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> Hindsight is 20/20, but Microsoft should have realized there's no way to phrase that and not insult the intelligence of 90% of your users.

I'm not so sure. Certainly their phrases were condescending (was obvious to me and the reason I hated it back in the day - maybe the fact that I was a child then made me more used to being talked down to and therefore spotting it?), but that doesn't automatically mean there's no way of doing it well.

"It looks like you're writing a letter, would you like a template to save you time?"

Suddenly it's not talking as if I'm so stupid I need help with a basic task, it's admitting that I am quite capable without it but that it, being a computer, can save me some hassle.
Even though his disease is life-threatening, his seizures are worsening and he continues to lose white matter, we'll need to prove that it's safe.

A good argument could be made, that bureaucratic regulators who get nothing if your son is cured, but could get in trouble if something they allow hurts him even more, are partly responsible for slowly killing him.

For individuals in a dire enough state, a more intelligent set of regulations could be something like if enough well known and respected doctors agree this is worth trying, go for it. But bureaucracies are rarely intelligent.

It's just that most of the time bureaucratic involvement creates frustration, costs money, takes time, kills economic growth, etc.

But when it comes to life threatening disease and potential cures, bureaucratic involvement might actually cost lives. Because it is not optimizing saving lives, it is optimizing "safety" over lives, because it is actually optimizing bureaucratic ass covering.
Well, neither is anyone else.

If there's money on the table, it's because everyone in the field has failed to figure out how to grab it.
It's a gyro-wheel not a gyro-sensor.

The angular momentum of the wheels is what keeps it upright (laterally). This is different to the Segway which used the motors to control the forward-backward tilt with position input from a gyro (actually an accelerometer)
Balls to this. As your sibling commenter says, you simply don't get to pass judgement on this if you haven't had a child of your own.

Sure, we're programmed to behave with an otherwise inexcusable amount of irrationality with our kids, but that's not by accident. If anything, it demonstrates the level of evolutionary importance in keeping our offspring healthy and ensuring their success: it's such an important directive in fact, that evolution has deemed it more important than the needs of the parents to 'play [their] games, go to [their] parties -- read book[s]...or code'.

I'm not going to tell you you're objectively wrong on this, but I will tell you that you have no idea what you're talking about. Life is a squishy, inconvenient, and occasionally beautiful endeavour. Realize that.
>Is it pure egocentrism that keeps high-risk parents from adopting?

If it's not, I'd love to know what it is. Aww, downvotes from selfish people. Love doesn't require blood.
"cater to your audience"

Thanks for that phenomenally original advice and for using power user strawman to introduce it.
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From what I've observed (in myself and others) men just don't care, don't have the patience or are busy scoring points than engaging people and being good hosts.

Of course I understand I cannot make such broad generalizations and exceptions always exist, but is this the rule?
The tone of this article is annoying b/c it assumes that the reader is (or should be) delighted to be a part of some large group of humans who are normal compared to the eccentric person being profiled.
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1) It still required manual intervention from a moderator.

2) I'm certainly not an expert on how SE distributes its points, but the moderator comment in the related meta post (http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/3527/rem...) states "I don't think there is a way to refund the reputation the answer gained while it was CW [...]"
Grit doesn't use the "core code" of Git. GitHub found that using Git itself was too slow, so they wrote a parallel implementation of it in Ruby.
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You either don't have kids or you're a psychopath. I'm leaning toward the former. Don't presume in your arrogance that you know quite a bit about something you have zero experience with.

All your accomplishments are pointless without your child next to you.

> Yes you'll see it learn, smile, grow up

It? Nice.

> But you will not be able to play your games, go to your parties - read book or contemplate on life, or code without expecting interruptions.

Sophistry. You don't even understand why you do all of those things. You simply enjoy them and that's an end in itself.

No, you're not some amazing savant that has popped up out of the mass of mediocrity that is humanity.

You enjoy all of those things to gain the capacity to enrich the life of your child. No child? All the stuff you enjoy loses its meaning.
The first one was commissioned in 1912? Sounds like it would have been a great opportunity for Lit to actually release it this year... They won't miss the mark by much, though.

No wait, scratch that, just looked up the word "commissioned"... So if they release it in 1914, they'll have hit the nail straight on. Good on them!
It would be higher relative to the IPO price.

Among other things, this means that employee options would still be above water. Rather more motivating than underwater options after years of death-march hours.
Email-to-SMS gateways have been around a long time. And sure, an email provider could set up a service that automatically gives every email account their own listserv. I'd agree that Twitter's valuation is arguable, but the investor consensus is that it's a multi-billion dollar business, whatever the revenue is.
I've been using Android since the G1 came out. I've never experienced what you're describing and I fail to understand it. If news.yc started click-jacking Facebook/Twitter likes, I'd stop using it. If an app started broadcast bad Intent receivers, I'd stop using it.

There is a fork of CM somewhere that has the ability to remove things from the Intent responder list and I think there's a root-enabled third-party app as well.

There's no reason the User-Agent couldn't give you the ability to "hide" an Intent receiver from the default list of applications. (In fact I expect it) What you're describing is an application failure, not a design problem, there's literally no way to enforce the correct behavior of an application the way you're expecting.
Ha. Can't wait for your [future] kids to discover your post on HN, 15 years from now, and give you a hard time about it.
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In what way is experimental analysis of such mutations a bottleneck?
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All that you need is right here..

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Honest question: Why do you think that a share price of $30 is appropriate? Facebook still has a P/E more 6 times that of Google or Apple. To me (I don't understand a lot about the stock market), $30 sounds just as arbitrary as $38.
Yeah, I thought, ditch the body work and it might be cool.
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If I could explain why it's down 7% today then I could also explain why it's gonna be up/down n% tomorrow, and m% the next day. Unfortunately I'm not quite that smart.
Most people I've met who claim to be Libertarians seems to be very confused about how the world works. Usually, they have a pet idea (guns, pot, taxes, property rights, police forces, something) they are very hot about and fail to extend their logic out to the endpoint, ie: get rid of all law enforcment some magic is going to happen and criminals won't be criminals (I suspect life would be a lot like the show Deadwood, not really my ideal life).

There might be some enlightened Libertarians out there sure, but I haven't met one that I can recall.

Btw, I'm a Federalist. Zombie Washington/Hamilton in 2012!
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Because it was a business dispute, I think he (rightly) wants to move past that instead of emphasizing it over and over.
So what you're saying is you were a complete waste of time and your parents would have been better off without you?

Seriously - I'm not trolling or trying to be abusive. It seems to me that's literally what you're saying.

Life isn't rational. Pleasure isn't rational. In the grand scheme of things, no achievements are significant or meaningful. But that's no way to live a life, IMHO. I know I'm far happier with my children than at any other time in my life, and I only had them when I was in my mid 30s, so I have plenty of perspective on life with them and without.

Yes it was hard work, but so are most things worth doing in this world. I may not really believe that which does not kill you makes you stronger, but I some of the hardest things I've done in life (armed service, relationships, children) have enriched me the most as a person.

I can't say the same is true for everyone. We all have different hopes and needs, desires and goals. I'm happy with mine, and sincerely hope yours work out as well for you.
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"As your sibling commenter says, you simply don't get to pass judgement on this if you haven't had a child of your own."

You aren't gay, so you can't pass judgement on gay rights.

You don't smoke weed, so you have no say in the laws

The thing is. You can still have an opinion (and pass judgement)..even if you haven't experienced it yourself.
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I'm curious to know what percentage of the audience listened to the show because of Dan.

I listened to the original Talk Show (pre 5x5) and I could not stand Gruber's constant "y'knows" and stopped after 2 episodes.

After 5by5 started and I was listening to his other podcasts, I gave the Talk Show a second chance because I like Dan, and thankfully Gruber worked on his verbal tics. In the end, however, the Gruber part of the show wasn't interesting enough to me, and I stopped listening.
I disagree. While the market hasn't been acting too rationally in general over the last few years, FB dropping like a rock is actually a fairly rational response to their circumstances.

FB made less money in Q1 2012 than in Q1 2011. That was reported by them before the IPO. FB blamed it on the fact that more users are accessing Facebook through their mobile clients, which don't get them as much advertising money. Normal response to these kinds of reports is for the stock price to drop.

There's also the fact that they were horrendously overvalued in the first place. Facebook is quite possibly the most mature tech company to ever IPO. They already have their sources of income. They have arguably saturated their target market(1/6th of the human race has created accounts), and really don't have that much farther to grow, without seriously monetizing their current users. Unfortunately, as FB and all the other social network companies have found out, it's difficult to get more money out of your users without growing the user pool. Facebook can't grow their userbase exponentially, which really puts a lot of doubt on their future growth potential.

My gut feeling is that the IPO was not driven by Facebook needing the money(which would be normal), but that all the private investors and VC funds wanted to get out. They wanted as much money as possible, which would explain the high valuation.
How does user data create value?
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What will make a difference is that neither Instagram or Pinterest would get anywhere near as much of a valuation today as they did a month ago.
Does Apple really have a financial interest in rejecting Firefox?

I bought several iOS devices understanding that the app market is an exclusive, curated, walled garden, with all of the advantages and shortcomings that that implies.

I'm a long time Mac user too, and an exclusive, curated, walled garden is most certainly not in line with my expectations on that platform. I'm happy to have the option of a curated marketplace, but if it's exclusive, I can tell you that I'm going to stop buying Macs - probably in favour of linux laptops. And I'm sure that I'm not alone.

That hardly seems to be in Apple's interest.
This makes me super happy. I would like to add some sort of dialogue tree support to it.
Google Navigation doesn't announce reroutes, it just continues with the new directions. I think you may be overstating the problem.
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This is exactly how companies get sucked into the quarterly chase of Wallstreet. Facebook shouldn't be concerned and neither should you.
Thanks so much for the fascinating and emotionally stirring article. I will definitely be passing this on to others I know.

The thing I kept thinking during the article is, "Is there something that I, as a programmer, can do to help people like Bertrand?"

Is there some way that we programmers could use our talent to augment or advance existing technology in this area? I realize that the science involved here is non-trivial, but it seems like a really fascinating subject area to get involved in. Perhaps I just need to bear down and brush up on my biology.
The businesses you want to do business with (e.g. not lemonade stands) aren't even capable of differentiating price points $500 and under. Like, almost literally, you can give a number in that range and they'll just hear "pocket lint."
As others said, it's because of the sucky Python install tools. Once installed you can get rid of that lot and it'll run in smaller amounts of memory, although still not nearly as small as one of the Linux distros that's designed to be minimal.
The saying Firmitas, Utilitas, Venustas comes to mind.
I disagree. Build products for yourself. If you're a power user, then so be it. If you're making a product to make your life easier and you happen to be a newb, then design with that in mind. Screw profitability[1].

[1] I may not make the best CEO...
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If your math is right, then yes I think anyone would agree that the mind share of each active user on FB is worth even more than $100 bucks.

But, the problem is they have not proven they can monetize those users efficiently and effectively yet.

I remember when everyone questioned how Google was going to monetize on their traffic and they figured it out and hopefully FB will too.

The one interesting thing that is a big difference between Google and FB though is that Google had "traffic" and FB has a group of people hanging out so to speak. You would think that FB has the better potential to maximize monetization of customers, but how remains to be seen.
If the market would have acted rationally, FB would never have IPO'd at 38 per share given their profits. Being valued at 105 billion dollar when your profit is only around 1 billion a year is insane, especially when you also account for the highly volatile nature of social networking (FB might be replaced by something we've never heard about in a couple of years)
Generalizations have their place. A big problem many have with right-wing libertarians is that, unlike other political philosophies, libertarianism seems more like an elaborate, and status-reinforcing, justification for one's own socioeconomic position.

To believe otherwise -- i.e., to believe that merit is largely a fiction, albeit a highly adaptive one -- would mean giving up far too much.
As Facebook stands, they're doing okay. The stock might be over-valued, but that's the environment we're in now.

To get that stock going up they'll have to increase their market share and the only way to do that is to start acquiring big social networks, something they don't seen prepared to do, or diversify.
Right. Compare the price Apple charges for a full version of OS X Lion ($29) to what Microsoft charges for a full version of Windows 7 (~$300 MSRP for the full monty, though you can get it for $250 at Amazon and other places), or the price Apple charges for Xcode ($5.00 or free, depending on the phase of the moon) compared to what Microsoft charges for Visual Studio Professional ($590 MSRP).
I don't know if it's still on there anywhere, but the 30x500 page actually used to point out that option.
Yes, and they threw it out. It's Microsoft or the highway.
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>It's 900 million monthly active users

This number has always irked me. How many of those are unique? And I don't mean unique accounts, I mean actually unique people.

I did some work in the social gaming space. We would routinely discover people with 5, 10, sometimes 20+ Facebook accounts that would be logged in and actively used in order to "game" social gaming mechanics ("add 10 friends!", "log in 10 days in a row and get a prize!", "complete these offers to get game currency!"). There are businesses on the internet that can get your page thousands of "likes" in the span of hours, by using multiple accounts.

Having a single account was the exception. And even though this was against FB's terms of use, I don't recall anyone, ever, getting banned for it. What would Facebook's incentive be to do so?
As a father of 3, I think the question of "is it worth it" is not as cut-and-dry as you suggest.

As I am an extreme introvert, in the near-term, having kids definitely makes me less happy in many measurable ways.

That being said, taking care of children is something I have always been drawn to, and is the way I have chosen to leave my mark on the world, as it were.

We fostered our first two kids for 18 months before we were offered the opportunity to adopt them, so I was in the situation of being able to choose to go back to having no kids in a socially acceptable manner, which is not an opportunity most people get.

I'm going to make the obvious comparison here to starting a company (which I haven't done but am inferring from the numerous articles I've read on it). It's not for everyone, it's a lot of work, and at times you will think you were crazy for ever attempting it. However, for a certain type of person, it's extremely rewarding.

Just like not everyone would be happier if they quit their job and started a company, not everyone would be happier if they became a parent, but if it's something you are drawn to, then by all means, do it!
People being rich doesn't bother me, reading fluffy New Yorker articles about them just doesn't interest me. Other people obviously enjoy it, but it doesn't really read like the kind of article I look for on HN, or even in the New Yorker.

Thiel's nose is bulbous? I needed to know that for some reason? It just read like a fawning article about some rich guy to me. The author met with Thiel in this fancy coffee shop, Thiel recently bought 2 multi-million dollar houses blah blah blah. Great, just not anything I personally care that much about.
Reminds me of the Sinclair C5... and looks equally dangerous on a road which also features real cars.
>How hard would it be to make a GPS system that just assumed I might want to get gas or stop for a bite to eat if I took an unplanned exit off an interstate with hundreds of miles to go on my journey?

Just as a side note, I really like Google Maps' routing system. If I stray from the computed route it just silently recalculates and let's me know where to turn next. There is no "Recalculating" phrase at all. :)
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No one is complaining about signed/certified binaries from a security perspective. It's the process behind the signatures and certification that is at issue.
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It's kind of weird that they called it the C1, given that BMW came out with a similar vehicle (minus the gyros), also named the C1, years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_C1

This thing looks technologically very neat, but I don't see a point. It has all of the disadvantages of a motorcycle (small, vulnerable, noisy, non-intuitive steering, rounded tires that wear flat in the center quickly, unstable when sliding), combined with all of the disadvantages of a car (too wide to lane split, poor visibility due to low height and roof pillars, cost).

I notice that it uses hub-centered steering. While nifty, it doesn't give a very good turning radius, which is another key advantage of a motorcycle in the city. Swingarm-style hub centered steering solves two problem inherent to traditional fork designs (front-end dive during braking, which alters the geometry and reduces suspension travel, and static friction), but introduces a host of other problems (complexity, joints that need lubrication, cost, limited turning radius). Through constant iteration, motorcycle forks have reached a stage of development (see nitride coating and now 'diamond' coating) where it's unlikely that any competing design will ever win.

As a motorcyclist of 18 years, If it's too wide to lane split, then I see no advantage. Then again, Can Am seems to be selling well enough, which boggles my mind: http://en-us.spyder.brp.com/home.aspx

If someone wants the convenience of a two-wheeler without the stability and steering issues, then a simpler idea like the Piaggio MP3 is probably the ideal mix of practicality, complexity, and cost: http://www.piaggiousa.com/innovation.html
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Yeah, this is what he should have said in the first place. I don't see what's so hard, just be a big boy about it.
Cross that bridge when you get there. If you're really finding that your hash function is the slowest piece of code in a tightly bound for-loop, and it's not all the collisions you're having (from having a bad hashing function), then look into alternatives. Before that, you're doing premature optimization.
I'm a member of the product team at Treehouse, and was employee #3. We don't go around talking about the 4 day work week because it's something that we think is a great gimmick that we were fortunate enough to be able to pull off because we hit the VC lottery. It's something at the core of who we are as a company and something we've seen help us compete - not only in hiring but also in productivity. We see a huge benefit in rest, fresh thinking, and a healthy balance between our work and the rest of our lives. The 4 day work week builds that into who we are. It's not the only way to achieve those goals, but one of the primary ways we pull it off.

We've been working the 4-day work week far longer than we've had VC money. Our first investment came in the fall of 2011, long after we existed as a company, and we were profitable prior to raising VC.
A long winded article that basically calls at issue Microsoft risk taking changes with Windows 8. I think OP would be happy if Windows 8, was just Windows 7.5 - change is scary.
> ergonomically poor for web browsing

Does no one realize you don't have to have full screen windows?
In Indian high schools, you are supposed to memorize a ton of "useless" shit like atomic weights of 50+ elements in the periodic table, logs upto 20, exponentials, factorials, avogardo constant & tons of physics constants like g and speed of light & sound & diffraction constants & the like. So from the age of 12,I happen to know that log 5 is 0.7
Ergo, log(125^100) = 300log(5) = 210, hence 210 digits in 125^100.

But I do wonder - do schoolkids these days memorize this trivia or do they just reach for a calculator/wikipedia ?