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Hi PlinkPlonk,

I live in a third world country and I know what you mean. There are spectacular developers in Tunisia, but they are a tiny minority. So the point here. The % of developers that can do the work.

Yes, there are pretty impressive developers in my country. But what's their numbers and what are they doing now (either hired, working abroad or running their own businesses)? Are there a new and constant supply of good devs so you don't run out of them (considering you have the money)? Are they enough so that you company can scale when needed? Is there good sales people, managers, office assistants (because you don't only need developers for you business)? Is there a good infra-structure (Internet, Telecom, Importing stuff, Airports...)?

Factor all this and you'll find that third-world countries make no sense to run high yield businesses.
Anyone else notice all the about:blank links in the article?
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In some ways this might be the ideal corporate setup. There are enough sharks in BRK to make sure the company continues to rake it in.

Maybe this is what we need in corporations today - a team of ruthless businessmen being reigned in by someone who has the moral perspective to make sure the business is a positive impact, but disconnected enough not to get drawn into the fray.

Or maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part, hoping someday that our banks would led by people with the moral fiber to reign in the abuse and concentrate on providing value.
Yeah, you're probably right! Good thing I didn't call the patent lawyers just yet!
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I'm not saying they attempted consistency then decided against it for usability reasons. I'm saying that inconsistent interfaces can still be usable.

Third party apps on iOS are similarly inconsistent. The Facebook app works very differently from the Twitter app. I think that's okay.
As am I, although I saw significant difference on the Harvest. The rest I couldn't really tell, but they were much busier color wise.
200 years ago, women (and, say, black people) weren't doctors. People argued then, as you do now, that the current situation was just the outcome of natural differences. They said that not because it was true (it wasn't) or because they had any real evidence (they didn't). They said it because it was convenient for them to believe that.

That people in the past argued that something was due to natural differences doesn't necessarily mean that natural differences don't exist, and that they had no evidence then doesn't mean that we have none now. Men and women differ genetically by about the same amount that humans and chimpanzees do, so to discount the possibility that there just might be some real differences in the way we are prone to behave is just as ridiculous as to suggest that those genes account for the entire difference.

There are very solid biological reasons to believe that men should always be more genetically inclined to seek out reproductive risk than women (male reproductive success is more variable than female success by a good margin). It's not a very big stretch from there to conjecture that perhaps nature achieved that by cranking up the overall risk tolerance knob in men, since that would probably require fewer bit-flips than hard coding a condition for reproductive risk - in fact, to a large extent, we know that testosterone does exactly what this would require. That would explain a lot about why men are more likely than women to go in for high-risk high-reward ventures like startups...

I'm not saying that social factors are not in play, too, but quite frankly, these social factors are far less oppressive than they were 50 years ago, yet we've seen relatively little progress in terms of gender ratios. This makes me suspect that there are probably some other causes in effect, and the genetic one is an obvious suspect that I don't think has been properly debunked, excepting attempts to do so by overreaching appeals to equality that are, IMO, not justified by the relevant biology.
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"If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold." is the correct sentence [1], also you are welcome to explain why it's wrong according to you, but imho you are mistaken.

[1] http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#325604...
The effect where colors with different spectral power distributions matches under certain conditions due to the observer or the light source, is called metamerism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamerism_%28color%29
Even The Harvest was the same for you? That one I could see a large difference. The rest were more or less the same for me though.
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Has it? It's 10 years since Napster lost the court case and the music industry is still awash with money. Have the record labels lost much revenue in the last 10 years? I don't believe that "piracy is killing the record labels", because if it was, they would have been killed by now.
* It's not becoming popular. It's about 1% of users.
* It's trivial to get around. Other options would be for
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If adblock ever became popular, webmasters would quickly
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* Adblock probably blocks 50% of adverts. The other 50%
people don't realize are adverts.
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They do a lot of CPM now.
Because the vast majority of people never stray from defaults, and will think that it's just bad at doing it's job.
The societies there are quasi-tribal and almost everyone votes for who their elder tells them to. The elder sells the votes for favors for their tribe.
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I'm not to happy with this change though.

At least with hixie-76, connections would fail to connect if the intermediate proxies are not understanding WebSockets. Now, your connection will succeed, both client and server will believe they can successfully communicate, but communication will not work and die a slow timeout. Not very reliable, is it ?
it also has an overly formal feeling to it, like walking into a campus computer lab. to each his own though.
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Whether it adds any thing to the article but Van Gogh was on drugs with the known side effect of mucking with your yellow and green perception.

He is specifically mentioned in this article on adverse wise effects of digoxin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digoxin#Adverse_effects
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I am sorry. There were few women doctors in the UK because prior to the 1972 Sex Equality Act the Medical Schools had quotas of between 5% and 15% for female students.

When that barrier went the number of female doctors took off like a rocket.

Likewise with the black middle class in the US - once the quota's that kept African Americans out of Universities ended, lo! magic!
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It's not absurd when you know that collecting data and google are two sides of the same coin.

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This is beautiful <3

It would be neat if those TVs could hook to any computer. That way, you could host a tournament at your house =D
I believe you can configure TB to handle this situation differently. That is, if a mail is deleted from the web mailbox, retain the copy on disk.
Guilty unless proven innocent?

Google's text ads certainly aren't intrusive.
I'm truly curious, as someone who has never been to San Francisco, if rents are so high, how come smalltime criminals and other lower parts of the society can afford it? Or they simply don't have to pay rent?
I asked the author to know if this would be a source of revenues for Adblock, and why they did make this a default choice rather than a yes/no question:

1) Does AdBlock developers get, directly or indirectly, any benefits from a third party because of this change? (Including, but not exclusively, money/donation/jobs/whatever by an entity supported by ads like Google, continued inclusion in the Chrome store, etc.)? Or any negative consequences if the change wasn’t implemented?

Wladimir Palant: I don't think that we get anything yet but we indeed hope to get some income this way to make the project sustainable. This doesn't mean that paying us is the requirement to be added to the exceptions list - the requirements a formulated here and they will probably become more precise as we gain experience (suggestions are welcome). As to Google: no, they have nothing to do with it. We didn't talk to Google, we didn't take money from them, there is no conspiracy here. We did look at Google Ads as a typical example (unblocking them is the most common request we get yet most people lack the knowledge for that) but they don't meet our requirements at the moment. Google's search ads are a different thing and they can meet our requirements depending on how the website configures them - and we did add an exception for them on one particular website.

2) If the goal is to allow people who would like to see ads to see them, why not have asked if people wanted to see them (ie, neutral “yes/no” question), rather than pushing a default setting which shows those “non intrusive” ads?

Wladimir Palant: We made some bad experience when asking people to make a decision, quite frequently people would ignore the question on the first-run page for one reason or another and then wonder why Adblock Plus "isn't working". In fact, that's the reason why the first-run page was reworked - rather than asking, we now subscribe people to a filter list automatically and allow them to revert the decision easily (simplifying Filter Preferences dialog was an important requirement for that). It's the same with "acceptable ads" - asking people to make a decision when it might be a wrong time, when they don't know what we are asking about (I tried to keep the explanation page short but it certainly isn't) etc. isn't going to work well. Instead we focused on making opt-out as simple as possible at any time.

https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8872&#...
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All I can see is confusion about what is deemed "non-intrusive" and by whom.
Theoretically speaking, blocking them is completely impossible. Websites aren't spam, they have structure and content, and ads are obvious. The ads have similar sizes, positions, elements, cookies, yadda yadda.

This is about money.
Maybe Mozilla encouraged him in this direction, since they're friendly with Google?
No, the author missed it completely. Google's business is massively threatened in many different dimensions. Google is in a desperate fight to save their business, and the Google+ product is entirely a defensive reaction to the threat imposed by social networks, targeted searches (Yelp) and non-web searching (Siri) and information discovery. I do not forsee a future where people perform searches by going to www.google.com. A conventional search engine is going to look quaint in the coming years and that's bad if you make 97% of your revenue from something that has or will peak.
I'm not color-blind and I must say modified images look more realistic to me (e.g. normal skin color instead of sick-person greenish). Overall colors are lighter to my eye as well.
This presumes that the kickstarters have the real resources necessary. The fact that a lot of people agree with your vision does not ipso facto create the resources necessary to pursue it.
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Since this isn't restricted by the GPL, you can do whatever you want. From a moral standpoint it is kinda bogus though. (Unsurprisingly, the author of that article arrives at the same conclusion.)
"vim has two main modes, normal mode ... and the insert mode"

i stopped reading here because i knew what was coming next. the omen was fulfilled by the next line:

"in insert mode, now you type text as your normally would. Pressing <Esc> exits back to normal mode."

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everything you mentioned seems to me to be ad targeting data, email, email address, thumbs up, save as fav even viewing a global google docs all this is part of data collected as part of the profiling process in order to do ad targeting.

Actually I don't think there is a single you do once logged on (or registered) that is not collected to profile you. facebook even collects what you do when logged off.
1. Risk is a normal part of doing business, especially more so for a startup, and it is logical for a business owner to want to reduce risk. As you say, there are many sources of risks to employees that have a direct effect on the business.

2. The division in this discussion seems to stem around how best to manage the risk of project impact caused by losing a critical team member owing to pregnancy event.

3. Extreme positions:

a. The risk to the business is little different from any other unplanned risk that the business needs to deal with anyway, and to assume otherwise is to be sexist; i.e. there may be women out there for whom pregnancy does not impact their work any more than an illness, and assuming that all women are equally likely to fall pregnant and handle pregnancy in the same way is discriminatory.

b. An ethical/strategic position whereby the additional risk is accepted because the benefits gained in terms of equity makes the risk acceptable.

c. Pregnancy is a flat-out optional potential risk to the business and since a business owner wants to reduce risk then it's logical to avoid employing women.

4. IMO this is all a matter of opinion and has everything to do with one's appetite for risk, one's risk exposure (capital & risk management) and one's principles. The same person given two different startups could come to different conclusions depending on these variables, for instance.

Given this, I really don't see the point of this discussion as it is pretty much subjective and depends entirely on the startup in question and the owners invested therein.
There seems to be an assumption within the tech industry that startup == total dedication to the company, including 60 hour weeks and a lack of family time (which might put some people - male and female - off). I don't understand why this has to be the case.

I work for a startup in another industry (wholesale insurance) and 90% of our staff are female. People work 8:30-5 Mon-Fri and rarely do any overtime. If there's a programming/development project which needs to be done, I estimate how it will take and we decide if it's worth the cost, including the opportunity cost of what we could have worked on instead.

If tech startups were run properly, with sensible deadlines, fixed hours and no 'crunch sessions' (if you need these on a regular basis, your project management is broken) they would probably attract a far wider range of people.
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Just because Canonical did something morally dubious doesn't make it okay for Mint to do it too.

To take this to the logical conclusion, Banshee should never earn any affiliate revenue ever (unless people build from source), and the distro should take it all.

This is clearly ridiculous.

No distro removes ":help uganda" from vim, and I would argue that if only one side were to get the money, it should be Banshee.

The truth is the distros need Banshee, Banshee needs the distros. Rather than arguing over who needs who how much, split the money 50/50.
van Gogh chose paints for their immediacy of color, sometimes without understanding the problems of hue shifting and degradation displayed by certain pigments. This causes a huge headache for curators and in many cases the changes are irreversible. For example his chrome yellows contain sulphides which have significantly darkened and browned through exposure to UV. He also used various red lakes that are prone to fading and discoloration.

van Gogh famously wrote in a letter to his brother Theo: "Paintings fade like flowers... All the colors that impressionism has brought into fashion are unstable, so there is all the more reason to simply use them too brightly - time will tone them down only too much".

Any theory of color vision deficiency that attempts to reconstruct the color balances that van Gogh actually saw should take into account the hue/value/chroma of his paints such as they possessed when originally applied, and also consider that van Gogh intentionally adjusted his aesthetic to render color schemes in expectation of future pigment degradation, and that these adjustments cannot have been an exact science.
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Perhaps the political system, or a complex ecosystem with a lot of relationships, but I think software and economic systems are generally much less complex than London. The thing about a city like London is it's pretty much 'incompressible' data. If you want to learn New York, large chunks of it compress by saying things like "the roads are mostly a grid", "these streets are numbered sequentially", etc. London doesn't show that kind of patterned, designed structure that allows other complex systems like software systems to be learned. Imagine trying to learn Unix when anything that would be referenced by a number is referenced by its own name.

Also cabbies need to know traffic patterns for the city to get around it quickly, which means in principle you're learning what the traffic is likely to be like on every road on every day of the week. That's a lot more compressible though.
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> I wonder if any other famous artists saw their work differently than the rest of us?

Ludwig van Beethoven's hearing started to deteriorate early on and eventually he became completely deaf though he continued to compose.

Of course there has to be a substantial difference between losing a sense or never to have had it but we don't know whether Van Gogh's altered vision was there from birth or the alteration happened later in his life.

I agree with both of you, most of the pictures lose a lot of character and uniqueness in the "corrected" versions; though one or two of them gain an incredibly realistic feeling of ambiance.

Better or not? Shouldn't even be the question - but it is an interesting theory and result!
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Interesting, as there does seem to be a consistently stronger vibrance of yellow monochromatic hues in the protanomal paintings.
whereas i don't trust the masses to arrive at coherent conclusions, much less effectively collude in their own interest.

> If the masses conclude it is intolerable, the companies will stop making money and that's the end of it.

so companies choose between not making money immediately, or waiting for "the masses" to get an act together and vote with their wallets? ha.
This is PR, you know devised by Freud's nephew Edward Bernays in the early 20th century, popularized by its infamous book "Propaganda".
This won't help, the ruthless businessmen can easily collaborate and lie to the outsider, he has no chance keeping them in check really.
I couldn't tell from the first chapter, but are there a lot of equations? If so, would be a big plus for me.