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> I now I see what you're saying regarding inequality: that prior to redistribution, inequality is more or less universal.
Actually, no. I was saying what I actually said, that US pre-tax inequality wasn't exceptional.

Sorry I mis-paraphrased you.

I note that you ducked the discussion of revenue and spending per GDP, not to mention GDP per person.

I ignored them because they aren't relevant to the questions we're discussing, which are: 1) Is the US tax structure more progressive than other industrialized nations? 2) If so, then why do conservatives criticize the tax policy in places like Western Europe if they are in fact less progressive? These are questions about taxes. Not spending, not per-capita GDP. We're talking taxes. You can have a progressive tax structure and spend all the money on free limos for the rich, the tax rates are still progressive. The term has a specific meaning, which is that the tax rate increases as income increases.

You answered question #1 in the affirmative, but you've never directly answered question #2. Your response seems to be that conservatives think the higher European taxes are ok, but they don't approve of what the money is spent on. (If I'm mis-paraphrasing again, feel free to correct me with a more explicit answer.)

In conclusion, after looking over the sources and arguments you've offered, I'm satisfied that the US tax system is actually not more progressive than most industrialized nations, and that conservatives criticize European tax systems precisely because they are more progressive, in the belief that disproportionately taxing the rich disincentivizes productivity (which is the traditional conservative explanation for the lower per capita GDP).
I mentioned that specifically because I've invested myself in a few startups and typically I only get 1% at most for sometimes much more money than what Ycombinator offers.
"Most if nor all of humor revolves around something bad happening to someone. That's what funny."

Hardly. That describes only the most ignoble, uninspired level of humor.
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The homepage gets stuck in an refresh loop in some browsers (i.e. IE9). You've missed the 'url=' directive in the attribute:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;http://scrib.in/abc123" />

Use this instead:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://scrib.in/abc123" />

Or, better yet, just set 'document.location' (adds history item) or use 'document.location.replace()' (no history item) in script.

See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_refresh

http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/reback

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/document.location
* Heroku took on the traditional hosting space and has done quite well

* justin.tv pioneered live broadcasting online
If you don't mind me asking, where did you get that information from?

You could buy XP licences well after Win7 launched and you still can (although primarily intended for use with the XP mode in Win7).

You were also still able to purchase Win2k licences after Vista launched...

Furthermore, I do not think that it would have much to do with viewing it through the enterprise lens as there still are many private people running outdated OS'es by choice.
I answered this on the blog comment you made too, hopefully it will get readership in both places:

This is not a bad question. I would like to make several points here, and hope a woman commenter chimes in with first-hand perspective too.

First of all, the "guys joking and jabbing each other" thing is true. But it really isn't that simple of a social interaction. At the early "getting to know each other" stages, the punches are pulled a LOT, and the pairwise bits of acceptable jokes are slowly teased out. Each member of the group must be felt out for OK and Bad joke topics etc. Think about every male bonding comedy (or drama with comic relief) you've ever seen. The new guy is paling around with the group, and suddenly he makes fun of the dog, or the tattoo or someone's mom, suddenly the whole group is quiet and serious, and "oh you just don't go there, never make fun of gary's poodle". There are rules and boundaries to it, even in "everything goes" atmospheres. (exceptions being douche-fests like Jersey Shore... and look how those turn out)

Second, there is a lot of difference commonly found between the jokes towards majority "one of the guys" and women or minority "one of the guys". Sure, its funny for a core group member to yet again make a joke about how Isaac can't be trusted because he's a mexican thief, if a new person said that, s/he would be reamed for making that comment -- the trust of "just a joke" is an earned one. Same goes for "katie is just looking for a guy with that top" jokes. And sometimes, they would never ever be allowed, because the person joking is NOT cool with it, and that is OK. addition from original comment: And the only way the jokes are ever ok, is if the target owns that joke as a funny, not hurtful statement. Some people see humor in situations where they are fitting some mockable stereotype, or where they are see themselves in such contrast with the stereotype (and know the mocker also sees this and doesn't buy the stereotype anyway). If the target doesn't see it as humorous, it stops being a bonding jab, and starts being hurtful

Third, the contents of the jokes should mostly be neutral. I'm pretty sure Katie would be ok if you poked about the time she brought the server down. But, if you follow it with "thats why girls should stay off servers" it changes it, because you would never poke al with "thats why boys should not code". Again, it is the subtlety of bringing the extra factor into play that wouldn't otherwise be noted in "one of the guys" (e.g. gender, race, sexuality etc). I don't know katie, but my workplace jokes follow this pattern
Talking of sexism.

Dear Y-combinator community, you have been caught red-handed @ 17:50 in this video at Startup School http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9m9vPAlb_0&t=17m50s

Would you laugh if it were a male speaking? I kind of wish people would, then men might know the feeling of what it's like. Can you imagine if this happened to you?

This isn't PG's fault. It's the idiots in the audience. You can have a high-IQ, make brilliant stuff and still be a sexist asshole.

I'm a male, and I hate this stuff, because my it's my friends that are the ones that are affected by this behaviour.
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I agree with you that any developer who is curious about the larger reasons their paycheck arrives in the mail can & should learn how their business works.

But so many management skills -- empathy, listening, communicating clearly/fairly, inspiring people, making people feel valued -- are orthogonal to programming knowledge/skill.
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Waking up ~2 hours early before anyone else to hack/create works for me. Then leave the evenings to enjoy with your significant other. =]
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My rule is Simple, Girls or Boys. Black or white, no matter what race, religion, ethnicity or even personal preferences people have.

Deal with them professionally. Judge them with only on performance, nothing else.
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This seems exactly backwards.

I took that essay as a call for more people to please start applying to YC with really big ideas so they can fund more of them.
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> That is to say, if you tell a woman she looks good, it will be a compliment if she likes you, a sexist remark if she doesn't.

this. nailed it. it depends way more on how she feels and what she thinks of you, than on whether the words/act itself is somehow inherently wrong or sexist. that doesn't mean it's wise to say things or do things like that in the workplace: it isn't. but based on decades of actual experience on this planet this, your observation, rings true to me.
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No. This is non-fiction in finance. "Dominic Connor is a City headhunter at QF Search with a sideline in teaching C++ to bankers", he's also a well-known and respectable enough online personality.

Such evidence also provides a basis for many explanations (appealing to the financial products being to complex) of the 2008 global financial crisis.

I've once played with the idea of a career in quantitative finance, but subsequently fled for my life. Yet, attesting to the wonders of biodiversity, many kinds of life have evolved to thrive in the harshest of conditions.
And if you want to consume the fruits of their labor, Netflix is hiring too! http://jobs.netflix.com/

(Sorry Jeff, I couldn't resist)
Yes, but it would make for a less impressive deal. OMGPOP being acquired for much less is plausible, so another kind of a less impressive deal is plausible too.

Zynga could go bust. Without being acquired OMGPOP could go bust. So the investor would have to weigh the risk.

I also think there would have to be some cash and/or stock that would be available right away, for it to be an enticing deal.
Anycast is good in the absence of better options, but I don't think this is Anycast.

It sounds like here Amazon is doing unicast DNS, but dynamically changing the response depending on the IP address the query comes from.

Since they have a big database of IP addresses and latency, they can choose the best response.

The missing thing here is that they don't get the IP address of the client computer, only the DNS server. In many cases that (along with geo-location of the DNS Server) might be enough, but it is possible to do better. I'd speculate what they do here is correlate the IP addresses with the DNS server either by subnet or by using active measurement techniques.
Based on what you described, I think http://sync.in/ is the service that may suit your needs.
we also have a mapping of which resolvers are used by which client networks

How did you build this map?

I can think of a few complicated ways to go about it, but I'm wondering if there is something easy I'm missing.
Maybe you've had different experiences, but I've had very few problems with forward compatibility in all of the major browsers (IE/FF/Chrome), and I don't know why that would change going forward. Actually, I'd go so far as to say that if you develop your apps to work cross-browser, they're more likely to work in future versions of IE than if you specifically target your dev at a single version of IE. Also, just because I do 90% of my dev work where there are good tools, doesn't mean that I can't or don't test in IE 8- (depending on the target audience).
And the idea that people who set out to change industries start with something that is not perceived as so is included in that same Paul Graham essay. i.e. AirBnB launched as a way to rent out airbeds and couches. They didn't launch saying they will revolutionize the hotel industry but that might the end result of their work.
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I've generally found that when it comes to matters of gender and sexuality, the more "enlightened" one claims to be, the far less actual experience in life, with real people, one actually has. The college/twenty-something years in particular are wonderful for many things, and universities are wonderful for many things, but one thing they're bad at is giving you a realistic view of the world as it actually is, and people as they actually are, rather than as how one ideally might like them to be. A view less based on reality than based on theory or political agenda.
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Wow, downvotes.

Just to make it clear- I didn't want to disrespect anything you did or the original article (which I did upvote - something I don't do very often), but I like to dream big and I'd like do something good - real good.

If you want some numbers and a problem, say improving the healthcare of at least half a million persons in a first world country where there are no so many low hanging fruits.

I'd think about say merging lab results from various source and running predictive analysis software or gathering imagery (say CT scans) and see if some computer vision techniques could outperform human interpretation - such as detecting abnormals images very early on.

Things like that would require a decent size and funding.

Then I see DrChrono (YC funded BTW) - wow, a glorified ipad data entry form. It is interesting and will certainly do some good, but it seems not so ambitious unless they plan to keep the data and exploit it later, but I don't think HIPAA would look the other way if they did :-/

So you could certainly be right, but at the moment I believe that most lifestyles business aim at low impact problems, if only for a matter of scale.

And to be crystal clear on that - I'd be delighted to be proved wrong.
There is a lot of humor to be had that is both appropriate and not G-rated. Humorous personal stories about awkward situations or odd situations, jokes about things that happened to people on the team (like the time susan brought the server down, or bob's ridiculous obsession with 80s pop), movie references, sexual innuendo (thats what s/he said is usually not sexist), political jokes, topical news jokes, and on and on.

I'm so sure you are going to come back with some "blah blah politically correct blah blah" disingenuity, I will adress it now: No, it's not all about PC and rules and whatnot, it's about genuine respect. Making comments and jokes centered on a person which aren't about that person, but about their membership in a class is generally not cool. It's called othering (and sometimes objectification). Othering is exclusionary, and a good joke for the target (but sometimes a good joke to the in-crowd, it solidifies their superiority!). Basically most jokes are OK, if they don't hinge on "and that's why that group is inferior and different from us".
Do you think? I'm not sure. Speaking as a developer who is now a manager, they're certainly not skills that came naturally but I think I have learned them and practice them fairly well.

Maybe I'll never be the natural that some people are but, with hard work and forcing myself out of my comfort zone, I am doing a good enough job.
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Most Unix advice prefers to mention Stevens' works (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Richard_Stevens) but I'm rather partial to Rochkind. (as well, not instead)
I'm not sure I'd want to use a search engine that was created in 3 months by 3 guys.

Maybe a 6 month version of YC where more money is invested could work, but I don't think YC is setup to support those types of ideas. I'm sure someone out there can surprise me though...
That's strange. We have nothing to do with drop.io.
There are a lot of launched YC companies with enormous ambitions that choose to not make them public.

I think that as a startup, pointing your bat to the stands is something best left for investor meetings and internal goal-setting. In the press, it might not go over so well.
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And if you are looking for really cool jobs in which you can apply all your distributed systems and cloud skills on amazingly interesting products, beyond just video streaming, check out Amazon.com (75+ pages of 20 jobs per page in software development alone)...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/jobs/ref=j_sq_btn?keywords=&cat...

(sorry Jeremy, coudln't resist) :-)
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What about Channels? If you have your grandpa install WireOver, and you set up a channel with him, all your sends over that channel can't be faked. He gets notified via the installed tool (dialog: "Would you like to accept files from Myrth?"), not via email, so there's no longer a need for him to download an executable.

Does that address your concerns?
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app.get is using the same facility as integration testing (https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/actionpack/lib/ac...).

Check out the code that instantiates it at https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/railties/lib/rail...
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Thanks for letting me know. We need to find a way to fix that.
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> Personally, I recognize that I have an unfortunate automatic physiological response to breasts.

You've been programmed to think this is bad, unhealthy or unnatural by people with an agenda. There's another school of thought that says it's ok, normal, natural, and healthy. Humans are hard-wired for sex and we've been having sex like rabbits for millions of years otherwise we wouldn't be here. There are many situations and places and modes where we pretend it doesn't exist, but it's a lie, at best a convenient intellectual abstraction in order to focus on productive matters. But it's always there, lurking. Again, for most healthy people it is anyway.
HireArt = replace universities.

It's a deceptively focused/small offering to start with but they have the key components required to become a credentialing system outside of the university/college system.

It's easy to look at YC startups and say they aren't pursuing massive visions but the truth is many of them are just starting with some tiny subset of a big problem.
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I thought I recognized this - wasn't something very similar to this used on the demo documents for the scripty framework a year or so ago?

Its a nice looking finished product, I'd like to go back and see how the framework looks now...
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As if Google search wasn't already used by most people? Google has like 90% market share globally. That was the case even when IE had 70% market share, and maybe even earlier.
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OK, my second response is the following (copypasta'd out of the email I just sent to Paul Graham on the very subject of the Sufficiently Smart Compiler being a business prospect... ever): http://marmoach.blogspot.com/2012/03/this-is-why-you-cant-bu...
Take a look at http://whatsmyresolver.stdlib.net/ for one simple way.

Full-disclosure: I work on Amazon Route 53, and although we don't quite use that same method - it will give you an idea of what's possible. PS; we're hiring.
No one is lubricating commerce for these people. Their current government and economic system is failing them miserably.

Yes, so imagine if we came in with technical solutions that leapfrog their failed government? For example, there's a program to replace mail service with small parcel delivery by quadcopter drone. No roads during the rainy season? No problem!
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THAT's a problem. We're trying to figure out why that's happening. Thanks for letting me know.
Love the simplicity. I've definitely seem something along these lines before, but this zero login, zero hassle approach should be used a lot more online.

I think this is the tip of the iceberg for ease of use... eventually we'll see everything get this easy, and once payment is on this list we'll finally see online donations for stuff we like comparable to throwing change in a guitar box downtown. Looking forward to that!
People get much more than just funding from yc; I think people are happy to give 10% of their company for $6k plus all the connections and expertise that yc offers. If yc only offered money, they wouldn't get a 10% stake for $6k.
Damn, I'm glad I don't have to work with such a prickly person. Men have to deal with minor sleights and annoyances, too. That's why they tell you to "lighten up". Because you're not special.
Some would say the middle choice would be the most obvious to people, if they were to choose without knowing too much about each one of them.
Bad example: we buy them for the thrill of driving fast. The #1 thing on my list when I was car shopping was how it felt on twisty roads and freeway entrance ramps - and I got a new Focus, not a 458.

Shirts don't cause adrenaline responses like that by wearing them.
It should never be used in production or for user-facing or critical client purposes"

script/console production < worker/cache_page.rb

?

Our slow endpoint was on a back-end administrative page only; faking the session data in curl would have been annoying. Also, it was exceeding the timeout limits of our production server

I think you have a bigger problem here.

You're right this is very hacky, it makes me itch, but I'm not sure I have better solution.
Why not just use wget to load and cache the page (passing in a unique parameter that you use to expire the cache and skip the filters)?
The first word that comes to my mind is: disgusting. Are they really putting a MPAA employee in charge of Internet and technology policy - really?
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Proebsting has shown that compilers double performance about every 18 years - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/toddpro/

Given enough time and memory more things are possible. Heck you could probably add speculative execution to many programs for more speedup. You are right in that the easy stuff has already been done, but that doesn't mean the hard stuff can't be done - just that it is hard. The good news is that people are prepared to pay for hard stuff.
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Thanks! I did not think of smoothing the vector shapes, that partially explains how it blends so well.

The other thing is the edges of the shape- they are darker and blend in the lighter body of the fill. I guess that works by inverting the shapes, blurring, and using that as a mask for a different more intense blend.

And in both cases, I see there is some cool randomness going on. I see how I may be able to handle it for the latter- through a texture etc., but not sure how to handle the randomness in shape creation.

Also, it would be great if someone can suggest a good library to implement this. I am currently using Processing to render the image, but it may not be the best way for these set of procedures. The other image processing libraries I found were not high level enough.

PS: I have a hunch that their textures are not monochromatic. They seem multicolored and they are probably varying the hues of a colored texture to manage different shades.