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It uses Masonry, from the same author as Isotope. Difference between those two is that Isotope uses GPU accelerated CSS animations. Sadly there are quite a few bugs when you combine CSS animations with flash (for example on the iPad), videos won't render on the proper position. Therefore I had to stay with masonry. Please let me know if someone is aware of a workaround. (Example of the bug: http://jsfiddle.net/desandro/t3Cmy/)
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Isn't that isomorphic to "math is hard" though?

I mean, look: math is hard. It takes a lot more mental effort to solve math problems than it does to read books and do research. That's not to say that insight and hard work aren't important in the humanties, but the barrier is lower. It just plain is.

If you're taking a class to learn about 16th century west african colonialism (or whatever other "serious" history class you want), you start at the top of the reading list and work your way through. If you hit a concept or fact you're unfamiliar with, you look it up in your other books or wikipedia.

At no point in that process do you stop and realize "Crap, I'm stuck." In math (and the numerate sciences more generally), that's the normal state of things.

Math is hard. I think we spend too much time lying to people and telling them that it's easy, and far too little time explaining how much fun it is.
My experience was that of going from having to spend a bit of time memorizing useless material to having to spend a great deal of time memorizing useless material. For me the only "culture shock" was the realization that I no longer had time to learn anything on top of the busy work.

So I switched to a fine art degree and now I know more about engineering than 90% of engineers that I meet. Go figure.
Liberal arts degrees subsidize the hard science and engineering degrees since the per-credit-hour tuition is the same but the guy doing gender studies is way cheaper than the girl using the microbiology lab.
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So DataTreasury fixed the way check clearing works, apparently pioneering a new digital approach instead of mailing around checks; implemented it; raised money and created 100 jobs; but couldn't get the banks to work with them. The banks then took the idea and implemented it themselves, driving DataTreasury out of business.
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To me, this looks like exactly what the patent system is supposed to be: protection for those with innovative concepts, so that they can have the opportunity to commercialize their inventions without incumbents simply cloning their hard work.

So you'd agree that if things were right in the world, we should all be using the original version of WebCrawler today, because it pioneered the idea of web search, which these other horrible idea-stealing companies like Google took and re-implemented?

Do you really think that's the way business should work, that whoever first notices that a problem needs solving (and bothers to submit a patent application) should have a long-term monopoly on solutions to that problem?

Personally, I'd prefer that the means of solution, if non-trivial enough, was protected, rather than the entire set of all possible solutions to a problem.
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Thanks very much for the perspective.

Personally, I think (and judging from the reactions of the people I work with, they seem to agree) that my code is solid; efficient, well organized, logical, descriptive, but not too verbose, etc.

Your comment has made me go back and re-evaluate some things, though, and look over some of those comments - and it was at that point that I realized that a lot of them are superfluous and serve no real purpose other than to restate what's already clear in the code. Others in the particular code I was looking at were about things like UI customization and how one might extend the existing code in order to do that, which more correctly belongs in the documentation (and would have wound up there eventually).

Again, most of this had been in open source PHP/Ruby/JavaScript code, where I'd assumed that the average tinkerer wouldn't be as well-versed in the language, but now that I think about it, if they're not, they need to learn before tinkering, rather than me trying to "dumb it down" to their level, which probably just invites disaster on multiple fronts.

So in my attempts to make things tidy and easy for the next person to come along, I was instead just injecting garbage that didn't need to be there.

Which kind of sucks to realize, but on the other hand, I suppose it's better than realizing you've been commenting the hell out of everything because the code actually doesn't make sense without the comments.
It's referring to the anecdote of Vlasic, a pickle manufacturer, and it's woes of being a supplier to Wal-Mart. Basically, Wal-Mart negotiated hard with Vlasic to provide gallon(!) jars of pickles at at much lower margins than the company was used to.

That nationwide Wal-Mart "every day low price" cannibalized sales of smaller pickle units at other stores and Vlasic saw it's profits on pickles fall 25%.

In unrelated news, Vlasic filed for bankruptcy a few years later.

The entire tale is told in much better narrative by a 2003 Fats Company article:
http://www.fastcompany.com/node/47593/print
@ OP: There's a "view all" link, so that we wouldn't have to suffer the paginated view. Next time, please use that instead!

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/equations-for-geek...
on firefox 7 and it works fine for me

(FF7.0.1/ubuntu/x86_64)
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the problem isn't that my tests are bad, the problem is that it's commonplace to adapt new interfaces in a constantly evolving codebase. when your unit tests were built for one interface, you have to change them when you change the interface.

for example, the interface to enroll in a course used to be an association between an "enrollment" and the "course". when we added "courses has_many sessions", you enrolled in "courses" via "sessions". you have to rewrite all your enrollment specs to respect that new interface now, regardless of if they were shitty or well-written.

to me, that's a maintenance cost that isn't worth it at a startup given how rapidly you have to change those internal interfaces.
I had the misfortune of spending some time in a program like this and switched to fine art promptly. I think it's a copout to say that math is just "too hard". The problem is that engineering and math programs are poorly constructed and taught abysmally. These days I study math and engineering on the side because I can learn more effectively by reading books than sitting through 4 years of slog.
Its a delight using the 13" with a riser, external keyboard and trackpad. Lions new features, (full screen, swiping between desktops) really helps with productivity.

What you should consider is, the 13" maxes out at 4GB of ram where the 15" maxes out at 8GB (8G upgrade is around $50 dollars from amazon).

It all depends on you, do you want a light effective machine, or a powerhouse of computer power at the expense of weight.
I have no idea how to respond to this comment. It doesn't contain any new information, and the question is extremely broad.

"Yes", I guess. And, "I don't entirely agree or disagree with you".
I disagree for 2 reasons. First, Apple is notorious with NDAs. Second, many large retailers are quite willing to cancel contracts with any supplier that gets uppity enough to complain in public. Walmart is so notorious for cancelling suppliers that most Walmart suppliers will refuse to allow any company representative speak on the record.
A more cheaper solution and this is what I use.

Visit your homedepot

Grab the White Bathroom board and ask the homedepot guy to cut in three equal pieces

The sheet is 8 ft by 4 ft, that gives you 32sqft for just $13.

For just $13 I have two in my office and third piece in my kid's room
Rust-Oleum used to be sold in-stores at HomeDepot. They pulled it from the shelves because it was defective (fact). They now sell it online but at a discount to get rid of the rest of the product. Beware of that solution.

As for IdeaPaint, I agree. They priced themselves high because they were the first mover. Little do peoplele know that they have been around for 9 years and have changed their name multiple times after different iterations.

WhiteyPaint studied everything and our solution is the result of that. We actually have a nice comparisson chart of this page of ourselves vs IdeaPaint here: http://www.whiteyboard.com/order-now-whiteboard/paint.html

Thanks HN for checking us out.
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Ask HN: What is your process for executing ideas?
Is there a single guide or resource for web entrepreneurs to use to bring their idea to fruition? Such that would cover idea vetting, getting the idea executed on < $1k (hosting, squeeze page, template, domain, etc.), and marketing?

I have a dozen excellent opportunities, but feel like I spin my wheels trying to get the basics executed.
FYI I researched the scientific background here: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=61
That doesn't work well. I've seen it in action a hundred time and there is ghosting everywhere. If you have a little extra money to spend, go for a real solution.
It was just upgraded.
This looks neat (although I agree the name is problematic).

I've always tried to be a whiteboard person, but other than the occasional network diagram, I never seem to be able to incorporate it into my workflow (I have the same disappointing history with task managers, PDA's, and calendars).

edit: The one useful whiteboard I ever had was one for my shower (you wrote on it with waterproof crayon), although almost every woman who used my shower would end up drawing breasts on it.

I'm planning out my home office for a pending move, and keep flirting with the idea of getting a chalkboard, but the thought of chalk dust everywhere isn't appealing.
Right. The downside of underpricing is that it raises less cash for the company. This was the reasoning behind Google's adoption of the "dutch auction" approach to pricing their initial shares, although their value still spiked dramatically on release.
And flashblock.
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Right now, you should really just focus on damage control and ensuring a smooth departure. People aren't likely to remember you as the guy who got a lot done when he was out the door - the fact that you're out the door is going to overshadow that. People WILL remember you if the last thing you touched breaks two weeks after you're gone. Try not to leave a bunch of unfinished work in everybody's lap, but it's better to tell people "hey, I'm not going to be able to finish that" than to risk breaking something.
David,

The chamber could care less about innovative businesses. Such businesses are part of their constituency.

They take a shit on consumers. Real people are a group for whom they could not care less.

I was aware of the phrasing and using it to make my point.

Sincerely,
Michael
As a senior in CS and math, I completely agree. Calc II, III, elementary differential equations, and matrix theory classes are about 85% engineers at my university. As such, theory was not the focus. All I had to do to get an A was learn an algorithm and apply it. Most of my friends in CS seem to think that higher level math courses are the same and if that is the general assumption I don't blame people for not pursuing math degrees.
I know his picture isn't in the logo on the homepage...thats why I said "article page". I also never said it was wrong to have Linux-centric blog.

If I were Linus and I saw a blog with my picture as the background of the website, all along the sidebar, and sitting above the blog logo, I'm sorry but I'd be creeped out.
Jason, your product seems like a fun idea, especially because it allows you to use it over wallpaper (which, since untextured, is probably the best use-case).

That said, please go read How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Lashing out on Tech Crunch at users will kill this crucial PR moment for you and create a negative view of your product. There are many assholes on the internet - respond 'I'm sorry, how can we improve?' and 99% they'll back off realizing there's a real human on the other side.

Congrats again, I wish you well.
Tell you what: I will place an order today if you tell me:

* What Whiteypaint does to look decent on slightly textured painted walls (I haven't used other whiteboard paint, but I've used stick-on whiteboard sheets and had the same problem: bumpy wall, whiteboard marker, ugly drawing).

* Why Whiteypaint is especially easy to clean.

* How I'd go about un-Whiteypainting the wall if I was dissatisfied with it.

(I'm not going to argue with anything of your answers, if they're answers. I'm seriously interested. I know exactly what wall I'd put it on.)

The cost of a bucket of expensive paint is a rounding error to me, and, to be honest, so is the cost of having someone clean up a wall, but the wall cleanup also comes with a lot of logistical headaches for me.
13" MBA is the best computer I've ever owned.
On a related note: a good alternative to student loans would be letting students sell a small percentage of their income over the next (say) 20-30 years in exchange for all or part of their college tuition. This would be lower-risk to students than loans, and give investors an incentive to help students get a lucrative education and a decently-paying job.

Student loan debts are really a problem.
But that's gcc-specific. Clang does a much better job of error reporting, for example.
I would like to add hat anyone that uses TDD to test develop any GUI application such as iphone or android is a freaking ill-informed idiot..unit tests are poor behavior analysts or indicators
Followup: additionally I think there's the general problem that most undergraduate degree programs just aren't that good. It's a lot easier to concentrate on rote memorization and "covering" a lot of material than actually instilling a substantive knowledge of a complex technical subject. The difference is that college can easily afford to suck at providing a quality education or experience. In K-12 if the students aren't graduating the school stops receiving funding. At the college level the difference in revenue between a student who graduates and one who drops out after 2 years is less than 50% (because 100 and 200 level classes are typically cheaper to teach). And if the student merely switches majors, the school still makes money.

There's a catch-22 of sorts. If you got a bad education in HS and you get into a good technical college program you'll be in way over your head. If you get into a bad college program you'll be facing a lot of boring work with little meaning. The best case scenario is to win the lottery and have gone to a good HS and get into a good college. But even then you'll still have a crap ton of hard work in front of you.
Cool, but looks like you've got a classic chicken and egg problem here. No posts, no users. Might be a good idea to recruit some friends to do some Q&A?

EDIT: I tried to register - I think your Captcha thingy is broken because I tried about 10 times and failed.
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I am working on a new way to fight procrastination: http://asaclock.com

It is an elite anti-procrastination community for startup single founders and people working on side projects.
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We don't know of any viruses that are directly beneficial to the human body, as we know of beneficial bacteria; so it's an amazing idea.

On the other hand, Nathan Wolfe http://www.gvfi.org/wolfe/ , virus expert, believes that if all viruses were wiped out, humanity would not last long at all. If this drug were excreted or discarded into water supplies, we may begin destroying our viral population, with unintended effect.

Still, leads one to wonder what more highly targeted applications could be created. Parasites, specific bacteria, etc. Exciting times.
Thanks for reading my article, and for sharing your perspective on it. However, I don't think you understand how copyright law applies to computer software. Translating a computer program line-for-line to another programming language doesn't avoid liability for copyright infringement. If it's "blindlingly obvious" that a copy was made, a court is going to say infringement has occurred.

I recommend reading about clean room reverse engineering. That's what you have to do to copy software without infringing its copyright. It's doable, but in most cases it'll be more, not less, work than writing your own software from scratch.
Funny, my fear of being wrong is what led me to engineering. I didn't like the writing-based classes because I couldn't tell whether I was right before I let anyone else see my work.

I'm trying to get over that now.
A 20 year old kid thinks all programming languages suck.

Well, get to work, kid. Best of luck.
>"Bad" typography isn't a big deal IMO. Yes, it's slightly embarrassing and ugly, in this Unicode-enabled era, that we use <= for "less than or equal to" and != for "not equal to", when Unicode has given us better glyphs. But honestly, I don't see how that costs us much time to get used to.

There's a reason we're not all using APL.

(Okay so there's a couple. But yeah.)
counterexample, try this with a proportional font:

abcde 11111

ilili 22222
The ones on my wireless keyboard are easily visible as individual holes when the light is on from 2 feet away. I don't know if the iSight is different (not having a metal macbook), but they are probably very close to the same.
Hustling is more than listening to customers. Making deals, negotiating, CLOSING smells more like hustling. What kind of manifesto is this?
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Be careful. I once thought that the MBA degree was worthless, too. However I recently found that a friend of mine is earning 30% more than me at the same job, same company, because she has an MBA and I chose to get an MS Economics. We were both hired directly out of grad school with comparable work experience.

Whether or not the MBA teaches you anything, businesses still believe it does.
You're mixing up interface and implementation. You should be able to change how you implement the association without changing the interface or breaking the test; unless your test knows too much about the internals of the implementation, in which case it's a poorly written test.
I don't know the exact rules, but it usually takes a couple weeks for the OCC to register the options with the CFTC. Then trading can begin. So, mid-Novemberish.

With such a small float, put-call parity isn't going to exist - the cost of borrowing the stock is going to make buying puts pretty pricey.

I feel sorry for the people who bought puts on LNKD, which also had a tiny float.
At least in theory, "OP" means "original poster", making it unambiguous. Though sometimes people mean the root of a comment thread, rather than the article.
Each space in a proportional font is a set width, so the indentation structure is just as clear as with a fixed width font. Am I missing something? I can only imagine a problem if there is a mix of tabs and spaces..
Ha... I tried to Upvote this but my votes dont count either!
What novel ideas did the One-Click patent cover? Seriously.

I think we're overpaying. And we're not paying the actual creative types. And we're not paying for what's really useful, just what receives the paperwork and has enough lawyers to attack based on it.

If we really wanted to do this right we'd have a big vote for the people who made things (even textbooks, etc, like Knuth) that made the biggest difference in their industry. Then we'd take the money not being wasted on patents and give it to these people as part of a Technical Excellence Award. They'd also trickle some upwards to their resources and mentors, as disclosed before you voted.

It's still got some holes in it but it's a better system because there are no limits on industry. No government employee is breaking open boxes of smart-phones and denying the right to sell them because they use some exclusive new innovation. That's just more proof that whoever invented that deserves more votes.
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As much as I like that site, I can't link people to it because as a Microsoft site it just wants to move people to newer versions of IE, rather than to a decent browser. (Any decent browser, really; I don't care which, just not IE.)
This is a bizjournals.com site - They run 41 of these city specific business journal sites as online companions to a weekly print edition of the journal.

There's nothing special about this - pull up any newspaper or online news site and you'll see the same thing.
yeah. just noticed it's not showing up on ISE
Not engineering, though.
It's really simple. Smart people are not going to work 1000 times harder for less payoff.

Smart students with everything going for them get to make this decision:

(A) Dedicate their entire life at college to doing useless problem sets. No free time. No social life. No girlfriends. Spend all your time with stinky nerds drilling on useless sets. Then get out of school and make $80k doing the engineering slog. Max out your salary at $140k, 20 years down the road.

(B) Take easy classes while being a professional partier. At parties, have loads of sex and take lots of drugs while meeting many many people. Build up 1000+ Facebook friends and forge lifelong bonds with important well-connected people. Get your degree and use your connections to get hired for $80k. Have your employer then pay for your MBA. Max out your salary at $400k 20 years down the road, not including bonuses and side deal opportunities.

Phillip Greenspun was right. Unless you're a masochist or a social reject, engineering is for foreign students. A top American student from a good family has no incentive to do engineering: not lifestyle, not financial.

When it comes to software this is even more true because you don't even need an engineering degree to write software. Paul Graham has a philosophy degree and most of his wealth came from people skills: convincing Blackwell and Morris to hack for him, and later convincing young engineers to hack for him.

Steve Jobs vs Steve Wozniak is another perfect example. Woz did the work, Jobs got the glory. Woz stayed home nights hacking while Jobs was out fucking the prom queen and taking credit. Our society does not reward engineers so anyone with the ability and foresight to be a doctor, dentist, MBA, or clinical psychologist is not going to torture themselves.

Hacker News entrepreneurs are just a bunch of masochists who never learned that partying, taking drugs and having sex is more fun and pays better than writing Ruby apps.
> Especially because it forced my high-school math teacher to think more about preparing students for college-level work.

I believe high school students who take college courses can be a great asset for their high school for this very reason.

As a junior in high school I took college algebra at a community college in the evenings. As a result of the conversations with my math teacher, she made many changes to the subjects she covered in her pre-calc and algebra 2 classes.
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It's a shame most of the comments are focusing on the not-testing point. The last point was much more interesting (if I may paraphrase, engineers in an early-stage startup should be responsible for proving that the features they build actually add value).

Anyway, I agreed with pretty much everything, personally.
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