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I learned this concept years ago in "The Non Designer's Design Book". It really gave a logical breakdown of Contrast, Repetition, Alignment, and Proximity along with a number of other useful/important design techniques.

http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Typographic-...
My last winter in Illinois there were two weeks where the high temperature never got up as high as -15ºF. Pants freeze to your legs, glasses ice over in seconds, even if you're sufficiently bundled your eyeballs can get frostbite.

People underestimate how much nicer the world is away from the Chicago-Boston-DC triangle.
oh, didn't see it since I couldn't register (outside US).
I think it would be very, very hard. You would need to provide something that existing for-profits don't do (open access), while also competing with non-profits that have the same goal.

The problem is that scientists who care about open access are not likely to move their work to another for-profit enterprise. There are plenty of non-profit entities, from universities to professional societies to PLoS to the government, who have an interest in making research open, and don't need a profit (though they do need operating revenue). It's a tough sell to make your for-profit business the one that a scientist would submit papers to, or review papers for, when they could choose either an established for-profit with higher impact, or a non-profit.
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PLoS is a non-profit: http://www.plos.org/about/what-is-plos/
It appears when you mouse over it. It seems to have been added back in again in the latest dev version.

It's not like this is the only browser that doesn't have a plus sign there. What else does the button next to the tabs do. I think this just shows that users will complain about anything.
You assume that ways of thinking and doing are rigid. I don't know about that.

Moreover, when we do look at the "humanities," the wisdom gained from China's five-thousand year history trumps that of this country.
Kinda similar here. I dislike "me too" responses, and tend to be the devil's advocate because that's the point of debating vs "commenting". The funniest is when my comments get downvoted, yet acquire tons of responses [1] [2]. It's kind of interesting to see how the votes fluctuate until they reach their final (usually low) score.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3116043
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3125017
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"The pointing finger is not the moon" has never, IME, been taken to make ontological claims of any kind about the moon, except that it's not the finger pointed at it. It means the same thing as, "The map is not the territory," and not, "Because this map shows rivers and towns in these locations, such rivers and towns must exist."

Your idea of a thing is simply and solely your idea of the thing; the thing, itself, is simply and solely the thing, itself. Buddhism just suggests out that you conflate them at your peril (to the extent, of course, that Buddhism has a notion of "peril").
Thanks for the info, seems that my info is probably out of date.

Your comment about Flash ads makes me wonder what's going to happen when sites start delivering rich (and battery-hungry) ads with HTML5. Flash at least has a convenient bottleneck where you can disable it on a case by case basis and not lose functionality.
Measuring the quality of web framework: how does it do a date picker widget?
A thoughtful blog post exploring ideas about what's good software framework and what's not
I'm sure there's some psychological term for what long-time Chicagoans feel for the winter there... you'll find it amongst the chapters concerning victims who identify with their abusers. (I did my five years in Chicago and gtfo).
Zuckerberg's answers were really bizarre (though I appreciate what he was saying about Silicon Valley, which is a reaction to his belief there are too many tech employees who don't commit to a long term vision.)

But bizarrely, he said 1) he had no intention of forming a company when he came to Silicon Valley, even though, 1) they brought interns and 2) had already incorporated badly.

Even more odd was his assertion he started with the idea of building a social graph identity system and then built Facebook. I'm not knocking either of those innovations, but I seriously doubt this narrative. I think the graph grew out of watching what people did on Facebook and then realizing, brilliantly, how he could build an extensible social-identity service that would turn Facebook into internet infrastructure, instead of a MySpace replacement that could be jettisoned by users when the next cool social network (Google+, for instance) came around.
The problem with this way of thinking is that it works if you are successful, but it doesn't allow much room for failure. And failing can be as important as succeeding.
In the Valley if you fail, despite having investors and solid employees, it sucks but you basically close up shop and move on. There may be some short term resentment, but basically you are forgiven and allowed to try again. Zuckerberg criticizes the shorter term employment of most people in the Valley - but that's because better opportunities come along. If a company fails, you don't have to feel as bad cause the employees you've let go should find work elsewhere in a reasonable amount of time. That's not as easy in other cities. But it's important for the ecosystem to thrive.
That might be the case, but given that Unity is inferior to the previous desktop in so many ways, it might also be that.
Technically they are orthogonal, but in practice if you have a repl implementation that's well done, it will be used by the developers, and the developers will ensure that the functionality they need to implement the project is accessible through it. The developers can still screw things up, but it's a factor that encourages them to do the right thing through basic dogfooding.
How does this differ from a reactor?
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To counterbalance my geekiness, I have a bunch of design blogs in my Google Reader. They are last on the list, but are inspiration, and provide a bit of "style" to my otherwise mostly "hacker ethic".
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On some level, yes, but companies don't magic employees into existence. It doesn't matter too much if the Go language comes out of Dogpile or Pets.com instead of Google, does it?

I can definitely see that Google is more likely to foment transformation than a Yahoo, but I think it's a lot harder to say that we're better off with fewer acquisitions. It seems like the only good metric is number of good employees at good companies, and it doesn't matter much if it's Google or a company that decided not to get acquired by Google. (Although I don't think it'd be that great if Google were the only 'good company' in this hand wavy metric.)
He also said that there was no drinking.

This video shows the opposite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--APdD6vejI
AFAIK, military maps are still secret in most places. This is because they contain information that cannot be easily derived from hi-res satellite imagery. Stuff like "how much weight can this bridge support", "how deep is this ford", etc. This is important if you are trying to, say, drive tanks through unfamiliar terrain.
I would love to know more about this story.
I think too many people out there feels in the same situation.

Randy Pausch said:
"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!"

My congratulations for her. She is another living example for inspiration.
So I read the FAQ and guidelines. As far as I can tell the things you mentioned are not specified.

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

So did a blog post with 3 pictures and a paragraph of text satisfy your intellectual curiosity? What did you actually learn from this single site? Sure, the pictures are purrdy but it's hardly good content. IMO it matches the off-topic, more than the on-topic. "Moai statues have bodies, more pictures at 11!" An intelligent site aggregator without the bullshit fluff is too much to ask for I guess. I'll be over at lamernews.
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This was posted on HN a few months back, when the article was first published. Can't find the link though.
I'm just leaving to visit some of the startups in Palo Alto.
Paul Jobs died in 1993 at 70; Clara Jobs in 1986 at 62.

http://www.quora.com/Steve-Jobs/What-is-the-story-about-Paul...
It's also an odd unsubstantiated claim to make given what he writes earlier (same point is made in book as well):

He told me he began to appreciate the power of intuition, in contrast to what he called “Western rational thought,” when he wandered around India after dropping out of college. “The people in the Indian countryside don’t use their intellect like we do,” he said. “They use their intuition instead … Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That’s had a big impact on my work.”
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I'm not much into religions in general, even less so cults. And you can't claim that that lot were anything less than a cult. A picture is worth a thousand words:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Osho_Drive_By.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osho_%28Bhagwan_Shree_Rajneesh%...
Though they link to the journals, they don't actually link to the articles directly. At any rate, what they describe is very interesting: that blast injury leads to disruption of cell-cell adhesion.[1] If so, perhaps the disruption of integrins is the key lesion. The second paper shows that there could also be a biological basis for the post-blast vasospasm, too.[2]

We know that cell-cell adhesion molecules are part of larger complexes that are hugely important in cellular processes from promoting inflammation to cancer suppression (or, in its disregulation, metastasis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epithelial-mesenchymal_transiti... ).

If the hypothesis--that blast injury has an important biological component--is true, then we're dealing with a biological basis for neurological disease after blast, instead of just a purely mechanical basis for disease. Unlike purely mechanical disruption, the biological part of the injury is potentially amenable to therapeutic intervention; and that's just what they've trialed with their ROCK inhibitor. I believe that's from paper #1.

This same inhibitor appears to ameliorate the blast-related sequelae on the cerebral vascular system as well, which I believe is from paper #2.

This is my interpretation based on the Gazette article, but I haven't yet read the papers themselves.

1. Paper #1 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi/10.1371/journal.po...

2. Paper #2 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/07/12/1105860108.abst...
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It sounds to me as though you might be expecting the web designer to be both a designer and a frontend developer. It's critical that any web designer knows enough about HTML/CSS to know the limitations of the medium and what they can design but not necessarily enough to code it.

I think ideally, both the designer and frontend developer should be capable of slicing up a PSD. I'm a frontend developer, and I prefer to do that myself so I can save things in the optimal sizes and filetypes for my workflow. If the designer does it, they will be creating slices based on their opinion of how the website should be coded.

I don't think the responsibility for JavaScript is a gray area at all, it falls on the developer. It becomes a gray area when you remove one of the pieces of the puzzle, the frontend developer.

I also don't think your photographer analogy is fair. A photographers job can be defined as a person who takes photos. A designers job is most often defined as someone who creates designs.

It sounds like you're more of a backend developer, wanting to use a designer as a designer and frontend developer. You'll probably save money and get a better result if you have the designer stick to design and higher a third-party to quickly slice and code your PSD.
I did see exactly the same thing in Toronto for some time. The satellite image was misaligned with the street map for the Jane/Finch area. It's fixed now.

I do wonder how much trouble Google goes to fix up maps in China. I can't really see enough of the map to tell if this appears to be deliberate distortion, or just another error.

Hopefully Google is still keeping their maps up-to-date... When I was in Beijing, I found the Google map much easier for finding bus routes that the local alternative.
here is a QR bookmarklet thing i built two years ago http://miniqr.com/docs/bookmarklet.php but yeah, i know the usage stats, and well the short version is: QR codes are doomed.

your sms approach sounds good, let's see if it takes off.
Great to hear you've found happiness in geekery.

Do you have your next level-up planned?
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Founders can sell their shares if they like on secondmarket or as part of a new round of funding. They don't need to sell the company for that.
which book? I've never read any of his before
I'm guilty of paying taxes to support it but beyond that I'm quite against it. The government doesn't seem to value my opinion on the matter.
Oh yes, I agree that this is an example of purely the geometry, not a political attempt. But I know people who , upon seeing the distortion, were surprised at how many maps were "wrong". This shows that you can't rely on the market to weed out inaccurate maps. After all, a map that had the south at the top (rather than the bottom) would be viewed as "wrong" and would be penalized with poor sales.

The idea that the market will always produce the best map is not true.
"exercise outdoors in shorts and a t-shirt 365 days a year" <-- Some people in new York, myself included, do the same thing. Even when it's snowing, most of my friends sport tee shirts and shorts. It's actually more pleasant than the 100+ degree sultry summer weather ...
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Beginning artists just draw stuff without thinking about it.

In art school, they get taught how to do what we call "construction" - how to think of things as three-dimensional objects rendered onto a flat plane. Their process becomes full of boxes and cylinders and perspective guides.

Grizzled pros just draw stuff without thinking. Because they've done the construction so damn much it happens beneath the level of consciousness. I only need to construct every now and then, for tough, rare angles. Someday I won't have to do that any more either.

I'm not really sure I'd call it "the same place". It looks like it from the outside, but I'd describe it as more like a full turn around a spiral staircase.
I think that would work well (especially if the grouping could be largely automated). I personally would like to see a category for articles that are purely intellectually stimulating (e.g. stuff equivalent in thoughtfulness to pg's essays).

On the other hand, I think it would be useful to have strict limits on how far the culture stretches. We should try to preserve the geeky, business-y, thoughtful culture, rather than going the route of reddit where everyone's allowed to do what they want.
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You can even observe cycles with just two players.

In Cambridge (UK), the River Cam is too narrow for side-by-side racing over more than a few hundred yards. Instead, a popular kind of racing has developed called "Bumps". Crews line up along the river with about a boat and a half's length between each other. At a signal, all crews start rowing, and if one boat manages to touch the boat in front ("bumping"), both crews pull over to the side, and the next day they switch places in the starting line up.

It's not uncommon to see two boats trade places repeatedly -- this could happen because crew A has a much stronger start than crew B, but that crew B have much more stamina than crew A, so A will always chase down B relatively quickly, but B will always manage to catch A over the course of a longer race.
I like the trick about identifying books (for bookmarks) via MD5 hashes, so that the name and path are immaterial. It's simple and obvious... once someone has already thought of it.

That also enables a very simple bookmark sharing system: store the hash, date of last access and bookmark points into any online system. Garbage collect with date expiration.
I visit new and upvote good articles. I also visit (http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories) and flag a lot of submissions.

I agree about "Be the change you want to see".
Do those startups have technical or other infrastructure problems that compare to a big Silicon Valley web startup?

(Groupon obviously had to scale sales, but that's not what I mean here.)

Here's tumblr.com vs blogspot.com on Google Trends:

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=tumblr.com%2Cblogspot.co...

Here's foursquare.com vs facebook.com on Google Trends:

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=facebook.com%2Cfoursquar...

Here's etsy.com vs ebay.com (from another comment):

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=ebay.com%2Cetsy.com&...

Here's the other four you list vs facebook.com:

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=facebook.com%2Cgroupon.c...
I didnt mean it the way you interpreted it. Sorry if I was unclear
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I thought Boston was the Silicon Valley of biotech; i.e. the "echo chamber" or dense ecosystem of entrepreneurs and experts.

Saying you'd put your biotech company in Boston probably supports the "consumer web startup in SFBA" argument.
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On the topic of guidelines, the purpose of the up- and down-vote arrows is not well-defined. Are we supposed to use them as "like" and "dislike", "agree" and "disagree", or "adds-to-discussion" and "doesn't-add-to-discussion"? Even "flag"- is that for spam, for rude posts, or for offtopic posts?

I've seen these things discussed, and pg has given his opinion on some of them in comment threads, but we should decide and put the answer in the site guidelines.
His GPS went totally nonfunctional when we were in view of the Pentagon.

Which is pretty humorous since, once you're vaguely close to it, it's hard not to find it. If they built several other pentagonal buildings in the area, it would be a different story. :-)
Plus basically all the Chinese startups. Some of them have huge scale issues, too.
A following or a cult ... it does not really matter what you call it.

Osho was all about de-programming. Not having a belief system.

Every time someone asked him a question, he would give an answer which always showed how misguided the question was, that, and an incredible amount of insight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQFUpOOINd8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8gtLtaNTwo

Imagine a Buddha with 99 Rolls-Royces and a collection of diamond encrusted watches. Thats Osho! A contradiction.
The aesthetic usability argument helps muddle understanding around the true purpose of visual design as it implicitly accepts the premise that visual design is about "decorating the walls of your living room" but then tries to claim that this role is more important than you think.

In truth, while the aesthetic usability effect is real, it's one of the less important reasons why good visual design is important. Over the last few years, we've kind of won the debate over the importance and impact of user experience design but, because this debate is so muddled, even many visual designers are unclear about the proper role of visual design and work in ways that limit both their success and their company's success.

Visual design is, first and foremost, about effective communication. The best demonstration I've ever seen of this principle is this time lapse video: http://vimeo.com/17158963 where you get to see just what is involved in creating a great work of visual design and how it's scope of responsibility is far more than "making things look pretty".
Yep. OSM was set up by some people from the UK and the OS knows the location of everything that's more than about 20cm big and nailed down (from planning applications & surveying), so they have lots of high quality data.

However most people/businesses don't need that.

Just look at Google maps & OpenStreetMap. They don't have submetre accuracy, however there are still quite useful to people and businesses.
YT was in Snow Crash and I think that HT should be HP: Hiro Protagonist. Although I don't remember that quote in the book.
you would have to check the accelerometer several dozen times before it would equal the processing drain of a single photo.
This makes me wonder if I brought my US Android phone to China to use it as a Wifi tablet device, am I technically breaking the law?
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1) Why did they create it in the first place? 2) Nobody said they want to close it. 3) The burden is on you to provide a proof for your conspiracy theory.
Thanks for proving my point. It's not _technically_ safer. It's security by obscurity.
This feature is built into android. Just install the chrome to phone app by google & the plugin for chrome or firefox (fox to phone). Good for non-android phones I guess though.