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You can also use Amtrak to ship your stuff to the Oakland station. It's by far the most cost effect way to move long distances.

http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?c=Page&pagen...
It depends on the countries laws and how large a presence a company has in the country.
This looks great. I'd buy it if I weren't so already tied to workflowy though.
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Your presumption is that there are jobs available; according to the bureau of labor statistics, as of March 2012 there were 3.4 unemployed people for every job opening (roughly double the ratio at the start of the recession back in December 2007).
This book is pretty good if you're interested in this type of thing. It's a bit surprising what ancient civilisations had.

(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ancient-Inventions-Peter-James/dp/03...)
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There are many things to blame for a lack of jobs. But the jobs are gone, many to other countries, and are not coming back soon. College graduates are facing a different reality than existed even 10 years ago. College experience counts for less now than possibly ever before. That's the new reality, and only way to live with that is get creative, determined and ready to go to work whatever is required.
The ability to pay expenses is a function of cash flow, not wealth.
Corruption and accountability are big problems in developing countries; I don't know why UK would be doing this.

Cameras ensure teachers are not taking lunch breaks when they should be teaching a class.
You're telling me you've never learned about Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, China, Medieval Europe?

I find that very unlikely. If it is true please don't go around making statements like we are taught in america is that nothing happens outside of america.

You can't speak for America as a whole since we don't have a national curriculum.

More than likely you just feel the way you do because you just took US history and haven't gotten to any or the world history classes.

>We're taught as if there is a concrete separation between American History and World History,

There's nothing wrong with teaching a separate US history and world History class. When you get to college you'll find that history classes are even further subdivided by time and geography.
Just like putting a urinal in a gallery doesn't make you an artist, right?
> You know close to 50% of new grads are unemployed right?

I've been waiting for almost 20 years for the rush of jobs due to the Boomers retiring. I feel sorry for the kids these days.
Seriously, can someone in the know please explain "bro central" to me? I know what a "brogrammer" is (I think), but maybe I missed the "bro" meme.
Thanks, this will help greatly, I leave for SF in 2 days!
I think the issues with the Paul campaign were more due to incompetence than malice.

His management style is very hands off, and that means some of the people around him which are some times rather clueless or nutty end making a bit of a mess of things.
It's funny how things like this that has nothing to do with the actual app has an effect on your overall impression of the app.
Too quickly compared to what? How long do we have to wait before something's declared "art"?

Not claiming this particular graffiti is art - it's rather uncreative compared to Banksy and other such clever artists - just wondering who decides, and how.

Also, good for Mark Jacobs for his elegant response, and for trolling the pretentious.
Jamie Zawinski made a related hack called Jack.

http://www.jwz.org/hacks/jack.c

Instead of code, mashing the keys produces "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
I have several apps on my iPad where I prefer white text on black. Within the general settings, I set my "Triple-click Home" button to toggle White/Black. Not perfect, but helpful.
Could be worse you could be using the completely unusable utter piece of shit that is Open|Libre office. Wow now that really is a sack of shit and screws any productivity when doing documentation type things.
Well, I'm already building refer.ly

We were talking about it, it just seemed too negative in general to build a brand around that we could really believe in. But its funny...
Long passwords like this are impossible to remember.
Clarium's assets under management grew to $8 billion in 2008 after which a series of unprofitable investments and client redemptions resulted in its assets declining below $1 billion as of 2011

Ouch.
Nice work. Very cool Product
I agree, if you are going to operate a .ly domain (I do) then you better have backup .com in the case that it goes away
Oh yeah, "OpenOffice is a replacement for Word" is one of the biggest Linux-advocate lies I've ever heard.
To some extent, a college degree can preclude you from doing that kind of work. A BA in English won't stop you from working as a barista, but a PhD in it can actually hurt your job prospects. Even for service work where employees are pretty interchangeable, a lot of employers don't want to hire someone that they think (probably correctly) will jump ship at the first chance they get in the field they studied for.
As an engineer myself, this quote illustrates Thiel's ignorance of engineering progress over the past 40 years, and his disregard for the risks posed by industrial-scale experiments on the general public. People like him are precisely why we need environmental regulations in the first place, instead of simply relying on people's common sense and prudence.
What is much less well known is that, little more than 100 years later, Arab Muslims were also printing texts, including passages from the Qur'an. They had already embraced the Chinese craft of paper making, developed it and adopted it widely in the Muslim lands. This led to a major growth in the production of manuscript texts. But there was one kind of text which lent itself particularly to mass distribution: this was the private devotional collection of prayers, incantations, Qur'anic extracts and the "beautiful names" of God, for which there was a huge demand among Muslims, rich and poor, educated and uneducated. They were used especially as amulets, to be worn on the person, often rolled up and enclosed in a locket.

http://www.muslimheritage.com/topics/default.cfm?ArticleID=9...
> SIP looks like HTML

I think you mean HTTP.
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I agree, the agency that is supposed to be screening these people is called the DMV.
You can do the same in native code, it just a bit harder to do.

That is how you do cool demoscene stuff in 4096K or less, with lots of self rewriting code.
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I've actually been using this for several days now. I tried several similar apps before it and think this is by far the most usable. I like it a lot, but have one suggestion: there should be a way to go to a previous day's list view. I often don't get into the app until I'm in bed, which is sometimes after midnight, meaning I've now lost the current day's list and am actually looking at "tomorrow's" list instead. It's then a bit of a pain to go to the calendar view for each item I wanted to cross off an put an x for the previous day.
I knew that credit card companies offer some auto coverage as well, but didn't realize until I researched it now that it doesn't include liability insurance.

One of my contracts once required that I have $1 million in insurance company to work for them, including coverage for any employees traveling related to the work. That was 10 years ago though, and 1) I don't recall if the insurance included liability insurance, and 2) I think it only covered travel related to business, so while an odd-ball thought, it probably won't work for you.

What do the people in the NE (NYC, Boston) do? I thought that quite a few don't have cars but instead rent them for trips or for moving. Surely a number of them are in the same boat.

It seems that non-owner liability policies do exist; so says http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/do-i-need-insurance-to-r... . For that matter, GEICO mentions the possibility at http://www.geico.com/information/aboutinsurance/auto/insight... .

And http://www.carsdirect.com/car-insurance/can-i-get-car-insura... "Every insurance provider is required to offer non owner car insurance, so you shouldn't have a difficult time finding this insurance if you need it. Well known providers such as State Farm, GEICO or Progressive are providers you might consider. Some banks offer auto insurance, so those that do will also be able to offer non owner car insurance." ... "Non owners insurance quotes are available from all of the major insurance companies. Progressive, Geico, State Farm, and Nationwide are just a few insurance companies that offer insurance coverage to people who do not own cars. You can also get quotes from insurance consolidators like esurance or netQuote."
CreditKarma doesn't provide a real FICO score. Do a Google search for "creditkarma fako" and you'll see just how inaccurate it can be.
Have a gander at Terminus 9pt. It's the one pixel font I can actually bear to look at.
Very nice looking app dude. One question, what sets this apart from the Reminders app that comes with iOS already? Not trying to put you out, genuinely interested to see the advantage of your app so that maybe I can switch.
Don't most kinds of business require some capital to start?
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> How about a "random time during the day" reminder?

I'd really like that. In the past, I've set up manual recurring reminders to go off at the same time during the day. When I got used to the reminder schedule, I started ignoring them.
You might also want to consider living in Oakland instead of San Francisco and taking BART to the city to work. My rent is 1/3 less and my commute (20 minutes door-to-door) is much shorter than that of many of my colleagues who live in the city.

Oakland is a big, heterogeneous city, with really nice districts that offer great dining, bars, and the usual city trappings.
We have the same understanding of "viewport." It's my mistake. I should have been clearer by "generic procedure."

Your method works on Windows. (And _possibly_ when Chrome is in fullscreen mode.) But your method does not work on OS X. I'm not sure about *nix.
Agreed. A Prius can be a great car, but for her particular situation, it doesn't make a lot of sense. The core market for Prius owners are people who drive their cars a lot.

While I'm not a fan of lung-clogging diesels, in this case, it may make a bit of sense. There are people in my area with 20-year-old or so diesel cars. They don't need need the same kind of driving maintenance that hybrids do.

I don't know if she has access to Zipcar or a similar service, but if she does, that would have probably been the best bet. Let someone else deal with the ownership, storage, maintenance and liability.
the 10 yr thing ended in 2008, thankfully
I have no idea how to interpret those "layered pie chart" diagrams, I guess it shows something about the trackers?
I'm not sure why you're paying $1200 a month for insurance but that's not the norm for US based auto insurance at all.
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> How exactly does this effect the current state of the trial?

Probably not much, since I don't think there's something like "fair use" of patents. Either you infringe, or you don't.

> I thought we were just waiting for the judge to finish making up his mind and give his verdict. Is that correct?

Well, the trial is three phases: copyright, patents and damages. The jury is now deliberating on phase 2, patents. If they find that Google infringed one or both of the patents in question, there will be a phase 3 that assess the damage. I don't know if this position paper has any place in phase 3, but at least it's a possibility.
Excel is good at this too (2007). Edit a cell (F2) and then at the same time try open a different spreadsheet..
There was a better way to present the generally unknown history of moveable type without twisting it into historical revisionism. Gutenberg invented the mechanical printing press that revolutionized literacy and the availability of information. This article does not dispute this, it just used a provocative title to get you to click.
Please fix your social badges. Unless I'm maximized horizontally (almost never), they obscure the post. Linux, recent Firefox.
I think those glasses will be able to recognise faces directly. Great for avoiding those "Hello Mrs, er, yeah so How are you anyway?" moments.
Android doesn't run Java, but still a big part of the trial was about some Java APIs used in Android that allow some bits of compatibility.
http://torrentfreak.com/microsoft-funded-startup-aims-to-kil...
Maybe we have this thing field testing on great scale? Titles suggest it may be the case.

Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3966774
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versus Twilio....
Wish it were on Android! This is a great idea that I already use on my physical calendar (a la Seinfeld). I can only see screenshots, but it looks like the font you chose wasn't meant to show statistics, evident in the "Completion Rate" percentage. The relative heights of the numbers and % sign don't parse very well, just a nitpick on my part.
Think brogrammer minus the programmer. Frat boys and whatnot. (named because the tend to call everybody 'bro')
What if the car was stolen?
Exactly right. This is why all the innovation is in the virtual world rather than the physical world. Engine explosions [1], airplane crashes [2], and radiation poisoning [3] were the price of progress in the early 20th century, but we've become too fat and happy to take those kinds of risks today. The only crash we'll tolerate is the Fail Whale, and we'll complain bitterly about that too.

China has no such hangups [4]. Even Europe has less onerous regulations than the US in key areas like medical devices [5].

We are soon going to see what the relative innovation rates are in a society that accepts a few deaths of brave pioneers as the nonnegotiable price of progress, versus one that has forgotten how many people died perfecting the technologies that got us to the present day.

[1] http://www.historicpelham.com/blogarchive/Blog20090720.htm

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_307#Operational_history

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin

[4] http://boingboing.net/2011/09/21/china-gentleman-builds-home...

[5] http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/medical-devices-and-pre...
> It's not like you use lots of third party libs (if any at all) in OS X.

Yeah, that only works if you don't use any third party stuff.

> Yeah, I mean they have just those tiny projects in it, like iPhoto, Final Cut Pro, Pages, Numbers, the whole Cocoa and Cocoa Touch stack, etc.

There are all internal Apple projects, as such the company can decide which prefixes to use. If they happen to clash with some third party small company, bad luck for the external company.

> But we need more support for large scale development, because there are many many teams of 100s of programmers that also want to write 20 million lines Objective-C programs.

Well, most projects I work on professionally, are the typical enterprise projects with 100+ developers, scattered across the globe.

> And C is even worse, you just have small projects like the Linux kernel written in it, due to the severe issue of lack of namespaces.

While you're being sarcastic here, let me tell you that Linux kernel works, because everyone that wants to add code to the kernel is obliged to follow certain conventions.

You cannot have that with third party code that you don't control.

Specially if it is delivered as commercial closed source libraries, which is quite common in the enterprise world.
That is your biggest problem with word?

How is that: I imported a simple Excel diagram, tried to resize it - and Word crashed. No problem, Word creates backups, right? Only problem: When Word opens the backup... it crashes. And suddenly I didn't have any working version of the file anymore...

(git helped me out, thankfully, but I don't know how my parents would have handled that...)
See also (unrelated): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Woodpecker
Obviously he doesn't believe that Ron Paul will win the Republican nomination. Only an imbecile would believe that and Thiel is not that. The point is that as long as Ron Paul is out there on the political flank of plausible candidates with a small committed support base, the more centrist candidates will tack towards his position to try and capture some of his support.

Witness how Santorum pulled Romney towards more socially conservative positions just by existing. Santorum didn't win, but as a result of his run he pulled the Republican centre towards him.
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The page layout is broken for me, as well. There is no white space surrounding the tan comment area. Using Firefox 12.0.
Looks like this fella designed the app: http://dribbble.com/scottdunlap

No idea if he did the website though.
Do you think that 100 years from now, anyone other than programming language researchers will have heard of any programming language used today?
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So IDEs don't, can't, make programmers more productive enough to offset the cost of developing the IDE itself?

I mean, you can think that. But it ain't exactly Moon Science to think otherwise.
From a shrewd entrepreneurial point of view, these critters must have all kinds of interesting enzymes and hardware that allow them to operate at such low metabolic rates.

Dissecting their repair mechanisms might give us insights into regenerative medicine in the near future, and technical knowledge for suspended animation for long distance transport or generation jumping in the not-so-near future.
Read this post right up to the following line, "There’s also huge differences from neighborhood to neighborhood as you are unlikely to find someone interested in the Mission (hipsters, homeless and immigrants)"

Pretty repulsive point of view IMHO.

EDIT: I am a recent immigrant to the United States
To ship boxes, yes.

But honestly if you're an engineer taking a job at a bay area tech company, you will be getting a relo package. If you move here on your own dime you're doing it wrong.
+1
(Peepcode is great stuff but these videos are really old.)
dearJoe 2 - http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/joebob/dear-joe-2/regular/

:-)
Amazon has a 35% discount on our book "Node.js in Action" (should give you immediate access to the pre-release: we're just finishing up the last few chapters, but most of the book is available online for purchasers).

http://www.amazon.com/Node-js-Action-Mike-Cantelon/dp/161729...
This doesn't seem any less perverse to me. Shifting responsibility to the operator makes sense for injury resulting from operation. Shifting responsibility to the owner only makes sense for injury resulting from the ownership (improper device maintenance, etc).

If you can hold the owner of a car liable for a crash then what stops you from holding the creator of a car liable for a crash? Why not go after Toyota? By this line of reasoning Toyota is just as culpable as Ms. Fong.

Indeed, some tort actions have gone beyond owners and even pursued manufactures -- particularly gun manufactures.

The idea that an object owner or object creator might be liable for the actions of an object user is unreasonable and perverse. It has a chilling effect on innovation and forces small businesses (who can't afford to lobby regulatory protections such as the Graves amendment) out of the market.
Hi 55pts, don't take me wrong I understand what you mean, but it is like to say that because I happen to contribute to some software that is popular I don't have the right to express freely my thoughts.

garbage here means: not very useful. More politically correct people are going to use a different word, but the concept is the same. DBs comparison / benchmarking is hard and I read many blog posts about people that apparently don't even have a solid understanding / experience with one of the systems (sometimes with both the compared ones), so this articles are really not going to help but to confuse other users.
The DMV is not liable nor should it be. Why should the public bear the inherent costs of a profitable risk-creating activity that yields private profit?
Seconded. Rockridge and Temescal in Oakland are great, Berkeley has some fine areas as well.
Pity. I get a "This connection is untrusted" message: http://imgur.com/aBV32
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Do you think 40 years ago people would have thought that people would still be using C (and derivatives)?
The risk in this case is destroyed car, but not the health liability. If the car was dangerous, then there should be liability; if it wasn't, there absolutely should not.
I am not American so I could not talk for them, but in Europe nobody teaches that white people invented everything.

E.g everybody knows when he studies history what this article says along the invention of the compass and gears and zero and algebra in Asia.

But people from western countries invented almost everything since the Guttemberg press, maybe because of this press, as books became hundreds or thousand of times cheaper that what they were before and Asian countries had to face an obsolete language with thousand of characters (Japanese realised they had such and inferior language and created higajana and katakana later).

Knowledge spread so fast other places could not compete. It has nothing to do with the color of your skin.
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Except that in this story she didn't cause the accident.
To me, it seems like he's along for the ride rather than leading anything. He's simply coasting on the momentum of his immutable ethos, and then riding the break from successive waves of the world crashing into it until each is expired. Money given to someone like that is probably wasted; Ron Paul is just going to keep being Ron Paul no matter how much money you throw at him.
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That's a pretty silly oversight. Somewhat akin to the supervillain revealing the details of his plan to the captured secret agent.
Neal Stephenson recently wrote an article on how being risk averse is limiting our progress: http://www.worldpolicy.org/journal/fall2011/innovation-starv...

I think there are two sides to this, I want to see more innovation and am willing to live in a riskier world to see that happen faster. A lot of regulation merely locks in present bad forms, in the nuclear world we see that yucca mountain isn't perfect so instead we leave nuclear waste all around the country in "temporary pools" -- where the risk is much much higher that something bad can happen. Unfortunately, when people become risk averse the status quo dominates, I mean who can argue with "that's how it's always been done" vs "I took a chance and it didn't work out, but the status quo was unsustainable."

We've unleashed a monster of bureaucracy that vastly limits the potential avenues of investigation. Feynman, has a great perspective - I got good at math and could do it fast, this means that when I wanted to try something the cost was low - a few minutes or an hour, whereas others it would take a day or two. This allowed me to investigate areas with low likelihood of success, and try out novel ideas. Some of his big discoveries were from that type of work. (paraphrased from memory - couldn't find the story, it's in one of his books.

The problem is that we can directly measure the cost of an accident/disaster, but we don't correctly factor, imho, the cost of stuff that was never created.
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