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A father and his daughter could probably have a healthy child with a bit of help from science, but that wouldn't make it a good idea would it.
Cape Cod specifically.
I suspect that, in general, homosexuals had better prepare themselves for some retrenchment. Their opposition is solidly "multicultural" in flavor, but all of their tactics are essentially of the same sort used against Southerners, viz, to call them "bigots". This will not work against blacks and hispanics, the two groups that will be increasingly important in the future.

Word to the wise: The purpose of the "civil rights" movement is to weaken national unity and destroy traditional culture. That has been its purpose since day one, and the actual rights of man per se do not enter into strategic consideration. When the ruling class has to decide between alienating gays, alienating blacks, and alienating hispanics, it will do the first. When this becomes actual policy is difficult to say, since it isn't a straightforward headcount issue.
Upvoted, you convinced me.
You're starting to distort everything I said.

I don't care if gay people wish to have even more rights than me. Fine. Just don't mess about with a word that has been defined clearly for a long time.
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'Equal,' or 'identical?' The former implies an equation in terms of absolute 'goodness,' while the later merely implies a concurrence of kind.

If you are going to rag on same sex 'marriage' as not being truly 'marriage' for any of the reasons you state, then you also have to discount many heterosexual 'marriages' as well.

The problem is that for one half of our society, the meaning of the term has changed radically over the past century and for the other half it hasn't changed a wit. As a result, the laws have grown confusing and contradictory and there is no longer any easy way to reconcile the terms.
Awesome, now I've got the skills to be scoring all the hot chicks!
Pointless, meaningless videos like this one.
Piss me off.
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Saying "a same-sex couple should be allowed all the privileges of a married couple, but please don't call it 'marriage'" is like saying "a woman should be allowed to attend medical school and receive a degree and be licensed to see patients and prescribe medicine and collect insurance reimbursements, but please don't call her a 'doctor'".
It's more normal to have people share living spaces. At my last job I worked with an Indian making 45k who was splitting a 2 breadroom 1350$ / month apt with 8 people (they used bunk beds). He had no car and 170$ / month rent is cheep so he was saving a tun of money.
At least in Python, most C coded modules release the lock so asynchronous I/O is possible.
well crafted indeed,
I personally believe Sun's problems began way before the downturn, but the downturn provides a great excuse for them to report really bad earnings and lay off people. And, as a bonus, they get to drag down confidence in the tech sector in general!
Suppose your arguments are true. Here's why clojure is destined to be big.

Clear benefit: you have Java at your disposal, while being "new and cool." From a library standpoint it is Java + extras.

Functional does not make it better: if there are two types of people, one that prefers functional, one imperative, go ahead! Let the functional use clj, the imperative use java. Now you can compile to .class and use either paradigm!

I don't code lisp regularly, but I'm convinced clojure is the NBT and so I'm preparing to jump ship after it matures :D
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No, it's not. Female doctors can carry out the same tasks as Male doctors (Give or take).

Gay couples cannot carry out the same tasks as Heterosexual couples.
Ok, that's creepy, but if they are 30 and 50 what's the problem? My point is just because I don't like something does not mean I get to stop people who are not hurting me from doing it.

There was some story about people who where both adopted got married and then found out they where siblings. And yea it's creepy, but while I would be ok forbidding them from having children (for the public good) I don't see the value in forcing them to break up. And, even forbidding something on genetic grounds becomes a slippery slope problem because it's one step from their to sterilizing people.
It's a less archaic way of saying "one". 'when one does X' vs 'when you do x'
Isn't it well known correlation? Better economy translates to sexier MBA. Worser economy means sexier engineering.
I'm from Oregon in the US, but have lived a number of years in Italy, and am married to a woman from Padova.

(BTW, I don't mind answering, but this is all in my profile).
Wouldn't it be better, long term, to stay in California and work towards changing cultural values so that gay marriage is no longer a controversial issue?

I'm from Massachusetts. I'm exceptionally proud that my state was the first to legalize gay marriage. But I'm worried that it'll just make us into an enclave while the rest of the country says, "Oh, those crazy New Englanders, it's just gays and hippie liberals up there. Don't bother listening to a word they say."

Prop 8 failed by 5% of the electorate. If you could convince 5% of California voters that the sky does not fall when gay people get married, you could win rights for all 36 million of California's citizens. That's 6 times bigger than Massachusetts, and close to 3 times bigger than the total population of New England. And it'd provide an example that's impossible to marginalize for the rest of the nation.
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I have to say, Congratulations to Tom and Dan. Turning a profit from the get-go is very rare, and they managed it quite well. It's great to see that snowball rolling downhill...

Cheers!
I wouldn't call it "super-designed".. they just repurposed an old, previously-designed space.
I guess I'm not seeing what impact marriage has on society as a whole - can you elaborate?
Reminds me of Chris Duncan's book, "Unite the Tribes" (http://www.amazon.com/Unite-Tribes-Ending-Business-Success/d...). Similar yet different.
I think there ought to be a clear separation made between religious/cultural marriage (marriage1) and state-recognised unions (marriage2).

Then:

The Catholic Church can allow itself only to marry1 heterosexual, undivorced1(and maybe 2 too?) couples.

Some weird cult (so long as no laws are broken) can marry1 several people together into one union.

Gay couples can marry2 regardless of what any religion or cultural group thinks, and can also marry1 in a liberal church, if they so wish.

etc. etc.

And the state can allow any two consenting (unmarried2) adults to marry2. And this doesn't mean much more than that they become each others' next-of-kin, they automatically inherit upon the death of the other, have certain housing / visiting in hospital rights etc.. So even, e.g. two pensioner friends with no family could marry2 for companionship and security (even if they are e.g. both female and heterosexual).
Please note that I never claimed that I was treated unfairly by Dell. It's just factual that I paid a higher price than I would have if there were not collusion in the market for LCD displays. Part of the point of free market capitalism is that competitors don't collude to keep prices artificially high. When they do, it's a market failure. That's why antitrust regulation is so vigorously enforced. I'll quote from the article:

In a 2004 Supreme Court decision, which was unanimous, cartels were called “the supreme evil of antitrust.”

“Cartels are regarded as the most dangerous form of anticompetitive conduct,” said Andrew I. Gavil, a law professor at Howard University. “The reason is that the potential impact on consumers is so great, and there is no plausible justification for it.”
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Here is the real conference website: http://rebootingcomputing.org/
Bah, we don't need these people. I'm not being bitter, I'm honestly not. I will be graduating soon (a few months), and I have seen many of these engineers-turned-bankers first-hand. We don't need them; the engineering profession wouldn't benefit from having them.

There are two types of people who go to college for engineering: those who truly love coding, circuit design, mechanical design, etc, and those who do it for lack of a better thing to do.

The first type are the ones who stay up late hacking, read up on the news, and keep themselves on the bleeding edge. They're the ones who know what they're doing.

The second type invariably just does the coursework needed to pass and get his degree. He's usually incompetent when it comes to his field of study, because his brain is filled with thoughts of paychecks and bonuses, not technical problems.

We don't need them. And I'm sure when the tech industry takes a tumble next time they'll all be gone again, to whatever field promises to be lucrative.
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It won't happen by 2014. Need to cycle through the Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y and Millenials before this is a reality.
Right, I just hope in a year or two when we get 64 core machines they will sell RAM in the petshop by the kilo so we can feed it cheaply to those 256 hungry mongrels ;-)
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In your hand the G1 feels good. Solid and all-plastic, but not nearly as clunky as the blurrycam photos showed. Getting used to the controls takes a little bit babies can't pick up and instantly know their way around, like on the iPhone. Control wise, it suffers from a bit of schizophrenia with a trackball, touchscreen, candybar mode and flip-out QWERTY, there's a lot going on at once.
Should we take a bet on that? I say that with no extra framework coming up that utilizes clojure, clojure will forever remain a small niche product.
Well I'd say to abolish marriage would be a big mistake for society. For me the main function of marriage is to provide the optimum situation for bringing up kids, as well as promoting monogamy and faithfulness which are IMHO good for society.

I think hijacking the word to mean other things muddies and confuses things for society, when there's actually an opportunity to use a new word to mean marriage between a same sex couple.
Doesn't that mean you're just first to go?

Oh well, at least the rest of us will get a little more time.
Ah, I didn't notice that. It explains one thing that puzzled me: why there's no mention of Steve Souders' work at Yahoo, which is pretty definitive in this area now.
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RE: multiprocessing - Did you file any bugs on it? I agree that there is slightly too much magic, and I'm looking at reducing it - but bug reports and/or patches help me. Right now, my focus is on fixing the docs for 2.6.1 and 3.0 final and further expanding the tests.
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Only time I've seen difficulty with pointers in the abstract is when helping people in intro programming classes in C. Once you're past that level, programmers get it, but they get confused by what the code is actually saying.
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Of course they can. Unless you mean that the sanctity of marriage is based on the ability of one party to stick their thing in the other and produce a baby.

What about a marriage between a man and a woman who adopt a child? Are they allowed to be married?

Or are you implying that heterosexual couples raise their children better than homosexual couples? That'd be a pretty tough claim to support.
people should have every right in the world to define their relationship to each other in any manner they like.

the law should simply allow simplification of contract terms should they be required (custody, assets, etc).

the idea that "marriage" is a set legal method that is rigid and unyielding to change is retarded. the concept is so ridiculously outmoded. society and culture have moved on, it's time for "marriage" to get with the program
For me, marriage is something more personal - something a couple does because they want to let each other, and the rest of the world, know they're committed.

To be fair, I guess I can't say for sure what I think about whether marriage is important to kids until I have some of my own.
Honestly that seems more like a function of a church than a government. But, how does using that word to talk about other arrangements promote monogamy / faithfulness? I mean less than half the people getting married today in the US are going to stay that way for the rest of their life and in many of those that don't get divorced one or both partners are going to get some on the side so I don't think the word really does much at this point.

PS: A lot of people stay married to the end because one spouse kills the other is that a benefit?
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No need for Cat5. Sparkfun just started selling a product that can communicate over house power lines. That sounds like a pretty badass way to do automation. A mix of wireless and wired-over-power sensors and actuators would be pretty badass.
Peldi - you have been such an inspiration. Not only to me, but to an entire community of entrepreneurs.

Keep the news coming and congratulations!
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Also: As I understand it, marriage used to mean something more akin to ownership, before women got more equal rights. So the definition has already changed once. If that change was ok, why is another change not ok?
Yes, and those planets are also hotter, therefore brighter and more visible.

The sky might be full of earth-like planets, and we wouldn't know (yet).

unless... detecting star-wobble is already sensitive enough to detect earth-like mass and distance from sun?
Not all heterosexual couples can conceive, but a large number can.

0 homosexual couples can conceive.

I'd also say yes heterosexuals are sure to raise kids better. What could be better than getting both a woman and a mans point of view on the world? :/

Wouldn't you worry if you sent your son to a school where all the teachers were women? I'd say he would be missing out on something.
promoting monogamy and faithfulness?

one needs a legal binding contract for these things? i mean seriously. this is adult stuff, if "the law" is the only thing preventing you from sleeping around, then you aren't mature enough to be in the kind of relationship that requires it.

and as far as kids are concerned. i highly doubt a legally binding marriage of two people who don't want to be together being forced into raising a kid would create an optimum situation. if they want to be together, they will be. and if they don't, moving on is far healthier.
> There shouldn't be laws about cultural institutions.

That's a pretty shaky assertion. I doubt there's a society in human history that didn't treat cultural traditions and taboos as law in some form.

Are you for legal incest and sibling marriage?
She would get more recognition in a small town than a big city wearing a shirt (as she will become know for it). No one would pay attention in a big city, but everyone in the small town (and surrounding towns) will pay attention. Living in Ohio I have witnessed the dynamics of word-of-mouth between the two.
"if "the law" is the only thing preventing you from sleeping around, then you aren't mature enough to be in the kind of relationship that requires it."

Right. And the majority of grown adults are not.

Also I think it's a good idea to make breaking up a family hard.
Congratulations! But now you'd better keep on succeeding, because I'm going to point at you every time people claim that single-founder companies don't work. :-)
he's wrong as well. he said gold will go up to 1k/oz, but actually metals have gone down tremendously. with the economy slowing down, industry around the world has slowed down, and the dollar has regained value.

now, i don't think the dollar will stay high for too long, unless drastic measures are taken by the US govt to cut spending, not print money, and create industry within the US).

another thing to watch out for is china. today they loosened licensing requirements for media (financial related data): http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/business/media/14media.htm...

what this means is that they are trying to pull more investments and spending into their own country; this could hurt the dollar if they are successful. interesting thing to notice is that the dollar never really regained when compared to the yuan: http://finance.google.com/finance?q=usdcny
YC rejection letters should include a link to this blog post.
0 infertile couples can conceive.

Should infertile couples not be allowed to marry?

0 post-menopausal women can conceive.

Should post-menopausal women not be allowed to marry?
ddd's nice, but CW made it a lot easier to stay close to the machine-level. Nothing like a good window'd hexdump to browse :-)
But the reason why companies were so happy to lend so much money was caused by a belief, which turned out to be false, that loans securized into CDOs and such papers, frequently rated well, are safe and risk is properly managed.

The betting merely caused a spread of the risk between all market participants, making it systematic risk. Also, the betting was not properly managed because market partipicants weren't able to understand the risk.

Also, one might say that the reason why companies started securization and, then, betting on the papers are low interest rates, but, please, let's don't dig into the whole Fed discussion.
> I guess I'm not seeing what impact marriage has on society as a whole

Are you blind? You haven't noticed that it's ghetto shit-hole everywhere in modern world that stable two parent families aren't the norm? Marriage in its traditional form is an institution arrived at through a Darwinian process of cultural selection. It has been proven by time to be the best way to further a society. Messing with it is extremely dangerous.

Cultural conservatism is much like environmentalism. You just don't want to go blindly messing around with complex natural systems. The consequences are usually bad.
Reminds me of the caverns level from the old N64 Goldeneye game.
They mention zeroing out the disk to prevent the next owner from recovering your data.. actually using a 7 pass method.

How does this apply to SSDs? While I suppose a global use increment by 7 isn't terrible, it does make me cringe a little.
I had this discussion with a (huge) US corporation, and they weren't interested in escrow, saying it was too complex. They wanted source code; and I had the impression that with appropriate license restrictions (i.e. they couldn't sell/distribute it) it wouldn't be a problem (actually, having source would help them give me bug reports).

A secondary reason (or perhaps the true one?) was a sense of reassurance that the source code really did belong to me (not violating anyone else's IP).

They offered 3 times my top license price, straight up. They arranged an international conference call with their IT VP, and two tech guys with me. I think they would have gone much higher. I didn't actually go with this, because I just felt uncomfortable about it.

My opinion: (1). Big US corporations are amazingly terrified of litigation, therefore you can trust a negotiated license; (2). Big US corporations will happily pay much more than you can realistically imagine your product is worth. The inconceivably rich corporations are not like you and me, they evaluate on a different scale, with different values.
I wonder who from HN is in Seth's tribe and keeps upvoting his wonderfully perceptive and sagacious posts.
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> Unless you mean that the sanctity of marriage is based on the ability of one party to stick their thing in the other and produce a baby.

I would say exactly that. I would even go so far as to say that a marriage where it is known before hand that the heterosexual couple is infertile is not a "real" marriage.

Of course the whole point of marriage is the biological production of the next generation.
Seth's really been going on about this Tribes kick. I suppose it's fair, considering one can see tribe-building as the goal of marketing.
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God I hate the second type.

The second type is the type that attempts to turn every class into an orgy of pure memorization, trying to shoehorn every type of problem into a rote formula, while avoiding anything resembling understanding of the material.
I think its bold of you to post these financials about your venture, none the less I really appreciate them. It really gives a good understanding on how one can be optimistic about selling a software as service. Cheers, and good luck.
> Should infertile couples not be allowed to marry?

It's not really a marriage, so maybe it should be called something else, just as with homosexual civil unions. But of course there's no way to determine infertility, so it's not practical. It's very practical for homosexuals, though.
I hate stuff being described as prestigious. It's so lazy. It's like telling your girlfriend you like her because she's intelligent and has a nice personality.
Ask NH: How much traffic does HN/reddit/etc bring?
Simple question, all in the title :)

Any responses greatly appreciated, e.g. for benchmarking, optimization, servers...

Other sources of note: slashdot, digg, metafilter, etc. (Maybe even newspapers or TV? ;-) Not that I imagine that'll be relevant to most people...)
The attention economy is a beautiful thing. Literally.
I find the second type to usually be solid when it comes to theory, but utterly hopeless when it comes to implementation. They can draw you UML diagrams (so long as you don't stray too far from the coursework), but when it comes down to putting down code, they're lost.

The thing that bugs me about these people is not so much that they're incompetent, but they are so because they have no passions. I have a passion for code, other people have a passion for cooking, or writing, or whatever. All of the people I've met in engineering who aren't into it, also aren't into anything else, and I have a lot of trouble imagining how a person can exist in that state. I see so many people who are absolutely driven by the things they love, and somehow these people are just sitting around, not interested in anything except taking home a fat paycheck (to spend on what?)
yeah I think he is starting to miss the point, since he is starting to think of himself as a small business and not a start up. $100K on the startup scale is nothing
For most of human history people married who their parents told them to. Calling what we do now traditional marriage is silly because it's been changing fairly rapidly over time. Look at marriage in nortic countries and you will see a large separation between having kids and getting married yet they are doing better than most of Europe and the US on most measurements of heath, happiness and economic growth.

Looking back it's hard to extrapolate the value of "traditional family values" because we have a lower crime rate, better educated population, and a better economy now than we did back with they where more common.
Focusing on income and controlling burn rate sounds like a generally sound approach in any economy. I wouldn't have bothered with the article, except I enjoyed the section about how 37Signals is doing so far in the slow down.
One thing I would like to mention is. You want to be very careful because of you success others might/will want to copy it. You want to prepare your self strategically with a roadmap keeping in mind potential and hypothetical copy-cats/clones and how you can stay ahead of them. I would say companies like Zoho and other online suites would really want to add a service like this to their product mix. So stay sharp :)