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Yeah, it's been proposed before... It's pretty hard to convince everyone they should start using a new language nobody else can read. (More people now speak Klingon than Esperanto. Ouch.)

I think computers change the equation, though. Machine translation would be almost impeccable. Using phonetics visually would make chording intuitive in a way it hasn't been until now... You can do a soft launch where you start out teaching people to type phonetically, but showing them alphabetic English. Gradually work into the idea that the buttons you press could be their own writing system. And the benefits would greatly reward anyone who decided to work in the system.

> Check out http://dotsies.org/typing.html.

I hate to say it, but that's kinda the opposite of a chording keyboard. The idea with chording is you press symbols simultaneously to write an entire word with a single keystroke (this is how stenographers are able to type >300wpm). That looks like using multiple keys to type a single character, which is an interesting hack, but ergonomically a step back from a conventional keyboard, yeah?
A) It's kind of irritating for you to ignore everything except the one thing you'd like to argue with.

B) Unless you have some mathematical proof of what I'm unaware, I believe you mean, "I don't understand how that could be the case."
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> Linux Mint requires users to do a complete re-installation, rather than a rolling incremental update

Um, and the author's solution to this is installing Windows?

I'm sorry, but at least when Linux Mint needs updates I am free to update when I want. Windows will pop up a nag screen and interrupt your work, even threatening to perform the update if you don't delay it. Anyone who has ever done work on a Windows machine has met this inconvenience. On the other hand, Linux Mint doesn't have it.

Also, his complaint is that it's not rolling release? Uh, neither is windows. Lets see, Windows xp, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, yeah, it's rolling release alright. At least with Linux you don't also need to buy new hardware each time you update the OS.
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That made me laugh!

I was hoping the compiler inside everybody's brain would be able to detect this minor inefficiencies and correct them on the fly.
And yes, I was using Python2.7, I wanted to use 3.0 but the sexist libraries haven't been updated. (Just joking).

But thanks for pointing that out!
Groupon's stumbles come as Congress advanced a bill, known as the Jobs Act, that would ease the regulatory burdens on fast-growing businesses. Under the act, Groupon, which has less than $1 billion revenue, would qualify as an emerging growth company, entitled to immunity from annual audits of internal accounting controls.

The Jobs Act would loosen Groupon's duties "over exactly the type of controls that it was deficient in," said John Coffee, a law professor at Columbia University.

Hm. I like the idea of easing the regulatory burden on emerging business, but anything with under $1 billion in revenue? That leaves room for a multitude of sins.
Chrome needs text-shadow to start with

0 0 0 transparent,

or it will mangle the webfonts. I don't know why they still haven't fixed this.
Hmm, I'm not sure I understand your argument. If I'm a publisher, I wouldn't want to pay King millions for the rights to his latest novel when someone can come out tomorrow, republish it (legally) for free and make that investment vanish.
Hold on, that's really not a fair comparison at all... look at the height of each line.
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It has been done: http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/58144
Note, "I'm not a programmer" choice was added when yes and no were both 10.
Am I missing something here?

Let's say you're logged into Gmail and Gmail had no CSRF protection anywhere.

You're logged in while visiting my site. In my site, I include a little bit of JavaScript to make a POST request to Gmail telling it to forward copies of all your incoming email to my email address.

This will not work even without CSRF protection. It would only work if Google sends back the header
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: mysite
or
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
as noted in the section you linked to.

Of course, I could also try to trick you into filling out a form whose method actually is pointed at Gmail's and include all the hidden input tags to set you up for forwarding emails to me, but you would know something fishy is going on because it would redirect you to Gmail.
I find SO rather too addictive. I "played" it for a month, even got in "top 0.2%" for one of the weeks. It was tons of fun, but... no healthy balance.

Now days I still consume almost every day, but produce a bare minimum ( very similar model to US economy :) ).

I love SO, but I understand complaints about "rude" comments and lots of duplications. The thing is most people even with 10K+ ratings don't really know the subject (and got there by producing that same "duplication" instead of "closing as duplicate"), and these very people tend to be a lot ruder, since it is a "self defensive" way to a "self proof" that they really are worth something ( e.g. Psyc 101 ).

However people who really "grok it" tend to be the most helpful and fun to talk to.

Oh.. and the search. SO search sucks. I always Google my way into site:so in order to find anything.. But I guess SO knows there is Google, and does not care. Well I do! Fix it! :)

Again, SO rating mostly became a game, and since now it can also mean something on a resume (although personally I don't believe that resume itself means anything), more and more people try to game the system, and many of them winning the game. e.g. two years ago the content on SO was _really_ to the point. Now you need to click around to "find it". Two years from now... something new will emerge? :)
For non-native english speakers, the text on the home (http://dotsies.org/) is a bit easier to grasp.
No, you need to disable the disabling. Still doesn't work for me, though.
"This will not work even without CSRF protection."

It actually will work.

What you're describing is what's known as a "simple" request in XMLHttpRequest terms. That means there is no pre-flight necessary. Your browser will simply make the POST as requested and receive the response. It won't make the response available to you since the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header isn't set, but you're a malicious attacker in this example and you don't care what the response is: you just care that you were able to make the request. ;-)

You could even do this by creating an HTML form that POSTs to the right URL and using JavaScript to submit it automatically when the page loads. Same exact thing: no CORS checks.

If a pre-flight were necessary you would be right. The browser would send an OPTIONS request to the server, the server would respond without the appropriate headers, and the POST request would never be sent.

Let me know if any of this needs further explanation!
That would make sense if there weren't another non-Windows operating system with about 10 times Linux's marketshare on the desktop. But somehow Apple has managed to get 10% of the market without any of that stuff happening, so I don't see how that can really be the reason.
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My Nexus One running CM7 is also 0.2 seconds off.
Yes, but it times out rather quickly. Mathematica is much more powerful.

(For those interested: the relevant syntax is

Integrate[x^2, x]

or

Integrate[x^2, {x, 0, 1}]

You can find more Mathematica at http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/Mathematica.h...; searching the Mathematica docs is often easier than figuring out which textual query Wolfram|Alpha understands.)
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Without any surrounding reference points, they are indeed exactly the same.

Reading individual single characters where vertical spacing is your only key, with no reference, or even with some, especially the single dot versions, could be troublesome. Also uncommon (except in programming - but I think of this as more a novel way to read prose than code)

Also - standalone letters tend to be capitalized - and those have a reference bar above them... so it's not all bad.

Still - good point.

Learn braille,good idea. I'd go with learn ASL (sign?) as another suggestion too.... though this dotsie thing is definitely thought provoking (on the reading side - not the chording/typing side - that's pointless)
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I understand that this must seem like an alarming difference, but it didn't happen in a vacuum. For nearly a century after the end of post-Civil War reconstruction we had nominal equality but vast inequality that was all too real. Technically colorblind laws that granted the right to vote based on whether your grandfather could. Poll taxes designed to disenfranchise people who couldn't afford them. "Seperate but equal" schools that were in no way equal.

"I don't see color, I just see qualifications" was often the very first claim by a hiring manager at a company where everyone but the janitor was white. As a result, claiming to be colorblind convinces no one. People believe you will hire and promote members of disadvantaged minority groups only when tangible evidence from the makeup of your staff proves it.

I understand your distate for the situation, but it's kind of like you came in to the theater in the middle of the movie. People here are like this for very good reasons. Are there problems as a result? Sure. But things are the way they are as a result of responding to a situation that was even worse.
Regarding ease of use, if you are a dev, there's always toto or jekyll. Throw in disqus for commenting and you are pretty much done. Each blog is just a simple haml/erb/liquid template and git push is all you need to get a new page/blog up.
I'm sorry, but your post is a little disingenuous. No, Windows doesn't do a rolling release--but, three things that mitigate this:

1) Windows releases are much slower. Most Linux distros have a new-shiny problem: I can't trivially (by which I mean, click a button and emphatically not muck with the command line or PPAs or equivalent user-hatefulness) get the newest OpenOffice or Firefox or Chrome or whatever on an older version of Mint (or Ubuntu--and dist-upgrading Ubuntu is a dicey proposition if you like having a working computer).

2) For the most part (there was some wackiness with architecture changes), Windows will do something much, much closer to the Right Thing on a reinstallation. Your data's where you left it. Your applications are still installed and work. It is not, on Windows, taken for granted that you must pave your machine (yes, I know you can put /home on another partition, that's only part of the problem) in order to upgrade.

3) The idea that you "need to buy new hardware each time you update" Windows is just silly. I have a laptop sitting here. 1GHz Pentium III, 512MB of RAM. I use it for playing old DOS games. It runs Windows 7 a lot more pleasantly than it did XP (which surprised me, but there you go). It may be way more pleasant to use on new hardware, sure--but so is Mint.

And by the way--you can set Windows Update to automatically do it when you shut down, and never nag you. (That this isn't the default is probably, on balance, a bad idea, but the capability is trivially there.)

Put your hackles down, dude. The mud-slinging helps no one.
"Popular linux distros are frustrating." Ok, don't use one of the "user-friendly" distros. Get deb/slack. Problem solved. Also, heaven forbid you compile your own desktop system with the settings you want. Do you have to have the latest? Why not pick the version you liked best and install it? Isn't that the point of linux?

I personally don't care for Ubuntu or any distro that tries really hard to copy apple (or worse, come up with their own "better" way of doing things), so I can't relate. I've always used Slack w/ XFCE and never ever once (save the first two weeks I spent learning it) had a problem.

Linux is a complicated system, and you have to expect to spend some time learning it. If your distro's defaults are not to your liking you can either a) change them or b) install another distro. I understand the desire to bring the Window/OS experience to the casual linux desktop user, but this article seems to pick some distros which the auther has trouble with, and apply them to linux (to be honest though, the article was a bit long-winded and I skimmed some).
Equality is still the goal, or it is supposed to be. It's not quite fair to say that very few people want true equality. They are aware of the circumstances in which they live and they are aware of history (to varying degrees for both, of course).

Like I said, I favor the American approach but I cannot say for sure which is better. Racism is far from gone in France according to my French acquaintances. Job applications may not ask your authenticity but I am told having the right type of name is often very valuable. Of course, once it comes to personal interviews it doesn't matter so much what is on the application.

I believe when some government departments collect demographic information they are also not allowed to collect ethnic information.

Public culture (in the media) in France does seem much more homogenous to me than in the US.
I can see this being applied in labels etc. for computer vision. Some kind of control/orientation character could make it similar to a QR code but actually readable by humans.

Generally, though, if something's going to be read by both, you may as well just have a label with plain English + a QR code. No reason why it has to be readable by both.
I think this seems like a fantastic idea. I really hope it continues to expand.

I am taking the family on a US domestic trip in a few months and have already started the process of flight-searching. I'd be willing to try out something like this, even just for the novelty. However, with so many international flights, the list inadvertently seemed to alienate simple domestic flights.

I wanted to see more examples of my type of trip (business class, simple domestic flight), but wasn't really sure how to do that. I searched through the first 3-4 pages before deciding I would have liked some filter controls on the list. I wanted to see what kind of savings people were finding and what types of trips were being posted. Basically, a way to determine if my trip met the right criteria for a contest and if it was feasible to use the service.

That said, I understand my trip may not be the immediate target market. Nevertheless, I'm going to keep watching this because I really like the concept.
I think "has a coherent vision and whole-system thinking" is not even close to a fair description of what the author characterizes as a "'we know best' attitude." Having a coherent design does not mean you can't accommodate a wide range of needs, and similarly, lack of flexibility does not indicate a coherent design.
The problem with a registration-based system is that the immediate logical reduction is to a git push hook that notifies the copyright office each time I push to a public project on GitHub. Nobody is prepared to build that server farm. And that's just for our industry; I can't imagine what kind of copyrightable data is produced on a daily basis in, say, engineering or science.

I'm on board with charging renewal fees for copyright, but you have to do it with a "five years after publication freebie" clause. I'm not going to file for protection on the 20 or so small projects I work on each year.

Keep in mind--lesser OSS projects will fall out of copyleft under this system, because now copylefters have the same fee structure that copyrighters do, but not the business model that goes with it. So, depending on your view of copyleft, this can be good or bad.
Like iMessages (iPhone) and Google Voice/GroupMe (Android)?
Ask HN: did we make the right call to apply without a technical cofounder?
So, here is the situation in which my cofounder and I find ourselves…
When we decided to apply for YC, we proposed to our programmer (who we had recently selected after exhaustive searching, to create our site, since we are non-techies) to come on board as a cofounder. We wanted him as we knew he would be a great fit for our team…but unfortunately he declined. He loves our idea, and our vision for what we are trying to do, but he’s got a wife, and a kid, and a baby on the way, and he has to put food on the table, and he is in no way prepared to spend 3 months in Cali. With the deadline for YC looming, just a few weeks away, we decided to forego finding someone new, and just applied ourselves. We really thought it would be better than trying to rush and force a team together that may not work…
My question is, do you think that that will hurt our chances, not having a tech cofounder, or did we do the right thing by not just grabbing any old person JUST because they’re tech?
I think you've hit the nail on the head. Sure, it'd be nice to live in a world where the genders of the founders didn't matter, but we don't. Almost half the Internet population is female, yet there are very few sites catering to them. This is dogfooding, plain and simple. I would never dream of launching a site to connect consumers with the perfect pair of high heel shoes, but there's probably a massive market for such a service.

Women will get attention because they're the minority, and because they pursue business opportunities that don't occur to male geeks. If we had Eskimos launching sites, they'd get covered too.

There's a massive market out there that isn't getting served by the rank and file tech entrepreneur. More power to whoever finds a way to exploit it. Crying 'reverse sexism' strikes me as simply pathetic.
Hangul, the Korean writing system, is at once phonetic and syllabic. Each "symbol" represents a syllable, but each sub-symbol represents a particular sound in the syllable; and each sub-sub-symbol encodes phonetic information about how it should be pronounced. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangul#Letter_design for a better explanation.

A binary representation of the Hangul system could be very interesting. Use the symbol 1 for "vowel base" and +1 for "high", +2 for "high front", +3 for "high back"… You could eventually have each byte represent a syllable. It'd be like chmod commands + phonetics.

There goes my evening…
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I'm not sure this really is 'efficiency', or at least it is 'active user efficiency' rather than 'store efficiency'.

I would think of (store) 'efficiency' as the amount of money made by the developer for the same purchase on each platform.

This on the other hand is "revenue generated per active user", which really will say more about how many purchases the average user makes than anything else.
Funding female founders arises from the same basic logic of funding minority founders: it's just good business.

For every demographic that you consciously or unconsciously ignore as an investor or business owner, you're depriving yourself of all the potential business that demographic attracts.
I was using neighbour to refer to the concept of the fellow (wo)man. I did not mean to insinuate that people who have concerns over privacy live in fear. Personally, for me, I would more enjoy living in a society where some people are comfortable publicly sharing their identity.
These rants seem to follow a similar pattern. First the author qualifies his experience with Linux by claiming he started in the nineties with some ancient distro. Then he'll lay on the praise of how great Linux was or could of been or whatever. And then they all seem to end with the same nonsense about how Linux can't "win" or "suceed" until it is adopted by the corporate market. As if going corporate is what FOSS were somehow all about. Fine, whatever, go back to Windows then. You probably never left.
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When you have such and ambitious goal the time taken is worth to fulfill it.

After almost twelve years of rewrite after rewrite after rewrite, it's no wonder people stop caring.
Because the nature of the restatement is that they got more product returns than they expected, so they had to change some accounting policies to account for that. This doesn't affect cashflow, so it has minimal bearing on the odds that they're going under.
Java 6 was released in 2006. Java 7 was released in 2011. Almost 5 years. Java 8's planned release for 2013 may be overly optimistic.
Rob Walling (author of Start Small Stay Small) also gives away for free a PDF ebook containing many of the stuff that is also present in the book. You just have to register on his blog site http://www.softwarebyrob.com/ and you'll receive a link. Of course doing so you'll be subscribed to his newsletter (but it's part of the customer acquisition "game", no? :-))
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There were some questions about Groupon's accounting in the past, but the numbers Groupon initially released were actually a) more conservative, and b) harder to game, than the numbers they ended up using. Their current financial statements are confusing in part because their customer acquisition costs are so volatile; when they showed operating income excluding that number, it was way easier to see how fast the underlying business was growing.
That's a good idea, the current titles for them aren't all that useful.
I think so too. I have a flight coming up and was actually willing to try the service and pay the fee if the price found would be less than I usually pay for the trip. I went as far as entering the details and providing my email address. But as soon as I saw the request to pay, I closed the page. I have reasons to believe that the option I already have (and have used in the past) would be hard to beat. So I'm not willing to pay upfront.

Just my 2 cents.

UPDATE: I think an ideal solution would be if you at least could quote a price before I had to choose whether to pay or not.
This looks pretty good. I'll have to check it out tomorrow.
The right thing - as did your employee for his circumstances. Good luck!
Note you guys are in fact agreeing, just the parent was written confusingly: "I've noticed is I like to not be a in an environment where its really brightly lit"

Side note: do write code not like this, please.
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Oh, I see now.
I had assumed that because I couldn't get the response, that the request itself was blocked.

Thanks!
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> Chording becomes your standard input device

That's exactly what steganographers do, and they go further along by condensing syllabes, words or even phrases in a single chord. Pretty amazing, although it seems a lot harder than this, and not as good for reading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenotype
I carefully read the article several times and notice there is no mention of these womens ability to make coffee or sandwiches either.

I'd have to infer that at least some of them can both cook and code, and further that neither fact was significant in of itself in being able to found an internet based business.

Obviously it can save money if you can make your own sandwiches, which many may choose to do.
Assuming that people respond or project because of gender is part of the problem, that does not make it so that everybody does it. Try reading this like it is from a person. See how that changes it.