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> This is purely personal experience, but every single one of my friends when I was living in Allston was, at least, getting money from their parents monthly, and none had any kind of full-time work to speak of. FWIW.

I'm not saying its a bad assumption to make, and that is the difficult part of the problem to solve. Given the college population of Boston its a completely reasonable assumption to make that a casually dressed 20-25 year old is in college. On the same note in SV its statistically reasonable to assume a casually dressed 20-25 year old is doing something interesting. None the less, that assumption creates an additional barrier to communication in Boston. First you've got to get past the initial visual presumption to get the conversation started, and then often spend some time vetting that your not a member of the presumed 'college kid' crowd. As a result there is a much larger barrier to getting down to the interesting parts of a conversation in Boston that I don't feel exists nearly as much in SV.

Part of it is just that SV has an advantage in that the young people that go there have already demonstrated some level of drive by simply being there.
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Good feedback. This was a compromise to allow mouse users to scroll without having to show the scrollbars all the time. There are other approaches we can explore.
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Nothing. That's why police usually sends some patrol to the site to check things up.

If you would get a signal of multiple assault weapons firing at the same time, you would not send just one patrol.

It's not very likely. Unless someone manages to simulate gunfire accurately with a boombox or with a pipe and some layered gunpowder + lead shots.
And how this is different from wkhtmltoimage? http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
A side comment: My current company sells to enterprises. Out of curiosity, last year I tried to look at the usage patterns of customers who left (and stayed). I had a simple hypothesis: those who didn't use the software regularly were the most likely to leave. Surprisingly, this had no correlation. It was another reminder, that in enterprise sales, low or high usage patterns are sometimes not a predictor of customer retention. It obviously depends on the industry, but sometimes it has as much to do with internal politics, salesmanship, and other things that are simply outside the scope of your code.
Unfortunately, you have to look pretty hard. The HP, a Dell, and Apple's Thunderbolt Display are the only three proper 27" displays on the market apart from some significantly higher-priced options. Nearly everything else from every manufacturer is one-size-fits-all 1080p, your only choice being how big the pixels are.
Thanks! Agree that the 2d scrolling works best with magic mouse, or touch, or a good trackpad. We have lots of ideas for social features too - but one test at a time..
It sounds like your curious on how to manage both a client and an internal project. I'll be happy to share our experiences doing so later. The simple explanation is to have a good understanding of your development velocity, treat each project the same in resource allocation, and set expectations for both your team and your client.

In our case, we have more time-flexibility in our current client project as it was done on a fixed-price bid. We're also at different stages of each project: one is firmly in implementation and the other is in leaving initial research and starting into business model iterations via customer development.
You know, I really don't know whether more screen space makes you more productive. I actually suspect that question matter less than you'd think in terms of the question at hand (whether "visual" workspace will be accepted by programmers).

I was simply saying that I and I suspect many typical programmers want this screen space and will become annoyed at programs which stand against it. IE, put a widget between me and the data I really want and you'll soon see me not using your application. Will this preference make me more or less productive? That's a further question.

On the other hand, I happen to think a second monitor is a great recipe for disabling neck injuries. But that is my rather particular view based on my studies of effective and ineffective postures.
For some reason I thought this blog was one of those futuristic fictional news sites, but I just realized it's more like future news today, and this is real. Yikes. That's pretty depressing that the company (or whoever actually made this) decided to make this garbage. Not that I expect holograms-as-people to get good enough to be accepted by ordinary people in my lifetime (since it's not just about making a realistic projection, there's the whole AI problem too. Also the fact that it is weird). But for technophobes, this kind of stuff just reinforces the idea that technology is cold and robotic and can't mesh with what we do as humans, which is frustrating for companies who are trying to reverse that thinking.
By not supporting Ogg Vorbis on Desktop and totally fucking it up on Mobile on purpose:

http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2011/03/the-state-of-html5-audi... (Year old, but still valid)
This could still be a decent idea, a good way to test long term spaceflight outside of low earth orbit without the additional burden of executing a landing and getting them back off the surface for a Mars mission.
It is really nice.

But since I'm already using Pinspire and can post my maker pix there, I'm hard pressed to see why I would join another site.

Am I missing something?

EDIT: I also use Instructables, where I can also post details on how I made something as well as pix. But it's not as simple as just throwing a picture up on Pinspire.
Device data (touches, accelerometer, etc) are exactly what I meant by compatibility. Again, back to my point of it not being finished. I see that it wasn't your fault, but this is misleading and shady.
I was looking for something like this earlier today.
I know you guys are not amateurs, and that's why I feel so bad about the whole thing.

I wouldn't call the service expensive or cheap. In security, price is not important. People will pay anything to be and feel secure. But the whole secure thing must start from the image you convey. You must refactor the design. The logo is cute, the colors are nice. But it doesn't affirm what you just told me up there: that you guys are not amateurs.

Shoot me an email (on my profile). I'd like to talk to you about it privately.
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Any examples of this on YouTube? What movies have sunrise scenes long enough to see sun motion?
To be clear I am referring to tsunamifury's link above, not Peter de Vos'.
I don't think you understand. All of these things are there. In addition, these have nothing to do with WebGL. You're painting this to be something that it's very much not.

My tweak has been confirmed to work by everyone who has tried it, and it works quite nicely. You're saying that I'm being "misleading and shady", when in reality the full functionality is there.
That's possible.

But "why" is the sixty-four dollar question.

I think it is reasonable to say these environments gave some programmers the information they thought they needed. But the bare text was more useful. Text and GUI dook-hickies are both pixel-based information. What makes one superior to the other.
If you do that simply by damping wavelengths of speech, you possibly make opportunity to alter the sound of a gun so that it doesn't set the alarm of. Maybe more importantly the sound of a gunfire would not sound like anything familiar to human ear, so it would make it very difficult to manually pick the real shots.
I agree with you here.

My point of writing this post was the illustrate that in the pursuit of ultimate convenience we sometimes loose sight of the importance doing committing to new behaviors or overcoming our own laziness.

And technology should not enable laziness, or replace effort, but rather elevate and extend and magnify existing effort.
You should store the image size ratio so you can pre-render all of your absolute positions before the images load entirely. There is a jump that happens when you reposition all of the boxes after the images load. noticed on a slow connection
I've been doing consulting for a while. Not only on software, but on other industries.

I'm curious about your whole experience. It seems that you are a bunch of smart people cooking up an awesome startup. That's why I want to read more.

You mention doing a fixed-price bid project. Could you expand on that?
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Why are developers so neutral on torture?
Over ten years of US torture home and abroad. Rumors of secret prisons in China. Nokia's surveillance equipment in Iran directed against opposition.

Why do developers so neutral on the erosion of human rights?
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Hey, Hackernews!

For this project, I wrote a library that lets you parallelize big computations by changing only a few lines of code.

You'll need a nightly build of Racket to try it out.
Does anyone know the long (really long?) term effects of turning sun energy in to electrical? I refuse to beleive it has a zero impact. We take heat energy away from the ground, so the ground gets cooler right ? And over a long period the ground is no longer heated the same as it use to, so that cools the top crust, which would cool the crust below etc. Thoughts? (I am nowhere near qualified to ask these questions)
Erm, not exactly. The problem with interplanetary manned missions is radiation from solar flares. The closer you get to the Sun the worse off the problem gets. A Venus mission with the Apollo hardware would have almost certainly killed the crew due to radiation exposure. A better protected spacecraft is possible but that requires a fairly significant amount of mass.
For the longest time, operating systems didn't really work in High DPI.

Back in 2000 I was using 1920x1200 on a 12" laptop. I was running both WinXP and some version of Ubuntu, and they looked fine. Every since then I've had WUXGA screens and displays, until very recently when Dell and Lenovo decided to bail and move to the 1920x1080 short screens.

It's a step backwards.
The 6-metre distance between cars is probably to strongly discourage other drivers from attempting to cut in, which would banjax their laser finders and other stuff.

With the lead truck sending instructions, this is a client-server setup, compared to google's independent peer-to-peer approach. It's not self-driving, it's remote-control of a train of cars behind you. The volvo experiment seems much less ambitious than google's, and might be more successful in the narrow case of long-distance motorway travel. But I don't see how to generalise it to everyday driving.

Add an ad-hoc mesh network to google's cars and anything could become possible.
24/7 email and phone support is the first thing on googles list[1] of advantages of paying for a google apps subscription. you can't expect phone support for a free product.

[1] http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/pricing.html
This is great. Very nice resource.
I don't really call 'not supporting Ogg' sabotage. Joe Public doesn't care about Ogg. Never has, never will. How is not supporting Ogg for <audio> tags when the spec for <audio> tags doesn't require it 'sabotage'? The requirement for HTML5 to support Ogg was dropped very early on in 2007. It's not part of the standard.

Apple have been fairly supportive of WebGL: it's been in the WebKit nightly builds for almost three years now, of which Apple are a major contributor. You can accuse Apple of many things, but given how they've been part of the WebGL Working Group from its formation I'm not so sure you can say they're out to 'get' WebGL...
Cheesy linkbait.

Title: "NASA Wanted Astronaughts to View Venus Close Up"

Body: "Alas, it was a “thought mission,” a plan designed to showcase the durability and flexibility of Apollo hardware. The report was prepared by Bellcom, a division of AT&T ..."

C'mon.
completely agree with you.
It's not misleading, it's just apparently not what you want. It does enable WebGL, it's free or cheap. Good work I think.
If he hired people who became 9-5ers, either he failed to correctly identify their expectations and attitude and their true self revealed once they were in, or he failed to keep them motivated and they scaled back to more relaxed work schedules. It's quite possible they were the best he could find: even in the current climate, I don't know any highly skilled developers willing to give up their personal life for E32k unless they really really believe in and share your project.

Poland has almost 1/3 the GDP of Spain; of course his money was more effective there. Did he bring them to Spain? Last time I interviewed a Polish developer, salary expectations including relocation to Spain were roughly 2/3 from a pool of candidates decidedly more expert than their Spanish counterparts.

That's one of the big challenges Spain faces in the next few years: reducing the cost of living without destroying the standards of life, so it can become competitive again while keeping a reasonable amount of experts and highly skilled workers (who are now fleeing the country in droves).
The Wired ThreatLevel article is a good alternative summary to the BBC article. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/flame/
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Not true in my experience. Now maybe the difference is my company doesn't have a lot of pissed off customers... if the person is mad, I take time to try to understand what exactly is going on, why it's happening, and how we can fix it. But these are rare. We have good customers.

If I have our support email open a new one comes in and it's an easy one, I often reply in less than 60 seconds. 9 times out of 10 the customer is floored by how amazing that was.
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How can you "move past" not understanding mathematical concepts when they're essential to everything that follows?

I mean that's the whole point of math - to provide an explanation in which every step is necessary, and understood to be necessary.

If there's one class that should be Pass / Fail, this is it, and the bar for passing should be set VERY high. I agree that this would create problems, but those would fall squarely on the schools, who - as many others have mentioned - teach "math", not math.
"If nothing else, ShotSpotter has made it clear how much unreported gunfire takes place on city streets. In many high-crime urban neighborhoods, gunshots are a counterpoint to daily life, “as common as the birds chirping,” as Commander Mikail Ali of the San Francisco Police Department put it. But whether out of apathy, fear or uncertainty, people call the police in only a fraction of cases."

Or maybe, they got sick of calling the cops and not having them come. If the gunshots are that common, it wouldn't be uncommon for the police to ignore the complaints as a high-crime district.

Now they can ignore the automated reports instead of the called-in ones.
I found this to be a remarkably bad article. Out of this you'd learn nothing whatsoever about what it takes to build a moderate-scale (10 million pages) never mind large-scale web crawler.
The false positive rate with home alarms is not the same as that of acoustic gunshot detection alarms. Your cat will routinely set off your interior motion sensor alarm; a loose door fitting will do the same to the front door.

If criminals want to use gunshot noise to scramble police presence to a specific area, they can obviously do that without gunshot detectors. The point of detectors is to make it easier to follow up on ideopathic gunshots.
That was actually my first thought as well. To be fair, it was C with Simple Object Orientation so not quite as terrible as misidentifying C++ straight up though it was still a bit of a fiasco.

From their perspective, I'm sure (over)hyping everything new they analyze as the next 'big deal' helps business even if they are wrong about the details on occasion.
Oh, I do understand. Congrats on practically leaking a incomplete beta and making money off of it.
Why default to those? You dont justify that, you only justify the existence of a default.
Maybe the background surface is curved ;)
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Indeed, and I would flag this post, except my flagging privileges have been revoked. Probably because I too often flagged boring promo stuff that offered nil actionable information, such as this post, the kind of thing so many others now deem important.
His program essentially leaks beta software for profit.
Potential upsides. Rarely realized.

I'd rather pay for more cops.

These technologies are just used to put more distance between the corporate profits and accountability to the communities effected.

As a history lesson, dehumanizing intelligence services, preferring satellites and wiretaps to HUMINT, has crippled our capabilities. But it did enrich defense contractors, so it's all good.
Agreed. I don't know what I'd do without the $20.60 I've made off of this (before Paypal fees)...
In the hunger games (good movie btw) there are windows that also function as screens. So the main character is looking out at this huge cityscape and suddenly the window turns into a screen with somebody video-calling her. I thought that was pretty cool.
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Perhaps an unpopular viewpoint ;)

Don't listen to me, if you disagree - we will discover the truth of the matter in the end, whether it will end up as I suggest or not.
>you must have memorized derivation steps //

Certainly later on, like with QFT, I was left to grope in the dark recesses of memory for the next step in a proof of some corollary or other but I found that understanding how a proof works means that the steps make sense in the same way as having to pull down your trousers before pulling down your underwear. Yes there is memorisation involved but nothing like that required to establish who was the King of France in 1492.

I did say "practically", perhaps "comparatively" would have been more to the point.
Not the most scientific of books, btw.
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I've kind of been waiting for this. This could provoke really interesting renaissance of the crossbow among street gangs. And other deadly melee weapons might get big leaps of progress. There might be a telescopic sword coming or something similar.

Here's something from India. From times when weapons had to be carried secretly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urumi

My forecast is that in the long run, bystanders will get less damage. But real murders get harder to investigate as there will be no gunpowder residue. And crossbow is easier to manufacture by oneself than firearm and that makes murder weapon tracking harder.
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Sounds like a good market service.
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I don't follow, your statement was:

> The consumer does not have to know about UL labels or other safety markings. If the device doesn't have the required markings, the vendor is not allowed to sell them.

My point was that this isn't true. You can sell devices without UL safety stamps, there is no government regulation that says you can't. If your using the device in a certain context your fire inspector may call foul but that is completely different from a consumer not being able to purchase something because the "vendor is not allowed to sell them".
I think the thumbnails are too small. They should be the size of the larger pic, and the larger pic should be as wide as my browser window, ideally.
The biggest problem is definitely not the lack of OGG support but the disabling of autoplay on iOS: http://weblogs.vpro.nl/digitaal/2011/11/04/why-html5-audiovi...
I played with such javascript things a few years ago.

They were indeed hard to create and (at least then) relied on a detailed know of the browser and platform's characteristics.

But given the varying tasks which call for that kind of editor, what I'd really like to see is a small semi-standard tool or framework for the construction of such editors. As it is now, one must either use an existing tool having too many or too few features or go to the great lengths of modifying one.
I agree with a lot of the points here, Email in itself isn't broken. I've spent the last 2 months studying users email habits, who sends what?, what do they receive?, what are the conversations like?, how is the platform being used? etc.. the conclusion is simple email is incredibly personal each single users works in their own way.

The problem is where these habits collide, the way I receive an email from you doesn't match how I'd construct and send an email, therefore whatever I receive is going to cause me a problem.
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You don't need to destroy them to make them ineffective. Just find a way to produce a high number of false positives legally. Or hell, get 10 mates to fire some shots in 10 different locations while you make your hit.
Agreed! It's much easier to overcharge for services when you're dealing with digital transactions as well.
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Like it! Maybe some more explenation against what absolute elements position and how to change that.
I actually like that he can make money off of this. It shows that there is a market for WebGL enablement on the iphone. It cracks the whip above Apple's head.
I highly doubt they're providing that service for single shots. Besides, I can't see too many thugs firing a single shot from a car in commission of an assault or homicide. They're not exactly known for their accuracy at the best of times.
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This seems to be a tool for converting a webpage to a PDF file which is n the purpose of my tool. Also my tool is a simple, lightweight command line tool.
Also, analyzing wkhtmltoimage's source I can say that my tool's approach to rendering the web page is potentially better than wkhtmltoimage's as I use whatever GUI toolkit is available on the system instead of letting webkit render itself on a pixmap (Something that can cause lots of errors on fonts, anti-aliasing, etc).

I'm not saying that the way I handle the rendering is any better than wkhtmltoimage's so feel free to use both and choose which you find it's better.
In the mean time you can use OPs link.
This doesn't have much to do with the core idea you're testing, but I'm not wild about the filtering UI. If I click on "Fashion Sneakers" it filters the results, but there's no clear way to get back. It also seems like once you're viewing fashion sneakers, that shouldn't be a link anymore (I get frustrated when a page links to itself). A normal breadcrumb system should work fine.
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[[self mainFrame] setWebGLEnabled:YES];

yup good work man
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