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I've made countless attempts at fashion over the past 20 years, but it's always ended in failure. The fact that people say my father dresses poorly (and I can't tell why) has been incredibly discouraging.

Another poster mentioned that striped shirt with striped pants is a no-no. Why is that? Also, why are certain colors considered to "match" and others not? It seems completely arbitrary.
Why not just put an explicit version number directly in the Gemfile. Seems easer than vendoring the gem and bloating the repo (unless you're worried about old versions being yanked from rubygems).
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Ha, oops. I don't know how I managed to mix up vaccine and cure - my brain must be asleep. Thanks for pointing it out.
[citation needed]

First I've ever heard of anything like this.
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What the fuck?

Are these the same scientists who don't believe in global warming?
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Even today reviewers run the risk of having their reviews made public, since nothing prevents the author from disseminating it. They are however normally anonymous.
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That certainly is the common point, however (provided the patient is strong enough to survive the additional initial strain) shouldn't it also kickstart an immune response in patients who are already infected? And once that starts, shouldn't that likely help fight the infection?

I don't know myself, I know next to nothing about medicine.
I liked "EVERYONE CARE AND TALK ABOUT PRODUCT YOU WIN". Kind of reminds me of when ma kid brother had literally droped out of school and we as a family seemed to care and talk about him now he just graduated from Uni. He won and we won.
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Well, how much do you value your time, per hour? And how much time does it take you, on average, to find a decent .com domain name and a decent temporary logo? You don't seem to include that in your calculation - unless your time is free, or you're really amazing at finding domain names. In which case, you could be making a mint.
I don't think anyone has broken the million mark to be fair. BuyDomains is probably the closest, but even they haven't broken it afaik.

As far as blackballing, I can think of one super well known tech figure who came from the domain industry - Michael Arrington.
There is no freaking lesson here, at least not so soon. Because they refuse to revert back, they possibly don't even know how to revert back. It's a major screw up in the history of Internet. Delicious has been doomed for long but people still use it, because browser bookmarking just sucks.
I was with you right up to the point where you backed Apotheker. I'm not convinced that the iPad or Kindle Fire markets (I also view them as somewhat separate) have to be one-horse races.
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Shouldn't this be more of a temporary problem? As soon as there is a vaccine its patents will expire at least 20 years afterwards. And then lots of much cheaper vaccines will flood the market.
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I've heard it before... unfortunately. It is well within "nutjob territory".

It's a fair statement to say that no credible scientist in the field honestly believes this.
Why should the reviewers feel unconfortable? In the current system, reviews are made available to the paper writers, and that doesn't seem to inhibit the reviewers, despite the fact that one often has a good idea of who the reviewers are, especially in the more niche fields of science.
Mmmhmm ... I actually wrote what I thought was a fair article describing the current state of Android vs. iOS and ended with a call for Android to become awesome enough for me to switch. That's not "Android sucks, haha."
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My local Staples sells Kindles. I would suggest digging a physical one up and flipping through it for a while.
'Next generation of Maemo' is just speculation based on the Meltemi name. The current version is called Harmattan, and these both are names of winds.
I'm sure Neolithic tribes liked a good quarrel as much as anyone, and the models do scale down. My group of brutes has a charismatic, fairly specialized leader with good tactical skills and huge biceps; he imparts clear, undisputed commands on the battlefield and knows how to plan a nightly raid on your women. Your group of brutes is a bunch of equal individualists, with no real specialization and where each brute does his own thing, resulting in endless diatribes about "why should we defend your cave and let my cave get raided?". Maybe you have an outstanding hunter, but he can't leverage the others as easily and effectively as my uber-leader... until the tribe is so beaten down and numbers are dwindling so much that they cave in to the hierarchical model and let Best Hunter be the boss.

I'm generalizing here, but there's so much we don't know about those times...
I'm not sure about global warming, but last time I read about this there was an overlap between HIV->AIDS "deniers" and Holocaust "deniers".

Then again, Michelle Bachmann can speak in a public forum and decry an HPV vaccine as "slut juice" and the next day cite revoked not-even-psuedo science as vaccines causing mental retardation, so I think there's something to be said for some scientific opinions or observations being more sound than others.

(ie: the ones that actually employ the scientific method with some genuine modicum of effort.
I absolutely agree with you.

I appreciate the author's advice, though I have a hard time imagining 3 or 4 cofounders doing fundraising when there isn't someone calling him or her self "CEO."

(I personally take no special pleasure in calling myself CEO. If it confers more ability to control my destiny, then great; anything beyond that is an ego game that no startup founder has time to play.)
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This claim is made by a discredited minority. 'Many' is quite the overstatement.
I'm confused by the statement that a vaccine would not be a game changer in terms of worldwide infection. Right now, the only way to reliably prevent HIV infection is through changing behavior, which is extremely difficult. But widespread use of a vaccine would just require a one-time injection, which is relatively easier.

I'm further confused by your polio reference, because that sort of effort would only be possible with a vaccine.
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I'm pretty sure the author meant hepatitis, which is much more similar to HIV in many regards, and now effectively “solved”, although the global vaccination program is still underway.
Your thought process was exactly the same as mine!

Maybe they need to bring in a UX consultant. :)
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Once i typed a document on a bus on my android phone. Laptops wud feel awkward for me and probably hurt my neck. If there was a good IDE app (for android) on which i could hack a lil python i probably wud....most text editors i have tried are not so good.
That said, i think commute time is great for mash ups, and reading stuff: documentation, books etc.
Pretty much every country on the planet mandates the possibility of Legal Intercaption capability for telecom equipment - the required intercepting capacity might vary though from country to country so no sale can happen unless it's provided.
And with any luck by that time everyone who has it but refuses to seek treatment will be dead, and everyone else will have been exposed to years of news about the vaccine.. and years of people refusing to take it dying.

I think things should work out well in the end, but it might take a while.
sdks and a cut from app sales via a samsung app store. ???
I didn't say it was a better product - I said it's because consumers feel it's a better product (implicitly, a better product for them). I don't want one smartphone to rule them all; I want a smartphone that suits my needs. I'm often frustrated by Android fans who accuse me of buying an iPhone just because of the brand. An iPhone suits my needs better so that's what I bought. If Android was the best option for me, I would have bought one of those.
What are we supposed to do with Google+?
Why? He's basically selling only to teachers.

Sixty/forty or thereabouts, actually. There's also Fortune 500 companies, people planning a birthday party for grandma, a whole mess of ladies planning baby showers (baby shower bingo is A Thing), assisted living communities, churches, NGOs, and if I remember correctly every branch of the military.

I emphasize the teaching bit when talking about BCC because that's how I thought about it, that's generally how I think about it, and it makes a very good story, but it isn't 100% of the business
You can not like Oracle and still like money...
I heard about this when reading the (non-peer reviewed) journal Medical Hypotheses

http://hivskeptic.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/official-italian-...

However, the article was withdrawn by Medical Hypotheses later

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2009/09/pity_poor_peter_du...
It was a late 80's / early 90's thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duesberg_hypothesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_denialism#History
Both companies are full of super-smart people, but they're too busy building cool things. This kind of stuff is what happens when you let the MBA's take over.
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Not specific to the GNOME environment, but some people might want to check out dzen if they are interested in piping CLI commands to their desktop.

http://sites.google.com/site/gotmor/dzen
Not to be pedantic, but is it the case this would only be a single injection? I believe that some vaccines can need repeat/regular treatments over a (relatively short I think) period of time.

If that were the case here it would make vaccination much harder, though still possible of course.
No, it's pretty easy. An example:

local doc = ngx.location.capture( "/couchdb/hamster/"..uid );

This queries the local CouchDB for a particular user record, and stores it in a local variable.
I really don't see the benefit of having a distinct office. I do my programming job from:

1. Anywhere in my house, depending on which
location feels right at any given time.
2. Restaurants, coffee shops
3. Hotels
4. From moving cars (while not driving, obviously)
5. From tractors way out in the middle of a field
6. In friend's living/dining rooms
7. Decks, porches, patios, picknick tables
8. You name it, I have probably tried it

As I mentioned in my other post, working at the times you are mentally fit for the job is far more important than any other factor. The only thing that leads me to distraction is burnout. I find that if I work when I am fresh, there is no temptation to do anything else.
The tough part about vaccines is that they only protect the recipient from the disease if they get the vaccine, and they only eradicate the virus if everyone on the planet is vaccinated. The Science (making the vaccine) and cost (creating enough vaccine) are only two barriers. Getting everyone (and it really must be EVERYONE) to take the vaccine is a very challenging project. That's what makes the story of [edit: smallpox] so fascinating.

Here's a relevant TED Talk about pandemics: http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_brilliant_wants_to_stop_pande...
What about browser compatibility? The article doesn't mention how well font icons hold up against different versions of IE.

Does anyone know?
That's a fair point, but I still think that's an order of magnitude easier than changing life-long behavior regarding sex partners.
Evolve it to something else. I 'm sure you got lots of ideas and little energy, but hey this is the internet.
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Shouldn't this be more of a temporary problem? As soon as there is a vaccine its patents will expire at least 20 years afterwards. And then lots of much cheaper vaccines will flood the market.

I think his point is that much of the problem of preventing the spread of HIV has less to do with the science of killing the virus, and more to do with the difficulty of actually getting it in the hands of people who need it. There are already very cheap, readily-available ways of preventing HIV transmission (condom use comes to mind), but people aren't using those. The reasons are varied, but some cite misinformation, cultural misconceptions, government ineptitude, and so on. Even if there were a 99% effective HIV vaccine that were as cheap as water, it still wouldn't make it into the hands of every person in the developing world. Proof of that is the fact that we can't even get water to all of these people.
It uses CSS pseudo elements, it's not in the markup.
well this product looks to be promising but what we need to see is what is being offered. promises have been many, but how many of them are delivered is to be seen. production problems might be seen and $35 tag might be for short duration of time and then no one knows how much will the govt. earn from all this :P
I can understand why hardcore lovers of the old Delicious are upset at the "changes". Change can be really tough if you've stuck with a site through that many years. But in the end, the old Delicious isn't changing - it's dead. What now exists is an entirely new site under the delicious coat of arms. What users dont understand is that there is no "going back". It's upsetting that your beloved site is dead, but mourn and move along - any attempt to revive it is folly.

AVOS is ultimately at fault here. They didn't want to hurt the feelings of the Delicious old guard, so they made it sound like everything was ok. But everything -wasn't- ok with the product those users fell in love with, it was being obliterated. The best thing AVOS can do now is help users come to terms with the present reality.

Ultimately, the re-launch was the right move - the delicious of 2004 cant survive in today's web. But AVOS's communication around the transition just wasnt frank enough. They should have just held a funeral.
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No worries. I get mixed up every day.
Yes, he is known for this kind of thing. Works for him apparently and has been for many years. It's not like he is able to 'fail' in a lot of senses of the word anymore; he is rich beyond believe, he has great business sense, he is a winner on a number of levels. Why would he care about anything, especially anything said in the tech community?
So your saying that it's like every other software project ever made ;)
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My “backing” was rather faint praise, given that it was served with the weasel phrases “Beginning to think” and “May have been.” I definitley agree that every market has room for a strong number one and a scrappy number two. There are good arguments to be made that someone is going to carve out a living as the scrappy number two tablet manufacturer.

Could it have been HP thanks to WebOS? RIM thanks to their co-called Enterprise strength? Samsung thanks to their manufacturing prowess? (see excellent comments elsewhere in this discussion...) Maybe. Tough business, tough call.

I’d like to think that the scrappy number two able to sell around Apple’s price point will have something innovative to offer. It might be none of these companies, it might be a hardware startup with some special sauce, or an entirely new approach to software.

But then again, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride. Maybe HP should have doubled down on WebOS.
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Both Amazon and Samsung Electronics have unique advantages in the tablet market (e.g. Samsung makes the iPad's CPU), and their market capitalizations are similar. Calling one an elephant and the other a chicken implies a difference of impact of about three orders of magnitude.
I think it's appropriate to have a title on a business card or whatever that describes your role in a meaningful way. "Principal", "Founder", etc.

Corporate titles sound silly in small businesses -- I had my driveway sealed by the "President and CEO" of a driveway sealing business the other day.

People in contact with customers should have flexibility or use multiple titles. If you're trying to get an audience with a Managing Director or a Deputy Commissioner in government, shitty titles won't cut it. An "Account Manager" won't get past a secretary, but "VP of North American Sales" might. In other contexts, the dramatic title is a liability.
May I ask why you were paying below average? The average has always been what I would call "ridiculously low" and, except for some form of financial hardship, I don't understand what good reason there is for not ponying up a more respectable amount.
I personally wouldn't cite margins as the biggest visual flaw, but rather alignment in general, followed by contrast.

The very first screenshot on the page is a very awkward dialog: http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/gnom...

* "Use this account for" runs uncomfortably close to the account list. It looks bad. Couldn't they just put that whitespace on the right to use?

* The switch labels (Mail, Calendar...) are aligned with the Email Address label, but the switches themselves aren't aligned with the email value (ovitters@...). The implicit grid is broken.

* Someone was too lazy to style the email address in the selected state of the account list (dark gray on medium blue). There's not enough contrast to easily read it.

http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/gnom...

* This is the Contacts app whose sole purpose is to view a person's details. Why are their only details (Away, mail@example.com) the tiniest words on the screen?

* Letter placement in the contacts list (A, C, D) looks reckless and noisy. Horizontally, its margins are not equal. Vertically, it appears arbitrary. It would look better if they were horizontally centered and vertically on the baseline of the contact's name.

* The letters (A, C, D) also have too much contrast; they should be lighter. They're a visual hint, not an area of focus.

http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/file...

* Why is the filetype selector only wide enough to show "PDF Docume..."? There is a ton of space.

http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.2/figures/colo...

* None of these buttons have enough padding around the label when compared to the buttons in other dialogs.

* Why are the lower buttons all squished together?

Most of these can't be fixed by theming, because they were caused by the dialog creators themselves. In short, there is a lack of attention to detail. :)
EDIT: I actually meant smallpox when I was talking about polio. That's a big error; corrected it above. Thanks rdl.

I should have been more specific - I meant that if we did develop a vaccine, then it makes following the [smallpox] example theoretically possible, but this is still extremely challenging due to the reasons given.

Although you and I might have the vaccine, not everyone has it - not by a long shot - because not everyone is born in a modern westernized hospital. These people are protected by virtue of an extreme mobilization to literally isolate every single instance of the virus. It (hopefully) only exists in the lab at this point.
Why innovate if Google can just steal everything they do?

I have no doubt many of the tens of thousands of patents MS has are stupid, obvious and wrongly awarded. However, tens of thousands of patents also speaks to no small amount of real innovation.
Ahh, but here's the deal: The way the Nginx Lua module is written, you store everything in local variables. Those stay consistent across yields, and are tied to a single invocation of the Lua function.

So except for things you should EXPECT to change (like the state of a database you're querying) between calls, the "world" you (as a programmer) should care about stays perfectly consistent.

Unless I'm not understanding what you're asking -- is there some situation that I haven't encountered where the state of something that isn't a local variable matters?
This is both scientifically inaccurate and potentially murderous. Rejecting science when it comes to things like evolution is an annoying tic, but whatever. What you're saying, though, is a stance that's literally killing millions of people in Africa.

Before you say these things lightly, think about it for a few minutes.
>> putting the damn product in the damn box (seriously? This is considered copying?)

There is a considerable amount of thought that goes into how a product is packaged an unpackaged. It is extraordinarily disingenuous to claim that all that is being copied here is "putting the damn product in the damn box." I can think of approximately 20-30 ways that a tablet can be packaged (and surely you've opened just as many products in your life time), and a five-sided cover revealing just the product is only one of them.

It's a common theme emerging on HN that these trademark disputes constitute "obvious" design choices. It bears mentioning that it is possible to verify the solution of an NP problem in P time. That doesn't make the solution obvious.
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>need to be able to do my work on windows but would like to have a unix terminal around in the background.

I am running ubuntu now this way. But you have to be either in the ubuntu environment or the windows one....not both.

However http://www.andlinux.org/ should solve this.
The thing is there are already millions of dollar per university library going into paying for serials. Publishers make a huge profit. So the real issue is finding a model where universities can more effectively redirect that money towards open access. However I'll be the first to admit that getting universities cooperate even if it's in their collective interest is no simple task.
> Samsung is selling a silly amount of smartphones, their sales growth recently is astonishing. Since tablets are fundamentally the same components with a bigger screen, (and again, those components are by and large made by Samsung) I really wouldn't count them out.

I'm also betting on them, I mean, they were the ones (together with LG) who almost took Sony out of the flat-screen TV business (Philips has already left that market) so they know what they're doing.
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Ask anyone who has HIV whether they'd trade it for herpes.
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Samsung didn't say that, so don't make it sound like it's a quote from them.
“We wanted to give them a chance to do the right thing.”

Like pay them a lot of money or change their designs? It's not like Apple reaching out would make Samsung say "great, awesome!"
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