learn. Instead, you build directly on standards such as CSS3, HTML5 and SVG."

For example, you could use this framework to build an HTML table or an SVG document directly.
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