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It is super cool technology that works much, much better than anything else I've ever seen. Question is what will be the killer app? Will it come from Leap or (more likely) a clever programmer hacking on the SDK? And will the financial rewards flow to Leap?
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I think you nailed it. My feeling is that if its not worth the time or consideration to send someone a email then why bother sharing it at all. The mindless broadcasting/signaling with no real intent seems cheap and not terribly interesting.

I see the value perhaps in Facebook as a a glorified catalog of your interests and liked content, as a canonical record of your browsing.

The content I like best in my Facebook news feed are links to content on the web.

There is this one girl I barely know, who regularly posts the coolest and most obscure old music videos from the 50s and 60s. To me she is the ideal Facebook friend.
> What does a $200 lipstick have that a $10 one does not?

A friend of mine used to work in a cosmetics factory and explained that the main difference between a cheap and an expensive lipstick is that the expensive version makes a satisfying click when you put the lid on.
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Depending what kind of project you are doing there are enough variables to play with (price, deadline etc), however if the client wants to receive the same service for less, there are not much options; either you (or others) cut prices or they find other people to do the job. In the end, if the client keeps coming back to this reduction request, they'll push it through eventually.

A tactic we used to use (i'm from the Netherlands as well) is a) make sure you are close to the decision makers (this is always smart and we always were/are); COO/CIO/CTO/CEO depending on company size and structure b) ask your 'friend' in the top to change your 'title'; so if you are a 'developer' making E90/hour and they want to cut 5%, tell them to make you 'head developer' making E100/hour and then, via your direct chief, accept the 5% cut. Somewhere in the company are bean counters who came up with this 5% across all freelancers; they don't know/care what roles they have, so you change your role, accept the 5%, you earn more and on paper everyone is happy until the next year 5% round which you can blindly take. And I wouldn't stick around for round 3 :) But that's just me.
With a very low TTL and using HTTPS (which binds to the domain, not the IP), the chances are slim to none.
You fail to realize that they might very well be in a position where nothing but costs and liquidity matter, no matter how much great work you are doing there and how beneficial it might be for them in the long run. And no, this doesn't necessarily tell you anything about how they might be on a "decline". It is not uncommon to have companies declare chapter 11 despite filled order books.

Your suggestion of opening up the conversation is good but maybe you can collect some better suggestions or ideas than just basically praising your own work or product to them. Avoiding a reduction of your price but offering them some sort of cut instead is one idea.
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It's certainly an open question, if what you gain from dynamic languages, is more or less than what you lose from having no static analysis. I got into OCaml initially because I wanted a statically-typed, type-inferred Python...
"because it is a seller's market." ... sorry as a contractor who has been in the industry for 20 (!) years now I can guarantee you it is definitely not a seller's market. It is very very much a buyers market. It was bad in 1998 (around that time?) before the Euro kickstarted the industry, bad again in 2007 (I think) but this downturn has been the worst yet. I am slightly exposed to the IT / finance industry but as a general rule it is quite closely correlated to IT in general.
"Specialized screening for automotive and military systems" means that they have done more extensive tests on otherwise identical chips.

As an example: for military chips they will certainly do every (non-destructive) test they know on every single device, say at elevated temperature with a little less than the minimum specified operating voltage... The test-devices themselves might cost $1M and be occuplied for oen hour per chip, hence they will charge you more for the final chip.
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You're right to want to avoid duplicating your code inside your test. In this case, I'd work out some simple permutations and test against those values, sorting the results so order doesn't matter.

assert(sorted(permute((1, 2))) == [(1, 2), (2, 1)])
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Their designs may be innovative but the material quality is often so low you should consider it as disposable. Especially all the 'fake wood' stuff. The inside is made of the lightest stuff and it breaks at the first occasion. Ok, its cheap, but it feels cheap as well. Most of their office chairs are crap and do no last. As for the couch in question, it is probably ok for that purpose. There are however a bunch of items for which i wont consider ikea as an option anymore.
Very interesting. Thanks!

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And there you summarize what the OP was trying to say: When the customer tries this on you, don't just agree without a 'fight'. Challenge your customer and open up the conversation about your value for them and try to come to an understanding which benefits both!
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To what 'bit' do you refer? Do you have a direct quote?
The situation described is not really a negotiation at all. Of course, spamming all of your suppliers requesting a 5% price reduction is silly.

But I totally disagree with the headline. Service providers should be prepared to negotiate price and the best way to do that is to have some "asks" to balance it out.
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The way to guarantee wealth is to squeeze a potential cumulative effect into as many hours as possible.

Doing X for $Y without using X for a potential income in the future becomes a zero-sum game.

This potential income can come from anything that gets squeezed out from the project -- writing a tutorial based on the last web design project, kicking off an opensource project to combine the reusable parts.

For me it's a hard discipline to follow and takes some creativity but it does sound like a good deliberate practice.
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Personally I think IKEA's partly bad reputation is 100% based on their cheapest furniture in their collection. They do have a lot of more expensive furniture also which has a lot higher material quality. In other words, you get what you pay for and that rule also covers IKEA.
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I agree and disagree with you at the same time.

Some items are indeed crap, and I won't buy them (especially in their first version).
But some others, including office chairs suit me well.
I bought 3 of them at least, and never experienced any problem.

The lack table will surely break soon, but what do you exactly expect from a 10 bucks table ? :)

I don't know exactly out of France, but the other furniture stores are usually more expensive, and offer crappier stuff than Ikea. (As long as you don't search for a 200 euro table of course).
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dummy: "Origin of DUMMY
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(GP is right, the phrase is clunky and distracts the reader.)
I really don't like the way the funding model has gone for this project. It started simply enough, but now I really have to keep up on news to figure out what the state of play is. What next, $400k for Ruby support?
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Ikea really has come up with a great way to attract and retain customers. --When you're in college and/or in your first apartment, you often can't afford great furniture, so you buy the cheap Ikea stuff that works, but isn't designed to last. A couple of years later, however, you have a bit more money and want to upgrade (or replace the broken furniture), and Ikea has higher quality options available that still don't break the bank, but look nicer and will last much longer.
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> Their designs may be innovative but the material quality is often so low you should consider it as disposable.

It really depends on what you get, the fake wood tables definitely don't last (though they're no worse than most "fake wood" alternatives using woodchips, you won't get those to last either).

And I recently got a bunch of expedit units[0], it's fakewood but it feels extremely sturdy, especially the "sides" (heavy as fuck too). I don't know how well they survive moving, but the part was cheap and doesn't feel cheap.

Really, they've got pretty much all the range, you can find cheap stuff that won't last and more expensive stuff which will. And their integration and parts are really clever (for expedit parts for instance, there are something like a dozen "basket"-type things which fit perfectly in the slots but can also be used as independent baskets with no issue, from the $5 "drona" which is just some tissue over cardboard — sufficient for laundry — to the $15+ pjas or knipsa woven baskets with metal structure which feel extremely solid)

> Most of their office chairs are crap and do no last.

Then again I can say that for all office chairs I've seen under $150. Love having screws digging in my ass after 2 weeks due to the shitty foam seat.

[0] http://www.ikea.com/us/search/?query=expedit
Another interesting application of this (which I believe is being done) is sniper spotting in warzones.
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It is maybe nice, but not good, because it is not generating same output in all browsers. Also copying from word (most needed) is not filtered properly and same in all browsers.
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Most commodity furniture is like this, if you ever look inside a modern couch you'll be amazed how cheap and poor quality the innards are - I mean plastic instead of metal, and low grade wood that's holding the weight and under tension. I guess it's like most things in modern life, if you don't pay over the odds for quality, then it's all superficial.
Heard of IBM Labs? AT&T Labs? Lucent Research? Previously the venerable Bell Labs? All near NYC. There are a lot of good technical people and engineers around this area and there are a lot more who are willing to move here. There will always be those who want to be in technology and have a cultural (and maybe fashionable) life as well.
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not very conductive. You can used various PeDOT polymers inks but you're best best is usually to go with metallic nanoparticles. Those aren't too great because they limit the number of substrates you can use due to required post-deposition processing (annealing mostly, to make them conductive). We also managed to print nanowires and carbon nanotubes. Those are extremely conductive and require little post-processing. In fact, we did most of our work on paper substrates.
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Some birds already look & feel quite close e.g. cassowaries have a claw on their (degenerate) wings.
I note that the writer has fallen into the trap of a false cognate - or, at least, a near-homonym - by writing "demure" when he/she meant "demur".
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It would be "no autoplay by default" instead of "mute by default".

the difference is that in the "no autoplay ever" case I would be not able to enable it if I wanted. "No autoplay by default" is the reasonable initial setting, while still giving users a choice.
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I came across several "woo, pipelining, speed!!!" articles before, but it seems that Opera already has it on by default, and Chrome will too, in a future release: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_pipelining#Implementation_...
One point really boring about all these editors is the fact they require an iframe. For now i'm building a cms and having to deal with iframes (like injecting css, trigger click inside) is a pain.

One could argue that it's a security risk to not use an iframe but tests [1] shows that only IE is vulnerable to code injection by copy-pasting inside the editor. So for now we're stuck to use an iframe on all editors because some shitty browsers are unsecure.

IMO we should create an editor without iframe and drop the IE support. It could be much more flexible and easier for us, developpers.

[1] http://tifftiff.de/contenteditable/onpaste_test.html
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I don't understand why you'd get nostalgic about the sounds of a rotary phone, a cassette tape, or a modem connecting, let alone most of those other sounds. The concepts of those technologies still exist, they've just been replaced by superior versions.

I can understand the nostalgia around the game sounds, of course, because they more strongly evoke the memories of actually playing the game.
What an extremely irritating blog. For some reason the owner seems to have linked the pagedown key to the "previous article" link. If I press the pagedown key, it's because I want to read the text that's currently off the screen, not because I want to read the previous article. You're actually preventing me from reading your full text. Fail.
I have moved twice with my expedit, without never breaking anything.
This is amazing how strong the stuff can be.
Same for the lack tables, never broke any, even while seating on them totally drunk ^^ .

Ikea uses the same materials as the other manufacturers when talking about cheap furniture, it just uses it better :).
Hmm so you just lost 100% of your business because of your unwillingness to negotiate over 5%. Really clever indeed. Have you ever considered the fact that they see you as replaceable (why else the 1 day deadline?).
sorry as a contractor who has been in the industry for 20 (!) years now I can guarantee you it is definitely not a seller's market. It is very very much a buyers market.

Could you clarify this a bit further? My one-man web dev consultancy (specializing in PHP at that!) is continually on the up. I know that we're not the most expensive out there, but we're certainly towards the top. So is it that top-tier which is suffering right now, or the financial IT market, or both?
some thoughts:

-if you show screenshots I want to see them big

-show some of the newest todos right on the homepage/landing page, it will help with the signups.

-show progress: I want to see graphs, X-es in a calendar, high scores etc.
What a joke, this is all getting absolutely out of hand. It genuinely worries me not that the internet gets totally locked down, just that something I love is being proved lawless by the very people who are complaining about lawbreaking. Copyright stake holders are making the web a worse place at all spectrums of "infringement".
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The premise paints a terrible picture of people, such that they aren't the ones making a completely volitional decision about how they want to spend their time. If people want to spend their time reading blogs and Twitter, who are you to say otherwise? It's not your choice, it's not your life, it's none of your business.

Might as well question whether soap opera's, tabloids, espn, disney, movies, television in general, music, and just about every other form of entertainment and media stimulation are destroying the world. After all, isn't modern music crap? Was FRIENDS really worth spending all that time watching? Who really needs to watch 50 NFL games per year? Could there be a greater waste of time than NASCAR? Most movies are an extreme waste of time because they're so terrible, so why make them?

It's a completely absurd premise, and it applies just as well to all media as it does to Twitter or Facebook or Wordpress.
You can see this when flying to Finland. Finnish businessmen on the plane are the only group I've seen using WP7 in the wild so far.
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There's a lot of greed in copyright, and there's a lot of stupidity, but this is an example of both combined in one place. What kind of colossal misunderstanding does it take to confuse linking and copying?
@daralthus: great feedback. will work on the screen-shot size and new todos on the landing page.

Can you please explain what type of graphs would you like to see?

Thanks a lot!
At least the latest demos posted include some Python examples, like: http://www.chris-granger.com/images/lightable/flask-routes.p...
See the FAQ (http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
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To those interested in a MIDI file derived from the piano itself, there is this, from http://www.opengoldbergvariations.org/node/157: "CEUS is a system that allows suitably equipped pianos to faithfully record and reproduce real, live performances by playing the recording back on the piano exactly as played. Every detail, from the velocity of the key stroke to timing and pedaling is reproduced as in the original performance. The CEUS recording of the Goldberg Variations will also be released to the public domain." It might not be too much of a stretch to devolve the CEUS data into MIDI.
incremental compilation is not foolproof either. but the q is, whether compilation speed even matters. your typical c project will spend much time in make (semi-related (to the topic and make): use redo). and if you compile with -O0 your compiler will not be the bottleneck for most things.

go seems to be nice, but compilation speed is no real argument!
This couch doesn't have drop shadows and an unnecessary 'loading' animation, metaphorically speaking. This article is a great description of the product of what good designers do. It's cheap to manufacture. Easily deployed and assembled. Well suited to its primary purpose. Incorporates multiple additional uses without compromising the primary use. Flexible enough to be reconfigured easily for different locations. Best of all, it doesn't have any unnecessary 'design' frills.
He's completely wrong. If everybody on earth decides by their own volition to waste their entire life consuming blog updates and Twitter feeds, what basis exactly do you have to say they aren't to live their life the way they see fit?

You have absolutely no real basis at all. And if you're going to open up that can of worms, there are roughly a zillion other issues that have to then be judged harshly and treated with equal disdain.

That slut you slept with last night, the one you picked up for a one night stand from the bar. How dare you waste your time in such a shallow and frivolous fashion. Sluts are destroying the world!

What you're talking about are lifestyle choices on how people choose to spend their time. You might as well start taking up positions against homosexuality and judging people for their lifestyle choices more broadly, because it's exactly the same thing.
One of Ikea's greatest innovations (and also the one they keep quiet about) is that it's actually a non-profit organisation. In 2009 Ikea Group made a €2.5 billion profit, none of which was taxed.

Depending on your viewpoint, it's either insanely brilliant or morally bankrupt: the vast majority of Ikea's revenue goes to the INGKA Foundation, a charity which ostensible supports 'innovation in the field of architecture', but only gives 0.2% of its total equity to charitable causes each year.

It makes the fairly standard tax avoidance measures carried out by tech companies like Apple or Vodafone look amateur by comparison!
Er - so there is a fair use defence for using short quotations from articles, but linking to the source so that the reader can see the whole context of the quote may be a copyright infringement? Sounds really sensible to me.
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I completely agree! and once the party is over the panic is going probably too far too.
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Has there been any official answer to this? I've been trying to hold to Hanlon's Razor, but it's been hard :S