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Somehow it must be possible to talk about the extension of productive life without people trailing off into condescending statements about population control or throwing hissy fits about the drummed up ecological aspects of immortality as if this was the most pressing concern right now. First of all, we're not even talking about making people live longer, just keeping them in shape for longer. There is absolutely zero moral outrage to be had about this one, except maybe if you want to shout something about old people taking our jobs, pointlessly and morbidly arguing that without death, disability and general human misery the global economy would suffer.

Second, of course this kind of research eventually arrives at measures that prolong (productive) life, which gives traditional people even more to scream about. We will devour the earth! Never mind falling birth rates in industrial nations which would doubtlessly be the only countries experiencing those extended lifespans.

However, my argument is more basic than that. Because, you guessed it, I'm all for longevity research as well. It's a basic ethical appeal to not waste perfectly good minds to decay and oblivion. Conjuring up economic problems that may or may not be even remotely applicable to this type of future society seems callous and short-sighted to me.
I agree. You will never know everything, but you can choose to accept some thing and focus on understanding others.
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When I look at an infographic, I don't want pieces of it hidden. I want it to tell me the story. I don't want it to be headlines of a story, and have to interact to get the whole thing.

While I don't doubt there's some call for that, I can't see that being desirable in most use cases.
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Does it work with Dropbox, too?
There's a similar question in stack overflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/203288/how-does-ruby-on-r...

The top answer give book recommendations and tools to understand rails.
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Think of YC as a company, and all the YC-founded startups as tiny, self-governing units under this big brand, you'll come to realize that despite the company lacks any form of management and a real boss in the traditional sense, it's working well and profitable.
Could Windows 8 Come With Support For Xbox Game Titles?
I've been using GNOME 3 on Fedora 15 for a while now and I'm pretty pleased with it, that being said, it's far from perfect. There are several interface choices they've made that remove what I would consider obviously desirable functionality and hide it away or remove it outright.

Removing shutdown and restart from the user menu. Sure, if I hold down option or control or whatever the key is those menus appear, and of course I can also open up the shell and 'shutdown -r now' my way to freedom but the point of the menu is convenience, and that's not.

Removing the minimize button from the windows /is/ a gutsy choice, and I do respect them for it as they appear to have a good plan in place, however they do have to understand that if you are using a system with multiple monitors, which in my experience is not uncommon on Linux computers, having multiple workspaces seems redundant. Though, for me only one screen has the workspace change, and I might be more fond of them after that bug has been worked out. ((note: It is possible to bring the minimize and maximize button back, and you always can minimize and maximize by right clicking on the titlebar, but again that's not the point :p))
I built a little page to insert transactions into a database. I scan all my receipts, and drop them in a folder, named as the transaction number a la 12512.png. I've expanded the webpage a little to have the categories that my accountant uses for taxes, and I pay an assistant to run through my statements a few times a year and just do the basic data entry.
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Then go to the nearest store you have, take down a list of all the models you think could be worth the money they cost. Plus one or two you think are "a little" too expensive.

After this, come back and say us which are the models you are interested so we can help you build a comparison. ;)
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FWIW, I've generally noticed Americans assign about the same value on USD prices < $100. $10 here is worth the same to an American as £10 is to a Brit. $10 isn't worth £6 to them.

This is hard to understand until you've lived in both places.

There isn't much excuse for the very large discrepancy between electronics pricing, however.
I would imagine you are right, I think the point I was making more was to annoy them as much as they annoy us. Causing inconvenience to them would be the ultimate goal
It could be a really nice blog post. A lot of people get lost on wikipedia pages like that.
http://www.alternate.de/html/product/GeIL/DIMM_24_GB_DDR3-10...? <- 180€ for 24gb of memory... i think his prices are pretty accurate.
By Ayn Rand.

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Nicely done and easier to follow. Although I think just like any good business Facebook cannot let it's guard down no matter what this presentation says.
"that he didn't deserve"

Well, you don't know that. The images of the mp3 players he was selling basically look like a cheap knock off of the iPod shuffle. Apple spends a lot of money on their design and branding and it's their right to protect that investment, wouldn't you say?

This isn't the same as patent trolling.
"Even so, with a smallish population of users and the spammers still figuring out how to operate, G+ has some serious usability problems (like you can only see 2-3 items in your stream at a time on a high resolution display) and it's already getting kind of spammy."

My feed has interesting/funny comments and links... because I just put interesting and funny people in my circles. And I don't consider the fact that I can only see 2-3 items on a high-res display bad if the quality of the content is higher than other sites I visit. There are some blogs whose index page have the same issue and I'm fine with it because I know that every single piece of content posted is well worth the surface area.
The only place on the campus where employees pay for food is from a vending machine. The pricing strategy is based on nutrient content, again according to the Harvard pyramid plan. For the vended products, you pay:

one cent per gram of sugar
two cents per gram of fat
four cents per gram of saturated fat
one *dollar* per gram of trans fat

That's very cool. I'd love to see this concept get wider usage.
>I came to the conclusion that I wasn’t going to give up that easy and I went to see a lawyer. I figured I had enough money to present a decent battle – how wrong I was. I told the lawyer my story and what the situation was and the consensus was not good. Give up. I was told I could not win. Regardless of if I had a case or not, fighting a company this size was not worth it. Nowadays I can agree with what the guy was saying but being told to give up hit me hard.

Man, this sort of abuse of the legal system ought to be treated as a criminal activity, with prison time as an option for the execs involved.
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I think some patents really do serve a purpose though and in some respects they are completely right to be granted. I think if someone is truely inovative in what they invent then they should be granted the patent. It's when people come along and patent really stupid stuff.

I remember a company filing a law suit against twitter once because they had patented the method of posting short status updates in the case of emergency (or something like that) and they tried to sue Twitter??!!?! I understand the patent and how it is applied to Twitter in general but seriously, who allowed that patent to pass??

I find Amazons "One Click" purchase patent stupid.
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Unless it cost your more than twice as much for that advertizing or your showing the same add to the same person several times (ex: hulu).

But, the real problem with facebook users is you are far less intrested in adds while on a social website and a lot of clicks are simple mistakes.
I originally wrote from my iPad and I have a hard time using the touch keyboard.

Here's my 2 cents:

1) Cheaper than Adwords, much much cheaper. The ads tend to be expensive when you first get an estimate from Facebook, but in practice, this number goes down 5-fold. Also, in comparison to Adwords, it is at least 5-fold cheaper.

2) Easier to target people. This depends on what you are doing, but I believe it works better if you are trying to build a community with a specific interest. However, Adwords is probably better for targeting advertising for an e-commerce store.

3) If you advertise your fan page, you have a hook to constantly advertise to your fans. I like building my fan page, generating conversation, and sparking interest. It is important to give users good content, but it also doesn't hurt to self promote about 10-20% of the time. It all depends on what you are doing.
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Looks like all these are dead :/
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It looks to me like it's going to improve the experience by making the experience more like facebook's messaging app. Most of my friends send messages via facebook rather than through email, because it's a better and more personal experience. Taking some of that experience to an email client is a killer idea.

Why do email clients have to take their cues from other email clients? They feel stuck in the 90s. Many people have replaced email with facebook for personal use—it only makes sense that email clients should go there.
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Check out http://www.lessaccounting.com - they're a SaaS app with a service component where you can hire a bookkeeper to manage the bits you don't want to deal with.
Is Gnome 3's system tray still off-limits to 3rd party applications? I like having Dropbox's sync indicator and Tomboy's note list running in the tray, and I'm not sure how that functionality would be replicated in Gnome 3.
One thing doesn't prevent the other: I use Gmail, but I also keep offlineimap as a cronjob to download backup it all, and Thunderbird installed.
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I think it's a great idea. Don't most people you know use facebook instead of email for personal correspondence?
Where oh where is the table of account types and what you get with each of those?

Why do so many companies make this infuriating mistake? They either don't have this page or it's completely in a completely obscure location. From the front page I click on "Spotify Premium" link (or "Unlimited") and it takes me to a sign up page.

Fail.

Here's a tip: NEVER, EVER ask for registration information until you're sure the customer actually wants to sign up. I want to see what I will be getting so I can make a decision.

The video is well-produced but it doesn't actually tell me anything. How does the service work? What do I need? Is it an app or Flash? Take this iconic iPod video [1]. It uses only FOUR words but manages to tell me everything I need to know (those words are "iPod" and "Mac or PC").

This might be a great service but I hazard to think how many customers they're going to scare away (well, more annoy actually) with this bad UX.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaVFCdwT0hk
Phase 2 is already in progress.

Check out the Copenhagen Suborbitals guys, they launch succesfuly their first suborbital rocket a month ago.

http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/
That's the Microsoft way, not Google.
Lots of people say that they prefer libraries over frameworks. I agree in that if possible I try to avoid the overuse of frameworks. But this cannot be decided on an abstract level, it depends on what functionality I want to use the framework/library for. How clear it is what the framework have to do, how mature is its philosophy about what it have to do? For example almost everybody use the following huge and sometimes quite restrictive frameworks:

- operating systems

- Windowing/component frameworks for GUI (like Java Swing)

- and of course in case of web development the browser itself.
"you're too used to PHP"

So I should write the micro-framework in Ruby? Any suggestions for starting out with that?
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P.S. I love spotify, but I use the paid version, so no ads for me.
Thanks for your intelligent and thoughtful review. To respond:

I am going to stick with html5. I personally support progressiveness in design, and that means if someone is using IE6 and/or no javascript, I do not support this (and neither does google, wordpress, and a host of other large companies). As long as you have javascript turned on, the simple inclusion of modernizr makes html5 100% functional. I think it would be a best practices fail NOT to teach html5. I always have coded in html5, and so has the web agency I work at, and anyone else I know in web dev.

On the dev, you're totally right, but I disagree with the statement "There is really no reason for a designer to know about how MVC works". The more a designer knows about development, the better they will be to work with. I don't think there should be a split between design and development, it's good to dabble in both. Of course, everything is optional - if someone was very stubborn about not knowing anything about dev, they could skip the class.

I will be covering quick basic RoR deployment through Heroku, not advanced rails deploys. That would be for a later course ; )
tl;dr: Apple.
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As someone completely unconnected to the company, I don't understand how MOG has totally failed to get any mindshare. Same product, same price, but has been available in the US (including on the iPhone) for >1 year. I assume it must be a profound marketing failure, because the product itself is stellar. (I really, really like it.)

If I worked there I'd be driven absolutely insane by the media buzz for all-you-can-eat streaming music that almost always fails to mention them.
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There would be homework. But it won't take years - there are very quick and simple ways to deploy for both rails and static. It takes me no more than 30 minutes to get any website from dev to online. That's what the class is for though -- if you want to find out how, come ; )
Not at all. It's just good sense to pick up other languages in general. Find one that has something interesting, play along with the official tutorial, writing the code as you go along.
The whitepaper:
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Not All Early Optimization is Premature
I think it's a little of both - driven by a lack of available good .com/net/org domains and by the increasing popularity of sites like bitly. It's little like how startups are jumping on -ify naming fad.
It's a vector, however, that needs no physical access to the car. It can be launched remotely from another country.

Who would have thought a centrifuge could be attacked in this way?
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The issue was caused by a webkit font rendering fix. Make sure to remove all text-stroke and text-shadow declarations for windows - these thin out the font and improve rendering in osx, but ruin it for windows (no surprise)
Everytime I see an article like this, of this length, all to explain a single git command, I get the feeling that git (and all other decent SCM tools at that) are way too complex. It's well written and well illustrated, but I feel like I shouldn't have to read that much just to learn a basic feature of a tool that's supposed to exist to help me. Is this just me?

Of course, the feeling is strengthened by the fact that I still don't completely grok git, but shouldn't a tool that's there to help me be easier to grok? I understood dropbox in 1 minute. I learnt TDD in 3 hours. Why should (distributed) version control be so much more difficult?

I don't know how, just wondering if I'm the only guy who feels like this.
Yes, as a first step, I'm only talking about extending the high-quality-of-life period for everyone. And I know it is possible, because we're already at it and there is no magical barrier stopping us from doing this on a biological level. I also don't believe that "we shouldn't do it because it makes us less sad when dying people have wrinkles and white hair" is an ethically valid argument against this kind of research.

There are two viewpoints that make any further discussion pointless. One would be the belief in any sort of afterlife, and the other one is the conviction that human consciousness has at best a very limited intrinsic value and can hence be discarded without further consequence. If you don't hold one of these beliefs, I wager there is a high degree of probability that you basically agree with people like me that we have to do something and that things cannot should how they are now.

Of course, this kind of technology will over time lead to drastically longer lives as well. When it comes to aging, there is no way to do the quality thing without the quantity thing.

Overpopulation is not a problem in wealthy, industrial countries. These countries will always have advanced tech before everyone else. So, for example, if I were to live 200 years in Germany, producing maybe 0.8 children over the entire time, I'm not crowding up the countryside. Sure, I do require resources, as does everyone else, including some Bangladeshi guy who died at 35 because of some horrible tropical disease und who nevertheless multiplied by a factor of 20 over the same 200 years.

We need new and sustainable technologies to cope with both corner cases anyway. This idea that progress has to stop now is a horrible mistake. We left the realm of our fellow animal sisters and brothers to embark on a journey of knowledge and discovery. In the course of this endeavor, we became powerful individual minds capable of achieving pretty much anything. Well, we're halfway there now, we can't just stop suddenly, that would be the end of the race. We have to move all the way through to the other side.
I signed up for Spotify on one of my trips to London a year ago and I'm happy to report that I'm able to log in to the desktop app from a US IP.

The website seems confused by my status, however, and I get stuck on a page trying to get me to register for one of the paid plans.
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Let me know if this is fixed now
I make local backups and then have a routine that downloads those backups. I tried one too many times relying on web hosts for backups...
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It sounds like having a boss helps you navigate the perils of a large organization. It feels like a problem posing as its own solution.
That requires physical access to the car.
Young tech millionaires keeping 1-bedroom lifestyle
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Scott, thank you so much for all your work on Git tutorials, blog posts, screencasts and books... I'm sure you know this already but you're a great teacher!
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Review of EADOC a SaaS project management and collaboration application targeted at professionals in the construction management industry.
Regarding only one monitor switching when changing workspaces: that's intended behaviour, see [1]

You can change that using gconf-editor and setting /desktop/gnome/shell/windows/workspaces_only_on_primary to false.

[1] http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2011/03/22/multimonitor-support...
I think one of the biggest questions I have is:

What would you have done differently to make the business more successful/continue operating?
Potentially, Google could get to the point where a single click is worth $100s.
I've been pretty happy with MOG's library. Nobody but Apple has the Beatles, but MOG has all the major label stuff and better coverage of my obscure tastes than I expected.

I've also been impressed with their response when I've contacted them to request catalog adds. Both times a non-customer-support human responded and both times they managed to add it within a few weeks. I didn't even expect a respond, to be honest.
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Why isn't this being developed? The design looks great, but like many are saying...a concept is only the halfway point. The video sold me, but it'd be nice if I could at least sign up for a beta invite or something. Seeing "concept" all over the page left me a bit hopeless of ever using the product.