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Funny you should make that comparison. The first time I saw a large Pollock drip painting up close is probably one of the most profound art experiences I've had. Seeing it in full scale and being able to truly comprehend the the 3d texturing and layering and dynamics of the work was awe inspiring.

The truly amazing thing about the experience was really how completely by surprise it took me, I had no expectations or pre-conceived notions. I was just walking around the museum and all of a sudden there was this painting that I couldn't take my eyes off of. I probably spend half an hour just standing there studying it.

Conversely seeing the Mona Lisa in the Louvre left me completely unmoved. I mean don't get me wrong I totally get it's almost unprecedented cultural and historical significance and as an historic artifact I'm really glad I've seen it, and I completely appreciate the amazing skill and craftsmanship that's gone into it. But as Art and as a profound artistic experience it falls far short for me.
Does anyone know of a similar movement going on in the U.S.?
I've successfully helped a lot of start-ups

So what do you make of the grandparent's observation that none of them go on to form vital startups themselves?
You forget the huge numbers of users who willingly provide their login data to phishing or other malicious apps.

If they don't pay attention to those, clearly more obvious sketchy things, you really expect them to make sense of opting in and out of an already confusing app permission step?
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While I agree with the author's conclusion that better integrated "ad" units like StubleUpon's Paid Discovery, and Twitter's Promoted Tweets will become both more prevalent and affective, his premise that contextual ads don't work is just false. He's also also wrong in thinking that these more integrated ads are entirely new concepts, divergent from old media such as television, cinema, magazines, and periodicals.

The truth is that integrated advertising on these new social web services is just catching up to what has long been standard in traditional media. For example, in TV and cinema, product placements by brands have been an effective alternative or supplement to standard commercials. In the same way, magazine and periodicals have long accepted "advertorials" by staff writers that passively mention/promote specific brands/views along with their traditional page layout ads.

While he's correct to think that these more integrated types of ads will be more affective on the web as they're more "consistent with the way their services natively work," it's something that traditional media advertisers have known for a long time.
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All (maybe most?) Motorola devices have locked bootloaders, meaning that even though you are rootable you can not install a custom ROM on them since the hardware does signature verifications. There's currently a close to $1000 bounty for whoever unlocks the Droid X2 bootloader but the only way to do that is to find a hash intersection with the key Motorola uses to sign their own builds.
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Indeed, this is good news - there have always been a pull request or two on the Django GitHub mirror that would need to be closed and redirected to the Django project bug tracker, where they would need to generate a patch. This always slowed contributions and made people who genuinely wanted to help jump through needless hoops.
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I have heard that the airliners are generally all equipped with GPS units rated for precision approaches. I'd have to look at some approach plates to see how the mins for GPS approaches stack up to the ILS approaches for the same runways (I don't fly anything rated to use GPS for precision approaches).

Don't forget PAR, which generally has mins comperable to, if not lower than, ILS.
I'm unaware of any ISP offering priority transport in any form, including the consumer subsidy model I've described above. But if regulations were put in place, it would be illegal even to experiment with business models such as this.
The money was loaned, not "given away". All of the emergency lending programs were announced in advance and the Fed regularly reported the total balance of the programs. The only secret was who was getting each loan.

The Fed did not want to reveal which banks were getting the loans because of the fear that the release of that information would cause those banks more problems, or even collapse.

The details of who got the loans, how much, and when they repaid them was revealed because of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Bloomberg News, well in advance of this audit. This audit is not the "first-ever" GAO audit. The GAO has been doing audits of the Fed since its authority was expanded by the Federal Banking Agency Audit Act of 1978. There are some limitations on the extent of its audits.

Lending to banks in a financial crisis is one of the main purposes of central banks. The Federal Reserve was established largely because of the Panic of 1907.
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heh, I myself started using HG partly because of language patriotism, partly because Bitbucket (running on Django) had a better offer than Github. yet one had to be out of his mind not to like Django moving to any of those providers. it's a great step. (a little tiny bit sad they didn't choose hg/bitbucket ;))

the move surprised me a bit, AFAIR when this topic (moving to a DVCS) was raised on DjangoCons, Russel explained that's not a priority (correct me if my memory fails).
Firefox actually has partial validation built-in: view source and see if something is red.

This validation is future-compatible, meaning that it won't find all errors (such as unknown tags or attributes).
18 month old? I picked mine up the day it came out, in early December 2011. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_S
Just curious - which OS/distribution are you on? Ubuntu and Gentoo (and virtualenv+pip if necessary) both make the Python stack a total no-brainer for me.
This might be a creative way to deal with immigration issues. But it's obviously wrong. Maybe it's not wrong as a business plan. Maybe it's not wrong with the legality of the venture. But it's wrong to have people resort to this. It's not really solving a problem, it's creating a new set of problems.

How long before foreign workers are kept on a similar boat outside of territorial waters? Imagine living on a vessel where you can't leave because you're not allowed onto the nearest land mass, you're forced to pay rent to live there, and quaint little things like labour and safety laws don't apply. Indentured servitude, slavery, fear, children born with no rights as citizens anywhere - welcome to (just outside of the) United States of America.

Think I'm being melodramatic? Who do you think is going to be serving meals, cooking and cleaning? Why bother with Americans when you can keep a Filipino locked in the bowels of the boat?

Dario Mutabdzija and Max Marty are obviously world class assholes.
Wouldn't it just be "phobies", rather than "phoboi", since that's the plural of "phobos"?
I'd do it as a one-time license fee based on the number of client laptops, plus an optional annual maintenance fee (fixing bugs and keeping it running, no new features), plus the option to pay for new feature development on an hourly basis (subject to your availability).
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If the experiments are replicated enough times by other labs to create an sufficient sample size.
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This is why Django is so slow moving. People are not really spending time developing it. Thank goodness there is Bottle.py and Flask now.
In your analogy, you assume that god exists. I could argue that if all unicorns are pink, then you can't disprove all unicorns are pink by showing me a blue one. That's like proving a theorem, finding it conflicts with your axiom, and saying you've disproved the axiom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
The app "breaking" isn't necessarily as cut-and-dried as "Threw an unhandled exception". Functionality that fails to work as the user expected (because the user revoked a key permission enabling that functionality) is "broken", and results in bug reports, which results in developer time spent trying to reproduce an issue that was introduced because the user violated one of the basic assumptions in the app. You should still be checking your returns, but you can check a return, see that the value didn't come back as expected, handle it gracefully, and still deliver a "broken" user experience.

I appreciate the idea and the impetus for it - a lot - but the end result for something like this is broken apps to one degree or another.
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What's the limiting factor? (Genuinely curious.)
I get a little uncomfortable suggesting technology options to others because they will often take what I use as the one true option.

I try to choose the technologies that best fit my requirements and workflow, but that does not necessarily mean it is best for anyone else.
I'm curious about the example in the article. If the effects were measured at 30% and 15%, which are the change in some measured norm, then isn't the difference in differences actually 100% not 15%?
Just an idea: are your adwords passing through your Amazon affiliate link? Could funnel some of the profits back if that's possible.
Maybe. I think the idea of "blocking" a program makes a lot less sense to the novice user compared to choosing if a program can e-mail you or post on your wall. I agree that they could easily become a nuisance and lead to the user reflexively clicking "accept", though.
Regarding the gzip-js implementation, it appears to rely on rawinflate.js/rawdeflate.js, which I've never been able to find suitable license information on (and, in fact, contain a copyright assigned to the original author in a comment near the top of the file [0]).

Has that been resolved? I'm kind of nervous about relying on unlicensed javascript.

[0]: https://github.com/beatgammit/deflate-js/blob/master/lib/raw...
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Hardly. I said there are other considerations. There is no statement therein indicating that culture can only be had at a startup. A culture exists at every company, and the culture at a particular startup may simply appeal to someone more than that of a given corporation that offers them a job. This would be one consideration, in addition to compensation, in whether to take a job there or not.

I also merely offered culture as one example, not as the only additional consideration.
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> "So it's okay to teach people how to do it faster and better."

If and when they want to learn, sure. But the article is specifically about how you respond to people who don't want to contemplate change, let alone implement it.

Particularly, it's about the non-trivial cases where it would take hours to unravel the goals, features, problems and dependencies of their current 'system' to make an intelligent recommendation, to say nothing of breaking down time, capital and retraining costs to implement it.
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Welcome back, I am really interested to hear what "changes were made to the framework that [Adrian] would've prevented had [he] been more involved."
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That's not ironic. Irony occurs when the outcome is opposite of what actions intended. If many people enter biology and related areas precisely because they dislike math, then the expectation would be that math-related areas of the field (such as statistics) would suffer as a result. Irony (in this case) would be if people entered biology because they dislike math, but then biology as a field ended up being stronger in statistics than the more mathematically inclined fields.
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Nice idea. Although I haven't allowed an app access to any of my data in years, I'm worried about what info my friends might be leaking to these apps. I wish there was someone to stop this / see which of my friends have made some of my data available to third parties.
Not that it couldn't move faster, and I'm all for more Python web frameworks, but Django has certainly made significant progress.

I suspect most people (that is, developers who use the framework but don't necessarily contribute to it) probably couldn't tell that a BDFL has basically been MIA - it doesn't feel like development's stopped altogether (although again, yes, it can obviously be sped up, everyone's got their own pet features, etc.)
That can pretty much be said about everything online.

As far as I am aware FB do a lot to get rid of those sites.

You can also turn it on it's head. If normal good intentioned developers can't count on the kind of information they are asking to make their apps work then where does that leave them?
I signed up for airbnb using my facebook account and I noticed that they give away your DOB.

I immediately changed my DOB on facebook and vowed to avoid authenticating with apps.

I generally avoid putting in real information on facebook but the amount of stuff they give away is frightening. It's a heaven for social engineering and spear phishing.
Thanks for the post Jason! :)
I have the same problem, but I think I figured out a way around it.

You have to fight the gloss-over effect. It takes conscious effort. Remember that "deliberate practice" all those blog entries say it takes to master something? Well, same thing. You have to deliberately overcome your brain's tendency to go "math is hard, let's go shopping!" Eventually you'll be able to look at an equation and recognize patterns. When I hit the link I was like "Oh, man, MATH, so bo-- hey wait, that's Bayes's theorem! I know this!" (Yes, just like the Jurassic Park girl.)

So keep working at it. Maybe you'll want to try -- gasp! -- actually cracking a math book and studying the material they present.
If you don't care about what inanimate objects or marketing abstractions think, isn't that equivalent to saying you don't want to follow them?
What are you trying to run in Windows? I have a new 13" MacBook Air and happily run a lot of different apps (no games though) in Windows inside Parallels. Ordinary interaction with Windows is fast. Only a few tasks feel slow, mostly things that would be slow anyway—large scale computation in SAS and Verilog synthesis.
What you described (recommended posts within a site), as well as someone else mentioned below (recommended posts from other sites) are already out there. If you ask me if the idea sounds novel, it is not. Just visit Techcrunch and take a look (For example, http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/28/paypal-cyber-monday-mobile-...)

You will learn if you start doing more market research, but I've found it's either of the two for your initial idea: 1. There is someone else doing the same thing out there; 2. You haven't done enough research.

Even if something similar is NOT out there after all your research, it is highly likely that it has been tried before and failed (and that's why you can't find them). Even these products you can dig up more if you do intensive research via google. You'll learn a lot while going through this process. Just don't be naive and think your idea would be novel when you haven't done any market research yet.

The key is in absorbing as much knowledge as possible in the field you would like to tackle, and later to be able to say "Oh I came up with this idea, and I am 99% sure this is a unique idea that hasn't been done before, because I 'know' all that's been done before"

By the way, Posterous started out as a niche product. The platform may be trying to do everything nowadays, but in the beginning, they were tackling email to blogging niche, which didn't exist before. Everyone thought blogging should be done by signing into your wordpress account, typing a title and content and reading the preview, and then posting.
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(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3285466)
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I've tried several times but I just can't bring myself to enjoy using Django. I am a Pyramid/Pylons guy all the way.
Is the EU also going to require Google to get user permission before collecting data they turn around and use for selling ads?
I just don't want to see everything turn into email again. I shouldn't have a message from a friend next to the message saying my bank account is overdrawn next to my Daily Jimmy Wales Photo newsletter.

The systems must be able to split categories between "This is a person with independent beliefs" versus "this is a marketing organization with a focused message trying to manipulate me" versus "information, but not personal."

Though, since corporations are people, none of this may matter anymore.
Apps usually request that stuff for some reason, and the vast majority of users don't have enough understanding of the systems to know which permissions are safe to revoke.

Breaking the app is the point of doing this. It's often not clear that, say, a FB app will post, as the user, to their own stream. I think most people don't want this, and want the app to break if it tries. You're thinking of "safety" from the perspective of perserving application behavior, not perserving user data and identity.
Every scientist who has been caught forging data, has basically just claimed it was an accident. Whether they got "punished" or not depended purely on their political connections, not their behaviour.

What's worse than the possibility of a black mark on your career? Not having a career at all. Which is what will happen if you don't publish.
And the application should gracefully handle rejections anyway, since users can and sometimes do turn permissions off after granting them.
I think that
$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
is a bad idea.

You should not mix multiple packaging system on your operating system.
And more you can dammage it pip provide more recent package than your distro. And if you upgrade a lib that have an incompatibility with a part of the system, you can corrupt it. I have no example to give but I am sure you can find it... Ubuntu now have many tools written in python.

You should use pip inside a virtualenv only.
And, fortunatelly when you create a virtualenv, pip is installed in it, and you don't need to use the --distribute to have it.
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Critical thinking is not part of the curriculum. There's a rule stating that your grandmother's paint must be confiscated, but no rule stating what happens if the metal detector is suspected defective.
The current data sales business model doesn't support their sky-high valuation. Most investors assume that Facebook will "figure out" a better way to monazite their audience. Facebook commerce and credits sales for the Facebook platform look to be their most promising options. Facebook isn't all-in on data mining. They're certainly hedging their bets.

Obviously nothing is guaranteed, and I personally believe that they'll have trouble finding anything that justifies their valuation. But a lot of smart people think they'll figure it out, and are putting their money where their mouths are. They have some options, but we'll just have to wait and see how those actually progress.
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That misrepresentation is a greater error than the article is complaining about.
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This problem has been around forever, but there is a new problem that makes scrolling even worse than before. Sites which have headers or footers that have a fixed position with respect to the browser viewport completely break scrolling because when you scroll, neither the red nor the green line are visible. The green line is under the navigation junk at the top of the page.
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You missed the whole point of his post. Marco is saying he has finally come to realize that "tech savvy" doesn't mean "qualified to suggest changes". He's not being lazy. He's talking about humility. Some people's real-life logistical issues transcend technological issues.
I think you're misreading the whole thrust of the article. What Marco was getting at was that he can't help him in light of his (Outlook user's) expectations. The article is saying (1) Marco has a use pattern that works well for Marco, (2) that use pattern could be pushed on someone else in a way that fixes the user's problem as Marco sees it, (3) but Marco has come to the realization that the problem lies with the user's personal use pattern combined with his expectations for the technology. I think that's really insightful.

If you let go of the idea that you can change (or that it's worth the effort to change) everyone's use patterns, then you have to accept that some use patterns simply don't have solutions that meet the user's expectations. And in those situations, it's best not to fight the user--let them work it out. Hopefully, in the end, they find something that works for them.
wow.. probably just me, but I cant believe people go for that size. Using my 11'' inch MBA makes my 15'' MBP feel oversized. I just love having a computer of the size of an A4 paper sheet.
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Android used to be a-la-carte but too much user confusion and developers not gracefully handling these things causing apps to crash. It had to be enabled as all-or-nothing kind of deal.