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That is great! Thanks. I might have to take a second look at hg.
one of my biggest issues with asana is that it doesn't make it easy to see due dates, weekly to dos etc. for tasks (let alone real prioritization). I really suggest they put in a facebook-notification style section so I can see what I have due in my near future
And yet, when a considerable number of people sign a petition asking about legalization of at least cannabis, we get a response like this:

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/response/what-we-hav...

A whole lot of words and nothing being said. I shouldn't say nothing, the message 'we're humoring you all with these petitions, they don't actually mean anything,' is pretty strong.

Apologies for the segue from Anon operations, but reading this excerpt made me remember just how annoying the situation is and I immediately thought of the petition.
I apologize for misquoting you. I think your solution sounds like a reasonable way for universities to allow students to recover from a poor high school education. As I type that, I realize that's important. My concern is it draws out the education period of someone's life even further.

I'm looking at this from the perspective that people should have a solid grasp of calculus and the other fundamentals you mention in high school. Currently many do not. One solution is to fix the problem at the university by giving students extra time to learn the fundamentals there. The other solution is to find a way for students to learn them back in high school.

What happens in your plan if someone still doesn't learn the fundamentals when they're given the extra semesters in your long-cycle plan? Are they dropped from the program? Are they given extra tutoring? Why can't these things happen earlier, and if so, isn't that similar to the system we have now?
You could always ask or warn them in advance, that'd be the polite thing to do - it's what I'd do.
terminal.app is one of the worst offenders, possibly because I like a good monospace font for it (monaco-with antialias disabled). When adjusting the size away from the 'good default' of 11pt, it looks awful.

Combined with that, bumping up the size in every single app lowers the value proposition for me, especially given the expense of the laptop itself.

I practically live inside my laptop, use it far too much of the day, and anything that makes my eyes hurt more or requires more effort to use instead of less, I consider less than ideal.

Full screen (which I quite enjoy by the way) helps neither or those things.
I think Quake's code represents a design methodology you almost never see in the wild. Essentially, Quake's code operates on the same principles that Apple's physical interface designs do (or perhaps singular programming language designs like Scheme or C).

Carmack, as dictator of id code (and thus id design) had the ability to say "we are not adding the following feature to our game because I don't like the compromises it will force in our technology and, thus, in other features we want to add down the road." It's basically as simple as that.

In almost all other organizations, someone holding the pot of money will trump the programming overlord at that point and say, "I don't care, XML is the buzzword this second, and all objects in the game need to be serialized to XML as web services - that's what the market is clamoring for right now" (or whatever the buzzword du jour is). And over time those political technical decisions add up to so much cruft that adding any new thing becomes a technical, jenga-style nightmare.

Not so with id's engines. I actually worked on beta versions of both Quake 2 and Doom 3 code bases while those games were in development, and one striking thing about getting updates from Carmack was his ruthless willingness to eliminate working, finished features / code if he didn't think the complexity or dependencies they introduced were worth whatever feature they added in the overall technical context.

Quake is what you get when a genius programmer who has mastery of his knowledge domains leads. Institutionally, there aren't too many other circumstances where similarly talented and sure-footed and, well, fundamentally, _right_ programmers get to specify requirements like that. I think the comparison to the Linux kernal is apt.
Because, all else being equal, writing your code in one language is better than writing your code in two languages.
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I really like your proposal. Everyone else should definitely read.

http://www.asana.com/kittens
Anyone have a recommendation for a kick ass telescope that could see this thing? Best bang for the buck kinda deal.
Not yet. Give me a space elevator that gets me to geostationary orbit via electricity, and I think that statement could become untrue (assuming sufficient amount of ore and ease of extraction).
We are very fortunate that Yale makes the process of taking time off so easy. I emailed my Dean the day before registration and didn't need to do anything else. We do plan on going back and graduating.
The process isn't a hack, but the end result is :) Not a "quick and cheap dirty hack" but a "I've manipulated a system to do something different or better in a novel way" sense of a hack.

My wife had epidurals during the delivery of our children. That, even though it was a medical procedure, was totally a hack :) Inserting novacaine into the spinal column to deaden nerve receptors == hacking the body :)

That doesn't mean it wasn't serious business or a big deal. It just means that we figured out a neat way to manipulate an existing system for beneficial results.
There's a mention of the App Store, but no link. For the lazy: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flow-powered-by-amazon/id4746...
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So has anyone found any privacy-compromising code in the open-source Chromium? Nope?

What about Firefox or Opera(which are mostly Google-funded now)? Nope?

Anyone? Bueller?
To solve the problem that people dont do more problems after becoming proficient, consider forcing a randomized subset to solve one extra problem for aquiring proficiency. Don't tell the users when this happens though, just show the bar as not quite full
I havent tried Vundle, but looking at their github the search and installation stuff looks pretty cool. I'll probably stick with Pathogen though since it's already setup and working.

I just feel really bad for anyone who hasn't started using a plugin-manager with vim, and think it's crazy that this functionality isn't built in yet. Smooshing everything in together in ~/.vim was/is so archaic
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We're at the "customer validation" stage of our first startup attempt :) , so I wanted to ask you:

If someone implemented an easy way for users to pay for content or services (or in-game items), without requiring a credit card, would you consider it?

What must such a service have or offer in order for you to consider using it?

How do you believe it should work?

Would you accept a large % in fees in exchange for ease of use and removing the credit card barrier?

Our proposal is shockingly similar to BuySimple (and we arrived independently), though we have 700k less in funding :)
This has everything to do with the audience of a particular site.

Our small business portfolio websites see an IE share of above 75%.

Our "Web 2.0" web-app sites see shares as low as 9%.
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I can't see that happening, and I can't see why it would happen either.
How has it worked for Trello? Trello exists. It's free. That's a success?
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Would you say the same thing if it were the year 2030? Does Pacman run with a top notch engine? It was certainly optimized well for its time.
This is the competition, BuySimple:

https://www.buysimple.com/

We're looking at the same implementation (a "Pay" button, Facebook Connect or OpenId, and we even thought of free credit the first time around! Though our backend money collection is probably very different and might be our difference-maker).

I'm really excited to be part of a startup at last :) and I hope you guys can help validate our idea (or make us pivot :) )
What's progressive about a thin wrapper around their existing web interface?

Keep it up guys.

Judging by their unfortunate string of broken iOS releases, they have been.
In absolute terms, no. But likewise, lack of a high school diploma doesn't prevent you from becoming a music star.
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I think you're right - on it's own it probably is hard to monetize well.

BUT - there are good options available to them.

Once you have more than 30 people using it, if it jumps to say $5/person/month it is over $10000/year for the next 30 users.

There's the Yammer model: Free to use, until you want things like security controls (think "who sees which task"), customization ("match your company color scheme") and integration ("single sign on, Salesforce integration etc etc")

The truth is though that this is a feature for an enterprise software company. It makes perfect sense for someone like BMC, Citrix, VMWare/EMC, or even Atlassian (if they could afford them?) to buy them out to fill holes in their offerings. Their sales channels can push an enterprise version to existing customers and then is makes sense for everyone involved.
Wow, I'm not sure I fully grasped the distance until I saw that picture. The fact that people actually went allllll the way out there and back just astounds me.
This is similar to the divide I see in the PHP community.

There's been such a big movement towards more strictness, more Java-like features and frameworks, while the more interesting development today seems to be moving away from that, towards more concise, flexible, and expressive languages like Ruby and Python, more FP ideas, and the rise of server-side Javascript.

I started programming professionally in Perl, where you were handed a loaded gun and learned the hard way not to shoot yourself in the foot. I appreciate the discipline that demands, making you think hard about what you're doing.

I really hope the Javascript community doesn't start to compromise its dynamic nature and lose one of the things that made it great. There are areas where syntax could certainly be improved/made more concise, but keep the dynamism and flexibility all the way (and add more!). Good on Jeremy for fighting for that.
As recently as five years ago, I thought this would never happen. The argument was something like: "All Microsoft has to do is put out a good-enough browser. Every time people buy their next computer, IE will be the default and they won't bother to switch. The only way would be if Apple gets a big part of the desktop market, and that's very unlikely."

Wrong in so many big ways:
- Completely missed mobile browsers
- People aren't upgrading their desktops as often anymore
- The browser is the most important app, so people are motivated to get the best one
- Apple's growth

I love this industry.
Hm. We do have an awesome web experience—it's our primary focus—and we're working on a mobile-friendly web version as well.
I haven't heard of an actual service, but have you thought of actually using Dropbox? It's kind of hacky but there seem to a few good discussions out there about it.

http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/SyncFirefoxBookmarks
http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=4637

Although, everyone would probably have to use the same browser.

I would love to see this made though - a drop dead bookmark sharer like Dropbox did with general files.
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Minecraft allows for fully modifiable 3D environments which no other popular games have. So it is the latest technology, much unlike Doom 3.
Given how little we know about stopping aging, and that blocking senescence also requires having a cure for cancer which society has thus far failed to find after spending something like $10B a year on it, I'm extremely skeptical of your claim about cost and time frame. Do you have a source for that?
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I think clearly the goal needs to be better branded/marketed to the public - that there's sort of a "you can't get there from here" problem with the "cheat death!" line being pushed by de Grey/Kurzweil vs. the current mindset, and as an even bigger problem is simply that death is an uncomfortable topic to really talk about head on for most people, and it leads to a lot of avoidance/rejection

If it could be promoted as something like, live healthier, longer (and really you're very likely to still be killed off by cancer eventually, so I very much doubt v1.0 life extension would see many/any 120+ lifetimes), it would be a much, much easier sell. Feel like you're 40 when you're 75 - that sounds great. Live forever sounds like nerd heresy

And, if you can pull that off and build up a big population of healthy 100 year olds, then you've got a base who says hey, this is pretty good, maybe we should shoot for 200 after all? And so on...

We won't have that tech at any point soon anyway, and so at this point the vaporware is killing the product
_.each blocks. Yes, you are right that it does it in the same way that "var x = 1" blocks.

You cannot interrupt "var x = 1" and you cannot interrupt a javascript forEach while it is looping over an array. With a really large array this is going to cause problems, like that infamous fibonacci example.

Seriously, try it. It's not like a C program.
Who cares.

The only thing it does is "define" a bit of the personality of your company as a company that would do such a thing.

The world is full of varied folks, the markets would be crap if companies weren't just as varied!
My bluetooth keyboard treats Home as escape, double-tapping it to bring up the task switcher and hitting the screen is acceptable. I keep trying to alt-tab, though.
My bluetooth keyboard treats escape as Home, double-tapping it to bring up the task switcher and hitting the screen is acceptable. I keep trying to alt-tab, though.
There are a lot of smart people who pour money into the research, but it's definitely not enough of them. Not to mention that the wealthiest of the wealthy don't seem interested, as you said.

I guess it's because it seems so incredible - I mean, even I can hardly imagine what living completely healthy up to 100+ years or living 200+ years must be like, so those who never thought about it must be like "what the heck are you talking about, crazy person?"
Someone should write a framework named 'Kahlúa' and bring these two groups together. :)
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We are in process of developing a solution that solves big hurdles for large brands with multinational distribution. Example: PG&E, J&J, GE etc. What's the best way to reach out to them and get some early feedback so we can course correct and shape the product in a right way before its too late?
Looking for some guidance and understanding of the process including the time it takes to close deals with large brands?

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It's not just "dragging and dropping some icons", it's forcing you to evaluate each of your contacts based on some criteria you come up with. That takes work I'd rather not waste my time doing.
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I understand your position, as you see a 'hack' as a quick and dirty trick to make things work; but in this instance, hacking is taking on its more pure form of manipulating something according to the rules of the system it exists in, in a way that was not originally understood or intended :)

It's very much a hack.
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"Instead of fighting the infinite number of criminals I'd rather we help the dudes who fucked up and now want to make their lives better."

You realize that is exactly what Portugal is doing, right?
> The guys I know who swear at work tend to be more circumspect around women. But I never noticed any particular backlash against women swearing.

There is this guy nicknamed "Chumbo Grosso" who presented an eponymous police report in the local TV channel. There's a trend toward sensationalist programs in Brazilian TV but this guy was swearing above average. Then they have brought a woman to present part of the program alongside him, to soften his tone.
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Fantastic idea and looks like it might be nice implementation, just not enough detail on the product for me to sign up and have a play.

No ToS, no privacy statement, nothing. Who are you?

Also:

1. Can I mark my account as hidden until I want people to see it?

2. What will you do with my data? Note, with LinkedIn it's pretty clear what they're going to do from the get-go just because of the nature of the service, with this there's nothing. Are you going to sell my details to recruiters? If so can I opt out? Do I have to pay rent if I do? Note some people won't care (perhaps a lot), this community is a bit of an outlier when it comes to privacy concerns.

3. What domain will I have, can I use my own?

4. Can I change the default style (as the example isn't really to my tastes)

Edit: One last thing, a full size example would be good too. You must have your own?
Having people manually set up circles is an O(n^2) solution. Having people join circles, is an O(n) solution.

Not exploiting that circles are (approximately) equivalence classes is borderline criminal
Would this really be ideal though?

Most women (not all) want be pursued by men.
I thought about using Dropbox, but the trouble was keeping just a single folder shared. I could trim bookmarks.html and sync it across, but then it would still have to be synced back via an addon/extension.

Seems like I just got my weekend project :)
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He has posted a clarification of his comment numerous times, but you refuse to acknowledge it.
>you get about 4W savings all the time, ie. 20W for the full array.

It would either be ~2W or ~7W. Relevant to bear in mind the TB 2.5inch drives have more platters than standard height 2.5" so will use more power.

5x2.5" Drives = 2.9W

1x4TB Drives = 5W
2x3TB Drives = 10W

You think 'i need X TB', not 'i need X drives'.
I guess I've been corrupted by working in a heavily database oriented environment, and further corrupted by the fact that it's Oracle, but for most of our own use cases, plain SQL is preferable to this. We'll probably have to run it ad hoc against the database anyway to figure out what it's doing and/or tune it. Many of our queries go into the hundreds of lines[1][2], so anything that obscures the underlying SQL itself tends to make life more difficult.

But perhaps it's just a matter of getting used to a different format.

[1] Legacy environment.

[2] Edited to add: most of our newer apps don't actually invoke huge queries from the app layer. We now tend to layer a view or pl/sql table function on top of the hairy query, so that at the app level it's mostly "select * from blah." For that simple a query, a DSL like this is probably fine, albeit, unnecessary.
This happens right as Microsoft's anti-trust restrictions are lifted and they are forcing OEMs to make it really hard to boot Linux. Not a good omen. The next Windows will have IE tightly integrated, but hopefully it has lost enough ground that things won't be like the old days.
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Um ... you might want to try `p4 help shelve` first. Shelved changelists are basically the same as a "git stash" - but they're stored on the server, so other developers on your team can review a changelist before you actually submit it. One of my favorite Perforce features, actually.
Pure C seems to be enjoying a bit of language fad hipness lately but I don't know anybody that has to maintain a large body of non-trivial, low-level code that chooses pure C over C++. There's a good reason that everything from Solaris to V8 to Photoshop to Quake is written in C++ and not C.

That C is still in wide use after 40 years is a testament to the elegance of its original design but let's not get carried away.
I'm Chinese, and the Opium Wars has had a lasting impact stronger than most people in the West realize or give credit for.

There is a somewhat widespread belief (and certainly corroborated by the history textbooks I had growing up) that the opium trade into China was politically motivated, as opposed to merely that of financial greed. There are persistent claims, even now, that the British encouraged the use of opium in an attempt to destabilize and make weak the Chinese Empire for the express purpose of then making war. The opium trade, and the subsequent war, continues to be a historical black mark that fuels Eastern distrust of the West.

Without blaming anyone even, the Chinese widely acknowledge that opium was one of the primary causes of the decline of the Empire (along with the common blame of governmental excess). This has fostered an extremely skeptical and negative attitude towards narcotics that has lasted to the present day. At least on paper, drug offenses in Taiwan are still punishable by death - though it's not applied as rigorously as before.
so it's like letscrate, minus, dropmocks, imgr, liveshare (cooliris) and countless others not to mention DropBox and Box.net

Nice but pretty late to the game
What I find the most fascinating is that the same company is running both the seller and buyer sides of the transaction. Without middlemen, they have a lot of flexibility to determine how the transaction should occur. Right now credit cards rely upon a fairly complex system of gateways and processing and so it's really complex and difficult to change the process.

I wonder if a security feature they could add would a two-factor authentication where your phone would display a one-time use auth code that you'd give to the cashier to approve the transaction, for those that are worried about automatic billing.
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