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Thank you for framing the choice like this. The article mentions as a case in point Iceland; our Western media has conveniently ignored the miracle that occurred there post-banking crisis. They threw the government and banking chiefs out and started their democracy afresh- actually having ordinary Icelandic people help reformulate their Constitution and their future. It's a beautiful story: http://wilmaswish.blogspot.com/
Very interesting story, but I do wonder if its assertions universally hold.

This looks like an excellent research question for the guys at freakonomics (http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/) to me.
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Note that this does not defragment the storage on disk, just the internal SQLite pages. So it's not a complete solution.
Never before have I read an article and been greeted by the mental image of a vein bursting in my brain, the blood spewing out of my eye sockets, forming itself into an axe, and traveling through a magic portal to mutilate a company's board of directors.
>It's time to let go and trust the developers of the software you're using to know when updates are stable, or when you really need a critical bug or security fix (if you don't trust them, why are you running their software anyway?).

I agree partially. My point is that you absolutely need the ability to turn it off. Always. But I'm fine with it being the default because that's what is most useful for the majority of users.

>When everything is a web app you'll have to get over it anyway. :)

You'll have to pry locally running programs out of my cold dead fingers. Web apps are fine for incredibly simple things. For everything else, they are as much buzzword bullshit bingo as the cloud.
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I pulled my apps from download.com years ago because the traffic was neglibile. It's probably alright if you are in the top ten for a category, otherwise there are much better ways to promote your software.
In the EU, everything that is traded, whether it be a good or a service, is subject to a "value added tax".

Incorrect. I own an Estonian (an EU member) company that can sell stuff and offer services without VAT. VAT is actually optional until a certain revenue threshold.
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The fiscal "breathing room" is there, but at European level (Ireland, Netherlands etc). Some US states also have an unmanageable level of debt, but it's balanced out across the whole union through the FED; in Europe this is not allowed by current treaties.
This is the exact sort of reason people mock Android's claim to being Open.
iTerm2 is a fantastic Application. I did not experience any slowdowns, segfaults or anything, and i am a heavy user.

I refuse to update to Lion, so i cant judge the new Terminal from Apple. But on Snow leopard, Terminal is inferior to iTerm2.
This reminds me a bit of when I watch a Movie or a TV Show and there is some geek or hacker character who is supposed to be doing something related to computers in order to resolve a plot point.

They will often say something like "oh I just.." then spiel of a load of technical phrases some of which I recognize and others which are clearly made up, this is supposed to sound highly complicated and clever but not understandable to the average viewer. Of course if you know anything at all about technology you realize it sounds completely ridiculous.

I always wonder why they do this, since it is something viewers are not supposed to be able to understand anyway. Why not at least make it accurate enough to at least give the geeks watching a chuckle (references to nmap in the matrix for example and apache/perl in "the social network" being examples of this) rather than just roll their eyes.
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A beautiful story which is only partially true, and which would probably never scale. Paris alone has 7 times the population of Iceland; good luck having the whole European population "reformulate their Constitution[s]".
Oh yes, ok. Ignore my post. I forgot for a second that there was more than 2 numbers in the Universe.
Actually, that command will also rewrite the entire .sqlite file, and if you have enough free space, the filesystem will most likely rewrite it in a contiguous manner.

I tested this with filefrag.
Why? What is so special about the browser? (or is my sarcasm detector failing again?)
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Have you tried contacting them directly? This post says its easy to get the wrapper removed. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3318224
If you're a user in the modern internet, it is not cool for you to keep yourself so much at the mercy of companies whom you don't pay.

I always keep a Thunderbird client running in the background of my laptop, which sucks out all emails from gmail and keeps a local copy. Yes, it would not be cool for gmail to one day suddenly cut me off, and yes, I feel Google, with its "Do no Evil" policy will not do that to me. But still, I prefer to make my copy of important data right now, thank you very much, instead of whining later that this is not cool.

Same with my Flickr pics and Delicious links (downloaded using a script). And my Facebook data I really don't care about.
Actually, Paypal's European operation is officially registered as a bank in Luxemburg.
> The way you speak and write reflects on you in more ways than people realize. It can make a Nobel Prize winner look like a hillbilly.

Dyslexia can make spelling errors such as "quite" instead of "quiet" tricky to spot. I'm not aware of any software that's targets this type of heterograph / homophone errors.

Some software autocorrect is notoriously annoying.

People emailing close friends, where there's no expectation of wider distribution, are often less formal than they would be in other situations.

And why would a Nobel prize winner be any good at English spelling and grammar? I expect Russian chemists to be great at chemistry, and let the editors worry about the stylistic stuff.
My opinion, exactly. I'm slightly less harsh regarding Germany though.

The biggest problem of Europe is probably that it's unfinished. Now, its institutions should be completed quickly to prevent further degradation of the situation on the markets (or, let's hope an improvement) but that's going to be very difficult.

I'm also concerned that, because of the current situation, the UK will never be willing stand at the core of Europe. And in my opinion, it's very much needed.
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Thanks. It was a absolute link missing the leading / so it went elsewhere. Should point to http://neosmart.net/gallery/album/view/neosmart/EasyBCD/Easy... now!
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Seriously? Heck, 3.6 isn't exactly a slouch when it comes to web standards, particularly compared to IE, Konqueror and some of the "smaller" engines. What features are you using that 3.6 won't render right?

Also, FF4 was released only 8 months ago, and FF3.6 received a security update less than a month ago. "Ancient" my ass.
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same here - my preferred options are amazon, credit card and if there's no alternative and i really want whatever it is, paypal.
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Also, VAT isn’t charged for certain product categories in the EU. In the UK, for instance, children’s clothing is VAT-free.
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> If a founder leaves stockholders behind to take a lucrative side deal, they’re not acting ethically. I’ve mostly taken this position in the past, before becoming a VC.

As if VCs are acting "ethically". I have seen many VC cases (and been involved with a few) and be assured, VCs are not "ethical" or think founders AT ALL. All they think about is their money. If they could exchange founders future for a fat pile of cash, they will do it.

If the VCs are minority owners (as it seems in case like this), they can just accept what is decided. This is also the case with founders when VCs have majority. They will always do what they want (what's best for their money) without thinking founders best interest or "ethics" of their actions.
So - that's already something that wifi or bluetooth could do for you, right? With 'Locale' or similar applications?

Granted, those options would draw more power. On the other hand: As far as I understand NFC is _really_ limited in terms of distance between the endpoints.

Wouldn't your examples require you to place the phone in a specific place in the car/at work? Like (for the car) one of these mounts for example?

Your examples wouldn't work for me at least, because the phone's in my pocket or ~somewhere~, not really in a place that is carefully planned for. You seem to want a general version of the Palm/HP Touchstone it seems, albeit without charging?
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>>Because there is no alternative and they fucking know it.

Off the top of my head, https://payments.amazon.com/ is a great alternative. Not sure how the rates stack up, but I definitely trust Amazon more than I trust PayPal. I'm sure there are more alternatives available, I don't know why so many people insist on using PayPal. I think Amazon allows donations cause kickstarter.com uses it, and you don't necessarily get anything if you fund a project. I'm guessing the tricky part here is the "donations", but PayPal certainly has a poor customer satisfaction record.
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>Second, you don't have to be a merchant to hate PayPal.

Exactly. I refuse to use it more due to ethical reasons[1] than anything else, but there are a metric shit-ton of reasons for not supporting and using Paypal.

We need more (viable) alternatives. Paypal is a bit like Windows - it gained a monopoly because it was successful early on due to the lack of viable competition, and now we are at a point where we need to get rid of that monopoly, but it's difficult to do so - but we must.

[1] See the Wikileaks blockade, amongst other things. It's by far not the first time they pulled that shit, the WL incident just was the worst example so far.
I believe this "Cannot print their own money" argument is simply misdirection. I would guess 90% of all countries worldwide have their own currency and some are doing great and others are doing very badly.

If you look at the world banks doing business report + transparency internationals corruption report you get:
- Iceland: Rank 9 / 13
- Ireland: Rank 10 / 19
- Italy: Rank 87 / 69
- Greece: Rank 100 / 80

No wonder that Ireland+Iceland are doing better, growing again. Even if you forgave Greece+Italy their entire debt, gave them their own currency back etc... I would bet in 20-30 years they would be in the exact same situation as now! I studied in Italy for 2 semesters and I love the country but every time I had to deal with the public bureaucracy I wanted to blow my brains out... I don't know how anyone could run a business in Italy and it is really astonishing how many great companies there are, which shows that a large part of the population has a very good education and work ethic...
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I think it does have some value.

I, like you, assume they did a cross questionaire (Do you prefer Alice or Bob? Do you think Alice is a better team player than Bob? Do you think Alice has a better work ethic than Bob? etc)

But while this does not tell us much about the fact that "better team players" get chosen more, it does teel that "people who appear more like team players" get chosen more.

Since most of what one puts in resume/cv is _trying to appear something_ the information that appearing a good rails dev is less useful than appearing like a good "team player" has some (arguable) value.
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My observations were similar, but more generally: notice that everything until the Black Album gets played at concerts, while everything after that just tapers off quickly.

Which doesn't surprise me, as I think their work used to be much better in the past.
Too much is too much. Closing my PP account. So far I haven't seen an online shop that doesn't have alternative payment options other than PP. In Germany (Europe?) we have ClickAndBuy [1], which works great so far. Buyer protection is usually sold separately via Trusted Shops [2] (but has to be payed for by the seller). This also eliminates the various COI arising from the payment processor also trying to police account owners. And I can choose to not add additional buyer protection costs for shops that I trust in.

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[2] http://www.trustedshops.com
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I believe this is only true if the sales tax as purchased is less greater than or equal to the sales tax as sold, and even in that case I believe still requires a business registration and declaration of the non-taxed receipts. I am not yet, however, an expert at this stuff, and would love to be given more information to learn more about how sales tax works in these situations (I am unfortunately starting to sell physical products, but luckily am not currently reselling anything I purchased at retail, so this specific detail isn't the kind of thing that would burn me ;P).
Yay, I'm glad it's happening.

I've been saying this for a while now (yes, I should be doing more than saying)... CSS needs a modern agreed-upon community standard for implementation.

This is really important at the front-end development layer when you're doing CSS inside of an application. There's too much variance in style between projects and frameworks. We need to commit to a general guideline, especially one that incentivizes good standards.

This is a step in the right direction.

I was supposed to do a presentation on this very topic but then a hurricane got in the way (magma rails).
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> It would be good to clarify if this in fact illegal.

Well, as Dan mentioned - and I believe (IANAL, etc.) that this is enshrined is US law - the directors of a company have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders.

The excuse here seems to be that the company was going nowhere but my gut feeling is that opening negotiations with a potential acq/hirer is only acceptable if you've had discussions with your investors and, ideally reached some kind of agreement/consensus to recognise that the company isn't going anywhere and the founders should explore whatever options are available.

(Afterthought: Given that negotiations with a view to being acq/hired involve a clear conflict of interest for the founders, they should involve at least one non-exec director or investor to ensure that the shareholders' interests are protected.)

Otherwise, founders run the risk of being perceived as having spent millions of other people's dollars to build up their own reputation in order to get hired on a sweet compensation deal by Google or Facebook.
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You can zoom with CTRL +, (this is a browser feature).
I just tried it. Guess what? The interface is still broken.

You look at the page contents constantly, at tab names often, at the bookmarks toolbar sometimes, at the URL occasionally, and you almost never look at the page title. In 3.6 these are arranged in order radiating from the center.

8.0 completely breaks the flow by sticking the address bar below the tabs. WHY. Also, where's my status bar, with all of my plugin status icons that I use constantly?

4.0+ is still broken, so I'm still going to use 3.6. Simple as that.
Well, Apple has made lots of questionable design choices, but I don't think iOS icons are one.

For example:

1) The removing of color from Finder icons.
2) Translucent menubar?
3) Silly 3D Dock?
4) Differing close/minimize/adjust placement/size of window icons?
5) the drag down to open iOS notifications screen with no affordance to even know there is one
6) ...
...and sales tax is different for different classes of product in the US, with some things getting better treatment, such as groceries, and some things worse, such as car tires. I did not expect it to be relevant to this specific case, but yes: I guess children's clothing is an interesting one for this Regretsy charity drive; that said, they stated "toys", not "clothing", and I don't remember toys being on that exemption list (which I actually have read, as I needed to see if any of the things I was selling had different rates).

(PS: the coolest one I've seen is that bound physical books often have much better tax rates than other goods, leading to hilarious situations where shipping someone a physical pamphlet that includes base64 might be much cheaper than selling them an expensive piece of software on CD. ;P)
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Technically, it is not VAT Free. It's rather that the rate of VAT is 0%.

Effectively the same I know...
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You didn't read closely. Inside the US there are lots of alternatives. Outside the US it is, as the fellow said, a wasteland.

Take Amazon payments, for example:

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Amazon FPS allows U.S. as well as international customers to use major credit cards to make payments on Amazon FPS-powered websites. ... All transactions are in U.S. dollars."

Emphasis mine, because that little aside renders Amazon worthless to me.

Source: http://aws.amazon.com/fps/faqs/
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As if the normal use case is that of a user wanting to change some text editing bindings back to Emacs-like behavior...
Amazon has multiple products. Unspun is an example of one that's written in rails
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Twitter has multiple job openings asking for rails engineers
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Linkedin has a RoR app that once got over 1 billion page views a month
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I don't like market speak any more than you do, but these are the best examples of large-scale ror applications I could find
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> if you are a baker with a small business, you are effectively useless, not because bread isn’t important, but because surviving in the bread business is now a matter of having developers on your side who can help you win in a game that Yelp, Groupon and other software companies are running to their advantage

I don't think this is true right now; I very much doubt it will ever be true.

I live within walking distance of not less than five excellent boulangeries and have never used any sort of "social" tool or other technology to select the one I'm going to buy bread from. I try them all regularly, know what they do well or less well (one is better at croissants than the others) and basically go to the one that offers the best version of the product I'm looking for.

Looking for "bargains" in bakery is asking for trouble; choosing your bread according to your "social network" (who's composed of people who do not live right next to you) sounds completely useless.

It doesn't seem like bakers need to worry about Groupon, or Yelp. Is this just a poor example or am I missing something?
GDP and government debt comparison:

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I've actually seen a Firefox developer suggest it on another HN thread, especially vacuuming your FF's sqlite3 database.
They already said they will be providing a way for users to export their data. http://blog.gowalla.com/post/13782997303/gowalla-going-to-fa...

Also Gowalla for the past year has has allowed users to checkin to 4sq, and facebook and share on twitter and tumblr and has moved to be more of a travel/spot info site.
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Seems to be already fixed. The last option described in this tutorial is not there anylonger.
There's a difference between "broken" and "not the way I use it / am used to". Mozilla released a video explaining the transition of tabs [1]. Still don't like it? Right click somewhere on the title bar and deselect "Tabs on Top"

As for the status bar, just hit "ctrl+/".

The best thing about Firefox is that if there's something you don't like, there's probably an add-on for it. Try searching for add-ons that do what you need. [2]

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2) http://blog.fligtar.com/2011/01/16/how-to-customize-firefox-...
- When you're in a bandwidth-limited situation like browsing over a tethered phone

- When you're using an access point operated by someone you don't trust

- When you want the best performance out of your system but need to have a browser open

- When any spike in latency could have bad consequences

- (possibly) when there's a significant chance of the computer losing power instantly and without warning

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Address bar above tabs? Two clicks to change. Show status bar? Two more clicks.
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