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He might be in the minority here, but he's clearly not in the minority outside of this site. There's a reason why folks still expect certain types of dress for churches, interviews, nice restaurants, etc. When you put on a nice suit to go attend a friend's wedding, you're doing that as much as a sign of respect for him and the other guests as any other reason. The same is true, although perhaps not as dramatically, in every day life.

If I'm going out to dinner with my girlfriend, and I dress like crap, yeah, I'd argue that's frankly disrespectful to her. It sends the message that I don't care what she thinks, or I don't think it matters. I'd dress up on a first date when I hardly know her... to not do it now, years later, would send the message that I don't care as much as I did that first day.
> Given the $200 price point, I think that there may be an oppotunity for BN to make a large mainstream splash if it allows greater flexibility in the NC (including fully integrating Android Market).

Good point. It might not have been possible before, but it might just be that Google will feel threatened enough by the Fire to want to help out a competitor and let them officially use the Google apps. It would certainly make it a no brainer for me. Of course, it might be a dumb decision for BN (Android Market => install Kindle App => no need to buy books from BN any more)
How do you account for wasted time out of curiosity? Do you just find 1 (or a few) places you always go to or how many hours per month do you waste searching for somewhere to work?

The location is definitely a factor, I was driving to a metro and then metroing in - it took between 1-1.5 hours. Then I just started driving at off peak times and it's much faster.
Open source projects vary in 'openness', especially with the recent popularity of companies releasing open source products but strictly controlling them, which makes them less attractive for 3rd parties to depend on.

The Apache Foundation goes to a lot of work to make sure that open source project operate in a certain spirit, they encourage to have a diverse set of committers (so they arent all from one company), they also provide some insurance on the legal side of things
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I need to hire programmers for my startup and I'm not sure how to tell if the people I interview are any good at it. I would like to create a 20 question test with 5 questions in each of these languages. PHP, JAVASCRIPT, AJAX, and MYSQL. Can you help by giving me a question and correct answer for any one of these languages? I will use your questions to compile the test, difficult but not impossible would be great. Thanks in advance to those that participate!!!
Yeah it needs a few things done before it can become usable. Get rid of the assumption knowledge = frequency of keyword. Normalize the data. Account for population differences.

Would also be nice if you could pan around but it looks like the code relies on a static image.
If you want to include in your page source things you want to dynamically display, such as error messages or tooltips or confirmation messages – without having them show up in Google† – consider using the `<script type="text/html"> ... HTML ... </script>` trick. Then you can grab the content via e.g. `.innerHTML` and place it in your lightbox or use it for templating, etc. See also: ICanHaz.js.

For the opposite – showing text to search engines and screen readers, but not visual browsers' end-users – position the content off-screen. http://webaim.org/techniques/css/invisiblecontent/#technique...

† I haven’t explicitly tested that search engines ignore contents of script tags w.r.t. indexing, but would be extremely surprised if the assumption was shown to be false.
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By trimming all HTTP resource requests down to one SPDY request that hits a massive cached source on AWS, I can imagine it might be considerably faster.
Higher = slower traffic, the original map used 4 colors to show traffic speed, I kept those colors and made corresponding heights.
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This line of thinking ("netbooks offer more capability for less money") makes sense to some customers, but not to many others: Apple is predicted to sell ~40 million iPads this year.
One of the things that I really liked about my first generation Kindle was the big buttons on the edges for page turning.

It meant that on cold nights, I could read holding the Kindle through my blanket in bed, and could turn pages just be bumping the side through the blanket with my other hand.
Una de prensa antimadridista
Ya hace algún tiempo, al inicio de este blog, dedique una entrada al "maravilloso mundo del antimadridista". La verdad es que no era una entrada que hablara en realidad nada de lo que no sepa casi cualquier fiel seguidor madridista, pues este es un tema bastante viejo, pero había que empezar a dar contenido a esto y tal.

Por contra en estos tiempos que corren nos ocupa una tendencia un tanto mas novedosa, incluso mas sutil, el de la prensa antimadridista. Seguramente alguno de vosotros estaréis pensando, 'novedosa mis cojones', pero no, no me refiero a Sport o Mundo Deportivo, todos sabemos ya que esos medios mas que a cubrir la actualidad del Futbol Club Barcelona se dedican a despotricar del Real Madrid. Yo me refiero al antimadridismo o como muchos ya lo definen pseudomadridismo que existe dentro de la propia prensa catalogada como madridista y los medios supuestamente neutrales
The parent post explicitly states that he's talking about "dressing well" vs "dressing formally" (weddings, etc).

Also, he's not talking about dressing to the appropriate level to the social task at hand; he's talking about dressing to the appropriate level, but "poorly". That's a lot like a gym-goer looking down his nose at anyone whose abs aren't as ripped as his.

People as superficial as that don't even get the time of day from me, let alone respect.
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That doesn't make a ton of sense; Google's use of the "Android" trademark is closer to the OSG's use of "UNIX" than to how "Linux" is used.
It sounds like the legal insurance may be one of the bigger drivers in this instance. I find it rather maddening that a clothing chain has problems with the PhoneGap name - there's absolutely no chance of consumer confusion here.
In fact the portion of the map shown includes a minority of the world's population.
Some time ago Ask The Pony blog made a detailed tutorial on deploying Django on Heroku and how to make it perform 8 times faster than usual using some nice tricks: http://www.askthepony.com/blog/2011/07/getting-django-on-her...
Don't conflate "expensively dressed" with "well dressed." Well-dressed does not have to be expensive. And there is always lots of really bad fashion for ridiculous prices.
At the very least ask them to oblige with the terms of the NDA immediately.
Formally ask them, using the official communications methods and cc with email, to return everything to you and to verify to you that they have not distributed them to anyone else and that they have destroyed all existing copies. Do it ASAP.
Formally request that they do not use information they have acquired from you under the NDA in any of their businesses.
This is pretty standard stuff for a decent IP lawyer.
That does not imply that: 1) those same people would have bought a netbook had the iPad never come out and 2) those people view it as a laptop replacement.
Of the 10-or-so iPad users I know (all from different industries), about half of them use it as a replacement for a laptop, but not necessarily as a desktop replacement.

Anecdotal, yes, but compelling in that those it's a replacement solution for have been strongest in their iPad evangelism.
Good point. But I wonder what kind of percentages of "hobbyist" programmers vs. "paycheck" programmers there are in different countries.
For who's definition of "better"? If I remember correctly, put this on was the blog who did a video about "proper" jeans (i.e. unwashed, indigo, able to stand on its own). There are still a lot of people who would consider jeans of any form to be out of the question for anyone not needing them for work…

Never mind that you're most likely sitting in an office alone or with co-workers all day. Why would you dress up like a lawyer when you have no contact with clients? Getting a dozen suits is quite expensive, never mind the laundry costs. It just strikes most engineers as quite ineffective.

"It's not for others, it's for your own self-esteem!" Really? That sounds a lot like the argument a car salesman would make. So me riding around on a bike is a bit childish, too? Yes, suits, cars, toupees, escorts – all might help a few people, but aren't we fighting symptoms instead of root causes here?

I'm in my thirties now, and I understand the pressure/urge of "dressing like a grown up". I do have some saddle-stitched shoes, English shirts and a few suits (most of it a bit too big, as I've lost a few pounds recently). I'm aware that "woot" shirts don't flatter anyone's physique…

But trying to fit in by dressing a certain way isn't exactly the epitome of growing up (one might argue about that). So dress up nice if you think that particular style makes you look better (and there is a certain evolution of mens wear…).

I just disagree that you a) have to, and b) about what to wear. In my opinion chinos + dress shirts are hardly better than t-shirts and jeans, so that seems hardly worth it. And well-tailored suits are quite high maintenance in comparison and difficult to choose.

TL;DR - That's why I'm wearing my Star Fleet uniform all the time.
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Well, a few seconds unless someone goes and feeds you a worst-case puzzle like the one in that wikipedia page anyway. (Yes, that is an entirely valid sudoku with a unique solution. In theory it can even be solved by hand quite easily by applying a simple set of rules. I checked both of these, though not manually.)
For java development? I don't have a recommendation really. I've tried Intelli-j and I think it is def. better but at least for my workflow at the paying job, eclipse's notion of project works out much better.
I think you should trial run every employee before hiring them full time if possible. Sales people can lie about their qualifications just as much as any hacker. In fact, it might be easier because the hacker's work is most likely to be publicly online.
Ok, I see your point. Still, I can't help but feel like your original counterargument (and the position of the journals) is similar to the argument that getting hit in the head every day with a spoon is better than getting hit every day with a club. It's a tactic used by the copyright industry, for example. They'll say, "Don't like being sued for $1.92mil? How about we shut off your Internet access instead?" Internet disconnection seems a lot less bad than being sued into oblivion, but it's not the only other option (e.g. copyright owners could leave TV shows on Hulu and Netflix instead of teasing with one season, then taking them down).

So to sum up, I'm just trying to avoid and counteract the use of some rhetorical techniques I find off-putting, such as

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Door-in-the-f...

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/False_dilemma
I agree in principle, having been through the process with a huge company looking at us, walking away and then launching a competitor site soon afterwards. They out-executed us due to a number of factors, in particular as they already had scale.

A request to abide by the NDA is about all you can do, and in our case it wasn't really ever going to make a difference.
See also this earlier discussion about attempting to find an inexpensive alternative to the Aeron: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=585693 . About half the commenters appear to say, "There is no cheap alternative." I'm using a Herman Miller Embody right now and keep meaning to post a long review of it, but I haven't yet.

See also: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190337400457658...
I have been in your situation and used VmWare Player + Ubuntu Server with a PuTTY session(s) for terminal access. It worked really well for me.

If you have good internet access, then running an AWS micro-instance can be a very good alternative. The nice feature of that arrangement is that you can do some heavy duty processing without bogging down your windows laptop.
Peano arithmetic is probably inconsistent
wow, it DOES look as if Samsung copied, don't you see any resemblance :S I do :S
Yep, or alternatively simply set `overflow: hidden` on that element, and it won’t matter what screen size the user has.
He's not saying that anyone has to do what he suggests. He's suggesting that there might be benefits to folks being a little more studied about what they wear and how it fits, and listing a few pointers on how someone who is interested might go about exploring that.

He doesn't make any judgement (that I see) about people who choose to ignore his advice. (About the closest he comes is saying that "the days of t-shirts and hoodies are over.)

He's not coming to rip off your t-shirt and put a tie around your neck.
Don't try to bring logic into this. The company that sells devices that I identify with is vastly superior to the company that sells devices that others identify with.
Yes, he's complimentary, but as someone who often agrees with Gruber, even I found that part a little jarring. I think he's mostly right on this one, but if anything, too conservative about the potential for the Fire.
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> Negative text-indent can cause accessibility problems. Scenario "CSS on-images off" will see no content at all.

WebAIM recommends this technique, for showing content to (only) screen readers.
http://webaim.org/techniques/css/invisiblecontent/#technique...
Strange that he does not mention Android at all, maybe its his disdain to the platform, but its a strong advantage .

I bet software in the Amazon app store will work right out of the gate, that's a ready made eco system in a new device

The fire will benefit from the Android development community. this is a great win. And that Gruber, is what it means that the platform is open. Everybody benefits, and the platform is agile enough to afford different business models
It's not just games. I'm pretty sure nearly all markets work like this, and it makes sense. The good apps sell, the bad apps do not.

Even in my little niche, there are dozens of hiking apps and just a few make all the money.

I also think the word "hit" is misleading. The people making the money are often the people who released an unsuccessful app, then kept trying, and eventually it was a hit. The people who don't make any money mostly give up before they succeed.

It took me years to make a profitable software company, and I think people expecting to get rich off their first iPhone game just have silly expectations.
I am not sure what kind of company you are, or what industry you are in so advice does vary.

In my last company, we once were "probed" and our books were opened up, I am guessing to see "where we were at".

Maybe your situation was a probe, maybe an acquisition gone bad - but I wouldn't sweat it too much. Your already steps ahead if they even did try and copy you. Your a startup, your a survivor, and just keep trucking on.

Frustrating and emotional I know. You had your hopes up, and the acquisition didn't go through, but take it as a learning experience and use it as motivation to keep kicking ass.

Best of luck.
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Pretty cool, what did you use to build it? The navigation was a little difficult to grasp, might be more intuitive with a click and drag interface, or something with buttons i.e. google earth.
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If you're the only coder that doesn't where jeans and a t-shirt, you're the one lacking interpersonal skills, not the rest of us.
Network.

Be awesome.
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I think that's very important. We have to trust some companies to get by in the world so its very important being able to distinguish between those you trust and those you don't. For me, I killed my facebook account while leaving Google+ running. I know that Google is using its data on me to serve up ads to me, but I feel they're pretty up-front about this, unlike facebook.
I think its important to be able to judge which companies are worth trusting and giving credit to those (like Opera) which haven't yet given anyone reason to doubt them.
Here is 1 reason: more chance of seeing a cute girl :)
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Replace one line of code with this:

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You'll get "cache" and "similar" links back.

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"I find poorly dressed people almost as off-putting as catching a scent of someone who didn't put deodorant on seeing too much of someone who doesn't have the decency to wear a belt."

Sounds pretty judgmental to me.
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I'm not a front end developer, but it seems to me that pre-evaluation of javascript, or even compiling the js into byte code, would be something that front end developers would want to try in order to speed up their own users' experience of their site. Is there anything that the cloud part of Silk is doing that can be applied to websites in general, regardless of what browser is doing the rendering? Or is this optimization uniquely possible because Amazon controls the browser itself?
We didn't spend $79 to read his blog.

Amazon offers 2 price points, emphasizes the ad-driven one, and somewhat obscures the fact that it's ad-driven. I don't see how that relates to the free (and Creative Commons free content of) marco.org, and the fact that he syndicates ads from a network he trusts there.
There seems to be a meme in hacker culture: "Business people are tools; I want to be judged on my ability and not my looks. I don't wish to manage people or do sales so I will dress down. Crocs with socks for me!"

In the majority of companies, here's what actually happens: (1) you are still judged on your looks, (2) you are not given client-facing roles, (3) you are kept in the basement.

Why sacrifice social power for mere comfort and 'base' comradeship with your hacker friends?

When you are speaking to another developer, then sure enough, communicate in a strictly rational way. Be logical; talk ideas; sidestep social niceties; dress functionally. They understand. But in the rest of the world or in the context of a larger company, why not communicate on a level normal people understand: visually through your dress sense and body language. A crisp white shirt is a far greater signal of power than a well crafted sentence.

edit: Don't wear a suit if you're a developer if nobody else does though. It will give off a very bad impression. Aim for smart casual. Make sure your shirts are always ironed. Attention to detail matters. If in doubt emulate classic hollywood actors or the tamer high-fashion adverts. They set the standards that you will be judged on.
I found it very straightforward finding a partner to climb with when I started. Rock climbing gyms are very friendly places in my experience, and as others have said, most will have some kind of system for pairing up people who are looking for partners.

I'd suggest dragging a friend along to your local climbing place so you can try it out a couple of times and see if you like it. Then if your friend doesn't want to keep going, either speak to the staff at the gym, or if they can't pair you up with someone put an advert on craigslist/gumtree/similar (I got 3 responses to a gumtree ad when I started, which gave me an instant group of people to go with).

As long as you can commit to a regular time once or twice a week, you shouldn't have a problem finding someone to climb with. Once you start going regularly you'll meet other people at the gym, which gives you more pairing options if your normal partner is away or ill or whatever.

Try it. I'm glad I did. I've made some new friends from it and gained a lot of strength.
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Not sure if apps like this are already out there, but this came just in the right time for me.
Except I have a plethora of buying cars and plenty of dealers willing to take my money. In the digital space a considerable amount of piracy is due to no legally available outlet for purchase of digital goods in a manner commiserate with what users want. Look at the success of iTunes and spotify as filling consumer needs. Besides if the price consumers are willing to pay for your product does not cover its production costs then you have no market (i.e. product)
On a related note, who here lives in NYC and works out of coffee shops?
This only works if Google is your default search engine.
I guess one of the reasons that I find it so difficult to find or come up with a great idea is because I am looking for an idea within my ability and resources - within my ability to execute as a single founder - within my coding, design and marketing ability and with a minimum amount of money.

For example something like www.metrolyrics.com is within my ability to execute. I wish I came up with that idea. Oh well. Anyway the story of this site and his founder is very educational. I can't find the link right now.
In my field (Information Systems), most papers are served as PDFs. My advisor has switched almost entirely to his iPad for most work, especially when reading/annotating articles.

Most journals in my field require Word docs, and don't use LaTeX. It's been my observation that the field is filled with business people who use computers, and relatively fewer computer people who ended up in business. Sure, there are some of each, but the former seem to outnumber the latter.
I really like how the Nook Touch handles it: subtle physical buttons (with little risk of accidental presses), or you can swipe, or you can tap on the screen. I use all three methods, depending on how I'm holding it in that moment. I don't even have to think about it, and the immersion of reading is unbroken.
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More details on 2.7 and GAE:
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I think Amazon.com runs on EC2 as well.
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Or they could start a SilkAds service like AdWords/AdSense so content providers can display ads using Amazon.
> much less discoverable

That's not necessarily an issue if we're essentially talking about power users. If the app is worth its salt, then professionals that can make use of it will learn the ropes (so long as there is sufficient material -- help docs, tutorials, screencasts, etc). A good example is to look at text editors like Vim or Emacs. Much of their functionality isn't very 'discoverable,' but the power locked inside drives people to learn. Especially if you plan on diving into a particular profession. You want to use tools that make your job easier, even if there is a steep initial investment of time to learn the system.
Thanks! I used Three.JS for the 3d rendering, Rails for the rest. Good idea on the click/drag UI, I'll think about that for v2!

Three.JS: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/
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Some thoughts on how software engineering could be improved industry wide. I'd love some feedback.