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I stopped reading at 'Lee Smolin'. If you are a trained physicist read ahead and pick apart his misconceptions. If you're not a trained physicist then you are likely to be misled and I encourage you to not bother. Time is too valuable to be wasted here.
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Absolutely. But personality is an aggregate of style, design, functionality and so on. Style, design and functionality are additive to a great degree — you can add more functionality and splatter on as much stylistic flourishes as there is visual space available.

For example, the minimalistic Japanese "no-brand" (it's very much a brand) MUJI has very little actual style, but lots of design. It's simplistic and function-oriented. And yet the personality is often immediately recognizable. IKEA is often minimalistic, but has a significant brand presence without applying a whole of style.

Style is like makeup. You're not making a cake, so you have to be careful about how much you apply. Too much makeup and you come across as desperate or insincere. Too little and your wrinkles will be showing. I don't know how far one can stretch this metaphor -- you get the point. :-)
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it's like this article was written just to prove the relevance of the title text in xkcd.com/934:

"It's fun to watch browsers fumblingly recapitulate the history of window management. Someday we'll have xmonad as a Firefox extension."

seriously, just about everything mentioned in here should be the responsibility of the window manager. why not let the window manager do its job? i can see why chrome wants to implement it's own window manager, because it actually is trying to be an OS. but apple has built a good WM, why aren't they using it?
Tom, what do you do for a living?

You might consider targeting this application to specific professions that would benefit from it, i.e. "CampaignBar: A sophisticated bookmark and contact manager for blogging professionals" or whatever.

When a tool comes out of left field and solves a problem that I didn't know I had, you need to show me that I have that problem in the first place. Give me examples of how my way of getting work done right now is broken.
treat it as such, then, and state it up front.

i tend to introduce it as something like "a code question to see how you think" (or something to that effect). and then set the tone by asking a question that is simple on the surface, but people rarely get 100% right on their first iteration. they usually come to an acceptable answer somewhat quickly, and then i discuss it with them. that sets up a dialog for the other questions, even if the subsequent ones are more cut and dry types of questions.

edit: in fact, almost all of my questions are like this. i rarely do stuff like a "reverse a string". reversing a string is somewhat trivial and doesn't provide layers or interaction. i prefer to have a question that allows me to see how someone thinks and interact with them to see how smart they are and how well we might be able to work together.
Knowing the guy that's working on it, I'd say it isn't anything malicious. Though, I'd agree that the placement of that ad seems really well planned (evil) but more likely poor design.
You are selling a product in an unvalidated marketspace. Want to sell a bug tracker? Just call it a bug tracker. I don't know what the category of your product is, so I don't know if I need one.

Why do I need to contact a website? Am I looking for a job, and cold calling companies to look for openings? Am I marketing something? It's kind of a lightweight CRM? But don't say CRM, because I don't know what a CRM is ;) Maybe you could look at how 37 signals sells their CRM.
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also, none of the titles for the 4 benefits on the homepage mean anything to me.
they have to tell me specific things your product does to help me right now.

good luck and i'd say don't give up yet.
tweaking marketing and a/b testing are relatively inexpensive (and imo a lot of fun) and who knows, you might stumble on a winner!
Every time someone says "By definition" as if it means something, a little vomit rises to the back of my throat.
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Curious: is this also valid ocaml?
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I was living in Dublin and came across a guy in the street asking for money for a "Cup of Tea", But I noticed he had a bag of tools for plastering and asked him why he was on the street. Seems that he had been working in Dublin as there was no work in belfast and he needed to pay the family bills and one of the flat mates ran off with the rent and he was kicked out by the landord and his work had dryed up. I gave him twenty euros for food and the name of a nice B&B asked him to meet me the next day in the same spot. I gave him about 60 euros the next day to get him back to belfast where he lived. Told him to do something nice for a stranger some time.

I believe in Karma but I don't do nice things to have nice things happen to me I do nice things to have nice things happen to others.
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Not on mac (in canary: yes, but not well).
Why retire the question just because you saw it on Glassdoor? The same question was posted to sureinterview last year, so anyone you hired since November is suspect! (If you believe that potential advance knowledge of the question is relevant).

Worse yet, even if you did come up with this problem on your own, this exact problem was a fairly common interview question back in the mid 90s, when string processing interview questions were all the rage for C/C++ programming jobs -- I must have seen it a dozen times in various interviews over the years. The problem is familiar enough that I'd bet a decent amount of money that it must be listed in one of those interview problem books that were popular before the websites for this stuff started showing up over the past couple years... If you really relied on the interviewee having no possible advance knowledge of this question prior to the interview you surely had a false sense of security prior to seeing it appear on glassdoor.

As long as you engage the interviewee to see that s/he really understands the answers they are giving, I don't really see why it matters if the question has appeared on one of these sites. If the interviewee is preparing for their interviews enough that they are actually looking at these sites and understanding the answers to the point where they can intelligently discuss them, that probably already puts them in the upper tier of people you'd want to seriously consider hiring, so retiring the question is probably counter-productive unless you have a non-disclosed alternative that you're sure is as good of a question.
The new Gmail interface itself is ugly and then you add this to it...it's all gray everywhere and kind of hard to make distinctions. Don't even talk about using this new Gmail theme in lower screen size laptops...it's looks absolutely ugly...come on Google, I'm sure you can do better.
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Further -- if a game called "Scrolls" is published, it is in the best interest of consumers that another company can't put out an inferior game with the same name, and cash in on the confusion.

The system of trademarks is the way that's accomplished!
Yes, that's the problem with using concrete iconography to represent metaphors. They are easily interpreted as being concrete.

(Iconography is hard. These days kids are probably asking about those weird icons in toolbars that they don't recognize, and moms and dads need to explain how back in the day we used quaint things like floppy disks and clipboards and stuff; soon they will have to explain about envelopes and magnifying glasses. Apple, meanwhile, just moved iCal back a decade by introducing a leather-bound framing metaphor for the entire app.)
Thanks for the two-factor suggestion and the recommendation. Duo looks excellent.
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I'm failing to see what value this adds to standard bookmarking.
Nobody will reasonably expect you to implement your own string comparison routine, ...

Standard string comparisons exit on the first mismatched character, which is insecure.
I've gotten in the habit of trying to explain poorly written NewScientist and Popular Science articles as they appear on HN, just because they're so consistently peppered with nonsense that even non-physicist enthusiasts like me can do substantially better. But, in this case, I just want to say this:

If you can't close your eyes right now and give me a formal definition of a tensor, you really don't want to waste your time on this. Go buy a good undergrad textbook for $2 used on Amazon. Do the practice problems. It will contain information that will genuinely enlighten you. You will learn things that geniuses of a hundred years ago would have chewed off their own legs just to have hints about. Until you do that, worrying about Lee Smolin will do nothing. At best.
Text MEALS to 90999 to give $5 to the Chicago Food Depository. I do it quite frequently when some joyous happenstance comes my way or when I spend a bit too much on myself.
No, a better UI HTTP authentication would have been a setback.

HTTP auth doesn't make backend authentication code easier to write. In virtually all apps, it doesn't obviate the need to do session management, or solve the user demand for "remember me" cookies.

What it does do is shoehorn applications into a single inadequate login UX, one that (almost at the protocol level) is not amenable to basic security measures like gracefully logging out sessions.

Clearly there's quite a bit more wrong with HTTP auth than that (for instance, it does a terrible job of handling errors, it doesn't handle "forgot password", &c &c) but I'm not particularly interested in the counterfactual argument of what could have been had browser vendors only built a "good" version of it.

The fact remains that even the hypothetically "good" version of HTTP auth would at best be only marginally better than what we have now, and would leave all the hard problems this "definitive guide" is trying to address still on the table.
Duo is Dug Song and Jon Oberheide. You really couldn't find a better team to get your back on authentication.
Disaster is only one obvious use case.

How about "oppressive government threw the kill switch".

Or, "profit mongering telco under built facilities".

Peer-to-peer relay messaging is a good concept, but in any use case it will need to be ubiquitous (i.e. built into the OS) for it to be effective.
Bethesda has multiple trademarks for the franchise. Each individual installment is trademarked, eg "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" and the entire franchise is trademarked, eg "The Elder Scrolls."

If you (in the collective sense, not you personally) know who Bethesda is and what games they've made in the past and know who Notch is, you're not the average consumer in this context.

I think there's a definite reason to think confusion could come into play when these titles are next to each other on the shelf, or show up in search results with little to no context, or are featured in Amazon's contextual results or on services like XBox Live or Steam.

Parents don't know Notch or gaming history. They know that little Timmy asked for a fantasy game with the word "scrolls" in the title. This situation, which I imagine would be pretty common at Christmas time, is part of why Bethesda is taking action.

The other part -- and this is the much more important part -- is that Bethesda has no choice. If they fail to take action and do their due diligence, and a competitor can later prove it (by citing this example with Notch) then they risk losing the mark entirely.

Which means then EA could conceivably come out with a game called "The Younger Scrolls: Obsession" and Bethesda would have no recourse.
Isn't "Discoverable" another way of saying this? It can and does work. It's fun to find a feature or learn how to do something new.

Examples: iPhone. No manual (probably there is now). It's unbelievable, really. But, you have to admit it works!

Anti-example: fire extinguisher. No tricky interface, please.

One reason I didn't see mentioned is user level. Beginners want/need simple. Later, they want more power. How do you keep the advanced features out of the way of the new users? Hide them! Advanced users will find them when they are ready.
Just because libparted removed that functionality doesn't mean gparted has to remove it. I think gparted already uses a number of fileystem-specific tools; on Ubuntu 11.04 it depends on xfsprogs, reiserfsprogs, reiser4progs, jfsutils, ntfsprogs, and dosfstools. The only problem I can see is if libparted removed functionality that no other free software tools provides.
What Happens When a Reasonable Developer* Runs Into Aggressive Trademark Lawyers

* A Reasonable Developer with essentially unlimited funds. Notch acts reasonable because he can afford lawyers. Most of us would lose our little company if we were sued.
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I completely agree, Mate. I learned that if you are not hearing "no," you are not taking risks or chances. And we know it takes risks—a leap—to get where you want to be.
Graphic Design Grids (GDG) are about creating a unified layout with a rigid horizontal and vertical rhythm. The CSS Grid Layout (CSSG), on the other hand, are more about creating a flexible 2d layout. You can make CSSG do the same thing as GDG (I think using grid-column-sizing and grid-row-sizing and then using either grid-template or grid-*-span) but it's not necessarily obvious.

This is a request for the ability to define an arbitrary unit of measure with gutters called a module and be able to use it as part of CSSG. I like this and have experimented with as part of sass/stylus grid systems.

Most of the rest is a complaint about terminology and I get slightly confused from there. IMO the `grid-x-count` property serves no purpose. Simply using `width` with and md unit value or an appropriate grid sizing definition would serve the same purpose. I'm also not sure how columns and fields interact. I think it's the same as `grid-columns` and `grid-rows` from the CSSG proposal and this is an extended part of his complaint that the CSSG terminology doesn't match up with GDG terminology.
Recent versions of Python have a JSON prettifier baked in. On OS X, if you have ugly JSON in your clipboard, simply run this:

$ pbpaste | python -mjson.tool
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That would probably add more expense than it's worth. The yellow part isn't just a plastic color filter, the lights use what's called a "remote phosphor", where it's internally using high powered blue LEDs, which is then absorbed and reemitted in a wider spectrum at the yellow layer.

There are a number of reasons for doing this, but the biggest ones are that it gives it a large and more diffuse emitting area, preventing the multiple shadows from exposed LEDs, and (IIRC) that the phosphors tend to be more stable when not integrated into the LED.
(Please forgive this slight vent/derail, but HN is becoming a strange place when I get downvoted for voicing my opinion in a honest and respectful way. Heck, I said absolutely nothing that can be construed as wrong. I'd love to know why it happened - different opinions? If so, add them to the discussion, don't be the silent guy getting away with downvoting other people's posts because they differ from your own point of view.)
Awesome idea. Count me in if you like, but I'm a mkt guy, I can't contribute to tech - code discussions :)
Yes, migration from Exchange doesn't work well because of the fundamental difference between search vs. sort. I'll never use Exchange again, personally. It feels like time traveling back to 2002. I'd never use 365, but I know a lot of people are wedded to the MS platform now.
I'm doing essentially the same thing with the submitted JSON. The result of that would be what I am storing in the database.
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> that's closed too and the improvements aren't available to Linux developers.

Are you sure those are improvements most people would want to have? Google has a remarkably narrow set of requirements for their servers and it seems more likely than not that if they made changes to their kernels, they would not be regarded as improvements by anyone with slightly different hardware.
To me screen resolution matters...with a higher resolution you can accommodate more into the screen real estate and don't have to switch things around. I used a super high resolution 15.4" laptop at work once and even having 2 dual 24" monitors didn't come closer to the productive experience that I had with that laptop...maybe it's just me but I would prefer super high screen resolutions.
No, trademarks began and continue as a way to protect creators and commercial operators. It's a way to put your stamp on something and say "This is mine, I created it, I own it." It began, and remains, very closely tied to branding.

It's not about individual words. This is a red herring on Notch's part. Bethesda never claimed they owned "scrolls." They don't.

It's about Notch releasing a product in the same commercial space with a very similar sounding name to a product that Bethesda already owns.

As I said elsewhere, Bethesda must take action. They have no choice.
Hey Ben, I might be able to help. Email is in my profile.
It is a little frustrating that, when the Stack Overflow community attempts to come up with a "definitive guide to website authentication", people inside and outside the community see the attempt more as a coatrack for their own blue sky proposals than as an opportunity to codify best practices.

The fact is that BrowserID, like SRP (which the SO community itself inexplicably waded into), is not an authentication best practice. It's a proposal that doesn't even have widespread support in the deployed software of its sponsor. Even without getting into the pro's and con's of BrowserID, the simple fact is that if absolutely everything broke Mozilla's way, it would still be many years before a significant number of users would be using it securely.

I really don't want to debate BrowserID here, most particularly because I don't have a strong opinion about it. But isn't it weird how even the Stack Overflow people themselves can't look at a challenge like this without spinning off into deep space on sky-pie crypto answers?
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Just so you know, it's "I have built", not "I have build". I only said something because it's in the title and in the video. Hope that helps you out.
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I second that.
For musicians it is hard to hide their incompetence, for programmers it is just a matter of picking the right succession of jobs.
Incidentally, on your CampaignBar website, one of the first (most important!) headlines has a typo:

'Find websitse, save and manage their details.'

-> 'websites'
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Also, this is not a 'winner takes all' space. You should definitely do it.
Your profile says you're a medical student. Are you a physicist too?
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Nice to see HTC invest some time and money into this dev site, I'm also excited to see how the bootloader unlocking tool will function.

Looking Good!
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On a cooler note, they're releasing kernel source (as they should (have been/be) doing, but also will be launching a bootloader unlock tool, so that we can actually make use of the kernel source!
I've added the following to the post:

Update

It’s been suggested that ZRXC is not the “Real 3D Mandelbrot Set” because it fails to achieve certain visual standards.

This is a legitimate concern. I understand that to most people, the visual aesthetics of a fractal are the most important part. One of the goals of this essay was to show the reader something else, more important and beautiful beneath that.

Different people will have different standards for judging whether something is the “Real 3D Mandelbrot Set” — to me the Mandelbrot set is a step on the way to understanding a mystery, to solving a puzzle. So my generalization tried to fulfill that role better.

You are welcome to disagree, and I think a very strong argument can be made that the Mandelbulb set is more visually appealing than ZRXC… But I’d ask you make sure you understand the math outlined in this essay — if you skipped the sections on what the Julia Set and Mandelbrot set are, you missed the point of this essay (if you had trouble following, that’s to be expected since I’m not always the best at explaining things, please feel free to ask below).

Perhaps I should have titled this “the Natural 3D Mandelbrot Set.” Hindsight is always 20/20.
From the time-of-day you have replied, I have to assume you are in Europe or the UK, whereas this discussion is about the US (if you are in the US, I would have to assume you were misinformed or trolling), so ...

1) Monopolies can pass costs only as so far as they have become essential monopolies - like the power company, Microsoft, US health care or phone companies. But 99.9999% of patents are monopolies on _inessential_ things, which the customer can just avoid if not competitively priced, so they CANNOT pass it on. New cheese making patent may give monopoly on a new cheese kind, but if not competitively priced would keep customers with their old Camembert.

2) that has already happened, that's why in the US, the patent office is already a rubber-stamp, patent examiners have 8 hours to review a patent, and are encouraged to accept the patent rather than reject it.

3) Patents are at the top of the legitimacy scale already in the US. Unfortunately. Which is what Cuban (the original article) is talking about.

4) Well, patents don't do that any differently than anything else. A company could just as well buy a house for $100K, claim it is worth $100M, pay property taxes to the local council, and claim "huge value". If someone is going to be this fraudulent, it doesn't matter if they do it with "house", "patent", "copyright", "trade secret", or any other "property".

You could probably go on, but nothing you mentioned is relevant to the discussion of patents in the US (which is what the original article and my proposal is about), and very little (3, maybe) has any bearing on that discussion in Europe.
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Incidentally, on your CampaignBar website, one of the first (most important!) headlines has a typo

Damn, that's what you get for live updates. Thankfully caught within a minute or two of going live, thanks :)