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I think "special relativity is a few formulas" is an underestimation, but this is not important.

> By "debugging" I didn't just mean tracing. I meant one of the most basic tasks of the programmer - interpreting and responding to error messages. Is there a single error message shown or explained in LYAH? If so, I missed it.

Yes, although not much; grep for "error" in http://learnyouahaskell.com/starting-out#babys-first-functio... or other chapters.

I could code comfortably in Pascal long before I knew how exactly does "expecting a semicolon, found a number" arise. I could code comfortably in Haskell many months before learning HM as well. You know what to do when you see "no instance for Num Char" as well as you know what to do with that parsing error. No need to think about unification or parsing, a kneejerk reaction is enough.

> I refuse to believe that Haskell programmers are so godly that their programs work the first time they're typed in.

Of course that's false -- but once a Haskell program is typed and compiled, there are much larger chances that it will work first time compared to, say, Java.
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We run Django on Heroku and have zero issues. Absolutely love the service.
Don't underestimate the size and breadth of Starbucks corporate.

Also, even when I'm a solo developer doing in-house stuff, I always always always request at least a simple style guide so my efforts can be consistent and high-quality.
To me, it's all about the composition of the asteroid that you choose to mine.

In these early days, I think we'll probably be more focused on targets of opportunity, but once the technology base exists to be picky, if you could locate a body full of precious metals, say gold and platinum, it could easily dwarf the earthbound supply.

I think the most interesting opportunities lie not with traditional methods of exploiting these materials, but with the methods we will discover once previously rare materials become abundant and cheap.

Of course, devaluing gold to the point of aluminum is going to cause political upheaval and that will have to be dealt with, and while this conjures images of chaos and serious trouble, it doesn't seem like all that big of a deal compared to what will happen when a private entity starts talking about bringing a dinosaur-killer-sized body near the earth.
>share the same last name. This may make sense in the US

That counts me out. My wife was well-known professionally before we were married, so she kept her name. In my circle of friends, I know a handful of others to whom this also applies. Paypal's policy might have made sense in 1950's US, but not in the US as it is now.
I, erm, appreciate your attitude.

That said, what is so special about you folks? Business-wise, I mean?

I don't care if my website is hosted by queer folks. I don't care if my payments are processed by dwarves. I don't even care if my favorite news sites are generated by python scripts.

I care that they work, I care that they help me do my thing, and I care that they're cheaper for the value they provide than competitors.

Why do you believe that transpeople need to focus on anything other than being the best at what they do (and that is running a business, hacking code, design or engineering--not being transpeople)?
This jab is awesome "SiteCore has a mind of its own. It will automatically add a shape attribute to links."
And iPhone will fail ;)
I've had quite the bad experience with PayPal myself. I used to sell goods on the internet. Nothing shady, unless you consider Wordpress shady. Anyways, one day I try to charge against my PayPal account and I find out my account has been frozen and is pending investigation. I had not a lot of money, but more than a few dollars.

It's been frozen ever since (about 2 years). I've tried working with PayPal, but they've yet to help me in any constructive way. If I were to add to this post, this is the reason I won't allow PayPal payments on my site.
I view webpages at 120% by default. I used to love small fonts, now I don't know what I was thinking and instead prefer the browser default of 16px.
What's a T combinator? Y combinator, i assume, was named after the Y fixed point combinator, but I don't recall a combinator named T ...
You're assuming that prices don't reflect value. Isn't that a sketchy premise?
I really want to believe this is real. The cynic in me says that anything this outlandish is a fraud - something akin to Project Azorian and magnanese nodules[1]. The parallels are uncanny, but even as a cover mining asteroids makes no sense. Unlike the sea floor, there is nothing else of interest out there in space. If I were writing a sci-fi book the most plausible plot would be that Planetary Resources is a government puppet for dealing with some sort of extraterrestrial contact.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Azorian
congrats ryan and team! love the site!
Gold is rare everywhere; is there any evidence that there's a large amount of it floating around the asteroid belt?
One of the funniest things I've read all day. Thanks. Good luck with your incubator.
It's like a Y combinator, but straighter?

EDIT: Because, you see, if you straighten out the arms of the Y, it turns into a T. Nevermind. It was a dumb joke.

The serious answer is because it's a Trans-friendly YCombinator. I think.
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Well, I suppose transgendered startup founders is a bigger niche than bingo cards...

I don't know, I don't get the business angle, but good luck!
http://devstack.org has a script to deploy OpenStack in two lines (git clone the repo, then run the script)
lol, and I will do ACombinator, for agender people, that live outside borders of sexuality and are on a brink of extinction ! :D

or NCombinator for necromancers, that are feeling lonely and misunderstood by modern humans :D
Also remember that in Star Trek the most ubiquitous technology was the pin-on-walkie-talkie, during use of which people would look up at the ceiling.

It was a show defined by the 80's/90's, with several plotlines that could have been resolved by someone having an iPhone in their pocket, or by the Enterprise having smart drones.

There were only a couple of episodes that dealt with holodeck addiction, and just one or two in which the holodeck was used to its full potential: as a reconfigurable-on-the-fly work space that can tie into ship-systems, and either show or replicate any hardware or display you describe verbally.

If the holodeck were a real thing, I would rarely come out of there. I'd just make real friends inside other holodecks, and we'd spend our lives learning and creating stuff. It would be an enormous social problem.

60's StarTrek tech doesn't count. Although Kirk's stylus/pad for signatures is not unlike the UPS guy's… and I'll bet Uhura's metallic ear slab was bluetooth.
there is considerable agreement among economists that there is such a thing as aggregate demand.

I don't mean to entirely torpedo the idea. I'm just trying to say that it's not to be treated as gospel: it's just a useful way to conceptualize some problems.

(And I may have been stumbling in my explication, since I'm really a professional software engineer, and only an amateur economist.)
Hey, come on now, be constructive in your criticisms. Try to help them suss out a business model/market fit instead of just poking fun.
Joel Stein is Time's humor columnist. It's sometimes confusing because he's not usually very funny. Although to be fair, I can't think of anyone who could make a 100 item list, so he's doomed this time by his choice of format.
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Almost all societal problems are essentially organizational problems. E.g. food distribution.

What do you expect the "center" of a food distribution network (Koch Brothers) to look like, besides a big fat cat? A big fat cat isn't too bad, as long as it's sleepy.

These people - Page, Musk, Schmidt, etc. - are about organizing the minds of society, so they are going to be different. Fat heads with big old asteroid-mining ideas :)
Not included in this breakdown is the amount pocketed by the Medical Industrial complex (read:FDA/AMA et al) for its 'protection' in such ventures. All a cost of doing business in the sordid World of Health and Medicine in the US, I'm afraid.

I wonder how much lobbying, bribes and nefarious acts it took before Eli Lilly could just bounce people off the FDA review panel like an overzealous virgin at a strip club for compromising the release of a (alleged-at-the-time, and confirmed after approval/use) dangerous drug?

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2009/02/26/health-us-congress-...
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Please do. I'd be interested in your thoughts.
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Yeah, going to have to agree here. Right now, you seem focused on accentuating the differences between "us" and "them" in an area where it doesn't matter at all. You should be pushing towards an ideal world where things like LGBT pride parades aren't necessary because the differences are inconsequential.

EDIT: It isn't to say there is exists no discrimination, but if you're running an e-business, the question of sexuality or gender identity does not come into play whatsoever, nor should it ever. I'm not sure how someone would be able to find out either of these to even discriminate against you unless you took the time to specifically advertise them. How you choose to invest the money you make as a business person (e.g. help other transfolk) is purely a personal concern.
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One of my best friends is extremely well ranked at chess (his highest ELO was ~2200, he was in France's top 20 of his age group when we were in high school), and has a marked disdain for go.

Any players well versed in the two games care to expound on any key differences in terms of strategy/balance between the two?
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I didn't make that connection. But even if that was the intention, who cares?
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Sorry, apparently a single star makes everything after it italic… until a later star. Can't edit/delete. My bad.
I don't want to sound like an asshole but:

1. The homepage really doesn't prove the attention to detail thing. It can be improved a lot. By the time someone wrote this blog post, he could have fixed that. (I really liked reading the post, do not get me wrong.)

2. Aesthetics is important. But would it really be less appealing if it was plain Arial/Helvetica? Would you bet your money on it by A/B testing? I wouldn't.

These discussions end always in: design is important versus code is important. But that is completely not my point.

My point is that it is often, not very wise to spend disproportionately time to trivial considerations. I don't know your "proportions" so I may have no value judgment about that.
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To my knowledge, the cost I mentioned is for just a turbine/generator unit. It's what you'd pay if you could walk down to a Home Depot and, well, "pick one up". Any transmission infrastructure is an additional cost.

This would obviously need a holding tank of some sort, but in the areas water is really scarce in practice, people don't so much care about getting it delivered to their home. This could be the equivalent of going to a well or stream to fill some containers.
I figured that T stood for trans, but I subconsciously hoped that it was a real thing ...
Not really. Let me give you an example. In the 1980s, it was costing £70/ton to mine coal worth £40/ton. Labour party policy was that jobs for their supporters were more important than creating wealth for the whole country. In the end, raw economics forced a resolution - the country couldn't afford to double everyone's energy bill just to score some ideological points.
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Re-implementation means that they would be second or third to market. You have to be first in a new category, and Instagram defined the mobile/social sharing space.
Leaving at 5 has nothing to do with how "passionate" you are. I write better code when I go slowly and have time to be a human being. Even if it were my company, and I was extremely passionate about the product, I would still set these boundaries, because that's what I believe is vital to my mental health.
From reading the Style Guide it looks like they are using SiteCore which is a CMS. So it's very possible that different parts of the org are creating content for the site.

The Starbucks site is actually more complicated than you would think, especially if you login and start tracking the cards you have linked to your account.
Great question. As you correctly noticed, we use about 3-30% CPU and 30% only when gesture occurs, so on average it uses about 5% CPU - less than your average browser. Hence, our implications should not be any diff. Thanks for point it out, we will certainly keep an eye on it.
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In a related vein: Try to change your name for your PayPal account. In Australia (and I assume globally), last I checked you had to fax 100 points of ID to them. Setting up an account requires nothing. I could wait until my CC expires and open a new account in my new name, but I've tied my account to my bank account too.
I'm willing to wager that we wouldn't be too much worse off with a different system.

Are you willing to bet your life?

If our government actually helped the public, actually had a legal system that worked justly and fairly, and actually did Good, I'd shun the amorality of the free market. But it doesn't, so I can't.

For one thing, any government is amoral at best. Laws are only approximations.

For another thing, the US government and the governments of the states I've been able to visit do help the public. They are not perfect. The problem with anything approaching anarchy, or even some sort of pure free market utopia, is that those things are not yet politically stable in the current context. Regardless of how good or bad life in one would be, a nation state or some other large polity will come over and destroy such an entity. Perhaps technology will level the playing field somehow.

Is the legal system perfect? No, but I'll take my chances in Houston over Mogadishu any day. And the extent to which the government tries to prevent the spread of certain communicable diseases, dissuade people from stealing from and raping strangers, maintain infrastructure, I would say they do help people in these ways and myriad others. Granted, they do this rather imperfectly. That's just real life.
Here's a thought: compare the system we have now, with its imperfections and bad things, and compare it to what happened prior to it. It is generally better. Now look at what would happen if we just dropped them, the way it is shaping up as is, looks a lot more like feudalism (and other aristocracy based systems) than not. That is the concern.

I know, blah blah free markets never existed so a truly free market would lead to utopia blah blah. But, markets right now are freer then they have ever been, and we are still seeing the concentration towards aristocracy. More freedom of market would probably swing more towards this, as the current owners of stuff would just demand all output of workers (including any thought they ever had) reducing the ability of new entities to exist to create the churn assumed in free markets. Unless you get rid of IP and large portions of property rights (and in the later case, unfreeing the market by standard definitions). Basically, a system without feedbacks will move to extremes.
I always have to think as the proverbial conniving "gangsta" about stuff like this. If you had a way to make $1 billion by getting yourself a secure $3 billion loan that could easily be paid off by another company you have influence in, would you do it?

It's common sense. The thing is, I think it was a good buy, similar to Google and YouTube.
It's a setting that the merchant has to enable, by default you have to have a paypal account.
I can see a way to get the rocks down. Cut off chunks of particular size, cover them in nets and tie the nets to a little robotic space tugboat, that uses rocket power to pull the rocks into earth orbit and then lands with the rocks in a parachute. The space tug boat will be reusable of course.

Radiation is also a tough problem. Most space metals should be radioactive. They have been swimming in space radiation for millions of years, so even metals that are usually non-radioactive, like iron should get plenty of opportunity to get activated. And once a metal is radioactive we have no way to fix that. The only fix is to wait for it to deplete itself. And that is usually a very long wait.

But now that I think of it, perhaps in an asteroid only the outside metals are radioactive. Perhaps the inside of the asteroid gets shielded by the metals on the outside that absorb all incoming particles. If that's the way things work, one should be able to mine non radio-active metals on the inside.

So I see nothing impossible, but it will be difficult.
> How can we stand for this?

Because, in a single concept, these are nonrival goods. We would want there to be excess value created over what they cost to produce.

All we need to do is cover the costs of sufficient production. But then we should use the produce freely as much as we want. Because that way we all gain.

If musicians (etc.), overall, are unable to afford to produce, so everyone is, in general, short of music, then we need to address the matter somehow. But the article did not seem to prove that problem actually existed.
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This is an outlier issue.

For the average person selling things through PayPal, this is rare. If it's that important for your business, it shouldn't be a big deal to create a new bank account for each PayPal and link them to that.
Actually, the author considers them to be a blitz game..
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We give positive feedback for posts about stopping discrimination against 'popular' minorities, and ending gender gaps.

But more unusual prejudices, biodiversity and genderism is hard for people to think about equally supporting.

I will keep following your posts because I sense you understand there are people who can help people, who are not being helped, in our community.
None of your page content can be cached? Just add a Cache-Control header — done and done, even for people with relatively old browsers.
The green scare: just how safe is Android?
If you're "on the brink" of "suicide, homelessness, and starvation", you're not ready to do a startup and there are a thousand things you need more than you need seed investment. This is absurd.
I find it amusing that you would get pedantic about units, when your argument is pretty much moot since Financial Services has been bundled into what comprises GDP in the US. You know... that all productive sector that creates derivative trading and then gets to pull off a MF Global with impunity. Yeah... good gauge of viability and productivity that is.
When Yahoo bought Flickr there was no mobile market. What people get used to using all the time on their phones is a big deal, for many people, their smart phone is now the main way they browse the web and it is quickly becoming common way for them to upload pictures and participate in social media. You can move 40 million people's habits, but not easily.
Tumblr is invisible to the news, as these charts show. Why?
>>"Think about it, a lot of people do believe that Instagram had a real chance of taking Facebook out."

>Who, pray tell, would these people be? Because that's a ludicrous assertion.

Well, I would guess the 'hip' people who write for the startup blogs (i.e., Pando, TechCrunch, RWW, etc.) think so, but I think among normal people, we would agree that was a ludicrous assertion.
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I believe it's done as a tax dodge, so they can book some of their income in Ireland (which has low corporate taxes). May not have fully realized the privacy-law implications at the time they set that up. Either that or the savings are enough to be worth it.
Politically incorrect rant here; brace yourself.

Put simply, I have a hard time taking TG issues as seriously as I take gay rights, which I support unilaterally. There is a long history of homosexual behavior both in humans and in nature. But the idea of altering sexuality with surgery is extremely recent, and I am unaware of any precedent in nature (feel free to correct me).

Now, bear in mind that I support anybody's choice to do just about anything to themselves. If you want to give yourself a face tattoo, attach a shark fin to your back, or give yourself fake breasts, knock yourself out. And I don't think such individuals should be judged or persecuted, to the extent that's possible.

At the same time, the TG community needs to understand that people will judge you, not because they're prejudiced, but because judging is something that humans do in general. If someone laughs at you behind your back for a bad haircut or an outfit that clashes, it may be impolite and mean, but it's not out of hate. If you look ridiculous, whether it's for 50 piercings, or heavy makeup combined with an Adam's Apple, people are going to see you differently, period. And maybe I've received a bad sampling, but I can't ever recall encountering a TG person who did not look ridiculous to me. If that's my flaw, then I'll accept that. I still treated those persons with the same dignity I would give someone with a bad haircut.

I am sensitive to those who feel they were born with the wrong body, and absolutely believe that some people inherited a genuine genetic flaw with which they must cope. Even if the gender conflict is psychological, it is a person's right to deal with that how they choose. I understand what it's like to feel like a freak. (I'm still waiting on the possibility of species reassignment surgery...)

But be realistic. If you're going to switch to another gender, and you can't make it work so well that no one can tell the difference (ie, Carmen from It's Always Sunny), people are going to look at you weird. Everyone has their cross to bear, and if you are a TG person, this is yours.
True. I'd also not be drinking water, using a parking space, or any of the other office facilities, and if I shut down my PC I'd be using less electricity.

I'd of course still be receiving benefits and taking up space on the mail server, and my desk would sit there unused.
Right, but that work is "owned" by the American taxpayer already. Why shouldn't SpaceX have access to it?
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The estimates I have seen for the black economy is somewhere in the range 20-30% of GDP for Spain
Fair enough. I'd call it a "quick" game, analogous to quick games in chess. It was 25 minutes of main time and 5x30 sec byo-yomi periods, IIRC.

Not the kind of blitz people play on KGS, at least.
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The key difference is the philosophy behind both games. In Chess, the goal is to capture the king, destroying his army in the process.

In Go, the goal is to build a territory, destroying is not necessary (smany games finish with very few catpures).

I also like Chess, but I find this "building" philosophy fascinating.