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This article is clearly a troll, specifically the issue of monospace. Also, some monospace fonts are better than others. I was using consolas for a while, and have recently switched to ubuntu mono for the sake of beauty and clarity. I would never use a proportional font for programming, in part because positions of things matter and inform your reasoning. Here's a good blog post about beautiful programming fonts: http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts/

In particular, this claim is totally unsubstantiated: "Fixed-width fonts are a typographical oddity that survived through tradition and little else."

As a pretty young programmer, I don't use monospace or really anything only for the sake of tradition. It's the best tool for the job, even if it was by accidental means. I don't think a language optimized for proportional fonts would be superior in any way for it. In fact, monospace is superior in that you can choose to convey information with STRUCTURE. This capability becomes muddied and confused with proportional fonts.
The easiest way is probably through a hobby, in the widest sense. Be it a Science Fiction club, a HN meetup, a charity that helps connect disadvantaged high school kids with technology and programming, toastmasters international or some political activism. Basically any thing that involves meeting other people, and, as a filter, requires a certain minimum level of commitment and getting-off-your-ass.

If you are in Germany or Britain, I can give you more concrete pointers.
I hack ideas myself and spend most of the money in marketing because unless people would about it, this is useless.
You're describing a patent system that functions as an achievement award. But that's not the purpose of a patent. Knuth already published his best work without the incentive of a patent. The extra award would not get him to publish a new volume of TAOCP any faster.

Think of it this way: to function as intended, the patent system has to make it economically less attractive to closely hold inventions as trade secrets. Your idea, however laudable it is, doesn't do that.
agreed, i hope after all the testing controversy settles people will walk away with that. that was my favorite point too.

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These are not independent variables though. People won't visit your site just to see the ads (milliondollarwebpage notwithstanding). In order for your ads to generate revenue you need content that people want to see. And you need people to revisit your site often.

If you just cram a lot of ads into a page you'll increase revenues for a little while, then your readership goes away and then your cpm rates go way down.

If you ensure your site has engaging content and is a pleasurable experience for your readers then you'll be able to make more revenue off of fewer ads. More so if you go the extra mile and ensure your ads are high quality and relevant to the audience (to the degree to where eventually they almost become endorsements and recommendations). Take a look at penny-arcade.com, for example, I can guarantee they make plenty off of those ads and they wouldn't be doing better if they'd simply crammed the screen 99% full with other ads.

It's just as important to cultivate your own brand (which is ultimately what you are selling by way of 3rd party advertising) as it is to hawk other people's brands.
So let's check back on May 2, 2012!
Chapter 11 is reorganization which doesn't mean the company is disappearing.

Chapter 7 and 13 are the ones where the company is liquidated and ceases to function.

IF they are not able to use their cash as collateral for the loan from Regions Bank, then, they will amend their filing and at that point, perhaps the fanpage would be counted as an asset - at which point creditors would be first in line to obtain the asset.
Math courses also have much higher workloads. The highest workload classes I had in university were my mathematics courses.

Math textbooks and course material are usually pretty horrible too, using concepts that are not usually taught until a year or two ahead. Using 1st year calculus textbooks talking about sets and so on is a failure in course design. Math departments don't like putting Discrete/Fundamentals of Mathematics into the front of most math curriculums when they should if they use textbooks such as that.
"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."

That's exactly what patents are.
I wanted to put up a whiteboard to cover the entire 8x16 foot wall of my apartment living room. Ideally you'd use ceramic coated steal, but that's extremely expensive and heavy, so you'd like a cheaper alternative. The problem is that every other surface besides glass and ceramic seems to ghost, without fail.

After researching every product and lead on the Internet I could find, my brother and I tested all of the most promising options:

1. Bare panelboard, the super cheap stuff you get at Home Depot.

2. Panelboard coated in gloss enamel.

3. Panelboard coated in some kind of sealer.

4. Panelboard coated in Rustoleum whiteboard paint.

5. Some disposable whiteboard squares.

6. Many others I've forgotten, including applying the foregoing coatings in different ways, e.g., painting, buffing, sanding after drying.

In the end, we found the most economical and ghosting free alternative by far to be bare panelboard and Mr. Clean Magic Erasers. The erasers are magic indeed: They effortlessly clear the board and leave no ghosting. At first I was worried the panelboard would be damaged, but after significant use, we couldn't detect any. Still, perhaps at some point the panelboard will wear out; however at $12 for a 4x8 sheet, and with the ease of installation, it's well worth it.
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I never understand why people try to pass judgment on a transaction like this. Their suppliers are real businesses who are capable of modelling their cash flows and deciding whether or not this is profitable. No one ever stops and says, "wait.. it makes business sense to sell to Apple, but this is lame so let's not do it".
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The points made here seem like a great idea if your goal is to get something out the door as fast as possible. But they don't seem so great if your goal is to actually produce something that you can continue maintaining over the next few years. So maybe if your goal is to get bought out, then you only care about having something working for a short time, but if your goal is to build great software that you can continue to build and maintain for 5 or 10 years, then you might need to rethink some of this.
I think he is just the background for articles related to that interview. Although I do agree it is a little weird just how many times his face shows just throughout the site.
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If the problem is that large number of students enter STEM but drop out because they aren't equipped - then you have to prepare them better.

Two options - one is to make STEM degrees 6 or 8 years and teach 2-4 years of what should be high school physics at the start.

The other is to spend the time in high school teaching them the 'hard' stuff - when they don't have the option to drop out - rather than trying to 'interest them in science' by showing them only pretty/fun things.
STEM degrees subsidize the liberal arts degrees by bringing in grants and research money.
The content classifications are arguable. The main headline is about a movie, which is a million-dollar investment and business; and it's Friday, peak day when moviegoing and news consumption overlap. I think it'd be quite reasonable to count that as business news. The distinction between navigation and business news can also be fuzzy; it's not clear why the bottom-left links to headlines count as navigation but the bottom-center links count as content. Finally, everything below the fold is ignored, where the proportion of content does improve. (Above-the-foldness is relevant but not the entire story.)

The classifying was obviously done with an agenda in mind to push this story; take it with a grain of salt. (Don't get me wrong, the page is indeed still content-light and fluff-heavy, but to cite 99.5% is misleading.)
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Of course they can't, the float is teeny.

Eventually you'll be able to buy put options, but you're going to pay a huge premium because of that float - there's a real risk the clearing firm will force your market-maker to buy stock, which has to be priced into the cost of the put.

Buying options is sort of like gambling on a sports team. When the sentiment's one-sided, the odds naturally get adjusted. You'll only make a bit of money shorting Groupon if you're right, but you'll still lose everything if you're wrong.

If you absolutely must do this, at least buy a put spread to hedge your risk at a bit.
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Ask HN: Studying how Android's Fragmentation is effecting its security?
I'm working on a team project at school. If anyone has any good papers or any other valid material that looks into how Android's security is effected by the fragmentation caused by the market, I would love to read them. I'm currently looking through IEEE papers, but I haven't found much of anything.
>We could make up all sorts of implausible, but theoretically possible scenarios.

That is the entire point, none of us know with any degree of certainty what has happened, the evidence does not suggest anything concrete for or against the validity of the charges, so to immediately dismiss one way or dismiss the other way is flawed.
Absolutely. The idea that a compiler/interpreter should give reasonable and intelligent errors is a good one. It's probably the only reasonable critique in the entire blogspew.
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I have to agree. I know it's meant to be playful and it pokes fun at the racial epithet. But, while I can't place why exactly, it just grates my ears§.

One more thing. The color choices on the website seem to clash (blue, lighter blue and lime green plus black).

I like the idea behind the product. I can see at least trying it out.

§ (dry-)erase-sheet, white-sheet, (dry-)erase-plane, plain-erase.
What I find hilarious is the idea that things can "just" be built (motherfuckas), rather than things built through lots of hard work, dedication, and yes even that apparently dirty word analysis.

What this article is suggesting sounds great for prototypes, which is what startups should be doing early on, but not forever.
Home improvement stores also sell tileboard in 4x8 sheets (128 sqft) for little more than the DIYers 10sqft sheet you linked. I got mine for $14, that's $0.10/sqft.
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I used 'Mental Case' when I was memorizing language vocab. It also has an OSX app that lets you edit stacks better.
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I've resolved the iPad landscape error, will refactor some other mediaqueries in the coming days!
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This is generally not true; the overhead charges from grants and research money just about pay for the added cost of the (much) higher faculty salaries, travel, research equipment, and the increasingly onerous grant application and accounting/auditing/reporting processes, but not for undergraduate education. In fact it's usually prohibited to cross-subsidize education with research grants, and funding agencies are surprisingly strict about this, doing things like auditing whether computers bought on a grant are used in teaching a course (not allowed).

In many cases grant overhead doesn't even pay for the cost of research; only the top-tier research universities are particularly successful at pulling in enough, and big enough, grants to do that (see this from Georgia Tech's former Computer Science dean: http://innovate-wwc.com/2011/05/18/if-you-have-to-ask-ten-su...).

The liberal arts, meanwhile, are so cheap to teach that in many cases they are actually making money, i.e. their expenses are lower than tuition fees, and the remaining tuition is used to cross-subsidize science education: http://www.today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/bottom-line-shows-humani...
Thinking about them separately is a mistake. Apple is able to execute many of their designs because they can lean on their suppliers & manufacturers. Similarly apple is able to deliver high margins, price iPads at 500 etc because they make design decisions with the supply chain in mind.
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> perhaps the fanpage would be counted as an asset

But it's not something they own, right? If anyone owns it, it's Facebook.
I want to agree with your point, but I strongly suspect that universities are much more capable of price discrimination than the government is, and that close to 100% of subsidies are captured by tuition increases.

Put it this way: if Obama waved a magic wand and said "Twelve months from now, anyone majored in engineering gets $100k from the Treasury. No questions asked.", I think you'd see approximately every college in the country debut a tiered pricing structure by next semester.
I think this actually makes my reddit browsing slower. I think looking left to right and having titles not aligned is slower than reading top to bottom.
Section 508 only applies to US government organisations and businesses/agencies providing services to those government organisations.

US legal requirements for public sites are probably covered in ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), under the provision of reasonable accommodations. So far legal rulings are varied and vague, swinging one way then the other about whether ADA applies to websites (despite a DOJ opinion that they do/should).

Some states have their own legislation, like California's Unruh Civil Rights Act which was used against Amazon (Target settled and agreed to make their website accessible).
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Am I the only person who is incredibly turned off by the term "hustler"?

It's right up there with "I'm an idea guy".

In fact, I think that "I'm an idea guy", has just morphed into "I'm a hustler".
Thanks for the typo! Fixed it in the latest version, expect it within a few minutes:)

Edit: New version with fix online.
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STEM students subsidize liberal arts by creating a world in which somebody whose only skill is art history can live without starving to death or dying of a childhood disease
In the context of IE6 what's best for the client is the one that best serves their business objectives in regard to their customers. If their target market contains a significant-enough element that uses IE6 then what's best for the client is a website that supports those business objectives with that customer.
I very much believe in beautiful and clear monospace. This can translate into benefits for the time it takes your eyes and brain to interpret what you see. Time is money.
I'd be interested in having AMIs that cut down on the boot time as much as possible. For example most cluster compute AMIs need at least 3 minutes to boot, by slimming the image and maybe intelligently ordering the filesystem it should be possible to speed this up.
It's not about getting adjacent lines with equal depth to line up. Its when you are indenting, and try to put yourself four spaces in. In a fixed-width font, you can just line yourself up with the fourth character of the previous line. In a variable width font, it's harder to tell how many spaces in you've gone.
I kind of feel like they should have released the insurance file long ago. In fact, it never should have been an insurance file in the first place. Keeping dirty secrets under wraps for the sake of waging power struggles doesn't exactly strike me as the kind of thing that WikiLeaks is supposed to be about.
Maybe you don't like being a procrastinator and you have yet to find a way to help it. Like people with ADHD, in which case it's likely that you got a bad hand dealt to you by genetics.
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For that matter, what the author complained about in the article didn't strike me as unit testing. It was testing, and it may have been done using a unit testing package, but it sounds like what was being tested was not units.
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it's a great UI for pictures.

PS: that desert/pool one is mine ;)
I built what Hivemind is aiming to do about 3 years ago and eventually lost out to GR and shut it down.

But, now I've turned it back on. You might like it. Please send feedback!

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Does the singular You bother you? Dost thou pine for Thou?
Monkeypatching in Python: Neatly hacking test behavior for coverage
Alternative title: UX guy sucks at programming language design. And if Perl is the answer, you're asking the wrong question.
That is true at the graduate level. If you pursue a PhD in life science, physical science or computer science your tuition is waived and you (usually) get a stipend. If you want a PhD in liberal arts you have to pay tuition.
There are pleasant, non-awful ways of doing characters in programming languages that don't involve memorizing the hex codes for Unicode characters or weird keyboards. For example, the Fortress language has three representations—a pretty, LaTeX-ish image form with operator symbols and the like, a plain Unicode form, and an ASCII form; I am under the impression that you type it up in ASCII, and then it gets prettified for printing. I'm actually as I type procrastinating from writing some Agda code, and Agda also uses Unicode in its source (it is admittedly heavily tied to its emacs mode, and inputting characters is done by typing in the LaTeX character entity, which the mode converts to the Unicode equivalent.) Agda is still ASCII-tolerant, as well; for example, it understands both → and its ASCII equivalent -> as being an arrow.

The issue is, a lot of languages don't necessarily need this. In a close cousin of Haskell like Agda, it makes sense, because it's very much like writing mathematics on a page, so using Greek letters and operator symbols is expected and will be understood by Agda programmers, especially if there's an assumption that it will be widely printed or read, as Fortress would be. But I honestly can't look at C++ and say, "Oh, it would be almost infinitely better if everyone updated their compilers so I could overload the × operator! That's exactly what I want—to be forced to use a Unicode terminal font so I can read source code over SSH!"
Make sure you have the prevailing party's legal costs as part of the bargain in the eventuality of suit as well: Otherwise wining the lawsuit can be Pyrrhic
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That's funny, I've had the opposite experience with the lockout. I figure that if I set the refresh to be reasonably low, it turns into more of an odds thing whether or not I can read HN. And, after a while, I've stopped needing discipline to come looking here.
I've resurrected http://FeedEachOther.com if anyone is looking for a nice, social feed reading experience.
What makes you think that 4.5MM fans want to hear about anything else? They signed up for DD, not actual ice cream. Sure, you might think you can pivot them into regular ice cream (which is not actually the 'same market' as DD), but that was obviously not the user's expectation in signing up.
Nobody wants to do engineering so your solution is to force them?

Maybe you should look into why nobody wants to do it. Like maybe the pay is too low compared to alternatives for instance.
"Microsoft does not even support his browser anymore."

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/08/microsoft-drop...

Which documents Microsoft's commitment to support IE6 until April 2014.
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Languages that force a consistent approach to implementing a given task

Typically I do enough off-the-wall stuff that languages with an opinion on design (python for instance) get in my way. Perl >> Python.
I think it would be a pretty good test of the value of social media. If anything, they could create a small spinoff that manages their social presence, which could be converted which may not violate any T&C that Facebook has.

However, it could be counted as goodwill which is not a tangible asset. There is intrinsic value in it, but, you'd have to hope Dippin Dots knows that, and a creditor also places a value on it.

Otherwise, as the original poster suggested, it might just vanish.
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