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mini-map should be turned off by default.

What a kitschy "feature"
I think GP is arguing that the incentives are such that no conspiracy is needed.
It's interesting to see that other people are noticing how poor the google web experience has become on iOS. It seems especially deliberate when I note that android & chrome use webkit.

I've even swapped the default search engine to bing because it provides a better layout, especially so for image searching which in my view is broken on iOS.

This from the company that just released tools to aid the transition to mobile web.

(and yes, I'm aware that they hate each other, but why should I be punished? reminds me of the MS from yesteryear.)

Also: there is general feedback that google's optional services are generally quite good, which makes it curious that the originally very good google search/image search was replaced with versions that aren't up to scratch.
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One of my favorite customers is looking for someone (hire or consultant) to work with me on a long term project.
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Ask PG: I want to apply to YC but the idea has already been funded by YC
I read in the FAQ that you note it would be impossible for YC to not fund ideas with some overlap. But how likely is it that YC would fund a direct competitor? Wouldn't this kind of go against YC's investment? I guess on the other hand, funding competitors could be a win for YC because if either competitor becomes the major player in that market then it's a good thing and funding two great companies no doubt should increase the chance of that happening. But I'm curious if there are any examples of YC doing this in the past? Would it be an anomaly?
You can also use SSH + screen with your MacBook... that's what I do with my MacBook Air since it's much more pleasant to deal with than the company IBM laptop.
I am willing to posit that a lack of statistical knowledge does more harm to critical thinking than a lack of rhetorical knowledge.
My head hurts now. An interesting test of one's ability to hold a detailed object in short term memory while confusing yourself with speculations and arguments... Knowing psychologists, though, the real test was probably something quite different.

If it was being timed, perhaps I shouldn't have gone and made myself a coffee halfway through.
By your logic, if the Iranian government accuses someone of sluttiness, spying or apostacy, we should extradite the accused to Iran.

(For the sake of argument, please ignore the possibility of inhumane punishment, and just assume that the alleged criminal will be sent to a euro-style prison.)

Do you disagree with this statement? If so, why?
This is a good option. A great option could be to have it on a app-by-app basis
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lets not forget that all this increased enrollment increases the price of education and puts a strain on resources for all of us. Not only were there slightly less comp sci graduates but they grossly overpaid for their education compared to graduates in 1985.

One of the biggest bummers about that chart is the increase in debt it represents.
What you're looking for is more of a worker, which is forbidden by federal work regulations when it comes to an unpaid intern. The guidelines for an unpaid intern basically make it so it's a learning experience for the intern with immediate supervision by an actual worker. Do people violate this? Absolutely, and that's a decision you will have to make for yourself. Here's a link to the federal guidelines: http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.pdf

As far as paying $7.25 an hour, this is why I take offense to it. If I were to get a minimum-wage job at McDonald's, I may technically make the same wage before taxes, but once taxes are due, the 1099 worker actually takes home less because he has to pay the employer's side of the taxes as well.

I think what you really want, is an entry-level worker. If you really do want a student level person, with little experience, that's just looking to get their foot in the door as a programmer, you might be able to get someone at $10-15 an hour on craigslist.
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Ah, seems like the US government has a long tradition of using vague and distant foreign threats to tighten the internal pressure on its people. ;)
I wouldn't put it like that, but roughly yes. I think the current policies are probably doing more harm than good. We should try decriminalizing some drugs, and spend some of the money we save on enforcement on education and health services. This is a harm reduction strategy, which is how we handle alcohol now.
So, correct me if I'm wrong, is your argument that it's better to choose the lesser of two evils?

Is your argument that it's better to choose the greater of two evils?
The case is a pretext to get him back to Sweden, from where he will be extradited to the US.
Also, a skilled GWT developer might work since SmartGWT is built on top of GWT, but with a different Javascript widget set.
One fateful day, VMWare and OS/X conspired to trash my
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Several days of uncommitted code? We need to have a heart to heart talk about your process.
You can get names and Facebook IDs of user's friends for anyone who signs in with your app. I don't believe you can fetch their friends through the API, so the game companies should have access to only edges in which one person uses a game.
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I got no feedback whatsoever from taking that - it just said "thank you taking the test!" without any results. Disappointing.
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Linux (the kernel) actually has manpages? Are you sure? I've never seen any.

Case in point: check the output of lsmod. How many of those modules have a corresponding manpage? My guess: zero.

Same question for a BSD system (with lsmod changed to kldstat or whatever): all of them.
That's a pretty unique interior setup. I built my own living room server that has comparable power usage (uses ~20 W from the wall in practice) with more traditional computer parts. I'm so used to the x86/x86-64 options of Intel, AMD, and Via that I have never considered building my own system with something other than x86.

With low power/heat/noise as importance factors, one's x86 options are very limited. I went with an Intel Atom for my own build, which resulted in very limited choices for motherboards as far as number of SATA ports, hardware RAID controllers (for redundancy), etc.

I am very interested now to see what options I might have now to build my own ARM server.
If you're using vim without all the features of a graphical IDE, you're missing the right plugins.

I used Delphi for years, then Visual Studio for years, then Eclipse for a while, then QtCreator for years. I've haven't found anything in any graphical IDE that can't be succinctly reproduced in a text-only environment like vim.

I can imagine a whole load of awesome features that would require a truly graphical output. They just haven't been written yet.
Looks to be browser fragmentation.

"Other" (which is massively increased) and IE9 are the only increasing entries in this plot:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-200809...

While what's in that "other" plot isn't listed, the Chrome and Firefox version schemes and their associated plethora of smaller and more frequent releases have played havoc with the classic version-plot scheme.
Why can't just install linux on his macboc and sync everything using ssh/rsync/git without being such a hipster.
It's basically the same thing as textmate, only actively updated and with some extra features.

For me, the main advantage over textmate is split-screen layout.
There are several good companies that tap the power of people and internet to get the work done. Here is a comparison list.
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Is it actually "non-science in particular"? From what I can tell from job/income statistics (depending on how you interpret them), the college degree is actually most valuable for people who intend to pursue non-STEM careers. The unemployment rates are much lower, and average salaries much higher, if you compare degree-holders to non-degree-holders among people pursuing non-STEM careers.

Meanwhile, in computer science (to take my field), the degree has some economic value, but I don't think nearly as much--- you can get a high-paying tech job just by having a good github "resume". There's no real way to do the equivalent in, say, history. You can write a bunch of freelance historical newsletters, but HR screens want to see a degree in something, anything; doesn't matter what, but must be a degree.
Brian Culler says:
it doesn't really convert a gif to a flip book. it converts a gif to a PDF.

TL;DR - Crap. Move on.
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This is really true. Back then we were still using CVS, and I was writing a feature that I thought wasn't quite big enough to branch and remerge for, but turned out to be a bit more involved to get right than I'd thought.

Now we're on Mercurial and life is better.

Edit: A nice win with the Linode is that they back it up for me for $5 a month. Sure, there are solutions for the desktop too, but somehow I never got around to using one of those.
Why do people offer full-time work as 'un-paid' internships still?
That's a problem with high school, not university.
Yeah, and web development. 4 gig repositories are fairly common on big web development projects with big graphics files taking up a lot of space.
I can't speak for YC - but what stops you from applying to YC anyway? I have seen PG mention a number of times that a lot of startups they fund eventually end up launching something else altogether different. YC invests in people, and not just on ideas. Many people could have the same idea, but their implementations will almost always vary given their context, timing and other variables that are not in your hands.
Whether or not it is "wrong" is irrelevant. It would fly in the face of one of the things we claim to like most about this country. And it would probably end up hurting us, one way or another.

(Irrelevant: yes, I think it would be "wrong". I consider discrimination to be a form of human rights violation. Not being a citizen doesn't mean you don't have rights. Or, it shouldn't. /idealism )
> What do you mean? You can rename files/folders with sublime text 2.

You can't move files between folders.
I respectfully disagree, or partially, anyway.

I've been developing software in Vim, Netbeans, and Visual Studio (with about a year or so of Eclipse thrown in for good measure).

I've worked on projects in all three ranging from tiny 1kloc one-offs to several million line systems, using C, C++, Java, Bash, and a smattering of Perl and Python.

For Java and C++ code bases beyond a few thousand lines, I certainly agree that language aware tools are invaluable. It's sad that C++'s nature makes such tools so difficult to build. Going from Netbeans/Java to Netbeans or VS C++ is like going back in time - not quite laser scalpel to flint knife, but sometimes it feels like it!

Fortunately, I spend the bulk of my time in C, where I find myself at least as effective in Vim as in either Netbeans or VS. Granted, I obviously do use a few additional tools - primarily ctags and make.

If vim only had fully language aware navigation and search, I think I'd be just as effective in it as in any IDE. Exuberant ctags comes close, but just isn't quite there, and cscope is just too clumsy and slow.
Incorrect, irrelevant, and close-minded.
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He didn't "appear". You came across a guy lashing together a raft, for his own use, demanded a bridge, and then became irate that he didn't pull apart his raft and make you one right then and there.

Worse still, the poor guy offered to let you use his raft if you wanted to. Its not his fault you were moving elephants.
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I think the way of the future is a smaller powerful notebook, like a Thinkpad X220, and then using larger monitors and whatever cloud service you want.
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> Better search

I seriously hope they would _FINALLY_ include some sort of sub-string search as the lack of it really makes their mail search pretty much unusable unless you know exactly what you are looking for but I have a huge mail archive that goes a good 10+ years back - and that is google we are talking about, of all companies.

I would be totally fine if they limit me to just 2 or 3 sub-string searches a day and then just grep through my mails if that's what it takes but come on people, this feature has been requested ages ago and there surely are ways to implement this without breaking your servers' backs.
As a college-level instructor (with a PhD in those -- gasp -- liberal arts), might I suggest two things?

First, the critical thinking I learned reading poetry better prepared me for business management, web development, and entrepreneurship than any of my Chemistry courses (I was also a Chemistry minor in Undergrad). I'd be happy to go into the details, but this doesn't seem like the forum for that explanation.

And second, again, as an instructor, one of the bigger problems in the humanities is grade inflation and a sense of entitlement to A's. Whereas in a Calculus class, grading is much easier to quantify (i.e. get X number of questions right on a test, end up with Y grade), grading papers is a less standardized practice. The result is overwhelming grade inflation (I can't tell you the number of students I have who quite literally break down in tears when they receive B's). Perhaps both the utility of humanities degrees and the propensity for being willing to challenge oneself in a STEM course would be increased if getting higher grades wasn't perceived as being easier in the humanities.
Looking at the setup of the iPad on your table with the keyboard gave me neck ache. I can't imagine what that does to you on a daily basis.

Interesting experiment, I don't think I could ever move to doing something like that permanently.
Are you suggesting an engineering degree or computer science degree etc. don't teach critical thinking and problem solving skills? I'd concede that better communication skills should be taught.
I always wondered why if the extradition is just to question him, it would be cheaper to just fly out a Swedish prosecutor/team and conduct the interview in the UK. Then they could determine if it should file charges and from what I understand the extradition for a trial is clearer and simpler to obtain.

Swedish prosecutors might be immune from official or open political pressure, but I'm sure back channels exist. That said I don't think any are being used in this case.

One thing I've seen a handful of times in Sweden, is a problem the US has too, prosecutors trying to make a name for themselves. I'd say that is what is overcoming the shaky facts of the case, a prosecutor who thinks it could pay off career wise.
Platform... not language.
I did indeed say that, and I approve of this comment. ejs should charge $5 paypal and print out the book and mail it to the person. BOOM STARTUP
I am serious. Is there an option in the settings to make all elements scroll again? It's not like I am the only one who prefers a small screen.

The many position:fixed elements is a major flaw in this new design.
Computing Bayesian network probabilities using BDDs sounds interesting. Are there any references for this, or do I have to wait in suspense for the lecture? :)
Hmmm, 2 out of 9 and no feedback? I have to say I find that deeply frustrating :)

Also, I have no idea what you're collecting data for or anything; I just gave you my time, please let me know what you've done with it. Hope you get the results you wanted.

Edit: Apparently I scored 8/9, which is less frustrating :)
Could you explain what you mean by the terms "critical thinking" and "other side"?
For some reason on OS X Lion (Sublime v. 2136 & 2139) tabs do not show up for me unless I go to the bottom right and click Spaces: 4> Convert Tabs to spaces. Then only the current window's tab is shown.

This is smooth and runs pretty fast, but back to text mate for me, I need to see the tabs, see what I have open. Textmate has a nasty 'refresh project on focus' situation that kills working over a network (remate2 fixes that), but Sublime seems to work well over a network.
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Anyone tried to do this as a web developer? I know theres an app or two geared towards being a web dev environment, the one good one i found (its called Gusto on the app store) i didnt get to test properly because it didnt support SFTP yet (due to apple requiring some permission from the gov or something, not technical limitation).
You know, I wish I could see that. But I can use Firefox regularly with 80+ tabs without any hitch. Chromium starts getting unresponsive somewhere between 10 and 30 depending on the content.
tmux: is it faster because it's more efficient about sending updates to the terminal, or are you talking about server-side resource usage?

I certainly wouldn't say no to a more responsive terminal.
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Holy shit. I managed to focus for four, got told I only had one right, which surprises me. That may very well be the hardest reasoning test I've ever seen.
Also over Thanksgiving weekend.
Regardless I'll apply. But I am curious about the answer to this question. Especially if I invest heavily in bootstrapping the idea.
I've written many tens of thousands of lines of C on my netbook, which has a 10.1" screen, also using Vim, so I believe it's possible.

Still, I'd really like just a smidge more space, especially in the vertical. At least 168 pixels, to be specific.

That's one advantage he has with the iPad - he can easily switch between portrait and landscape, depending upon his needs.

I'd love to be able to occasionally turn my netbook screen to portrait!
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I can't deny that this is a cool setup but I can't see it being useful for long. I personally need to see multiples windows simultaneously as I work. Swiping over can't cut it for very long. But good for you, man. To each his own I suppose.
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I disagree. A lot of thought went into this very well written essay. Some of the author's criticism even applies to the new wave of dot-ly Silicon Valley startups.
There are two kinds of programmers: Those who’ve earned their experience the hard way, and insufferable know-it-alls who parrot whatever was in the last witty blog post they read.

There’s zero shame in being the first kind :-)
It's pretty obvious that the cost benefit analysis of getting a non-technical/non-business degree shows that it's not worth it, unless you can pay for it in cash. Getting $100k+ in student loans for a degree in which you can't pay off quickly will only lead to years of indebtedness.

At the current prices that students have to pay, it's simply not worth it. If I had a kid that wanted to go into liberal arts, I would suggest that they take a technical degree, and do night school for their liberal arts education, and I would forbid them from getting student loans.

As the old Wall Street adage goes, the cure for high prices is high prices. At some point, people will stop sending their kids to college if the prices keep increasing like this, and then something will have to be done about it. Unfortunately, it means that the current generation of kids will become the new debt slaves until this education crisis is stopped.
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Likely so for critical thinking (Common sense not being so common and all that...). Additionally though, an inability to understand and thoroughly evaluate a problem or articulate its solution, is certainly a challenge as well.
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My first thought was, "Oh! no you didn't!"

Kudos for thinking of it. I think that it's a very viable solution for those who don't have a great need for a graphical IDE. But as a web developer I have to test across all major browsers, so I can't switch everything to an iPad. (Not that I wouldn't be interested in trying it.)
Man, I love The Impossible Game. Have you beat all four levels? I'm stuck on the "let's flip all this shit upside down randomly" level.
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Of all places on the Internet it was really odd to see Standford's site requiring Silverlight to watch its content. WTH, how could something like this happen?
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Just rename to .flv and you're good to go.
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I do some web development in my spare time but I think I'd really miss the developer tools in the browser if I did more client-side javascript.

There's always firefox-in-vnc, but that's a pretty awful solution.
It matters because Microsoft's browsers have held back browser progress for more than 10 years.

I'm assuming you must be very young...