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Why don't you like player projection systems? While it's impossible to accurately predict almost anything as complex as baseball consistently, players projections are an awesome tool.
Off the top of my head: Sulla, Cromwell, Robespierre, Napolean, Hitler, Mugabe. There are many more, but I'd have to verify.
CSS2 has it's share of problems, but is the problem in the language or in the numerous interpreters / browsers out there?

What is the purpose of this change?

Cross browser Cooperation in layout: This solution is meant to make it more standard across browsers, but it's a complete reworking of the system and it still won't guarantee cross browser functionality.

For the developer/designer: Really? I think the designers already have a pretty clear idea of how to develop with CSS. Look at the various CSS frameworks out there for column based design, that's what I think it should be based off of.

I'm not a fan.
It's all about responsibility. The guy/girl who has been working and starting companies is bound to be more responsible and accountable than their peers who are busy getting laid and partying. I totally agree that making adolescents more accountable would bring out the best in people and reduce social problems in that age group.
The GM of the Arizona Diamondbacks is a stats whiz as well:

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/diamondbacks/articles/2008/0...

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/nl/diamondbacks/2007...

This year wasn't an accident.
They're both wrong.
Exactly. Chances are the answers lies somewhere in the middle...
Black-and-white fallacy. SEO may become more difficult over time (it already has), but this article contains no logical argument or evidence to show why SEO would become "dead". As long as search engines are relevant, optimizing for them will be a living skill.

Blogga please.
If they are, and you use this list as a reference, they'll have adapted and will be doing something totally different.

Maybe they'll be selling fish or making shoes :)
True, but Rand's philosophy deals entirely in absolutes, and is resistant to reconciliation with any other philosophy. Any golden mean approach need not apply.

So, yes, it's a silly word, but by that same measure Objectivism is a silly philosophy.
We're so young as a society. Wake me when google's 1500 years old.
Twitter, Facebook, even the biggest social network, MySpace, which was built as a place to market to young people, has been destroyed by the attempts to commandeer them by marketers.

Where in the article does the author prove or even offer evidence that Facebook has been "destroyed"? In what way have the social networks been "destroyed"? Certain Myspace is in flux, but not because of marketeering. Twitter is destroyed? Really?
You can maximize the videos to full screen.
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That's a valid argument. Unfortunately, looking at some of the essay work that I remember being included in the paperbacks (sorry I'm not specific, I read it almost a decade ago), it seems that Rand was more serious than humorous, and her readers seem the same way as you've pointed out. Someone with a fresher memory / more time to Google can feel free to prove me wrong.
OMG! Which part of "putting two ideas together in order to stimulate thinking" is so difficult for you to grasp? It's done all the time.
What's the deal with linking to this crappy "So You Want to be a Billionaire" site?

It's obviously blog spam of the worst kind. Using Rand for bait is a nice touch.
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I think we could / should electrify the interstate highway system. That way hybrids and all electric cars can increase their range and reduce fuel usage.
Or the answer could be on an entirely different scale, so they're equally wrong.
False choice. Rand usually makes valid points in her novels but tends to wildly overstate them (perhaps in order to underscore her points). Gladwell may be somewhat reductive in his reasoning, but certainly social and environmental factors play a large role in success.

Simply put, it's both nature and nurture. It's what you do (by nature) and your circumstances (nurture) that determine success.
Yeah, their real job interviews stopped asking "how would move move mt. fuji" questions in the early to mid-90s. They now ask programming questions. It turns out the people that are really good at solving those brainteasers are also really good at climbing into upper management and b.s.ing about their performance/impact.
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It's a silly philosophy with some grains of truth behind it. I think it's absolutely worth studying.

Similarly, I doubt anybody would call Gladwell's writings a "philosophy." He doesn't write all his books with a single, unified theory around them. Each one pursues a separate venue.
Any examples of how this would work? I'm a bit confused.
I can guarantee that you'll start feeling really tired around 10:30 and fall asleep like a baby by 11:15 within 2 weeks - probably even faster.

If he's got the sleep syndrome like he says this won't help. He just won't be tired in bed and will lay there. His body can't sync to a 24 schedule and will always want to slip. A normal body will sync to a 24 schedule if you let it. His won't. It totally sucks and I imagine consulting would be the way to do it.
If there is a response to the body shop question, rather than just share it with lsc, please post it for all.
It's FUD because it assumes wind / solar will be added to the grid in an stupid fashion so that we increase the number of blackouts. But, wind power provided 19.7 percent of the Denmark's electricity in 2007 so clearly it's a reasonably well understood problem.

Edit: When you assume people will do X without doing Y which will cause an obvious problem your making an assumption that people will do something stupid. In this case X is increase usage of wind power and Y is upgrade the power grid and add energy storage. So when you say something bad is going to happen with this logic what your really saying is If people do something stupid bad things will happen which is not the same as saying X is bad.
Since when was a stock price any indicator of how good or great a company was?
Garbage article.

The article misses that Rand's books are romantic, whereas Gladwell is a journalist. Rand writes fiction; Gladwell writes theories based on anecdotes and statistics. For an analogy, that'd be a lot like saying "Pablo Piccasso, or xyz modern photographer: Who is right?"

The guy's synopsis of Rand is pretty telling --> "Atlas Shrugged is a similar story. In it a group of scientists and tycoons decide in equally petulant fashion decide that they will "simply take their ball and go home" when society refuses to capitulate to their capricious demands."

Rand misses some points, the world isn't so black and white. But her general message is pro-individualism, hard work, anti-politicking, pro-competition, etc. It's anti-interventionism, anti-socialism, anti-labor, etc. It also mocks the hell out of people who come from opposite backgrounds, and interprets their motivations as scared and selfish. It makes for a good read, but makes her books hard to discuss with people from those viewpoints.

In reality, most people who are pro-collective, pro-socialism, etc. are decent folk with great intentions. Free marketists and socialists just happen to violently disagree on how to build the best world. Unfortunately, Rand's ruthless treatment of people who disagree with her all being nincompoops makes the books hard to discuss with someone who doesn't already have some of the underpinnings of her philosophy.
But he didn't put two ideas together. He brings up Rand, says that she appalls him, and then talks about Gladwell separately. There's a very loose attempt to tie them together, which falls flat (the Beatles having to play long sets doesn't do away with the explanation that each member of the Beatles was incredibly talented). The article is spam overall.

Gladwell and Rand don't contradict each other. They barely overlap at all. And if there is a connection, it's not one that this article points out.
Of course this is the answer but a lot of management doesn't understand this. If you take a look at Japanese manufacturers, you can see that they actually value their employees.

However, in the case of the UAW, management laid down for them for decades in fear of production cuts. When the income was rolling in, the worst thing for them was a production shutdown. They weren't forward thinking enough to realize that eventually these relatively unskilled workers would be making $40/hour on an assembly line and getting ridiculous health care benefits in their pensions. It's a double-edged sword but a lot of baby boomers ended up making a lot more money then they ever should have.

Now, when any group of employees wants to organize, most management immediately thinks of what the UAW has done and thinks its the worst thing in the world. They think that it's 100% employee greed and don't look at themselves for answers. In reality, most unions organize today because management is really bad in creating a good work environment. A little DAILY effort goes a long way in making your employees feel valued and as long as the compensation is somewhat close to average, you're not likely going to face a union coming in.
Yeah, and - as I said up front in the other thread - YouTube doesn't eliminate their menu bar once you do that, unlike every one of their competitors. I also pointed out that YouTube can't handle the file quality that the other sites do.
I used to be like this in graduate school. I started working out more and more, treated with sleeping pills and now I sleep regularly between 10pm-2am and I'm up 6am-10am. If I have meetings, sometimes I cope on 6 hours of sleep. Have you tried really, truly beating your body into exhaustion after work 1-3 hours at a gym? Incidentally, that will help the gf problem as well (:

Otherwise, there are plenty of jobs that will let you have a bit of a flexible schedule if you want. Many startups will let you work the hours you want if you are hugely productive.
Adding a pdf warning might be nice.
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The value I would see in your idea relates to a niche you have created called "geek fitness" or perhaps "ambitness". The latter one refers to people that are so busy trying to excel in their field that they don't have time to think about working out or designing a program for success.

Setting goals, designing a fitness program, and meeting other geeks or ambitious types would be fun. Make it a way to meet new people, network, socialize, and get fit at the same time. None of that is possible online or at home in front of a DVD player. The value-added is all in the physical world- real people, real friends, real equipment. The value add is in how you address your chosen niche- as geeks, as ambitious young professionals. Trouble is, the people with money are baby boomers aged 45+. Then again, they just haven taken a 30% hit in widows and orphans stocks!!! Good luck, and if this idea doesn't work, start building the next one. Today.
I've had nothing but positive experiences with Apple at their Genius Bar, and on the phone. I don't know of any other manufacturer that has such an in-store experience, but it sure was nice not having to ship my machine out and instead just get to leave it there for a couple days while it was repaired under warranty. my previous Mac, a 12" powerbook, worked perfectly for the 3 years that I had it.
He showed Obama with a higher percentage except for immediately after Palin, and then he explained that it was a bump that promised to diminish.

What impressed me about his site isn't just his predictions, but how good he was at predicting how his model would change in the future. He could predict how his model would change every day for a week in advance, and he was almost always right as to how the "market" would react.
And yet here we all are engaged in an empassioned argument over it.
Yep, with OpenID you can choose to use stronger auth. Somebody from Vidoop said they want to give away tokens; I wonder how that's going.
Does Nate Silver invest on Intrade (or another prediction market) and make money off of his predictions? If not, why not?
I shall go buy lithium futures then.
Well done sir, I will be using this on my ipod touch.
I would expect the standard scrolling gesture to scroll the iframe -- unless the iframe is already scrolled all the way in that direction, in which case it applies the scroll to the iframe's container.

This behavior is intuitive, if slightly inconvenient in some cases, which is exactly the trade-off I'd have expected Apple to make. Requiring an unfamiliar multitouch gesture for a common operation strikes me as the kind of "let's do something cool because we can" geekery that got us middle-click-to-paste in X Windows.

I'm curious: what does the iPhone use to scroll an iframe in an iframe? Three fingers?
He probably sent mails to his family and friends from that account. So all the proof is there.
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Ayn Rand is the philospher for the shallow and immature.
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Concurred.
The good news is that some people's cases, like mine, mellow out as we grow older. By the time you return from academia, it's quite possible that you'll be more functional with the addition of draconian sleep hygene rules, morning exercise, and light box therapy. (Note: I still revert to the default schedule if left to my own devices, but I am much more able to function as a day person now.)

I'm even able to stay up late on occasion now. I still can't function waking up at 6am on a regular basis, but I'm surviving on a 12-8am sleep schedule.
I think he means in terms of placing ads. While it's nice to think that the founders of Facebook and MySpace really wanted to create ways for people to connect, in reality they were creating a service with mass-adoption potential in the most highly sought-after demographics. These audiences are golden for marketing and in some cases, it creates deep opportunities for demographics that were previously difficult to market to...especially teenagers.

What this guy is talking about is how companies are now trying to build lists of friends on MySpace/Facebook/Whatever for what is essentially "free" marketing. This is some sort of secondary marketing and probably wasn't the intention of the services as they aren't providing any revenue. When executed wisely, this strategy is actually really good and can actually provide value to the service, the company as well as its "friends". However, I seriously doubt the ability of most SEO's to adapt and succeed with quality results in social media. It's not as cut and dry as SEO and actually requires "white hat" creativity.
One thing to watch out for with exercise and sleep deprivation is that the body's ability to heal after a hard workout is greatly diminished. You have to be careful not to injure yourself.
Its addictive also to spend all your time thinking about scalability and sharding and clustering
options instead of making something people use.

I never proposed that. But leaving doors open for possible alternatives and quick fixes doesn't take much time, maybe 5 minutes of thinking. Sane programming methodologies help, like modularization and partitioning your code in different processes. Scalability and rapid development are not always mutually exclusive.
I should mention a few more things:

1. My father worked nights until he was in his fourties. He had a similar problem, but was able to move to an earlier schedule.

2. I can't say that I prefer waking up on an earlier schedule; I think I still work better working in the evenings, but it's at least tolerable now.

3. I should have stressed the exercise and light therapy, especially when you don't have a schedule to keep. It won't solve all problems, but it does help.
> one of the reasons there is such a big difference in fund raising in the first place.

There wasn't "a difference in fund-raising". McCain, as promised, went with public financing. Obama broke his promise to do likewise and went private.
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Such argument refutes everything but churches.
Above really nailed some important points - the biggest is feeling like you're in control of your life. Whenever you blame something external for something you had any chance of affecting, you way disempower yourself. Not mental voodoo here - if you feel like your relationship had no chance independent of what you did, then why bother trying? Things like that.

Next point is really harsh - there's no way you turned in all-star caliber work at your last post. And if you want exceptions, you've got to be really, really good. Because managers really fear giving exceptions, because then everyone wants them. A lot of managers take the easy road and don't accommodate staff at all - they're not mean, it's just that once you stop having a consistent set of across-the-board policies it becomes really hard to balance everything and keep everyone on track. It just takes a high level of skill and personal touch that most managers don't have. Now, if you're amazing, like the most important person that's ever worked there, they might find a way to accommodate you. If you're another cog in the wheel, then rightfully or not, they probably don't gun hard to keep you specifically as that cog if you need accommodation. (That's not to say whether that's right or not - it's just how it is)

If you want to get different hours from other people, highlight how much it'd benefit your employer and tell them right from the start. "Hi XYZ Company, I'm sleepy. I have this sleep thing but I do exceptional work. If you're flexible, I typically enjoy working 50-60 hours per week, but I've got to do some at night. I'd love to find a way to make this work - and it'd be cool to have someone alive and alert when the company's normally sleeping right? I can be that guy, and I pride myself on getting more done than everyone else."

The average person only does 2 hours of productive work each day - you can double the average person's production by not procrastinating and focusing for 5 hours a day. If you're the best guy on the team, you get more slack.

Finally, if you want to contract - easiest way to start is by taking Freelance work somewhere like Elance or Odesk. Log onto to one of their sites, create an account, then bid the minimum possible for your first job and knock it out of the park. If you do 4-5 jobs below market rates and get excellent feedback, you'll be able to get work at market rates pretty fast.
Careful on (2) --- audit flag! You only owe self-employment on the first ~90k of your income anyways. I might not play games here.
Interesting article, great the application/example Single Chip Battery CHARGER from USB
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I'm pretty sure you're covered under the ADA. If this company has an HR department, one of their jobs is to protect the company from ADA lawsuits. If you really want to keep working for this company, talk to HR and make sure they understand that as far as you're concerned, you're being fired for a disability that the company refused to accomodate. It doesn't even matter what a court would say ... a good HR department is not going to want to find out. They're going to find a way to accomodate your schedule.

That said, there are enough good bosses out there who would love to have a good programmer, even on an unusual schedule. I guarantee you'll be able to find one if you spend a little bit of time looking around.
Reminds me of the obscure puzzles in adventure games.
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It's only a garbage article if you're a fanatical Rand groupie.

The post contributes to an important societal debate over whether or not the successful owe anything back to society, such as taxes.

Obviously it's stimulated a lot of heat.
My phone didn't come with a mouse.
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I don't have any iPhone, but this is spiffy. Even in my normal Firefox window ;)
Hey cool, I created this :) How did you find it? It's still buggy. I was going to release it in a couple of weeks.

Thoughts? Suggestions?
Fabulous!

Request: Please add support for non-www domain. It took me a few minutes to realize why I was getting 404'd on my phone but not in FireFox.
Interesting. Hacker News is already very light but I like the bigness of important things and smallness of others when I view it on my phone.

PG, I like this enough that it'd be neat if you gave us something similar so our account info can go through you.

It doesn't seem to work as http://icobinator.net btw. The www seems required.
Yup, I'm trying. It's on Google App engine and its a little tricky with the DNS stuff. Will try to figure that out tonight.
One guy I heard from recently recommended pricing cheap until you get on a top-100 list, then jacking up the price. Of course, he was trying to market a game, which probably has different market dynamics than an application.
Yup, working on the DNS stuff. Yeah, I just thought it'd be better on the eyes :)
Glad you like it! Does the screen transition a little choppy on yours?
But said ripped dude at the gym can watch me work out and can give me personalized help.

Unless pacefit can give me personalized help, which is most and severely limited by the not-physically-present aspect, why even bother spending money no matter how cheap it is? I could just watch one of the many videos out there or join one of the many communities to network with other people.

I remember the first time I ever used gym equipment when I was a kid in my middle school's gym. Sure, we could all imitate what the teacher was doing, but it was pretty clear most of us weren't doing a good job of it, so he'd personally help us out. Especially for beginners the physical presence is more helpful than watching a video, even personalized.
Nice! It keeps the look and feel and works smoothly: just what I want from an iPhone adaptation.

Is it tough making the sliding transitions? Or is there some basic code that handles that?
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I did a google search for my username and found it. I like it. news.ycombinator.com sucks with the iPhone and I like your site a lot better - much easier to read. Sorry to force you into the spotlight early, but it seems to work fine for me. It makes reading hacker news on the iPhone A LOT better. Thanks for creating it.
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