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I think making CSS more like a programming language is a bad idea. Insofar as LESS lets you do dumb programming tricks in your faux CSS it's a bad idea. I think SASS is going in the wrong direction of putting more ability to create convoluted rubbish in the hands of people who create enough convoluted rubbish with simpler tools.

And I think the signs of activity on LESS vs. SASS reflect not that SASS is in mor aggressive development, although it might be, but tha LESS is more popular but the developers are more cautious in adding features.
Yes, exactly. They are trying to change the law with the "Ex-Patriot Act". Also, let's address this:

>Do we punish profitable corporations who pay no tax? Of course not; they're abiding by the laws.

Maybe we should change this law too. Especially in a political environment that is supposed to be doing everything it can to support small businesses. It takes a certain sized corporation to be able to funnel their earnings through Ireland (for example). Makes it hard to compete for the little guy.
And they started stripping user affiliate links (at least to amazon) about a month ago (aka soon after the story came out about the guy spamming pinterest for thousands a day). I know, it's hard to keep up!
Most illegal aliens actually pay taxes, as businesses are mostly worried about the IRS not the INS, but aliens can't collect S.S. so it is a net win in that sense. But not a sensible way to run a country.
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I read the "methods" section of the study, and saw no reference to controlling for occupation nor socioeconomic status (as opposed to marital status, self-reported health, and other things that are listed).

However, I only read it briefly, so I may have missed something.
I guess 100% of the company I keep falls within that 44% then...
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Roger that, that's what I thought you might plan on doing. Let's hope they solve the SSL issue soon -- since I'm also a fan of GAE!

Btw, thanks for sharing, it's been quite inspiring to read.
No we don't because regulators are always one step before the corporations on taxes.

Actions that you take legally must have consequences too, as long as these consequences are legal the thread of legality has been preserved along the way. It's not a punishment, it's a consequence. I am not born in the US, thus I don't have the right to be the US President, is it a punishment ? No it's simply a consequence.

I would love all people that say that we need to "fix" the tax system instead of making "rich go" to take a step back and get out of their simplistic views. The tax system and a state is infinitely more complex than any company you could imagine. The worst part is that a country sets its own rule and thus has way more responsibility. Moreover higher instances require a state to behave a certain way and prevent certain behaviors. Even worse, external entities such as foreign countries can interfere with internal regulation mechanism (that's what's happening in this case).

The US being a relatively free state cannot prevent any body to abandon a nationality and thus to lower their tax. For most it's an important procedure which allows you to forfeit other nationalities and take a nationality that requires you to have no other nationalities( some countries impose that). Tax evasion is a constant battle because the laws have to guarantee cases like the one I mentioned but they are also used to save money. Thus legislator are constantly fighting a war against tax evasion and this is one example.

Again, your success has a burden on the whole community and we have to pay it. I know why it's so hard to understand here, many of you who see themselves as future entrepreneurs are thinking "Oh gosh, it's going to happen to me one day, I don't like that" and want to fight against it, but really try to see vastness of the complexity of the problem. There is no simple fix.

edit: Changed the phrasing
The author makes the point that LESS uses the `@` for a variable identifier while SCSS uses `$` (and that he feels this is better) but CSS4 spec today says it will use `$` for parent selectors.

http://www.w3.org/TR/selectors4/#subject

I don't do a lot of FE dev but I can count the number of times I've used `@` on one hand. However, I could see myself making use of `$` as a parent selector quite often. How would SCSS adapt to this?
Guess what: it looks like the authors didn't control for income (or even just whether the person has a job!) or intelligence.

I just read the paper; there are many diet and exercise-related controls, and that's it as far as I can see. I totally agree with the OP that being the kind of person who might drink coffee probably has a confounding effect on health. I can't even think of how to try to control it properly.

I don't understand how you get from "most studies are inaccurate" to "but you shouldn't assume the ones that get reported on in the media are inaccurate in a way that we can detect". Why not? People who are performing studies that get picked up by popular media are the least likely people to be performing their work rigorously, and the most likely to be choosing a sensational hypothesis that's difficult to measure correctly.

I agree that we might eventually get to a point where the amount of skepticism and cynicism about scientific results vastly outweighs the number of papers published with poor experimental design or lack of real statistical significance. But I don't think we're currently anywhere close!
Sen. Schumer is in many ways the senatorial equivalent of a personal injury lawyer who advertises on the back of a bus.

He's a good politician, but a master self-promter. He focuses on hot issues to get cheap name recognition like the iPhone 4 "antennagate" issue, airport baggage fees, caffinated malt liquor and similar nonsense.
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A Brazilian who got US citizenship, helped create thousands of jobs in the US, moved to Singapore in 2009 and effectively lives and works there since then, applied to drop his US citizenship in January 2011 and will pay the exit tax for it will now potentially be subjected to an illegal (re constitution) retroactive law to "punish" him when the main reason (I speculate) he decided to do so is the crazy American legislation that wants expats to pay their taxes twice (abroad and at home) even if they really live and work abroad?

Ah..it's election year
I suppose we just have to have faith in the average techie's ability to bypass these restrictions, which seem to be becoming a global phenomenon, not just a western one. OK I know china has blocked a huge amount of sites for years, but it's only recently in the west that serious impingements on our right to information have begun to happen. As for the masses who don't have a clue how to use a VPN or a proxy, I feel sorry for them. They're becoming victims of control.
First rule of false argument is to push a sound argument to an extreme and ridicule it.
The argument is not "all government spending is waste" but rather "significant part of government spending is the product of narrow, sectorial and personal interests which are not that different from Saverin's".
That's unfortunately a sound argument. You could easily find sum equal to his tax savings wasted without a remote linkage to anything patriotic.
I'll look into Groovy some more, as I don't know enough to dispute most of those points. The one sticking point that I can see right now is Wide Adoption, which primarily means, "If I go to my boss right now and recommend this language, how likely is he to have ever heard of it, or ever heard of any product that uses it, or ever heard of any company that uses it?" My boss has heard of Java. My boss has only tangentially heard of PHP, but surely he's heard of Facebook from his kids, and Facebook uses PHP (not that I necessarily want to encourage him to use PHP). My boss hasn't heard of Python, but he's heard of Google, which sponsors Python development and uses it internally. What companies use Groovy? What well-known software has it produced? These questions are essential barriers to adoption in a company such as mine.
Speaking as one who holds a degree in philosophy, I concur. :)

Many of the effective developers I know of didn't have math/cs backgrounds. Music, Art, Philosophy, Languages - they're all there. Do they understand the ins and outs of all data structures and algorithms? No. Do they have the ability to break down problems and create solutions for those problems? Absolutely.
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Or you can just concentrate on building a sustainable business, and worry about more urgent things that will affect your business, rather than the macro-trends.
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Have a look at the various other specs if you want something to compare the RFCs to.

I'll take the RFC format (short, to the point and really clear) over others any day.

Most of the times I feel as though those that write specs have received explicit instructions to make things as verbose as possible to justify the insane pricing of standards documents.

Archaic in this case is just another word for continuity and that's not a bad thing. Imagine every RFC hopping on to the latest bandwagon in terms of presentation, powerpoints, pdfs, html animated images and so on. It would be a cacophony, now it is just the minimal amount of information required to implement something. It's great in a minimalist way.
You can use it if you want, punctuation is optional.

http://learnboost.github.com/stylus/
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I think U.S. citizens have, at least, some warranted sense of righteous indignation here. The guy came to the U.S., jumped onboard a company that really couldn't have made it this big anywhere else (at least at the time), takes the money and runs. I think people are generally well within reason to dislike his choices and reform the system to prevent he and others from repeating.
There was approximately 1800 people who relinquished citizenship this year. If each of these people has a net worth over $1m this could very quickly add up to a significant amount of lost tax revenue.
I was surprised at how few web/consumer companies there were on this list--perhaps that is mostly a function of LinkedIn's demographic.

Anyhow, I work at Arista Networks, and would be more than happy to answer any questions you guys have about us, our technology, or our engineering culture. (P.S. If Santa Clara isn't your thing, we just opened a SF office!)
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From what I've heard, the "exit tax" is equivalent to paying capital gains tax (fairly low 15%) on all stocks you currently hold. His will come to $0.5B in taxes! So leaving the country might avoid some other taxes that come to $170M. Anyway he's currently living in Singapore, so maybe switching citizenship wasn't as big a deal.
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In response to your edit: I think you're saying something very different than what your sibling responded to. The parent's claim was "They didn't correct for X"; your claim is "They tried to correct for X, but we have no way of knowing if they did it right."

The difference is that what you're saying is true of any study. There are always obvious things to control for, and less-obvious ones, and the authors always try and sometimes they do it right and sometimes they don't and there's never any way to tell for sure without redoing the study[0].

The fact that a layman reading a mainstream article about the study can come up with a possible confounding factor doesn't imply much if anything about its possible veracity. We should be equally suspicious of all such claims, not only those which happen to have flaws which are apparent to us.

[0] If the study contains a basic statistical error, redoing it might just be a matter of reinterpreting the original data; still counts.
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This is a disheartening story about education in the US. People aren't going to continue to work a job if you call them terrible at it. I feel I have strong self esteem, but I don't think I could handle that.

What's sad is our over reliance on these statistics. First thing you have to do when using stats is setup checks and balances to verify you are getting what you expect. This is a counter example that might indicate you aren't measuring the right thing. Does this value add measurement of prior year improvement even predict anything about the students comprehension? It's like the BCS system of education where you just scratch your head over the outcomes.

America has a long time fascination with measurement and quantifying. We created Scientific Management Theory dating back to 1880s, but it ended mostly because workers rebelled. However, its influence is still felt everywhere in American society so much so I have a hard time understanding how the Finish model achieves its results without measuring. I know its better, but I can't explain it.
You are right. From a few random websites: "In 1996, Congress included a provision in the expatriation law to bar entry to any individual “who officially renounces United States citizenship and who is determined by the Attorney General to have renounced United States citizenship for the purpose of avoiding taxation by the United States.”

This section of the 1996 Immigration law, known as the Reed Amendment, added ex-citizens to the list of other “excludables” which includs practicing polygamists, international child abductors, and aliens who have unlawfully voted in U.S. elections."

Avoiding taxes by moving after the fact is an asshat thing to do.
Thank you. It always irritates me when complex (or at least somewhat complex) issues are boiled down to simplistic notions.
There relevant definition of these words does not come from the dictionary. Most RFCs say which RFC they pull from, for instance, RFC2119: http://pretty-rfc.herokuapp.com/RFC2119

It's right there in the first couple of sections, usually.
Well, ideally you have a 802.15.4 bridge hooked up to your network so that your laptop can talk to your home automation network from the internet. Both Comcast[1] and Nest[2] seem to be positioning themselves as providing that sort of gateway, if we're talking about normal consumers.

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It would be interesting if the study showed this, but since the article doesn't mention it, that's a bit of an assumption you're making here.

I personally know a couple of heavy coffee drinkers, some of them should be retired but still work blue collar jobs (one is a roofer, another is a general contractor). I doubt they would agree with you on this one :)
Strategically, it makes sense for a programmer to let his / her skills get bid up and use the surplus to store up some dry powder for the next recession. If you stay focused, bubbles are great times to build up your skills and do something real.

Unless you're planning to play the startup lottery by creating a gamified social network for teenaged felines or something, in which case, good luck, and have fun. You can probably still come out ahead in skills and experience.
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As if the democrats are any better. They still haven't passed a budget in the Senate since Obama has been in office. Both parties suck.
Well, the sample is incomplete. Often, you also need a server for serving static files, which Nginx is really good at, but Varnish cannot do.
You seem to be arguing that he didn't "pay some back when you win". However, as part of the renunciation process you have to be up to date on your taxes, and you have to pay a tax on any money you move out of the USA. Thus he's already paid his taxes.

Now he's a citizen and resident of singapore. He's got a couple investments there. But your claim that he owes the US taxes on what he built in the USA would seem to no longer apply, right? Since he's building the next thing in singapore, wouldn't he owe singaporean taxes?

If he didn't renounce, the US government would be taxing him on the money he makes in Singapore on a singapore business as well. Even though he's no longer benefiting from the "services" provided by the US government.

The US is unusual in the fact that it taxes citizens on their worldwide income. Further, it imposes fairly onerous reporting requirements that make it difficult for US citizens who live outside the USA to conduct business.

Just because he spent 10 years here, doesn't mean the US really deserves a cut of everything he makes for the rest of his life. This is why there's a renunciation process, and he has gone thru that process legally.
We'll be thinking how cool it would be to see pictures from the year 2000 if only they weren't locked away by DRM formats that are now unreadable in the year 2050. ;)
Again, your success has a price on the whole community and we have to pay it.

Could you explain this statement? Specifically, what is the price of Saverin's success that is paid for by the rest of us?

The normal justification for taxation is that they pay for public services, e.g. roads and police. Saverin is no longer consuming those services. Why should he continue paying for them?
I think some customers (like myself) would be more hesitant to use a non-PayPal option on your site. With PayPal, I can easily cancel at any time. I would be worried that by directly providing you with my credit card number, it would be harder to cancel.
There are a lot of people who take great pictures and upload them to Instagram. Yes there are people who think the filter makes the picture. No, you are not compelled to follow them.
Frankly, it just pisses me off - we're a profitable business which has grown 150% YOY for 6 years, and our value is barely £3M, based on our profits and growth. Why an infant company with little discernable revenue should have an astronomical value is beyond me.

Having a £3M business is insanely awesome. If you want an answer to your question about why your business isn't worth $1.5B, please give detials on your business and people will surely tell you.
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if they are US citizens they pay taxes in the US even if they do live in those "3rd world countries" 9after having paid whatever taxes they owe to the "3rd world countries"...)
I think everyone here would be super interested to see more pics/description of the Eastern bloc during that era. Post something cool!
I know the guys at 37Signals are a smart pack, but I don't understand their hangup with Instagram and Pinterest... and apparently FB (esp. their older posts). FB has proven to be able to make $billions of revenue and substantial profit, and is only growing. Isn't that proof that an ad-based model can work if it's large enough?

Instagram was FB's biggest competitor... huge growth and huge adoption amongst young groups of friends. FB was smart to buy them.

Pinterest... I'm less bullish on. I can see how they can make money with affiliate commissions on products and such. But I just don't see Everyone using this. Pinterest at $1.5billion might be over-valued for where it's at. But then again, I don't have privy to their internal numbers (ie., traction, metrics, retention, etc). But, I can see Pinterest be worth a lot in the future, just right now I'm not sure about the $1.5b.

FB, Instagram and maybe Pinterest are amazing companies with crazy traction. They're all riding on the huge distribution channels of our day (web, mobile, social) and have reached or are close to reaching the 100+million users mark (for FB is the 1+billion user mark). Any service that can garner 100s of millions of users can find a way to monetize. How much in monetization is another story, but I wouldn't bet against them to create some substantial value.
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Suggestion: change the linked email addresses to a graphical representation. It may not help much but this lowers the barrier a bit too much for some clueless newbie to 'click on the link to email for support'. RFCs have fairly limited visibility and that's why those addresses are on there, if you significantly increase the visibility then you should probably build in a small barrier before the contact info can be used rather than to make it super easy.
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I should be OK as I am not the importer of the candies, rather the people receiving them are. Still, I try hard to be on the safe side so I've contacted FDA twice to ask if there's something they'd like me to do, once via physical mail and once by email and got ignored both times.

If I started doing the importing on US side myself in bulk amounts, that would be a different story and would involve at least filing FDA prior notices.
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It may not be "all fixed," and it's certainly worse in some parts of the country in others, but I believe it's gotten better, getting better, and will always get better (small pockets of extreme deliberate resistance notwithstanding).

When I watched the film Ray and learned about the life of Ray Charles, I was struck by how quickly (just 18 years, IIRC) Georgia's culture went from banning him for refusing to play a segregated concert to officially apologizing to him from the state government.
Worst thing for me is that I actually feel completely out of place actually building my company up last 6 months so I can take on an idea I have, completely self-funded.
The comments in that thread seem heavily biased on IE9/10. Usually it's the opposite.
I might have direct credit card input as the big default button and a smaller PayPal link for those that prefer that. I will have to continue supporting PayPal indefinitely in any case since I have all subscribers there now.
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You cannot use legality as a defense for two reasons:

1. By renouncing your citizenship you put yourself in an extra-legal position.

2. The laws are perceived as underdeveloped. That's why the situation has attracted the attention of US senators.