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> If a character is printable and doesn't conflict with symbols used in the language, how would you decide if it should be allowed?

I don't know what should be allowed or not, hence this question. I've only ever programmed in English. I have written tons of localization/Unicode software but the code itself was English. I can imagine there being lots of non-web programming languages in any number of natural languages but my question pertained to the web. If the code that runs the client end of a website must be in English, why allow it to accept non-ASCII characters in variable names? I guess what you're saying is, why not?
I have a friend who used to work at Apple. He jokes (I hope) that Steve Jobs pronounced (Mac OS X 10.2) "Jaguar" as jag-wire as a "prestige hypercorrection" to test the loyalty of his followers. If someone adopted his hypercorrected pronunciation, then he knows they are a sycophant. Though I'm not sure if that means the person should be trusted or ignored..
It could have been anyone who came within range of the wireless router with a smartphone. That could be a postal carrier, electric or gas company meter reader, UPS/FedEx delivery person, you name it.
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What's the "mothership"? I tried Chrome, FF, Opera and Safari - all of them showed my exact location.
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My after tax historical savings is a comfortable 15% to 20%, while taking a low salary (probably less than most here) and living in an expensive area (San Francisco).

I'm able to save more than most people my age simply by having low rent. I do just as many pricey activities as them, if not more. The only sacrifice I made was living in a slightly older house with some random craigslisters. (and in case you are wondering, I have a shorter commute than most (~5 minutes by car).

The remaining 30% of my expenses? Mostly trips, bars, the occasional high-end restaurant. If I sacrificed those, I'd feel like I was missing out on life. On the other hand, I feel like I lost almost nothing by getting an apartment $500 to $1000 cheaper per month than what my friends live in. That number is huge -- I can buy an ipad every other month and still be saving more money than them.
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python apps are not officially supported by Heroku, Looks like python app support is added for Facebook Apps to run on Heroku? (http://www.heroku.com/facebook)

However, heroku.com says "Run Anything" :)
If an Android phone has wireless location settings enabled, it will also report the locations of wireless access points to google. So someone with an android phone has seen your access point, and it has uploaded the position.
The more established IM services like AIM, MSN, or Gtalk already let you chat on your phone or desktop (or on someone else's desktop, from a browser!). Facebook's chat is just a less reliable clone of many existing products. It gets even less reliable if you connect to it over XMPP.
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> He's arguing that the government should not need to prop up confidence.

But that's the most important function of the government in any economy. I understand he is point: make the markets fail-safe and idiot-proof and there won't be a need for government to keep reassuring us that everything is fine. And that's precisely what I'm disagreeing about. I'm saying that is not how markets work. Things HAVE to have risk, things HAVE to go up and down. Government HAS to step up every now and then to reassure me that everything will be ok. Even if you remove all possibility of corruption and theft from both the markets and the government, I will still need the government to assure me because of the uncertainties and unknowns in any market-driven economy.
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We can only hope to be so circumspect after such an eventful career.
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I keep a key under my front door mat, unfortunately it no longer fits any locks on my house. Once in a while I check whether it has been moved...
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I listen almost exclusively to TechZing and 5by5's Back to Work[1] these days. Maybe mix in a Changelog[2] episode if I'm interested in the project being covered.

Back to Work isn't really tech or programming related, but both hosts do have tech backgrounds. They mainly talk about things like dealing with fear, workplace issues and personal productivity. There is humor and chemistry so I'd say it might be right up your alley. The first couple episodes aren't that good (it seems like they are circle-jerking each other until you get to know them), but stick with it till at least Episode 5 (one of my favorite podcast episodes ever).

If you find that you like Back to Work, maybe try Build & Analyze after.

Changelog has the technical detail, if you are looking for more of that. They seem to be releasing less often these days (or maybe I'm just not following it as closely) and the whole "we love sass, we love ruby" recurring theme is kind of annoying.

But I really love Tech Zing the most, so I'd be keen to find any other recommendations that are similar.

[1] http://5by5.tv/b2w
[2] http://thechangelog.com/
Although I love the idea of a completely consumptiom based tax system, one reason it will never happen is because:
"(you get to fire a bunch of government employees)"
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I just saw this getting launched at Startup Weekend Omaha.

Paper or Plastic gives you the perfect Ice Breaker. Never be afraid to to approach anyone again with this app on your phone!

http://paperorplasticapp.com/
I think Google's early success can be attributed to its ANDing of search terms, perhaps just as importantly as PageRank. If you searched for oatmeal cookie recipe, Alta Vista would search for oatmeal OR cookie OR recipe, but Google would search for oatmeal AND cookie AND recipe. Google's recent reversal is disappointing.
GIF's don't support alpha transparency, making them the opposite of practical for an effect like this.
Matt, I appreciate the heads up, I wasn't familiar with any of those and you are right, if a couple of hosts have great chemistry it makes up for the lack of tech so B2W sounds like it might be a good fit for me.

Thanks!
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It's a crapshoot though. Definitely look it up for each location. A lot of state laws include verbiage like "with the intent to commit a crime", while others word it such that possessing lock picks is the proof of intent, and where I am, there is no statewide law.
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The film opens with an global visitor extends for a dish at the airport, and then handling her credit card towards the waitress.
> 3. The debasement of the brand. I'm talking about the non-stop cutesy-pie logos. What if Coke did this?

Coke often alters their can designs for seasonal themes or movie promotions.
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http://s.dealextreme.com/search/lock+picks

They definitely don't care about our laws. Worst case scenario is customs snatches them, but that seems unlikely.
Just to correct the article - the bletcley park team did not discover how to crack enigma messages.

http://www.vectorsite.net/ttcode_08.html

" by 1934, the Poles were reading Enigma messages on a regular basis"
I think China in the 10's is a good counterexample.
Some iOS restrictions are obviously simply business driven, but fewer than you might think.

E.g. The "give us 30% and don't undercut" rule means that the user can buy from the app store without needing to price compare. The "no execution of outside code" rule means no platform subversion with the endless security issues this would bring.

If you stop thinking in terms of technical capabilities and start thinking in terms of the user's cognitive load, iOS is a huge step forward in terms of abstraction.
Google has been throwing shit against the wall for many years and most of it hasn't stuck and their core product, search, is still 95% of their business (and they're a juggernaut). I view Facebook in the same light. They are the dominate social network and have by far the most users. Right now they are throwing shit against the wall to see what sticks but it doesn't really matter. They've already earned the eyes and ears of almost 1 billion people and they will not fade soon.
Also I forget I wrote these posts:

http://swanson.github.com/blog/2011/05/16/podcast-roundup-ii...
http://swanson.github.com/blog/2010/10/28/podcast-roundup.ht...

It's got reviews for all the podcasts I've listened to in the past year.
Also Sknyliv: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sknyliv_airshow_disaster
ORMs leak abstractions? Yes. ORMs are an anti-pattern? Thats a little hard to swallow. As many people have pointed out on this thread, I use ORMs as just a tool to avoid writing the darned boilerplate code. As many times I have started writing simple code to abstract the boilerplate, I inevitably endup writing a half-baked ORM tool, at which point, I throw it and just use an existing one. The key advantage for me is not that it abstracts SQL, it does not do it at all, but that it abstract so many other unimportant details that I must solve to fix the "impedance mismatch" between two different systems - an OO language and a relational system. I use an ORM to do just that.
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You didn't get that I was not talking about the original author? That suggests you didn't read my original comment very carefully, nor my subsequent ones at all. I was talking about a common pattern in our culture right now (over the last two or three decades). It's interesting that although some people found what I wrote objectionable, no one actually disagreed with me about this.

Perhaps I should let you in on a secret: I don't really believe children should be neglected. That use of the term was ironic. What I believe is that we, as a culture, have redefined the healthy autonomy of children as "neglect" in order to justify our belief that they need parental attention all the time, for reasons that have little to do with children's real needs and a lot to do with us. My guess is that this is because we haven't grown up ourselves. Emotionally, in some important way, we're still children, and this causes us to think of our children as peers. Ironically, this means we're actually failing to fulfill the parental role for them even as we make parenting the central meaning of our lives.

By the way, all these ideas come from my own struggle to understand what it means to be a good parent, something I by no means claim to have mastered. I do believe that to do it well, it is vital to distinguish one's own fantasies about parenting (which are always self-centered) from the real requirements of the job.
> Another turning point in the last 10 years is that basically any PC made since 2000 will probably be sufficient for what most normal users want.

I bought a desktop PC back in 2001 that I used daily until early 2010. In those 9 years, I'd bought 5 other systems (laptops & desktops). I used the old system daily because it had all my "stuff" on it, it never felt slow for 90% of the work I was doing, and I had keyboard/mouse sharing with a newer system for the other 10%. I'm still amazed I used it for so long.
It is, but I would guess the majority of desktop users are in offices and will be just fine with the on-core CPU (keep in mind it is pretty powerful - the current ones are on par with medium-low range discrete cards, and Ivy Bridge's are likely to be much better).

What really is the percentage of gamers and video editors that need the high-end GPUs?
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I'm in Brazil and the same thing amazed me yesterday, through a service that was posted on HN that would let you see folks near you.
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Someone did a blind test with Yahoo, Google and Bing two years ago. Here's one of the HN discussions over it. IIRC things got shut down a few days later because of trolls.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=646101
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I agree that it does seem a bit vague. I get the idea of wanting to pique interest, but I'm also loathe to give you my e-mail address with so little information about what you mean by delivering internet justice.
I know a couple fund guys, and one in particular runs a really aggressive fund. His example sort of presents an exception to what you're saying, but it mostly doesn't for reasons you'll see in a moment.

I can't really discuss his strategies for producing double-digit-per-month returns, but suffice it to say, the money involved doesn't "scale". Further, it's to the fund's advantage from an institutional as well as an individual perspective to not "outgrow" their ability to maximize their returns on extant capital.

Their incentives are structured on returns and not money under management. They're also a purely private fund, it's almost entirely friends/family/registered investors that are somebody's cousin, etc.

They don't really need more money.

They just need nobody to notice how they're making their money.

Edit:

Worth noting as well that they're not part of the wall street scene nor are they based out of the greater new york area. They aren't into the marketing/sales side of running a fund, they're mostly programmer/quant/trader types that are in it for the numbers game.
1. I agree with the usually in this sentence

2. 1-2% monthly => 12-26% yearly, which isn't impossible or necessarily indicative of fraud. Though perhaps you're just saying that if things are too smooth that is a bad sign?

3. Agreed :)

4. If all investors thought this way, then it would be very possible to find such a strategy and not find enough money...

The article didn't seem to be about any of this though -- the author is talking about biases in the way that investors look at gearing -- because you can always invest less than your intended amount to reduce gearing, or more (by borrowing money yourself) to increase your gearing, the question of how much gearing should be used is a per investor question as well as a per fund question.

A point which doesn't seem to be addressed by your points here.
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A lot of the Waldorf style schools (http://www.whywaldorfworks.org/) seem like this in the US. I went to a "multi-year" school where my classes were K-3 and 4-6. They were very much rooted in "pace" based learning instead of year based, and had very unstructured styles. i.e.: k-3 had no desks, and we had workstations and a "daily plan" to plan our own curriculum.

Right now we're researching pre-schools for my son and consequently other schools. It's super stressful. I want him to have a great holistic education and with California's school district the way it is, that rules out most public schools.
Pretty nice, but it appears that whatever method is used to generate the pulse, it causes the CPU utilization of the Desktop Windows Manager (dwm.exe) to shoot up to about 10-15% when using Chrome.
Been working from home for six months and this echoes a bit too painfully close to the truth. My wife kicks me out daily right now.
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I'm looking at the pictures of your office and thinking you're being penny wise and pound foolish.
Agreed, I was very interested until I discovered the only option to sign up for future notification was nearly complete access to Facebook. I would love to get future invites but it would be great if there were alternatives for signing up.
This is very interesting. I will be watching this project.
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Funny, because that seems to be the driving logic behind features like Instant.

We've heard from several of our clients, unprompted, about how much they hate Google Instant. They're about as average as everyone else.
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Nice. When will I be able to work in one tab without another able to slow it to a stop?
Oh, do I ever remember jamming pluses in front of all my search terms. So annoying.

When I switched early to Google, I would chuckle at people who said "search for +firefox +windows +download". Because I didn't have to do that anymore, I used Google. Google knew.

Now I'm back to defensive plus-prefixing. It's kind of depressing.

This is the kind of thing upon which public opinion can turn. If someone claims "I'm worried Google is getting dumber", you can understand that perspective because you've had this experience.

That kind of loss of confidence can ping-pong among influential folks, turn into a trope for news stories and then become conventional wisdom.

Search quality is not just about results, it's about the overall experience. I know Google knows that, but this is an example of how closely they need to guard against regressions.
Are these repeat refunds or just one-time customers? Also, are you sure of the reason for the refunds is what is bothering you and not that the money from the sale was already spent?
For this specific issue to be relevant, your sanitizer would have to assume that a particular string is not a valid javascript identifier when in fact it is, and that changes the semantic meaning from something that is safe to embed directly into something that is not.

Unless you're trying to parse Javascript and see whether it's safe to embed, it's not really relevant. XSS attacks are dealt with by escaping the special characters that can change the context in which something is interpreted (e.g. " changing the context from "contents of a string" to "javascript code", or < changing the context from "text on a page" to "an html tag").
Skyhook. They used to be the world's largest database of wifi MAC->GPS mapping. Apple us building their own (as is Google and probably many others), but they are probably still handing some queries (and data) over to Skyhook when their own database is found lacking.
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Firefox 5+ supports CSS3 animations and transforms with the -moz prefix. A quick replace all in pulse.css gets the animation working fine.
I finally upgraded last weekend myself. I can definitely feel the speed over 3.6

Newest firebug and web developer definitely works with it.

The Status-4-Evar extension was a lifesaver though and I am still doing dozens of little tweaks.

This extension will allow all "incompatible" extensions to be activated and tested

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compat...

and I found this one a must to return to dialogs instead of tabs for all the management

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> To argue that we can somehow replace this very right-brained activity with crowd-sourcing or algorithms is untenable.

For now maybe. Ten years ago if you asked me if I'd spend 2 hours watching a movie because a computer said so, I'd laugh. Netflix recommendations, while not perfect, are still very good. Had I not told Netflix that I loved District 9, it would not have suggested Torchwood: Children of Earth to me. Had it not suggested Torchwood, I wouldn't have discovered that Doctor Who was back on air. Right now I get about 50% of my entertainment discovery done via algorithms. Sure, fashion is difficult and subjective but I don't see it as being any different from music or entertainment in the big picture sense.

Btw, that was a very well-written article. Thanks for sharing.
The best example of a fashion startup I've seen is Indochino (www.indochino.com). They were faced with many of these issues and have gone and taken full control of their end to end supply chain. They are selling "physical fucking product" but they are making it more personalized and custom tailored (pardon the pun), direct to the customer. I don't have much need for wearing a suit these days, but the moment I do, they will be the first and only place I go.

In the beginning they even offered education to their customers around things like 1) selecting the right suit for the occasion 2) various types of ties/ways to tie a tie 3) type of cuffs, etc. They seem to have gotten rid of the education aspect of the business but I found it really helpful as someone who like fashion but doesn't know much about it.
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Ideally we'd have languages impedance matched to making assertions and queries in the logical language of relations. Prolog? (Googling "Prolog SQL" turns up this Stack Overflow discussion about translating Prolog to SQL http://stackoverflow.com/questions/724377/prolog-to-sql-conv...)
What an odd blog post!

I've been on the Bing Ads side for the past two years. I overlapped with Philip very briefly at MSFT. When I started, he was working in a group that had nothing to do with Bing. I had a couple pretty positive email exchanges and generally thought highly of the guy, but certainly didn't know him well.

Today, out of the blue, about a year after he left MSFT, he writes a scathing critique of a culture that he hasn't been a part of for 3+ years (I don't honestly know when he was at Bing), and writes about it in the present tense without any clarification that the events are in the past. On his Facebook post, Philip comments that the test director incident happened 5 years ago. His blog reads like it happened last week.

Qi Lu joined MSFT less than 3 years ago to take over Bing and all of online services. When Qi took it on, it was called Live Search. It had been losing market share every month for years. Since Bing launched, it's market share has risen every month. It's quite possible that the culture Philip worked in was every bit as broken as he describes. But the team I work in, I can speak to it being a fantastic place to work now. Qi has been upgrading the talent top down and now I find it filled with very smart people making real progress, both in the quality of the search engine, and in the market share gains over the past two years.

Are there still some political people? Of course, every large organization has them. But the company Philip writes about doesn't sound like the one I work in.

Obvious disclaimer about the fact that I'm a current employee and thus biased.
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The low volume & high margin fashion site probably has a good chance of being successful as long as it carries recognizable and fashionable brands. The reason I say that is that sites like Net-a-Porter and MrPorter (which probably are mid volume) seem to be doing quite well based on the few articles I've read. Below is just one in case anyone is curious.

http://www.nypost.com/alexa/p/the_top_shop_2HqqVcU4pRZJisg0N...
To date 7280 people have linked their Google+ accounts to Twitter using our service. We check these accounts for new Public posts every 10 minutes which represents a significant number of data points

If anyone thinks this is in anyway indicitive of Google+ usage they are fooling themselves.

Google has deliberately tried to build Google+ as a standalone product (as opposed to Buzz, which encouraged Twitter etc integration). That's a much slower path to take, but from what I see (in terms of in-depth conversations on Google+ itself) it's being quite successful.
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