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Living kidney donor here.

Donor status on Fb sounds like a great idea for raising awareness and encouraging others to think and talk about organ donation (living and non). That said, during my process I talked to a number of professionals in the field and repeatedly got the same feedback: The sticker on your license (and likely the flag on your Fb profile) doesn't mean much in the end. If you've got living family, they'll be asked and their answer is going to hold weight. The most important thing you can do as someone who wants to be a donor is to make sure you're family is aware of your decision and willing to give the go ahead if that time comes.

Registrations like the one mentioned in the article seem like an awesome idea, but I'd still be interested to know how often they're contested by family. Bottom line is that there's probably no better plan than for your family to understand and be on board with your decision.
The DLR + IronPython is some impressive and really useful stuff.
"The US government already runs a fine universal health insurance program. It's called Medicare. I was the advocate last year for a family member with a serious illness, and it worked beautifully: she got the care she needed, and we never had to deal with a bill, a co-pay, or a question about whether insurance covered something."

When 90% of the US population is on this program, I guarantee you it won't be like this.
That sort of bait&switch AdWords stuff rarely works well, unless the bait&switch is of the variety:

+ title: "Is Gold Selling A Scam?"

+ actual business: selling gold

You might consider doing media buys on outlets which refuse gold selling ads, since their ad rates are terrible (because they refuse the best way to monetize MMORPG traffic) and the audience is targeted fairly well. This is especially the case if you can get ones which are too obscure/niche to warrant attention from either the Chinese MMORPG publishers or the brand advertising teams at EA and whatnot. e.g. Curse Gaming currently shows a D3 ad placed directly by Blizzard so they'd be a poor choice. Penny Arcade also probably a poor choice. Popular MMORPG bloggers monetizing through Project Wonderful or something: probably a good choice.

(I'd try buying an ad through Project Wonderful, seeing if it works, than offering to just buy that ad slot directly and cut out the middleman. Bonus: they're probably cheap -- you could anchor it to something like "Hey I'll pay for your WoW subscription and buy you D3 when it comes out if you replace your ad block with this.")
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I think having to please fewer customers could be great, but you run a greater risk of someone undercutting you and taking them away. Though, if you have 10 customers vs 1000, it's a lot easier to personally try convince those 10 to stay.
I really don't care if we call it art or not. I just think it's neat, it makes me go, "Oh! Cool!" and puts a smile on my face. I'm glad someone is doing it. Much like Improve Everywhere: http://improveverywhere.com/
Carmack probably read the Anandtech article (from 2009) on this topic: http://www.anandtech.com/print/2803

So the short answer is: it takes that long to go through all of the processors (input controller/keyb/mouse, usb, cpu, processing latency, gpu, more processing latency, RAMDAC/digital output, LCD pre-processing, LCD output, LCD post-processing, pixel transistor)

He doesn't mention using "game mode" on that display - maybe it doesn't have one. Game mode is supposed to minimize pre- and post-processing to minimize LCD latency, exactly for this reason.

Also note it takes about that long for signals to hit your eye, go through your brain, hit a switch that fires an action, that signal to travel down your arm and back into your finger ~ 113ms.

(How does that line up with 100ms game tick cycles? I don't know.)
A big reason companies need outside help is because they don't share data and results - if something works at company A and saves them a lot of money, that information isn't passed to company B and thus you have everyone trying to re-invent the wheel.

A third party that works with many companies builds up a vocabulary of techniques, data sets, and experience that allow them to enter a new environment and be 10 times as effective as any internal team of analysts.

Don't know if anyone has heard of Lattice Engines (http://www.lattice-engines.com/) but they are today integrating external data with internal cross-functional data to extract insights that are saving large companies (that I'm sure already have teams of very talented analysts) millions of dollars.
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Some site feedback - the 'You have enlisted!' text that appears when you click 'Enlist' wasn't obvious to me. Might be better to go old-skool and redirect to a 'Thanks for enlisting!' page to make it clear that you have the details.
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I know Astraweb and others charge less. I agree, it's significantly cheaper and easier to use Usenet. Plus I believe it to be more legal, since you aren't actually sharing copywrited material. Just downloading it, and I don't believe anyone has been sued for just downloading.
Yup, Swing isn't supported yet (graphical apps are going to take quite a bit more work). But we'll get there eventually!
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Interesting. So you don't think that something like "Get help in World of Warcraft" or the like would convert well off of keywords like gold or powerleveling?
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Granted it looks like they had a policy but it's possible that not many people were aware of it. I don't know anyone that reads the lengthy ToS or policy documents of companies they deal with and they didn't seem to give it much promotion until after this incident. He does specifically say bug bounty programme and not the policy so I'm willing to give him that. If a company has a stance they do need to promote it and perhaps have stronger wording than we might not hang you out to dry.
I'm pretty sure they do client side resizing as well.
I've been using the tiny Include.js[1] combined with the standard module pattern.

My modules just look like this:

(function(exports) {
...
exports.moduleName = ...;
})(this);

Often times you don't need a huge includer just to keep your code modular.

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Hovey’s 8-bit ALU (arithmetic logic unit) is constructed completely out of transistor-transistor logic.

I did that once. All it took was a couple 74181 chips.
Good idea, but I wish there was something we could see on the site before it was posted.

I think this could be an interesting service for the launch of Diablo 3 in a couple week. With the difficulty of Inferno mode in combination with the financial incentive of a real money auction house, hiring "mercenaries" to do quests could become a common thing.
But was he abusing warranty? They're transferrable.
Keep in mind that Windows XP users can't upgrade to IE9, they're stuck on IE8 or an alternative.

There are still a lot of Windows XP machines out there.
In theory malicious software could do that in some cases.

Lets take videos as an example. If you are using a media player with an error that could be exploited to execute program code that is embedded inside a prepared (read: modified by the malicious software) video file, this could be one vector of re-infection.
Here's an interesting tip: I read a guy last week that takes his startup idea and creates a dozen crappy auto-posting blogs around it.

But the goal isn't the blogs. He just lets them all run for a few months then comes back and looks at his metrics to see what people really want. Then he deletes all those blogs and gets to work on that. Listen first, then build.

I have no idea if this works, but it had a nice counter-intuitive feel to it.
Thanks to pip I often don't even bother with the Python stdlib for crusty things like one-off web scrapes or XML parsing. Here's a recent example where I wanted to read some attributes out of some remote XML and did it with requests and PyQuery rather than urllib and xml:

_domains_text = requests.get(API_URL + "/domainlist.xml").content
_domains_db = pyquery.PyQuery(_domains_text)

DOMAINS = [d.values()[0] for d in _domains_db('domain')]
There's a lot of hand-waving here. Do you realize that C syntax predates 1983? Can you explain what it is about Haskell syntax that irks you? Can you provide examples of silly idioms?
I learned how to do it off my friend's 12 year old so you are right there...

Good point about the exploding bottle - using plastic coke bottles is way safer than glass though even if they do blow.
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C and C descendants happen to be the primary reason we have not really moved forward any further than where we are right now. To build a mildly succesful C application, you needs lots and lots of code. The question is: Does it necessarily have to be so?

Haskell as a language is far more advanced and your "feel" might actually be right: You are now programming in the 80'es rather than the 70'es which most C-descendants really are programming in :)
Several general purpose languages (Fortran, Python, and Matlab ) have very nice statistical programming packages at the current date.
On the other hand you need just one cost-cutting round or one unforgivable support foul-up to lose 10% of your revenue overnight. Model A likely won't see that kind of volatility.
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Yes but as I said I don't need async loading of scripts, since all my code is packed in usually a single file. Therefore I don't need the RequireJS syntax, and I'd rather stick with a simple require syntax.
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Do you have any analytics? Standard demographics are ~20-30% IE>9 users.

If those users aren't in your target market, I wouldn't worry, but if they are I wouldn't ignore them.
True, as long as they don't tick off the MAFIAA they should be fine.
Strive to get many customers paying a high price for your product. Apple computers and IBM mainframes are two of the most profitable product lines in IT history.

Personally, I love the high stability of a broad consumer base. However, you can architect a successful business either way.
Just what I was about to put. Keep in mind however that this is pretty unlikely, though perhaps it'd be worth Googling the name of the malware to see if it behaves like this. Alternatively you could scan the music, etc, with a virus scanner - they can often find files infected in this way.
My experience has been that the majority of startups don't hire a sysadmin at all, and instead rely on their developers to handle everything. Especially at the early stages when they're not rolling in magic VC cash, it's hard to justify an extra salary for someone who isn't primarily creating features/adding obvious visible-to-end-users value.

My main point is that it's possible to get a specialist for less than a Valley-focussed startup might realise, not that you should just hire 'some guy' who is detached from your team. If your remote workers aren't integrated into your business then you're doing it wrong (and don't think that you absolutely need everyone in the same room: look at GitHub, who do superb work with a distributed team).
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Everyone I know that lives in a country with public health care says the same thing:

1) long wait times for any major surgery
2) sub-par equipment/hospitals
3) elderly patients don't get treated as well as they should

Nearly all of them come over to the US and pay for major surgery.

I also find it strange that in any of these discussions, nobody that lives under universal health care will talk about the bad things.

Without this sort of honesty, I will never want a public system in the US.
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There is a difference between upload and publish. The app might be uploading the photo in the background, but that's to get it over the wire to instagram. The publish isn't being made (aka, the photo being visible to anyone) until you complete the upload process.
I'd like to throw in there that, even in 2010, it took me all of 20 minutes to get GHC going on a fresh machine. Perhaps he's using hyperbole?
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Think about it pragmatically - most early startups (it sounds like you have an angel) don't have the cash to properly support an open source project in addition to trying to have strong growth. You either focus too much on the OSS offering and limit yourself as a result, or you don't give it enough attention and it languishes which results in no one using it and you potentially looking like an asshole.
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I believe that the conversions would be abysmal (on the order of ads for e.g. wedding venues on a search which clearly demonstrates immediate intent to consume pornography) and the ad network (Google, etc) will hate it.
I disagree. People who are paying $5/month have a much lower threshold before they leave than an enterprise paying $20,000/month. Also larger more expensive services tend to end up with more business integration and the cost of moving to another service is typically substantial.
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Cool idea. Reminds me of the novel _For The Win_ by Cory Doctorow.
What would you like to see?

And we're definitely considering Diablo 3 support. There are some interesting challenges, though, in terms of how you can start the game with a Companion; from what I know from playing the beta, I believe you'd have to add the Companion as a friend, right?
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Which games will be supported? I would like to put in a vote that Dofus (http://dofus.com) be included. And will individuals be allowed to offer their mercenary services for free on the site, or do you plan to make money by taking a percentage of the money to be paid to the mercenary?
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Seems that it would be easy enough to get some voters to corroborate their claim (maybe some screenshots) rather than offer this non-proof elaboration?
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It's a neat idea, but I'd expect the average MMORPG player to like your users/buyers only a little better than those buying gold ("I earned lvl80 through endless hours of tedious busywork, so you have to go through the same pain!"). In other words, even if it's not against the EULA now, Blizzard et al. will probably not be happy to see you.
Just tossing it out there, but isn't the price point of a product also a big director in consumer expectations? Not that I support making a crappy product, but consumers who pay a lot more generally have higher expectations about what they're spending their money on (rightly so, at times). If you have a 1000 people who figure it's the price of a soda so who cares vs 10 people who won't get off your case about some pet feature they want. It's all hypothetical, but maybe something to keep in mind.
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To provide healthy criticism, I think the redesign suggested ignores one thing - the social experience.

In the redesign, the significance of project is diminished and the page feels more like a directory listing. This is IMHO what bitbucket and the rest are doing wrong; and what Github does right.

I understand the need for simplification - that's great, just perhaps take into account the fact that for people working on a repository - it is not just a listing of files but an experience of working on a project. I feel that Github takes care to blur the boundary between the two.
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I also thought that this was a problem until I used Python and the "nonlocal" keyword didn't exist.
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