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I'm sending you a note via email, but…how close to print-ready are the PDFs that are generated? My wife has been working on a novel (and 90%) of a sequel that we're getting ready to self-publish through Lulu and KDP and I'm tired from the formatting hoops.

We're using Ulysses (similar to Scrivener) and exporting to Word and importing to Pages (because the epub export was somewhat disappointing compared to the Pages epub export, and Pages layout tools are more powerful than Word's) because we need both epub and 6"x9" (US trade) print-ready PDF. She's got a cover and a back cover. She wants to have both ebook and hardcopy, and you guys don't offer hardcopy.

I don't have the time to write the software I would need to prepare this stuff myself—and I don't know that I want to learn all the standards that I'd need for it, either. If your PDFs are print-ready or I can somehow specify the size so that it can be print-ready, I'd happily pay to convert her novel—because this is just one of four books that we're going to have to do in the next few months.

(Shameless promotion for my wife: If anyone is interested in a late 70s rock and roll novel set in Canada and the UK, let me know—an email is in my profile. I'll send a note out when it's available, regardless of the process we use to produce it.)
You're absolutely correct, and this is by no means the first time that a word has been coined as the result of people being upset with a politician. The word 'quisling' means "A traitor who collaborates with an enemy force occupying their country", and it was coined by The Times in Britain in reference to Norwegian Vidkun Quisling, who helped the Nazis conquer his country.

If Vidkun Quisling were alive today, would he have a legitimate complaint against Google if searches for his name brought up the dictionary definition I just quoted?
Makes sense. The research is cool, I just take issue with the writeup that was submitted.
A better analogy might abstract away the merits of copyright infringement, and focus on who got punished for that infringement. Maybe something like: "Imagine if the government shut down Walmart because one of its customers was caught handing out ripped Beyonce CDs."
Floats are cheap, simple, reliable and reasonably accurate. It's also adaptable to different models of gas tanks and cars with out a lot of re-engineering effort. Using flow meters would take at least 3 sensors (new gas, out to engine, unused in from engine), using a weight measurement system would require re-engineering the entire fuel tank mounting system, as well as dealing with the drift over decades of bouncing along the road.
But we're not writing code for it to be read by other programmers. We're writing code for what it does when it's executed. More programmers does not make a greater market for programmers. At least not for that reason.
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You misunderstood "software factory" reference. The reference was to meta-programming, not a room full of factory workers :) Think Japanese robot factories.
I think you did a very good job shoehorning the key phrases 'wealth creation', 'big government' and 'private sector' into your appearance so that you could get the bloomberg audience on your side. Nicely done.
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> Also, shouldn't these simple bugs be quickly and fully discovered by automated tests?

Do you actually believe this?

Tests are a nice first pass, but they'll never fully discover every bug -- especially with a huge change like this.
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Documentation with examples in the code comments:

https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSDev/blob/master/jsdev....

Keepin' it real, a tool about comments must have documentation in the comments ;)
> Farming is different in that it's easy for anyone to do (it's just manual labor).

I have a small grain farm and also develop software professionally. I find software development is the easier of the two, personally.

Problems in software all go back to the rules of computational theory. It's not exactly easy, but the space is fairly limited and can be understood with some effort.

Problems in farming are all over the map. Sometimes you have to engineer a new piece of equipment to get you out of a jam, other times you're dealing with biology, medicine, mechanical work, sales, you name it, you probably have to deal with it. And you need a solution now. By tomorrow, your profits for the year will be gone.
This does look really interesting and something that we could potentially use ... but I wouldn't know where to start without a little more documentation I'm afraid. Is it a browser extension? Where do I install it? etc.

I like the concept of the dev comments automatically being removed by minification, though, no extra buildy stuff required.
I don't remember and wasn't able to find it either, but I know which study you're talking about. There was a professor who gave his intro CS students an exam where they were supposed to interpret code. Of course, most of them had no idea what they were reading. The statement "X = X + 1" is (as a mathematical equation) garbage, even though it's legitimate in a conventional CS context (whereby '=' represents assignment). So almost all of the students interpreted the code incorrectly.

What separated the (future) successes from the failures was not how accurate their interpretations were, but whether they were consistent. The students who came up with consistent interpretations of these (a priori) meaningless symbols and could rigorously apply them were able to grok programming-- through trial and error, they picked up the actual meanings over time. The ones who weren't consistent, who just didn't "get" that these symbols had rigorous and inflexible meanings, were the ones who failed.

I actually think this style of rigor in thinking can be learned, even for average people, but it takes time. You can't go from zero to fluency in one semester. The problem (of American mediocrity in mathematical thinking, at least over the bottom 90 percentiles) is similar to what comes up in affirmative action debates: we're addressing it 18 years too late. In the US, many students never encounter mathematical proof or computer programming, except among the elite (e.g. USAMO, IMO). These aren't impossibly hard. Bulgarian and Japanese secondary students tackle proofs. Unfortunately, in the U.S., proofs are extremely rare in the secondary curriculum and computer programming is, if offered, an elective.
a phone in guest mode would be totally useless.

case 1: no apps. guest has to install apps. will guest have a itunes/android market account? does he enter his Credit card to buy paid ones he want to use?

case 2: apps with no data from real user. He opens up foursquare/yelp to look for a restaurant... has to create profile
These guys are kind of working in this:
http://www.famigo.com/

Their approach is targeted at kids though, I'd love to see someone tackle the general purpose approach.

Sounds like a great project for someone with a lot of free time. I rememeber hearing that the guy who came up with what is currently the ios notification style was hired by Apple after his jailbroken hack.

The void is wide open for someone to solve this well and be rewarded for it
"Minitrue"? Really?

I think a lot of the distaste people have for santorum is that there was an active campaign to coin and propagate it. But lots of words have that heritage: if someone looks up "pegging" on Google, no one gets upset when it turns out to be an invented but widely adopted sex term.

Savage's hostile intent, though, has a major role in people thinking santorum's an illegitimate word, even though no one can point to any real metric by which Santorum should trump santorum; we all like to feign genteel shock at crassness. But we can't let our emotions, be they anti-Santorum or anti-Savage, dictate whether Google should manually intervene to change the ordering of the search. That road leads to 1984.
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Hacker News works for programmers because programmers work in text and Hacker News is pure text. I don't think it would work for artists, I think you need something much more visual.
I found a few:
http://www.uberlook.com for web design and graphics.
http://bitlynews.com/ looks like its for trashy news.

And here's some defunct ones that were mentioned:
markenomics
newsmogul
How wrong is it to just simplify and say "websites?"
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I have heard many, many times from parents whose kids play with their iPhones, iPads, etc. that they would like to have this mode where only the current app is active, WiFi is disabled, etc. Kids are quick to figure out how to buy extra stuff from within the app.
I would definitely be interested in hearing. I don't expect that the overhead of encryption will cause much additional power draw, simply because encryption doesn't require all that much CPU power. The stuff about fully loaded CPUs was wandering off into the theoretical realm about CPU power consumption variance in general.

For whatever it may be worth, I couldn't find idle power consumption for my notebook's CPU, but it is possible to come up with a worst-case estimate by taking the battery capacity and dividing by the runtime. Apple specifies "up to" 7 hours. While that is of course hard to achieve, I think it's fair to use that figure when looking at idle power use. The battery is 50Wh, so we can figure that the computer as a whole is using at most about 7W when idle. The i7-2677M CPU is specced to use up to 17W all by its lonesome when running flat out, so that's a substantial increase, especially when you take into account the fact that the base 7W idle-ish consumption is for everything in the computer, not just the CPU.
I should have stressed #2 but deliberately left out #3 because my audience was Bloomberg. I'm really keen on finding a great, honest analogy that we can tie this all together with.
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"Quisler" is a non-sequiter. Quisling was a quisler and Obama championed obamacare and Savage wanted to create a vulgar definition of a man's name. One of those is not like the other...

If "Quisling" meant "a man in drag", "pile of manure" or something less tasteful then you may have a point.
>you hit lots of fun design problems.

Single user login is a design problem! When I hand my tablet off to someone they have access to my gmail, gtalk, facebook, twitter, imap email, browser sessions and dropbox.

And that's just what I can recall on the fly.
Top 0.001%? Newton's method was high school math for me. Surely more than 1 in 100,000 programmers can remember basic Calculus.
This is a very good hypothesis. The underlying mechanisms may be older. The main culprits I have read are due to a reduction of insulin levels and an upregulation of stress/heat shock proteins.
More specifically self publishing basically means that instead of writing you're running a small business. Which means you're engaged in a massive time suck that is distracting you from doing what you're actually passionate about.
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Yay! I love moms. Thank her for me. We need to help more people like her realize how awful this legislation is.
Don't let it get to you. The best developers I've worked with didn't come from CS background at all.

Employers worth working for will know to look at what you've built and your passion creating/learning rather than whether you can quote a square root function from memory.

We're fortunate: if you wanted to get a job as a lawyer you couldn't just go and win some cases to prove your ability. But developers can always build something cool to show what they can do. It won't get you to Google or IBM, but it'll get you to any startup worth its salt.
Looking at the mocked-up screenshots in the article, he's proposing that the user customize which apps are available. Note "Configure Guest Access" in Settings.app.
>"Account for"?

Yes teachers work around 190 days per year and in my area (metro Atlanta), they start off at $40k+ and around $50k with a Masters degree.

They are guaranteed raises so that they can easily get up to $60k (in today's money--more if they have graduate degree) by the time they retire, and after 30 years they can retire with 60% pay (most of them can retire in their very early 50s instead of 60+ like the rest of us). They get more time off than nearly any other profession.

Based on salary alone the average teacher makes 57% more than the overall state average salary, and when you add in their benefits package it goes up even higher.

With cost of living in my area that is definitely not "crap" pay.
Google is deliberately choosing not to adjust this particular search result for reasons of ideology or pragmatism

Not sure I believe that all the people at Google involved in deciding how search results get tweaked lean the same way politically and are interested in having their ideology reflected in Google results.

That's kind of what you're implying here isn't it?

I think the overall argument we're seeing here is fundamentally the same as those questions about sexism in the tech industry.

Some believe its just a reflection of the fact that most people in that group happen to fit into a certain demographic and that nothing is really broken. Others believe there's a fundamental underlying problem that needs to be fixed.
Yes, I think we're cooking up the perfect analogy in this thread. It needs to be as honest as it is relatable as it is succinct :)
Exactly as painful as it might seem. Automated tests can only get you so far. Sometimes you just have to suck it up and dig into the code base.
Over half of all iOS apps sold are games. RAGE HD and Infinity Blade are best selling titles, grossing millions.

That's not to say gaming is the answer for Windows Phone, I'm simply objecting to the notion that mobile OSes don't have anything to offer to serious gamers.
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Interesting, it seems that the relevant regulations are wonderfully complex. Are such cars still limited in number? I tried to dive into the NYC taxi commission to see, but got lost pretty quickly....
Do you have any evidence that indicates that this is the reason?

A much more likely explanation for the policy involves abuse by the user, either intentionally or unintentionally. Cameras and USB sticks are similarly restricted.
Yeah I noticed that but in what context can I run this other than command line? I assume its C code but how do I get it to work in the browser? or is it something you'd use in node.js? Guess it's just over my head
I think that one is better too.

I was picturing an outside wall with the shop owner inside all day behind the counter. The Mickey Mouse one is more concise though.
The answer is obviously (a). But Rick Santorum is hardly "one of the best-known national Republican figures of the last 30 years." I'd put on that list people like Reagan, George HW Bush, George W Bush, Cheney, Powell, McCain, Limbaugh, Gingrich, etc. That fact that you'd even think to put Sen. Santorum in that company inclines me to question your judgment.

Santorum is a 2-term Senator who ran poorly for president a couple times, and who was made mildly more famous due to a minor controversy. He's like the Gary Hart of the GOP.
The problem is that any development of interstellar vessels constitutes "playing".
"""The statement "X = X + 1" is (as a mathematical equation) garbage"""

Actually it could be perfectly valid, depending on the context.

For example, if + denotes the boolean AND and 1 is true, then X = 1.
A program is read from stdin, and a modified program is written to stdout.

https://plus.google.com/118095276221607585885/posts/CTZ7BNx7...
A better base for the analogy might be a mall, since there are a variety of situations where SOPA could result in a slew of virtual storefronts being taken down due to the actions of a customer in a single store that wasn't doing proper policing of its customers (never mind whether the stores should be responsible for policing their customers, attacking this at the domain level is like shutting down a mall because of the nonviolent actions of a few customers, and blaming it on the mall.)
Yes.. I like this. What do you think about this one? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3426990
This caused me to be beat upside the head with a Gameboy repeatedly when I was young when I hit "new game" on my cousin's Pokemon Red.
"""The experienced programmers I know call this cheating"""

Call what cheating? You haven't described anything that could even remotely be called cheating.
Pretty sad, but they are not in a good situation. To be sure, you need to check current regulation on that. But, if I remember, it's something like: First they will pay all debt they made WHILE on chapter 11 and govt, then workers & retirees, etc.

Kodak has some patents, and some other assets, but I doubt it is enough to pay everyone.
No, difficult for the users, not the operating systems.

Operating systems have had user switching for years. But I'll bet only a small minority of Mac users even know this is possible, and even fewer have ever used it.
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in terms of tools that may power some of the clones out there, in looking around i see this one:

https://github.com/antirez/lamernews

which powers a couple of sites. this one's demo site seems down:

https://github.com/jaekwon/YCatalyst

not entirely sure what sites it powers. these may help you find some of the more community-specific clones out there.
Here they are...

10. Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent education

http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_rein...

9. Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex

http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_harford.html

8. Harald Haas: Wireless data from every light bulb AND Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots

http://www.ted.com/talks/harald_haas_wireless_data_from_ever...

7. Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies

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6. Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive AND Skylar Tibbits: Can we make things that make themselves

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4. Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration

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3. Stefon Harris: There are no mistakes on the bandstand

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2. Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement

http://www.ted.com/talks/bunker_roy.html

1. JR's TED Prize wish: Use art to turn the world inside out

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It seems like this rule is designed to benefit not the buyer but an extra-transactional party, namely, the IP owner - that is usually the case in anti-counterfeit programmes. The case of the violin is just a perversion of a rule that was probably implemented to prevent the sale of fake watches, handbags, and the like.
At work we're required to have a PIN lock on our phones if we have our email or calendar synced to it. Majorly inconvenient to have a system-wide lock, why not just give the option to set a PIN before the email accounts can be opened?
I'm not sure that this is true. Typically, Google's results are tailored for you based on your circles and browsing history. This tweaking does not help people that aren't already your friends.

As an example, when I search for the article this article is about with the terms "wired world jury duty", I get the readwriteweb article (with a picture of Jon Mitchell beside it) as the first result. Only the 7th result is a Google+ page, and it's not explicitly advertised in any special way.

Google+ is about your social network, not "the" social network.

(I personally love seeing the "8 of your friends have +1'd this" on the search result page. Instant authenticity!)
I just searched "Santorum" on DDG, and every result for the first few screens is in fact about Rick Santorum the politician and not about that disgusting definition.
And random black triangles on your face is discreet?
There is an app for that. :) Seriously. But agreed, a guest account for iOS would be awesome.
That what this is for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension_Benefit_Guaranty_Corpor...

It doesn't cover everything, but it helps a lot.