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Even though you've stated this in a very confident tone and have a lot of upvotes, I don't really see any evidence for your claim. Stowing carry-ons/no drink service during takeoff could as easily be explained by not wanting projectiles flying about the cabin when the plane bounces, the challenge of keeping your feet while the direction of gravity is shifting around you, etc. None of these reasons apply to electronic devices.

And there are plenty of things you could do that would alleviate problems during exiting the plane that have higher marginal value and lower marginal cost than prohibiting electronic devices. For example, you could mandate that close-toed shoes be worn, blankets not be utilized, food not be eaten, and probably a number of other things that I'm not mentioning. It seems likely that your reason is not even close to the actual reason for this policy.
Sorry, but OOP has virtually nothing to do with abstract algebra. Your whole post is about proving that something belongs to a general class and using the properties of a general class, and making such a vague analogy is completely contrary to that.

For a real CS example, see cryptography.
By all accounts, "give me a pay raise or I'll quit and go and work for Facebook" has been working very effectively at Google for a few years now.
LOL same here :))
It's worth mentioning 'css3buttons' project which does the same thing in a really elegent way.

https://github.com/michenriksen/css3buttons
Thank you for posting this!

> And, the problem was, mathematics was losing its "connectivity", all these new algebras had little to no connection to each other, and it was very difficult to make progress in a few of these algebras at once.

I went through 6 upper division abstract algebra classes without one professor providing this background. It's quite obvious once I read it, which is what makes it an amazing motivation.

There were some formatting notations that didn't display--mostly superscripts that displayed in-line
Moz maintains a recommended list here - http://www.seomoz.org/marketplace/companies/recommended that might be helpful.

Wish you luck!
Couldn't our woes be solved with something as simple as soft-wrap with a tweak:

soft-wrap:

- to allow the presentation layer to soft-wrap a line, just don't add a newline.

- for new paragraphs, just add two newlines as usual

- for indent sensitive code, diagrams, etc. add newlines where appropriate, taking care to not exceed 74 columns for any line. Everyone does this already.

+ tweak:

- in the presentation layer, soft-wrap all lines except those less than 74 characters long.

This isn't perfect for terminals less than 80 characters wide, in that the diagrams won't fit, but nobody uses narrow terminals, and Linus' scheme is even more broken for this case, so it's strictly better. It also allows one to easily distinguish diagrams from non diagrams by eyeballing the text flow. Best of all, it makes fewer assumptions about terminal width.
The author seems to have missed the fact that iMessage only lets you send non-sms messages when the other contact is online (blue "send" button), otherwise it's sms only (green button).

They never said you'd be able to send free SMS from an internet connection, so that table is kind of obvious. In the end, the user doesn't have to care, it just works. The only case where you might lose a message is if the recipient disconnects right before you send it, and even then you'll know it wasn't delivered. FaceTime is in much worse waters.
Although you make an interesting point, I'm really having a hard time thinking of where a "Go to line.." command comes in handy in Mail though.

E-mail is so often reformatted, munged and quoted that depending on line numbers being the same on the sender's side seems foolish.
On the Mac, I no longer think about this level of workflow optimization because there's a much bigger negative that make these irrelevant: the Mac's Alt-Tab behavior.

The most basic web page development exercise - 1 browser window and 2 editor windows for html and css - is ruined because I can no longer MRU cycle the 3 windows.

I would say this is one of the biggest usability mistakes on the Mac. Sadly, Unity & Gnome 3 have both copied this. Meanwhile, I don't fight the platform but use it the way it was meant to be - keyboard + mouse. But I'll be shifting back to Linux or Windows for all non Mac/iOS development.

Update: thanks to comments pointing me to Witch. However, I still stand by my criticism of the built-in Mac desktop behavior.
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Ha, I intentionally keep my devices on, just because.
Thanks for the presentation. It was awesome!
That's a terrible argument given that I consider Pollock paintings trash, not art. (Or in other words kiba's criteria is excellent and you just proved it.)

And I'm sure there are a lot of people who agree with me, but less who will say so.

The emperor has no clothes.
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"Money was has had a tradition of being valuable in its own right (gold and silver coin), and eventually banks created paper money that represented an amount of gold held in reserve."

You should read the book Debt: The First 5000 Years. It might be an interesting read for you, as the author points out that times of virtual and "real" currency switched quite often. It shows some really interesting facts about the origin of money - especially the fact that the idea of money is not based on the idea to improve barter.
You family may neg you for the rest of your life if they are that kind of people but so long as you do something with your life it doesn't matter much in the eyes of the rest of the world.
Actually no. The sugar in fruit and the sugar in table sugar are both "simple sugars". They're the same chemical, one is just much more pure and absorbed much more quickly, which has a significant effect on how the body handles it.

Or, eating big hunk of rock candy is to eating a piece of fruit as eating a bunch of cocaine is to chewing coca leaves.
The most beautiful part about it is that the hard drive doesn't even have to contain the files listed - for all we know it could be completely empty.
That's a review of the Nook Tablet, which is a completely different product from the Nook Color or the Kindle Fire. (Not rootable apparently either ...)
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'Raw Smarts' is a slightly odd concept. I'm no psychologist, but I think that the majority of current research points towards the idea that ability in almost anything is essentially a consequence of practice and experience.

I think the real issue is telling kids that they have an innate gift for anything. If you tell them they're smart, there's a natural assumption not to bother working. If you tell them they're disciplined, they won't look for ways to keep themselves motivated.

I'd be more inclined towards saying something more along the lines of "you're doing really well at X" - providing useful, motivational feedback, without implying that no work is necessary.

Personally, as someone who coasted through a lot of school but ran into trouble later (effectively because I'd forgotten how to 'pedal') the two things I would have been most grateful for:

1. Balance. If someone has a facile grasp of e.g. science and maths, don't (from a young age) overly steer them towards specialising in it. Instead, say "for the rest of this academic year, you only need to do a 'maintenance' level of work on science, so we're going to take that time and spend it on areas you're less good at". Of course, this level of personal attention is expensive, because it implies stuff like small classes and high-quality teachers who care - but OTOH I was lucky enough to have those things, but not with this strategy.

2. Challenge. Science and maths were always easy for me, so I never had to work. This is damaging. So there would also have been value in doing the the converse of point (1) - saying "for the rest of this academic year, you only need to do a 'maintenance' level of work on the standard science curriculum, so we're going to use that as an opportunity for you to do harder, more independent work in those areas" and develop a better work ethic and an ability do do things independently. Again, needs lots of personal attention and even better teachers.

We sometimes do OK-ish at (2) - in a fairly haphazard kind of way, and partly because kids tend to do it for themselves - but I can't think of any examples of anyone really pursuing (1) (may be different in different cultures). This is an opportunity, because (1) requires a lot less deep subject knowledge, so is much more feasible for parents to pursue.

Ultimately though, optimising for the top end becomes expensive quite fast, and while it's important to keep pushing the boundaries, I'd much rather the investment was put into improving the state of education for everyone, rather than fine-tuning the path for those who will be at least OK regardless.
Well then we are we flying at all? I could just say, "kids it is safer to not go on vacation this year so we are going to stay at home in these nice padded rooms I built."
It can get rather political, but the general definition of giftedness is to be in the top 5% on a good, standardised test of cognitive ability, such as the WISC or WJ-III. If you were at the top of any representative group of just 20 children of the same age, you were clearly gifted. In some schemes, a smaller number qualify as highly, exceptionally then profoundly gifted.

It's worth nothing that there's no rule that someone can't be both gifted and dyslexic, for example.
I would still say the CEO.

As a I CEO I will have all the money in the world to chase any hobby/fun activity I will ever want. Also my kids and family are enjoying luxury and privileges which other families aren't so even they are happy.

Also I have time and patience only for one hobby. Most of the time even with a touch schedule I manage to work on my hobby.
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It's BS.. according to the ergodic theorem.

I am happy discuss this off-site.. I don't think it'd progress much further though.
>The premise of your original post was that the only way to have a good working life is to work for yourself.

The premise of my original post is exactly what I wrote, "Every job is going to suck if you're an engineer for hire." I didn't say every job sucks now, just that the natural tendency is for forces to work against any good working life for rank and file engineers who stay in the same job.

Things are going good for you right now? Great, you're an outlier working at Google. The vast majority of working engineers more than probably face declining benefits, compensation, and working conditions in the future without changing jobs. For example, most companies don't offer cost of living salary adjustments even though company revenues would presumably increase by a similar amount.
My point is simply that such job changes are costly in time, money, and effort and can be avoided by working for oneself and that it is a good and desirable goal that engineers should pursue.
This is why I always look warily at the cups of hot coffee, salads, hamburgers and foods with plastic knives, glass bottles, physical books, newspapers everywhere, babies with their toys and more when I fly 2+ times a month, right? On top of the food and drinks being served to people flying anything but economy class.

I'll take my chances with an iPad in somebody's hands flying into my face over a cup of scalding hot coffee splashing everywhere any day.

It's one thing to tell people to put things away or to watch out for safety's sake during important times like landing/takeoff and turbulent areas (and really, that should only extend to things like clearing the aisles and trays and armrests), and it's another to justify a questionable demand like "turn off your cell phone" in the name of "safety".
Try using cmd-tab to switch between editor and browser windows and cmd-` to switch between html and css.
I just used it and it worked for me.
Ask HN: Non-traditional startup thoughts
I have a few ideas I've been floating around in my head for a while now - some I've even got a fair amount of exploratory code for - and I'm toying with the idea of making a go of one of them.

I know "lifestyle business" can be thought of as a pejorative term, but to hell with that. I'm a little older and a little greyer than the poster boy rockstar-ninja founder and I have far more important things in my life than work. This doesn't mean I don't work hard, but it does mean I'm not sacrificing the things most precious to me for a web app. Paradoxically this could mean I need to work much harder within my constraints and I'm fine with that.

I have a few thoughts on how I could go about this - and they are only ill-defined thoughts at the moment, but I would be much obliged for any input this community has to offer.

Ideally I'd like to work with others on this. I've tried the sole founder thing before but I miss having people to bounce ideas off, share the workload, share the spoils or just without them knowing it, getting me through one of the dark days that are bound to come along.

I'd want to split things as evenly as possibly, skewed just enough in favour of the person who is best to guide things along (this doesn't even necessarily have to be myself, though I don't foresee it not being). When money comes in, we each take our split. With a little luck we've all got some walking around money without any of the burn-out inducing hours and load that can happen.

Which brings me onto my next thought: time. I see this as being a part-time venture in terms of the hours put in. We all work say 16 hours/week - as much as possible on a schedule convenient to that person. I haven't thought out the exact number too much yet but I think 16 is low enough to fit comfortably around a fulltime job, yet enough to get things done if there are at least a couple of us.

This isn't something to make you rich beyond the dreams of avarice, but with a bit of luck and a bit of time, maybe it will be provide a nice little income. Maybe one day it will turn into something worth going full time at (and compensated accordingly of course). If it all blows up, then fine, we go our seperate ways and hopefully everyone had a good time, at least got a little money out of it and can still go back to the day job.

Like I said, these are still-forming thoughts at the moment and I'm sure there are huge holes to be torn in my thinking but I do believe that somewhere in here is a system that can be made to work. It won't be for everyone, but your traditional startup isn't for me so I'd rather have likeminded folks on this anyway.

I may still be a little drunk from last night but I'm a long-time member of this site (even if I'm cowardly hiding behind a throwaway) and I value the insights I know a lot of you can offer.

Have at me! :)
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I couldn't have put it better. Drinking a little definitely helps on a rush towards release.
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Yeah I've experienced it.

Are you saying it's not commonly experienced?
It's obviously nowhere near as full-featured as vim or emacs proper when it comes to navigation, but worth noting is that OS X does support a subset of the standard emacs key bindings for text navigation (Ctrl+a, Ctrl+e, etc). They even work in iOS with an external keyboard.
If shutting down the devices where so critical the crew would have portable scanners.
Have you tried witch?

I have it bound to alt+tab. Super customizable, I have things like ignore all minimized applications, only windows in this space and ignore any window from adium.

Lets me easily switch between terminals, vim windows and browsers that are on the same space. Highly recommend.
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Thing that sucks the most about it is that I can only use this service from my iPad. I SMS mostly from my browser when I'm at my computer. Sometimes my iPad when I'm away, otherwise my phone. I'd like to be able to communicate with more Apple users a bit more freely.
Language is what people use. If something gets said enought its is right by definition.
If driving you can talk on the phone for the whole 6 hours. I did something similar at least once.

Also, the driver can't use a laptop, but because of the driving activity itself, the driver is not so easily bored. Boredom is the main reason why I power on my laptop on a plane. Also, the other passengers can easily work on a laptop, watch a movie and so on. If you've got a 3G connection, the passengers can also go online - even I as the driven, I often find myself checking my emails while driving, plus I'm connected on Skype for the whole ride. The only problem here may be the comfort of your car, as you'll have problems having a laptop in your lap if the car is a small one. I also never get anything done on a plane when trying to work, especially because I don't have Internet connectivity, so I would rather listen to Podcasts or read a book and when driving Audio books are great btw.

So, related to comfort, I always prefer a couple of hours in my 10-year old Audi A6 over a plane ride. If the car ride is longer than some threshold, like the mentioned 6 hours, I do agree that a plane ride is better.
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Avionics systems are better shielded against external interference than they are against internal interference.
It does when you're happy.
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>That cost is high because the risk of the investment is (perceived) high.

Eh, that's semantics. The risk is high. None of these countries can afford the slightest rise in interest rates, whether that rise is associated with a loss of confidence or because there are better places to put money.

That's what the Maastricht treaty was supposed to prevent. But that was a pipe dream because there's no way for the union to keep the spendthrifts in line.
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Your cursor is at line 200. You read through your email and want to make a change in a certain paragraph. That happens to be at line 180. So you "Go to..." 180.
That may be a good reason to tell passengers to avoid using a laptop, for example. But a kindle? What's the difference between reading a kindle and reading a paper book in terms of "emergency preparedness"? Absolutely nothing.

Also, you're just inventing reasons out of thin air. This is not the reason why the FAA has such restrictions. The reason is that it is very difficult to test a plane as being immune to interference from every single possible handheld consumer electronic device, and it would be too complicated to enforce a selective ban.
Why you should care, and why this is revolutionary science:

Lightning has recently been found to generate positrons via gamma rays. This is very recent science and definitely underexplored and not yet solved via theory.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/11...

http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2011/2011EO220001.shtml

A Tesla Coil this large looks a lot like a lightning generator, an opportunity to explore the space where electrical arcs become lightning.

Lightning had also been hypothesized to produce x-rays for a long time, with evidence of x-rays in lightning only confirmed in 2001. The creation of x-rays by lightning bolts is also not completely explained by theory.

Basically, lightning is extremely poorly understood for such a basic natural phenoma and there is ample room for exploration, possibly leading to economical ways of generating antimatter.
There should also be a guide on how to copy without losing face, if only because losing face tends to cheapen your brand. Look how Apple copied from Xerox -- the underlying idea for the GUI was the same but the whole "look" was completely redone and customized, to the extent that lead even many smart people to believe that it was actually Apple who invented that interface. What Samsung's doing, on the other hand, is nothing less than slavish imitation -- they not only borrow the underlying idea, but also not even bother to make the product appear different on the surface (or they assume that by churning out products look similar enough to Apple's they can save in the marketing/design department, thinking along the lines of "oh hey, Apple's look/style is already 'in', so why bother inventing another one?"). There's copying, and then there's copying.

The first kind of imitation is due to one being forced to choose what's the absolute best out there. The second kind of imitation is simply due to one being cheap and trying to save bucks on design. That's a huge difference. A lot of people mix up these two ways of copying. However, the distinction between the two is precisely what is captured by the quote, "good artists copy, great artists steal." Stealing is done in a shy and low-key way so that nobody would notice, while copying, on the other hand, is blatant, slavish imitation. One has to know how to steal.

Sorry, I have no pity for those who slavishly imitate, though I do have a certain admiration for those who know well how to steal.
Emacs can send emails, you know ;)
Your definition implies that one can't be a slave to a group of people; but in history (e.g. rome) there always were government slaves.

Education is not much different. Children are underage and can't know what's good for them, so we step in and tell them.
But if we tell them to sleep less, work more and take some pills for that, it should be a crime.
1 year anniversary of apple's html5 web-app directory going quiet
Why did apple stop promoting 3rd party html5 web-apps a year ago?
I think I know how this went down:

Mark Pincus: Hey Mike, since you know we're in our IPO quiet period, can you write a rebuttal to that NYTimes article for me? I'll give you an interview or let you invest in my next deal.

Michael Arrington: Sure thing! You better speak at my next conference!

Mark Pincus: Okay, here are some talking points:

- Blame everything on EA.
- I actually think we offer too many perks, point that out
- I think Roger McNamee is still upset I never let him invest, so he's basically just a sore loser

Can you be sure to include that in the article?

Michael Arrington: This looks great! It will go well with my other piece defending your terrible labor practices!

Mark Pincus: You're the best.