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If all that exists is God and his creation, then it is enough to state that God determines his own will (i.e. has free will) and that he has all power with relation to his creation. No force, whether moral, physical, spiritual or temporal has the ability to oppose God and ultimately prevail. Thus he has no limits on his power. It is limitless.

This all stands to reason if God created time and space and matter ex nihilo. He has all the power there is. "For from Him and to Him and through him are all things"... forever. In fact, nothing that has power has so without it being given by Him. All power derives from God.

As God is changeless, his power necessarily cannot be improved.

I'll be honest and say that I do not know of any argument which proves in a direct way that a God who created the physical universe must be able to do any thing which is possible. Of course, that does not imply that there is not such an argument, nor that I do not believe it to be so.

I think that the necessary existence of God implies that there exists no being greater than God.
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Even if they just changed their landing page, and said 'this is an example of what you'll see if SOPA passes.' I would commit to this.
Thank god he wore the official t-shirt for the interview.
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These things are always only sorta tongue-in-cheek.

http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/steinberg-new...
tmpvar (jsdom author) has worked really hard on jsdom. turns out implementing DOM levels 1, 2 and 3 in pure JS is a hard problem. patches welcome, buddy!
So you're looking for someone who'll actually hit the pavement selling your idea to customers (learn that word), presumably during daytime work hours, and also do some "real work" on the nights and weekends. While you sit back and take in payments through Stripe? Since you're averse to paying salaries or sharing 30% of the revenue with Apple or PayPal, what kind of equity will you offer your "cofounder"?

Out of sheer morbid curiosity I looked up your HN profile. Using the f-word twice in your own bio is quite revealing!

Good luck with your startup. I really, really hope you succeed.
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Yes, but we run the internet. Many of us here at HN control vast amounts of web realestate. Every time they push for censorship push back, educate your users, show them on your site an example of what can happen.
At 40MM/month, with average transaction of $500, and a $0.25 fee for each transaction, they make $20,000 per month revenue... After you pay employees (12 people), other costs (including legal), and take a hit from fraud, I can't imagine there is a great upside to this business unless they start doing at least 100x more volume. Concidering the nature of the business, I don't see this happening.
Recent posts should just be loaded dynamically via javascript, the same way recent tweets are loaded.
Once you get at that point, the dev experience starts to look a lot like traditional desktop client-server app development.

... with all the security/privacy problems that go with that, and then some.
Not just yet, we're waiting to roll out our theme engine before we feature anyone.
"Do you have a source for this that isn't, um, from the Simpsons?"

My Simpsons reference was meant to be a colorful analogy, and not a "source." Sheesh.

The source for my statement was journal article I read a few months back. I can't seem to track it down online, but here's a blog that summarizes the studies:

http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/men/thank_mom_for_brains.htm

Like I said, the jury is still out on this. This is a relatively new hypothesis, and not a long-standing theory.
Any way to tell if this is legit or not?
I think there's a few underlying themes in this story:

1. Don't let others get in the way of what you want to do.
2. Rejection isn't the end, it's just a wall to climb over.
3. (This message was definately between the lines) Success takes hard work.

I know a lot of people I applied to school with and eventually graduated with felt entitled to a position to the program or to a job after graduation. But these same people bumbled through school, never really caring or putting in the work to complete the project the way it needed to be completed.

I'm right there with the author in saying never give up, but not giving up takes a lot of hard work and you can't forget that.
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I don't know about you, but I'm not generally keen on giving my account number to someone so they can wire me a few bucks. That's rather error prone and a little shaky on the security side. It can also be rather expensive, depending where you're sending to/from.
Updated. thx to gwern. Now I know the existence of hlint.

Now, without the type declaration, white space, comments, it's only 6 lines, and looks even better. :)
I love these kind of projects. We desperately need independence from the Visa/Mastercard monopoly over international transactions.
There's a fair amount of research that suggests that "are you good enough" tech recruiting is phenomenally male specific. The tone of social cam's original posting "Are you good enough to work at Social Cam?" was practically engineered to put off women.
> And no, it is not for health issues because they don't turn away gay women.

Wait, doesn't that exactly refute your point? Presumably, gay men and gay women have different health profiles, whereas they have similar "moral" profiles to an up-tight conservative. I think the statement makes more sense like:

> And no, it is not for moral issues because they don't turn away gay women.
Reminded me of this section from the Rspec book - http://cl.ly/2x231s0N2v3C2P1S1z04, http://cl.ly/2R1Z1D450Y1n1n3L170b - which applies to testing object-oriented code by mocking objects and putting assertions on the interaction between objects (vs vis versa).

"Object-oriented systems are all about interfaces and interactions. An object’s internal state is an implementation detail and not part of its observable behavior. As such, it is more subject to change than the object’s interface. We can therefore keep specs more flexible and less brittle by avoiding reference to the internal state of an object."

This 'Plumber Programmer" article is meant to be more general than object-oriented code, but I think the analogy applies. Building systems is about interaction and communication - system state is just an illusion that gives us a first approximation of how things talk to one another.
Begs the question - why are wire transfers so expensive in the US? Most banks here charge $25 (and also make it difficult to execute online), yet you can send a check for free. Doesnt make sense.
The only sensible application I've seen is ING's person2person payment application that allows an ING customer to transfer money for free to anyone with an email address. The recipient just has to enter their bank's ABA number and account number.
I feel like I'm being reprimanded. Forgive me if I'm mistaken.

> A sparkline is a specific type of graph

My point is this should be explained _somewhere_. Anybody else unfamiliar with sparklines will now have the benefit of this thread. Previously, to me anyway, it was a mystery.

> The wiki page is pretty clear with the uses and limitations.

It is. It was only presented upon my initial query, and am grateful to @IgorPartola for providing!

> Not all graphs are created equal, it's important to use the right
> tool for the job. This tool isnt just a graph generator, > it's a
> spark bar chart generator that's compact enough to fit in > the
> command line. Overall a cool idea.

It is, indeed. My initial note wasn't about the coolness of the project, just "what _is_ the project"? Is clear now. Anybody else who is ignorant about sparklines as I was, enjoy this thread!
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Those devices will offer a more complicated experience because they have to do something Microsoft doesn't have to because they have the desktop OS monopoly creating a competitive burden to everyone else. Looks like leveraging a monopoly on one market to gain advantages on another to me, even if it is a subtle way.

All they have to do to leverage their desktop-related monopolies is to sit tight and do nothing. And that's why it's really bad.
I'm still having trouble wording Step 11, I'll admit. I often think that IDEs make the programmer a little too lazy (hear me out). If you're to the point where you can't remember where certain methods are defined, how something should be refactored, etc., your project probably got too bloated long ago.

By forcing you to keep much of the project in human memory, services, in the world of the web, are encouraged to get spun off much sooner.
Also, debit cards pay straight out of your regular bank account. With Dwolla, funds come out of your Dwolla account and it takes 2-4 days or longer to move funds into that account. It's an interesting concept but with delays like that I don't see how it can compete with plastic. Too bad, card processing fees are outrageous!

http://help.dwolla.com/customer/portal/articles/225303-why-i...
I think most of the applications (like the ING example) have the recipient supply that information to the sender's bank, not to the sender himself.
Not totally sure it works that way in Europe, but I think so.
Anyone else think of gaming consoles when they read this?

Gaming consoles, even today, don't need to share their specs. They do, but that's not why people by them. Very little in the way of hardware influences people. In fact, even the BluRay part of the PS3 isn't the reason people like the PS3. It's because they can play BluRays on it.

So, for certain people, Halo is important. For others, it's Mario. What does this have in common with things like iPad, iPhones, etc? The product enables you to use a specific ecosystem of features. If I buy an XBox, I can partake in XBox Live. PS3, I can watch BluRays and use PSN.

Kinect is the same thing: the hardware really isn't important. It's what it allows you to do.

That's what sells to people.

The problem is, when all the computers do basically the same thing, what's their to differentiate? What's does an HP do that a Dell does not?

So, how is this different then a Mac? Well, you basically have 4 macs right now: Mini, Air, MBP, and an iMac. The Pro is that machine for people that care about the hardware.

The Mini is clear in what it offers. The Air, MBP, and iMac are all specific, and the hardware features are fairly obvious, but they all enable access to the same ecosystem. The goal here is, when you go to buy a Mac, the only thing you need to decide is what you want to use it for (and, I firmly believe even that will slowly erode away).
You could have said the same thing about Craigslist. Sometimes it's more important to be disruptive.
I think the car analogy still holds quite well here for laptops.
You are making a big assumption in saying that material/construction quality is more important than GHz/RAM etc, this may be true for a certain segment of the market (who are probably just buying apple everything anyway).

If I buy a laptop and it feels abit cheap then that's unpleasant and maybe I wish I had a better one but if it is too underpowered to be able to run the applications I need in order to do my work/play the games that I want to then that is a total deal breaker and having it made from aluminum really isn't going to matter.

People do this allot with car purchases and will buy cars that are ugly , unreliable and have cheap interiors simply because they provide enough space for their family + dog with lots of safety features and decent gas mileage. This is how Renault make their money.
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Tell HN: I work 3 hours a day and I am proud and productive
I work 3 hours a day.

The setting: overloaded, taking on mulitple roles, work keeps piling up, people on the management side are not technical - but most of the tech workers don't complain and just what they got to do ...or they leave as some have done)

How I cope with it now:
I couldn't stop thinking about work..at night and even on the weekends. I felt I was going to have a (light) nervous breakdown.
But now...I tell myself that my goal at work is not to solve provlem xyz or get project xyz stamped as done.
My goal is to come in and do 3 hours of work.
Yes 3 hours that is it..but the hardest and best work that you can do while trying not to compromise quality...what ends up happening is that my 3 hours are sometimes better then my 8 hours of slow crap.
And if I don't do anything else or my productivity drops that is fine...
What ends up happening is that by working in this super fast pace, I can still continue on at a slower pace yet feel satisfied that I did my job and that I have something to report too for the next meeting (we have daily progress update meetings).

Have any of you used similar techniques ?
My perspective on Perl is that it's like a Dremel tool.

If you've ever had a household project that requires a tool you don't have or skill you don't know, you can usually take your Dremel out, dig through the gift pack of attachments that you received for Christmas, and find a way to do what you need to do.

Will the results be pretty? No. Is it the best way to get the job done? Probably not -- but it's good enough.

Perl's great because it has the power to do lots of things, quickly, and without alot of drama. It's dangerous because it's just good enough to keep some hastily written program around too long. Many "black box" processes written in unintelligible Perl by persons unknown haunt data centers all over the globe.

I enjoyed the time I spent with Perl immensely. But I spent it as a individual sysadmin/DBA turned developer integrating lots of complex systems on multiple platforms a decade ago. (For better or for worse, some of those apps are still working!) For a team of programmers in 2011, there are probably tools out there that will do the job better for the same price.
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This appears to solve a major problem with web apps - exposing your entire front-end code to everyone. Very exciting.

Is it production ready? (Edit: Duh, says "beta")
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Ruby even uses some predefined globals (eg $_) that are pretty much straight out of Perl.

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/ruby/ruby_predefined_variables...
While the article appeared on a San Francisco news site, the company exists in Iowa. Thus, California law matters very little to them.
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Nice point! and I believe is something that the HN community agree in general. It can also be a subject for your research on social network. For example that you may need someone (person/company/site) with greater "social proof" (whatever it means) to leverage your current position.

From the promotion point of view I think the getting traction series contains good material: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/traction/

In my personal experience I achieved relative promotional success attacking the "magic middle", that is: neither the top, neither the bottom blogs/people/etc.
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It's the same reason they tested me for STDs when I got pregnant, even though I married a virgin as a virgin and we have been faithful forever. It's not about what you believe about yourself and your partner. It's about the statistics.

Someone else's life is on the line. They need to be sure.

Though I must admit, I'm surprised the policy is in place with marrow donations. With blood donations, sure, transfusions are a routine thing and your blood is highly replaceable. With marrow donations, though, someone may need your marrow or they'll die. I'd think a match, even if it carried a slight statistical chance of HIV, would be something they'd want to know about.
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It doesn't need it. It just gets it because the ecosystem is there and automatically does it for everything. The database interfaces get it, the Windows Process Memory access library gets it, the Hiragana learning tool gets it. Doesn't matter how big or small the project is, the service is provided for free, for all.

That is why i said the other languages have a long way to go yet; no matter how much you try to shift goal posts or resort to out-of-band attacks.
It can run Quake III.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_mDuJuvZjI
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According to the article, you can use a bank account directly.
It's a $200 alternative to a $7,000 device. Seems like a bargain to me.
Having worked on real-world projects in Perl, Python and Ruby, I can tell you that CPAN is not a differentiator. It doesn't matter if there are gazillions of packages to choose from. What matters is if I can find the packages I need to do the job. I remember working on a Perl project and being mocked by a Python guy because I had to implement a library that was already available for Python. On the other hand, I could choose from many different Perl packages to help me write classes and do things that Python does out of the box.
Games consoles are odd in that there are usually only around 3 major ones in the market at any one time and they all do basically exactly the same job.

Even with a mac there is enough to differentiate the models in specifications alone, for example there are probably not enough people interested in playing high end games or do graphics work that they will ever need to put a high end video card into the Mac Mini so doing so would be a waste.
Ouch. Sounds like a really bad deal dude. If it were me and I didn't have anything else invested in the company, I'd walk away with what you have now (which it sounds like nothing).

If the business practices are as shady as it sounds -- in an ideal world -- they won't be around long. Piss off the wrong person and it's over. I wouldn't want to be associated with the company.

-- my 2 cents
Many of these companies sent a letter to the judiciary committee, although it doesn't seem convincing enough: http://www.protectinnovation.com/downloads/letter.pdf
The OP asked, from an academic standpoint, whether jQuery should be used. My answer is no, and I gave the reasons. To extrapolate further, JQuery is for "developers" who don't know what a subroutine is. Designers love it because they can cut and paste unrelated snippets of code without worrying about architecture. People who overuse JQuery generally avoid any type of architecture in whatever they're building. And although it's possible to ship a product with half-understood jQuery snippets it does not necessarily make that person a real developer.
Here we work with scrum and have a pretty agile development cycle. I really believe that if we were to develop our site ground-up, we would use JEE again for the same reasons some of you've pointed out... and actually, we're doing it!

But, for example, many of our webpages are made with PHP using some CMS (Typo3) because it's perfect for this. Our mobile site uses our Java webservices from PHP too.

I've been working with JEE (formerly J2EE) and JSE for some ten years and I know of Java's (platform and language) problems, but I think that they are surpassed by its capabilities, tools, resources availability, etc.

Do I want Java to go away? Why I ask? It works! It's not perfect, is not shiny, is not "agile", but it gives management that warm feeling of cash flowing in. Oh! And it gives me a job!
Chase has something similar: https://www.chase.com/online/services/quickpay.htm
That doesn't address the error-prone nature. I don't know off the top of my head my account number or routing info. Looking it up is a pain and typing it in can be done incorrectly. This isn't something I want to do regularly.

I'm also not clear how the recipient supplies their info to the sender's bank. If I don't have an ING account, how can they verify that I'm me, and not someone else who's pretending to be me in order to intercept the transfer? As I recall, when I've done wire transfers, I've always been given the account info of the recipient for me to provide to my bank (but I haven't done this very frequently).

Edit: I just saw your other reply where you describe the ING app. I guess that works, but it's rather unfriendly. I'm always a little wary of high-security stuff (such as money transfers) that depend on email, too, but that's also an issue for Dwolla and probably a lot of the other payment startups.
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He made something people want. That trumps programming excellence.
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Specs are an awful proxy.

Specs do matter insofar as they impact user experience. That relation, however, is not linear. Diminishing returns are very common and there are also discontinuities.

Also, there are tradeoffs to consider: noise, temperature, weight, size, speed, battery, price, software …

You can’t have it all. That’s just not an option.

Specs are an implementation detail. They matter, sure, but the average consumer shouldn’t try and judge products based on them. That’s destined to fail. They should look at user experience and tradeoffs.

Companies and reviewers should try to translate the specs that were used to implement tradeoffs into user experience. Who is this device good for? What tradeoffs does it try to pick? Does it do a good job at that?

That’s what matters.
They're one of the easiest ways to transfer funds into MtGox, the main USD bitcoin trading site.

I don't have any idea what percentage of their transactions are bitcoin related, but it's definite that it accounts for at least some of it.
I'm not OP, but one way to reason is that he's not competing with $.99 fart-apps, but rather with an expensive specialized medical devices. From this perspective $199 is a very reasonable price point. Maybe he could charge even more for that, but it depends on what feedback he's getting from his customers.
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Also noteworthy is the new ability to treat the DOM as a resource from the server point of view. Extracting information and rendering view partials in realtime as well as placing event listeners for the DOM on the server can help get things done quite a bit faster. This is especially true since you can now work with the DOM near the scope of other server-side only resources making it easier to create prototypes and apps that have a high level of user interaction with them.
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> For real portability, how about an SD system thumb drive I can plug into any computer, and it boots as my computer.

Linux distributions have been doing this very successfully for the past 9 years (knoppix paved the way, but almost every linux distribution today can run live from a CD/SD/DiskOnKey, and store your data on an SD/DiskOnKey (the same one, if properly partitioned).

And it's unlikely a hotel or your student lab would actually let you reboot into your own distribution; once you have control of the hardware (which you must have), you practically own it from that moment.

CherryPy is actually a much better solution than yours:

Your lab, and your hotel room, is likely to have a screen that can take VGA or HDMI input - so you've got a display; You can get foldable silicon keyboards for $10 or so, and a small travel mouse for $10 more. So, for $45, you have something you can _already_ use at your lab or hotel room, with no one having to fear you're putting viruses on their system.