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There's no way to keep a client from interviewing other lawyers. Moreover, state bar ethical rules entitle the client to fire the lawyer at any time for any reason or no reason. The opposite isn't true; there are strings attached to when a lawyer is permitted to withdraw from the representation.

What this means is that theoretically a large, valuable client can negotiate a multi-year cap on rates or rate increases, etc., which then operates as a multi-year option contract. The client can always choose to switch firms anyway, but also has the value of knowing in advance that the rates at its current firm will go no higher than X in year two or Y in year three.
This.

If you're actually building a product to sell people it behooves you to put some effort into deviating from the base styles.

On the other hand if you're like me and use it every so often for a one-off project that you have no plan on monetizing then why not? I don't particularly care about the UI look and feel, I just don't want it to look awful which it would if I were to design it myself. Bootstrap gives me a decent looking sane UI with guidelines for me to follow to keep it all sane. Other than that, I just want to work on functionality.
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This. 100 times this. For the people who actually matter (for non design/web related projects).... the customers, they do not even notice. If you aren't going after designers, or web devs themselves, bootstrap looks very professional....and I for one, am not here to stroke designers egos, but to make money.
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Argumentation note: claiming you have an unpopular opinion and then leaping to call people trolls so you can refuse to engage them is pretty poor form.

Of course I see a difference, but it's a difference of degree, not kind. I should clarify that by "text editor" I mean something above the level of ed or nano (though I'm happy to make a similar argument for these too): language-aware features in vim or Emacs such as auto-indenting, syntax highlighting and ctags support are not "transferable across languages" unless someone does the work to implement them: witness Emacs's lack of C++11 support.

Expecting e.g. auto-completion to work cross-language in vim but claiming that debugging in Eclipse in inherently language specific flies in the face both of experience (I personally have used debuggers in Eclipse for Python, Scala, and Java, and I know others exist) and also common sense; both are fully extensible via code, and while Eclipse's support for Java is better than the other languages, it's not tied to it in the way that e.g. the Python REPL is tied to Python. I think you'll find that Emacs's support for various languages differs in quality too.
> I think it's going to take centuries to understand it to the extent that we'll be able to intentionally influence it more than genetic drift and selection currently do

If this process can be understood mathematically, computers at ever-increasing speeds can come to these understandings for us.
Would we think the same thing when we saw a raw html form as a demo / proof of concept?

I agree bootstrap is spreading, maybe we see it a bit more being in the startup space. But, any average internet user I've let try out a quick idea in bootstrap has always commented on how nice it looks for a demo.

About variety, the more developers get used to Bootstrap, the more they will modify it. For many, just using anything this polished is a big jump, we just have to encourage customization of tools like bootstrap (much like 960js and others allow).
Is U.S. energy independence finally within reach?
"... we humans will destroy ourselves. ... Most worrying ... human technology"

no shit! breaking news everybody!

I hate to break it to him but there are 10 million science-fiction books out there dealing with every possible way humans could wipe themselves off the earth. (and maybe just as much real science)
That is the way the Internet works.

1. Product, hardware or software, gains the hearts and minds of hackers everywhere.
2. Backlash.
Ask HN: Go it alone or try and find a partner?
I currently work as a programmer but wish to leave and set up a company. I have an idea and I'm confident that I have a reasonable chance at making it work, however I'd be doing it alone.

Apart from work and some people online many miles away, I know 0 other programmers. I can't go into business with anyone from work due to my contract and, even if I could (perhaps they couldn't enforce that?), I don't think I'd want to. I don't know anyone here well enough.

To make matters worse, I a small city with very few technology companies and a lack of programmers. It may be quite hard to find someone locally who would be interested.

I believe it is harder to get VC when going it alone - is this true and does anyone have any experience with this?

Has anyone else been in a similar position?
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I agree. I think you can use bootstrap as a starting point then move on from there. It just helps things look nice while you allocate resources elsewhere for the time being.
It is due to the trend of putting as much unrelated content on articles to incite clicks to yet another slideshow/top X list and ramp up the almighty page view.

Here is a screenshot of the page with the actual article content highlighted.

http://demenzia.net/shots/online_journalism_nowadays.png

On most screens, only the title is visible above the fold.
Do you get confused when you run native apps on your Mac? Like, you can't recall which app does which because they all use native controls with a standard L & F? If you do, this is a usability concern I've not heard of and would love more research into. Most usability studies focus on how effectively one can perform a task in an app, not how quickly one can recollect which application performs which function for them, so it may just not be well-studied.
Good point. Lawyers and firms have few (if any) tools at their disposal to keep a client from switching firms. The inherent switching cost is fairly high for some matters, but firms that are sophisticated know how to compensate on the front end in a way that makes it easier for a potential client to switch to them.
TSV die stacking, wire-bond die stacking, and package-on-package chip stacking are different technologies with different costs and benefits. TSV stacking allows a massive number of wires between the layers, increasing bandwidth far beyond other types of stacking; of course, this comes at very high cost.

Also, PoP stacking was used in mobile SoCs long before the A4.
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We recently have been working on http://www.wanttechnologies.com which uses bootstrap. But you can't really tell. Only really used the "scaffolding" and buttons.
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Given that we're doing it right now to plants and animals right now I think you're very wrong.
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And yet Facebook, Twitter and Google all have a nearly identical top bar (sorry, Facebook's is blue). They have billions of page views to analyze and have all come to the same conclusion.

> NO. It is NOT a good thing. When it comes to visual design, things are supposed to look different. Twitter is meant to look different than Facebook and facebook should not look like Amazon. That's how you create mind-space . Bootstrap kills that - they all just look the same.

It depends on your goal. If you want to make an application that people use all day, having a unique UI is probably not a win. If you used Netscape back in the day you can use Chrome today and not have trouble. Consistency itself can be beautiful.

If you're making a marketing site, then your designer can go wild (as long as everything is being tested for effectiveness).
> Israeli airports handle ~1 million passengers a year

That sounds too few. Even if you only consider individuals rather than flights that means that less than one in five Israelis flies any given year. Norway, with about the same population size handles 40 million passengers a year. Now there is virtually no domestic traffic in Israel because its small size, but it also has a lot more tourists than Norway.
As an entrepreneur, you have a high chance of failure with our without a partner. Go it alone until you absolutely need a partner.
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Are you a web designer? Because some folks (yours truly included) don't have great design sense, so putting up a bootstrap site is much better than the alternative 2003 geo-cities look that is just as easy to create. When it comes to the lesser of two evils, i'd choose "less" and bootstrap.
Bootstrap is not for Amazon or Facebook. We're talking about websites for wrestling events in the UK -- literally one of the sites in the gallery that the author links to -- and other such things that really do not need to present any sort of ground-breaking, or even interesting, visual design.
I just got their "we are overloaded" page, I shit you not. Is this part of a joke I'm lucky enough to be in on? :)
Personally I would think you want somebody who can get job done instead of some ADD kid which is jumping from one hyped language de jour to other. But that is only me , YMMW
Strictly speaking, we've been doing it to plants and animals--in one way or another--for hundreds if not thousands of years. That's an entirely different problem than engineering humans.
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I've seen other examples of obviously wrong translations a machine wouldn't come up with -- there must be a feedback mechanism somewhere that people (non-employees) can provide a translation, and some people abusing it.
Everyone of these guys should have been seriously alarmed after that leaked document on Lulzsec/anonymous on pastebin in Jul 2011.

Apparently some of the names published were real (including Sabu's - even though under different nickname).. and he was arrested just month later. If someone in the group would recognize any known real name references, they should have immediately ceased their activities and went undercover, as they should have expected raids!

FBi loves turning caught people to informants to catch the others. It's been that way 10 years ago, when one caught member worked half a year helping to betray the whole warez group, and it seems to be all the same.. FBI is still too lame to advance without informants.
Of course. I believe that starting with someone else however definitely increases your chances of being successful. Going alone also seems to make it harder to get funding from VC.
Whoa, I feel dizzy.
If you go the opposite direction (English -> German), the translation doesn't exhibit the negation that the German -> English translation does.

http://translate.google.com/#en|de|google%20is%20stupid%0A
I think the author hits on a good point that he may just be too polite to really call out. A lot of developers get annoyed when designers use some framework to make building web pages simpler and then say they can build sites. This just seems to be the opposite reaction: devs using design frameworks to bang out their sites. Both should be lauded for making it simpler for people to get basic work done. Neither should be confused with what a serious professional can accomplish. When that happens, things get really weird. I personally believe the rash of web designers calling themselves Rails devs really screwed with the Boston area Ruby/Rails market.
Great! This is what keeps open source alive and well. Baby steps and code that scratches an itch. Welcome to Open Source.
editor and an IDE

I think the problem is that unless you're talking about using nano or notepad to code versus something else then you're trying to make your IDE sound superior over someone elses choice. When most people talk about being superior using an editor over an IDE, they usually mean using vim/emacs editor. The problem is that these days vim/emacs are IDEs. They may be lighter weight versus some other IDEs, but they are IDEs in functionality, plugins, and language support.
Bootstrap looks tired to us, the Hacker News crowd, who are into startups and see new ones everyday. The rest of the population, the actual market of these startups, isn't seeing this high concentration, and has no idea what Twitter Bootstrap is.
Talk about a first-world problem! I'm sure the original Ford T was frowned upon by purists for their lack of originality.

For every spoiled designer turning away in disgust from a cookie-cutter bootstrap website, there are 50 web apps being created which would not exist without bootstrap !

For example: at dotCloud our ratio of backend/frontend engineers is 10/1. We've got people (me included) who can automate a cluster of hundreds of machines but are basically UI-impaired. Bootstrap has multiplied our individual velocity by at least 10: now our core platform engineers take the time to write web tools because it's achievable in a couple hours.

And when we finally grew our frontend team there was a point of reference for building a style guide, reusable page elements, etc.
What we're doing now is a pretty haphazard introduction of non-nature genes into plants and animals often with unexpected effects.

Look up histone acetylation and DNA methylation. We're barely scratching the surface of how gene expression works.

To say we're going to rebuild the human genome in the next 100 years is a little fanciful. Reminds me of the "trains to the moon" that Popular Mechanics said we would all be riding in the 1980s.
Why Bootstrap might be very important
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Ironically, the author appears to borrow quite heavily from Dustin Curtis:

Layout: http://dcurt.is/

Transparent border: http://blog.dustincurtis.com/the-dcurtis-manifesto
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Yes in the Stanford AI class they talked about the feedback mechanisms, and it is mixed with the automatic translations that come from comparative analysis of documents on the web that are already translated.
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There are so many people that could come into existence in the future if humanity survives this critical period of time---we might live for billions of years, our descendants might colonize billions of solar systems, and there could be billions and billions times more people than exist currently. Therefore, even a very small reduction in the probability of realizing this enormous good will tend to outweigh even immense benefits like eliminating poverty or curing malaria, which would be tremendous under ordinary standards.

It's really an interesting moral discussion - it's like an extension of the "sacrifice one person to save five" classical dilemma, but I really can't agree with his flippant assertion that our moral obligation to the unborn future billions eclipses that to our obligation to help our contemporaries. And he's not even talking about preserving the planet for the future generations, he's merely concerned with them being born in the first place.

Also, his argument has the same short-coming as the "sacrifice" dilemma: We cannot know for sure that a certain action will have a certain outcome - or that any action taken was actually the cause of the outcome.
hey steve, first off - thanks for reading the whole way through and in such detail. i completely agree that there are more important matters in the world. the real point of the piece is at the end when i talk about the importance of evaluating all the experiences that you encounter and how you approach the design thereof. the dollar value may not be the most scientific of conclusions, but just trying to give a tangible sense of what the effects are. it's also somewhat light-hearted, in case that wasn't clear.

in terms of further pursuit of the project, didn't have any plans for the buttons in particular except to underscore the importance of user experience design
Hey thanks for the shout out! I was wondering when you were going to post results.

There are some really cool visualizations in the linked opani page: http://opani.com/ryan/elevator-analysis/results/#key=elevato...

I think the most relevant part of this for web folks is the gamification aspect (obviously its what I was interested in in your previous post). I'd love to see a version of this where you show 50% of users "play 20 times to get an easter egg" and give the other 50% no incentive. How much does it actually increase engagement?
The OP links to this site:
http://builtwithbootstrap.com/

There are definitely a few sites that look barely-out-of-the-cookie-cutter...however, there are others that are only vaguely bootstrappish at a glance.

What do people consider the minimum amount of alterations before a bootstrap site looks unique enough? Besides color I mean....font-spacing and sizes? Going from a 12-col grid to 15/16/20-grid?
Then long wait times would be increased dramatically by screeners trying to be as thorough as possible.
which might have been even better without the exceptionally drawn-out terrorist 'side-'plot
You aren't wrong in how you describe the players' actions and motivations, but thinking like this in the legacy and and Android markets is what is turning everyone into Apple's customer.

I got fooled by the "Android is open" marketing. Then I learned that "open" was for carriers, not consumers, so there really wasn't much "freedom" difference between Android and iOS,
Spanish is fine:

http://translate.google.com/#es|en|google%20es%20estupido

http://translate.google.com/#es|en|google%20es%20un%20estupi...

(the former translates to correct english, the latter is correct spanish)
What are the biggest barriers for a European start-up?
We have a permanent jabber room on our server that all but one dev uses. No one was ever told they needed to be there.

Just start using a chatroom and invite people in. Remind a few to add it to the auto-join list. If your coworkers find a benefit in it, there doesn't need to be an official policy; the usage will just grow organically. If they don't see a benefit, why force it on them?
Well, then we're in agreement that "end of the hammer" questions are reasonable just to weed out the obvious imposters, right? So the question is whether these "nano" questions are reasonable equivalents?

And I think "how do you inherit a class" is the "end of the hammer" equivalent for a language if you claim to have been using it continuously for the past two years. I'm much less happy about the "what package" questions, but if they're meant to simply get you to name a few major packages I think they're fine. You might get the package question wrong, but I expect you to get it wrong intelligently ("what package" questions were reasonable 12 years ago when programmers dealt with them daily, but eclipse does all that for you now).

I think of these as "what color is the door" questions. If you tell me you've been working at Company X, I expect you to be able to tell me the color of the front door, or where the bathroom is, or something about the place. Not that I care, it's completely irrelevant to your skills, I just want to find out if you're really the person you claim to be before I waste time with a serious interview.

Because my time is precious, and I want to spend it with the serious candidates.
Thanks for blasting my ears off with the sudden loud music. Is there a simple way i can block all audio on a specific page?
You need to step out of the mindset of a designer and realize the average person doesn't know or care. If you are building an app/site for web people, then yea...Bootstrap is probably a bad choice because people will know instantly effort wasn't put into the front end and they will judge, consciously or subconsciously (customizing the variables doesn't fix this, people still know). But your article, and the other commenters, make the assumption that apps are only built for web people. I use Bootstrap, raw, as a starting point for MVPs I build for small businesses. It saves me a week's worth of frontend development (that will be redesigned anyways within a few months), and it lets me have an appealing, not mind blowing, look on the site. It takes my mind off of design, and focuses it on biz dev, marketing, and development to get the MVP off the ground. My audience, and millions of others could care less if Bootstrap is used, and would likely prefer it to an ugly developer-designed mess. My point is: Don't denounce an incredible framework that solves a key problem, just because you and several others misinterpret its purpose. And by the way, it is NOT the equivalent of Wordpress Themes, and it was likely never intended to be.
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+1 (and a cookie). Average Joe is used to seeing sites like http://www.universityinnfresno.com/ or http://www.sunnyvalemetro.org/ and so, a clean site based on Bootstrap is a ton better than most of what he comes across. The # of Bootstrap-based sites is a tiny, tiny sliver of all sites out there and no one other than your dedicated HN-reader is going to come across a 2nd Bootstrap site the same day.
The fact that we even have these problems is both amazing and wonderful.

The fact that there are cartels within computer games hiring low cost foreign workers to manipulate a virtual experience for real monetary gain, and there are investigative units trying to track them down is fucking awesome.

I was an original beta player for UO and we had a fantastic run exploiting bugs and high speed Internet connections from the Intel game lab we ran, with multiple accounts to dominate and reach wealth and fame.

It was my golden years of gaming actually. Now I may play an hour or two of skyrim a week if I am lucky.

Back then I was making nearly nearly 70k to play UO from a sick lab 12+hours a day.
While twitter bootstrap does help give websites a familiar layout for users (ie. nav starts in top left of header, login/account functionality in top right), I agree that without customization, it's helping to make the visual web more like eating vanilla paste.

I made http://convertunixtimestamp.com/ over the weekend, and I used bootstrap mainly for the responsive design. But I tried to customize it enough so that it wouldn't be recognizable as a bootstrap site.

And I chopped about 85% of it out b/c it just wasn't needed.
Probably the rather off-topic though I wouldn't be surprised if they claimed so part.
I love this question and have been using it lately though not tied directly to languages. It works great for frameworks and libraries (think Hibernate, Spring, etc) as well. I am uneasy about programmers who are passionate about a technology without being able to talk the problems with that technology.
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I intentially changed the title because I thought the most interesting part in the article was:

"executives say the new weaving process could cut costs enough to move production outside Asia"
haha of course, thanks for the active commenting on the last thread! i think that's a good example, but it seems pretty clear that your hypothesis was correct :D
Just like there's a time value of money, there should be a time value of people. The unborn future billions should be discounted to the present value so that we can accurately compare them. What's the discount rate?
I was reminded of Bill Joy's article from 2000: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html