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er, why is time managment not offline? What advantages are there for pushing that data to a server? It's not like email can't be accessed by a desktop app.
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AFAIK the only editor that can strip nasty paste-from-word HTML into nice pure XHTML, and that actually enforces XHTML is XStandard. Does anyone know if any of the other editors can do this?
Oh sorry, actually I guess my post got lost in the "new" section and I did not find these comments.

Anyway, the language is not important but the library should be for the Windows platform. It is for a handheld: memory resources are low and hence the question.
It was always amusing to me when my British drama teacher would use a word that Americans rarely use like "coach" or "metro" (as opposed to bus or subway). I had just big enough a vocabulary for it to be no effort for me to understand her, even if I never used such words personally, whereas everybody around me just went "huh?" I guess I'm finally noticing the times when I'm on the other side of that divide and have to really think about what the unfamiliar words mean in the given context.
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And for the same reason, I use Django everyday, but I ♡ Rails. Rails, Django (and Merb, Ramaze)are not fighting each other for mindshare, but Struts and company.
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I have a svn (1.5.x) repository on my server and use bzr-svn to access it. I and another developer push our changes to the server at logical points. On the server we have a simple svn workspace which we update when we want to publish our changes.

Works quite nicely. Also, you have the flexibility of using the regular svn client.

I haven't tried working with the 100% distributed solution as the current solution works. As there are only two developers we don't really have much need for branching.

If you want to use a DVCS you could also consider bzr (apart from git and hg).
I'd second that. Biographies are really interesting. I'm half way through "Founders at work" at the moment - really good.
It's the same sort of line as "5000 songs in your pocket" or whatever they used to say about the iPod. Some people read it and think "it's got enough space to hold about 5000 songs". Others read it and think of it in the context of a CD rack or something that holds exactly 100 CDs. In other words, it's got exactly 5000 slots for you to put your songs in. Something like that is common sense to most of us, but when you think about where we came from it's not so clear. A 30GB iPod could be filled any number of ways depending on codecs and bitrates. Just a few years ago music storage was measured as an exact number of minutes.

But I can sort of see where they're coming from. It's like if I trade in my sports car for an SUV and tell people how much I like it because it's got twice as much room. No one expects a statement like that to be based on exact measurements. I think their marketing is going for the same sort of tone-- kind of how a non-technical person is going to explain to a friend why the new version of a product is better than the old one. "It's great! It's twice as fast as my old one and only cost me half as much."

You see marketing slogans like this everywhere. I can imagine a car ad saying something like, "you'll never be short on power with 250 horses under the hood!" What reasonable person is going to believe the car comes with horses? I think that's what they're getting at here, and when you consider it in that context their argument makes much more sense. I'm sure with a little digging one could find enough examples to convince just about anyone that only an idiot would believe advertisements.

The headline is worded in a way to suggest that Apple is completely in the wrong or being overly harsh. The situation isn't that black and white.
I realise you were just copying the page title but it would have been better if you had ditched the "Just Another iPhone Blog" text from the title. It's just duplicating what's automatically available in quotes at the end of every submission.
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I'm still not impressed. There are many things wrong with it:

1. I don't know anyone who actually likes javascript. Lots of people use it, but I've never met anyone who loves it. People love ruby, python, C++, VB6, Delphi, Lisp, Clojure, but there are some languages that people just use but don't love, and Javascript is one of them

2. Why ever would I put my eggs in their basket? Learn a new framework, and have all this run on their servers? They may pull this anytime, and what am I left with - a .jar file that I now have to purchase some expensive server to run with?

3. I don't see that they will scale. Google, I KNOW they scale because they are at the top of the heap, but I don't know who AppJet are.

Frameworks and languages are a big investment for a programmer, and AppJet offers a lot of uncertainty, but no clear benefit.

Sorry about this, but this one gets my thumb down (again).
This may be helpful if you have a degree:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TN_status
So could a decent LinkedIn API.
Yet another chirp from the echo chamber...
> In most industries, a private monopoly can't exist without State sponsorship.

Or...barriers to entry are high. Which is likely to be the case in an economic environment where corruption is endemic.

So corruption acts as a 'stable state' by helping reduce competitive pressure.
I think '20 Excellent' is a stretch. Even the best Web-Based editors are bad. This is why there are so many of them. Nobody has solved this problem well.

From experience, here is what I can recommend and why:

* TinyMCE - If you need an editor that has many features, go with this. The latest version have improved code output, but it is still questionable. Of the feature-packed editors it is the most lightweight and produces the best code.

* WidgEditor - It is ugly by default and has very few features. It is probably also hard to extend. That said it produces very clean code.

* YUI Rich Text Editor - It is comparatively young and still pretty good. If you use YUI it is probably good enough.
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It's nice to know that you are working towards change; It's alright if your circle of influence is small right now. All the best in your efforts.

Do you write about your thoughts on the problems, possible solutions and your own experiences? (the blog mentioned in your profile seems to talk about your work-related stuff)
rather philosophical. how can a price exist if it can't be bought? is it infinity dollars? 0 dollars?
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> Bribery is not a huge obstacle to a determined entrepreneur. You just pay it like any other tax.

But it's not just bribery. It's about being in or out of favour. It's about irrationality and lack of transparency.

If you know that the current telecoms company has the brother-in-law of the president on the board, do you think that paying some bribes will be sufficient to allow you to enter the market?

How about if you don't know whether that's the case, but you do know there's a reasonable chance that your startup business will be blocked for a "non business" reason like that?

All of these factors act to reduce the likelihood of return on investment and increase risk.

I imagine also that bribes also fluctuate a lot with regard to frequency and amount. That makes them hard to plan for.
Could he mean that banks should protect themselves by developing a better metric for offering credit? It seems like banks have stopped doing their homework and have relied, to their own detriment, on third parties to determine credit worthiness.
Just finished a 3k+ controller LOC business app with ramaze, and we love it.
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A video about an iPhone app I wrote. It uses shape recognition and graph layout algorithms to convert your sketches into graphs. Coming soon to the App Store, enjoy the video!
facebook app.
Agree with you. I'm considering this after similar frustrations.
I saw that too, but the quote seems out of context to me. In particular, what does "It's" refer to in the sentence "It’s not as important as search and advertising."

Is he referring to Google entering Twitter's space, and saying that, for Google, microblogging isn't as important as search and advertising?
As far as I know, you are agreeing with what I said. The GDP has not gone up 90% per year any time recently.
not a lot to go on, start here

http://hackmysql.com/documents

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/optimization.html

http://mysqldba.blogspot.com/2008/04/common-steps-to-scale-l...

http://mikaelronstrom.blogspot.com/2008/07/1-making-mysql-cl...
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Ask YC: How to get your startup noticed by non-techies
How would you go about getting your startup noticed by non-geeks? It's all very well appearing on TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb, but what if this isn't the target audience?
Sounds more like a blog than a real business. I know one website where I could enter my gadgets. Did that once but never looked at it again...
As the article alludes to, it's tricky to find a category of "professional" that you can fit into. I just can't see them allowing an intern in anything to be classified as a "professional." (Former TN holder here).
You might want to get over sticker shock and do some A / B testing. Google has a reputation for taking your add dollars further but it's not always the case.
Ask YC: I am a blogger and got asked to do articles... Haven't decided.
I just started blogging a couple of months ago and I guess my content is good. My current blog is spoiledtechie.com. I was just recently asked to submit articles at www.dreamincode.net. I don't think I want to do this. I am not sure if I should take up the offer.

I started blogging for the sheer joy of getting better at my grammar and getting my name out there in the world. I have been shooting for something great, but don't know where it could lead. I am questioning whether I should do this or not. It might get me some publicity, but other than that I don't know of anything else it could do for me. Another thought is that spoiledtechie.com content will be there for ever as long as I pay for it.

The people at dnc will then be able to make money off my content forever... Do I want that? They pay me what, like $100.00 or something per article, but over time, I would probably make that same amount of money over time for each article. I declined to blog at www.asp.net for the same reason. I want to own my articles.

I have also heard that its the companies in the world that hold out and don't sell them selves cheap, that end up making a great product. I think my blog is just like that. I have a great product, but wonder if I wrote articles for dnc, would I actually get real publicity from it? I want to be recognized some day down the road as a great programmer and thats why I mainly write to my blog. So the question remains,

Should I hold out?
Should I go in for the publicity?

I am not a selfish person and wish to share with my community that has given me a lot in return. I am just wondering how good of an idea is this?

Should I or shouldn't I?

Has anyone ever done this and regretted it?
At This Juncture...
I don't think he has a valid point... everything is taking, there isnt really "making" any more just recombination of factors...

Saying that Making is something like creating Sugared Cereal for Adults misses the fact that you've still just taken the sugared cereal concept and tweaked it
Innovation is much different than creation and its also much different than ripping something off, but he fails to make this distinction...
Flash it everywhere you go. Word-of-mouth. Literally I mean word-of-'MOUTH'. There isn't any better way.

But I've also noticed that non-geeks tend to signup for a lot of junk stuff out of curiosity. Ex: I get mails from a dozen new social networks everyday saying that my friend has signed up and is waiting for me to get on the site (sick).

And forwarded mails(read junk. most are so) are a better examples.

And they won't return anymore if it isn't a good site.

So it should be easy to get people(non-geeks) but if they like it they will surely go on with your site. I teach a lot of old guys around me(includes my father) about how they can use simple tricks to use the internet better. And it goes on spreading among people in their age group and friends circle. And it does so because it isn't boring. If I taught my dad how to get a Merb app running then he would probably be thinking about the next month finances or the flavor for tomorrow morning's coffee.
The title for the article is horrible. I thought it was about Google gears.
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I wouldn't do it : whenever an activity becomes paid it becomes less enjoyable.
Anyone else notice that Ruby was actually 11th on the language list?
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Can anyone tell me the benefits of using fbcdn.com instead of cdn.facebook.com? I've seen a lot of sites using secondary domain names to control their CDN and wasn't sure the benefits of that or the inefficiencies of just using sub-domains.
Layman's terms? Um...

http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/bonobo-conspiracy/?i=369
Does anyone know why the seller is listed as "Reinke LLC" and not Amazon.com?
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Ok, a question from a darcs guy who recently switched to hg:

What are the use cases for rebase and lightweight branching? I really don't understand why I should prefer rebase to simply pull + merge. Also, is lightweight branching just a performance hack, or is there more to it?
> Hence you don’t care if a terrible driver is permitted to drive. Neither does society at large.

That's weird, because a bad driver can still kill people. You'd think they'd like to avoid that.
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ok, will do in the future. thanks
Dang! Vortex shedding was exactly what I did my undergrad research project on!

Sadly, it got me my lowest grade in college. But that's a longer story.
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I actually really enjoy JavaScript. I secretly enjoy closurefu and first-class functions.
I disagree actually, I think the recommendations at the end of the blog post make reasonable sense.

The goodwill created by running such a service has value, and it is a waste to jettison this - bBoth for Twitter and for the original app author. While getting a job at Twitter is excellent, I wouldn't want to devalue my personal brand if I could help it- the job at Twitter may not last for ever and the developer may want to entice people to a new start-up in the future.

So finessing any eventual shut-down makes sense.
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It's kind of depressing that he felt the need to rebrand just because it wasn't commanding respect. Getting a good demonstration (rather than fibonacci!) would go a long way to getting Subtext noticed!
Visual Event: See where behaviour has been added to a page
I guess my (not) aside made things unclear. I agree with you.
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I've already made that facebook app, it didn't do so well.It was called iGot, as in "check out what I just Got." It let users put products on their profile and post a short review. I only had a couple dozen people ever use it.
> Substitute the word "adult" for "consumers" in what you say, "Adults will take as much credit as offered to them." (No, they won't.)

What you are doing is suggesting that being an _Adult_ carries with it certain behaviours such as not spending more money than the adult can afford to repay. However, the word Adult actually means being of a certain age, and perhaps you would like to assume that everyone of that age has that level of maturity and prudence.

I think what you really mean is that adults ought not to o these things, and if they do these things, they are defective in some way, and therefore don't count. This is a little like those drug studies where anyone that dies while taking the experimental drug is tossed out of the study.

So when I say "Martha over there got a $26,000 line of credit even though she is a home-maker with no income and no assets in her name," you say "Martha isn't really an adult, she is a foolish child in a woman's body."

The simple fact is, adults do many things you and I might consider reckless or illogical such as borrow more than they can afford.

As proof of this, I give you George W. Bush.
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The article has a broken link to the site for the tool - try http://www.sprymedia.co.uk/article/Visual+Event
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Now if only I could bring myself to put font tags anywhere near a page. :\
Minor point: Consider the international audience and drop the "anyways"; it's slack.
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Get it noticed by techies.

Non-geeks find out about technical stuff via their geeky friends and relatives. Firefox is the perfect example.

The only counter examples I can think of are things like Facebook. However, even here, there is no harm in going after techies, unless your product is one of the few that they won't like.
You don't have to. As jmah said above, :TOhtml is the standard way to do it. First, you can issue the command :let html_use_css = 1. Highlight some code and enter :TOhtml, and you'll have non-font-tag-ified, css-ified HTML that uses your syntax highlighting.
Not that I follow it too closely, but I think Ruby was in the top 10 until it slipped a few spots recently.
I'd say go for it.

It's an instant cash injection and you aren't guaranteed to make the same amount if the content is posted on your own blog. You could give up blogging (or all sorts of things) for example and your blog might die off.

On the other hand you get your name on a well respected, big, site. It will look excellent on your resume - and increase your communtiy exposure.

In terms of making your blog the next great resource: consider if writing for dnc could help with that. DO they let you link back to your blog? In which case that could be an excellent way to drive traffic that is interested in your material back to your blog.

You dont have to submit to dnc forever - perhaps a few articles to establish your credentials and drive some traffic back. Or perhaps you will enjoy mixing the 2 content streams: one fairly guaranteed to bring you cash and the other more of a "risk". The 2 could balance out quite nicely (a lot of the big bloggers write content for all sorts of places).

However, if you aren't comfortable doing it - then dont. :)
blanket bans on child labor? there is not a blanket ban on child labor. Also while everyone needs to pay taxes there is no need to establish a business in the US. However, setting up a business increases the owners legal protections so it's a good idea.

In specific cases children as young as 2 can work think TV / movies. The limit on child labor has to do with the numbers of hours worked and the type of work being done. And this depends on state and local laws.

If you read up on child labor it's surprisingly flexible and is primary designed to promote children going to school, limit the numbers of hours worked, and avoid dangerous situations.

PS: http://www.stopchildlabor.org/USchildlabor/fact1.htm
A few highlights at the federal level:

There are 17 Hazardous Orders pertaining to all industries (other than agriculture) that forbid children under age 18 from doing any of the following jobs.

9. Mining, other than coal mining.

So you can still mine coal.

Minimum Age for Non-hazardous Work

A child of age 10 or 11 may work as a hand-harvest laborer for no more than 8 weeks in a year. For older children "In agriculture, the only restriction on hours of employment is that children cannot work during school hours."

"There are no work hours limitations for 16- and 17-year-olds." 14 year olds "cannot work more than 3 hours on a school day or more than 18 hours in a school week, or more than 8 hours on a non-school day or more than 40 hours in a non-school week."

So depending on how dangerous your mowing business was and how many hours a week your worked there was probably nothing wrong. You would have also needed to be making over minimum wage but this is reduced to 4.25 "for your first 90 consecutive calendar days of employment with an employer."
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Some favourites for actually working to:

- Godspeed You! Black Emperor

- Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-la-la Band

- Radiohead

- Sigur Ros

- Boards of Canada

- Laura (the post-rock band from austrlia, not the pop singer)

- Do Make Say Think

- Ratatat (mostly reserved when doing design work, not coding)

- Portishead (see above)
Actually, the worst to come is the unfunded pensions (public & private) and social security. That is a debacle foreseen since the 30s.
Roughly (and inaccurately) speaking, frequentism is about confidence intervals.

Like, suppose someone hands me a biased coin. A frequentist can flip that coin 10 times, then make a bound on the true bias of the coin that holds with the promised degree of confidence. (E.g. they can make a bound that will hold on 95% of such experiments.)

Bayesians can't do this. There are lots of other advantages to the Bayesian approach, but to frequentists, nothing could be worth giving up "coverage" (confidence intervals obeying their guarantees).

P.S. When looking at those ten coin flips, and trying to estimate the true bias, the frequentist and bayesian will have the following argument:

Bayesian: The probability that the true bias is b is __some formula___

Frequentist: Are you insane? The true bias of the coin is what it is! It's a number! Just because you don't know what that number is doesn't mean anything probabilistic is going on.

Bayesian: Well it is extremely useful to be allowed to make such statements.
humm, I wonder if this is where companies slip into bureaucratic methods and practices. I'm all for streamlining business but "rigid quality-control system designed to eliminate waste" could be a slippery slope to start down...
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Be simple/focused, easy to understand, and obvious after the fact (inspiring the wow why didnt I think of that syndrome).

And include a refer feature that is non-ridiculous.