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What you are describing is the Schengen Agreement, which predates the EU by quite a few years (1985 vs 1993).

Sadly, out of the few positive things that people associate EU with, even fewer are really to EU's credit.
Compromise is the key. Use the idea, but keep it simple. Just pick a fixed list of relatively more likely countries, say the top 20 as defined by the G20. This extends and improves the traditional country selector which gives special status to 1 country (the USA) rather than 20. If you think a list of 20 needs to be more dynamic, why is it okay for the legacy list of 1 to be static ?
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Last night I was annoyed at how slow (and web 1.0-ish) most CSS reference sites seem to be, so I created this. It's basically a scrape of the CSS reference on w3schools, but with client side searching. Feedback is most welcome!

some of the tech involved: node, requirejs, backbone, mongodb

the code: http://github.com/rgarcia/instacss
Agreed. The reporter's story is well-written, tries to be fair, but definitely takes a point of view. And that's OK; I think it's a good piece of public-interest journalism.

Sadly, the malpractice thing isn't as clear cut as you'd hope. The choice to settle a claim is usually made by the insurance provider, regardless of the wishes of the physician, so a settlement doesn't mean anything per-se: the insurance provider decides whether to settle by weighing a lot of factors, including many that have nothing to do with the actual facts of the case. A court of law—particularly in a jury trial—may not be the fairest way to adjudicate these issues, but the AMA routinely attempts to block any other proposals for holding doctors accountable (see the story: they supported the removal of the database as well) so malpractice suits and the occasional newspaper story are what we're left with in policing these docs.
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The article definitely proves a point: don't make your blog titles look too spammy.

To build on your research, I would have liked to have seen test titles that didn't include the phrase "get free quotes". For example, the third title may have yielded better results if it were worded like, "House Cleaning Services in San Francisco".

Regardless, great info - thanks for sharing!
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You are completely right -- and it's really too bad because some combination of the two would be ideal. I wonder if it is easier to start a "startup culture" in Munich or a "get stuff working" culture in Berlin. I guess since I'm also "stuck" in Munich for the moment myself I'd prefer to work on moving things forward in here (hosting hackathons, etc.)

btw, what makes you think Zurich would be better?
For awhile now I've been pondering the possibility of relocating my family to europe for awhile. How hard is it for someone who can start his own business to come there to found a company? How difficult is it to get a work permit to move to an EU state, if you can find an employer who will hire you?
You can? How? Who is 'we'? How many people, how much time and how much money do you need?
Couldn't read the article as the server is overloaded. But I have some thoughts about the headline. This may contain some hyperbole, you have been warned.

I don't understand Berlins appeal. It has one fatal flaw: no industry. In my opinion the great parts of Germany are where the world-famous "Mittelstand" sits. Is that in Berlin? I would argue it's not. Berlin is called "the city of students, the unemployed and cab drivers" by many, and probably not without reason.

Berlin is our hipster-central. However German engineers much prefer the living standards of Bavaria or BW instead of getting their Audi/BMW/Merc torched and their property vandalized. You're not getting lots of these people to move to Berlin. Big (US) IT corps know this, almost all of them have their headquarters in the south.

Now, if you're after 20somethings with no family, low income expectations and you build webapps using $WhateverIsCoolOnHN that targets other 20somethings around the globe - sure, go to Berlin. But then why don't you start wherever you are and get going instead of looking for another excuse that delays your product?

If your business plan even remotely involves selling goods or services to companies, you've chosen the wrong spot of Germany. The same is true for finances, Berlin is constantly broke and banks cling on to their money for obvious reasons.

And if your business plan involves pushing lots of data, you should be in Frankfurt.
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Why wouldn't you be able to, it's a good framework with plenty of options. Not to mention the designer/developer can always add/customize on top of it.

Nice collection.
The employee took a risk accepting equity as part of their compensation, especially at a pre-IPO company.

Zynga shouldn't be able to come back, with 20/20 hindsight, and say "turns out we did better than we thought we would so we're taking your stock back".

If they failed they certainly wouldn't be giving employees other compensation to make up for their stock being worthless.
As it should be. Hip-hop damaged humanity's brain with that one line.
Let's see how they regulate mesh networking
Also, instant-runoff is easier to explain, because it's literally the same as holding hypothetical runoff elections on election day.

With Concordet voting, listing someone as your second choice can cause your first choice to lose, which would probably confuse a lot of people.
There would have to be fair-use doctrines, just as there is today with copyright. I can imagine, for example, that journalists reporting on natural events be allowed to use photographs depicting that event and its effects (including the people affected by it), as long as those photographs are only used in stories related to that event.

To use your Thai flood example, journalists would be allowed to use that picture of the woman and her child without a model release, but only within the context of a story about the floods in Thailand, or maybe next year in a story about the creation of a disaster relief fund for developing countries. But it doesn't become a stock photo, and he can't then turn around and sell that photo to Geico who uses it to sell flood insurance.

All I'm advocating is that the default position, after fair-use exemptions, be favoring privacy. I think you are taking a much more naïve view of my position.
It's image swapping every few seconds. The image is based on the clients "Web Crop". So they update screenshots over and over and over again.
Berlin is an awesome city, I had the chance to spend a week or so there a few years back and it's one of the few places I would consider moving overseas to live.

There is a big difference though between west berlin and the ex-communist east berlin , for one thing expect to pay around twice as much for a beer in west as in east.

The public transport system as well as any municipal services we used whilst there were a model of legendary German efficiency, not to mention cheap as transport is subsidized by the state.

The nightlife is excellent but I certainly advise chatting to the local partygoers (most are friendly enough) as they will know the more cool out of the way places to go.

Beer is also very cheap in east berlin , especially from supermarkets and drinking it on the streets or public transport is not the taboo that it is in the UK and other places.

The general vibe of the nightlife I experienced was quite different to Britain with much more sensibly paced drinking going on throughout the night and a generally social , jovial atmosphere unlike UK Cities which seem to cater increasingly to insular gangs of drunks who go out ingest large amounts of lager so quickly they throw up whilst they go on the hunt for fights or casual back-alley sex.

And those Doner kebabs sure look allot more appetizing than the ones found in takeaways in Britain.
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It's MUCH more difficult than banking or taxes. Not only must your vote be secure and counted; it must be anonymous! Not even you should be able to prove to anyone else who you voted for and there must be no audit trail that could tie an individual vote to a person.
Compared to Munich? I assume you've yet to have a good wheat beer in Bavaria ;)
My info is 15 years out of date, but at least at that point there were active programs for cultural exchange that placed american students at internships in Germany. Germany has an apprenticeship model (the "praktikum"), so interns flock there from all over the EU. Lots of spots available, so adding some Americans to the mix is easy.
I wish I had more detailed info at my fingertips but try googling or reaching out to the embassy and places like Goethe Institut.
I think this may be the program I was part of but not sure: http://www.cdsintl.org/internshipsabroad/iwagermany.php
I use a mechanical timer and I use the pomodoro method for routine tasks like marking, doing reports &c (I'm a teacher). It helps my motivation with fairly basic tasks.

For anything where flow might be important, I don't use the pomodoro and I block out a stretch of time. I work on those tasks at home as a large open plan office becomes impossible.
Google also seems like one of the most long-term thinking companies in existence. Self-driving cars come to mind.
Edit: Woops, this was supposed to be an answer to your parent (zecho), not you.

A common definition must not necessarily be a correct definition - ask any scientist, there's probably a number of terms that are misused by the general populace in every field. As a very general example, theory and hypothesis come to mind. When most people say "theory", they mean what in a scientific context would be referred to as a hypothesis - an unproven claim that requires verification.

Now, we can argue whether or not evolution of language justifies using wrong definitions of a term, but technically, defining "anarchy" as "chaos" is - in my opinion - not correct. The term denotes a state of society where there is no governing authority, but does not imply the absence of rules, laws or values.

The major problem I have with these two definitions is that people who assume the negative one (anarchy == chaos) are, for the most part, not aware of the other meaning, and that quickly leads to confusion - which is sometimes used intentionally to defame opponents in an argument. I personally try to make it clear upfront which definition I am using (anarchy == absence of government or authority), but it's sometimes still hard to escape the negative association of the term.
This is interesting, especially when read in parallel to the NYT's article, Google’s Chief Works to Trim a Bloated Ship. That article claims Google is shutting down many small projects to focus on more, this is me talking. "marketable" projects. Maybe partnering with startup weekend is a way to stay connected to new innovations and innovators with out having them on the Google payroll. Really interesting. And exciting.
Any group that is as big as government and as organized would be already on government's radar as a major threat. So you might want to work on your robustness before working too hard on your organization.
I worked for a startup during the dot-com boom that seemed to want to be a Yahoo clone. The CEO was incredibly shady and the company was partnered in some way with some huge telemarketing company in Florida.

We offered free webmail, just like Yahoo, and at one point the CEO told a developer to add a credit card field to the sign-up form just to see what would happen. Several users entered valid credit card numbers. I do not believe that anything was done with these numbers, but I cannot imagine why the CEO wanted to test this.

Our main source of revenue seemed to be banner ads offering shady services from the telemarketing company. One of them was a travel club. The users would be drawn in with an offer of free airline tickets. They had to sign up for the travel club to get the tickets and they had to stay at specific hotels and such that were probably marked up to pay for the tickets. The whole idea was to get them to sign up for the travel club which caused a small monthly fee to be charged to their credit card. They knew how much to charge to get most people not to cancel for months (it was around $8-10). The only "benefit" of being in the club was more questionable offers.

At one point they considered starting a gasoline club that promised cheaper gasoline. The idea was that people would again pay a monthly fee for the club but then they would have to submit receipts to receive reimbursement for gasoline purchases. They were counting on people being too lazy to submit receipts.
should have sticked to minding his own business

My guess is that the tweeting guy, and the rest of the patrons, would have preferred if none of this had happened. They didn't choose to be witness to the conflict. It was the choice of that couple to thrust the situation on the rest of the diners. In that context, I can't see that the twitter guy is guilty of anything other than, maybe, poor taste.
Well, that may be true (Millions! I would even say). But to be perfectly honest, I'm not sure why they bother. To me, that kind of behavior always seems very juvenile and ultimately not very fulfilling.

I totally get that people are into that, but I really don't see them very happy is what I'm trying to say. The ones that find that sort of behavior to be pure bliss very often turn out to be rather shallow.

I also understand that sort of hedonism to be, supposedly, very glamorous - they argue that you only have 80 years, so better squeeze the juice out of every second you get in as self-involved a fashion to satisfy your desires as possible. As long as caring so much about other people is not on your list of priorities, it's very hard for me to make a case against that. I suppose it also comes easy to you when you're very young - the world just automatically cares more about you. What happens after 40 or 50 is a different story. (And yes, I've heard the live-fast-die-young argument where people would rather go down that road and die in their late thirties. Sounds super.)

I would rather spend those 80 years as much as possible with people I intensely care about (and who care about me) and while that may be uncommon in your statistics, I think I'm still in my right to argue that it's healthier. And not just because it carries a much smaller risk of contracting various venereal diseases.
Doesn't bitcoin solve this problem?
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I'm a Steam user, Steam forums user, and Valve customer and have received no email or notification. This story may not be as all-encompassing as it appears.
This is not the biggest challenge to Internet voting, but surely you agree that it's unfair that some people would now be able to vote from home while others would not? At least around me, you might wait an hour for a computer at the library during busy times.

If the point is to let people vote from home at their leisure, why not just mail everyone an absentee ballot?
Cool - I will totally use this.
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If you're doing some kind of discretionary consumer product, than you could proxy sales conversions based on the amount of traffic your landing page receives. Something on the order of 1-2% of total visits will become orders. If you take email addresses on your landing page, then assume a 15-20% open rate for your future newsletter, and a higher amount, maybe 2-5% conversion to sale from those clicks.

Additionally, depending on what type of product it is, you can usually expect your average order size to be around 150% of the cost of one item. For example if you sell t-shirts for $25, your average order size will be around $37, since most customers will by 1 or 2 items.
Lolz. They implemented a simple autocomplete plugin and call it a redesign? It's not necessarily faster for a mouse user because it requires keyboard entry.
But obscurity has been good enough for privacy. Just look at the difference between a GPS tracker and assigning an FBI agent to follow someone.

In theory the information you gather is the same, but the ability to do it at scale allows you to collect data on people that you otherwise never would have, thus reducing privacy.
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I disagree, what you describe is shady, but also pretty unrealistic. Normally there's a vesting schedule with only a 1 year cliff, and then chunks vest yearly. That's essentially pro-rata.
Oh yes, because all the direct democracy systems that have been created have worked so well. You know what's worse than voting for representatives? Voting directly on dozens of bills that are so complicated that, unless you don't have a full time job, you have to rely on a bunch of summaries written by biased parties to interpret.

My favorite trick which happened in my city is having two bills that look nearly identical, except one looks better (more savings, more jobs, more whatever), but is actually illegal and will inevitably be struck down by the courts. The illegal one has a supersede clause in it so that if both are voted in, it undos the other, but since it'll be struck down for being illegal, nothing will actually change.

As someone whose state, city and county have implemented direct democracy, I can tell you it sucks. I'd rather have no laws passed then them passed directly via an uninformed electorate.
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Another point I wanted to make on this was that I also think the Google chef excuse is just that an excuse, I think they will target the big awarded first employees whose value was in getting them off the ground and which they should rightfully be paid for. Their value was then, when the company did not have to money to fairly pay their market price, and they had to use promises of future reward to get them to sign on. By all definitions the developers that got them off the ground are now being overcompensated to their market value, but that was the deal right, we can't afford you because you are a good programer and can get 250k in the market, we want to underpay you now with the promise that if we make it you get to participate in the windfall. So it does not matter if they are not contributing now, it was the contribution while they where being underpaid relative to the market that made them entitled to the windfall. It doe not matter if they where a chef or a developer if they agreed to take reduced compensation as a risk, with the promise of participating in the reward and are being deprived of that then they are in a very grey area.
At least they're honest about it, compare this to the PS3 compromise.
It looks to me that Google+ is more of a replacement for Blogger than a competitor to FaceBook at this point.
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No doubt about it, but why SHOULD you use twitter bootstrap?

These sites could have been created using 960gs-templates as well. Am I missing something here?
Fair. No one said it had to be the same size, though :-)
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CSS uses -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;

It is very annoying.
Remember the old Windows time zone picker that let you click on the world map to select your zone?

Geopolitical sensitivity about precise borders forced Microsoft to switch off the region-highlighting feature.

(Info: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/08/22/54679...)

Also, the user may not always be picking their own country and it may be unreasonable to ask the average user to find, say, San Marino on a world map. While you could of course restrict the use of a map-style picker to only the users-own cases, it would be nice to have a somewhat standard picker for all occasions.
Of course I understand the sentiment that everyone wants their site to look fully custom and not like it came from any particular framework, but it's hard to resist the irony that the first thing they have to say is "Hardly looks like a ‘Bootstrap site’ at all."
We just moved Meeteor.com to Seattle, and it's been an amazing community to be a part of. Strong mix of design + developer talent, and the cost of living (and cost of hiring) is about half of the Bay Area's....

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Nor I, but I imagine it just takes a little while to send tens of millions of emails.
Same here - no email received (and checking with co-workers, neither have they)
Any chance you could use the MozDev CSS reference instead? https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/CSS_Reference
Wait, why would I change my Gmail password?
That would seem to be true, as thinking otherwise is quite foolish of course. However, the very next paragraph is:

"Sure, Google hopes to build a social network that competes with Facebook, Twitter and other social services, but that is not the main reason the company has put so many resources behind Google+. Instead, Google+ is a social layer that has always been intended to sit on top of the company’s flagship product: search."

What? "Google+ is a social layer that has always been intended to sit on top of the company's flagship product: search" just exactly as long as they decided to "build a social network that competes with Facebook, Twitter and other social services". He is somehow trying to sleight-of-hand away the causal relationship here. If Google+ fails to rival Facebook and Twitter as a social network, it might still turn out ok somehow, but it will doubtlessly be considered a failure internally and externally.
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Thanks for the clarification. I didn't realized the role insurance companies played in malpractice settlements. I agree with knowtheory above, fight facts with facts and tell the whole story. It makes it really hard when people are actively trying to hide information that could be of interest to the public.
A database of such information might be sued out of existence, but a meta-search engine wouldn't be. There's nothing libellous about having a really good targeted search engine focusing on say lawsuits.
That's the ideal, but in reality even normal pencil voting can be hacked since it is pretty simple to take a picture of your ballot with a smartphone. Then you can prove whom you voted for.
The prostitution example is completely fictionalized. If an alpha male wants sex, he gets it, no questions asked.
Looks really cool! I could see myself using it!
I haven't received an email either.
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I forgot to mention the reason why I left the company about four months after I started. They laid off about half of the developers and told them that they could take their computers as payment instead of their final paycheck if they wanted to. I considered the situation and realized that I might end up not being paid for my time if they were that bad off. I quit the next day and the company went under a couple weeks later.
Same here, I haven't gotten any email from Steam.

Luckily I also don't have my CC number on my account since I use PayPal. I also enabled authentication via email a while ago so it sends me a code to log in.

I guess it's a good idea to change your password and check CC statements either way.