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Thanks for noticing! My name is Magnus Hultberg, I work at Livebookings and collaborate with Engage around reservation services and Pocket Diner.

The sites you list above are in my opinion really great examples of what restaurant websites could and should be. There are also other agencies in the UK delivering really well such as Ignite Hospitality and Evolving.
It appears from the article that caffeine increases anxiety in people with anxiety disorders. There is no evidence that it does so in the general population. I am a heavy coffee drinker for the last 30 years. Never had a panic attack and never had any problem sleeping.
I especially enjoyed the final part "Because you're so goddamned educated, doc, I knew you couldn't be very smart."

If you think about it, it's very similar when you try something new that breaks the conventional boundaries. If you have a huge education, you tend to avoid it because you usually learned this before. Sometimes, you need to ditch your education, to try something not conventionally accepted. In other words, education is key to find the things you should experiment.

It's like in art you have to know the rules to break them into an useful way.
Yes, I am certainly going to believe your hazy handwaving over his direct statements: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/#comment-64...

Of course, I didn't need that to know where he went wrong: I know actual poor people in the US. Maybe you should go meet some.
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What? Louisiana has a GDP per capita (PPP) of $37K. Switzerland has a GDP per capita (PPP) of $41.6K.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_between_U.S._states_...

In regards to GDP by PPP:

"Comparisons of national wealth are also frequently made on the basis of nominal GDP, which does not reflect differences in the cost of living in different countries (See List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita). Using a PPP basis is arguably more useful when comparing generalized differences in living standards on the whole between nations because PPP takes into account the relative cost of living and the inflation rates of the countries, rather than using just exchange rates which may distort the real differences in income."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_...
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I used to be addicted to caffeine. If I didn't have some before lunch I'd get a terrible headache. So I used caffeine pills to control my dosage and step off gradually.

One big benefit, I find that my hands are much steadier now. Helps tremendously when soldering.
The takeaway from this article is actually, to me, quite amusing: Have fewer accounts. From online banking (he does online banking! laughing-girls.jpg) to shopping to eighteen social media accounts -- this is too much!

Admittedly, I don't do Netflix, or iTunes; I use passwords like "I bet shittyforums.example.com uses plaintext" for shitty one-off forums; when I don't care about a site, but want to see its content, I participate in BugMeNot. I actively work to reduce the number of things I'm signed up for.
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The world has become a global village. The whole world is connected through ways which are mind boggling and awe inspiring at the same time. Newer and newer connections are made so conveniently which would have seemed absurd until the near past...
Did you even read the article? The whole point is that you SHOULD NOT do this, or try any other 'simple' method of remembering passwords.
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Which would make sense since the seller sets the asking price. We don't know how much each car is actually going to sell for - presumably the buyers have more influence on that curve.
The problem with password managers (or any scheme that creates unique, non-memorable passwords) is that should you need to access a particular service when you don't have your manager available, you're SOL. Being able to pull things out of dropbox and whatever on your phone are nice, but it's another thing to have to rely on.

I've thought a bit about this in the past, mostly relating to setting remote shhd to disable passwords entirely, and only accept PKI logins - what if you need to get in, and don't have your key?

The google 2-factor with optional 'emergency 1-time use codes' that you can print and carry in your wallet is a nice solution to half of the problem (the other half being, if you're not using a computer you control, how do you securely access your password manager?)

I don't really have a solution, other than "remember to take your phone with you", and possibly "ensure that at least your primary email is accessible via 1-time codes or a memorable (and strong) password."
I hit snooze 17 times a row and I don't touch coffee. Maybe I should start? :)
That's like saying "I can't carry that much food, the solution is to buy less food."
That's excellent! Thanks for the pointer.
They got your attention, that's all they want.
Only for some definitions of 'open'. There are many cases where layout gets garbled or where Word users cannot open docs exported from other software. Anyone advocating switching a business that needs to exchange document with the rest of the world to OpenOffice/LibreOffice or similar has no experience working with real-world Word documents (i.e., documents more complex than an undergraduate term paper).
I'm a huge fan of Warren Buffet but in this case I think the math just doesn't seem right. I don't have the exact numbers, I took data from wikipedia and the NYT article, so, please, let me know if my math is way off.

From the article, there are about 200,000 people with income of $1M+. Let's make it $5M per person. That's 1 trillion USD combined income.

The rest of the taxpayers seem to be about 200,000,000 with an average income of about $25,000. Combined income = 5 trillion.

So, if they reduce the tax of the bottom group with 2%, as Mr. Buffet suggests, the tax of the upper bracket has to be hiked with 10% just to compensate. And if we add another 10%, just for the fun of it, that's 100 billion taken from the rich but it's still a measly part of the budget (around 3 trillion) not to mention the debt (15 trillion).
And don't forget that people with 1M+ income have a vast number of legal and semi-legal tricks at their disposal to reduce their tax rate. The moment you increase the tax too much, you start seeing money flowing to offshore locations.

So, while "tax the rich more" and "let them share the burden" are great feel-good slogans, I don't think they offer any practical solution for the huge USA deficits.
I'm not asking for his generalizations; I'm asking if he personally knows actual poor people in the US. E.g., a single mom, an elderly widow, a recovering alcoholic, a laborer whose back is shot.

Also, I utterly refuse to accept third-world conditions as a baseline for "poor enough". You might as well use the 15th century for all the relevance it has.
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1Password on the Mac is great. I actually also have the iPhone application, and I can't imagine what I'd do without it now. Well, especially since now all of my passwords are random for the most part. I'd definitely recommend it.

The only downside is that they don't have a version for Linux. Oh well.
The link he gives does not provide % of tax burden / % of income earned, nor do I see any way to figure that out from the data given.

I agree that payroll taxes are regressive past $106k, but it's hardly clear that this changes the picture significantly. I.e., the 12.4% a poor person pays in payroll taxes need not outweigh the 0% they pay in income taxes.
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The main issue I have with password managers aside of being inconvenient and missing when you most need them: They are a bad single point of failure.

Using a local password manager, the file could get corrupted or it's not there when I need in in an emergency. Using a remote one, like LastPass, I risk my passwords getting compromised all at once (though maybe not in LastPass' case due to how their architecture works) or, again, not having access to them when I need them.

I have too many machines I'm using for various kind of work where I need different types of passwords. Too many to sync over my passwords and some not even my own, so I don't even want to sync anything there.

Now I have 4 strong passwords I use. One for banking/financial stuff only, one for work, one for "valuable" private accounts bound to my identity (this account here for example) and one for crappy sites I have to give a password to and I don't care if they lose it.

This way I'm not dependent on that password manager being available at a bad time.

The thought of not being able to log into some server people need me fix just because there's no 3g access in the data center or because an update to the password app on the phone didn't re-import the old data correctly is absolutely daunting to me.

Especially because these kind of failures feel more likely to me than one of my more secure passwords leaking out.
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I've not used WriteRoom, so I don't know just how configurable it is, but I often find myself in Emacs getting distracted from my original task by accidentally discovering new features, or deciding to automate something in elisp.

"The art of spending 3 hours to complete a 1 hour job in 5 minutes"

And this is after using it for nearly a decade already :)
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hmm? Tax rates are lower now than they were in the 90s.
Anyone else fondly remember Interleaf? I now have a love/hate relationship with OOWriter but expect I would pay a lot for a working clone of Interleaf on Linux. I used it both on Apollo workstations and on PCDOS.
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This is fantastic. I'm working on something similar for other product categories. One rule of thumb I'm going by is to show as few results to the user as possible. Shopping sites often offer so much choice that the user is too paralysed to make a decision.

I'd change the default setting from showing all brands to 2-3 at most. Simple sliders to narrow down the price and mileage range would improve the usability a lot. Plus, if you're presenting any information as shape, colour or size, you need to show a key which explains what it means.

You've done remarkably well to put this up in a weekend. I need to pull my socks up and release my v1 asap.

Good luck!
Yes, and what type is that? Got an examples.

Here are some types of letters that won't fall under that:

* Birthday/Christmas cards. The postage is a small fraction of the card.
* Legal-y letters, (e.g. when you make an offical complaint ), since the price of the stamp is again a tiny fraction of what you're complaining about.
* Big padded envelops of A4 print outs of contracts or something (again, postage is insignificant)

Most utilities are switching to electronic billing, and/or charging for paper billing, so they are already getting rid of postage.

What other post is that price sensitive?
Warren Buffet is specifically talking about federal income taxes, not payroll taxes such as Social Security and Medicare, which can be considered benefits because people contributing will get a return when they retire (it's actually a progressive system, in which the poor get more than what they contribute).

http://www.cbo.gov/doc.cfm?index=3213&type=0&sequenc...

These federal income taxes aren't lies.

http://ntu.org/tax-basics/who-pays-income-taxes.html
The really low hanging fruit, IMO, to raise tax revenue without "raising taxes" (in the sense of raising tax rates) is to reclassify carried interest as ordinary income.

That, combined with a few other similar changes (mortgage interest deduction, maybe funding ssi and medicaid separately from old age and medicare) and huge cuts in defense (due to ending 1-4 of the wars), seems like it would be fairly effective.

What I'd like to see is a flat income tax for ordinary and dividend/capital gains at 25-35% for all income, huge cuts in spending, combined with a single refundable tax credit set at ~subsistence income, universally applied. However, that's a much bigger change and pretty unlikely to happen.
copy & pasting only works if you don't have any markup to transfer.

There's usually some intermediate format that you could, say, write in Emacs and use markdown or asciidoc or latex, compile to html or rtf or whatever, and then import into Word.
There is a huge difference between voting on compensation for public employees, and punitive taxation on private employees.

Plus the vast majority wouldn't vote for teacher pay cuts. There are a few exceptions, but look at the trends for education spending. America spends more per capita on education than most developed countries.
While the product is derived from Helpdesk Pilot, a lot of things are different: Our target segment, product use case, pricing and delivery.

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We have plans to add different set of features for these products to serve different requirements more effectively.
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(If you don't write books for a living, the best metaphor I can give you is this: imagine you've been writing code for years using just a text editor. (If your editor is Emacs, congratulations: that's the MS Word of text editors -- kitchen sink included, but not everything ideally placed unless you do a lot of customization.) Then someone shows you an IDE. That's Scrivener: it's basically an IDE for books.)
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From the FAQ:
"Muse is an Adobe AIR application."

I'm not convinced that AIR is good enough for large desktop apps. It's been a while since I've checked out AIR's progress, though -- maybe my prejudice about AIR is behind the times.
I usually just configure the terminal to brighten up the blue a little.
Things like shopping and social media add up before you know it and it's only once you actually start tracking them do you realise how many you have. Think of just the really globally common shopping stuff (eBay, Amazon, Go Daddy), then add some local services (pizza delivery, online tech stores, magazine subscription) and you're more than halfway there already. You'd be surprised!
There's no a priori answer: democracy is how we decide. But one way to check how we're doing is by comparison with other countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenu...

The US's tax burden is already the lowest of the OECD countries bar Chile and Mexico. It's 30% lower than Great Britain, and half that of Denmark. And what that hides is we spend an extraordinarily large portion of that on "defense", so in terms of money spent on citizens, we're necessarily lower.

But if that's still too much governmental interference, then tax haters are able to select from a wide variety of third-world countries. I might suggest Somalia, where effective tax burden is zero. There being no effective government at all, of course.
My family is actually at the bottom 1%. We can afford a solid standard of living at $15K-$20K salaries because of corporate behemoths like Walmart, which I assume you despise, feed, clothe, and entertain our family at $15 per day.

Maybe you shouldn't generalize about poor people.
It would also be nice to have the option of using age instead of mileage, or possibly miles / year.

Sometimes an old car that's hardly ever driven, with a low mileage, isn't as good a bet as a newer car with lots of miles that's been well maintained.
Look at the amount of time the average American has to work in order to by food. It's much less than it used to be. The only reason it feels like we have less money is because we have more stuff to spend it on.
Do you disagree with any of the statistics I've cited?

Or are you merely dismissing them as "handwaving" because they don't fit your preconceived notions?
This is getting absurd. Poor people in America aren't as poor as you think. I absolutely hate it when people like you generalize how poor people live. Reading a blog post does not make you an expert on the poor or the bottom 1%. Try living it, like my family has. None of us are starving (a lot of us are fat in fact), and we all have smart phones and game consoles.
I have to be honest here, whilst technically this is very good, from a customer's perspective and from a "person what works in the industry" perspective, I feel this isn't the best. It's certainly new, but that doesn't mean the user experience is any good.

I agree that the standard "pick a make and model and hope for the best" kind of search is in dire need of an update, but I don't have the UX design experience or even the creativity to invent a new way of doing it, but what I do know, is what currently works, and what doesn't.

Instant feedback on the search as you are performing it is cool, and I've recently worked on a system that feeds back to the user the amount of cars that are going to be returned by their selected criteria as they select them, and it works pretty well and looks great, degrades nicely and allows someone to make a quick judgement about how broad or narrow their search is on the fly.

I'd like to see a new way to search for used cars that merges this level of visual detail with the standard selection criteria based way of searching, and hopefully something great can grow out of that, but until then, mixing up the interface like this will just confuse people.

Apart from my qualms, I do think this is pretty excellent and daring, but not really practical at the current time.
Yes, I will add that.
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My statistic was showing $31k, but if we say $50k, fine - it's now merely five times the median, not eight. That's still a comfortable situation by almost anyone's standards.

Now, if your $50k household is in a 25% tax bracket, they're paying $12.5k so leaving a net income of $37.5k. Your $250k household at 33% are paying $83k, net income $167k, 4.4 times the net income of the $50k household. So what was your point exactly?
Because a) you can afford it better, and b) you have benefited more from the society that taxes help pay for.

As a business owner, I am perfectly happy to pay more as my income goes up, because my business depends on a well-run society in a million ways.
IQ-like tests reward speed, and as such all alternative/possible answers are not explored. In his story, he failed because he quickly devised the pattern from the deaf-mute and extrapolated gestures as the method of communication.

Deliberative thought is penalized in IQ-like tests and that is, in my opinion, a huge mistake.
I agree this is an issue, and one I've come across a couple of times. I use 1Password for OS X and iOS. I have the database synced with my Dropbox and backed up locally too. I have two strong passwords that I remember. One is to open up 1Password, and the other is for my personal email address. Now's the time people start yelling at me telling me I should use 1Password for my personal email login too, but that proved, many times, extremely inconvenient.

I use the Chrome and Safari 1Password extensions for 1-click logins, and it's a setup I'm extremely happy with. On the few occasions I've needed to access an account without access to my 1Password, I've reset my password via my personal email address and changed the password when I next have access to 1Password. I'm not going to pretend password managers solve all problems, but they certainly help.
I really like the simplicity idea behind WriteRoom.

I think it would be great for this kind of apps to auto-save directly to Evernote API or iCloud instead of the file disk.
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Both this article and the one by Naughton that it links to confuse Google keeping their Apache 2 Honeycomb source closed with them not releasing their GPL'd linux underpinnings, which is a fundamental error. It throws doubt on everything else they build on that premise, or rather it would if they were genuine attempts at discussion rather than astroturfers and professional trolls.

There's probably interesting stuff to discuss about what the GPL means in some corner cases and Android vendors compliance, but this is just the latest in a long line of increasingly desperate PR moves in an underhand campaign against Android and should be read in that light.
That's pretty much my strategy but I have about 30 passwords I reuse for different things. Like you I have 1 for "my weekend project" signups, 3 or 4 for social or other information type accounts, 1 or 2 for non-banking financial stuff eg. PayPal 1 for each main bank account or credit card, one for each main email, then a couple for communications services, the onto unix machines, root passwords, passphrases, SSL certificates, each of those has a pool of 3 or 4 passwords I re-use regularly.

I probably couldn't list them all but the idea is that they each have a common "threat level" and I'm generally able to get the password right for things I use every week first go, then it might take 3 or 4 tries to get it right for services I use less frequently but I rarely have to use the forgotten password link.