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I wish my company and I were more portable. I'd leave CA too! I totally agree with this particulsr blog post.
I have the same, but then use sshuttle [1] for a quick secure connection. Only does TCP, but if that doesn't bother you you can get it set up in 2 minutes.

[1] https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle
[2] For Lion: https://github.com/thatha/sshuttle/blob/macos_10_7_only_hack...
If you have enough qualification points, and sometimes subject to a province's discretion, you can get a Canadian work permit without being sponsored, which can make it much easier to subsequently find jobs. From what I hear, applying directly to Alberta or Quebec via their provincial-level immigration offices is the best bet (with the latter it helps if you can say you know at least basic French).
I've had this setup for years now, and never accidentally done this.

Don't forget on a Mac you're much less often moving your mouse to the top right corner (window closing is on the top left of a window.

The further most icons are always the Apple on the left, and Spotlight on the right. Both of which I rarely open by hand. If I'm using Spotlight it's always by keyboard command Cmd-Space (though often I use Alfred instead).

And at least on a Laptop I rarely need to shutdown the Mac, which is all I'd use the Apple menu for. Though again, anything I'd go to that menu for I use Alfred for instead.

May be worth turning it on and see how you get on with it?
yeah its actually pretty slow compared to my vaio Z on Windows... and the energy saving drivers on Windows are poor at best on Macs. (by design, heh)

I am amused by the number of people who actually run Windows in // or vmware or vbox on their Mac cause they need apps that don't exist on Macs, or just have crappy support.
Likewise for Linux apps which they run on OSX that way because the so great OSX underlaying unix makes it too complicated to port a couple of CLI apps (not even mentioning the GUI apps - UI toolkits for OSX all look horrible)

Running OSX is actually just to be part of the hype.
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The REST interface is designed to be efficient for large-
grain hypermedia data transfer, optimizing for the common
case of the Web, but resulting in an interface that is
not optimal for other forms of architectural interaction.

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch... (Section 5.1.5)

When a link is selected, information needs to be moved
from the location where it is stored to the location
where it will be used by, in most cases, a human reader.

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch... (Section 5.2.1)

It certainly sounds like "human browsing" was the primary use case. Unless I missed something?
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I'd also add Uncovering static by Fairlight & Alcatraz as a good exmaple of what you can create in 64k
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Augmente is doing something like this: http://www.augmentedev.com/drupal7/content/new-video-summari...
i would say "education floor" is getting higher. very few jobs fully utilize human mental capacity.
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Thanks for your answer.

> I'm not sure what happens in terms of formal default if a borrower deliberately and aggressively inlfates away its debt faster than lenders can react by demanding higher interest rates at the next auction.

This is the reason why I asked my question(s). Why would the borrower ever aggressively inflate away its debt, as opposed to gradually inflating it away? If there is no definite point of default, the US is either defaulting frequently, or can never default.

I wonder what the definition of default is, and if it's an event or a process.
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I have no issue with people's personal preferences on screen ratio or social networking functionality but "so much lighter"?

It's 601g vs. 565g? That's 36g (the weight of 6 quarters), about 5%. Are you serious that that's a big deal?
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I used to think that the only possibly important metric of a page is how many sales it leads to, and with an A/B test you can prove which design is better and that is the end of discussion. I still mostly believe this.

Lately however I realized there is another metric which most A/B tests don't measure (but which perhaps could be measured). That metric is, if a person sees this variation of the page, how likely are they to tell people about the service.

For example if I include some sort of "human interest" content on my landing page such as my personal backstory on why I started the business, that might make it more likely to get mentioned in blogs. But such a backstory really doesn't mean much to people who are contemplating making a purchase and could hurt conversions. Not including it could deprive the landing page of thousands of leads. Including it could raise the conversion rate a bit, but there would be less potential customers to convert.

When a customer looks at the page, you are trying to make a sale. When a member of the media looks at the page, perhaps they would value different things, maybe in that case those site aesthetics would be more important.
Preventative customer support.

Your goal should be to minimize your customer support requirements. For the past two years I've treated every customer inquiry to my business as a bug requiring a fix.

If someone asks me for additional information about a product, I add a section to that product's description page or, alternatively, make the existing content clearer. If someone has trouble with a download, I improve the instructions sent with my payment confirmation email and perhaps increase the font size of the most critical links in the admin area. In-line instructions, such as those used by the 37 signals team, help greatly in this respect.

Over time this has worked and customer support requirements have dwindled, and with less emails to answer per day you can afford to be away from a machine for longer.
You cannot legally run OS X on anything other than Apple hardware. This gets really annoying when you want to set up a headless browser testing cluster because you can't virtualize any of the Mac OS's you might be targeting.
Depends on the user. DHH wrote an interesting piece on it saying that almost everything he did on iOS using the 10 basic apps and that everything else was pretty irrelevant.

For me that's not true. Of the dozen or so apps I use most often about half are standard, about half downloaded/purchased, so for me it would be a big deal but if what you want to do is surf the web, read e-mail and use a basic media player for photos and video then apps probably aren't a selling point and there's a big enough market of people like that out there.
I can personally confirm this. All the messages instructing people on where to go and what to do have been absent of Facebook and Twitter, but alarmingly frequent on BBM.
Robots don't have bank accounts.

But those who manufacture, sell and buy them do. And they won't be very eager to share the returns of their investment with the rest of the society, at least a capitalist society like the ones we have today.
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I hear a lot of bitching about food and gas prices for example here in Finland. Also very few people DON'T have a problem with some sort of bureaucrat, for example idiotic and incoherent health inspectors, bureaucrats deciding who gets subsidized etc.

The best way to deal with bureaucrats here is to catch them making a mistake and then using that to make them sign the papers. (Usually this involves following their orders until there is some kind of incoherence in them, and thus is costly if those orders involve eg. building/renovating something that is fine as is).

For some reason the favorite explanation nowdays is that the EU is in fault here, even though this crap has been going on before the EU existed.
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This article, like many articles on this topic, has a significant flaw: "Pay started taking off in the 1980s, at the beginning of the era of shareholder capitalism."

In fact, pay in the US started taking way off in 1986, and more or less stabilized in 1988. Coincidentally, there were major changes to the tax laws in 1986 which encouraged shifting income from corporate balance sheets to individual balance sheets.

(I.e., the CEO gets paid more, but doesn't get a company car.)

http://www.scottwinship.com/1/post/2011/03/what-would-it-mea...
Of course you shouldn't judge the character or quality of a professional with an A/B test, that would be ridiculous (although I can imagine people doing it).

BUT you should do A/B tests, if you do an A/B test with 1000k+ people and one design converts 20% more than the other, why on earth would you keep the other design? Just because the "professional" designer of the other design wouldn't feel bad?
It seems that the author isn't disaffected with A/B testing, but rather with improper implementations thereof. A/B testing is intended to be scientific, so it must therefore adhere to rigorous scientific principles of validity. Sure, there are those who implement it incorrectly, but a properly implemented A/B test should always have a (large) control group, against whom you can measure the purported improvements. Such complaints as A/B testing inherently fostering incrementalism that leads away from proper design can be countered by implementing a "proper" control at each stage. Similarly, his complaint of A/B testing being a binary proposition ignores the 0/1/many axiom of good engineering. An A/B test that forces the user to choose between two unattractive options is a stupid test. An A/B test that shows many options to be unattractive is a good test with a dissatisfying result.

Rather than question the underlying validity of the methodology, the author would be better served by questioning the validity of its implementation in the instances he's encountered.
Yes, I don't want anyone talking in the cinema while I'm watching a film, but I may want to talk about it afterwards.
Should also mention that the Mac visualizer them so damn slow.
Cause yeah Ive a 2011 high end mac. And Vmware, parallels or vbox, they're all slower than on Windows and Linux
Figures.

I'm virtualizing OSX on PCs, I don't care that Apple put a virtual limitation saying "you've no right to do that! its our software!".

It's just as broken as software patents. I pay for it, I use it as a please. Sue me.

Funny than when it comes from Apple its ok and good reason to buy a Mac tho. Imagine if Microsoft did that? Really, just imagine it one second and how bad you'd hate them.

Humans.
I don't really think that's pretty at all... The information is really awkwardly presented and that makes it difficult to parse.
"Pretty difficult to read IP Address lookup" you mean.
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Clearly not as good as http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/network-location/

Although you don't get the IPv6 stuff.
Reading this got me thinking about the sound signal schemes that traffic stop devices - sometimes the lights, sometimes the push button boxes - emit to aid those with visual impairment.

The Swedish system is a mechanical ticker placed inside the push button box, like a very loud clock that ticks slowly at one tick about every other second during red/yellow, and then picks up pace to about 7-8 ticks per second during green, cleverly aimed towards the listeners' intuition, telling them to "slow down" and "hurry across". I remember how this even served a good purpose and reminder for me as a kid, when I was too young, too impatient and too reckless to pay attention to the streeth lights - but the loud and clear sound signal and its intuitive meaning never escaped my attention.

What's used where you live?
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I think the purpose of the page was purely asthetics not functionality.
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Rockefeller in particular focused his social services on birth control to reduce overpopulation because he saw little value in human life at the bottom of society.

That's pretty interesting. Being European, I don't know much about US industrialists and US population policy. I'd like to learn more about this. Do you have books / articles you'd advise on this subject?
where in the excerpt katovatzschyn provides is klein's rhetoric "ridiculous"?

which of the claims in the excerpt are fabricated?

which parts of the excerpt suffer from "shoddy reasoning"?
I think A/B testing in relation to design is a bit like living by the dice (a la the diceman).

You only pick alternatives you'd be happy to see play out.
One important phrase: When it comes to computers, what hackers are doing now, everyone will be doing in ten years.

This really often explains upcoming trends in the computer / tech world.
Also remember that most economists are wrong. If you read any economist who cannot explain the works of John Maynard Keynes in lucid detail (regardless of whether they agree with him) you are dealing with someone who is an "authoritative fraud".

So pretty much the entire Chicago School.
Yes, I have a machine in Fremont. How were you notified? Email?
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Any book on computer graphics would be a good start for the graphics side.

I like 3D Computer Graphics by Alan Watt as an introduction and overview
http://www.amazon.co.uk/3D-Computer-Graphics-Alan-Watt/dp/02...

and Real-time Rendering for more advanced subjects
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Real-time-Rendering-Tomas-Akenine-Mo...

The session from Assembly 'The Basics of Demo Programming' is online and may also be useful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbcZyAO6K7c or have a look at The Demo Effects Collection
http://demo-effects.sourceforge.net/

But it depends what platform you want to use
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An Introduction to Programming C-64 Demos http://www.antimon.org/code/Linus/ and
http://codebase64.org/doku.php

Processing
http://www.processing.org/

WebGL
Browserscene: Creating demos on the Web
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZLqwXdXjqY

Deconstructing a browserscene demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOjWOA-iPnA

I have some more bookmarks on pinboard
http://pinboard.in/u:z303/t:demoscene/
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> Vendor mimetypes violate the Uniform Interface constraint

Nope.

> and the "no prior knowledge" constraint.

Only if you read no further than "no prior knowledge" and made up what it's supposed to mean on the spot.

Here's what "no prior knowledge" is:

> A REST API should be entered with no prior knowledge beyond the initial URI (bookmark) and set of standardized media types that are appropriate for the intended audience (i.e., expected to be understood by any client that might use the API). (http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hyperte...)

Vendor content types are the media types he's talking about. And according to fielding pretty much all of a REST service specification is spent defining media types:

> A REST API should spend almost all of its descriptive effort in defining the media type(s) used for representing resources and driving application state, or in defining extended relation names and/or hypertext-enabled mark-up for existing standard media types. Any effort spent describing what methods to use on what URIs of interest should be entirely defined within the scope of the processing rules for a media type (and, in most cases, already defined by existing media types).
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Pretty? Sorry but it looks more like one of those tag clouds. A big mess in my opinion.
How does someone with no money, no marketable skills, no way to afford education, no ability to exert physical power, continue to survive when the upper class only accepts appeals to their self-interest?

Appeal to enlightened self-interest is more powerful than appeal to someone's "better nature". Find the sweet spot where those two meet. It does happen (that those two things meet) and that's the target if you want meaningful, effective change. Rome had a policy of "bread and circus" -- to keep the masses fed and passively entertained in order to avoid rioting in the streets. I follow a similar policy in my household when facing difficult situations. It's very effective.
By definition, he was a famous ghostwriter.
Here is the change of Apple stock from 2005 to 2011:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=AAPL&a=08&b=7&c=...
"wants to be patriotic"?

it's easy for me to skip over this part of your comment, but the more i think about it the more it bothers me that i have absolutely no clue what you mean by that.

i agree with the rest of your comment by the the way.
I'm not sure what we're supposed to take away from this. BBM is the weapon of choice for the modern rioter? I confess I've never used the software - does it include special features to incite rioting?

Neither Blackberry, Twitter, nor Facebook fuelled the fire under London's riots, any more than the internet, radio waves, or electricity did. Violent, hateful people did that.
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Hey cool. Someone else actually knows about My Markdown Editor! I wrote #2. It's got some issues, and according to some feedback, it doesn't work on Lion (I haven't updated yet, so I can't test.)

As for licence, I should really add a note to that page. I guess BSD/MIT will do. Or GPL if you so desire :)
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'Enter' to rename is pretty insane also
I live in Brixton, where the 'riots' spread to last night. Didn't sleep very well, though the magnitude surprised me when I awoke (I'm now immune to sirens at all hours - the 'Brixton whistle' doesn't disturb me).

Definitely a degree of organisation and cohesion. When I went for milk this morning, people had smashed into Tesco and Lidl (big supermarket chains) but left all the independent grocers alone.

Overhearing the word on the street, there's not much more to be done in my area, but bigger targets (Oxford Circus in particular) will cop it tonight. Of course, the real BBM message may be different...
I knew someone who got a parking ticket because he filled his meter. All the cars next to him that didn't bother paying in the first place got nothing. We guessed that the expiring electronic meter signaled the nearest enforcement patrol, and they didn't bother to check neighboring meters that didn't send the "expired" signal.
"Instead we get a unsightly pastiche of uneven incrementalism lacking any kind of holistic cohesiveness or suggestive of a bold, vivid, nuanced vision that inspires users."

Uh, you lost me at that point. Try an A/B test by varying "holistic cohesiveness or suggestive of a bold, vivid, nuanced vision that inspires users" with "consistent design integrity that inspires users".
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What I took away from this article wasn't that BBM should be blamed (or, I guess, credited, depending on your point of view) for the riot, which is how some people seem to have read it.

For me it was basically a puff piece reminding us that, just because RIM has big problems, it doesn't mean their devices (and software on them) aren't popular. It just so happened that a big news story could be used to make that point, which is what gave the story enough traction to be worth writing at all.
Liked the down to earth tips.

Websites like this are really design products. If it's not graphic design, it's service design. The technical stuff is comes second.
Its a great question. Pretty sure its not nearly as much of a secret as the author thinks though. I've seen a detailed write-up before somewhere (HN?) and I'm not even a programmer by profession.
Actually, if we drop the Victorian mindset that people are innately criminals, we might look to the social and economic causes - massive unemployment amongst black youth, closure of youth services, almost complete political disenfranchisement - for something of an explanation of the riots.
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The question here is -- which jobs will remain longest. Is that "high IQ" jobs? Computers are wonderful at solving well-defined "high IQ" problems, like playing chess or performing register allocation. And creativity is just an ability to generate original solutions to the problem. Computers are more than capable of doing that.
The problem he's having is that good interview questions are getting busted, as people post solutions on the web.

If you have a lot of similar interview questions, then there's no way anyone other than a savant can memorize them without actually learning the theory.
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As a senior graphic designer / web developer:

A/B testing is massively useful, but often misused in business. Commercially its become a bit of a buzzword. Which has led it being badly implemented.

I think designers often get frustrated when A/B testing is applied to their designs post-brief.

Designing a website for A/B testing purposes is a completely different brief. You are designing a toolkit for testing purposes. So that the next version will be informed.

A/B is quite is lot more complicated than some people appreciate. Ive often seen people create two completely different designs and then sort of let them fight it out.
Yet they learn nothing from these experiments. There could of been elements that work well for certain persona's in each design!

Fundamentally, designer can be quite precious. They don't like criticism like this. After all its impossible to measure all the factors and how does one measure 'creativity'. Plus some will feel like this lowers there input. why not just throw all the elements in bucket and see which comes up trumps.

As a designer I love using this sort of testing. Design by data is a growing trend, that i think will get wider recognition. Sadly the A/B testing phase can create some slightly odd combination at first, but when you go back a re-design the page. You know its going to convert better.
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Oooh, nice, hadn't heard of that.